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Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has announced a new handheld gaming device during the company's CES 2013 press conference.
It looks more like a controller than anything else, although it does boast an integrated 5-inch multitouch screen.
UPDATE: Check out our hands on: Project Shield review
The device is "100 per cent Android" according to Huang, and the 4K-capable device is powered by Nvidia's also newly-announced Tegra 4 mobile chip, which boasts 4+1 ARM A15 cores as well as 72 graphics processors. It's the first time the A15 has been used in a quad-core system.
"Project Shield was created by Nvidia engineers who love to game and imagined a new way to play," said Jen-Hsun Huang during the press conference here in Las Vegas. "We imagined a device that would do for games what the iPod and Kindle have done for music and books, letting us play in a cool new way. We hope other gamers love Shield as much as we do."
When it might come to market remains to be seen. In an age where most handheld gaming is taking place on smartphones, the device may seem a trifle superflous, but at the least it will be a kick in the teeth for Sony and Nintendo.
Up until the reveal of Project Shield, Nvidia's very lengthy press conference had rather underwhelmed, with a re-tread (albeit with more detail) of Nvidia's Grid system, as well as the formal announcement of the expected Tegra 4.
The company says Shield will be capable of 38 hours of gaming, while there's an audio system that Nvidia says is "on a par" with a Jambox. The company wasn't afraid to make other references either, saying that the display is "retinal". It's a 1,280 x 720 HD, 294 dpi screen.
App possibilities
Multiplayer gaming is supported over Wi-Fi. The idea is that you can play cloud-based games from Google Play as well as apps from Nvidia's own TegraZone and even games from Steam - the idea being that Project Shield gives you a different dimension - primarily in terms of portability - for your existing Steam games.
We were shown several games in action on a 4K TV including Blood Sword: Sword of Ruin, and there were no pauses or other issues - Tegra 4 is one powerful processor.
The new handheld also boasts a micro SD slot as well as an HDMI output and headphone jack. Huang added that the new device could stream media to the television and was the "culmination of five years of work".
There's no word yet on the Nvidia Project Shield release date or price.
Nvidia also announced at its press conference that Tegra 4 would also offer worldwide 4G LTE voice and data support through an optional chipset, the fifth-generation Nvdia Icera i500 processor.
According to the company, Tegra 4 consumes up to 45 percent less power than its predecessor, Tegra 3, in common use cases. And it enables up to 14 hours of HD video playback on phones.


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I've fallen behind in posting tables of contents from Russian Politics and Law. Here's the September 2013 issue, which presciently enough was devoted to Ukrainian right wing extremism.
Volume 51 Number 5 / September-October 2013 of Russian Politics and Law is now available on the mesharpe.metapress.com web site.
|Starting Post-Soviet Ukrainian Right-Wing Extremism Studies from Scratch: Guest Editor's Introduction
|pp. 3 – 10
|Andreas Umland
|Ukrainian Integral Nationalism in Quest of a "Special Path" (1920s-1930s)
|pp. 11 – 32
|Oleksandr Zaitsev
|Ultraright Party Politics in Post-Soviet Ukraine and the Puzzle of the Electoral Marginalism of Ukrainian Ultranationalists in 1994-2009
|pp. 33 – 58
|Andreas Umland and Anton Shekhovtsov
|Right-Wing Extremism on the Rise in Ukraine
|pp. 59 – 74
|Viacheslav Likhachev
|Social-Nationalists in the Ukrainian Parliament: How They Got There and What We Can Expect of Them
|pp. 75 – 85
|Viacheslav Likhachev
|A Typical Variety of European Right-Wing Radicalism?
|pp. 86 – 95
|Andreas Umland

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Kidlit Week, part of our month long 2 year celebration, is still going strong here at Sub It Club. Have you entered yet? We sure hope so! We have prize giveaway opportunities for all of you, no matter the genre you work in. For picture book writers we have critique opportunities from kidlit authors Amy Dixon and Katy S. Duffield. We have feedback opportunities for illustrators from Mark Fearing and Sarah Frances Hardy. All members are invited to enter to win an autographed picture book from author Corey Rosen Schwartz. Today we also have a great prize giveaway for writers of all genres!
Dori Kleber is popping into Sub It Club to help us celebrate! Dori has been a writing professional for over 20 years. Her writing has appeared in a number of newspapers and magazines in the Southeast. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia, where she graduated first in class at the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Yup, you read that right. First in class. Wowzers.
Dori also writes for children and recently sold her first book to Candlewick Press! Another amazing feat if you ask me. Her picture book titled MORE-IGAMI is scheduled to be released in February of 2016.
Dori is offering the type of prize we can all use before submitting our work; a proofread. Proofreading is something Dori does professionally. What a great opportunity for someone to get their work polished up before submission!
Dori will use her professional eye to review the work for grammar, punctuation, and clarity, focusing on improving the mechanics and effectiveness of the prose, cleaning it up and tightening it.
Like I said, Dori's giveaway is for writers in all genres. Dori will give one winner a proofread of:
- one picture book manuscript or one chapter of a novel
- She will also proofread of the query letter for the same manuscript
If you have a chapter you would like proofread but don't have the query letter written yet, that's okay. The proofread of the query letter is a nice extra that Dori threw in. So, come on and enter! Just tell us that you want to be entered in the comments of this post.
For extra entries:
- Tell us you're a member of our Sub It Club submission support group and/or Critique Partner Matchup group.
- Like us on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest.
- Help us spread the news and share. If you share this post via social media just let us know and we'll add extra entries.
- Grab our badge. Put it on your site and link it back here to http://www.SubItClub.wordpress.com and let us know.
To learn more about Dori go check out her website www.dorikleber.com and follow her on Twitter @DoriKleber. You can also find Dori on LinkedIn.
I'll do a random number generation and pick a winner on Tuesday, February 24th. Entries are open until then. Good luck!


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You know it's not been a vintage red carpet when Tina Fey is amongst the best-dressed at 2011's Screen Actors Guild Awards…
The Yays
Tina Fey in Oscar de la Renta – The days of the Great Jumpsuit Disaster of 2010, or the Great Southern Belle/Mary Poppins/Tiki Mask Boobs Disaster of 2010, are long gone. This can only mean she has a new stylist. With great taste. This intricate red lacy number is so stunning it would probably be a knock-out even on someone like Snooki, but thankfully the time when Snooki gets an invite to the SAGs hasn't come (yet!) and Tina is knocking it out the park. The detail on this dress is A-MAZ-ING (yes, I just had a Craig Revel Horwood moment). She looks fab.
Lea Michele in Oscar de la Renta – Yes, she's giving us diva face but with a dress like this, it's totally deserved. A shimmering sheath of loveliness, classic but with a touch of modernity thanks to the thin gold belt. Her red carpet run since she shot to fame (have a quick perusal via the ever-fabulous Red Carpet Fashion Awards) shows she has good taste in gowns (if not always in make-up and hair styles) and this is one to file in the 'mightily impressive' section. Will she ever top last year's turquoise Malandrino, though?!
January Jones in Carolina Herrera – When I first saw this, I was ready to dismiss it as another 'Look at me! I'm not Betty Draper!' choice, but it's grown on me to the extent that this is actually my favourite outfit from the show. The lace-like print is unusual but beautiful, the black and gold colour combo is outstanding, the fit is flattering and feminine and Jones carries it off with an old-school grace and elegance. Joan, you just got pwned.
Heather Morris in Romona Keveza – Heather is just going from strength to strength red carpet-wise. Following her dazzling turn at this year's Golden Globes, she continues to mine the neutral palette but with spectacular results. In the wrong hands, this could turn a bit Swan Princess wannabe, yet Morris pulls it off with charm to spare. She just looks so… pretty. Really pretty. Really REALLY pretty. I think I love her.
Julia Stiles in Monique Lhuillier – Julia turned up at the Golden Globes in an outfit that made her look like a dumpy saloon girl and looked almost as pissed about it as I was. The less than overjoyed expression is still with us yet the moonlighting as a Wild West extra is over, as this sweeping lavender cascade is just gorgeous.
Jayma Mays in Jenny Packham – Welcome back to the Jayma we all know and love, as opposed to the period-attired skeleton who showed for the Golden Globes. Gone is the spider's snot make-up, replaced with a light fresh and peachy look, which just feels so much more right. I'm not quite sure how she's making the red hair work with the burnt orange colour, but it looks all sorts of lovely floaty and yummy. Surely the L'Oreal contract courtesy of those lust-worthy locks is in the bad? Not sure why she's only been allowed one angel's wing as a sleeve though.
Kyra Sedgwick in vintage Thierry Mugler Couture – Mrs Kevin Bacon was unlucky to not be included in my Golden Globes write-up, as her mustard-coloured gown followed the time-honoured tradition of rather gorgeous mustard-coloured gowns, a code created by Michelle Williams and upheld by Diane Kruger. This dress is much less interesting but, in my opinion, even more effortlessly gorgeous. It oozes class, sass and sophistication, her figure is to die for and I want her hair. Another L'Oreal contract in the making.
Harry Shum Jr – A man! Again! Harry is included to show (yet again) how to be different and continue to get it so so right. I'm not sure many people could carry off a metallic suit, pink shirt and navy tie but he makes it look downright easy. The key? The cut is perfect (it's amazing how many actors wander round treading on their hems, their tailors having used the height on their CVs rather than reality to measure things), the fit is perfect and the little details are all just so – the matching pocket square, the hint of shirt showing at the cuff. Good work, young sire.
Susan Sarandon in Nicole Miller – As some of you may know by now, I'm a sucker for purple (see Katy Perry, Sandra Bullock, many nail varnishes). This dress proves why. Again, it's simple, sexy and sophisticated and there's not much more to say than that.
In all honesty, this is a bit of a blah year, especially when you compare it with last year's stellar showing. But just wait 'til you see 'The Nays'…


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- Sunland Tahini 16 oz
- fresh&easy Crunchy Almond Butter 16 oz
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Following years of failed attempts to rehabilitate juvenile offenders and improve public safety, California's once-sprawling youth prison system may soon shut its gates for good.
If the Legislature approves the plan Gov. Jerry Brown released Thursday as part of his budget blueprint, California could become the first state to entirely eliminate its prisons for youthful offenders, juvenile crime experts say. The responsibility for jailing all youths would shift to local governments.
Fiscal pressure in a system with annual costs of $200,000 per ward drove Brown to propose halting new admissions into the Division of Juvenile Justice. Under the plan, beginning next year the state's three remaining youth prisons would be phased out as current inmates complete their terms.
But Brown's vision represents far more than just belt-tightening. Already, it's being described by crime experts across the country as a historic proposal given the state's size and the notorious history of its youth prisons. Wire-mesh cages, 23-hour cell confinement and brutal staff beatings are well-documented parts of that legacy.
"California is at the front end, cutting edge of what is going to be the huge trend going forward," said Bart Lubow, who directs national juvenile justice reforms for the Annie E. Casey Foundation. "And that is the policy embrace of the fundamental truth that kids do better when they are near their homes."
Matthew Cate, California's corrections chief, predicted Brown's plan would be a boon to public safety. "The biggest benefit is it keeps wards close to home," Cate said. "The evidence shows, especially with young people, that it eases the return to communities and reduces victimization."
Currently, only the most serious and violent offenders are housed by the state. And California's corrections system for youths has reached other milestones that reform advocates could only have dreamed of a decade ago.
With dramatic drops in youth crime and more incentives for counties to keep their offenders close to home, the number of youths in custody has plunged from more than 10,000 wards in 1996 to just about 1,100 today. The number of youth prisons has dropped from 11 to three. And for the first time in recent history, conditions inside the facilities have finally begun to improve, said one of the system's longtime critics, Donald Specter of the Marin-based Prison Law Office.
Juvenile crime rates have plunged in every major county in California from 1998 to 2010. The rates of serious youth crime are now the lowest since statewide statistics were first collected in 1954, according to the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice.
Those who have spent decades attempting to overhaul the youth corrections system say they never imagined the reforms would become so costly — and the population so shrunken — that the juvenile prisons would ultimately close.
Still, they share concerns about sending young prisoners back to county jails. Absent a state option, they predict, more youthful offenders will be sent to adult prisons, or housed in facilities even less equipped than those run by the state.
In contrast with adults, juvenile offenders have a legal right to treatment, education and training. But juvenile halls are designed for short-term detentions, and county ranch programs are generally not secure enough to provide for maximum security.
Acknowledging that counties will need help adjusting, the Brown administration has proposed giving them one year and $10 million to prepare.
The change cannot come soon enough for Maria Sanchez, a typist from Santa Clarita whose 18-year-old son has spent the past year in the state's youth prison system for robbery. The teen began getting into trouble at age 13, attracted by gangs in his low-income neighborhood.
Sanchez said the state prison experience has left her son battered. During visits, he has limped, sported a black eye and showed her bruises on his ribs, she said. And he has spent 23 hours a day in his cell for as long as four months at a time, she added, emerging for a recreation hour shackled at the hands and feet.
"He actually told me that it is a school to become more professional — to become criminal," Sanchez said.
Shutting down the institutions, she said, is the right thing to do. "The people who run these facilities, instead of recuperating them and fixing them up and making them better people for society, they break their spirit and make them more vicious and more violent — then they bring them back to us even more broken than before," Sanchez said.
Her observations are echoed in volumes of state-sanctioned reports prompted by a Prison Law Office lawsuit. Under a resulting 2004 settlement agreement, the state has labored to overhaul education, safety, treatment and mental health care programs.
In the wake of Mercury News coverage of the institutional abuses, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger prompted some early changes — pledging, for example, to end the use of telephone-booth-sized cages placed in a circle to form classrooms.
By all accounts, broader changes took years to even begin. That has led the state system's most dedicated reformers to question whether counties will be able to create better alternatives for more serious offenders, who typically suffer from severe mental illness and childhood trauma.
"I am happy that we're going to get rid of these terrible, old facilities," said Barry Krisberg, a longtime state consultant now with UC Berkeley's law school. "Having said that, though, there's no objective information on how bad it is in counties, and how bad it's going to be when counties take on these very challenging kids."
In Santa Clara County, Deputy Probation Chief Robert DeJesus said that despite a highly regarded ranch program and a juvenile hall with adequate bed space, the county will struggle without the state option. He said there are now 14 county juvenile offenders in state custody, including three admitted last year.
"With only one year, that's going to be extremely difficult for Santa Clara County to respond," DeJesus said.
But not all counties say they are ill-prepared. Alameda County Probation Chief David Muhammad is pleased to see his cry of "Bring our kids home!" finally coming to reality.
Noting that other local governments may not be as fortunate, Muhammad said he has 100 empty juvenile hall beds and money for a new facility. He said there are now 48 Alameda County youth offenders in the state system, with 12 admitted last year.
"The quality of care that the state has provided has been incredibly poor for a very long time," he said. "For it to be extremely costly and to have such poor quality of care is really a travesty to the taxpayer."
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Denver went all out this year for Comic Con. We were blown away at the hard work and dedication fans pulled off this year for their Cosplay! For the rest of the weekend, check out Day 2 and Day 3 Cosplay photos, too!
All images were taken by various photographers at Hush Comics. Please ask permission before re-posting.


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You are currently browsing the daily archive for February 14, 2012.
It's bowsprite's drawing on the pin I'll wear today. Send me an email and I'l tell you how you too can get one of these pins. Or send her an note . . . to the post she put up today. The original event/foto happened here in September 2008, but it took bowsprite to transform that contest into some universal depicted on a pin.
It's love . . . can be warm and abstract as it is to a six-year-old; sometimes
filled with drama, pursuit-and-retreat-and-repeat….
It can be very high drama, perilous paroxysm, much more than hissy-fits.
It can just be bump-n-grind physical, rubber and steel til our eyes go askew as we
go through the process of trying on all shapes vaguely recognizable as hearts. But it's all
amor valentinus. Here are my V Day posts from 2009 and 2007.
For me, the more dispassionate, the better . . . but I'll tell everyone (and everything) I really love that I love them. Wanna try the same?


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Suffering from its worst drought in over 84 years, the city of Sao Paulo is in the midst of a crisis. For as of this weekend the city's primary reservoir — the Cantareira — had dropped to just 5 percent capacity putting millions at risk of losing access to water.
The fall prompted the city's governor — Geraldo Alckmin — to again ask for permission to draw emergency water supplies from below flood gates to alleviate catastrophic losses from the Cantareira and ensure water supplies to the region's 20 million residents. The move would tap a river system that feeds two other states also facing water shortages — Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. But the draw is only a temporary stop gap and, without rain, the Cantareira will continue to fall — bottoming out sometime this November.
(Dam and section of Cantareira Reservoir high and dry under incessant drought conditions. Image source: Linhas Populares.)
Don't Use the 'R' Word
The Cantareira provides water to nearly 50 percent of Sao Paulo's residents. But ever since February of 2014 the multi-year long drought, a drought that has featured less and less seasonal rainfall over time, has triggered reduced water access by city and state residents.
Those living within areas served by the Cantareira have been treated to increasing periods of dry taps — being forced to go for longer and longer without available water supply. The intermittent lack of water service has put a strain on businesses and residents alike with many people living in Sao Paulo being forced to abstain from washing, cooking and brewing. For now, water for drinking can be stored during times when the faucets flow. But that time could come to an end all too soon without a change in the weather.
"Sometimes I have no water for two days, then it comes back on the next day and the day after that, I have no water again," said Zeina Reis da Cruz, a 55 year old resident of one of Sao Paulo's lower income neighborhoods in a September 25 interview with The Globe and Mail.
Despite an ongoing and growing failure to provide water services, the city refuses to use the word 'rationing.' Such an admission of failure would have weighed heavily on Alckmin's re-election campaign (Alckmin was just recently elected to a new term as governor). Instead, irate citizens and businesses making calls to utilities are simply told that there is nothing wrong with the water supply and to wait until the water comes back on.
Regardless of politically-motivated denials, water rationing is the most accurate way to describe what many Sao Paulo residents have been experiencing for 9 months now under a regime of systemic drought that just grows steadily worse with time.
Climate Change Spurred by Deforestation, Worsened By Atmospheric Heating
The great forest of the Amazon provides a rich source of water for both Brazil and surrounding countries. It captures as much as 80 percent of the tropical atmosphere's heavy moisture load and re-circulates it locally – providing ongoing and consistent rains. A critical means of replenishing regional water sources.
But, over recent decades, a combination of clear cutting and human-spurred warming of the climate have been adding severe stresses to the Amazon. During the period of 2000 to 2010, the great rainforest lost 93,000 square miles of wooded land alone to clear cutting. By 2014, government restrictions had brought down the rate of loss to around 2,300 square miles per year, but by this time warming-related impacts to the Amazon were looking even more dire.
As the 2000s progressed, it was becoming ever-more-clear that a heating climate driven by human fossil fuel emissions was taking an increasing toll. For, during recent decades, the Amazon has been warming at a rate of around 0.25 C every ten years — about twice as fast as the global climate system. The added heat increased evaporation, pushing soil moisture levels below critical thresholds.
(It's not just Sao Paulo, most of South America is showing ongoing rainfall deficits. Map provided by NOAA shows percent of normal precipitation received by South America this summer. Note the severe drying over much of the Amazon Rainforest and broader South America coupled with drought over Sao Paulo. Image source: Climate Prediction Center.)
This loss has, in turn, increased the prevalence of forest-destroying understory fires. And, according to a 2012 NASA study these understory fires have been burning away the Amazon at the rate of more than 30,000 square miles every ten years for nearly two decades. By late this Century, business as usual fossil fuel emissions and related warming of 4 degrees Celsius is expected to destroy about 85 percent of the Amazon, resulting in widespread desertification of a once-lush region.
Today, this period of initial drying caused by a human heating of the atmosphere appears to be putting the stability of Brazil's most populous city at risk.
A Major Humanitarian Disaster
Typically for October, Sao Paulo receives between 80 and 100 mm of rainfall. So far this month, the number is approaching zero. Long range forecasts bring that total to just above 50 mm through the end of the month — about half the usual rainfall. Very dry for a month that is supposed to be the start of Sao Paulo's rainy season, a period that usually runs from October through March. A rainy season once fed by a now greatly endangered and increasingly moisture-impoverished Amazon rainforest.
It would take a massive rainfall to replenish Sao Paulo's reserves. The kind of rain event that would result in widespread devastation should it emerge. Now, city officials appear to be holding out for any rain to tip the scales on their swiftly shrinking water stores.
But if the worse happens. If this year is a repeat of last year which saw a parched rainy season. If the rains of October and November continue to delay or do not emerge at all, then Sao Paulo faces a terrible event. A complete drying out of its largest water store and a complete cut-off of water supplies for millions of residents.
It's like Paulo Nobre, director of the Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies at the National Institute for Space Research in Brasilia, recently noted:
"It will be a real humanitarian disaster if it happens. We are 20 million people: You can't bring water on trucks for 20 million. So they are praying that rainfall will come – but it may not rain so much."
Sao Paulo Water Supply at Risk in Extreme Drought
Unprecedented Drought Puts Sao Paulo Water Supply at Risk
Brazil Drought Crisis Deepens in Sao Paulo
Climate Conditions Determine Amazon Forest Fire Risk
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center
Reversal of Fortune: Amazon Deforestation Increased by 28 Percent Over Past Year
Amazon Could Shrink by 85% Due to Climate Change
(Hat tip to Andy)
(Hat tip to Colorado Bob)


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The Invisible Man interviews UKIP Research Director who has failed to notice the car park is empty and it is Sunday morning on a bank holiday weekend.
It NEVER Pays to treat the supporters and electorate as idiots as Derek Clark so consistently does – no management, no skills and a complete collapse in membership from around 6,000 to about 400 in the East Midlands & thus no viable candidates!
Leicester by-election candidate's anger at criticism of blog post
Last week, the Leicester South election candidate wrote an article which called Islam "morally flawed and degenerate" and said he backed a controversial Dutch politician, who called Islam "a retarded ideology".In an editorial in the Mercury, we criticised his comments.Now, a video has been uploaded to Mr Pandya's blog showing him turning up at the Mercury's closed offices on Sunday and complaining that no-one was there to talk to him about the issue.He says in the video:"They've published this thing, the Leicester Mercury, about my blog, and they're not coming out to actually confront me or speak to me. I think it's absolutely totally appalling."The building is empty. We rang these people, they're not picking up the phones."They have published something that says 'do not vote UKIP' and that's just absolutely extraordinary for a newspaper to do that."Does that mean that a newspaper is completely unbiased and doing the public a favour by neutral reporting? I don't think so."There are issues here that we really need to confront and look at, and this newspaper is not giving me a fair say in its coverage and also telling people not to vote for my party."
A message then appears on screen which says: "So what would you say to the Leicester Mercury if they could be bothered to speak to you?"He then addresses a point off camera.However, it is unclear whether anyone is actually standing there.He said in the video he had a problem with the Mercury's article, saying he had made unsubstantiated comments about Muslims in his blog.He added: "That isn't the case, I've made it quite absolutely clear what the problems are amongst the Muslim community in Britain, particularly those that affect Leicestershire and Leicester South – the constituency I'm standing in."I think it's absolutely appalling that 67 per cent of Muslims are unemployed at the moment in Britain, 75 per cent of them women."I think this is something we should look at seriously and not have censorship in the way that you have done from your newspaper."We don't have a serious debate, we have silly faff-around reporting as your newspaper has done over the last week. We're never going to deal with this problem.He also said: "It's appalling today that I've come here on Sunday there's no-one here to talk to me about this issue – who's actually written this article."Where is your editor and where is David MacLean, who's been saying this silly stuff without editing it."Councillor Manjula Sood, chair of Leicestershire's Council of Faiths, said: "Mr Pandya's outrageous and out of order comments are not needed, especially in a city as diverse as Leicester."Singling out and attacking a single faith is simply unacceptable and all faiths in the city should condemn the comments."
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Leicester must be well impressed with UKIP with this silly self impressed wee chappie and being further impressed with the direct contempt UKIP has shown in standing as a paper candidate a schoolgirl to manage Leigester's £Billion budget and services as Mayor.
Little wonder The Leicester Mercury makes a point of highlighting this chaps silly behaviour.


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Public retirees could face 13 percent cut
Payments dropped 4 years in a row
MADISON, Wis. — Retired public employees in Wisconsin could see their monthly payments decrease as much as 13 percent next year.
The Department of Employee Trust Funds says in preliminary estimates that monthly payments to investors in the Wisconsin Retirement System's Core Fund are projected to either remain the same or drop up to 13 percent.
All of the roughly 167,000 people in the system get at least half of their pension in a Core Fund annuity.
Payments from the fund have dropped four years in a row, including 7 percent this year.
The fund's investments are still recovering from a more than 26 percent drop in 2008. Returns are smoothed out over a five-year period.
The exact amount that annuities will be adjusted will be released in March.


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Directed by Harold Schuster
Produced by Lindsley Parsons
Screenplay by Warren Douglas
From a story by Oliver Drake
Director Of Photography: William Clothier
Cast: Barry Sullivan (Link Ferris), Dennis OKeefe (Capt. Matt Riordan), Mona Freeman (Ann Bradley), Katy Jurado (Mara Fay), Sebastian Cabot (Jonah), Casey Adams (Phillip Scott), Jack Elam (Tioga), Trevor Bardette (Marshal Bill Haney), Jon Shepodd (Tom), Hank Worden (Hopi Charlie), Warren Douglas (Jud), Judy Strangis (Susan), Alma Beltran (Station agent's wife), John War Eagle (Yellow Claw)
This is an entry in The Allied Artists Blogathon, a celebration of the studio's rich and varied output.
The team of writer/actor Warren Douglas, producer Lindsley Parsons and director Harold D. Schuster turned out five excellent B-plus pictures for Allied Artists in the 50s. They were the tight, grim Western Jack Slade (1953); a terrific noir, Loophole (1954); a solid sequel, The Return Of Jack Slade (1955); Finger Man (1955), a dope picture with Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle and Timothy Carey; and finally, the dark, tense CinemaScope Western Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957).
Producer Lindsley Parsons had been in the picture business since the 30s, starting out writing B Westerns like those Lone Star John Wayne movies. Warren Douglas was a B Movie actor who made the transition to screenwriter, often playing a part in the pictures he wrote; he'd later write for a number of TV Westerns. He based his Dragoon Wells Massacre screenplay on a story by the prolific writer/producer/director of scores of B Westerns, Oliver Drake.
Director Harold Schuster started as an actor, making the transition to editor before the Talkies came in. Though he never set the world on fire as a director, he made a few fine films before settling into TV.
Dragoon Wells Massacre begins with a prison wagon carrying two bad men, Link Ferris (Barry Sullivan) and Tioga (Jack Elam), to trial. Before long, they come across an Indian trader, Jonah McAdam (Sebastian Cabot), and a cavalry patrol that's been slaughtered by the Apaches, with Capt. Matt Riordan (Dennis O'Keefe) its only survivor. Soon, the drivers and passengers of a stagecoach are added to those making the desperate journey to Fort Dragoon Wells with the Apaches never far behind. This is a fairly common setup — a diverse group making their way from Point A to Point B, battling an enemy, the elements and each other along the way — that's certainly not limited to Westerns. Douglas comes up with some solid characters, makes sure we like the good ones and hate the bad ones, then puts them all through absolute hell — and us through a tense 88 minutes — before the final fade.
While the basic premise may be conventional — and I'm keeping the synopsis lean on purpose, what Douglas does with it is certainly not. (I'd love to know how many of the finer points were found in Drake's original story.) What's more, Schuster keeps things chugging along, almost relentlessly, from one set piece to the next. The picture really benefits from all of his years at the Moviola, and he gets top-notch performances from his terrific cast — which steadily shrinks with each brush with the Apaches.
Sullivan and Elam are likable badguys, and we're soon hoping these outsiders will get their chances for redemption. This could be Elam's best performance, as a man damned by his appearance — and by the shallowness of others. Dennis O'Keefe is fine as the tough cavalryman. Sebastian Cabot is utterly despicable as the gunrunner — the movie's real villain. Before he became Mr. French, Cabot was a terrific 50s Westerns sleazeball.
Mona Freeman does a great job as a snooty, self-centered, judgmental stage passenger (and former flame of O'Keefe). Her transformation is not only satisfying, but believable. Katy Jurado is good, as always, as a saloon girl hoping to turn her life around. My one complaint is that Hank Worden doesn't have enough to do — but that's something you could say about almost everything he appeared in, from The Searchers (1956) to One-Eyed Jacks (1961).
William Clothier shot Dragoon Wells Massacre around Kanab, Utah, in CinemaScope and color by DeLuxe. One of the finest Western shooters ever, Clothier's work here is tremendous. The entire picture takes place outdoors, and you really feel the heat and dryness of the desert. Just as important, you never think that you're watching a low-budget movie.
Dragoon Wells Massacre is unavailable on DVD or Blu-ray in the U.S. There's a German DVD that presents the picture at a TV-friendly 1.78 instead of Scope's 2.35. It's a real shame the picture's so hard to track down and that Clothier's work is compromised. This is one of those 50s Westerns that gets everything right, and it now sits at the top of my Blu-ray Want List.
Someone who frequents this blog, when I once mentioned that I was watching an old Phil Karlson picture, pointed out that now matter how old it is, a movie's new if you haven't seen it. So, following that logic, and considering that I just saw this a few months ago, Dragoon Wells Massacre gets my vote for Best Picture of 2015.


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New browser market share data shows that both Internet Explorer and Firefox lost ground in April. While Microsoft and Mozilla trumpet their latest browsers, publicly trade jabs, and beat their chests at one another, Chrome and Safari are quietly gaining market share.
Firefox declined by nearly two tenths of a percentage point overall, while Internet Explorer fell just over eight tenths of a percentage point to a new low of 55.11 percent. IE still has two and a half times the market share of its closest competitor–Firefox–but it has been losing ground slowly, but surely over the past year or two.
Meanwhile, Chrome–which is the third place browser with a little less than 12 percent of the overall market–has seen a 65 percent increase in its piece of the pie since last June–climbing nearly five percentage points. Apple's Safari browser isn't doing too bad either with a nearly 50 percent increase over its June 2010 market share–most likely a reflection of the success of Apple's iPhone and iPad.
For Firefox, there is good news for the latest version, but still disappointing news for the browser overall. Firefox 4 market share more than tripled from 1.68 percent to 5.43 percent. However, those gains were almost entirely wiped out by the drop in Firefox 3.6–an indication that most of the Firefox 4 growth is coming from cannibalizing existing Firefox market share. Add in some minor losses by other Firefox versions and you have a slight drop in overall market despite the impressive gains of Firefox 4.
It is a similar story at Microsoft. IE9 more than doubled its global market share over March–coming in at 2.41 percent. However, the decline in IE8 market share is virtually equal to the IE9 gain–again seeming to show direct cannibalization of IE8 users. At the same time, IE6 and IE7 usage declined as well, but the decision by Microsoft to limit IE9 to only Windows 7 and Windows Vista means that many of those IE6 users are jumping to alternative browsers.
Because IE9 has a limited audience, Microsoft likes to view the data through that lens. If you narrow the scope of the discussion to only Windows 7, IE9 has a more impressive 7.46 percent–more than double the share it had on Windows 7 the previous month. It is interesting, however, to note that Firefox 4 actually has a larger presence on Windows 7 than Microsoft's IE9.
Still, if IE9 can just replace IE8 for Windows users, as the general population continues to migrate from Windows XP and embrace Windows 7 it will work in Microsoft's favor eventually.