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Where's support for Hunter?
The Angels are hosting the All-Star Game on July 13. It's a pretty big deal. You'd think their fans would be doing everything they can to make sure one of their players — ideally, their best player, Torii Hunter — would be in the starting lineup for the American League.
You'd think that would be the case, but you'd be wrong. It's a clear case of voter apathy in Orange and its neighboring counties.
Angels fans are sitting around not voting, evidently. They do a lot of complaining about what they have and don't have, judging by my emails, but they're not too interested in voting. They're content to let eight other players start the game, without representation from the hometown team that has won its division the past three seasons and five of the past six.
Hunter is seventh in the AL outfield. That's ridiculous. You can make a case that the three guys leading in the balloting — Ichiro, Carl Crawford and Josh Hamilton — are all deserving. They're having big seasons, and they're talented, charismatic players.
I'd take Hunter in a heartbeat over any of the three.
I'm biased, of course. I'm around Torii every day and see what he does on the field, in the clubhouse, in general life. He's as good as it gets. He should be in center field when this All-Star Game unfolds.
What's really absurd is that a pair of Yankees — Curtis Granderson and Nick Swisher — are running ahead of Hunter in the voting. I'm pretty sure they'd both agree they're not in Hunter's class as all-around players.
Hunter is having another big year. He started one All-Star Game, in Milwaukee in 2002, and made one of the most memorable plays in the history of the Midsummer Classic, scaling the wall in center to snatch a home run away from Barry Bonds.
Hunter is clutch. He goes all out, all the time. He lives for the moment and represents his sport as well as any athlete anywhere.
It's a shame the fans aren't doing their part to take care of a guy who never stops taking care of others. — Lyle Spencer
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Yeah, right… I've punched more ballots this year than ever before and I'm apathetic. Maybe the problem is that fans in other cities are actually voting, too. Sure, L.A. is a big city… but the reality is that there are more people in this country that aren't Angels fans than are. I love Hunter and he absolutely deserves to go, but if you hadn't watched him play and were only looking at numbers would you really vote for him?
As much as I enjoy having Hunter on the team I don't want a mancrush to get in the way of the way I look at the Angels. I've ended the season too many times with a broken heart to let my homerism to take control any more. Let's be honest, the Angels don't have a real, live All-Star on the field. I'd guess that the manager will select Weaver to be added but that's probably about it.
That's not to say I don't love the Angels' team approach, I do. It's been years since any single injury (or two) truly debilitated the team during the regular season. I appreciate all that management has done to make the team a contender year in and year out really appreciate that they've resisted to impulse to spend a ton of money on some guy who is two years from declining production to a seven year contract (Still a little confused about the Sarge, Jr signing but…). The occasional sharp trade has provided much better results than this type of reactionary mistake.
Even without a consensus All-Star, I'm still enjoying every season of the Scioscia/Stoneman/Reagins era more than any time since I first watched an Angels game, about 1965. Keep up the great work! Let's hope the farm system can provide the talent the team needs in the future.


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Background: I am working on an application which supports SAML based login. To support SAML based login we open the IDP url in the WKWebView and the IDP take it from there. The IDP based URLs are mostly HTTPS urls and hence they work fine with ATS for our application.
Problem: But unfortunately today we enouctered the problem where the certificate of the IDP is not supported by iOS. The certificate fulfills all requirements except the "Forward Secrecy" requirement. Currently we have "NSAllowsArbitraryLoads" set to NO in our application. Now when we run the application and hit the IDP URL we get the following error in didFailProvisionalNavigation:
didFailProvisionalNavigation::Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1200 "An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made." UserInfo={_WKRecoveryAttempterErrorKey=<WKReloadFrameErrorRecoveryAttempter: 0x7f86110935e0>, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=<URL>, NSErrorFailingURLKey=<URL>, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Would you like to connect to the server anyway?, NSUnderlyingError=0x7f861109d5d0 {Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1200 "An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made." UserInfo={_kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=3, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Would you like to connect to the server anyway?, _kCFNetworkCFStreamSSLErrorOriginalValue=-9824, _kCFStreamPropertySSLClientCertificateState=0, NSLocalizedDescription=An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made., NSErrorFailingURLKey=<URL>, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=<URL>, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-9824}}, NSLocalizedDescription=An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made.}
I have removed the URL string here.
To fix this I tried implementing the -(void)webView:(WKWebView *)webView didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge:(NSURLAuthenticationChallenge *)challenge completionHandler:(void (^)(NSURLSessionAuthChallengeDisposition, NSURLCredential *_Nullable))completionHandler method.
Below is the code for the same:
if ([authenticationMethod isEqualToString:NSURLAuthenticationMethodServerTrust]) { [ActivityIndicatorHelper hideGlobalHud]; NSLog(@"protectionSpace::%@", [challenge protectionSpace].description); SecTrustRef trust = [[challenge protectionSpace] serverTrust]; if (trust != NULL) { SecTrustResultType secresult = kSecTrustResultInvalid; if (SecTrustEvaluate(trust, &secresult) != errSecSuccess) { completionHandler(NSURLSessionAuthChallengePerformDefaultHandling, nil); return; } NSLog(@"secresult::%u",secresult); } completionHandler(NSURLSessionAuthChallengeUseCredential, nil);
The above NSLog on line 18 always prints result as "4" which is kSecTrustResultUnspecified which as per definition is obtained only if the certificate is invalid. But in this case it seems that the certificate is "invalid" because it does not fulfill the "Forward Secrecy" requirement. I was banking on the status to be kSecTrustResultRecoverableTrustFailure so that I can use the above method to present the user with an alert with message that warns them that the certificate is not trusted. If they wish to proceed, I will modify the trust setting and let them go ahead. But if I get kSecTrustResultUnspecified which can also be obtained for valid URLs, how can I differentiate between kSecTrustResultRecoverableTrustFailure and kSecTrustResultUnspecified?
To ensure that "forward secrecy" of the certificate is a problem, I modified the ATS setting for my app to be as below and the IDP page started loading properly:
<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key> <dict> <key>NSExceptionDomains</key> <dict> <key>main.app.domain</key> <dict> <key>NSIncludesSubdomains</key> <true/> </dict> <key>idp.vender.domain</key> <dict> <key>NSIncludesSubdomains</key> <true/> <key>NSExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads</key> <false/> <key>NSExceptionRequiresForwardSecrecy</key> <false/> </dict> </dict> </dict>
Is the above behavior of obtaining result as kSecTrustResultUnspecified expected? If yes, how do I differentiate between valid certificate and invalid certificate with "forward secrecy" missing? Any solution is highly appreciated.

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Europeans drawn from three ancient "tribes" – "The modern European gene pool was formed when three ancient populations mixed within the last 7,000 years, Nature journal reports. Blue-eyed, swarthy hunters mingled with brown-eyed, pale skinned farmers as the latter swept into Europe from the Near East. But another, mysterious population with Siberian affinities also contributed to the genetic landscape of the continent." – see also: Before Slavery – "From what I can see so far, it looks as the invaders killed all the LBK-descended farmers in northern Europe, or nearly so. The locals had had long trapezoidal houses clustered in small villages: the Corded Ware culture has almost no buildings at all, and a lot less agriculture. They didn't make the EEF guys serfs and get a cut of their grain – the villages disappeared. They didn't tax them, but then money and bureaucracy hadn't been invented yet. Same for slavery: hadn't been invented, probably. Judging from the mtDNA patterns, they didn't even grab many of the nubile women. The genetic mix changes little as you move across the north European plain: if the invaders were picking up local genes as they rolled along, it should have. We used to call Corded Ware the Battle-Axe culture, but that's too accurate for comfort." – from greg cochran.
They weren't wimps: how modern humans, like Neanderthals, braved the northern cold – "Recent finds at Willendorf in Austria reveal that modern humans were living in cool steppe-like conditions some 43,500 years ago – and that their presence overlapped with that of Neanderthals for far longer than we thought." – h/t mr. robert ford!
Stone Age groups made similar toolmaking breakthroughs – "Different palaeolithic populations around the world might have developed a crucial toolmaking skill independently. This conclusion, based on the analysis of hundreds of artefacts from a recently excavated archaeological site in Armenia, weakens a long-held theory that Stone Age people in Eurasia learnt sophisticated techniques from migrating African tribes. The work is published in Science."
Human paternal and maternal demographic histories: insights from high-resolution Y chromosome and mtDNA sequences – "Comparisons of maternally-inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and paternally-inherited non-recombining Y chromosome (NRY) variation have provided important insights into the impact of sex-biased processes (such as migration, residence pattern, and so on) on human genetic variation…. Our results confirm the controversial assertion that genetic differences between human populations on a global scale are bigger for the NRY than for mtDNA, although the differences are not as large as previously suggested. More importantly, we find substantial regional variation in patterns of mtDNA *versus* NRY variation." – h/t juan fernández lópez! – see also: New analysis of human genetic history reveals female dominance – (heh. that was a nice twist on the story! (~_^) ) h/t frau katze!
23andMe mega-study on different American groups – @dienekes'. see also: The genetic ancestry of African, Latino, and European Americans across the United States.
Admixture in Latin America: Geographic Structure, Phenotypic Diversity and Self-Perception of Ancestry Based on 7,342 Individuals – "We estimated individual ancestry proportions in a sample of 7,342 subjects ascertained in five countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, México and Perú). These individuals were also characterized for a range of physical appearance traits and for self-perception of ancestry. The geographic distribution of admixture proportions in this sample reveals extensive population structure, illustrating the continuing impact of demographic history on the genetic diversity of Latin America. Significant ancestry effects were detected for most phenotypes studied. However, ancestry generally explains only a modest proportion of total phenotypic variation. Genetically estimated and self-perceived ancestry correlate significantly, but certain physical attributes have a strong impact on self-perception and bias self-perception of ancestry relative to genetically estimated ancestry." – see also razib: The Phenotypic and the Genotypic.
Ashkenazi Jewish population has distinctive, yet similar genomes – "Post-population bottleneck, descendants of Eastern European Jews are all 30th-ish cousins…. Compared to genomes of modern Europeans—in this case, the genomes of 26 Flemish people—the Ashkenazi genomes have 47 percent more novel DNA differences per genome. These DNA variants, while novel, are population specific; sequence sharing, where two individuals have a set of the same variants, is eight percent more abundant among the Ashkenazi Jews than it is between the two populations or even among the Flemish genomes." – h/t billare!
Why Did Civilization Lag in Africa? – from steve sailer.
Force of nature gave life its asymmetry – "'Left-handed' electrons destroy certain organic molecules faster than their mirror versions."
make sure not to miss jayman's new Obesity Facts page. and give him some money, too! (^_^)
A fruitful encounter – "Did the Christian doctrine of original sin create the guilt cultures of Northwest Europe? Or did the arrow of causality run the other way?" – from peter frost.
Review: G Is for Genes: The Impact of Genetics on Education and Achievement (Kathryn Asbury, Robert Plomin) – from emil kirkegaard.
The hereditarian hypothesis almost certainly true – "Surely, there are huge benefits to being the first author to publish a study that almost conclusively disproves the genetic model for AA's. Researchers with access to the data have a strong incitement to publish such a study. If the data supports the view, they have all the necessary means too. Since they haven't published it, we can hence infer that the data does not support the politically favorable non-genetic conclusion, but instead the genetic model." – also from emil kirkegaard.
Cognitive ability and party identity in the United States – "[I]ndividuals who identify as Republican have slightly higher verbal intelligence than those who identify as Democrat…. [H]igher intelligence among classically liberal Republicans compensates for lower intelligence among socially conservative Republicans." – the results suggest. – h/t stuart ritchie!
Lighter-skinned minorities are more likely to support Republicans
A study of the performance of Egyptian college students on the Advanced Progressive Matrices – "The Egyptian raw scores were transformed to British IQ equivalents using the published 1992 British norms for the APM, on which the sample obtained a British IQ of 89.5. Science students obtained a significantly higher average mean score than arts students by 7.5 IQ points. Male students obtained a non-significantly higher average IQ than female students 1.2 IQ points. Male students had greater variability than the female students." – h/t erwin schmidt!
The Available Pool – ed realist goes all voldemort on us. again.
Epigenetics, the Glory and the Hype – "Epigenetics is real. But it doesn't change everything. That needs to be said, because people seem to get the impression that everything is changed." – from razib.
Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel [pdf] – "A large literature proposes that preferences for exaggerated sex typicality in human faces (masculinity/femininity) reflect a long evolutionary history of sexual and social selection. This proposal implies that dimorphism was important to judgments of attractiveness and personality in ancestral environments. It is difficult to evaluate, however, because most available data come from large-scale, industrialized, urban populations. Here, we report the results for 12 populations with very diverse levels of economic development. Surprisingly, preferences for exaggerated sex-specific traits are only found in the novel, highly developed environments. Similarly, perceptions that masculine males look aggressive increase strongly with development and, specifically, urbanization." – h/t jayman!
Do your genes skew how you taste alcohol? – "A new study shows that how people perceive and taste alcohol varies as a result of genetics. The scientists focused on three chemosensory genes—two bitter-taste receptor genes known as TAS2R13 and TAS2R38 and a burn receptor gene, TRPV1. The research is the first to consider whether variation in the burn receptor gene might influence alcohol sensations, which has not previously been linked to alcohol consumption." – alcohol tastes gooooood! (~_^) – h/t phillip melton!
Parent–Offspring Similarity for Drinking: A Longitudinal Adoption Study [pdf] – "Findings imply that genetic influences on drinking behavior increase with age while shared family environment influences decline, especially during the transition from late-adolescence to early adulthood." – h/t emil kirkegaard!
Violent Video Games and Real-World Violence: Rhetoric Versus Data – "Contrary to the claims that violent video games are linked to aggressive assaults and homicides, no evidence was found to suggest that this medium was positively related to real-world violence in the United States. Unexpectedly, many of the results were suggestive of a decrease in violent crime in response to violent video games. Possible explanations for these unforeseen findings are discussed and researchers are cautioned about generalizing the results from laboratory and correlational studies to severe forms of violent behavior." – h/t mugwump! who tweeted some of the tables here, here, and here.
The Objective Morality Delusion – "Atheists often scorn those who believe in the God Delusion. The faithful, in turn, scorn those atheists who believe in the Objective Morality Delusion. The scorn is understandable in both cases, but I give the nod to the faithful on this one…." – from helian.
Paradox of nationalism – "Nationalism as we know it arose in modern times in Europe. Other countries outside Europe just don't seem to have the same thing, although there are exceptions, such as Japan, or maybe Turkey. And in fact, nationalism was at one time considered a part of liberalism – which is another European invention…. Other countries that don't have the same history as Europe seem unlikely to develop that kind of nationalism. Think of Iraq, Syria, most African countries, even China: they are more given to clannishness than patriotism." – from mr. mangan, esq.
Plant breeding, not working slaves harder, drove cotton efficiency gains in the US South – from pseudoerasmus.
Confusion Over the Biological Reality of the Human Races – "[O]ne can see clearly why Wade's argument is not racist: at the core of his argument is his claim that the tribalism of racial ethnocentrism belongs to an ancient stage of human evolution that has to be overcome to move into modern states and inclusive institutions (see Wade, 136, 173-82, 196-97)." – larry arnhart on A Troublesome Inheritance.
Yes, it's official, men are from Mars and women from Venus, and here's the science to prove it – "In his fascinating new book the developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert argues that there is actually hard science behind many of our stereotypical gender roles." – h/t claire lehmann!
The Woman's Heart Attack – "[M]en more typically have 'crushing' pain; women, nausea. That women are likelier to have early warning signs, such as unaccustomed fatigue or insomnia (unaccustomed: That's the key word here). That we are likelier — this spooked me and kept me, for months, glued to calendars — to die within a year of a heart attack. That our symptoms can be so varied and nuanced that we feel no fear, seek no help, and possibly die — which may be why, although more men have heart attacks, a greater percentage of women die of them."
The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears *Not* to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization – "[E]vidence is marshaled across 21 data sources that directly challenge this foundational assumption of social role theory. Empirically, sex differences in most psychological traits — in personality, sexuality, attitudes, emotions, behaviors, and cognitive abilities — are conspicuously *larger* in cultures with more egalitarian sex role socialization and greater sociopolitical gender equity. Even sex differences in many physical traits such as height, obesity, and blood pressure are larger in cultures with more egalitarian sex role socialization and greater sociopolitical gender equity."
School Performance After Preterm Birth – "An increased risk of poor school performance for children born preterm has been shown in many studies, but whether this increase is attributable to preterm birth per se or to other factors associated with preterm birth has not been resolved…. Preterm birth was strongly and negatively correlated with school performance. The distribution of school grades for children born at 31-33 weeks was on average 3.85 (95% confidence interval = -4.36 to -3.35) centiles lower than for children born at 40 weeks. For births at 22-24 weeks, the corresponding figure was -23.15 (-30.32 to -15.97). When taking confounders into account, the association remained. When restricting the analysis to siblings, however, the association between school performance and preterm birth after week 30 vanished completely, whereas it remained, less pronounced, for preterm birth before 30 weeks of gestation. Our study suggests that the association between school performance and preterm birth after 30 gestational weeks is attributable to factors other than preterm birth per se."
Are Neighborhood Health Associations Causal? A 10-Year Prospective Cohort Study With Repeated Measurements – h/t amir sariaslan! who tweeted: "Neighborhoods did not cause health outcomes in Australian large longitudinal within-individual study over 10 years."
Seat of Selflessness Found in Brains of Extreme Altruists – "In this case researchers chose to study people who donated a kidney to a complete stranger. They found that not only are extreme altruists' brains different from a normal person's, they're basically the opposite of a psychopath's in one key way – indicating that a specific brain region may play an important role in people's ability to care for one another." – n=39, but it's a start!
Can the Game of Thrones option save the UK? – "The situation now resembles the Union of Crowns from 1603-1707 when Scotland had its own parliament but was still under the king in Westminster, and Cameron is behaving like Charles I: making promises to his northern kingdom that affect the southern one, without regards to how the southerners feel. Just as in 1640, the greatest protests are coming from the east of England, once the stronghold of Puritanism and the parliamentary rebels and now the Ukip heartland." – from ed west.
God, Darwin and My College Biology Class – "[A] third consequence of evolutionary insights: a powerful critique of theodicy, the scholarly effort to reconcile belief in an omnipresent, omni-benevolent God with the fact of unmerited suffering. Theological answers range from claiming that suffering provides the option of free will to announcing (as in the Book of Job) that God is so great and we so insignificant that we have no right to ask. But just a smidgen of biological insight makes it clear that, although the natural world can be marvelous, it is also filled with ethical horrors: predation, parasitism, fratricide, infanticide, disease, pain, old age and death — and that suffering (like joy) is built into the nature of things. The more we know of evolution, the more unavoidable is the conclusion that living things, including human beings, are produced by a natural, totally amoral process, with no indication of a benevolent, controlling creator." – david barash, pessimist(?).
Incest a "fundamental right" says German committee says – "Anti-incest laws in Germany could be scrapped after a government-backed group said relationships between brothers and sisters should be legal." – those wacky germans! h/t anatoly!
Radicalised Muslims in UK more likely to be born in Britain, rich and depressed – "Young British Muslims whose families have lived in the UK for generations are more at risk of radicalisation than recent migrants to Britain, according to new research which reveals the common characteristics of those most vulnerable to recruitment by terrorists." – we've seen that pattern before. h/t ed west!
Millions of Old Tyres are Dumped Near Empty Apartment Blocks in Spanish Ghost Town – you HAVE to see the photos! h/t ian geldard!
bonus: Skin coloring of rhesus macaque monkeys linked to breeding success, new study shows
bonus bonus: Fantastically Wrong: Europe's Insane History of Putting Animals on Trial and Executing Them – h/t kyle hill!
bonus bonus bonus: Belgium to build beer pipeline under Bruges – those wacky belgians!
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text: After fading as a home craft for awhile, sewing is popular again. Fresh new fabric designs, the embracing of retro styles (aprons are super popular) and the desire for handcrafted items have fueled the new interest. Bend-the-Rules Sewing by Amy Karol fits right in with this new wave of sewing. She offers simple, practical designs that are both sophisticated and innovative. Her instructions are straightforward and encouraging; even a beginner can quickly – and successfully – get started. Projects range from tote bags to pillows to bibs to a lap quilt and are easily adaptable to your skills and interests. The hard part will be picking out the perfect fabric!


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What Is iTunes?
iTunes is a Mac and PC media player application used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. It also allows users to connect to the iTunes Store. Music, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, mobile apps, e-books, and podcasts are available for playback, purchase, or download through iTunes. Movies and TV shows can also be rented. iTunes allows users to download content to other Apple devices for portability and playback.
Apple introduced iTunes in 2001. Apple offers iTunes as free to download but requires users to have an account to rent, purchase, and download premium content. While many things in iTunes must be purchased, there is free content available for download and playback as well. The podcast section, for example, provides both audio and video content that a user can either play or download for future playback, most of which is free. Users can subscribe to preferred or desired features so that, when the device is connected to iTunes, the most recent content will be downloaded automatically.
The Church and iTunes
The Church has a Mormon Channel page in the podcast section on iTunes, found at itunes.ChurchofJesusChrist.org. On the Mormon Channel iTunes page, you can play or download video and audio podcasts. General conferences, Mormon Messages, CES devotionals, LDS radio broadcasts, and other Church-related content can also be accessed on iTunes. Some of these are available in multiple languages. Also, by subscribing to favorite podcasts, users will have these favorites automatically download each time their portable device is connected to iTunes. Downloading media allows users to store Church media on personal devices and use it for home teaching, lessons, and sharing the gospel.
The Mormon Channel iTunes page primarily serves as a video-on-demand site. All available content can be downloaded to portable devices and connected to a TV or projector for playback. Apple has an Internet-connectable device, called Apple TV, which connects the iTunes store to the TV for convenient playback of available content. LDS podcasts can also be located and played on TVs connected with Apple TV.
For additional information on Apple TV, Apple portable devices, and iTunes, visit apple.com.


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An object that represents the location of a resource, such as an item on a remote server or the path to a local file.
- iOS 2.0+
- macOS 10.0+
- Mac Catalyst 13.0+
- tvOS 9.0+
- watchOS 2.0+
- Foundation
You can use URL objects to construct URLs and access their parts. For URLs that represent local files, you can also manipulate properties of those files directly, such as changing the file's last modification date. Finally, you can pass URL objects to other APIs to retrieve the contents of those URLs. For example, you can use the
NSURLConnection, and
NSURLDownload classes to access the contents of remote resources, as described in URL Loading System.
URL objects are the preferred way to refer to local files. Most objects that read data from or write data to a file have methods that accept an
NSURL object instead of a pathname as the file reference. For example, you can get the contents of a local file URL as an
NSString object using the
init initializer, or as an
NSData object using the
init initializer.
You can also use URLs for interapplication communication. In macOS, the
NSWorkspace class provides the
open method to open a location specified by a URL. Similarly, in iOS, the
UIApplication class provides the
open method.
Additionally, you can use URLs when working with pasteboards, as described in NSURL Additions Reference (part of the AppKit framework).
NSURL class is "toll-free bridged" with its Core Foundation counterpart,
CFURLRef. See Toll-Free Bridging for more information on toll-free bridging.
Structure of a URL
NSURL object is composed of two parts—a potentially
nil base URL and a string that is resolved relative to the base URL. An
NSURL object is considered absolute if its string part is fully resolved without a base; all other URLs are considered relative.
For example, when constructing an
NSURL object, you might specify
file:///path/to/user/ as the base URL and
folder/file as the string part, as follows:
When fully resolved, the absolute URL is
A URL can be also be divided into pieces based on its structure. For example, the URL
https://johnny: contains the following URL components:
NSURL class provides properties that let you examine each of these components.
Bookmarks and Security Scope
Starting with OS X v10.6 and iOS 4.0, the
NSURL class provides a facility for creating and using bookmark objects. A bookmark provides a persistent reference to a file-system resource. When you resolve a bookmark, you obtain a URL to the resource's current location. A bookmark's association with a file-system resource (typically a file or folder) usually continues to work if the user moves or renames the resource, or if the user relaunches your app or restarts the system.
For a general introduction to using bookmarks, read Locating Files Using Bookmarks in File System Programming Guide.
In a macOS app that adopts App Sandbox, you can use security-scoped bookmarks to gain access to file-system resources outside your app's sandbox. These bookmarks preserve the user's intent to give your app access to a resource across app launches. For details on how this works, including information on the entitlements you need in your Xcode project, read Security-Scoped Bookmarks and Persistent Resource Access in App Sandbox Design Guide. The methods for using security-scoped bookmarks are described in this document in Working with Bookmark Data.
When you resolve a security-scoped bookmark, you get a security-scoped URL.
Security-Scoped URLs
Security-scoped URLs provide access to resources outside an app's sandbox. In macOS, you get access to security-scoped URLs when you resolve a security-scoped bookmark. In iOS, apps that open or move documents using a
UIDocument also receive security-scoped URLs.
To gain access to a security-scoped URL, you must call the
start method (or its Core Foundation equivalent, the
CFURLStart function). For iOS apps, if you use a
UIDocument to access the URL, it automatically manages the security-scoped URL for you.
start (or
CFUr) returns
YES, you must relinquish your access by calling the
stop method (or its Core Foundation equivalent, the
CFURLStop function). You should relinquish your access as soon as you have finished using the file. After you call these methods, you immediately lose access to the resource in question.
Security-Scoped URLs and String Paths
In a macOS app, when you copy a security-scoped URL, the copy has the security scope of the original. You gain access to the file-system resource (that the URL points to) just as you would with the original URL: by calling the
start method (or its Core Foundation equivalent).
If you need a security-scoped URL's path as a string value (as provided by the
path method), such as to provide to an API that requires a string value, obtain the path from the URL as needed. Note, however, that a string-based path obtained from a security-scoped URL does not have security scope and you cannot use that string to obtain access to a security-scoped resource.
iCloud Document Thumbnails
With OS X v10.10 and iOS 8.0, the NSURL class includes the ability to get and set document thumbnails as a resource property for iCloud documents. You can get a dictionary of
NSImage objects in macOS or
UIImage objects in iOS using the
get or
get methods.
In macOS, you can set a dictionary of thumbnails using the
set method. You can also get or set all the thumbnails as an
NSImage object with multiple representations by using the


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Truth Eternal
31243, Hymns, Truth Eternal, no. 4
1. Truth eternal, truth divine,
In thine ancient fulness shine!
Burst the fetters of the mind
From the millions of mankind!
2. Truth again restored to earth,
Opened with a prophet's birth.
Priests of heaven's royal line
Bear the keys of truth divine!
3. Truth shall triumph as the light
Chases far the misty night.
Endless ages own its sway,
Clad in everlasting day.
Text: Parley P. Pratt, 1807-1857
Music: Alexander Schreiner, 1901-1987


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Tired of the corporate rat race, Kim Sly decided to take her passion for illustration and transform it into a career. Her products now include graphic tops for children, illustration prints for all ages, and a custom line of paper goods. We recently sat down (well, virutally) with Kim to learn more about her inspirations, her studio, and how we can be like her and quit working for the man!
When I look at all of your prints on our Albie Design retail page, the fact that each city has its own very specific color palette jumps out at me. Can you please give us an example of a city or two and what inspired the color choices you made?
I don't normally start out with a color palette in mind, but typically it evolves as I build each city in a sketch. In the case of NY– I knew I wanted a yellow cab driving up to the city, and I love the image of NY in the Fall, so I decided to use yellow & brown as my two main colors.. Also, as I strive to stay true to my mission to make "fun & personal" art I want to keep the colors bright and vibrant to reflect each city. For example to me San Francisco is one of the most colorful/happy cities in so many ways, and nothing says "happy" more than red & yellow together! My hope is people don't take my art too seriously. I've had people say to me "oh the mountain in the back of your Portland print really shouldn't be so big"….typically my response is I am not trying to create a map here ….:-)That being said, I do try to make each city recognizable at a glance, therefore they usually end up mostly true in building/landmark placement.
Similarly, you feature a few iconic buildings/landforms/landmarks that really just nail the character and personality of each city. Do you start with a bunch and narrow it down? What is your process for showcasing each city?
Great question, it takes me several months to complete each city for that very reason. I typically start with many hours/weeks of research which includes, combing the web for images & maps to reference and find inspiration. Also, if I am not really familiar with a city, I reach out to people who have requested that city in the past and ask them for help. After the research, I play around with perspective. For example with Chicago I went back and forth on the perspective because there are so many amazing landmarks/buildings in that city, and there is no way to capture them all in one perspective without it becoming more of a map print. I landed on the river perspective, as I just LOVE how the river winds through so much brilliant architecture and I knew I wanted to include a few of my favorite Chicago buildings (Wrigley & Corn Cob). I truly do strive for a unique & fresh perspective -I think it's pretty easy for people to find good silhouette cityscape art, but I wanted to create something with a bit more of each city's unique personality.
What is your studio like?
My workspace is far from ideal. It currently is a guest room/play room/laundry room/office/studio. The only benefit is that allows me to do my work while still making sure that my kids aren't coloring all over my couch!
How do you break out of a creative block?
I spend a lot of time on various design blogs, and I am constantly amazed and inspired by how many talented artists and designers there are out there. We are lucky to live in a day and age where there are so many resources and avenues in which to share our work & learn about other artists on a global level. Just 20 years ago we were somewhat restricted to libraries and local artists , but now we can learn & be inspired by "real time" artists that are changing the face of design/art today. At times it's overwhelming, but I think this emerging design online community has really helped many artists find their platform in which to thrive (including myself).
What things can you NOT live without in a workspace ?
For me, I can't live without an inspiration board. I have a large cork board that is covered with images that inspire me.
Please tell us about your latest series of prints!
Inspired by my own love for all things food & drink, I wanted to make some fun and modern prints for the kitchen or casual dining area. Committed to staying true to my mission I am hoping to create art that is fun & personal for every age, simply put I hope it makes you smile.
Here's a peek at the beautiful dining space that helped inspire the new prints:
Do you have any advice for those who want to take the plunge into starting their own design business?
In the words of my former employer Nike, "JUST DO IT"! I can't tell you how many people close to me said, just wait to do this until you kids get older and are in school, it will be so much easier than juggling being a mom to a baby and a toddler and starting your own design business. There is not doubt in my mind that it would be easier if my kids were in school and I could do this more as a full-time job. In fact, after the birth of my second son I almost went returned to my "real job" as a corporate recruiter where I would have had full-time daycare, and put this on hold for a few more years. However, because of a series of major events that happened in my life I decided life is too short to not just go for it! I know that sounds nice and fluffy, and in actuality there is a lot of planning and logistics that need to happen before anyone "quits" their day job, but for us we saw an opportunity for me to pursue my passion, and stay home with our children while they are young. In short, it was a calculated life decision based off of one of my favorite poster saying's "LIVE WHAT YOU LOVE"!!
Thanks so much to Kim for sharing her work, her workspace, and her advice with us! Click here to shop Albie Design.
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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Scott is an Essex boy at heart. Just without the fake tan..He's been heard on the radio in Australia and the Middle East so knows how to get about a bit. He is now back in Blighty and keeps you entertained in the early hours of the weekend mornings. He claims to have once been asked to sign 10 autographs because he looked like John Newman (Not sure if that bit is true) and was the first person to interview Ed Sheeran after his big BRIT Awards 2015 winning night. When not talking and playing songs on the radio you can find Scott eating or tweeting, usually at the same time. We asked him some questions below:
Job: Weekend Overnights Presenter
Favourite Food: Tough one, usually all the foods but for this anything Mexican based.
Ideal Weekend: I'm usually sleeping after being on the radio all night but my ideal weekend would involve a pizza box and loads of rubbish TV.
Worst Habit: I talk to much, usually to strangers...give me a smile and that's it, I want to know your life story....
Hobbies: Going to loads of gigs and shopping, i'm a bit of a girl when it comes to shopping. I own 5 leather jackets. THAT'S FINE isn't it?
Favourite TV Shows: Luther, Broadchurch and anything GRIPPING or funny. Can't be doing with all these period dramas.
Favourite Movies: Favourite movie of all time is School Of Rock, I once watched it 4 times in one day!
Find me on Twitter @ScottOnAir


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MOVIE REVIEW- Comedy cowboys: Hilarious 'Hollywood to Heartland'
Though shorter on title than The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights– Hollywood to the Heartland is longer on laughs. In fact, it's funny as (insert your favorite four-letter word).
If you don't have a favorite four-letter word, you may pick one up from the movie. All the comics involved "work blue," as they say.
They didn't play Podunk, or even Pittsburgh; they opened in Los Angeles and closed in Chicago, appearing mostly in cities that are considered pretty major if you're not from New York or L.A.: Atlanta, Memphis, Phoenix, Austin, Cleveland, Nashville, St. Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee, Indianapolis– you know, non-coastal America's greatest hits (though none in Virginia).
Apparently the show's format varied according to the guest stars Vaughn had to interact with. In for most if not all of the tour were producer Peter Billingsley (Ralphie in A Christmas Story) and Vaughn co-stars Justin Long (Dodgeball: A True Story) and Keir O'Donnell (the gay brother in Wedding Crashers). Jon Favreau (Swingers) helps kick things off in L.A., and Dwight Yoakam guests in Bakersfield, where Buck Owens gives Vaughn a guitar.
The four stand-up comics may not have Vaughn's marquee value, but they amuse the hell out of the crowds: John Caparulo, a sweet, chubby blue-collar guy from Cleveland who doesn't have much luck with women; Bret Ernst, a high-energy "half-Guido" who "sweats when he eats" and does great physical bits; Egyptian-born Ahmed Ahmed, who says, "Arabs– we're the new black"; and yuppie-ish Sebastian Mansicalco, the least experienced of the four, who's determined not to go back to waiting tables after this tour.
Whether onstage, being interviewed, or in candid scenes of the tour, the emphasis is on rapid-fire humor, with a few exceptions. The comics go to a trailer park outside Birmingham to distribute free tickets to Hurricane Katrina evacuees living there. Ernst's folks travel from Boca Raton to see their son in Atlanta, and between jokes about his gay older brother we learn that brother died of AIDS in 2001. As Caparulo says, "It's a really cool thing to have a job that's cathartic."
I think my favorite line comes from Ahmed, whose parents brought him to the U.S. when he was one month old. Telling how women find him exotic, he says one told him, "'Make me your Egyptian princess.' So I threw a sheet over her head and told her to shut up."
The film's been shortened by 15 minutes since critics at the Toronto festival complained it was too long, but there's still at least some visual souvenir of each city visited. There are also some appropriate, mostly country-flavored songs ("Streets of Bakersfield," "Georgia on My Mind") for some of the stops, but not "El Paso" or "Detroit City."
At the outset, Taylor Hackford predicts, "These people will be different people when they finish." He should know better. The tour may be exhausting, but each audience re-energizes the performers. They may be happier and more fulfilled than usual at the end of a grueling month while preparing for post-partum depression, but they're the same people who decided to go into that crazy business in the first place, and they've been reminded of why.
Ahmed says, "Funny is funny." Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights– Hollywood to the Heartland is funny. And it's already been named Best Picture of 2008 by the Association of Film Critics Who Get Paid by the Word.


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It's time to add a third dimension to 3D Perspectives. Instead of reading this blog article, I thought you'd enjoy watching it in 3D on TVnima. See how many famous people you can find in the 3D show:
My take is that online 3D machinima applications, like TVnima, give you more professional-quality communications Powah. And in some ways you get more than real-life professional options, if you look at cameras for example. In TVnima there are 24 (yes, 24). How many in real life?
As Buzz Lightyear would say,
To infinity and beyond!
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**UPDATE** At 2:30 p.m. EDT, MSNBC mentioned the damaging emails for the first time, coupling it with breaking news of an arrest in the attack on our Libyan consulate.
Following in the footsteps of its sister broadcast network, MSNBC has continued to ignore the shocking revelation that the White House knew on September 11 that the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was under a well-coordinated terrorist attack.
As NewsBusters' Matthew Balan noted, NBC's Today was the only broadcast network morning show this to ignore the story altogether, with MSNBC following suit by remaining silent as well throughout the day. In contrast, both Fox News and CNN have run numerous stories Wednesday morning.
Instead of focusing on a major national security issue, NBC and MSNBC have instead chosen to devote much of their time to the manufactured controversy surrounding Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's comments on unborn children who are the result of rape. Additionally, while NBCNews.com does mention the Libya revelations, it doesn't have prime real estate on the webpage, unlike the websites of ABC, CBS, FOX, and CNN which all feature the story prominently.
Even Andrea Mitchell, NBC News' Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, failed to mention the story on her MSNBC show Andrea Mitchell Reports at 1 p.m. Eastern. Ms. Mitchell, you may recall, has been repeatedly criticized for running selectively edited videos smearing Mitt Romney as well as refusing to air video of President Obama that her own network had previously authenticated and aired earlier in the day.
Such a blackout by NBC News adds to the list of examples documented by NewsBusters showing their pro-Obama agenda by ignoring stories that may hurt the president's reelection chances.


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Pineapple Zucchini Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
A deliciously healthy cupcake made with whole wheat flour, fruit, vegetables and dairy… what's not to love?!
I had a zucchini lying around with no real plans for it and I thought, why not make cupcakes! These cupcakes were a huge hit with my friends and neighbors, including my 20 month old. Cupcake is her new favorite word!
If you make them, it's important to squeeze the excess liquid from the pineapple and zucchini so they cook properly in the middle. You can pipe the frosting with a pastry bag, or simply put it in a zip-lock bag and cut the corner to make your own disposable pastry bag. If you like a lot of frosting on top, you may want to make a little extra, however points will increase.
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 18 • Serving Size: 1 cupcakes • Points +: 5 pts • Smart Points: 8
Calories: 197.8 • Fat: 6.5 g • Protein: 3.0 g • Carb: 31.1 g • Fiber: 1.7 g • Sugar: 21.7 g
Sodium: 284.2 mg
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup flaked coconut
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg, optional
1 pinch ginger, optional
2 tbsp coconut oil (or vegetable oil)
2 whole large eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups grated zucchini, unpeeled, squeezed well of all moisture
20 oz. can crushed pineapple in juice, drained well
For the Frosting:
8 oz 1/3 fat Philadelphia Cream Cheese
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, coconut, baking soda, salt, and spices; stir well with a whisk.
In a medium bowl, combine oil, eggs, and vanilla; stir well. Add grated zucchini and pineapple; mix well. Fold wet ingredients with the dry ingredients, batter will be stiff and dry but keep folding it and it will all come together.
Spoon batter into cupcake tin. Bake at 350° for about 23 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack.
To prepare frosting, beat together cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spread or pipe frosting over the cupcakes once they are cooled. You can garnish with chopped pecans or walnuts, if desired (extra points).
Keywords: Pineapple Zucchini Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting


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September 25, 2010 7:45 AM
Doing animations in the dark ages of the internet led you to technologies like Flash, or even Java Applets. Early arcane magicians tried bending the will of the DOM to create shiny stuff. It felt wrong.
With HTML5 two technologies arrived to fix that: Say hi to Canvas and SVG!
Our talk will cover basic usage and use cases of both technologies. By showing demos and real world examples we'll try to give you an understanding of when to choose what. Eventually we will show you libraries based on Canvas or SVG which should save you some time.
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Ginger Cocktail Recipe For Chinese New Year 2010-02-10 16:43:39
Canton Ginger Kick
Canton Ginger Kick
From Gourmet
- For ginger syrup:
1/4 pound ginger, peeled and thinly sliced (about 3/4 cup)
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
For cocktail:
1 cup plus 1 tablespoon vodka
6 ounces (3/4 cup) Domaine de Canton (ginger liqueur)
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 (1-liter) bottle soda water or seltzer, chilled
Garnish: candied ginger and lemon wedge
- Make ginger syrup: Bring ginger, sugar, and water to a simmer in a small heavy saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring until sugar has dissolved, then gently simmer, uncovered, 30 minutes. Strain through a sieve and reserve ginger for another use, then cool to room temperature.
- Stir together ginger syrup, vodka, ginger liqueur, and lemon juice in a pitcher.
- Divide among 6 (10-ounces) Old Fashioned glasses filled with ice. Top off with soda water. Spear a few slices candied ginger onto each of 6 wooden picks and add to drinks, then garnish with lemon wedges.
Makes 6 drinks.
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Enjoy every sip
The moment of truth has arrived: your fine wine has been uncorked. Correctly stored, it will have developed its full flavour and, to be enjoyed at its best now, it will have been brought to just the right serving temperature before opening.
Take time to enjoy your wine: swirl it gently around the glass and smell it. Unlike the tongue, our noses can detect hundreds of different aromas. Only after enjoying the aroma should you taste the wine, letting it slowly 'melt' in your mouth. In this way, the aroma and flavour will have their full effect.
What is the optimum serving temperature?
Red wine is served at a temperature of between 14°C and 18°C, and generally, the older the wine, the higher the temperature. Dry, crisp white wine should be chilled to 8°C. More mature and heavier bodied white wines develop their flavour up to 12°C, while sweet wines should be served at a slightly cooler temperature of between 6°C and 8°C. And to enjoy the fizz of champagne or sparkling wine on the palate, it should be chilled at least to 8°C. However, at the end of the day, it all comes down to personal taste, so why not experiment with different serving temperatures and find out what you enjoy the most?
As soon as the temperature of a red wine rises above the critical level of 20°C, the bouquet starts to deteriorate. These wines should therefore be consumed soon after being decanted or aerated. You should also note that on being poured into a glass, wine quickly increases in temperature by one or two degrees, and so the bottle should therefore be pre-chilled as necessary.
Decant or aerate?
Not all wines benefit from lively pouring into a carafe. Red wines that have been stored for a long time should be carefully poured into a narrow decanter to separate the sediment from the wine. Contact with oxygen, which can oxidise and spoil older wines, should be minimised by using containers with as small a surface area as possible.
On the other hand, young red wines should be poured into a carafe, and enjoyed while still youthful and at their best. The contact with oxygen, which occurs by pouring them into a bulbous carafe, enables them to develop their flavour and become more harmonious.
Which shaped glass for which wine?
The shape of the glass also has a huge impact on the enjoyment of the wine. Mature red wines unfurl their bouquet in large, bulbous glasses. Curvaceous glasses emphasise the fruity notes of young white wines. Champagne fizzes and sparkles most impressively in slender flutes. The fluted shape prevents the carbon dioxide from dissipating too quickly and enables the champagne to effervesce.
From optimum serving temperature to the choice of the right glass: wine is one of the oldest cultural commodities and drinking it should provide real pleasure. Liebherr wine cabinets ensure that wine can be both optimally stored and served at the perfect temperature – so you can have the right bottle ready for every occasion, and can truly enjoy your wine.


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Red Bull using electric engine for pitstop practice
Red Bull was experimenting with an all-electric formula one car at Spa on Wednesday, publications reveal.
Germany's Auto Motor und Sport and Italy's Autosprint say the reigning world champions' electric prototype was in fact a 2013 Red Bull RB9 sporting a 2014 nose.
But the real novelty was its propulsion -- an all-electric motor to power the car in and out of the pitlane 'box' as the mechanics practiced pit stops.
After a practice stop, Autosprint correspondent Alberto Antonini reveals, the mechanic in the cockpit pushed a button, a reverse warning 'beeps', and the car lurched backwards to be ready for another stop.
"This is the new Formula E," Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Tobias Gruner quoted a Red Bull mechanic as joking.
He added that among the fascinated observers in the Spa-Francorchamps pitlane on Wednesday was none other than FIA technical delegate Jo Bauer.


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A federal agency on Friday ordered the immediate shutdown of a National City company involved in a bus crash that killed eight people and injured 40, declaring its continued operations "an imminent hazard to public safety."
Scapadas Magicas LLC "fails to ensure that its vehicles are systematically inspected, repaired and maintained and fails to ensure that its drivers are properly qualified and have appropriate licenses for the commercial motor vehicles they operate," said the order from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
The agency also suggested that company officials gave regulators misleading documents about safety and maintenance during a January inspection.
No one answered the telephone at the offices of Scapadas Magicas on Friday evening, and officials with Interbus Tours & Charters — the Tijuana-based company that contracted with Scapadas Magicas — could not be reached either.
The condition of the 1996 bus, particularly its brakes, has been under scrutiny since the Sunday crash near Yucaipa in San Bernardino County. The vehicle's driver told authorities that he experienced brake problems shortly before the careening bus hit a sedan, collided with a pickup and flipped. The bus was carrying passengers from Tijuana and San Diego County who had gone on a daylong excursion in Big Bear.
Several passengers recalled hearing the driver, 52-year-old Norberto Perez, shout that the brakes were not working. According to the agency's order, "witnesses reported observing smoke coming from the rear underside of the vehicle."
Inspectors with the National Transportation Safety Board are analyzing the bus, which now sits in an Ontario repair shop. They also have looked at the company's two other buses and ordered them off the road after finding "serious safety violations," the order states.
Regulators said Scapadas Magicas' deficiencies include not verifying the authenticity of its employees' driver's licenses, not reviewing their driving records, not having them undergo required medical exams and not ensuring that drivers conduct safety checks on their buses.
During the January review, inspectors were given paperwork that led them "to conclude that the company systematically inspected, maintained and repaired its commercial motor vehicles when in fact it has no such compliance system," according to the Friday order.
Still, inspectors cited shortcomings at the time and called for fixes; the Friday order said Scapadas Magicas did not take any action afterward.
In the order, regulators concluded that the company demonstrates "a continuing general disregard for safety."
Duane DeBruyne, a spokesman for the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, said Scapadas Magicas "has an opportunity to come back to us with a corrective action plan." The new order lists numerous benchmarks that must be met before the company can resume business.
Previous government records show that Scapadas Magicas had failed 36 percent of random federal vehicle-safety inspections in the past two years. Nationally, the average failure rate for similar companies is 21 percent.
Scapadas Magicas had an overall "satisfactory" rating from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration before the Sunday crash, but its safety record ranked in the bottom 25 percent of similar companies.
This week, one passenger who was injured Sunday said in an interview that he and others overheard a brief Nextel radio exchange between the bus driver and another person concerning the condition of the vehicle as the tour group arrived at Big Bear.
Rafael Becerra, a 38-year-old attorney from Tijuana, said that he heard a male voice ask: "How's the bus? Has nothing failed?"
Then Becerra said the driver replied: "Up to now, we haven't had problems. The only thing that gives me doubt is a valve."
Becerra, who remains hospitalized in Riverside, suffered spinal injuries, fractured a bone in his face and broke his right clavicle. His wife, Veronica Corvera, a 38-year-old physician, is being treated for multiple injuries, and has had her left foot amputated as a result of the crash. The couple's 6-year-old daughter, Paola, suffered a minor injury.
"This was not an accident," Becerra said. "This could have been prevented."


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U.S. Frigate Constellation Series, 1975-1980
Browse an inventory of the 6 oral histories in this series
The U.S. Frigate Constellation Series is a collection of six interviews relating to the acquisition and restoration of the U.S. Frigate Constellation from 1955-1980.
The USS Constellation, built in 1854, is the only surviving ship from the Civil War and the last sail only warship built by the U.S Navy. It was decommissioned by the Navy in 1955 and donated to Baltimore that same year. This ship is the second U.S. Naval Vessel to carry the name Constellation; the first, constructed in 1797 at the Sterrett Shipyard in Baltimore, was dismantled in 1853 at the Norfolk Navy Shipyard in Virginia. There has been much controversy surrounding the ship's origins and identity following it's arrival in Baltimore, with some claiming the ship docked in Baltimore's inner harbor was actually the original 1797 Constellation. Others argued that it was built using materials from the original Constellation. In the early 1990's the controversy was laid to rest when naval historians determined that the ship was indeed the 1854 Constellation.
When the Constellation arrived in Baltimore in 1955, it required a massive restoration effort to repair the rotting timbers and decaying structure. The interviews in this collection are with members of 3 groups who were involved in the acquisition and restoration process of the ship. The Star Spangled Banner Flag House Association was the original group who took on the task of restoring and maintaining the ship when it arrived in Baltimore in 1955. The group was succeeded by The Constellation Restoration Committee. This group later became the Constellation Foundation, which was also involved in a second renovation project undertaken in 1994 and completed in 1999. As of January 2012 the ship remains a tourist attraction in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
Topics discussed in the interviews include: the history of the Constellation; the acquisition and restoration process; difficulties faced in funding the project; committees and individuals involved; role of the armed forces; role of the City of Baltimore in the project; the importance of the Constellation to Baltimore.
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Cassadee Pope entered the Nashville music scene a little differently than most. The singer began her country career and immediately signed on to star in a CMT's new docu-series, Cassadee Pope: Frame by Frame . When she arrived at CMT for her first media day, she was adjusting well to the constant presence of film crews, but Pope said it wasn't always so easy.
"The Voice had more of a formal way of shooting things, so I got used to that," she admitted to CMT Hot 20 Countdown . "Then the docu-series started, and that is way different. They are in your face, and you don't have a second to think about what you're gonna say because you have to act natural. … It was definitely jarring at first, but I think we captured some really amazing things."
Along with learning to act naturally for the cameras, Pope jumped into a hectic tour of radio stations. Fans may be surprised at just how strenuous it can be.
"I think people would be surprised at just how crazy it is — the schedule and how many things in one day that you're doing," she said. "On my first radio tour, I started off doing five stations a day, four days a week, so it was crazy right off the bat. I'm happy that they capture that because a lot of people think you win a show like The Voice and you go off and your life is just like a cake walk. But there's work after the fact that needs to be done, and that's probably the most important part."
Pope refers to her long days on the road as "laying down the groundwork" for her career and hopes to give viewers a glimpse into a world that's equally painstaking and glamorous.
"People think a song gets [sent to] the radio [station], and boom it's on the radio," she said. "But what they don't realize is, in country music, you have to make these relationships with everybody. You have to make them feel like they are a part of your career — because they are. They get to know you, and they want to believe in you and your music."
Catch the exclusive premiere episode of Cassadee Pope: Frame by Frame online now, or tune in to CMT Friday night at 10 p.m. ET/PT.


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Conditions a factor in giving Ortiz day off
BOSTON -- After starting three straight days in his return from the disabled list, David Ortiz was not in Boston's starting lineup for Tuesday night's game against the Oakland Athletics.
Don't panic, Red Sox fans. It was just a maintenance day off, particularly when you consider the weather conditions, which were bitter, raw and wet.
"Too cold for an old man," quipped Ortiz.
The left-handed-hitting slugger knows that he'll have to take periodic days off in his return from right Achilles woes.
"That's the way it's going to be for the next little while, just to rest it," Ortiz said. "They don't want me to be going too crazy until I get used to it. It's getting better."
Ortiz can only hope the weather improves as much as his heel.
"Last night was too cold," said Ortiz. "It was 38 [degrees] but at one point when I was hitting, the ball was thrown and I blinked because the wind was hitting my face so hard."
Meanwhile, manager John Farrell will just try to use logic to dictate when Ortiz is out of the lineup.
"No, [he's] not hurting," Farrell said. "Scheduled down day and combine that with the weather conditions, this was kind of a logical day in, I don't want to say his rotation, but the availability to give him a blow."


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Lourdes López (b. 1958) is a ballet dancer who performed with the New York City Ballet from 1974 until her retirement in 1997. In her last year, she appeared in several Sesame Street inserts, usually paired with Jock Soto.
López worked with famed choreographer Georges Balanchine early in her career. She became a principal ballerina for the City Ballet in 1984, gaining notice as the title character in Firebird. López frequently performed in The Nutcracker, as the Sugar Plum Fairy or Dew Drop, and danced the "Hot Chocolate" number in the 1993 film version.
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Rationales for maintaining the counterinsurgency in Afghanistan are varied and complex, but they all center on one key tenet: that Afghanistan must not be allowed to again become a haven for terrorist groups, especially al-Qaida. Debate about Afghanistan has raised reasons to question that tenet, one of which is that the top al-Qaida leadership is not even in Afghanistan, having decamped to Pakistan years ago.
Another is that terrorists intent on establishing a haven can choose among several unstable countries besides Afghanistan, and U.S. forces cannot secure them all.
The debate has largely overlooked a more basic question: How important to terrorist groups is any physical haven? More to the point: How much does a haven affect the danger of terrorist attacks against U.S. interests, especially the U.S. homeland?
The answer to the second question is: not nearly as much as unstated assumptions underlying the current debate seem to suppose. When a group has a haven, it will use it for such purposes as basic training of recruits. But the operations most important to future terrorist attacks do not need such a home, and few recruits are required for even very deadly terrorism. Consider: The preparations most important to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks took place not in training camps in Afghanistan but, rather, in apartments in Germany, hotel rooms in Spain and flight schools in the United States.
In the past couple of decades, international terrorist groups have thrived by exploiting globalization and information technology, which has lessened their dependence on physical havens.
By using networks such as the Internet, terrorist organizations have become more networklike, not beholden to any one headquarters. A significant jihadist terrorist threat to the United States persists, but that does not mean it will consist of attacks instigated and commanded from a South Asian haven, or that it will require a haven at all. Al-Qaida's role in that threat is now less one of commander than of ideological lodestar, and for that role a haven is almost meaningless.
These trends have been familiar to counterterrorist cognoscenti for years but have gone mostly unmentioned in discussion of Afghanistan. This is probably because the intervention there in late 2001 was unquestionably a response to Sept. 11 — the "good war," in contrast with the misguided expedition to Iraq, where the only connection to the 2001 attacks was in the Bush administration's contorted selling of that invasion. The U.S. entry into the Afghan civil war succeeded in ousting the Taliban from power and rousting its al-Qaida allies, and the intervention would have occurred regardless of whether the occupant of the White House was named Bush or Gore.
The issue today does not concern what was worth disrupting eight years ago. And it is not whether a haven in Afghanistan would be of any use to a terrorist group — it would.
Instead, the issue is whether preventing such a haven would reduce the terrorist threat to the United States enough from what it otherwise would be to offset the required expenditure of blood and treasure and the barriers to success in Afghanistan, including an ineffective regime and sagging support from the population. Thwarting the creation of a physical haven also would have to offset any boost to anti-U.S. terrorism stemming from perceptions that the United States had become an occupier rather than a defender of Afghanistan.
Among the many parallels being offered between Afghanistan and the Vietnam War, one of the most disturbing concerns inadequate examination of core assumptions. The Johnson administration was just as meticulous as the Obama administration is being in examining counterinsurgent strategies and the forces required to execute them. But most American discourse about Vietnam in the early and mid-1960s took for granted the key — and flawed — assumptions underlying the whole effort: that a loss of Vietnam would mean that other Asian countries would fall like dominoes to communism, and that a retreat from the commitment to Vietnam would gravely harm U.S. credibility.
The Obama administration and other participants in the debate about expanding the counterinsurgency effort in Afghanistan still can avoid comparable error. But this would require not merely invoking Sept. 11 and taking for granted that a haven in Afghanistan would mean the difference between repeating and not repeating that horror. It would instead mean presenting a convincing case about how such a haven would significantly increase the terrorist danger to the United States. That case has not yet been made.
Paul R. Pillar, director of graduate studies at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program, was deputy chief of the counterterrorist center at the CIA from 1997 to 1999. He will be a speaker at the Camden Conference, Feb. 19-21. See www.camdenconference.org for more information. This column was originally published in The Washington Post.


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Boston University archaeologist William Saturno carefully uncovers art and writings left by the Maya some 1,200 years ago. The art and other symbols on the walls may have been records kept by a scribe, Saturno theorizes. Saturno's excavation and documentation of the house were supported by the National Geographic Society.
Archaeologists have found a stunning array of 1,200-year-old Maya paintings in a room that appears to have been a workshop for calendar scribes and priests, with numerical markings on the wall that denote intervals of time well beyond the controversial cycle that runs out this December.
For years, prophets of doom have been saying that we're in for an apocalypse on Dec. 21, 2012, because that marks the end of the Maya "Long Count" calendar, which was based on a cycle of 13 intervals known as "baktuns," each lasting 144,000 days. But the researchers behind the latest find, detailed in the journal Science and an upcoming issue of National Geographic, say the writing on the wall runs counter to that bogus belief.
"It's very clear that the 2012 date, this end of 13 baktuns, while important, was turning the page," David Stuart, an expert on Maya hieroglyphs at the University of Texas at Austin, told reporters today. "Baktun 14 was going to be coming, and Baktun 15 and Baktun 16. ... The Maya calendar is going to keep going, and keep going for billions, trillions, octillions of years into the future."
The current focus of the research project, led by Boston University's William Saturno, is a 6-by-6-foot room situated beneath a mound at the Xultun archaeological site in Guatemala's Peten region. Maxwell Chamberlain, a BU student participating in the excavations there, happened to notice a poorly preserved wall protruding from a trench that was previously dug by looters, with the hints of a painting on the plaster.
Saturno said he didn't think there'd be much to the wall, but "I felt we had a responsibility to find out at the very least how large this room was."
When archaeologists worked their way into the mound, they were amazed to find that it was a richly decorated room from the Classic Maya period, dating back to roughly the year 800. One niche was adorned with the faded picture of a Maya king, wearing a blue-feathered headdress and holding a white scepter. The picture of a scribe holding a stylus, perhaps the son or brother of the king, was painted nearby with the label "Younger Brother Obsidian." Another wall showed a row of three stylized black figures, with one bearing the hieroglyphic name "Older Brother Obsidian."
Tyrone Turner / National Geographic
The painted figure of a man — possibly a scribe who once lived in the house built by the ancient Maya — is illuminated through a doorway to the dwelling, in northeastern Guatemala. The structure represents the first Maya house found to contain artwork on its walls. The research is supported by the National Geographic Society.
Tyrone Turner / National Geographic
Never-before-seen artwork — the first to be found on walls of a Maya house — adorn the dwelling in the ruined city of Xultún. The figure at left is one of three men on the house's west wall who are painted in black and wear identical costumes. One of the black figures is named "Older Brother Obsidian." The figure in the center appears to be a scribe, labeled "Younger Brother Obsidian." A Maya king is portrayed at far right. Heather Hurst rendered the paintings in clearer detail below.
Heather Hurst / National Geographic
A vibrant orange figure, kneeling in front of the king on the ruined house's north wall, is labeled "Younger Brother Obsidian," a curious title seldom seen in Maya text. The man is holding a writing instrument, which may indicate he was a scribe. The painting re-creates the design and colors of the figure in the original Maya mural.
Heather Hurst / National Geographic
Three male figures, seated and painted in black, appear in a painting that re-creates the design and colors of a Mural found on the ruined house's west wall. The men wear only white loincloths and medallions around their necks, plus a headdress bearing another medallion and a single feather. One of the figures is particularly burly and is labeled "Older Brother Obsidian." Another is labeled as a youth.
Heather Hurst / National Geographic
A Maya king, seated and wearing an elaborate headdress of blue feathers, adorns the north wall of the ruined house discovered at the Maya site of Xultun. An attendant, at right, leans out from behind the king's headdress. The painting by artist Heather Hurst re-creates the design and colors of the original Maya artwork at the site.
Rows of numbers and hieroglyphs were painted on yet another wall. In fact, it appeared that the wall had been plastered over repeatedly and covered with new sets of figures. "What these are giving us are time spans," Stuart said. "Not so much dates, but Maya notations of elapsed time."
Stuart said some sets of numbers denoted lunar cycles of 177 or 178 days, along with the sign for a patron god that was associated with each cycle. "This was, we think, a calculator for a Maya priest, an astronomer, to figure out lunar ages," he said.
In a news release, Saturno said this represents the first look at "what may be actual records kept by a scribe, whose job was to be official record keeper of a Maya community."
"It's like an episode of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' a geek math problem and they're painting it on the wall," Saturno said. "They seem to be using it like a blackboard."
In addition to lunar cycles, the calculations on the wall could relate to the periods of Venus, Mercury and Mars, the researchers reported. Stuart said such calculations could have come into play for predicting eclipses. He imagined that there might be "one or more, maybe two or three of these astronomers or calendar priests working, sitting there on a workbench and writing these notations on the wall."
One array of numbers would be particularly intriguing to doomsday debunkers: lists that appear to denote wide ranges of accumulated time, including a 17-baktun period. "There was a lot more to the Maya calendar than just 13 baktuns," Stuart observed. Seventeen baktuns would stand for about 6,700 years, which is much longer than the 13-baktun cycle of 5,125 years. However, Stuart cautioned that the time notation shouldn't be read as specifying a date that's farther in the future than Dec. 21.
"It may just be that this is a mathematical number that they find interesting, kind of floating in time," he told me. "But it certainly is expressing a capacity of time. If they were calculating something from their time period, around 800 A.D., yeah, this would have gone way beyond 2012. But again, we're not sure exactly what the base of the calculation is."
William Saturno and David Stuart / National Geographic
Four long numbers on the north wall of the ruined house relate to the Maya calendar and computations about the moon, sun and possibly Venus and Mars; the dates may stretch some 7,000 years into the future. These are the first calculations Maya archaeologists have found that seem to tabulate all of these cycles in this way. Although they all involve common multiples of key calendrical and astronomical cycles, the exact significance of these spans of time is not known.
Saturno said archaeologists have been trying to get out the word that the end of the Maya culture's 13-baktun "Long Count" calendar didn't signify the end of the world, but merely a turnover to the next cycle in a potentially infinite series — like going from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1 on a modern calendar, or turning the odometer on a car over from 99999.9 to 00000.0.
"If someone is a hard-core believer that the world is going to end in 2012, no painting is going to convince them otherwise," he said. "The only thing that can convince them otherwise is waiting until Dec. 22, 2012 — which fortunately for all of us isn't that far away."
Saturno and his colleagues plan to be studying the Xultun site long after that time. He said the workshop was apparently part of a residential compound that had been razed over the ages; the workshop was preserved because it was filled in with material rather than smashed down from above. That could suggest that the room was recognized as a special place even when it was abandoned. Research into the room and its purpose is continuing, Saturno said.
In its day, Xultun apparently served as one of the major ceremonial cities for the Classic Maya civilization — and yet it's just barely been explored, in part because the area is so remote.
"We have probably 99.9 percent of Xultun left to explore," Saturno said. "We're going to be working on it probably for many decades to come. ... Four or five years in to the research project, we have yet to determine its actual boundaries — so my estimate may be off. We may have 99.99 percent left to excavate."
More Maya mysteries:
- How the Maya lived
- Maya myth revealed in stucco
- Maya doom teaches climate lesson
- Even the Maya are sick of 2012 hype
- Gallery: Seven archaeological mysteries
In addition to Saturno and Stuart, authors of the Science paper, "Ancient Maya Astronomical Tables from Xultun, Guatemala," include Anthony Aveni and Franco Rossi. The Xultun excavations between 2008 and 2012 were supported by Boston University and the National Geographic Society.
Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.


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Results on the BCC and FCC lattice are obtained and analysed in Exact enumeration of self-avoiding walks on BCC and FCC lattices by Raoul D. Schram, Gerard T. Barkema, Rob H. Bisseling, and Nathan Clisby", arXiv:1703.09340 [cond-mat.stat-mech] March 27, 2017. Accepted for publication in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.
Proceedings 58th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry, Utrecht 29 Jan. - 2 Feb. 2007. Edited by Rob Bisseling, Karma Dajani, Tammo Jan Dijkema, Johan van de Leur, Paul Zegeling. Published 30 December 2007. 115 pages. PDF file of book (2.6 MB). Topics: Modeling a heart pump (AMC), cabin crew rostering (KLM), sampling for maskless lithography of computer chips (ASML), optimising a closed greenhouse (Innogrow), optimising a 7-tesla MRI scanner for individual patients (UMC), pricing options based on variable interest rates and volatilities (ING). Website of the Study Group.
Parallel Scientific Computation: A Structured Approach using BSP and MPI, by Rob H. Bisseling, Oxford University Press, March 2004. 324 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-852939-2. Official home page of the book at the UK site of Oxford University Press. The page contains a detailed description of the book contents, but also the complete first chapter, 49 pages, as a sample in PDF format. This chapter is a primer on BSP and BSPlib.
Electronic version from Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO). Available since September 2007. The book is available as part of a collection of 1300 Online books from Oxford University Press. The full texts of the collection are accessible if your library has subscribed to OSO.
This book is the first text explaining how to use the bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) model and the freely available BSPlib communication library in parallel algorithm design and parallel programming. Aimed at upper level undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in mathematics, physics and computer science, the main topics treated in the book are core topics in the area of scientific computation and many additional topics are treated in numerous exercises. An appendix on the message-passing interface (MPI) discusses how to program in BSP style using the MPI communication library. MPI equivalents of all the programs are also presented.Book page at Amazon (US). New feature: this page gives access to sample pages, complete table of contents, index, front/back cover, and it allows you to search in the complete text. It even has a concordance: the most frequently used words (out of 78,753) are: processor (903), matrix (624), algorithm (522), distribution (519), communication (419), vector (406), cost (334), parallel (320), number (312), superstep (297), row (292), computation (285), time (283), data (282).
Available in BSPedupack: dense LU decomposition; one-dimensional FFT; a simple how to get started bulk synchronous parallel program that shows 12 of the 20 BSPlib primitives in action computing an inner product of two vectors; a sparse matrix-vector multiplication program that shows the 5 bulk synchronous message passing primitives in action; and a BSP benchmark program that measures the computation, communication, and synchronisation performance of your parallel computer.
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A 6-year-old girl, shot and left for dead by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year, received free reconstructive surgery at a hospital Friday on Long Island, in New York State.
"She's OK. All is good, thank God!" said Elissa Montanti of the Global Medical Relief Fund. The nonprofit children's organization, based on Staten Island, New York City, helped bring Marizeh to the U.S. after the attack that cost the girl her right eye.
Taliban fighters ambushed Marizeh's family as they drove home in a remote, unidentified region of Afghanistan last spring, said Montanti.
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Her father tried to hide the girl under his feet inside the family car but she was shot in the face, after watching both her father and brother murdered.
"They thought she had died. She was there for three hours before she was discovered," said Marizeh's doctor, Kaveh Alizadeh.
The plastic surgeon, who founded a nonprofit group that provides medical care to needy children, first heard Marizeh's story during a trip to Afghanistan.
On Friday, Alizadeh performed surgery on Marizeh at South Nassau Communities hospital to help repair lingering damage to her breathing and facial structure. She had previously been fitted with a temporary prosthetic eye.
The medical care should have cost upwards of $100,000, Alizadeh said; but in this case, it was all done for free.
"To think about the trauma she's been through and to see her come down and have a smile on her face, it's unbelievable," said hospital COO Joseph LaMantia.
Marizeh is expected to leave the Oceanside hospital this weekend and return to the Global Medical Relief Fund's headquarters in Staten Island. It's unclear when she will go home to Afghanistan. Montanti won't reveal Marizeh's last name or hometown, for fear the Taliban will target her again.
"If they know the Americans are helping them, it's dangerous. So we have to be cautious," Montanti said.
For all who helped Marizeh, it was a danger worth facing, to restore a little girl's smile.
"She is a very happy little girl, a lovely girl," Montanti said.