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I write this as someone who hasn't read any Tolkien book, ever. I can't even remember the last time I picked one up… the closest I've come is reading the synopsis for the recently published (previously unfinished work – then completed and edited by Tolkien's son Christopher) book 'Children of Hurin' (2007) – this may not sound like much because it's only a synopsis, but I must say, the several page affair read like a short story (as full synopsis' should) and made for some fascinating stuff. It manages to draw you in enough so that, partnered with your already developed knowledge of Middle Earth, culminates in a very captivating and involved experience… but would I buy/read the book, knowing what I know about it – perhaps, but I'm in no rush. It's a curious case. That 'must read-but don't really want to' scenarios. This is partly because I'm not a major adventure fantasy fan. Now before you go on about how the books overlap genres and involve a whole lot more than those two elements, I'm fully aware of that, and I'd probably enjoy the books once I got into them. The truth is, I just lack the motivation to do so, my immediate literary interests lie elsewhere, meaning I'm more than content to preoccupy myself with the films (as lazy as this is, mind you). I enjoyed the films and have even seen the latest two Hobbit installments, but I still would not call myself an out and out fan, as in fanatical.
Tolkien and his works however, remain a fascinating subject, and the fact that it is so, even for someone who has no immediate will to read said works, is testament to their magnitude, influence and impact on contemporary literature and the media in general.
So, now that I've mentioned that I enjoyed the films, taking into consideration the understandable compromise that needed to be made – alluding to many scenes, stories and elements left out from the books because they are quite long – in bringing these them to cinema, it did surprise me to learn that Christopher Tolkien (and the entire remaining Tolkien Estate) does not support these well-loved films, which have been so effective in introducing this literature to younger generations.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy in particular is an amazing feat, and there is a growing consensus out there that it is Hollywood's very best offering (more than just as far as adaptations go). Considering the magnitude of production, the logistics and the previous sentiment that such a story was impossible to bring to film (or un-filmable) – they merely proved what is possible with celluloid.
Well, in part its due to the fact that they were largely excluded (by New Line Cinema) from the creative process and could do what they wanted with the films; and Credit to them for not straying from the source material. However, the recent Hobbit trilogy is a greater indictment of the fears the Tolkien's expressed… since there was only one book – but the studios could not pass up this money spinning opportunity. And then there's the issue of adding an entire character to the films as well (despite most lauding the decision – it simply highlights deviation, which fuels discontent). By the way, zero of the proceeds of this film trilogy and merchandising go to the Tolkien Estate (in fact they haven't seen a cent from the LOTR success due to the old and liberal contract signed by Tolkien when he himself was cash strapped). You can read more about it in this interview with Christopher Tolkien, and it's not sour grapes either. Here's a man that knows the works like it was his own and who has dedicated his like to completing his father's work. Hence it's not surprising that he would be so passionate about the films, but that he would go so far as to label them simply action films.
Does this revelation diminish the accomplishment of the films in any way – I don't think so, but it does add a sad note to the works mainly because its a timeous reminder of the times we live in. As a film critic myself (and a writer), I can only judge the films - and they are a magnificent achievement (but of course film will never be as timeless as the written word).
"They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25,.. And it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film."
-- Christopher Tolkien
So ultimately if this is Hollywood's best yet, then it's come at a cost – a very deep cost – in typical tinsel town fashion. What's more, and this is strangely often the case, is the vaguely prophetic writings of J.R.R. Tolkien as they apply to his works and his legacy as a whole. Here we are, or corporates at least, nudging and fighting over who receives the material wealth… kind of like the fate of the Ring in his most famous trilogy, and then there's the case of his family… Who will continue upholding the Tolkien name after Christopher dies – he is an old man now but is the most outspoken about his father's work – and though I'm sure nothing as tragic as his character experience in his stories will befall the Children, or child and grandchildren of Tolkien, the corporate snub and creative cold shoulder is perhaps akin to echoes of those fictional distant tragedies, transformed into those of a different kind, resonating in this money driven world. We may not have the enemies of old, or even of fictional foes like that of Smaug, Morgorth or Sauron, but in the literary sense, in these modern times where good and evil are often hard to distinguish, we are witnessing the battles in the corporate realm, and this is one the Tolkien's have lost. This is due to the brand that is 'Tolkien' - it is no longer a family name denoting an artist and deeply, vastly imaginative creative genius of an author, it is now a corporate monster - a money making machine, grown beyond humble control and/or opposition.
Despite this though, the family retains the moral high ground. It is a position of slight, a faint glimmer of the remaining but eroded artistic moral and ethic - but was this not the same sort of faint glimmer of integrity in a dark world that Frodo faced before his epic quest? The odds are rarely in your favour.
{*** Happy New Year to all, wishing you a blessed 2014. This is going to be a great year! God Bless and thanks for visiting the first post of the new year... Regards Steven. ***}


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Getting Started
Installing EMF Compare
Marketplace Client
Using the bundled Eclipse marketplace client you can install EMF Compare in one click. Just type "emf compare", click on search, and then on install.
Update Site
EMF has been part of the Eclipse release train since Galileo, you can install it using the following update sites, depending on your platform. Note that the following are not meant to be visited in your internet browser; they must be pasted in the Help > Install New Software dialog of your Eclipse, as p2 repositories.
http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo
The Download page lists more specific update sites if you wish to try one of the latest integration builds.
Please note that the EMF Compare development team does its best to maintain downward compatibility towards Galileo (Eclipse 3.5). Following is the compatibility chart :
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|Eclipse 4.3 - EMF 2.9
|Eclipse 4.2 - EMF 2.8
|Eclipse 3.8 - EMF 2.8
|Eclipse 3.7 - EMF 2.7
|Eclipse 3.6 - EMF 2.6
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An empty cell indicates that the compatibility hasn't been tested for a particular combination.
Once installed, you can compare your files (locally or from any Version Control System) as usual using the compare with menu.
The following displays the important part of a model life cycle with regards to the comparison. The full life cycle can be followed on EMF Compare/Sample Use Case
Compare with latest
For this test, we'll suppose that you are trying to use EMF Compare on UML models shared under git. This will not go in details about UML and Git. We'll assume that you know how to manipulate an UML model, create or clone a git repository, share a project under it and use standard Git operations.
The name of our sample project will be "library". It contains a single folder "model" containing two models :
- library_Types.uml will contain our primitive types,
- library.uml will contain our actual model.
The model itself is a very simple library. Graphically speaking :
We commit this initial file as the original model. We then slightly modify it so that it now looks like :
But how do we know exactly what changed? Let's compare this with the file from the Git Index :
This will open a comparison editor that initially displays empty panels on its bottom half. Let's select one of the differences displayed on its top half :
- We've selected the difference corresponding to the addition of attribute alias in the class Writer. A double-click on this difference updated our two panes below.
- alias has been added to the properties of Class Writer. In the model, this corresponds to a change to the reference ownedAttributes of the Writer Class. This sub-panel indicates the actual reference that was changed in oder to remind us of the context.
- This displays all values of the reference outlined in (2) as they are in the left model. This is where we see the new value, alias outlined.
- As for (2), this will display the context of the selected difference. The same reference will usually be displayed in both (2) and (4).
- This panel displays all values of the reference outlined in (4) as they are in the right model. In here, we see the location of alias outlined as an empty space. This rectangle is where the new value will be added if we merge it... Though in this case, it is not possible to merge towards the right : it is a version located on a repository and is thus non-editable.
This is useful in order to determine exactly what changed in our version, but serves no other purpose : merging changes here would only mean reverting back our modifications to the "clean" state from the repository. Let's commit our changes on the master branch.
Compare two differing branches
After that, our model can evolve, and evolve separately in multiple branches. Let's consider the case where we would have a master branch differing from a borrowables branch such as the two look like this (the branching point was the model we've already displayed above) :
Before we continue working on our Borrowables branch, we'd like to retrieve all modifications that have been pushed to master. With the "Borrowables" branch checked out, we'll use the Compare With > Branch, Tag or Reference action :
and compare with master :
This shows us all differences between our local copy and the master branch that were made since the 'branching' point.
Same as previously, you can navigate through the differences via the top panel, the structural view. There are three main kind of elements displayed here. Regular elements, that mimic the containment tree of your input models, are there to separate the various differences and let you know where they were actually detected. Then there are incoming differences, decorated with a blue arrow () or a derived icon, and outgoing differences decorated with a green arrow () or a derived icon.
* Incoming differences are changes that were made in the remote branch (here, master) since the branching point (common ancestor). * Outgoing differences are changes taht were made in the local copy (here, the borrowables branch) since the branching point.
There are no conflicts here, since UML uses computed identifiers (XMI ID) for the model elements. Thus, what looks like a conflict (the "Date" type that's been added on both branch in the types packages) is actually two distinct differences.
The interface also lets you display the common ancestor of both models through the icon. For example, if we select the Book class, we can see how it looks like on all three versions :
You can navigate through the differences using the appropriate actions, either the previous () or the next () difference.
The remaining two actions are those that actually interest us here we can either merge all non-conflicting differences to the local copy through or merge them one after the other through .
Merging all differences is not what we seek : we want to keep the changes we made locally, not revert them to the state they had before the branching point (which is their current state on master, the right side). We will then select all incoming differences one after the other and merge them one by one. This gives us our merged model :
Notice that merged differences are displayed in italics and have a distinct icon. All that's left is to save, our model now contains both our local changes and the changes that were made on master.
User Interface Breakdown
The main points of interest are highlighted in the following picture :
- Overview of the differences detected between the given two (or three) models.
- First version of the compared models.
- Second version of the compared models.
- This button will only be visible in the case of three-way comparisons (for example, comparing with a remote repository). It will make a third version of the compared model (the common ancestor of the two others) visible in the interface.
- This button will allow you to group differences together in the structural view. For example, grouping all "Additions" or "Deletions" together.
- This button will allow you to filter some differences out of the view according to a set predicate. For example, filtering out all "Additions" or "Moves".
- Allows you to merge all non conflicting differences (left to right, or right to left) at once.
- Allows you to merge the single, currently selected difference in a given direction (left to right, or right to left).
- Allows you to navigate through the detected differences.
Handling Conflicts
Grouping Differences
This feature allows you to group differences together in the structural view according to a set predicate. By default, EMF Compare provides three distinct grouping strategies :
- Default
- Do not try and group differences together, display them as they were detected.
- By Kind
- Group differences by their kind (additions, deletions, moves, changes).
- By Metaclass
- Group difference according to the metaclass of the object on which they were detected.
PENDING UPDATE, this is a demo displaying EMF Compare 1.3 Demo
PENDING : New grouping strategies can be provided to EMF Compare through extension points.
Filtering Differences
This features allows you to filter differences out of the structural view according to a set predicate. By default, EMF Compare provides five distinct filters :
- Changed Elements
- Filter out all differences of type CHANGE. Disabled by default.
- Added Elements
- Filter out all differences of type ADD. Disabled by default.
- Removed Elements
- Filter out all differences of type DELETE. Disabled by default.
- Moved Elements
- Filter out all differences of type CHANGE. Disabled by default.
- Resource Mappings
- Filter out all resource mappings from the view. Enabled by default.
PENDING UPDATE, this is a demo displaying EMF Compare 1.3 Demo
PENDING : New filters can be provided to EMF Compare through extension points.
Text Attribute Comparison
Differences made into String-typed attributes can be compared and merged directly as text from the compare interface through a simple right-click on the difference.
PENDING UPDATE, this demo displays EMF Compare 1.3 Demo
Graphical Comparison
Since the 1.2 release EMF compare provides the ability to compare models with graphical modelers.
Have a look on the following demos :
[Demo : Comparing Ecore files with diagrams]
[Demo : Comparing UML files with diagrams]
Logical Model
EMF Compare does not act simply on the selected files, but on their whole logical model (a given model can be split through multiple files through EMF control action). Thanks to that, if you try and compare a model file that reference other model files, the comparison will still be able to take these "other" files into account. For example, if you try and compare a genmodel file (that depends on its underlying ecore file) :
EMF Compare will actually consider both files when comparing :
PENDING UPDATE Demo
UML Specialization
[Demo : Specific support to encapsulate profiles and stereotypes diffs]

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Addicted To Pain
Interview with bassist Bob Horvath
Interviewed by EvilG
Thrashy/groove metal band Addicted To Pain hail from Albany, New York. In late 2010 they unleashed their first-ever release – a self-titled EP – on MegaForce Records. The group is comprised of Leo Curley (vocals,guitar), Bob Horvath (bass), and Gregory Nash (drums). The formation of Addicted to Pain can be linked to an earlier group called Eyesore (with now Shadows Fall drummer Jason Bittner). Years and several bands later Horvath and Leo hooked up with Nash and Addicted To Pain were born.
How would you guys describe your sound? I hear some thrash and some BLS styled groove in there?
It's hard to describe for me. There's a lot of groove,and hard core style riffing with thrash and punk influences.
What is your local metal scene in Albany, New York like? Do you get to play local shows there often?
The scene has gone down hill the last few year's. We play a lot of local show's and sometimes there's great turnouts and sometimes not. You need to out of the area to get some recognition.
Have you been able to do any touring or open for any bigger names?
We just got off touring with THC Texas Hippie Coalition. It was a great time playing with those Texas's boys. We did a north eastern tour. We're playing with Joey Belladonna (Anthrax) in a couple weeks, and Taproot in February 2011 and there's plans for a March/April 2011 tour with someone we cant say yet HA HA….You'll have to wait and see.
What musical backgrounds do the members come from – by that I mean what styles have you mainly played?
Me – Metal!!!!!! Also, I was in an improv band for a while back fun to play when you are high….Greg he's into everything 70's, he always says he should of lived during the 70's. Leo – born and raised hardcore no doubt about that.
Have you ever entertained the idea of adding a 4th member to the lineup..perhaps a second guitarist?
No not at this time,we all love the freedom of a three piece.
How did you end up working with the legendary producer, Alex Perialas (Anthrax, S.O.D., Testament, Pro-Pain, etc.)?
We met him through Megaforce records. We had a list of producers to work with, but when we all looked at that paper we all picked Alex hands down, and believe me there were some kick ass producers on that list. He is a legend and the best producer ever and we were blown away that we had the chance to work with him, and we were nervous wrecks!
What did you learn the most from working with Alex?
Your best is just a start.
You recorded your 4-song EP with Alex. Are there plans to record a full length album with him in 2011?
I just got off the phone with him today actually, late January we start pre production so we have a ton of work ahead of us starting yesterday. We will probably have a finished project in March.
Was there a reason you only did 4 as opposed to a full length – perhaps the purpose was to use this to send as a demo to some record labels?
It was to break into the scene and get our name out there and grab a tour and so on so fourth. What we set out to do we accomplished so Megaforce was right do 4 songs save the full length to blast into the market.
If you've sent anything to any labels, what kind of reactions have you been getting?
Label Megaforce Man what else is there? We have gotten great reviews from industry peeps.
What does the band name "Addicted to Pain" mean and how did you decide upon it? It makes me think of Pinhead! ha
HA HA!!!!! It's a long story but the band name was THE PAIN for the first year in a half. We had to change the name because it sounded just like T.PAIN the rapper. Stupid right, but true story. So then month's later Leo just blurts out Addicted to Pain…Since all three of our lives represent that statement, it was perfect.
Can you tell us a bit about what each of the 4 songs are about on your release?
Hear N Now: A decaying America .
Trust Me: I think Leo wanted to kill someone that day Ha HA..
Abigail: Greg's masterpeice he wrought about John Adams wife, Abigail Adams and someone else?
Going Going Gone: I think Leo was pissed that day Ha HA..
What music have you been spinning recently?
Grandfunk RR. I've been you tubing all there shit. Some of the greatest grooves, I love it man….
What's next for Addicted to Pain?
Recording with Alex in late January till March, new full length and a national tour coming early 2011.
Thanks for your time, all the best to you!
Thanks! Everyone check out myspace.com/addictedtopain / addictedtopain.net and find us on Facebook. METAL-RULES so do we Ha Ha!!!!!!!!
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Chris Martin's role as a magician's assistant in Coldplay's newest music video is fitting, given the track's title, 'Magic.'
In the video Martin plays assistant to Cecile, a female magician dressed in '20s flapper-style, beaded fringe dress and jeweled headpiece included. Martin -- or Christophe, as Martin's character is named -- and Cecile perform magic tricks at a circus as the 'Masters of Marvel.' In one scene Cecile throws knives at Christophe; in another, Christophe cuts Cecile in half.
There is a love story, of course, which develops between Cecile and Christophe among their on-stage tricks and illusions. The conflict evolves from Cecile's predicament of being married to another magician at the circus, though the marriage is unhealthy and unhappy. Plot twist: Cecile's husband is also played by Martin, though it's hard to recognize him in his fake mustache and two-toned glasses.
The video dedicates itself to the 1920s from start to finish, taking on the style of a silent film. 'Magic' is entirely black and white and the story's dialogue is conveyed through title cards. No detail went overlooked, from the characters' fashion to their hairstyles to their classic cars. To add even more authenticity, the video is given an overall grainy, aged filter.
Coldplay displayed the depth of their creativity for 'Magic,' the first single off of their anticipated album 'Ghost Stories.' The British band picked the perfect setting for the sweet and (dare we say it) magical romance. We don't want to give anything away, so take a look at the video to find out if Martin -- sorry, Christophe -- gets his girl.


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Research Affiliates and WisdomTree Investments said early Thursday that they had reached a settlement regarding patent infringements and that Research Affiliates will pay WisdomTree $700,000 and withdraw its lawsuit.
"Based on information that came to our attention during the lawsuit, Research Affiliates can now acknowledge that WisdomTree's fundamentally weighted indexes and strategies were developed by WisdomTree independently of Research Affiliates," said Robert Arnott (left), chairman and CEO of Newport Beach, Calif.-based Research Affiliates, in a press release.
Research Affiliates produces asset-allocation and other strategies used to manage some $110 billion in assets worldwide. WisdomTree is an exchange-traded fund sponsor and asset manager with 49 products with some $16.8 billion in assets under management.
The two parties say that this settlement agreement resolves all matters pertaining to the lawsuit, which was brought in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, and that they will henceforth "respect each other's intellectual property and patents."
"We are pleased the matter is resolved and our businesses will continue as usual," said Jonathan Steinberg, CEO and president of New York-based WisdomTree, and Arnott in a joint statement.
Research Affiliates also says that it has agreed not to sue WisdomTree for any future claims arising under any current patents held by Research Affiliates, as well as any future patents relating to fundamentally weighted indexes and strategies that may issue under existing or future patent applications that may be filed by Research Affiliates within the next eight years, subject to a reduction by up to three years if Research Affiliates is acquired.
The "not to sue" covenant also includes service providers and customers of WisdomTree's products and services.
For its part, WisdomTree has agreed not to sue Research Affiliates with similar terms and conditions.
The parties say that the "not to sue" stipulations do not include a right under each party's patents to copy the other party's methodologies. They have further agreed that it is not copying if Research Affiliates introduces an index or strategy that uses at least three fundamental factors to weight its indexes, if they are not predominantly dividend- or earnings-weighted, or if WisdomTree introduces an index or strategy that is weighted by less than three fundamental factors.
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Our Community Pricing Program is an attempt to let users collectively set the price of a book production project as low as possible. The more people who pre-order, the lower we can make the cost per unit and still cover our production costs.
Community Pricing is an experiment, and it is working. Together you have moved several projects into production and in each case the price per unit has been much lower than it would have been as a traditional Pre-Publication project.
What surprises me, though, is how many orders come in after a project covers its costs in the Community Pricing Program and before we ship it. When a title covers its costs in Community Pricing we move it to the Pre-Publication program and raise the cost. We have been getting as many as 20% more orders after moving a title.
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Cutter Bench / 775 eur
Designed by Niels Hvass
The Cutter bench was originally designed for an exhibition called Walk the Plank. Here, inspired by the German Bauhaus movement, the idea of a slatted seat on a coherent frame came into life. The minimalist design is effortless in its expression and does well in most indoor settings.
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Painted Oak
Oak grows in most temperate zones. The Skagerak oak comes from European forests and is either 100% FSC certified or FSC mix certified, harvested under sustainable forest management. The selection of the wood is extremely careful and all processing is by hand, so that only the best and most durable pieces of wood are used in production.
Oak is a sturdy and hardwearing type of wood containing natural tannins that will protect against bacterial growth. As an open grain wood, Oak absorbs colour really well and leaves graphic traces of the natural texture visible on the surface.
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About the designer / Niels Hvass
He creates clear, precise expressions that place the user centre stage. His designs are based on a deep-felt wish that one must be entranced and fall in love. Niels Hvass is an idealist with sincerity as a key value. He was born in Nykøbing Mors, Denmark, in 1958 and qualified as a furniture designer from the Danish School of Design in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1987. Together with Christina Strand, he has run the design studio Strand + Hvass since 1991. But his impressive career also includes teaching at the Danish School of Design, membership of the grants committee and board of the Danish Arts Foundation, exhibitions at the Cabinetmakers' Autumn Exhibition, etc.


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DIESEL "CAMOU CORE" NEELA XS Bifold Wallet PU Leather Camouflage Pattern
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Welcome to the future, where you can essentially make a movie with believable special effects right on your smartphone.
Cinefy, an app that just launched on the App Store, makes this possible.
You can choose from literally hundreds of CGI effects to lay over your video. You can also drop music over the video from your iTunes library.
That includes dinosaurs, alien attacks, explosions, and lightning strikes, just to name a few. Obviously, this isn't for the professional video maker. But for the rest of us, this could be just the ticket to sharing a funny video, finishing a school project, or making the kids laugh.
Especially with Halloween around the corner, it's a perfect time to shoot kids in their costumes and lay over a few fun effects to get that spooky feeling going.
Just like iMovie, Final Cut Pro, or any other media editing software, the app uses a simple timeline-based interface and should be pretty simple for anyone to figure out. However, a tutorial or help video of some sort, built straight into the app, would be nice.
Even still, the folks at Cinefy clearly worked to make the controls mobile and touch-friendly. For example, if you want to shorten a song you threw in to the video (most effects are between 7 and 11 seconds) down to the size of the effect clip, the cursor speeds up once you begin dragging.
The app is a massive download, at 963MB, so be prepared for it. It costs $.99 and is available in the App Store now.
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Releasing Saturday, June 15th. In-store and online.
Aloha kākou!
Our Summer D1 & D2 release which we previewed yesterday is right around the corner, but before we drop the official Summer line, we'll be releasing our Pre-Summer 13ʻ capsule collection tomorrow at 11 AM HST. The capsule consists of a wide variety of womens tees, raglans and tanks. Nine to be exact, with some very familiar graphics, including our "Glassy" design (featured in a tee, racerback tank and raglan), "Native" (racerback tank and tee), "Aloha Means Love" which is a brand new design (racerback tank, tee and raglan), "Aloha Summer" and "Aloha Means Hello & Goodbye." Please note, all racerback tanks and tees are made of 50% combed cotton and 50% polyester, while the women's raglan tees are 100% combed cotton.
Available this Saturday, in-store (FITTED), online with select items being offered at Blue Hawaii Surf.
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The Hunger
For Felony there are two forms of hunger. One is her need to dominate and control, a calling to be on top. But the other is a burning desire, deep inside her, to please a man at her own expense; to be handled and used by someone more powerful than herself. For Cyd Black there is only one hunger, the drive to watch a beautiful woman suffer. This is going to be delicious. ...
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Using the Wi-Fi connection at Starbucks was a better bet than risking putting confidential defence documents on a glitch-prone Pentagon computer network, a senior Defence Department official testified on Thursday at the Guantanamo trial of five prisoners charged with plotting the September 11 hijacked plane attacks.
The Internet link at the local Starbucks was "the best bad option that we had," Air Force Colonel Karen Mayberry, the chief defence counsel for the war crimes tribunal, told the judge.
Defence lawyers have asked the judge to halt pretrial hearings in the death penalty case of the alleged plotters at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba until the computer system can be fixed to ensure that outsiders cannot access confidential defence documents.
Mayberry ordered her team of lawyers to stop putting sensitive documents on that system in April, citing their ethical obligation to protect confidentiality.
The lawyers have since been using personal computers to email documents from coffee shops and hotel lobbies. Mayberry said it was possible these networks were not secure, but she was certain that the Pentagon network had been compromised.
Mayberry cited evidence that defence files had been lost or altered, prosecutors and defence lawyers were temporarily given access to some of each other's emails, and outside monitors tracked defence researchers' work as they visited terrorism-related sites to prepare for the case.
"It's not speculative or hypothetical. It happened," Mayberry said.
The network security debate has dominated the week-long hearing for the suspects, who could be executed if convicted of conspiring with al Qaeda, hijacking and murdering 2,976 people in the September 11, 2001, attacks.
Prosecutor Ed Ryan has scoffed at the notion that using Starbucks Wi-Fi was safer than using the Pentagon network.
"You're not concerned about the nice man in the green apron looking over the major's shoulder as he's typing these emails?" Ryan had asked Mayberry on Wednesday.
Mayberry said that when she issued her April order she recognised that "it could shut us down," but that she thought the problems would be fixed quickly.
An April hearing in the case was cancelled, and prosecutors have suggested the defence is using the network problems as an excuse for further delays. A logistics overseer testified that fixing the system could take up to 111 days once the Pentagon awards the contract and approves funding.
"Funding may be another issue that could come up in about 13 days or thereabouts," said the judge, Army Colonel James Pohl.
In addition, the White House budget office has warned US agencies to prepare for a possible shutdown of the federal government unless Congress overcomes mounting partisan discord and reaches an agreement to fund the next fiscal year that begins October 1.
Some of the Internet problems were blamed on a switch in email systems. Others were blamed on an attempt to replicate lawyers' work on two separate networks, one in the Washington area and one at the remote Guantanamo base.
Internet technology supervisor Paul Scott Parr tried to explain in laymen's terms what went wrong. A "dirty shutdown" occurred when the server shut down while the replication programme was still running, he said.
Backups that were supposed to occur daily had not been done for more than three months, Parr said. Seven gigabytes of data previously described as "lost" had merely been "misplaced" and had mostly been restored, he said.


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TRENTON, NJ — New Jersey's new Office of Nutrition and Fitness will coordinate state programs aimed at preventing obesity. The office, expected to open this summer, will oversee more than $2 million in nutrition and fitness programs and will work to implement the New Jersey Obesity Prevention Task Force's recommendations outlined in its 2006 report, "The New Jersey Obesity Prevention Action Plan."
Dr. Fred M. Jacobs, commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Health and Senior Services, says he wants to tackle the obesity problem through education, support groups and encouraging physical activity, rather than by banning particular foods. Jacobs also is mulling the idea of having schools notify parents through report cards about children with weight problems.
Morton Downey, spokesman for The Obesity Society, which represents doctors, researchers and others in the field, says he knows of no other state with a dedicated agency fighting obesity and called New Jersey's initiative an encouraging step that could become a national model.
According to a 2004 survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), New Jersey has the highest percentage of overweight and obese children under age 5. New Jersey's black and Latino youth are more likely to be overweight than white youths. Almost 23 percent of New Jersey's residents are considered obese, and another 37 percent are overweight, according to the CDC.
Recently, the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services and the New Jersey Council on Physical Fitness hosted the second annual Leaders' Academy for Healthy Community Development for mayors, educators, local health officials and others concerned with community health.
The Academy encourages healthy changes at the community level by training participants and offering mini-grants of up to $10,000 that can be used for such projects as walking clubs, swimming lessons, or starting a community or school garden. At least 20 communities have received mini-grants.


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Where rocks,
and water meet
Royal Gorge Natural Area
by Jeff
The St. Francois
Mountains in southeast Missouri are believed to be some of the oldest
mountains in the eastern United States and feature many interesting
geologic sites. One of the most interesting parts of the St. Francois
Mountains is contained in Iron County which boasts the highest spot
in the state at Taum Sauk Mountain State Park as well as Elephant Rocks
State Park.
One often overlooked
spot is Royal Gorge Natural Area south of Arcadia on Highway 21. The
natural area features a canyon-like shut-in along the highway (cover
photo). A shut-in is a spot where over millions of years a river cuts
its way through resistant igneous rock, which is the basic material
the St. Francois Mountains are made of.
At the point where the shut-in passes alongside Highway 21, motorists
will see a beautiful wall constructed of granite stones built there
by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression (photo left).
The Highway Department maintains a scenic overlook and parking pullout
for motorists to view Royal Gorge. To visit the gorge drive 4 miles
south of Arcadia on Highway 21.
Also located in the St. Francois Mountains are two more of Missouris
state park gems Sam A. Baker and Johnson Shut-ins state parks.
And if youre interested in Missouri history Ironton is home to
Battle of Pilot Knob State Historic site.
Missouris state parks and historic sites are maintained by the
Missouri Department of Natural Resources. For more information visit
DNR on line at www.mostateparks.com
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Coming to college comes with a whole new pool of nerves.
"Adulting," or more appropriate terms, paying bills and attending college is frightening. As soon as we graduate high school, we are then expected to just know how to "adult." Unfortunately, that is not always the case.
As I was thinking about this week's project, I noticed an empty spot on my wall that needed filling, so I decided to look for DIY wall décor and found the coolest thing. This project is a little more tedious than the previous ones, but it's worth it.
For as long as I can remember, I've always hated fantasy and science fictions books.
From the tone of the last two blogs in this series, you might be expecting me to point out another one of Hollywood's flaws. While the movie industry has a long way to go, it is doing some things right and I think those deserve recognition too.
They say lightning never strikes twice, and for it to happen in the music industry is often a challenging feat. However, Dan Auerbach, lead singer and guitarist of The Black Keys, has got that metaphorical lightning down to a science.
Its spring, a season of blooming flowers and beautiful weather. For the University of Florida's school of music, it is also recital season. Last week and this week, in the University's music building or MUB, there were several junior and graduate voice recitals featuring classical Italian, G…
With independent music becoming more and more prominent, veterans of the business have been taking notice. In May of 2014, legendary rapper Nas launched Mass Appeal Records as a label for up-and-coming emcees to make a name for themselves. The label has signed Bishop Nehru, Fashawn, Run the …
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A pregnant woman digs her nails into the (supposedly) comforting arm of her husband and, in a howl of pain, declares the name of their new baby boy. The husband decides against protest this time, and so Champe is born.
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Going to your local flooring store can be daunting. We all set out to find the best products within our budgeted price range and walk into a showroom to be overwhelmed by the number of products available, each boasting of "high-quality."
There are some distinct differences between solid and engineered flooring that should influence which product you purchase and install in your home.
What is as thoughtful as a handmade gift? When someone puts time and energy into a gift for you it shows an investment in your life. Our hand scraped flooring is no different.
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10 oz 2015 Australian Kookaburra Silver Coin
In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the silver Kookaburra coin the Perth Mint decided to re-use the original coin design from 1990. Each kookaburra also includes the years "1990 - 2015" and the traditional Perth "P" mintmark has had 25 added to it.
These coins celebrate not only the heritage of the Perth and their twenty five years of mintage but also this iconic Australian bird. The Kookaburra has become one of the flagship coins for the Perth Mint over the years and it is easy to see why. The unique subject, the great quality and Australian character of these coins have catapulted them to the world stage.
The obverse features the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the words, "Elizabeth II Australia 2015 10 Dollars" and the artist's initials.
The reverse features the inaugural design of the 1990 Kookaburra silver coin. An adult kookaburra is perched on a tree trunk and is surrounded by eucalyptus leaves and ferns, all local to Australia. The design layout is the same as the original, but it has kept the improvements that the Perth Mint has added over the years to allow for even finer detail. A double year has been added to further help distinguish it from the original. Even the traditional Perth Mint mark has been changed by adding a 25. The design is surrounded by the words "The Australian Kookaburra 10 oz 999 Silver 1990 - 2015" and the Perth mintmark "P25".
The intricate detail of the kookaburra and its surroundings pay tribute to 25 years of craftsmanship.
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Capacious liberalism is the prerequisite for successful, empirically based social reform and the rule of law.
Ludwig Erhard
Let 2020 be the year America rediscovers the reverent art of Thanksgiving in the midst of troubled times.
The authority to proclaim a Thanksgiving might seem trivial to us. But it is, in fact, fraught with meaning.
If intersectionality is not defeated, Americans will learn the truth that power, not freedom, is truly irresistible.
Pirates are still piratical. And just reprisals are still a lawful way to bring them to justice.
Section 230 has not kept pace with the times and now presides over a very different internet from the one it was designed to govern.
Previously unnoticed evidence provides new support for the proposition that the Second Amendment articulates an individual right to personal safety.
Policy inertia means that the Republican Party of 2024 will share more with the Republican Party of 1924 than that of more recent decades.
A newsletter worth reading.
Three contributors discuss Joshua Mitchell's new book and the trajectory of identity politics.
A gathering at George Mason University to remember the late, great judge.
Our health experts seek perfect safety when it comes to Covid mitigation without careful consideration of the harm their policies may inflict.
If the Court decides rightly in Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, mootness will no longer serve as a shield for the erosion of constitutional rights.
Contrary to the numbers games of today's majoritarians, America's federal republic reflects not a trace of national, numerical democracy.
Emma's remarkable virtue is revealed all the more through her quite serious vices.


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Story highlights
Supreme Court would be in tune with public opinion if it overturns health care mandate
Gergen, Zuckerman: If the court rules 5-4, on party lines, public might object in long run
The court's legitimacy as an unelected branch of government rests on public trust, they say
Even so, don't jump to conclusions about justices' motives, authors stress
Editor's Note: David Gergen is a senior political analyst for CNN and has been an adviser to four presidents. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he is a professor of public service and director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Follow him on Twitter. Michael Zuckerman, his research assistant, is a Harvard College graduate who will be entering Harvard Law School.
Seventy-five years ago, Franklin Roosevelt launched a crusade against the Supreme Court, angry that it was overturning important New Deal initiatives.
Though his "court packing" plan went awry, the court (and particularly Justice Owen Roberts) did swing behind the popular president, protecting both themselves and the New Deal – "the switch in time that saved nine," as the saying went.
Ever since, it has been widely assumed that the Supreme Court keeps a close eye on public opinion. Indeed, among the papers of the late Justice Harry Blackmun, historians found that the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist and other justices had an office pool going for the 1992 presidential election, betting $1 on each state. (Sandra Day O'Connor apparently won.)
And so it is that as the current Supreme Court prepares its momentous decision expected this month on the Affordable Care Act – widely known as Obamacare – experts wonder how much public opinion will sway the court's ruling. Except that in this case, the court will be in a no-win position if it plays to the bleachers. That's why the real question is: On what basis should the court truly act? And on what basis should the media, politicians and the country then react?
Court finds itself in a bind
Consider the quandary the high court faces in trying to keep the public on its side.
Last week, a New York Times/CBS poll revealed that a majority of respondents – 68% – believes the individual mandate to buy health insurance, the central feature of the law, violates the Constitution and wants the court to overturn the law in part or in whole. Even a plurality of Democrats (48%) want a partial or full overturn. So if the court decides to uphold the law, it will sharply contravene current public opinion.
But what if the court indeed decides to strike down the mandate and possibly other parts of the law? In the near term, yes, that could be widely welcomed by the public. But over time it could stir up a different fire, one that could do further damage to the reputation and prestige of the court.
Despite its occasional waywardness, the Supreme Court has traditionally been viewed as the least partisan and most independent of the three branches of government. That in turn has built a reservoir of public trust so that, in controversial cases, most Americans believe that the justices have worn a blindfold, carefully weighing the law of the land. Thus they respect the law, an important source of legitimacy for our only nonelected branch of government.
To encourage this judicial independence, we give our justices lifetime appointments: we are meant to be, in John Adams' famous phrase, a "government of laws and not men." Chief Justice Roberts gave voice to this tradition in his 2005 Senate confirmation hearings when he compared the position of justice to that of a baseball umpire: a critical role, he noted, but "umpires don't make the rules; they apply them."
An erosion of public trust
Recently, however, the court has suffered an erosion of public trust stemming from a series of controversial decisions that seem to reflect a growing politicization of the the judicial branch – conservatives on one side, liberals on the other. The New York Times/CBS poll last week found that confidence in the court has dropped from 66% in the late 1980s to 44% today. A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll showed that by a margin of 50% to 40%, Americans believe the Obamacare case will be decided more on the "basis of their partisan political views" than on "the basis of the law."
The Affordable Care case will be especially vulnerable to such attacks from the mainstream media and politicians if the court overturns the law by a 5-4 majority, as many now expect.
As David Paul Kuhn noted for RealClearPolitics in 2010, the Supreme Court up until World War II decided only a tiny fraction of cases – 4% or less — on a 5-4 basis. The average for the Roberts court, according to the most recent data available, is 21%. That is an unfortunate trend.
But a 5-4 ruling against Obamacare would have a special feature that would make it seemingly unprecedented. It would be the first instance we can find in which a one-vote majority of justices appointed all by one party have overturned a landmark piece of legislation advanced by the opposing party, with all four opposing votes having been appointed by the opposing party.
In short, if the court overturns the law by 5-4, critics will immediately charge that the razor-thin ruling would represent a party-line vote rather than reasoned judgment and debate from the highest court in the land.
Some may allege that the court, with its ideological division and legislative veto power, has in effect become just an even-more rarified (and nonelected) version of the Senate.
Decisions crossed party lines
Take, for example, recent decisions such as Citizens United in 2010 or Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 ruling that struck down sodomy laws in Texas.
These rulings have enraged some members of both parties (and pleased their opponents), but they came with the mitigating virtue that at least appointees from the opposition had crossed lines to stand on principle.
Justice John Paul Stevens, who issued a blistering dissent in Citizens United, was appointed by Republican President Gerald Ford, and Justice O'Connor, who joined the mostly liberal majority in Lawrence, was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
In Bush v. Gore, two Republican appointees – Justices Stevens and David Souter – voted against their party, lending credence to the court and if not, for many Democrats, to the decision.
Given this context, will the court risk an overturn?
Responding to our inquiry last week, Harvard Law professor and prominent constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe offered a fascinating take. He wrote:
"I honestly don't believe that Chief Justice Roberts or Justice [Anthony] Kennedy, either of whom might in the abstract think the ACA fails to pass constitutional muster, is likely to believe the ACA to be so clearly unconstitutional as to feel comfortable joining a bare majority to strike it down, with all of the manifest costs that would entail for the Court as an institution and for its credibility in carrying out its vital national role going forward.
"Such a decision, whatever its underlying rationale, would inescapably contribute to an already significant erosion in the public's trust in the Supreme Court to resolve contentious cases on the legal merits, an erosion that was sparked by the dramatic ruling in Bush v. Gore a dozen years ago and to which the highly controversial recent ruling in Citizens United v. FEC obviously contributed."
What's a court to do?
So, if the high court is in a position of damned if you do, damned if you don't, on what basis should it decide the case? As trite as it may sound, the justices have to ignore all considerations of public opinion and decide the case strictly on the merits. History shows repeatedly that in controversial matters, the best policy is the best politics.
It would be desirable, of course, if the decision – whichever way it comes down – is decided by more than a 5-4 majority. Consider the example of Chief Justice Earl Warren, who labored long hours to convince his colleague to make the verdict that overturned school segregation in 1954 a unanimous decision.
That may well be unattainable in this instance.
But what is attainable is a majority decision written in a way that is accessible, forthright and persuasive. Lucidity of thought, fidelity to constitutional principles and sensitivity to distinctions have long been the hallmark of great Supreme Court decisions. Constitutional scholars will want to know on precisely what grounds the majority reached its conclusions – and likewise for the dissenters. As Tribe notes:
"Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings … did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes. There's no doubt that rulings like Bush v. Gore and Citizens United had the same effect for many on the left and indeed for many in the center."
Media, politicians need to show maturity
When the decision comes down, it is equally important that the media and the nation's political leaders show some maturity and balance in appraising the court's action.
In the run-up to the decision, we have already seen how explosive the arguments can be from two very smart observers.
On the left, for example, Jeffrey Rosen, a prominent law professor and legal historian, wrote in the New Republic that the health care decision is Roberts' "moment of truth." If the court strikes down Obamacare, Rosen argued, Roberts' "stated goal of presiding over a less divisive court will be viewed as an irredeemable failure."
Conservative columnist George Will responded in the Washington Post with some understandable annoyance. Why is it, he asked, that those who "consider it 'ideological' and somehow reprehensible" that Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas tend to vote together still consider it "principled and admirable" that Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg tend to vote together? Good question.
At the same time, conservatives who have bemoaned "judicial activism" for decades should show some restraint in cheering on a decision that, ideology aside, would reverse the trajectory of 70 relatively uncontroversial years of an expansive reading of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
But in the aftermath of the decision, one profoundly hopes that we won't descend into a frenzy of ideological food fights.
There are strong, persuasive arguments on both sides of this case, such that disagreements are inevitable. But it is wrong and unhelpful to ascribe crass partisan motivations to any justice with whom one disagrees.
For example, Tribe, who taught President Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, believes the court should and will uphold the health law. But he wisely argues that the conservative-leaning justices, if they vote to overturn, will not be motivated by politics. He e-mailed:
"Rather, it is my belief – call me naive, but there it is – that their votes in that direction, if that's how they end up voting, would be driven by a belief (misguided in my view but sincere) that their fidelity to the Constitution's allocation of powers between the federal and state governments points to a need to draw what they would see as a bright line constraining Congress' legislative authority and by a further belief that, by mandating the purchase of a private commodity, Congress in the ACA had crossed that line."
If only there were more like Larry Tribe.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once wrote that "the law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life."
A one-vote margin does not need to be the result of crass partisanship to tell us all we need to know about the polarization that afflicts our political decision-making, but we should avoid the kind of vitriolic response that would tell us more than we should wish to see about the bitter partisanship that has infected our discourse.
In the end, an independent and nonpartisan judiciary is a bedrock foundation of the government of which we are all trustees.
It is in upholding and respecting its judgments – even those with which we disagree – that we renew the freedoms protected by a government of laws and not men.
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We've got 283 members now. WOW!!! Please come see some of the best artist and crafters blogs on the web.
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Judith Light of 'The Assembled Parties' talks 'Dallas,' summer plans
Judith Light looks smaller, more delicate, in person. Sitting on a couch at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, she seems a fraction of Faye, the somewhat drab, utterly direct and weighty woman she plays in Richard Greenberg's new play, "The Assembled Parties."
The Manhattan Theatre Club production, which opened in April, has just been extended through June 16.
The play, set in 1980 and 2000, tracks two branches of a Jewish family -- one from the Upper West Side, the other (Faye's) from Roslyn. The script is peppered with local references -- from parking hassles at Roosevelt Field to schlepping on "the L-I-R-R." And Faye is fighting for breath like so many women the playwright must've known growing up in East Meadow.
An affair, a ruby necklace and a death rock this family, but don't make assumptions. We may think we know the whole story, but we don't. (Not until Act 2.)
Light, 64, who won a Tony Award last year for "Other Desert Cities," is best known for TV's "Who's the Boss?" and recently appeared on TNT's "Dallas."
She sat down with Newsday days before her latest Tony nomination -- for actress in a featured role in a play -- was announced.
Were you nervous opening night?
So nervous! People say, "Ohhh," and I say, "What, you think I've done this so long that I wouldn't be?"
They say Laurence Olivier often felt nauseated backstage . . .
Then I'm in good company.
There are times when one scene is going on center stage, but we can see through to a room in back, where you and Jessica Hecht sit, having a quiet scene of your own. We never hear it, barely see it. But you clearly have to be "on" a lot more than you're "onstage."
How . . . lovely . . . for you to notice. The idea is that there are several scenes going on at once.
So, as the set revolves and brings you two center stage . . .
Our scene is already in progress. And I'm saying, "I'm so sorry, I've always tried not to be the woman at the party having the nervous breakdown in the kitchen." During rehearsal, we improvised what would've led up to that moment.
How do you not steal focus from the main action?
It's like . . . crocheting lace. You cannot make too much of it.
Your movements as "older Faye" seem so realistic.
You have to be careful not to go overboard. I go from about 53 to 73. If you look at 73-year-olds, they're not hobbling around. They're . . . a little slower. I also have a wig that totally changes everything. And costumes -- the pants are fuller. And padded. The bra is higher in Act 1, lower in Act 2.
Is there a distinctively Long Island experience the play taps into -- as opposed to generic suburbs?
Rich [Greenberg] comes from there. He understands this place. And these women. Who are remarkable. But often . . . caricaturized.
You mean the whole "Five Towns" stereotype?
Exactly. They've been discounted in a way that doesn't do service to who they actually are. Faye says . . . , "What, I should be like those dames in Great Neck? Awll of a sudden they've developed needs just so their husbands won't be able to fulfill them? What would that get me?" All these things happen to her -- but she tries to be victorious. So we root for her. It's about a Jewish family -- but it transcends that. It's human.
Let's jump from Roslyn to "Dallas."
Oh, I . . . I . . . I . . . just had to do it. It's such a different character for me -- grizzly . . . uptight . . . mildly insane.
It must've been hard when Larry Hagman died midseason.
I got to be with Larry just a bit. Patrick Duffy, he's so dear, and Linda Gray, they both called -- they said, "We don't want you to hear this any other way." Everyone pulled together and made me feel like I was part of the family. It was beautiful.
It's hard to imagine the show without J.R.
My manager, Herb Hamsher, always says everything in life happens by divine choreography. I agree. Larry started this journey, and while he was having treatments, he was there on set. Resilient. But I think he knew he could let it go. It was in good hands now.
What are your plans post-play? Summer vacation?
Actually . . . I'm not very good at that. I love to work. Just walking over to the theater tonight . . . it thrills me. I never expected this would've happened for me at this point in my life. And that's why I think this play is so important. It reminds us we have to do everything as if our life depended on it. And it does.


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Equivalently, what is the smallest set $X$ on which $G$ acts faithfully by permutations? This looks like a basic question, but I seem not to be able to find answers or even this question in the literature. If this is known to be hard, is there at least a good strategy that would give a small (if not the smallest) $n$ for many groups?
Note: I do not care whether $G$ acts transitively on $X$, so for example for $G=C_6$ the answer is $n=5$ (mapping the generator to (123)(45)), not $n=6$ (regular action).
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Sherry lends a nutty note to a big-flavored and colorful sauce.
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- 1 large onion, quartered
- 1 (28-ounce) can whole tomatoes in juice
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 pounds peeled and deveined large shrimp (not cooked)
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1/3 cup Sherry
- 3/4 cup pitted green olives (from an 8-ounce jar), chopped if large
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- Heat oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over high heat until hot but not smoking. Toss shrimp with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper, then add to skillet and sauté, turning over once, until just cooked through, about 3 minutes total. Transfer shrimp to a plate with tongs (do not clean skillet).
- Force garlic through a garlic press into skillet and cook, stirring, until golden, about 15 seconds. Stir in Sherry, scraping up any brown bits from bottom of skillet, then add onion and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until all of liquid is evaporated and onion is just tender, 5 to 6 minutes.
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Syrian army makes more gains near capital
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian troops killed at least 40 opposition fighters in an ambush Friday near Damascus, the government said, leaving their bloodied bodies strewn on rocks near a dried-out lake along with scattered rifles and ammunition.
President Bashar Assad's forces backed by Lebanese Hezbollah gunmen also seized control of a rebel ammunition supply route on a highway linking the capital to its eastern suburbs — part of a blistering government offensive to bolster its position amid an international push for peace talks.
Assad's forces have been gaining ground in rebel-held areas around the capital, the seat of his power, and have made progress against outgunned and fragmented fighters in several areas.
On Friday, the state-run news agency SANA said 40 rebels died in the ambush near Otaiba, adding that soldiers seized a large arms cache, including anti-tank rockets.
The area is part of a region known as Eastern Ghouta, which was the scene of a horrific chemical weapons attack in August believed to have killed hundreds.
The state-run Al-Ikhbariya television station broadcast footage showing more than a dozen bodies near the largely dried-out Otaiba lake, some wearing flak jackets strapped with ammunition. Automatic rifles and hand grenades lay nearby.
"Eastern Ghouta is a graveyard of terrorists," read a scroll on the broadcast.
An unidentified Syrian army officer in the area told Al-Ikhbariya that there were foreign fighters among the dead and that the ambush followed an intelligence tip.
"It was a highly accurate operation," the officer said. "We will be moving from one victory to another."
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group that tracks Syria's crisis, said at least 24 fighters, some of them foreign, were killed in the ambush. The Observatory gave no further details and the differing death tolls could not be immediately reconciled.
The offensive coincides with an international push for a peace conference to be held in Geneva. Both sides want to bolster their position on the ground ahead of the talks, expected next month. No final date has been set, however, and it is unclear whether the sides will reach an agreement on the agenda.
The Supreme Military Council, which brings together a collection of loosely-knit rebel brigades under the emblem of the Free Syrian Army, said Friday it refused to sit down with Syrian officials involved in killing Syrians. Comments carried by the Syrian National Coalition, the group's political wing, also dismissed the proposed talks for lacking a way to reach concrete results.
In other violence, a car bomb blew up near a mosque in in the village of Wadi Barada outside of Damascus shortly before Friday prayers ended. The Observatory said 40 people were either killed or wounded in the blast. SANA said the car blew up as it was being rigging with explosives. The agency said a number of people were killed.
The ambush near Damascus came hours after Assad's forces captured the town of Hatitat al-Turkomen south of the city, securing a key highway that links the capital with the Damascus International Airport. The area was scene to heavy fighting in the past.
North of Damascus, rebels and government forces clashed for a fifth consecutive day in the Christian town of Sadad, trapping hundreds of residents. Al-Qaida-linked groups captured a checkpoint earlier this week that gave them control of the western part of the town.
Archbishop Silwanos Al-Nemeh said up to 3,000 civilians were trapped amid the exchange of fire. He appealed for international organizations to help civilians flee the area.
"The situation is dire and we are worried about a massacre inside," he told The Associated Press by telephone from near Homs.
Meanwhile, Syrian helicopter gunships attacked several areas of the rebel-held northern town of Safira, southeast of the heavily contested city of Aleppo, the country's largest. A military complex near the town is believed to include an underground facility for chemical weapons production and storage.
France-based Doctors Without Borders said 130,000 people have fled Safira this month. A statement from the group said 76 people had died in the town itself.
In another development Friday, Norway turned down a U.S. request for Norwegian authorities to receive the bulk of Syria's chemical weapons for destruction, saying it doesn't have the capabilities to complete the task by the deadlines set by an international chemical watchdog.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Boerge Brende said his country could not find a port that could receive the required amount of chemical agents and didn't have the capacity to treat some of the waste products resulting from the destruction of the munitions.
The United Nations has set a mid-2014 deadline for the destruction of Syria's arsenal — a deadline Brende said was too tight for Norway.
It was unclear whether Norway's decision could delay compliance with the deadline for the destruction of weapons.
On Friday, the OPCW said its inspectors visited a site on Thursday and verified that all of its previous chemical weapons-related equipment has already been dismantled. This brings to 19 the total number of sites visited by OPCW inspectors, of 23 that have been disclosed by Syria.
The Syrian conflict has triggered a humanitarian crisis on a massive scale, killing more than 100,000 people, driving nearly 7 million more from their homes.
Karam reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Elaine Ganley in Paris, Karl Ritter in Stockholm, Michael Corder in The Hague and Bassem Mroue in Beirut contributed to this report.


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"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" ~ Jim Bouton
Well I just kind of found it funny that last week I had to go to an Orioles board to interact with an ORG member about baseball. Sad.
Odd you should mention it: I hadn't read Sundeck in quite a while, then just came back to it a week or so ago and was impressed. I'm not sure that an outsider would be able to tell one board from the other in a blind taste test.
"In baseball, you don't know nothin'"...Yogi Berra
I probably fall into this category, but speaking for myself only, I did not take it personally nor have I felt the need to "adjust" in order to get into ORG. I simply chose not to post as much or as in depth as I used to because of the constant feeling like I was in an audition. I came here simply to interact with Reds fans in the best environment possible, not to feel like I need to be a certain way in order to get accepted. Also, I have had a lot of personal problems in my life recently and they made my time here a much lower priority. If I am not ORG material, then so be it, I'm fine with it.
Please know that I do not mean my feelings as a way of criticism towards the forum or it's design. When the change was made, there was a consensus that a change needed to be made in ORG and I did not agree with that. Now, I know I was totally wrong because I find 95% of my time now spent at RedsZone is now lurking and reading ORG. The quality of discussion that goes on there is just fantastic and something that I never knew could exist in an internet messageboard, and the creators, moderators, and the members of ORG deserve a lot of credit for making it what it is today.
Okay, maybe it wasn't short but I said what I wanted to.
Go Reds!!!
I read it once every couple of weeks. And even then, I find the content to be either totally stultifying or merely a doppelganger of the discussion being held on ORG.
I see no reason to go there unless a thread title catches my eye.
I check it out occasionally to see if anyone in the Sun Deck is talking about me. When I find that they aren't talking about me, I get very sad.
I am a member of the Sundeck and i don't even read it. It seems to me that I get a much more satisfying read on the ORG.
That thread makes my head hurt too. Honestly, I feel really bad that I don't read Sun Deck as much as I should - especially since I'm a mod - but it's not necessarily the content that pains me, it's the tone. And a lot of it is repetitive to ORG but that's to be expected.
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There's no fighting city hall on this one; the mods' job was made easier, so basically, that was that. When it's framed that way, I have less of a problem with it philosophically. But then, who cares what I think? Right?
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Powered by Hit Original Movies Steel Magnolias and Abducted: The Carlina White Story, Increases among Adults and Women 25-54 Mark Lifetime's Strongest October in 11 Years
LOS ANGELES, CA (November 2, 2012) - Powered by the hit original movies Steel Magnolias and Abducted: The Carlina White Story, and the milestone tenth season of the Emmy(R) Award-nominated Project Runway, Lifetime continued to grow in viewership during the month of October 2012, according to Nielsen Research.
On the heels of three straight quarters of growth, Lifetime registered a +16% increase among Women 25-54 and +13% in Adults 25-54, the network's strongest October-to-October growth for the two demographics in 11 years. Lifetime posted jumps of +20% among Women 18-49 and +14% with Adults 18-49 vs. October 2011 -- both network bests for the month since 2007. Lifetime also was a top five basic cable network last month among Women 18-49, jumping to #5 from #11 in October 2011, and Women 25-54, ranking #4 vs. #5 last October.
The October 8 world premiere of Steel Magnolias averaged 6.5 million Total Viewers, becoming Lifetime's third most-watched original telecast ever (its best delivery since Life is Not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story in 2006) and the number one ad-supported cable movie among Total Viewers since 2007 (excluding miniseries). The film averaged 3.2 million Adults 25-54 viewers, the network's strongest performance in the demo for a movie in 17 years since 1995's Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story and an ad-supported cable best since 2006. Among Women 25-54, Steel Magnolias is Lifetime's most-watched movie ever with 2.5 million viewers, an ad-supported cable best since at least 2004. It also averaged 3.0 million Adults 18-49 viewers (ad-supported cable's best since 2007) and 2.4 million Women 18-49 viewers (ad-supported cable's best since 2010). In addition, the movie registered triple-digit increases versus the 2012-to date Lifetime movie average, including +171% among Total Viewers, +266% in Women 18-49, +253 in Adults 18-49, +232% among Women 25-54 and +229% in Adults 25-54.
The October 6 world premiere of Abducted: The Carlina White Story averaged 4.1 million Total Viewers, as well as 1.8 million Adults 25-54 viewers, 1.6 million Adults 18-49 viewers, 1.4 million Women 25-54 viewers and 1.3 million Women 18-49 viewers. Immediately following the movie, Lifetime's hour-long documentary Beyond the Headlines: Carlina White averaged 3.5 million Total Viewers, 1.6 million Adults 25-54 viewers, 1.5 million Adults 18-49 viewers, 1.3 million Women 25-54 viewers and 1.2 million Women 18-49 viewers.
Year-to-date, Lifetime is pacing ahead of 2011-YTD by +16% among Women 18-49, the network's strongest year-to-year growth in 14 years; +9% in Adults 18-49, a network best in 11 years; +8% among Women 25-54, Lifetime's strongest YTD-to-YTD jump in a decade; and +3% with Adults 25-54, its strongest in seven years. Lifetime's YTD median age of 48 is its youngest in 16 years. YTD, Lifetime ranks #5 among Women 18-49 (vs. #11 in 2011-YTD) and Women 25-54 (vs. #9 2011-YTD). Among the top 10 basic cable networks, Lifetime is the second fastest-growing network with Women 18-49.
2012 highlights for Lifetime include:
· Steel Magnolias and Drew Peterson: Untouchable are 2012's #1 and #2 movie telecasts, respectively, across cable among Total Viewers, Adults 18+, Women 18+, Adults 25-54, Women 25-54, Adults 18-49 and Women 18-49 (excluding miniseries).
· Project Runway season ten propelled Lifetime to be the #1 cable network in the Thursday 9-10:30pm time period among Women 25-54.
· The October 25th season two premiere of Project Runway All Stars was the #1 unscripted series across cable in its Thursday 9-10pm time period among Women 25-54.
· The Houstons: On Our Own series premiere was the #1 telecast in its Wednesday 9-10pm time period across cable among Women 25-54 and Women 18-49.
· Dance Moms season two was the #1 unscripted cable series in its Tuesday 9-10pm time period among Women 18-49 and Women 2+. Season two also over-delivered season one by +69% with Adults 18-49, +72% Women 18-49, +64% with Adults 25-54 and +66% with Women 25-54. It is Lifetime's youngest-skewing current series, with a season two median age of 32 years old, five years younger than season one.
· Army Wives season six was the #1 ad-supported cable series in its premiere time period among Women 18+. YTD, it ranks as a top five ad-supported cable drama among Women 18-49 (#5).
· Drop Dead Diva season four ranked as the #1 drama across ad-supported cable in the Sunday 9-10pm time period with Women 25-54, Women 18-49, Women 2+ and Women 18+.
· Army Wives and Drop Dead Diva launched Lifetime to the #1 cable network on Sundays 9-11pm among Women 25-54.
· The Client List delivered Lifetime's strongest freshman season for an original series since Drop Dead Diva among Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Women 25-54. Among Adults 18-49 and Women 18-49, it was the best freshman season since Army Wives premiered in 2007. The Client List propelled Lifetime to #1 in the Sunday 10-11pm hour among Women 18+.
· America's Most Wanted has improved the Friday 9-10pm day part by +42% with Adults 25-54, +21% with Women 25-54, +38% with Adults 18-49, +19% with Women 18-49 and +36% with Total Viewers.
In First Quarter 2012, Lifetime posted major growth in viewership among the key demos versus First Quarter 2011, including a +9% jump in Adults 25-54, +12% with Women 25-54, +14% with Adults 18-49 and +18% with Women 18-49. For Second Quarter 2012, the network continued to enjoy growth compared to Second Quarter 2011, posting a 13% jump among Women 18-49, +5% among Adults 18-49 and +1% in Women 25-54. In Third Quarter 2012, Lifetime registered a +14% increase among Women 18-49 versus Third Quarter 2011, its strongest year-to-year growth for a Third Quarter in 11 years; +9% in Women 25-54, its strongest in a decade; and +5% among Adults 18-49, a 3Q best for Lifetime in 11 years. Lifetime's median age of 48 marked 3Q'12 as its youngest Third Quarter in 14 years.
Lifetime Television is committed to offering the highest quality entertainment and information programming, and advocating a wide range of issues affecting women and their families. In the Third Quarter 2012, the network posted major growth in viewership versus Third Quarter 2011, including a 14% increase among Women 18-49, +9% in Women 25-54 and +5% among Adults 18-49, marking the third straight quarter Lifetime has registered year-on-year growth among the key demographics. Lifetime Television(R), LMN(R), Lifetime Real Women(R) and Lifetime Digital(TM) are part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC, a subsidiary of A+E Networks. A+E Networks is a joint venture of the Disney-ABC Television Group and Hearst Corporation.