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#watching Spirited Away on film4
#watching Spirited Away on film4
Is it a hallmark of Ghibli films that I don't remember the actual storyline, just small, nonsensical plot details — I.E. exactly the opposite of how remembering is supposed to work?
Laurent Eschenauer I love #lynx — I use it every time I'm thinking about performance, to remind me just how much slowness is down to all that decoration and fancyness :) And also to see just how crappily marked up modern "web apps" often are ahem facebook ahem
.Josh Emerson's stateless icon/progress loader on kylebean.co.uk is one of the most beautiful bits of design I've seen in a long time. Heads up: the back button does not work in Safari 5.1
The more interwoven the relationship between the appearance and the manufacturing process is, the more honest the material.
Too right. I love the way @kevingoldman advocates the use of movement, state and microcopy for emotive design on the web.
Offered without comment: Old People Wearing Vegetation #bookmark #photography #surrealism
sophiedennis I love that, it sums up all the other codes in a single line :) but just in case you ever do need to write a full one with minimum hassle, the indiewebcamp one is CC0 and therefore highly copyable :)
8113 #steps today
cssquirrel even the if/else is redundant ;)
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brad_frost woah, that URL almost beats http://twas.brillig.and.the.slithy.toves.did.gyre.and.gimble.in.the.wabe.all.mimsy.were.the.borogoves.and.the.mome.raths.outgrabe.jabberwocky.com/ in the Most Hideous "fluent" URL competition ;)
What's the collective noun for shoeboxes? Because I have one of those.
13260 #steps yesterday
#watching/#listening to Aral Balkan's "The High Cost of Free" (slides and audio) #indieweb #ownyourcontent #bookmark
My tagging posts with emotions thing isn't going very well — perhaps I should auto tag based on the smilies in notes /cc Brennan Novak #tagging #qs
10346 #steps today — wondering how my #digpen day count compares to Nick Charlton's :)
Saddened by the irony that Jeremy Keith's The Long Web links to headconference.com, which no longer exists :(


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Sony: No need to show PS4 console yet
Insatiable, that's what the games industry is.
Despite the fact that Sony revealed a bucketload of information about the PlayStation 4, footage of several impressive games, the promise of more from over 70 companies, a sleek new controller, and enough specs to please any tech-head, there was one thing missing: the console itself.
But Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has assured PlayStation fans that this is nothing to worry about, joking that the platform holder needs to save something to show off at E3.
"The console is just a box," he told Polygon. "The controller was very important to show because it has the share button, but the console is just a share button."
Yoshida added that Sony's goal for last night's reveal was to explain the philosophy of PS4, summed up by its five pillars: Simple, Immediate, Social, Integrated and Personalised.
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A gun raffle sponsored by the Blacksburg High School athletic booster club has been called off.
A gun raffle sponsored by the Blacksburg High School athletic booster club has been called off.
After a meeting between school and club officials Tuesday evening, Blacksburg High Principal Craig Bramlett said the club will not move forward with the raffle. He said the booster club will now decide how to handle money already raised.
"The intentions were the best in the world. They were doing it for the kids," Bramlett said. "...It just sends the wrong message for what we're trying to do."
For about a week, the Blacksburg Athletic Booster Club has been selling tickets for the raffle, promising the winner a certificate redeemable for a Sig Sauer P938.
Bramlett said school and club officials met about the controversial raffle Tuesday afternoon and decided not to move forward.
"The school district does not condone any types of raffle involving guns or anything of that nature," Bramlett said. "If I had known about it, we would have said no."
No decision has been reached on what to do with the money already raised, Bramlett said.
Club President Kevin Tessner said the fundraiser was organized to support student-athletes, not cause controversy. He said Tuesday that tickets are no longer being sold.
"I thought if we raffled off an assault rifle it might (cause controversy), but I never thought a concealed weapons-type gun would cause any controversy," Tessner said.
Tessner pointed out that the raffle was organized so the winner would have to pass a proper background check through a local gun shop to redeem the certificate. Also, he said tickets were not sold to anyone younger than 21.
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Name: Christopher
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This is my home in the Mission neighborhood in San Francisco. I have spent the last 10 years restoring the grandeur of my Queen Anne flat. When I got it it had suffered 100 years of neglect.
I've stripped and restored the trim where possible and replaced it where it was missing. The mission has traditionally been a working class neighborhood. Like others in the neighborhood, my house was always modest. It wasn't that the missing trim had been stripped in some overzealous update, say in the 50s, like its contemporaries. It just never had all the fixings to begin with. In that sense it hasn't been a restoration so much as a completion of what could have been.
I juxtaposed my love of Danish modern with my love of traditional architecture and craftsmanship. I like the tug-of- war.
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I, Antichrist?
I'm Jewish. I'm male. I'm alive. By Jerry Falwell's standards, that puts me on the short-list of candidates.
Early one shiny autumn morning, I got in my car and drove to Lynchburg, Va., in order to find out whether or not I am the Antichrist. You know: the Beast, the Worthless Shepherd, the Little Horn, the Abomination, the linchpin of the Diabolical Trinity. That Antichrist.
I had my suspicions. Nowhere on my body could I find the mark of the Beast--666--but I do have a freckle that's shaped like Bermuda. And though I have never been seized by a desire to lead the armies of Satan in a final, bloody confrontation with the forces of God on the plain of Armageddon, I do suffer from aggravated dyspepsia, as well as chronic malaise, conditions that I'm sure afflict the Antichrist.
The surest suspicion I had about my pivotal role in Christian eschatology grew from the fact that I am Jewish, male, and alive. These are the qualifications for the job of Antichrist as specified by Lynchburg's most famous preacher, Jerry Falwell, in a speech he made earlier this year.
I was actually going to see the Rev. Falwell on a different matter, the future of Jerusalem, but I thought I might just slip this question--the one about me maybe being the Antichrist--into the stream of the interview. Falwell, I guessed, wouldn't be happy to discuss his views on the identity of the Antichrist--he had apologized for the remark but took quite a load of grief for it anyway.
As it turned out, though, Falwell was eager to talk about the Antichrist. And, as it also turned out, he didn't really feel bad for saying what he said. In fact, he was more convinced than ever that the Antichrist is a Jew who walks among us.
Let me pause for a moment to give three concise reasons why I'm so curious about the identity of the Antichrist:
1) I think I speak for all the approximately 4.5 million adult male Jews in the world when I say that we get a little antsy when Christians start looking at us like we're the devil. This is on account of Christian behavior over the past 2,000 years, by which I mean blood libels and pogroms and inquisitions, those sorts of things.
2) I've always been possessed by the delusional notion that I am to play a major role in world history, so why not a role in the End of Days? And I don't mean the Schwarzenegger movie.
3) Now that we stand on the lip of the millennium, much of the evangelical Christian world is in the grip of Armageddon fever, and, according to the evangelical interpretation of the books of Daniel and Revelation, the Antichrist will make his appearance before Christ makes his, and his is looking kinda imminent. The Antichrist, in this reading, will be a world leader who strikes a peace deal with Israel, only to betray the Jewish state and make war on it, until Jesus comes to the rescue. The thankful Jews, those who are still alive, will then become Christians and live happily ever after. These beliefs, held by tens of millions of Christians are, journalistically speaking, worthy of note.
The day before my visit with the Rev. Falwell, I had just finished reading a novelistic treatment of these events, Assassins, which is subtitled Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist. Assassins is the sixth book in the "Left Behind" series, "left behind" referring to those unfortunate nonevangelical Christians who are not taken up to heaven in the Rapture--the opening act in God's end days plan--and are forced to contend with the Antichrist's evil reign on Earth. The "Left Behind" series, co-written by Tim LaHaye, the prominent right-wing screwball and husband of Beverly LaHaye, the even more prominent right-wing screwball, and Jerry B. Jenkins, who, his biography states, is the author of 130 books, which is a lot of books for one guy to write, is a phenomenon. Ten million copies of the series have sold already--hundreds in my local PriceClub alone. "Left Behind" is the Harry Potter of the Armageddon set.
The notable thing for me about the "Left Behind" series--beside the fact that few in the secular media have noticed that millions of Americans are busy reading books warning about the imminence of one-world government, mass death, and the return of the Messiah, is that all the Jewish characters are Christian. LaHaye and Jenkins are both active participants in the absurd and feverish campaign by some evangelical Christians to redefine Judaism in a way that allows for belief in Jesus.
J ews (and again, I feel comfortable speaking for all of us here) find this sort of Christian imperialism just a wee bit offensive. Just imagine if Jews began an official campaign calling Muhammad irrelevant to Islam--can you imagine the fatwas that would produce?
But evangelical leaders, who are, in my experience, uniformly kind and generous in their personal relations, can also be terribly obnoxious in their relations with Jews.
There is only one road to salvation for Jews, and that road runs through Jesus, LaHaye told me. To his credit, though, LaHaye doesn't believe that the Antichrist will be Jewish. He will be a European gentile, who will kill lots of Jews. "The Jews will be forced to accept the idolatry of the Antichrist or be beheaded," he said. This will take place during the seven-year Tribulation.
Jewish suffering, though, is divinely ordained. Even though the Antichrist will not be Jewish, Jews are still capable of great evil and have often been punished for their evil, LaHaye explained. "Some of the greatest evil in the history of the world was concocted in the Jewish mind," LaHaye told me, for reasons that aren't entirely clear--he knew what the name "Goldberg" generally signifies. "Sigmund Freud, Marx, these were Jewish minds that were infected with atheism."
I asked LaHaye to tell me more about the Jewish mind.
"The Jewish brain also has the capacity for great good," he explained. "God gave the Jews great intelligence. He didn't give them great size or physical power--you don't see too many Jews in the NFL--but he gave them great minds."
Of all the evangelical leaders I have interviewed, LaHaye is capable of some of the most anti-Semitic utterances, which is troublesome, because he is also the most popular author in the evangelical world.
The Rev. Falwell is smoother than LaHaye. He acknowledges "where the sensitivity comes from," though he shows no understanding of the role the myth of the Antichrist played in the history of anti-Semitism, and he refuses to back away from his opinion that somewhere in Great Neck or West L.A. or Shaker Heights is living Satan's agent.
"In my opinion," he told me, "the Antichrist will be a counterfeit of the true Christ, which means that he will be male and Jewish, since Jesus was male and Jewish."
I asked him if he understood that such statements strip Jews of their humanity, which is the first step anti-Semites take before they kill them. He responded, "All the Jewish people we do business with on a daily basis, not one has ever got upset over this." It is not Jews who picked this most recent fight, he said, it is supporters of President Clinton.
"Billy Graham made the same statement a dozen times last year, but there was no comment about that," Falwell said. "But Billy Graham was not calling for the resignation of the president." Falwell, you'll recall, is no fan of Clinton's; he has even peddled a video accusing the president of murder.
Falwell is right: Evangelical preachers are constantly accusing the Jews of harboring the Antichrist.
I asked Falwell if he knew the actual identity of the Antichrist. No, he said. "People might say, it's a certain person, it's Henry Kissinger, like that, but the Lord does not let us know that."
So there's a chance, then, that I'm the Antichrist?
Falwell chuckled a condescending chuckle. "It's almost amusing, that question. Of course not. I know that you're not."
"The Antichrist will be a world leader, he'll have supernatural powers," he said.
He got me there--I have no supernatural powers. I can't even drive a stick shift.
I pressed him further on the identity of the Antichrist, but Falwell wouldn't play. "We'll know the Antichrist when he arrives," he said.
Most evangelical leaders, in fact, refuse to publicly guess the name of the Antichrist--though, as Falwell suggests, Kissinger is a perennial favorite, at least among those evangelicals who believe the Antichrist will be Jewish. For most of their history, Christian leaders had been content to ascribe the characteristics of the Antichrist to the Jewish people as a whole. "Ever since the 2nd century CE, the very beginning of the Antichrist legend, Christians have associated Jews with everything unholy," Andrew Gow, who teaches Christian history at the University of Alberta, told me. In the minds of early Christian leaders, the church was the new Israel; God's covenant with the Jews was obsolete. Therefore, the Jews who remained on Earth were there to serve devilish purposes, Gow explained.
There are plenty of evangelical thinkers who differ with Falwell, who believe, like LaHaye, that the Antichrist will be a gentile who rises out of Europe. "The Antichrist is supposed to make a peace treaty with Israel," Ed Hindson, the author of Is the Antichrist Alive and Well?, explained. "Why would a Jew make a peace treaty with a Jewish state?"
Hindson suggested that Satan will make the Antichrist the leader of the European Union--the revived Roman Empire, eternal enemy of Israel--though Hindson disputed one popular idea advocated by Monte Judah, an Oklahoma-based prophecy-teacher, that Prince Charles is the Antichrist.
"There's no way Prince Charles is the Antichrist," Hindson said. "Satan can do better than that."
In his book, Hindson runs through a list of potential candidates. Bill Clinton is there, of course, as well as Saddam Hussein and Ronald Wilson Reagan (six letters in each of his three names. Get it?).
Of course, none of these men are gay.
"It says in the Bible that the Antichrist will have 'no regard for women,' and so many evangelicals interpret that to mean that he will be a homosexual," Hindson said, though he added that he's not entirely convinced.
This idea--the Antichrist as gay--strikes a chord with many evangelicals, just as the idea that the Antichrist is Jewish strikes a chord.
I gradually came to see how far-fetched it was to think that I might be the Antichrist. I'm not gay, I'm not famous, I wouldn't know a euro if I found one in my wallet.
Then it struck me: Barry Diller is the Antichrist.
There's no way to know for sure. But if you wake up one morning to read that Barry Diller is the head of the European Union (and that David Geffen is his deputy), well, remember where you read it first.


text: During the hoopla of Walt Disney World unveiling their new version of Fantasyland (officially now called 'New Fantasyland'), I made a photo discovery --a visual find, if you will-- while photographing a time-lapse series in front of the dramatic mountain horizon that dominates that reinvented corner of the Magic Kingdom. I learned that the fireworks that appear over Cinderella Castle, as seen from Main Street USA, simultaneously line-up directly over Beast's Castle in New Fantasyland --at least during this week's media preview-- as seen from the bridge at the Be Our Guest restaurant. Shooting more than 1,400 individual photographs, shot over a period of 2 hours starting at sunset, I've produced a 45-second, time-lapse video, set to music, that shows the dramatic transition from day to night in New Fantasyland, with the spectacular fireworks finale of the Holiday Wishes show.


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River town with a view
Here's a photo I came across today. The rooftops in the photo are in the little village of Stadtprozelten. It's in Germany on the Main (pronounced "mine") River about 40 miles southeast of Frankfurt as the crow flies.
I like all the different levels that can be seen in this photo. In fact, I like the photo so much that I once had it made into a large poster and I hung it in my kitchen for a while so I could enjoy it like a window that looked out onto the Main River of Bavaria.
I got out the German road atlas and checked the name of the town across the river. It is West Mondfeld. There is probably a ferry across the river somewhere near, but it's ten miles or more to the nearest bridge.
Stadtprozelten is built on a narrow strip of land between the Main River and a steep bluff. The highway that leads through the village can be glimpsed below the flower box on the balcony.
We climbed an ancient stairway between two buildings (left) to reach a little lane on the side of the bluff from which I took the photo of the rooftops and river (above). There are some sheds and little barns on one side of the lane, maybe a few houses -- and on the other side are rooftops, sometimes close enough to touch. The lane is much too narrow for automobiles, but you could ride a bicycle on it if you didn't mind occasional stairs.
From the lane, there's a pathway that leads up the bluff to ruins of a big castle named Henneburg at the very top. Henneburg had an underground part that looked like a dungeon, as well as turrets. The ruins were impressive. The residents of the castle once controlled this part of the river, and if a boat wanted to pass, it had to pay a toll.
Many of the photos of Stadtprozelten on Flickr feature the Henneburg ruins. I had little two-year-old Keely with me when I visited there and I didn't climb any of the turrets with her, so I enjoyed the photos of the view from there.
My visit to Stadtprozelten is ancient history. I was there in 1987.


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Life Fitness, Schiller Park, IL, debuted several product variations and applications at the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association trade show last month.
On the equipment side, Life Fitness featured three new customizable, modular configurations of its multipurpose training system Synrgy360. The expansion to the Synrgy360 line offers more scalable solutions for facilities, especially smaller clubs that needed a smaller footprint on the product.
"The Life Fitness Synrgy360 and synergy training model that we introduced drew interest from facilities of all types around the world," Dan Wille, vice president of global marketing and product development for Life Fitness, said in a press release. "To accommodate the demand for equipment that would suit both large and small facilities, we've continued to develop new configurations that will support ranging training needs."
The smaller configurations include the Synrgy360XM, which includes six available training spaces that can accommodate multiple users per space. The Synrgy360XS features four training spaces. The Synrgy360T configuration is the smallest and allows for placement against a wall.
Hammer Strength, a Life Fitness-owned performance brand of strength equipment, introduced HD Elite, its most durable rack line built for extreme training conditions available with new custom-made options for coaches.
This modular line of racks—which includes half-racks, single racks, power-racks and multi-racks—includes 38 options and accessories. Those options include the Power Pivot attachment, which locks Olympic bars into place for rotation exercises, adjustable band pegs and nine pull-up bar options, including the patent-pending Rotating Chin-Up Handle that adjusts to multiple positions for more natural movement. Complementary storage selections are also available, and there is a "Sumo Base" option that provides a wider space giving taller athletes more room to perform.
Not all of Life Fitness' introductions involved new equipment. The company opened its product platform to developers last October, but at IHRSA, Life Fitness introduced LFopen, an open application programming interface (API). Life Fitness has made portions of its product code accessible to all developers around the world, without restrictions. This truly open integration benefits fitness facility owners looking to provide their customers with greater access to content and personalization, app developers and exercisers.
Using LFopen, app makers can tap into consumers' desires for fitness technology to build an endless spectrum of personalized fitness applications that work directly with Life Fitness workout equipment. Life Fitness' open API gives customers and developers access to the same API Life Fitness used to develop its own Life Fitness app and tracking website, LFconnect, with no restrictions or partnerships involved.
One app available on LFopen is the free LFconnect mobile app from Life Fitness. The app allows users to automatically track calories burned, allows for manual strength tracking, offers GPS and allows users to access custom workouts on Life Fitness treadmills, ellipticals, bikes and other cardio equipment.
The LFconnect app is an extension of the brand's LFconnect website, lfconnect.com, which allows users to choose their preferred workouts, fitness goals and machine settings from the comfort of their home so that personalized options can be instantly accessed at the gym. The app is available for both Apple iOS and Andoid mobile platforms, and it syncs with any Life Fitness cardio equipment featuring an Engage or Discover console, which can be found in approximately 4,500 gyms around the world. The app supports 11 languages. In addition, it is compatible with in-home Life Fitness cardio machines featuring a Track console and the entire Life Fitness Platinum Club Series line with Engage consoles.
Life Fitness also announced an alliance with SoFit, a social gaming application that uses social networks, real-world rewards, fitness and charity partners to motivate users to stay active year round. SoFit Version 2.0, scheduled for release in spring/summer 2013, will feature the live integration with thousands of Life Fitness machines.
SoFit's newly added Challenges feature allows users to join in-app activities that reflect real-world charity events and fitness training efforts. Version 1.5, now live on the App Store - live on Google Play for Andriod users shortly – features the first SoFit-sponsored charity Challenge.
To help celebrate this partnership, SoFit is donating $1 for every mile logged in the Augie's Quest to Cure ALS Challenge on SoFit up to $5,000. Life Fitness will match SoFit's donation in honor of the company's co-founder, Augie Nieto, and his quest to find a cure for ALS. Nieto was diagnosed with ALS in 2005.
The Life FItness team was able to raise $3,972 in just seven hours for Augie's Quest at IHRSA this year. At the show, Life Fitness Academy trainers rotated their time throughout the day on an Elevation Series Discover treadmill, logging miles and raising funds with the SoFit app, according to the company.


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NWSB Insider Steve Lee has been following Washington State Men's Basketball recruiting for the 2012-2013 recruiting class. Coach Ken Bone found some future stars in Demarquise Johnson, Brett Boese, Richard Longrus and big man Richard Peters. With the addition of these four recruits, the Cougars will be able to fill in the gaps from the 2012 departures.
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Color in the Kitchen...On the Cheap Guest Post from Susan Serra of The Kitchen Designer
You look at the kitchen and you immediately get groggy, with a big fly-catching yawn, and before you get totally cranky, you know something has to change. If change doesn't come, no court will convict you for your actions which follow as a direct result of a colorless existence. Here, just in time, pre-indictment, is color on the cheap! Yes you can!
Following are a number of ideas to add color to the kitchen. It's always a good idea to stand back, look at the space and devise a plan. Is one color theme a possible creative solution? A diversity of color? Pastels, brights, a combination of differing tones? What's the plan?
If several of these ideas are incorporated, look at balance throughout the space in terms of color size, volume, intensity, and hue. Think before you jump in.
Beware of color "clutter" — pieces of color can look great...or not. The "not" can occur when the pieces of color are too small to be a valuable asset, especially when used in a good-sized kitchen with a fair amount of medium/dark wood cabinetry, for example. The size of the kitchen needs to work proportionately with the color added — too little color, scattered, can look cluttered or messy, devoid of any singular design statement.
Let's go right to the list of how to add color on the fast and cheap (under $100, some well under):
• 1 We all know how hardware gives a kitchen a fresh look. Brightly colored hardware will make you smile when you walk into the kitchen each day. It's a non toxic mood lifter.
• 2 You know those single color paintings at MOMA? You look at them and say "I could do that!" Go to the art supply store, get 1 or more canvasses, get paints in a few colors, a few brushes (or get a brush at Home Depot) express your innate creativity on a canvas with a brush, and hang your artwork in your kitchen. Three paintings in a row looks cool, but one will do too. I've dabbled briefly in painting after I impulsively purchased some supplies one day, and keep those early paintings in my home. I will paint again, and I also create abstract art with digital photography. Try it — one need not be an accomplished artist to hang artwork on the wall! If you haven't tried it, all you need for this project is positive thinking, a bit of inspiration, and the desire to enjoy the process. Source: Rothko Framed Prints at MoMA.
• 3 Get a white piece of pottery and colorful utensils. Simple/easy/happy. Source: Rachael Ray Orange Set at Target.
• 4 Get a colorful Swedish rag rug that's a living antique to add color and character. I have at least 3 of these rugs in my home. Buy one here (scroll down): Scandinavian Antique Furnishings.
• 5 Change out your chair cushions - it's time. You've already turned them over once. (I know from experience; I just replaced mine but I won't tell you how long they were in place!) Source: Pier 1.
• 6 Coordinate your outlet and switchplates with fun, modern colorful ones. Source: Funky Chicken Outlets and Switchplates.
• 7 Not into creating your own Picasso? Get a cool original oil painting from Etsy for a song. Source: A Fanciful Twist
• 8 Hang a towel rack on the end of the cabinet and add some fancy, colorful, retro tea towels. Source: Fancy Boutique.
• 9 I love square lattice. Use it as a utensil/pan holder on the wall or as a backing for a painting on canvas, a backsplash, and spray paint it any color. Source: Van Dyke's Restorers
• 10 Colorful dishes — often inexpensive, lots of bang for the buck. If you have glass doors, stand them up at the back of your shelves. If no glass doors, make an arrangement of dishes on the wall. Source: Pier 1.
• 11 Another idea for glass doors — whether you've just done a fabulous, expensive, kitchen renovation or you are renting your first small place, doesn't matter how expensive or not your cabinets are, gird your loins, get a can of paint and paint the inside of the cabinet. Too often we feel we cannot touch the interior — why, I don't know. The image shown is from my previous showroom: high end cabinetry painted raspberry on the inside in a casual, streaked way. For renters, line the inside of the cabinet behind the shelves with an (already painted) piece of veneer, tape it to the back gently, and install.
• 12 Depending on the number and placement of windows, a window treatment can be a colorful focal point. It's usually a prime location for a focus on color.
• Lucky #13 A can of paint for one or more walls almost goes without saying in this topic and can amazingly transform the feeling you get when you walk into your kitchen. This is a much broader topic, but it is briefly mentioned as one of the most dramatic and inexpensive design statements you can make. Think: hue, tone, volume, light/dark, shade, find a dose of courage and inspiration, and that's where you start. Looking at many images of painted kitchen walls in The Kitchn's archives is the NEXT place to start.
Sometimes you just have to jump in and try something new and fresh and different. Go outside of your comfort zone, but always do give it a little thought to coordinate new color ideas with your existing theme, then find the courage and go for it.
I followed my own advice in my own dining area. I trudged up a hill, found dead sapling branches and secured them to an empty interior wall. Very sculptural. The reaction from those who see this wall is one of delight, and I didn't even paint the branches! In fact, you could paint either the wall OR the branches (or both.)
Express your inner artist; find your inspiration (it's already there) and in most cases, if you don't like what you've done, change it — much has probably not been lost. But much can be gained by taking a chance on color and exploring your own personal creativity.
I'd love to hear your ideas on where you have used color in your kitchens/dining areas. Please share!
Thank you for sharing, Susan! We are looking forward to the rest of your posts on color in The Kitchn this week.
• Susan's previous color post: A Pinch of
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Consuming Amazon's Web API Directly with Javascript (via JSON and XSLT)(via)
Amazon.com's Web API is a cool piece of architecture, but one of its big limitations is the difficulty involved in getting Amazon's data straight to the browser.
Well, here's how to fix that problem (for Amazon.com's API at least), using Amazon's free XSLT transformation service, the JSON output format, and a bit of plain old javascript. The examples below show you how to use javascript (and a bit of XSL) to place live Amazon.com data - direct from Amazon's servers - on any web page.


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Tilda Swinton Sleeps in Glass Box at the MoMa (Photos)
Tilda Swinton sleeps in a glass box for an entire day for a piece of performance art at the Museum of Modern Art on Saturday (March 23) in New York City.
The 52-year-old actress slept inside the box from opening till closing that day and will be reviving the piece randomly throughout the rest of the year.
"Museum staff doesn't know she's coming until the day of, but she's here today. She'll be there the whole day. All that's in the box is cushions and a water jug," a source told the Gothamist.
"Tilda Swinton will be doing unannounced, random performance art pieces sleeping in a glass box in the museum," the source added. "Today is the first performance. Each performance lasts the whole day the museum is open."
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As Gerald Collins stood in front of a crowd of local business leaders, he found himself at a loss for words.
As Gerald Collins stood in front of a crowd of local business leaders, he found himself at a loss for words.
Collins, 78, says that doesn't happen often. But dumbstruck after being named The Courier's Most Useful Citizen, he ended up leaning on the theme that is most important to him.
"In 1956, I met the best-looking girl in the parish. In 1958, I married the best-looking girl in the parish," Collins said. "In 2013, I'm still married to the best-looking girl in the parish."
Collins' path to a place of honor at Tuesday's Houma-Terrebonne Chamber of Commerce banquet is rooted in his family.
A pages-long list of volunteer efforts starts at Houma's Vandebilt High School, where he helped with school fairs and other activities.
As time went on, Collins became renowned for the huge pots of jambalaya he prepares at festivals and other events.
Today, he cooks for everything from functions at Vandebilt to Southdown Plantation and for groups like the Knights of Columbus and Woodmen of the World.
When hurricanes leave local communities devastated, Collins can often be found feeding his jambalaya to those who were impacted.
But Collins' years of volunteer work have included more than just his tasty trademark. He's served on the boards of Vandebilt, Maria Immacolata, Fletcher Technical Community College and the Terrebonne Historical and Cultural Society.
Collins has pitched in to help with countless other efforts; he says the one he's most proud of is years of work with Habitat for Humanity. The national organization, which has a local chapter, uses volunteer labor to provide affordable housing for those in need.
Collins says he volunteers so much because his parents did it, and because he feels like that's what he was born to do.
"If you do the things the Lord puts you here to do, you're doing the right thing," Collins says. "And sooner or later somebody's going to notice."
Collins' wife, Carol, said she had two reactions when she was told her husband had won.
"I was just ecstatic. I knew this was something he deserved, and I just couldn't be prouder of him," she said. "My second thought was, it's about time."
Carol Collins said she's glad to see her husband recognized for his years of selfless work.
"It was so hard to come up with things to say about him," she said. "Everything he does he does quietly, because he doesn't want any recognition for it. He's a just a boy from a houseboat in Dulac who wanted to do good things."
The event's keynote speaker was Elliot Stonecipher, a Shreveport-based political analyst.
During the banquet, the chamber also recognized its outgoing officers and board members and installed its incoming officers, including 2013 Chairwoman Jennifer Armand.
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Washington, D.C. � U.S. Senator Kay Hagan�s bipartisan Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act moved one step closer to Senate passage today, winning unanimous approval from the Senate Heath, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Hagan, Chair of the Subcommittee on Children and Families, made timeliness a key component of the bill after recent news reports uncovered serious lapses in the newborn screening system at hospitals and laboratories. The bill, which Hagan introduced with Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), now moves to be considered by the full Senate.
Washington, D.C. � U.S. Senator Kay Hagan�s bipartisan Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act moved one step closer to Senate passage today, winning unanimous approval from the Senate Heath, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Hagan, Chair of the Subcommittee on Children and Families, made timeliness a key component of the bill after recent news reports uncovered serious lapses in the newborn screening system at hospitals and laboratories. The bill, which Hagan introduced with Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), now moves to be considered by the full Senate.
�Newborn screening saves lives every day by catching potentially serious or even fatal conditions right when babies are born, and quickly ensuring they receive the proper treatment,� said Hagan. �But the system is only effective if samples are taken and screened in a timely manner. This bill increases federal support to make sure that newborn screening happens promptly, and the strong bipartisan support it received today in the HELP Committee underscores the critical need to reauthorize these programs so we can improve the lives of more children in North Carolina and across the country.�
Newborn screening is the practice of testing every newborn for medical conditions that are not otherwise apparent at birth. Screening detects conditions in newborns that, if left untreated, can cause disabilities, developmental delays, illnesses, or even death. If diagnosed early, many of these disorders can be successfully managed. Some conditions detected through newborn screening require immediate medical attention, so the timely functioning of the newborn screening system is a critical concern.
Hagan included several new provisions in the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act intended to improve the timeliness of the newborn screening system, including sample collection, delivery, receipt, and testing to ensure a rapid diagnosis and appropriate treatment. These provisions include:
� Allowing Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grants received by states to be used to improve the timeliness of newborn screening systems.
� Requiring that demonstration grants include evaluation of newborn screening timeliness.
� Directing the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children to provide recommendations, advice, and information on timely collection, delivery, receipt and screening of specimens to ensure rapid diagnosis and follow up.
� Clarifying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention�s (CDC) role in newborn screening to include laboratory quality and surveillance activities, with a focus on timeliness.
Please click here for more information on the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act.
�With this vote of approval, the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act has taken a major step toward ensuring the continued smooth functioning of our nation�s life-saving newborn screening system,� stated March of Dimes President Dr. Jennifer L. Howse. �The March of Dimes commends the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions for acting on this vital legislation, and we are deeply grateful to bill sponsors Senators Kay Hagan (NC) and Orrin Hatch (UT) for championing the health of infants.�
Under every state newborn screening program, health care providers collect blood specimens at the time of birth and send the specimens to state public health laboratories for screening. Each state determines which conditions to screen for based partly on recommendations from the federal Secretary of Health and Human Services. If an infant screens positive for a condition, then the infant�s family and doctors are rapidly notified for follow-up testing and treatment.
According to the March of Dimes, newborn screening reaches virtually all of the more than four million babies born in the U.S. every year. About one in every 300 newborns has a condition that can be detected through screening, and each year, more than 12,000 babies are diagnosed with a condition detectable by newborn screening. In 2012, North Carolina screened about 120,000 babies, and about 400 babies in the State screened positively for a heritable condition.
Groups supportive of the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act
Alpha-1 Foundation
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Association for Clinical Chemistry
American College of Medical Genetics
American College of Nurse-Midwives
American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
Association of Public Health Laboratories
Children�s PKU Network
Genetic Alliance
Hunter�s Hope Foundation
Immune Deficiency Foundation
Jeffrey Modell Foundation
Lymphedema Advocacy Group
Madison County Community Health Centers, Inc
March of Dimes
Mended Little Hearts
Muscular Dystrophy Association
National Association of County and City Health Officials
National Association of Neonatal Nurses and National Association of Nurse Practitioners
National MPS Society
National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association, Inc.
Organic Academia Association
SCID Angels for Life Foundation
The Legacy of Angels Foundation
Trisomy 18 Foundation
Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance
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'I'm just as good as bloody Pierrepoint'
In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best hangman in England to do on the day they've abolished hanging? Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars, dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, a peculiar stranger lurks, with a very different motive for his visit.
'Don't worry. I may have my quirks but I'm not an animal. Or am I? One for the courts to discuss.'
Martin McDonagh returns to the Royal Court with his first UK play in more than ten years. Matthew Dunster directs.
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How The Illithid Stole Lolthmas, Part Three
I hope that you are having an unambiguously merry Christmas. Or a hopi Schneikel, or a gurd Nachtouph, or whatever they have where you are. I hope that whatever phenomenon best epitomizes your native winterfest is in plentiful supply.
The Illithid continues to Steal him some Lolthmas, as can be plainly seen. I'm still coming to terms with the fact that Gabriel (of all people) suggested we do a Seuss parody that takes place in the Underdark. Oh, I'll take it. Hell yes. I'm no dummy. But sometimes, not every day, but often, I do wonder where this greasy Doppelganger of his might have hidden the corpse.
Today marks the inaugural episode of Blamimations, the first of many shows we hope will make their home on PATV. Almost painfully aware of their hybrid genius, we are continually forcing Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub into proximity with one another and then stoking them, as coals are stoked, in order to release their heat. Please to enjoy, and don't forget that next week will see the debut of The 4th Panel, which is a cross between our regular show and the podcasts of old. Friday is pretty much the day, for now, and each time it arrives we may be relied upon to dilute your anguish.
If you've got access to Netflix over whatever passes for holiday leisure time, even if it's a couple hours with your laptop in bed, I can't recommend the movie "Let The Right One In" enough. It is beyond incredible to me that you can watch this movie essentially for nothing, as part of your normal service, which is to say you should be doing this immediately. It's from last year apparently, but I completely missed it, and I have a very real fear that you may have missed it also. This a story with a core of such intense vulnerability that I responded entirely without my defenses, which are considerable. I guess I should make it clear that this is actually a horror movie, entirely in Swedish. There is a lot of snow in the film, though, so that makes it a Christmas movie. Right?
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text: I just returned from Turkey in Alanya; "where God smiles", and played tennis there. Just under the rocky peninsula that splits into the sea, 4 courts, 2 clay, 2 hard, reasonable price. I like Turkey! -- This Moscow club has matured, now 6-year-old; we played 1913 matches altogether in 2011-12, vs. 1010 matches in 2010-11; this is 90%..hmm.. I like this stats! This year, Motivation Open had a 32-draw with a qual in singles, and a smaller draw in mixed, but this is the first time we managed


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For the longest time, the default search provider in Ubuntu Linux has been Google, but this is going to change in the next release, Lucid Lynx, scheduled to release April 29. The change comes after Canonical has signed a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo!, so you can imagine who the new default search provider will be.
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RE: So quality is not a priority anymore
by KAMiKAZOW on Thu 28th Jan 2010 14:35 UTC in reply to "So quality is not a priority anymore"
Ubuntu is a branch off Debian Unstable. It's a cutting edge distro. Has always been, even though to a lesser degree than Fedora.
That's not bad. Lots of people like that concept, but being cutting edge results in slightly lesser quality than some other distros as people who were in the past plagued with Intel GPU and PulseAudio problems can tell you.


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mport necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 168 diseños de 47 diseñadores freelance.
We are a law firm looking for a logo to represent our modern and straight forward approach as distinct from the traditional, complicated and conventional firms.
We target individuals and corporate clients including companies with an international touch. We aim to have a logo which represents our modern setup while permeating professionalism, practicality and seriousness.
Given that the words allowed under "Requirements" are limited, I am starting with listing our requirements here:
- A modern elegant font should do. No curls or spikes in the font. Just straight and simple. An exception might be accepted with the symbol "&". Might be a good idea to have the symbol "&" re-worked to incorporate the letter "P" or two P's. Since the two words in the logo are the same, I do not think that we can do without the symbol "&" but we are still open to ideas.
- The logo can incorporate a simple font showing the words "Portelli & Portelli" and a graphical element in the middle of the two words, or before, or after the said words, which would show the "P" letter or two of them to represent the merger of Portelli & Portelli. Although we imagine the words in capital letters, we are open to ideas. We do NOT imagine any images of columns typically used in court buildings NOR images of scales representing the concept of justice. We deem these to be antiquated and only linked to lawyers practicing only litigation. We are more than simply litigators. Cont/d under "Requirements"
- We do not aim to have a multitude of colours, perhaps at most 2 colours (no fancy colours anyway). We think it is a good idea to have one "Portelli" in one colour and the other "Portelli" in another colour but we are open to ideas. When using colours, given that we often send copies of our correspondence by scanned .pdf docs, it might be a good idea not to use extremely light colours in the logo, since a grayscale scan might not show on a pdf document or in a fax transmission. However, I have seen quite a number of nice logos with an inverted image (being a solid background with white letters in it)…this is acceptable since it would still show in fax transmissions or grayscale scanning.
- The word "Advocates" can be in a different font and can be positioned beneath the words "Portelli & Portelli" or at the side.
- Although coming from a competitor's site, I saw a number of nice and meaningful logos at http://www.paperstreet.com/blog/1613 - See for example, WALK, Aeroplane, Just Creative design, upside down, shelter, families, inequality
- We also liked the logo that can be seen at http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/12440. Obviously if the R in the mentioned logo had to become a P, the logo would lose its lustre however.
Anyway, we are open to ideas. You're the designer, we're only lawyers!
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 19 (UPI) -- A U.S. study debunks the myth that younger moms are more likely to "bounce back" after a baby -- teens moms are more likely to become obese, researchers say.
Dr. Tammy Chang of the University of Michigan Health System and colleagues found women who give birth as teens were significantly more likely to be overweight or obese later in life than women who were not teen moms.
"When taking care of teen moms, we often have so many immediate concerns -- child care, housing, school, social and financial support -- that we don't often think of the long-term health effects of teen pregnancy," Chang, the study's lead author, said in a statement. "For the first time, we've identified our youngest moms as a high risk group for obesity, which we know to be one of the most debilitating, long-term health issues we face."
The researchers used data from The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and controlled for factors such as race, education and socio-economic indicators.
The study, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, found women who had first given birth between the ages 13-19 had a 32 percent higher risk of obesity than women who had given birth at age 20 or later.
Despite declines in the last two decades, teen pregnancy rates in the United States continue to be one of the highest in the developed world.


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There are few surprises in a congressional report on U.S. firms shifting profits to tax havens, except for the release date.
The Congressional Research Service report on tax havens released Tuesday falls under the category of, "We're just finding this out now?"
The study found that multinational U.S. corporations made a tidy profit of $940 billion overseas in 2008. Then, isolating five known tax havens, the study found multinational firms declared 43 percent of their overseas profits in Bermuda, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Ireland and the Netherlands, despite the fact that only about 4 percent of their work forces and 7 percent of their investments were in those locations.
Conversely, 40 percent of the multinationals' workforce and 34 percent of the investment involved Canada, Mexico, Germany, Great Britain and Australia. But only 14 percent of their profits were declared in those countries.
Give them an inch, right?
It turns out in the smaller countries studied multinational firms declare profits that, on average, amount to 33 percent of the gross domestic product of those countries. Profits declared in the larger countries amounted to 2 percent of their GDP.
In a separate report, the Census Bureau said service oriented businesses saw revenue growth across the board in 2011 with one exception -- the financial sector.
Revenue grew at a torrid 20.8 percent among Internet publishing and broadcasting and Web search portals. It grew a solid 3.5 percent to 6 percent elsewhere in the service sector.
Why pay attention? Services make up 55 percent of the U.S. GDP, the Census Bureau said.
In international markets Wednesday, the Nikkei 225 index in Japan gained 2.28 percent, while the Shanghai composite index in China rose 1 percent. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong climbed 0.71 percent, while the Sensex in India was flat, gaining 0.07 percent.
The S&P/ASX 200 in Australia rose 0.16 percent.
In midday trading in Europe, the FTSE 100 index in Britain slipped 0.14 percent, while the DAX 30 in Germany gave up 0.4 percent. The CAC 40 in France shed 0.41 percent, while the Stoxx Europe 600 lost 0.44 percent.


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Happy Mother's day everyone!
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My daughter and I took Debbie out to eat today for lunch in the Thunderbird at the Brazos Belle in Burton. Great lunch and even funner driving there in the '58!
Yes, I hope all the mothers on this site had a wonderfull day yesterday. You've certainly earned it... :)
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grantw wrote:cray- wrote:$80 Ricardo Viva in Perth, maybe someone from the Ricardo Appreciation Society will be interested? Looks like a Tange 900/1000 sticker, can't pick the groupo.
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/nedlands ... 1008396703
The description is hilarious. Hand operated brakes ftw.
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text: Running a ut2004 server on my linux box (pclinuxos kernel 2.4.22) does anyone know what to change to increase the upload/download speed for maps and textures when clients log on? Im running a VCTF style server with custom maps and velicles. Thanking in advance for all your help. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Woods" <klaatu at fnordco.com> To: <ut2004 at icculus.org> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 1:16 AM Subject: Re: [ut2004] 64 bit client problems with downloads > Look! Up in the sky! > > It's a struct! It's an array! > > It's BACK-SEAT CODERMAN! > > More powerful than an overloaded function! Faster than an improved bubble > sort! Able to malloc tall heaps in a single bound! > > BACK-SEAT CODERMAN! Debugging your programs from afar... FOR GREAT > JUSTICE! > > > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:10:46 -0800 > Tom Emerson <osnut at pacbell.net> wrote: > >> On Friday 19 November 2004 10:09 pm, Ryan C. Gordon wrote: >> > There's a lot more involved than just reading bytes from a socket [...] >> >> > [...] it's both inaccurate and impolite to show up and tell someone >> > that their bugs aren't "rocket science". [...] >> >> Well, it wasn't my intention to be rude, but from what you're saying it >> sounds >> like it is a problem of perception -- namely, mine :) >> >> I perceive a "percentage complete" calculation to be relatively simple, >> and >> that debugging it would take no more effort than to set a breakpoint on >> the >> final result > 100.0 and "take a look" at the underlying variables at >> that >> point, then backtrack to find out why they are incorrect. Either the >> calculation is incorrect or the values passed to the routine are bogus. >> I >> find it hard to imagine how the calculation would be "wrong", so that >> leaves >> incorrect inputs [the "GIGO" principle] >> >> What I gather you're saying is that figuring out why the numbers passed >> to the >> routine are "wrong" is a bit harder than merely inspecting memory -- this >> is >> just a guess, but perhaps you are passing a 32-bit pointer to a routine >> that >> internally uses a 64-bit pointer and "whatever" resides in memory just >> prior >> to the pointer doesn't cause the treated-as-64-bit pointer to point >> outside >> of allocated memory. [if it did, well, you'd have caught that a long >> time >> ago I'd imagine ;) ] Of course, the fact that the routine is using a >> 64-bit >> pointer could be totally unexpected because when compiled for 32 bits, it >> would be using a 32-bit pointer "as expected", and the program wouldn't >> exhibit the incorrect behavior. >> >> The other point to this thread is "why does this bug exist in the first >> place?" An accountant once told me "if you're off by a penny, you might >> as >> well be off by a million dollars" -- the fact that the program reaches >> 100% >> AND THEN STARTS OVER should have been a "red flag" for the whole download >> process -- something is causing the program to retry the download EVERY >> TIME, >> and it may be as simple as forgetting to "close" the file initially >> downloaded, so it "never" validates properly from the redirected >> host/server >> (yeah, I'm guessing again :) but so long as I'm guessing, if it is indeed >> related to whether or not the file is "closed" properly, perhaps there is >> a >> race condition where you [or the "virtual machine"] believe the file to >> be >> closed, but the "real" machine hasn't done that yet...) >>


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Messi keeps it low-key as records tumble
Despite scoring two goals to take him to 80 in a calendar year, Lionel Messi said the most important thing was reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League after Barclona's 3-0 win at Spartak Moscow.
The brace took Messi, 25, to within five goals of Gerd Muller's calendar year record of 85, dating back to 1972, and saw him join Ruud Van Nistelrooy in second place in the Champions League all-time scorers list on 56.
Ex-Real Madrid and Schalke legend Raul tops that chart with 71.
The Argentine was characteristically low-key about his accomplishment, telling Canal Plus he was just happy his team had not slipped up as they did when losing 1-2 at Celtic earlier this month.
"We knew we had to come out strong at the start," Messi said. "We could not let what happened against Celtic happen again.
"It is never easy in this competition, especially with the opponent, the pitch - everything was difficult. But we played well and did everything well."
Some of the more obscure records Messi equalled at Moscow's Stadion Luzhniki included matching Raul's achievement of scoring in 19 different cities in the Champions League and reaching the mark of 25 international competition goals in one year, set by former Spurs and Chelsea striker Vivian Woodward in 1909.
He has also now scored in all 14 countries in which he has played a competitive game, but said: "The important thing is the team's victory and controlling the ball to retain possession."
Messi tops this season's Champions League goalscoring charts with five in five games, alongside Cristiano Ronaldo of Madrid, Alan of Braga and Burak Yilmaz of Galatasaray, and the Barca man remains firm favourite to complete a fifth successive season as the competition's top scorer.
But he preferred to talk of his team-mates' achievement of keeping a first clean sheet in five matches.
"Not conceding goals gives a boost to everyone," he said. "Obviously we did not like conceding goals in other games, so keeping a clean sheet was important for everyone."
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Eidos Montreal producer Stephane Roy has called for developers working on next-gen consoles to be "smart" and ensure they use the additional power offered by PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's next Xbox to "support the gameplay" and "not just be impressive for the technical aspect".
Of course, good console specs don't guarantee all next gen games will be great. I even expect more mediocre stuff as new consoles will be easier to port and publish.
I don't know... every Thief I played was pretty boring though I didn't play them until years after they released so they didn't have the same influence on me. This one looks good though so it might feed my klepto needs.
Nevertheless, This game gonna be fun. You see guys. It's them who don't use ps4 very well . Being honest won me :)
I never played a Thief game before, I'm looking forward to this. Eidos Montreal developed Deus Ex HR which was a brilliant game, I'll believe in them.
Finally, a developer that asked for inovation rather than perfecting more of the same!
Well... Wii was the perfect example of "Inovation VS Raw power"... Wii U otherwise, just a over-featured, dysfunctional monstrosity. The console printed money!
I´ve gotta say... the PS4 user interaction features are disappointing. The console is much otherwise: Great power, perfect hardware affinity, many gaming socialization features... but then, the controller was... hm... "that´s it?". Not the final design, yes, but rather disappointing never the less...
Even being a hardcore gamer from old-school consoles, this is getting stupid. I like gamepads but nowdays it´s clearly limited for both users and developers! It´s simply impossible to cross play well an FPS or RTS games from the consoles! This is two genres mostly discarted... and if it keep that way, new/other genres might be never release for PS4.
Ok, wanna keep the standard gamepad design? Fine! But make it significantly better! Why the heck not have a back-touchpad? Looks awesome on PSVITA! Why not a bigger front-touchpad? People with big, fat hands (or thumbs) will barely use it precisely! Second small screen on the controller might give many new gameplay features or improve the feedback response experience! I can think on more great features to make the ultimate controller with more pleasant design and functionality evolution for both hardcore and casual gamers, use the SONY semi-pro photographic cameras cheap components to low the production costs but an entire division from a International Corporation and its subsidiaries can only show that? And lets face it: the final design probably WON´T BE MUCH DIFFERENT FROM THIS PROTOTYPE. Clues? Developer kits has this controller... there are games being made thinking on that controller design, specs and features... making it too far from the standard design will probably destroy the gameplay and maybe the engine design of the game. And this is coming from a product designer very aware of the gaming market demand... developer and hardware market.
Play safe is aways a good move, but not too safe. They are gonna suffocate on they own fear.


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Blackstone Bags Sofitel Hotel in Chicago
Blackstone Group has added the luxury Sofitel hotel near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago to its collection of roughly 185,000 U.S. hotel rooms, agreeing with the Sofitel's previous owners to take it over due to its delinquent mortgage, according to people familiar with the deal.
Blackstone, as it has done in several other deals since the recession, snared the 415-room Sofitel by buying parts of its delinquent mortgage at a discount and then striking a deal with the previous owners for a voluntary forfeiture rather than a foreclosure. Blackstone formally took control of the Sofitel last week.
Don't shed any tears for the Sofitel's previous owners, GEM Realty Capital Inc. of Chicago, Goldman Sachs Group's Whitehall real estate funds and Accor SA, which manages the hotel and owns the Sofitel brand. The trio bought the hotel for $105 million in March 2006, and then put $160 million of mortgages on it in 2007.
Earlier this year, Blackstone, with $205 billion in assets under management, bought $85 million in face value of the Sofitel's debt at a discount. It could be bought cheaply because those pieces and the hotel's $75 million first mortgage came due in July, but the hotel's owners couldn't refinance the debt at that time. Blackstone then used its position in the debt to win a forfeiture.
Now, Blackstone has retired its portions of the debt, leaving the Sofitel with only its $75 million first mortgage. Accor will remain the hotel's manager, and Sofitel its brand, these people say.
The approach of buying distressed debt to eventually obtain the properties listed as collateral for those loans is the same that Blackstone took in several hotel deals in recent years. Last year, it gained 14 hotels from Columbia Sussex Corp. in that manner. This year, Blackstone might obtain 13 hotels from Eagle Hospitality Trust through the same means, but Blackstone first has given Eagle time to try to sell the properties.
Built in 2002, the 32-story Sofitel in downtown Chicago was designed by French architect Jean-Paul Viguier as a "prism of glass" that gradually slopes out over Chicago's Chestnut Street. It includes about 11,500 square feet of meeting and banquet space.
The Sofitel's occupancy is hovering around 75%, and its average nightly rate exceeds $200. The hotel's net cash flow last year was $6.5 million, up from $4.1 million in 2010 but still well below the $13.4 million when its loan was originated in 2007, according to loan data provided by Morningstar Credit Ratings LLC.


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PyRAF is a command language for running IRAF tasks that is based on the Python scripting language. It gives users the ability to run IRAF tasks in an environment that has all the power and flexibility of Python. PyRAF can be installed along with an existing IRAF installation; users can then choose to run either PyRAF or the IRAF CL. PyRAF is part of the stsci_python package of astronomical data analysis tools, and is a product of the Science Software Branch at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
The current release of PyRAF is v1.6 and can be downloaded from the stand-alone PyRAF download page.
The version of PyRAF bundled with stsci_python 2.6 is PyRAF v1.5 and can be downloaded from the stsci_python download page.
What is PyRAF?
PyRAF is a command language for IRAF based on the Python scripting language that can be used in place of the existing IRAF CL.
Why a new IRAF CL?
The current IRAF CL has some shortcomings as a scripting language that make it difficult to use in writing scripts, particularly complex scripts. The major problem is that the IRAF CL has no error or exception handling. If an error occurs, the script halts immediately with an error message that has little or no information about where the error occurred. This makes it difficult to debug scripts, impossible to program around errors that can be anticipated, and difficult to provide useful error messages to the user.
But there are other important reasons for wanting to replace the CL. We want to develop a command language that is a stronger environment for general programming and that provides more tools than the existing IRAF CL. Python (www.python.org), like Perl and Tcl, is a free, popular scripting language that is useful for a very wide range of applications (e.g., writing CGI scripts, text processing, file manipulation, graphical programming, etc.). Python is also an open system that can be easily extended by writing new modules in Python, C, or Fortran. By developing a Python interface to IRAF tasks, we open up the IRAF system and make it possible to write scripts that combine IRAF tasks with the numerous other capabilities of Python.
Ultimately, we plan for PyRAF to have command-line data access and manipulation facilities comparable to those of IDL (the Interactive Data Language, www.rsinc.com, which has extensive array-processing and image manipulation capabilities). It should eventually be possible to write applications in PyRAF that can manipulate the data directly in memory and display it much as IDL does. We are hoping that Python and PyRAF will become the programming language of first resort, so that programmers and astronomers will only infrequently need to write programs in C or Fortran. Moreover, when it is necessary to use compiled languages, programs written in C, C++, and Fortran can be easily linked with and integrated into PyRAF.
What are the current PyRAF capabilities?
PyRAF can run the vast majority of IRAF tasks without any problems. You can display graphics and use interactive graphics and image display tasks as well. You can even run more than 90% of IRAF CL scripts! While many things work the same way as they do in the IRAF CL, there are some differences in how things are done, usually for the better.
Currently, the most important difference between PyRAF and the old IRAF CL is that PyRAF allows you to write scripts using a much more powerful language that has capabilities far beyond simply running IRAF tasks. Some of the things that now become possible are:
- Easier script debugging.
- Ability to trap errors and exceptions.
- Access to all the features of Python including:
- built-in list (array) and dictionary (hash table) data structures
- extensive string handling libraries,
- GUI libraries that make it straightforward to wrap IRAF tasks with GUI interfaces,
- web and networking libraries making it easy to generate html, send email, handle cgi requests, etc.
Python was designed to make it simple to provide access to other software packages written in C or Fortran. For example, it should be comparatively easy to construct scripts that combine IRAF tasks with locally written software and libraries. For the more adventurous, it is possible to read data arrays and tables directly into Python and manipulate them on the command line (but in our view some improvements are needed before such capabilities will be considered the equal of IDL). As far as the interactive environment goes, the new system has most of the current features and conveniences of the IRAF CL available as well as a number of new features. It is possible to use exactly the same familiar IRAF CL syntax to run IRAF tasks (e.g., imhead dev$pix long+). There are some additional features such as command-history recall and editing using the arrow keys, tab-completion of commands and filenames, a GUI equivalent to the epar parameter editor, the ability to display help in a separate window, and a variety of tools for manipulation of graphics. We believe the new environment is already in many ways more convenient for interactive use than the IRAF CL, and further enhancements are planned.
Does this mean I have to learn another programming language?
If you only want to use the interactive conveniences of the new language you can probably get by without learning Python; PyRAF syntax is so similar to the old CL syntax that it should be an easy transition for IRAF users.
On the other hand, if you want to write scripts using PyRAF then you will certainly want to learn Python. We understand the natural reluctance of many to learn yet another software tool. We do not claim that everyone can become an expert Python programmer instantly, but Python is a simple enough language that one can learn to do simple things in a matter of hours. If you want to use all of the powerful features of the language, you should expect that it will take days or weeks to learn, depending on the sophistication of what you wish to accomplish. Nevertheless, it is possible to do quite a lot with a very modest learning effort. We feel that the vast majority that invest the initial effort will not regret it. Python is a very flexible and powerful scripting language that has wide applicability to numerous problems beyond data processing. Once learned, you will find it a convenient tool for many problems.
The PyRAF language does have a CL-compatibility mode that allows access to IRAF tasks using CL syntax. This mode can be convenient for interactive use, but we strongly encourage users who want to write scripts to learn the Python language in order to benefit from the full power of the PyRAF system.
Yes, I'm interested. Where do I start?
Read the PyRAF tutorial to get a more detailed understanding of what PyRAF can do. We also have written a quick tour of the Python language itself. If you are installing PyRAF, see the installation instructions on the download page for instructions on how to download and install it.
Download at: http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pyraf/current/download


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — 3 p.m.
A shooting at an Alabama high school that left one student dead and another injured has reignited debate among state lawmakers about coming to a school safety solution before the legislative session ends.
State Sen. Linda Coleman-Madison, whose district contains the Birmingham school, said Thursday that lawmakers aren't doing enough to protect children.
House Speaker Mac McCutcheon met separately with Republicans and Democrats who sponsored school safety bills to consider proposing a package after the shooting. Police took one person into custody while they investigate the incident.
The shooting took place the same day Florida lawmakers passed a school security bill package. It includes raising the age to buy an assault weapon and arm teachers, also proposed in Alabama. Alabama lawmakers said they would review and consider Florida's legislation.
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Birmingham Police officials say a person of interest is in custody following a fatal shooting at an Alabama high school.
The police department, in a statement, said that the Jefferson County district attorney's office is reviewing the case and charges are pending.
The police department did not identify the name of the individual in custody.
A 17-year-old girl was killed in the Wednesday shooting at Huffman High School. A 17-year-old boy was injured.
Birmingham Interim Police Chief Orlando Wilson said Wednesday police are trying to determine if the shooting was accidental.
Investigators are reviewing surveillance video from the school.
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Authorities say they are investigating a fatal shooting at an Alabama high school as an apparent accident, lamenting the death of a 17-year-old female student and the wounding of a 17-year-old boy.
Birmingham Interim Police Chief Orlando Wilson said investigators are seeking to piece together exact circumstances surrounding Wednesday afternoon's shooting at dismissal time at Huffman High School in his city. He added that the probe will involve scouring school surveillance video for clues and completing interviews among students and staff at the large magnet school.
The police chief says that "at this particular time, we are considering this accidental." But he says investigators still have a lot of unanswered questions.


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One of the things that became clear after the preview of the next version of Windows Server (code named Windows Server 8) and the direction that Microsoft announced at its recent BUILD 2011 conference is the fact that Microsoft is seriously moving toward using PowerShell as its preferred management tool. While the GUI isn't going away Microsoft has added almost 2000 PowerShell cmdlets to Windows Server 8 – radically expanding the areas that can be managed with PowerShell.
While not everyone knows it SQL Server can already be managed using PowerShell. SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 both provide PowerShell cmdlets that let you navigate the database, create database objects, and run queries. You can start SQL Server's PowerShell cmdlet by entering sqlps on the command prompt or by opening SSMS and right clicking on an object.
While most DBAs don't use PowerShell yet now would be great time to get started learning it. There is a learning curve for PowerShell but once you get the hang of it it's reasonably straightforward. There's no doubt that PowerShell will be an important management tool going forward and it's more capable than you might think.
For a more complete introduction to using PowerShell with SQL Server you might want to check out:: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc281954.aspx
In addition, you might want to read Accessing SQL Server Data from PowerShell by Robert Sheldon.


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Acclaimed authors Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, Harlan Coben, Nelson DeMille, head of Killer Films Christine Vachon, and musician Joe Hurley will join the witty and entertaining author, BBC host and Booker Prize judge Frank Delaney for the fifth bi-annual Pen, Paper and Palate literary salon at the Half King Bar, New York City.
Curated by Ruda Beresford Dauphin in association with Irish Arts Center this Pen, Paper and Palate will take on the entertaining topic of crime writing and outlaw stories with Mr. Delaney leading the diverse group of writers in a spirited and insightful panel discussion, in the style of a literary salon.
As well as food and libations Pen, Paper and Palate will feature live music from the great musician, singer-songwriter and bandleader Joe Hurley, known for his story-telling quality of lyrics and characters who would be "at home in an Elmore Leonard novel" (Irish American Magazine), and for his striking collaborations with a wide-range of musicians, actors and authors including the likes of Johnny Depp, and Keith Richards. The delightful, energetic Ellen McCourt (wife of the late Frank McCourt) will also join in the musical accompaniment.
About the Panel
Lawrence Block is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and has won multiple Edgar and Shamus Awards and countless international prizes. The author of more than fifty books, he lives in New York City where his novel "A Walk Among the Tombstones" is currently being filmed, directed by Scott Frank and featuring Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens and Liam Neeson playing the role of Matthew Scudder.
Mary Higgins Clark's books are worldwide bestsellers. In the U.S. alone, her books have sold over 80 million copies. She is the author of twenty-four previous suspense novels, three collections of short stories, and co-author, with her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, of three suspense novels. Two of her novels were made into feature films, "Where Are the Children?" and "A Stranger Is Watching". Many of her other works, novels and short stories, were made into television films and she has received the Gold Medal of Honor from the American-Irish Historical Society (1993), the Spirit of Achievement Award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (1994) and many more.
Harlan Coben has over 50 million books in print worldwide, and his last six consecutive novels, "Six Years", "Stay Close", "Live Wire", "Caught", "Long Lost" and "Hold Tight" all debuted at number one on The New York Times bestseller list and lists around the world. Winner of the Edgar Award, Shamus Award and Anthony Award – the first author to win all three – Coben's books are published in 41 languages around the globe and have been #1 bestsellers in over a dozen countries. His novel "Tell No One" has been turned into the commercial and critical smash hit French film of the same name, starring Francois Cluzet and Kristin Scott Thomas. He now lives in New Jersey with his wife and their four children.
Nelson DeMille is a member of The Authors Guild, the Mystery Writers of America, and American Mensa. He holds three honorary doctorates: Doctor of Humane Letters from Hofstra University, Doctor of Literature from Long Island University, and Doctor of Humane Letters from Dowling College. He is the author of "By the Rivers of Babylon", "Cathedral", "The Talbot Odyssey", "Word of Honor", "The Charm School", "The Gold Coast", "The General's Daughter", "Spencerville", "Plum Island", "The Lion's Game", "Up Country", "Night Fall", "Wild Fire", "The Gate House", "The Lion" and "The Panther". He also co-authored "Mayday" with Thomas Block and has contributed short stories, book reviews, and articles to magazines and newspapers.
Christine Vachon, Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award-winner, co-founded indie powerhouse Killer Films in 1995 with producing partner Pamela Koffler. Based out of New York, Killer has produced more than 45 acclaimed independent films including Todd Haynes' Venice Film Festival Award-winning "I'm Not There" and the 2009 Best Canadian Feature at TIFF, Cairo Time.
Over the past decade and a half the two have produced some of the most celebrated American indie features including Academy Award-winning films "Far From Heaven", "Boys Don't Cry", "One Hour Photo", "Hedwig" and the "Angry Inch", "Happiness" and "Safe". In television, Vachon executive produced the Emmy-winning program, "This American Life", for Showtime and more recently the two have collaborated on the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning miniseries "Mildred Pierce" for HBO. Killer Films was honored with a 10-year retrospective at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2005.
After the event, all writers will be free to sign books. Tickets are $15 and can be booked online at irishartscenter.org or by calling 866-811-4111.
This, the fifth Pen, Paper and Palate follows on a successful line-up of panels that has included Sebastian Junger, Andrew McCarthy, Edmund White, Colum McCann, Pete Hamill, Joseph O'Neill, Drew Nieporent, Mary Gordon, Susan Eisenhower and more.
May 14 | Doors Open at 6:30 pm | Panel begins at 7 pm
at The Half King | 505 W. 23rd Street at 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10011
Tickets: $15, available online at irishartscenter.org or 866-811-4111