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"Fight Against Stupidity And Bureaucracy"
The Bible (Exodus 20:15) tells us that one of God's Ten Commandments is that "Thou Shalt Not Steal", and it is a rule that has been adopted almost universally. Theft is against the law and is punishable by imprisonment, or in some countries harsher treatment.
And rightly so.
I've written in this blog before about the fact that I hate thieves.
Maybe that's part of what gets me so riled up about the banksters and the government stooges who won't go after these thieves.
But it seems now that the governments themselves are testing the water for a grand theft of their citizens' money.
I don't just mean raising taxes, or hyping up environmental issues so they can bring in new taxes to eradicate problems that they themselves have created.
Yes, they are doing that, but it isn't enough.
Governments throughout the western world have amassed so much debt by stupid policies and incompetent management of their economies that they are now contemplating out and out theft of YOUR money!
Don't believe me?
Witness the goings on the other day with Cyprus and the EU.
If you haven't heard, it all started Saturday when the people of Cyprus discovered that their government and a bunch of EU bureaucrats had conspired in secret to rob their savings accounts to pay for the country's bailout.
Anyone with savings accounts of over 100,000 euros are to have 9.9% of its value seized, and those with less than 100,000 euros will have 6.75% stolen.
In other words if you are a Cypriot and have been careful and frugal with your money, as opposed to amassing large personal debt on credit cards and loans, you are to be punished by the government.
It all needs to be ratified by the Cypriot parliament, but whether or not they approve it on this occasion, the thinking and intent of the bureaucrats is clear.
They want to steal your money!
This is a big step. Previously raiding savings deposits was unheard of and unthinkable. Now it is an option that is very much on the agenda for desperate Western governments.
So be warned. If they set a precedent in Cyprus it could, and probably will, happen elsewhere.
And with the advance of technology it is soooo easy for governments to steal your money. If it is in a bank account it is just electronically stored numbers, there for the taking, or rather, the changing.


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"The Flood," a play written by then-Woodhaven resident Daniel McCabe as Superstorm Sandy roared into New York City, premieres this August at the New York International Fringe Festival.
In the aftermath of the storm, his family in Queens helped with relief efforts and he was reminded of the importance of family and his neighborhood.
"They're the unsung heroes of New York City," said McCabe, 34, who also stars in the play. "They're the people who keep the lights on, who run the trains and give the city life."
The other actors and actresses in the play came from around the world to live in New York City and Queens. John Duddy, a former boxer from Ireland who now lives in Middle Village will also be starring in the play. And Emma Ishta, McCabe's wife from Australia, is featured in the production.
McCabe went to Saint Elizabeth School on Atlantic Avenue and 85th Street, where he was surrounded by the Irish working class. And he credits the characters in the neighborhood with influencing him to become a writer.
"I was surrounded by storytellers, real characters that just knew how to tell you about things," he said. "It's an interesting conversation dynamic when you have the train [on Jamaica Avenue] going overhead every five minutes and you just have to stop talking for that time."
"The Flood," which McCabe will also direct, takes place in the East Village just as Sandy begins to loom over the city. Charlie, his character, is a bartender dealing with family troubles and a suicidal brother.
"A lot of the conflict of these characters has a lot to do with growing up in working class neighborhoods," he said.
Though McCabe, who has relatives in Forest Hills, Woodhaven, Bayside and Richmond Hill, now lives in Brooklyn, he and his wife often go back to Woodhaven, where his mother still lives.
"Woodhaven will always be my home," he said.
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January 8, 2007 - Detroit - Lexus unveiled the IS-F high-performance luxury sedan and the LF-A sports-car concept at a press conference today at the 2007 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit.
The all-new 2008 IS-F high-performance luxury sedan will deliver more than 400 horsepower from a 5.0-liter V8 engine when it goes into production. The LF-A supercar concept is equipped with a V10 engine that produces more than 500 horsepower. Together, the two exciting new cars make a dramatic statement of Lexus performance.
The IS-F and LF-A are very different vehicles, yet they share the same DNA, design philosophy, and heritage. Prominent in both vehicles, the "F" designation was first conceived nearly 20 years ago with a project internally coded "Circle-F," with the "F" standing for "flagship." This was the original code for what became the Lexus Division. The Circle-F designation further evolved into the code name Flagship One, or F1, and the first F1 concept developed into Lexus' first vehicle, the LS. Since then, the "F" code has come to signify a special vehicle program within Lexus that falls outside the normal engineering and development process.
"Lexus has long been perceived as the maker of mainstream luxury vehicles, but the unveiling of the IS-F and LF-A not only changes this perception, it also introduces a new Lexus marque," said Bob Carter, Lexus Division group vice president and general manager. "The 'F' shared by both vehicles is the signature for a new high-performance marque conceived by an engineering team that dared to turn their dream of 'a Lexus like no other' into a reality."
IS-F Performance Sedan
Much of the development of the new IS-F took place at Fuji Speedway and the Higashi-Fuji Technical Center in Japan. The IS-F is based on the proven rear-wheel-drive Lexus IS, which is equipped with a double-wishbone front and multi-link rear suspension. As well as the IS performs, Lexus engineers demanded much more of the all-new IS-F. The result is a performance tuned 5.0-liter V8 engine, topped with specially engineered heads fed by a two-stage intake system, that produces 400-plus horsepower and more than 350 ft.-lbs. of torque. The all-new IS-F is equipped with engine-oil and transmission-fluid coolers for high-speed performance and a cylinder head-scavenging oil pump for high g-force driving.
The IS-F engine is mated to the world's first eight-speed direct sport-shift transmission. A new torque-converter lock-up control was developed that allows for a direct, crisp gear change through the constant lock-up of the torque converter in second through eighth gears. In Drive mode, the IS-F transmission performs with great smoothness, and the torque converter allows for great launch ability for fast standing-start acceleration that will register a zero-to-60 time in less than 4.9 seconds.
This unique transmission also features an advanced Manual mode. A pair of paddles located within a fingertip's reach behind the steering wheel enables the driver to make ultra-fast up-shift gear changes within a tenth of a second. Downshifts are accompanied by automated and incredibly precise throttle blips to match engine RPM to vehicle speed.
The impressive acceleration achieved by the IS-F requires it be equipped with heavy-duty Brembo brakes designed to the specifications of the Lexus engineering team. Huge, 14.2-inch cross-drilled front discs are gripped by rigid, powerful six-piston aluminum calipers, while 13.6-inch rear cross-drilled discs feature two-piston calipers. High-friction brake pads are equipped on all four wheels. The brakes are finished with the Lexus name displayed on the calipers, a first for a Lexus production vehicle.
The IS-F features custom-designed 19-inch forged alloy wheels as standard. The wheels were built to Lexus specifications by BBS and are surrounded by high-performance sport tires.
The attention to performance also extends to a modified suspension that lowers the entire car by more than a half-inch when compared to the base IS, and one full inch when compared to IS models equipped with 18-inch wheels. This specially modified suspension allows for an exciting and energetic drive, whether on a race track or the streets.
The IS-F features an all-new three-mode version of Lexus' Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management (VDIM) system. In addition to the Normal mode, the new VDIM features a Sport mode that allows the driver to push the car even further before its braking-, throttle- and steering-control systems kick in. The third VDIM system mode is Off, which allows the driver to push the IS-F to its ultimate level of handling performance.
The attention to performance is complemented by modified styling cues that differentiate the IS-F from the standard IS. Lexus engineers provided the IS-F with a dual-exhaust system and quad-tail pipes, wider front fenders, and a larger grille and rear spoiler. Both the hood and lower intake were enlarged to accommodate and cool the V8 engine.
Like the exterior, the interior of the IS-F receives unique styling with aluminized composite trim and special surface treatments. The instrument panel includes an oil-temperature gauge and shift indicator-lights, while the "F" logo is showcased on the steering wheel and rear-center console.
In addition to the usual Lexus standards of comfort and convenience, the interior of the IS-F features specially shaped and trimmed seats, which hold the driver comfortably and securely in place. The special sport seats are available in black or a unique high-contrast white and black trim.
"The intent of creating the IS-F was not to be a competitor to other performance-sport sedans," said Carter. "Rather, the goal was to create a true performance sedan in a uniquely Lexus way-one that is totally authentic with a unique interpretation of raw driving thrill at all speeds and provides a whole new definition of 'usable power.'"
The IS-F will arrive at Lexus dealerships in early 2008
Lexus IS-F Preliminary Specifications
Engine: 5.0 Liter V8
Estimated Horsepower: More than 400
Estimated Torque: More than 350 lb.-ft.
Transmission: Eight-speed direct paddle sport shift gear box
Large diameter cross-drilled discs
Front/Rear: 14.2 inches/13.6 inches
Opposed aluminum calipers
Front/Rear: Six piston/two piston
Forged aluminum wheels
Front: 225/40R19 (19 x8)
Rear: 255/35R19 (19 x 9)
0-60 MPH Acceleration: Under 4.9 seconds
Fuel Economy: TBD
Emissions Rating: ULEV II
Dimensions (inches)
Overall Length: 183.5
Overall Width: 71.5
Overall Height: 55.5
Wheelbase: 107.5


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Quark has announced QuarkXPress 9, a new version of its graphic design and page layout application. Nearly three years in the making, and buttressed by a series of updates and publishing initiatives, the new version of the 24-year-old software package aspires to compete not only in the realm of print and online publishing, but also in digital publishing of rich, interactive content to a variety of mobile devices in multiple formats—called dynamic publishing. As part of Quark's digital publishing 2.0 strategy, QuarkXPress 9 aims to give creative professionals more control over the execution of their designs via a single tool without the need for coding or programming.
"Publishing has changed significantly over the past decade and the rate of change we are experiencing is accelerating," Quark president and CEO Raymond Schiavone told Macworld. "Today our clients need to publish more customized content to more channels. With QuarkXPress 9 we offer our users–from individual designers to multinational corporations–the ability to dynamically publish to print, the Web, and digital devices, like the iPad, and in many ways automate the process."
Quark is hosting a worldwide special event today to introduce version 9.
The new version of QuarkXPress—which will integrate the new App Studio and Blio e-reader design functionality in the package—will allow designers to publish directly to digital devices, notably the iPad and eventually other tablets, as well as to e-readers, smart phones, and other cross-media systems. Version 9 will also offer new design-automation features to assist in the production of multimedia documents and periodicals for print, Web, and interactive Flash (SWF) media.
While over time Quark lost market share to Adobe InDesign in the commercial publishing arena, Quark retained and built on a core base of publishers in the manufacturing and service industries, which pump out a large volume of manuals, catalogs, and corporate materials. It is to that core base, as well as to new digital publishers seeking device-related opportunities, that QuarkXPress 9 is appealing.
"Quark's dynamic-publishing solutions are gaining significant traction in the manufacturing, financial services, and life sciences industries, as well as in the government sector," said Gavin Drake, Quark's vice president of marketing. "However, commercial publishing companies are increasingly seeing the benefits of dynamic publishing in their businesses–especially as the number of media and devices that they have to publish to increases. The need for dynamic publishing in the commercial publishing sector is bringing Quark strongly back into this sector. We certainly expect Quark's new digital publishing solutions such as App Studio and Blio to be popular within commercial publishing, but our primary focus is and will continue to be our existing customers in all market sectors, as well as new designers."
App Studio
One far-reaching innovation for QuarkXPress 9 is App Studio for QuarkXPress, unveiled in mid-January. This feature lets nontechnical designers publish to the iPad directly from QuarkXPress. The advantage of App Studio, says the company, is that designers can control the look and feel of the editorial product without having to invest in technical development expertise.
App Studio offers interactive features such as video/audio players, slideshows, scrollable regions, Web overlays, pop-up windows, buttons, hyperlinks, and more.
While the App Studio is officially part of Quark 9 at launch, it will not ship with the software immediately, but will be available as a free add-on within 90 days after the product ships. Until then, Quark is offering its iPad Publishing Service for QuarkXPress, in which Quark will configure a starter iPad app with a customer's logos and colors and enable the enrichment of QuarkXPress content to be published to that app. Users of the service will be able to migrate to QuarkXPress 9 for their iPad publishing projects once App Studio for QuarkXPress is released. Apple's App Store is already offering the App Studio for users of the enterprise-level Quark Publishing System (QPS).
While the pricing scheme for App Studio for the new version is still being finalized, Quark expects it to be in line with the per-issue pricing that it set for App Studio for Quark Publishing System, which starts at $349 for publishing a single issue, and decreases depending on the number of issues purchased.
E-reader and e-pub publishing
QuarkXPress 9 will also let designers create e-books for the Blio e-reader to sell through the Blio online bookstore via a partnership with Baker & Taylor.
The Blio e-reader is a free multiplatform, multidevice application that viewers can use to read full-color e-books and multimedia-enhanced content on a wide variety of devices. Blio features enhanced reading capabilities such as reflow, slideshows, video, Web content, and more.
Blio currently runs on the Windows platform only, and will expand to mobile platforms such as Google Android and Microsoft Silverlight. Blio is not available for the Mac as yet. According to Robert Nelson, president of the digital group at Baker & Taylor, a Mac version of Blio "is on the roadmap for 2011," but there is no target date for when the reader will be available for the Mac. Similarly, an iOS version of Blio is under review with the Apple App Store, but no indication of when it will be available.
QuarkXPress 9 also offers an option for exporting to ePub. Designers can create text-based e-books for publication to e-book stores like Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Amazon Kindle. Publishers can export existing QuarkXPress layouts in ePub format, taking advantage of QuarkXPress picture cropping and sizing controls, new e-book metadata dialog boxes, the ability to design an ePub cover in QuarkXPress, and more.
Desktop publishing features
Alongside its concentration on mobile devices and cross-media integration, Quark has also enhanced its desktop publishing app. QuarkXPress 9's new features will automate the design process and boost productivity by alleviating a variety of manual, time-consuming design tasks.
Conditional Styles, for example, allow designers to automatically style content based on rules. Compatible with Microsoft Word import and export, Quark 9's new Bullets and Numbering feature makes it easier to format ordered and unordered lists and complex multilevel outlines. With the new Callouts feature, boxes and groups move automatically with text as set by the designer; callouts can be positioned relative to a page, spread, text box, paragraph, or character.
ShapeMaker is a new wizard for easily creating or modifying hard-to-draw shapes such as waves, polygons, stars, and spirals; it also lets designers create unique corner effects. ImageGrid lets designers import and automatically build grids of images with a variety of layout options, and it also supports image captioning. Linkster lets designers unlink and relink text boxes that already contain text, unlink stories spanning multiple pages, and link or unlink boxes without disrupting existing text.
A new Story Editor provides a word-processor-like view within the program, to assist when text in a layout is difficult to read and when stories span multiple pages. The Cloner feature gives users a more efficient way to clone design elements by allowing designers to copy items or pages to multiple pages or layouts; and it can be used to combine or split layouts.
Availability and pricing
QuarkXPress 9 will ship in April 2011 for $799, the same price as QuarkXPress 8. Upgrades from QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 are $299. The software will be available through authorized Quark resellers and through the Quark Store.
Anyone who purchases QuarkXPress 8 at the regular price between February 23, 2011 and April 30, 2011 is eligible to upgrade to QuarkXPress 9 for free. Customers who purchased QuarkXPress 8 between January 1, 2011, and February 23, 2011, are entitled to a complimentary upgrade to version 9. Those who qualify should complete the QuarkXPress 9 upgrade redemption form. Buyers who wish to redeem the free upgrade need valid serial numbers and validation codes established between January 1, 2011, and April 30, 2011.
Quark 9 runs on Mac OS X 10.5.8 or higher and requires an Intel processor.
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Most cat owners will, at some point, endure the trauma of being gifted a bloody rodent carcass or wrangling a flailing bird from the jaws of their beloved pet. But little do they know that behind this occasional horror is a secret world of slaughter.
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According to a new study by the University of Georgia, our precious kitties are leading double lives: Indoors, they're sweet, lazy furballs. But outside, they're prolific killers with a penchant for danger.
In collaboration with the National Geographic Society's Critter Cam team, researchers strapped kitty cams to 60 cats and analyzed thousands of hours of footage documenting their secret lives. They found that one-third of the cats killed an average of two animals per week —a far greater number than previously thought. (Though they only brought a quarter of those kills home for mom and dad).
(WATCH: Dutch Artist Turns Dead Cat into Helicopter)
Domestic cats hunt so prolifically, in fact, that they are driving down the U.S.'s bird population, killing an estimated 500 million birds per year — about 3 percent of the country's total bird population.
"Cat predation is one of the reasons why one in three American birds species are in decline," George Fenwick, president of American Bird Conservancy, told USA Today.
That said, they kill far more reptiles and mammals (such as chipmunks) than they do birds, usually eating or abandoning the carcasses after playing with them for a while.
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But outdoor cats aren't just a danger to small animals. They're also a danger to themselves. The team found that the cats regularly engaged in high risk activity: Crossing roadways, exploring storm drains, entering crawl spaces where they could easy be trapped, and eating and drinking things they stumbled across. Male cats tended to behave more dangerously than female cats, and the younger the cat, the riskier the behavior.
So what's a concerned cat owner to do? The Kitty Cams team recommends keeping your cat (especially younger males) indoors as much as possible — for their own safety as well as that of neighborhood wildlife (here's some advice on how to keep them happy indoors).
Not all cats are killers, however. Some lead more mundane double lives — like Archie, whose owner discovered via Kitty Cam that he was secretly visiting and, sometimes living with, another human family. Oh, the betrayal.


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That's the impetus behind new wiretap guidelines being drawn up by a government panel, according to the Washington Post.
The draft guidelines, championed by the FBI, would allow courts to impose escalating fines on any business that didn't immediately comply with a court-ordered request for real-time communications interception, regardless of whether the Web service provider said such interception was technically feasible. Any business that fails to comply with the wiretap request could face fines that start at tens of thousands of dollars, then double daily after 90 days of noncompliance. The White House reportedly hasn't yet signed off on the proposals.
[ Questions about employee surveillance? Read Watching Workers: Where's The Line? ]
"Today, if you're a tech company that's created a new and popular way to communicate, it's only a matter of time before the FBI shows up with a court order to read or hear some conversation," Perkins Coie attorney Michael Sussmann, a former federal prosecutor, told the Post. "If the data can help solve crimes, the government will be interested."
In 2005, in an expansion of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), the Federal Communications Commission ruled that service providers, as well as VoIP providers, had to overhaul their networks to allow real-time interception. But that doesn't apply to businesses such as Facebook and Google. Accordingly, the FBI now tends to back off when those companies or their peers say they can't easily comply with an intercept request for technical reasons, rather than attempting to initiate contempt proceedings, reported the Post.
But the bureau would like that to change. "The importance to us is pretty clear," the FBI's general counsel, Andrew Weissmann, last month said in a speech to the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security. "We don't have the ability to go to court and say, 'We need a court order to effectuate the intercept.' Other countries have that. Most people assume that's what you're getting when you go to a court."
The bureau's push for expanded wiretapping powers is far from unexpected. Indeed, reports surfaced last year that the FBI was meeting with Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, among other companies, to query how the bureau could best conduct surveillance of their services while causing minimal disruption.
In 2011, meanwhile, longtime FBI director Robert S. Mueller III urged Congress to give the bureau greater wiretapping capabilities, warning that to do otherwise meant there would be "a very real risk of the government 'going dark,' resulting in an increased risk to national security and public safety."
But civil rights groups have warned that the proposal to fine businesses that don't proactively aid FBI surveillance of their communications services risks wiretap capabilities being abused by attackers. "At the very time when the nation is concerned about cybersecurity, the FBI proposal has the potential to make our communications less secure," said Joe Hall, a senior staff technologist for the Center for Democracy and Technology, in a statement. "Once you build a wiretap capability into products and services, the bad guys will find a way to use it."
Another unanswered question is how new intercept capabilities would be tested or vetted. Would changes to popular services -- such as Facebook or Gmail -- first require a corresponding sign-off from IT staff at the FBI before they could be put into production?
"What the FBI is proposing sounds benign, but it comes with such onerous penalties that it would force developers to seek pre-approval from the FBI," said CDT president Leslie Harris in a statement. "No one is going to want to face fines that double every day, so they will go to the FBI and work it out in advance, diverting resources, slowing innovation, and resulting in less secure products."
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Piece of Boardwalk Ride Washes Ashore
Look what washed up on shore in the Ocean Beach II section of Toms River.
Beachgoers posted this photo to the Jersey Shore Hurricane News Facebook page Saturday after the ocean churned up what looks to be like a portion of a boardwalk ride.
Christine Iselborn Rooney is credited with snapping the shot.
According to the two-way news outlet, this is the third recovered object of a boardwalk ride reported at the Shore in less than a month. Lifeguards in Seaside Park pulled a similar object from the water on June 22, and Bradshaw's Beach lifeguards in Point Pleasant Beach removed one on June 30.


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Handbook on European data protection law
The English version of the re-edition of this handbook is available on this page. The language versions of this handbook are also available in EU bookshop.
The rapid development of information and communication technologies underscores the growing need for the robust protection of personal data - a right safeguarded by both European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE) instruments.
Technological advances expand the frontiers of, for example, surveillance, communication interception and data storage; all of these pose significant challenges to the right to data protection. This handbook is designed to familiarise legal practitioners who are not specialised in the field of data protection with this area of law. It provides an overview of the EU's and the CoE's applicable legal frameworks. It explains key jurisprudence, summarising major rulings of both the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Where no such case law exists, it presents practical illustrations with hypothetical scenarios.
In a nutshell, this handbook aims to help ensure that the right to data protection is upheld with vigour and determination.


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Welcome to CTC 184 – Delightfully Detailed
where every Sunday the Design Team Copy and Share or Selectively Edit images from a given section of the catalogue. This week we are CASEing from pages 38 – 51 of the Annual Catalogue.
This section is full of beautiful inspiration, so it was difficult to know what to CASE, but as it happens – I realised yesterday that I hadn't created a card like I normally do when my daughter performs.
Yesterday she was staring in Into The Woods Jnr. I love being able to create an individual card that relates to the performance.
I used the basic layout elements of this card…
I used the basic layout but for mine I used the new Subtle embossing Folder as the background. I am LOVING this folder for just that bit of texture in the background without overwhelming the images on the card. And Of course – what better set to use for Into The Woods than our Rooted in Nature Bundle!
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I really like the effect of the Tree Stump stamped on Vellum. It gives a more subtle appearance on your cards. And those brilliant embossing dies to create the leaves…whose not loving those!
TheLabeller Alphabet allowed me to create whatever sentiment I wanted! Don't you love being able to get as creative as you want!
I hope you enjoyed this weeks project. Now it's time to hop on over to Monique and see what she has created for you all!
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Inspiration and Us – Can a time inspire us?
Loony Literature thrives on inspiring others. We like to share our experiences with you, in the hope that, in turn, you might also be inspired to write something of your own. We like to use Literature as a springboard for our own creations, this does not mean that it always has to be fiction that we write. Literature can inspire articles too. In this post we go off on a creative tangent. We hope you enjoy the journey and feel compelled to do something yourself after reading this.
At the moment we are working on a play inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I have been intrigued by Mary Shelley's life and it set me off wondering what my own ancestors were doing around about that time. I imagined that compared to Mary and Percy Shelley, my own discoveries would seem dull. I could not have been more wrong. I wanted a picture of what my ancestors were doing after Mary Shelley's birth 1797 up until the publication of Frankenstein 1818 – that was my springboard, my starting point. The following article is what came out of thinking about Mary Shelley's time.
In 1808, my 4X great uncle, Robert Escritt and his friend John Paul were in the pillory 3 times for conspiring to blackmail concerning homosexuality; homosexuality was a hanging offence then. In fact, they were one of the last recorded cases for the pillory in Driffield, East Yorkshire. Reading the court documents for his trial would be enough to make any relative squirm at being related to such a cad. However, following up my research, I uncovered a shocking twist in the tale which included injustice, villainy and transportation.
Robert Escritt was an ordinary agricultural labourer who by a wicked twist of fate had his normal life turned into what can only be imagined as a nightmare. Robert Escritt was born in 1780 at Kirkburn, East Yorkshire to William Escritt and Elizabeth Bentley. He married Ann Braithwaite on Boxing Day (December 26th) 1802 at St Michael and All Angels Church, Garton on the Wolds and they lived in Garton on the Wolds.
Imagine Robert Escritt, like thousands of other agricultural labourers, wearing a wide brimmed hat to protect himself from the elements, a smock which would reach down to his knees and his only pair of boots made of leather with steel toe caps and hobnailed soles.
Agricultural labourers were at the bottom of the village hierarchy. At the top of the hierarchy in village life would be the landowner or village squire. After him would be the tenant farmer who tended the landowner's livestock and land. Usually the tenant farmer would be provided with a farmhouse. The farmers who tended a large farm with fertile soil would be able to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle. In the middle of the village hierarchy would be the skilled craftsmen such as blacksmiths, carpenters, saddlers, thatchers and coopers. These men were vital to the smooth running of the village. At the very bottom of the heap would be the poor labourers like Robert Escritt and John Paul. They would have constantly done back breaking work but the landowner would have enjoyed most of the profit. The landowner would give the farmer his share and the labourers would get a pittance for all the relentless work they were forced to do in order to earn a meagre living.
Agricultural labourers were often the poorest people in England. Even though their rewards were minimal, the work and suffering they had to endure was not. For instance, during the planting season the whole family would be expected to work out in the fields, in freezing cold weather, from dawn to dusk. Alternatively, during harvest the whole family could be toiling in the fields from dawn to dusk in the blazing sun. He certainly would not have had much in the way of comfort but that life was probably viewed as much better than what was to come.
Looking for one ancestor can often bring up another one with the same name and an interesting story. I was not aware of Robert Escritt's existence until I was looking for my two of my great grandfathers by the same name. I had decided to look on the Beverley Treasure House Archives. The search for Robert Escritt brought up the form QSF/399/B/6 – Indictment of John Paul and Robert Escritt of Garton labourers 26th April 1808. I knew it could not be one of my direct line Roberts as one was a farmer who had died in 1800 and the other was a cooper who was yet to be born.
After looking on Familysearch to find out if I could place that Robert Escritt, I found out that he had married Ann Braithwaite. I referred to my family tree on Ancestry.com and was able to place Robert Escritt as my 4X great uncle. A trip to the Treasure House was in order to see what was in the document.
Was Robert Escritt a murderer, a burglar or a petty thief?
The journey was met with both trepidation and excitement. I knew he had done something unlawful but what? As the archivist brought the 200 year old document to me, my mind was buzzing with every single crime that could be committed – was he a murderer, a burglar, a petty thief? The list was endless but I was nowhere near the truth.
The document was placed before me and weighted down. The first court hearing was 28th July 1807. Robert Escritt and John Paul were
"persons of ill name and fame and dishonest and unlawfully contriving to deprive one Francis Brown the younger of his good name, credit and reputation and also to obtain and get themselves of and from large sums of money on the 10th day of July in the reign of our sovereign Lord George the third with accusing him of the unnatural act of sodomy, commonly known as buggary"
It was stated that John Paul and Robert Escritt conspired to accuse Francis Brown, gentleman, of sodomy to try to obtain large amounts of money from him.
On the 11th day of July they had gone to Henry Grimston Esquire, being one of His Majesty's justice, to keep the peace, and told him that Francis Brown had sodomised John Paul. Robert Escritt had witnessed it. If they were blackmailing Francis Brown for sodomy when he was not guilty, but he would not pay up, surely they would have gone on to another victim who might be so frightened that he would hand over the cash. It does not make sense that they would have gone to the magistrate, after all they were supposed to be in it simply for the money. However, they were poor labourers and Francis Brown was a gentleman farmer, they were not believed. They were taken to court and suffered the humiliation of embarrassing cross examination on a subject which in those days was considered so terrible that it was a hanging offence. On the 12th of January 1808 both men were found guilty of conspiracy to blackmail.
The cross examinations in the court, about sodomy, would have been deeply humiliating. The punishment to come would be more so and physically painful.
The sentence was a year in the House of Correction and to stand in the pillory at Driffield for three consecutive market days. The court document states that Robert Escritt and John Paul should stand in the pillory for one hour between twelve and 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Robert Escritt and John Paul would have had the humiliation of standing at the top of Exchange Street, Driffield for 3 consecutive market days. Their heads and hands would have been put into the carved out slots in the wood and then a second piece of wood would have been closed down upon them so that they could not move from the missiles which would have been thrown at them. Decayed fruit and vegetables, rotten eggs, excrement, dead rats and sometimes hard rocks would be hurled at the person in the pillory. Often, a pillory would be rotated so that the public could get a good look at the person trapped in it.
The House of Correction at Beverley is famous for holding Dick Turpin the highwayman.
Robert Escritt and John Paul were also sentenced to one year in the House of Correction at Beverley. The House of Correction at Beverley is famous for holding Dick Turpin the highwayman in 1738. His real name was John Palmer and he was incarcerated in the House of Correction for shooting his landlord's cockerel. In those days the House of Correction was situated at Beverley Guildhall. The House of Correction had one small courtyard for all prisoners with a work shed in it but no water. When the prisoners were allowed water, the gaoler would have to fetch it from across the way. Men and women felons each had a separate day room upstairs and the room where the women would sleep would adjoin it. The smell was overwhelming for lack of sewers. Robert Escritt and John Paul would have slept in one of the two dirty cells below. They measured about four square yards and were badly ventilated. There was a small window with bars in each room. Their beds would have had straw in the ticking and they were allowed two blankets and a rug for warmth. To pass the time they would have been made to pound tile-shards which they were paid 6d a bushel for.
What happened to Francis Brown, the gentleman farmer? I searched for him on Ancestry.com. and found him in the England and Wales Criminal Register 1791-1892. He was transported for 7 years. It was time to research in The Treasure House archives again.
A week earlier, I had been reading what a dishonest person my ancestor was for intending to deprive Francis Brown of his good name and reputation. The document before me named Francis Brown as a common cheat. He had promised George Sproxton, a tailor from Driffield, a house and land for £150. The house and land had belonged to the late Francis Brown, Brown's father. The property had never been Brown junior's to sell. He simply intended to relieve George Sproxton of his money.
Always follow up any name in a story. It is easy to overlook shocking facts.
Robert Escritt settled down to live what seems to be a quiet family life. He returned home to Garton-on-the-Wolds to his wife Ann. She gave birth to Robert in 1810 and Hannah in 1812. Robert and Ann are both on the 1841 and 1851 census, still living in Garton-on-the Wolds. Even at the age of 71, Robert put his occupation down as an agricultural labourer. He died at the age of 77, which considering the mortality rate of the period and what he had been through, he survived quite well.
So, can a time inspire us? I think that it can, for instance – the above piece is an article but it could also have been turned into a story – maybe it will be one day. The point is that one of the most inspirational things you can do is ask yourself a question – what were my ancestors doing whilst Mary Shelley was growing up? I know what one of mine was doing – how about yours?


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Congress 2015 has come and gone and The Carnival is Over.
I imagine Convenor Kerrie Gary and her team of "green people" and "purple people" have all collapsed in a heap after a job well done…they certainly took care of us very well and provided us with a luxury smorgasbord of speakers.
So…what of my thoughts on Congress? I've been so absorbed during the event that I haven't blogged but let me try to give you a summary of what I've enjoyed most about Congress. Feedback on individual sessions will need to wait until some mental digestion has taken place I think.
The Humorous
The welcome to Sydney Congress 2018 by Bridge Climber Gerhardt (aka Martyn Killian from SAG) was very funny and provided levity just as everyone's brains had gone into meltdown. I wonder what fun and learning Sydney will have in store for us?
The quirky green-haired "So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Bye" from the Congress 2015 team was also fun.
Not so much humorous as hilarious was the finale of the Congress dinner with Canberra comedians, Shortis and Simpson, in an irreverent mockery of Australia's Prime Ministers past and present. It says a lot for our country that our national leaders can be satirised from within its very halls of power…in many countries it would merit a firing squad.
The Friends
One of the joys of Congress is meeting fellow obsessives with whom we can swap notes and experiences. I wonder how many people met cousins or others with fellow research/family interests?
I had a great time catching up with people I've met online or at past events, especially those who have become online friends via hangouts or blogging. I really enjoyed catching up with mates I'd made at RootsTech only a month or so before hand.
For those who are still wondering, the black and gold beads worn by some were generously provided by GeneaBlogger guru, and good mate, GeniAus aka Jill Ball. The pale blue Kiva ribbons tagged onto name badges were to promote the Genealogists for Families lending team about which the members are passionate. Hopefully our promo spiel may have encouraged some new members to join us. Since I was ordering those, I also ordered some Queenslander ribbons which caused some consternation among my Blues friends. Thanks to fellow GFF member and Kiwi blogger, Roger Moffat in the US who helped minimise postage costs.
The Learning and the Passion
Of course the real reason we all attend Congress is to benefit from the knowledge and passion of the wonderful speakers who talked on their fields of expertise.
From my point of view this was a great conference with so much expertise condensed in one place. It was especially enjoyable and educational to hear more from my history hero, Richard Reid (even if he did try to embarrass me in his presentation! Was I ever so young, and skinny, as in that photo?!). And then there was the opportunity to speak with Irish experts Perry McIntyre, Cheryl Mongan, Jenny Harrison and Nick Reddan. Heaven on a stick for me.
The Extras
I learnt a lot from my lunch sessions especially Paul Milner giving us tips of preparing and presenting at a Conference…a little intimidating when I was speaking an hour later…too soon to assist, too late to change much.
Who could forget the imposing surrounds of the Australian War Memorial's aviation hall or the Parliament House dinner setting?
During the Congress dinner, winners of the AFFHO Meritorious Service award. past and present, were given the new, very impressive badges.
Touring and Research
I did get to do a little research at the National Library and the National Archives but there will be more to do another time. The Australian War Memorial is, as always, inspirational and moving, especially the Remembrance Garden. As always I placed poppies on the walls for family members James Gavin, Thomas Paterson, and Robert Kunkel.
Once again, thanks to the Congress organisers for a great time of learning and fun in Canberra. Thanks also for the opportunity to be an official blogger for Congress 2015.
Apologies for this delayed posting – despite writing it on the train from Canberra to Sydney, the iPad defeated me in finessing the presentation.


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We're currently in the throes of Apple changing the look and feel of its operating systems.
iOS 8 has just been released, revealing the influence of Apple Senior VP Jony Ive in bringing a flatter look. Yosemite is around the corner and it too will show a quite different feel from the desktop operating systems of the past few years.
When Apple makes these large scale changes, it introduces design memes which are often copied. Witness the original Bondi Blue iMac of 1998, and how it changed not just Apple's design standards, but that of many other technologies, bringing multicoloured translucency to many non-IT products, for better or worse.
In iOS8, Apple has introduced Healthkit, a series of services combining both apps and hardware which resides on your iOS devices.
Below is a representation of some of its services:
Here, on the left you can see the Dashboard, with Calories burnt in orange above a Sleep measure, in blue, below. On the right, you can see a variety of health services and measures incorporated into Healthkit.
I now fully expect that these visual representations of data points will become a design meme many will choose to follow, with their crisp sharp images and icons.
(UPDATE: The folks at UI design outfit, Mercury, have offered a graphic of iOS8 elements here. Below is the healthkit range – click to enlarge).
Here's a screenshot I took of my own iPhone 6 screen showing steps taken these past few days:
I want you to note Apple's use of dual advanced gradients. One is the entire orange soft edge rectangular shape containing all the relevant data, chart and information, going vertically from an orange to an almost blood red.
But I want you to also note the line chart showing how many steps I took the last few days, from September 26-October 1. Note in particular the area under the series of white lined data points, which too has a gradient from light orange to a darker hue.
I wanted to know if this design meme could be replicated in Keynote unassisted by third party drawing tools. This is one way I hone my Keynote skills, by setting myself challenges to reproduce what may have been constructed in professional design software.
The task then was to create an advanced gradient embedded on an advanced gradient.
In the video below, I walk you through one set of solutions, so that those with rudimentary Keynote skills can learn to apply some of the software's deeper elements, such as grouping, drawing, outlining, gradients, colour matching, opacity and layering.
Bear in mind, the means I show may not be the only way to do this, and if you have more economical means (i.e., less mouse clicking), let me know in the comments.


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Everyone in the Wine community is driving to release Wine 1.2 the newest and best version of Wine.
Its been two years since Wine 1.0, and weve really made huge strides. This version will include the beginnings of genuine 64-bit support, along with major Direct3D improvements, and improvements in a huge number of other areas.Full story »


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MANCHESTER – Mark Munoz recently crossed paths with his upcoming UFC Fight Night 30 opponent, Lyoto Machida, at a banquet. But unlike the usual pre-event bravado and mean-mugging, the friends and occasional training partners talked and agreed on one thing: The winner of their fight on Saturday is buying the other one dinner.
Munoz (13-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC), the No. 8 ranked middleweight in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie.com MMA rankings, welcomes No. 5 light heavyweight Lyoto Machida (19-4 MMA, 11-4 UFC) to the 185-pound division this weekend. Machida recently replaced injured Michael Bisping (24-5 MMA, 14-5 UFC) in the FOX Sports 2-televised headliner, and Munoz admits it was a tough proposition when the UFC first approached him less than a month ago.
After all, he had trained with Machida just two days before the organization offered him the fight.
"Yeah, there was hesitation, to be honest with you," Munoz today told MMAjunkie.com. "There was hesitation in taking it. It was crazy, but at the same time, it's competition, and it's what we signed up to do.
" … It was very abrupt. From being a training partner to a friend to fighting each other, I'm all about it, but at least give me a little time. But for me, it's a fight, and I'm going to go out there and do it."
It's also a task Munoz has gotten accustomed to. The 2001 NCAA Division I national wrestling champion and perennial UFC contender is one of the nicest guys you'll meet in the sport, so it's no surprise that he ends up fighting guys he considers friends. And though punching a buddy comes with drawbacks, the 35-year-old has become especially adept at it.
"I've fought friends before, and I've done well in those lights," said Munoz, who meets Machida at Phones 4u Arena in Manchester, England. "You've got to be able to put the friendship aside for about 25 minutes and then pick it back up when it's done."
For a guy wanting big fights, Munoz said he got it with Machida. In fact, it's a big reason he decided to take the fight. Munoz had won four consecutive bouts, including one over Chris Leben that marked the first five-round non-title fight in UFC history, before a loss to now-champ Chris Weidman. Munoz, though, rebounded with a three-round thrashing of Tim Boetsch at UFC 162.
With a win over someone of Machida's caliber – and with an overall 6-1 run – he could be in prime position for a shot at champ Weidman or challenger Anderson Silva, who rematch next month at UFC 168.
"I think with Machida going down to middleweight, being a former champion and fighting me, he definitely has a way to fight for a title," he said. "But that's only if he gets by me.
"So I truly believe we both have a shot at a title after this fight."
First, though, Munoz has to actually catch Machida, whose elusive style has frustrated many opponents. Although he has proven knockout power, Munoz's best shot at victory may come on the ground. To get there, he has to corral the Brazilian. But that can be a dangerous proposition.
"That's why I said there are endless combinations you've got to do," he said. "You can't just unconsciously, like, go in for the kill. If you do that – Ryan Bader got knocked out, and Tito (Ortiz) got kneed. It's like going into wood-chipper, like Mike Goldberg said. You can't just go haphazardly in.
"I've got some things in my arsenal I'm going to do, and the advantage for me is I've trained with him. That's definitely an advantage for me."
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Mifflin County Airport: Running the ridges of Pennsylvania.
Each year (most years), we take a soaring trip in late September - early October to 'fly the ridges' from Mifflin County Airport in Reedsville, central Pennsylvania.
(above) looking northeast along the valley. That's a taxiway in the midground, not the runway. Conditions on this day (9/28) were great for both ridge and thermaling -- if you kept away from the isolated showers.
(above): Jack's Mountain, the 'beginner ridge', looking to the southwest. A northwest wind (blowing from the right) makes the ridge work. The airport is just beyond the picture frame to the right. You can run 20 miles along Jack's Mountain to Mill Creek. The ridge peak is about 1400 feet above the valley floor.
(above): Looking northeast from about 4000 feet. The airport is on the valley centerline, about 1/3 of the way down from the top of the photo. Jack's Mountain is on the right, broken by 'the gap' where highway 322 goes through. On the left is Stone Mountain, which works with a wind from the south or southeast. Many of the farms in the valley are Amish farms -- no electric wires. Seven Mountains (seen also in the picture below) lies to the left out of the picture frame.
(above). Looking southeast from Seven Mountains toward the airport (closer to left than right); beyond the airport are Jack's Mountain and 'the gap'. After mastering the beginner ridge, the next big step is to use thermals to get from one ridge to another. If you find the thermals to get yourself over Seven Mountains to the northwest, you can get on Tussey Ridge (behind the camera in the view above) and run down to Cumberland, about 90 miles to the southwest. Several Nutmeg members have gotten their 300 km distance badge running exactly these ridges, and one (Todd S.) has done a 750 km here.
Superblanik rigged and ready to go. The blacktop runway is 5000 feet long -- or you can land on the grass on its northwest edge.
Conditions on Friday, 9/28 were great for both ridge and thermaling. (See also top photo in this section). Resident tow pilot Butch T. is at left; also present are area airport/glider friends Gene G. and Brian G. (back to camera, for some reason).
(above) Dealing with a vario that lost its mind. Background: several pilots and others helpfully stay out of the way by concentrating on the traditional post-flight peanuts and Koolaid.
(above). It's Jim S!
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The Salomon Sense Mantra may very well be a shoe that introduces 'new' runners to mid or forefoot running with cushioning and comfort and a 6mm drop or provide efficient runners with a shoe of greater comfort over longer distances.
The 'Mantra' is the the second brother to the S-Lab Sense that Kilian Jornet used in winning the 2011 WS100, the first brother being the 'new' S-Lab Sense Ultra.
Why the Mantra?
Well, the Sense and Sense Ultra at 4mm 'drop' may very well be two of the most desirable shoes in the run market place at the moment, but for many it may very well be a step too far… especially if coming from a conventional road or trail shoe with a 12mm drop.
Drop? What's that then… well in the Mantra the 'drop' is 6mm. Clearly shown in this image.
Drop is quite simply the difference between heel and toe height. The 'lower' the drop, in theory, the more natural the foot strike. It has long been proven that a mid to forefoot strike is far better for efficiency. However, until the 'barefoot' and 'minimalist' movement primarily fuelled by Chris McDougall's book 'Born to Run', many of us probably didn't even know what our shoe drop was…
Drop isn't everything though. Cushioning is also really important. In the Mantra the cushioning at the front of the shoe is 10mm and 16mm at the rear, so, a cushioned shoe!
This additional cushioning combined with a 6mm drop clearly means that the Mantra is firmly placed at enticing two types of runner:
- Firstly, Sense or Sense Ultra users who want a low drop shoe with additional cushioning for longer races or training.
- Secondly, runners who have been using 'conventional' shoes who would like to move to a lower drop and improve run technique with a mid – forefoot strike.
The Mantra in a nutshell offers a little more cushioning than it's S-Lab brothers, a little more protection and a longer OS Tendon to return more energy. The lower heel drop will allow tendons/muscles to absorb more shock from the running motion and remove stress away from joints. Ultimately, this improvement in run technique will provide greater running efficient for less effort, less injury and a more balanced runner.
OS Tendon? This provides a balanced flex within the shoe and according to Salomon provides improved energy return.
Key Features of the shoe:
Endofit : This is one of the key features of the Sense range that I love. It is an internal sleeve within the shoe, almost like a sock. It does mean that the 'Sense' range can be a little awkward to get on at first making you even question if you have the right size shoe. But once your foot slides in you are rewarded with a tight fitting shoe that grips the foot providing a firm, secure and confident feel. Designed for Kilian Jornet so that he could run without a sock. Please keep this in mind. I have gone true to size and use a thin sock and they feel great. If you are planning on using a more padded sock you may need a half size larger.
Dynamic Traction : A Salomon patented system allowing for maximum surface area and traction. Designed for 'Road to Trail' the Dynamic Traction grips in the dry and provides security in mud.
Profeet Film : Quite literally a thin fim that runs through the top of the midsole to provide security and protection from the trail that you will run on.
Sensifit : The upper wraps the foot for precision.
Quicklace : A renowned feature of all Salomon shoes with a 'garage' the top of the tongue to store excess lace.
Weight is around 260g for a UK9.5 so it compares well to the Sense Ultra at 230g and The North Face Single Track Hayasa at 280g (this shoe has a 10mm drop).
Early days yet but as one would imagine, this shoe brings many benefits to an already growing shoe collection. As an alternative to lighter and lower drop shoes such as the Sense or Sense Ultra, the Mantra will provide some welcome additional comfort on those longer days on road or trail.
Watch this blog and I will be back with an update as the miles and mud accumulates.
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Here is a neat little circuit that was used in an actual project a long, long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away…).
The requirement was to build a divide by 5 circuit for the clock with 50% duty cycle. The initial (on reset) behavior was not important – i.e. the circuit could wake up in an undefined state, but should have settled after a given time. The engineer produced the circuit below:
Basically, the circuit is made out of a 3-bit counter, that counts from 000 to 100 and then resets. Signal 'X' goes high when the value of the counter is either 000, 001 or 010. Signal 'Y' goes high when the counter equals its 'middle' state 010. 'Z' is a sample on the falling edge of 'Y' in order to generate the 50% duty cycle.
So far so good. The general thinking was OK, but there was a major problem with the circuit, can you discover what it was? How would you fix it in RTL? and more important, how would you fix it in an ECO (as it was eventually done)?
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Michele Bachmann Seems a Bit Misinformed
"There's nothing about gays in [Arizona SB 1062], but the gay community decided to make this their measure," Bachmann said in a radio interview last week. "And the thing that I think is getting a little tiresome is the gay community have so bullied the American people and they have so intimidated politicians that politicians fear them and they think they get to dictate the agenda everywhere. Well, not with the Constitution you don't."
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That's a hell of a way to announce last call!
A hip Brooklyn bar was mistakenly raided by cops — led by the commanding officer of the local precinct — who barged inside and dumped all its booze down the drain, its angry owner charges.
The mix-up at Coco66 has kept the Greenpoint bar shuttered since the Prohibition-style police action in July, 2011, David Kelleran said in papers filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
The confusion came after Kelleran bounced a check to the State Liquor Authority for his other establishment, "68" which was located directly next door on Greenpoint Avenue and held a separate liquor license, the lawsuit says.
Even though Kelleran had 10 days to re-send the $4,382, the cops busted into Coco66 — which had a valid liquor license — just five days later, the papers say. They kicked everyone out and got rid of all the alcohol like they were FBI agents enforcing the Volstead Act, the papers allege.
"There is no provision in New York's Alcoholic Beverage Control Law . . . that allows for the wholesale destruction of private property, without notice,'' Kelleran's lawyer, Craig Trainor, told The Post Wednesday.
"The utter and complete lawlessness exhibited by the NYPD in this case shocks the conscience," Trainor said, noting that illegal drugs and counterfeit money aren't destroyed when seized by cops.
The 94th Precinct's commanding officer, Deputy Inspector Terence Hurson, led the raid and boasted about it afterwards.
"This is something I've wanted to do for a while — we've had noise complaints about the place," Hurson told The Brooklyn Paper a week later.
A spokeswoman for the City Law Department said the agency is reviewing the suit, which seeks unspecified damages.


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Apple's App of the Week deal keeps a steady stream of free software coming through the App Store for us iOS users. On weeks when the app isn't immediately relevant, just download and delete it and you can always come back to it through iCloud's Purchased apps tab.
Redditor TreyF posted this particular lifehack to the site with a tip to always download the App of the Week and then delete the ones you don't see yourself using it right away. That way a travel app like Kayak Pro, which is this week's promotion, doesn't take up space on your device if you don't have any upcoming trips planned.
When you're ready to put a deleted app to use, just pop over to the App Store app on your device, go to the Updates tab and tap the Purchased bar at the top. From there, you can filter for apps that aren't currently on your iPhone. Tap the cloud button to download.
Full access to previously purchased apps arrived with iTunes in the Cloud last year ahead of the full release of iCloud that fall.
Apple launched its App of the Week promos back in May. Follow the official App Store account or the #FreeAppoftheWeek hashtag on Twitter to stay up to date on the weekly deal. Previous promotions include Diptic, 360Panorama and Catapult King.
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- .3 ounces (about 2 1/3 teaspoons) kosher salt, plus extra for assembly
- .2 ounces (about 1 teaspoon) active dry yeast
- 11 ounces (1 1/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons) water
- 2 quarts vegetable, canola, or peanut oil
- 1/2 pound raw bulk maple breakfast sausage
- 4 eggs
- 4 tablespoons pure maple syrup (optional)
- 2 ounces grated Parmigiano-Reggiano (about 1 1/2 cups)
- 1 recipe Hollandaise sauce, warm
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
Combine flour, salt, and yeast in a large bowl. Whisk until homogenous. Add water and stir with hands until dough comes together and no dry flour remains. Knead lightly for about 30 seconds, then cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for 8 to 16 hours.
Turn dough out onto lightly floured board and using floured hands, divide into four pieces. Form each piece into a ball and place on floured board, leaving a few inches of space between each ball. Cover with plastic wrap or with a moist, clean dish towel. Let rise for two hours.
When dough has risen, preheat broiler to high heat with the rack set about 6 inches below the broiler element. Place a 10-inch cast iron or stainless steel skillet under the broiler. Add oil to a wide wok or Dutch oven and heat over high heat to 350°F, as registered on an instant-read or deep-fry thermometer. Adjust flame to maintain this temperature.
On a lightly floured bowl, stretch or roll one dough ball into a disk about 10-inches in diameter. Using your fingertips, make a dozen to 18 small holes in the stretched dough, leaving the outer 1-inch intact.
Carefully lower dough into hot oil, using a wire mesh spider or large metal spatula to keep it submerged. Fry until puffy and lightly crisped on bottom side, about 45 seconds. Carefully flip the dough with tongs and cook until second side is crisp, about 45 seconds longer. Carefully remove hot skillet from under broiler and set on stovetop. Flip dough back over and transfer to pre-heated skillet.
Scatter 1/4 of sausage over top of pizza, leaving a 1-inch border all around and a 2-inch wide hole in the center for the egg. Make sure sausage pieces are no more than 1/4-inch in size, or they will not cook through. Break egg into center of pizza, drizzle sausage with maple syrup, then sprinkle entire pizza with 1/4 of Parmesan. Transfer to broiler and cook until edges are charred (this will happen much faster than with a normal pizza), and egg is set but still liquid in the center, about 1 1/2 minutes.
Drizzle finished pizza with hollandaise and sprinkle with parsley. Serve immediately, then repeat steps 4 through 6 for remaining pizzas.
Special equipment
wok or dutch oven for deep frying


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Highlight, Pageonce, Angry Birds Star Wars, Cut the Rope, StumbleUpon, Klip, price drops, and more
9to5Mac once again scoured the App Store for the most notable apps that launched, updated, or announced news recently and gathered them in our usual list below.
Today's crop includes updates for popular iOS games like Cut the Rope and Angry Birds Star Wars, as well as enhancements to social apps like Highlight and Klip. There also a few noteworthy new apps and price drops. Check out the full roundup below, but keep checking back as we continually update throughout the day.
1. Skype | Free
Skype just updated in a huge way yesterday, but it pushed out version 4.2.1 today to fix some critical bugs.
2. Highlight| Free
The app that locates nearby friends is now at version 1.3.1 today. The update includes performance improvements, bug fixes, and "reduced resource consumption."
3. Angry Birds Star Wars | 99 cents
Rovio just launched version 1.1.0 with a bunch of shiny new features, including: 20 levels on the ice world of Hoth, an "attractive" power for Pink bird as Princess Leia, two bonus levels, and more.
4. Angry Birds Star Wars HD | $2.99
Rovio didn't leave the HD version of its app by the wayside today; it is now at version 1.1.0 with the same new features as listed above.
5. Pageonce | Free
The popular app that tracks bills just went to version 5.71. The full changelog includes:
- Celebrate our 4th year on iOS – get Bill Pay for free!
- Schedule Payments: Plan ahead and set up your bill payment in advance
- Shiny new app icon
Get more below.


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Healthy neurotic? Being conscientious may help
(HealthDay)—Being both neurotic and conscientious may be good for your health.
That's the finding from University of Rochester Medical Center researchers investigating how psychosocial factors such as personality traits affect health.
Conscientiousness is characterized as being organized, responsible and hardworking.
Neuroticism is typically marked by being moody, nervous and a worrier, and is linked to hostility, depression, and excessive drinking and smoking.
But this study of more than 1,000 people found that those with moderate to high levels of both neuroticism and conscientiousness tended to have the lowest levels of a type of protein molecule called interleukin 6 (IL-6).
High levels of IL-6 indicate the presence of inflammation linked to chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, asthma, arthritis, diabetes and some cancers.
These neurotic yet conscientious people also had lower body mass index scores—a measure of body fat—and fewer diagnosed chronic health conditions, according to the study published online recently in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
"These people are likely to weigh the consequences of their actions, and therefore their level of neuroticism coupled with conscientiousness probably stops them from engaging in risky behaviors," study author Nicholas Turiano, a postdoctoral fellow in the psychiatry department, said in a university news release.
It's likely that the combination of neuroticism and conscientiousness also compels people to seek treatment when they have health problems, he added.
"Future studies will try to figure out who are the healthy neurotics and why they are healthier," Turiano said. "Eventually, the clinical application might allow us to identify patients at high risk for chronic inflammation, and therefore have an increased risk of health problems and death."
While the study found an association between certain personality traits and health status, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
More information: The American Heart Association has more about inflammation and heart disease.
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Indigenous Language Revitalization in Canada
Before European settlement in Canada, Indigenous peoples spoke a wide variety of languages. As a means of assimilating Indigenous peoples, colonial policies like the Indian Act and residential schools forbid the speaking of Indigenous languages. These restrictions have led to the ongoing endangerment of Indigenous languages in Canada. In 2016, Statistics Canada reported that for about 40 Indigenous languages in Canada, there are only about 500 speakers or less. Indigenous communities and various educational institutions have taken measures to prevent more language loss and to preserve Indigenous languages.