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The skies cleared this morning, generators chugged to life in driveways and backyards and the wait began for power to return.
After two big storms last year that left many without electricity for a week or more, area residents who were plunged into the dark Monday as Hurricane Sandy whirled toward landfall in New Jersey fretted that they might again be facing days of getting by on generator power or, worse, sitting in the dark.
In the center of Northboro, traffic ventured tentatively through intersections left unmanaged by darkened traffic lights, and the low drone of generators running in the distance was audible for blocks in every direction.
"Everybody's getting sick of it, but there isn't thing one you can do about it," said Chuck Krouse of Beverly Road, who had a 7,000-watt gasoline generator running noisily in his driveway. "If people had allowed National Grid to trim the trees before, we wouldn't be having this problem."
Mr. Krouse said he lost power for three or four days in both of last year's big storms, Tropical Storm Irene in August and the freak Halloween snowstorm in October, and wasn't surprised to lose it again on Monday about 4 p.m. as gusty winds howled outside.
By this afternoon, he was on his third tank of gas for the generator at a cost of about $18 a tank, he said.
"If you don't want to be without power here, buy a damn generator," he said with a shrug.
At the time, 78 percent of the town didn't have electricity, according to National Grid outage figures. That percentage had dropped to 15 percent by early tonight.
In the southern part of the county, Charlton also was particularly hard-hit with about 48 percent of the town without power as of 9 tonight.
Charlton resident John Rice is among many people in the region who have bought generators after too many agonizingly long waits in the dark and cold for the power to come back on.
"The fog rolls in, and we lose power," he quipped.
Mr. Rice and a friend, Paul Wendgender of Sturbridge, went to a local coffee shop with free wireless Internet access to get some work done today.
In Worcester County, more than 50,000 customers were still without power as of this afternoon, roughly 17 percent of National Grid customers in Central Massachusetts. That number had inched down to 33,152 tonight, according to National Grid figures.
In the northern part of the region, Unitil said it had restored power to 99 percent of its electric customers in Massachusetts, all but about 34 homes and businesses, tonight.
National Grid officials said in a conference call with reporters today that the utility had been working feverishly to get a complete picture of power outages across the state since early morning and had been aided in that work by fair weather, more than 300 contractors from other parts of the country and what they said were better damage-assessment procedures compared to last year's destructive storms.
While repairs on major transmission lines began early today and the number of customers without power had dropped from a peak of 237,000 statewide to about 118,655 by the evening, officials said this afternoon they didn't yet have estimates on when the power would be back on in specific communities. Tonight, National Grid estimated power would be restored by midnight Thursday for some cities and towns, midnight Friday for others.
The outage numbers dropped quickly in Worcester throughout the day. As of early tonight, the city still had 4,489 homes and businesses without power — about 6 percent of the 77,309 National Grid customers in Worcester.
Line crews are working 16-hour stretches with eight hours of rest between shifts, said Marcy L. Reed, National Grid's president for Massachusetts.
Ms. Reed said she was moved by the scenes of flooding and destruction from New York, New Jersey and Delaware, but all of the company's crews and contractors would continue work here until power is fully restored.
"It is my only commitment to tend to the customers of Massachusetts, and I will do that. When we're done, we will absolutely lend a hand," she said.
While she stopped short of making any predictions for when power would be fully restored, Ms. Reed said she was optimistic based on early progress.
The company has been under scrutiny from state Attorney General Martha Coakley, utility regulators and customers for what many considered lackluster performance getting power back on after Tropical Storm Irene and the snowstorm last October.
The state Department of Public Utilities is assessing legal arguments from Ms. Coakley that National Grid should be fined $16.3 million for problems during last year's storms.
DPU spokeswoman Krista Selmi said utilities were required to submit their emergency response plans for Hurricane Sandy last Friday. She said the agency will be checking to make sure the plans are followed and effective.
"The utilities are going to be watched on this, their storm response this time around," Ms. Selmi said "They will be judged by their response on the ground."
She said it's still too early in the repair and restoration effort to say how National Grid and other utilities are doing so far.
"The governor has said we need to give it some time," she said.
At a packed coffee shop in Sturbridge, Richard Sadowsky was checking the National Grid website this afternoon to see when power might be restored at his house in town.
"Last year it was nine days," Mr. Sadowsky grumbled.
Pointing at his laptop screen, he noted, "Look here. It says 'unassigned' so that means it hasn't even been assigned to a road crew. I'm going to say it's not going to be today, based on past history."
National Grid's Ms. Reed said the company restored hospitals first, then turned its attention to damage assessment and repairing major transmission lines and substations. From there, crews will work their way down the company's infrastructure to smaller power lines and outages affecting fewer and fewer people.
Perhaps sensing the frayed patience of customers and regulators, National Grid launched an all-out public relations blitz touting its readiness for the storm on Twitter and in media interviews days before Hurricane Sandy got here. In the conference call today, Ms. Reed defended the company's restoration efforts last year while, at the same time, trumpeting improvements that she said are producing better results already this time.
"This year I think you're seeing better communication and the fact that the storm took two days to get here gave us more time to get crews here," she said, before adding, "But judge me about how we're restoring power."
"We started nine hours ago," she said this afternoon. "The fact that we have restored 60,000-plus people is testament that we have improved our assessment process."
Scott and Kim Stevens of Northboro, who lost power about 7 p.m. Monday along with much of the town, will have to wait at least a while longer to join those who have gotten power back.
The couple had just moved to Northboro from Wrentham last July. About a month later, Tropical Storm Irene knocked out electricity in their neighborhood for seven days. They lost power for days again last October when the Halloween snowstorm dumped heavy, wet snow on trees that hadn't yet dropped their leaves.
"I've heard around town that Northboro always loses power. We never lost power in Wrentham for more than a few hours at a time," Ms. Stevens said.
Today, they had an orange extension cord running out a second-floor window and across their lawn to a generous neighbor's new generator. Mr. Stevens was using the power to run his laptop and to keep his cell phone charged, so he could work from home.
Sturbridge Town Administrator Shaun A. Suhoski said he understands the d�j�-vu frustrations of residents who have yet again lost power, possibly for days. As the sun set this evening, about a quarter of the town's National Grid customers still didn't have power despite minimal visible damage from the storm.
"I do see a legitimate effort from the managers of National Grid to improve the flow of information. They really have, but they have a long way to go at the field level," Mr. Suhoski said today. "It's day one. It's not day seven. We're hopeful we will see a lot of progress overnight and in the day."
Kim Ring and Craig S. Semon of the Telegram & Gazette staff contributed to this report.


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What if my partner won't use condoms?
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When you have sex, using a condom is the safest way to protect yourself and your partner from sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and pregnancy.
Psychologist Dr Petra Boynton suggests how you can respond to the most common excuses if your partner doesn't want to use a condom.
"I don't need a condom – I'm healthy"
You can't tell whether someone's got an infection by looking at them – many people with an STI have no noticeable symptoms. Just because you can't see any obvious sores or warts, that doesn't mean someone is free of STIs.
"I don't like using condoms – I like it natural"
Sex with a condom can feel natural – try superfine condoms, or both get involved in putting the condom on so it becomes part of having sex together.
Condoms can also add new sensations to sex. There are condoms that make you and your partner tingle or feel hot, that make you look bigger or help you stay erect longer. There are also textured, flavoured and coloured condoms.
Having sex without a condom may seem natural, but it puts you and your partner at risk of infection and unintended pregnancy.
"I don't want to wear a condom – I lose sensitivity"
If condoms have made you or your partner lose sensitivity in the past, look for brands that sell light condoms. Some are very thin and can feel as if you're barely wearing one.
Alternatively, you may want a textured condom to boost sensitivity for you and your partner. Some people prefer condoms that reduce sensitivity, which can be great if you're worried about coming too quickly.
"I don't want to wear a condom – it affects my performance"
Some people find it hard to keep an erection when wearing a condom. This is often because the first time they try to use a condom is when they're just about to have sex. Their erection might start to go, they get worried about it, lose their erection and then associate it with the condom. People can also feel anxious about what their sexual partner might think.
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Get used to putting on a condom and thinking about sex while you're doing it – your partner can put it on for you, or you could watch your partner undress as you're putting the condom on. This way, you'll stay aroused and putting on a condom will become part of sex, not an interruption.
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"I don't need a condom – we've been seeing each other for a while"
Many STIs, such as chlamydia, don't have any noticeable symptoms and can go undetected for a long time. Even though you may have been with your partner for a while, you still may not be risk-free.
Discuss your sexual history with your partner and get checked at a sexual health (GUM) clinic before you stop using condoms. Find out more about talking to your partner about sex.
"I can't wear a condom – I'm allergic to them"
Only a very small number of people are allergic to condoms, so don't always trust someone who tells you they are. An allergy isn't a good excuse to have unprotected sex, as there are condoms that don't cause allergies.
People who are allergic to condoms may react to:
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Our engineers have confirmed this problem and are looking into this. I'll update this thread again when there is a fix.
The workaround is as described above: make sure all form data cards are visible initially, even if they are on a different screen. Then, when navigating to a screen, set the visibility appropriately.
Thanks @tahoon. It's only taken me months of bashing my head against the wall to finally work this out. So frustrating. This changed at some stage because previous apps I built were working fine and then they all started acting up.
If you leave the improved app rendering on and and don't make all data cards visible initially, the rendering goes completely haywire and that is on any platform, browser or iPhone. Please make sure the engineers also know about this.
Working with hidden fields in forms is such a critical, and I think, basic feature.
Thanks for your assistance on this.
I have another bug I've found. I'll open a another discussion.
Thanks @_Corey_
I've found this solution did not work for me, although my application is larger and more complex than the example shown by eddyg (Thanks), i cannot get the rendering to function as needed, using variables and keeping all tabs visible until they are hidden.
The first page of my app is before any data is loaded so this maybe a problem on my part, as the my variables wont actually be changing anything yet. I will have a play with changing the variables on preceding pages to where i need the tabs to be visible/invisible.
I hope the fix @_Corey_ mentions is out imminently 🙂
Hi @jackferryman,
By the "first page of my app", do you mean the first screen?
If that's the case, then the same rule applies. At the very beginning of the app, in other words, the very first screen that opens when the app starts, you will need to initiate all the variables there regardless of whether they are used or not on that screen. You do this by using GLOBAL variables, in other words, use SET when initiating the variable. This is where you will set ALL the variables to TRUE regardless of what state you would like them in. Then when you hit the screen that you want to use the variables in, On Start of that screen, you SET the variables according to what you want to hide or show. I've done some extensive testing around this and this is the only way I've managed to get this to work everytime.
Good luck.
Hi @eddyg, Thanks for the swift reply, Yes, i had already done as you mentioned and set the global variables on the very first page (first screen on loading) of the application.
Is it worth mentioning that at the first screen of my application the DB hasnt been queried yet? I did find on occasion, that if i went in to a detail screen (with the tabs in) it would not render correctly, but if i re entered that particular entry the default visible tab (onvisble) would now display correctly. Change tab (variable changes) then that tab doesnt render correctly.
I'd upload some screen shots but the content it confidential- i will double check the coding and come back to you.
Hi @jackferryman, if your app is complex and there is a lot going on, then there might be other things that are influencing this. It might not be worthwhile battling to try and create a workaround. I found in my testing that I couldn't actually get my original app to function correctly so after using a brand new test app to find the cause of the issue and the workaround, I rebuilt my app from scratch using my workaround. Quite an undertaking I know but I couldn't get my original app to work with my workaround either. It might be cache or it might just be gremlins, who knows. There was quite a bit of work to rebuild my app but I'd like to think that it took less time than it would have taken to hack away until I finally got the workaround to work.
Having said all that, they did mention that they would be releasing the rendering patch this month..... Maybe it's worth waiting for that.
My APP is now resolved, i went through more carfeully and re added all the global variable as required (i missed some previously) as per @eddyg instructions and now works correctly.
The size/complexity (not to mention person in chair) of my application was the sticking point!
Thanks for all the support
@keathley @eddyg @jackferryman The auto-height fix for forms has completed deployment with version 3.18124.
@jackferryman Perhaps this is just coincidence? 😉 In any event, I'm glad your app is now working correctly.
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Britney Spears and her then boyfriend, singer Justin Timberlake arrive backstage at the 28th Annual American Music Awards, Jan. 8, 2001, in Los Angeles.
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Britney Spears performs with a snake during the finale of the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, Sept. 6, 2001, at New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
Singer Britney Spears rehearses for the MTV Video Music Awards at New York's Lincoln Center on Sept. 8, 1999.
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Britney Spears smiles for the cameras during the 26th annual American Music Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Jan. 11, 1999.
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Former Indiana and NFL wide receiver James Hardy III was arrested and hospitalized on Sunday after an altercation with police in Los Angeles, a media relations spokesman at the LAPD confirmed Monday. According to the spokesman, Hardy was charged with resisting a police officer.
The arrest was originally reported by TMZ Sports.
The LAPD spokesman confirmed most of the details of the TMZ report, but said the investigation is still preliminary and a probable cause affidavit has not yet been filed. He said that at 4 p.m. on Sunday, officers were called to the 600 block on St. Paul Avenue in downtown Los Angeles because a man was causing a disturbance, though the spokesman did not know the nature of that disturbance.
The spokesman said the officers made contact with the suspect, Hardy, did not comply with their demands and the use of force ensued. He said officers attempted to subdue him using a taser gun, but that was not effective. Hardy resisted, causing minor injuries to three police officers, who were treated and released. Hardy was eventually subdued and then taken to the hospital where he was in stable condition. The spokesman said the LAPD's Force Investigation Division is looking in to the matter, and that no further details are available at this time.
Hardy helped lead Indiana to the Insight Bowl in 2007 when he was named a second-team All-American by the Walter Camp Foundation and a third-team pick by the Associated Press. He caught 79 passes that year for 1,125 yards and 16 touchdowns, all Indiana records. He remains Indiana's all-time career leader in receptions with 191 and receiving yards with 2,740. He was taken in the second round by the Buffalo Bills in the 2008 draft, but played just two seasons in the NFL.


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Maybe your KitchenAid mixer -- that most beloved of kitchen tools -- has started making funny noises when you whip up a batch of pizza dough. Maybe you nabbed yours from your mom's basement, where it hadn't been used since burnt sienna was a popular tile color. Or maybe -- like me -- you found your KitchenAid on the sidewalk while walking to dinner one day. (True story!) In any case, check your warranty at the door and roll up your sleeves: it's time for your KitchenAid to get an oil change! It takes just an hour and "yields a lot of satisfaction" according to these instructions from the blog Artisan Bread Baking. With clear instructions and plenty of photos, the tutorial has everything you need to know. Basically, you're removing the mixer apparatus, cleaning it, re-lubricating it, and putting it all back together -- easy enough, right? Maintaining a KitchenAid Mixer from Artisan Bread Baking
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Listen carefully. That sound you're hearing now? That's the sound of car enthusiasts all over the world screaming in agony after this Porsche 959 crashed in Montreal last night.
The story comes to us from the forums at Montreal Racing. Apparently, the flip-flop-wearing driver of this 959 lost control in a curve, trashing his hood and front end from what we can see from these photos.
I'd like to take this time to remind everyone that it's not okay to wreck exotic cars. Also, it's really, really, REALLY not okay to wreck a Group B-inspired rally racing legend with only a few hundred copies in existence.
If anyone has more pictures or info about this crash, hit us up in the comments. (Hat tip to Patru!)
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I guess we should probably begin at the beginning, making it sometime early-ish Thursday afternoon. We've just arrived in France and, after jumping on a delightfully cosy train from Paris, we spy armed guards roaming the relatively modest battlefields of Montparnasse railway station. A shame, yes. But such is the rigid fear that infects these shaky times, like a bad smell in a warm carriage, and you know, no one likes a whinger.
So yeah, we carry on, and a second astonishingly comfy and punctual vessel later find ourselves sallying triumphantly into the utopia of Brittany's Rennes, rounding off a thirteen hour trip that really just flew by.
Now, looking around, Les Trans is actually a fairly big deal here: billboards and festival flyers abound and our first breaths of fresh air are met with a smug poster for the thing, mounted grandly amid a busy square. Further on, trees are wrapped up in Christmas, stretching down a determined road and away into the distance. Past prolific bounlangeries, where slovenly croissants mingle with pillowy, lusty-sweet pain au chocolats. Past the UBU venue, where, dancing like a 3D flickbook, likable arty type Mein Sohn William will later perform his profoundly odd hagiography of the current American president (sample lyric: "Black! / Brown! / American! / Naked!"). And past our weekend's residence, Hotel Victoria, where I will, apparently, be mistaken for a cocaine salesman by a trio of majestically shitfaced French boys. Ah, hello, Rennes.
Slightly further afield is a close-knit set of aircraft hangars - Parc Expo - which are quite something. These big, stern, metal sheds out on the outskirts of Rennes; they welcome not, nor do they charm. And it takes a juttering, battering musical prospect of the sturdiest stock, such as Kennington's Breton, such as the underground's Zomby, such as the future's Factory Floor, to scrape out its cold, formidable potential.
And yes, all the above deliver, in their own, unique ways, but no, first let's talk about THURSDAY.
Tonight, Parc Expo is closed for business (Les Trans runs Thursday through Saturday, hangar gates open Friday), and it's fair to suggest the opening night of Bars En Trans, a Camden Crawl kinda deal which runs alongside the main event, lags by comparison. That said, after briefly setting up camp outside a packed basement for dead-eyed, cabaret-inflected new wave from adored nineteeners La Femme, a startling discovery blossoms before us. Bolshy, bouncy and bracing, Bordeaux collective Crane Angels graciously win top prize for Thursday fun, with six-part harmonies and spurting guitars combining to cook up a strangely delicious influence-souffle of beansprouts (Radiohead), beef (Weezer) and bags of Happy Shoppers (Islet).
The first thing you notice as you step into La Liberté is the smell of souls burning, as Capacocha, a depressingly hyperactive, grinning disco-man, who seems bewildered by his prominent billing, bothers a huge hall bustling with weirdly unappalled grown-ups via shit tunes and shit-eating grins.
But it's worth noting that while the qualities of music on show are as disparate as the styles of the stuff, no one cares much. Rennes emits a genuine, untouchable glow; the architecturally delighting city seems to thrive on the attention, firing on all cylinders, flaunting its well-rounded nuances, and we, the peculiar foreigners, are seeping and peeking in at the grand crescendo of its end-of-year party. That said, the general ambience is very much a fluid, interchangeable beast - that's part of the appeal, actually - and so we find the atmosphere, like the evening wind, is aptly chilly for Breton on FRIDAY.
Charged with grinding this cranky opening night into gear, the sound/visual artists' industrially blackened indie soars across the arched ceiling of Hall 9. And while the singing man wears his hood up, pacing about stage with the enthusiasm of a stoned factory-line worker, what makes the performance captivating is their glisteningly bleak versatility. Obsession-worthy recent single 'Edward the Confessor' is a tight, strutting, wonderful thing, strobe lights and serrated strings assailing like fists, before an elegiac comedown of 'Governing Correctly' twinkles eminently where others might implode.
One singular fact of the Parc Expo leg is that, due to the savvy employment of varyingly competent DJs, you never find yourself among the music-pumping hangars without live sounds to jive around to any longer than a couple of breath-catching minutes. And while nowt spectacular, the fact is an act like Souleyance, all lapping, groan-laden foot-movers, represent an exceptional alternative to the usually flaccid, compilation-playlist filler.
Next - seeking a discreet alcove in which to swig the violently inexpensive rum inhabiting my hip-flask - we head blindly to Hall 3. What's found instead is a jostling army of nitwits baying at the altar of a French Mick Hucknall lookalike; a charmer fading into popular oblivion. The band, Kakkmaddafakka, is performing the worst reggae I think I've ever heard, and as if this weren't punishment enough, two weekend B-boys on backing vox buoyantly make streaking bell-ends of themselves by dancing like pretty cool guys to the least viable racket this side of last night's hamster-touching chauvinist Capacocha. Still, everyone loves this (anything to do with the fingers of weed smoke in attendance?) and FAIR PLAY TO 'EM, I say.
Us, we leave in search of... yeah, anything, really, and before long a thunderous, motorcycle-churning squelch has yanked us from bar to speaker-pummeling Spaniards Za!, whose ranting murk-rock faithfully endears a moment or two but quickly crystallises into so much lucid gibberish. Which affords us occasion to explore elsewhere. Indeed, we find much to celebrate: there's an abundance of well-preserved men's toilets with nary a queue to be grumbled upon. There's a man with a large cut across his forehead, pathetically inarticulate on 'shrooms and MDMA and whiffing incessant cigarettes, with whom I converse for a healthy half hour. There is a nice bloke in the VIP area confidently proclaiming that Arsenal are the Sonic Youth of football ("It's not about winning, it's just about being beautiful," he reflects). And there is the Green Room, for those chronically brave souls willing to offer up their feet to the gods of rhythm and party like a Sheffield Hallam fresher.
Ever the professionals, it's back to hawt modern soundz for us, and while the straight, warm rum is becoming increasingly hard to swallow, for others, Hall 4's following act proves yet moreso. If you didn't know, Colin Stetson is basically all the good bits of Philip Glass being 'Harrumph!'ed into a saxophone the size of a small elephant. It's marvellous. 'That's the single!' my mind yells as we wander into one of the sax-machine's ostensibly more populist doodles. The Polaris-nominee concludes: "That was so FUN! Thank you guys so much. I have one more song. This is a LOVE song," in un-fakeably charming fashion. The thing he does now is a clipped sky-flyer, all tar-flecked wings and hyper-erratic flutters and skitters, all passionate sea-captain clearing out the ship's chimney with his unwieldy brass organ, as a lethargic purple pinpoints the unfortunates possessed to call it a day.
We arrive at Hall 9 early for potentially the biggest name of the festival, and if the place was well-populated for Breton, it's positively brimming for SBTRKT. Their sub-aqeuous something-step puts one vaguely in mind of Burial-if-you-could-actually-dance-to-Burial, but at the same time, we lose something of the best urban foot-moving music's concrete vividness. The rhythms go doubletime and the offbeat snare happens exactly where it should, and that's what bothers me. Not much, mind. When the ticklish beats transcend all simple genre boundaries, in skittish finales and effervescent, interstellar explosions, all bets are off; SBTRKT come up trumps and roses in a technicolour bouquet.
Zombie-like by comparison, it's 2am by the time Alexander Tucker conquers a sparse crowd with his strand of harsh, almost-clunky ambience. The man might look like an avant-rock magazine editor, but he drawls, drunken and nondescript, like some weird, depraved messenger from beneath. To borrow verbatim from my notes: 'Solar beams issue forth from behind the guy, his movements take on magical qualities, altering the course of light with a heavenly grandeur that visually alleviates the uprising tenements of noise, soaring and crashing skywards with an altogether ribcage-juddering superiority...' So like, really genuinely pretty good, yeah!
Back to the main hall to sniff out a central spot for Factory Floor, we're hardly surprised to stumble upon a middle-aged man performing in only red pants, bare-arsed, purveying dangerously shite electro while implicitly threatening to curl one out on his own keyboard. Bizarrely there's a sward of apparently sober-ish people merrily dancing their tits off. (Novelty is fine, but the guy could get booed of a Dingwalls toilet seat). The man in question is, we later discover, cross-cultural Mexican hip-hopster Silverio. Do with that information what you will.
Factory Floor's crowd is less than half SBTRKT's. Unperturbed, a trio of royally-ratfinked teens thrust rambunctiously into the centre circle to begin channeling minimal dance into maximal dancing, as those first iron-fist beats meet photosynthetic synth and soily, ground-up vocals. Three songs in a charming Frenchman is already stroking our faces, and the feeling is that Factory Floor have to be admired for finding the furthest, most perilous of extremes, and yet somehow dragging the ordinary with them.
Over in Hall 4 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, aka Orlando Higgingbottom, is alive and well, with a more beat-derived but nonetheless thrilling theatre of dance than the folks across the lane. At times it gets a bit Epicurean E4, and at times it sounds like basically a load of ringtones coupling up with phat basslines as scale-ily clad ladies pull sexy shapes onstage. But when an imperious voice comically bellows "Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs!" mid-song, one is reminded that any grim thoughts are but poorly cast ingredients in this peculiar and enrapturing play.
By 5am closing time, the French are lined up in rows, ultimately destroyed in twos and threes, dead-eyed and slack-necked, drugs and cigarettes, powerful alcohol, some keeled over entirely; TEED and Les Trans have made a fine job of it. We depart for the hotel on the night bus - packed with Europeans who are communally inebriated, and yet entirely civil, amiable - with ears and bellies hungrily anticipating tomorrow almost as much as our faces and limbs anticipate warmth, pillows and beds.
Saturday is market day and market day means handing over lots of money to obsequious Frenchers in exchange for unnecessary cheese and olives. This is a rare experience, but when your bag is quite so much heavier (and wallet so much lighter), it's logical to conclude the effects of last night's alcoholic consumption were yet to fully dissipate on arrival.
We dart off to UBU for some French music. After the aforementioned Mein Sohn William - whose skittish loop-pedal madness sputters, drops and occasionally erupts in dangling cacophonies, and whose startling quirks suggest forced kook, but whose eyes shine with bare, genuine-article madness - we gather at the sweetly named Le Papier Timbre bar, for parisian singer-songwriter Mina Tindle. Her angel-voiced coos reflect the oft-overlooked valleys of a Feist LP, arduously wringing out airy melodies before punctuating with delicate affectations; delightful, albeit distant. A power cut draws an audible communal groan and we exeunt like the pathetically impatient Englishfolk we are, to eat posh pizzas made of the best cheese.
Zomby, then, is billed for 9pm, despite tonight's festivities continuing on into the rosy realms of 06:30. Not the ideal placing; perhaps intended to draw punters to Parc Expo early for accelerated consumption of expensive alcohol. But anyway, as much as you wonder whether this is the ideal, future-conquering format for live music - blah blah laptop and blah blah stage presence &c. - masked mysterio Zomby makes absolutely no bones about the situation, by simply hitting play, swigging champagne and er, making lots of bones, mid-performance. A lad to our left, who can't be long into puberty, is having a right old time of it, flinging limbs awkwardly here, there and back again. Try telling him about stage presence. The thing is, one has to be quite good to get away with, you know, wearing a mask and banning photographers and sticking one's righteous fingers up at the bastard man, but Zomby possesses a skill set all his own - nonchalant, likable, hypnotic, unfuckwithable, unmovingly cool and caked in mystery - which, if anything, kind of enhances the fantastic intensity of the occasion.
The same cannot be said for the evening's remainder: Saturday functions effectively as the Dance Night, and is subsequently top larks with dwindling objective critical merit. Only one performance can approach yesterday's rapidfire musical peaks: looking and strutting like Fresh Princes of fucking-Jupiter-or-something, Seattle's Shabazz Palaces are something singular. Unsurprisingly, Hall 4 is packed with upwards of two-thousand people, a dense second-stage crowd only bettered - bafflingly - by Spank Rock a short while later, whose annoying, dim and potently trendy package has the whiff of the awful blighters your dad might namedrop to prove he's Definitely a Real Chill Guy. Rather, Ishmael Butler and Tendai Maraire, sporting understated shades and synchronised dance moves, exude the potentially shy nattiness of renegade students who've just finished a particularly successful school presentation. It's danceably dark, futurist suburban hip-hop that makes a temporary dystopia of the hangar, now predictably heavy with ostensibly forbidden cigarette smoke. What makes Shabazz Palaces notable is that their rejection of the familiar path is inclusive; they want us to understand, without having the point rammed down our throats. In fact, this proves a prevailing sticking point, as adventurous vocal contortions courtesy of a tankful of flanger often serve to erase the artist entirely, leaving a drifting audience impressed but far from in love.
Finally settling down in the magnetic hangar possessing both bar and the infamous Green Room, things happen that certainly need not be recounted here, even if they accurately could be. And as wallets gradually empty, and as our companions smugly jiggle successfully smuggled spirits around in their cheap pints of Coca-Cola, I sit in a pleasant reverie, preoccupied mainly with selfish thoughts of my (confiscated) hip-flask and the loaded bus journey home... pfft, just kidding! Like everyone else I consumed gallons of expensive Heineken, in spite of which, it is true that weekends scarcely come more memorable.


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Somewhere, in Vermont's St. Albans penitentiary, there's a prisoner feeling pretty damn good about himself. Not because of a well-formed shiv or a found cigarette, but because of a really sublime prank: he snuck a pig into the state seals that adorn Vermont's police cars.
As we all know, a pig is a slur for the police, hence the zinger. The prison, in addition to license plates and stationery, produces the adhesive seals used on the police cars. The Vermont state seal includes, predictably, a cow, and it is in the pattern of said cow's spots the unknown prison artist incorporated the well-rendered silhouette of a pig. Initial information suggest about 36 decals are already affixed to vehicles.
Good burn, jailbird. Good burn.
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The team developing the Android powered "Ouya" console have listened to the gripes from those who received the Developer Kits and are making some notable changes to the design of the Ouya controller. The d-pad is getting a retro-fit to a design similar to that of the controllers from the 8 and 16 bit eras, as well as some other major and minor changes.
I read it as feedback not complaints. Yet another post on N4G that misleads.
doesn't matter. once (if) this thing hits the market, it's going to go nowhere. hackers will make sure of that.
They never intended for that to be the final controller anyways. They said from the moment those came out that they were just placeholder controllers. Mockups.


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Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) is a division of the Honda Motor Company formed in 1982. The company combines participation in motorcycle races throughout the world with the development of high potential racing machines. Its racing activities are an important source for the creation of leading edge technologies used in the development of Honda motorcycles. HRC also contributes to the advancement of motorcycle sports through a range of activities that include sales of production racing motorcycles, support for satellite teams, and rider education programs.
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I describe myself as a futurist and this is often the starting point for conversation about the choices that are being made that will impact the futures we live in. At the very least, the question, "What does a futurist do?" is occasionally asked… I've decided to pool together quotes that I hear or read that represent perspectives different practitioners bring to the discipline.
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"(Futurists focus) in any of three areas:
- Forecasting the future, using quantitative and qualitative means,
- imagining the future, using primarily intuition and writing skills, and
- creating the future, using techniques of planning and consulting."
-Glen Hiemstra
"The role of a futurist (and anyone can be one) – is to honour the past, inhabit the present (notice what's going on now) and engage the future – to be involved in a process of stimulating our friends and our loved ones and even strangers to getting the grips with the fact that the future itself is a race between self-discovery and self-destruction…"
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Java EE planning for NetBeans 8
- Aug 5, 2013 planning meeting
- Aug 27, 2013 REST service consumption meeting
- Aug 29, 2013 meeting with the JAX-WS team
JavaServer Faces
See also: JSF 2.2 plans for NB 7.3.1
Generally it should be completed crucial tasks of the planning document for Java EE 7 and JavaServer Faces 2.2 which were not implemented yet.
Non-editor features:
- nb8jsf.01: JSF Pages form Entity Classes get select box to choose templates (PF, JSF, created by users), creation of PrimeFaces templates for the CRUD scaffolding
- nb8jsf.02: JSF Pages form Entity Classes support for Many2Many and Many2One relations
- nb8jsf.03: JSF hints about deprecated javax.faces.bean package should be managable within the NB options + create fixing hints (to rewrite to CDI, JavaEE annotations) where possible
- nb8jsf.04: Easel + JSF: issues #234775 and #234776
- nb8jsf.05: Facelets Template Client wizard asks for generated parts of the Facelet issue #234204
- nb8jsf.06: JSF snippet generation action (Form/Table) get select box to choose templates styles (PF, JSF, created by users), creation of PrimeFaces templates
Editor features:
- nb8jsf.51: Navigation/hyperlink for custom components defined by @FacesComponent annotation
- nb8jsf.52: Navigation and code completion for the source of the ui:include element issue #234501
- nb8jsf.53: Improving of the code completion for jsf: namespace - tags has to be mapped to the JSF component and its CC entries should be offered issue #232344
- nb8jsf.54: JSF navigator entry issue #232170
- 205232 - Shortcut to import several namespace prefixes
- 187943 - Code completion for sections
- 225813 - JSF Editor unaware of cc:attribute type="blah,blah,blah"
Other good ideas:
- 226538 - PrimeFaces selectors (PFS) are not properly recognized.
- 226528 - Facelet-Taglib without namespace not recognized by editor
- 221693 - JSF component libraries friend API could be registrable using annotation
- 213713 - We do not support creation of the facelet-taglib file template?
Expression Language
- 234022 - In EL code completion aren't supported function calls
- Code completion for @Named methods - issue #200385
- Syntax coloring for basic members - to improve readability of lambdas and collection definitions etc.
- Code completion and semantic highlighting to be @Deprecated sensitive
- Code Completion items of assigned variables with better javadoc
1. update hints[1] 2. refactoring: extract mapped superclass [2] and embedded [3] 3. and wizard [4] 4. hibernate 4.x (or 5.x) 5. jpql editor syntax coloring support, may be more enhancment in jpql editor 6. investigate/implement case sensitive db support 7. NoSQL? Any plans by Tonda's team? Support EclipseLink's NoSQL extension?
1. new cdi 1.1 hints 2. cc in beans.xml
Server plugins
Support for Tomcat 8 (see [5])
Support for TomEE/TomEE+/TomEE JAXRS (see [6] and [7])
- Support for upcoming Oracle WebLogic 12.1.3
- Any infrastructure needed by others
- Minor nice to have enhancements
- 01: Add option for Copy Static Rresources on Save issue 218345
- 02: Include support for war-overlays (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/overlays.html) issue 200776
- 03: Improve Java EE recognition mechanism + ask user if the recognition fails completely issue 234507
- 04: Add possibility not to remember server for deployment (might be used for testing purposes on many different servers) issue 199597
- 05: Support for multiple Web resources registered in Maven War plugin issue 182407
- 06: Improve performance when re-running Java EE projects issue 230565
Something to think about:
- 01-NiceToHave: Separate a JavaEE-independent part from maven.j2ee for non-JavaEE web applications issue 234009
Other tasks and features to consider
- JBoss Forge
- Arquillian
- Consolidate HTTP Monitor and Network Monitor
- JAX-RS/WebSocket client improvements
- NoSQL/MongoDB
- Batch API support
- Complete j2ee.common refactoring
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I guess I'll start paying attention now....
Let's win this!
Joc Pederson
From the Dodgers -
The Los Angeles Dodgers today recalled catcher Tim Federowicz (#26), right-handed pitcher Yimi Garcia (#63) and infielder/outfielder Alex Guerrero (#7) from Triple-A Albuquerque and selected the contract of outfielder Joc Pederson (#65) from Albuquerque. The club also reinstated right-handed pitcher Chris Perez from the 15-day disabled list (bone spurs, right ankle) and designated infielder Carlos Triunfel for assignment.
Federowicz has appeared in 18 big league games in two stints with the Dodgers this year, but tore up the Pacific Coast League with a .328 batting average, 26 doubles, 14 homers and 48 RBI in 78 games with Albuquerque. The 27-year-old posted a .297 batting average with runners in scoring position (22-for-74) for the Isotopes this season.
Garcia, 24, will be making his Major League debut after going 4-2 with five saves and a 3.10 ERA in 47 appearances with Triple-A Albuquerque. He limited right-handed hitters to a .200 batting average (28-for-14) and posted a 2.84 ERA (6 ER/19.0 IP) in 14 games after the All-Star break. The native of the Dominican Republic is in his sixth professional season after being signed as a non-drafted free agent on Jan. 29, 2009.
Guerrero will be making his first appearance on the big league roster since appearing in both games Down Under during MLB's Opening Series in Sydney. The 27-year-old hit .329 with 15 homers and 49 RBI in 65 games with Albuquerque, including a .356 batting average with runners in scoring position (26-for-73).
Pederson, who is making his first appearance on the Major League roster, was honored as the 2014 Pacific Coast League Most Valuable Player, the league's Rookie of the Year and as an outfielder on the All-PCL Team, after becoming just the fourth player in the 112-year history of the Pacific Coast League to post a 30-home run/30-steal season. The 22-year-old batted .303 with 30 steals (T-7th, PCL), 17 doubles, four triples, 33 homers (1st, PCL) and 78 RBI in 121 games with Triple-A Albuquerque this year.
Perez last pitched in a Major League game on Aug. 3 against Chicago-NL and made five rehab appearances with Single-A Rancho Cucamonga.
Triunfel played in 12 games in five stints with the Dodgers this season, his first year with the organization.
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When Is Syndicate Coming Out? I'll Tell You
I'll tell you: according to Gamasutra, it's coming out in February of 2012. The 21st in the North America and the 24th in Europlace. That's relatively soon! Yes it is. Also, there's now a website for the game over here. It's not much of a website, but it does say this: "AT THE FRONT LINE OF THIS WAR ARE THE AGENTS, THE SYNDICATE'S BIO-ENGINEERED AND CHIP-AUGMENTED ENFORCERS. THEY CAN BREACH ANYTHING IN THE WIRED DATAVERSE INCLUDING THEIR ENEMIES, THEIR WEAPONS AND THE ENVIRONMENT THAT SURROUNDS THEM, MAKING THEM THE MOST EFFICIENT AND DEADLY TECHNOLOGICAL WEAPONS IN THE WORLD. TAKE ON THE ROLE OF MILES KILO, EUROCORP'S LATEST PROTOTYPE AGENT, AND EMBARK ON A BRUTAL ACTION ADVENTURE OF CORRUPTION AND REVENGE."
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Brokers and advisors take note: the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) plans to revamp BrokerCheck to not only make it easier for investors to track down information about their broker—including "unifying" the search capabilities for BrokerCheck and the SEC's Investment Adviser Public Disclosure database—but to also expand the types of information investors can get about their broker.
Until recently, FINRA noted that BrokerCheck was the only regulator that provided a comprehensive, online tool that enabled investors to check the backgrounds of financial service industry professionals. In 2010, the SEC expanded the IAPD database—which had previously only included information on investment advisor firms—to include information on investment advisor representatives. Although BrokerCheck and IAPD have many similarities, there are differences in the information available, FINRA explains, which includes the presentation format and the manner in which individuals may obtain information from the systems.
In January 2011, SEC staff released a study and recommendations on improving investor access to investment advisor and broker-dealer registration information, as required by Section 919B of Dodd-Frank.
The SEC staff recommended the following three near-term recommendations to improve investor access to registration information through BrokerCheck:
- unify search returns for BrokerCheck and the IAPD databases;
- add the ability to search BrokerCheck by ZIP Code or other indicator of location; and
- add educational content to BrokerCheck, including links and definitions of terms that may be unfamiliar to investors.
Dodd-Frank mandates that these recommendations be implemented within 18 months after completion of the study, and FINRA will put them into effect before the July 2012 deadline.
FINRA is also asking the public to weigh in with comments on how to facilitate more use of BrokerCheck by April 6.
Nancy Lininger (left), a compliance consultant with The Consortium in Camarillo, Calif., says that adding search capabilities by location, for instance, "will make the BrokerCheck database a go-to source for locating and determining background of the investor's financial advisor."
A big problem now, she says, is that to find information on a financial advisor, the investor may not know if the professional is in the IAPD database or FINRA BrokerCheck for BD firms and registered reps. "Studies have proven that investors don't even know the difference between an RIA and BD. So merging of the two databases (one search engine) is important."
What's more, Lininger says, "if a FINRA rep leaves the commission world and goes to the fee-only advisory side, and the investor is checking the BrokerCheck system, there will be a disconnect."
In addition to the near-term recommendations mentioned above, the study includes an intermediate-term recommendation to be addressed after the 18-month implementation period.
Specifically, SEC staff recommends that FINRA continue to analyze the feasibility and advisability of expanding BrokerCheck to include additional information available in the Central Registration Depository (CRD) system (e.g., the reason for and comments related to a broker's termination, scores on industry qualification exams, formerly reportable information), as well as the method and format of publishing BrokerCheck content.
Jonathan Henschen (left), president of the consulting firm Henschen & Associates, says that while having greater transparency is a positive step in "an industry that does things wrong on both a rep and broker-dealer level, and pays fines but rarely admits to wrong doing," greater disclosure can become "over the top" when considering disclosing advisors test scores, for example, on such securities tests as Series 7, 63, 66 and 24.
Greater access to information, he says, can spark "greater misuse." Says Henschen: "With firms like BrightScope having advisor-rating systems you have to question objectivity and balance in their approach and be cautious of data being used to black ball advisors inappropriately."
Expanding the amount of data available about brokers/advisors could induce private vendors to "rate" them. "Are private vendors going to be like Weiss Research and use the data to rate reps on an A-F scale based off of the data?" Henschen says. "Will reps use a rep rating service as a marketing tool as they boast of their 'A' rating?" he wonders.
Overall, however, Henschen says that greater public disclosure "will help motivate reps to keep out of trouble for the sake of their client base and livelihood."
Living in the world of Google, "clients now do their own research on reps and broker-dealers looking for disparaging articles online as part of their own due diligence, so if FINRA doesn't bring things to the surface, others will."


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CHICAGO, Ill. (Oct. 3, 2012) – The Chicago Fire (16-10-5; 53 points) had chances to earn a comeback once again but Dominic Oduro's 69th minute goal wasn't enough as the short-handed Men in Red fell 3-1 to the Philadelphia Union (9-15-6; 33 points) Wednesday night at Toyota Park.
The Union would take the lead early when Amobi Okugo's ball out of the back found Danny Cruz. The midfielder collected and turned before sliding the ball into stride for Jack McInerney who coolly finished past onrushing Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson, giving Philadelphia a 1-0 advantage in the seventh minute.
The Fire looked to respond 11 minutes later when Sherjill MacDonald slid a great ball through for Chris Rolfe before the veteran forward was hauled down by Union midfielder Michael Lahoud. Daniel Paladini stepped up to take the ensuing free kick and hit a belting right footed effort that beat Philadelphia 'keeper Zac MacMath before hitting the outside of the left post in the 19th minute.
Philadelphia would nearly hit again in the 26th minute when Michael Farfan slid Cruz into space up the right. The Union midfielder took a touch towards the end line before driving a ball across the goal mouth that Johnson put out for a corner with a diving effort.
Chicago came close once in the 34th minute when Patrick Nyarko made a penetrating run to the top of the area before playing a quick combination with Rolfe into the box. The ball was turned away by a sliding tackle from Okugo but Rolfe followed up with a first-time blast that forced a diving stop out of MacMath to take the Union into the break with a 1-0 lead.
The Fire came out furious in the early going of the second half. Nyarko forced a turnover from Raymon Gaddis on the right and strolled towards the top of the area before being hauled down. Paladini again took the ensuing free kick, bending his effort towards the left post before MacMath again directed the ball out for a corner in the 47th minute.
Midway through the second half, the Men in Red began to press with the entry of Dominic Oduro and Guillermo Franco into the match but pushing forward, the team would go down 2-0 in the 67th minute. Farfan chipped a high ball forward for McInerney whose header found Gabriel Gomez in stride before the second half sub rocketed his effort past Johnson and into the top left corner.
Down 2-0, the Fire would finally pull a goal back just two minutes later. Tireless work from Nyarko up the left led the Ghanaian to play a quick combination with Franco. Nyarko received the ball into the box before chipping for Oduro on the right and the Fire forward made no mistake, tucking his effort just inside the right post to take the score to 2-1.
The Fire nearly equalized in the 75th minute when MacDonald slotted Nyarko up the left again. The veteran winger cut inside before finding Oduro on the right again but this time his shot was blocked with a desperate slide from Sheanon Williams.
The Fire were dealt a major blow in the 79th minute when Franco was shown a straight red card for a late challenge at midfield on Philadelphia's Brian Carroll.
Down to 10 men the rest of the way, the Fire still mustered another chance to equalize in the 85th minute. Once again it was Nyarko who forced the issue, dispossessing Okugo before Alex ran on to the ball. The Brazilian attacker hit a quick first-time effort that was saved point blank by MacMath.
Committing numbers forward, Philadelphia would close out the game in the 87th minute when Farfan ran onto a ball up the right and took it towards the end line. The midfielder held up before picking out second half substitute Antoine Hoppenot who coolly back heeled his effort past Johnson to give Philadelphia a 3-1 victory.
The Men in Red are back in action Saturday when they take on the New York Red Bulls, also at 53 points, at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, NJ at 2:30 p.m. CT in a match nationally televised on NBC (97.5 FM ESPN Deportes).
- The Fire celebrated the club's 15th Anniversary by honoring Fire legends Peter Nowak, Cuauhtémoc Blanco and Chris Armas at halftime.
- With the loss, the Fire fall to 16-10-5 on the season and sit third in the Eastern Conference on 53 points.
- The defeat marks just the second time this season the Fire have lost two-straight games.
- Fire captain Logan Pause logged 45 minutes in his 300th competitive appearance for the Men in Red.
- Dismissed from last Friday's 2-0 defeat at Sporting KC, Fire head coach Frank Klopas and defender Gonzalo Segares both served one-match suspensions during Wednesday night's game.
- Dominic Oduro's 69th minute goal was his sixth on the season and first since a 2-1 victory vs. Columbus on June 23.
- Sent off in the 79th minute, Fire forward Guillermo Franco will miss Saturday's game at New York.
- Filling in for Segares, Fire defender Dan Gargan made his first start since a 1-1 draw July 28 at San Jose.
- Fire defender Gonzalo Segares, who was booked twice by referee Chris Penso, will miss the Oct. 3 match as well.
Chicago Fire 1 – 3 Philadelphia Union
Chicago Fire: Sean Johnson; Jalil Anibaba, Arne Friedrich, Austin Berry, Dan Gargan (Alex 77'); Alvaro Fernandez (Guillermo Franco 63'; red card 79'), Logan Pause © (Dominic Oduro 46'), Daniel Paladini, Patrick Nyarko; Chris Rolfe, Sherjill MacDonald
Substitutes not used: Paolo Tornaghi, Michael Videira, Corben Bone, Wells Thompson
Philadelphia Union: Zac MacMath; Sheanon Williams, Amobi Okugo, Carlos Valdes ©, Raymon Gaddis; Michael Lahoud, Brian Carroll, Michael Farfan; Danny Cruz (Gabriel Gomez 45+'), Keon Daniel (Chris Albright 78'), Jack McInerney (Antoine Hoppenot 71')
Substitutes not used: Chris Konopka, Zach Pfeffer, Roger Torres, Chandler Hoffman
Scoring Summary
PHI – Jack McInerney (Danny Cruz) 7'
PHI – Gabriel Gomez (Jack McInerney) 67'
CHI – Dominic Oduro (unassisted) 69'
PHI – Antoine Hoppenot (Michael Farfan) 87'
Misconduct Summary
PHI – Michael Lahoud (caution; Foul) 18'
CHI – Austin Berry (caution; Dissent) 45'
PHI – Sheanon Williams (caution; Time Wasting) 78'
CHI – Guillermo Franco (ejection; Foul) 79'
Referee: Abbey Okulaja
Assistants: Kermit Quissenberry, Peter Manikowski
Fourth Official: Edvin Jurisevic
Attendance: 16,375


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It's a real Game of Thrones season 3 teaser trailer! Not just a bunch of footage of a three-eyed crow flying around New York City, but actual shots of the actual actors with an overdub of them saying vague and very intense things like "It's been a long time, my old friend," "The darkness that will swallow the dawn," "Show them what it feels to lose what they love," and "Everyone is mine to torment." (Counter point: Joffrey can suck a D.)
Can this show premiere already? Any longer of a wait and I might actually be forced to pick up a book.


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The Reason Rally was great, though not perfect. First the good: Greta Christina, PZ Myers, Hemant Mehta, and Jessica Ahlquist were all great. Tim Minchin, Jamie Kilstein and Eddie Izzard were freaking brilliant. As was Paul Provenza, who was the emcee.
Hemant was one of the first speakers and he gave a rousing talk encouraging atheists to run for public office. He then introduced Jessica Ahlquist and presented her with a check for more than $62,000 for her scholarship, about $9,000 of which came from the sale of our Evil Little Thing shirts. That actually made me choke up, as did Jessica's speech that followed. What a remarkable young woman. I can only wish that I had that kind of poise and grace at 16 years old.
Greta gave her standard barnburner of a talk, drawing on the material in her new book expressing the many things that atheists are justifiably angry about. And PZ, in a white cowboy hat that seemed as out of place as a milk bucket under a mule, gave a similar speech about his favorite sin — wrath. But everyone near us thought he said "rap," which caused me to utter a prayer: "Please let PZ do a rap, please let PZ do a rap." Alas, he didn't. But that would have been so memorable if he had.
The stand up comics were all amazing. Eddie Izzard was actually the weakest of the three of them, believe it or not. Minchin did several of his best songs, including Storm and Fuck the Pope. And Kilstein did another of his patented righteous rants that was just incredible. I can't wait to see the video of that one. That was a highlight of the entertainment segments for me.
Now, the bad: Way too many speakers. Way, way too many speakers. Most of them had a few minutes to speak at the most. And several of them did the standard protest rally speech, the kind I absolutely hate. I hate chanting. Hate it with the fire of a thousand suns. I hate call and response even more than I hate chanting. And when Elizabeth Cornwall had everyone shouting things at Congress, I couldn't have cringed any harder if Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter made a sex tape. That kind of thing just makes my skin crawl.
And I kind of felt bad for Dan Barker, though I think his wound was largely self-inflicted. Dan is a great speaker and a great guy, but he likes to do some really cheesy anti-religion songs. Unfortunately, he did a few of them shortly after Tim Minchin performed and the contrast was as stark as it could possibly be. The effect was like an open micer following George Carlin on stage. Why he attempted to pull it off is beyond me.
But that hardly was enough to distract from the awesomeness of the event, nor was the wind and the rain. It never poured really hard or hit thunderstorm level, just on and off rain showers. And it started getting really cold toward the end. I almost wore shorts, too; glad I didn't.
And yes, there were protesters there, including the Fred Phelps ghouls. Nate Phelps gave a terrific speech in which he condemned the barbaric views of his family. The sense of sadness that he expressed seemed entirely authentic to me:
"My heart goes out to the millions who see and hear the cruel message of my family. A message that is met with tacit approval by too many in this society. A message that seeps into their hearts. A message leaving them to wonder why a creator made them gay just so he could punish them. It's a terrible, terrible waste."
I didn't even bother to go over near the protesters because, for me, that isn't what this day was about.
Oh, and Greg Graffin was a very bad choice to sing the national anthem. They should have asked JT to do it. If there's an atheist who can sing better than him, I'd like to hear them.
I heard many people say that there was an official estimate of 20,000 people there, but I don't buy that. There weren't that many. The Huffington Post says it was 8-10,000 and that seems a far more — yes — reasonable number to me. I've covered a lot of rallies over the years and there's no way there were 20,000 people there.


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United in song since an art lesson in kindergarten at Almond School, Zach Gospe and Riley Soward have a friendship cemented by music.
The two Los Altos High School seniors are collaborating to create Gospe's first professional EP (extended play, a recording that's more than a single but not a full album), with Soward acting as his manager.
After meeting with Mark Mazzetti – an executive with Entertainment, Music and Media – Soward and Gospe began raising money to record the EP in Los Angeles with Mazzetti as producer.
The journey
Gospe was raised in a musical family and began playing piano at age 5. At 8, he took up drums and joined his parents' jazz ensemble at the Community School of Music and Arts. At 12, he picked up a guitar and began writing his own music.
"I really like the freedom the guitar has as a writing tool and as an instrument," said Gospe, who mentioned John Mayer and Eric Clapton as musical inspirations.
Last summer Gospe attended the GRAMMY Camp in Los Angeles, which pairs pros in the music business with high school students with musical aspirations.
"It was kind of an overwhelming, immersive jump into the music industry," said Gospe, adding that the camp taught him how to be a songwriter within the music business while still maintaining his creativity as an artist.
Gospe has recorded his music before. Through one of Soward's social-media connections, the duo borrowed some high-tech equipment and recorded five songs in a cozy Los Altos Hills cabin. The first EP featured only Gospe and his guitar.
Gospe and Soward attended the West Coast Songwriters Conference at Foothill College two months ago. Gospe sat in on songwriting lectures while Soward learned about the business side of the music industry.
After studying the faces of prominent people in the music business attending the conference, Soward spotted Mazzetti and introduced himself. After chatting a bit about Gospe, Soward introduced the two and they handed Mazzetti a copy of their first EP.
"It was unusual, because most people of his status in the music industry won't call you back," Soward said. "But he listened to the EP and he liked it, so he called us."
Mazzetti owns Record Company in a Box, which provides one-on-one, specialized artist development for artists, singers and songwriters seeking commercial success. Mazzetti has worked with top-selling artists such as Mayer, Janet Jackson and Sting.
The EP
The return call from Mazzetti inspired Soward and Gospe to find creative ways to raise money for recording the EP with Mazzetti and professional studio musicians.
"It's such a big project and it's my dream," said Gospe, who connects with Mazzetti twice a week via Skype to work on his song development. "It's one of those projects that you can keep pouring time into and it just keeps getting better and better."
Soward has spent several hours on the pair's Kickstarter campaign, an online platform for creative projects that fundraises via pledges. Their goal is to raise $10,000 for the EP.
The two have been spreading the word at performances during school functions and local house concerts.
"It's been cool to see him grow as a performer," Soward said of Gospe. "We've scaled up the performances slowly. Seeing him grow as an artist is pretty impressive."
They see the EP as a way to showcase Gospe's talent and range as a musician and songwriter. Gospe said he hopes the six radio-quality tracks are a "stepping stone" to greater things.
Mazzetti said he is impressed with Gospe and Soward, praising their "real passion and enthusiasm." After they make the EP, Mazzetti plans to help Gospe secure a distribution contract from a record company in Los Angeles.
Gospe and Soward are excited about the possibility, but they won't regret all the hard work if it doesn't pan out.
"This has the potential to be big, but even if it doesn't go anywhere, this process has been great for us," Soward said.
To donate to the Kickstarter campaign and for more information, visit kickstarter.com/projects/2032161415/zach-gospe-17-year-old-singer-songwriter-original.
Musicians on the rise: Zach Gospe and Riley Soward - Photos by Ellie Van Houtte/Town Crier


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Daily Tenofovir DF to Prevent HIV Infection Among Sex Workers in Cambodia
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00078182
Recruitment Status : Withdrawn
First Posted : February 20, 2004
Last Update Posted : December 14, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections HIV Seronegativity
|Drug: Tenofovir DF
|Phase 2 Phase 3
Cambodia has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in Southeast Asia. At the end of 2002, HIV infection rates among Cambodian sex workers ranged from 14.8% to 28.8%. Tenofovir DF is a nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) that was licensed for the treatment of HIV-1 infection by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October 2001. This randomized clinical trial will determine if a daily oral 300 mg dose of tenofovir DF is safe and effective in preventing HIV-1 infection. This is a collaborative study between the University of California, San Francisco, the University of New South Wales, and the Ministry of Health of Cambodia.
Nine hundred and sixty HIV uninfected female sex workers in Phnom Penh will be enrolled in the trial. Participants will be randomized to receive either 300 mg of tenofovir DF or placebo daily for 12 months. Participants will be evaluated for rates of HIV infection, adherence to the drug regimen, and changes in risk behaviors. All participants will be monitored throughout the trial for side effects and toxicity. Participants will be involved in the study for 14 months.
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|Study of Daily Oral Tenofovir (Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate) to Prevent HIV-1 Infection Among Sex Workers in Cambodia
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- HIV uninfected
- Report receiving money or gifts for vaginal or anal sexual intercourse in the year prior to study entry
- Able to provide a street address of residence for themselves and two personal contacts who would know their whereabouts during the study period
- Normal lab values within 14 days of study entry
- Ability to understand spoken Khmer
- Willing and able to provide written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
- Pregnant or breast-feeding
- Previously diagnosed active or serious infections
- Certain medications
- Active alcohol or drug abuse that could interfer with the study
- Previously diagnosed malignancies other than basal cell carcinoma
- Any other condition that, in the opinion of the study officials, would preclude informed consent, make participation in the study unsafe, complicate interpretation of study outcome data, or otherwise interfere with achieving the study objectives
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00078182
|Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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|December 14, 2016
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Master Guide to December Holiday Fun in Westchester
As soon as the cold weather arrives, our thoughts naturally turn to the holiday season! We prepare for it for weeks, if not months. Here is your master guide to the holidays!
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FREE holiday events
You think you can't get anything free anymore? Nonsense! Here are a bunch of free events coming up in our area.
Christmas Tree Farms
Here's a list of farms where you choose your own Christmas tree in our area.
Hanukkah begins in the evening of December 22, 2019 and ends December 30, 2019.
Lightbulb Day
Lightbulb Day is celebrated on the Winter Solstice, on or about December 21.
Kwanzaa is celebrated December 26-January 1 each year.
Santa Sightings
Where can your kids visit with Santa? At plenty of places around our area! We also show you Breakfasts with Santa (and sometimes, Breakfast with the Grinch!). (Get your tickets early, because those Breakfasts with Santa tend to sell out early.)
Holiday concerts and performances
There are lots of special concerts and shows... and some of them are free!


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The idea of career interests has been made famous by the work of John Holland, an American psychologist who has been researching this area for over 30 years. His theory is based on the following main ideas:
Realistic occupations involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outdoors.
Code: R
Administrative occupations involve working with data and details more than with ideas and people. These people like clear routines and instructions, and enjoy checking facts and figures.
Code: A
Enterprising occupations involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
Code: E
Investigative occupations involve working with ideas and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
Code: I
Social occupations involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.
Code: S
Creative occupations involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
Code: C
Linguistic types enjoy work involving the creation and exchange of information through writing, electronic media or the spoken word. These people prefer unstructured environments where there is time to use their imagination to compose their thoughts.
Code: L