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Kansas City, here he unofficially comes.
Niners quarterback Alex Smith will be traded to the Chiefs when the league year begins March 12, FOX's Jay Glazer reported. While the trade can't be finalized for nearly two weeks, there appears to be good reason for the 49ers to believe they won't be receiving a better offer.
San Francisco will receive Kansas City's second-round pick in April's draft – No. 34 overall – and a conditional third-round pick in 2014, according to the San Jose Mercury News' Tim Kawakami. The third-round pick would become a second-rounder if the Chiefs win a certain number of games in 2013. If the deal is finalized, the 49ers will have at least five picks in the first three rounds of the 2013 draft, including Nos. 31 and 34 overall. They would also have 15 picks overall, a haul which includes three compensatory selections.
San Francisco's rookies will join an already loaded roster. Nineteen of the 49ers' 22 starters in the Super Bowl, including eight 2012 Pro Bowl picks, are under contract for next season. Of those 19 starters, only four will be 30 or older on Sept. 1.
The reported compensation for Smith is higher than expected and a clear indication that new Chiefs coach Andy Reid, indeed, "really likes Alex," as ESPN's Trent Dilfer said before the Super Bowl. Dilfer said Reid, then with the Eagles, had courted Smith to some extent when the eight-year veteran was a free agent last year.
The Chiefs figure to begin the Reid era with a less error-prone quarterback in Smith, who has thrown 11 interceptions in his past 815 attempts. Kansas City's quarterbacks have thrown 38 picks in 974 attempts since 2011.
"I think Andy wants to change a little bit offensively," Dilfer said. "Alex is a guy with a huge capacity (to learn). You can give him a lot and he can handle it. Andy has always been able to get the most out of guys that don't have extreme talent. And everyone thinks Donavan McNabb was this extremely talented guy. He was as a foot athlete. He was a good thrower, right? And Andy got the most out of him.
"Kevin Kolb, he got the most out of him … He got the most out of guys with enough arm talent."
In light of the trade the Cardinals made for the unproven Kolb in 2011, the 49ers' haul for Smith isn't quite as surprising. Before the 2011 season, the Eagles traded Kolb and received a 2012 second-round pick and cornerback Dominqiue Rodgers-Cromartie in exchange. Rodgers-Cromartie, a first-round pick in 2008, had made the Pro Bowl in his second NFL season.
At the time, Kolb, who turned 27 that August, had made seven career starts and thrown 11 touchdowns, 10 interceptions and compiled a 78.4 rating. Smith, meanwhile, has thrown 38 touchdowns, 11 interceptions and posted a 95.1 rating in his past 32 games dating to 2010. He will turn 29 on May 7.
Smith led the NFL in completion percentage and ranked third in passer rating when he was supplanted as San Francisco's starting quarterback by Colin Kaepernick in November. He handled his painful demotion with class, which only heightened the respect he'd earned from his teammates during his eight-year career.
Today, safety Donte Whitner said, via Twitter: "Good luck to Mr. Alex Smith. I know you'll do great under Andy Reid in KC. The ultimate pro!"
On Tuesday, in response to this story about the work Smith has done through his foundation for foster teens, left tackle Joe Staley tweeted: "… He is an amazing man. Proud to call him a close friend."
The expected trade will come 20 years after the 49ers dealt Joe Montana to the Chiefs. Former 49ers quarterbacks Steve Bono and Elvis Grbac also went directly from San Francisco to Kansas City.
The Chiefs are scheduled to visit the 49ers in 2014, when San Francisco is expected to be playing their first season in its new stadium in Santa Clara.


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24 cards in less than 30 days :-)
I had a lag - I didn't post anything for more than a week during July, which caused this gap, and not reaching my goal of 30 in 30...
OK, so this is the summary post of Netanella's stamping project - motivating us to use our stamps. And I think I did...
Some of the cards were not yet published, and will be, soon.
Thank you Netanella.com for this fun project!
You can click the pictures and see better :-)
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8. happy birthday
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5. it's a girl
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7. happy b-day
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As 2012 continues to wind down, CMT prepares for the biggest party of the year by adding some international flavor to The Big & Best of 2012: A Year End Celebration Presented by T-Mobile . The eight-hour live stream event will kick off on 12/12/12 at 12 p.m. ET and will include a special Concrete Country performance by the Swedish act First Aid Kit.
We all know county music is a global phenomenon that bridges cultural differences and languages. Superstars often rack up their frequent flier miles with international touring. But it's always refreshing to see the result of young, indie acts who embrace country's tradition of great songwriting while adding touches of their home country to create something new. That's exactly the appeal of First Aid Kit.
The duo, consisting of sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg, have vocal harmonies that only similar DNA can create, and their ethereal voices stand out against the current male-dominated country radio. During the Big & Best live stream, fans will hear their incredible vocals in a bare-bones set featuring a single acoustic guitar. This special Concrete Country performance is shot amidst the bustle Nashville's Gulch district. It ain't exactly Stockholm, but First Aid Kit will always have a home in Music City.


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Lois Lerner guilty of lying and cover-up
Embattled IRS official Lois Lerner will not testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unless she's given immunity from prosecution, her lawyer told POLITICO Tuesday.
"They can obtain her testimony tomorrow by doing it the easy way … immunity," William W. Taylor III said in a phone interview. "That's the way to resolve all of this."
The comments reflect the hard-line approach Lerner, the former head of the IRS division that scrutinized conservative groups, and her legal team are taking in defending her role in the agency's scandal.
Taylor, a founding partner of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, is even shrugging off the possibility that the full House might vote to hold Lerner in contempt.
"None of this matters," he said. "I mean, nobody likes to be held in contempt of Congress, of course, but the real question is one that we're fairly confident about, and I don't think any district judge in the country would hold that she waived."
The oversight panel voted along party lines last week that Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights at a May 22 hearing when she boldly declared her innocence in the IRS scandal and said she violated no laws — then invoked her constitutional protections to ward off self-incriminating questions from lawmakers.
Republicans immediately argued that Lerner forfeited her Fifth Amendment right by speaking and they should be allowed to question her opening statement.
(PHOTOS: Fifth Amendment use on the Hill)
Legal experts disagree about whether she actually did.
But in the eyes of the committee, Lerner — who was placed on administrative leave after refusing the new IRS leader's request to resign — is obligated to now answer questions related to her earlier statement.
"The committee is entitled to Ms. Lerner's full and truthful testimony without further conditions," said panel spokesman Frederick Hill in a statement to POLITICO. "If, however, Ms. Lerner's attorney is interested in discussing limited immunity, the committee will listen."
Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), a senior oversight Republican helping oversee the IRS investigation, said the panel is still hopeful she'll come to the committee on her own free will, arguing that questions of immunity and contempt are "down the road."
(PHOTOS: 8 key players in IRS scandal story)
"We hope she comes in and gives us the truth and answers questions," Jordan said in a brief phone interview Tuesday. "If that doesn't happen, then you cross the next bridge. … If she says, 'No, I'm going to come in and assert my Fifth Amendment rights again and not going to speak,' then you think about what the other options are."
Oversight Republicans have not yet decided when or how to recall Lerner, but if she refuses to answer questions on her proclamation of innocence, they say she could face contempt charges.
Taylor, however, said he is not afraid of that threat and is willing to take the issue to federal court if necessary.
(WATCH: Lois Lerner pleads the fifth)
If Lerner is held in contempt, Taylor notes that a federal judge will have the final say about whether she waived her constitutional protection. That's because criminal contempt charges go to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia for potential prosecution.
The Oversight committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), could initiate civil proceedings against Lerner on its own initiative.
But such an option would delay Lerner's testimony for months, if not longer, lessening her value to the panel's IRS probe.
Even if Lerner is found in the wrong, she'll simply testify and it won't be a huge deal, Taylor says.
"If the court finds that she didn't waive, then it's over, and if the court finds that she did and orders her to testify, then she goes to testify," Taylor said, later, adding that there is "no danger under any circumstances of her going to jail."
via Lois Lerner's price for testimony: Immunity – Rachael Bade and John Bresnahan – POLITICO.com.


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Officer describes shooting in Webster trial
Myles Webster accused of shooting Dan Doherty in March
A Manchester police officer shot during a foot chase in March testified Wednesday in the trial of the man accused of pulling the trigger.
Officer Dan Doherty said he skidded to the ground when he tried to stop after seeing that the man he was chasing on March 21 was turning and had a gun.
"I was falling down. I hadn't hit the ground yet," Doherty said. "As I was falling, that's when the first bullet hit me."
Myles Webster, 23, was charged with attempted murder. Investigators said he shot Doherty five times, but defense attorneys said it was a case of mistaken identity.
The courtroom was packed with Doherty's family and fellow officers as he testified about what it was like when he was shot.
"I feel a round hit me in my left shin, and I also hear the round, and shortly after and once I'm on the ground on my back, I'm feeling other rounds strike me," Doherty said.
Doherty said he has no doubt who shot him.
"I observed Webster taking steps towards me as he's shooting," Doherty said. "I see smoke coming out of the gun. I also feel as if I'm getting hit the face with his bullets, which was the muzzle blast coming from the firearm."
Doherty testified that at one point Webster was about two feet from him. Doherty told the jury that while he was lying wounded on the sidewalk, he managed to return fire, and that's when Webster ran away.
During the morning testimony, the jury also saw videos taken from surveillance cameras in the area. Prosecutors said one showed Webster walking down an alley, followed shortly by Doherty's police cruiser.
Doherty testified that a second video showed him chasing Webster. The defense objected to identifying the man as Webster, but they were overruled.
A third video was taken after the shooting, and prosecutors said it shows Webster fleeing toward Putnam Street pursed by police. Webster was arrested a short time later in a Putnam Street back yard.
Under cross-examination, Doherty was repeatedly pressed by defense attorney Caroline Smith, asking if he was sure it was Webster who shot him. Smith said that in the hospital shortly after he was shot, Doherty said the man who shot him was heavyset.
Smith asked if Doherty would describe Webster as heavyset, to which Doherty replied he would if Webster were wearing baggy clothes, as he was on March 21. But Doherty conceded that Webster as he was dressed in the courtroom would be described as slender.
Jurors also heard from witnesses who live in the area, along with other police officers, who gave their version of events. The trial is scheduled to continue Thursday morning.


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Preface: This isn't a Microsoft bashing post, as I've been a loyal Windows user since Win 95. Even before that as I was growing up in the 80's and early 90's, my step-father was a Windows user. So I've had Microsoft products in my home for as long as I can remember. Also, I haven't owned a console since the Atari Jaguar was released 20 years ago. I have zero interest in any sort of console war.
So, with that out of the way, I'm kinda shocked at the performance issues the Xbox One seems to be having. When I say "performance issues", I'm specifically talking about the system's inability to run new releases at 1080p. Games like Titanfall, Thief, and apparently even Destiny are going to run at resolutions less than 1080p on Xbox1. From what I've read, Thief on XB1 is only going to run at 900p, and Titanfall currently only runs at 792p. I've heard that the Destiny devs have come out and admitted that Destiny will run at different resolutions on PS4 and XB1, with the XB1 presumably being relegated to something less than 1080p. Meanwhile, the PS4 seems to have no problem running these games at true 1080p. I believe that the issue with the XB1 is that game devs simply can't get a solid frame rate on it at 1080p.
Now, a lot of people will say this isn't that big of a deal. I've heard some mention that you really can't tell the difference in resolutions, or that the games are just as fun anyway so it won't matter. The XB1 games get "scaled up" to 1080p on your television anyway, so even if it's not true 1080p, it's really not that bad. My question is though, why on earth would anyone pay $100 more for clearly inferior hardware? When I buy electronics, vehicles, running shoes, etc., there's absolutely a price per performance equation factored into my purchase decision. I simply can't see myself paying more for a product that doesn't perform as well as a cheaper competitor. Also, if XB1 is having a hard time running current games at 1080p, what's going to happen in 3 or 4 years when game graphics are even more demanding? Will devs have to resort to running XB1 games at 576p or something? I don't think I've gamed with resolutions like that since the 90's.
I'm a PC gamer and probably won't be picking up any console anytime soon, but if and when i do it certainly won't be an XB1. Destiny looks like something I could be interested in later in the year though, hence the research into consoles, (it's initially releasing as a console only title). I've heard that investors are asking Microsoft's new CEO to get out of console gaming all together, now I can see why. They seem to already be behind on the hardware and the system just barely came out. How they expect to compete in the future is a mystery to me.
Basically, the PS4 has a GPU that is about 50% faster than that of the Xbox One. If you optimize a game to run at 1080p on a PS4, then your choices for porting it to Xbox One are to run at a lower frame rate, run at a lower resolution, or reduce various other graphical settings. Conversely, if you optimize it to run at 1080p on an Xbox One, what do you do with the extra GPU power for the PS4 version? Do you simply accept that your game isn't going to look as good as your competitors'?
If you believe that the PS4 is going to end up with most of the market share, you probably optimize for the PS4 and regard the Xbox One as less important. If you believe that the Xbox One is going to end up with most of the market share, you probably optimize primarily for the Xbox One.
It has been known for about a year that the PS4 would have much faster hardware in spite of a similar cost of production, though at the time we didn't know the retail pricing--though I can assure you that cost of production affects retail pricing. Several months before launch, Microsoft had a series of PR-blunders in announcing user-unfriendly policies that they were subsequently forced to walk back, while Sony was mostly content to stay out of the way and talk about games. And then we learned that the PS4 would cost $100 less than the Xbox One, and even launch slightly earlier. If you're a game developer, which console do you expect to end up with most of the market share? And which console do you primarily optimize your game for?
It's not just the GPU that's better on the PS4, the CPU and the unified RAM are also faster than the hardware in the XB1. The only thing the XB1 has over the PS4 is the eSRAM which some devs are now saying there isn't enough of to matter and is a PITA to work with.
That's not to say that the PS4 doesn't have it's faults. So far it's had at least one sub 1080p game, BF4, and many of it's 1080p games have times where there are significant FPS drops. Its not struggling as much as the XB1, an no matter what the XB1 will always be behind, but the fact is that the PS4 is already having trouble with current games.
It's not all doom and gloom though, both consoles are selling very well and especially so in the PS4's case. There were also rumors of Sony selling off the Playstation brand some time ago, which hasn't happened yet. I really doubt that MS would sell of the Xbox brand, its more an issue of pride than money.
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The issue of xb1 is two fold ,dev and dev greed.how? Dev , dev for Ps4 and PC (pretty much the same then port to xb1 with the time left .but but ! Some are notre on ps4 .haaah !fought you drB!if I was dev ? I would still dev for PC with ps4 in mind and ignore ms rant ! Guess what doezms any game on xb1look optimiser for xb1 ? Nope ! They are not optimized for ps4 either .they are game coded for PC and then fiddled with till they fit ! As you can imagine ,pretty much everything xb1 creator taught would help a lot ? Almost all of those won't be needed till uhd gaming is released on xb1
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Metal Gear is also confirmed 720 on X1, plus lack of dynamic weather that the PS4 has.
But this really shouldn't surprise anyone, since the PS4's specs vs X1's specs was a massive repeat-topic before launch.


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Attention overachievers: No matter how much you accomplish in a given day, month or year, Guillermo Del Toro probably still has you beat.
The prolific director and storyteller is on a mission to change how we create and consume media, so he keeps his hands in many varied projects. The way Del Toro sees it, soon we will download a comic about a movie the minute we walk out of the theater, and play a videogame that expands the story that same day.
"For big storytelling, the multiplatform [strategy] seems to be the way it's going to evolve," the Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy director told Wired.com. "You need to be able to say, 'Did you enjoy this videogame? There's a movie out right now!' Or 'Did you enjoy this movie? Then download these 10 more chapters that are interactive for you at home.'"
Now that he's finished his vampire book trilogy with writing partner Chuck Hogan – the final installment, The Night Eternal, came out last month – Del Toro's starting work on his next feature: the robots-versus-monsters epic Pacific Rim. He's also working on a creepy-sounding videogame called inSane, among other projects.
With the final book of The Strain Trilogy in stores, Wired.com got on the phone with Del Toro to talk about his favorite vampire stories (he's more into I Am Legend than Twilight), science versus religion, and what he calls the "story engine." (We also got Del Toro and Hogan to sign a complete set of their vampire apocalypse trilogy, which you can enter to win at the end of the interview.)
Wired.com: Now that The Night Eternal has been released, are you sad to be done with the trilogy or glad to have the project completed?
Guillermo Del Toro: We're very happy. We tried a lot of different things with these books. We're sad to let it go because we have so much involved in that world, you know? And Chuck and I are very much "helicopter parents" – every time we send a manuscript, we would send 50 notes the next day, and then we would send a new chapter a week later. And even now I would love to have added a few chapters more. But there's nothing you can do – at some point you have to stop writing.
Wired.com: What made you want to write an apocalyptic vampire tale?
Del Toro: Originally I wanted very much to try and present the origins of the vampire plague in very modern terms. And then little by little, with each book, go back to finding the spiritual in the biology and finding the biology in the myth.
I feel like science and religion are like a Möbius strip. When you dig deep enough into religion, you find science to explain it, and when you dig deep enough and long enough into science you find things that are unexplained.
And I wanted very much for the books to come full circle. There's a passage at the end of The Night Eternal where one of the characters, Mr. Q, says, "The language of God is biology." Essentially he says that god sends the letter, but he doesn't send the dictionary.
I agree with that idea. And that's what we started with. For example, if I was writing Dracula right now, how would I deal with the arrogance of science? Because science is very, very arrogant. And I thought, "Well, the best way to deal with that is with an epidemic."
Wired.com: You mentioned Dracula just now, but I'm curious, what were your other influences for this book in terms of vampire myths?
Del Toro: These are novels that I know all too well because the seminal novels of vampirism I read when I was a kid. We didn't revisit them, we didn't crack them open or consult them, except by memory. I know Dracula all too well. I think that we were just talking about the traits that were forgotten about Dracula. When it was written it was an eminently modern novel. It was a novel that was using cutting-edge technology and science. It was using voice recorders, blood transfusions and telegraphs. It was talking about modern marvels. It was saying, "In this modern London, this ancient myth is coming to be alive again." I thought it was really interesting to do that now. But we didn't crack any of them.
The great vampire books are I Am Legend, Dracula, 'Salem's Lot and I think you can then go to your own preference. I love a book called The Vampire Tapestry. Then there are really quirky books like Fevre Dream by Goerge R.R. Martin. A lot of people adore the Anne Rice books. I like the Vampire Lestat in Interview With the Vampire. But we didn't crack any book open. The only ones we did were traditional folklore tales about vampirism.
Wired.com: What folklore did you consult?
Del Toro: I am a very studious collector of these things. I have a healthy collection of original editions from the 1800s and 1700s that deal with vampirism and ghosts.
There are a few anthologies of folklore. There's a great one called Passport to the Supernatural that is still one of my favorites. There is also Montague Summers and his books and Antoine Augustin Calmet. And Calmet writes his books as a matter of fact. He doesn't do it from the folkloric point of view. He does it from an account of fact.
I find it really compelling the way these books deal with vampirism, in Eastern Europe especially. Because the way we understand vampirism is mostly the way it is conceived in Eastern Europe, but there are Chinese vampires, Malaysian vampires and Middle Eastern vampires. They're all very different from the Western myth.
Wired.com: What do you think of the Twilight phenomenon?
Del Toro: I haven't read them. I've never been a big fan of the romantic aspect of vampirism. But I don't fault the books – I think that is a perfectly legitimate aspect of vampirism and if they make a lot of readers happy, that's fantastic. I think that the only thing is I am of the mind that no interpretation of vampires should be the only one you get.
Wired.com: At some point Twilight just becomes another iteration of a very robust vampire narrative that's always evolving.
Del Toro: A lot of people don't realize this, but the modern myth of the zombie was birthed out of vampirism. The original conception of the zombie was just a revived soulless creature. The modern idea of the zombie as a cannibal corpse was birthed out of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and Romero has stated several times that he was just trying to do his own version of I Am Legend. And you can see evidence of that. They are now intrinsically connected in a strange way.
Wired.com: Now that these books are done, what are you working on now film-wise, book-wise, etc.?
Del Toro: We start shooting next Monday [Eds. note: Nov. 14] on Pacific Rim, which is a gigantic production for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. We are wrapping production on a smaller, very powerful horror film called Mama, which I am producing. Chuck and I are working on a series of books that I can't talk too much about. But we started on that about two weeks ago. I'm still working on animation at DreamWorks. I'm keeping myself pretty busy.
Pacific Rim is 'a very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters.' Wired.com: What more can you tell us about Pacific Rim?
Del Toro: We are working with actors that I absolutely adore. Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman. It's really, it's a very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters. Giant monsters versus giant robots. Twenty-five-story-high robots beating the crap out of 25-story-high monsters. We're trying to create a world in which the characters are real and how it would affect our world politically, how it would affect the landscape if creatures like this really came out of the sea, etc.
Wired.com: Can you tell us what happened with the movie adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five? (Del Toro was attached to the project at one point.)
Del Toro: I hope you don't mind, but I'd prefer not to discuss projects that aren't active. We are turning in a screenplay for the TV pilot for The Hulk. We turned in a screenplay for Haunted Mansion at Disney. Those are things that are active. But otherwise [talking about non-active projects] it creates the impression of ... I am diverse, but I'm not that diverse.
Wired.com: Are you still working on inSane, the videogame?
Del Toro: Oh yeah! Up until the end of pre-production on Pacific Rim, we were still going up to Chicago, to Champaign, Illinois, to work with the developer. And every week we have a conference [call] where we exchange ideas about the design, the gameplay, about the models. I'm taking it little by little. I think it's going to be a fun, scary game. It's a maiden voyage into the medium for me. I'm learning a lot of stuff.
Wired.com: What are you learning in this process?
Del Toro: I came to videogame development with a lot of humility because I didn't want to come in with the attitude of, "Oh I know how to make movies, therefore I know how to make videogames," which is a big mistake. I came in trying to learn a new medium because I think it's going to be very useful for me as a storyteller.
With a videogame, you don't have to solve one screenplay, you have to solve 20 screenplays, because you are giving the player the illusion of free will. If the character kills another character or destroys a building, the game goes one way; if the character doesn't, it goes another. It keeps you very nimble.
I think that's the biggest, and the most fun, lesson I've been getting. We're being really, really nasty in the game. We're really trying a lot of stuff that I don't think would even fly in the movies. It's still two-and-a-half or three years away, though, because videogame development is so long.
Wired.com: When Wired interviewed you a couple of years ago, you were excited about this idea of the "story engine" as a multimedia platform. Are you still excited by that idea? And do you think we're getting closer to it becoming a reality?
Del Toro: We're very close. I think that we're moving closer and closer. The thing is that it is happening in a very graceless way. I think that instead of having the idea and the power to develop something in a multimedia platform in an organic way, we're still struggling with the old notion of ancillary markets in the movies. People still think of videogames, or novels, or comic books, or internet as things that support the movie or spin off of the movie, when in reality they are tools to create the universe of that particular movie. It's a single universe, and you need to think about it like that.
It's very hard to do it at a large scale. One of the few times it's succeeded remarkably was in the second Matrix, when the Wachowskis had the power to have an anime, and a presence on the internet, and comic books, and everything came out at the same time.
Let me put it this way: Comic books are now distributed electronically. Now you can download a comic. A lot of anime and movies are distributed directly to download, also. A big part of the videogame business now is downloadable content and movies are sort of stumbling towards day-and-date downloadable releases. There will be a confluence sooner rather than later. And I'm talking exclusively for the big-event movies. Independent movies are going to remain independent of this model. But for big storytelling, the multiplatform seems to be the way it's going to evolve.
There are still many obstacles that need to be resolved. I think that what you should do is release content the same day and date as the movie. You don't need to make the movie available for download, but you need to be able to say, "Did you enjoy this videogame? There's a movie out right now!" Or "Did you enjoy this movie? Then download these 10 more chapters that are interactive for you at home." That way you can enter into a world-creation that is really interesting.
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Just thought i'd share a nice recipe I came up with. Probably has been done elsewhere but i'm claiming invention of it until I see otherwise!
Basically, I hate the taste of protein powder and I wanted to have some with breakfast, so I have to mix it into food.
1 Cup whole almonds
1/2 Cup whole oats
1 large banana
1 tablespoon rapadura sugar (can use any but I prefer rapadura or demerera)
1 scoop of your favourite protein powder
Milk (strict vegans can use oat milk - this may even taste nicer actually)
Sea Salt/Rock Salt
Bang it all in a processor and add as much water/your choice of milk as you see fit. It can come out like an oaty milky porridge or it can be more of a drink, it's up to you.
Tastes nice, and packs in calories and protein. Almonds are rammed with good fats but some people don't like taking much fat in at all so it's probably not one for someone on a cut.
This meal in a glass will pack in:
~73g's Protein
~1300 Calories
Total fats for the day is over 100% but only a small portion of that is saturated fat. It also won't matter too much if the rest of your diet is healthy fruits and vegetables (non-processed stuff.) If you're worried about this however, you can still get a serving (the ingredients I used make approx 700g's worth - more than enough for 2 servings) by halving the ingredients.
This is one meal in which a vegan can both pack on calories and protein without having to live on shakes.
It's also got most of your recommended daily intake of dietary fibre
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sounds good mate, im a big fan of high calorie shakes! definitely going to try this one
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Re: Healthy breakfast protein shake!
mrbear666 wrote:sounds good mate, im a big fan of high calorie shakes! definitely going to try this one
I had a full one for breakfast this morning - good stuff!
You can also mess around with whatever you put in it - the cals come mainly from the almonds. Sometimes i put walnuts in too to get some extra protein and Omega 3.
Can be a bit heavy on the stomach though so maybe better post workout than pre workout
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Canucks' Daniel Sedin says revenge a dish best served with two points
Daniel (left) and Henrik Sedin and Zack Kassian watch during a Vancouver Canucks practice.
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VANCOUVER - Daniel Sedin insists he'll be thinking about two points, not revenge, when the Vancouver Canucks meet the Chicago Blackhawks tonight for the first time since that game last March when he was concussed by a vicious Duncan Keith elbow to the head.
His teammates are also interested in the two points, but they're not so sure about the other part.
"There's definitely some guys who are thinking about it for sure," winger Chris Higgins said after Thursday's practice. "He is arguably our best player and it was a pretty dirty hit.
"He didn't have the puck at all and it seemed like it was in retaliation for a hit that Daniel put on him earlier in the game. We'll see how it plays out, I guess. I can't promise you anything one way or another."
No one is expecting a repeat of the ugly Todd Bertuzzi-Steve Moore incident, but Keith should probably keep his head up.
"I am not going to lie, there is bitterness, for sure," said defenceman Kevin Bieksa. "We're still not happy about it and I'm sure deep down Danny is not happy about it. But it's part of the game. I have cheap-shotted guys before, not as bad as that, but it happens in games and you have to accept it.
"We're going to play him hard when we get the chance, but I don't think we'll go out of our way to do anything. Winning the game is the most important thing."
The Canucks lost that game last March 21 2-1 in overtime, but left the United Center that night much more concerned about Daniel than the one point they failed to earn.
Daniel missed the rest of the regular season with the first concussion of his career and did not return until the final two games of Vancouver's first series against the Los Angeles Kings
"I was more disappointed about what happened," Daniel said Thursday. "I don't get angry that much, but I was more disappointed. That was the only feeling I had."
Keith's hit occurred in the first period of that game when he delivered an elbow to Daniel's head at centre ice. The puck was high in the air, nowhere near the Canuck winger, when the Chicago defenceman crashed into Daniel.
Keith received a two-minute minor for elbowing, but two days later was slapped with a five-game suspension by NHL VP of safety Brendan Shanahan.
Daniel said Thursday that Keith has never contacted him to apologize for the hit.
"From what I have heard he is a great guy and I still believe he is a good guy," he said of Keith, a Penticton native. "That's not going to change. I think when the rivalry gets that heated players maybe do things they shouldn't do and that was probably the case."
Daniel said he and his teammates need to focus on getting two points against a Chicago team that has started the season 6-0-1.
"That's nothing," he said of the Keith hit. "It's another game. It's Game 8 of our season and we are trying to put a few wins together, that's all. So that's what we're focused on."
It's not like the Canucks and Blackhawks really needed any more reasons to dislike one another. Theirs is a rivalry that is among the most intense in the NHL, fueled largely by facing one another three straight years in the playoffs beginning in 2009.
"There is definitely a hate existing between the two teams and it goes back three, four years ago," Bieksa said. "We played them in the playoffs three years in a row, which doesn't happen with one team too often so it kind of started there. . .and in the regualr season there have been some wars between the two teams. We are evenly matched, we are usually two of the better teams in the Western Conference and there are a lot of other reasons, too, that I don't have to get into."
Bieksa and Higgins both agreed that the fallout from the ugly Bertuzzi-Moore incident in February of 2004 has tempered attempts at on-ice retribution.
"When that happened it made people realize we have to start respecting each other as competitors," Bieksa said. "As a union we just went through a pretty tough four months together where there was a lot of solidarity amongst the players. You build repsect there and you have to keep that on the ice, too."
"I think the whole league learned from that incident and when things are done, they're done the right way," added Higgins. "So if that situation arises it will be done the right way."
Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault called the Keith hit ancient history.
"For me, that's last year's news," Vigneault said. "This is a new season, a new team. They have got new players, we've got some new players. We're going out there and everybody right now is fighting extremely hard to get two points. That's our concern right now."
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I"m new to C++. I'm actually physics major and conducting self-study for visual C++.
Any help will be greatly appreciated
I came across a problem of counting how many digits are there in an input integer.
My code is
It worked well, but as I typed in more-than-9-digit number, the output was just 9Code:#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int number; int digit=0; cout << "Enter an integer number:"; cin >> number; cout << endl; while (number) { number /= 10; digit++; } cout << "Number of digit: " << digit << endl; return 0; }
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With some $40 trillion expected to transition to younger generations in the U.S. in coming decades, wealth management firms will need to grow their online investing capabilities and provide more convenient service in order to capture and retain younger investors, according to a study released Monday.
The report issued by Aite Group and Scivantage, "The Race for Next-Generation Assets: Can Banks Maintain Their Lead?" said financial institutions that can understand and address the investment needs of this emerging investor segment will be best positioned to capture their future wealth.
"Gen-Xers and Gen-Yers have been far less loyal to their investment providers over the last few years compared to Boomer and Silent Generation investors, indicating that young consumers have yet to find their ideal investment providers," Sophie Schmitt, Aite Group senior analyst, said in a statement.
The study found that 44% of Gen-X and Gen-Y investors surveyed had shifted assets to another investment firm or switched investment providers owing to the availability of online tools.
Online investing capabilities, now second nature to younger investors, will be a requirement for banks that want to attract future high-net-worth or current affluent members of this segment, Chris Psaltos, vice president for product management at Scivantage, said in the statement.
"As younger, tech-savvy investors look for greater control of the investment decision-making process, wealth management firms—particularly banks—must ensure that their online investment platforms are keeping pace with the latest consumer technology innovations."
According to the research, 40% of young investors still consider a bank to be their primary investment provider, whereas only 20% look to an online brokerage firm to be their primary provider despite their strong adoption of online trading.
"Banks seeking to maximize their ability to retain and grow share of wallet with young investors should work on growing their online investing capabilities and providing more convenient services," Schmitt said.
Most young investors—slightly less that 70% of them—trade online more than five times a year. Nearly a third of them trade more than 25 times per year.
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One of the fundamental problems in computational structural biology is the prediction of RNA secondary structures from a single sequence. To solve this problem, mainly two different approaches have been used over the past decades: the free energy minimization (MFE) approach which is still considered the most popular and successful method and the competing stochastic context-free grammar (SCFG) approach. While the accuracy of the MFE based algorithms is limited by the quality of underlying thermodynamic models, the SCFG method abstracts from free energies and instead tries to learn about the structural behavior of the molecules by training the grammars on known real RNA structures, making it highly dependent on the availability of a rich high quality training set. However, due to the respective problems associated with both methods, new statistics based approaches towards RNA structure prediction have become increasingly appreciated. For instance, over the last years, several statistical sampling methods and clustering techniques have been invented that are based on the computation of partition functions (PFs) and base pair probabilities according to thermodynamic models. A corresponding SCFG based statistical sampling algorithm for RNA secondary structures has been studied just recently. Notably, this probabilistic method is capable of producing accurate (prediction) results, where its worst-case time and space requirements are equal to those of common RNA folding algorithms for single sequences. The aim of this work is to present a comprehensive study on how enriching the underlying SCFG by additional information on the lengths of generated substructures (i.e. by incorporating length-dependencies into the SCFG based sampling algorithm, which is actually possible without significant losses in performance) affects the reliability of the induced RNA model and the accuracy of sampled secondary structures. As we will see, significant differences with respect to the overall quality of generated sample sets and the resulting predictive accuracy are typically implied. In principle, when considering the more specialized length-dependent SCFG model as basis for statistical sampling, a higher accuracy of predicted foldings can be reached at the price of a lower diversity of generated candidate structures (compared to the more general traditional SCFG variant or sampling based on PFs that rely on free energies).
SHIM is a concurrent deterministic programming language for embedded systems built on rendezvous communication. It abstracts away many details to give the developer a high-level view that includes virtual shared variables, threads as orthogonal statements, and deterministic concurrent exceptions. In this paper, we present a new way to compile a SHIM-like language into a set of asynchronous guarded actions, a well-established intermediate representation for concurrent systems. By doing so, we build a bridge to many other tools, including hardware synthesis and formal verification. We present our translation in detail, illustrate it through examples, and show how the result can be used by various other tools.


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ExxonMobil reveals how Beaumont fire started
ExxonMobil released details on what started a flash fire in the Beaumont refinery that injured 12 contract workers on Wednesday.
ExxonMobil spokeswoman Kathleen Jackson said the fire started when hydrocarbons released from a heat exchanger ignited. The heat exchanger was connected to a catalytic desulferization unit, or CHD, Jackson said in a prepared statement. The CHD unit, which was down for maintenance at the time of the fire, is used to remove sulfur from petroleum products, she said.
Jackson said the cause of the ignition and release of the hydrocarbons was not known as of Friday afternoon.
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I've been part of many conference calls for work and found them seriously lacking. Firstly there's a lack of control over the call, so when someone does something stupid like putting an unmuted phone handset near a noise source there's no way to discover who did it and disconnect them.
Another problem is that of noise on the line when some people don't mute their phones, which is related to the lack of control as it's impossible to determine who isn't muting their phone.
Possibly the biggest problem is how to determine who gets to speak next. When group discussions take place in person non-verbal methods are used to determine who gets to speak next. With a regular phone call (two people) something like the CSMACD algorithm for network packets works well. But when there are 8+ people involved it becomes time consuming to resolve issues of who speaks next even when there are no debates. This is more difficult for multinational calls which can have a signal round trip time of 700ms or more.
I think that we need a VOIP based conference call system for smart phones to manage this. I think that an ideal system would be based on the push to talk concept with software control that only allows one phone to transmit at a time. If someone else is speaking and you want to say something then you would push a button to indicate your desire but your microphone wouldn't go live while the other person was speaking. The person speaking would be notified of your request and one of the following things would happen:
- You are added to the queue of people wishing to speak. When the other person finished speaking the next person in the queue gets a turn.
- You are added to the queue and the moderator of the call chooses who gets to speak next. This isn't what I'd prefer but would probably be desired by managers for corporate calls.
- You get to interrupt the person who's speaking. This may not be ideal but is similar to what currently happens.
Did I miss any obvious ways for the system to react to a talk request?
Is there any free software to do something like this? A quick search of the Google Play store didn't find anything that seems to match.


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All Intel Processors Will Now Be Free of 'Conflict Minerals'
Inside Intel's CES 2014 Keynote
LAS VEGAS — Intel's ability to put its technology inside laptops, desktops, phones and now tablets is well-known, but the next frontier for the venerable technology giant is putting Intel inside everything else. Freshly-minted CEO Brian Krzanich revealed the company's ambitious plans to "make everything smart" — and naturally, it all starts with Einstein.
Einstein, a new SD card-size system on a chip (or, as Krzanich described it, "a Pentium Class PC the size of an SD card"), was unveiled during the opening CES keynote in Las Vegas on Sunday. It can live inside common household objects like cups, bottle warmers or even babies' onesies.
The ultra-low-power device runs Linux, comes with built-in Wi-Fi and has access to an app store. Krzanich showed a scenario with a baby wearing a onesie with a sensor, which he called "Nursery 2.0." An Einstein-enabled turtle — yes, a little plastic turtle — communicated not only with the onesie, but also with nearby objects like a smart cup that could let parents know the baby's condition using LED lights. The cup, in turn, could communicate with a bottle warmer. When the baby thrashed about, the cup would let the bottle warmer know, so it could start heating up the baby's bottle. Sounds a little like the future, right? Krzanich said Einstein should start shipping in mid-2014. Krzanich also stated that Intel's microprocessors shipping in 2014 would be conflict-mineral free.
Dipping a Toe in Wearables
Intel is also moving into the wearables category. Krzanich announced a broad partnership with the fashion industry and designers from Barney's to create the next generation of wearable technology. The company debuted several new products: Smart earbuds that measure heart rate and activity, powered through an audio jack; Jarvis, a smart headset worn like glasses that attach to one ear like Google Glass; and a smartwatch capable of geofencing (no pricing or availability was announced). The company is also trying to move wearable device technology forward by attracting new blood. Intel announced a new competition for wearable design, which is open to the public and includes a $1.3 million prize for the best design idea.
Android and Windows Can Get Along
Intel and Microsoft have a long-standing friendship. In fact, the term WinTel was commonly used to indicate the extent of the partnership. If you bought a Windows machine, it had Intel inside. That's still mostly true now, but Windows products also run on ARM CPU's from companies like Nvidia. Intel is proving that it can do more than simply power Windows machines. During his keynote, Krzanich said Intel didn't want to limit corporate options for laptops. Intel's new Dual OS technology lets people switch between Windows and Android with the push of a button; during the demonstration, it took a button push and a few seconds for the switch. Krzanich, who has only been Intel's CEO for six months, has proved himself a sure hand — at least compared to last year's rather uneven keynote from Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs.
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Spanish state universities protest cutbacks
Rectors from about 50 state-run universities across Spain protested Monday that government spending cuts were choking third-level education and would set back the country's recovery.
The academic leaders each read out a statement simultaneously saying the university system was under threat and cutbacks in research would lead to an "irreparable deterioration" in the system.
Under the 2013 budget, funding for universities has been cut by 18 percent and research funds by 80 percent.
"Without investment in higher education or research and development, the functioning of public universities will become unviable, and without knowledge there will be no progress," the rectors said. "It's not just the universities that lose, we all lose, the whole of society."
Spain is in the throes of its second recession in three years and a 25 percent unemployment rate.
The conservative government's policies have brought labor unions and associations representing nearly every sector of society out onto the streets to protests in recent months.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said he has no choice but to implement the measures if the country is to reduce its bloated deficit and avoid a full-blown sovereign bailout.
Earlier on Monday, Spain saw its secondary market borrowing costs - a measure of investor wariness - begin to rise again as market jitters spread following Italian Premier Mario Monti's announcement that he plans to resign.
The rate for Spain's benchmark 10-year bond rose to almost 6 percent in opening trading, although it later edged back to 5.5 percent. The yield had dropped to 5.3 percent last week.
Spain and Italy are among the countries in Europe that investors worry about the most.
"When doubts arise about the stability of a country close to us like Italy, which is also seen as vulnerable, it has an immediate contagion effect on us," Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos told Spanish National Radio.
Spain's borrowing costs rose to unsustainable highs of 7 percent earlier this year but have eased greatly since the European Central Bank pledged in September to buy up a country's short-term bonds if it formally applies for aid.
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This summer, London, understandably, is mostly concerned with
heart and nerve and sinew.
The fittest, leanest, most Lycra-becoming humans alive today are to compete in the London 2012 Olympics and millions of mortals will watch with awe, excitement and possibly a little envy. And Usain Bolt will earn more fame, fortune and adulation in 10 seconds than most of us earn in a lifetime.
But there is culture of a different kind to be found too -- in the form of London's World Heritage Sites.
These UNESCO-endorsed sites have been around for decades, even centuries, and this July and August could just be the perfect time to see them.
Becky Anderson gives you the do's and dont's of visiting London during the Olympic Games.
Holly Firfer takes us on a bike tour through London's royal sites. Maybe you'll even run into Will & Kate.
People in London step up to CNN's Open Mic and deliver their messages to the U.S. and its presidential candidates.
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1. Tower of London
Ever wondered what it would have been like to be strapped to the rack? See the dreaded machine in the Bloody Tower at the Tower of London and learn about various forms of torture used during the reigns of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Mary I.
From St. Thomas' Tower, where the monarch's barge was moored, walk along the south wall for a view across the river to Tower Bridge.
Down in the courtyard the resident ravens are kept in their enclosure. Legend has it that the Tower will fall if the six ravens ever leave, so seven are kept, providing one spare.
Some exhibits are interactive -- visiting school children enjoy putting on the helmets in the White Tower's armory. But these are attached to chains, so there's no taking them home.
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2. Westminster Abbey
We've seen it on television for Princess Diana's funeral and the wedding of William and Kate, but no visitor to London should miss stepping inside Westminster Abbey.
History tours are led by a verger, one of the laymen assisting in the church.
King Edward, later St. Edward the Confessor, built a stone church here. Consecrated in 1065, it saw William the Conqueror crowned there a year later, as England's monarchs have been ever since.
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include the 709-year-old wooden Coronation Chair and the marble pavement in front of the High Altar, decorated in 1268 by the Cosmati method of inlaying small pieces of colored marble into a plain background.
At the shrine of St. Edward the Confessor, steps at the base have been worn away by the knees of visitors.
Visitors can inspect the adjacent medieval St. Margaret's Church at their leisure.
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While most people know
Sir Joseph Banks
as the botanist who accompanied Captain James Cook on his voyage to the South Seas, which also took in the continent of Australia, many might not be aware of Banks' accomplishments on returning to England.
After he took over as head of the botanic garden at Kew in 1773 its international reputation grew, with researchers bringing botanic specimens from as far afield as India, Africa, China and Australia.
That tradition continues today with a
scientific program
aimed at saving threatened species. Plants from all over the world are preserved in climate-controlled atmospheres and this history of botanical achievement is a prime reason for the World Heritage listing.
The other reason is that its landscaped gardens and associated architecture represent developments that were to have an influence throughout the world.
Two massive iron-framed glasshouses, the Palm House and Temperate House, dating from the 19th century, became impressive models for conservatories around the world.
Also included among 44 listed buildings is Kew Palace, formerly home to King George III.
For something modern there's the Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway, opened in 2008. Designed by Marks Barfield Architects, renowned for the London Eye, this 18-meter-high, 200-meter-long walkway takes visitors around the crowns of lime, sweet chestnut and oak trees.
4. Palace of Westminster
After passing through airport-style security, the tour of the Palace of Westminster, which houses the British Parliament, begins in the 11th-century Westminster Hall. This hall has the
largest clear-span medieval roof in England
There's the Queen's Robing Room, where the monarch dons her official robes and crown for the annual Opening of Parliament. Paintings of King Arthur and his knights adorn the walls.
Bill Gates, Michael Jackson and Michelle Obama have stood in the Royal Gallery, where in 1984 French president François Mitterrand delivered a speech between frescoes of British victories at Trafalgar and Waterloo.
In the House of Lords Chamber there's a spot where civil servants sit, writing answers for questions put to Ministers.
Standing at the dispatch box in the House of Commons chamber visitors get to play the role of prime minister. On view in St. Stephen's Hall is the statue to which Emily Pankhurst chained herself during the suffragettes' protest movement.
Back in Westminster Hall, the guide indicates the dreaded King's Chair, where Charles I, William Wallace (
) and Guy Fawkes were tried and condemned.
Leaving the palace, statues of republican warrior Oliver Cromwell and crusader-king Richard the Lionhearted bring to mind the tortuous history Britain has endured to gain a democratic parliament that sits in a once-royal palace.
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5. Maritime Greenwich
Greenwich Mean Time is set at the Royal Observatory in this London borough, mandating time on clocks around the globe. Also at the Royal Observatory is the Prime Meridian, establishing the world's settings for longitude.
Located by the Thames in southeast London, Maritime Greenwich boasts more than the observatory, however.
"The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich ... symbolize English artistic and scientific endeavour in the 17th and 18th centuries," the UNESCO listing reads.
Architectural highlights include the Queen's House, the first true Renaissance building in Britain, and Sir Christopher Wren's beautiful baroque buildings, especially the twin domes of the Painted Hall and Chapel of Saints Peter and Paul, part of the
Old Royal Naval College
The National Maritime Museum features a wave tank for experiments, toy boats illustrating maritime history and until September 30, a small exhibition focusing on personal stories of survivors of the Titanic.
Something special is the
Cutty Sark
. Built in 1869 and "re-launched" last April following extensive repairs in the wake of a fire in 2007, she is said to be the "last surviving tea clipper and the fastest and greatest of her time."
During the
2012 Olympic Games Greenwich Park
will host modern pentathlon and equestrian events.
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