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A new family history magazine has hit UK shelves this month, filling the void recently created by The National Archives' Ancestors magazine, whose contract with the publisher has ended.
The new magazine is called Your Family History and has been established by leading historian and genealogist, Dr. Nick Barratt. The editorial team includes members from his own research company, Sticks Research Agency, and aims to focus on readers' personal stories and contributions.
YOUR stories, YOUR discoveries, YOUR mysteries and YOUR documents
The website provides a means whereby contributions (pictures, documents) can be sent for consideration in the publication. Readers who subscribe via the magazine are currently being offered a free copy of Nick's new book, Guide To Your Ancestors' Lives.
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Dr. Dre and Timbaland went back to school Wednesday night.
The rapper-producers shocked students when they appeared at a Culver City High School graduation party. Dr. Dre introduced Timbaland, who performed the tunes "The Way I Are," ''Promiscuous Girl," ''Carry Out" and "Say Something" on a stage inside the school's gymnasium. Students invited had no idea the hip-hop masterminds were the guests of honor.
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"When we walked in, we were like, 'Whoa. Is this a second prom?'" said 17-year-old junior Saul Salmeron.
The surprise performance was sponsored by Hewlett-Packard and Interscope Records, who have partnered with the aim of improving digital sound quality. The promotional event, which was recorded for an online documentary, also featured free food, photos and a raffle of HP gear. The company said it was donating ,000 worth of computer equipment to the school.
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"Y'all got a curfew?" Timbaland asked the audience at one point.
Students held up their camera phones and gathered around the stage to get a glimpse of Timbaland and Dr. Dre, who sneaked a peek of the crowd before he took the stage. Dr. Dre, who is currently working on his next album, did not perform with labelmate Timbaland, whom he's never worked with before.
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"We should be so lucky," said Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Interscope, Geffen and A&M Records, who attended Wednesday's event. "I can only get them so close. The rest is up to them."
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After defecting from the Star Union eleven years ago, spaceship Captain Lara Soto is now the leader of the free Chimerans. Her only regret is the intense young officer she left behind. But when Terra's S.U.S. Interlace goes missing with her brother Rafael on board, she has to push aside the pain of her betrayal and team up with her old love once again.
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- 1 acorn squash, peeled and cut into 1 1/2-inch chunks
- 3 cups butternut squash, cut into 2-inch chunks
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, or more to taste
- 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme
- 3 cloves garlic, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Place the potatoes and squash in a large bowl and toss with olive oil, rosemary, thyme, garlic, and salt and pepper to coat well. Transfer vegetables, with your hands, to a large baking sheet and spread into a single layer, keeping any leftover oil from the bowl. Roast the vegetables until tender, turning every 10 minutes with a long-handled spoon, about 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove from the oven and add as much leftover oil to the vegetables as desired, and season to taste. Serve immediately.
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Omar Nelson Bradley, (born Feb. 12, 1893, Clark, Mo., U.S.—died April 8, 1981, New York, N.Y.), U.S. Army officer who commanded the Twelfth Army Group, which helped ensure the Allied victory over Germany during World War II; later he served as first chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (1949–53).
Bradley graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1915. At the opening of World War II, he was commandant of the U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, and he later commanded the 82nd and 28th infantry divisions. After being placed at the head of the II Corps for the North African campaign, under General George S. Patton, he captured Bizerte, Tunisia, in May 1943. This victory contributed directly to the fall of Tunisia and the surrender of more than 250,000 Axis troops. Bradley then led his forces in the Sicilian invasion, which was successfully concluded in August.
Later in 1943 Bradley was transferred to Great Britain, where he was given command of the U.S. First Army in 1944. Placed under the command of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, he took part in planning the invasion of France. In June 1944 he joined his troops in the assault on the Normandy beaches and in the initial battles inland (see Normandy Invasion). At the beginning of August, he was elevated to command of the U.S. Twelfth Army Group. Under his leadership the First, Third, Ninth, and Fifteenth armies, the largest force ever placed under an American group commander, successfully carried on operations in France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Czechoslovakia until the end of European hostilities.
After the German surrender, Bradley returned to the United States to serve as administrator of veterans' affairs (1945–47) and chief of staff of the army (1948–49). He was well liked by both officers and enlisted men, and, after the unification of the armed forces, he was chosen in 1949 to be the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. While at that post he was promoted (1950) to general of the army.
After retiring from the army in 1953, Bradley was active in private enterprise. In 1951 he published his reminiscences, A Soldier's Story. A General's Life (with Clay Blair) was published in 1983.


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MONTPELIER — An online forum allowing local communities to share information or seek and offer assistance to neighbors is set for a statewide rollout with backing from the Vermont Council on Rural Development.
Front Porch Forum, which launched in Burlington in 2006 before spreading throughout Chittenden County, is now available to all 251 towns in Vermont, according to co-founder Michael Wood-Lewis.
"We've grown steadily outward across about half of Vermont," he said. "Now, as of Sept. 1 we're available on the other half of the state as well."
Each town or neighborhood site is moderated by "professional online community managers," and members are clearly identified when sharing postings, according to Wood-Lewis. Each forum allows members to share information quickly and with ease, seek help finding lost pets, provide information about local events and debate local issues.
"Our business is to help neighbors connect and to build community. They do that by going online and sharing simple messages with clearly identified neighbors," he said. "Some people have described it as Craigslist meets Yelp meets Angie's List meets Groupon."
Wood-Lewis and his wife, Valerie, developed the site from a precursor after the couple moved to the city in 2000 and sought a way to meet neighbors. More than half the households in Burlington are now members, and the service quickly spread throughout Chittenden County, he said.
Front Porch Forum has focused on expanding the service for the last six months. In February, there were 47,000 active members across 90 Vermont towns covering about half the state. Now it is available statewide in every town, with 57,000 members. New members are signing up by the hundreds each week, Wood-Lewis said.
"People, ultimately, are getting a great response to items they post … mostly because it's nearby," he said. "What's exciting for us is that people tend to join because they're looking for local results. They stay on because after months of using it they're more connected, they feel dialed in."
Much of the rapid expansion was made possible after the Vermont Council on Rural Development noticed how effective the site was in the aftermath of several natural disasters, according to Wood-Lewis.
"What we saw coming out of all the terrible challenges associated with Tropical Storm Irene and the 2011 Lake Champlain flooding was that people used Front Porch Forum along with other tools during the crisis and after the crisis. VCRD noted that and wanted all communities to have that support mechanism for the next crisis that comes down the pike," he said.
Anecdotal evidence suggested that communities that had a pre-existing forum were able to bounce back faster from the flooding, according to Wood-Lewis. "When disaster hits … if you've got a lot of social capital you're stronger in the face of calamity," he said.
The Vermont Council on Rural Development, a nonprofit that works to support the state's rural communities, secured a disaster relief grant from the federal Economic Development Administration to create online forums across the state as part of its Vermont Digital Economy Project, according to Sharon Combes-Farr, the project director. A total of $1.8 million was secured with the assistance of Vermont's congressional delegation.
Combes-Farr said the council's executive director, Paul Costello, noticed the impact the forums were having on local communities as he traveled the state. Tropical Storm Irene highlighted how Front Porch Forum was boosting communities, she said.
"We see a real value of having every town on the same platform," Combes-Farr said. "We have the ability to put messages and information across all of those forums where people are used to getting information. We see great potential in disaster situations."
Front Porch Forum was selected through a competitive bid process to be the vendor that supplied a statewide service. Wood-Lewis said the company's customized software and existing infrastructure was a good fit.
"They were looking for a service pretty much like ours, and we're fairly unique out there," he said.
The grant money must be expended by the end of next summer. Combes-Farr said the grant is serving as an investment to provide the service free to the entire state. When the grant money is gone Wood-Lewis can maintain the site through advertising and sponsors, she said.
"We're just basically giving a boost," she said.
The online forums in new towns and neighborhoods will start in "registration" mode and will become fully functional when at least 100 residents sign up, Wood-Lewis said.
New users can go to frontporchforum.com and enter their street address to be directed to their local site.


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Cast: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges, Lee Van Cleef
Seen: May 6, 2007 thanks to Toronto Public Library
Reason to see: It's on my 101 list of films I can't believe I haven't seen
This film reads a lot more sombre than many westerns. Even the opening sequence is paired with a song along the lines of a ballad as opposed to something lively, eerie or catchy. So right off the bad you know you are in for something different. Add to that, it's in real time. Add more to it, it's not overly long at 84 minutes but feels long and like not much is happening. I even wrote in my notes "Lots of build up, nothing has happened". There is an interesting premise in there, but I wanted more. Characters, story, punch, heart, anything... something, maybe even a little bit of everything but as long as there was more.
One thing to note is at the time of viewing I was not aware of the connection it was making to blacklisting.
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It did not hold my attention
I'd give it another shot
I'd recommend it to classics and real time film fans
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Russian diplomat and his wife were stabbed in Sudan's capital on Tuesday by a man enraged by the death of his brother in strife-torn Central African Republic, Khartoum police said.
The attacker wounded the consul general and his wife, mistakenly believing they were from a nation that had sent troops to his home country, the force said in a statement.
Both were in a stable condition, it added.
Central African Republic, which borders Sudan, descended into chaos in March after a mostly Muslim rebel coalition, Seleka, marched into the capital, unleashing a wave of killings and looting.
Its former colonial ruler France has sent in troops to defend its citizens and back up African peacekeepers trying to contain the violence. The European Union has also promised to send in soldiers, but Russia has no troops on the ground.
The attacker told officers who arrested and questioned him that his brother had been killed "by forces from the one of the European countries," the police said.
"There was no motive other than revenge for the death of the brother," the police statement read.
The duty officer at Russia's embassy in Khartoum said he could not comment and the Russian Foreign Ministry could not immediately be reached for comment.


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Solving undocumented and future flow of Irish into the United States considered vital
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An urgent need for immigration reform was the Irish American message at a Washington inaugural brunch hosted by the Council for American Ireland Relations (CAIR).
Speaking to hundreds of representatives of the Irish and Irish American community from around the country, lawyer Brian O'Dwyer pressed home the message that immigration should become the group's "focal issue" as Obama moves into his second term as President of the United States.
O'Dwyer, the chairman of the CAIR, a senior partner at the New York firm O'Dwyer & Bernstien and a prominent lobbyist in Washington, told the crowd at the Phoenix Park Hotel that this year would see a change to immigration reform.
He said, "[Senator] Chuck Schumer is the number one Irishman in New York State. He tells us there is an immigration bill coming through."
New York Senator Chuck Schumer did not address the crowd but greeted guests during the cocktail reception.
O'Dwyer continued, "Years ago they put up a sign around the United States and that sign said No Irish Need Apply." This year we are going to take that sign down."
The Irish Ambassador to the United States, Michael Collins, also seconded O'Dwyer's positive attitude toward progress with the ongoing fight for immigration reform in Washington.
Collins said, "We look forward very much to great progress here this year on immigration reform…Chuck Schumer said it's going to be done and not only that but he also assured us that our own efforts to guarantee a future flow of Irish coming to the United States in preceding years, through an E3 program, will also be part of the bill."
O'Dwyer added, "The reason we're here today is because Irish America stands up and says to the American people that we're part of the American people, we're part of America, and we want to be recognized in the years to come. One of the things we have to do to make sure this happens is to make sure that immigration becomes our focal issue."
Speeches at the event also referred to the changes at the Irish Embassy that come into effect later this year.
Having served in Washington since 2007, Ambassador Collins took the opportunity to officially address the news that he will, as of September, be stationed in Berlin, Germany.
He said, "It has been my real privilege to be here for five-and-a-half-years, shortly it will be six years, and in that time I have gotten to know so many wonderful, wonderful people in our community and beyond. This gives me my first opportunity, since learning about my own future, to salute all the good friends that Ireland has in this room. Ireland is blessed with friends that we have in the United States, in New York, in Washington and beyond."
Collins will be replaced by Tipperary native and permanent representative of Ireland to the United Nations Anne Anderson. She will be the first female Irish ambassador to the United States.
O'Dwyer also passed comment on who would replace Dan Rooney as the US ambassador in Ireland.
He said, "We think Mark Tuohey will be the best representative that we've ever had."
Tuohey, who was present at the CAIR event, is a partner in Brown Rudnick and is well known in Irish American circles. Having expressed interest in replacing Steeler's boss Rooney, he is currently the frontrunner for the position.
Both O'Dwyer and Collins also thanked all of those, including the Irish government, who had helped those in need following the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy along the east coast, from the firefighters to those who donated to the Red Cross and Irish Day of Action.
The Washington event was attended by various representatives from Washington and New York including the Emerald Isle Immigration Center, the Irish Business Organization, Irish Network in New York, the Ancient Order of the Hibernians, press, other emigrant groups, and representatives from the Irish community.
As attendees filed out to take in the atmosphere of Washington as the city prepared for Obama's public inauguration, each guest signed posters which will find permanent residence at Ollie Hayes' pub in the President's ancestral home of Moneygall, County Offaly. They read, "There's no one as Irish as Barack Obama," and "From Moneygall, Offaly, to the White House."
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Liberty announces Spring 2014 Convocation speakers
Liberty University has announced its lineup of Convocation speakers for the Spring 2014 semester. The notable slate includes son of President Ronald Reagan Mike Reagan, television/radio personality Glenn Beck, television innovators Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, and Christian author Karen Kingsbury.
Liberty's Convocation is North America's largest weekly gathering of Christian young people. It is held three times a week in the Vines Center. Students are able to hear from prominent speakers of national/global significance from every sphere of society. Speakers challenge, motivate, and inspire students as they share their stories and impart wisdom from experience in their respective fields.
Services are aired on the Liberty Channel and past Convocations can be viewed on www.Liberty.edu/Streaming and Liberty's YouTube channel.
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Thinking Outside the Pod
Apple's iPod music players are wildly popular, and they're paired with a very good online music service, the iTunes Store. But not everyone loves the famous gadget. Here's a guide to doing digital music outside the Apple hegemony.
Music services
The iTunes Store is the digital equivalent of a music shop. You buy individual songs or albums and own them thereafter, with some restrictions on their use. But several other services, such as RealNetworks' Rhapsody, Napster and Yahoo Music Unlimited, take a different approach. They charge a monthly fee that entitles you to stream or download an unlimited number of songs. In effect, you're renting these songs, typically for $10 or $15 a month. Some music lovers prefer this system, since it makes it easier to experiment with new artists and genres, and cheaper to fill a portable player, even though the songs can't be used on an iPod.
Now Microsoft has joined the battle against iTunes with Zune Marketplace, its own online music service that offers both subscription plans and iTunes-style individual song purchases. Music from the Zune Marketplace will work only on Microsoft's new iPod competitor, the Zune player.
There is another notable online music service: eMusic. It's a sort of hybrid. You get to download and own tracks, as with iTunes, but you're charged a monthly fee instead of paying by the song. The upside of eMusic is that its music is in the plain, unprotected MP3 format, meaning it will play on any portable music player including the iPod, and on every music-playing software program on Windows and Macintosh computers. The downside: eMusic offers songs only from independent record labels. It has none of the catalogs of the majors and tends to be nichey, not mainstream.
Music players
Companies like Creative, Samsung and iRiver offer many models that match up well in price and features against the various versions of the iPod. At one time their hardware and software designs were much clumsier than Apple's, but they have improved a lot. They still trail the iPod in overall elegance. But many have features Apple gadgets lack, such as built-in FM radio, microphones, longer battery life and even transmitters for beaming music through car radios.
These non-iPod players have suffered because they use a Microsoft-developed system called "PlaysForSure" that supposedly allows smooth, iPod-like synchronization between players and Windows PCs. Unfortunately, PlaysForSure often behaves more like "PlaysMaybe," with sync problems being common.
SanDisk, a company best known for its flash-memory chips, has roared into a distant second behind Apple, with a series of handsome flash-based players under the Sansa brand. These devices, roughly comparable to iPod's Nano and Shuffle models, mostly use the PlaysForSure system. But recently, SanDisk debuted the Sansa Rhapsody, which uses RealNetworks technology and is tied closely to Real's Rhapsody subscription service.
Certainly, the biggest news for iPod haters is the introduction of Microsoft's Zune music player, an iPod competitor with plenty of marketing muscle behind it. The Zune holds 30 gigabytes of music, the same as the smallest full-size iPod, and costs the same $250.
But the Zune abandons PlaysForSure in favor of an Apple-style, tightly controlled, integrated approach. It works exclusively with Zune software, and the only encrypted songs it will play are those bought at Microsoft's Zune Marketplace.
As for design, the Zune is bigger and somewhat clunkier than the iPod. But it has three things the iPod lacks: a bigger screen, an FM radio and built-in wireless capability. The latter can be used to send songs to nearby Zune players, where they can be played three times before expiring.


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S4681A | Flatwise Shear for Sandwich Constructions to ASTM C 273
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High Strength Steel construction
Max. Static Load: 100 kN (10,000 kgf, 22,000 lbf)
Temperature rating: -70 to +250 °C (-94 to +482 °F)
Upper and Lower interface Dm (1.25 in connection with 1/2 in clevis pin)
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Take multi-sorted first-order logic with equality, complex scalars, 1xn vectors, nx1 vectors, nxn matrices, addition and multiplication for each pair of sorts they make sense for, and hermitian transpose (which is conjugation on scalars). Is it decidable what sentences are [true for all n]? (there are 4 sorts, what sentences are true simultaneously for all n)
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Meet Sobrr, the anti-Facebook app
- Sobrr is a 24-hour social-networking app on which posts disappear after one day
- It's geared toward sharing with "no strings attached," app's founder says
- Sobrr shows other users near you and you can "cheer" their actions
- Disappearing message apps like Snapchat have become popular
(CNN) — What would you do if you only had one day to live? Probably not spend time downloading and fiddling with a mobile app, we're guessing.
But a new app, Sobrr, wants you to embrace life in just that way. It lets you create a social network geared toward meeting new people around you, sharing photos and videos of what you're up to and supporting other users who are also living it up. Or whatever.
Using GPS, Sobrr identifies other users close to you and shows them your posts. They may then "cheer" or comment on those posts and, if both parties agree, they can become "24-hour friends." There's an option for users who hit it off to make each other permanent parts of their network.
The kicker is that, anything you do using the app is totally erased after 24 hours. Texts you send to other users disappear after a few seconds and photos or videos you share can go away nearly as quickly.
The app's co-founder, Bruce Yang, says that in an era when your third-grade teacher can find you on Facebook and anyone you've ever met at work wants to network on LinkedIn, people are craving an app like Sobrr. It lets them share without worrying their actions will go down on their permanent record.
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"It promotes sharing only the most refreshing contents and leading a casual relationship with no strings attached," said Yang, an alum of Fitbit, LinkedIn and Microsoft.
So, you can call Sobrr the anti-Facebook. But if you want to call it Tinder meets Snapchat meets Foursquare, you wouldn't be that far-off either.
The app's name reflects the moment the idea first dawned on Yang — the morning after a Las Vegas bachelor party. He says he noticed all of his fellow partyers rushing onto their social media accounts to make sure they hadn't shared any incriminating info about the previous night.
No, Yang says, his app isn't just another tool for the hookup culture or a way to send naughty photos without having to answer for them later. But if somebody wants to use it that way? He's not here to stop them.
"From the party animals that I've surveyed, more than half admitted that they want to meet new people in the party, and crave for a one-night stand," he said.
Sobrr lets users post content "that they might otherwise feel too embarrassed to post on other platforms," he said. Yang also said it's important for users "to have their own space and little secrets."
But he maintains that "naughty stuff" is only a small part of what users have been sharing in the month since the app's release.
"We understand that 'hooking up' is the need of many users on the platform, but we really value more of the casual interaction and conversation on the platform — the foreplay of hooking up," he said. "People are more attracted by each other based on their life moments or a common interest."
It's possible the Silicon Valley startup is onto something. In the past year or so, ephemeral messaging apps such as Snapchat, Confide and Wickr have flourished.
So far, the app's user base remains relatively small, boasting 10,000 users in the weeks it's been available exclusively for Apple's mobile devices. Whether more folks will flock to it to live a more carefree social media life, or merely hide the evidence from their wild nights out, remains to be seen.


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The SEC's Investor Advisory Committee plans to vote Friday on one of its subcommittee's recommendations on how the SEC should craft its fiduciary rule for brokers.
The draft proposal by the Investor as Purchaser Subcommittee, which is headed by Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America, was scheduled to come up for a vote at the Investor Advisory Committee's Oct. 10 meeting, but that was postponed because of the government shutdown.
Roper told ThinkAdvisor that the subcommittee's hope is that "by weighing in early in the [fiduciary rulemaking] process, we can help to shape the form that commission rulemaking takes."
The subcommittee says that a fiduciary duty for investment advice should include, "first and foremost, an enforceable, principles-based obligation to act in the best interest of the customer."
In approaching this issue, the subcommittee says that the SEC's goal "should be to eliminate the regulatory gap that allows broker-dealers to offer investment advice without being subject to the same fiduciary duty as other investment advisors but not to eliminate the ability of broker-dealers to offer transaction-specific advice compensated through transaction-based payments."
The subcommittee adds that "Though it may require both regulatory flexibility to permit the existence of conflicts of interest and some regulatory changes to reduce the most severe conflicts of interest in the broker-dealer business model, the Committee believes that advisory services offered as part of a transaction-based securities business can and should be conducted in a way that is consistent with a fiduciary standard of conduct."
While the SEC is not bound by any recommendations of the Investor Advisory Committee, which was created under Section 911 of the Dodd-Frank Act, Section 911 does require the SEC to "review the findings and recommendations of the committee" and "each time the committee submits a finding or recommendation to the commission, promptly issue a public statement assessing the finding or recommendation of the committee; and disclosing the action, if any, the commission intends to take with respect to the finding or recommendation."
While fiduciary advocates have voiced their support of the recommendations in comment letters to the subcommittee, some other groups have not. For instance, while the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association says that "many if not most" of the subcommittee's recommendations "are in accord" with SIFMA's views on how to implement Section 913 of Dodd-Frank, some recommendations are "incongruous with the intent and requirements" of Section 913.
Kevin Carroll, SIFMA's managing director, told the subcommittee in his comment letter that the "incongruities" exist in preserving the broker-dealer business model and in the "intent to maintain forward progress under Section 913." These incongruities, he said, "may be attributable to the fact that the subcommittee (and indeed, the committee) does not have a single broker-dealer representative."
SIFMA "strongly agrees" with the subcommittee's recommendation that brokers should provide investors with up-front disclosures, similar to Form ADV, Part 2, about potential conflicts of interest, compensation arrangements, the scope of services, and other important details about the customer relationship, Carroll said. However, SIFMA and the subcommittee "diverge" in their beliefs that investors can be harmed under the broker-dealer suitability standard, Carroll said.
"The subcommittee states that it is essential that the SEC's Section 913 cost-benefit analysis acknowledge the harms that can result from advice delivered under the current, broker-dealer suitability standard," he wrote.
The subcommittee's list of "alleged harms" include: an investor mistakenly believing that a financial advisor is acting in his best interest, when that is not the case, and thereby receiving advice that carries additional costs and risks; and failure to receive ongoing account supervision.
Carroll countered, however, that "there is no evidence that investors are being harmed by the current suitability standard," and that "there could never be an empirical showing of whether or not suitability-based advice harms investors because there are too many independent variables, including investors' choice to follow the advice or not, and the quality of the advice given, regardless of the best intentions of the giver."
Thus, he argued, "imposing a 'harm' requirement would only serve as an insurmountable obstacle to implementing Section 913 — which seems contrary to the subcommittee's stated goal."
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juan b. brauchte ein neues Anderes Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 60 Designs von 9 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
THE CHALLENGE: Lets re-do this "simple" product and make it STUNNING! Everything is up to you.
Take a look at the concept screens http://www.kitchencalculator.net/ki…rPro.shtml
Kitchen Calculator PRO will be a high-end version of the popular Kitchen Calculator product currently selling in the app store.
Take a look at the concept screens http://www.kitchencalculator.net/ki…rPro.shtml
- Keep in mind the target audience
- Ease of use is TOP priority. Must be intuitive.
- Do your BEST so it DOES NOT look like a standard boring calculator. It should be a FUN to use and INNOVATIVE product without looking way too futuristic.
The product will be targeted to cooks and chefs. These are most likely men and women over 30. They like gadgets, since they've got an iphone, but they are probably NOT geeks.
Feel free to experiment with colors. Colors do not necessarily need to match the concept screens. I want you to think carefully about the TARGET AUDIENCE before coming up with the colors. I want to see YOUR suggestion. I'm not so concerned with colors on your first concept.
Here is the link to the ICON contest:http://99designs.com/contests/20322
Here is a link to the product website: http://www.kitchencalculator.net/
If you have an iphone, here is a link to the free version: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/…96444&mt=8
Here is a link to the standard version: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/…76912&mt=8
- Screens in 320 by 480 pixels ( if you have a landscape design, 480 by 320 )- Icons in illustrator format ( CS3 compatible file )- Screens in Adobe Photoshop file with as many layers/groups as possible (VERY IMPORTANT)- Icons in illustrator format ( CS3 compatible file )- VERY IMPORTANT: if you use stock photos/images please let me know as soon as you post your design. Include a link to the image license agreement. I need to make sure we can use it. I don't want to have to DISQUALIFY your design after your put too much work into it.
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Welcome back, Brenda, to the Internet. You have mail. This is a self-therapy letter, touted by shrinks as being healthy and healing.
It has been eleven days since a gross mix-up began with the telephone company and its allied Internet server. Ten days of mind-warping confusion over a simple request to change the name on the account. The confusion was entirely of their making ... not only mass interdepartmental mis-communication, but a string of downright errors and time-consuming, misguided advice. Official telephone representatives and a series of distant technicians at the other end of the phone line eventually succeeded in transferring a sort of Stockholm syndrome into my acknowledged low-tech, miserably co-dependent head. It was not my phone/Internet system in derangement as one polite message put it, it became me. As cunningly effective as skilled surgeons, they managed to amputate my sense of humour, destroy my central nervous system and eviscerate my guts. All systems flatlined there for a while. A truly empathetic IT Guy took pity on my dissolving persona and finally sorted much of it out with only a few cuss words uttered (unlike moi).
I spare you the dreary details. Everyone has had similar crashes and aggravating conflict with various personnel, I know. Overreaction some might say? Certainly reflects the fragility of my crisis management and less than healthy dependency on all invisible cyber things. Damage done, probably five years off what's left of the rest of my life. What used to be the excitement of the learning curve has lost some of its joy. Nevertheless, up and at 'em again.
Thank you for listening.
22 January 2009
Welcome Back, Brenda
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3 comments:
- Sheri Fenley said...
Oh Brenda Baby! I had no idea....Such shinanagins have yet to befall me, but my turn is coming. I can feel it in the air.
- Friday, 23 January, 2009
- Charley "Apple" Grabowski said...
I'm glad you're back up and running and hope this was a one time episode!
- Friday, 23 January, 2009
- Janet Iles said...
Glad to see you posting again. We missed you at our monthly OCAPG chat. Janice let us know why you were missing in action.
- Friday, 23 January, 2009
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Britney to Lose Visitation
After last night's drama, the babies are now safely back with Kevin Federline, Jayden James is doing fine, and KFed's legal team will be storming the court this morning, not surprisingly, to strip Britney of all visitation rights.
Britney meanwhile is being held for mental evaluation at Cedars on what's being called a 5150 meaning she's been deemed a danger to herself and others.
Word is everyone around her has been expecting it to come to this for some time now which accounts for the assignment of the court appointed monitor the last few months. As for those of you asking for the whereabouts of the court appointed monitor last night – she was there but at some point was locked out of the house.
And even though Britney was found to be under the influence, her problems are "mental, not chemical".
There are also reports that Britney, once stabilised, will be charged by police.
Sources inside the Camp Federline are saying that these developments have actually been met with optimism. Not only because of the obvious legal and financial repercussions but also because this is exactly the kind of rock bottom turnaround they need to turn her around.
Will keep you posted.
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Whether a college education is a right or a privilege can be argued 'til the cows come home, but in the end, one thing's for sure: They're expensive.
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Since its start in 1949, the Latin American Educational Foundation has awarded college scholarships to 5,400 students from low-income families throughout Colorado, and much of the money for those grants is raised at a gala dinner held every year in Denver. The event usually has headline entertainment — this year, the Grammy-winning musical group Ozomatli and "Mom comic" Debi Gutierrez — plus silent and live auctions and the presentation of the Sol Trujillo National Lifetime Leadership Award.


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Flex 4.6 sample application
Michaël Chaize (Jan 16, 2012)
Play this learning game to discover the new features and components in Flex 4.6.
Flex 4.5 sample applications
Renaun Erickson (Sep 21, 2011)
The Caltrain Times app is a train schedule viewer for the Caltrain commuter rail system in California.
Terry Ryan (Sep 06, 2011)
Finicky is a mobile journaling app for travelers who like to keep track of locally available items and then find them again when they return.
Narciso Jaramillo (Jun 20, 2011)
The sample application gets the latest trending topics from Twitter and lets you see the tweets for each topic, as well as information on the user who posted each tweet. Also read the tutorial.
Daniel Koestler (May 03, 2011)
This survey-taking sample app illustrates simple camera integration in a Flex mobile app: create a survey, get it filled out, photograph the respondent, and review the results.
Christophe Coenraets (May 03, 2011)
A demo of a stock tracking application (using fake data), including a pannable/zoomable chart and simulating real-time data access.
Random walk component: Automation-ready sample application
Adobe (Jun 01, 2011)
Instrument the RandomWalk custom component so that your application records your user's interaction with the component.
Flex 4.5 showcase apps
100 Days of Exercise showcase app
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100 Days of Exercise encourages you to rethink how you define exercise and make it part of your daily routine.
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Developed using Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform with Flash Builder, this cross-platform enterprise financial analytics app features 3D charts and real-time updates.
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MuniTracker lets you track SF Muni locations and arrival time predictions on a map updating live every 10 seconds.
MrMixit and Pyramix showcase apps
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MrMixit and Pyramix are two popular games developed in Flash Builder and Flex and available on Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and iOS devices.
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Conqu is an easy-to-use, yet powerful task management tool designed to help users conquer their inbox and get things done.
Netflix Queue Manager showcase app
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This app makes it easy for users to connect and manage their Netflix queue, search for new titles, check out recommendations, and view titles based on their favorite movie stars.
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PolitiFact app helps users find the truth in politics by rating the accuracy of people's statements on the Truth-O-Meter: True, Mostly True, Half True, Barely True, False, and Pants on Fire (the lowest rating).
Tour de Mobile Flex showcase app
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An application highlighting the new mobile components and skins in Flex as well as device-specific functionality in the mobile version of the Adobe AIR runtime.
Flex 4 sample applications
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Expand what you can do with Flex with running examples of common components, effects, and coding techniques.
Spark intranet sample application
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DigiPri Widgets sample application
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Experience how Flex 4 and other Adobe technologies can be used to rapidly develop practical applications that are also attractive and expressive.
Get your project going with concise, easy-to-use code examples for common tasks, including event handling, data integration, and more.
Flex 3 sample applications
Browse and view sample application code for these Flex 3 sample applications from Adobe and the Flex community. If you'd like to see what else the Flex community has built, check out the Flex.org showcase (note that not all applications in the showcase have enabled the view source code feature).
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This demo application displays data using a pod layout as well as charts, forms, data grids, links, and multiple behaviors such as drag-and-drop, minimizing and maximizing, and more. (Built by WASI)
Adobe (Feb 26, 2008)
The configurator is a simple application that allows the user to choose options to create their very own custom bowling shirt. (Built by Teknision)
Adobe (Feb 25, 2008)
This demo application displays devices from a network in multiple views: network topology, device type and grid. Each device thumb displays real-time data and allows a user to click it for additional data.
Adobe (Feb 25, 2008)
The Adobe Media Widget is an embeddable media player created in Adobe Flex. It allows you to embed any of the supported media types into a web page. (Built by Teknision)
Tour de Flex
Tour de Flex is a desktop application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources. Expand what you can do with Flex with running examples of common components, effects, and coding techniques.


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Consider getting flooring you can grow old with
By Katie Marks, Networx
As our bodies get old, our abilities definitely start changing with them. Bending over gets a little harder, it's tougher to grip things, our eyes aren't as sharp as they used to be, and we have trouble getting around. It's an inevitable consequence of aging, but it can be not very much fun, especially when you're living in a home designed for a younger and more active version of you.
The universal design movement is looking to change that by creating interior design and architecture that are suitable for all kinds of people in all stages of life. A few simple changes can make a huge difference; for example, lowering switches to make them accessible to wheelchair users and children while still easy to reach for ambulatory people. Under universal design, the idea is that you should be able to live with dignity in your home as you age, without having to move because steep stairs, cumbersome kitchens, and other problems make it impossible for you to live comfortably.
One area where universal design can be especially important is in the kitchen, both because it's a room that gets used a lot, and because it's a room where people tend to be highly active. Counters at the wrong height, taps that are hard to use, confusing layouts, and more can turn a kitchen from the friendly center of a home to a minefield.
So how do you design a kitchen so you can age in place in it (and bake cookies for the grandkids?). Obviously, you may need to be prepared for some remodeling to get your kitchen broken down and back up to speed. A good kitchen should have lots of room, with ideally around five feet of clearance around working spaces to allow wheelchair users to navigate comfortably without having to back in and out of tight spaces.
Think about lowering counters, ovens, and ranges to make them easy to reach from a seated position, and don't make the counters too deep; it can be hard to reach back into them if you're using a walker or wheelchair for mobility. Think ahead when it comes to taps and faucets, too. They will be easier to operate with levers (rather than knobs, which require strength and coordination to use). Simple efficiency measures can also make a big difference, because they'll make the kitchen easier to use.
Also consider a good nonslip floor that's friendly to wheelies and people using walkers. That means staying away from slick tile materials that might get extremely slippery if they get wet, as for example when water spills during cooking. Slippery floors can rapidly lead to dangerous falls.
If you live in a climate that tends to get extreme sometimes, another consideration can be temperature regulation. Some older adults have a tendency to get too hot or too cold very quickly, which can be extremely uncomfortable. In the Southwest, for example, HVAC need to be carefully installed and calibrated to keep people comfortable.
Designing an accessible home has a lot of advantages beyond just ensuring that you can age in place. It can increase the sale value of your home, and it makes it much easier to accommodate guests of all ages and ability levels; they don't want to worry about whether your house will be navigable, and if it will be an inconvenience to you to have them around. Numerous resources on universal design are available to help homeowners with modification and design projects.
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"UNITED 93," Hollywood's highly praised but indifferently attended 9/11 docudrama, will be only a blip on tonight's Oscar telecast. The ratings rise of "24" has stalled as audiences defect from the downer of terrorists to the supernatural uplift of "Heroes." Cable surfers have tuned out Iraq for a war with laughs: the battle over Anna Nicole's decomposing corpse. Set this cultural backdrop against last week's terrifying but little-heeded front-page Times account of American "intelligence and counterterrorism officials" leaking urgent warnings about Al Qaeda's comeback, and ask yourself: Haven't we been here before?
If so, that would be the summer of 2001, when America pigged out on a 24/7 buffet of Gary Condit and shark attacks. The intelligence and counterterrorism officials back then were privately sounding urgent warnings like those in last week's Times, culminating in the President's Daily Brief titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." The system "was blinking red," as the C.I.A. chief George Tenet would later tell the 9/11 commission. But no one, from the White House on down, wanted to hear it.
The White House doesn't want to hear it now, either. That's why terrorism experts are trying to get its attention by going public, and not just through The Times. Michael Scheuer, the former head of the C.I.A. bin Laden unit, told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann last week that the Taliban and Al Qaeda, having regrouped in Afghanistan and Pakistan, "are going to detonate a nuclear device inside the United States" (the real United States, that is, not the fictional stand-in where this same scenario can be found on "24"). Al Qaeda is "on the march" rather than on the run, the Georgetown University and West Point terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman told Congress. Tony Blair is pulling troops out of Iraq not because Basra is calm enough to be entrusted to Iraqi forces — it's "not ready for transition," according to the Pentagon's last report — but to shift some British resources to the losing battle against the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan.
This is why the entire debate about the Iraq "surge" is as much a sideshow as Britney's scalp. More troops in Baghdad are irrelevant to what's going down in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The surge supporters who accuse the Iraq war's critics of emboldening the enemy are trying to deflect attention from their own complicity in losing a bigger battle: the one against the enemy that actually did attack us on 9/11. Who lost Iraq? is but a distraction from the more damning question, Who is losing the war on terrorism?
The record so far suggests that this White House has done so twice. The first defeat, of course, began in early December 2001, when we lost Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora. The public would not learn about that failure until April 2002 (when it was uncovered by The Washington Post), but it's revealing that the administration started its bait-and-switch trick to relocate the enemy in Iraq just as bin Laden slipped away. It was on Dec. 9, 2001, that Dick Cheney first floated the idea on "Meet the Press" that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. It was "pretty well confirmed," he said (though it was not), that bin Laden's operative Mohamed Atta had met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague months before Atta flew a hijacked plane into the World Trade Center.
In the Scooter Libby trial, Mr. Cheney's former communications aide, Catherine Martin, said that delivering a message on "Meet the Press" was "a tactic we often used." No kidding. That mention of the nonexistent Prague meeting was the first of five times that the vice president would imply an Iraq-Qaeda collaboration on that NBC show before the war began in March 2003. This bogus innuendo was an essential tool for selling the war precisely because we had lost bin Laden in Afghanistan. If we could fight Al Qaeda by going to war in Iraq instead, the administration could claim it didn't matter where bin Laden was. (Mr. Bush pointedly stopped mentioning him altogether in public.)
The president now says his government never hyped any 9/11-Iraq links. "Nobody has ever suggested that the attacks of September the 11th were ordered by Iraq," he said last August after finally conceding that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. In fact everyone in the administration insinuated it constantly, including him. Mr. Bush told of "high-level" Iraq-Qaeda contacts "that go back a decade" in the same notorious October 2002 speech that gave us Saddam's imminent mushroom clouds. So effective was this propaganda that by 2003 some 44 percent of Americans believed (incorrectly) that the 9/11 hijackers had been Iraqis; only 3 percent had seen an Iraq link right after 9/11.
Though the nonexistent connection was even more specious than the nonexistent nuclear W.M.D., Mr. Bush still leans on it today even while denying that he does so. He has to. His litanies that we are "on the offense" by pursuing the war in Iraq and "fighting terrorists over there, so that we don't have to fight them here" depend on the premise that we went into that country in the first place to vanquish Al Qaeda and that it is still the "central front" in the war on terror. In January's State of the Union address hawking the so-called surge, Mr. Bush did it again, warning that to leave Iraq "would be to ignore the lessons of September the 11th and invite tragedy."
But now more than ever, the opposite is true. It is precisely by pouring still more of our finite military and intelligence resources down the drain in Iraq that we are tragically ignoring the lessons of 9/11. Instead of showing resolve, as Mr. Bush supposes, his botch of the Iraq war has revealed American weakness. Our catastrophic occupation spawned terrorists in a country where they didn't used to be, and to pretend that Iraq is now their central front only adds to the disaster. As Mr. Scheuer, the former C.I.A. official, reiterated last week: "Al Qaeda is in Afghanistan and Pakistan. If you want to address the threat to America, that's where it is." It's typical of Mr. Bush's self-righteousness, however, that he would rather punt on that threat than own up to a mistake.
That mistake — dropping the ball on Al Qaeda — was compounded last fall when Mr. Bush committed his second major blunder in the war on terror. The occasion was the September revelation that our supposed ally, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, had negotiated a "truce" with the Taliban in North Waziristan, a tribal region in his country at the Afghanistan border. This truce was actually a retreat by Pakistan, which even released Qaeda prisoners in its custody. Yet the Bush White House denied any of this was happening. "This deal is not at all with the Taliban," the president said, claiming that "this is against the Taliban, actually." When Dana Priest and Ann Scott Tyson of The Washington Post reported that same month that the bin Laden trail was "stone cold" and had been since Mr. Bush diverted special operations troops from that hunt to Iraq in 2003, the White House branded the story flat wrong. "We're on the hunt," Mr. Bush said. "We'll get him."
Far from getting him or any of his top operatives dead or alive, the president has sat idly by, showering praise on General Musharraf while Taliban attacks from Pakistan into Afghanistan have increased threefold. As The Times reported last week, now both bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, are believed to be "steadily building an operations hub" in North Waziristan. We know that last year's London plot to bomb airliners, like the bus-and-subway bombings of 2005, was not just the work of home-grown jihadists in Britain, but also of Qaeda operatives. Some of the would-be bombers were trained in Qaeda's Pakistan camps much as their 9/11 predecessors had been trained in Afghanistan.
All of this was already going on when Mr. Bush said just before the election that "absolutely, we're winning" and that "Al Qaeda is on the run." What's changed in the few months since his lie is that even more American troops are tied down in Iraq, that even more lethal weapons are being used against them, that even more of the coalition of the unwilling are fleeing, and that even more Americans are tuning out both the administration and the war they voted down in November to savor a referendum that at least offers tangible results, "American Idol."
Yet Mr. Bush still denies reality. Ten days ago he told the American Enterprise Institute that "the Taliban have been driven from power" and proposed that America help stabilize the Pakistan border by setting up "Reconstruction Opportunity Zones" (remember that "Gulf Opportunity Zone" he promised after Katrina?) to "give residents the chance to export locally made products to the United States, duty-free." In other words, let's fight terrorism not by shifting America's focus from Iraq to the central front, but by shopping for Taliban souvenirs!
Five years after 9/11, the terrorists would seem to have us just where they want us — asleep — even as the system is blinking red once again.


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Smutty Social Media, Friday August 21, 2015
Remember that picture of Kellan Lutz casually reading in a tree? Well here's Ian Somerhalder casually reading on set. At least he is promoting his wife Nikki's column in Elle. Just rereading a mind-blowing article that I can not stop thinking about. I think many of you will like- I ask you to read and really think about. It's what I want to spend my life doing-finding solutions to old and dangerous problems. Sitting in This chair last night on the TVD set thinking... For years now I've often sat in this chair in the rain or shine- the warm and the frigid contemplating the path of my character on TV, myself and humanity itself. Over the years you, the audience, have allowed me to meet some very special people-people who can change the world and I'm forever grateful. Some of them very young, some of them very old and some in between but their ability to inspire me and those around them are some of the most impactful moments and relationships I've ever known. This article inspires me beyond words and it's written by someone who not only inspires those around her but inspires them to DO and BE more so that our world can be a better place. Check this out- I hope you have a moment to comment- I'm excited to hear your thoughts! You can email her- I suggest it she's reading them now! https://tinyurl.com/omj4oyj Full Story
For Or Against?
Written by Duana You know who wastes a whoooole lot of my time? People on Twitter. It's terrible. But what if someone said something new? What if there's something I didn't hear about? What if I can't understand what the newest catchphrase is because Mindy Kaling originated it and then told you all not to tell me because I was busy doing, like, work? Anyway, twitter and a flexible work schedule combined to present to me the following Gem: Alyssa Milano's Blog Full Story
Renee, Bradley, and Samantha Micelli
Friday night we had a dinner with the team bosses. It was a party of 10. We went to E Baldi – great food but super small restaurant in Beverly Hills. Anyway, there was a table of 4 right behind us along the side wall. Alyssa Milano was facing out. SO beautiful and exactly the same. Like, luminous and ageless and totally untouched. Full Story
Bridget Jones and Samantha Micelli
Love random Hollywood friendships. Last night at Katsuya in Hollywood the paps say that Bradley Cooper and Renee Zellweger were out with Alyssa Milano. I don't know, this made me happy. Together they don't seem like Renee and Alyssa. Together they totally seem like Bridget and Samantha. Apparently Coop and Alyssa have been friends for a while. Full Story
Worst Emmy 2008: Not Alyssa Milano
This is the only photo I could find. Which is shocking. Worst dressed photos sell almost as briskly as best dressed ones. …the f&ck was she thinking??? Am most offended by the small details. Like those shoes. Those Asian massage parlour shoes. Jessica Simpson shoes. Shoes for women with two names - Betty Lou, Connie Sue, Sally Mae, Peggy Lee – who aspire to aging like Dolly Parton: garish makeup, bleached out hair, frosty blue eye shadow, and two pigs fighting under a blanket that make up her ass. Full Story
Perv On Someone Your Own Age!
They are starring in a new movie together called Pathology – here promoting it at Wizard World in LA at the weekend. The preternaturally preserved Alyssa, now 35, doesn't look a day over 25. Much more suitable for Milo, 31, who's been creepy perving on that little Lolita Hayden Panettiere. Full Story


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What a crowd! We were thrilled to be joined by more than 800 of you last night at the second annual GeekWire Gala at McCaw Hall. Thanks to everyone who attended this one-of-a-kind event.
We recognized our Newsmakers of the Year for 2012 and, with your help, raised more than $32,000 for Seattle nonprofit Vittana in their fight against youth poverty. We'll have more details coming up later today, but we wanted to start by sharing scenes from the event.
A big thanks to our sponsors for making the GeekWire Gala possible: Filter, Microsoft Outlook.com, MailChimp, Knoll, Flinn Ferguson, Microsoft User Research, Side Car, Sprig Health, Splunk, Weber Shandwick, PaperG, McAdams Wright Ragen, Deloitte Digital, SEOmoz, and Vittana.
We've also uploaded a gallery of photos to an album to our Facebook page for easy tagging and sharing. (Thanks to photographer Karen Ducey for the great shots.)
Also check out all the shots from the Usnaps Photo Booth from the event in the gallery below.
Here's the gallery from Usnaps.


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As the pop culture behemoth that is Comic-Con International rolls into San Diego this week, your hardworking friends over at team ZombieBomb! have BIG news for all fans of our special brand of undead goodness: the ZombieBomb! App for the iPad, out today.
The comic anthology that's been setting zombie fandom on fire for the past year lurches into the digital age with an app sure to satisfy both hardcore ZB! devotees as well as those coming to the series for the first time. The ZombieBomb! App offers access to every issue of the ZB! series, as well as serving as a hub to our Facebook community and ZombieBombTV episode library. Additionally, exclusive wallpapers and an official ZB! alarm clock round out what is sure to be one of the most killer apps you download this year.
As well as today's online debut, the ZombieBomb! App will be a primary feature at the Terminal Press Comic-Con booth, #1737. Visitors can try out the app live at the booth while meeting our creators and picking up signed copies of the first five issues of ZombieBomb!
In attendance at this year's con will be co-editor/cover artist Adam Miller, as well as creators Keith McCleary, Adam Street, Geoff Mosse, Tom Bennett, and the entire ZBTV film crew. It's going to be an amazing show capping off an amazing first year of ZombieBomb!
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Ashley Mitchell
Class of 2011
Major/Minor: Music/Business Management
I am a singer songwriter from Goldsboro, Maryland. Growing up in a small town has helped me understand the true meaning of follow your dreams. Singing karaoke in local bars and performing at private parties makes me only want to push myself harder to become a successful singer. I entered Washington College in the fall of 2009 as a transfer student. I immediately fell in love with the music department and knew that becoming a Music Major here at Washington was the right choice for me.
My story could fill the pages of a novel. I hope to one day have the opportunity to share my musical talent with the world. My entire world revolves around music. When I am not at school writing and performing, I am home working on new materials or performing locally with my band. I have been singing since I could speak. There is no other feeling in the world besides the rush of a crowd and the feeling of all eyes on you. My career path is to have my music heard and entertain the world. I have grown up with my mother by my side every step of the way. It has been a financial struggle for the two of us, but we stick together and possessing a degree from Washington College helps me gain one step closer to my dream.
My longtime friend and co-writer, Donny Marvel, has played a large role in the development of our first original CD, "My Time to Shine." We were classmates in music theory throughout high school. After graduation we formed a band with a group of friends, and developed into a very popular cover band around our area. Upon the band's departure, Donny and I decided to collaborate songwriting ideas and produce a CD. "My Time to Shine" was completed in the spring of 2010. I believe the knowledge I have gained through my years at Washington has influenced my song writing abilities. Since the completion of "My Time to Shine" we have began working on new originals, and have gathered a group of elite musicians to begin a modern pop/funk cover band. Our band consists of five musicians, lead/rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, bassist, drums, and lead vocalist. Donny and I have also formed an acoustic group for venues that require a more intimate setting. We work extremely hard in creating a memorable performance and an original sound.
I have gained a great deal of musical knowledge throughout my years at Washington College. Studying music at this wonderful school has not only improved my overall vocal abilities as a singer and a performer, but has also helped me develop as a songwriter. I am very proud of my musical journey and believe that my time spent at Washington College has shaped my life as a singer, songwriter, and performer.
Senior Capstone Experience
Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 4:00 p.m.
Hotchkiss Recital Hall
Gibson Center for the Arts
Ashley Mitchell
Paul Donovan, Guitar
Donny Marvel, Guitar
Dr. Garry Clarke, Piano
My senior voice recital was a reflection of what I have learned throughout my years in college, as well as how jazz music has ultimately affected my personal style of song writing. The development of my recital primarily revolved around the influential pieces of George Gershwin and the techniques and styles of jazz singers Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, and Eva Cassidy. Gershwin composed music for classical concert halls as well as Broadway, and aided in bridging a gap between classical music and jazz music. Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, and Eva Cassidy sang many songs composed by Gershwin throughout their careers. Each section of my recital was linked to the next by a musical relationship. Through the performance of memorable works by legendary artists, as well as my own jazz-influenced songs, I was able to present a glimpse of my musical journey.


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: sapi 4 version of VoiceBox
Re: sapi 4 version of VoiceBox
From: Clement Chou <chou.clement_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:10:06 -0800
aha. Thought it was something like that. The voice is read, which I am comfortable with. Now I just need to figure out why it doesn't create any clips when I run it.
Hello Clement
Open the wsf file with notepad or your favorite text editor.
Best Wishes,
----- Original Message -----
Alright. I found it. Now what do I use in conjunction with voicebox.wsf for info on how to change the sapi 4 voice? Do I just open the script, or do I ope it with a certain program? Thanks.
Hello Clement
Yes, there is.
Best Wishes,
----- Original Message -----
Is there a version of Voicebox which permits using of synthes like Via voice and True Voice instead of sapi synthes? I so, where would it be possible to obtain and how would one configure the voices?
Page was last modified "Jan 10 2012" The Rockbox Crew


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Tower Defense Evo in Review – If Fieldrunners was dead, he'd turn over in his grave
Fieldrunners was of the pioneers of Tower Defence games on the iPhone in general and the first open-field TD game in particular. It's no wonder it spurred a number of clones. The more confusing thing is seeing such clones appear more than a year after the original was released. And with a defunct feature set nonetheless! And having said this let's dive into Tower Defense Evo – maybe it DOES have at least something to say for itself? Feel free to discuss this review of Tower Defense Evo in our forums.
Tower Defense Evo is a classic open-field TD game. You probably can't even get more classic than this. The enemies come from pre-set entry points and head towards your base. You build and upgrade towers to destroy them before they do make it in. Money is gained for eliminating enemies – same old, same old.
Tower Defense Evo seems to have a variety of towers to choose from: machine gun, slow, rocket, flamethrower, electrical and microwave. Unfortunately they are poorly balanced and with a strange definition of upgrade cost with each level costing roughly the same as a standalone tower of the same type. The effects don't offer any revelations though, with even the more powerful towers seemingly having roughly the same amount of stopping power as the lower versions. This makes for some dull gameplay.
The enemies come in the standard varieties of quick and weak, slow and tough and the middle-managers punctuated by the flying varieties of all. But since all of the towers seem to be able to hit both ground and aerial targets the difference appears only in the path they take to get to the base.
But what about the gameplay value you ask? Well, Tower Defense Evo has 3 maps with some preset ground obstacles on the later ones. And yes, all of them are unlocked from the start. The levels can be played at easy, hard and endless modes, though due to the poor balancing of the game I was unable to reach the end of even the easy mode on the first map. And as of now no way to get extra maps is available.
The graphics strive to being more of the realistic type and I must admit they look rather sharp. At the same time they use roughly the same colours and result in being bleak and dull. There is nothing positive to be said about the music and sound effects either.
If Tower Defense Evo was released a year and a half ago, it would probably have gotten a significant amount of praise being the solid classic that it is. Unfortunately the industry has moved on since then and in the AppStore, already overcrowded with TD games there simply is no place for a poorly balanced no thrills title. Color Stone Ltd, you're just too late.
With this I declare Tower Defense Evo officially touched!
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President Obama pushes to fill ATF's top spot
- Sen. Charles Grassley said B. Todd Jones would face %22serious questions%22
- Jones was appointed to the acting director%27s job in August 2011
- ATF is considering changing its name to the Violent Crime Bureau
WASHINGTON — Among the most politically fraught items on the list to change gun policy after the Sandy Hook school massacre may not be the proposals to renew the assault weapons ban or expand the use of background checks.
It is the Obama administration's proposal to empower the long-beleaguered Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the nation's chief firearms enforcement agency.
Obama's announcement on Wednesday to nominate B. Todd Jones, the ATF's acting director, is the latest attempt to fill a leadership void that has left the agency without a permanent director for six years.
The nomination of Jones, who also serves as the U.S. attorney in Minneapolis, comes at a crucial time for an agency still struggling to recover from its involvement in a botched gun trafficking investigation that allowed about 2,000 firearms to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartel enforcers and other criminals.
The administration's action also seeks to break years of political gridlock, which blocked previous nominee Andrew Traver, a career ATF agent, who the National Rifle Association fiercely opposed.
Traver was first nominated to the post in 2010 and renominated in 2011. Both times, Traver's nomination languished in the Senate.
Former ATF directors and law enforcement analysts said Wednesday that they were encouraged by Jones' nomination and urged the administration to see it through even if it encounters opposition.
The NRA did not have a response to Jones' nomination.
"This couldn't come at a better time," said former ATF director John Magaw, who took over the bureau after the 1993 fatal siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, which left 80 dead. "As a lawyer and federal prosecutor, (Jones) understands the law and will give good guidance to the agency," he said.
"Jones has the political skills to do the job," said Ronnie Carter, who was ATF's acting director in 2009. Yet Carter said he believes the political forces aligned with gun rights advocates will be too strong to overcome.
"I would doubt that he will ever be confirmed,'' Carter said. "I seriously don't think that Congress or the NRA will ever let the agency have a permanent director,'' he said.
Within hours of Obama's announcement, some of the first hints of congressional opposition to Jones' nomination came from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican. Grassley said that Jones would face "serious questions'' related to his nomination. Grassley referred to Jones' "ties'' to the failed Mexican gun-trafficking investigation known as "Operation Fast and Furious.''
Grassley did not elaborate and it was unclear what he was referring to since Jones was appointed to the acting director's job in August 2011, following the ouster of Ken Melson, another acting director whose leadership was called into question during the congressional investigation into Fast and Furious.
Since his appointment at ATF, Jones has had two full-time jobs: presiding over all federal prosecutions in Minnesota and managing the nation's chief gun-enforcement agency.
Because of "Fast and Furious,'' much of Jones' time at the ATF has been directed to a reorganization of agency leadership.
The changes have even included some discussion of renaming the agency as the Violent Crime Bureau. The move would update an identity still cloaked in the Prohibition-era vices of alcohol and tobacco trafficking while removing a reference to firearms that has long drawn the ire of gun rights advocates. Jones was not available for comment.
Bradley Buckles, a former ATF director, said Jones is well regarded in the agency and has "a fine reputation as a strong U.S. attorney."
"If anybody can get confirmed, he can," Buckles said. "You know, the NRA likes to say that the best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. ATF agents are the good guys. They deserve to have good leadership and a permanent director.''


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Cool stuff in this update, but I'm not seeing the earn op. It was supposed to begin today.
*Edit* Nevermind, I see it. It's just in a new format that was throwing me off. It would be nice to see what tanks we could earn, though, instead of mostly going into it blind. Or are the Blitzen, T-28E F-30, and ISU-130 the only options?
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Moderators: Mug UK, Zorro 2, spiny, Greenious, Moderator Team
alexh wrote:Total and utter madness
Mug UK wrote:619 Euros???? Ouch!
wongck wrote:With that ethernet and USB stuff, should easily justify the price.
Jookie wrote:wongck wrote:With that ethernet and USB stuff, should easily justify the price.
Yes, but that is usefull only if there is enough of applications and drivers which will use the USB devices and the ethernet connection. The ethernet seems not to be a big problem, but the support for enough various USB devices... well, I don't know... So it's nice that Suska has them, but without the right software it might be useless to you.
wongck wrote:Hahaha.... yes, correct. Like the EtherNAT?
jvas wrote:Considering the features and efforts put in this project (and the expected number of units sold) the price is fair.
alexh wrote:I wonder how much that will be.
alexh wrote:The C-One was overpriced and underpowered. Anyone looking at it when it came out who knew anything stayed well clear.
As for core compatibility... 99% of cores are open-source. The schematics and board-support-wrappers are also open-source. It is very simple to port them. 2-3 days work maximum.
The only hard bit is porting the FDC/HD emulation interface which usually varies so widely between boards it is unbelievable.
Compatibility... well that is down to the core developers. I've no idea how compatible today's FPGA cores are, but I see some good results for Spectrum, Amstrad, C64, MSX2, BBCB, Apple II, various arcade games etc.
djmitman wrote:I was hoping for a price close to minimig - would have snapped their hands off then
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What I'm about to ask may make your head explode, but here goes: Are the budgets for California state legislators enough?
The budgets for legislators had been a closely held secret -- secrecy that is now the subject of legal challenges and public controversy. But now five Republican lawmakers have publicly released their budget -- in defiance of legislative rules and legislative leaders.
My initial reaction to these budgets: is that all?
The base budget for members of the Assembly is $263,000.
Lawmakers also get a separate allocation -- in the tens of thousands of dollars for those who have released budgets so far. That puts spending for these five Republicans at least - Democratic legislator budgets are likely higher -- in the low $300,000s.
That's not cheap.
But it's hardly outrageous, especially when one considers just how many people California state legislators represent.
Members of the Assembly, the lower house, represent nearly 500,000 people -- so the GOP lawmakers who released their budgets are getting less than $1 for every constitutent.
That doesn't buy a lot of service or a lot of staff. As a point of comparison, city council members in Los Angeles have office budgets of $1.7 million, according to a report earlier this year from the Pew Charitable Trusts -- even though they represent half as many people as assemblymen.
Now, the limited disclosure we've seen doesn't explain all spending -- much of which comes through committees and the caucus as a whole. (The Associated Press has a smart story explaining the ins and outs of what we know and don't know about legislative spending).
But the legislative budgets we've seen so far are less than outrageous.
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In an attempt to try to find out what happened to her I finally tracked down some obituaries for her father, Dennis, and his 2nd wife. Sadly, there was no mention of her in the obituaries, so back to square one. Her not being mentioned does lead me to believe that her life was most likely cut short. Perhaps she even died prior to her father remarrying. Who knows. I'd like to avoid Pennsylvania doing a broad search for her death record, but it may come to that if I keep banging my head against this brick wall.
Dennis' daughter, Betty/Elizabeth (named after her mother), did have some half-siblings though. I do often wonder if they ever knew her. Was her name even mentioned after she passed? Ah well. On to her father's obituary:
|The Globe Times - 17MAY1954, pg8
Dennis J. Dugan, 711 Pawnee St., a former employee [sic] of Bethlehem Steel, died unexpectedly at 8:30 a.m. today in his home.
A resident of Bethlehem for 45 years he was born in Audenried [sic], Pa. He was a member of St. Ursula's Church in Fountain Hill, of the Protection Hose Co. and of the South Side Fireman's Relief Assn.
His survivors include his wife, Rose (King) Dugan; two sons, James of Bethlehem and Francis, at home; two daughters, Sister Rose Dennis Dugan, SSJ, Church of the Ascension in Philadelphia, and Mary wife of James Phillips at home; and two sisters, Mrs. William O'Donnell and Margaret Dugan of Washington, D. C. Three grandchildren also survive."


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