text: EGCG 8.0 ======== Introduction ============ The EGCG package of entensions to the GCG (Wisconsin) sequence analysis package is now available as a beta release. A report on EGCG 8.0 is included in the latest issue of embnet.news, available from the following sources: URL http://www.sanger.ac.uk/~pmr/egcg.html (EGCG article) URL http://www.dl.ac.uk/embnet.news/vol2_2/contents.html (vol 2, no. 2) Throughout the development of the EGCG package, there have been excellent collaborations with the EMBnet community. Academic software such as EGCG, developed for a limited number of users, cannot under normal circumstances be maintained to a sufficient standard for reliable public use. Only the large number of EMBnet users, and the efforts of the EMBnet support personnel, have made it possible to produce a robust package. In return, we receive many suggestions for further developments which we can provide and test locally and then easily incorporate into the next release. The EGCG team have fixed the major problems reported by the pre-beta testers. The beta release should work correctly on Irix 5.2, OSF/1 V3.0, Solaris 2.3 and OpenVMS-AXP V6.1 systems. Distribution ============ EGCG is no longer distributed with GCG. We prefer to distribute the package directly to users through FTP, allowing us to more rapidly provide new programs and updates, and to keep control of our own software. The EGCG programs are distributed freely to academic users throughout the world. The only requirement is that users must have a valid GCG licence to build the programs. We have a new E-mail address for support. All questions and comments about EGCG can now be sent to egcg at embnet.org . The main distribution site is at The Sanger Centre, Hinxton, UK. Anonymous FTP: ftp.sanger.ac.uk directory: pub/pmr/egcg8 (main distribution in .tar.Z format) directory: pub/pmr/egcg8vms (.bck format for for VMS sites) The EGCG programs can be installed as a single copy on a mixed unix or VMS cluster. Separate directories are used for the system-specific files (object files and image files). Release Notes ============= EGCG 8.0 supports GCG release 8.0. The Unix and VMS sources are identical. Many programs have been significantly improved since the last Unix and VMS releases of EGCG 7. We are working on full release notes to document the changes. Highlights of EGCG 8.0 include: * All programs now run on Unix and VMS (many were VMS only in EGCG 7). These include MAPSELECT which creates local enzyme data files; PEPCOIL which identifies coiled-coil regions and leucine zippers; NEWFEATURES which analyses and edits the EMBL feature table; TPROFILESEARCH which compares protein profiles to DNA databases; and PEPALLWINDOW which plots hydrophobicity for aligned sequences. * New programs in release 8.0 include POLAND which simulates transition curves for DNA and RNA; PRETTYBOX which produces shaded sequence alignments; and STSSEARCH which searches a DNA database for matches to primer pairs * The EQuickSearch programs remain fully supported and enhanced in EGCG. * PRETTYBOX is now an EGCG program. * Colour options are added to PRETTYPLOT and several other programs. * Single source version for Unix and VMS to make code management easier. * EGCG procedure libraries EGENLIB and EGENAPPLIB. * Standardized user prompts in all programs. * Full command line control. * All programs can be run in batch (postponed until GCG 8.1 is released). * Standardized and simplified graphics routines. * E-mail support from the EGCG team egcg at embnet.org Into the Future =============== Since EGCG was first released with GCG, it has become very popular at a number of sites around the world. We now have a backlog of program submissions to include in EGCG which we plan to add as soon as the C interface to the procedure library is in place. Contributing authors in the backlog include William Pearson and Rainer Fuchs. Additional contributions are always welcome. Acknowledgements ================ We are very grateful to (in alphabetical order) Rein Aasland, Wilhelm Ansorge, Peer Bork, Thure Etzold, Toby Gibson, Tom Kristensen, David Mathog, Franc Pattus, Kate Rice, Christian Schwager, Peter Sibbald, Julie Thompson, Hartmut Voss, Gert Vriend and Rick Westerman for their many contributions and critical comments as users of the EGCG Programs. We are also deeply indebted to the staff of GCG Inc. who provided rapid and helpful answers to our many questions during the development of the programs. Many thanks to Irv Edelman, Maggie Smith, Donald Katz, Michael Hogan, Joseph King, Lynn Miller, Mary Schulz and especially John Devereux. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Rice | Informatics Division E-mail: pmr at sanger.ac.uk | The Sanger Centre Tel: (44) 1223 494967 | Hinxton Hall, Hinxton, Fax: (44) 1223 494919 | Cambs, CB10 1RQ URL: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/~pmr/ | England


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In the summer of 2003, Viacom executive Mel Karmazin managed to sum up old media's horror of the Internet with one of business lore's greatest vulgar one-liners. Karmazin, a swaggering former ad salesman and onetime CBS Corporation president, had made an expedition to check out Silicon Valley's hottest young upstart: Google.
Sitting in the future search giant's offices, he listened in dismay as its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and its CEO, Eric Schmidt, detailed the many ways their company could track and analyze the effectiveness of online advertising.
This could not possibly be good for business, Karmazin thought. It had always been nearly impossible for marketers to tell which of their ads worked and which didn't, and the less they knew, the more a network like CBS could charge for a 30-second spot. Art was far more profitable than science.
As Ken Auletta later recounted in his 2009 history of Google, Karmazin stared at his hosts and blurted out, "You're f---ing with the magic!"
A decade later, someone finally seems to be, well, messing with Google's own bag of tricks. Last year, a group of economists working with eBay's internal research lab issued a massive experimental study with a simple, startling conclusion: For a large, well-known brand, search ads are probably worthless. This month, their findings were re-released as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research and greeted with a round of coverage asking whether Internet advertising of any kind works at all.
"We know a lot less than the advertising industry would like us to think we know," Steven Tadelis, one of the eBay study's co-authors, told me.
Ask Google, Facebook, or Twitter, of course, and they'll reliably bust out third-party research explaining that their ads work just fine, even if consumers don't always click on them. An entire ecosystem of analytics companies, including big names like ComScore and Nielsen, has evolved to tell clients which online advertisements give them the biggest bang for their bucks.
Especially cutting-edge firms, such as Datalogix, have even found ways to draw correlations between the ads consumers see online and what they buy in stores. We are swimming in data. And there are plenty of professionals out there happy to tell corporate America what all that data means, with the help of some fancy mathematical models.
The problem, according to Tadelis and others, is that much of the data websites generate is more or less useless. Some of the problems are practically as old as marketing itself. For instance, companies like to run large ad campaigns during major shopping seasons, like Christmas.
But if sales double come December, it's hard to say whether the ad or the holiday was responsible. Companies also understandably like to target audiences they think will like what they're selling. But that always leads to the nagging question of whether the customer would have gone and purchased the product regardless. Economists call this issue "endogeneity." Derek Thompson at the Atlantic dubs it the "I-was-gonna-buy-it-anyway problem."
But the Internet also gunks up attempts at analysis in its own special ways. For instance, if somebody searches for "Amazon, banana slicer," and clicks on a search ad that pops up right next to his results, chances are he would have made it to Amazon's site without the extra nudge. Even if he never typed the word Amazon, he still might have gotten to the site through the natural power of search. In the end, it all comes down to the evergreen challenge of distinguishing correlation (e.g., a Facebook user saw an ad and then bought some shoes) from causation (e.g., a Facebook user bought some shoes because he saw an ad).
There is, however, a way to get around these hurdles: Run an experiment. Most analytics companies don't do that, relying instead on elaborate statistical regressions that try to fix flawed data.
But it's the route Tadelis—now a business professor at the University of California, Berkeley—and his collaborators took with eBay. In their first test, the researchers looked at what would happen if the company stopped buying ads next to its own name, which seemed like the most obvious waste of money. To do so, they pulled the ads from Yahoo and MSN but left them running on Google. It turns out, the advertising made virtually no difference. Yet eBay was spending dollars every time a customer clicked an ad instead of the link sitting right below it.
The second test was more intriguing, and more worrisome for Google. The group wanted to see what would happen if eBay stopped buying ads next to results for normal keyword searches that didn't include brand names, like "banana slicer," "shoes," or "electric guitar." In the name of science, the company then randomly shut down its Google ads in some geographic regions and left them running in others. The results here were a bit more nuanced. On average, the ads didn't seem to have much impact at all on frequent eBay users—they still made it to the site. But they did seem to lure a few new customers.
"For people who've never used eBay or never heard of eBay, those ads were extremely profitable," Tadelis said. "The problem was that for every one of those guys, there were dozens of guys who were going to eBay anyway." Add it all up, and eBay's search ads turned out to be a money-loser.
Tadelis and his team believe that the results would probably be the same for most well-known brands. But for smaller companies—where customers might not know about them without the search ads, and who probably wouldn't rank as high in results—it could be different.
Overall, the eBay paper isn't great news for Google. But it also confirms some of the promise of online advertising. Even if many analytics companies don't use a gold standard—a randomized control experiment to figure out if their clients are getting their money's worth—it is theoretically possible to show that the ads work.
It isn't easy, of course. In 2013, Randall Lewis of Google and Justin Rao of Microsoft released the paper "On the Near Impossibility of Measuring the Returns on Advertising." In it, they analyzed the results of 25 different field experiments involving digital ad campaigns, most of which reached more than 1 million unique viewers. The gist: Consumer behavior is so erratic that even in a giant, careful trial, it's devilishly difficult to arrive at a useful conclusion about whether advertisements work.
For example, when the researchers calculated the return on investment for each ad campaign, the median standard error was a massive 51 percent. In other words, even if the analysis suggested an ad buy delivered a 50 percent return, it was possible that the company actually lost money. You couldn't say for sure. "As an advertiser, the data are stacked against you," the researchers concluded. That bodes poorly for your typical marketing schmo trying to glean meaning from a Google analytics page—all he can do is try to stack enough data to overcome his statistical problems.
Still, in an email, Lewis told me that he believes "online ads absolutely work." Or, at least, they can work. For instance, Lewis and his Google colleague David Reiley have written papers showing that display ads on Yahoo led to more customers making purchases in stores. The problem, Lewis argues, is that most analytics firms aren't scientific enough about measuring profitability. Because they don't run real experiments, he thinks most end up conflating correlation and causation.
In our interview, Tadelis put his advice to advertisers a little more bluntly. "If you were comfortable for the past 100 years, if you were comfortable pissing in the wind and hoping it goes in the right direction, don't kid yourself now by looking at this data."
I imagine Mel Karmazin would approve.

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The Army statement said Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, the commanding general of the military district of Washington, approved the convictions and the sentence on Thursday.
"His decision to approve the results of the court-martial, which concluded on Aug. 21, 2013, means that no clemency was granted in the case," the Army said. The statement offered no insight into the general's thinking or rationale.
Manning was convicted of sending hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and military reports to WikiLeaks in 2010 in what was considered at the time to be the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history.
Col. Denise Lind, the military judge who heard the case instead of the military equivalent of a jury, found Manning guilty on 20 charges but acquitted her of the most serious: aiding the enemy. She imposed the 35-year sentence, the longest ever for a leaker in U.S. history.
Buchanan had the authority to lower the sentence or set aside any or all of the convictions, but he did not do so. An appeal to the Army Court of Criminal Appeals is automatic, the Army said.
A lawyer who recently agreed to represent Manning for the appeals process, Nancy Hollander, said the decision was not a surprise.
"We did not expect any relief" from the convening authority, Hollander said via email, using Buchanan's formal title in connection with the case. "We are going forward with the appeal."
At a public event Sunday night, Hollander charged the Obama administration with abusing the Espionage Act by using the law's severe penalties to go after leakers whose conduct is not the equivalent of espionage.
Manning's lawyers are also seeking clemency from President Barack Obama, but the White House has said such a request will not be considered until all appeals are exhausted.
Manning's trial revealed gender identity issues. The Army intelligence analyst was formerly known as Bradley but has filed for a name change to Chelsea.
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Writing a review for a game in Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series is different than writing a review for other games, because Nintendo's work allows discussion of higher level elements such as form and structure rather than implementation. The camera for example, which has been the bane of most other third-person games, Majora's Mask somehow improves from Ocarina of Time. It's perfect, both in placement and behavior, and does wonders for immersing the player in the game. The controls that are both complex and effortless reinforce the fact that Nintendo understands and practices the fundamentals of game design better than anyone in the industry. It's wasted ink to say how much of joy comes from playing Majora's Mask, just because it's from Nintendo and we expect as much. From this statement, we can focus more on the structure and form of the new elements introduced into Majora's Mask.
The centerpiece of the sixth Zelda game is Clock Town, a large bustling city that is literally and figuratively the heart of the game. The city is beautiful and features great architecture, but the real magic is in the inhabitants that carry out their daily routines in the town's streets, shops and homes. For example, you can follow the mailman performing his rounds in the morning, afternoon and evening each day. You can see the gradual construction of a tower by workers, each day climbing higher. All the characters in Clock Town have a sense of the impending doom, worried about the gigantic grinning face looming in the sky. Your role is to somehow fix the world in a Groundhog Day-like manner, setting things right for individuals in the town. This may be as simple as listening to one of them tell a story of a sad thing in their past or as involved as reuniting a pair of lovers torn apart by evil plans.
In this manner, Majora's Mask uses the time in Clock Town in a completely different manner than Shenmue, an adventure game by Sega that features a similar time-driven town. Most of the characters in Shenmue operate similar to well-rehearsed walk-ons; they flow through the cities and have a daily pattern, but they serve more as well-crafted decoration than an integral part of the game. In Majora's Mask there are far fewer characters, but you must understand their lives in order to help them. Helping them often involves following them the entire three-day cycle and is simultaneously the most boring and exciting element in Majora's Mask. You follow the character around all day, bored to tears waiting for something interesting to happen, but when something does occur, it's often a memorable moment that defines the character and the game, making your patience worthwhile. After walking in the footsteps of the townsfolk, the player begins to understand the town as one would understand a old neighborhood, an area filled with characters with real lives. This intimate familiarity with the complex workings of the community combined with the knowledge that you have helped these people is rewarding in a wonderful and powerful way.
The only letdown about Clock Town is that the rest of the game is nothing like it. Aside from the local ranch, the other settlements in Termina are populated by typical RPG inhabitants; characters that are fixed in place with no home or life, repeating themselves, and completely oblivious of the moon attempting to smash into the planet. This inconsistency is unsettling because it pops the delicate bubble of immersion. It seems that Nintendo worked very hard to create the intricate video game environments in Clock Town and then forgot to apply its meaningful characters and depth of interaction to the inhabitants of Termina. The inconsistency between the town and the rest of the world often drops the player's expectations of the game from something revolutionary to a standard Zelda adventure.
Not that being a "standard" Zelda game is by any means a bad thing, but when the game slips, it feels more like falling into convention than making a real stumble. This is because the mechanics of the Zelda series is both its greatest strength and weakness. The dungeon romp gameplay has been nearly unchanged since the NES classic in 1985. You wander around the overworld and perform a task to open a dungeon. In the dungeon, you wander around—fighting monsters and solving puzzles to uncover the map and compass. You fight a mini-boss to gain a special item which allows you to access more areas of the dungeon, which in turn allows you to get the boss key which unlocks the final battle. It's like Swiss clockwork in its effectiveness, predictability and precision, and has served the Zelda series well, acting as a guide for players and a thoughtful framework for the designers to explore. It is also an elaborate cage that is preventing the Zelda series from growing into something more interesting.
For the first time in the series, the dungeon system in Zelda has begun to show its age. This may be the result of the dynamic Clock Town that brings the game into the fourth dimension, making the dungeons seem lacking in their mere 3-D nature. It may be the uninspiring final bosses that are a pale shadow to the great conflicts in Ocarina of Time. (Though the mini-bosses have never been better, with the exception of the oft-repeated Wizrobe.) It may be the result of familiarity with the items from Ocarina of Time. I walked into many rooms in the first two dungeons and immediately completed them in my head because they were using the same game mechanics as Ocarina of Time. Fire arrow there, hookshot here, whammo; now all I have to do is find those items. I believe the issue is that the Zelda dungeons have always been a way for the designers to explain to the player the fundamentals of the game world in bite-sized lessons. In Majora's Mask, it seems as if they have little to say, or at least nothing as new or as interesting as the other advancements introduced in the game. Fortunately, the final two of the four dungeons are among the best in the series, and succeed by pressing level design to the very edge allowed by the framework. While the later two are better, they don't directly address the limiting nature of the mechanics and are more of a stop-gap fix than a real solution. The dungeons are still enjoyable and a worthwhile challenge, but they have not evolved enough to keep pace with the other advances in the game.
While the dungeons have begun to show their age, some elements of the reward system have completely broken down. The major rewards are fine, especially the new masks. The problem is that the world is saturated with little puzzles and mini-quests that reward the player with quarter hearts and money. Extending one's health is usually a very compelling reward in games, but Majora's Mask uses it so frequently that it loses its impact. With a astounding 52 quarter hearts available in the game, you can fill Link's life up to 20 hearts, 10 more than ever possibly needed. Now that Link can carry six bottles with fairies, the game can even be completed without finding any extra life very easily. The spectre of death was removed from the Zelda games since A Link to the Past, but the bloated health bar removes a lot of the tension in combat and allows the player to be sloppy. The money issue is somehow worse. The Nintendo developers still believe that providing a player with cash and without anything interesting to do with it is somehow a compelling reward. The situation has improved somewhat from Ocarina of Time with the inclusion of a bank to store your excess piles of rupees, but outside of the handful of purchases and a few mini-games, your money gathers dust in the bank. It is frustrating to complete a difficult task and receive a worthless reward.
While there are elements of Majora's Mask that could have used some work, most of the game is executed to perfection and exceeds the great heights of the series. For example, the narrative in Majora's Mask succeeds in spinning a well-crafted story that is less innocent but maintains the beauty. Characters spend their final moments prior to destruction drowning their sorrow in milk, cowering in their rooms, or arguing over evacuation. The game's cutscenes (especially the Zora guitarist and the Goron parent) are artistic, brief and extremely potent, showing the industry how cinematics should be used in games. The main story gets left behind at times, but the subplots do a great deal of drawing the player into the world.
The transformation masks effectively borrow the main hook of the Kirby games. For the most part, all three forms are wonderful. Each of the characters has its own feel and identity that makes them unique. Goron Link walks slowly and can't jump, Deku Link is highly flammable, and Zora Link is much more functional in the water. The special abilities that the characters have are great fun, but seem more fitting to a Mario game. Don't get me wrong, tearing through the overworld as a huge Goron Garden Weasel and porpising above the water as the Zora are two of the best things in Majora's Mask. The only real complaint is that the characters can't use items that seem entirely appropriate. For example, as a Goron, the bomb people from Ocarina of Time, Link can't use bombs. Unfortunately, all of the transformations severely limits the items that you can use, making the masks more of a temporary effect to evoke than a separate skin to grow into and understand.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask takes one big step forward while the other bum leg drags along. In spite of its inconsistency, it improves upon the amazing Ocarina of Time by fixing a number of gameplay issues and introducing the transformation masks and the adventure game elements in Clock Town. Even though the dungeons and rewards need much work for the next game in the series, the sum is an amazing game that is, in this reviewer's opinion, the best game of the year. The only reason I docked it half a point is that the Majora's Mask team inherited a wonderful game engine and that they should have made the entire package more consistent.
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In her strangely sweet coming-of-age novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Doubleday, 2010), Aimee Bender brings her unique brand of magic into the kitchen. On the cusp of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers something extraordinary: she can taste her mother's hidden emotions in the cake. This book excerpt so captivated me—indeed, our entire editorial staff—we had to find out more about the book's origins. Generous with her time and personal experiences, Aimee agreed to chat about lemon cakes, surreal meals, anonymity, and the ability of food to repair our losses.
Allison Parker: In The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, Rose's affliction—her ability to taste the emotions of the people who prepare the food she eats—is both an extraordinary talent and a curse. How did you come up with the premise of the book?
Aimee Bender: I'm not completely sure how to track it, but I do have a close friend who often has talked about feelings—her own and those of other people—as something to digest. Or metabolize. Or process. All words that can apply to food as well. I think that sunk in pretty deeply and made sense to me.
ACP: The first time Rose discovers this ability, she's eating a cake her mother has made for her birthday. Do you bake?
Aimee Bender: I like to cook, but I'm not very good at baking.
ACP: So, how many cakes did you eat in the name of research while writing this book?
Aimee Bender: Many! I also have enjoyed many cakes at readings lately, which has been a treat. Though I've heard how lemon and chocolate is not a common combo—something I didn't know.
ACP: What made you decide on a lemon-chocolate cake for Rose?
Aimee Bender: It wasn't a calculated choice, but I think I did like the way that lemon is both sour and sweet, and maybe even indicated a shift in her palate, since she wanted something with a more complicated flavor.
ACP: What about your own traditional childhood birthday cake?
Aimee Bender: [It was] from the bakery at our local grocery store: fudge icing, white cake, fudge inside. Very good. I also loved angel's food cake but didn't have that as much. So spongy! My best friend at the time had a mother who made amazing cakes, and she made one once for my birthday that still probably reigns in my head as the best cake I have ever had. A kind of light milk chocolatey cake—how did she make the cake part so light and also chocolatey?—with a subtle frosting. She made a big one, so we had leftovers in the freezer for a while, which was heavenly.
ACP: For readers unfamiliar with your writing style, it's fair to warn them that the book takes some very surreal turns. What's the most surreal food experience you've had?
Aimee Bender: Once, in France, I was eating a very wonderful meal and came upon a kind of savory souffle that tasted so familiar, but its shape was new—fluffy! beige!—so I couldn't place it. I spent half the meal tasting it without access to the word that would name it. I wish I could've savored that experience more, how I could taste the food pre-language. Almost at dessert it popped into my head: artichoke.
Also, once in Japan, I was served a meal in what seemed like a tiny cabinet of drawers. My job was to open each drawer and find a little item inside—a piece of fish on a shiso leaf, a little vegetable sculpture. So fun.
ACP: Toward the end of the book, Rose systematically cooks and bakes her way through Joy of Cooking. Do you use that book?
Aimee Bender: Yes, I do use it, and I like it a lot. I recently made Chicken Chile Verde, which came out well. And tomato sauce. I rely on it repeatedly for a little bit of everything. It's probably the cookbook I turn to most often.
ACP: "Conscious cuisine" is now more fashionable than ever. Rose is, of course, hyper-conscious of the origins of her food. How important is it to you to acknowledge where your food comes from? Are you one of those activist foodies?
Aimee Bender: I love farmer's markets, and I love the idea that I can see and meet a person who has had some interaction with the food I'm eating. I'm not an activist so much, because I also do still see the pull of the bad-for-me junky stuff—the safety and familiarity of that, even though it's pretty awful. That's part of the book, too. I wanted [Rose] to also hide inside that food a bit. But it is such a primal pleasure to plant a little basil and go outside and pluck it and use it with tomatoes and garlic from the farmer's market.
ACP: What's always in your fridge?
Aimee Bender: Yogurt. Parmesan cheese. Eggs. Bread. Italian parsley. Peanut butter.
ACP: This is not the first time that food—or the tartness of lemon—has figured significantly in your fiction. I'm thinking about stories from your collection, Willful Creatures. In one of those stories, a character says, "If lemonade is too sweet, then we are somehow lost to the crush of anonymity."
Aimee Bender: Yes—nice connection to that story in the other book. I guess I do think of food as a way that we care for each other, and I know for myself sometimes when I make a nice meal, it's clearly a way of communicating, of giving, of wanting to reach out, to please and delight the other person. And when rushed and distracted, I will burn myself, or I'll get impatient, and it has a very different feel. With the lemonade, I think I was imagining a lemonade-maker just dumping sugar in without thinking, and that mindlessness being a way that we forget that it's for a person, that it's for ourselves, that it's supposed to be drinkable, a gift.
ACP: The epigraph to The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake suggests that food can "repair our losses." Without giving anything away, that seems to hold true for Rose and her mother. Do you believe this is true for everyone?
Aimee Bender: Yes and no. Food can't really repair loss, but at the same time, we eat after funerals, as a way to renew our living selves. The animated film "Spirited Away" has a moment I really love. The main character, a young girl, has just lost her parents—if I remember correctly, they have turned into pigs! She is alone, and weeping. She is devastated. She weeps and weeps. At a certain moment, her weeping abates a bit, just a little, and she takes out her lunch and begins to eat it, as she continues to weep. It's a very quiet moment, but it feels so life affirming to me—that even while she is grieving, she gets a little hungry. So in that way, yes, food is one of the ways we can begin to repair our losses.
ACP: The symbolism of food during a time of mourning seems so universal. Food really tethers us to this world, doesn't it?
Aimee Bender: It sure does.
ACP: Aimee, thank you so much for your time—and for the particular beauty of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.
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The Privacy Act
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HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:
In this Act
"common-law partner" of a person means a person who, not being married to the other person, is cohabiting with him or her in a conjugal relationship of some permanence; (« conjoint de fait »)
"court" means the Court of King's Bench except in section 5 where it means any court and includes a person authorized by law to take evidence under oath acting for the purposes for which he is authorized to take evidence; (« tribunal »)
"defamation" means libel or slander; (« diffamation »)
"family" means the spouse, common-law partner, child, step-child, parent, step-parent, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, step-brother, step-sister, of a person. (« famille »)
Registered common-law relationship
For the purposes of this Act, while they are cohabiting, persons who have registered their common-law relationship under section 13.1 of The Vital Statistics Act are deemed to be cohabiting in a conjugal relationship of some permanence.
S.M. 2002, c. 24, s. 47; S.M. 2002, c. 48, s. 28; S.M. 2008, c. 42, s. 77.
A person who substantially, unreasonably, and without claim of right, violates the privacy of another person, commits a tort against that other person.
Action without proof of damage
An action for violation of privacy may be brought without proof of damage.
Examples of violation of privacy
Without limiting the generality of section 2, privacy of a person may be violated
(a) by surveillance, auditory or visual, whether or not accomplished by trespass, of that person, his home or other place of residence, or of any vehicle, by any means including eavesdropping, watching, spying, besetting or following;
(b) by the listening to or recording of a conversation in which that person participates, or messages to or from that person, passing along, over or through any telephone lines, otherwise than as a lawful party thereto or under lawful authority conferred to that end;
(c) by the unauthorized use of the name or likeness or voice of that person for the purposes of advertising or promoting the sale of, or any other trading in, any property or services, or for any other purposes of gain to the user if, in the course of the use, that person is identified or identifiable and the user intended to exploit the name or likeness or voice of that person; or
(d) by the use of his letters, diaries and other personal documents without his consent or without the consent of any other person who is in possession of them with his consent.
In any action for violation of privacy the court may
(a) award damages;
(b) grant an injunction if it appears just and reasonable;
(c) order the defendant to account to the plaintiff for any profits that have accrued, or that may subsequently accrue, to the defendant by reason or in consequence of the violation; and
(d) order the defendant to deliver up to the plaintiff all articles or documents that have come into his possession by reason or in consequence of the violation.
Considerations in awarding damages
In awarding damages in an action for a violation of privacy of a person, the court shall have regard to all the circumstances of the case including
(a) the nature, incidence and occasion of the act, conduct or publication constituting the violation of privacy of that person;
(b) the effect of the violation of privacy on the health, welfare, social, business or financial position of that person or his family;
(c) any relationship, whether domestic or otherwise, between the parties to the action;
(d) any distress, annoyance or embarrassment suffered by that person or his family arising from the violation of privacy; and
(e) the conduct of that person and the defendant, both before and after the commission of the violation of privacy, including any apology or offer of amends made by the defendant.
Accounting not considered in awarding damages
Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2), in awarding damages in an action for violation of privacy of a person, the court shall not have regard to any order made under clause (1)(c) in respect of the violation of privacy.
In an action for violation of privacy of a person, it is a defence for the defendant to show
(a) that the person expressly or by implication consented to the act, conduct or publication constituting the violation; or
(b) that the defendant, having acted reasonably in that regard, neither knew or should reasonably have known that the act, conduct or publication constituting the violation would have violated the privacy of any person; or
(c) that the act, conduct or publication in issue was reasonable, necessary for, and incidental to, the exercise or protection of a lawful right of defence of person, property, or other interest of the defendant or any other person by whom the defendant was instructed or for whose benefit the defendant committed the act, conduct or publication constituting the violation; or
(d) that the defendant acted under authority conferred upon him by a law in force in the province or by a court or any process of a court; or
(e) where the act, conduct or publication constituting the violation was
(i) that of a peace officer acting in the course of his duties; or
(ii) that of a public officer engaged in an investigation in the course of his duty under a law in force in the province;
that it was neither disproportionate to the gravity of the matter subject to investigation nor committed in the course of a trespass; and was within the scope of his duties or within the scope of the investigation, as the case may be, and was reasonably necessary in the public interest;
(f) where the alleged violation was constituted by the publication of any matter
(i) that there were reasonable grounds for the belief that the publication was in the public interest; or
(ii) that the publication was, in accordance with the rules of law in force in the province relating to defamation, privileged; or
(iii) that the matter was fair comment on a matter of public interest.
Right of action in addition to other rights
The right of action for violation of privacy under this Act and the remedies under this Act are in addition to, and not in derogation of, any other right of action or other remedy available otherwise than under this Act; but this section shall not be construed as requiring any damages awarded in an action for violation of privacy to be disregarded in assessing damages in any other proceedings arising out of the same act, conduct or publication constituting the violation of privacy.
No evidence obtained by virtue or in consequence of a violation of privacy in respect of which an action may be brought under this Act is admissible in any civil proceedings.
Notwithstanding any other Act of the Legislature, whether special or general, this Act applies where there is any violation of the privacy of any person.
Where there is a conflict between a provision of this Act and a provision of any other Act of the Legislature, whether special or general, the provision of this Act prevails.
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Financial bureau answerable to no one
WASHINGTON - There can be unseemly exposure of the mind as well as of the body, as the progressive mind is exposed in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a creature of the labyrinthine Dodd-Frank legislation.
Judicial dismantling of the CFPB would affirm the rule of law and Congress' constitutional role.
The CFPB's director, Richard Cordray, was installed by one of Barack Obama's spurious recess appointments made when the Senate was not in recess. Vitiating the Senate's power to advise and consent to presidential appointments is congruent with the CFPB's general lawlessness.
The CFPB nullifies Congress' power to use the power of the purse to control bureaucracies because its funding -- "determined by the director" -- comes not from congressional appropriations but from the Federal Reserve. Untethered from all three branches of government, unlike anything created since 1789, the CFPB is uniquely sovereign: The president appoints the director for a five-year term -- he can stay indefinitely, if no successor is confirmed -- and the director can be removed, but not for policy reasons.
One CFPB request for $94 million in Federal Reserve funds was made on a single sheet of paper. Its 2012 budget estimated $130 million for -- this is the full explanation -- "other services." So it has been hiring promiscuously and paying its hires lavishly: As of three months ago, approximately 60 percent of its then 958 employees were making more than $100,000 a year. Five percent were making $200,000 or more. (A Cabinet secretary makes $199,700.)
The CFPB's mission is to prevent practices it is empowered to "declare" are "unfair, deceptive, or abusive." Law is supposed to give people due notice of what is proscribed or prescribed, and developed law does so concerning "unfair" and "deceptive" practices. Not so, "abusive."
The term, Cordray concedes, is "a little bit of a puzzle." An "abusive" practice may not be unfair or deceptive yet nonetheless may be illegal. It is illegal, the law says, if it "interferes with" a consumer's ability to "understand" a financial product, or takes "unreasonable" advantage of a consumer's lack of understanding, or exploits "the inability of the consumer to protect" his or her interests regarding a financial product. This fog of indeterminate liabilities is causing some banks to exit the consumer mortgage business.
C. Boyden Gray and Adam J. White, lawyers representing a community bank challenging the constitutionality of the CFPB's "formation and operation," note in The Weekly Standard: "By writing new law through case-by-case enforcement, and by asserting 'exception authority' to effectively rewrite statutes, the CFPB is substantially increasing bankers' compliance costs. The absence of clear, simple, up-front rules will force banks to hire ever more lawyers and regulatory compliance officers to keep up with changing laws -- an outcome that inherently favors big banks over smaller ones." This exacerbates the favoritism inherent in the substantial implicit subsidy Dodd-Frank confers on some banks by designating "systemically important financial institutions" that are "too big to fail."
Even worse, say Gray and White (in their complaint for the community bank), Dodd-Frank "delegates effectively unbounded power to the CFPB, and couples that power with provisions insulating CFPB against meaningful checks" by the other branches of government. This nullifies the checks and balances of the system of separation of powers. Courts are too reluctant to restrict Congress' power to delegate quasi-legislative powers, but the CFPB is an especially gross violation of the Constitution's Article I, Section 1: "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested" in Congress. By creating a CFPB that floats above the Constitution's tripartite design of government, Congress did not merely degrade itself, it injured all Americans.
Like the Independent Payment Advisory Board, Obamacare's health care rationing panel, the CFPB embodies progressivism's authoritarianism -- removing much policymaking from elected representatives and entrusting it to unaccountable "experts" exercising an unfettered discretion incompatible with the rule of law. Similarly, when Obama allows states to waive work requirements that the 1996 welfare reform law explicitly made non-waivable, he evades the Constitution's provision conferring a conditional presidential veto power -- ignoring the law becomes preferable to a veto Congress can override. And the waivers make a mockery of the Constitution enjoining the president to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed."
Philander Knox should be the Obama administration's patron saint. When Theodore Roosevelt asked Attorney General Knox to concoct a defense for American behavior in acquiring the Panama Canal Zone, Knox replied: "Oh, Mr. President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality."
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I read comments by writers all the time saying their characters take over and start driving the plot of the story. With my current work in progress, I've become quite the plotter, making detailed outlines for each section of the work before I start writing. So imagine my surprise when the pen in my hand started writing a scene that was definitely not in the outline! What's more, it was an unplanned sex scene.
Once it was written, I had to admit that scene actually worked, but the whole thing got me thinking about the willful character. Maybe it's a form of "automatic writing," not in the supernatural sense, but the result of tapping into subconscious impulses while in a state of receptiveness induced by the act of writing. (Hey, that's not bad, considering I made it up on the spot).
The best fictional characters are like real people, complete with flaws, quirks and contradictory impulses. Some writers develop their characters before they actually start writing the novel. Physical features, musical and food preferences, hobbies, education — a complete curriculum vitae. I'm not that kind of writer. I have a hazy vision of my primary characters, that becomes clearer as I write. There seems to be a department in my brain called Character Development, that trots out details about each major character when needed. Sometimes it throws me a surprise.
One of the best parts of the writing process is when this automatic thing kicks in and the words pour out effortlessly. Sometimes it feels as though I'm just copying stuff dictated to me by a disembodied brain. It's probably my brain. Or some kind of collective unconscious, a well of ideas available to all who yield themselves to the writing urge. That's where our characters come from, finding their way in response to tentative images in our writing brains.
Characters manifest their characteristics, prompting a kind of negotiation with the author. "Okay, that's fine — you can do this, but not that. And definitely not the other thing." But cut them some slack. Willful characters aren't a problem, but a sign that the writer's imagination is engaged beyond the scope of the outline, tapping into a realm of mystery. And that's good.
Sitting down to write, giving yourself up to whatever you are creating, is like going down an unexplored trail. You just don't know what you might meet around the corner, even if you have a map. Whether you outline your plot in detail before you start, or write by the seat of your pants, you must be prepared for the unexpected.
The first stage of creating a work of fiction — the first draft — isn't the place to worry about rules, or getting every detail right. At this stage, the writer's imagination needs to be cranking out stuff, producing raw material to be refined later. That's why I still write my first drafts — or maybe they're better called "proto-drafts" — in longhand. Actually, "longhand" seems too fancy a term for my cursive scribble on the borderline of legibility.
The thing is, at this stage you don't want to read over what you've written and polish it. You want to forge ahead, beating out the rough shape of your story, bumps, holes and all. Don't look back! For me, stark black words on the bright white screen are just too intimidating. I really doubt I would have written that sudden sex scene if I'd been using my laptop. But I scribbled it down, and when I typed it up a few days later, the critical, analytical part of my brain said, "Well, okaaay, I guess it works."
As for my work in progress — the first draft is almost done! Another 5,000 words or so, and I can write Finis.
And then, of course, I go back to the beginning. The crazy, creative part of my brain will take a back seat, and the critical, analytical part will get to to do its thing.
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Eileen's Challenge - Include a Lavender Ribbon or Bow
This Challenge is dedicated to the founder of this blog who sadly passed away a year ago after a brave battle with Cancer. As Lavender is the General Cancer Ribbon colour we are using this as our theme. Eileen is missed by us all and always in our thoughts.
She has certainly never been a mainstream type of girl and definitely won't fit into your stereotypical cookie cutter artists role; but rather she finds beauty in the truly unique, big eyed creepy little cuties with a bittersweet sadness. She is never truly happier then when she is in her art studio painting or sewing, creating a whimsical dream world easily recognizable as her signature style of creepy yet cute, all the way from the haunting darkness to the rainbowtastic, Lizzy's creations are lovingly sprinkled with a heartbreaking sweetness.
Growing up a child of the 80's, pop rocks princess, with an extreme fondness for anything candy coated, Kawaii Kitten & Ziggy Stardust, all of which had a major influence in the work that she is creating today. Lizzy employs many different mediums when she creates, anything from mixed media painting to sewing with many different textiles, the end result always being the same; A whimsical dream world filled with big eyed beauties, creepy little cuties and quirky monsters of all shapes and sizes.
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Perl 6 has a very healthy relationship to operators. "An operator is just a funnily-named subroutine", goes the slogan in the community.
In practice, it means you can do this:
sub postfix:<!>($N) { [*] 2..$N; } say 6!; # 720
Yeah, that's the prototypical factorial example. I promise I won't do it any more in this post. I swear the only reason we don't have factorial as a standard operator in the language, is so that we can impress people by defining it.
Anyway, so a postfix operator
! is really just a "funnily-named" subroutine
postfix:<!>. Similarly, we have prefix and infix operators, like
prefix:<-> and
infix:<*>. They're all just subroutines. I wrote about that before, so I'm not going to hammer on that point.
Operators have different precedence (like
infix:<*> binds tighter than
$x + $y * $z # compiler sees $x + ($y * $z) $x * $y + $z # compiler sees ($x * $y) + $z
…and different associativity (like
infix:</> associates to the left but
infix:<=> associates to the right).
$x / $y / $z # compiler sees ($x / $y) / $z $x = $y = $z # compiler sees $x = ($y = $z)
But I wrote about that before too, at quite some length, so I'm not going to revisit that topic.
No, today I just want to talk about the operator categories in general. I think Perl 6 does a nice job of describing the operator types themselves. I don't see that in many other languages.
Here are all the different types:
type position syntax ====== ========== ======== prefix before a term !X infix between two terms X ! Y postfix after a term X! circumfix around [X] postcircumfix after & around X[Y]
A lot of other languages give you the ability to define your own operators. Many of them provide approaches which are hackish afterthoughts, and only allow you to override existing operators. Some other languages do approach the problem head-on, but end up simplifying the language to decrease the complexity of defining new operators.
Perl 6 approaches, and solves, the problem, head-on. You get all of the above operators, you can refine or override old ones, and you can talk within the language about things like precedence and associativity.
All that is rather nice. But, as usual, Perl 6 goes one step further and starts classifying metaoperators, too.
What's a metaoperator? That's our name for when you can extend an operator in a certain way. For example, many languages allow some kind of not-equal operator like
infix:<!=>. Perl 6 has another one for string non-equality:
infix:<ne>. And then maybe you want to do smart non-matching:
infix:<!~~>. And so on — pretty soon you catch on to the pattern: you may, at one point or another, want to invert the result of any boolean matcher. So that's what Perl 6 provides.
Here are a few examples:
normal op negated op ========= ========== eq !eq ( synonym of ne ) ~~ !~~ < !< ( synonym of >= ) before !before
Because this particular metaoperator attaches itself before an infix operator, it gets the name
infix_prefix_meta_operator:<!>. I was going to say "and yes, you can add your own user-defined metaoperators too", but currently no implementation supports that. Maybe sometime in the future.
There are many other categories of metaoperators. For example the "multiplication reducer"
[*] that we used in the factorial example at the top (which takes a list of numbers and multiplies them all together) is really an
infix:<*> surrounded by the metaop
prefix_circumfix_meta_operator:sym<[ ]>. (It's "prefix" because it goes before the list of numbers.)
Luckily, we don't have meta-meta-ops. Already thinking about the metaops is quite a challenge sometimes. But what I like about Perl 6 and the approach it takes to grammar and operators is this: someone did think about it, long and hard. The resulting system has a pleasing simplicity to it.
Perl 6 is very well-suited for building parsers for languages. As one of its neatest tricks, it takes this expressive power and directs it towards the task of defining itself. As a Perl 6 user, you're given not just an excellent toolbox, but a well-organized workshop to adapt and extend to fit your needs.


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South Florida airports are beginning to see flight delays and cancellations due to the bad weather affecting the U.S. northeast and midwest regions.
As of 2 p.m. Tuesday, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport had 48 flight delays and 76 cancellations, airport spokesman Greg Meyer said in email.
Affected airport locations included Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Md., and New York, N.Y., Meyer noted.
Flight information on Palm Beach International Airport's website Tuesday also showed several flights listed as either delayed or canceled for the day as of noon.
At Miami International Airport, as of 4:30 p.m. the facility had 57 cancellations and 8 flight delays, spokesman Marc Henderson said in an email. Affected cities, for flights arriving and departing MIA included Boston, Mass., Louisville, K.Y., Newark, N.J. and Philadelphia, Pa.


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Yesterday I read about a recently leaked government directive from 2011 concisely titled "Suggestions for doing a good job of resisting foreign use of religion to infiltrate institutes of higher education and to prevent campus evangelism."
Washington Post did a great piece on the directive and the context, but I'd recommend also reading the full document. Basically, the government is concerned about Christian missionaries evangelizing on Chinese college campuses.
"Foreign hostile forces have put even greater emphasis on using religion to infiltrate China to carry out their political plot to westernize and divide China," the document says. "Under the guise of donating funds for education, academic exchanges, studying and teaching in China, extracurricular activities, training, student aid, etc., they 'market' their political ideas and values, roping students into becoming religious believers."
In a nutshell, the second part of that statement is fairly accurate, and the first part is fairly scary. A few months ago I did a piece on foreign evangelists who use English teaching as a means to enter China and proselytize. While researching, I spoke with nearly three dozen people including missionaries, their co-workers and students. I'd also previously encountered these kinds of evangelists personally while teaching.
As the document suggests, there are indeed thousands of these people in China; many of whom conduct activities that would raise legal issues even in Western democracies. I heard stories of teachers requiring students to attend Bible studies in order to pass their class. Many used Christian teaching materials and held English classes based on Biblical themes. I even heard about a teacher requiring his students to put on a play about the seven deadly sins that featured Jesus lugging a crucifix.
But a few things jumped out at me from this document. The first was how the government still fundamentally misunderstands what motivates Christian missionaries. To some degree, this is understandable. Chinese officials tend to be pragmatic worldly people with little exposure to religion. The idea that someone would spend so much time and resources changing others' beliefs for no tangible reason makes no sense. That these missionaries feel duty-bound to a supernatural deity and believe they're literally saving their converts just doesn't register. Clearly, there must be some devious political agenda beneath that pious surface.
There are indeed those like Bob Fu who have explicit regime-change goals, but they seem to be a small minority. Most seem to consciously avoid even mentioning politics. They may expend disproportionate effort on students with political ambitions, but this is more in hopes of getting religious policy relaxed, not overthrowing the entire system.
The second thing that jumped out was how the government still so fundamentally misunderstands youth that might be inclined to convert. The document gives prescriptions for dealing with them, saying:
"Adhere to using the theory of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics to arm students' minds. Extensively launch activities for the study, teaching, publicizing and popularization of core socialist values. Strengthen propaganda for and education in Marxist views on religion, the Party's principles and policies for education work, and the relevant laws and regulations of the state."
If you're a standard human, you probably barely made it through that paragraph without falling asleep. And that's just a small taste of the years of Marxist and political education Chinese students are required to take. The thing is, many of the young Christian converts I spoke to specifically cited the emphasis on empty Marxist dogma as something that pushed them to explore religion. So using Marxism to combat evangelism is like using a Ben Stein lecture to convince a kid he should go to school instead of play video games.
But for all the document got wrong about motivations, it did seem to have a firm grasp on the methods missionaries tend to use and where universities go wrong.
It tells schools to offer intriguing activities for students and provide mental health services. It says advisors should hold "extensive heart-to-heart talks" with students, help "guide their emotions" and "dispel confusion." By doing these things, they won't be so inclined to "cozy up" to foreign missionaries (who tend to be much better at offering emotional and academic support than the schools).
It then goes on to suggest strategically planning recreational and academic events during religious holidays. Indeed, Christmas and Easter are high season for conversion. Christmas is a perfect opportunity to talk Jesus. And in one case I found, a foreign teacher invited students over to watch an "Easter movie" that turned out to be The Passion of Christ.
It warns of academic exchanges organized by Christian groups. Some of these are set up to get Chinese students overseas for conversion, then returned to spread the gospel at home. Meanwhile, foreign missionary students are the exchanges that come to Chinese schools.
After previously thinking central government leaders were simply clueless about these things, I was surprised to see how much they seem to be aware of. But one thing that struck me while researching this story was that, in spite of China's inhospitable stance on religion, these things tend to be tolerated even more here than they would be in the West at the local level. And the document seems to tacitly acknowledge that.
It says, "If serious problems arise because responsibilities were not performed or work is not properly done, you shall seriously investigate and look into the matters and call to account the responsible members and relevant leaders."
The whole document repeatedly admonishes administrators to get off their butts and actively fight off foreign missionaries. The language was very similar to the routine pleas for corrupt officials to get clean. This, I think, is because this issue, like corruption, has a rather large gulf between central government goals and local cadre interests. And it may actually involve corruption.
The way many of these missionary teachers work is through larger organizations or churches based overseas. Working with donations, they take salaries from the schools that are a fraction of what independent teachers would be paid. In addition, they'll sometimes donate teaching materials, student scholarships and outright cash aid to schools. Two sources I spoke with reported that one organization they know of even sponsors trips to the US for high university and local education officials. The organization wouldn't confirm or deny this.
Then miraculously, when students or other teachers complain about proselytism to lower administrators, there doesn't tend to be much action. Whatever vague national threats these "infiltrators" present are subservient to more tangible local interests.
Going beyond just the issue of evangelism though, the document also basically proved something I've started to realize in recent months, but have had a hard time fully accepting. It's that the idea of "the US-led Western countries" conspiring to use things like religion to "infiltrate" China so they can "westernize and divide it" isn't just jingoistic propaganda used for political ends. This is something that A LOT of people in China's government seem to actually believe.
This document was issued by the United Front Department (a branch of the powerful Central Committee) and given only to senior officials. They were then to communicate it orally to their subordinates in order to hedge against the document being leaked. In other words, this wasn't propaganda intended for the masses. It was an internal Party memo. That the same jingoistic language you'd see in Global Times was used here shows that the Party actually believes its conspiratorial fear-mongering, and that's kind of scary.


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After years without a problem (including today), all of a sudden I can't connect to my hosting account via Cyberduck. I can log in directly through my hosting accounts control panel and I've checked my key chain and all is correct, so I don't see the issue is with my hosting account. I just downloaded the new Cyberduck version 3.6.1 and I'm being asked about connecting with SSL. Maybe I checked something I shouldn't have. I can connect to other accounts, just not my primary hosting account.
What I would like to do is restore Cyberduck to the original default settings.
How do I reset Cyberduck to original default settings?
The Cyberduck forums have moved to Google Groups, this forum is read only.
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Microsoft's Windows Mobile (or, we should say, "WinMob") team goes viral and decidedly non-PC in this video-based attempt to woo developers to their platform. It's funny, and a bit long, but they get at least some credit for simply ignoring the line that usually separates product marketing from good taste. It's worth watching if you have a sense of humor.
"Accelerometer-driven [bleep]... "
"... with a compass!"
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Thanks to Rami A. for the link.
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MOSCOW—Moscow is preparing for its first mayoral election in a decade. Though an incumbent backed by Vladimir Putin is expected to win handily, the entry of a charismatic opposition figure into the race is changing Russian politics in ways that could pose a challenge to the president's power in the years ahead. As Alexei Navalny holds his last rally in rain-soaked Moscow on Friday, here is a look at what could be a pivotal election.
Navalny has brought grassroots politics to the Russian capital for the first time, inspiring thousands of enthusiastic volunteers to join his campaign. Sunday's election is the first since 2003 and the first since the Kremlin last year reversed Putin's 2004 decree abolishing direct elections for the Moscow mayor and other regional leaders.
If Navalny can get more than 20 per cent and even come close to forcing incumbent Sergei Sobyanin into a run-off, it could embolden the opposition in its efforts to one day drive Putin from power. A vote seen as unfair could trigger protests against the government.
Navalny started an anti-corruption blog in 2009, and used his status as a minority stakeholder in state-owned companies to expose corruption, most famously uncovering a $4 billion theft by oil pipeline operator Transneft. His charisma and cutting wit turned him into an online folk hero of the opposition, and he soon began taking a stance on broader political issues, coining the nickname for Kremlin-backed United Russia as the "party of crooks and thieves."
When unprecedented protests broke out after 2011 parliamentary elections that independent observers said were rigged, Navalny cemented his status as de facto leader of the opposition, leading street marches that attracted tens of thousands of people from across the political spectrum.
Navalny was sentenced in July to five years in prison for embezzlement in a case that he and his supporters describe as legally dubious and punishment for his exposure of high-level corruption. He left the courtroom in handcuffs, but a day later in a surprise turnaround, prosecutors requested he be set free until his appeal could be heard.
Most have speculated that it was Sobyanin who had Navalny set free, in order to ensure that the election would look as fair as possible and legitimize the Kremlin candidate as a politician.
Sobyanin started his political career in the oil-rich Siberian town of Tyumen, but quickly moved up the political hierarchy to work as an aide in the Kremlin. He was parachuted into the seat of Moscow mayor in 2010 after Yuri Luzhkov, who governed the city for almost two decades, was forced out.
Sobyanin is most popular among the elderly who rely on his office for their pensions, but he has gained respect among the middle class for directing some of the city's $54 billion budget toward its parks and cultural institutions. Sobyanin has relied on his financial advantage and political backing to run his campaign for him, and has mostly played the regal and removed incumbent, refusing to participate in debates and appearing only rarely in stage-crafted public events.
Navalny himself has characterized the elections as "competitive, but not fair." While he has been allowed to run, he has been targeted by an increasingly dirty campaign. Putin has smeared him as corrupt, and election officials have accused him of being funded from abroad, while Kremlin-friendly news organizations have released grainy video footage purporting to show his campaign manager at a strip club.
Sobyanin is doing everything to make sure that it will be fair or at least look that way. The incumbent has even cozied up to Golos, an independent election monitor that has come under immense official pressure, to ensure that the voting goes smoothly, approving its proposal to install cameras in polling stations.
Golos deputy chairman Grigory Melkonyants said this may be enough to stop overt ballot-stuffing but it won't ensure a clean victory. "You might observe some extra people showing up on the voter registration list on election day," he said, referring to the dead souls who often crowd the list of voters at Russian polling stations.
He suggested that the Kremlin is playing a risky game by allowing Navalny to run. "If Sobyanin gets 51 per cent, everyone will have a lot of doubts about the results," Melkonyants said. "Essentially, if there's not going to be a second round, then the first round has to be an uncontestable victory, more than 60 per cent."
With 102 million rubles ($3.1 million) in campaign funds from over 16,000 donors, around 20,000 volunteers have hit the campaign trail for Navalny, passing out leaflets in the metro or hanging banners on balconies.
But despite this unprecedented effort, it's unlikely that Navalny will win. A week before the election, a poll by the independent Levada Center predicted that he would get 18 per cent of the vote compared to 58 per cent for Sobyanin — a significant rise from the 6 per cent Navalny was polling in July, but not enough to get Sobyanin under the 50 per cent mark that would force him to a run-off. The Levada poll has a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.
For Navalny, a strong showing could lead to a shortening of his prison sentence if the Kremlin feels that this would help diffuse discontent.


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An efficient and productive logistics and distribution sector is vital to ensure Australia's continued economic prosperity, and Brisbane is the ideal logistics location, offering unequalled infrastructure, strategic location, land availability and significant labour advantages.
In 2010/11, Brisbane's transport, postal and warehousing sector employed about 40,000 people and contributed about $10 billion to the Brisbane economy, making it one of the largest industry contributors to Brisbane's gross regional product (Source: Queensland Treasury and Trade, Experimental Estimates of Gross Regional Product 2000-01, 2006-07 and 2010-11).
The strength of Brisbane's logistics and distribution industry is bolstered by the Australia Trade Coast (ATC), incorporating the Port of Brisbane , Brisbane Airport and surrounding industrial areas. A dynamic 8000ha industrial and commercial precinct located just 6km from Brisbane's Central Business District, ATC provides business with access to one of the fastest-growing ports and airports in the country and crucial support from the state's largest industry leaders, making it a unique commercial/industrial offering.
Road and rail freight movements between Brisbane and Australia's other eastern seaboard capital cities of Sydney and Melbourne is forecast to grow at rates above the national average over the next 15 years (Source: Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics, Research Report, Multimodal Interstate Freight in Australia, 2010).
With excellent links to Australia's southern markets and quick access to the grazing, agricultural and resources centres of central and southern Queensland, Brisbane's Western Corridor is a major manufacturing hub and a logistics hot-spot for national carriers and distribution centres.
With an economy valued at $135 billion, Brisbane is the economic hub and driver of the Queensland economy. Brisbane's economy is forecast to grow by more than 60 per cent to $217 billion by 2031, driving demand for transport and logistics services for national and international markets (Source: Brisbane City Council, Brisbane 2012-2031 Economic Development Plan).
Brisbane is the closest major Australian capital city to Asia and home to one of Australia's fastest-growing capital city ports, the Port of Brisbane. As the global trend to shorten supply chains continues, Brisbane is a gateway to national and international markets. Direct air and shipping links to key Asian ports means major Asian destinations can be reached by air in seven to nine hours. Brisbane has domestic trade routes south and north via the Pacific and Cunningham Highways, along with standard gauge freight rail from the Port of Brisbane to all capital cities in Australia.
The ATC and its partners have invested more than $1 billion in infrastructure development in the past five years and are committed to investing a further $5 billion over the next 10 years (Source: ATC, 2014). With progressive infrastructure facilities, access to one of the fastest-growing ports and airports in the country and crucial support from the state's largest industry leaders, ATC is a unique commercial/industrial offering.
Back-loading transport costs typically apply from Brisbane and can be 40 to 60 per cent less than transport rates to Brisbane. Labour and other associated costs such as payroll tax are generally lower than in other Australian capital cities, and labour agreements are the least restrictive in the country. The city has a strong labour market for experienced technicians and semi-skilled staff.
Firms locating in Brisbane have a unique opportunity to access land and property in key transport locations near the Brisbane Airport and Port of Brisbane . Within the ATC region, 1300ha of land is planned for sustainable release and development to 2026 (Source: ATC, 2014). The area is made up of 32 industry precincts with prime land adaptable to a diverse range of industries. As the largest and fastest-growing industry and trade precinct in Australia, ATC includes thousands of hectares of privately owned industrial land, offering the ideal mix of freehold and leasing opportunities across mixed-use business areas, light industry, general industry and heavy industry zoned areas.
Many national and international companies have chosen the Greater Brisbane region for major national distribution centres. Spearheading this growth are bulky goods retailers. Companies in the Brisbane market include:
With a population of two million, Brisbane is the principal centre of Australia's fastest-growing region, South East Queensland. By 2031, Brisbane's population is expected to increase to more than three million (Source: Office of Economic and Statistical Research, Queensland Treasury, medium series). A growing population means a larger customer base and an increased need for products to be transported and stored. Third-party logistics providers are in great demand, as manufacturers concentrate on core capabilities and outsource services such as warehousing and cold storage. Operators can take advantage of favourable operating conditions, such as Brisbane's excellent transport infrastructure and easy access to international and domestic markets.
Companies in the Brisbane market include:
Charan Judge, Manager, Investment Attraction (Industrial)


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Dramatic Instagram Portraits of PDX Homes
If you ever find yourself lounging on the couch with a morning cup of coffee, lazily staring out the window of your quaint craftsman home into the lens of a woman on the street with an iPhone camera pointed at your front door, don't panic—it's probably just local photographer Michele Rider. Moreover, be flattered—your recently painted vintage shutters are about to end up in a dramatic Instagram collection of Portland's most unique houses.
After moving to North Portland last summer to pursue her career in pet photography, Rider became fascinated by the diverse home styles nestled in her neighborhood—not surprising since she grew up in Orange County, CA, a city filled with monotone, ticky-tacky homes reminiscent of 1950s Disney suburbia.
"Being new to the city I had a curiosity about my newly adopted town and photography has always been a way for me to understand my environment better," says Rider. "I began setting aside an hour or two of my day to get out and walk around. I always had my iPhone on me and it was a natural thing to begin photographing during these walks—the focus on homes happened almost immediately."
Using the Hipstamatic Camera app, she shoots with a combination of the John S lens and the BlacKeys SuperGrain film, then imports the pictures directly into Instagram without any additional filters. The results are a haunting, surreal, dreamlike vision of Portland, as if from a dark fairytale. "The contrast and pop that this combo gives in B&W really suits the aesthetics I was going for in this project: mysterious and visually dramatic. The curiosity behind these homes is the intriguing bit for me; all the fascinating stories and lives that are lived within are a never-ending mystery."
Rider uses this project as a way to feed her passion as a professional photographer outside of her commercial clientele. You can use your own phone camera skills to win an audience of thousands. Show off your favorite Portland streets, intersections, and houses on Instagram or Twitter using #MYPDX, and we'll choose our favorites to feature on the Portland Monthly website. For inspiration, check out the slide show above and follow Rider's Instagram feed.


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text: Back Stay Healthy After Breast Cancer Thanks to regular screenings and new treatments, more women are beating breast cancer today than ever before. Although about one in eight American women will be diagnosed with this illness in her lifetime, if the disease is caught in its early stages, almost 100 percent of those diagnosed will be alive five years later, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). If you've just completed treatment for breast cancer, you're probably eager to put that phase of your life behind you. At the same time, you may have concerns about the best way to stay well during the years ahead. Working with your health care provider to get ongoing care and make healthy lifestyle choices is an excellent place to start. Follow-up care There is no way to guarantee that breast cancer will not come back after treatment. There's a chance that the cancer could come back in the same breast or spread elsewhere. That's why follow-up care is so crucial. Now that your treatment is over, you may be tempted to stop going to the doctor for a while. But, it's more important than ever to have regular checkups. They allow your health care provider to monitor your recovery, which may include addressing any side effects of therapies you received. He or she also can check for new tumors or recurrences. For example, your health care provider may feel around your breasts, chest, neck, and armpits for unusual lumps. If cancer is detected early, it's usually more treatable. Your health care provider will probably start with checkups every three to six months. As time passes, exams tend to be less frequent. And, after five years, many women see their providers just once a year. Whatever the schedule, the most important thing is to keep all your appointments. Mammograms are essential You should also get regular mammograms. Because the risk for breast cancer is higher in women who have already had it, screening is especially critical after treatment ends. Talk to your doctor about your mammogram schedule and when you should start having them after treatment. How often you need them depends on the type of treatment you had. Hormone therapy If you have been prescribed medication, take it as directed. Estrogen promotes the growth of many types of breast cancer. To control the effects of this hormone, some women use medications such as tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors for several years after completing their initial treatment. Your health care provider can tell you whether medicines may be appropriate for you--and, if so, whether certain tests also are recommended. For example, tamoxifen raises the risk for uterine cancer. Women using this medication usually have yearly pelvic exams. A wellness plan A healthy lifestyle also may help lower the risk for a new or recurrent breast cancer, the National Cancer Institute says. Your health care provider may offer these recommendations: Avoid tobacco. If you smoke, ask your provider about quit aids, such as the nicotine patch or nicotine gum. Choose a healthy diet. Follow an eating plan that helps you maintain a healthy weight. If your doctor advises you to lose extra pounds, eating smaller portions and limiting sugar and fat may help. For overall health, the ACS recommends that you eat at least 2.5 cups of vegetables and fruits every day; choose whole grains; cut back on red meat; and limit alcohol. Exercise regularly. Exercise may help you avoid extra pounds. The ACS recommends doing an activity of at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity each week (or a combination of these), preferably spread throughout the week. Doing some physical activity above your usual activities, no matter what your level of activity, can have many health benefits. Before you begin, ask your doctor which exercises or activities may be appropriate for you.


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Maybe the stakes are just higher now, but it seems like every major cellphone launch these days is billed as a "Do or Die" proposition--a last hope for a once-glorious company trying to remain relevant in a quickly changing technological landscape where the mindshare and marketshare are increasingly dominated by a single device (that would be the iPhone).
We most recently saw this with the Palm Pre (both Palm and Sprint's bottom-of-the-ninth double-down play), and now, we see it with the Motorola Droid.
It's hard to overstate how important the Droid is to Motorola, as well as to its carrier, Verizon.
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Motorola, of course, is a once-thriving handset-maker that rode the success of classic phones such as the StarTAC and Razr to marketplace dominance. However, in recent years, the company has found itself woefully unprepared to succeed in a post-iPhone world, and has been unable to produce a blockbuster handset since the Razr's release five years ago.
For Motorola, the Droid, which runs on Google's Android operating system, is a chance for a major revival. And likewise, taking cues from the Palm Pre's kitchen-sink approach to features (you can almost imagine the engineers sitting around a table, deciding to pack in every little thing they could), Motorola has produced a phone that is a massive improvement over anything else the manufacturer has produced since, well, ever.
The Droid is one of the most solid and impressive phones we've ever felt (and one of the heaviest--in a good way). It has a decent 5-megapixel camera, a slide-out keyboard (despite being just a hair thicker than the iPhone), one of the biggest and best phone screens we've ever seen (at 3.7 inches, it's also bigger than the iPhone's 3.5-inch screen), and, most remarkable of all, completely free turn-by-turn GPS navigation courtesy of Google (a feature that caused TomTom and Garmin stocks to nosedive overnight).
Is it better than the iPhone? No. Its interface isn't quite as logical and smooth, and Android doesn't have nearly as many applications as Apple's App Store. But it could be the better choice for certain customers--namely, those who are fed up with the failings of AT&T's network, who demand a keyboard or who plan on using the phone as a car-based GPS. And it's the best phone we reasonably could have expected from Motorola at this time.
But the real ace in the hole--and the reason the phone will be a sure-fire hit--is that it runs on Verizon's network--a network with an enormous supply of customers who love its blazing signal speeds and reliable signal strength, but yearn for a consumer-friendly touchscreen smartphone.
This desire is why Verizon could sell enough units of the original BlackBerry Storm to consider the phone a hit, despite the fact that it was a barely usable mess of bugs when it first came out. There is quite simply an incredible amount of pent-up demand for a device that stacks up against the iPhone. And it doesn't hurt that Verizon is reportedly prepared to unleash a massive marketing avalanche to promote the new device.
So, yes, the phone is a good device. And, yes, it will sell well. The real question: Does the Droid represent a seismic shift for Motorola, or is it merely a stay of execution?


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After pranking elevator passengers to think they were falling with its IPS displays, LG has moved on to trick even more vulnerable suckers: males trying to pee at a urinal. This time, LG put its IPS displays right in front of a urinal and let two attractive women tease the restroom goers. It's pretty hilarious.
And if you're a guy, don't laugh too hard at these poor saps, we all get a little gun shy when people are around. Especially if those people are drop dead gorgeous humans slyly smirking at you (even if they're just behind a TV screen). The average delay in peeing was 16 seconds and that 26% of people who tried to pee with the IPS display in front of them couldn't launch. [LG]


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It certainly helped that they were playing one of the worst teams in the league.
Andrew Luck threw two touchdown passes, Trent Richardson ran for a score and the Colts became the latest to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars by double digits, 37-3 Sunday.
"It wasn't an ideal start," Luck said. "It was more of a terrible start to the game offensively for us. ... We sort of woke up in the second half. Those two scoring drives were big for us. That is what we needed."
Indianapolis led 20-3 at halftime -- Jacksonville has been outscored 75-8 in the first half this season -- and made it a laugher with consecutive touchdown drives in the third quarter.
Luck found Coby Fleener for a 31-yard score, a play in which even Fleener was surprised he was so wide open, and then connected with Reggie Wayne in the back of the end zone from 5 yards.
Luck completed 22 of 36 passes for 260 yards, with two TDs and an interception. His other pick was negated by an offside penalty.
"The sky is the limit," Colts coach Chuck Pagano said. "Listening to him and talking to him, he did get off to a slow start, but he is an even-keeled guy. ... He is one of those guys who can put things behind him and move on. Talent combined with that kind of mindset, the sky is the limit."
Wayne finished with five catches for 100 yards. Richardson ran 20 times for 60 yards. Fleener caught five passes for 77 yards.
Defensively, Robert Mathis had three sacks and cornerback Vontae Davis intercepted a pass and tipped another one that teammate Darius Butler caught and returned 41 yards for a score and a 10-3 lead.
"We don't have enough (game balls) to go around anymore," Pagano said. "They have to order some. ... We can certainly give one to everyone on defense. Three points, the yardage and everything we talked about, just outstanding."
Nothing was good for the home team.
Blaine Gabbert, who missed the past two games because of a hand injury, completed 17 of 32 passes for 179 yards, with three interceptions. All of them bounced off receivers' hands.
"Too much inconsistency," Gabbert said. "We killed ourselves on some drives."
Maurice Jones-Drew ran 13 times for 23 yards - against the team he has his most career yards against.
"It's the Colts," guard Uche Nwaneri said. "That's how I look at it. They can't stop us from running the ball; that's how I feel every time we play them. I don't care who they have at quarterback. I don't care who they got on defense. It's the Colts.
"For us to come out and not be able to run the ball on the Colts, it's mind-boggling. ... It's a lot easier for a defense when they don't have to defend the run so much."
Tight end Marcedes Lewis made his season debut, but ended up back in street clothes after just a few plays. Lewis re-injured his left calf, which kept him sidelined most of the preseason and the first three games.
Defensive end Jason Babin was flagged three times, including once for a late hit on Luck. His offside penalty negated an interception in the first quarter.
"I play aggressive and sometimes it bites me in the (rear)," Babin said. "The offside stuff, I've got to own that. I let my frustrations and wanting to make a play real bad overtake my fundamentals. I can't do that to our team."
And just when things seemed as if they couldn't get any worse for Jacksonville, an apparent fumble recovery was overturned because of an inadvertent whistle. The play was deemed a do-over.
The Jaguars would like to get one of those for the entire season. Jacksonville is 0-4 for the third time in franchise history. The team has never started 0-5.
And the questions about free agent quarterback Tim Tebow continue. A plane flew over the stadium carrying a banner that read "Tebow, why not?"
The Jaguars have lost 12 of their past 19 games by double digits - 11 of those by 16 or more points.
Notes:Colts DE Robert Mathis had three sacks, leaving him one shy of becoming the 30th player in NFL history with 100 career sacks. ... Colts DE Bjoern Werner left the game with a sprained foot and did not return. Colts FB Stanley Havili sprained an ankle. ... Wayne has 138 receptions for 1,956 yards and seven TDs against Jacksonville. ... Gabbert fell to 5-21 as an NFL starter, including 3-2 against the Colts.
Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press


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The chart above, produced by the right-leaning research firm NMRPP and first published in the Washington Post last week, shows the comparative political inclinations (and relative voter turnouts) associated with the drinkers of various major liquor brands.
At first glance this may look like it conforms to some basic stereotypes about the two parties—Democrats like wine! Republicans like whiskey!—but wine actually runs the whole political scale, with Smoking Loon drunk primarily by Democrats, and Robert Mondavi drunk primarily by Republicans. Major whiskey brands do generally show a Republican bent, with the exception of Jameson, Canadian Mist, and Glen Ellen.
Gin is nearly exclusively Democratic, but the real lesson of the chart is to stay away from Jägermeister, a bi-partisan scourge that apparently renders you unable to get up and vote.