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On the face of it the LaCie d2 Quadra has a lot going for it. The "Quadra" in this case refers to the fact that you're provided with quadruple interface options, including eSATA and USB, in addition to both 400 and 800 variants of FireWire.
Better still, you get four high-quality cables bundled with the drive - one for each connection standard - so you're ready to go whichever you choose (at least, until you decide to power up the device and discover the - more below). The case itself holds only a single hard drive, even in the maximum 1TB configuration of the drive.
The d2 Quadra is typically stylish, in the great LaCie tradition, and feels very solid as it's well put together. Neat extras include a configurable front panel button for various one-touch operations, such as launching the bundled EMC Retrospect Express back-up software that's bundled with the drive. There's also a three-level power management system, including manual and auto-power-sensing options - perfect for the environmentally conscious PC user.
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With so many great features and smart options, we couldn't wait to get going with the d2 Quadra. However, as it turned out a considerable wait is just what we were in for. The reason for this is that the drive comes pre-formatted in Apple's HFS+ file system - why? - so you have to reformat the drive from scratch before you can even use it with a Windows PC, which is a real chore.
So long as you don't mind setting aside a few hours to reformat the drive before you start using it, the d2 Quadra is a top performer at the price.

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With Microsoft, Google, and Facebook now all offering bug bounty programs to reward the responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities in their software, it's no surprise other big names in tech are starting to offer bug rewards as well. One of the newest bounty providers: GitHub.
The collaborative code-sharing site's bug bounty program rewards users who can identify a vulnerability in one of a number of selected GitHub products with payouts from $100 up to $5,000, paid via PayPal. The more severe the problem and the larger the possible impact on GitHub's audience, the bigger the reward.
GitHub's keeping deliberately small the list of products and the variety of the exploits it offers bounties for. Right now, only bugs in the GitHub API, GitHub Gist (GitHub's code-snippet sharing service, akin to Pastebin), and the GitHub.com website are eligible for bounties. That said, if someone discovers a vulnerability in another GitHub property and it turns out to be a doozy, GitHub may compensate a bug hunter at its discretion.
The rules for the program are straightforward and prohibit the use of automated penetration testing tools, social engineering attacks, or the exploitation of any found vulnerabilities to access another user's accounts or data. A slew of folks have already turned up and disclosed issues to GitHub, although no new bounty-worthy bugs have been discovered in recent months.
Depending on who you talk to, that lack is either evidence that bug bounty programs work -- or evidence they might only draw attention from other, more urgent problems.
Independent studies claim bug bounties are as effective as hiring full-time employees to do the same work -- in some cases, even better. Some of the discoveries and payouts have been impressive, such as the $33,500 reward paid out by Facebook when a Brazilian computer engineer found a major exploit in that social network's OpenID code.
But InfoWorld's Roger Grimes has dissented, claiming that bug bounty programs might only give further incentive to criminals to find bugs and never disclose them to vendors.
"The biggest problem with bug bounty programs is that you never know which security bugs will 'go big,'" Grimes writes. "Very few security bugs, no matter how severe, end up exploiting millions and millions of customers." To his mind, "the ultimate measure of [a bug bounty program's] success is whether that vendor's customers are actually attacked successfully less often over time. Realistically, this is almost impossible to isolate for."
The fact that the scope of GitHub's bounty program remains modest may be a point in its favor, since it encourages both the bug finders and GitHub to be that much more conscious of what bug bounties can and can't address properly. Bug bounties are only one weapon in the arsenal against exploits, and by keeping both focus and rewards comparatively modest, GitHub stands a better chance of not letting its bounty program dilute itself.
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Updated 4:06 p.m. ET, 4/4/2014
(An earlier version of this report stated incorrectly that Ohio's ban on same-sex marriage was to be declared unconstitutional.)
(CNN) – A federal judge signaled Friday that he'll declare unconstitutional Ohio's current refusal to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states - the latest instance in which courts have challenged restrictions on the rights of legally-married gays and lesbians.
A hearing was held Friday where lawyers for several same-sex couples asked the judge to dismiss on equal protection grounds all aspects of the state's voter-approved ban on recognizing gay and lesbian couples who were legally wed elsewhere. The judge– a 2010 appointee of President Barack Obama– announced from the bench he would officially do so in coming days.
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"I intend to issue a written decision and order by April 14 striking down as unconstitutional under all circumstances Ohio's ban on recognizing legal same-sex marriages from other states," said Judge Timothy Black, according the Cincinnati-based court.
The decision for now does not apply to homosexual couples who seek to marry in Ohio.
State officials had argued it was the right of the state and its citizens to define marriage. There was no immediate reaction on the latest developments from Mike DeWine, the state's attorney general, but an appeal is expected.
Marriage equality advocates cheered the judge's action.
"Today's decision will make a real difference to legally married gay Ohio couples, affirming that their home state may not deny them and their families legal protections and the basic dignity of treating them as what they are: married," said Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry.
"This common-sense and constitutional ruling adds to the momentum across the country in favor of the freedom to marry."
Ohio's current ban was passed by voters a decade ago.
In February of 2004, President George W. Bush announced support for a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
In the election that November, voters in Ohio and ten other states passed constitutional amendments defining marriage as being between a man and a woman only.
Sixty-two percent of Ohioans voted in favor of the constitutional amendment. The push to put the issue on the ballot in the Buckeye State was seen as a move by the Republican Party to drive conservative voters to the polls to help re-elect Bush. Then-Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic presidential challenger in 2004, conceded to Bush the day after Election Day after the president narrowly captured Ohio.
According to a Quinnipiac University survey conducted in February, 50% of Ohio voters backed legalizing same-sex marriage, with 44% opposed to making same-sex marriage legal.
This latest decision adds legal and political momentum to the issue following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision last June ruling unconstitutional key parts of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which had defined for federal purposes marriage as only between one man and one woman. It meant legally married gay and lesbian couples could now enjoy a range of benefits including tax breaks.
The justices did not go as far as saying that all states must allow such marriages to take place within their borders, but a number of lower federal courts have since stepped into the fray.
Since last summer, federal and state courts in Kentucky, Virginia, Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, New Jersey, and Michigan have separately struck down similar bans on same-sex marriage. There are more than 47 same-sex marriage lawsuits pending in about two dozen states, on both allowing such unions to take place within its borders, and formal recognition of already legally-married couples.
A federal appeals court in Denver will be next to hold arguments on Utah's prohibition, a constitutional challenge that could reach the U.S. Supreme Court for final review by year's end. That could present the monumental question of whether gay marriage is a constitutional right that would apply to all states, including the more than 30 with current bans.
Hawaii, California and Illinois are among the states that have begun issuing marriage licenses for same-sex couples in the past year.
Judge Black's ruling Friday came after a narrower decision last December, when he ordered Ohio to recognize legal same-sex marriages on death certificates.
Two gay men had originally sued the state last year after their separate partners had recently died. Both wanted the death certificates to list they were legally wed in other states.
The consolidated lawsuit also includes three legally-married lesbian couples who want their names listed on birth certificates of their children, who will be born in coming months.
The Ohio case is Henry v. Wymyslo (14-cv-129).
CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
couldn't have said it better. Great job. the religious fanatics and their Inquisition-like/Talibanesque idea of society is a "joke"
We don't live in a theocracy – and if a person's faith is so weak that they can't handle being around others who are just like then, well, I guess we should pray for them, because that's pretty pathetic and sad. 🙂
@Tampa, same old grind. Ready for a couple of adult beverages.....
Marriage is between a man and a woman.
@Jesus is a liberal: "@Anne – Um....Jesus is a liberal."
Yep – what else do you call someone who would say, Blessed are the peacemakers (Matthew 5:9); Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's. (Matthew 22:21); Love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:39); So in everything, do to others as you would have them do to you.
(Matthew 7:12.); If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. (Matthew 19:21).
The list goes on and on and on ...
"How does this ruling change how you need to live your life?"
He's having his ability to consider himself superior to others taken away...which is really the conservatives' favorite toy. Not to mention their love of being able to say "I have something you don't get to have."
So, republicans, how does it feel to be on the wrong side of the Laws , Again!!
Another state where my sisters-in-law can live with equal rights – YAY!
Although I doubt they'll move to Ohio; pretty cold winters!
This is the common misconception among us Americans. We do not live in a democracy. We have a democratic government in which we elect our leaders and so forth, but we are actually a Republic.
A republic is a government where the minority is not subjected to the majority. This saves us from things such as slavery being voted as law because the majority of people want it. It saves us from killing anyone with blond hair.
IF we were in a democracy, a jury of 12 people voting on the guilt of a human being...11 votes would be enough. 1 vote would not be enough to stop a conviction. But in a republic, 1 vote for not guilty stops a person from being convicted of a crime.
I encourage you to read about the fact that the USA is a republic and not a democracy as people say it is. If it were, a lot of crazy things could get into law because people want it.
Congratulations to the gay community in Ohio.
Once again, if you don't want to marry a gay person then please don't. Otherwise mind your own business!
And to the person who asked if "So voting and democracy doesn't mean anything anymore?" please know that voting is used to suppress others, it can also be used to suppress you. Rights aren't supposed to be voted on by the majority – that why they are called rights!
Ahhh, didn't you catch Mr. Cruz declare that "religion is under attack in America like never before" on Wednesday? This is the new Republican diversion from reality. By not letting the religious run wild- and denying gays the same rights as the rest of us, is a "war" on religion.
The GOP is so, so, lost.
And to the idiots on here saying things like if the south had it their way they would have slaves and women would not have the right to vote I just have to laugh. And these are the same people who say that repubs are the ones that run on fear. How wonderfully ironic.
And, again, I am a classical liberal so I don't agree with the repubs on their social stances but I certainly am tolerant enough to understand that they are free to have those positions...
Eli... if the south had been able to vote on the issue, blacks would still be slaves and woman would never have been given the right to vote.
About ten years ago, the Canadian government legalized gay marriage without asking anyone. People were furious. When the Prime Minister was asked why, he replied "Because it was the right thing to do". And now? People no longer care because they realized that it didn't impact them in any way whatsoever. The religious can still refuse to marry gay people if they want because the government will marry them without a problem. And they are legally protected against discrimination.
Just because it CAN be voted on, doesn't mean it should be. Sometimes its about doing what's right, no matter what the popular mindset might say. That includes allowing gays to marry, allowing women to vote, and freeing the slaves.
intelligent and succintly put.
Thank you for your post, I wholeheartedly agree.
Let it go people.
Every citizen should have equal rights.
If you can marry so should gays.
You cannot have one state say I DO and another state say I DON'T...
In effect, you are segregating the people married in the I DO states from moving, vacationing, working, making medical arrangents, or visting their spouse in hospitals should they take ill in I DON'T states.
True marriage is between a Man and a Women!
But.... I'm all for Gay people getting the same tax breaks, etc....
This war is over. So much fun to watch these fools and their money part. They ought to take some of it, buy a dictionary and look up the word "precedent".


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Mr. Freeze, is a launched shuttle coaster at both Six Flags St. Louis and Six Flags Over Texas. Riders typically experience shuttle coasters with a forward trip followed by a backward trip back to the station. The Mr. Freeze coasters begin with an exhilarating magnet powered launch that propels the trains to a blistering 70 mph. For, 2012 Six Flags turned the trains around to add a new a wrinkle to the 14 year old attractions. Now, they have been re-branded: Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast.
I rode Mr. Freeze in 2011 at Six Flags Over Texas and Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast at Six Flags St. Louis in 2012. To be honest, there wasn't quite enough of a difference between the forward-facing and backward-facing experiences to warrant separate reviews or different ratings.
The Pre-Ride Experience – A Hyped Up Dual Loading Station
The adventure begins with a pretty cool (no pun intended) station. The theming starts with the entrance. The queue is sparse, but appropriately industrial like most Batman and Batman villain-themed rides. As you work your way through the queue, it eventually splits and you can head to either side of the Mr. Freeze's dual loading station. It's a gamble as you never really know which side will have a longer wait.
Entering the station, you see two trains and one track, which is unusual for a shuttle coaster. Unaware of how the station worked, I was scratching my head for a moment the first time I saw it. As one train slides over into position and lines up with the tunnel, the other train moves over to the side where riders waited to board. The full train is a launched and disappears down a tunnel with daylight at the far end. Eventually, the train and its thrilled riders come flying back into the station. They're moved over to be unloaded and now its the other trains turn and so on. I loved watching the dual loading station.
The evil Mr. Freeze watched over us, but thankfully it was an enthusiastic ride op that was running the show. Not a second tier Batman villain. The park's signature ride should have some excitement and buzz in its station and thanks to the ride op (and of course the exciting launches) it did. She toyed with the riders as she made them anticipate the launch. Seemingly small things like this really do matter.
Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast – The Ride
After your train moves into place in front you and the previous riders leave, you can step through the train and leave your belongings right there on the platform. The seats are a little tight, but comfortable enough. Finally, the launch happens. Now, on Reverse Blast, you're thrusted backwards out of the building. It was a pretty neat experience as it was my first reverse launch.
The train rockets out into the sunlight and climbs up into a 150-foot tall inside top hat inversion. It's quite a memorable inversion as there's a good bit more hang time. In the top hat you actually get the feeling of being upside-down more than your ordinary vertical loop. Next, the train plummets back to earth, just to rise back up once again. You traverse an uneventful, but large banked curve. Don't expect to be able to keep your hands up to long on Mr. Freeze. My hands were basically pushed down by the g-forces any time the train got near the ground.
Rocketing Up the Spike
You travel back to the ground for a moment, before the train climbs the spike at the far end of the ride's layout. The spike is a 200+ foot tall, 90-degree section of track. One of the highlights of the ride, on Reverse Blast, was feeling the train not only climb, but actually get powered up, straight up the spike, away from the ground. It was a pretty unusual experience. It was like looking out of the back window of a space shuttle climbing up into the sky.
Previously, on the old Mr. Freeze, riders towards the front of the train got a great view of a dead end as they rose up the spike. I remember feeling really high and wondering if the train was going to go all the way to the end. Both experiences were cool. The trip back was good and the top hat was just as fun as it was on the trip out. The train is slowed as it re-enters the station, your train rolls to one side, and your ride is over.
Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast is a quick ride, but it's easily among the best shuttle roller coasters around. They're definitely worth a wait if you've never ridden one. I'd put them right on par with the Flight of Fear coasters at Kings Dominion and Kings Island. Those are longer, complete circuit coasters, but they're also a good bit rougher. Freeze is another solid attraction from Premier Rides. Final Rating 7.5 (Good Approaching Great)
Six Flags had some cold celebrities for the media days that re-launched these coasters. Here's a video of Vanilla Ice riding Mr. Freeze Reverse Blast. There's a reference and footage of the infamous Fabio-Apollo's Chariot incident:
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Something is missing in your life. And it's probably not a heavier workload on the job. Nope, you need something fun for your car--like the snorty growl from dual exhaust pipes. Okay, it's not like anybody really wants an exhaust system that makes car alarms go manic or requires the girlfriend to wear earplugs. But upgrading an exhaust lets you hear the magic under the hood. And to us gear heads--that's music, man. You can legally upgrade your exhaust to gain some power and efficiency. But federal emissions regulations won't permit just any mod. One upgrade that's almost universally permissible is in the exhaust system downstream of the second oxygen sensor. Because that sensor is always located right after the catalytic converter, we refer to these systems as "cat-back." So let's hear what we've been missing.
Max Flow
We went to Snake Pit Performance in West Babylon, N.Y., to install a Corsa cat-back system on a 2007 Dodge Magnum SRT8. If ever there were an engine that begged to be heard, it is the 6.1-liter V8 in Dodge's SRT8 Magnum. Our system wasn't cheap. The total approached $2000, including labor. But the Corsa system is well-engineered and fabricated from 304 stainless steel. Best of all, it fit like the stock exhaust. The installation process took 6 hours, including a few dyno runs. In your garage, with the car up on jackstands, the job might take an hour or two.
How Exhaust Works
The exhaust system is basically a long funnel to expel spent gases from the combustion process. The gases dump from individual cylinders into the exhaust manifold. On cars with a V-type or boxer engine, there are two manifolds, one on either side of the engine block. Inline engines have only one manifold. The manifold's snakelike tubes collect the gases and, on newer cars, send them down a pipe (or two if it's a dual exhaust) and into the catalytic converters. The catalytic converter is a major component responsible for reducing emissions. At the front half of the cat is a reduction catalyst which uses platinum and rhodium to remove NOx emissions. In the second half, the cat burns carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. The result? Up to 90 percent of these damaging gases never reach the sky. But cats won't scavenge this stuff until they reach operating temperature. So automakers mount them as close to the exhaust manifold as possible to capture engine heat quickly.
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After the cat, the exhaust travels on to the resonators and mufflers to cancel sound. Without mufflers, your car would be as loud as a Sprint Cup Car. Cat-back systems often include new middle pipes, resonators and mufflers--and are often less restrictive (less backpressure) so they can build more power and make better noises, too.
What's Legal
In the good but smoggy old days before emissions standards, you could freely modify your exhaust, as long as the local constabulary didn't object to the noise. A tuned exhaust, along with a bigger carburetor, high-flow intake manifold and high-lift, long-duration camshaft, increased the amount of air and fuel available to the engine--voilà, more power. Times have changed. And California's strict smog regulations have influenced the nation. Aftermarket speed parts built for newer vehicles are almost all 49-state-compliant. In the Golden State, they must pass stricter California Air Resources Board (CARB) standards. So, unless you own a smog-exempt car (1975 or older in California), it's verboten to modify anything that might change the emissions profile. And that's why the most common exhaust modification is a cat-back system.
Getting Dirty
Our gleaming Corsa system looked great. But unless you're going to install it immediately, put the parts back in the protective foam. Because odds are you'll scratch them. Once our Magnum was on the lift, we removed the stock exhaust system behind the cat. That's not always easy. First, douse all of the mounting hardware with penetrating oil, and let it soak in. Start removing nuts, bolts and clamps. Got a stubborn bolt? Try tightening it first instead of loosening. This hardware is heat-cycled constantly, which adds up to corroded, heat-tempered parts. Chances are if you tighten them too much, they'll just snap off. I have a rule: Never reuse any exhaust system bolt, nut or clamp.
Ditto for rubber exhaust hangers--splurge on some new ones, dude. The new system should come with all-new fasteners, but probably won't include hangers or their hardware. At the factory, some exhaust systems are installed before the rear suspension is bolted into the chassis. Ever try to snake an 8-ft. exhaust pipe out from above the axle? To avoid removing the rear suspension, just cut the old pipe. Acetylene torches make lots of dramatic sparks, but a hacksaw will do the job. Check the original output pipe for roundness and burrs; it may prove difficult to slip the new pipes over them. A grinder, file or even some coarse sandpaper might help.
Hands On
Now you can finally hang those beefy pipes and mufflers from the new rubber hangers. Slip-fit everything and install all the clamps, but don't tighten anything yet. Slide everything around until it fits. Keep the clamps indexed on the pipe so you can get a socket on the nuts or bolts. Start at the front; shake, rotate and tap the pipes into place. Remember, the pipes are hung from rubber--they'll need some clearance to account for normal motion. One very important thing: Be sure the tips center on the exhaust cutouts, and that each one sticks out the same distance. Now tighten all the clamps and hangers with a torque wrench. Carefully smear a thin coat of antiseize compound on the overlap in the pipes--it'll make disassembly years later much simpler. Use some on the clamp's nuts and bolts, too. Be careful, though--it will stain all that shiny stainless you just paid top dollar for.
Dyno Test Results
We ran our Magnum on a chassis dyno before and after the new system was installed. This Dynojet has a large, heavy flywheel spun by the car's wheels, all monitored by a computer. The car's ability to accelerate the flywheel is recorded, giving us an excellent graphic representation of how much power we're making at any rpm. Aside from hearing the sweet sounds as we ran through the gears, we saw increased power. That's great, but not when it comes at the expense of midrange torque on a street-driven vehicle. The Corsa system increased peak power by only 5 hp, but fattened the torque curve throughout rev range by nearly 20 lb.-ft. And it's torque that makes a car accelerate, particularly at moderate speeds, not horsepower. A less well-designed system might have increased power and torque at some revs, but left a hole in the power curve elsewhere. That makes a car harder to drive and slower coming off corners. The increased torque also provides better fuel economy--it takes less throttle to maintain any given speed, and that means less fuel is burned.


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Cause that's the way I want to be
Gonna try to get it down
Before I let it get to me
Don't want your love
Don't need it
That's the way I see it
* Oh runaway
You better not hesitate
Better hurry don't wait now
Before you find it's too late
Cause you know how love slows you down
And if I should change my mind
If I should want to turn around
You know it won't be hard to find
Find another loving clown
It's best to think what of it
The change you will love it
* Repeat
No I'll never settle down
Cause I'm just not the settling kind
I got places all over town
I knew just what is on my mind
Just look for those who want it
I should know I've done it
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You better run
You better run run run away
Better hurry don't wait
You better run
You better run little girl
Come on ...
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Someday someone will once again make horror movies without found footage or demonically possessed women. And maybe with coherent plots. "The Quiet Ones," a laughable farrago from director John Pogue and a committee of screenwriters (talk about not being on the same page), does not raise hopes of that happening soon. Nor does it bode well for the film's studio, the supposed rebirth of the revered Hammer Films.
Based on a true story (aren't they all), this takes place in 1974 at Oxford University (you can tell it's the '70s because everyone smokes), where Professor Joseph Coupland (Jared Harris), a researcher in abnormal psychology, attempts to extract the craziness from Jane Harper (Olivia Cooke), a disturbed young woman. He hopes to materialize her pathology, bottle it in some way, and thus cure the world of mental illness (this was before Prozac). Jane, in short, is a guinea pig, donated to Coupland by the insane asylum where she was an incurable patient.
With his assistants — slutty Krissi (Erin Richards), horny Harry (Rory Fleck-Byrne), and, the inevitable cameraman, bashful Brian (Sam Claflin) — Coupland puts Jane through what today would be called enhanced interrogation. Locking her in a cell, depriving her of sleep, he demands she manifest her invisible evil companion, Evey. When neighbors complain about the repetition of Slade's "Cum on Feel the Noize" that Coupland plays at full volume to keep Jane awake, the university kicks out the group and they relocate to the creepiest house in London.
There Pogue exploits every fake scare tactic in the repertoire, with spooky noises offscreen, doors slowly opened to reveal . . . nothing, a soundtrack of thuds, heartbeats, and rattled aluminum siding, and bursts of seeming violence shot in a bogus handheld style like an episode of "Ghost Hunters" gone wild. Some of this footage is shot by Brian, some is from an omniscient point of view, with no explanation for the inconsistency. Or is there a method to the madness? Could some scenes be alluding to Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom" or Ingmar Bergman's "Persona"? Probably not. "The Quiet Ones" simply has nothing to say.
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The world lacks a female super spy. Angelina Jolie has perhaps come closer than most to filling the void with her all action portrayal of sexy video game Tomb Raider Lara Croft, but this was ultimately more Indiana Jones than James Bond. Last year Phillip Noyce's Cold War conspiracy thriller Salt, originally earmarked for Tom Cruise, morphed into a very different project altogether with the casting of Jolie as CIA agent Evelyn.
I may be veering into sexism here, but because of Jolie's casting my expectations were drastically lowered. However I'll defend myself with two qualifications; firstly I think of Jolie as more than merely an internationally coveted sexual icon, but as a fine and capable actress, particularly after her powerhouse performance in Clint Eastwood's excellent Changeling. Secondly I believe I expected disappointment because of the film industry's own sexist view of women playing action leads, rather than my own narrow and intolerant perspective on the "fairer sex".
What I mean by this is that women rarely seem to be cast in serious mainstream action films. They're a common feature in action comedies, such as the dire Knight and Day and Jolie's own light-hearted romp with her equally famous and sexy spouse in Mr and Mrs Smith. But there's no realistic and gripping female equivalent to the Bourne series, for example. Filmmakers are reluctant to showcase women, even today, as ruthless and professional killers without elements of fantasy. Watch a film about what is essentially a paid, female murderer (a "hitwoman") and expect lots of ninja style, silly high kicking and unbelievable martial arts, alongside tight costumes, to offset such a horrific notion.
Sadly this is a formula that Salt eventually and perhaps inevitably, conforms to. The opening of the film is promising. Once we get some god awful dialogue out the way, probably ripped straight from the "how to script a film in the espionage genre" handbook, along with some forced flashbacks, we get Salt interrogating an apparent Russian defector. He drops the bombshell that there's a sleeper agent in the CIA, and that agent is called Evelyn Salt.
Salt is dismissive at first, but all the high tech brain scans and probably some ingenious pad questioning his balls from his seat, says that he's telling the truth. After a bit of dithering Salt decides to run, apparently out of concern for her husband, but it still seems rather daft if she really is innocent. Once she does run however, it looks as if Salt is going to be a decent film.
With the shadowy, backstabbing premise of the plot and some tense evasion of security cameras by a grey suited Jolie, Salt seems very Bourne-esque at first. And a female Bourne film would not have been such a bad thing. Boxed into an interrogation room, Salt constructs a makeshift weapon from chemicals and chairs and table legs to allow her to escape. She then flees for home to look for her husband and just avoids capture by climbing around the outside of her building. Finally she escapes the city after a standoff by jumping from truck to truck on the freeway.
During all of this action it's easy to get swept up and the character remains believable. You sympathise with her apparent innocence and will her to succeed. But once Salt heads to New York based on information that someone will attempt to kill the Russian President at the Vice President's funeral, the plot completely loses its way. It utterly surprised me on several occasions but purely because it becomes so absolutely ludicrous. You can no longer relate to Salt as a character and the action degenerates into ninja Jolie implausibly kicking the asses of trained security personnel in seconds.
At first I thought it was refreshing that Salt was a spy thriller based on the old Cold War rivalries and tensions. Cinemagoers could do with a little more entertainment courtesy of grand, evil schemes, rather than grim and realistic takes on Al-Qaeda. There's nothing wrong with fantastical plots based on extravagant conspiracies and the destruction of the world, providing they're executed plausibly. But Salt is just too farfetched and has too many holes, mainly surrounding the believability of its characters. It also strays into the absurd and hilarious; supposedly a "master of disguise" Salt looks fairly obviously like Angelina Jolie dressed as an effeminate man infiltrating the White House.
As usual with Blu-Rays, there's a whole host of meaty special features to devour about the making of Salt. There's a baffling section on Salt's supposed genius as a "master of disguise" and a separate "in screen" interview with the costume designer explaining the selection process behind Jolie's grey suit earlier in the film. Apparently it was really beneficial to visit the CIA and presumably discover they wear boring and generic corporate power suits like everyone else. The most revealing sections are interviews with Noyce and Jolie about the fact Salt was originally written for a man, which might account for some of the script's rough and unfinished feel.
There are some pleasing references to classics of the genre in the film, for example when "defector" Orlov escapes using a blade concealed in his shoe, like Rosa Klebb in From Russia With Love. But in the end Salt resembles a mishmash parody of everything it has taken influence from. It lacks originality, quality and entertainment for most of its thankfully brief 100 minute runtime.
THE AMERICAN is the sort of serious and sombre story that sadly wouldn't get made with a woman in the title role. It's a slow-burning meditation on the nature of being an assassin and on loneliness itself. It's an exercise in minimalist storytelling from writer Rowan Joffe, adapting Martin Booth's novel A Very Private Gentleman, and particularly, director Anton Corbijn. With the lightest of brush strokes he paints what was, for me, an incredibly evocative and captivating picture.
I had meant to see The American on the big screen but sadly its lack of success at the box office resulted in a short stay at my local multiplex. For critics the problem with The American is that it never truly ignites following such a tantalisingly drawn out simmering of tension. Many find it boring to sit through. But for anyone that loves the genre, the intoxicating idea of the lone assassin, or anyone that likes understated and subtle films, The American is wonderfully watchable.
In many ways George Clooney shouldn't work in the title role. He is such a recognisable face across the globe, a brand rather than a name, that he shouldn't convince as an unknown and elusive assassin. But Corbijn needed someone who could act without words and Clooney delivers a master class. When there is dialogue Clooney enthuses it with charisma; it oozes enigmatic intrigue. When the camera is entirely reliant on Clooney's movements a pained expression, a cold glance or a precise gesture speaks more than a page of script ever could. This has been hailed by some as the best performance of Clooney's career for a reason. We've never seen him laid bare like this; robbed of the charm and the cheeky grin.
More than anything else The American is beautiful. Its soundtrack is haunting, atmospheric and touching. Every other shot would make an arty still in a gallery; in Corbijn's second picture after the acclaimed biopic Control, his background as a photographer is constantly evident. Clooney's character chooses photography as his cover and there's something about the parallels of precise skill and solitude between pictures and killing that's endlessly fascinating. Indeed the subtlety of the storytelling really lets you think about its themes whilst enjoying the gorgeous visuals and the sexy girls.
The loneliness of existence is there in every furrow of Clooney's focused face; the life of the assassin is the perfect lens for examining anyone's existential angst. His character makes meagre relationships that wouldn't satisfy many human beings, and yet they prove too much and too risky for his secretive profession. Despite the reports of boredom and never-ending build-up, I thought that the restrained action punctuated the plot well and the climax of the simple story was suitably engrossing.
In many ways Salt and The American both take "old school" approaches to a familiar genre; Salt with its outlandish Cold War plot and The American with its focus on an age old character, complete with soul searching scenes with a priest. The undoubted difference between the films though is a sumptuous and sexy style and quality that makes The American infinitely more interesting than Jolie's briefly entertaining foray into the world of espionage.


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How Bad Is London's Smog for Olympic Athletes?
An ongoing heat wave has British officials sounding the alarm over London's bad air quality.
On the eve of the 2012 Olympic Games, London is being gripped by a massive heat wave that has health officials concerned about athletes and visitors alike. According to top air-quality watchdogs at King's College London, high temperatures are making any ambient pollution even worse for people's health. The situation's so bad, the city has issued an official warning urging people to caution -- something it hasn't been legally bound to do since the last major heatwave, six years ago.
Could air pollution wind up affecting Olympians in competition? That was a big question for athletes in the last Summer Games, when Beijing was covered in gray smog right up until the opening ceremony.
The good news is, London is a major improvement over Beijing for the soot and other particulate matter floating in the air. Measurements show that Beijing had more than three times the amount of large airborne particles in the run-up to the Games than London did in all of 2011. Here's how London stacks up against other recent Olympic host cities:
These measurements were taken one month before the Games began at each site -- all except for London, whose number reflects the yearly average for 2011.
The bad news is, particulate matter is only one measure of air pollution. Other contaminants can include ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), sulphur dioxide (SO2), and other gases that are toxic to humans. Earlier this year, the King's College scientists discovered that levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in London rivaled that of Beijing and were among the highest of any European capital in 2010.
While we've known that exposure to air pollutants is linked to increased mortality risk and cardiovascular disease over the long term, we don't know nearly as much about their acute effects on athletes. What we have learned shows at least the potential for poorer performance. Over the short term, breathing in particulate matter can limit the amount of physical exertion you're able to do. Other studies suggest that fine-grained particulate matter bumps up your blood pressure. Athletes with asthma, meanwhile, would be at greater risk of suffering a sudden attack.
As for the gaseous pollutants, even low levels of carbon monoxide could hinder competitors for the same reason that high levels of the stuff are so dangerous -- the substance interferes with your blood's ability to carry oxygen to the rest of your body. Ozone exposure has been shown to cause coughing, inflammation, and shortness of breath. Nitrogen dioxide inhalation has also been linked to similar pulmonary effects. None of these afflictions would help an Olympian in the race (or match, or game) of his life. And it isn't just that a competition in clean air offers athletes a more level playing field, either; over the long term, their exposure may also help determine how long they stay in the game.


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No two people are the same and well-being means different things to different people. So Dewis Cymru is here to help you find out more about what matters to you.
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Our Verdict
TurboTax SnapTax is an app for iPhone and iPod touch aimed at the 59 million Americans whose tax returns are simple enough that they can file either a 1040a or 1040EZ. Designed to file your taxes in about 10 minutes, SnapTax handles your annual tax task almost perfectly.
The name SnapTax refers to both the ease with which you can file a return using the app and the way you're able to enter your data into the app: Snapping a photo of your W-2 using your iOS device's camera. Intuit's time estimates are no joke; I was able to work with my daughter and complete her return—which consisted of two W-2s and some basic personal information—well within the estimated timeframe. Although snapping photos of her W-2s and automatically importing her information did not always work as expected.
W-2s come in a two orientations, portrait and landscape. SnapTax was able to capture the data in the portrait oriented form without a problem, but was unable to do so with the landscape orientated form. This is not just a SnapTax problem, as every iOS tax app I've tried has the same issue. The upside is that it only takes a couple seconds to enter your data by hand. No matter what, you'll always want to double check your data before filing taxes, as fat-fingered iOS typing or dodgy OCR on some forms can result unexpected results.
Once your return is complete SnapTax displays your final information—how much you owe or what your refund will be—and offers you the option of filing your return using the app. This is where I found the SnapTax to get a little sticky. Filing a return using the app costs $25, about half of my daughter's expected refund. There is no option for printing forms from the app, nor can you email yourself a copy of the return so you can mail it to the IRS. Your only alternative is to transfer your SnapTax data to Intuit's Web app, where you can print and file your return for free. So, if you're not expecting too much money or if you think you're going to owe money to the IRS, you may want to start at TurboTax.com instead.
Bottom line
SnapTax is an excellent option if you file a basic tax return, but if you want to avoid paying the app's filing fees you are better off using Intuit's Web app instead.


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In a phenomenon known as "shrinking," post-industrial cities are facing steep population loss and vast expanses of abandoned property.
Dan Kildee, a leader in the Shrinking Cities movement and the president of Community Progress, an advocacy group that is working to change the way government approaches cities in declines, has pioneered a land-banking system in his hometown of Flint, Mich. Today, Flint's program is a model for other troubled cities looking to cope with their huge stock of abandoned homes.
Kildee talks to Alison Stewart about the need for a national agenda, the good that comes from demolishing houses and the mental shift Americans will need to make before they stop seeing downsizing as failure.
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This morning we resume our countdown of cameras we currently recommend. We started at #10 and will reach #1 this coming Friday. To see the previous choices, scroll down. —Ed.
This one is Yr. Hmbl. Editor's favorite digital camera yet, and perhaps one of my half-dozen favorite cameras ever.*
For all the times you hear "cameras are tools," that's not really entirely true, is it? Sure, they're a means to an end. And if you're working pro, maybe "tool" describes everything they are. But for most of us—be honest, now—there's a bit more to it than that. We like cameras for another reason as well. Because they're really cool toys. Oops! Sorry—lost my head! Everybody knows you're not allowed to say that.
Cameras are tools. Yes. They can also be amazingly well-engineered and pleasing technological devices—interesting, fascinating, appealing, nicely made. At their best, they can be quite beautiful as objects. And when they are, it can make them more fun and satisfying to own and use.
How ironic is it, then, that the single most "classic" DSLR now being made (whether or not you like its shape—more on that below) is being produced by an electronics giant rather than a traditional camera company? Granted, it has that Minolta DNA, and Sony is no stranger to cameras of other types. But still, of all the premium and semi-premium DSLRs being made today, the one that comes closest to classic style, the one that has the best tactile quality, the one that actually has a little panache as an object of craftsmanship...is a Sony.
The Sony Alpha 900, a.k.a. A900, to be precise. (Check the new price at the link, too. About time it came down a notch.)
It came along at the wrong time, of course. It has not taken the much-diminished top of the market by storm. That part of the old Minolta heritage might have been transferred to Sony a little too much intact. Despite its success as a maker of consumer cameras (it was a very successful company until it had to absorb the body-blow of the Honeywell lawsuit), Minolta made numerous attempts over the years to crack the top tier, and never did much more than produce well-engineered, R&D-intensive (read: expensive) also-rans. In that respect the A900 is the uneasy heir of the Maxxum 9, the Minolta 9xi, and even the XM/XK of 1973.
Sony went for the brass ring, hoping that by blowing away the market in the megapixels-per-dollar contest it would score a big hit. Unfortunately it didn't count on the influence of the competing marketing magic bullet: high-ISO performance. The A900 has gotten a much worse rap than it deserves on that count—I've seen some really stupid things said about it. What you have to remember is that when you view a 24.6 megapixel image at 100%, you're looking at a really big image; noise shows up more easily. In prints of anything remotely like normal size, 1600 is a usable speed in practice. Still, it's not a standout for low light.
In fact, although it does perfectly fine as an all-around camera, its strengths and weaknesses push and shove the A900 (kicking and screaming, as they say) into being something of a niche product—it's not entirely absurd to think of it as a medium-format digital back in a 35mm-SLR-style body. Instead of an overachieving all-rounder, it thus becomes a camera for a) landscapists, b) fine artists, and c) fine printmakers. (For artist or landscapists who are fine printmakers, the A900 is your holy grail, or should be. I'll stipulate that a D3X might have slightly better IQ, but it would also be bulkier and heavier in a bag or backpack.)
Niche or no, she's a beauty. The A900 looks and feels better built—and has more of that undefinable, pride-of-ownership-inducing classic camera style—than anything currently made by Canon or Nikon, period. It also has the no-nonsense feature set that we might expect from a much more tradition-bound company.
Now, about that shape. Some people don't fancy the fact that the prism determines the shape of the top of the camera, and they call the A900 "ugly" on that account—O, base canard. Form follows function, as Louis Sullivan and I always say**. Plus, they're looking at it all wrong. To see just how beautiful or ugly that awkward pyramid really is, you look through the Sony's finder, not at it. It's obviously a work of art, one that also puts the older camera companies to shame on their own ground.
And the picture files...in the A900, everything has been sacrificed for image quality. The camera might not get the best balance of image properties out of every situation (I'd rather have a Nikon at night), but for what it's good at, it's superlatively good. Its files will absorb more processing than most cameras' files will (especially highlight recovery), and even the character of the noise is pretty. The best of its image files are better than what you can eke out of the Nikon D3 or the Canon 5D Mark II. And unless you're a real diehard, there's not as much reason as there used to be to even want a medium-format digital back.
Again, if you make your living making and selling fine prints and prefer a camera you can carry, stop here.
Tomorrow: #4
*Disclosure: I don't own any of the cameras on this list. This should be obvious, so please pardon me for mentioning it, but, unlike some camera forum denizens, I don't write about cameras merely from a perspective of trying to justify or defend my own purchase choices.
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**"It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,
Of all things physical and metaphysical,
Of all things human and all things super-human,
Of all true manifestations of the head,
Of the heart, of the soul,
That the life is recognizable in its expression,
That form ever follows function. This is the law."
—Louis Sullivan, architect, from "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered," Lippincott's Magazine, March 1896.


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Every week Texas on the Potomac gives you a second glimpse of our top stories from last week. Here are the most popular stories from March 17-23.
1. TexMessage: Perry receives C- for CPAC speech: A blog that is tracking potential challengers for the next presidential election, The Run 2016, grade's Perry's conservation convention speech as mediocre, while giving Cruz an A-. Alison Sullivan reports >>
2. Conservative radio host slams Joe Scarborough for calling Ted Cruz 'utterly ignorant': Mark Levin attacked the MSNBC host and former Republican congressman, when Scarborough slammed the Texas senator for his debate on assault weapons with Dianne Feinstein. Alison Sullivan reports >>
3. Ted Cruz addresses 'birther' issue with Sean Hannity, says he was born a U.S. citizen in Canada: Born to an American mother and Cuban father in Canada, Cruz addresses presidential eligibility, as conservatives begin to rally around him. Alison Sullivan reports >>
4. Senate reaches agreement on one issue: Ted Cruz: The Tea Party darling draws criticism from his Senate colleagues such as California Democrats Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, as well as Republicans like John McCain. Alison Sullivan reports >>
5. Texas Republicans blast ICE director over detainee releases, but he finds ally in Sheila Jackson Lee: After the immigration enforcement agency released over 2,000 detainees, Republican lawmakers accuse the act of being a political ploy led by the Obama administration. Corey Kane reports >>
6. Dianne Feinstein's assault weapons ban dies in Senate: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dropped the assault weapon ban from getting a vote on the Senate floor, but Feinstein promised to attempt it as an amendment. Carolyn Lochhead reports >>
7. Palin praises Ted Cruz during surprise CPAC appearance: The Texas Senator surprised the crowd at the conservative convention, joining Sarah Palin onstage, saying she was a trailblazer for his career. Alison Sullivan reports >>
8. Grocery chains announce refusal to sell engineered salmon: After 17 years awaiting FDA approval, a genetically engineered salmon will still not appear in grocery stores like Aldi's and Trader Joe's. Carolyn Lochhead reports >>
9. Rick Perry takes on Madonna over her Boy Scouts fashion statement: After the pop singer protested the exclusion of gay scouts, the Texas governor went on Glenn Beck's show to say the scouts have done substantial work for young men. Joanna Raines reports >>
10. NASA officials say asteroid detection program is behind schedule: After an asteroid exploded over Russia, Lamar Smith and other Texas lawmakers demanded that NASA do more to protect the planet from future collisions. Alison Sullivan reports >>


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Job search advice for 2013
Here's my annual best-advice column refreshed for 2013.
Assuming you don't want to be left by the side of yesterday's road, update your computer-related job search skills. If you're a little shaky on computer, smartphone, tablet and social media skills, look for catch-up resources, including community colleges, senior centers, job clubs, online tutorials and smart teenagers. The clock is ticking.
When competing for responsible jobs, create customized résumés that match your qualifications to a position's requirements. For hourly jobs, all-purpose résumés still work. The selection job interview remains the make-or-break factor. You may have mastered same-room interviewing, but are you ready to interview by video?
Learn ever-more-critical salary negotiating skills. If you don't know market rates for your work, you can't fight back a lowball offer. Cruise salary websites.
Consider fertilizing your career climb by judiciously changing employers every few years when opportunity knocks. Job changing isn't high risk if you make quotable, measurable accomplishments for each job, as well as competently check out each potential destination.
Look at your career as a whole. Don't force yourself into a round hole if you're a square peg. Stay true to your personality and preferred lifestyle — if you're a water lover, taking a job in the desert won't satisfy your inner sailor. Look at personal timelines for promise, momentum and harvest. If you're still in the promise stage at 45, something has to change or momentum-followed-by-harvest will slip beyond your grasp.
The only job security you can count on is the transportability of your skills. Do whatever it takes to keep your qualifications mint-fresh and marketable. Caveat: Beware of too much student debt. Check for-profit school prices against public and nonprofit school prices. Remember the "taxi" principal: "Find out the debt cost before you get in the transporting vehicle."
Never has it been more important to participate in professional organizations and to network with other groups and individuals — even parents you meet when driving your kids to school. Contacts you nurture over the years are the people most likely to return your calls and open doors for you when you're in employment distress. Calling only when you need something doesn't motivate others to assist you.
Certainly not everyone should open an enterprise, but if you have strong entrepreneurial traits, running your own business may prove more secure and rewarding than being at someone else's call. Tip: Middle-aged managers who strike out on their own often discover that they lack the risk gene and are cut out to be wage slaves after all. Or they run out of money. Or they find out that it takes a whole lot more to succeed than doing what they love and hoping the money will follow.
Take time to seriously evaluate where you are and where you want to be. Remaining alert will keep you from being blindsided if your job suddenly disappears as capital chases cheap labor across the globe. That can happen in nearly any field, especially when the work can be digitized, including medicine, law and accounting. It's a myth that only low-end manufacturing jobs are being sent overseas.
In cost-control mode, employers are supplanting permanent employees with independent contractors, temps, consultants and freelancers. And there's no end in sight to the rush of galloping technology that's changing the content of jobs, or eliminating them altogether. The emphasis, subtle but important, has changed from "holding a job" to "doing a job."
This is a historic juncture for American workers and not all will benefit from changes.
Whiz-bang technology is everywhere, but some things haven't changed. Don't lose memory of the myriad of decades-long lessons that job seekers have learned through opportunities won or lost, such as being likeable, or never interviewing just before lunch. Wisdom is a stubborn thing.
Email career questions for possible use in this column to Joyce Lain Kennedy at email@example.com; use "Reader Question" for subject line. Or mail her at Box 368, Cardiff, CA 92007.


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Original Sentencing Judge Jackie Glass Says O.J. Simpson Deserves to Stay in Jail
Jackie Glass is the judge who presided over the trial that sent O.J. Simpson to jail in 2008, who sentenced Simpson to 9 to 33 years in federal prison on conspiracy to commit a crime, robbery, kidnapping, and assault with a deadly weapon charges.
In an exclusive new interview with "omg! Insider" correspondent Christina McLarty, Glass shares her opinion on Simpson's current hearing in Nevada to have his conviction overturned.
"A jury found him guilty of many serious charges and when you are convicted of those charges the only option, as a judge, was to send him to prison," Glass states. "Because of the jury's verdict, O.J. deserves to be in prison."
Those are stern words indeed from Glass, who's more than familiar with the case and with Simpson. O.J.'s testimony continued today, and tomorrow his former attorney Yale Galanter will take the stand. Galanter's the man O.J. blames for having given him bad legal advice.
"I watched that trial because I was the judge that presided over it and I saw the legal work that was done," explains Glass. "Yale Galanter is a fine lawyer and did an outstanding job. The evidence in that case was overwhelming."
"Does he have a chance?" McLarty asks. "Does he have a case here, and what could happen?"
Unfortunately for O.J., Glass doesn't think he has much of a case. "My opinion is no. The judge that's hearing this listens," she continues. "She knows O.J. is trying to get out of prison and that he – like all the other people who try to get out of prison – are gonna say things so that they can get out. That's what's going on here."
As for his haggard appearance, Glass has a funny opinion on why the 65-year-old Simpson is looking so rough.
"He's been in prison – it's not a spa," Glass jokes. "He doesn't get facials and massages. He doesn't get good food. This is a man who is in a locked facility, with limited time outside with not good quality food. It doesn't look to me that he's been exercising much lately. So, what happens, concerning his age, I'm not surprised he looks the way he does."
Despite his current appearance, Glass acknowledges that Simpson still carries his same old swagger.
"That's just his personality. That's how O.J. is and just because he's been in a locked facility doesn't mean that that has left him. That's the very core of O.J. Simpson."
As for the public's fascination with Simpson? Glass doesn't get it, but she does understand it.
"I don't have the fascination with O.J. that everybody else seems to have," Glass notes. "I understand why people are enthralled with this. He didn't speak during the first trial, he didn't speak during our trial, and this is the first time really that the world has heard O.J. Simpson speak and I think that's why people were watching yesterday -- to see what would come out of his mouth."
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I really would love to know how the Minister for Finance survived so many years without a bank account.
Linkies ..
- Photo Phlow presents your Flickr stream in a new Flash interface. Cute. Here's my stream there.
- GIMP FX repository is now up to 90 scripts for everyone's favourite graphics program!
- Terms of service come under the spotlight. I received a Spock invite from Ken a few days ago, sorry, too many social networks, not enough socialising.
- Toni is up for best CEO and WordPress is in the running for most likely to succeed. Go on, vote! It only takes a second!
- Tom never read my Subscribe To Comments post and sent me comments from several other posts. Bold boy!
- How do you sell photographs?
"I sold one print during my first year on the web, and that was by check, and that check bounced." (True story).
- Merry Christmas from Limerick and Nollaig Shona from Donal.
- Christmas morning swim – brrrr. I can feel the cold here.
The 8 bit Philosophy is a documentary coming in 2008 about some of the musicians that made the C64 a great sounding machine. The trailer has sound bites from such famous names as Reyn Ouwehand and Thomas Detert. There's a 78MB high quality trailer too but it's the same thing that's on Youtube.


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This question is related to Question 2 of my previous posting.
It suffices to consider whether the indicator function of any Borel set is obtained from $S$ by algebraic operations and (essential-supremum) norm limits. If necessary, you may assume $\Omega$ to be second countable. Thank you.
Question. Let $\mu$ be a Radon measure on a compact Hausdorff space $\Omega$ and $L^{\infty}(\Omega,\mu)$ the set of essentially bounded Borel measurable functions on $\Omega$. Suppose that $S$ is the set of bounded lower or upper semi-continuous functions on $\Omega$. Does $S$ generate $L^{\infty}(\Omega,\mu)$ as a $C^*$-algebra?


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Have I told you lately you're as cute as a button? 🙂
Although National Button Day isn't until November 16, Mr. Cornelius and the rest of us here decided we wanted to celebrate it a little early.
That's because we love a particularly charming poem by Penny Parker Klostermann in the Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Pomelo Books, 2015).
Most of you probably know that Penny just recently published her first picture book — There Was an Old Dragon Who Swallowed a Knight (Random House, 2015), that showcased her enviable chops as a clever wordsmith and humorist — but did you know that "Buttons" was not only Penny's first published poem, but her first published work for children?
We're happy to celebrate this wonderful milestone with a batch of peanut butter button cookies and sugar button cupcakes. Please help yourself, enjoy Penny's poem and backstory, then leave your PF links with Mr. Linky.
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by Penny Parker Klostermann
Buttons, buttons, shiny buttons —
buttons in a jar.
Lost-then-found ones,
square ones, round ones,
buttons shaped like stars.
Buttons, buttons, shiny buttons —
buttons on my clothes.
Coat ones, skirt ones,
on-my-shirt ones,
buttons sewn in rows.
Buttons, buttons, shiny buttons —
buttons cuddled tight.
Tucked-in snug ones,
teddy-hug ones.
Buttons wink goodnight.
~ Posted by permission of the author, copyright © 2015 Penny Parker Klostermann.
Botones, botones, botones brillantes —
botones en un frasco.
Perdidos y luego encontrados,
cuadrados, redondos,
botones con forma de estrella.
Botones, botones, botones brillantes —
botones en mi ropa.
Los de abrigos, los de faldas,
los de mis camisas,
botones cosidos en fila.
Botones, botones, botones brillantes —
botones bien ajustados.
Los que abrigan,
los que son como abrazo de osito.
Los botones nos dan las buenas noches.
Even though I write quite a bit a poetry, I am not good about submitting it for publication. But when I heard that there was going to be another Poetry Friday Anthology I got busy writing poems for submission. Being a former teacher, I see a real need for the Poetry Friday Anthologies in classrooms. They are an incredible tool.
I looked at the list of holidays and I was drawn to National Button Day. My mom is a seamstress and always had lots of buttons around, so for inspiration I thought of her sewing room. The funny thing is that my husband and I had just spent time with my parents and were driving home from Colorado to Texas so I had been in her sewing room the day before I started the poem.
I wrote as we traveled home in order to meet the submission deadline. I imagined the colorful, shiny buttons she had in jars and the first stanza started taking shape. Then I thought about mom sewing buttons on our clothes and the second stanza fell into place. (I have three sisters and she made most of our clothes. A lot of the time we all four matched.)
I was happy with the first two stanzas but wanted something in the third and final stanza to add emotion and a kid-like element. I played around with it quite a bit before I thought of a teddy bear's button eyes. I knew the teddy would be the focus of the final stanza but it took some playing around to get it right. Even then I had to edit it because the first version didn't include the word teddy. It was just implied. I was working with Janet Wong on revisions and she felt the word teddy needed to be included since the poem was for young children. Here is the first version of that stanza that I sent to her:
Buttons, buttons, shiny buttons,
buttons cuddled tight.
Tiny-vest ones,
worn, caressed ones,
buttons wink goodnight.
If the poem had been illustrated, this would've worked but I'm happier with the final version so I'm glad that I needed to revise. Since *Buttons* was the first of any of my work to be published, it was very exciting to receive my copy of the book and turn to my poem. It was a special moment. I couldn't believe that my name was there with the other poets.
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Needless to say, there was a tremendous cheer in the Alphabet Soup kitchen at the mention of teddy bear button eyes in the last stanza. All the furry helpers are now diehard Penny Klostermann fans. Isn't "buttons wink goodnight" the best ending? 🙂
Now, please leave your links with the ever-accommodating Mr. Linky by clicking on his BUTTON below (the list of participants will appear on a separate web page). Don't forget to include the title of the poem you're sharing or book you're reviewing in parentheses after your name. 🙂
Thank you for joining us today. Enjoy the Poetry Friday feast throughout the blogosphere!
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Sunny weather should be here to stay any day now (we hope!), which means it's time to amp up your daily SPF routine. You can score suncreen on the cheap from any drugstore, but if you're trying to go for a more natural beauty routine this summer, give this chemical-free DIY a try!
You'll Need...
Glass mason jar
1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup coconut oil
1/4 cup white beeswax pellets
3 tbsp French press zinc oxide powder
3 tablespoons Shea butter
Step 1: Fill a pan with a couple of inches of water. Warm over medium heat.
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Step 2: Put both oils, the beeswax, and Shea butter into the glass jar. Place into the warm water.
Step 3: As the ingredients start to melt, mix them with a wooden spoon.
Step 4: Once everything is melted, remove from the heat and stir in the zinc powder. Make sure it's evenly distributed—the zinc is what really protects your skin from UV rays!
This super rich formula might take a little extra rubbing to apply without white residue, and you should definitely reapply if you go for a swim. The coconut oil and Shea butter make it smell amazing and are crazy moisturizing!
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By Elena Gustafson
January 2009
Imagine you've grown up in a city. Your haunts are public transportation and the shopping centers; you've never spent a night outside in your life. Now imagine you travel hundreds of miles, all by yourself, to explore the "wild": you enroll in a wilderness canoe trip in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota. You join eight strangers and set of for a week paddling across the border lakes, bringing with you only what you can carry, sleeping in tents, going to the bathroom in the woods, cooking over a fire.
While to many of my friends this type of adventure is exactly their cup of tea, with a majority of the urban youth I've led as a wilderness canoe guide, this is a terrifying experience. We tend to fear what we do not know, and increasingly for youth in our society nature is connected with fear.
In a time when environmental problems are so abstract, it is essential to have complete knowledge of them. This doesn't just come from what we learn in the classroom or in books. We need both academic and experiential knowledge to carve out a sense of understanding and place in our increasingly global and complex world. Environmental problems are going the be the pinnacle challenges of the next generation, and it is essential that youth are given outdoor experiences as part of the knowledge base from which they will address these problems.
Children in America today, more than at any other time in our history, lack opportunities to explore nature. This is where outdoor education comes in. I've been an outdoor leader in many different capacities over the past five years, often for youth with no previous experience in the wilderness or even hiking around in a local park. Providing youth with their first experiences outdoors, giving them a sense of place in their surrounding environment, is an amazing experience, but it also comes with great responsibility.
We need outdoor experiences for both our physical and emotional health. As Richard Louv notes in his book "Last Child in the Woods," children with more access to nature, whether that be parks or simply overgrown vacant lots near their homes, received lower ratings for behavioral conduct disorders, anxiety, depression, and obesity than peers with less access to nature. Youth now know about climate change, about rain forest destruction half a world away, about overwhelming environmental problems at earlier and earlier ages. I've heard 5-year-old children talk about how the earth is "sick."
If we don't give children tools to deal with these issues, what will the impact be--in both their health and their future actions with regards to these problems?
Being an outdoor leader and environmental educator has provided me with some of the most challenging yet most rewarding experiences of my life. Every trip is a humbling experience, recognizing the courage of inner-city youth coming out to the woods or youth admitting their fear of heights yet being supported by a group of peers to make it to the top of a rock-climbing wall. The joy and amazement in a child from seeing a wildflower, playing in the snow, and tasting a wild blueberry--for the first time--continues to buoy my spirit and passion.
Often our lives pivot around moments of epiphany--we may not realize it at the time, but our paths shift and we gain a new perspective. Outdoor experiences for youth, I believe, are essential to creating a relationship with the surrounding world, one that ultimately impacts environmental choices. As an outdoor leader, you provide the opportunities for those pivotal moments, through the challenge of creating safe, positive, and fun educational experiences. I've learned a lot about myself from being an outdoor leader; I've gained technical skills and naturalist knowledge. But I continue to learn the most from the children I lead, through the inquisitive perspective with which they look at the world if given the chance.
This year PEEC is expanding on this idea by offering training in outdoor leadership for high school students. Participants will learn about group management, games, safety, and education for elementary and middle school students in PEEC's programs.
The free workshop will be held on Saturday, January 10, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at PEEC (3540 Orange Street-behind the high school). Students who participate do not have to sign up to be a leader in PEEC programs; there will also be information about other local outdoor leadership programs that will be taking place this summer through the Volunteer Task Force. The training is also a great way to gain valuable leadership skills for college and beyond.
For more information about the Outdoor Leadership Workshop, please call 662-0460 or visit www.PajaritoEEC.org. The program is free and lunch will be provided, but please call to reserve a spot.
Elena Gustafson is a junior at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA and graduated from LAHS in 2006. She is majoring in Enivronmental Humanities, and spends a lot of her time at college working with the Youth Adventure Program, a program she founded to provide outdoor opportunities for at-risk youth in the Walla Walla community. She will lead the Outdoor Leadership Workshop this Saturday.
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1992 in San Diego, CA
Years Active:
'90s, '00s, '10s
BiographyWhile they play around with the infectious grooves of reggae and Latin music as well as the heavy deliverance of hip-hop and rock, San Diego's hard rock four-piece P.O.D. have defined a universal message. They're born-again Christians and their faith takes a central place in their music.. Formed in 1992 in the SoCal neighborhood of San Ysidro, Marcos (guitar) and Wuv (drums) relished the music they grew up on. San Ysidro or "Southtown" was a multicultural area and working class. While Marcos and Wuv were fond of their jazz and reggae roots, they were young punks in the making. Both loved the gnarl of grunge and took a liking to Green Day, Pennywise, Bad Brains, and the Vandals. They got a band together, P.O.D. (short for "Payable on Death"), with Wuv's hip-hop MC cousin, Sonny, and aimed for something real. Cleveland native Traa joined in 1993 and P.O.D. were on the map.
Throughout the '90s, P.O.D. played countless shows across the nation and sold more than 40,000 copies of their three homemade EPs — Brown, Snuff the Punk, and P.O.D. Live — on their own Rescue Records. Atlantic Records was intrigued by the group's hard-working ethic and passion for music, inking a deal with P.O.D. in 1998. The Warriors EP preceded the major-label debut of P.O.D.'s 1999 release, The Fundamental Elements of Southtown. "Southtown" and "Rock the Party (Off the Hook)" were powerful singles, pushing the album to go platinum. P.O.D. earned top honors for Best Hard Rock or Metal Group, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year for "Rock the Party (Off the Hook)" at the 1999 San Diego Music Awards as well.
A year later and with the buzz still going, P.O.D. hit the road with Ozzfest 2000 and shared dates with Crazy Town and Staind for the MTV Campus Invasion tour. They also ventured into films, contributing several songs to various soundtracks. "School of Hard Knocks" proved successful in the Adam Sandler comedy Little Nicky in 2001, whereas additional tracks featured in the Al Pacino sports thriller Any Given Sunday and Ready to Rumble maintained P.O.D.'s growing status. A second album for Atlantic, Satellite, was recorded with Howard Benson in spring 2001. Benson captured the magic once again, and P.O.D.'s stature exploded later that year, hot on the heels of the spiritual chaos of debut single "Alive." "Youth of the Nation" scored again for P.O.D., as its positive mix of hip-hop, reggae, and hardcore punk defined a different kind of rock next to the likes of Kid Rock, Limp Bizkit, and Korn.
Controversy hit the P.O.D. camp in 2003 when founding guitarist Marcos left the band. However, P.O.D. were soon back on track, tapping ex-Living Sacrifice guitarist Jason Truby as a replacement and recording the Satellite follow-up Payable on Death. Heavy touring followed, and stretched all the way into late 2004. Early the next year, P.O.D. reconvened in the studio, this time with Glen Ballard behind the board, and the Top Ten hit Testify appeared in early 2006.
2006 proved to be another transitional year for P.O.D. as the band announced they were leaving longtime record label Atlantic. Soon after, they released the Rhino compilation Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years. Also that year, guitarist Jason Truby left the band — purportedly on the same day that original guitarist Marcos Curiel asked to rejoin. The band's seventh studio album, When Angels and Serpents Dance, followed in 2008. In 2012, P.O.D. released its eighth studio album, Murdered Love, featuring production from Howard Benson, who had worked with the band on Satellite.
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By Judy Reed
Sand Lake voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose their next village president for the next two years. They will also vote several trustee positions, but none of them are contested.
There are four trustee positions open, and only three people running. Incumbents Dave Tibbe and Roger Towsley are running to retain their position on the board, Duncan Rogers is a write-in for Dave Dewey's position (Dewey is not running again), and no one has filed for the partial term previously filled by Tonia Parkhurst.
Kirk Thielke is running for his third two-year term as president of the village of Sand Lake. The former business owner said he looks at running again as a continuation of the civic service he's done in Sand Lake for the last 25 years. During that time he has served on both the fire and police department, coached, served on the Sand Lake Chamber of Commerce and more. "I've been the same guy all the way through. I've been consistent, with the same tenacity and integrity I've always had. That's what people are going to get. I enjoy it. It's a challenge. Sometimes we have to make hard decisions that aren't always popular. But I'll do what the village asks me to do," said Thielke. "The village president position is a privilege. With it comes responsibility, not a personal agenda. I think I've proven that. If they like what they've seen, then vote for me."
He said that while he's been in office, they have had several opportunities to cut costs through pay adjustments and looked at ways to absorb increases, and updated policies and procedures. There are also some new people in charge of various departments. One of the big projects that will pay off in the future is a $2.1 million sewer project. They received a $1 million-plus grant to update and repair the sewer system, and a $1 million loan from the USDA to fund the rest. Thielke said that they previously weren't charging enough to ensure they had money for repairs, and in order to borrow the money, they had to up the user fee from $42 to $69 per quarter to show they could pay back the loan. He said that while some people may not like the increase, without the grant and the loan, they would be paying $135 per quarter for the repairs.
Thielke urges voters to get out and vote and not be apathetic. "We usually have about 60 people vote. There are 500 people in Sand Lake, and about 300 voters," he said.
Todd Finkel is a newcomer to politics and is running against Kirk Thielke for the Village President position. He is manager at Tire Wholesalers Plus in Rockford, and has been a resident of Sand Lake for three years. Finkel said he has no background in politics but was asked by several people to run. "I know how to run a business, and I can't imagine it is too much more complicated to get into the political end of it," he said. "I've been running businesses my whole life."
Finkel said he is running with the intent to save the village money, such as by moving the village election from September to November. "It's costly to the taxpayers to have this special election," he said. He noted that in Sand Lake they pay taxes to both the village and Nelson Township and that there must be some way to reduce taxes.
Finkel admitted he was one of the people that signed the petition last year to dissolve the Village. The Post asked Finkel, if he was elected, and another petition came around, would he vote for it or support the village? "I believe you are supposed to work for the people, not against them," said Finkel. "People want the village to remain. It was quite unanimous that people wanted to keep the special amenities of the village. So, if elected, I would not vote for it. I'm not ashamed I did it, though, because we need change."
Finkel said he would have an open door policy, and that he would return calls.


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What did Anderson Cooper want for his birthday this year? We're really not sure. What he got was some priceless advice from colleague Wolf Blitzer about aging gracefully and controlling that famous giggle. It's a RidicuList surprise with wishes for a very happy birthday from the whole team at AC360!
Post by: Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer
Filed under: The RidicuList
I didn't know it was your birthday......so a happy belated birthday to you. You are just awesome.
warm wishes that your birthday holds nothing but the best – whatever it may take to make this day your happiest ,
for anyone who knows you . happy birthday Mr Anderson
The best part is when Wolf finally SMILED! Happy BD Anderson
Just want to wish you a Happy Birthday Anderson! We never miss you on CNN! Love you're dedication and appreciate the hard work you do to report the News everyday. You are Amazing and we appreciate everything you do!! Wishing you a Wonderful birthday and many BLESSINGS!!! BEST WISHES............
Have to say that I welcome Anderson's giggles anytime over Wolf's "end
of the world predictions". Laughter is a good medicine so Wolf step aside let him laugh at ridiculousness of all!!!
Happy Birthday Anderson! We love watching your show every night! We truly enjoy every aspect of your professional and silly sides- it makes you human!!! Best for a Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Birthday A C sexy on the Ridculist suit up and man up on your birthday and many more great ones leave the giggles at the front door of Ridiculist carry on
Happy Birthday, Anderson! You are the best...and not OLD at all! (I know; I'm old!) ;D
Anderson, you are awesome! Happy Birthday. We like your giggles on weird words, so tell Wolf to /: &$@& ;:/-?!$&@ but in a nice way of course!
Happy Birthday, Mr. Cooper!
Happy Happy Birthday Dear Anderson! You have brought truth, honesty and laughter to this world.In a world with so much hardship and horror, you bring calm understanding to us all. Don't stop your laughing ever!!!! Your special laugh is so contagious and uplifting.Hope your New Year is the Best yet!!!!
LOL.... Happy Birthday captain.
Wolf Blitzer looks like an owl and Anderson is dreamy. Happy Birthday Anderson! One of the hardest working guys at CNN.
Anderson Cooper goes beyond the headlines to tell stories from many points of view, so you can make up your own mind about the news. Tune in weeknights at 8 and 10 ET on CNN.
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With the recent updates to the Power BI preview and Q&A features added I thought I would do a quick tutorial of how it all works. This post will walk you through uploading a workbook to Power BI, Using Q&A against that workbook, enhancing the workbook with synonyms and the creating features questions.
First, sign up for a trial at www.PowerBI.com. Once your trial Power BI site has been issued to you login and add your own Power Pivot workbook by selecting Add as shown below.
After you add your own workbook click the context menu and select Add to Q&A.
Next select Search with Power BI Q&A in the top right corner of the site.
This will present you with an empty textbox that is waiting for you to ask a question of your data. Earlier when I added my own workbook I added a workbook that has presidential election data in it. So I ask a question about the "Total popular votes by state".
With this small amount of information I provide Q&A realizes I'm asking for the Total Popular Vote metric from my Power Pivot model and that I want to see this information by state, which is also in my Power Pivot model.
A couple other interesting things are presented here. In the top right there are some hints on getting better search results for this workbook. If you follow the help link there is some guidance on adding synonyms to your Power Pivot model:
I wrote briefly about synonyms being added to Power Pivot as well here. Adding synonyms will allow my users to have more flexibility when interacting with Q&A. Currently without synonyms in my model I must ask very specific question that reference column names exactly how they appear in my Power Pivot model.
However, with synonyms added to my model I could add other variations of how users may ask my question of "Total popular votes by state".
Below I've added a synonym to my model on to Total Popular Vote metric. Synonyms are entered with a comma separated list so I've added "votes" as a synonym for Total Popular Vote.
After publishing this workbook back to the Power BI site I can now ask the question more like an end user would. This time I ask for "votes by state" and get the same results as expected. This shows how you will start designing your Power Pivot models that you plan on publishing within Q&A.
The last nice new feature that is available in the Power BI Q&A preview is featured questions. Featured questions are inquires that you would like to highlight on the Power BI site as common questions users ask. These were in the preview before but you could not create your own.
To create a featured question you simply click add featured question on the side pane or before you even ask a question click the plus icon (both shown below).
Once you select one of these two options you enter the question and create an icon. The icon can be small or large, a variety of colors, and with a symbol or even a background image.
Here's an example of a featured question I created for this election data model.
I really love these new features and I think you will too so go try them out now at www.PowerBI.com.