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The Million Dollar Homepage
The Million Dollar Homepage (as of 8 February 2009[update])
Type of site
|Pixel advertising
|Alex Tew
|Created by
|Alex Tew
|26 August 2005
|Current status
|Partly active
The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consisted of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks provided tiny images to be displayed on them, a URL to which the images were linked, and a slogan to be displayed when hovering a cursor over the link. The aim of the website was to sell all of the pixels in the image, thus generating a million dollars of income for the creator. The Wall Street Journal has commented that the site inspired other websites that sell pixels.[1][2]
Launched on 26 August 2005, the website became an Internet phenomenon. The Alexa ranking of web traffic peaked at around 127; as of 9 May 2009[update], it was 40,044.[3] On 1 January 2006, the final 1,000 pixels were put up for auction on eBay. The auction closed on 11 January with a winning bid of $38,100 that brought the final tally to $1,037,100 in gross.
During the January 2006 auction, the website was subject to a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) and ransom demand, which left it inaccessible to visitors for a week while its security system was upgraded. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Wiltshire Constabulary investigated the attack and extortion attempt.[4][5]
By April 2019, approximately 40% of the site's links were suffering from link rot.[6]
Alex Tew, 22 February 2006.[7]
Alex Tew, a student from Cricklade in Wiltshire, England, conceived The Million Dollar Homepage in August 2005 when he was 21 years old.[8] He was about to begin a three-year Business Management course at the University of Nottingham, and was concerned that he would be left with a student loan that could take years to repay.[8] As a money-raising idea, Tew decided to sell a million pixels on a website for $1 each; purchasers would add their own image, logo or advertisement, and have the option of including a hyperlink to their website. Pixels were sold for US dollars rather than UK pounds; the US has a larger online population than the UK, and Tew believed more people would relate to the concept if the pixels were sold in US currency.[9] In 2005, the pound was strong against the dollar: £1 was worth approximately $1.80,[10] and that cost per pixel may have been too expensive for many potential buyers.[9] Tew's setup costs were €50, which paid for the registration of the domain name and a basic web-hosting package. The website went live on 26 August 2005.[11]
The homepage featured a Web banner with the site's name and a pixel counter displaying the number of pixels sold, a navigation bar containing nine small links to the site's internal web pages, and an empty square grid of 1,000,000 pixels divided into 10,000 100-pixel blocks.[12] Tew promised customers that the site would remain online for at least five years – that is, until at least 26 August 2010.[13]
Pixel sales
Because individual pixels are too small to be seen easily, pixels were sold in 100-pixel "blocks" measuring 10 × 10 pixels; the minimum price was thus $100.[14][15] The first sale, three days after the site began operating, was to an online music website operated by a friend of Tew's. He bought 400 pixels in a 20 × 20 block. After two weeks, Tew's friends and family members had purchased a total of 4,700 pixels.[8][16] The site was initially marketed only through word of mouth;[2] however, after the site had made $1,000, a press release was sent out that was picked up by the BBC.[8][16] The technology news website The Register featured two articles on The Million Dollar Homepage in September.[17][18] By the end of the month, The Million Dollar Homepage had received $250,000 and was ranked Number 3 on Alexa Internet's list of "Movers and Shakers" behind the websites for Britney Spears and Photo District News.[19] On 6 October, Tew reported the site received 65,000 unique visitors; it received 1465 Diggs, becoming one of the most Dugg links that week.[20] Eleven days later, the number had increased to 100,000 unique visitors. On 26 October, two months after the Million Dollar Homepage was launched, more than 500,900 pixels had been sold to 1,400 customers.[21] By New Year's Eve, Tew reported that the site was receiving hits from 25,000 unique visitors every hour and had an Alexa Rank of 127,[21] and that 999,000 of the 1,000,000 pixels had been sold.[2]
On 1 January 2006, Tew announced that because the demand was so great for the last 1,000 pixels, "the most fair and logical thing" to do was auction them on eBay rather than lose "the integrity and degree of exclusivity intrinsic to the million-pixel concept" by launching a second Million Dollar Homepage.[21] The auction lasted ten days and received 99 legitimate bids. Although bids were received for amounts as high as $160,109.99, many were either retracted by the bidders or cancelled as hoaxes.[22][23] "I actually contacted the people by phone and turns out they weren't serious, which is fairly frustrating, so I removed those bidders at the last minute", said Tew.[22] The winning bid was $38,100,[24] placed by MillionDollarWeightLoss.com, an online store selling diet-related products.[25] Tew remarked that he had expected the final bid amount to be higher due to the media attention.[22] The Million Dollar Homepage made a gross total of $1,037,100 in five months.[23][26] After costs, taxes and a donation to The Prince's Trust, a charity for young people, Tew expected his net income to be $650,000–$700,000.[2]
Pixel purchasers included Bonanza Gift Shop, Panda Software, the producers of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, British Schools Karting Championship, Book of Cool, Orange, The Times, Cheapflights.com, Schiffer Publishing, Rhapsody, Tenacious D, GoldenPalace.com, 888.com and other online casinos, Independiente Records, Yahoo!, small privately owned businesses, and companies offering get-rich-quick schemes, online dating services, personal loans, free samples, website designs and holidays.[27]
Media attention
Following the September press release that first brought attention to the site, The Million Dollar Homepage was featured in articles on BBC Online,[8] The Register,[17] The Daily Telegraph,[28] and PC Pro.[29] Tew also appeared on the national breakfast television programmes Sky News Sunrise and BBC Breakfast to discuss the website.[30][31]
Alex Tew, 22 February 2006.[7]
By November the website was becoming popular around the world, receiving attention from Financial Times Deutschland in Germany,[32] TVNZ in New Zealand,[33] Terra Networks in Latin America,[34] the China Daily,[35] and especially in the United States where it was covered in Adweek,[36] Florida Today,[37] and Wall Street Journal.[1] Tew hired a US-based publicist to help with the attention from the American media and made a week-long trip to the US, where he was interviewed on ABC News Radio,[38] the Fox News Channel,[39] Attack of the Show!,[40] and local news programmes.[41][42]
The concept was described as "simple and brilliant",[37] "clever",[43] "ingenious",[16] and "a unique platform [for advertising] which is also a bit of fun".[28] Professor Martin Binks, director of the Nottingham University Institute for Entrepreneurial Innovation, said, "It is brilliant in its simplicity ... advertisers have been attracted to it by its novelty ... the site has become a phenomenon."[16] Popular Mechanics said, "There's no content. No cool graphics, giveaways or steamy Paris Hilton videos for viewers to salivate over. Imagine a TV channel that shows nothing but commercials, a magazine with nothing but ads. That's The Million Dollar Homepage. An astonishing example of the power of viral marketing".[44] Don Oldenburg of the Washington Post was one of the few without praise for the site, calling it a "cheap, mind-bogglingly lucrative marketing monstrosity, an advertising badlands of spam, banner ads and pop-ups."[15] Oldenburg continues, "it looks like a bulletin board on designer steroids, an advertising train wreck you can't not look at. It's like getting every pop-up ad you ever got in your life, at once. It's the Internet equivalent of suddenly feeling like you want to take a shower."[15]
As the final pixels were being auctioned, Tew was interviewed on Richard & Judy,[45] and profiled in the online BBC News Magazine.[11] The Wall Street Journal wrote about The Million Dollar Homepage and its impact on the Internet community. "Mr. Tew himself has taken on celebrity status in the Internet community ... the creative juice ... paints an interesting picture of online entrepreneurship".[2]
Tew dropped out of the business degree the site was set up to fund after one term.[46] In 2008, Tew founded Popjam, an Internet aggregation and social networking business.[47][48]
In 2016 Tew was working as an entrepreneur in San Francisco.[49]
DDoS attack
On 7 January 2006, three days before the auction of the final 1,000 pixels was due to end, Tew received an e-mail from an organisation called "The Dark Group", and was told The Million Dollar Homepage would become the victim of a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) if a ransom of $5,000 was not paid by 10 January.[50][51] Believing the threat to be a hoax, he ignored it, but a week later received a second e-mail threat: "Hello u website is under us atack to stop the DDoS send us 50000$."[50] Again, he ignored the threat, and the website was flooded with extra traffic and e-mails, causing it to crash. "I haven't replied to any of them as I don't want to give them the satisfaction and I certainly don't intend to pay them any money. What is happening to my website is like terrorism. If you pay them, new attacks will start," Tew said.[4]
The website was inaccessible to visitors for a week until the host server upgraded the security system, and filtered traffic through anti-DDoS software.[4][51] Wiltshire Constabulary's Hi-Tech Crime Unit and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were called to investigate the extortion and attack; they believed it originated in Russia.[4][5]
As of August 2015 only the main page is available, with all sub pages returning a not-found status code.
A 2017 study by Harvard University found that the still-live page demonstrated a considerable degree of link rot. Of the 2,816 original links, 547 (342,000 pixels, sold for $342,000) were dead, and 489 (145,000 pixels, sold for $145,000) redirected to a different domain. The report also noted, of the remaining links, that "the majority do not seem to reflect their original purpose".[52]
Similar websites
Many other sites sell advertising by pixels.[2][15] Tew said of the sites, "[they] popped up almost immediately; now there are hundreds of Web sites selling pixels. The copycats are all competing with each other."[1] "...they have very little ads, therefore I guess it's not going too well for them. The idea only works once and relies on novelty ... any copy-cat sites will only have pure comedy value, whereas mine possibly has a bit of comedy PLUS some actual pull in advertising dollars ... so I say good luck to the imitators!"[53][54]
See also
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One faction appears unable to acknowledge the reality of Joe Biden's win—perhaps for fear of offending Trump. Another doesn't want to get caught flat-footed for when that reality comes about.Illustrating the political complications that these two pulls can create for the president's political allies, Sutherland followed up on her initial interview with The Daily Beast to clarify her statement—and hedge her view on the outcome of the election. "As Biden is working to build out his team, APT will provide transparency and scrutiny, even as litigation on the election results are ongoing," she wrote.As a leading Trump campaign official in Nevada, Laxalt has been a face of the campaign's efforts to overturn the state's presidential contest. Last month, he appeared at a news conference in North Las Vegas—alongside former Trump intelligence chief Ric Grenell and GOP lobbyist Matt Schlapp—to level allegations of widespread voter fraud and preview a lawsuit demanding that a state court declare Trump the winner, despite trailing by more than 33,000 votes.The Shady Ex-Cop Behind Trump's Nevada Voter-Fraud FarceAs part of that lawsuit, the campaign submitted a list of thousands of voters who it said had cast ballots in Nevada despite living out of state. Many of those voters turned out to be military servicemen and their families stationed outside of Nevada, but who are permitted by law to cast ballots in the state.Like nearly all of the Trump campaign's election-related lawsuits over the past month, the Nevada effort has so far fallen short. Last week, Nevada's Supreme Court certified Biden's win in the state. The campaign's efforts persist nonetheless, and the president and his attorneys continue to gripe about a nonexistent conspiracy against him perpetrated by high-level government officials—including Republicans—and voting machine companies with nebulous ties to foreign dictators.Those voting machine conspiracy theories, which largely focus on the company Dominion Voting Systems, have not extended to Nevada, or Laxalt's efforts there. But on Tuesday, the president hailed a Nevada court ruling allowing both presidential campaigns to inspect voting machines used in the state's largest county. In a tweet on the ruling, Trump tagged Grennell, Schlapp, and Laxalt.Founded this year, APT uses open records requests and other transparency tools to root out apparent conflicts of interest and ethical breaches among government officials and interest groups. APT is a conservative-leaning group, though Sutherland, a former research director at the National Republican Congressional Committee, said it has and will continue to investigate Republicans and Democrats alike."We have demanded accountability and transparency from a variety of groups and politicians from both sides of the aisle. That momentum will not change as we head into a Biden administration," she said.APT has already begun to file open records requests for documents related to incoming Biden administration officials, Sutherland said. "We are taking a look at each individual that will be nominated to the cabinet, and who President-elect Biden is surrounding himself with, what that network has done in the past, and what they would mean in a Biden administration."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
Control of the United States Senate hinges on two January 5 runoff elections in Georgia, where incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are facing Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock respectively. Most immediately, the race is a contest over whether President-elect Joe Biden and the Democratic Party will be able to govern — especially by passing another big coronavirus rescue package.However, Loeffler and Perdue are also excellent examples of what interests the Republican Party serves — namely, the ultra-rich, which includes both Loeffler and Perdue personally. These are two people who were rich before they got into politics, and leveraged their power as senators to make themselves even more rich — by profiteering off the pandemic. It is government of, by, and for the top 0.1 percent.Let me consider their cases in turn. David Perdue is a longtime businessman who served as CEO of Dollar General in the mid-2000s, where he worked diligently to source more products from China. According to his financial disclosures, he is worth between $15 million and $43 million.As Michela Tindera writes at Forbes, Kelly Loeffler and her husband Jeffrey Sprecher own a big stake in International Exchange, a financial clearinghouse company that Sprecher founded and where he remains CEO and chairman. (That company also owns the New York Stock Exchange, where Sprecher is again chairman.) After closely examining Loeffler's financial disclosure forms and other information, Tindera estimates that the couple is worth at least $800 million, and likely over $1 billion — or roughly quadruple the wealth of the second-richest member of Congress, Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah).Here's how the pandemic profiteering worked. On January 24, there was a private all-Senate briefing about the looming disaster — long before there was a broad public understanding that the U.S. was going to get slammed by COVID-19. Immediately afterward, both Loeffler and Perdue started trading strategic stocks. As The Daily Beast reported at the time, Loeffler executed 29 transactions valued between $1.275 and $3.1 million in the following days before the market crashed, almost all of them sales — one exception was a purchase of Citrix, which sells teleworking software. (Also, Loeffler recently violated the legal prohibition on soliciting campaign funds in a Senate office building.)Perdue made a similar number of trades, but bought more than Loeffler — in particular, an investment of up to $850,000 in DuPont, which manufactures personal protective equipment. And as The Associated Press reports, in late January he sold between $1 million and $5 million in shares of Cardlytics, a financial technology firm, at $86 per share. Then, when the market had bottomed out in March, he snapped up between $200,000 and $500,000 of Cardlytics shares at $30 apiece; since then the share price has shot back up to $121. Nice tidy little profit to counterbalance the 270,000 dead Americans. (The Daily Beast also reports that in 2019, Perdue bought up shares of a submarine parts manufacturer before voting to give the company a lucrative contract, then sold it for another handsome profit.)When reports of these trades first came out, both Loeffler and Perdue insisted they had nothing to do personally with the moves. "I have never used any confidential information I received while performing my Senate duties as a means of making a private profit ... professionals buy and sell stocks on our behalf," wrote Loeffler in an April 8 Wall Street Journal op-ed. Perdue told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that advisers made his investment decisions on their own.In the first place, candidates not taking direct control of their stock trades does not actually remove the conflict of interest. If you are a senator, and you hire a bunch of asset managers to look after your investments without any kind of blind trust, you still know what those investments are. You can make decisions knowing that your Goldman Sachs lackeys will make the profit-maximizing move in response — which is the best-case scenario of what happened here.But realistically speaking, it is virtually impossible to believe that all these trades had nothing to do with the two senators. Are we really to believe it was a coincidence that these asset managers started making "there is a pandemic coming" trades the very same day the two were receiving classified briefings on the disaster? Come on. Indeed, The New York Times recently reported that Perdue was lying with his blanket denial — he did directly instruct his manager to sell the Cardlytics shares after receiving a cryptic email mentioning "upcoming changes" from the company's then-CEO. (Perdue and Loeffler have been cleared of legal wrongdoing by the Department of Justice, but given that Attorney General Barr is a shameless Trump stooge, that is hardly reassuring.)Since then, both Perdue and Loeffler have largely downplayed the pandemic. Unlike Ossoff and Warnock, both have been holding large, in-person rallies. In July, both Loeffler and Perdue came out against extending the boost to unemployment insurance in the CARES Act, and since then neither have answered questions about further economic rescue measures from Atlanta Magazine. Instead, since the election they have amplified Trump's flagrant lies that Georgia's Republican governor and secretary of state somehow helped Joe Biden steal the election there.Over the last decade or so, there has been a long discussion of why Democrats are bleeding votes in rural areas (precisely where Republicans run up huge margins in Georgia). And on one level it's an important debate — there is good evidence that as Democrats embraced austerity, deregulation, and free trade that harmed such places, it hurt their vote share.But on another level, it is frankly staggering that the Republican Party has swooped in to replace them. The Democrats may not be much of a friend to the working class or rural farmers, but Republicans are straight-up picking their pockets. If you want a couple senators to govern solely on behalf of their massive asset portfolio while leaving everyone else twisting in the wind, vote Perdue and Loeffler.More stories from theweek.com Our parents warned us the internet would break our brains. It broke theirs instead. Americans are choosing death over deprivation The election was almost entirely peaceful. What happened?
Russian investigators claim to have caught the notorious "Volga maniac" who is suspected of murdering 26 elderly women nearly a decade ago. The Russian Investigative Committee on Tuesday identified one of Russia's most prolific serial killers as Radik Tagirov, a 38-year-old plumber who is believed to have robbed and killed 26 women in 2011 and 2012 across central Russia, the Volga region and even the Ural mountains. The plumber targeted women, aged between 75 and 90, who lived alone in dilapidated housing, according to local media. He would meet some of them in the street and offer to help them with their heavy bags. In other cases, he showed up at his victims' doorstep, impersonating a social worker or a plumber. He would strangle the victims with anything at hand such as a bathrobe belt and take valuables. The investigators, however, said that the pattern of his behaviour showed that he was not killing the women for the sake of material gain. Mr Tagirov, who was convicted of theft in 2009, reportedly killed his first victim in his hometown of Kazan but later expanded his reach to other cities on the Volga River hundreds of kilometres away, which earned him the nickname "the Volga maniac." Police nearly caught the man in September 2011 when a victim's son walked in on the scene of the crime but the killer escaped through a window. One of Mr Tagirov's victims managed to survive but she was unable to describe the killer as she was blind. The murders had stopped by 2013, which led police to believe that the perpetrator had died or was arrested on an unrelated charge. Police offered £29,000 for any information leading to his arrest and spent years trying to link the killings by taking DNA samples from the crime scenes as well as shoe prints and other evidence. It took 10,000 genetic tests and countless cross-references to the police database to pin the crimes on Mr Tagirov, the investigators said on Tuesday. Mr Tagirov has already confessed and is awaiting a court hearing to rule on his possible arrest.
Lew Wallace, the former territorial governor of New Mexico (and author of Ben Hur), once said, "Every calculation based on experience elsewhere fails in New Mexico."In so many ways Wallace was prescient about this beautiful, poor, and unique state in the American Southwest. One "calculation" about modern politics that would especially perplex him is the fact that a relatively poor but oil-rich Western state elects politicians that are so directly at odds with its economic best interest.After Texas and North Dakota, New Mexico is the third-largest oil-producing state in the U.S. The oil and gas industries combine to generate roughly 40 percent of its annual budget. Furthermore, New Mexico's oil and gas resources are heavily concentrated on lands managed by the federal government. The central role of energy, especially energy extracted within the state's borders and controlled by federal policy-makers, might lead one to believe that New Mexicans would vote for pro-energy Republicans in federal elections.Instead, New Mexico has become a safely blue state. It narrowly went for George W. Bush in 2004 but since then has gone for Democrats by wide margins. The situation is even more stark at the state level, where Democrats have had "trifectas" (total control of both houses and the governor's mansion) for 60 of the past 90 years. The GOP hasn't had such governing authority in the state for a single year since 1931 and, despite significant turnover, has not elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate since Pete Domenici retired in 2009.In 2020 Biden won the state 54.3 percent to 43.5 percent despite the fact that President Trump's pro-energy policies have been a boon to the New Mexico economy and that the Biden administration's energy policies are a dagger aimed at the heart of New Mexico's economy.That "dagger" comes in the form of the numerous -- sometimes clear, often conflicting -- statements that candidate Biden made during the campaign. It is unclear what Biden will do about hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," which enables oil and gas producers to access previously inaccessible oil and gas sources. He backed away from an outright nationwide ban late in the campaign. However, Biden has clearly stated that he would ban new gas and oil permits -- including fracking -- on federal lands.Targeting federal lands would devastate New Mexico's oil and gas industry and its economy, because of the state's large federal estate. According to the Institute for Energy Research, 34.7 percent of the land in New Mexico is federal. In fiscal year 2019, New Mexico received energy-related disbursement (from the federal Bureau of Land Management) of $1.17 billion, the highest payment made in any state (Wyoming was next, with $641 million, and then Colorado, with $108 million). This was the highest payment from the bureau in the state's history and compares with $455 million in FY 2017. A vast majority of this increased revenue is a result of fracking.Furthermore, data from the Global Energy Institute indicate that if energy production on federal lands were banned, New Mexico would lose 24,300 jobs (10,000 direct, 14,300 indirect and induced), a significant hit for a state with a workforce of around 900,000. Making matters worse, a good number of the "direct" jobs lost are good-paying -- something that is not easy to find in New Mexico, a state that consistently ranks among the poorest in the nation and has been hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Closing New Mexico's federal lands to energy production entirely would cost the state $496 million in annual royalty collections, representing 8 percent of the state's total General Fund Revenues.Biden's proposed fracking ban is even too much for New Mexico's Democratic governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, who has said that she'll ask for an exemption from any future drilling ban. Acknowledging the tax-revenue contributions to education funding, Grisham explained to the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association conference in Santa Fe last October that "without the energy effort in this state, no one gets to make education the top priority."To be sure, Lujan Grisham is broadly supportive of Biden's energy policies. (She's even on the president-elect's short list for administration positions.) Both of them have stated that they would like to "transition out of fossil fuels" despite New Mexico's financial dependence on the industry.But Biden's aggressive anti-fossil-fuels stance as it relates to federal land not only puts him at odds with Lujan Grisham, it puts him far to the left of President Obama on the issue. In a 2012 presidential debate, Obama stated, "We've opened up public lands. We're actually drilling more on public lands than the previous administration. . . . And natural gas isn't just appearing magically; we're encouraging it and working with the industry."President Obama was of course considered an environmentalist by political opponents and supporters alike. His support for natural-gas right isn't difficult to reconcile with his environmental track record. That's because (when used in a new power plants), natural gas emits 50 to 60 percent less CO2 than a typical new coal plant.Obama understood the vast benefits of natural gas, including the fact that it was appropriate to drill for it on federal lands. During his tenure, natural-gas production rose some 35 percent, from approximately 21 million cubic feet to more than 28.4 million cubic feet.If he truly cares about the environment, Biden would be wise to follow his predecessor's playbook. According to the EPA, U.S. net greenhouse-gas emissions went down by 10 percent from 2005 to 2018, and much of the contribution to that decline in recent years was "due to an increasing shift to use of less carbon dioxide-intensive natural gas for generating electricity and a rapid increase in the use of renewable energy in the electric power sector." But if natural-gas prices rise -- and a ban on federal leasing is likely to contribute to higher prices -- these positive developments could go into reverse. The Energy Information Administration recently projected that higher natural-gas prices would cause coal's share of power generation to increase from 18 percent to 22 percent in 2021.Obama also signed into law legislation that ended the U.S. government's restrictions on crude-oil exports back in 2015.During the campaign, Biden faced tremendous pressure from the left wing of his political base to come out for policies such the Green New Deal and bans on fracking and other fossil-fuel-based energy production. Biden has never been associated with such hard-Left stances against economic policy and growth in the past. Remember, even Obama is to the right of where Biden campaigned.Let's hope that President Biden has a more realistic approach to energy than did candidate Biden. New Mexico's economic future is certainly at stake, but so is the recovery of our nation's virus-hobbled economy.Rather than instituting a blanket ban on production of oil and gas on federal lands, a better approach would be to recognize the benefits and work to make sure that any production is handled responsibly and safely. The growing American energy sector and American energy independence have delivered wins for the environment, for consumers, and for the U.S. and state economies such as New Mexico's. Let's keep it that way.
In 2018, Crystal Mason was sentenced to five-years for voting in the 2016 election. The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is now working with her to appeal the verdict. Mason had no idea she was not allowed to vote in 2016 when she cast her provisional ballot due to the fact that she was on federally supervised release.
Republicans attempting to undo President-elect Joe Biden's victory in Pennsylvania asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to take up their lawsuit, three days after it was thrown out by the highest court in the battleground state. In the request to the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly of northwestern Pennsylvania and the other plaintiffs are asking the court to prevent the state from certifying any contests from the Nov. 3 election, and undo any certifications already made, such as Biden's victory. Biden beat President Donald Trump by more than 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania, a state Trump had won in 2016.
Both model Salma El-Shimy and her photographer were arrested and were accused by one lawyer of "insulting the great Pharaonic history."
Back in July, the US attorney general Bill Bar was dutifully echoing Donald Trump's warnings that mass mail-in voting was vulnerable to election fraud. Mr Barr's forceful repetition of the unfounded claims were met with heavy criticism from opponents, who accused the country's top law enforcement official of using his position to boost Mr Trump's chances of re-election. After the vote, Mr Barr attracted criticism once more when he authorised prosecutors to pursue allegations of vote counting "irregularities" before election officials had certified the results - a significant reversal from long-standing Justice Department policy. So it was a severe blow to the president's hopes of overturning the election results when Mr Barr publicly declared on Tuesday night: "To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election". Democrats were quick to crow over the admission by the head of the Justice Department, one of the president's closest allies. "If you've even lost Bill Barr... it's time to pack it up," said Adam Schiff, a senior Democrat congressman.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday expressed his opposition to a bill approved by parliament the previous day to suspend U.N. inspections and boost uranium enrichment, saying it would be "harmful" to diplomatic efforts aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear deal and easing U.S. sanctions. The tug-of-war over the bill, which gained momentum after the killing of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist last month, reflects the rivalry between Rouhani, a relative moderate, and hard-line lawmakers who dominate parliament and favor a more confrontational approach to the West. The bill would suspend U.N. inspections and require the government to resume enriching uranium to 20% if European nations fail to provide relief from crippling U.S. sanctions on the country's oil and banking sectors.
The woman, 39, was wounded Saturday as loved ones were gathered at the grave of her son, Sincere Pierce, to say goodbye.
Attorney General William Barr revealed Tuesday that he had secretly given U.S. Attorney John Durham special counsel status in October, explaining that the designation assured Durham and his team "that they could complete their work, without regard to the outcome of the election." The decision was news to President Trump, The New York Times reports. But Trump wasn't satisfied, Axios adds.Trump and his allies are "piling extreme pressure" on Barr to release Durham's findings on the FBI's investigation of Trump and Russia, and they view Durham's special counsel designation "as a smokescreen to forestall the release of the so-called Durham report, which senior administration officials believe is already complete," Axios says. "Trump has been ranting about the delay behind the scenes and mused privately about replacing Barr with somebody who will expedite the process."Democrats view Durham's criminal investigation as motivated entirely by politics and revenge, and Barr's move was widely seen as a way to ensure it will continue after President-elect Joe Biden takes office Jan. 20. Trump abruptly pushed out all U.S. attorneys appointed by his predecessor soon after he took office, but special counsels can only be removed by an attorney general under a narrow set of documented criteria. Barr used a work-around with Durham, though, and that would apparently make it much easier for Biden to end the investigation.> This is a very good point from @steve_vladeck. The appointment itself does not comply with the regs. If Barr can appoint someone pursuant to his general statutory appointment authority and apply the regs, it is very likely that the next attorney general can rescind the order. https://t.co/UTOWOt7MZH> > — Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) December 1, 2020A Justice Department official told The Washington Examiner that "attorneys general have often appointed prosecutors to act as special investigators, either under the special counsel regulations or outside them," so Durham's appointment wasn't so unusual. But because Durham, the current U.S. attorney for Connecticut, "was not appointed pursuant to the special counsel regulation, it is possible the next attorney general could rescind Mr. Barr's directive that special counsel rules would apply to him, then end his inquiry without any finding of misconduct," the Times reports."I suppose the calculation is that there is a political cost" for doing so, Duke University law professor Samuel Buell told the Times. But Barr's move is an "odd" use of the special counsel provision.More stories from theweek.com Our parents warned us the internet would break our brains. It broke theirs instead. The naked corruption of Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue Americans are choosing death over deprivation
On Tuesday Gabriel Sterling of the Georgia Secretary of State's Office spoke forcefully against post-election threats and rhetoric directed at election staff.
A retired Air Force three-star reignited claims about troops' involvement in secret missions in the wake of the election.
In September, a senior Iranian commander made an unannounced visit to one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites in the southern Iraqi city of Kerbala. Hassan Pelarak, a top officer in the Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, had recently been sanctioned by the U.S. for weapons smuggling. The vast, $600 million expansion at the Imam Hussein shrine, which is revered as the place of martyrdom of the Prophet Mohammed's grandson, will swell the capacity of what is already the world's largest annual pilgrimage, dwarfing the Hajj to Saudi Arabia's Mecca.
Chinese special operators are getting more resources and going through more training, but there are something you can't teach.


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This year will forever be known in my memory as the year I got bionic hearing, well not quite, but I can say I had a laser destroy bone inside my head. I also have two prosthetic stapes now!
However this year was about a lot more, from meeting Bea's family to knowing that even in our times supporting a politician can make people say some nasty things, it was about the up and downs of life and a year where turning 30 really brought a lot of wisdom into my life.
I began this year with the goal that I was going to become very introspective and work on self discovery this year. My relationship with my wife had really opened my life to feeling more like myself than during any other period of my life. Marriage brought me freedom by knowing that someone loves me exactly for who I am. Early this year I was able to cross paths with a graphologist and had my handwriting analyzed with very interesting results.
As the weather got warmer and I started to get a little more vocal about what I believed on. I knew it would bring some resistance and controversy, but never as much as I got from telling people that I did not believed on going to see dead people on display.
I also started to hang out more with the crazy bloggers around this area and found started calling most of them friends. Funny enough I still have not met Shane.
During the middle of the year some hard times began. I was so wrapped up on work and life that it started taking a toll. I started to miss home (both Chicago and Colombia or I guess family overall) terribly. My wife also experienced the same and we realized little by little that the rat race was just making us unhappy. Thankfully better days have come and we are now making changes to that and life is starting to get better every single day.
Those days were made easier by having some good friends around. Some know more than others how much they helped, but overall I thank you all.
One of the closest people to me, whom I have never met personally started going through some difficult times. Daniel has dealt with more than a person should this year and it killed me not to be able to go sit next to him and have a cup of coffee. Supporting people long distance is freaking hard, but geographically it was all I could do. I was going to say this to him in a private e-mail, but since our relationship started with our blogs I wanted to say this to him and all of you dealing with life… it will pass, it will get better, and you will come out stronger at the other end.
On that note, one of the many lessons that I learnt this is something I want to share with you. To be successful in life you have to forget about that little voice that tells you "what are people going to think." This takes me to something I want to say about my wife. Love, you are so strong and dealt with so much loss… also fighting depression and being public about it makes me incredibly proud, because even though so many people might want to make it seem like it is something to either deal with privately or be ashamed about you are dealing with it head on, and going through it I am sure you will help others see that they are not alone.
This year was tough, and the next might be even tougher in many ways; however, change has happened, change is coming and even though it is difficult to swallow sometimes it is necessary and it will make the world a better place. Make 2009 the year you work on all of relationships and make them stronger.


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I installed Xampp and everything went well. However I faced a problem because it was using the same port as skype, so I just switched the ports on the phpconfig and the htmlconfig. Apache and MySQL are running perfectly, but when I try to access localhost, or using 127.0.0.1 i get "Oops link is broken" on google chrome.
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BIT Course Photo in 1984
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Biophysics of Neural Function Course Photo in 1983
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Biophysics of Neural Function Course Photo in 1984
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Behavior Course Photo in January 1978
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Behavior Course Photo in 1978.
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Behavior Course Photo in January 1979.
Behavior_Jan1979-3.jpeg: Typed class roster with handwritten circled numbers representing the people featured and the cost of printing "19 prints x 1.50/Print=28.88" and a typed list "January 1979 Behavior Course-1. Ashkenas, Linda* MBL, Woods Hole, 2. Atema, Jelle**, 3. Bagby, Brenda Oberlin College, 4. Broyles, Judy U. of Texas Arlington, 5. Bry, John Tufts U., 6. Cowperthwaite, Leslie Mass. Audubon, 7. Davis, Robert Bennington College, 8. Devine, Dana Boston U., 9. Donaldson, Terry U. of Guam, 10. Edds, Peggy U. of Maryland,11. Elgin, Randall* MBL, Woods Hole, 12.Created: 1979
Behavior Course Photo in 1980
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Basic Immunocytochemical Techniques Course Photo in 1986
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Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course Photo in 1984
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Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course Photo in 1987
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Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy Course Photo in 1983
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High Resolution Electrophoretic Separation of Protein Course Photo in the fall of 1978
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Microbial Ecology Course Photograph 1979
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Marine Ecology Course Photograph 1979
MBLMarineEcologyCourse_1979-6.jpeg: Typed paper with otherlist listed in the photo. "Instructors- Not Present John Teal W.H.O.I. Redfield 212C, 11 Ivan Valiela M.B.L. - B.U.M.P. - Loeb 104, 17 Charlene Van Raalte M.B. L. Loeb 304" and "Assistant- 10 Time Cole M.B.L. Loeb 305, 18 Chris Van Raalte M.B.L. Loeb 304"Created: 1979
Marine Ecology Course Photograph 1980
MARINEECOLOGY_Jul1980-3.jpeg: Scanned copy of photo with names written on the front in a black pen. "Marine Ecology 7/80)" From left to right "Dave Light, Ivan Valiela, Tom Wilcox, Erich Morgan, Tom Boyce, Virginia Bennett, Jeremy Jackson, Jennifer Molesworth., Sylvia Yamada, Quincy , Randy Chambers, David Hughes, Randa Mansour, Debbie Scheuer, Bruce Leighty, Robert Groesbeck, Michelle Corr, Annette Spies, Tim Uyeki, Beth Sherrin, James Thomson, Mark Haibach, Tony Pires, James Jackson, Rodney Fujita, Tim Ford."Created: 1980
High Resolution Electrophoretic Separation of Protein course photograph 1978
HIGHRESELECTROPHORETICSEPARATIONOFPROTEINS_Nov1978-6.jpeg: A course description of the High Resolution Electrophoretic Separation of Proteins course that covers the purpose, course description, Faculty and Facilities, and ApplicationCreated: 1978
Grass Fellows Group Photograph 1989
GRASSFELLOWS_1989-3.jpeg: Plain paper with traced silhouettes of people in photo with handwritten list of their names.Created: 1989
Ecology Course Photograph 1980
ECOLOGY_1980-3.jpeg: Handwritten numbered list of people in photo. "1. George M. Woodwell, 2. Donna Vallas, 3. Charles Hannibal, 4. Kathleen Bossort, 5. Wendy Strahm, 6. Anna Willis, 7. Michael Heyn, 8. Wendy Cox, 9. Joan d'Hedouvillie, 10. Robert Eifert, 11. Carol Tanner, 12. Ann Marie Fagan, 13. Barbara Jo Schmitt, 14. Brian Donlon, 15. Let Lee, 16. Truit Prosper, 17. Blythe Mariton, 18. Alfred Pinkney, 19. David Bernard, 20. William Ford, 21. Bruce Peterson"Created: 1980
Developemental Biology Course Photograph 1979
DEVBIOL_1979-5.jpeg: Typed class roster "Janurary 1979 Developemental Biology Course Student Roster. 12 Backstom, LeeAnn College of the Holy Cross, 2 Barnum, Susan CentralMichigan U., 19. Bumiller, Mark Tulane U., 3. Cangemi, Phyllis Columbia U., 14 Collins, Erica Medgar Evers College, 23 Crowler, Paula Skidmore College, 15 Depelteau, Audrey Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 16 Dube, Francois U. of Montreal, 8. Hanke, Jeffrey College of st. Rose, 11. Kanders, Bonnie Cornell U., 16 Latinwo, Lekan Alabama A&M U., 5. Lewis, Andrea Atlanta U., 22.Created: 1979
Comparative Pathology Course Photograph 1979
CompPATHOLOGY_1979-5.jpeg: Typed class roster with additional information hand written. "Comparative Pathology of Marine Invertebrates Janurary 1979 Course-Student Roster-15 Andrews, Charla Johns Hopkins School of Hygine and Public Health, 12 Bennett, Hollis Battelle Memorial Institute, 16 Cook, Maltha Sloan-Kettering Institute, 5 Cox, Fanethia Texas Southern U., 1 Elston, Ralph Cornell U., 8 Font, William U. of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, 10 Hartley, Dean U. of Illinois, 18 Hazell, Rhonda College of St. Elizabeth, 9 McCormick, Stephen Mass.Created: 1979
Comparative Pathology Course Photograph 1982
COMPPATHINVERT_1982-3.jpeg: Back of the hand written list is a typed student roster.Created: 1982
Comparative Pathology Course Photograph 1981
COMPPATH_1981-6.jpeg: back of scrap paper. Front page of paper the numbered list was written upon. The following is typed "Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole-Massachusetts-025430(617)548-3705,Comparative Pathology of Marine Invertebrates, Janurary 1981, Janurary 16,1981 B.C. Bang, Higher Invertebrates to Vertebrates, I. Annelids segmentation, II. Echinoderms tube feet, III. Arthropods specializations, IV. Molluscs specialized mucus, V. Invertebrate Chordates tunicates amphioxus, VI. Vertebrates mucocilliary adaptatioms to life on land"Created: 1981
Understanding changes in coastal ecosystems: the Land Margin Ecosystems Research Program, draft report
Title: "Understanding changes in coastal ecosystems: the Land Margin Ecosystems Research Program"
Proposal for LMER Coordination grant from National Science Foundation in 1994
Announcement for LMER Coordination grant from National Science Foundation in 1994 at Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological LabCreated: 1994
Proposal for LMER Coordination grant from National Science Foundation in 1992
Announcement for LMER Coordination grant from National Science Foundation in 1992, PI John Hobbie of the Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological LabCreated: 1992


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Red Sox hire John Farrell as new manager
Sox trade Mike Aviles to Blue Jays as compensation
The Red Sox announced the hiring of John Farrell to be their new manager Sunday, signing him to a new three-year contract that will run through 2015.
"I'm extremely excited to be returning to the Red Sox and to Boston," said Farrell in a team press release. "I love this organization. It's a great franchise in a special city and region, with great fans, and we want nothing more than to reward their faith in us."
Farrell spent the last two seasons as the Blue Jays manager, and the previous three as the Red Sox pitching coach.
As compensation for hiring Farrell, the Red Sox traded infielder Mike Aviles to Toronto and received right-handed pitcher David Carpenter in return.
In his two years in Toronto, Farrell finished 154-170, including 73-89 last season.
The Red Sox fired manager Bobby Valentine after the season after finishing 69-93, the team's worst record since 1965.


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I can spend $10,000 on a watch for myself. Or I can give 1000 children in a war torn country, who could never afford to own a watch, a $10 watch as a gift of Aloha to show them somebody cares about them. Which watch would be worth more...
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Why your Games are unfinished and what to do about it
All credits for the article on www.gamedev.net
So, you've got a new game idea, and it's going to change what everyone knows about the genre! Great!
After making a Game Design Document, you proceed to make some art, or maybe a prototype. You even got that fancy gimp program, or started using a new 'multi-platform' library. Time went on and you hit a wall. Maybe it's that annoying bug in the second level. Your plans aren't panning out that well. It's just too much work. You start making excuses. The game idea wasn't that great. It might actually be a bit boring. The art looks crappy. You abandon the project. There are better ideas you say.
If the above sounds like you, then the bad news is with the way things are going, you might not release any games at all and just lock them inside your head!
The good news is, you're not alone. Almost every game developer loses interest in projects they are working on.
Coming from my personal experience, and interviewing a few other successful game developers, I've compiled a list of things to do when you find yourself killing off your own games.
1. Stop Editing
When writing, authors typically have one rule when making their first draft, and that is to kill the 'infernal internal editor'. "Don't edit, just write!"
This actually carries over to a lot of other creative industries, including game development. When developing a game, always make it so it just barely passes, and move on. The more you work on other parts of the project, the more motivated you will be. Don't try to perfect your game on the first run, remember, you can always edit it later on.
2. Make A Deadline
This goes hand in hand with Number One. Enforce a time constraint, do your best to stick to it, and you'll find yourself working on the essential game aspects.
There are lots of events with this in mind, such as OGAM (One Game A Month), and Ludum Dare.
3. Go For Small Games - if you're just starting
When you're just starting, start small. Making a fun solid game/minigame is a huge leap for a game developer, and having at least one released game already puts you ahead of many of your contemporaries.
"But that super awesome MMORPG with that unique mechanic is going to be huge" you say. That sort of enthusiasm will go a long way, but if you haven't even been able to create one small game, do you really have what it takes to commit yourself to such a big project?"
If your game idea simply and absolutely cannot wait, then try creating what's called a 'Vertical Slice'. Instead of creating your entire game, why not try creating one scene, one battle, or one encounter? This nets a plus on all components, because you can instantly:
- Test out your idea
- See if it's actually fun
- And actually have something to show for your effort
4. Make it a Habit
Whether you're someone who makes games as a hobby, or someone who really wants to get into the industry, then make it a habit. Do one part of your game, everyday. It doesn't matter how much you can do in a day, the important part is that you work on the game.
You can even get yourself a to do list. Ticking something as done gets a nice feeling to your stomach!
5. Don't worry about the technology
You're salivating over that new libgdx library that can compile to every platform known to mankind. You want to use Haxe because it's fast, multiplatform, and l33t. Microsoft killed XNA, and you avoid it like a plague. The thing is, Don't Care! Remember, you're making a game, and it doesn't matter what language you use. If your game is boring, no one will play it, even if you used the newest, shiniest language to have ever existed.
The next tip is also an inherent flaw of game programmers, but can be applied to game developing in general.
6. Keep It Simple Stupid!
If you're a programmer, just code, don't edit (slightly bringing us back to tip #1).
Design Patterns? Throw 'em away. Component Based Systems? So last year. Event Listener's inefficient? Leave them be.
Keep it Simple Stupid (KiSS) is an actual programming methodology. It's what it says on the tin, just keep your code simple. Don't get fancy with design patterns, component based systems, or making your loop run in the most efficient way possible. Pre-Optimization is the root of all evil.
"Take pride in doing what you did, even if it was bad code. You might have a game with bad code, but at least you're not the other guy who has no game but good code."
7. Public Beta Tests
When losing motivation, try being public! Share what you have so far, be it a doodle, a screenshot, or maybe even a demo. Get a friend to play your game, and with the internet, you can't have excuses for not finding anyone.
The feedback you'll get for your game is priceless, outlining what's fun and what's not, and it may even be the push you need to make it big.
8. Flow
If there was ever a point in your life where you've done something that you didn't even realize time passing, then you've undergone flow (which is what hypnosis puts you in). When you're in this state, you're so focused on what you're doing that you won't even notice a plane crashing next door (okay, maybe that was an over statement).
The point is, we can be totally immersed in one activity, and this is what you want to happen when developing your game. Close out your browser and focus, have fun, and don't think of anything else. Throw out coding practices, optimizations, and don't perfect stuff. Just do it.
9. It's Dead Jim
Maybe the game really didn't pan out as you've hoped to be. The gameplay was really flawed and it's not fun.
Sometimes, we need to quit when it's simply not working. Seth Godin tackles it in his book, The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick
Remember, there is nothing wrong with making a game and just leaving it at that. You've gained experience, and that's always a plus. But don't just leave your game in the back of your hard drive, going back to tip #7, be Public! Share it on forums, saying it was a game you did in your free time that was left unfinished.
What do you know, maybe someone even gives you valuable feedback that turns out to be all that you needed…


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VMware has announced its Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS) which lets organizations to efficiently pool all types of hardware resources -- servers, storage and network -- into an aggregated on-premise cloud. Datacenters running on the Virtual Datacenter OS are highly elastic, self-managing, and self-healing. .
The VDC-OS expands virtual infrastructure along three dimensions:
- First, it delivers a set of infrastructure services (called "Infrastructure vServices") to seamlessly aggregate servers, storage and network as a pool of on-premise cloud resources and allocate them to applications that need them most.
- Second, it delivers a set of application services (called "Application vServices") to guarantee the right levels of availability, security and scalability to all applications independent of the operating system, development frameworks or architecture on which they were built to run.
- Third, the VDC-OS delivers a set of cloud services (called "Cloud vServices") that federate compute capacity between the on-premise and off-premise clouds.
Unlike a traditional OS, which is optimized for a single server and supports only those applications written to its interfaces, the VDC-OS serves as the OS for the entire datacenter and supports the full diversity of any application written to any OS, from legacy Windows applications to modern distributed applications that run in mixed operating system environments.
"Automation and virtualization technologies are shifting the center of gravity for server computing from server operating systems to a new breed of infrastructure operating system that spans many distributed servers, " says Thomas Bittman, research vice president, at Gartner.


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LOS ANGELES, June 11 (UPI) -- Sons of Anarchy fans got the first glimpse of Marilyn Manson on set this week.
The 45-year-old musician appears in a series of photos as his white supremacist character, Ron Tully. He sports a leather jacket and fake tattoos on his neck, and also has a swastika emblazoned on his right hand.
@marilynmanson on the set of #SonsOfAnarchy pic.twitter.com/XqmUX1cC0r— Sons Of Anarchy (@SoAforever) June 11, 2014
Manson will guest star as Tully on the program's upcoming seventh season. In addition to being a white supremacist, the character is a prison shot-caller whom Jax (Charlie Hunnam) uses to expand his power base.
"Sons has been such a big part of my life, as well as my father's," the musician said after he was cast. "I was determined to make him proud by being involved in what will probably be remembered as the most amazing piece of television cinema."
The seventh and final season of Sons of Anarchy premieres in September.