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(CNN) — It was an upscale, expensive vehicle — a 2012 silver Range Rover — sitting unoccupied in a parking deck at an upscale, expensive New Jersey mall crowded with Sunday holiday shoppers.
Police say the luxury SUV's owners — a 30-year-old Hoboken attorney and his wife — returned to it after shopping, walking straight into an apparent carjack attempt.
A few seconds and a few bullets later, the young attorney lay shot in the head and dying in a shopping mall parking lot, his shocked and stunned wife likely in a panic nearby as two suspects sped from the scene in the Range Rover.
On Monday, New Jersey's legal community, friends and family were mourning the death of Dustin Friedland, who, police said, had performed one last act for his wife before the couple was accosted.
He had opened the car door for her.
And on Monday, police found that 2012 silver Range Rover parked in Newark, apparently with no obvious signs of what had happened to the two carjackers who became killers in a matter of seconds Sunday night in the parking deck of The Mall at Short Hills.
According to authorities, Friedland apparently was walking behind the vehicle after opening his wife's door and helping her get in, when he was confronted. There was a struggle, authorities believe, and shots were fired. Friedland's wife heard the struggle and had gotten out of the SUV when the two attackers got in and drove off. She was not injured.
Friedland was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital in Morristown.
A manhunt for the suspects was launched, with authorities fanning out from the mall with its 150-store roster of retailers including Cartier, Prada, Gucci and Dior in addition to Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus.
The Essex County, New Jersey, Sheriff's Crime Stoppers program announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspects. Police described the two still-at-large suspects as being armed and dangerous, but beyond that, few details of the investigation were released.
Essex County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Fennelly would not confirm how many shots were fired during the seconds of the struggle behind the SUV, pending autopsy results.


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Décision : CONF 001 IX.2.B.3
[Uniquement en anglais] Requests for International Assistance - Requests approved - Cultural heritage - Emergency assistance
Archaeological Park of Tierradentro (Colombia) - US$69,500: in accordance with paragraph 85 of the Operational Guidelines which indicate that emergency assistance may be approved "for work in connection with cultural and natural properties included or suitable for inclusion in the World Heritage List and which have suffered severe damage due to sudden, unexpected phenomena" to undertake the following actions as a first phase of an overall conservation plan:
1) Field expert mission (4 Colombians and 2 international experts) to draw up an action plan for the safeguarding of the site.
2) Take measures to evacuate the rainwater, particularly in the tombs in the Alto de Segovia area.
3) Emergency scaffolding in tombs that are in danger of collapse.
4) Consolidation of the mural paintings.
National History Park Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers (Haiti) - US$73,000: for emergency measures to be undertaken for the structural consolidation of the entire roof construction of the Royal Battery of the Citadel.
Given the international embargo and the socio-economic situation, the UNDP Resident Representative in Haiti is requested to cooperate in the implementation and supervision of this assistance.
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Toni Braxton -- Bankrupt Again, May Owe $50 Mil
Toni Braxton has filed for bankruptcy again -- claiming she owes somewhere between $10 million and $50 million in unpaid debts all over the country ... including DMVs in TWO different states.
Braxton -- who sold more than 40 million albums in her career -- just filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in California ... and in the docs, the singer claims she's only worth somewhere between $1 mil and $10 mil ... but she could have up to $50 mil in debts.
In the docs, 43-year-old Braxton lists a ton of creditors to whom she thinks she may owe money... including:
-- The Four Seasons Hotels
-- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
-- Various medical bills
-- DirecTV
-- Neiman Marcus
-- The William Morris Agency
-- Tiffany & Co.
-- Orkin Pest Control
-- The Internal Revenue Service
-- BMW Financial Services
-- ADT Security
-- American Express
-- Flamingo Las Vegas
-- Mesa Air Conditioning
-- Nevada Power Company
-- Screen Actors Guild
-- The Westin
-- Wells Fargo Bank
Braxton also claims she may owe money to the City of L.A. Parking Violations Bureau -- and the DMV in both California and Nevada.
Braxton has a storied history of financial problems -- she filed for bankruptcy back in 1998 ... and earlier this year, the IRS filed a lien against her for $396k.
A close relative of Toni Braxton tells TMZ ... the singer's financial undoing can be traced back to her show in Las Vegas.
The relative tells us Toni took out "show insurance" through Lloyds of London for her act at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino back in 2007.
When Toni was diagnosed with a heart condition -- in the middle of the show's run -- she had to pull the plug, but she was still on the hook to the Hotel for big bucks. Toni expected Lloyds to cover the loss but Lloyds didn't, arguing Toni had a undisclosed, preexisting medical condition, rendering the policy void.
In the end, Toni had to absorb a huge loss, which the relative claims sent her on a downward financial spiral.
Toni Braxton showed up to the Dolphins game in Miami on Monday ... wearing some blinged out jewelry, a snakeskin bag and a pair of Louboutin heels which retail for over $800.
Simon Cowell's Birthday Surprise
Birthday boy Simon Cowell had a little surprise waiting for him today when he showed for work -- emphasis on the little.
When the now 51-year-old former "American Idol" judge pulled up to the "X Factor" set in the UK this morning, a band of singing little people greeted him.
They were all wearing shirts reading "Happy Birthday, Love Cheryl" -- as in "X Factor" judge Cheryl Cole.
What else do you get the guy who has everything?!
Tom Cruise's Body -- A Closer Look!
Tom Cruise proved he's still in top form yesterday in Prague, where he was filming some shirtless scenes for "Mission: Impossible 4" -- and now, we can get a closer look at that six-pack!
Click the photo to zoom in on the 48-year-old's impressive physique.
Justin Bieber -- He's a Kippah!
Justin Bieber threw on his finest yarmulke and went to the wedding of his musical director in Toronto over the weekend.
Oy, he looks so skinny. He should really eat something.
UPDATE: Bieber also joined forces with the groom (who played guitar) to rock "Baby" for crowd ... it's definitely worth a watch.
Ashley Tisdale -- The Vegas Bikini
It was 96 degrees in Vegas this weekend -- and Ashley Tisdale adapted to the heat by throwing on the tiniest bikini she owns.
Our friends at OfficialImage.com caught the "Hellcats" star takin' a dip at Wet Republic at the MGM Grand ... right around the time Avril Levigne was celebrating her 26th birthday.
FYI -- Avril was sans her kinda-sorta-maybe boyfriend Brody Jenner.
Johnny Depp Gets Jack'd Up
Johnny Depp was back on set today to resume filming on "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stanger Tides" in London -- where we got a closer look what it takes to get him to look like Captain Jack Sparrow.
Depp arrived on set with his hair down, wearing jeans, a t-shirt and a plaid shirt -- but then re-emerged with his hair in braids ... which were then covered up with a wig.
Check out Depp's crazy transformation -- plus zoom in on some secret set shots!
What's the Big Frigin' Difference?!
Scrounge up your spectacles and see if you can find the hidden differences in the following photos!
**HINT -- There are THREE differences in the above picture!**
Celebrity Scramble!
Can you guess whose handsome man mug got a nasty celebrity scramblin'?
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran's judiciary says arrests have been made over the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian jetliner near the capitol of Tehran that killed all 176 people on board.
A judiciary spokesman says that "extensive investigations have taken place and some individuals are arrested." He was quoted by Iranian state media on Tuesday, but did not say how many individuals have been detained or name them.
Earlier in the day, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called for a special court to be set up to try those responsible for the plane shootdown.
Popular anger has been swelling in Iran over the government's attempt to conceal its role in the tragedy.
Amid the tensions, Britain, France and Germany have ramped up pressure on Iran for repeatedly violating a landmark nuclear pact.
Leaders of the three nations on Tuesday launched the deal's "dispute mechanism," triggering around 30 days of consultations.
They say in a statement that they've been "left with no choice, given Iran's actions, but to register today our concerns that Iran is not meeting its commitments.'' Iran's Foreign Ministry warned of a "serious and strong response" to the European move.
The Europeans have not rejected the deal outright and the move does not mean that sanctions will automatically be imposed.
Iranians already are suffering under crippling United States sanctions, and they have expressed shock and outrage over the plane crash that killed scores of young people. They also decried misleading statements from top officials, who only admitted responsibility three days later in the face of mounting evidence.
Online videos appeared to show security forces firing live ammunition and tear gas to disperse protests in the streets. Video verified by The Associated Press show protesters scattering amid clouds of tear gas Sunday night. In another, a woman is carried away as people shout that she is wounded by gunfire.
President Donald Trump has embraced Iran's anti-government protesters in another departure from his predecessors, who feared such overt support could backfire and inadvertently help hard-liners in the Islamic Republic.
Trump has tweeted repeatedly in recent days in support of the protesters. But his encouragement carries a risk by seeming to confirm the claims of Iranian hard-liners who accuse the U.S. of fomenting the unrest.
Iran admitted to accidentally shooting down the Ukrainian plane shortly after firing ballistic missiles at U.S. troops in Iraq in retaliation for the airstrike that killed Iran's top general, Gen. Qassem Soleimani. No one was injured in the attack.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the victims of the crash, including 57 Canadians, would be alive right now if tensions had not escalated in the region. He has been careful to avoid blaming Trump for the deaths after the president ordered the killing of Soleimani.
Other Canadians, including a leading corporate leader in the country, blame Trump in part for the deaths.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats have questioned the strategy behind Trump's order to kill Soleimani, which was made without prior approval from Congress, pointing to potential consequences of heightened tensions that could endanger U.S. troops and lead to war with Iran.
A flurry of diplomatic visits and meetings crisscrossing the Persian Gulf are driving urgent efforts to defuse the possibility of all-out war. Both the U.S. and Iran have said they do not want war, but fears have grown that the crisis could spin out of Tehran's or Washington's control.
The Trump administration has insisted the threat of an "imminent" attack led to the drone strike on Soleimani. But officials behind the scenes say the strike was motivated as much, if not more, by a broader effort to rein in a dangerously emboldened Iran.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr gave voice to the broader rationale of deterrence on Monday but stopped short of saying definitively that no specific plot was broken up.
Other U.S. officials interviewed by The Associated Press acknowledged that the long-considered operation of killing Soleimani was designed to break up a perilous cycle of violence that could have brought the U.S. and Iran even closer to hostilities.
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The 2014 State of the Herd Report is out! Learn who is statistically Best Pony, and everything you always wanted to know about Bronies and their demographics.
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Just How Many Bronies are There?
We know a lot now about bronies themselves, but we've never known just how many of them there are out there. Well, a new survey of the general public answers that questions, at least a bit.
Listen to Coder Talking About the Herd
The folks over at The Pod Delusion interviewed me a week or so ago about the Census and Bronies in general. You can listen to the interview here, my bit comes right at the end (50:00)
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We're going to be celebrating The Blackened Mirror today with a special party today.
Join us at the Java Jive in Seraph City where there will be a party from 3-5pm SLT to launch a new game that will give you the chance to discover a little more about Harland Quinn, and the mysteries that lie behind … The Blackened Mirror.
Music will be supplied by Mr Victor Mornington – and there'll be the opportunity to hear again the opening episodes of the special radio drama Death in Velvet – can you guess the murderer?
As part of the new game, we'll also be revealing the location on the web of Episode 3 of Death in Velvet – currently only Episodes 1 and 2 have been revealed!
This week we will be launching the Second Life version of the game – and next week there will be the launch of a web only game. But we're sure that followers of The Blackened Mirror will love this one – the letters they find not only uncover more of the mysteries, but they also reveal more about Harland Quinn – and his feelings for those closest to him.
So … put on your best film noir clothes and come and join us for a great party!


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Sigh, looks like a clone of metal slug.............
Sigh, looks like a clone of metal slug.............
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In with the real hardware, out with the bootlegs......who is this I wonder?
Don't piss off cats or you'll get the Nyanyan Uppercut!
I'm yet to pick up a NG Dev Team game actually for my Neo Geo (I have some DC releases). While this is obviously just a Metal Slug rip off, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Looks very nice...but too slugish I think...
Is it me or do the enemies look like they have anorexia + look like they came out of the playdoh factory?
In with the real hardware, out with the bootlegs......who is this I wonder?
Don't piss off cats or you'll get the Nyanyan Uppercut!
Meh...I�m not feeling this at all. Don�t touch Metal Slug series It looks ok but man it�s just too blatant ripoff.
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it looks like an indie game.
Looks great.
I went ahead and preordered the LE
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I was really excited when I got the email and read the description, then I watched the video and saw a Metal Slug clone. I mean, I'd love something new in the same genre, but this is a really blatant clone from what I've seen so far. Oh well, I'll enjoy the DC port if they make one.
Well I would not have that much of a problem with the fact that it is a MS clone but tbh the graphics are far from overwhelming - which is a shame really as the flyer art is very well done. Also the sound effects... are they directly ripped from MS?
Berries fighting game quest signature is under development - Completed NeoGeo MVS fighters so far: AoF, AoF2, AoF3, SS, SS2, SS3, SS4, KoF94, KoF95, KoF96, KoF97, KoF98, WH, WH2, WH2Jet, Waku Waku 7, FF, FF2, FFS, FF3, Savage Reign, Kizuna Encounter, Kabuki Klash, Galaxy Fight, Last Blade
i can't imagine that people buy that game... the graphics look really bad and remember me of bad indie games or flash games back in the days. The game play is a 1:1 ripoff of Metal Slug. All in all "Kraut Busters" is a very bad looking, absolutely non creative clone of Metal Slug. I don't understand why EVERY RELEASE of NeoDev is a copy of an already existing game. I mean do we really want bad copies of some good games of the last couple of years? Don't they have any creative ideas for new game concepts? ...the funny thing is, 19 years after Metal Slug 1 they come up with that crappy ripoff with nothing improved. Quite the contrary, the graphics look 1000 times poorer than the brilliant original.
AND A BIG LOL to:
"This game had so far our biggest staff and budget with 2 full time pixel artist, 1 freelancing pixel artists,1 coder/designer, 1 musician
A few years ago we wouldn't have thought we can do such a project, but we used the years to build up a very talented team for our company and we will continue to do so."
...where do they got these "artists" from? ...from the business school? xD
Last edited by Dr.NeoGeo; 03-19-2015 at 08:36 AM.
It's definitely not their best looking game. Most of their previous work have been enjoyable. Still curious to check it out. With the very crappy Canadian dollar, it's hard to justify though.
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Super disappointed when I woke up and saw this. The game just looks like a poor metal slug clone and I already own 4 real metal slug games. I was really happy to see them release a cart only version and with the EUR where it is, this is the most affordable one of their games has been I would have bought Razion at this current time, but not this game. What the hell happened to the Ikari warriors type game, if this is it, I am pissed.
Just saw this on their facebook post, "As you know by now this is not the rumored "top-down soldier" project. Both projects are related though. Kraut Buster is the main franchise, the other will be a smaller spin off sharing characters." so at least the top down shooter isnt dead.
I can't believe this is the fucking "Ikari" project they were hinting at. They should just stick to shmups.
Let's see how long do preorders last open this time. I think I'll get it, simply because I am a huge fan of the genre, but in all honesty this does look like a silly flash game that you play for 5 minutes and forget. Sigh.
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ATLANTA (AP) – For those convinced that vaccines can cause autism, the sad case of a Georgia girl, daughter of a doctor and lawyer, seems like clear-cut evidence. The government has agreed to pay the girl's family for injury caused by vaccines.
But it turns out it's not that simple – and maybe not even a first. The 9-year-old girl, Hannah Poling, had an underlying condition that may have been worsened, triggering her autism-like symptoms.
Her parents believe it was the five simultaneous vaccines she got as a toddler in one day eight years ago that did it. Government scientists say something like a fever or infection could have set off the problem – but they didn't rule out the vaccines either.
This week, government officials said they have agreed to pay the Polings from a federal fund that compensates people injured by vaccines. The amount is not yet determined.
While parents and advocates for autistic children say the case is a landmark legal precedent that signals the government is finally conceding potential autism-related risks from childhood vaccines, government officials are saying it's nothing of the kind.
"This does not represent anything other than a very special situation," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Her comments came after the Polings, from Athens, Ga., held a news conference Thursday to talk about their daughter, who accompanied them. At the briefing, Hannah seemed socially engaged with her caregiver, but later in an appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live," she was quiet and seemed to be in her own world.
As a toddler, they said she was a bright, normal-behaving child until she got five shots when she was about 18 months old. She was a little behind on her vaccinations, so the decision was made to give her five shots.
Almost immediately after, she was screaming, feverish and irritable. Then, her behavior gradually changed so she would stare at fans and lights and run in circles.
"It wasn't like a switch being turned off. It was more like a dimmer switch being turned down," said Hannah's father, Jon, a 37-year-old neurologist.
It was heartbreaking, said her 47-year-old mother, Terry, who is trained as both a lawyer and a nurse.
"Suddenly my daughter was no longer there," she said.
The family filed a claim with the federal vaccine compensation program in 2002, which the government ultimately decided to concede before any evidentiary hearing.
The case may not be a first, said Gary Golkiewicz, chief special master for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. He oversees the special "vaccine court" which rules on requests for payments from the vaccine injury fund.
"Years ago, actually, I had a case, before we understood or knew the implications of autism, that the vaccine injured the child's brain caused an encephalopathy," he said. And the symptoms that come with that "fall within the broad rubric of autism."
And there are other somewhat similar cases, Golkiewicz says, that were decided before autism and its symptoms were more clearly defined.
Hannah has a disorder involving her mitochondria, the energy factories of cells. The disorder – which can be present at birth or acquired later in life – impairs cells' ability to use nutrients.
It often causes problems in brain functioning and can lead to delays in walking and talking.
The Polings were exploring two theories to explain what happened to Hannah. One is that she was born with the mitochondria disorder and the vaccines caused a stress to her body that worsened the condition. The other is that the vaccine ingredient thimerosal caused the mitochondrial dysfunction, Jon Poling said.
CDC officials decline to talk about the Poling case, but they say it should not be used to draw conclusions about risks for other children.
Scientists believe that in cases in which a mitochondrial disorder causes a child's brain function to deteriorate, the disorder exists and then is worsened by a fever, infection or other stress on the body.
Scientists don't know if a vaccination – independent of fever or infection – can cause such a stress, said Dr. Edwin Trevathan, a pediatric neurologist who heads the CDC's birth defects center.
Others echoed his assessment.
"There are no scientific studies documenting that childhood vaccinations cause or worsen mitochondrial diseases, but there is very little scientific research in this area," said Chuck Mohan, executive director the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation, a Pittsburgh-based group that raises money for research.
Mohan said there are more than 100 types of mitochondrial disease, and genetic tests can find only a couple dozen.
"Most children with autism do not seem to have a mitochondrial problem, so this association … is probably relatively rare," said Trevathan.
Some research suggests the disorder occurs in one in 4,000 births, but some experts believe the rate is closer to one in 2,000, similar to childhood leukemia. And it is often just as fatal, said Mohan, who lost a daughter to the disease in 1995.
Other federal vaccine advisers seek to portray Hannah Poling as an isolated if not unique case.
She is "not a typical autistic child," said Dr. Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a longtime government vaccine adviser. "It's not a precedent-setting case."
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Spotted on Shelves...
Fizzy Fruit - Whether you have a kid that won't eat enough fruit, or you're
just looking for a new way to add some zazzle to your own fruit snacking,
these carbonated fruit snacks may excite you. They're cups of grapes,
apples or pineapples with added fun 'n bubbles but no added sugar! Find 'em
NOW at select Wal-Mart, 7-Eleven stores and even some school cafeterias.
They'll be available coast to coast by spring.
Link: http://www.fizzyfruit.com/
Fiber One Chewy Bars - Though we can't find references to them ANYWHERE
and haven't been able to locate these on OUR supermarket shelves, emails
have been POURING in about the new Fiber One snack bars. We hear they
have 140 calories and 9 grams of fiber each and TOTALLY ROCK. Of course,
we've yet to taste them, which makes us very sad.
Snyder's of Hanover MultiGrain Snacks - If you're looking for a new and
delicious way to crunch on some more whole grains, check out Snyder's of
Hanover's new line of MultiGrain snacks, with pretzels, sunflower chips,
cheese snacks and tortilla chips. There are 13 varieties in all and they
contain up to 20 grams of whole grain per serving and 0 grams of trans fat.
Heads up! These are NOT reduced calorie snacks, so be careful not to go
overboard with them.
Link: http://www.snydersofhanover.com/en/multigrain/index.html
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Create Jelly Belly Recipes & Win! - Jelly Belly is looking for some GREAT new
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Banana Split and Blueberry Muffin. You know the drill -- combine two or
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another one of the 100,000 other prizes up for grabs! (Pssst... J Bellys have
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started yet, but you can cast your ballot for which AI Slow Churned Light Ice
Cream flavor you want added to the Dreyer's/Edy's permanent line-up.
There are five flavors to choose from, but you MUST vote for Take the Cake.
You MUST. Just DO IT! (How's that for abusing our power?!)
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Will It Blend? - If you're dying for a fancy schmancy high-speed blender to
make smoothies 'n shakes, check out Blendtec's Total Blender. If you doubt
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The Diet Detective's Count Down - If the idea of seeing 7,500 foods and what
you'd need to do to burn them off excites you, you'll be giddy over this one,
people. Warning: Unless you weigh exactly 155 lbs., you'll have to do a little
math to figure out how you fit into the equation. That being said, this book is
still fun to flip through. This one comes to us from public health advocate
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The Reverse Diet - We've been hearing a lot about this backwards eating
trend. No, it has nothing to do with turning around and not facing your plate
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text: 'Black Swan': Film Review 10:04 PM PDT 10/14/2010 by Kirk Honeycutt FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Fox Searchlight Pictures Black Swan Interns - H 2013 Trying to coax a horror-thriller out of the world of ballet doesn't begin to work for Darren Aronofsky. TWITTER First there was the Phantom of the Opera. Now, in Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan," you get the Terror of the Ballet. The movie combines horror-movie tropes with The Red Shoes, All About Eve and every movie about show business that insists you don't have to be crazy to become a star but it doesn't hurt either. The movie is so damn out-there in every way that you can't help admiring Aronofsky for daring to be so very, very absurd. Swan is an instant guilty pleasure, a gorgeously shot, visually complex film whose badness is what's so good about it. You might howl at the sheer audacity of mixing mental illness with the body-fatiguing, mind-numbing rigors of ballet, but its lurid imagery and a hellcat competition between two rival dancers is pretty irresistible. Certain to divide audiences, Swan won't lack for controversy, but will any of this build an audience? Don't bet against it. Swan bears a resemblance to Aronofsky's most recent film, The Wrestler. Its battered, lonely protagonist was a pro wrestler who drags his weary body into the ring night after night because that's what he is -- a wrestler. Same with Natalie Portman's Nina, a sinewy, thin slip of a ballerina whose body actually cracks loudly while getting out of bed. But she heads into the dance studio every day to pirouette on bloody toes and strain every muscle in her body. Because that's what she does. Only Aronofsky suggests, right from an opening dream sequence, that Nina might be cracking up. He keeps the camera close to his heroine, not just so objects and people can suddenly loom next to her as in all horror flicks, but to suggest a certain amount of paranoia and claustrophobia. Nina lives with an emotionally smothering mother, played by Barbara Hershey in as unflattering makeup, hairstyle and lighting as possible. Mom hovers obsessively over her daughter, watching everything from her diet to nervous habits, like scratching her skin until it bleeds. However, as with any of the lurid visions in this movie -- bloody nails, breaking bones, puncture wounds, nasty sutures -- you're never quite sure how real they are. They could be figments of Nina's fervid imagination. A New York ballet company's artistic director, Thomas (Vincent Cassel, the only unambiguous character in the film), selects Nina for the double role of the White Swan and Black Swan in his provocative new take on that old war horse "Swan Lake." He knows Nina can nail the White Swan, but he's not so sure she can embody the dark side of the Swan Queen. So he imports from the West Coast another dancer, Lily (Mila Kunis), whose cunning, deviousness and rampant Id make her an ideal Black Swan. Lily becomes Nina's alternate for the Swan Queen -- and her rival. Nina got the role in the first place when Thomas cavalierly tossed aside the company's previous prima ballerina, Beth (Winona Ryder). Beth slinks around the film's periphery, hissing obscenities and accusations until she winds up in a hospital after walking in front of a car. Like the mother character, Beth exists to up the ante of paranoia and tension as mental chaos relentlessly assails Nina. Nina's drive for perfection runs roughshod over her health and friendships. Nothing else matters. Thomas eggs her on, using sexual abuse and intimidation to get her to "lose yourself" in darkness. If he only knew how truly lost Nina is in that darkness. What she really is losing is her sense of reality. All this psycho drama builds to a fever pitch braced by the woozy lyricism of Tchaikovsky's music, sumptuous choreography by New York City Ballet star Benjamin Millepied and Matthew Libatique's darting, weaving camera. By "Swan Lake's" opening night, the film surrenders to the surreal when Nina's body grows feathers and horrific backstage mayhem vanishes on cue. Aronofsky, working with an original script by Andres Heinz that later was rewritten by Mark Heyman and John McLaughlin, never succeeds in wedding genre elements to the world of ballet. The film takes its cues from "Swan Lake" itself as demons, doubles and death dance in Nina's head. She can only approach perfection by becoming the dual character she plays -- the innocent and the evil. Portman, who has danced but is no ballerina, does a more than credible job in the big dance numbers and the tough rehearsals that are so essential to the film. In her acting, too, you sense she has bravely ventured out of her comfort zone to play a character slowly losing sight of herself. It's a bravura performance. Kunis makes a perfect alternate to Portman, equally as lithe and dark but a smirk of self-assurance in place of Portman's wide-eyed fearfulness. Indeed, White Swan/Black Swan dynamics almost work, but the horror-movie nonsense drags everything down the rabbit hole of preposterousness. Venue: Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival (Fox Searchlight) Production: Cross Creek Pictures in association with Protozoa Pictures and Phoenix Pictures Cast: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey Director: Darren Aronofsky Screenwriters: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John McLaughlin Story by: Andres Heinz Producers: Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin Executive producers: Bradley J. Fischer, Ari Handel, Tyler Thompson, Peter Fruchtman, Rick Schwartz, David Thwaites Jon Avnet Director of photography: Matthew Libatique Production designer: Therese DePrez Music: Clint Mansell Ballet choreography: Benjamin Millepied Costume designer: Amy Westcott Editor: Andrew Weisblum Rated R, 108 minutes FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Kirk Honeycutt email@example.com @thr


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Those Bad Piggies may not be so bad if they can soar to the top of the iOS charts in just a few hours.
Released from its pen earlier today for iOS and Android, the Angry Birds sequel is the most-downloaded paid app among both iPhone and iPad users.
A brand-new game rarely hits the top spot in Apple's App Store so quickly. But being the latest installment in the hot Angry Birds lineup gives Bad Piggies a strong leg (or hoof) up. Game maker Rovio has gotten a lot of mileage out of Angry Birds, but the company also knows it needs to shake up the franchise to keep it from molting.
Bad Piggies offers a twist on the simple birds-versus-pigs scenario. The new game places you on the side of the pigs to help them crack the eggs of the angry birds. Instead of the usual gameplay, Bad Piggies challenges you with a series of puzzles in which you build devices to move the pigs to each destination.
Rovio has packaged the pigs in two flavors -- a standard edition for smartphones and an HD one for tablets.
The iPhone and iPod Touch version costs 99 cents, while the iPad version will set you back $2.99. Both Android versions are free from Google Play, apparently thanks to a special Google promotion celebrating 25 billion downloads in less than four years.
Bad Piggies has guzzled up positive reviews so far, earning a 4.5-star rating from iOS users and a 5-start rating from Android folks.
Rovio took its first stab at a new game in July called Amazing Alex. Similar in some ways to Bad Piggies, Alex challenges you with puzzles to move objects around the screen. Amazing Alex also climbed its way to the top of the iOS charts not long after its debut.


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If you try to install SP2013 on a standalone (i.e. not joined to a domain controller), you will eventually get an error.
"Service running under Network Service account in workgroup environment is not supported."
To avoid this error, create the configuration database after the main setup before you run the "Configuring SharePoint Products" wizard.
Open Powershell, add the usual snapin if necessary (depends on what you do when I say "Open Powershell"!), ignore the warning about missing implementingType for education.institution.dll, and then do a
That's it! Now you can run the Config wizard, and everything should be ok. Well, things were ok on the three servers I've tried it on so far.
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Ellie Goulding is the latest star tipped for a spot on The X Factor judging panel.
The Burn singer has apparently caught the eye of show boss Simon Cowell and he is said to be keen on her taking up a seat alongside him and returning judge Cheryl Cole.
Louis Walsh apparently let Ellie's name slip, telling The Sun on Sunday: "I've heard Ellie Goulding. I just hope it's a girl."
However, a show source has said there are "a lot of people being discussed", adding that Louis "isn't involved in finding the fourth judge".
Other names linked to the new series have included Fergie from the Black Eyes Peas and Olly Murs.
Reports that Ellie is tipped for The X Factor come days after she hinted she is getting tired of touring.
She told Billboard: "I need to sort my life out. And if I don't do it soon, I may as well just be forever on the road, because that's what it feels like.
"As much as I love what I do, and music is obviously everything to me, I'm being pulled home, and I've got to do that soon, I think," she continued.


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You can use the Flash Archiving tools to create an image of an installed system that can be migrated into a zone.
The system can be fully configured with all of the software that will be run in the zone before the image is created. This image is then used by the installation program when the zone is installed.
If you create a Solaris Flash archive, or flar, of a Solaris 10 system that has a ZFS root, then by default, the flar will actually be a ZFS send stream, which can be used to recreate the root pool. This image cannot be used to install a zone. You must create the flar with an explicit cpio or pax archive when the system has a ZFS root.
Use the flarcreate command with the -L archiver option, specifying cpio or pax as the method to archive the files. See Step 4 in the next procedure.
Use the flarcreate command described in the flarcreate(1M) man page to create the system image. This example procedure uses NFS to place the flash archive on the target Solaris system, but you could use any method to move the file.
You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.
Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.
Log in to the source system to be archived.
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Use flarcreate to create a flash archive image file named s10-system on the source system, and place the archive onto the target system:
source-system # flarcreate -S -n s10-system -L cpio /net/target/export/s10-system.flar Determining which filesystems will be included in the archive... Creating the archive... cpio: File size of "etc/mnttab" has increased by 435 2068650 blocks 1 error(s) Archive creation complete.
The target machine will require root write access to the /export file system. Depending on the size of the file system on the host system, the archive might be several gigabytes in size, so enough space should be available in the target filesystem.
In some cases, flarcreate can display errors from the cpio command. Most commonly, these are messages such as File size of etc/mnttab has increased by 435. When these messages pertain to log files or files that reflect system state, they can be ignored. Be sure to review all error messages thoroughly.
You can use alternate methods for creating the archive. The installer can accept the following archive formats:
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Note that the installer can only accept a directory of files created by using an archiving utility that saves and restores file permissions, ownership, and links.
For more information, see the cpio(1), pax(1), bzip2(1), gzip(1), and ufsdump(1M) man pages.
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Elite Tigers rotation finally running on all cylinders
Scherzer, Verlander, Sanchez, Fister could carry Detroit in postseaston
The phrase "battle of the aces," or one to that effect, was used in the presence of Terry Francona the other day in reference to a matchup between Indians ace Justin Masterson and the Tigers' Justin Verlander.
Francona quickly offered a correction.
"Detroit," he said, "has four aces, which is why they are so good."
And the Tigers are "so good" right now -- rattling off a dozen straight victories and, more to the point, bringing down the hammer on Francona's Tribe in the American League Central standings this week -- because that rotation has officially reached the elite level that many projected at the beginning of the season.
"The starters have been the key in this stretch," manager Jim Leyland said. "Let's start right there. They've been giving us innings. Quality innings. That's the key."
Back in March, it was clear that Detroit had the makings of a top-notch rotation in which it's difficult to decipher No. 1 from No. 4, the type of unit that not only survives but thrives in October.
In the ensuing months, although Max Scherzer emerged as a virtually unbeatable ace, All-Star Justin Verlander showed his human side, Anibal Sanchez dealt with shoulder soreness and Doug Fister tossed up several duds. This is all nitpicking, really, because the Tigers have not endured any prolonged stretches of subpar starts to set the club back. But from the end of May to July 26, their 3.87 ERA wasn't much better than that of the Indians (3.98), and it certainly wasn't befitting of a group stocked with such a bankable track record.
Well, here in the dog days, with the stakes raised, that Tigers rotation we expected has stepped into living color. Detroit's surge -- which includes not just the 12 straight victories, but taking 16 of the last 17 overall -- is the product of superb starting pitching. And with Scherzer continuing to look like an AL Cy Young Award candidate, Verlander summoning his old stuff, Sanchez at full strength, Fister finding his form and even fifth starter Rick Porcello posting a sub-2.00 ERA since the start of July, the rotation is running at the peak of its powers.
Over that 17-game stretch, which began on July 21, Tigers starters have posted a 1.83 ERA, by far the best in the Majors in that span (the Royals are next, at 2.32). Detroit's starters have held opponents to a .208 average in that stretch (also the best), gone an average of seven innings per start and issued just 26 walks in 118 innings.
Now, with the AL Central title looking more and more like a foregone conclusion, Tigers fans can start salivating over where this rotation could take them come October.
"This is probably as good as any rotation I've had," president and general manager Dave Dombrowski said. "Of course, the Braves [in the 1990s] had the best rotation year-in and year-out, and they only won one [World Series]. That's why it's so hard to win."
It is hard to win. But it's easy for the Tigers to feel confident every time they take the field. Because while it's one thing to have an ample offense paced by an MVP in Miguel Cabrera, it's another to know that your pitching staff can back it up.
For the better part of the first half, Detroit's bullpen was burdensome enough that one couldn't help but wonder if too much pressure was being placed on the starters. That situation, though, has evolved considerably, with Joaquin Benoit settling into the closer role, Drew Smyly assuming the eighth and Dombrowski bringing erstwhile Astros closer Jose Veras aboard to lend a helping hand. The Tigers might even have struck relief gold by plucking old friend Jeremy Bonderman off the scrap heap, if his 2013 Detroit debut is any indication.
The point is, Scherzer and Co. can now comfortably pitch to their strengths and know it's not all going to unravel if they don't finish the job themselves.
"It's a great group," pitching coach Jeff Jones said. "It makes you feel good going into a series, going into a game, that you've got a chance."
The most significant key to the group realizing its potential is Verlander, who has spent the majority of this season enduring issues possibly borne out of the gargantuan innings log that came with the Tigers' 2012 AL pennant run. Verlander has had several starts this season in which he sacrificed command in an attempt to regain his velocity and other starts where the velo simply wasn't there. Either way, the results have been awfully inconsistent.
Check back in a month, but Verlander believes he discovered a needed mechanical tweak that will allow for better extension of his arm in the bullpen session before his start in Cleveland this week. And judging by the results against the Indians, who managed just a run on four hits with seven strikeouts in eight innings against Verlander, it's difficult to doubt him.
"He had that look in his eye," Jones said. "The dominant look. We haven't seen that a whole lot this year. He's been searching a little bit, trying to find it. He found it last game. And actually, his last three games, his stuff has been better. He didn't get the results in one of them [in a rare seven-run outburst from the White Sox offense], but you could see he was starting to come on, stuff-wise."
Pair that version of Verlander with Scherzer in a short series and, well, you're in business. Back them up with Sanchez, who has a 2.19 ERA and has held hitters to an .579 OPS in six starts since returning from the disabled list, and polish things off with Fister, who has a 1.59 ERA in five starts since July 12, and business is particularly favorable in a short-series setting.
The addition of Jose Iglesias at the non-waiver Trade Deadline has the potential to make business even better. Paced by Porcello and Fister, Detroit's starters have the fourth-highest ground-ball percentage in the Majors, and Iglesias is a major defensive upgrade over Jhonny Peralta.
Ground balls and strikeouts pay major dividends on the postseason stage, and the Tigers get plenty of both. Their 8.45 strikeouts-per-nine-innings mark is the best in baseball. That K rate, in fact, has been elite all year, but it took a little bit of patience for the rotation to reach an elite level overall.
They've reached it now. And in a related development, the Tigers refuse to lose.
There is still business to take care of here in the season proper, and the Tigers are quite careful not to get ahead of themselves. But they know that they have something special brewing, because they know that they have a rotation that can match up against any other.
It's a confident feeling. They've got that look in their eyes.


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For decades factory farming industries have profited from the fact that the cruelty they inflict upon animals has been hidden from the public. Now, they are fighting tooth and nail for their right to keep consumers ignorant.
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The rural lobby, led by the National Farmers' Federation, has mounted a very ugly attack on Coles and its parent company Wesfarmers. They've publicly called for mass boycotts by producers. What could they possibly be so worked up about?
A little winged pig on a shopping bag, appealing for a 'world without factory farming'.
In the past 24 hours Coles has been overwhelmed by public praise for supporting Make it Possible. They are well aware that that their customers want an end to factory farming too. But we could not watch on as a vicious political assault was unleashed simply because Coles is supporting a campaign to improve the lives of animals. In the midst of this sinister attack, those at the very heart of this issue — the animals — appear to have been forgotten. That's why Animals Australia has asked Coles to remove these bags from sale, for now.
Don't for a second think that this means we are stopping. We're simply changing gears. And we're about to press hard on the accelerator.
The hens mercilessly confined to battery cages — the pigs who suffer perpetual boredom in tiny crates — and the 'meat' chickens who will grow up never having seen sunlight — deserve no less.
These are the animals that the National Farmers' Federation doesn't want anyone to see. They don't even want them to be seen on a shopping bag. So instead, we're going to beam them into every living room in the country.
Starting next week, we will put the award-winning Make it Possible ad back on television — nation-wide.
Every caring Australian has the right to be furious that our farming lobby has actively attacked an initiative that would only help give animals quality of life. The best way to channel that outrage is by achieving the very thing they were trying to avoid — exposing the plight of factory farmed animals. Now we are determined to do this 100 fold.
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Steven Johnson has an interesting new book out called Where Good Ideas Come From.
He talks about a number of conditions that help make innovation possible (the fact that often it takes a long time for innovation to emerge from rough drafts of earlier ideas, and requires incubation of these neonate ideas).
But, one precondition he focuses on is the social dimension. Often a breakthrough innovation requires marrying or "colliding" two partial ideas. Sometimes these ideas rest on hunches, often residing in two separate individuals, and unless these hunches are brought together and connected, the innovation goes undiscovered. [It's what Matt Ridley calls "When ideas have sex."] To do this we have to create spaces for people to get together so we can unlock this innovation, hence the import of the coffee house during the Enlightenment or Modernist Salons in Paris (what Steven calls the "Liquid Network"). Kevin Dunbar also documented how something as prosaic as the weekly lab meeting was where most of the innovation at a lab typically occurred, not while poring over the microscope.
What Steven Johnson is really talking about is social capital. In fact Steven Johnson thinks that "connectivity" is the key engine of historical and American creativity: "Chance favors a connected mind." [This is analogous to the process Andrew Wiles used to solve one of the great math riddles of all: Fermat's Last Theorem.] Johnson thinks that the Internet will turn out to a net plus in this process.
An example of this collision of ideas to produce innovation is a neonatal warmer (to halve infant mortality) in developing countries. Timothy Prestero, Design that Matters, took the concept of a warmer, but used bicycle and auto parts from those countries so that when the warmer broke down, local mechanics could repair them. It's an analogy for the infusion of ideas from lots of different sources.
Another interesting example he draws on is showing how a few scientists in their spare time trying to compute Sputnik's speed and ultimately its path from listening to its signal, ultimately led to putting up satellites to enable the military to know where its nuclear submarines were, and then ultimately to using these satellites to determine where one's phone or car was.
On the topic of social capital and innovation, other game theory and social network research shows that often it is not your close ties that unlock this creativity and innovation but your weaker ties (that connect those to others who are a little less similar who are likely to have differing and highly valuable new ideas). Think cross-fertilization. So one not only needs to create social spaces, but spaces and a mindset that lets you connect with your weaker ties (maybe someone in your lab with a different specialty or background, or someone at your school with a different focus, or a coffee shop that brings people together whose only connection is that they drink coffee every morning at 10 AM).
See Wired Interview with Steven Johnson and Kevin Kelly here.


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CHANGWON, South Korea – Civil society organizations are calling on governments in developing countries to stop leasing and selling out land to transnational corporations because it leads to land degradation and food insecurity. Africa is one of the continents where corporations are flocking to lease or buy land for different projects such as mining, growing biofuel crops or construction – pushing rural poor communities off of their land. "You find that the land is repossessed from poor people who are using it for farming to give way to bio-fuel crops or other projects that lead to land degradation," said Khadija-Catherine Razavi, executive director of the Centre for Sustainable Development (CENESTA), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable community- and culture-based development that mainly works in Iran and Southwest Asia.
The NGOs representing ordinary people across the globe added their voices at the tenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), which drew more than 6,000 delegates from around the world to Changwon, South Korea from Oct. 10 to 21. They unsuccessfully called for a pronouncement in the Changwon Declaration against the continued grabbing of land throughout Africa and Asia. According to Razavi, over 200 million square meters of land in these regions is already in the hands of multinational corporations. She added that governments should put a stop to the grabbing of millions of hectares of fertile land from peasants, pastoralists and indigenous people before it is too late. "We`re all talking about land at this conference but there will be nothing to talk about when all the land has been taken away," said Razavi.
While many governments in Africa and Asia claim they are only giving companies barren idle land in their countries, programme coordinator from Friends of the Earth Ghana George Awudi said there is no marginal land in Africa. "With an increasing population the demand for space and food cannot be overemphasized," said Awudi. The U.N. estimates that by the year 2050, the world population will have grown to nine billion and will require a food production increase of 70 percent. Awudi said that in Africa, where food security is a serious concern, expropriating land from poor people cannot be an option for governments. What is worse, land grabbing is competing with desertification where fertile land is turning arid. The U.N. estimates that 12 million hectares of productive land are turning into desert every year. "What needs to happen is the rehabilitation of dry land, so that it can continue producing food," he said.
He was disturbed by the fact that the global business community formed a partnership with the UNCCD in Changwon, which he said could open a window to more land grabbing. "Promoting business to combat desertification, land degradation and drought could lead to more land grabs in our countries," said Awudi. Dry land is in danger, observed Menberu Lulu, chairperson for the Association for Combating Desertification-Ethiopia, because multinational corporations are targeting it under the pretext that it is not useful to communities. "Then they buy the land at a very low cost and communities do not benefit from their initiatives because once they make their money they are out, without any investment for the people," said Lulu. However, UNCCD executive secretary Luc Gnacadja said forming a partnership with business will solve the problem rather than perpetuate it. He said the Changwon Initiative on desertification will ensure that business becomes part of the solution, acknowledging that land grabbing is a serious issue, particularly in Africa.
The Initiative is a series of action plans aimed at strengthening scientific findings behind land degradation issues, mobilizing resources, forging greater partnerships, particularly with the private sector, and raising awareness on successful sustainable land management efforts around the world. "Investing in land by the private sector is not always land grabbing because in other instances businesses form partnerships with smallholder farmers to come up with viable projects that benefit communities," said Gnacadja. He said that bringing in the business community did not mean the UNCCD was ignoring civil society organizations, but that it was trying to bring on board all partners. George Owour, a representative of the Kenyan government, noted that it is not only business that is taking away land from poor people, but even national governments and affluent individuals. "Rural people are kicked out of their land by Kenyan people who buy land in rural communities, leave it lying idle and wait for prices to go up, then return to throw out smallholder farmers living there," he said.
He said the rural people who acquire land through the traditional systems are not even aware that they are living on private property until the owners return. "What`s sad is they also lose in court, because they don`t have title to the land," said Owuor. Governments are also guilty of pushing ordinary people off their fertile land, to give way to developments that leave rural communities poorer than before. But the Changwon Initiative has done a great deal to accommodate civil society organizations, said Gnacadja, considering that they work with people at the grassroots level. For instance, civil society organisations will contribute to the country report indicators for the first time in the history of the UNCCD, which entered into force in 1996, said Gnacadja. They will also participate in the nomination and screening of potential winners of the Land for Life Award launched in Changwon, which is recognition for individuals, businesses or organizations that have made a major effort to fight desertification, land degradation and drought.


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Born: 1929, Frankfurt, Germany
Describes surviving a selection for the gas chamber [Interview: 1990]
In Frankfurt, Ruth's family faced intensifying anti-Jewish measures; her father's business was taken over and Ruth's Jewish school was closed. In April 1943, Ruth and her family were deported to Auschwitz. Ruth was selected for forced labor and assigned to work on road repairs. She also worked in the "Kanada" unit, sorting possessions brought into the camp. In November 1944, Ruth was transferred to the Ravensbrueck camp system, in Germany. She was liberated in May 1945, during a death march from the Malchow camp.
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TGI Fry-Day: Creole Soul Chicken at Red Bamboo
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If there's one place in the city that offers you fried food without the greasy guilt, it's the West Village's Red Bamboo. A little piece of healthy heaven, Red Bamboo's menu re-imagines traditional meat dishes with creative mock meat options. Such ingenuity has elevated the quaint basement restaurant to cult status among New York's vegetarian crowd.
One of their more successful substitutions is their Creole Soul Chicken ($12.95). Served with a scoop of sweet corn mashed potatoes drenched in mushroom gravy and a side of simple steamed vegetables (carrots, zucchini and yellow squash), the dish centers around several pieces of panko-breaded fried soy chicken. But what really kicks this dish up a flavor notch is the accompanying tangy hickory smoke Vidalia dressing. The only compliant? There's not nearly enough of this piquant dressing in the small dipping bowl. The soy chicken was juicy enough, but this added sauce made the meal into a dinner even this committed carnivore loved.
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Every year I become a better manager. As time goes I get better and better (just like a great bottle of wine). As I reflect on my growth, one of the more shocking lessons was learning to how it important it was to build relationships with my peers.
In big companies, your performance is often calibrated and ranked against people at the same level in your organization (who are typically your peers). Typically your performance rating, raise, and bonus depends on how well you and your team performed against these counterparts. Working in that kind of environment helped cultivate the feeling that my peers were my competition, not my teammates, and until a couple of years ago I let my interactions with them show that feeling.
Once I moved into management, I learned to create positive relationships and interactions with the members of my team. I did a good job deferring praise to them and never flinched if they got the glory for my ideas or were more successful because of my feedback and influence. It was easy to operate this way because if they looked good I looked good; our goals aligned.
But I still didn't have the same deference to my peers. I would be resentful if my boss gave them or their team credit for something that was really my idea or my team's work. I still felt the need to prove that I was better than my peers, even when doing so didn't help the company or my team move forward. I am actually embarrassed to admit this revelation since I often spout the importance of relationships.
Over the years, thankfully, my view of my peers has changed drastically. I realized (perhaps later than most) that by making other people successful, my own hard work and success would show in the long-term. I didn't need to vie for credit at every turn; instead, if I helped other people be successful (and let them bask in the glory of that success), then it would make me successful too.
And I learned (five years down the road) that those peer relationships that I worked to stop destroying and start developing would become the most beneficial for me in improving my network and career opportunities.
I wish I had learned this lesson much earlier than I did. It took a lot of maturing, growing up, and getting to the point in my career where I knew I was great at what I do and that my work could stand on its own. I reached a point when I didn't need my manager to pat me on the back anymore. Now I can focus all my energy on helping everyone – both inside and outside of my company; both on my team, laterally, and up in the organization.
Because in life, like in a startup, it's really about moving your business forward – it doesn't matter who is actually doing the work to make it happen.
Why are we so competitive with our peers?
A lot of us who work and lead in environments like major corporations and fast-moving startups are in those roles because we are smart, driven, and have valuable skills to leverage. But those qualities that make us so desirable are often also our downfall in relationships with our peers.
Most of us didn't reach our current place overnight. Most of us grew up being hard-workers in school, and many of us geeky introverts missed the curriculum on relationship-building skills. Instead, over-achieving students grow up being praised for being the smartest person in the room, with little priority given to teaching them to share their knowledge and skills with their classmates. The individual nature of success on quizzes, tests, and homework reinforces the idea that success means working all on your own to get the best grade in class, and competition builds between the brightest kids to get the biggest share of the teacher's praise and attention.
Does this sound familiar? In too many work environments, this kind of dynamic persists way beyond the classroom. People are not motivated because they want to help drive the company forward, but because they want to be noticed and appreciated for their work driving the company forward (whether or not their work really contributed much).
Think about your feelings about your work, your company, and your team. Do you feel competitive towards people who you know are supposed to be on your side? Do you seek opportunities to promote your own work, take credit for ideas, or even talk down another peer's contributions? You may not even be fully aware that you're doing it; but if you can acknowledge your feelings and behavior, you can take steps to improve your relationships and your own standing with your peers.
How to improve relationships with your peers
This can be a huge challenge for people who have spent their lives striving to be number one, all the time. It requires changing not only in how to treat people, but in how you think about other people and yourself as well.
However, if you can implement a few priorities in your daily working life, you can begin to adjust your priorities and start reaping the long-term benefits of being a collaborator instead of a competitor.
Give up control.
Try not handling one aspect of your job all by yourself. Being a good manager is all about delegating, even when you're working with other managers. Find ways to let other people help you, and let them know how much you appreciate their help. Let them impress you with what they can do.
Start understanding them.
Many disagreements arise because both people want the other person to come around to their point of view. Try being the person who comes around once in a while. Ask yourself questions to build understanding, like: what drives this person's perspective? What are their motivations and goals? What is their favored method of communication? What are their non-negotiables?
Stay focused on what this person really needs from you, and why. If you can understand your peers, you can reach agreements with them faster. You'll know how to reach them and what makes them take action (or not), so you both get what you want.
Think as "us" not "me".
It can be hard to see a peer succeed, especially when it feels like it makes you look inadequate compared to them. But if you're doing your best work (and you know when you are) then having strong teammates who shine is a good thing. Remember, you're part of a company, so the stronger everyone in the organization is, the better it is for all of you. Silence that voice that wants other people to fail so you can succeed.
Recognize good work.
Praise someone – sincerely, appropriately – when they've done something successfully. Whether this means publicly noting all their hard work at your next executive meeting, or just dropping by their desk to thank them for helping you perfect your presentation, you'll build trust and consideration from your peers with simple recognition.
None of us hear "thank you" enough at work, so be the person who says "thank you". You'll be amazed at how it can change the tone of a conversation or even a relationship. In fact, try paying your boss a genuine compliment; perhaps something you learned from them or that impressed you. It seems like higher up you go the fewer accolades you receive.
Avoid being defensive.
This is the flip side of the previous tip. When a peer criticizes your work or disagrees with you, don't fight fire with fire. Ask questions and be receptive to feedback. Taking people's opinions seriously also builds trust – and builds better managers too.
Address grudges.
Is a peer purposely making it harder for you to do your job? Instead of trying to stay out of their way, make a point to get to know them (and get them to know you too). It's harder to push someone out who's making an effort to get in.
Have fun.
Seeing your peers outside of work humanizes them. Get out of the competitor mindset by inviting everyone out to happy hour or meeting up on the weekend for a hike. Do something not work-related and engage with these people on a more personal level; you might have a new perspective on their ideas come Monday.
Focus on real relationships, not political ones.
You can tell when someone chats you up because they want something from you or think you can help them get published, promoted, or publicized. And it doesn't feel very good to be used. So remember that before you speak with people in your peer group.
Even if a person does have the capacity to massively improve your career, you need to prioritize being authentic with them – not self-promotional – to build a personal connection. Look for existing links you have with your peers to establish more meaningful initial contacts, then (and this is important!) nurture those relationships by coming back to them regularly. Check out this article for tons of great advice on maintaining and leveraging authentic relationships.
Relationships that you treat this way will last the test of time, and are the ones that will surprise you by paying off again and again throughout your career.
Be active about sharing.
Don't just "take" in your relationships with other managers; prioritize "giving" instead. Build up trust and favor by being proactive about giving (support, ideas, whatever is needed) before you need something back from someone. The more you practice thinking of ways you can be helpful to your peers, the easier it will become – and the more they'll be thinking of ways they can return the favor.
This is especially helpful if many of your peers are also competitive towards you. Most people will respond positively to your active efforts to make their lives easier, especially when your assistance comes without strings attached. You can help build a culture of collaboration.
See your peers as your most powerful advocates.
Just because someone is at the same career level as you doesn't mean they can't have a huge impact on your future success. I used to focus all of my networking energy on people I thought were high-powered and influential, assuming they could have the biggest overall impact on my future.
But who ended up becoming the network I relied upon for opportunities, support, and big ideas? It was the people I befriended who were in the same position as I was when we were all just figuring it out.
You never know who around you has the potential to completely change your life. Don't write off your peers for their perceived lack of influence or power; engage them, and combine forces as you all get better at what you do.
Take the long view.
If you don't get credit for this one project you oversaw because your boss assumed one of your peers handled it – is it the end of the world? Probably not. Make your primary focus doing the things that actually make a good manager: building a strong team, doing work that moves the company forward, and creating relationships that are beneficial for your team and your company.
One project doesn't matter; being seen as a visionary, an influencer, and a strong collaborator does. When you do your job, think about yourself in terms of your role, not yourself. How would a good manager handle this? What response is most helpful for my team, not me? How can I create an environment in which those around me thrive?
If you take this perspective, your day-to-day job will be better, and you'll be (and be seen as) a better manager for it. Think long-term about what it really means to be successful. Don't insist on credit now, and focus on building a career and legacy that will speak for themselves.
There are lots of great tips out there for improving relationships with your peers and being less competitive with people who can help you. Here's one great article to get you started!
And if you have other tips and ideas go ahead and leave them in the comments 🙂


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Scotland Yard's cybercrime crackdown squad has cuffed suspected crims accused of masterminding a phishing scam that netted more than £1m in cash from hundreds of unsuspecting students.
The Met's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) began an investigation in August after a tip-off that students signed up to a government loan scheme had received emails inviting them to update account details via a bogus website ahead of the next term.
However the police action was too late for many undergraduates who were persuaded to hand over their details - the information was used to gain unauthorised access to bank accounts with up to £5,000 extracted in some cases.
The Met said it worked with the Students Loan Company, the banking sector and ISPs as part of the probe, which culminated in raids to properties in the capital, Manchester and Bolton yesterday.
Six individuals - four men and two women - were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud, breaches of the Computer Misuse Act and money laundering offences, the Met said late last on Thursday.
Computers and storage media seized by the officers are in the hands of the forensics team.
Detective Inspector Mark Raymond of the PCeU said: "A great deal of personal information was compromised and cleverly exploited for substantial profits. [We have] disrupted a suspected organised group of cyber criminals and prevented further loss to individuals and institutions in the UK."
GetSafeOnline.org claimed that research in November 2010 revealed that 23 per cent of UK web users were victims of phishing. ®


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Pets of the Week: Oct. 5
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PG's Joe Coffey is On Location at the 2010 LA Amp Show where he visits the Egnater Amplifiers room. In this segment, we get to see and hear about the newest additions to the Tweaker line--the Tweaker 40 and Tweaker 88 heads.
Known for bringing prototypes to Amp Shows and using experienced player feedback to further tweak their latest designs, Egnater did more of the same by unveiling prototypes of new versions the company's popular Tweaker amp. The Tweaker 40 is a two-channel head with dual 6L6s. The channels are identical and each features a set of the standard Tweaker controls (Tight/Deep, Bright/Normal, and Hot/Clean), while adding a Mid Cut/Normal mini toggle, plus a Master Volume with Vintage/Modern mini toggle. The two channels share an EQ with a USA/AC/Brit mini toggle. The Tweaker 88 features the same preamp with two KT88 power tubes. The Tweaker 40 and 88 are set to retail around $600 and $800, respectively.


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The retired prefect of the Congregation for Bishops says Blessed John Paul II will likely be canonized this year or next.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re offered this prediction during a presentation this week of "Il Papa e il Poeta" (The Pope and the Poet), written by Vatican expert Mimmo Muol.
"If it's not this year it will be next," said the cardinal, explaining that as more than one miracle has been attributed to the Polish Pontiff's intercession, "surely there is at least a valid one for his canonization."
Experts of the Congregation for Saints' Causes are reviewing the alleged miracles.
"The time [for the process] can be very brief," said the cardinal, who said the congregation was studying three or four miracles "to evaluate the most solid one."
"The cures are evaluated by a committee of seven doctors, members of a rather exacting internal scientific body, who have the task of examining every detail," Cardinal Re explained.
The former Vatican official classified the doctors as "rigid and meticulous," saying that they would not consider a healing miraculous if an illness was cured with therapies that in similar cases were effective.
"The seven doctors of the committee must be in agreement that it is an inexplicable case," he said, "from the human and scientific point of view."


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A new species of paedophagous Lake Malawi cichlid has been described — A new species of paedophagous cichlid from Lake Malawi has been described by Katrien Dierickx and Jos Snoeks of the Royal Museum for Central Africa [Tervuren]. The new species was previously known as... more
Hemitaeniochromis krampus (Dierickx & Snoeks, 2020) — by Ad Konings
The only paedophage of Lake Malawi that attacks its victims from above.
Crenicichla brasiliensis (Bloch, 1792) — by Rico Morgenstern
Crenicichla brasiliensis is the first American cichlid species known to science!.
Feeding in cichlids – Food selection — by Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
In this article I write about the different foods cichlids eat, and give examples of the particular evolution of their feeding apparatus that allows them to efficiently capture and process those foods. Practically anything edible is consumed by cichlids in one way or another
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