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130530 Henry revealed to be SM Entertainment's new solo artist!May 30, 2013 at 2:09 am | Posted in Henry Lau, News/Rumors, Pictures/Videos, Wonderboys | 28 Comments
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130531 Compilation: Henry Lau Debut as a solo artist #HenryLauDebut
After getting fans buzzing with excitement and guesses with the release of two mysterious photos of their new solo artist, SM Entertainment has revealed his identity!
The male solo artist is none other than Henry Lau of Super Junior-M!
"Henry will be releasing his first solo mini album 'Trap' on June 7th, and we anticipate that he'll receive much interest from global music fans as he embarks on promotional activities," said the agency.
As fans already know, Henry's a guy of many talents as he's not only skilled on the piano and violin in addition to being a great dancer and singer, he also has experience with composing songs!
International fans will also have an easier time communicating with him as this idol is also fluent in several languages.
June 7th is just right around the corner so keep your eyes out for more teasers that will come our way!
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As expected .
It's your time to shine……..
Show your talent babby
Comment by Myjewell Eunhyuk— May 30, 2013 #
Awesome .. ^-^ I'm so proud
we're cheering for you, make your best …<3
Comment by Thami~Elfishy— May 30, 2013 #
We'll support you ALWAYS AND FOREVER!!!
Ah.. can't wait!
I bet Kyu will be jealous of his dongsaeng… kekekeke XD
Comment by bunnymingloveevilkyu— May 30, 2013 #
Yay! Henry! Rooting for you…
Comment by Misty— May 30, 2013 #
Well, it's payback time to me for being his fans since he was in Don't Don.
But it's kinda surprising, though I'm sure he is one of the kid who wants his work to be released, I surprise that SM allows him to do that since we all know how KRY itself even doesn't have a single mini album except the OST compilation (maybe because most of the songs were produced by him and his own team so that it doesn't cost much?).
Dude doesn't know how i watch him grow just like a mom and how i scream 'my baby!' like a proud mom when i know only by a glance that it's him. It's better to be good, unlike YYJ's work.
Comment by cynicalmadhatter— May 30, 2013 #
Go Henry…….Finally,ur talents can shine to this world
Comment by yuu— May 30, 2013 #
Comment by Diana Kurila (@SlytherinPride1)— May 30, 2013 #
This is a wonderfull notice, Henry who has been helping suju for so many time, supporting all the bad word and treatments for haters, now, im sure that is so much more the people that going to support him. I only have to say "You DESERVE this Henry". Congratulations and you have all my support C:
Comment by M. A . (@mxajd)— May 30, 2013 #
WOW! So it's really him! The first time seeing him with this image! But I like it, he looks so hot, cool and handsome in these pics! 😀
Now, I AM SO HAPPY!!!!! 😀 😀
Can't believe that we will see him more in the future! I always believed that he's actually capable to go solo as we all know that he's an artist with so many talents that it wouldn't do justice to waste his talent! I always found that it was such a pity that he couldn't do so much activities like his other sj members because he's only in the sub-unit but FINALLY he gets to be more in the spotlight and now we don't have to wait for one year to see him with SJ-M.
You know what, this year 2013 is REALLY his year bc according to the chinese lunar calender, 2013 is the year of the snake and as 89-liner, he's a snake. Cause Chinese people believe that being in the year of your zodiac sign can give you luck!^^ And I think that maybe it has sth to do with his zodiac sign bec you've all notice, right? This year, he got lots of opportunities, debuting on the korean stages with SJM, being a participant on Master Chef and finally being more in the performances in SS5 alongside Zhou Mi! ^^ He's now being recognized!^^
Now he's like G-Dragon, being a solo artist as well as being member of sj. 🙂
I'm actually surprised that his first solo album will be released so soon, even before EunHae's album. Maybe he can't wait so long ^_^.
I'm really looking for it and I hope that his solo album will be a great success!! 😀
Henry, fighting, jiayou!!! I wish you all the best to your new path!
So sorry if my comment turns out to be sooo long but I just wanted to express my feelings ^^ Hope you all understand. 🙂
Comment by LovelyHen— May 30, 2013 #
Don´t worry about you comment I´m with you! Henry really deserve this! He is very talented and it´s great that now the spotlight are on him! 😀
Comment by ハケリネ (@jacky_LH)— May 30, 2013 #
Awesome! I'm really excited for his album's release! Henry's trilingual and he's extremely gifted musically! >_< This excitement is similar to how excited I am for Exo's comeback! Fighting ♥ Henry!
Comment by Opio-san— May 30, 2013 #
OMG Henry looks so sexy!!!!
I can't wait for the realize… I wish him all the success with his new solo album!!!
Comment by Ella— May 30, 2013 #
Okay, but now I want Kyu to have his solo album.
Comment by Skye— May 30, 2013 #
Kyuhyun is so overworked now, he doesn't have time for a solo album these days maybe in the future he'll have one…
Comment by Ella— May 30, 2013 #
Like SJ's boys chant: Let's kill them all! bbMochi, fighting!
Actually, it's not SM's fault but 13-only ELF that SM had to limit Zhoumi and Henry's activities. They both has received hostile treatments, even in their native language countries. Thanks to their talents that nobody can deny and SJ members' unconditional love, then I-ELF who keep talking to ELF community, pushing more support for these two. Everyone can see now majority of ELF love 15 of them all as family.
SM has managed both carefully, but effectively. They gave Zhoumi chance to star in Taiwan's popular idol drama, then published his books, let him have a solo song that he got award for it … Henry is given chance to create his own studio and get his/Zhoumi's songs in SJ/SJ-M albums, star as a leading actor with world famous actress in upcoming screening China movie, on Korea celebrity chef and KTR with RW … They started to have them debut in Korea TV music program with SJ-M early this year, participate in most of SS5 …xD. Now this … Time seems right and all fall into place.
But I still think we have to go extra miles to support Henry this time to prevent him from being shunned in the future. And I hope, rather guess that Zhoumi will get his solo in China soon if SM deems to see Chinese fans support him more now.
I'm so nervous but happy for Henry!
Comment by MyWorld (@MrSiwon_SuJu)— May 30, 2013 #
I love your comment so much!!!! Yes, let's support Henry and Mimi!
I also hope that Zhou Mi will have a solo album in the future because he's a talented songwriter and has a good voice!! 🙂 But I'm sure that Mimi will have the chance to be more involved in activities in the future.
This year is such a good year for both of them!!! ^^
Comment by LovelyHen— May 30, 2013 #
He deserves this so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW this doesn't mean he's leaving SJ…. right?
Comment by tina— May 30, 2013 #
of course not!!! he still sjM members…
Comment by sabrina— May 30, 2013 #
Henry really deserves this, he's a VERY talented guy
Comment by keien— May 30, 2013 #
chukae henry!!! anticipate your solo album… hwaiting!!
Comment by sabrina— May 30, 2013 #
woooow henryyy. i cant wait.
Comment by go henry— May 30, 2013 #
EVERYONE PLEASE SUPPORT HENRY!!!!! HE DESERVES IT!!! Who knows, if this is a success, we'll probably hear more good news from sm about other SJ members. A kyuwook duet or so???
Comment by High— May 30, 2013 #
WOOOOOW Henry Oppa Congratulations you really deserv this Good Luck Saranghae<3<3<3 but I'm thinking right now SM what about ZHOUMI…I wish that he will have a SOLO Album Too .. Anyway HENRY & ZHOUMI Hwaiting<3<3<3<3<3 SUPER JUNIOR 15 4ever <3<3<3<3<3
Comment by Lolo— May 30, 2013 #
He is still part of Super Junior M right?
Comment by HyunAe_Le— June 7, 2013 #
Cause some people are making it sound like he isn't >~<
Comment by HyunAe_Le— June 7, 2013 #
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LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec – It was surely the most festive spot in town as a Friday night turned into a Saturday morning at the Musi-Cafe — a full house, live music, plenty of beer and nachos to animate longtime friends.
Among the dozens enjoying themselves in the pub was a sizable contingent of the Lafontaine clan, celebrating the 40th birthday of a daughter of prominent local businessman Raymond Lafontaine.
Four days later — having lost a son and two daughters-in-law who were among the revelers — Lafontaine stood near a throng of reporters on a street near the town center, watching them pepper an American railroad executive with questions.
"I wanted to see my children's killer," Lafontaine said. "And I wanted to see the killer of other people from here who didn't ask to die."
Any possible culpability on the part of the railway remains to be determined; police say their criminal investigation will proceed slowly and carefully. But it is fact that an unmanned Montreal, Maine and Atlantic freight train with 72 cars carrying shale oil turned into a runaway death machine — rolling away from its overnight parking spot, barreling for miles down an incline in the dark of night, derailing in the heart of Lac-Megantic at 1:14 a.m. on July 6, and snuffing out 50 lives when a series of explosions set off a ferocious fire.
For some, it became known as "the train of death." For others in the close-knit, French-speaking town, it was "le train d'enfer" — or "the train from hell."
Gilles Fluet, a 65-year-old retiree who used to work at a door-making factory, left the Musi-Cafe just moments before the first explosion and saw the train go by.
"It was moving at a hellish speed … no lights, no signals, nothing at all," he said. "There was no warning. It was a black blob that came out of nowhere."
"I realized they were oil tankers and they were going to blow up, so I yelled that to my friends and I got out of there," he said. "If we had stayed where we were, we would have been roasted."
Those who were still in the pub, he said, "had no chance."
It's daunting to ponder the toll exacted on Lac-Megantic. Fifty dead in a town of 6,000 represents nearly 1 percent of the population — a rate that high for a big city would verge on apocalyptic.
Some residents have suggested that the train disaster is comparable in its impact on their town to how the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks affected New York City. And indeed there are similarities — sudden, deadly conflagrations; victims whose virtually vaporized remains defied easy identification; the circulation of photos of the missing, posted by relatives clinging to faint hopes that somehow their loved ones might be seen alive somewhere.
In midweek, those hopes were largely dashed when Quebec police informed families that the people still listed as missing were presumed dead.
The victims included Eliane Parenteau, vivacious and gregarious at 93, who lived in one of the homes ravaged by the blaze.
"She always said she would never go to an old people's home and she wanted to die in her house," her son, Michel Boulanger, told the Journal de Quebec.
At the other end of the age scale, the presumed dead include the two young daughters of Talitha Coumi Begnouche — all three died in their home near the crash site. A photo of the girls, released by the family, shows them embracing — 4-year-old Alyssa with a giggly grin and 8-year-old Bianka with a soft, radiant smile.
Another victim was Guy Bolduc, a father of two children who was one of a pair of musicians performing at the Musi-Cafe. The other performer, Yvan Ricard, had taken a cigarette break outdoors when the inferno broke out, and he escaped unharmed.
"The last words he said to me were, 'Yvan, I really like playing with you. We have so much fun together,"' Ricard told the television network TVA.
Among those spared by quirks of fate was the cafe's manager, Sophie L'Heureux. She told reporters she went home around 9:30 that Friday evening, planned to return after a nap but overslept. Three of her employees are among those presumed dead, along with many of her loyal customers.
Nathalie Royer and David Isabel could have been among those doomed regulars, had it not been for home repairs they planned for later Saturday morning. The couple, both 45, left the cafe shortly after 1 a.m., with Isabel telling Royer to forgo one more drink with their friends because they had to get up early.
They decided to leave their car parked outside the bar and started to make their way home on foot. They ran when they spotted the train; Royer lost a shoe, stumbled, and suffered a burn on her arm, according to her mother, Louisette Nadeau.
"The people that died there — it's a lot, because we're a little town," Nadeau said. "There's almost none of them that we don't know."
The explosions and fire destroyed 30 buildings in all, including the public library that housed irreplaceable historical archives. Roughly 2,000 people — a third of the populace — were ordered to evacuate their homes, and the town's central business district was cordoned off throughout the week, keeping out journalists and townspeople while scores of police officers and other emergency responders searched for remains of victims and sought clues to aid a criminal investigation of the crash.
Several hundred of the evacuees took shelter at the local high school, under the care of the Canadian Red Cross and other agencies.
Red Cross spokeswoman Myriam Marotte said some of the first volunteers who arrived in the middle of the night to help organize the shelter were local residents who themselves had been ordered to evacuate their homes.
"They are very dedicated," said Marotte.
Cots arrived around 10 a.m. — nine hours after the crash — followed by an array of other supplies and services, ranging from pet care to psychological counseling.
"The most important thing was to listen to people," Marotte said. "Not knowing what's coming in the next hours and days is very difficult."
Adding to the grief and shock for townspeople were the circumstances of the crash. The train was loaded with a potentially dangerous cargo, yet transport regulations allowed it to be left unattended overnight in the town of Nantes, seven miles away on a stretch of track leading downhill to the center of Lac-Megantic.
The CEO of the railway's parent company, Ed Burkhardt, compounded local frustrations by waiting four days to visit the town and in the meantime suggesting that firefighters in Nantes may somehow have contributed to the runaway while fighting a small fire on the train late on Friday, July 5.
During a chaotic outdoor news conference Wednesday in Lac-Megantic, Burkhardt apologized, said he was devastated by the town's calamity, and disclosed that the train's engineer was now suspected of failing to properly apply the train's brakes before leaving it unattended.
Raymond Lafontaine was there, watching — angry that Burkhardt hadn't visited the town sooner.
"If a team had come to see us and said, 'Yes, we're here for you and there was an accident, yes, there was human error, yes, this happened,' it seems like that would have hurt less," Lafontaine said. "I would have been able to get through that. But this is inconceivable. I can't accept it."
A lakeside town in a region of rivers and gently sloped mountains in the predominantly French-speaking province, Lac-Megantic has much in common with some communities in neighboring New Hampshire and Maine — its economy encompasses a range of blue-collar industries, but it relies heavily on tourism in the summer.
The three-term mayor, Colette Roy-Laroche, maintained a confident, forward-looking tone throughout the week, urging tourists not to cancel summer reservations, assuring that the lake was safe to swim in, and expressing thanks for the support extended to her town from near and far. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, French President Francois Hollande and Pope Francis were among the well-wishers.
"All the messages that we've received give us the strength and courage to remain standing," the mayor said.
In a signal of the town's resilience, city officials announced that the annual "Traversee Internationale" would be held on schedule in mid-August — a five-day spectacle that includes entertainment, carnival rides and a 10-kilometer swimming competition.
"The phones are ringing," Roy-Laroche said. "Lots of people are proposing to come visit us."
Before then, though, will be further ordeals. A week after the crash, only a few of the bodies recovered from the rubble had been formally identified. Relatives of the victims were asked to supply combs, toothbrushes and other personal items that might help experts at a Montreal laboratory make DNA matches.
"The work is long and arduous," said Genevieve Guilbault of the local coroner's office.
Gilles Fluet, the retiree who left the Musi-Cafe just before the crash, was bracing for a series of funerals.
"They are my friends' children, they're former workmates, they're elderly people that I know. I knew them all," he said. "It's as if I lost brothers, sisters, uncles — the bonds are a bit like that."
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Hundreds join 18-year-old dog for his bittersweet final walk on the beach
NEWQUAY, England – Walnut the whippet got the ending he deserved.
His owner, Mark Woods, wrote a post on Facebook earlier this month that the 18-year-old dog would have to be euthanized because his health was deteriorating quickly.
He asked people to come to Porth Beach on Saturday to join him for Walnut's last walk.
The post was shared more than 2,300 times and garnered more than 19,000 reactions on Facebook.
"He has had an incredible life and having reached the grand age of 18 is ready for his final sleep," Woods wrote on Facebook.
People responded to Woods' post in a big way.
"I've had tens of thousands of messages from all over the world," Woods told Reuters. "I wish I could answer them all, but thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all of those messages."
Hundreds of dog owners gathered on the beach Saturday to meet Walnut and give him one last memorable walk at his absolute favorite spot.
After the incredible turnout, Walnut was put down. Woods said he didn't want his best friend to suffer any more.
The walk started the #WalkWithWalnut movement on social media. People who attended Walnut's walk posted pictures and shared their memories from the day.


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Hundreds of Christians from a dozen nations joined together with 3,000 Israelis on Sunday evening in the small Samarian Jewish community of Revava to mark the end of the self-imposed Jewish building freeze in the so-called West Bank.
The Christians were in Israel to participate in the annual International Christian Zionist Center (ICZC) Feast of Tabernacles celebration. The theme of this year's feast was Genesis 22:17, where God promises Abraham that his "seed shall possess the gates of their enemies."
ICZC Director Jan Willem van der Hoeven thought it fitting that his group demonstrate their belief in that passage by physically standing with the people of Israel as they reversed that fateful decision to suspend Jewish building in Judea and Samaria in accordance with US and Arab demands.
"We as Gentiles tell you, be strong and of courage to possess the land," van der Hoeven stated in the central Samaria town of Ariel, just prior to the rally in nearby Revava.
In Revava, the Christians with their bright banners and national flags were swarmed by the Israeli and international media before mingling in amongst the thousands of faithful Israelis from around the country who had come to strengthen the Jews of Judea and Samaria.
The Israelis seemed surprised, though very grateful, to see these foreigners in this isolated place and for this occasion. Most greeted the Christians warmly and many applauded loudly as the flags of various nations were marched in.
Likud MK and deputy minister for development in the Negev and Galilee, Ayoub Kara, who is an Israeli Druze, addressed the crowd in a fiery Zionist speech before turning to the Christians and saying:
"I say to all the non-Jews who are here, I too am not a Jew, but in spirit I am most Jewish, I am most Zionist, and so are you! Good for you that you are here to support Israel."
Rising Likud star MK Danny Danon, who organized the rally, also took time during his speech to directly address the Christians (in English), saying:
"We salute you. We know that you love Israel unconditionally."
Danon asked the foreigners to take the message back to their countries that Israel respects them, but insists that its own democracy and historical rights must also be respected. He then apologized to the Jews of Judea and Samaria that they had been treated like "second class citizens" when they were told they could no longer build homes, schools or synagogues.
On Monday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stuck to his promise to allow the building freeze to expire on time, despite heavy American pressure to extend it. However, building permits are expected to be issued much more sparingly so as not to rock the diplomatic boat too much.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has been saying every day for the past month that if any Jewish building resumes in the areas he claims for a future state, then the current US-brokered peace negotiations will be over. Washington has been pressing Netanyahu hard to not let that happen, and both US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have hinted in no uncertain terms that if the peace talks break down, Netanyahu will be blamed.
Danon sought to remind Netanyahu that similar threats were made more than 15 years ago by former US President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. They insisted that if Jewish "settlement activity" continued after the signing of the so-called "Oslo Accords," it would cause an international crisis for which Israel would be blamed.
But, Danon noted, Israel went on building, and Washington and the nations made some noise, but there was no crisis, there was no regional war.
Van der Hoeven and the ICZC are urging the Israelis to at the very least return to a situation where Judea and Samaria are actually disputed territories. By implementing building freezes and signaling constantly that Judea and Samaria are, as the Arabs claim, occupied, Israel can only blame itself when the world refuses to accept that these are ancient Jewish lands, said van der Hoeven.
The ICZC's short term solution is for Israel to insist, constantly and adamantly, that Judea and Samaria are Jewish lands, and if there needs to be a Jewish building freeze while the issue is hashed out, then the Arabs must also stop building.


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DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced that effective immediately, people who were brought to the United States before the age of 16 and meet certain criteria will be considered for relief from removal from the country or from entering into removal proceedings. Those eligible will receive deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal, and will be eligible to apply for work authorization.
Today, in an unconstitutional move, President Obama thwarted the will of Congress and shunned the 20 million under and unemployed Americans by announcing he will grant work permits to 2-3 million illegal workers. Congress on three occasions rejected DREAM Act amnesties in part to help unemployed workers born here or who came here legally.
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The Administration claims to be using its administrative discretion to implement this amnesty-in-place, which is similar in nature to the so-called DREAM Act. Under this directive, individuals who demonstrate that they meet the following criteria will be eligible for an exercise of discretion, specifically deferred action, on a case by case basis:
1. Came to the United States under the age of sixteen;
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration told the CIA in 2002 that its interrogators working abroad would not violate U.S. prohibitions against torture unless they "have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering," according to a previously secret Justice Department memo released Thursday.
Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft testifies before Congress July 17 about waterboarding.
The interrogator's "good faith" and "honest belief" that the interrogation will not cause such suffering protects the interrogator, the memo adds.
"Because specific intent is an element of the offense, the absence of specific intent negates the charge of torture," Jay Bybee, then the assistant attorney general, wrote in the memo.
The 18-page memo is heavily redacted, with 10 of its 18 pages completely blacked out and only a few paragraphs legible on the others.
Another memo released Thursday advises that "the waterboard," or simulated drowning, does "not violate the Torture Statute."
It also cites a number of warnings against torture, including statements by President Bush and a then-new Supreme Court ruling "which raises possible concerns about future U.S. judicial review of the [interrogation] Program."
A third memo instructs interrogators to keep records of sessions in which "enhanced interrogation techniques" are used. The memo is signed by then-CIA director George Tenet and dated January 28, 2003.
The memos were made public by the American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained the three CIA-related documents under Freedom of Information Act requests.
"These documents supply further evidence, if any were needed, that the Justice Department authorized the CIA to torture prisoners in its custody," said Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security Project.
The Bush administration has consistently denied that the United States tortures detainees.
Reports say the CIA waterboarded three "high-value detainees," including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, although former Justice Department official Daniel Levin suggested in congressional testimony in June that there had been more than three instances of the practice, which critics call torture.
The third document released Thursday was blacked out except for a line saying "Unless otherwise approved by Headquarters, CIA officers (redacted) may use only Permissible Interrogation Techniques. Permissible Interrogation Techniques consist of both (a) Standard Techniques and (b) Enhanced Techniques," plus the instruction for interrogators to keep records of sessions in which enhanced interrogation techniques are used.
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First broadcast in Italy in 1984, The Octopus (La Piovra) is an international blockbuster, running for 18 years and producing 9 follow-up series. The title of this classic Mafia thriller says it all, evoking the image of a secret criminal culture which extends its tentacles into every layer of society. Ultimately shot on three continents, The Octopus brought scope and sophistication to the story of an old battle and shows the cost men and women pay when they stand up to the injustice of organized crime. In Series 1, Michele Placido stars as Chief Inspector Corrado Cattani, who arrives in Sicily full of resolve for the task of investigating a pair of high-profile murders. When the Mafia starts to push back, his convictions erode and he ends up compromising to save his life, and that of his family. What will prevent him from taking his own ruthless revenge against the Sicilian Mob?
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Helen Thomas, Under Siege About Israel Comments, Retires
Monday 07 June 2010
by: Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers
Washington — Helen Thomas, the longest serving White House correspondent, retired Monday after comments she made about Israel over the weekend drew condemnation from both the White House and the White House Correspondents Association.
Hearst News Service announced Thomas's retirement in a news story transmitted Monday morning. The story said her retirement was immediate.
"I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians," the story quote Thomas as saying. "They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.''
Thomas will mark her 90th birthday on Aug. 4.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that Thomas's comments, in which she said Jews should leave Israel and return to Europe, were reprehensible. The White House Correspondents Association called them indefensible.
The association's board also said it was reconsidering Thomas's special seat in the front row of the White House briefing room.
"I think those remarks were offensive and reprehensible," Gibbs said when asked about her comments at Monday's press briefing.
"I think she should and has apologized. Because, obviously, those remarks …do not reflect, certainly, the opinion of, I assume, most of the people in here and certainly not of the administration."
Thomas did not attend Monday morning's briefing, which feaetured Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the administration's point man on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Thomas was asked about Israel on May 27. The video was recorded by the website RabbiLive.com on the day the White House held a Jewish Heritage event. The video was released Friday.
"Any comments on Israel," an offscreen voice asks Thomas.
"Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine," Thomas says.
"Where should they go?" the offscreen voice asks.
She responds that they should go home to Germany, Poland or the United States.
After a special meeting Monday, the correspondents' association board issued a statement condemning Thomas's comments.
"Helen Thomas' comments were indefensible and the White House Correspondents Association board firmly dissociates itself from them," the group said.
"Many in our profession who have known Helen for years were saddened by the comments, which were especially unfortunate in light of her role as a trail blazer on the White House beat.
"While Helen has not been a member of the WHCA for many years, her special status in the briefing room has helped solidify her as the dean of the White House press corps so we feel the need to speak out strongly on this matter.
"We want to emphasize that the role of the WHCA is to represent the White House press corps in its dealings with the White House on coverage-related issues. We do not police the speech of our members or colleagues. We are not involved at all in issuing White House credentials, that is the purview of the White House itself.
"But the incident does revive the issue of whether it is appropriate for an opinion columnist to have a front row seat in the WH briefing room. That is an issue under the jurisdiction of this board. We are actively seeking input from our association members on this important matter, and we have scheduled a special meeting of the WHCA board on Thursday to decide on the seating issue."
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Well at least freedom of speech still exists somewhere in our country. It is vanishing from many places.
On her defense: it could be just old age… dementia?
The Roman Empire renamed Judea, Palestine in 135 AD. Greek myth has Hercules building cities in what is now called Gaza. Many Arabs do not consider Palestinians Arabs. If memory serves, the Egyptian word for Palestinian is "boat people".
If the Jews go back to where ever they came from, do the Palestinians go back to Greece? How about European Americans go back to Europe, and the Aztecs can rise again.


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Dragon Age: Origins Lead Writer David Gaider and BioWare heads Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have different ideas about what high and low fantasy is; which may foretell a genre crisis for the game.
Ideally, Origins is supposed to be a "new" kind of fantasy that does away with Zeschuk's dreaded "elves sashaying through the countryside" and brings to the fore real human drama (but with non-humans). To create that kind of fantasy, BioWare had to find a spectrum of existing fantasy to measure their game by.
"At one end we have Tolkien's [Lord of the Rings trilogy]," Muzyka explained,"and for dark, low fantasy, we're using [George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series]."
This confused me, because Martin's epic fantasy series is labeled as high fantasy, whereas low fantasy would be more like Conan the Barbarian. Either BioWare is cutting the scale short so they can stay focused, or they've confused Martin with Robert E. Howard.
"When you read [Martin's] stuff, it's not at all like Tolkien's stuff," said Zeschuk. "It doesn't have the traditional elements [of high fantasy]. The brutality of the world he created is extreme."
I object about the elements of traditional fantasy (c'mon — those books have knights and princesses and dragons and stuff), but I'll give the brutality argument to him:
*Ice and Fire spoilers* In the first book alone, a seven-year-old gets chucked out of a window in, like, chapter five and the main character has his head chopped off at the very end.*End spoilers*
That's the kind of brutality that struck a chord with Muzyka: "I was like, 'Wow, he just took away a character I really started to care about. Wow, that was emotionally impactful [sic]'." And that reaction is ultimately what makes him identify the Song of Ice and Fire as low fantasy.
Gaider, on the other hand, thinks that his bosses' definitions of high and low fantasy are "funny" at best. To him, high fantasy has to have "obvious magic" and technically Martin does. But "it's very, very subtle," so he could see where his bosses got the idea to label it low even if he doesn't agree with them.
There's a flaw in Gaider's argument, too, though. If magic has to be obvious in order for the fantasy to be "high," the The Witcher is high fantasy, surely?
Rather than talk his way out of that one, Gaider side-stepped. The skew between Martin and Tolkien still works for Origins, he said, even if it's not a clear example of the divide between high and low fantasy: "Martin's stories are character driven. The characters and their flaws drives the plot, where Tolkien is plot-driven. In that respect, [Origins is] leaning more towards the Martin side, where it's a human tale told within the context of these epic events."
"Dragon Age has elements of [Martin's brutality]," said Muzyka, "and has elements of the Tolkien-esque kind of fantasy as well. Which is why we're presenting it is something that's quite different."
Will Origins be a brilliant alchemy of fantasy sub-genres, or genre crisis in the making? The fact that the lead writer and the creators of the game can't exactly agree on what low fantasy is has me worried. The fact that Muzyka and Zeschuk think George RR Martin's series is low fantasy just because it's dark also has me worried. But what really bugs me is the thought that games can never not be low fantasy because it seems to sell way better than elves sashaying through the countryside.
P.S. That picture is from a scene in Song of Ice and Fire, drawn by Mike S. Miller — if you want Dragon Age: Origins pics, check out this post.


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THEATER THURSDAY: 'Titanic' Broadway revival on hold
Mark Kennedy, AP Drama Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The musical "Titanic" has reversed course and will no longer steam onto Broadway this fall.
Producers cited "the lack of the availability of a Broadway house" on Wednesday for postponing the upcoming revival. "Revised plans will be announced as soon as scheduling allows," they said in a statement.
The musical tells the story of the ship's ill-fated maiden voyage and encounter with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. The show, which has a score by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone, focuses on the vessel's passengers in first-class, second-class and steerage.
It won Tony Awards in 1997 for best musical, best score, best sets and book of a musical, and lasted over 800 performances.


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Peter Thiel Is Ron Paul's Billionaire Sugar Daddy
Ron Paul may have an army of small donors but when it comes to billionaire sugar daddies, PayPal co-founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel is the financial stalwart of the campaign.
Ron Paul may have an army of small donors but when it comes to billionaire sugar daddies, PayPal co-founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel is the financial stalwart of the campaign. According to campaign finance documents filed with the FEC on Monday, Thiel donated $1.7 million to Ron Paul-supporting super PAC Endorse Liberty in January, which amounted to over 70 percent of the $2.4 million it received for the month. Following donations of $150,000 and $750,000 donations made in December, the billionaire has given the PAC $2.6 million, accounting for 76 percent of its total fundraising.
That the Paul campaign, well-financed but not well-received by voters, would be bankrolled by Thiel makes perfect sense. Thiel, who is openly gay and Christian, has spent his considerable wealth on a number of mainstream and unorthodox causes including the Methuselah Foundation, a research organization that seeks to extend the human lifespan to 1,000 years; the Committee to Protect Journalists; gay-rights groups such as the American Foundation for Equal Rights and GOProud; the Seasteading Institute, an organization set on building small floating countries in the middle of the sea for a "vivid, wilde-eyed dream" of a Libertarian island; and the Thiel Fellowship, which give grants of $100,000 to people under the age of 20 who drop out of school to pursue entrepreneurial projects.
When Thiel took PayPal public in 2002, Thiel's stake was reportedly worth $55 million. He also happened to be an early Facebook investor. According to CNN Money, his stake in the site is now worth $1.3 billion.
So where does Thiel's money put him in the long scheme of Ron Paul fundraising? Without question, he's the king of Paul's super PAC fundraising. There are four super PACs registered to support Ron Paul and Endorse Liberty is by far the most powerful with more than $3.4 million in independent expenditures.. According to Open Secrets, the two closest Ron Paul super PACs have more than $300,000 and $120,000 by comparison.
Still, this is not to say Paul's candidacy isn't getting a major push from small donors. According to The Huffington Post, more than 52 percent of Paul's contributions come from small donors, which is more than any other Republican in the race and more than President Obama (who pulled at least 45 percent from small donors). According to Open Secrets, Thiel has not directly donated to Paul's campaign in 2012.
The question is, will Thiel continue to dump money into Paul's super PAC? Because, as CNN Money makes clear, the donations so far have barely made a dent. "$2.6 million in donations are no big deal -- only 0.2% of his Facebook holdings alone. That would be like a millionaire giving $2,000. Or a $200 donation for someone worth $100,000."


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How many people stop to consider what life is like, after the terror attack is over?
Very often lives are changed, forever.
The murder of Dafna Meir was one of the more horrifying attacks Israel experienced last year. How many people stopped to consider Renana afterwards? What will her life be like?
Eldest of Dafna and Natan Meir's six children, it was Renana who interrupted the terrorist in the middle of stabbing her mother to death. It was Renana who saw the terrorist trying to pull the knife out of her mother's body so he could stab more people.
It was Renana who saw Dafna struggling to keep the knife inside her body so that he couldn't hurt her children.
3 of her 6 children were in the house. Dafna's refusal to allow them to be hurt and Renana's screams were what made the terrorist give up and run away.
The night of the attack I wrote "How can home be the place where the heart is when that is the place where mommy's heart stopped beating?"
How can you go on living in a house that was a home, a sanctuary that became a living nightmare? How can you walk across the floor your mother laid on while life fled from her body? How can you use that room as if it was just a regular room?
Over the past year, the people of Israel got glimpses of the spirit of the Meir family. We learned more about how extraordinary Dafna was. We also saw how Natan took all his children in hand and made sure their family life continued with light and with love.
For some reason, many assume a man won't be able to take care of children on his own. Natan was horrified that there were those who questioned whether or not he would continue taking care of the children he and Dafna had adopted. How could that even be a question?! Dafna had wanted a big family. After they had their own children, she wanted to give a warm and loving home to additional children who needed it, so they adopted. How could anyone think that Natan would abandon the children that Dafna wanted so much? How could anyone think he would treat them differently from his biological children? They are all one family.
A terrorist could steal Dafna from them. Violence could break their family unit but it would not ruin their family. No terrorist could steal their family spirit.
Kindness is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Even when the most horrible things happen it is still possible to choose light. It isn't easy, but it is possible.
The Meir family dramatically renovated their home. They worked on different ways to honor Dafna's memory. Through sorrow that is difficult to fathom, an experience almost impossible to comprehend or process, they continued to live, always striving for the light.
Interestingly, Meir comes from the Hebrew word for light and means "giving light," like a candle gives light in the darkness. And that is exactly what they have done – their example has been a light to us all.
"Or" means light in Hebrew. Interestingly, that is also the name of Renana's fiancé. She recently announced their engagement in a touching Facebook post, saying:
"My Or who tells me not to cry, gives me reasons to be happy.
My Or who feels the evil with me, is the essence of goodness.
My light, on the day of my private devastation, on the backdrop of the Temple Mount where the Temple is sorely missed, chose that together we will build and grow.
Of course I said yes!"
I don't know Renana and yet my heat leaps with joy to read her words.
I do not need to know her to know that no girl should ever have had to experience what she experienced.
I ache for her pain, knowing that time does not heal. One learns to grow with the pain, one choose to live and be happy despite the pain but the loss never goes away. There will always be a gaping hole where Renana's mother is supposed to be.
I, who lost my father to cancer at a young age, can imagine what it is like for Renana. Each time she wishes she could tell her mother something, only to be hit with the reality of what happened…
What's it like to get engaged and not be able to share your happiness with your mom? Hopes and dreams, plans will have to be made with other people…
What will it be like to have children without Dafna? I can imagine but I can't know how Renana will feel. The only thing I am certain of is that Dafna's example will make Renana a stronger, better mother.
The daughter who saw her mother die so that her children would not be hurt, can only become a stunning mother herself.
Renana will always carry with her the Meir family light. Now she also has Or who will add to her light. I pray that together they will have a wonderful life, full of happiness, good health and joy, free of troubles and sorrow.
And I hope they have a lot of children.
Am Yisrael Chai!


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Harrison Weber is TNW's Features Editor in NYC. Part writer, part designer. Stay in touch: Twitter @harrisonweber, Google+ and Email. Harrison Weber is TNW's Features Editor in NYC. Part writer, part designer. Stay in touch: Twitter @harrisonweber, Google+ and Email.
Growing up with the Internet gives today's children a very unique view on the way the world works — one that is vastly different from that of older generations.
These kids, the 'digital natives," are raised with modern technology deeply embedded into their lives, and form a natural understanding of its benefits. This deeply rooted acceptance gives kids a unique perspective on how technology can be further used to make our lives easier, and helps researchers predict future needs for innovation.
What can we learn from the digital natives?
We asked this question back in September, and it's one that research firm Latitude sought to answer with its KIDS – Kids Innovation Discovery Series initiative. Now, Latitude is back to find out how technology, specifically robotics, can be used to inspire new opportunities for learning and creativity.
Latitude's Robots @ School study, which was conducted this month, asked kids across the world to illustrate and write a story that answers this question: "What would happen if robots were a part of your everyday life — at school and beyond?"
The results provide a compelling look on how youngsters feel about modern technology, and most importantly, reveals that tech has a huge potential for blurring the lines between learning and play. Steve Mushkin, founder and president of Latitude explains:
Education and learning are moving, at least in many children's eyes, beyond acts of knowledge transmission toward acts of exploration and creation."
With children so easy to embrace robotics, it's clear that there's a ton of potential for integrating intelligent technologies into learning environments. Besides, the idea of "exploring and creating" sounds a heck of a lot better than answering true/false questions out of a booklet. Clearly there are tons of new and interesting ways to learn, and technology is, in many ways, responsible for this.
Taking a deeper look at the stories the children created, the survey found that unlike many adults who see technology as separate from humanness, it seems that "kids tend to think of technology as fundamentally human: as a social companion that can entertain, motivate, and empower them in various contexts."
While this dreamy perspective is partially the result of childhood imagination (something kids from any generation can have), it is clear that kids are eagerly anticipating new ways that tech can enhance their lives.
Sure, it's easy to dismiss how children look forward to the future and dream without inhibitions, but that's exactly what some of the greatest innovators of our time have done. Children don't just react, they imagine, and that's why this study can't be overlooked.
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At the end of the budget meeting he had concluded that Megan had gone on her very own little "shopping spree" during the month of October.
What can I say? I like to try and push the limits.
I also like a good challenge. So when the hubs suggested that we try and go the rest of the month without eating-out or going to the grocery store I decided that this would be a good challenge.
Actually, first I screamed and cried, and vowed to never talk to my husband again if he made me do this.
Then I decided it would be a good challenge.
So I set out to formulate a lunch and dinner menu that would require no extra grocery trips.
We are almost all the way through the month and I am proud to tell you that we have actually done it.
Its amazing the treasures you have hiding in your pantry if you actually look inside of it.
Although I will tell you, there are no hidden sweet treats in there. I searched high and low for those.
But I met the challenge and we have not spent any money this last week of October.
I am bound and determined to become a frugal grocery shopper, and I feel like this was my first step.
I wonder how many steps there are?
Yesterday I made a yummy crock pot soup and I wanted to share it with you. We had all of these ingredients laying around and it was extra yummy.
Crock-pot Chicken Chili
3-4 chicken breast- boneless, skinless
1 16oz canned corn
1 16oz canned tomatoes
1 can of chili beans - drained
1 can of kidney beans
1 pkg. chili seasoning
1 48 oz. can V-8 juice
Put all ingredients in crock pot.
Cook on low heat 8-10 hours.
Remove chicken, shred.
Return to pot.
Stir and serve
Makes 14 cups.
Seriously people its that easy and is yummy, yummy, yummy!
Here is mine int he crockpot:
And my bowl. Of course I topped it with cheese.
Doesn't cheese make the world go round?
Minus all the crazy amounts of cheese this soup is pretty good for you too!
I was so proud of all the money saving that we have done I felt that I needed a reward so stopped and got a Starbuck's coffee this morning.
Maybe that defeats the purpose of the money saving?
Try the recipe it's good!


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"You know the one from halfcourt, where I flip it through my legs then over my head and then behind the back? I've made that shot on my first try."
Conversation with Bruce Manley, it turns out, is almost as unreal as watching him on tape.
An overnight YouTube sensation thanks to a Shaq Tweet where he said he wanted to find Manley for a $1000 game of H.O.R.S.E., Manley has seen his trick-shot video jump from 300 views last Tuesday night to upwards of 250,000 by Monday morning.
He might look like one in the video, but the 25-year-old bank employee from Sparta, NJ isn't claiming to be a miracle worker. He admits that some of the shots in his videos have taken some time to make. But as he and numerous friends and family have insisted in the comments section of this site and others, every shot in the video is legit.
"Some of the shots take a little while," Manley says. "If I shoot it behind the back from the other foul line, I'm still confident that in one or two, maybe three tries, I'll hit the rim. I try and put it in that general area, and obviously, it's got to get a tiny bit lucky but it's definitely more skill than luck. The last shot over the wall, that everyone's claiming is fake, I made on the 14th try."
As you can see in the video, the behind the back shot is Manley's bread and butter. He started working on it when he was 14, after he hurt his shoulder playing baseball.
"I used to pitch and I hurt my shoulder," he explains. "It wasn't anything that serious, I didn't get surgery or anything like that but whenever I went to throw overhand my shoulder would just pop a little bit and it became kind of painful."
As crazy as Manley's skills and videos are, it wasn't until Shaq got involved that things took off. Thomas Litteer, who edited the video, grew up with Manley and is now his manager. He got Shaq to look at the video through some unconventional methods.
"(Litteer) was pretty sly and he posted it (on Twitter for Shaq) and the subject was, 'Shaq check this out, it's Chris Bosh and Greg Oden's love child,'" Manley says. "He did something creative, so when Shaq saw it he clicked on it and then it just blew up."
And blow up it has. On Sunday night, Litteer was on the radio in Baltimore, talking about the video. The video itself is making its rounds on blogs and shortly after the views started taking off, Bruce's phone started ringing, with TV people looking to talk with him. Litteer is working on sponsorships, but is keeping quiet on the specifics. He's hoping it'll be tied in with Manley's game of H.O.R.S.E. against Shaq, which could take place in early July. The involvement of TV networks, Litteer says, could push it back to later in the month.
For what it's worth, Manley is confident that he can take Shaq in H.O.R.S.E., as long as there are two rules.
"One, no dunks and to make it fair, I won't shoot foul shots," he says. "I hope Shaq isn't offended by that comment."
Litteer says the big fella, just like the rest of us, wants to see Bruce for himself.
"(Shaq) mentioned on the phone that he didn't believe it, he wanted to see it in person," he says. "I think that's a big part, not so much that he thinks he can beat Bruce at H.O.R.S.E. or anything, he wants to see if it's real."
Litteer has posted a new video with Manley, this one showing his passing abilities. No word on if a Shaq and LeBron two-on-two challenge will be issued yet.


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In the beginning, life in the cloud was simple. Type in your credit card number and—voilà—you had root on a machine you didn't have to unpack, plug in, or bolt into a rack.
That has changed drastically. The cloud has grown so complex and multifunctional that it's hard to jam all the activity into one word, even a word as protean and unstructured as "cloud." There are still root logins on machines to rent, but there are also services for slicing, dicing, and storing your data. Programmers don't need to write and install as much as subscribe and configure.
Here, Amazon has led the way. That's not to say there isn't competition. Microsoft, Google, IBM, Rackspace, and Joyent are all churning out brilliant solutions and clever software packages for the cloud, but no company has done more to create feature-rich bundles of services for the cloud than Amazon. Now Amazon Web Services is zooming ahead with a collection of new products that blow apart the idea of the cloud as a blank slate. With the latest round of tools for AWS, the cloud is that much closer to becoming a concierge waiting for you to wave your hand and give it simple instructions.
Here are 10 new services that show how Amazon is redefining what computing in the cloud can be.
Anyone who has done much data science knows it's often more challenging to collect data than it is to perform analysis. Gathering data and putting it into a standard data format is often more than 90 percent of the job.
Glue is a new collection of Python scripts that automatically crawls your data sources to collect data, apply any necessary transforms, and stick it in Amazon's cloud. It reaches into your data sources, snagging data using all the standard acronyms, like JSON, CSV, and JDBC. Once it grabs the data, it can analyze the schema and make suggestions.
The Python layer is interesting because you can use it without writing or understanding Python—although it certainly helps if you want to customize what's going on. Glue will run these jobs as needed to keep all the data flowing. It won't think for you, but it will juggle many of the details, leaving you to think about the big picture.
Field Programmable Gate Arrays have long been a secret weapon of hardware designers. Anyone who needs a special chip can build one out of software. There's no need to build custom masks or fret over fitting all the transistors into the smallest amount of silicon. An FPGA takes your software description of how the transistors should work and rewires itself to act like a real chip.
Amazon's new AWS EC2 F1 brings the power of FGPA to the cloud. If you have highly structured and repetitive computing to do, an EC2 F1 instance is for you. With EC2 F1, you can create a software description of a hypothetical chip and compile it down to a tiny number of gates that will compute the answer in the shortest amount of time. The only thing faster is etching the transistors in real silicon.
Who might need this? Bitcoin miners compute the same cryptographically secure hash function a bazillion times each day, which is why many bitcoin miners use FPGAs to speed up the search. Anyone with a similar compact, repetitive algorithm you can write into silicon, the FPGA instance lets you rent machines to do it now. The biggest winners are those who need to run calculations that don't map easily onto standard instruction sets—for example, when you're dealing with bit-level functions and other nonstandard, nonarithmetic calculations. If you're simply adding a column of numbers, the standard instances are better for you. But for some, EC2 with FGPA might be a big win.
As Docker eats its way into the stack, Amazon is trying to make it easier for anyone to run Docker instances anywhere, anytime. Blox is designed to juggle the clusters of instances so that the optimum number are running—no more, no less.
Blox is event driven, so it's a bit simpler to write the logic. You don't need to constantly poll the machines to see what they're running. They all report back, so the right number can run. Blox is also open source, which makes it easier to reuse Blox outside of the Amazon cloud, if you should need to do so.
Monitoring the efficiency and load of your instances used to be simply another job. If you wanted your cluster to work smoothly, you had to write the code to track everything. Many people brought in third parties with impressive suites of tools. Now Amazon's X-Ray is offering to do much of the work for you. It's competing with many third-party tools for watching your stack.
When a website gets a request for data, X-Ray traces as it as flows your network of machines and services. Then X-Ray will aggregate the data from multiple instances, regions, and zones so that you can stop in one place to flag a recalcitrant server or a wedged database. You can watch your vast empire with only one page.
Rekognition is a new AWS tool aimed at image work. If you want your app to do more than store images, Rekognition will chew through images searching for objects and faces using some of the best-known and tested machine vision and neural-network algorithms. There's no need to spend years learning the science; you simply point the algorithm at an image stored in Amazon's cloud, and voilà, you get a list of objects and a confidence score that ranks how likely the answer is correct. You pay per image.
The algorithms are heavily tuned for facial recognition. The algorithms will flag faces, then compare them to each other and references images to help you identify them. Your application can store the meta information about the faces for later processing. Once you put a name to the metadata, your app will find people wherever they appear. Identification is only the beginning. Is someone smiling? Are their eyes closed? The service will deliver the answer, so you don't need to get your fingers dirty with pixels. If you want to use impressive machine vision, Amazon will charge you not by the click but by the glance at each image.
Working with Amazon's S3 has always been simple. If you want a data structure, you request it and S3 looks for the part you want. Amazon's Athena now makes it much simpler. It will run the queries on S3, so you don't need to write the looping code yourself. Yes, we've become too lazy to write loops.
Athena uses SQL syntax, which should make database admins happy. Amazon will charge you for every byte that Athena churns through while looking for your answer. But don't get too worried about the meter running out of control because the price is only $5 per terabyte. That's about 50 billionths of a cent per byte. It makes the penny candy stores look expensive.
The original idea of a content delivery network was to speed up the delivery of simple files like JPG images and CSS files by pushing out copies to a vast array of content servers parked near the edges of the Internet. Amazon is taking this a step further by letting us push Node.js code out to these edges where they will run and respond. Your code won't sit on one central server waiting for the requests to poke along the backbone from people around the world. It will clone itself, so it can respond in microseconds without being impeded by all that network latency.
Amazon will bill your code only when it's running. You won't need to set up separate instances or rent out full machines to keep the service up. It is currently in a closed test, and you must apply to get your code in their stack.
Snowball Edge
If you want some kind of physical control of your data, the cloud isn't for you. The power and reassurance that comes from touching the hard drive, DVD-ROM, or thumb drive holding your data isn't available to you in the cloud. Where is my data exactly? How can I get it? How can I make a backup copy? The cloud makes anyone who cares about these things break out in cold sweats.
The Snowball Edge is a box filled with data that can be delivered anywhere you want. It even has a shipping label that's really an E-Ink display exactly like Amazon puts on a Kindle. When you want a copy of massive amounts of data that you've stored in Amazon's cloud, Amazon will copy it to the box and ship the box to wherever you are. (The documentation doesn't say whether Prime members get free shipping.)
Snowball Edge serves a practical purpose. Many developers have collected large blocks of data through cloud applications and downloading these blocks across the open internet is far too slow. If Amazon wants to attract large data-processing jobs, it needs to make it easier to get large volumes of data out of the system.
If you've accumulated an exabyte of data that you need somewhere else for processing, Amazon has a bigger version called Snowmobile that's built into an 18-wheel truck complete with GPS tracking.
Oh, it's worth noting that the boxes aren't dumb storage boxes. They can run arbitrary Node.js code too so you can search, filter, or analyze ... just in case.
Once you've amassed a list of customers, members, or subscribers, there will be times when you want to push a message out to them. Perhaps you've updated your app or want to convey a special offer. You could blast an email to everyone on your list, but that's a step above spam. A better solution is to target your message, and Amazon's new Pinpoint tool offers the infrastructure to make that simpler.
You'll need to integrate some code with your app. Once you've done that, Pinpoint helps you send out the messages when your users seem ready to receive them. Once you're done with a so-called targeted campaign, Pinpoint will collect and report data about the level of engagement with your campaign, so you can tune your targeting efforts in the future.
Who gets the last word? Your app can, if you use Polly, the latest generation of speech synthesis. In goes text and out comes sound—sound waves that form words that our ears can hear, all the better to make audio interfaces for the internet of things.
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Dental veneers are an excellent option for people interested in improving the appearance of their smile. They consist of thin layers of porcelain or composite resin and are custom fit for your teeth.
Once applied, the results are a natural-looking surface that improves the appearance of your teeth, covering stains, disguising chips, and minimizing gaps or alignment issues, giving you the radiant smile you deserve.
Plus, veneers resist staining and damage, ensuring your results will last over the long-term with proper care.
How Veneers are Applied
In many cases, applying veneers is an easy procedure, and doesn't usually require the use of local anesthesia unless your teeth are highly sensitive.
Your Bryan, Conroe, Humble, Huntsville, Lufkin, Spring and Tomball dentist will clean the surface of your teeth and then remove a small amount of surface enamel to create space for the veneer. Impressions are taken, and the optimal color is selected, allowing for the creation of completely customized veneers. Temporary veneers are then placed to protect the surface while the long-term veneers are crafted.
Once the veneers are ready, the temporary veneers are removed, the tooth is again cleaned, and the new custom veneers are secured in place with adhesive. A special light cures the adhesive, then the veneers are polished and edges refined.
How to Care for Veneers
Caring for your veneers is simple! All you need to do is brush and floss regularly. Avoiding stain-inducing foods and beverages, like coffee, red wine, and deep-colored berries, can help ensure that your veneers don't stain over time.
You also want to schedule regular visits with your dentist in Bryan, Conroe, Humble, Huntsville, Lufkin, Spring or Tomball, not just to care for your veneers, but to also maintain good oral health.
4 Things You Didn't Know About Dental Veneers
- Color Matching
In cases where not all of your teeth are getting veneers, your Bryan, Conroe, Humble, Huntsville, Lufkin, Spring and Tomball dentist can match the color of your veneers to your surrounding teeth. This ensures that everything matches, giving you a natural-looking smile.
- Tried and Tested
Veneers have been in use for a long time, and are actually considered one of the oldest cosmetic dentistry procedures.
- Durable
With the proper care, veneers can last between 10 and 15 years or longer.
- No Special Maintenance
Aside from brushing, flossing, and keeping up with your regular dental appointments with your dentist in Bryan, Conroe, Humble, Huntsville, Lufkin, Spring or Tomball, veneers require no special maintenance.
Ultimately, veneers can be a great way to improve the look of your smile, giving you a natural appearance that you can cherish for years to come.


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Stan Dixon, AIA, is the president and founder of his Atlanta-based firm, D. Stanley Dixon Architect, Inc. Raised in Sumner County, Tennessee, a region along the Cumberland River notable for its pastoral landscape and historic structures, Stan was inspired from a young age to study architecture. The simplicity of materials and authentic beauty of the houses, which originally compelled him to pursue architecture, continue to inform his design philosophy today.
He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee and he also attended Britain's renowned Attingham Trust School for the Study of Historic Homes and Collections. After completing his education, Stan moved to Atlanta where he acquired experience in residential and commercial firms. This dual exposure provides a breadth of scope to his architecture and ultimately led him back to his underlying love of houses. Tutelage in residential design with the esteemed firm of Norman Davenport Askins Architect was the next phase of Stan's career.
Stan's edited approach to the classical elements of architecture creates an understated aesthetic that is historically based while embracing influences of modern design. His goal is to interpret individual needs and desires through contextually sensitive work that engages appropriate style, scale and proportion, giving every building a sense of permanence and delight. The resulting body of work has set an exacting standard.
In response to his work, Garden & Gun magazine named Stan one of "The New Faces of Southern Style." He is a three-time winner of the "Southeast Architect of the Year" award given by Veranda magazine and the Atlanta Decorative Arts Center. Stan is also an eleven-time winner of the Philip Trammell Shutze Award presented by the Southeast Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. Most recently, Stan was awarded the Addison Mizner Medal for his work in Palm Beach.
Stan founded D. Stanley Dixon Architect, Inc. in 2006. His firm's portfolio includes projects in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Indiana, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York.
Whether our house be large or small, it can be beautiful and a pleasure to ourselves, our friends and to the passerby. While our wants and our pocketbooks determine the size of our house; our own good taste determines its character. Houses such as these will grow better as age adds its softening touch and they will be good houses as long as they endure.
Inspiration for an architect comes in many different ways. As time progresses I want to share people, places, and things that have and continue to inspire me.
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Sumner County, Tennessee
My upbringing in the historic region along the Cumberland River in Sumner County has had a lasting impact on my practice of architecture and how I approach design. It was this landscape that caused me to fall in love with houses and where I began pursuing architecture. From a young age I was surrounded by the historic structures that are spread across Tennessee's rolling pastoral landscape. Their modest beauty has taught me how compelling simplicity can be and how authentic materials used in a way that bears their necessity creates timeless buildings. I still draw on the lessons that I have been taught by this place and continue to be inspired when I return home.
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Tales from the MLA: profs and job seekers in the trenches
From the annual MLA conference taking place in San Francisco this weekend, bloggers report:
- Bev, "English professor at a small college in the Midwest," says the Hilton is a maddening labyrinth, so "I fought my way out this morning at 6 a.m. (because my body thinks it's still in Ohio) and walked down Market Street to the Embarcadero and back, accompanied only by the snap-crackle-pop of the streetcars, the snoring of homeless people sleeping on the sidewalk, and the occasional frantic flutter of a flock of pigeons. … Store windows sparkle with dresses I can't imagine wearing…"
- The mass interview room at the Hilton, where dozens of career make-or-break interviews take place simultaneously, "is undignified and it stinks." The same post cites another blogger who reported on a candidate "whose bag fell over spilling a veritable pharmacy of drugs across the floor."
- Another blogger reports: "I am not loving the MLA, as I never have loved the MLA. I'm insecure about my lame-ass institution; I can't find anyone I know, nor did I do a remotely good job of setting up fun reunions… I'm likely to be eating most meals alone."
- In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard reports, "This year the unofficial theme is 'Who's getting work at all?' The numbers look terrible. Job listings in language-and-literature fields are down more than 22 percent from last year…"
The conference continues through Tuesday.


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Whenever the urge to swing strikes—whether your're in an industrial-looking warehouse, a busy construction site, or a crowded sidewalk—as long as you can find something overhead that's sturdy enough to support your weight, you can string up this simple portable swing seat.
Created by industrial designer Kevin Shay, the canvas seat comes with all of the necessary ropes and hooks you'll need to string it up over a tree branch, the dangling hook of a construction crane, or even a particularly well-secured chandelier.
And since it hangs from a single point, you never have to worry about getting it level. So besides a water bottle and frisbee, the UpSwing looks like a required addition to your summer strolling kit. If only Shay would sell it to those of us who never outgrew playgrounds. [UpSwing via Notcot]


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School District of Philadelphia
The School District of Philadelphia is the eighth-largest public school district in the United States, with more than 134,000 students and more than 18,000 staff. They face continually growing needs for network security, federally-mandated web filtering, and compliance reporting. The district stretched its dollars by deploying a highly virtualized server environment and by adding more than 50,000 Chromebooks, but these new technologies overwhelmed the legacy firewall.
After a live production test that evaluated performance and capabilities of alternative NGFW solutions in their environment, the district migrated to a combination of virtual and physical FortiGate firewalls for its virtual server network, integrating it with VMWare NSX to enable advanced, layer 4 to layer 7 policy enforcement and protection for distributed, east-west application workloads and storage. Benefits include an upper-six-figure annual savings by retiring a web-proxy solution and over 500 hours saved annually in security administration.
Learn more about the district's approach in this article.
Business Impact
Increased performance and up-time
Increased efficiency with automation and micro-segmentation
Saved over 500 hours/annually in security administration
Simplified compliance reporting
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"I love you baby, I'm not a monster." That's the line that Taeyang, of the South Korean boy band Big Bang, crooned to an undulating sea of light-stick wielding fans at the Prudential Center, in Newark, the other night. To my immediate left, pressed against the gray iron bars that separated us from the V.I.P. mosh pit, a thirteen-year-old girl in a silver sequin tank and top hat voiced her devotion in squeals and screams. Behind us, two boys in tuxedos elbowed their way up front, armed with flash-ready iPhones. "O.K., do me first," one instructed the other, as he leaned back against the bars, fingers raised high in the shape of a V. "Get two!" he ordered, before being edged out by a new tide of photo-seekers.
My fellow concertgoers need not have worried about time constraints. Their idols—G-Dragon, T.O.P., Seungri, Taeyang, and Daesung—rapped, roared, stomped, and thumped onstage for two more hours, buoyed by a dizzying and ever-multiplying array of props, platforms, and video-screen projections. G-Dragon, the most baby-faced of the group, greeted the audience from behind an impasto of smoky makeup while Taeyang strutted in braids and a bandanna, plus pants that fell well below the natural waistline. Even though the quintet has been around for six years—with hiatuses in which band members pursued their own solo albums—Alive Galaxy is their first sixteen-country-wide world tour. Perhaps, in honor of this inaugural occasion, little expense has been spared in making a first impression.
I missed their much-touted emergence onstage (via silver spaceship-like canisters) and subsequent vehicular jaunts (via gilded Segways and low-rise bicycles)—damn my own snail-paced vehicle on the New Jersey Turnpike—but was as mesmerized as the rest of the arena as we watched Daesung ascend, affixed with life-size wings, over and above our upturned faces. If the pageantry and spectacle threatened to overwhelm the music—fire-breathing dragons and a rotor-spinning helicopter were a few of the digitalized backdrops—it did so with the crowd's blessing: they roared more enthusiastically with the arrival of ever more elaborate fantascapes.
From where I was standing, with the cavernous stadium opening out to its glittery theatre of small, almost anime-like figures, the world momentarily felt like a giant video game. It reminded me of the first time that I heard this music: in the classroom of the Korean middle school where I was teaching eighth-grade English. My students had gruelling schedules: ten hours of school plus cram academy plus private tutorials (for those with the means) plus homework plus daily lectures from parents and teachers alike on the perils of failure if they should ever deviate from their schedule. (Unsurprisingly, the country has consistently led in high-school test scores, even among their industry-prizing neighbors.)
But during their recess, those fifteen glorious minutes between lunch in the communal canteen and sixth period, they would enthusiastically introduce me to two sanity-preserving graces: video games and K-pop music videos. I was hopeless in mastering the former, so my new teachers quickly began tutoring me in the latter. "You don't know Super Junior! How about SHINee?" my shyest thirteen-year-old tsked upon my pitiable profession of ignorance. Inevitably, the boldest ones among them, boys in identical blue-and-white uniforms down to the plastic slippers they flapped on their feet, would bend their limbs in imitation of their favorite break-dance moves. If the juxtaposition of their sailor-style attire and the hip-jiving dance steps seemed jarring, so was the precision of their reproduction. Somehow in the precious moments between eating, sleeping, and their all-encompassing sprint toward success, they had found time to study something else.
Back to Big Bang: G-Dragon, lauded for his contribution—fairly unique among packaged pop sensations—to the writing and composition of the band's hit songs, is commonly acknowledged as the creative heart of the group. Early in the night, he performed his solo, "One of a Kind": "(Hello) My name is me and choice / (Hello) Yes sir, I'm one of a kind," the twenty-four-year-old singer belted out. It's not hard to imagine G-Dragon, dubbed the Lady Gaga of Asia, meaning it. His adolescent fanbase back in Seoul, however, are likely only mouthing the words.
Read John Seabrook's recent piece for the magazine on K-pop, "Factory Girls."


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Have you ever wanted a Ferrari LaFerrari, but decided not to buy one simply because there was no matching wrist accoutrement? Worry no more, as this week Swiss watchmaker Hublot announced it was releasing a new watch to accompany the latest and uber-iest of all the uber-Ferraris.
When the Ferrari LaFerrari came out, I thought it just wasn't possible to create a more awkward name for something with gears in it. I mean, we know it's a Ferrari, that's why it's called Ferrari. And "la," well, that just means "the." So it's the Ferrari TheFerrari, or the TFTF in my mind. Remind me to hold some sort of contest where we come up with a better Ferrari-themed definition for that acronym. The prize will be... nothing, of course. I may make you a fine paper hat.
For those who already have all the paper hats in the world, however, and all the Ferrari LaFerraris, for that matter, you need something special. Something so special that, when a man walks into a room, everyone instantly knows that this man has just dropped over a million dollars on an amalgamation of rubber and tin and exquisitely manufactured carbon fiber. Something that makes his mortal peers tremble and quake, because they only have a McLaren P1.
That brings us to Hublot, who has created something for just that person, the one with the many fine hats and and many Ferraris and many Ferrari the Ferraris and other things Ferrari with ungainly names: the Hublot Masterpiece MP-05 "LaFerrari."
Yes, you know it's a masterpiece because it says Masterpiece, right there in the name. That's how you know.
And so you can know many other things besides, Hublot deigns it appropriate for you to know how many things it shares in common with The Ferrari The Ferrari, notwithstanding its vaguely McLaren-sounding name. It has eleven barrels. Each barrel has its own cylinder. A rubber strap. Seriously, check the press release if you think I'm making this up.
We can make jokes and jokes all day about this particular ridiculous watch, but that would be unfair. (Not to the watch, it has no feelings.) It would be unfair to us, as there are many more watches out there, — each finely paired with a car and usually only purchased second-hand by those without that car — that we can both examine and appreciate for how ridiculous they are. So that's what we'll do.
Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti Type 370
If we're going to talk about weird, fanciful, and sometimes unobtainable watches, we should start at the top. The Parimigiani Fleurier Bugatti Type 370 has a strange French-Italian hybrid of a name like Mr. Ettore Bugatti himself, but this watch is completely Swiss.
Only available to Bugatti Veyron owners, it is perhaps one of the few watches meant to be actually worn while driving, the watch face is actually horizontal- all the better for you to be able to look at it with your arms outstretched and your hands gripping the wheel.
That's also why it's pretty gross. You're driving along at 250 mph, and you need to check the time on your bulky and weird-looking watch? That's just... wrong. I'm pretty sure that at over a million dollars, the Veyron has a clock.
Urwerk UR-CC1 "King Cobra"
A horizontal speedo can convey a sense of both time and place. A Buick Skylark from the 1970s, for example, had a beautiful one. Cruising down the street, watching it sweep from side to side as you move from light to light is a beautiful thing. You might as well hear the Eagles wafting out of the 8-track without even realizing it. The same goes for the digital version that you find on a Honda S2000. Conceived twenty years later, you know exactly what vehicle you're sitting in from the moment you get behind the wheel.
The Urwerk UR-CC1 is neither a Buick Skylark nor a Honda S2000, but a watch that you put on your wrist. It conveys only the time, but not an era. And it sits there, on your wrist, while you gradually get more and more sweat on it each instance someone asks you what time it is. Because you can't read it. Because it's too big, and there's no hands, and there's no digital readout, and because you should've just bought a regular watch.
Hublot Aero Bang Morgan
Before Hublot created The Ferrari The Ferrari watch, it created this, the Aero Bang Morgan.
Created to celebrate the launch of the Morgan Aeromax, it has none of the features Morgans are actually known for. Every Morgan is known for looking like it was designed in conjunction with the Supermarine Spitfire, and to this day they are made by hand out of wood. The Aero Bang as none of these characteristics. None of the retro design, none of the wood, and certainly none of the Britishiness. And with 400 more of these made than the 100 Aeromaxes, it makes you wonder who these watches were actually for.
Audemars Piguet-Millenary Maserati MC12 Tourbillon Chronograph
What in the world...? Is that thing lopsided? It seems to have some sort of... growth on the side of it. I'm not even sure what's going on here. I just know that there's a lot of gears, and somehow Maserati seems to be involved here. As the Audemars Piguet-Millenary Maserati MC12 Tourbillon Chronograph cost $284,000, I'm not sure I need to know what's going on here. Or ever will.
Shinola Ford Uh... "Watch"
And for those of us who can't drop the kind of cash to buy a house on something that will just tell you if you should be having lunch right now or not, there's this. I would say what "this" is, but it doesn't seem to have a fancy official name. Those are reserved for the nobility, I suppose.
What it is though is a watch. Nothing more, nothing less. Well, it's got a little horse on it so you can tell people it's for your Mustang. At the low-low price of $700, however, maybe this is one we can all get behind.
Suggest your ultimate in tacky car-watch pairings in the comments below!
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Of course there's going to be a New New Beetle dressed up to look like Herbie, the car from Disney's 1968 classic film. It's too easy not to do. Draw on red and blue stripes, slap a number 53 on the hood and voila! New New Herbie.
Unfortunately (or fortunately if you're most people), Spain will be the only country to get this 21st century Love Bug, dubbed the Beetle 53 Edition (y'know, for Herbie's race number). The rest of us
were spared are left wringing our hands, wondering why other markets weren't blessed with this offering.
Spanish buyers will be able to purchase the next gen Herbie with a range of powerplants: the 105 hp 1.2 TSI, the 105 hp 1.6 TDI, the 140 hp 2.0 TDI, and the 2.0 with a 6-speed transmission. Prices range from $28,000 to about $36,000, so the internet age Love Bug ain't exactly cheap.
But other than the fact that a 2013 Beetle is nothing like the 1963 Type 1 Disney used in all of those cheesy Herbie movies back in the '60s and '70s, why hasn't Volkswagen put 53 badges on the doors? If you're going to make a tribute to a collection of ridiculous films, you might as well go all out.
Photo credit: Volkswagen