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Forget Google Instant: In the Future, Search Engines Will Read Your Habits
When Google launched Google Instant in 2010, it claimed that providing results as users type and removing the need to hit the "enter" key saved users two to five seconds per search.
Wolfram Alpha CEO Stephen Wolfram's vision of what the word "Instant" could mean for search is a bit more literal.
He envisions some type of search engine that could — through data maps of personal data history — provide reports automatically when they're needed without an explicit query. He counts this sort of "preemptive delivery of information" among "a large number" of projects the data company has been working on.
Though there are no concrete plans to create such a product, here's the type of thing Wolfram has in mind:
"You run into a person (e.g. at SXSW); your augmented reality system automatically recognizes their face, tells you your social network connections to them, plots the time series of when you've exchanged email with them, does topic modelling of recent material about them (or email you've exchanged with them) and compares it with things you've written recently and suggests interesting conversation topics."
Earlier this month, Wolfram wrote a blog post about personal analytics that outlined some of the data he tracks in his own life. It includes the same sort of data that could be useful to this type of pre-emptive search.
He has, for instance, archived every email message that's passed through his inbox since 1989. He also tracks his keystrokes, meetings, hours spent on the phone and daily steps taken. Most of the data is recorded automatically.
"In time I'm looking forward to being able to ask Wolfram Alpha all sorts of things about my life and times — and have it immediately generate reports about them," he wrote in the post. "Not only being able to act as an adjunct to my personal memory, but also to be able to do automatic computational history — explaining how and why things happened — and then making projections and predictions."
How such information could also be used to deliver information when it's needed — but before it's asked for — is something Wolfram says Wolfram Alpha hasn't articulated to the extent of defining a user interface. But, he told me during a meeting at South by Southwest this month, the company is in a good position to create it.
Wolphram Alpha's computational search engine, which is built on the company's application for computations Mathematica, delivers more than results. Instead of returning queries with a list of websites, it delivers reports. It can tell you, for instance, which planes are flying over your head or what exactly is in an enchilada.
Between its developer products and consumer products, the company has in its technology arsenal tools for analytics and visualization, linguistic understanding, image processing and a way to deal with diverse data in uniform ways — all ingredients Wolfram suggests will be key to the future's preemptive search engine.
Not everyone collects personal data with the same rigor as Wolfram, but he believes some day they will — and using that data to deliver information before it's explicitly requested is all but inevitable.
"It's part of a very long-term trend towards automation of everything," he says.


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After historic achievement, Barnes reflects on cycle
HOUSTON -- Somewhere between the horde of media waiting for him in the locker room and seeing "about 60" text messages on his phone last night, it hit Brandon Barnes.
He really had just become the newest member of the Cycle Club, one of baseball's most difficult achievements.
"I got home and saw all the messages and spoke to my family and my wife and got a chance to take it all in," Barnes said. "It's only the 303rd time it's been done, I think. That's like a no-hitter. And I'm a part of that history now. It's pretty special."
Barnes said his whole night at the plate felt like an "out-of-body" experience and he's almost never felt more relaxed while up to bat than he did during his 5-for-5 performance in Houston's 10-7 loss to Seattle.
Barnes acknowledged that he began thinking about possibly getting a cycle after his sixth-inning single.
"After I reached base, [Seattle's] Justin Smoak, the first baseman, he told me all I needed was a double," Barnes said. "I threw it out of my mind and just focused on scoring a run and playing defense.
"When I stepped in there in the eighth, I heard the crowd cheering and that really reminded me. So I just got in the box, took a deep breath and everything after felt kind of surreal."
But Barnes was quick to say that the moment is behind him and there's nothing better than building on the momentum from an auspicious night at the dish.
"Even with that game of his, I talked to him after and he kept saying, 'I wish we would have won.' That's the kind of player you want to keep around." said Houston manager Bo Porter.
"He's definitely opened up a lot of eyes offensively and figuring out some things and that he's making the necessary adjustments to counter what the league is throwing at him. There was no doubting it last night."


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Indexing Photos Using Faces and Places with Aperture 3
Note: This excerpt does not include the lesson files. The lesson files are available with purchase of the book.
In Lesson 3, you learned that metadata can come from a camera, or can be entered manually in the form of keywords, captions, ratings, and so on. Those types of metadata are great for identifying when and how the photo was taken. But how can you precisely determine where a photo was taken or who is in the photo? You could take scrupulous notes while shooting...yeah, me neither. Thankfully, there are easy and engaging ways in which Aperture can help you.
In this lesson, you'll examine two features that provide very natural ways to index photos—Faces and Places. Faces is a feature that not only detects faces of people in your photos, but with some minor assistance from you can also recognize those people. The second feature, Places, uses GPS data to identify where photos were taken.
Beginning with version 3.3, Aperture and iPhoto can share a photo library. When you adjust images using Aperture's tools, the changes appear in iPhoto, and vice versa. You don't need to import, export, or reprocess photos from one app to the other—it happens automatically. Faces and Places work across both apps, too.
Moving from iPhoto to Aperture
For many iPhoto users, switching to Aperture is a natural progression. Aperture includes almost all the fun and elegant features of iPhoto while adding more comprehensive image management, editing, and output capabilities. The unified library makes it easy to step up from iPhoto to the advanced tools in Aperture. Or return to iPhoto to create a calendar or cards after making professional edits to images in Aperture. Whether your photos are intended for professional use, or purely for fun, you get the best of both apps.
Switching Libraries
Aperture allows you to switch between different libraries without quitting the application. These could be multiple Aperture libraries that you have for different clients or separate libraries that, due to their size, need to be stored on additional storage devices. Aperture also allows you to open iPhoto libraries, beginning with iPhoto version 9.3. This is handy for keeping your personal photos separate from your client libraries, while letting you take advantage of powerful Aperture features. And even after opening an iPhoto library in Aperture, that library is still available to iPhoto. Additionally, you can open Aperture libraries in iPhoto if you want to take advantage of some iPhoto-only features. Just make sure that only Aperture or only iPhoto is open while using the other's library.
To open a different library:
- In Aperture, select Projects in the Library inspector.
Take note that you are currently looking at the projects contained in the APTS Aperture3 Library. These projects are the ones you have been working with thus far such as the San Diego Zoo and People of NW Africa. That is about to change.
- Choose File > Switch to Library > Other/New.
Aperture presents the Library Selector window that lists all of the libraries available to Aperture. Here you see the current library APTS Aperture3 Library and the APTS iPhoto Library that you copied from the book's DVD during the Getting Started instructions. Below the list, you are given the opportunity to search for additional libraries or to create a new library.
- Select the APTS iPhoto Library in the list, and then click Choose.
Aperture switches to the APTS iPhoto Library and displays its contents. iPhoto Events are displayed in the top Projects section of the Library inspector. These new projects are skimmable to allow you to preview the projects' images. You could now begin working with the iPhoto images with the advanced tools of Aperture. Let's switch back to the previous Aperture library before proceeding.
- From the File menu again, choose Switch to Library > APTS Aperture3 Library.
The Projects displayed in the Browser and the Library inspector return to the familiar elements you had been working with previously.
Switching between libraries is painless; however, you may want to gather images from multiple libraries into one. In the next exercise, you'll create one library out of the Aperture and iPhoto libraries you used in this exercise.
Merging Libraries
Although switching between libraries is incredibly easy in Aperture, you may want to carry the images, metadata, and searches of one Aperture library into another. This scenario occurs when images you need for one project are split between two libraries. Here you will import an iPhoto library into the current Aperture library. However, you could have a situation where you want to merge two Aperture libraries as well. To import an iPhoto library into an Aperture library:
- Begin in the Library inspector, selecting the Projects icon listed under the APTS Aperture3 Library.
- Choose File > Import > Library.
Aperture automatically navigates to the expected location for the iPhoto library, which is the Pictures folder inside your user folder. For this book, you are utilizing an iPhoto library installed elsewhere.
- In the Import dialog, select Documents in the left sidebar. Inside the Documents folder, select the APTS Aperture book files folder, and then select the APTS iPhoto Library. Click Import.
Aperture begins the merging process. A progress bar appears at the top of the interface.
When Aperture has finished the merger, the APTS Aperture3 Library updates to display its new contents. All of the Events of the iPhoto library now appear as projects in Aperture.


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"A Playground for Carly," Liahona, June 2012, 66–67
A Playground for Carly
Carly W. from Rexburg, Idaho, USA, is a busy helper. At home Carly helps out by taking care of her family's cats, dogs, and chickens. Because Carly is one of the best students in her class at school, she helps other children with math and reading. In Primary, Carly's singing helps other children to feel the Spirit.
Because Carly has done such a good job helping others, some of her friends decided to help her too.
Carly was born with a disease called spina bifida. This disease makes it hard for Carly to use all of her muscles. Doing things like walking on uneven ground and climbing up stairs can be hard for her. At school, Carly wasn't able to play on the playground because the playground equipment was hard for her to use. There were other children who also couldn't play on the playground equipment.
"Sometimes I felt bad and frustrated at recess because I couldn't play on the playground," Carly says.
One of Carly's friends, Halli Jo, and Halli Jo's mom decided to earn money to build a playground that Carly and all the other students at the school could use.
Halli Jo, her mom, and a lot of other people worked to earn money for the new playground. It took a lot of work, but they were able to earn enough money to build a new playground that all the students could play on.
"It was a lot of hard work," Halli Jo says. "But it never made me sad to do the work—it just made me love Carly more."
Carly is happy to be able to play on the playground with her friends. She says, "I like walking up the ramps and going down the slides. Me and my friends have fun together."


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Pashing passes more than just saliva - study
PASSIONATE kissing swaps more than just spit, with DNA lingering in a partner's mouth for at least an hour.
Researcher Natalia Kamodyova and her colleagues at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, found 12 couples willing to make out for at least two minutes in the name of science.
Saliva samples were then taken from each of the women at five, 10, 30 and 60 minute intervals.
The researchers found DNA from the men could still be identified in the samples up to an hour after the couples had kissed.
The study, entitled "Prevalence and persistence of male DNA identified in mixed saliva samples after intense kissing", has been published in the journal Forensic Science International: Genetics.
The method used by the researchers relied on the detection of the Y chromosome, so it could only identify male DNA.
The findings could prove vital in cases of sexual assault, or could perhaps be used to catch out an unfaithful partner.
"Our study confirms that foreign DNA tends to persist for a restricted period of time in the victim's mouth, can be isolated from saliva after prompt collection and can be used as a valuable source of evidence," the researchers wrote.


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Norwich is a relatively small city, I've heard it rumoured as being THE smallest city in the UK (it probably is true, but the first page of Google results are giving me nothing in terms of facts, so for now, it's just a rumour). Yet despite this it has a surprisingly large and varied scene of bands, electronic producers, singer-songwriters, promoters, labels, DJs, visual artists, arts collectives, and great venues.
Due to the size of the city the music scene has always consisted of a number of quite niche sub-communities. While some may think this would create a less defined SOUND for the City as a whole, what it really seems to do is make each those groups more extreme in nature and therefore more or less attractive to outsiders depending on your musical leaning. The support between bands is strong, most bands listen to and buy one another's releases, and attend one another's shows regularly. Any successes are celebrated and seen as good thing for the city's music scene as a whole.
Due to the mixed architecture in the city no two venues are the same, or even vaguely similar for that matter.
For instance, the Norwich Arts Centre (recently dubbed best live music venue in East Anglia by the NME) is built inside St. Swithin's church, it's home to not only a a gig venue and a bar, but spaces containing regular art exhibitions, evening classes in journalism and photography, and new yearly music industry convention - Norwich Sound and Vision. The live performance area is beautiful and, although sometimes a little too reverberant for more fast paced or heavier acts, normally delivers a level atmosphere other venues strive to create. I don't remember having a bad night out here, just brilliant.
Often not appreciated for it's live music capability, the Playhouse Bar is just amazing for the right act. Bands are positioned at the end of a narrow room, containing the bar and seating, with a view through a long windowed wall to the outdoor seating area set beside the river Wensum. There's something about the closeness of the venue which makes you feel like you're IN the band rather than watching it. Perfect venue for a Sunday evening in the Summer.
The Waterfront and the University of East Anglia Lower Common Room (UEA LCR) are the two biggest venues in town and tend to attract the more popular and more mainstream touring bands. As venues go, technically they are great, but lack a little in terms of feeling and intimacy for me personally. Go here to see Jools Holland and his TIGHT band twice yearly at least.
You could spend a full year in Norwich and not come across some of the smallest venues, these are where you will find some of the most extreme music and interesting surroundings. Bedford's Crypt, Take 5, The Rumsey Wells' Underbelly and The Marquee (now sadly closed) all offer that 'is this a bedroom, basement, bar, toilet, or all of the above' experience, and form something of a proving ground for new local acts. Completely essential, lovely and grimy.
What's been going on
The last couple of months have been busy for live music, May saw the Norwich Fringe Festival consisting of around 80 gigs across 16 days featuring; Girl in a Thunderbolt, Don Broco, Johnny Foreigner, & Isy Suttie. The Fringe normally tends to include a more leftfield, underground and varied set of performers than other music and arts festivals in the city.
Also in May was the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, based around a massive "Spiegeltent" in the city's Chaplefield Gardens.
Like an oversize, art deco woodwork big top, the tent houses a bar with a circular dance floor for general nightly partying, most of the festival's cabaret, dance and circus events as well as some of the live music nights. With a strong leaning towards costume, 20's style glamour, and burlesque cabaret the tent adds a darker vibe to the festival, which otherwise (due to some of the choices of bigger musical acts) could feel a little bit safe.
In June the first EVER Playfest took place in the dense (bleak) rolling (flat) hills (fields) of Quidenham Norfolk.... I KNOW!
Acts performing were a fair split between some of the best young acts coming from Norwich today and some "larger" but mostly less interesting major label bands and artists.
The first year of a festival is always difficult, I think mainly because a festival doesn't feel like a festival without seas of bladdered teenagers falling out of tents and destroying everything in sight, including their own brains. This may not be the most desirable bi-product of such a simple event, a load of bands playing on the same stage over a weekend, but the sheer level of debauchery does help it all feel a bit more real somehow. I personally can't comment on Playfest firsthand as I wasn't there, but I've heard reports of a pretty strong start for the festival.
BK & Dad played an absolutely blinding (deafening) floorshow at Norwich Arts Centre, a first for the venue. The two piece noise/post/math-rock band of brothers have been growing in popularity with every filthy, violent, and bemusing show the perform.
With support from two Norwich Superbands BROTHERS (feat. Members of Fever Fever and The Brownies) and Khan (feat. ex-members of KunK, Pistolas, and Uh Ohs.), you know when it's been one of those gigs when Twitter blows up the way it did that night.
Comedian Adam Buxton, now a Norwich resident, hosted the SEVENTH installment of his fantastic and amusing study into the world of music videos with BUG#7 at the Norwich Playhouse at the end of June, one to try and catch in future if you like music, videos and comedy.
Although originally out of Lowestoft, Faster than Robots have found more of a market for their sound in Norwich and frequently play here. I decided to include them as a Norwich act because they're great, no other reason, but because they're great I feel quite possessive about them. The band just self-released a free EP called Answers on a Postcard. Great riffs, strong melodies and suitably melodramatic lyrics, slack yet solid performances equal lo-fi indie pop a la Pavement, Guided By Voices, and Built to Spill.
Answers on a Postcard EP by fasterthanrobots
I don't know about you, but I sometimes like to listen to music which makes me feel like I've had the front half of my face carved off by a belt-sander. Fever Fever do that better than anyone right now and they just released a free single 'Teeth'. The track was produced by Rob Ellis of PJ Harvey, and Anna Calvi fame at Monnow Valley studio in idilic (read - actually has some hills, is not flat like Norfolk) Monmouthshire.
Here's a video of the band playing 'Monster' LIVE on a stage at a festival called Glastonbury.
Long running Norwich indie label NRONE, a favourite of Radio One's Huw Stephens, released titles by; self-deprecating slackers Hello Bear, violent riot grrl meets indie poppers The Brownies, way too young to be any good but alarmingly ARE We Can't Dance and expansive indie rockers The Barlights and are readying their first release by The Cads with the single 'Club of Rome'.
The amazing Tawny Owl and the Birds of Prey, released a free EP which is available to download here
Think - Tom Waits, Man Man and Wild Beasts all playing an original Prog-Motown covers set ON ACID... No but really, one of the most interesting bands in Norwich for sure. Sargasso Trio released their second album on July 2nd. It's hard to write much about this band without writing too much as you simply can't categorise them. Some say Synth-Folk-Pop, some say Indie-Pop, some say Electro-Folk, but whatever they're just REALLY GOOD.
The once trio, now quartet, released their first album Burnin' Burnin' Burnin' on Tim (Love) Lee's Tummy Touch Records' offshoot Boy Scout Records. This time around they've started their own independent label Science and Nature for the release, and marked the occasion with a show at The Norwich Arts Centre and free download of a non-album track 'Living Without You'.
The single 'Dinner' taken from the album was also released on July 4th.
Norwich based PR and Label Gravy are to release their first record, "Wet Bandit" by Divorce on the 25th of July. Divorce fans can pre-order the 7" single here
What's coming up
On the 9th of July complicated-pop band Olympians play The Waterfront. Drones and melodies climbing between familiar hymns and comforting nursery rhymes, music that's probably more easily expressed as an equation and stories of pathetically failing at love, all with a dark and pretty obscure sense of humour. Olympians have a lighthearted and exciting live show, calamitous yet incredibly tight.
Mid July see's the year's best opportunity to gawp at middle-class yummy-mummies struggling to put up tents next to dyed pink sheep with Latitude Festival. Despite the line-up being typically mainstream, there are a few gems hidden in there, and if you're up for a smaller, more relaxed feeling festival in truly beautiful surroundings then it might be worth a look. Besides there's always a wealth of comedy, poetry, cabaret and theatre to take your mind off the heinous pop music.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor will be playing the UEA at the end of July as part of their most recent reformation tour. So it'll sound pretty much like it did, but NOW instead of THEN. It's great to see ATP putting on gigs in Norwich at long last, let's hope there are plenty more to come.
Norwich's own ATP, TweeOFF! kick off August with Crystal Stilts playing the Norwich Arts Centre. TweeOFF! nights are brilliant if you love all things alternative. They range from straight gigs, in the past they've brought us; No Age, Yuck, Holy State, Maths, O.Children, Micachu, HEALTH, Times New Viking and Thee Fair Ohs, but also more recently they have started a series of cinema events called TweeOFF! TV showing music films and documentaries like Don't Need You, Fugazi: Instrument, Sonic Youth Presents and Kill Your Idols.


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Our lives are complex arrangements that usually take all our time to maintain. Work, school, home care, shopping, maintenance – just getting everything done is a challenge and usually consumes our attention. Until Mother Nature stirs, and then our attention is quickly concentrated, usually on the weather. So here comes another heat wave, another lesson on how Big Mama can command our focus by just pushing the temperature up a few degrees. Whew.
Sunday morning was pretty fine, but the promise – not to say the threat – of heat to come was in the air. So much so that Maggie, my friend's wonderful three-legged dog, was inclined to lie down in the cool grass several times on the morning constitutional. When that bundle of energy needs the break, it's definitely a sign of rising heat. But Sunday held further proof in store for us. We were booked for a long-scheduled afternoon party with old friends, friends whose party we would not miss, in a lovely home with a large backyard, a swimming pool and paved patio in … wait for it … Martinez!
Martinez is a pretty area with rolling hills and stately homes, but it's right in the middle of the Red Zone. I'm not talking politics here – I'm referring to that band of bright red on the weather maps on the TV broadcasts, the maps where the coast is blue, cooled by the marine layer; the bay, is yellow with cool-ish temps moderated by bay waters; and then, over the hills, the fearsome red of the interior, where the heat sets up its domicile, gets comfortable in the valleys and decides to settle down.
These are challenging circumstances for a party, when the thermometer leaves 100 degrees in its wake on the way to the stratosphere. Great music, good food, plenty of beverages both soft and adult, intelligent people and stimulating conversation were all arrayed on one side of the enjoyment scale and only the heat was on the other. Eventually, the heat won.
Then we faced the trip back home: A race to the tunnel and through it, a dash down 880 and then across the bridge and onto the cooler (much cooler) Island. It was still hot on our return to Alameda, but it was cooling down quickly. By nightfall the back porch was well within the pleasant range and it had the effect of relaxing us in ways we hadn't known we needed to relax. It was as if the heat buildup of the day had stiffened our muscles in response and baked us into a hardened, uncomfortable stance, and then the cool breezes of home gradually eased the tensions and allowed our bodies to get comfortable once more.
It wasn't magic, just the healing balm that is Alameda.


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They're already talking about February 2014 as the release window for Need For Speed the movie, which tells you everything you need to know about this venture, even 18 months away. Movies released in late winter, specifically February, are fucking terrible. Critics expect them to be fucking terrible. Their makers expect them to be fucking terrible. That's before you consider the fact this will be based on a video game franchise, a film genre that is comprehensively fucking terrible.
In fact it's no surprise that co-director Scott Waugh's recent masterpiece, the jingoistic, universally panned Act of Valor, also was released in February. Seriously, February, it's a dead month. They're not looking to get a head start on Oscar submissions with a February release window, folks.
Think I'm being hard on February movies? It's a February movie and it's a video game movie. This is like a movie adapted for a video game released the week of E3 or something.
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I am usually fascinated by articles defending PHP and the arguments being used. Quite often authors of these types of articles don't mention what experience they have with other languages. Personally I find it hard to imagine that somebody would know either Python or Ruby, and PHP at a high level and still prefer PHP.
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Patent Troll That Accused Company Of 'Hate Crime' For Fighting Back Now Asking Court To Silence Company
from the you-fail-at-law deptWe recently wrote about how patent troll Lumen View's lawyer Damian Wasserbauer had gone off the deep end, claiming that an entrepreneur who was fighting back against the trolling was guilty of a hate crime. Kevin O'Connor, the CEO of FindTheBest (FTB) didn't want to give in to a patent troll shakedown, turning down a $50,000 settlement offer and pledging to spend $1 million fighting Lumen View just on principle. That's resulted in a countersuit, arguing that Lumen View is engaged in extortion and racketeering. Wasserbauer (who, frankly, appears to be a bit out of his league here) doesn't seem to be handling the publicity very well. He's asking the court for an astoundingly broad gag order against O'Connor, including saying he needs to try to remove from the internet prior disclosures.
For the foregoing reasons, Lumen View respectfully requests that the Court grant its Motion for a Protective Order ... to protect Lumen View's confidential information and (1) prohibiting FTB and its attorney from further communicating with representatives of the media regarding confidential settlement information, or posting such information on social media, (2) require FTB and counsel to take necessary steps to remove from the internet its prior media disclosures, blog posts or press releases that disseminate this protected information, and (3) to grant any other such relief as this Court deems just and proper.Yeah, good luck with that...
Of course, as Joe Mullin notes over at Ars Technica, the entire basis of Wasserbauer's argument appears to be a significant misreading of the law:
Wasserbauer's request has a couple of problems. First, his idea of what constitutes "confidential information" is pretty broad—it includes not just the $50,000 demand but Wasserbauer's own simple admission about who is behind Lumen View. Second, FindTheBest never signed any kind of non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement....And we won't even get into the laughable claims by Wasserbauer that there's no First Amendment worries in such a gag order, because that's clearly false. It seems clear that Wasserbauer isn't happy with the media attention -- most trolls aren't -- especially since it's been fairly effective in highlighting the way Lumen View's trolling works. Trolls often get away with what they do because it's too much effort to even figure out how to fight back. If someone else is doing it publicly, it lowers the barrier tremendously.
[....] The rule that Wasserbauer cites, Rule 408 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, is not actually the legal gag order he apparently imagines it to be. The rule doesn't say anything about talking to the media. It simply states that offers of compromise or settlement are often not admissible as evidence in court.
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After three solid days of canning, I am off to a good start!
I have made plum jam (13), plum butter (5), plum conserve (5), peach jam (17), peach salsa (6), zucchini pickles (10), zucchini marmalade (not shown-5), and dill pickles (5). Later today, I am going to finish my cinnamon watermelon pickles, made with watermelon rind- they are soaking in the fridge right now.
With the rest of the case of peaches I got last weekend, I am making a peach pie for dessert. And with the rest of the zucchini, I will make a nice side dish to go with dinner.
That's the thing about preserving, you just have to get to it when you have the stuff!
Heidi is trying out the bus system today. We live too close for her to take the school bus, but with a heavy backpack plus band stuff, the walk can be long for her. We got tickets last night and she walked to the bus stop this morning. As I didn't get a panicky call from her and classes are now well under way, I am assuming she made out alright.
We got a new composter this week, and once I finish putting the rest of the bricks under it, I can start using it, thank goodness! Strangely enough, composting supplies are not to be found locally, we had to order it from the internet. We would like a vegetable garden next year, and the compost will be very useful.
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Hanukkah is a fun holiday. There are games (dreidel) with better-than-cash prizes (chocolate coins), and a free pass for indulging in fried foods.
Though a really good, freshly fried doughnut is undoubtedly a treat, my favorite Hanukkah food is and will always be the humble latke. So on this menu I serve them as the main course, with a few delicious bookends.
Cauliflower Soup with Crispy Shallots
This smooth cauliflower soup is an elegant way to start off the meal. Because it doesn't contain any cream, it's actually extremely light and a perfect primer for the next course, latkes, which is where people really want to gorge themselves. The crispy shallots add a nice textural contrast and an homage to the traditional fried foods.
Latkes With Apple Ginger Chutney
I've tried all kinds of newfangled latkes (sweet potato, potato mixed with parsnip), but the traditional recipe is still my favorite. Where I will switch things up is the condiments. This Apple Ginger Chutney is a nice twist on the traditional latke accompaniment of apple sauce, using ginger and raisins to round out the fruit flavor. The chutney gets a slowly creeping heat from red pepper flakes, and the vinegar base helps cut against the heaviness of the fried food. The latkes themselves are just how I like them: crispy on the edges with a discernible sweet, oniony flavor.
Note: I always make 1.5 times the latkes I think I'll need. If (and that's a big if) there are any leftovers, I can freeze them and reheat them in the oven. Latkes for breakfast, anyone?
Orange Olive Oil Cake with Candied Walnuts
This cake is dairy-free, but still supremely moist. The dough gets a nuttiness from ground walnuts and a brightness from a combination of fresh orange juice and zest. I make sure to use a fruity olive oil that will compliment the citrus flavor. To make this cake extra special for the holidays, I top it with crunchy, addictive, salty-sweet candied walnuts.
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Last night I was doing some studying while my friend living in Canada asks me, since he considers me a rap enthusiast, to check out this freestyle.
I'm not a big fan of Wiz Khalifa, although the tune of "Black and Yellow" is tempting, but when I heard this freestyle, it seemed pretty cool. Maybe because it's the same music.
So, this is D-WHY, he has his own Facebook page, a Twitter handle, and his YouTube page. It's must see/listen. He looks Middle Eastern, but I have no idea about his origins or any bio or anything since his official page doesn't say anything (or I couldn't see it).
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I had every intentions of having a picture perfect day of pictures but old man winter had a totally different plan for us! In true Arkansas spirit, it was 75 degrees the day before our pictures and then the bottom feel out and it was a cold, windy 30 degree day of pictures. We braved the weather and got a few outdoor pictures but most had to be done inside. I love them all and am taken back at how grown my babies look in them!
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The Irish rock band Snow Patrol will be the first to introduce an "interactive album" for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch, according to Music Week. The app, which presumably uses the iPhone SDK, will feature images, lyrics, artwork, and movies.
"It will be an interactive element; a digital booklet that will take you into the videos and content," Polydor (Snow Patrol's label) product manager Liz Goodwin told Music Week. "For fans, it will be a real must-have, and the fact that they are the first band to do this gives us an additional angle for exposure."
While the concept isn't anything that can't be done with a website, whether it will help spur a new distribution method for digital albums is the real question. It seems unlikely that a band such as Snow Patrol could start such a trend on its own, but if Apple likes the end result, the company could certainly use its music industry clout to make a case for more of the interactive albums.
Apple has provided album artwork for iTunes downloads since the beginning of time, but has yet to make much of a push into lyrics, photos, and videos in one package until now. Even if the interactive album doesn't become an entirely new form of distribution, it will at least offer a way for bands to deliver more content to fans, and for their labels to make more money.


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Straw craft is one of Britain's traditional crafts; it has been practiced for hundreds of years. Although we do not have examples of very old Corn Dollies there are many examples of straw marquetry (all you need to do is look on Ebay for Napoleonic prisoner of war straw work).
Did you know that Rumpelstiltskin was a straw worker as he spun straw into gold? Actually he didn't "spin" the straw but used a rope making technique to make straw threads that looked like gold. Below is a picture of straw threads made by one of the Guild's members.
This traditional craft uses inexpensive tools (all you need to start is a supply of straw and a pair of scissors) which make it ideal for both children and adults alike. Specialist equipment like that for spinning straw threads can be expensive. The projects on the website tell you what tools and materials you require, usually the scissors, cotton thread, ribbon and sometimes a glue stick or other paper glue.
Through our links we hope to send you off on paths you had never dreamed of, that will (we hope) inspire you. We trust you enjoy your visit.
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1 peach
1 slice cinnamon raisin bread
1 egg
1 cup cream ( can be half and half, part half and half and cream.. you choose)
1 teaspoon goat cheese
1 teaspoon honey (plus more to drizzle at the end)
pinch of salt
generous pinch of good cinnamon (I use Saigon)
Butter 2 small ramikins
Place half of the bread in the bottom. This can be cubed or half a slice.
Peel and half the peach. Score with a knife about 5 times per half
Place on top of the bread slice
Distribute pieces of the goat cheese evenly around the peach half
Sprinkle the peach half with cinnamon
Mix the egg, cream, honey and salt
Pour mixture over the peach halves dividing evenly between the 2 ramikins
Bake in a 325 F oven for about 25 min or until the egg is set and a knife comes out clean when tested
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Perhaps the most important aspect of any insurance policy (for both the consumer and the insurer) is the coverage extended under that policy. Personal auto insurance is no exception, and a firm understanding of all parts of the policy is vital for any property agent. This course presents each part (A, B, C, D, E, and F) of the personal auto policy one at a time, examining the general provisions and conditions stipulated in each. In addition to the basic issue of what is covered, the course takes the opportunity to explain other points, such as who is covered and what is explicitly NOT covered.
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TORONTO — Three employees and the railway company involved in last summer's massive explosion of a runaway oil train that incinerated much of a small town in Quebec, killing 47 people, will face criminal negligence charges, provincial prosecutors announced late Monday.
The charges come about 10 months after more than 60 of the tankers carrying oil from North Dakota came loose in the middle of the night, sped downhill for nearly seven miles (11 kilometers) and derailed in the town of Lac-Megantic in eastern Quebec. At least five of the tankers exploded, leveling about 30 buildings, including a popular bar that was filled with revelers last July 6.
The Quebec provincial prosecutor's office said 47 counts of criminal negligence have been filed against engineer Thomas Harding, manager of train operations Jean Demaitre, and Richard Labrie, who was in charge of rail circulation, as well as the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway Ltd., the defunct railway at the heart of the disaster. The charges represent one count for each person killed. They are the first criminal charges brought. Criminal negligence that causes death can result in a jail sentence of up to life imprisonment in Canada.
Rene Verret, a spokesman for the prosecutor, said the three railway employees were arrested late Monday afternoon. They are scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday in Lac-Megantic. A message left at MM&A offices was not immediately returned.
Quebec's director of criminal and penal prosecutions had begun a review of the file in late March. Prosecutors said in a statement that they elected to file the charges after an analysis of the evidence gathered at the scene. The railroad blamed the engineer for failing to set enough brakes, allowing the train to begin rolling toward the lakeside town of 6,000.
Harding had left the train unattended overnight to sleep at a local inn shortly before it barreled into Lac-Megantic, devastating the downtown bar area and forcing a third of the town's residents to flee.
The arrests came just days before the closing of the sale of the bankrupt railroad.
The $15.85 million sale of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway is expected to close on Thursday in the U.S., but there could be a delay of a few days on a parallel proceeding in Canada. Most of the proceeds will be used to repay creditors.
Eventually, there will be a settlement fund to compensate victims and repay cleanup costs.
The total environmental cleanup alone could end up costing between $200 million and $500 million based on early estimates, and there's only $25 million in insurance payouts available for wrongful death, personal injury, property damage, fire suppression and environmental impact.
The railroad's buyer, a subsidiary of New York-based Fortress Investment Group, is changing the railroad's name to Central Maine and Quebec Railway. The company said it hopes to recapture lost business but has no plans to try to bring back oil shipments. .
Verret said prosecutors had hoped to announce the charges earlier, but said they had to find and arrest those charged as well as inform the families of the victims in Lac-Megantic.
A news conference is planned in Lac-Megantic on Tuesday regarding the rebuilding of the Musi-Cafe, the establishment in the heart of town where many people were incinerated. Lac-Megantic Mayor Colette Roy Laroche and Musi-Cafe owner Yannick Gagne are expected to attend.
The crash, the worst railway accident in Canada in nearly 150 years, prompted intense public pressure to make oil trains safer in the U.S. and Canada. Canada's transport minister said in April that the type of tankers that were involved in the Lac-Megantic disaster must be retired or retrofitted within three years because they are prone to rupturing. The oil industry has rapidly moved to using trains to transport oil in part because of oil booms in the Bakken region in North Dakota and in the oil sands in Alberta, and because of a lack of pipelines.
Canadian Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt issued a brief statement in which she thanked Quebec provincial police for their investigation.
"I understand that this is difficult for those affected by the tragic incident in Lac-Megantic," she said, adding there would be no further comment as the case is before the courts.
Associated Press writer David Sharp in Portland contributed to this report.
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PACKAGE statement drops a stored package from the database. This statement drops the body and specification of a package.
Note:Do not use this statement to drop a single object from a package. Instead, re-create the package without the object using the CREATE PACKAGE Statement and CREATE PACKAGE BODY Statement with the
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The package must be in your own schema or you must have the
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BODY to drop only the body of the package. If you omit this clause, then the database drops both the body and specification of the package.
When you drop only the body of a package but not its specification, the database does not invalidate dependent objects. However, you cannot call one of the procedures or stored functions declared in the package specification until you re-create the package body.
Specify the schema containing the package. If you omit
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Specify the name of the package to be dropped.
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There is a new version of the Thoth Gateway, a mod_plsql replacement for IIS, available for download. The latest version is 1.3.6.
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The previous version available for download was 1.3.0, so there are a number of enhancements and bug fixes rolled up into this release, including:
Version 1.3.6
Bug fix: Value of the CGI environment variable LOGON_USER was empty on IIS 7 running in Integrated pipeline mode: This was due to a breaking change on IIS 7. The Thoth Gateway now hooks into the PostAuthenticate event, rather than the BeginRequest event, in order for information about the current user to be available when using Windows Integrated Authentication.
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Hide server banner: A new top-level (non-DAD-specific) configuration parameter, HideServerBanner, has been added. If this is set to true (the default is false), the server will not emit the response server headers that identify the server as IIS powered by ASP.NET. This can improve security in certain situations, and reduces the response size. Requires IIS 7 with "integrated pipeline" mode.
Set SOAP date format: A new DAD-specific configuration parameter, SoapDateFormat, has been added. The default is YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SS. This is used to set the database session NLS date format when the gateway receives a SOAP request. You can adjust this parameter if your SOAP clients are sending dates with an UTC time indicator or offset.
Bug fix: Don't upload empty files: The gateway incorrectly uploaded files even from an empty file browse field (when the user submitted a form without having selected a file).
Bug fix: Handle responses with HTTP headers but no HTTP body: An ArgumentOutOfRangeException was thrown if the request included (just) HTTP headers without any body.
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Bug fix: Handle missing accept-encoding header: Dynamic content compression did not correctly handle clients with missing accept-encoding header.
Version 1.3.3
Serve static content from gateway folder: A new top-level (non-DAD-specific) configuration parameter, ServeStaticContent, has been added. If this is set to true (the default is false), the gateway will check if the requested URL maps to a physical file, and if so, will serve up this file instead of connecting to the database.
Compress dynamic content: A new top-level (non-DAD-specific) configuration parameter, CompressDynamicContent, has been added. If this is set to true (the default is false), and the client (browser) signals that it can accept compressed content, the gateway will compress the generated output (using GZip or Deflate, depending on the client's stated preference). This reduces network traffic at the cost of more CPU usage on the server. Note that although the default value of this is false (for backwards compatibility), I recommend you set the parameter to true, as it can give your website a significant performance boost.
Version 1.3.2
SOAP Faults: A database exception during a SOAP request now creates a SOAP Fault response that contains the database error message (see the SoapErrorStyle configuration parameter), instead of the normal 404 error (or debug error page).
Version 1.3.1
Performance optimization: The main PL/SQL procedure call issued by the gateway now also includes the call to check if the response is a file download (which used to be a separate PL/SQL call). This reduces the total number of database calls, thereby improving performance.
For existing installations, simply overwrite the existing PLSQLGatewayModule.dll file in the "bin" folder with the latest version from the downloaded archive.


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Research partnerships between Coca-Cola and health organizations in Spain
posted by Research Admin 1 on 3 October 2019
This article reports on Coco-Cola's strategy of funding health organisations and health research to serve its commercial objectives that are at odds with public health.
To read the full abstract, and for information on how to access the full text, go to: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/cky175 or contact your DHB library, or organisational or local library for assistance.
Rey-Lopez, J. P. and Gonzalez, C. A. Research partnerships between Coca-Cola and health organizations in Spain. European Journal of Public Health, Volume 29, Issue 5, October 2019, Pages 810–815


text: I plan on getting the Sony MEX-BT39UW radio and I was going through the installation manual and I noticed that I need to use a bus control cable and bus audio cable. Can I only use the bus audio cable without the bus control, or do I still have to use an aux cable? I have a Stratus 6 receiver.


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Last night, comic author Brian Michael Bendis posted some heretofore obscure artwork by illustrator Phil Jimenez. This wasn't just any doodle — this was a concept sketch for a scuttled Justice League-meets-the-Transformers crossover series that Jimenez pitched with IDW Publishing editor Chris Ryall.
Sadly, this project was canned because of DC Comics' New 52 relaunch, so we can only dream about Wonder Woman's transforming invisible she-jet and Green Lantern Optimus Prime.
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There is more than one way to circle a peak. Do this walk in reverse, starting around 90 minutes before sunset, and you'll be looking at Hong Kong Island's scenic south side in the glow of afternoon light. You'll be coming around to the north side, with views of the harbour, at just the right time, when twilight gives way to night and the city becomes a galaxy of shimmering lights.
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The top thing to do in Hong Kong is to take in the world-famous vista of Victoria Harbour from The Peak. Some of the best views are on the Peak Circle Walk, which winds around the highest point on Hong Kong Island.
From MTR Central Station, Exit J2, walk to the lower Peak Tram terminus located on Garden Road for the scenic ride up to The Peak. Alternatively, you can take bus 15 from Exchange Square bus terminus, or minibus 1 from MTR Hong Kong Station public transport interchange. The Peak Circle Walk begins at Lugard Road near the Peak Tower.
Built in 1913–14, this road is named after Hong Kong's 14th governor, Sir Fredrick Lugard. The sections that are narrow, cliff-side paths are called 'plank roads'. After about 20 minutes, you'll arrive at the Lugard Road lookout, which offers a spectacular panoramic view of Victoria Harbour.
Lugard Road runs into Harlech Road, which will slowly take you back to The Peak Tower and to the end of your lap around The Peak. It takes about 15 minutes to traverse the entire tree-shaded path, or a bit longer if you stop to appreciate the waterfall falling below Mount Austin Playground. Watch out for those joggers rushing past: Harlech Road is one of their favourites.
The walk will take you back to its starting point near The Peak Tower. From here you can catch the Peak Tram, bus 15 or minibus 1 back down to Central.
If time and energy are on your side, you can turn this leisurely stroll into a substantial walk to Lung Fu Shan Country Park. For something more in between, you can head to Pinewood Battery by turning right onto Hatton Road at the intersection of Lugard and Harlech roads. From here, take a tour of the University of Hong Kong and return to Central on bus 13 from Kotewall Road.
- Area:
- The Peak, Hong Kong Island
- Starting point:
- Lugard Road
- End point:
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- Average hiking time:
- About 1.5 hours
- Distance:
- 3.5 km
- Replenishing stations:
- There is no replenishing station along the route. So before starting out, fuel up at a restaurant or stock up at a store in The Peak Galleria or The Peak Tower.
- Take bus 15C from Central Pier 8 or walk from MTR Central Station Exit J2 to take the Peak Tram from the Peak Tram Lower Terminus on Garden Road; or,
- bus 15 from Exchange Square bus terminus (near MTR Hong Kong Station, Exit D); or,
- minibus 1 from the public transport interchange at MTR Hong Kong Station, Exit E.
- Hop aboard the Peak Tram down to the Garden Road Terminus; or
- take bus 15 at The Peak Plaza down to the Central Exchange Square Bus Terminus.
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British WW11 Military Police motorcycle helmet. This appears to have DDay Beachgroup markings, probably involved in vehicle / convoy movement, has the rank of corporal, two stripes on the side. Has larger white painted half circle at rear (possibly "follow me" marking to be easily seen by following drivers) It would have had a large white MP sign on the front, but owner has scraped this off, sensible I think given that it made a good target.


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FAQ: The business case for Microsoft Surface Pro laptop/tablets
- 18 January, 2013 17:15
Microsoft says Surface for Windows 8 Pro laptop/tablets are rolling off the assembly lines, meaning that availability of the hardware Microsoft thinks Windows 8 should run on can't be far off.
The device sports a removable touch screen, a cover that doubles as a keyboard and a kickstand to prop up the screen for laptop mode. With the cover flipped back, the device becomes a tablet suitable for using Windows 8's touch-driven Modern interface as opposed to its desktop.
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But is it right for your business?
Here are some questions you should ask and the answers you'll want in order to make an informed opinion about whether to buy Surface Pro for your organization.
What does it cost?
Either $899 with a 64GB hard drive or $999 with 128GB hard drive. Keyboard/covers are extra. Type covers with keys that actually depress cost $130. Touch Covers with a static keyboard surface that is touch-sensitive cost $120.
How do you buy it in volume?
CEO Steve Ballmer said months ago that Surface devices would be sold only in the Microsoft Store online or brick and mortar Window Stores. Since then Surface RT -- the low-powered, limited Windows 8 tablet -- has gone on sale in the big consumer electronics stores. But there haven't been any formal changes announced by Microsoft to do the same with Surface Pro.
How can you manage a fleet of these things?
Via System Center Configuration Manager SP1 and Windows Intune.
Will it support all legacy business applications?
Microsoft says any apps that run on Windows 7 will also run on Windows 8, which also supports Windows Store applications that are based on Windows Runtime and cater to touch.
How well is it made?
TBD. Surface RT, which is different but looks similar, had some anecdotal problems with the covers separating at the seams, but nothing that warranted a recall.
How long does the battery last?
Microsoft says about half the life of Surface RT, which makes it somewhere between four and five hours. With an Intel Core i5 processor inside, Surface Pro will be eating up a lot of power compared to ARM-powered Surface RT, but Intel says it is coming out with less power-hungry Core processors. If Microsoft swaps them in to Surface Pro, expect better battery life.
What does it have for storage?
Either a 64GB hard drive or a 128GB hard drive. It has a microSDXC card slot.
How much memory does it have?
How much does it weigh?
2 pounds.
How big is it?
10.81 inches x 6.81 inches x 0.53 inches. The thickness doesn't include the keyboard/cover, which can be either 6 mm for the Type Cover or 3.25 mm for the Touch Cover.
How good is the screen?
The screen is 10.6 inches with a 16:9 aspect ratio and pixel count of 1920x1080.
What applications does it come with?
Windows Mail and Messaging, SkyDrive, Internet Explorer 10, Bing and Xbox Music, Video, and Games.
What ports does it have?
It sports a full-size USB 3.0 port, a headset jack, a Mini DisplayPort and a port for the keyboard. It lacks an Ethernet port.
What wireless technologies does it support?
802.11a, b, g and n Wi-Fi. and Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy. No 3G or 4G LTE.
How is the security?
Windows 8 is widely considered much more secure than Windows 7. Features include Trusted Boot and Secure Boot, Restore and Refresh options for cleaning up infections, an expanded Windows Defender security software package, SmartScreen to check out downloaded executables, sandboxed applications and logically isolated tabs within Internet Explorer 10.
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Exeter police hope for new information in case of missing girl
Tammy Belanger disappeared nearly 30 years ago
Police in Exeter are hoping new information becomes available that helps them solve a 30-year-old missing-person case.
Eight-year-old Tammy Belanger was on her way to school on Nov. 13, 1984, when she vanished on Court Street in Exeter. Police said her abductor had a six- or seven-hour head start because school at that time didn't call parents to confirm that their children were absent.
Chief Richard Kane was three years into his law enforcement career at the time. He said tips still come in nearly 30 years later.
"It's been one of our cases for a really long time, and we'd really like to solve it for the family and bring some closure," Kane said.
Victor Wonyetye, an auto body repairman, was named as a suspect in Belanger's disappearance. Although no physical evidence tied Wonyetye to the case, Kane said he is confident that he is the culprit behind the girl's disappearance.
"There was no one else that really rose to his level," Kane said. "He was the one that committed that crime."
Wonyetye, who would have turned 70 years old Tuesday, died in December in a Florida prison hospital where he was serving time on a parole violation after serving more than 20 years on burglary-related convictions.
Kane said Wonyetye's death might open up more leads into Belanger's case.
"They're following up on anything he might have said or written or left behind in an attempt to find out more information as to his involvement," Kane said.
Belanger's parents divorced and moved away, but Kane said he talks with her mother about twice a year. He said the hope now is that people who were afraid of Wonyetye might now be willing to open up about what they know.
"If there's someone out there that hears us or sees us talking about it and has a change of heart, I'd welcome a phone call, and we'll follow up as fast and as hard as we can," Kane said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Exeter police at 603-772-1212.


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"Jersey Shore" star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro may be paying the price for a fight from the first season of the show that could have him locked up.
Oritz is being charged with one count of third-degree assault for a bar fight that knocked out Stephen Izzo on September 4, 2009 in Seaside Heights, where the New Jersey show takes place. He was indicted by a grand jury Thursday in Ocean County, according to court documents obtained by TMZ, and could be facing up to five years in prison.
"This comes as a complete shock to us, as far as we know, our attorneys have been in contact with the prosecutor's office and we are waiting to see the documents," a rep for Ortiz-Magro told TMZ.
The complaint, filed by the State of New Jersey, claims the Bronx-bred reality star "did purposefully or knowingly cause significant bodily injury to Stephen Izzo, by striking him in the face with a closed fist, causing him to lose consiousness."
According to Ortiz, Izzo had it coming.
"I really don't feel bad for the altercations that I did get into in Seaside because I'm really not a person who likes to fight," Magro told People magazine earlier this year, via the NY Post.
"He was just being a drunk jerk, saw the camera... [and] I think he chased us down like two blocks or something like that. At that point, you're like, 'What am I gonna do?'"
TMZ reported that it took so long for Ortiz to be charged because both sides attempted to reach a plea agreement, but couldn't. Izzo also has a lawsuit pending against Ronnie, MTV Networks, and the show's producers.
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"Jersey Shore" star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro may be paying the price for a fight from the first season of the show that could have him locked up.


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You're clearly just being obnoxious on this subject. Ok, that's fine. We can all agree that the core spirit of the show is east-Asian. The culture, ideas, and arts that form the show are east-Asian in origin. You say that it's a fictional world with fictional races, but come on now, it's pretty clear what the influence is. Why are there no east-Asians in the film? What they're basically saying with the casting choices is that the culture, ideas and arts are not Asian, they're white. like everything else in their bubble. Also, Zuko was meant to be played by Jesse McCartney. It was only changed to Dev Patel because of the criticism as a token non-white.
Gene Yang says it best - "It's like a white Asian fetishist's wet dream. All the Asian culture they want, without any of the Asian people."
Yeah, you better believe I have a chip on my shoulder about this stuff. I've made my feelings clear on the subject throughout this entire topic. This is the manifestation of white privilege that many people pretend to be oblivious to. White people in particular can be so blind to it, it's so pervasive that they really do believe it really is only another movie, another TV show, comic, whatever, completely unrelated to each other. There are never any repercussions and consistently now it is Asians getting crushed under this jackboot.


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The characteristics of gun violence, risk and protective factors, prevention, gun safety technology, and the influence of video games were identified as key research priorities by a committee of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, chaired by AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner.
"The complexity and frequency of gun-related violence combined with its impact on the health and safety of the nation's residents make it a topic of considerable public health importance," Leshner said.
"Therefore, when developing its agenda, the committee took a public health approach that focused on gun violence problems associated with significant levels of injuries and fatalities. Although this research agenda is an initial, not all-encompassing set of questions, it could help better define the causes and prevention of firearm violence in order to develop effective policies to reduce its occurrence and impact in the U.S. Similar approaches to public health problems have produced successes in lowering tobacco use, accidental poisoning, and motor vehicle fatalities."
The report stems from executive orders issued by President Obama in January 2013 directing federal agencies to improve knowledge of the causes of firearm violence, interventions that might prevent it, and strategies to minimize its public health burden. One of these executive orders charged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with identifying the most pressing firearm-related violence research needs. In turn, CDC and the CDC Foundation asked the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council to recommend a research agenda on the public health aspects of firearm-related violence. The committee determined potential research topics by surveying previous relevant research, receiving public input, and using expert judgment. It was not asked to consider the amount and sources of funding required to carry out the research agenda and did not specify the methodologies that should be used to address the topics.
The committee said this public health research agenda should be integrated with research conducted from criminal justice and other perspectives to provide a much fuller knowledge base, as no single agency or research strategy could provide all the answers. It suggested that significant progress can be achieved in three to five years through a research program that addresses the five high-priority areas. Within these five areas, the committee identified the following key research topics:
- Characteristics of gun violence
- Characterize the scope of and motivations for gun acquisition, ownership, and use and how they are distributed across subpopulations.
- Characterize differences in nonfatal and fatal gun use across the U.S.
- Risk and protective factors
- Identify factors associated with youth having access to, possessing, and carrying guns.
- Evaluate the potential risks and benefits of having a firearm in the home under a variety of circumstances and settings.
- Improve understanding of risk factors that influence the probability of firearm violence in specific high-risk physical locations.
- Firearm violence prevention and other interventions
- Improve understanding of whether interventions intended to diminish the illegal carrying of firearms reduce firearm violence.
- Improve understanding of whether reducing criminal access to legally purchased guns reduces firearm violence.
- Improve understanding of the effectiveness of actions directed at preventing access to firearms by violence-prone individuals.
- Determine the degree to which various childhood education or prevention programs reduce firearm violence in childhood and later in life.
- Explore whether programs to alter physical environments in high-crime areas decrease firearm violence.
- Gun safety technology
- Identify the effects of different technological approaches to reduce firearm-related injury and death.
- Examine past consumer experiences with accepting safety technologies to inform the development and uptake of new gun safety technologies.
- Explore individual state and international policy approaches to gun safety technology for applicability to the United States as a whole.
- Influence of video games and other media
- Examine the relationship between exposure to media violence and real-life violence.
The study was sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with the Foundation's support originating from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, The California Endowment, The Joyce Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, one anonymous entity, and two additional donors whose agreements have not been finalized with the CDC Foundation. Established under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council provide independent, objective, evidence-based advice to policymakers, the private sector, and the public. The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council make up the National Academies. A committee roster is available.
[Adapted from a news release from the National Academies]
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