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Finnish research institute moves to Google Cloud to advance breakthroughs in personalized medicine
For a large-scale collaboration integrating genomic data with clinical health records, the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) builds a secure and protected research platform.
The Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) at the University of Helsinki was founded with an ambitious mission: to understand the causes of human diseases, improve diagnostics, and develop new treatments for common health problems. In 2017, it embarked on a major new initiative called FinnGen, which advances the goals of personalized medicine by bringing together the genomic data and national health register data of 500,000 Finnish citizens—or a tenth of the country's population. The field of personalized medicine aims to leverage large-scale biomedical data about populations into customized medical diagnoses and treatments for individual patients. FinnGen has partnered with nine international pharmaceutical companies as well as public institutions to become one of the largest collaborative biomedical research efforts to date.
Mari Kaunisto, Communications Director and geneticist at FinnGen, explains that the project draws on Finland's unique genetic profile: "we have a limited amount of genetic variation in the Finnish population and very good reference genome databases.The combination of genotype information and health data enables genetic discoveries that improve our understanding of disease mechanisms, creating medical breakthroughs." The project analyzes de-identified samples collected by participating biobanks from all over the nation, using microarrays to create genotypes. This data is then cross-referenced with comprehensive digital health records from multiple health registries that provide longitudinal information over an individual's lifetime. The process of collecting and combining the biological and clinical information is designed to protect the privacy and ensure the consent of each individual donor, with coded records and granular controls for access and permissions.
"The combination of comprehensive genomic information from the Finnish founder population and national health register data enables genetic discoveries that improve our understanding of disease mechanisms and benefit global healthcare systems long into the future."Mari Kaunisto, Communications Director and Senior Researcher, FinnGen
The challenges of scaling and protecting genomic data
The project has already processed 100,000 individual records, generating three terabytes of raw data and adding 50,000 participants every six months. To achieve their goals, FinnGen needed a technological infrastructure that could scale to manage an estimated 1.5 petabytes of genomic data over the next three years. They also needed vigorous security and privacy controls to meet donor, institutional, and European Union requirements. To manage all of these demands, Jarmo Harju, Head of IT and Data Management at FinnGen, and his team turned to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). By building on Google's Compute Engine and Cloud Storage and integrating other Google tools like DataProc, AppEngine, Identity and Access Management (IAM), BigQuery, and CloudSQL, the team designed a seamless infrastructure for scaling data while keeping it secure and private.
The FinnGen solution depends on two separate structures: a Data Factory, which imports and processes the genomic and private health data, and a Data Library, which stores them. Data Factory information is identified by FinnGen IDs and can only be seen by in-house operators. The Data Library stores the coded data and releases it at regular intervals to researchers. "It's a challenge to allow access to researchers to analyze the data without allowing them to download or copy them," Harju points out. "So we also developed a Sandbox and provide customized access to our partners." He explains that the Sandbox requires users to access the data through a service account, which is run on a virtual machine on an isolated network without external IP addresses. This creates an extra layer of privacy protection and security between the researcher and the data. The Data Library has already migrated to GCP; the Data Factory is next. Harju reports that "quite soon we should have all the FinnGen data storage and processing on Google Cloud, which will improve security and usability from the end users' point of view. All personal data is stored within the EU, and in the future possibly in Finland."
"Quite soon we should have all the FinnGen data storage and processing on Google Cloud, which will improve security and usability from the end users' point of view."Jarmo Harju, Head of IT and Data Management, FinnGen
The promise of new medical breakthroughs
The new datasets will be made available to FinnGen's international research team every six months, fueling more collaboration and potential discoveries. "We hope that FinnGen will reveal new biological or molecular mechanisms behind a number of diseases," Kaunisto says. "This will help deliver better diagnostics and treatments, or even ways to prevent disease. For example, if someone learns they are at high risk for cardiovascular disease, can we help them make lifestyle changes to decrease the risk?" FinnGen's pharmaceutical partners see the potential in using this research to improve their decision-making about which molecules to select for further study. Genetically-supported drug targets can lead to more successful drug trials, thus improving the odds of developing effective and safe drug treatments. With 500,000 participants, the study bears an enormous responsibility, Kaunisto says, which it takes very seriously: "we value the trust of our study participants and by ensuring their data privacy now we can all reap the long-term benefits of this research."


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The week is half over and that means the ref's whistle just sounded and the first annual Android Bowl has officially reached halftime! If you have not been keeping up, we've paired with @NVIDIAtegra to give away three Transformer Prime tablets, complete with quad-core processing power and a keyboard dock to boot.
The bad news is that a bunch of you guys seemed to miss the theme- nay, the spirit of the first post. We're just using the timing of the big football game to try to parallel a battle between Android brands. While some of you got this, most of you guys tweeted and commented about the actual football teams.
Not that we don't love some football, but the Android Bowl is about Android. We're looking to find the brands, carriers, and manufacturers that you guys most trust and enjoy. To play along, you visit the Edit account page and select a carrier and manufacturer. When talking trash and sharing the link, root for your Android team!
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To keep the ball moving, we're going to share a peek at a few of the Android Bowl stats we've racked up so far. We're not only tracking the number of users each team has, we're keeping tallies of the actual score and rank of each user, allowing us to make some interesting comparisons.
For instance, even though Verizon is in the top carrier slot by number of users, the And Me Accounts belonging to team T-Mobile actually have a higher average rank. In addition to monitoring the top performers, we're also keeping a close eye on the bottom of the pack. Motorola currently has the lowest average rank among manufacturers with at least 100 users, while some teams like Amazon don't have even a single member (no Kindle Fire fans?).
We'll be back at the close of the Android Bowl to share all the stats you guys created, but we thought halftime might be a good time to head to the locker room and rally your team. Bragging rights are at stake. Is your carrier or manufacturer going to come out on top? If you'd like to talk trash, make predictions, or try to convince your friend to join your team, we've left a preloaded tweet box below:
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News Summary: Ford Escape, Fusion recall
THE VEHICLES: About 89,000 Ford Escape small SUVs and Fusion midsize cars from the 2013 model year equipped with 1.6-liter turbocharged engines.
THE PROBLEM: A computer-controlled valve can let coolant into the engine, and in rare cases it can become trapped and overheat. That can cause a gasket to blow, spilling coolant or oil onto the hot exhaust and touching off a fire. There have been nine fires reported so far in the U.S. and Canada. No one has been hurt.
THE SOLUTION: Ford will update software to stop the problem from happening. It already has recalled the vehicles, urging drivers to bring them to dealers and swap them for a free loaner car. The software will be available starting early next week.


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Forget all the talk of Jimmy Garoppolo being the heir apparent to Tom Brady.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Forget all the talk of Jimmy Garoppolo being the heir apparent to Tom Brady.
That's what Garoppolo is doing.
The New England Patriots rookie quarterback is more concerned with preparing for the next practice, film session and team meeting.
"Each day is different and you have to be consistently good, not occasionally great," he said Tuesday. "You have to come out here and do your best every single day and let the coaches see what you can do."
So he's not thinking about being Brady's successor.
"You can't really focus on it," Garoppolo said. "If you focus on that, you're focusing on the wrong thing. So my main focus is coming out here and just being very consistent day in and day out. It's a grind."
Besides, Brady wants to play as long as possible as he enters his 15th season.
The Patriots drafted Garoppolo in the second round, four rounds earlier than they chose Brady in 2000. As a senior at Eastern Illinois last year, Garoppolo threw for 53 touchdowns and nine interceptions and won the Walter Payton Award as the best player in the Football Championship Subdivision.
Now he must make the jump from the second level of college football after being taken with the 62nd pick.
"The pace of pro practices is very fast," Garoppolo said after the first day of the Patriots three-day mandatory minicamp. "I kind of expected that. There is a transition from the college to the NFL game. It's something you have to get used to and great athletes do."
How quickly he makes that transition could affect Ryan Mallett's status as the Patriots No. 2 quarterback.
Mallett has thrown just four passes in three seasons since New England drafted him in the third round in 2011.
Brady's previous backup was Brian Hoyer, who threw only 43 passes in three seasons after signing with the Patriots as an undrafted rookie in 2009. And from 2005-07, seventh-round pick Matt Cassel threw 39 passes after being drafted in the seventh round. The next year, he threw 516 passes after Brady suffered a season-ending knee injury in the season opener.
So, barring an injury to Brady, chances are Garoppolo won't play much.
Meanwhile, he's learning from one of the NFL's best quarterbacks.
"Guys look to him as a coach on the field and that's what you want in a quarterback," Garoppolo said. "So just watching and learning what he does, not so much what he tells me but just watching his mannerisms and everything, I've learned a lot."
During organized team activities the past three weeks, Garoppolo's poise was evident.
"He shocked me, man," running back Stevan Ridley said. "He came in and he was confident. And he's a rookie, though. Everybody's going to make mistakes, but he's been quiet and he's been working hard. He's really leading that rookie class coming in.
"I didn't know too much about him but as I watched him, I liked him the more I watched him."
During an 11-on-11 drill Tuesday, Garoppolo threw a long completion down the right sideline to wide receiver Jeremy Johnson, a rookie who signed as a free agent last Thursday.
"It was a good read," Garoppolo said. "You see the safeties rotate and you get your eyes in the right place."
At Eastern Illinois, his 118 touchdown passes broke the Ohio Valley Conference and school record of 85 set by Tony Romo. Last season, he led his team to a 12-2 record and an average of 48.2 points and 589.5 points per game.
But now he's a rookie working hard to learn the pro game.
And Tuesday's practice was just a small part of his day.
"It's not close to being over," he said with a laugh as he headed inside Gillette Stadium for more studying.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Even if the Crew wanted to wallow in misery after their first defeat of the season on Saturday against Los Angeles, there is little time to do so.
Columbus had a 45-minute training session Monday morning then flew to San Jose, where they will face the Earthquakes on Wednesday at Buck Shaw Stadium.
Any baggage from losing 2-0 to Los Angeles in a game the Crew (6-1-2) dominated was checked at the gate.
"We'll bounce back strong," midfielder Eddie Gaven said. "We obviously knew we weren't going to win every single game. It hurts because we were playing at home and we felt like we actually played pretty well.
"Getting right back on the field helps," he said. "We know San Jose is a very good team and we'll have to be ready for them."
The Earthquakes (5-3-1) are happy to have a quick return as well following Saturday's 3-1 loss to Toronto FC.
"They lost their last game, so I'm so sure they will try to rebuild the momentum," Crew coach Robert Warzycha said.
The schedule-maker did the Crew no favors on the two-game trip this week. The Crew play Saturday at Colorado, but would have preferred getting that game at mile-high altitude out of the way first instead of it being the back end of two games in four days.
"This will probably be our toughest road trip of the year," Gaven said. "We're going to need every single guy."
If that's the case, forward Sergio Herrera could finally see some significant playing time. The much-heralded signing of the Colombian scorer in February was followed by almost total inactivity; his lone appearance came May 8 in stoppage time against New England.
With the Crew scoring once in the past two games, it could be time to see what he can do. Emilio Renteria, who had a goal in the previous two games before the LA match, is also pushing for a starting spot at either at forward or in the midfield.
The Crew would prefer the games were swapped for another reason: After putting together their most precise and pressing attack of the season against the Galaxy – as evidenced by 21 shots and 15 corner kicks – the offense could be tempered by the field dimensions at San Jose.
At a listed 72 yards wide by 115 yards long, it is three yards narrower than Crew Stadium. Will it make no difference or will the Crew struggle like it did on the 70-yard by 110-yard surface of CommunityAmerica Ballpark before escaping with a 1-0 win against Kansas City on May 20?
"It could be another game like that," Gaven said. "It wasn't one of the prettiest games, but we were able to get a win."
"It may be a little bit scrappy the way the pitch is [at San Jose]," midfielder Adam Moffat said. "We're getting a lot better rhythm and that could break it up a bit."
The Crew will once again be without injured defenders Frankie Hejduk and Danny O'Rourke, but the team proved to the Galaxy that it could mix it up without them.
"The physicality that Columbus brings is something that's really challenging and, in sections of the game [Saturday], they overpowered us," Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said afterward.
Yet, the Crew can do more than just throw their weight around. They outhustled Los Angeles and controlled every aspect except for two grievous breakdowns that the Galaxy pounced upon.
"They played with an incredible work rate and they really took the game to us," LA defender Gregg Berhalter said.
The Crew seek to replicate the effort against San Jose but with a better result.
"It sucks that we lost and now we're going on a two-game road trip," Robbie Rogers said. "You kind of want to have the momentum going into the road trip. It will be a great test to see how we react against San Jose. It will be a huge game."


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Russian court upholds jail for two Pussy Riot members, frees thirdComments
A member of punk band Pussy Riot was freed on appeal on Wednesday but a Moscow court upheld prison sentences for two others imposed over a raucous cathedral protest against Vladimir Putin, who said they had got the jail terms they deserved.
Moscow City Court confirmed the two-year prison sentences handed down to Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina but suspended the sentence on Yekaterina Samutsevich. Her lawyer told the court that Samutsevich had not performed the 'punk protest' near the altar of Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral in February because she had been stopped and led away before it took place.
In emotional statements from a courtroom cage during the appeal hearing, women from the band had earlier said they had not meant to offend the faithful with their actions but criticised the courts and the Kremlin chief. "Putin is doing everything for the development of civil warin this country," said Tolokonnikova, raising her voice to try to drown out a judge who tried to interrupt her as she began to talk about Putin.
Tolokonnikova, 22, Alyokhina, 24, and Samutsevich, 30, were convicted in August of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for a "punk prayer" imploring the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Putin, and sentenced to two years in jail. The case sparked an international outcry, with Western governments and pop star Madonna condemning the sentences as disproportionate, a view not widely shared in Russia where public opinion was shocked by the protest.
In an interview aired on Sunday, Putin defended the sentences: "It is right that they were arrested and it was right that the court took this decision because you cannot undermine the fundamental morals and values to destroy the country". At the appeal hearing, Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina told the court their protest was purely political. "We did not want to offend believers," Alyokhina, 24, told the court."We came to the cathedral to speak out against the merger between spiritual figures and the political elite of ourcountry. "Alyokhina said she did not expect the appeal would succeed, however. "I have lost all hope in our courts," she said. Defence lawyer Mark Feigin asked the court to reverse the verdict and censure Putin. "No official … is permitted to interfere with the court," he said angrily.
Relatives and lawyers for the trio complained of political interference in the original trial and said that Putin's weekend comments on the case in the interview marking his 60th birthdayhad compromised the appeal. "After Putin's comments, I don't think lawyers can do anything anyway," Samutsevich's father, Stanislav, told Reuters on Tuesday.
The women contend their protest in the cathedral in central Moscow was an acerbic comment on the close ties between the Kremlin and Russia's dominant church, which considers about two-thirds of the population as its flock.
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill had given Putin, then prime minister, unofficial but clear support in his successful campaign for a third presidential term, likening Putin's years in power to a "miracle of God". Kremlin opponents said the jail terms were part of a clampdown on dissent that has produced restrictive laws and criminal cases against critics of Putin since he began his six-year term in May.
"We are in jail for our political convictions," Alyokhinasaid. "Even if our sentences are upheld, we will not be silent. Even if we are in Mordovia or Siberia, we will not be silent, no matter how uncomfortable it is for you. "Tolokonnikova also told the court the group was not motivated by religious hatred. "It's painful for me to hear that I am speaking out against religion. I have no religious hatred and never have," she said.
Sympathy for Pussy Riot is limited in Russia, where Patriarch Kirill has cast the protest as part of a concerted attack meant to undermine traditional Russian values and curb the church's post-Soviet revival.
Parliament is considering legislation stiffening punishment for offending religious feelings and Putin has warned that such offences – against Christians, Muslims or other believers indiverse Russia – could incite violence. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said last month that they have already served enough time, while the Russian Orthodox Church has said they should repent if they want forgiveness – a request they made clear they found inappropriate.
An opinion poll conducted on Sept. 21-24 by the independent Levada centre found 35 percent of Russians believe the two-year sentences were appropriate, while 34 percent said they were too lenient and only 14 percent said they were excessive.


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Following a highlight reel knockout of top-ranked Rosi Sexton (10-2 MMA, 1-1 BFC) at Wednesday's Bellator 23 event, Zoila Frausto (7-1 MMA, 1-0 BFC) is under consideration as a possible competitor in the organization's season-three women's 115-pound tournament.
Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that Sexton will sit out the tournament, which begins in August, and a replacement will be found by the end of this week.
"It would be hard to find anybody that has a bigger or stronger or claim to that spot than Zoila does," Rebney said.
Frausto, who fights at 125 pounds out of Fresno, Calif.'s Team Buhawe, met Sexton at 120 pounds and pulled off the upset with a knee strike and punches that knocked the English fighter senseless at the bout's two-minute mark. Bellator officials posted the video on its YouTube channel (and it's also embedded above).
Rebney said the Kentucky Boxing and Wrestling Authority first suspended Sexton for 90 days and then reduced the term to 60 days. But with the women's tournament right around the corner, the knockout spelled the end of the Cambridge University grad's tournament dreams.
"I think the plan with Rosi is let her get back into training (and) bring her back not in the tournament, but bring her back for a fight," Rebney said.
While Frausto's performance certainly puts her in line to replace Sexton, Rebney said there is no guarantee that she'll get the job.
"The only thing that's standing in the way is that we had women who were positioned and we had talked to as the No. 9, 10 and 11," he said. "The matter is clearing our heads and looking at the situation and saying, 'Does that warrant her leapfrogging ahead of people who we had otherwise recruited and talked to for that spot?'"
As for Frausto, she said she'd have no trouble making weight.
"When they call me, I will make [115 pounds]," she today told MMAjunkie.com. "I made 120 (pounds) easy, and that was a little bit of a shock to everybody and myself. … I can make that.
"I've been doing this to fight the best, and I just beat one of the best. So hell yeah, I want that spot."
Rebney declined to name the additional fighters under consideration for the eighth spot in the tournament, which now includes Megumi Fuji, Lisa Ward, Jessica Pene, Angela Magana, Lynn Alvarez, Jessica Aguilar and Aisling Daly.
Bellator, which now airs its shows live on FOX Sports Net, currently is in its second season. The fast-rising organization launched eight-man tourneys in the featherweight, lightweight, welterweight and middleweight tournaments in both seasons. But as MMAjunkie.com previously reported, season three will feature men's bantamweight and heavyweight tournaments and the women's 115-pound tourney. Each winner will also be crowned a Bellator champ.
"In terms of that last spot, last night's knockout sure does put an exclamation point on a fighter's potential position in that spot, and we'll see," Rebney said.
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Google Adds Personal Gmail Results Into Search
In a major move to integrate personal search and Web search, Google is adding some users' Gmail into their search results as a "limited field trial," it said today.
So when participating users search for "Amazon," information from their own recent purchase confirmation emails will appear on the right rail. Or, a user could type "my flights" as a search query, and see — directly at the top of their search results — itineraries drawn from their flight confirmation emails.
"This is a baby step in a really complicated area," said Sagar Kamdar, director of product management for universal search, speaking at a search presentation for reporters at the company's San Francisco office.
Kamdar noted that Google's Gmail index is larger or the same size as its Web corpus. Plus, adding users' personal email into search needs to be private and secure. "That is such a hard problem," he said.
Users can opt in to the field trial at g.co/searchtrial today, and they should expect a wait of a couple days for activation, said Kamdar. They can then collapse Gmail results, and turn off personalization should they choose.
This kind of personal search is a category that's been explored by start-ups including Greplin (now the personal assistant Cue) and CloudMagic, but Google obviously has broader reach than they do.
Google SVP Amit Singhal said that this personal email search feature wouldn't necessarily be limited to Gmail. "We are very willing to work with every email provider," he said — though, obviously, those email providers would need to sign on (which seems unlikely!) and figure out a way to securely transfer personal data.
Singhal and Kamdar said they expect to add other Google products — including Docs, Calendar and Drive — into each user's search corpus, though they didn't give a time frame.
Google also shared some general search stats at the event, which it doesn't do often, and demoed a couple of additions to its semantic search efforts, as well as expanded voice search for mobile devices.
Google is now serving more than 100 billion searches per month, said Singhal. There are now more than 30 trillion unique URLs on the Web, versus one trillion in 2008, Singhal said. And Google crawls more than 20 billion pages on a typical day.
The future of search is artificial intelligence, Singhal contended. It's like the "Star Trek" computer: "That perfect loyal assistant who's there by my side whenever I need it."
Google's main effort on that front is its Knowledge Graph, which launched in May. Today, the Knowledge Graph contains half a billion objects, with 3.5 billion connections between them, according to Shashi Thakur, the project's technical lead.
Google is today launching the Knowledge Graph outside the U.S., to all English-language users.
It's also adding a "Knowledge Carousel," a ribbon across the top of search results that allows users to flip through collections of entities suggested by the Knowledge Graph. This feature also works on tablets.
Google is also expanding its Siri-like voice-query functionality, which it launched for Jelly Bean at Google I/O last month. Voice search will be available for iPhone and iPad "within the next couple days" as part of the Google Search App. In coming versions, it will also be integrated with the new Gmail search.


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Dachshund Figurines With Chic Accessories And Real Feathers
Limited-edition diva dachshund figurines are handcrafted with big, expressive eyes and oversized accessories, including hats with real feathers.
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They're "paws-itively" stylish with plenty of hat-titude. These darling diva dachshund figurines will steal your heart with their expressive faces, big beautiful eyes and chic accessories. Each adorable doxie puppy in this collection strikes a different pose and features unique oversized accessories, including big red hats that match her individual personality. Your collection begins with Issue One, Red Hot Mama. Soon you will receive Issue Two, Bow-wow Babe,and your collection continues with Issue Three, One Posh Puppy, and additional Divas with Hat-titude figurines each a separate issue to follow.‡
These adorable dachshund collectible figurines are handcrafted and then hand-painted by skilled artisans for charming details. Each limited-edition figurine in this collection is available only from The Hamilton Collection. The adorable doxie puppies will make a fetching addition to your collection or a great gift for a dachshund lover. Strong demand is expected, so order now!
- Dachshund figurines with adorable expressions, oversized accessories and big, red hats, exclusively from The Hamilton Collection
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EU-only collection from one of the all-time greats of the Chicago Blues scene best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band in the '50s. Collected here are the A and B sides of every solo 78 and 45 Jimmy Rogers released on the Chess label between 1950 and 1959. Features an all-star backing from the likes of Otis Span, Little Walter and of course Muddy Waters. His best known numbers, many of which are now blues standards are all featured including, "Words in a Tangle", "That's Alright" and "Walking By Myself" - the latter being covered by Freddie King, Magic Sam and Gary Moore amongst many others.
Track Listings
1. That's Alright
2. Ludella
3. Going Away Blues
4. Today Today Blues
5. The World's in a Tangle
6. She Loves Another Man
7. Money, Marbles and Chalk
8. Chance to Love
9. I Used to Have a Woman
10. Back Door Friend
11. The Last Time
12. Out on the Road
13. Left Me with a Broken Heart
14. Act Like You Love Me
15. Chicago Bound
16. Sloppy Drunk
17. Blues All Day Long
18. You're the One
19. If It Ain't Me
20. Walkin' By Myself
21. One Kiss
22. I Can't Believe
23. What Have I Done
24. Trace of You
25. My Last Meal
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The U.S. Senate approved, 64-36, Wednesday a limited, two-year budget framework to diffuse the threat of another government shutdown and alleviate harsh budget cuts.
Nine Republicans sided with all 55 members of the Democratic Conference, which includes two independent senators.
The agreement was overwhelmingly approved by the U.S. House last week, and it now heads to President Obama for his signature.
The framework sets top-line spending levels for the next two fiscal years at $1.012 trillion and $1.014 trillion, respectively. The GOP-led House and Democratic-led Senate had been unable to agree on spending levels, which helped provoke the 16-day government shutdown in October.
Working off the same budget levels will allow the House and Senate Appropriations committees to move forward on the annual 12 spending bills that fund the government's discretionary spending, which does not include spending on mandatory programs like Social Security and Medicare.
"We have a heavy lift ahead of us — drafting, negotiating, and passing these bills in just over one month — but I am certain my colleagues on both the Senate and House Appropriations Committees are up to the task," House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., said last week. The current stopgap funding bill runs out on Jan. 15.
The budget deal also alleviates $63 billion in across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester by replacing them with other cuts and new government fees on airlines, new pension requirements for future federal employees, and a 1% reduction in cost of living adjustments to working-age military retirees. It also includes an additional $23 billion in modest deficit reduction over the next decade achieved by extending certain health care cuts through 2023.
The budget deal is one of the final legislative acts in what has otherwise been the most unproductive year on record for Congress.
The GOP-led House has already adjourned for the year, while the Democratic-led Senate is also working to wrap up a defense bill and a number of executive branch nominations before they adjourn for the holiday season.
The deal's negotiators, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Budget Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., said they are hopeful this final act of bipartisanship will usher in a new era of cooperation in a divided Washington.
Murray said the deal could help "heal the wounds" of what has been a divisive and partisan year that led to the first government shutdown in nearly two decades and included a bitter and ongoing battle over the implementation of the president's health care law.
Congress will reconvene on Jan. 6 for the second session of the 113th Congress. An overhaul of the nation's immigration laws is the dominant piece of domestic legislation facing this Congress, while congressional Republicans are also angling for additional fiscal restraints in exchange for their support to increase the nation's debt limit. A vote is expected in the spring.
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There are kitchens that refuse to be permitted on playa already.Savannah wrote:It'd be only polite to post a large sign reading "Not Inspected by the Health Dept since 2011!" I personally would want to know.The main issue with doing what we call a kitchen at gatherings is that we would both insist on serving the general public and insist on not signing a permit.
No one expects a small camp serving individuals or few guests to have a permit, and people willingly risk that all the time, but the key is: willingly. Serving the public on a large scale at this particular event implies strongly that you have permission and have met standards, so to do so without a health permit--without announcing otherwise--could be considered deceptive.
Whereas to serve the same food at a Rainbow Gathering the woods, would--by context--not be deceptive.
My rule of thumb is that if you have concerns, people that are careful are proud to show you what they do.
They typically insist.
That's what happened at one camp I asked about.
I've eaten raw food there, and I wouldn't risk my health for the week.
Not permitted isn't always unsafe.
This rule applies to dental offices, the highest risk thing most of us do.
Poor practices are responsible for many hiv and hepatitis infections.
Doing it right is EXPENSIVE.
They are always happy to show you how they do it right, if they do.
If they aren't, run like hell.


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Patco in turn appears to be linked to a firm called Arya Hamrah Samaneh Co, the state-linked partnership that operates a data centre housing MTN Irancell's hardware systems.
The US prosecutor's account of Hajian's and Talley's activities seemingly dovetails with allegations by Reuters last year that "MTN was well aware of the US sanctions, wrestled with how to deal with them and ultimately decided to circumvent them by relying on Middle Eastern firms inside and outside Iran".
Reuters quoted Chris Kilowan, MTN's Iran office manager from 2004 to 2007, and referred to extensive internal documents, including presentations that "openly discussed circumventing US sanctions to source American technical equipment for MTN Irancell".
Kilowan, also Turkcell's main witness in its complaint against MTN, claimed that Arya Hamrah was an Iranian front "used to camouflage purchases of embargoed equipment" by MTN Irancell.
He said MTN Irancell obtained Sun servers – like those exported by Hajian – from an Iranian firm, Patsa Co, a shareholder in Arya Hamrah.
Last year, the Mail & Guardian reported allegations from sources in MTN Irancell that the company and its contractors had actively assisted the state in targeting political activists by providing person-specific data.
MTN has consistently denied circumventing embargoes and expressed outrage at claims that its technology could be used to identify and persecute dissidents.
Paul Norman, MTN group's chief human resources and corporate affairs officer, has said: "MTN works with reputable international suppliers. We have checked vendor-compliance procedures and continue to monitor them and we are confident they are robust."
Neither MTN nor Hajian's attorney, Jim Felman, answered questions this week.
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It's not uncommon to ask a friend or neighbor how they like a particular item they have purchased. This could be a mixer, a grill, or any other item. People like to know what others think of a particular item before they go out and buy it. That's the same thing with shopping online and ecommerce, except for the fact that you can't easily ask your friend or neighbor what their experiences are. That's where product reviews come into play.
Surely, as you have been shopping online you have noticed under a product it's star rating. Not all websites offer this, but many do, and this is where you can easily read reviews and see what others have to say about a product. Generally, if a product only has one or two ratings you can't take the information 100% at face value. That's because although many reviews are written by legitimate consumers, some are fake reviews to make the product look better than it is. So, when you are shopping online and using product reviews to help you make a decision you need to know what to look for.
First of all, don't look just at the star rating. Actually read what the reviewers said. This will give you good insight into the product and whether it will work for you or not. For example, you may see a product rated at 4.5 stars, which is a great rating. However, when you begin reading the reviews you notice the lower ratings were given by people who complained the dimensions of the product were larger than specified on the box. If you have a tight space then this is important information to you and may change your mind as to whether or not you should buy the item. The same thing goes for software. What if the software has great reviews, but the reviews left were all by computer programmers? This might mean the product is more advanced than you would like to think or that you won't be able to use it as it was intended.
When it comes to shopping online product reviews are truly the only way for individuals to get a good idea of what is good and not so good about an item they are interested in buying. Keep in mind, too, that there are other websites that are in the business of writing reviews so you should do a little bit of research and see what various reviews say about a particular product before making a purchase. Putting in a little bit of effort on the front end will allow you to buy an item that is most likely to work for you and your needs.


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Beaches Near Osaka
One thing metropolitan Kansai is not blessed with is an abundance of beaches, and when the hot season comes around, many people find themselves stumped when searching for places to enjoy sand and surf. So here are a few of my recommendations to help people living in the Osaka area enjoy this toasty summer weather with a relaxing time on the beach.
This is probably the most popular beach in the Keihanshin tri-city area, and also attracts many people from the Chugoku region. Located west of Sannomiya in Kobe, it is easily accessed via Suma Station on the JR Kobe Line/San'yo Main Line (it's right outside the station). While it can be a bit crowded, this compact beach has a nice atmosphere, and a number of beach parties and DJ events are held here throughout the summer.
If you're looking for something a bit more secluded and less crowded, try "Tarui Southern Beach," located about 15 min. on foot from Tarui Station on the Nankai Main Line (about 50 minutes from Nankai Namba Station). Even though it's small, this beach offers rental parasols, food and drinks, and all the amenities you would find a larger beach.
This Biwako-shaped island located out in Osaka Bay/the Seto Inland Sea can be easily accessed via Kobe by ferry or bus, and has a number of small beaches lining its shores. There are also some sightseeing draws in the area, such as the Naruto Whirlpools out in the Seto Inland Sea.
This famous beach/hot spring resort area, located on the southern part of the Kii Peninsula in Wakayama Prefecture (facing the Pacific Ocean), is known for is beautiful white sands (imported from Australia), scrumptious seafood and luxury resorts. The beaches here are relatively clean and quite beautiful, and there are also some tourist attractions (many geared toward children) in case you are going as a family or on a date. It's a couple hours from Osaka by JR limited express (Shirahama Station), so Shirahama is more of a weekend getaway than a day trip destination.
Located in Wakayama City, this is a large, rather crowded beach that's popular among Kii Peninsula residents and Osakan alike. While it won't offer the peace and quiet of a small beach, it does have a fun atmosphere and lots of chances to people-watch. Not to mention Wakayama has great food in general, so the chance to explore the city afterward is a plus. This beach can be accessed via Nankai Railway's Isonoura Station.
A small safety note: Jellyfish tend to arrive in large numbers during the later part of summer, so please exercise caution from August onward if you plan to go swimming in the ocean.
A Personal Note: Please be sure to collect any trash that belongs to you to help keep Japan's beaches clean. Coming from Oregon, where beaches are heavily protected and kept in a very natural state, I am always shocked at the amount of trash people leave behind on the sand, and I hope everyone will avoid this sort of behavior.


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Yesterday RJ Anderson of DRays Bay reported that a source informed him of a trade that would send Boof Bonser to the Rays was close to being made.
I have from a reliable source that Boof Bonser has told people close to him that a deal with him heading to Tampa is imminent.
Later in the day, Marc Topkin dismissed the report as just another internet rumor.
One [trade possibility] that made its way into Internet rumors that [the Tampa Bay Rays] are not discussing involves Minnesota pitcher Boof Bonser, a Gibbs High product.
There is only one small problem…Anderson's source? It was Boof Bonser.
Boof Bonser is in the area for a golf tournament and while speaking to a group of people, he mentioned that the Twins were close to completing a deal that would have him pitching for the Rays in 2008. Among the group of people that Bonser was speaking with, was JP Peterson of WFLA. Somebody from Peterson's radio show contacted Anderson to relay the quotes from Bonser. The potential trade was then reported on DRays Bay and also apparently on the radio show Hot Lunch with JP Peterson (we heard about the latter from more than one of our own sources, but have yet to actually hear a tape of the show).
We assume that Topkin then contacted his sources within the Rays organization to verify or refute the trade talks. We are forced to assume this because Topkin does not tell us why he believes the trade rumor is not true. His source is most likely from within the organization and may in fact have been Andrew Friedman, as Topkin's claim comes at the end of an article with several quotes from Friedman.
It is not surprising that a major league general manager would deny the veracity of a trade rumor. It is surprising that an experienced journalist, or anybody with a heartbeat, would assume that the general manager was telling him/her the truth. Marc Topkin took what the Rays said as being truthful and then smugly dismissed Anderson's report as just another internet rumor, as if he just pulled it out of his own ass.
Trade rumors are a common topic among baseball blogs. Most often it is simply relaying something that was reported elsewhere and sometimes a blogger will speculate on trade matchups. Is it possible that RJ Anderson or his source made up the quotes attributed to Bonser? We have no reason to think he would make them up. No more reason than we ever think that Marc Topkin makes up his reports.
At least Anderson reported that he had a source. Topkin dismissed the rumor without even telling us if he had a source or if it was own speculation. And in doing so, came off as an elitist that thinks bloggers just sit around in their parents basements making shit up. We have read a lot of these so-called "internet rumors". 90% are probably not true. 99.9% of those rumors were started by professional reporters like Marc Topkin.
Does anybody have the phone number for Marc Topkin's parents basement? We have a rumor for him.
[Ed. note: Marc Lancaster of TBO is also reporting that it is his "understanding that there's nothing to" the Bonser trade rumor. Like Topkin, Lancaster does not tell us if he checked with his sources or if he is just speculating. At least he did not dismiss it as just another rumor that is floating around the internet.]
Boof coming to Tampa? [Drays Bay]
Friedman: The time is now [tampabay.com]


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- Item Type: Dress
- Gender: Women
- Material: Latex
Package Includes:
- 1 x Dress
Size Chart:
The suggested size is just for your reference. If your measurement is floating between two sizes, advise choosing the larger size.
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- Try to avoid scrubbing with fingernails when wearing. The suits are tailored by natural latex, so any sticky or sharp things may create damage to it.
- Don't use too much force when put on the suit.
- There's often sweat inside the clothes after wearing. You don't have to wash it every time. Scrub it with a wet towel. Then spread some baby powder and the gown will be ready for the next party!
- Wrap with paper bag and store the catsuit at dark and dry places, avoiding acid, alkali, and direct sunshine.
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Developer Reading List, August 20, 2013 New books on Windows internals, JavaScript, Groovy, Python, and P=NP
Also Received
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Third Edition
by W. Richard Stevens and Stephen A. Rago
This book has long been the definitive programming bible for UNIX and Linux internals. The second edition appeared in 2005, so this update has been a long time coming. It adds new interfaces, such as POSIX asynchronous I/O, POSIX semaphores, spin locks, and barriers, and it removes older superannuated APIs. Per the authors, the code all of which is written in C was tested on Solaris, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD. For anyone working on Linux or UNIX internals or with need to access OS internals, this book is a must-buy, even if you have the previous edition.
The Essence of Software Engineering: Applying the SEMAT Kernel
by Ivar Jacobson, et al.
SEMAT (Software Engineering Methods and Theory) is Ivar Jacobson's creation (although contributions from many others are included) and consists of an approach to software engineering that focuses on the core disciplines. In this short book, Jacobson shows how to apply SEMAT to project management, with emphasis on its ability to adapt to different projects. For project managers who want to see how Jacobson's long work in software engineering can be applied to day-to-day work, this book is indeed a useful guide.
by Joel Murach and Anne Boehm
Another great self-paced tutorial done in the unique Murach style of presenting language topics on one or two page threads. The topics build on one another, so as you progress, you're constantly seeing illustrative code and then seeing it reapplied in different contexts later. The style of numerous tiny nuggets makes the book an excellent reference (a sort of recipe book) after the fact. Beyond just the language, the book also covers elementary form creation, XML processing, ADO. NET, and similar .NET specific technologies.


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Public Information Meeting For Transmission Line
A public informational meeting on a high-voltage transmission line across the northern portion of Palo Alto County is planned for Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 9 a.m. in Emmetsburg. Officials of MidAmerican Energy will host the meeting at the Iowa Lakes Community College Auditorium in Emmetsburg, in accordance with the Iowa Code.
The proposed transmission line will have a capacity of 345 kilovolts and will run from west to east across Lost Island, Walnut, Vernon and Independence Townships. It will follow the path of a current 161 kilovolt transmission line that runs through the county as well as through O'Brien and Clay Counties, and Kossuth, Humboldt and Webster Counties before terminating in an existing MidAmerican Energy substation in Webster County.
The line is being designed use the existing 161 Kilovolt transmission line corridor as much as is practical by rebuilding the line into a double circuit transmission line on single-pole structures.
The new line will provide transmission capacity for renewable energy generation development and will also relieve congestion on existing transmission lines in the power transmission grid.
As the meeting is required under Iowa Utilities Board regulations, landowners and residents of property that will be in the path of the proposed line may file objections to the location and construction of the proposed line with the Iowa Utilities Board. Objections must be made in writing to the IUB prior to the public hearing date. Utilities Board personnel will be present at the informational meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 5, along with representatives of MidAmerican Energy.
Additional meetings on the project are also scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 4 at the Hartley Community Center in Hartley at 9 a.m. and at the Clay Regional Events Center in Spencer at 2 p.m.
Meetings are also set for 2 p.m. on Dec. 5 at the Algona Public Library, and on Dec. 6 at 9 a.m. at the Humboldt County Fairgrounds and at 2 p.m. at the Best Western Startlite Village Motel in Fort Dodge.


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His parents spent their honeymoon in Cleveland.
Jack and Jackie Harbaugh, the parents of the famous Super Bowl coaches, expressed their love for Cleveland in an unusual way.
They spent their honeymoon in Cleveland. They went to a Browns-Giants game.
That is only the tip of the iceberg as to the ties of the NFL's best-known siblings to Cuyahoga County.
John Harbaugh, Baltimore's head coach, took the occasion of a game at Cleveland to share some of the details.
"My mom and all my family is from over there on the east side," John said as a conference call with Ohio writers shifted away from the game. "Say hi to uncle Bob and aunt Sandy and grandpa Joe. You've got to give him a shout out."
Tell us more about grandpa Joe, someone said.
"Joe Cipiti has been here since he was 4 years old," said the head coach of the defending Super Bowl champs — 'here' is the United States. "He came over, went through Ellis Island in 1920.
"He's 97 years old. He says it's hard work and red grapes. He has a nursery out on Chillicothe Road in Bainbridge (Township), right across from the fire station ... he and uncle Bob and Aunt Sandy."
The mailing address of the nursery is Chagrin Falls. John could walk there from Lake Erie with his eyes closed.
"Grandpa used to let us drive the truck and drive the lawn mower around the nursery," John Harbaugh said. "One time he let me drive the lawn mower and cut the grass. I was 10 or 11. My brother was 8."
His brother is Jim Harbaugh, head coach of the 49ers.
"Jim was whining and crying because he wanted to do it," John said. "My grandpa said, 'Whatever you do, don't cut down the sapling trees. Well, Jim commenced to mow down a whole row of little oak trees. Jim didn't get on the lawn mower again for about a couple years after that."
Grandpa Joe changed careers to get into the landscaping-nursery business.
"They were in Richmond Heights for a long time right next to the mall," he said. "Before that they were in East Cleveland. My mom went to Shaw High School. He owned a gas station for a while down there ... mysteriously burned up.
"And then he just ran the nursery business and was a car mechanic in a number of places for a number of years."
The coach seized the opportunity for a little free advertising.
"Yeah. Cipiti Nursery, man. Go in there and buy some trees. Uncle Bob ... he's got plenty of stuff. Wholesale prices (laughs).
"Landscaping, sodding, you name it. He used to make us pull all the rocks when we laid sod in the summer time. Pull all the weeds. He gave us all the dirty work."
What about that gas station that burned up?
"It's a family mystery," Harbaugh said. "I can't get it out of grandpa Joe. I'm not exactly sure what went down. It was down there in East Cleveland somewhere. It was the only one he owned.
"I'm not saying there's any ties to any elements. I'm not sure what happened. Probably just an accident. All tongue in cheek."
Harbaugh's Ravens have mowed down the Browns 11 straight times.
That is an odd thing in what used to be a family of Browns fans.
Reach Steve at 330-580-8347


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Friday, 15 July 2011
Mohsin Ali SS12
6 comments:
Nice to see some great menswear, especially as it's from a uk based designer!
- 15 July 2011 at 23:18
- loveandalchemy said...
Definitely impressed. Being nit-picky though, I would have like to see design that more mirrored those architects' "flair" that inspired him in the first place.
- 17 July 2011 at 02:33
- Style Salvage Steve said...
Anonymous: Thanks, British designers are always my first priority.
loveandalchemy: Good point. I did actually ask Mohsin but there weren't particular pieces that inspired him because I'm always interested in every designer's starting point. However, It was the mood of their work in genera that inspired himl. I guess I should have matched them up myself.
- 17 July 2011 at 07:54
- Taj said...
Is it just me or is there alot of Jil/Raf biting going on in this collection??
- 17 July 2011 at 14:42
Can't say I'd consider buying a single piece. The white jacket in the first shot could be cool in my tastes if it where a 4 inch shorter cut and the pockets weren't so big. The gray block tee I'd actually wear, but that's it. I don't know a single guy that would wear any of that. Besides us Americans are too fat to pull those looks off anyway.
- 17 July 2011 at 20:41
- Michael K said...
Really striking set of looks.
Any news of stockists? (whether bricks & mortar or online)
- 25 July 2011 at 19:56


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- CustomFloat.__getformat__(typestr) → string¶
You probably don't want to use this function. It exists mainly to be used in Python's test suite.
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Kate Hudson's role in 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' more timely after the Boston bombings
When Kate Hudson opened the door for Mira Nair for a meeting they had scheduled to talk about "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," they both started laughing.
"You're so pregnant!" exclaimed Nair, director of such films as "Monsoon Wedding" and "The Namesake."
"I know," replied Hudson, who was eight months along.
Nair then told the actress that the film was scheduled to start shooting shortly and in her present state, there was no possible way she could be in it. Hudson explains that the meeting, which had been set up by their representatives, was as a bit of a mix-up. Nobody had told Nair that Hudson was pregnant, and no one had told the actress when the film was scheduled to start shooting.
The two sat down to talk anyway and really hit it off.
"We ended up talking forever about the movie," says the 34-year-old Hudson. "I was so fascinated by the story and how she wanted to tell it."
"We really had an excellent connection," Nair agrees. "I really loved her honesty and that she was unfettered by any kind of pretension."
They parted assuming they would not be able to work together, but then "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" temporarily lost its financing. By the time it regained its ground, Hudson had had her son, Bingham, with Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy in July 2011. (It's the actress's second child - she also has a 9-year-old son with Black Crowes singer Chris Robinson.)
Only two months after Hudson gave birth, Nair said she still wanted her for the role of Erica in the "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," which is opening today. The actress agreed, even though she was still breast-feeding.
"It's quite a time when you're still recovering from having a child," Hudson says. "It's even hard to remember lines when your baby is an infant, but everything went really smoothly."
Based on the novel by Mohsin Hamid, the film is set in New York City, Lahore, Pakistan, and Istanbul, Turkey, and co-stars Kiefer Sutherland and Liev Schreiber. Its protagonist is Changez - played by Riz Ahmed ("Four Lions") - a young Princeton-educated Pakistani who is doing well climbing the ladder on Wall Street when the World Trade Center is attacked by terrorists on 9/11. The event inevitably changes his life.
Hudson plays Changez's lover, an artist who is haunted by the death of her previous boyfriend.
"I was drawn to the role because it was something very different for me than I've been delving into in the last couple of years," says Hudson, who has dark hair in the film. (She was back to her accustomed blond at the film's premiere earlier in the week.)
"Of course, we all know of the effervescence of Kate Hudson," Nair says, "but I had no idea of her worldliness and her intelligence and curiosity about doing things that are way beyond what she's normally known to do."
Since last week's bombings in Boston, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" has taken on an even more timely quality. Though Changez proclaims he loves America, he finds himself thrilled by the audacity of the Twin Tower attacks. The young Pakistani then becomes more and more alienated living in the United States as people see him as an object of suspicion because of his looks. Although he is not a practicing Muslim, he finds himself being drawn to radical factions of that religion.
Hudson says she was attracted to the film because it explores a number of complex themes. "For me, one of the most interesting things is the idea of fundamentalism," says the actress, "a sort of stripping things down to black and white and the idea that you lose that sense of human connection."
She says she discussed with Nair the story as one of searching for identity and where one belongs against the backdrop of a political thriller.
"I think one of the things that was important for Mira in terms of the film that she wanted to make, was that the love between the couple was unable to bridge the gap because they were two people at different places in their lives," Hudson says.
"The Reluctant Fundamentalist" is told through a series of stories that Changez relates to a U.S. journalist, Bobby Lincoln (Liev Schreiber), at a Lahore cafe after the kidnapping of an American professor. No one is exactly who they seem to be. Bobby is there to get information - and not just for a news story. As the CIA closes in during their search for the professor, Changez - a man still caught between two cultures - may or may not be willing to help.
"What we tried to do in striving for nuance and preserving complexity was not to reduce it to just simply good and bad, us and them, good guys-bad guys," says the India-born Nair, who makes New York City her home.
As for Hudson, "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" signals something of a return to the limelight, although she had a recurring cameo on "Glee" last season as a dance teacher. She will next be seen in Larry David's HBO movie "Clear History," set to air in the summer.
"Working with Larry was just great - I haven't laughed that hard in a long time," she says.
But because they haven't been announced yet, Hudson couldn't talk about a number of other projects that she is rumored to be attached to. ("That's always annoying, I know.") Still, she is excited to get back to work. "My baby is almost 2 now; so it felt like it was time."


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Washington, D.C. - Today the Postal Service announced proposed price increases averaging about 5 percent, covering a variety of services, such as first class, advertising mail, and periodicals.
The independent Postal Rate Commission has 90 days to respond and if they approve the increase, new rates will take effect January 2, 2011. Under the law, the post office is generally limited to increases no more than the rate of inflation -- 0.9 percent for the year ended in May. However, the agency is allowed to seek a larger increase in unusual circumstances.
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City of Bones
This Buffy-esque YA novel does not translate well to the audio medium, and part of the problem lies in the story's pacing. Teenager Clary discovers she can see supernatural beings that no one else can, gets drawn into the world of the "Shadowhunters" (teens who kill demons and monsters) and learns that her mother is somehow mysteriously connected to all the strange happenings around her. As a result, a good chunk of the novel consists of long explanatory passages, as various characters fill Clary in on supernatural creatures, the history and rules of the Shadowhunters and her mother's entanglements—all of which come across as tedious lectures. In addition, narrator Graynor makes almost no attempt to differentiate the various teen characters' voices. Only the minor character Dorothea, played as a faux witch with a gravelly New York accent, is memorable. Graynor also frequently ignores the author's explicit textual directives, such as "[Simon] came back, sounding worried" or "The tone of arrogant superiority was back in [Jace's] voice," for her performance, making this a program with an intriguing premise and cast but disappointing execution. Ages 14-up. (May)
Release date: 03/01/2007
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The sniper's nest is a location in the Mojave Wasteland.
The sniper's nest is made of three rusty metal sheets with two for the sides and one for the roof. There is enough room for one person to sleep while another is on duty. When facing Cottonwood Cove from inside the structure, there is a Very Hard locked gun case to the immediate left. There is also a small camouflaged tent immediately in front of the nest with a perfect view of the entire Cottonwood Cove area. Weather this is an NCR sniper's nest is unknown but it is likely it was due to the fact that it overlooks Cottonwood Cove so it would be a likely loaction for an NCR scout.
Notable loot
- The Gobi Campaign scout rifle is locked in a Very Hard locked gun case.
- Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap on a bench in the shack.
- This location is mentioned in the note Sniper nest location which can be found in Camp McCarran. The note states that whoever alerted the Legion should get out immediately, due to its location near Cottonwood Cove. The note also states that there will not be weaponry at the nest, yet the Gobi Campaign scout rifle is found here.
- Even though the location is high enough to recon on Cottonwood Cove, it is hard for a sniper to kill everyone outside, since the map cell the player character is in may not register all Legion troops.
The sniper's nest appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.


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What You Should Assume About Men
This is the third video based on the questions YOU wanted answered in my 1500 question survey. Last week, I told you that you don't ATTRACT the wrong men, you ACCEPT the wrong men. I got a lot of really great feedback on that and hope that you've already made the mental adjustment to stop thinking you're a bad man magnet and instead realize that you've been way too accepting of unacceptable behavior.
Today's tip might be a little more challenging because instead of telling you to dump the bad guys, I'm going to ask you to open up to a whole new way of viewing the pursuit of love. It may be counter-intuitive, but I am confident that it will make a big difference for you. You ready?
You Have to Assume the Best In Men, Rather Than the Worst in Men
You've been hurt by men before. You've been hurt bad. You've vowed to learn from the experience and protect yourself from that ever happening again.
And to protect yourself from being hurt by a man, you:
Choose not to date at all.
Try to make him earn your trust.
Pull away from a guy at the first hint of trouble.
Tell him your relationship goals on the first few dates.
Want to clarify where things are headed in the first few months.
Those are all perfectly rational. The problem is: the only thing you're protecting yourself from is the possibility of falling in love.
Let me explain.
Look at your life. You probably work a minimum of 40 hours a week. You probably have friends and hobbies and family. You're probably really, really, wary of men.
And because of your previous experience, you do everything in your power to prevent the "wrong men" from getting in. You're vigilant about looking for the signs. And you find them everywhere you go. As a result, you remain single.
Think of it like a visual metaphor. You live in a house. Mr. Right is walking down the street, trying to find his Ms. Right. There's two houses right next to each other that look identical. They're gorgeous, modern, spacious, well-decorated, inviting. Except for one minor thing. The house on the left has a 10 foot brick wall around it. The house on the right has an open door with the smell of chocolate chip cookies wafting.
Which house do you think Mr. Right is going to peek into?
It's kind of a no-brainer.
the only thing you're protecting yourself from is the possibility of falling in love.
Now you can make the argument that the RIGHT man would try to figure out how to scale the 10 foot wall. You can make the argument that the REASON there's a wall is that there's some crime in the neighborhood and she'd been robbed twice before. You can justify that protective wall in every way possible. But it doesn't change the bottom line.
A good man doesn't need to break down or scale your wall. He's just going to look for a warm, inviting, open door.
To take it even further:
- A good man will not be able to find you if you're working 11 hours a day.
- A good man doesn't need to earn your trust if he's never done anything wrong.
- A good man may have a number of characteristics that you might not like.
- A good man takes relationships seriously and can't promise that he will know after a a few months that you are destined for the altar.
So while I deeply empathize with you if you're trying to avoid "wasting" time by trying to figure out the future before HE knows the future. Just know that you're sabotaging any real chance you have to form a real trusting connection.
You have to go in with a clean slate, an open mind, and a clear head. At any point you have the right to determine that he's not the one for you, and he has the right to determine that you're not the one for him. It's called dating.
Instead of trying to figure everything out up front to protect yourself from getting hurt, give yourself to the process and let him reveal his character.
Opening the door and assuming the best will make the good men gravitate towards you. Treat him as if he's going to hurt you and he's not going to want to stick around.
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Not only does Rielle Hunter insist she is not a homewrecker for coming between John Edwards and his wife, she also has an excuse for not wearing pants in a GQ photo spread.
" What I was thinking was, "I would like to have one sexy shot where the world can see me as a beautiful woman, as opposed to all those photos that are out there of me looking like some Wicked Witch of the West—the ugliest thing you could ever imagine," she told Oprah in an interview aired Friday.
Much of the free world was left scratching their heads after the racy pictorial came out, accompanying a broken silence interview in which she talked about the baby she had with Edwards while he was running for president and his wife was stricken with cancer.
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Edwards was scratching his head, too.
"[He said], 'Where are your pants?'" Hunter recalled. "He knew I was upset about them, but I think that he felt protective. He wished he would have been there to say, 'No, don't do that.'"
So, Hunter is still in touch with her baby daddy, but that's about all she would admit to. That, and still being in love with him.
"It's private," Hunter said. "Because what we've been through, I need a boundary. We need boundaries on our personal lives."
Hunter met Edwards in a New York bar while he was running for president, breaking the ice by telling him "You are so hot." Soon the two were off together, though when Oprah asked if they slept together right away, Hunter demurred.
"I think think that that now I say, 'Okay, now fade to black.'" Hunter said. "Here's the thing: This whole journey has been so hard for me. I am a really private person with my personal life."
She also confirmed there was a sex tape of at least one of their assignations, one which a former Edwards aide got his hands on and nearly made public.
"Well, that was not a great idea. Let's do something to prevent anyone from seeing it." We don't want anyone to see our private business. So I took action to destroy the tape and kept it in my personal belongings so no one would get ahold of the tape."
That once-loyal aide, Andrew Young, was even willing to claim the love child was his in order to keep Edwards' White House dream alive. And even though Edwards pressured her to go along with the slimy scheme, Hunter doesn't blame the former North Carolina senator for disavowing her and their baby.
"When you finally said yes, you said yes because of what?" an incredulous Oprah asked.
"Well, because of my daughter," Hunter offered.
"At this time, you knew it was a daughter?" Oprah prodded.
"Yes, which he thought that was great. But I thought that she had so many things against her," Hunter said. "That would be a bad thing for both of them, a really bad thing."
Edwards is now separated from his wife, but Hunter would not say if the two of them have future plans.
"I'm not sure I want to get married ever," Hunter said. "I've been married, and I mean, I can't say never. I don't know if that's something I want. I don't need marriage to define who I am. It's not a pull for me."


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text: cheetohcat 0 Posted March 15, 2012 (edited) Thought I'd post a review of the Sony Nex-5n Recsea housing now that I've had it for a month or so, and gotten to dive with it several times. I've been getting a few PMs here and on another board about the set up, so I tried to cover off on any of the questions: First Impressions: I upgraded from my beloved Canon s90 to the Sony Nex 5n in the Recsea housing, dome port, 18-55mm port, 16mm port, and 67mm snap on wet lens adapter for the 18-55mm port. I was able to first see the housing in person and bought it up from Bluewater Photo near where I live in LA. For the camera system itself, I have the Nex 5n body with 18-55mm kit lens, 16mm WA pancake lens, and the fisheye WA adapter for the 16mm. The biggest overall benefit I've found thus far is that I am seeing significantly better picture quality, while my actual set up is virtually identical in size. It was important to me to keep the size compact since I do try do several dive trips a year and always bring my full camera set up. For reference, my original set up is the Canon s90 in FIX housing, BTS tray, ULCS arms/clamps, 2x Inon z240 strobes, sola 600 light. LEFT: Canon s90 FIX Housing with UWL-04 lens RIGHT: Sony Nex 5n Recsea Housing with dome port Build Quality: The housing just feels rock solid in terms of construction. I have never been a fan of the polycarbonate type housings (I had a few in the past for other cameras and I always ended up replacing them); I do believe you get what you pay for and I prefer the feel and security of the aluminum housing. Nice big fat o-rings securely seal the back cover and the interchangeable ports. Controls/Usability: All controls were clearly marked and the housing has full access to the Nex 5n control wheel and buttons, flash on/off & zoom. Using the camera IN the housing is virtually exactly the same user interface as when the camera is OUT of the housing. Controls were still easy to manipulate as I wanted to change shutter speed, aperture, iso, and focus points on the fly, even with 3 to 5mm gloves on. There was a lot more spacing between buttons etc which was nice to see vs. my s90 which has a rather cramped layout. Expansion Flexibility: I fully admit that the need to switch ports struck some fear and anxiety into my heart as someone use to sealing up my compact camera at home during prep, and then not touching it again until I either 1) needed to changed the battery or 2) I was safely back home again post diving. And lens changes? I used to gleefully swap back and forth with using the Dyron quick adapters on my s90 so I could go from UWA to stacked macro wet lenses in seconds. I am greatly relieved to say the Recsea alleviated my fears by being very user friendly, but very secure. Port changes were simple with a release button on the front of the housing and then you twist the port off. The ports feel very secure when attached, and I have not experienced any leaks nor seen any vignetting with any of the 3 ports. For lens changes I did of course have to give up the full flexibility of both WA and macro wet lenses, but that has more to do with changing from compact to a mirrorless compact system. The housing does allow to also easily change lenses at the same time you are changing the port (without removing the entire camera from the housing via the back door). There's a button on the bottom left of of the port opening that allows you to push the camera lens release button so you can simply remove and swap lenses when you are changing ports. Compatibility with existing parts: Because the housing is so compact, I easily mounted it to my existing same tray and arm set. There is a strobe mask that mounts on the exterior of the housing and blocks the internal flash. It has two pre-drilled holes that securely hold your strobe fiber optic cables. The top of the housing also has a 1/4" hole where you could add another mounting adapter of your choice or accessory. I also picked up the snap on adapter that fits onto the 18-55mm port and allows you to mount m67 type lenses & accessories. I am using it to hold my athena ring flash, or single or double stacked macro wet lenses that I carried over from my s90 set up. It's very convenient to be able to bring the wet lenses along and just pop them on/off depending on your subject. Sample Photos Note: I almost always shoot with manual camera settings and strobes, so any issues with exposure are mine. Wide Angle - just absolutely wonderful. The Nex-5n + 16mm pancake and Fisheye adapter inside the dome port offers such an incredibly wide angle of view. I believe it's pretty much a 180, and I can definitely see the difference vs. the UWA on the Canon s90 with reached approximately 150 degrees. I'm having to adjust my 'go to' positions for my strobes with the extra view. 16mm + fisheye in dome port - ambient light 16mm + fisheye in dome port - strobes 16mm + fisheye in dome port - strobes Macro - I haven't done as much macro shooting vs WA thus far with it, but my initial thoughts are the combo of the 18mm-55mm + 2x macro wet lenses are fine for the majority the shooting I do (I don't do super macro ...don't know how the heck those guys and gals spot those tiny things!) I am however hoping Sony or a 3rd party comes out with longer focal length macro lens later this year. 18-55mm lens with 2 stacked Inon UCL-165 macro lenses 18-55mm lens with 2 stacked Inon UCL-165 macro lenses Mid - the 18-55 mm lens is pretty useful as well. You do need to use a zoom gear on this lens, but I simply leave it on the lens at all times so I don't lose it, even if I am shooting topside with it. 18-55MM - strobes Video - I tend to prefer stills, but I know many of you have questions on this so I shot some video on a recent wreck dive. Will update this review later once I actually get around to editing it... Overall, I am really enjoying shooting with the Sony Nex 5n and Recsea housing system. For me it just feels like a great combination of capability, flexibility to grow, quality and price point. Edited March 15, 2012 by cheetohcat Share this post Link to post Share on other sites