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Prof. Stearns specializes in life history evolution, which links the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology, and in evolutionary medicine. He came to Yale in 2000 from the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he had been professor of zoology since 1983 and held several administrative posts.
A 1967 graduate of Yale College, Stearns earned a M.S. from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. He was a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, before taking up an appointment at Reed College prior to moving to Switzerland.
Prof. Stearns founded and has served as president of both the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Tropical Biology Association was founding editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, and is the founding editor of Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. He has been a vice president of the Society for the Study of Evolution and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2015 the University of Zurich awarded him an honorary degree.


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Glee Review: HomeMiranda Wicker at . Comments
Now that we here in the States have come out of our turkey-and-stuffing comas, Glee is sending us right back to every glutton's favorite holiday with its Thanksgiving-themed episode. Not sure why this couldn't have been timed to occur last week on the actual holiday, but I'm sure it's baseball's fault.
"Thanksgiving" brought most of the old gang home to mentor the new kids before sectionals, while Rachel and Kurt stayed in New York reminiscing about sectionals.
There was a whole bunch of good about tonight's episode, namely that opening number and the return of Puck and Santana to my screen for longer than .02 seconds. Those two have always been the best of the McKinley misfits. Puck especially.
I like seeing Puck mentor Jake and wouldn't be opposed to him being around more often. Jake is a natural reason for Puck to be included. He could have his old pool cleaning business back up and running in no time! (Writers: Please bring Puck back. It's my Christmas wish.)
Santana was sassy as always and quick to call Quinn on Kitty's nonsense, which I appreciated. But it seems college has quickly reverted Quinn to her Glee Season 1 self, so I was less than impressed with her. She was so starstruck by Kitty's adoration that she couldn't see that Kitty is a special brand of evil not even Sue can match. I feel like the more self-aware, Glee Season 3 Quinn would've been uncomfortable with the hero worship.
And this Santana-Quinn-Kitty thing is where I'm going go off on a little rant about the current Marley storyline, perhaps preemptively.
Glee developed the habit of becoming an after school special last season with its teen suicide and domestic violence "plots." And I'm saying "plots" in quotation marks instead of straight-up plots because those issues, real issues that viewers face, were treated rather dismissively. I can't tell how the bulimia storyline is going to go just yet, but I hope the writers don't just dismiss this. I hope that they've given careful thought and attention to where they're going and what message they're trying to send.
Should we look to television for our life lessons? No, probably not. But that doesn't mean that people, teenagers especially, don't. That they don't look at this show and other shows like it and search for reflections of themselves.
Marley has continued her purging in order to be her best for the glee club because Kitty is in her head. Santana saw it. Quinn refused to acknowledge it when she was confronted with facts and blamed it on Santana's supposed jealousy over Quinn sleeping with a 35-year old man.
Excuse me, what?
Get over yourself, girls. One of your own is struggling. Actually, two of your own if we count Kitty as one of those.
I sincerely hope that next week's episode addresses the very real situation Marley's facing and the fact that Kitty created this situation in the first place. Both of these girls need help.
Marley is not so deep into this that she cannot recover, though a recovery in one week from a disorder like bulimia would be unrealistic. Kitty is not so far gone that she cannot be redeemed. Even Sue has softened hearts from time to time, and the audience certainly came to love Santana. I want a very real, very honest conversation next Thursday and not for this to just be blown over and forgotten.
I also want more conversations between Jake and Ryder because those two were awesome together tonight. (You can read their conversation that cracked me up on the Glee quotes page.)
Also awesome? That Kurt and Blaine have finally spoken. Kurt, at Isabelle's insistence, called Blaine to wish him good luck, to acknowledge that even if they're not together romantically, Blaine is still his best friend. Kurt made the call under the hope that accepting Blaine's apology would give him closure, but it's clear to us that it didn't and gives us a reunion to anticipate.
But first, we have to finish Sectionals and find out what's happening with Marley. The show must go on, right? We'll see.
What did you think of "Thanksgiving?" What are your hopes for the Marley story moving forward?
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Salon Offers To Remove Ads If Visitors Help Mine Cryptocurrency
from the just-renting dept
As we've been discussing, the rise of stealth cryptocurrency miners embedded on websites has become a notable problem. In some instances, websites are being hacked and embedded with stealth cryptocurrency miners that quickly gobble up visitors' CPU cycles without their knowledge. That's what happened to Showtime recently when two different domains were found to be utilizing the Coinhive miner to hijack visitor broswers without users being informed. Recent reports indicate that thousands of government websites have also been hijacked and repurposed in this fashion via malware.
But numerous websites are also now exploring such miners voluntarily as an alternative revenue stream. One major problem however: many aren't telling site visitors this is even happening. And since some implementations of such miners can hijack massive amounts of CPU processing power while sipping a non-insubstantial amount of electricity, that's a problem.
The Pirate Bay for example was forced to stop using visitor CPUs and browsers to mine Monero last fall after Reddit users complained the miner was slowing down their PCs and eating up 80% of their CPU cycles. The website stated that it was simply exploring new revenue streams to keep the website afloat:
"As you may have noticed we are testing a Monero javascript miner. This is only a test. We really want to get rid of all the ads. But we also need enough money to keep the site running."
This week Salon joined the fun, informing users that they'd be happy to suppress advertisements if site visitors are willing to help mine cryptocurrency:
never seen this before: Salon now offers to "suppress ads" if you lease out your PC's "unused computing power" 🤔 pic.twitter.com/3oK78dPahN
— James Hitchcock (@JamesHitchcock) February 12, 2018
Creative exploration of alternative revenue streams is obviously necessary, and there's numerous examples where site-driven cryptocurrency miners could be used to help bolster scientific research. Salon pretty clearly understands this decision is controversial, offering up an entire website explaining how making money from journalism is hard, and the company needed to explore some new, creative solutions in order to stay afloat:
"Salon is instructing your processor to run calculations. Think of it like borrowing your calculator for a few minutes to figure out the answer to math problems, then giving it back when you leave the site. We automatically detect your current processing usage and assign a portion of what you are not using to this process. Should you begin a process that requires more of your computer's resources, we automatically reduce the amount we are using for calculations."
That said, security researchers have similarly warned that this is a very slippery slope, and for every website that's being transparent about the process and respectful of the possible impact on computer performance, there're countless others who quite obviously won't give much of a damn about either. These are, after all, the same websites that are now engaging in ham fisted and annoying ad blocker blocking, frequently oblivious to how their own obnoxious ad decisions drove the rise of ad blockers in the first place.
As Malwarebytes researchers recently noted, there's no limit of websites that are already pushing their luck on this front:
"The question at this point is: How far can publishers push the limits towards a really bad user experience? You may be surprised that for many, this is not really a problem at all and that double dipping is, in fact, a fairly common practice...publishers ought to be more transparent with their audience because no-one likes unannounced guests. Unfortunately, there will always be publishers that care very little about what kind of traffic they push, so long as it generates good revenues; for those, cryptominers are just an added income to their existing advertising portfolio."
If implemented with respect for the end user and transparency, such miners may not be a bad thing. But bad actors could very quickly create an environment where users feel they're being accosted by sites that don't respect either, resulting in another layer of cat and mouse gamesmanship between sites publishers and readers. So while there's certainly potential here, escalating an already adversarial relationship in the adblocker era isn't likely to excite readers, forge community, or save journalism anytime soon.
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
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News of the Western Belize Recreational Area, about 500 square miles of waterfalls, caves, Mayan ruins and pyramids, Belize Alps, foothills, ranches and farms, tourist accomodations of all types and description, tours and expeditions for vacationers and visitors. Even a small growing expatriate retirement group of people from different countries. In Belize, this is where it is happening, all the things that are fun and even serious, with a climate of ETERNAL SPRING.


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I just returned from my first weekly weigh in & I'm very happy to report that I'm down 7.4 lbs! The scale teetered between 7.4-7.6 for a few moments, but in the end 7.4 prevailed.
I just returned from my first weekly weigh in & I'm very happy to report that I'm down 7.4 lbs! The scale teetered between 7.4-7.6 for a few moments, but in the end 7.4 prevailed.
I've been down this road enough times to know that was mostly water weight and I cannot expect the same result every week. If I could, I'd be thin.
The real struggle begins week two.
Guy and I are quite competitive by nature, so I was happy that my threats of "I'm coming for you Mathews!" held true and I didn't have to eat crow (how many calories is that?) at the delight of Mr. (Now) 264.4 Things You Never Want To See In A Speedo! In spite of the jesting between us, TEAM TWI is down a total of 9.6 lbs and counting.
I'm following Weight Watchers (WW) online. I have been diligent about keeping an honest food diary, drinking 8-10 glasses of water each day and sneaking in some exercise here and there.
Portion control always amazes me when I follow it with the intensity that I have been these past seven days. You really do not realize how much we overeat as a society until you actually eat the proper serving size.
I have also begun drinking 24 ozs of water with every meal. Sipping between bites fills you up so much more quickly and helps you reach your goal of 64-80 oz per day that much faster.
One of my big victories this week involved a Chocolate Mocha Latte that our Hawley Sales Manager, Glenn Khoury was thoughtful enough to bring me on Tuesday. (I think Guy may have bribed him to sabotage me.) That was mighty tempting until I discovered that it contained 15 WW points. I'm proud to say I did not indulge.
Exercise is my week two focus. Last night I began a 20-minute regimen of stretches, crunches and floor exercises that Lucy at the Y was kind enough to suggest. Jim dug out the weights and I've started with 2.5 lb to tone. Our border collie Riley has adopted the role of trainer. She's very excited about our new exercise routine.
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Movie was suspenseful but didn't like the ending. For a movie based on a true story, I wanted to know how the son made out at the end. His injuries looked fatal. What became of the children? Also was the dog killed?
I went with a Best friend of Mine . I thought it was Creepy & a Good Horror Movie . I loved The Part Where Both the Teens Go TO Revenge their Innocent Parents deaths . Especially When The Girl Blew the psycho Bitch away with the Rifle . Self Defense never Felt so Good. Of Course they Leave some Unknowns , So There Just Might be another Sequel Or Prequel :) :P
Kept me on the edge of my seat. I loved it!! So many twists and turns
An eighth grader with D's in English would have written a better script. If you are into mindless slasher films with no coherent plot or story line this is the film for you to watch before you head home to torture small animals. Just when you think the story couldn't get more improbable the writer threw more garbage on the screen in hope of getting some reaction from a bored audience. I ended up cheering for the killers in hope they would hasten the end of this stinker.
Just okay.
All the negative comments on here I strongly disagree with. Most horror movies in todays world use way too much animation and not whatsoever believable. This one however is something that wasn't over done. I will admit that the casting isn't necessarily my favorite, in particular the little girl is not who I would have loved to see in the movie. But with that being said her acting was superb and this movie will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire time. It starts slow then quickly gets into the plot. So sit in the seat you have now paid $10 for and on top of that eat the snacks that cost you at least another $20, its worth the wait.
I watched 30 minutes of this one after leaving the other one. Pathetic. A low budget slasher move. really based on true events. Here is some advice for the public if this is based on true events as it says it is. Never ever ever open the door to a stranger ever! Don't feel sorry for the women with a baby in her arm. Ask yourself why isn't she at the police station if she is innocent? close your door behind you and lock it. Always have a locking screen door. Have 1/4 to 1/2 in plexi glass on front doors. Then immediately call the police 911 and on a cell phone all you have to do is press emergency. Second have a gun handy in your house or a base ball bat and know how to use it. With movies like this being shown as true events, teach your family how to defend themselves in a home invasion. If your house is under attack get in your car and go directly to the police or sheriff department while you are calling them on your phone. police and sheriff are open 24/7. Wake up all the neighbors. Here is a real clue if your dog doesn't bark when a stranger comes to your door, get a new dog. A dog normally will bark with a walker 1 1/2 blocks away at least, maybe more if it is a serious crime. everybody should have an alarm system today. They are loud and will wake up and alert a 3-4 block radius. That is what they are for. I hate movies like this!!!!!!!!!!! Remember don't hesitate to defend your yourself, home and property. Movies depicting unsuspecting helpless victims are not realistic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was Suprised, Didn't Think I Was Going To Like It, But I Enjoyed It.
Disappointing! Was looking forward this movie but it wasn't scary and creepy like the first one. Bad acting, bad writing,stupidity all over the movie,especially in the end. Completely unbelievable!
First Strangers movie had two stupid people,this one four of them.
It Was Awesome, Kept Me At The Edge Of My Seat The Entire Time. I Loved That It Was Not That Predictable Kept You Guessing.
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I am letting all you humanists know about my new book, just published by McFarland. It is called The Humanism of Doctor Who: A Critical Study in Science Fiction and Philosophy. In it, I discuss and explain humanist philosophy from its Greek origins to its present practitioners and show how Doctor Who portrays humanist values and concerns in dramatic form. You can get it at the usual places in both traditional and electronic form. Amazon: The Humanism of Doctor Who. Barnes and Noble: The Humanism of Doctor Who. Amazon UK: The Humanism of Doctor Who. Books-A-Million: The Humanism of Doctor Who. McFarland and Co.: The Humanism of Doctor Who.
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Congrats - this looks like a great book - can't wait to read it.
...from its Greece roots to the present...like Sophie's world kind of..? it must be of interest...i would wish to get hold of it one day...by the way i am desperately looking for Bertrand Russell's history of western philosophy...CONGRATULATIONS and all the very best...
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Ava - Sorry about the price. There is a kindle version for a mere $32.
Matt - I have no idea whether it is in-store. There might be a store somewhere that has it. You could certainly order it at B&N. It is also widely available online, and now in a Kindle edition. I wish I had better information for you.
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Website Requires 50M Users to Reset Passwords
By Melissa Gray
(CNN) — The online note-taking and archiving service Evernote required its 50 million users to reset their passwords Saturday after announcing it was the victim of a security breach, making it the latest tech company in recent weeks to fall victim to hackers.
The California-based company said no user content or financial information was accessed. But the hackers were able to access user information, including user names, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords.
Last week, customer support tool Zendesk announced it was hacked, with the breach exposing the e-mail addresses of users of three other websites — Tumblr, Pinterest, and Twitter, all of which use Zendesk.
Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook last month said they were the victim of hackers, and Twitter said in January that it, too, was hacked.
Evernote launched in 2008 as a way to archive images, documents, notes and other data online. A version for businesses is available in more than 30 countries.


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Megadeth's David Ellefson: Metallica / Megadeth Supergroup 'Would Be a Blast'
In a new interview with MetalSerbia.com, Megadeth bassist David Ellefson offers his thoughts on a possible Metallica/Megadeth supergroup.
The topic was first mentioned by Megadeth singer-guitarist Dave Mustaine, but Metallica's James Hetfield didn't sound too keen on the idea. Hetfield said that Mustaine is well-intentioned, but has a tendency to not think too much before he speaks, and Mustaine apologized shortly thereafter to for even bringing up the subject.
In the MetalSerbia interview, Ellefson said he doubts the project will happen, but he would enjoy doing it. "It would be fun to do it, I think Dave just threw that out as kind of a wishlist. I don't know if it's ever going to be a reality. A lot of people got excited over a thought of it. If it would happen, absolutely I'd participate. I think it would be a blast."
Mustaine has also made several other controversial statements recently, such as his belief that President Obama was not born in the U.S. Ellefson defended his bandmate: "Those are Dave's feelings and opinions and here in America with our freedom of speech and liberties that we have, every one of us can voice their own opinion. Megadeth has always been a band that has been about people's personal freedom and liberties anyway. Provided that it doesn't hurt other people, there's nothing wrong with it."
In other news, Ellefson and Aaron Lewis from Staind have teamed up with video director/photographer Fran Strine to produce a new documentary 'Shame on America,' which will shine the spotlight on what happens to veterans after they return home from the horrors of war.


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In today's Washington Post, Anne Applebaum draws a series of lessons from the Mohammed cartoon story:
[T]he controversy has exposed a few less attractive political undercurrents in America, too.
One of those "less attractive political undercurrents" is "hypocrisy in the right-wing blogosphere." Applebaum writes:
Remember the controversy over Newsweek and the Koran? Last year Newsweek printed an allegation about mistreatment of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base that — although strikingly similar to interrogation techniques actually used to intimidate Muslims at Guantanamo — was not substantiated by an official government investigation. It hardly mattered: Abroad, Muslim politicians and clerics promoted and exaggerated the Koran story, just as they are now promoting and exaggerating the Danish cartoon story. The result was rioting and violence on a scale similar to the rioting and violence of the past week.
But although that controversy was every bit as manipulated as this one, self-styled U.S. "conservatives" blamed not cynical politicians and clerics but Newsweek for (accidentally) inciting violence in the Muslim world: "Newsweek lied, people died." Worse, much of the commentary implied that Newsweek was not only wrong to make a mistake (which it was) but also that the magazine was wrong to investigate the alleged misconduct of U.S. soldiers. Logically, the bloggers should now be attacking the Danish newspaper for (less accidentally) inciting violence in the Muslim world. Oddly enough, though, I've heard no cries of "Jyllands-Posten insulted, people died." The moral is: We defend press freedom if it means Danish cartoonists' right to caricature Muhammad; we don't defend press freedom if it means the mainstream media's right to investigate the U.S. government.
The cartoon story has a number of interesting angles, but it requires a very peculiar perspective to turn it into a story about the "right-wing blogosphere." As prominent members thereof, it's reasonable to assume that we are included in Ms. Applebaum's criticism. So let me make a few basic points.
First, while it is true that our discussions of the Newsweek/Koran story focused mainly on Newsweek's false report, we hardly let the Islamic rioters off the hook. As, for example, in this post:
Diana West argues that the "Koran-gate" is more about "them" (bloodthirsty jihadists) than about "us" (a media too eager to do a "gotcha" on our government). Her point is well-taken, although I'd express it differently. To me, the story is about the confluence of two sad realities — the MSM feels compelled to make our government look bad; the Islamofascists feel compelled to take innocent life. Neither compulsion is healthy, but only the latter is psychopathic.
Beyond that, there are some obvious differences between the two stories. Newsweek negligently printed an inflammatory factual claim that turned out to be false. Jyllands-Posten didn't.
And the Newsweek story was part of a media assault on the American armed forces. American newspapers, magazines and television networks, over a period of more than a year, relentlessly and falsely depicted American soldiers as sadistic thugs. The prime exhibit in this campaign was Abu Ghraib, the most over-hyped news story of modern times. Interestingly, Ms. Applebaum adds to the flow of misinformation in her own discussion of these stories. She claims that the Newsweek Koran-in-the-toilet story was "strikingly similar to interrogation techniques actually used to intimidate Muslims at Guantanamo." This is utterly false; in fact, American soldiers at Guantanamo treat the Koran with elaborate and extraordinary respect.
So, were we more critical of false charges leveled by an American magazine against the American armed forces than of a dozen innocuous drawings in a Danish newspaper? Guilty as charged. We were.
Finally, Applebaum's "moral" is, to put it charitably, obtuse:
The moral is: We defend press freedom if it means Danish cartoonists' right to caricature Muhammad; we don't defend press freedom if it means the mainstream media's right to investigate the U.S. government.
This would make sense if we had demanded that Newsweek be shut down, or its editors beheaded. We didn't. We criticized Newsweek for negligent reporting and anti-military bias. Maybe this is a hard concept to grasp at the Washington Post, but advocating freedom of the press–as we obviously do–is not inconsistent with criticizing newspapers and magazines when they screw up.


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In FEP5, we added the functionality to allow you to control which facets can display for which category. With this new functionality, it has become much easier to set up different price ranges for specific catgroups. This is useful if your store sells a wide variety of products with widely varying price ranges.
For example, say you sell computers and electronic components. Category A might have products ranging from 50 - 200 dollars, so it makes sense to make price ranges in increments of 50. Category B, on the other hand, has prices from 1 dollar to 20 dollars. For this category, the same price range would not work.
You can follow the below steps on creating your own price range. This example is setting a new price range in the Aurora sample store for the 'meat' category:
Here is an example of the configuration where I define new price ranges for the 'Meat' category. Note, that there is currently no way to configure this through CMC UI.
1. Introduce a new Price searchable attribute
insert into srchattr (srchattr_id, indexscope, indextype, identifier) values (1, '0', 'CatalogEntry', '_cat:OfferPrice_USD_meats');
2. Define the ranges for it
insert into srchattrprop (srchattr_id, propertyname, propertyvalue) values (1, 'facet', 'price_USD:{* 7} 7;{7 11} 11;{11 15} 15;{15 *}');
3. Add facet config data in the new FEP5 facet tables
insert into facet (facet_id, srchattr_id, selection, keyword_search, storeent_id, max_display) values (1, 1, 1, 0, 0, -1);
insert into facetdesc (facet_id, language_id, name, description) values (1, -1, 'Price for the Meat category (USD)', 'Price facet for the Meat category');
4. Disassociate the out of the box Price facet from the 'Meat' category
insert into facetcatgrp (facetcatgrp_id, facet_id, sequence, storeent_id, catgroup_id, displayable) values (10001, -1002, 0.0, 10001, 10036, 0);
5. Assign the new Price facet to the 'Meat' category
insert into facetcatgrp (facetcatgrp_id, facet_id, sequence, storeent_id, catgroup_id, displayable) values (1, 1, 0.0, 10001, 10036, 1);
6. Lastly, you'll need to disassociate the new price facet to other categories
-insert into facetcatgrp (facetcatgrp_id, facet_id, sequence, storeent_id, catgroup_id, displayable) values (2, 1, 0.0, 10001, 0, 0);
(The above insert is using catgroup_id=0 to represent the other categories)
For this last step to work you will also need APAR JR48945. This APAR is included in JR49158.


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Charles Eames drew this diagram to explain the design process as achieving a point where the needs and interests of the client, the design office and society as a whole, can overlap. The diagram was made for the 1969 exhibition: What is Design? at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, France.


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U.S. home builders probably started construction on more homes in December and the number of Americans applying for new unemployment benefits likely inched lower, according to economists surveyed by MarketWatch. The government will release housing starts and weekly jobless claims at 8:30 a.m. Eastern on Thursday.
Housing starts are expected to rise to an annual rate of 883,000 in December from 861,000 in November, owing to mild weather, rising building permits and growing confidence among home builders. Construction on new U.S. homes fell 3% in November, but were up 22% from the same period in the prior year. Still, starts remain far below a bubble peak of almost 2.3 million in 2006. The U.S. Department of Commerce will release data on housing starts at 8:30 a.m.
Jobless claims, meanwhile, are forecast to decline to 368,000 in the week ended Jan. 12 from an initially reported 371,000 in the prior week. The number of Americans filing new jobless claims is forecast to decline to a seasonally adjusted 368,000 in the week ended Jan. 12 from an initially reported 371,000 in the prior week, according to economists surveyed by MarketWatch. Claims have been little changed since the fall, reflecting a decline in corporate layoffs. Yet the failure of claims to fall consistently below the 350,000 mark indicates the economy is still struggling to add jobs at a rapid clip. The Labor Department reports the data at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.
Economists expect a Philadelphia area manufacturing gauge to stay in positive territory in January and edge up to +5 from +4.6. The December reading was initially reported at +8.1 was downwardly revised to account for seasonal adjustment. In the Beige Book released Wednesday, the central bank described manufacturing conditions in the region as growing: \"Mild rates of growth are once again evident in manufacturing, staffing services, transportation services, and construction after many sectors suffered storm-related disruptions.\" The Philly Fed data is due at 10 a.m. Eastern.
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Tablecloth Bottle Wrap
Source: Martha Stewart Living, August 2006
This quick folding trick helps you get a handle on picnic wines, then yields a place to lay your outdoor feast. Start with a square tablecloth that's at least 36 inches. Lay it right side down.
1. Place one bottle on each side of the bottom corner, as pictured. Pull the bottom corner up over the bottles, then roll the bottles forward to opposite corner.
2. Holding the cloth in place, stand up the bottles.
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Flanagan (Illinois, USA)
Flanagan, Illinois, is located in Livingston County, in the north central part of the state, with a population of 680 in the mid-1950s, and 1,083 in 2000. Three branches of Mennonites lived in the vicinity of Flanagan, all of Amish background: the Evangelical Mennonites, Salem Mennonite Church; Mennonite Church, Waldo Mennonite Church; and Central Conference Mennonites, Flanagan Mennonite Church. The settlements were located southeast, south, and southwest of Flanagan. Mennonites have lived in this area since 1859 and at that time were known as Amish Mennonites. In 1955 approximately 90 Mennonites lived in Flanagan, and practically all in the general area lived within shopping distance of the village.
In 1898 the Salem Orphanage, later known as the Salem Children's Home, was founded two miles southeast of Flanagan by the Salem Mennonite Church and supported by the Defenseless Mennonites, later known as the Evangelical Mennonite Church.
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It's a common misconception that you have to hire an attorney to write your own will. Yes, an attorney will know how to draft a will properly and they know your state's estate laws, but there are plenty of legal websites out there that can help you draft just as good (if not better) of a will for a fraction of the cost. That being said there is a right way to write your own will and a wrong way.
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The apple blossoms may be out or maybe even apples are growing already.
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DC is a very beautiful place..
I wonder if they still have the restaurant..
Farell's - fun place especially on your birthday.
Chevy Chase area is quite nice.
The apple blossoms may be out or maybe even apples are growing already.
I hope someone will...
share some pics of the rally tomorrow,oops, today.
Have a good day! Hopefully the Guys in the Whitehouse will get the message.
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The actor, also accompanied by his 20-year-old daughter Jane, said, "He taught me how to love. And without Evan I might never have seen the greatness of Jenny's spirit.
"(Jenny is) the source of all that is good (in my life)."
Jane is holding Evan at the back.
Jim Says, "He (Evan) taught me how to love," Carrey told People magazine at the march.
"And without Evan I might never have seen the greatness of Jenny's spirit.
"(Jenny is) the source of all that is good (in my life)."
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the actor told PEOPLE, "He taught me how to love. And without Evan I might never have seen the greatness of Jenny's spirit."
As he led 8,500 people through the streets of Washington, D.C., Wednesday, hand-in-hand with his daughter, Jane, McCarthy and Evan
That, he explained to PEOPLE, is how he ended up on the frontline of a political movement. "Jenny's friends would kind of hint around and say, 'Hey, it would be kind of cool if you got involved in this,' and I thought to myself, 'This is just so inevitable. This just can't not happen.' If you care about the planet and about children, you have to."
http://www.people.com/people/article/0, ... pheadlines
Carrey skipped the jokes and went straight to the heartstrings. "My daughter Jane, Jenny and Evan are the greatest things that ever happened to me, and learning how to love them has made me a man. So dads, hang in there. You need these kids as much as these kids need you."
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I ended up not going because of the threat of Severe Tornados....its funny because I had really wanted to go. I was going to go with a friend and we were at her house early in the morning. Her parents had called saying that there was a threat of Tornados. We were both bummed. We were going to do the March and have lunch together. It was going to be so fun! I ended up staying with her the whole day and we ate lunch there and watched the news for the Rally. I live only 25 minutes away...so .
BUT....I heard it was a blast and i had fun watching the news!
When once asked what I would do if I met Jim I said that I would give him so many hugs because he is so damn HOT and then I would tell him to get married. Response, "he is hot, but...nevermind."
The rally looked great...
looks like it rained but they all weathered it.
I think it's commendable to go out and do something as a family,
I'm glad Jim supports Jenny in whatever she does.
There has to be someone out there (a scientist or something that can do
an evaluation on spacing these immunizations out)
Medicines do affect other medicines.
I remember taking my mom to a specialist, I had to drive quite a ways a away,(she was over 70, he looked at all her meds and was agast at what she was taking
with what. He narrowed it down to the most necessary items (which she had been taking for years) then cut down on some, she wasn't such a
Zombie after that and could think more clearly.
Do what is absolutely necessary and space out the others,makes sense to me.
Many YouTube video clips are now online:
Jim Carrey's speech:
- Part 1 (4 minutes 13 seconds)
- Part 2 (4 minutes 51 seconds)
- Part 1 (5 minutes 39 seconds)
Good Morning America
- Part 1 (8 minutes 13 seconds)
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NOTE TO Jim AND JENNY!!!.....HELP!!!!...THE PROBLEM IS TWICE AS BAD HERE!!!.......and no-one is doing anything about it ......i have one class with 6 ASD kids in a class of 32 .....and the council is cutting their support time by half....it's a criminal situation here.
Reminds me of a child I took care of once...
He was a hellion in a group of kids, but on his own, he was entirely different.
Some children just need one on one and others can handle a group quite proficiently. Not all children can be taught the same way, at times they need
to be taught in a different way, perhaps more creatively.
They need to learn without knowing they are learning, it is possible, I had a teacher that could do that, then he'd quiz us and we were stunned with what we knew, some teachers are not like some teachers.
As with Evan, Jim had to creatively figure out how to communicate, and he did. Instead of the old tried and true hammering, maybe all they need is a whisper.
more pics:
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Here's the TMZ footage, and bless him, Dotan's by Jim's side, inc when he's signing an autograph. Just making sure Jim's not signing a blank cheque i guess....lol
Can't play it for..
some reason
Here is a sweet video of Jim meeting the people at the rally ,taking pics with them & luving the kids!!
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ATTICA – Seneca East scored on a bobbled fielder's choice in the bottom of the seventh Monday to clip Hopewell-Loudon 8-7 in Midland Athletic League play.
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Google has recently released a new open-source compression algorithm called Zopfli (thanks Thiago Silvino for the notice). From the four page paper which is authored by Google, Zopfli has better compression ratio than gzip, 7-zip, and kzip, while the compression time is slower - it gets increased by about 10000% (!!). Actually we do not care about compression time at all since that is done just once, when Slax is made. So, could this new algorithm be used in Slax with any benefit?
To answer that question we need to understand what data are we comparing. Slax is using LZMA2 (XZ) compression, which was introduced by 7-zip. LZMA2 is by far the best compression available nowadays. Yet Zopfli claims to provide better compression than 7-zip. It could really seem it is better. But there is a catch. The catch is, Zopfli compression generates data backward compatible with DEFLATE algorithm. When the benchmarks were made, they all compressed some test data to a format which is backward compatible with DEFLATE too. Even when 7-zip application was used, it didn't compress by LZMA2, it did compress by DEFLATE (that is the format you are using in ZIP archives).
So, the answer is no. We can't use Zopfli in Slax, since the compression is insufficient for our needs. But I am sure Zopfli will find its way to the web, where static html pages may be compressed using the improved algorithm, while being still uncompressible with all the existing DEFLATE decompressors used in web browsers.
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Nice that you checked that ... tks for the explanation.
i agree....
İ'm from turkey. i want to ask a question.
how can i setup slax near windows in my computer.
Please help me. Sory for my terrible english
how can i setup slax near windows in my computer.
Thank you jcsoh :)
i will try it :)


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- Core Enhancements
- Incompatible Changes
- Modules and Pragmata
- Documentation
- Diagnostics
- Configuration and Compilation
- Platform Support
- Selected Bug Fixes
- Acknowledgements
- Reporting Bugs
perldelta - what is new for perl v5.17.3
This document describes differences between the 5.17.2 release and the 5.17.3 release.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.17.1, first read perl5172delta, which describes differences between 5.17.1 and 5.17.2.
Core Enhancements
Computed Labels
The loop controls
last and
redo, and the special
dump operator, now allow arbitrary expressions to be used to compute labels at run time. Previously, any argument that was not a constant was treated as the empty string.
Incompatible Changes
$ENV{foo}=undef deletes value from environ, like
delete $ENV{foo}
This facilitates use of
local() with
%ENV entries. In previous versions of Perl,
undef was converted to the empty string.
Defined values stored in environment are forced to byte strings
A value stored in an environment variable has always been stringified. In this release, it is converted to be only a byte string. First, it is forced to be a only a string. Then if the string is utf8 and the equivalent of
utf8::downgrade() works, that result is used; otherwise, the equivalent of
utf8::encode() is used, and a warning is issued about wide characters ("Diagnostics").
given now aliases the global
Instead of assigning to an implicit lexical
given now makes the global
$_ an alias for its argument, just like
foreach. However, it still uses lexical
$_ if there is lexical
$_ in scope (again, just like
foreach) [perl #114020].
Modules and Pragmata
Updated Modules and Pragmata
B has been upgraded from version 1.36 to 1.37. All
GVf_*and more SV-related flag values are now provided as constants in the
B::namespace and available for export. The default export list has not changed.
B::Concise has been upgraded from version 0.91 to 0.92. The
-nobanneroption has been fixed, and
formats can now be dumped. When passed a sub name to dump, it will check also to see whether it is the name of a format. If a sub and a format share the same name, it will dump both.
B::Debug has been upgraded from version 1.17 to 1.18. This adds support (experimentally) for
B::PADLIST, which will be added in Perl 5.17.4.
B::Deparse has been upgraded from version 1.15 to 1.16. It now deparses loop controls with the correct precedence, and multiple statements in a
formatline are also now deparsed correctly.
CGI has been upgraded from version 3.59 to 3.60. Unrecognized HTML escape sequences are now handled better, problematic trailing newlines are no longer inserted after <form> tags by
start_form(), and bogus "Insecure Dependency" warnings appearing with some versions of perl are now worked around.
Compress::Raw::Bzip2 has been upgraded from version 2.05201 to 2.055. The misuse of Perl's "magic" API has been fixed.
Compress::Raw::Zlib has been upgraded from version 2.05401 to 2.056. The misuse of Perl's "magic" API has been fixed.
Compress::Zlib has been upgraded from version 2.052 to 2.055.
memGunzip()have been speeded up by making parameter validation more efficient.
Data::Dumper has been upgraded from version 2.135_06 to 2.135_07. It has been optimized to only build a seen-scalar hash as necessary, thereby speeding up serialization drastically.
Devel::Peek has been upgraded from version 1.08 to 1.09. The only change has been to the test script, to account for changes to some flags in perl's internals.
Encode has been upgraded from version 2.44 to 2.47. The Mac alias x-mac-ce has been added, and various bugs have been fixed in Encode::Unicode, Encode::UTF7 and Encode::GSM0338.
Module::Build has been upgraded from version 0.40 to 0.4003. A minor bug fix allows markup to be used around the leading "Name" in a POD "abstract" line, and some documentation improvements have been made.
Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 2.69 to 2.71. Version information is now stored as a delta, which greatly reduces the size of the CoreList.pm file.
Module::Load::Conditional has been upgraded from version 0.50 to 0.54. Various enhancements include the new use of Module::Metadata.
Module::Metadata has been upgraded from version 1.000009 to 1.000011. The creation of a Module::Metadata object for a typical module file has been sped up by about 40%, and some spurious warnings about
$VERSIONs have been suppressed.
Module::Pluggable has been upgraded from version 4.0 to 4.3. Amongst other changes, triggers are now allowed on events, which gives a powerful way to modify behaviour.
perlfaq has been upgraded from version 5.0150040 to 5.0150041. This contains a couple of minor corrections and lists one new editor.
Pod::Simple has been upgraded from version 3.20 to 3.23. Numerous improvements have been made, mostly to Pod::Simple::XHTML, which also has a compatibility change: the
codes_in_verbatimoption is now disabled by default. See cpan/Pod-Simple/ChangeLog for the full details.
re has been upgraded from version 0.21 to 0.22. Single character [class]es like
/[s]/iare now optimized as if they did not have the brackets, i.e.
Socket has been upgraded from version 2.002 to 2.004. Constants and functions required for IP multicast source group membership have been added.
Storable has been upgraded from version 2.37 to 2.38. It can now freeze and thaw vstrings correctly. This causes a slight incompatible change in the storage format, so the format version has increased to 2.9.
Sys::Syslog has been upgraded from version 0.29 to 0.31. This contains several bug fixes relating to
setlogsock()and log levels in
syslog(), together with fixes for Windows, Haiku-OS and GNU/kFreeBSD. See cpan/Sys-Syslog/Changes for the full details.
Term::ReadLine has been upgraded from version 1.09 to 1.10. This fixes the use of the cpan and cpanp shells on Windows in the event that the current drive happens to contain a \dev\tty file.
Text::Tabs and Text::Wrap have been upgraded from version 2009.0305 to 2012.0818. Support for Unicode combining characters has been added to them both.
Time::Local has been upgraded from version 1.2000 to 1.2300. Seconds values greater than 59 but less than 60 no longer cause
timelocal()to croak.
Unicode::UCD has been upgraded from version 0.44 to 0.45. This has been modified slightly for reasons of perl internal use only.
Win32 has been upgraded from version 0.44 to 0.45. New APIs have been added for getting and setting the current code page.
Win32CORE has been upgraded from version 0.02 to 0.03. The use of PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT here has resulted in smaller machine code.
Changes to Existing Documentation
perlfunc, perlop
Loop control verbs (
redo) have always had the same precedence as assignment operators, but this was not documented until now.
A caveat has been added to the documentation for
$_warning against the use of lexical
$_[perl #114020].
The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output, including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of diagnostic messages, see perldiag.
New Diagnostics
New Errors
Unterminated delimiter for here document
This message now occurs when a here document label has an initial quotation mark but the final quotation mark is missing.
This replaces a bogus and misleading error message about not finding the label itself [perl #114104].
panic: child pseudo-process was never scheduled
This error is thrown when a child pseudo-process in the ithreads implementation on Windows was not scheduled within the time period allowed and therefore was not able to initialize properly [perl #88840].
New Warnings
Attempts to put wide characters into environment variables via
%ENVnow provoke this warning.
Configuration and Compilation
The pager detection in Configure has been improved to allow responses which specify options after the program name, e.g. /usr/bin/less -R, if the user accepts the default value. This helps perldoc when handling ANSI escapes [perl #72156].
Platform Support
Discontinued Platforms
- UTS Global
Support code relating to UTS global has been removed. UTS was a mainframe version of System V created by Amdahl, subsequently sold to UTS Global. The port has not been touched since before Perl 5.8.0, and UTS Global is now defunct.
Platform-Specific Notes
- Windows
A new makefile option, USE_64_BIT_INT, has been added to the Windows makefiles. Set this to "define" when building a 32-bit perl if you want it to use 64-bit integers.
Machine code size reductions, already made to the DLLs of XS modules in Perl 5.17.2, have now been extended to the perl DLL itself.
Building with VC++ 6.0 was inadvertently broken in Perl 5.17.2 but has now been fixed again.
The a2p build has been fixed for the HP C++ compiler on OpenVMS.
Selected Bug Fixes
\wnow matches the code points U+200C (ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER) and U+200D (ZERO WIDTH JOINER).
\Wno longer matches these. This change is because Unicode corrected their definition of what
\wshould match.
dump LABELno longer leaks its label.
Constant folding no longer changes the behaviour of functions like
truncate()that can take either filenames or handles.
stat 1 ? foo : barnows treats its argument as a file name (since it is an arbitrary expression), rather than the handle "foo".
truncate FOO, $lenno longer falls back to treating "FOO" as a file name if the filehandle has been deleted. This was broken in Perl 5.16.0.
Subroutine redefinitions after sub-to-glob and glob-to-glob assignments no longer cause double frees or panic messages.
s///now turns vstrings into plain strings when performing a substitution, even if the resulting string is the same (
Prototype mismatch warnings no longer erroneously treat constant subs as having no prototype when they actually have "".
Constant subroutines and forward declarations no longer prevent prototype mismatch warnings from omitting the sub name.
undefon a subroutine now clears call checkers.
refoperator started leaking memory on blessed objects in Perl 5.16.0. This has been fixed [perl #114340].
useno longer tries to parse its arguments as a statement, making
use constant { () };a syntax error [perl #114222].
On debugging builds, "uninitialized" warnings inside formats no longer cause assertion failures.
On debugging builds, subroutines nested inside formats no longer cause assertion failures [perl #78550].
Formats and
usestatements are now permitted inside formats.
print $xand
sub { print $x }->()now always produce the same output. It was possible for the latter to refuse to close over $x if the variable was not active; e.g., if it was defined outside a currently-running named subroutine.
print $xand
print eval '$x'now produce the same output. This also allows "my $x if 0" variables to be seen in the debugger [perl #114018].
Formats called recursively no longer stomp on their own lexical variables, but each recursive call has its own set of lexicals.
Attempting to free an active format or the handle associated with it no longer results in a crash.
Format parsing no longer gets confused by braces, semicolons and low-precedence operators. It used to be possible to use braces as format delimiters (instead of
.), but only sometimes. Semicolons and low-precedence operators in format argument lines no longer confuse the parser into ignoring the line's return value. In format argument lines, braces can now be used for anonymous hashes, instead of being treated always as
Formats can now be nested inside code blocks in regular expressions and other quoted constructs (
qq/${...}/) [perl #114040].
Formats are no longer created after compilation errors.
Some format syntax errors started causing crashes in Perl 5.17.2, but have now been fixed.
Under debugging builds, the -DA command line option started crashing in Perl 5.16.0. It has been fixed [perl #114368].
Scope::Escape compatibility, which was broken in Perl 5.17.2, has been restored [perl #113872].
A potential deadlock scenario involving the premature termination of a pseudo- forked child in a Windows build with ithreads enabled has been fixed. This resolves the common problem of the t/op/fork.t test hanging on Windows [perl #88840].
The microperl build, broken since Perl 5.15.7, has now been restored.
The code which generates errors from
require()could potentially read one or two bytes before the start of the filename for filenames less than three bytes long and ending
/\.p?\z/. This has now been fixed. Note that it could never have happened with module names given to
The handling of pathnames of modules given to
require()has been made thread-safe on VMS.
re_compile()API function, the entry point for perl's regex compiler, was accidentally changed in Perl 5.17.1 to operate on the current engine. This has now been restored to its former core-engine-specific state [perl #114302].
Perl 5.17.1 introduced a memory leak into the re-use of run-time regexes where the pattern hasn't changed (i.e.
/$unchanging/). This has now been fixed.
A bug in the compilation of a
/(?{})/expression which affected the TryCatch test suite has been fixed [perl #114242].
Formats no longer leak. They started leaking in Perl 5.17.2.
Pod can now be nested in code inside a quoted construct outside of a string eval. This used to work only within string evals [perl #114040].
Perl 5.17.3 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.17.2 and contains approximately 85,000 lines of changes across 470 files from 24 authors.
Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.17.3:
Andy Dougherty, Chip Salzenberg, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Daniel Dragan, Dave Rolsky, David Leadbeater, David Mitchell, Eric Brine, Father Chrysostomos, Goro Fuji, James E Keenan, Jan Dubois, Joaquin Ferrero, Karl Williamson, Nicholas Clark, Paul Marquess, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Robin Barker, Shirakata Kentaro, Steffen Müller, Steve Hay, Tony Cook.
The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.
Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for helping Perl to flourish.
For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
Reporting Bugs
If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . There may also be information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the perlbug program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the output of
perl -V, will be sent off to email@example.com to be analysed by the Perl porting team.
If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please send it to firstname.lastname@example.com. This points to a closed subscription unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core committers, who will be able to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution, and help co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for security issues in the Perl core, not for modules independently distributed on CPAN.
The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on what changed.
The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.
The README file for general stuff.
The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.


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Tom Fooshee wins the Corpus Christi Pro
Corpus Christi Pro Kicker Comp
Sponsored by the Texas International Boat Show
For those who claim that everything's bigger in Texas, the party surrounding the 2010 Corpus Christi Wakeboard Invitational was proof positive. 90 degree temperatures and the beautiful Texas coast provided the perfect atmosphere for a party only the Texas International Boat Show could throw! The stadium seating at the famous Corpus Christi Marina, along with luxury yachts, fishing boats and endless docks all provided top tier seating with amazing views of the action as the Texas Ski Ranch crew rocked the marina along with the some of the best wakeboarders in the country. The only distraction may have been all the pretty Texas girls soaking up the late spring sunshine.
The invitational was located within the Boat Show marina, so the water was protected from the usually strong coastal winds. Calm water provided perfect conditions for competitors to put on an explosive show and battle for the competition crown along with some of the largest cash prizes ($15,000) in Texas wakeboard history, the purse provided by the Texas International Boat Show. Riders like Tom Foshee, Gabe Lucas and Corpus Christi native Chad Douglas all proved that Texas is indeed a premier training ground for serious wakeboarders.
Riders competed in six rounds of competition, narrowing the field to eight for the semi finals (all guaranteed to earn at least $1000) and four for the finals on Sunday. Tom Fooshee and Gabe Lucas, took their customary spots in the finals while the other two spots were filled by Austin Hair and Eric Deegan. In one of the toughest decisions of the weekend Joey Bradley finished fifth just missing the finals. The finals consisted of five turns each allowing two kicker hits for each rider giving them ten attempts in the round. The judges were looking at the riders four best hits and wanting to see a variety of spins and inverts. Like last year Tom Fooshee earned the last spot off the dock by qualifying highest in the semi finals. Just like last year Tom waited for the final hit of the competetion to secure his second consecutive title. Tom landed a switch heelside 900 on the very last trick to win not only the tournament but also the J.U.D.Y. best trick award that brought him an extra $1000.
1. Tom Fooshee (New Braunfels, TX)
Switch HS 7, Whirley, Crow Mobe 5, Switch HS 9
2. Gabe Lucas (Seguin, TX)
Slim Chance, Wrapped KGB, HS BS 360, HS Off Axis 540
3. Austin Hair (Orlando, FL)
Indy Tant to Blind, HS BS 540, Indy Off Axis BS 360, HS 540 or Whirley
4. Eric Deegan (Houston, TX)
Whirley, TS Off 540, HS Off 540, Melon HS Front
5. Joey Bradley (Arlington, TX)
6. Logan Ferris (Canyon Lake, TX)
7. Chad Douglas (Corpus Christi, TX)
8. Rusty Scott (Dallas, TX)
The Corpus Christi International Boat Show is a one of a kind experience combining all the fun of a traditional boat show with the excitement of the a myriad of events, all in idyllic setting. The thrills and chills of power boat racing and kiteboarding added spice to the huge fishing tournament and outdoor festival. Island music entertained in between events as attendees enjoyed everything from fine art to fishing accessories brought in by vendors and artisans. Whether your preference is shaved ice and corn dogs, or fine dining with ocean views, there was something for everyone at this unforgettable event.
Texas Ski Ranch and the Texas International Boat Show would like to thank the sponsors that made this years event possible: American Bank, Budweiser, Coca Cola, Master Craft, Gulf Coast Marine, Monster, Academy, Eddie Yaklin Ford, Michelob Ultra, NOV Power, Champion Toyota & Whataburger.
Texas Ski Ranch will be hosting their next event at TSR on May 7th-9th. Cablestock is building up to be the biggest event ever at TSR with 6 different wake comps, a skateboard comp, bikini contest and Mickey Avalon headlining Saturday night. For more information go to http://texasskiranch.com/cablestock/
Corpus Christi Pro from Joey Arcisz on Vimeo.


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CHEESE & OTHER CHOW: Our plans for you in the coming days are pretty food heavy, so it's time to jettison that cutting-down resolution you made with such childlike enthusiasm just a couple of short weeks ago.
It's OK. You didn't know that Cheese Week was coming. You hadn't expected a fleet of food trucks to be rolling into town. You had no way of knowing that Hof's Hut was going to slash its prices at its doomed Marina store in appreciation for your decades of patronage. You're just a person trying to make a change in your life by cutting back on eating. Well, welcome to reality, Bright Eyes.
CHEESE WEEK: We're in the middle of Restaurant Week in California and Downtown Long Beach is celebrating the occasion by throwing its first Cheese Week from Monday through Jan. 27, with 16 restaurants in the old part of town participating in several ways. District Wine in the East Village is offering a cheese and wine pairing; the Sky Room at the Breakers is dishing up a cheese tapas menu with more than a dozen items; Potholder Cafe Too is rolling out a five-cheese omelette for $7.95; go to Buono's Authentic Pizzeria, mention Cheese Week and you get extra cheese on any menu item or 10 percent off your tab.
Several downtown restaurants, including Agaves Kitchen & Tequila, Beachwood BBQ & Brewing, Congregation Ale House, Gaucho Grill, George's Greek Cafe, L'Opera, Stefano's Pizza and Utopia, are offering special Cheese Week menus.
To get a load of the various menus and specials, go to www.downtownlongbeach.org.
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES: Just got off the phone with Hof's Hut president Craig Hofman, and here's the latest news: Hof's Hut in the Marina is still going to close, despite the protests of many of its long and loyal customers. And still no news about what's going to pop up in its place.
Meanwhile, though, Hofman is throwing a bash, of sorts, for those same loyal customers by hosting a Guest Appreciation Day on Tuesday to celebrate the half-century's worth of memories and good times at the beloved eatery.
On Tuesday, from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., Hof's at the Marina will be offering a buy-one, get-one-free special on its breakfast, lunch and dinner menus. If you come by yourself, or are the odd-numbered person in your party, you get your entree at half price.
Many remain miffed at the restaurant's impending closure – its lease runs out March 1. Who knows whether the Guest Appreciation Day will help allay the disappointment.
"Think this'll do the trick?" we asked Hofman.
"I don't know what will do the trick," he said. "I hope that it does show that we do care about the people who have come to Hof's Hut for so many years."
He noted that many of the equally loyal employees at the Marina venue are finding jobs within the Hof's company, which includes Lucille's barbecue restaurants as well as a half-dozen Hof's Huts in the area.
TRUCKS WITH FOOD!: Meals on Wheels, which, oddly, isn't the name of a food truck, and the Belmont Heights United Methodist Church (also not a food truck) are teaming for a series of Third Saturday Gourmet Food Truck Nights, kicking off from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the church, 317 Termino Ave. in Belmont Heights.
There'll be four food trucks and a dessert truck at the opener. Dining is indoors.
FRIDAY PLAYLIST: Suddenly, Saturday is Gun Appreciation Day. Well, that changes everything! The only thing that beats a bad guy with an iPod is a good guy with an iPod. That guy, we submit, is us: .
1. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," The Beatles
2. "Lawyers, Guns and Money," Warren Zevon
3. "Someone to Pull the Trigger," Matthew Sweet
4. "A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun," Tom Waits
5. "There Goes My Gun," Pixies
6. "Shotgun," Junior Walker & the All-Stars
8. "Washington Bullets," Clash
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Publishers Can't Seem To Celebrate The Ebook Boom Without Slipping In Odes To Copyright
from the not-quite-right deptThe BBC reports on the success of ebook sales in the UK, which are up by 188% compared to last year. This is great news for authors and e-commerce. Ebook reading devices have become increasingly easy to use and the online shops for ebooks are getting far more user-friendly by the day. Although I'm not fully converted myself yet (still unsure about the digital right management controls and the unnecessary high prices), about half the books I read are ebooks and most other documents I read are on tablets and computers. The non-believers are slowly but surely being proven wrong and the market is speaking for itself.
The piece by the BBC, which praises the market developments for consumers and authors alike, includes an odd quote, which seems more like pro-copyright lobby-speak and out of place in the article:
"The huge increase in digital sales shows how rapidly readers and publishers are embracing e-book reading," said Richard Mollet, the trade body's chief executive (Publishers Association, ed.). "Whether books are enjoyed physically or electronically, publishers will continue to invest in exciting authors and titles. They can do this because of the stability provided by the UK's robust and flexible copyright framework. This is why The PA is at the forefront of calls to government to ensure that copyright is not eroded and that creators' rights are protected and supported online."It is surprising in several ways that Mr. Mollet mentions the copyright framework. First, if this is true under today's system, why is his association actively pushing for stricter, less flexible copyright laws? Second, why is the current copyright framework more suitable for book authors and not musicians and movie producers, whose lobbyists are standing in line to complain about the current system? And why does the journalist bother to mention this in the quote at all, when the whole article is a praise of the market adapting to consumer needs?
Let's face it, the copyright system, robust or useless, hardly comes into the equation concerning the recent success of the ebooks market. Ebooks are among the easiest things to pirate. In fact, it is very easy to download zipped files containing thousands of digitized books. Ebook publishers are thus effectively—and successfully—competing with an abundant free supply of their goods.
Fortunately for books publishers, they have had several valuable case studies from which they could learn, namely the decade-long failed attempts of the music and movie industries to cope with the advent of the internet. After wasting gazillions on litigation and lobbying, these industries came to understand that the user does actually spend money on media when it is made easy.
In short, success of content business models depends on the user experience you offer your customers, not more or less strict copyright regulation. It also seems very hypocritical for content lobbyists to praise the copyright system when the market is doing well, and blame the same system when the market is not performing to their wishes.
Filed Under: competition, copyright, ebooks, exaggerations, richard mollett, uk
Companies: publishers association