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Cocktails and Spirits with Paul Clarke: Where to Start?
Weekly insight into the world of drinks with Paul Clarke from the Cocktail Chronicles and Imbibe magazine.
It's sometimes difficult to explain to casual observers, but as with enjoying many other parts of the culinary world, there's a certain aspect of drinking well-made cocktails that borders on rapture. And as with anything that brings such pronounced joy, many fans can trace their enthusiasm to a particular "aha!" moment, when the proverbial clouds parted and the light came down, and all of a sudden their perspective on what's good permanently changed.
But how to share that excitement with others? What's a good way to try to create that sense of sudden wonder in a mixological virgin? This was the question posed to the larger online cocktail community for the most recent round of Mixology Monday; using the theme "The First Time," the event hosts from the Boston chapter of Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails, or LUPEC-Boston, asked cocktail enthusiasts for ideas on the perfect introductory cocktail that would not only reveal to a relative neophyte the appeal of a well-made drink but would also spark that flash of interest and excitement that would prompt further bibulous exploration.
The responses have been interesting. Some have suggested setting the bar fairly low, bringing beer or chardonnay drinkers into the fold with approachable beginner cocktails such as juicy vodka drinks or the once-ubiquitous Cosmopolitan; others suggested straightforward though unaggressive drinks such as classic daiquiris or margaritas; and still others set the bar higher, with more challenging though still basic drinks such as the whiskey-and-pineapple based Algonquin or the cognac-based Sidecar. Indeed, if there was any agreement on the perfect drink to serve someone who's never had a good cocktail before, it was that there were so many options to choose from.
Which brings us to you. There are plenty of people with the cocktail bug, who think there's nothing finer at 5:30 p.m. than a well-mixed martini, or who craft rafts of elaborate cocktails when friends come over on Saturday--and plenty of them hang out around these parts.
What's your suggestion? If you have a guest who typically sticks with beer but is curious about stepping over to the cocktail side, what do you suggest as a drink that they'll not only enjoy but will ask for the next time they come over? A thirsty world wants to know.
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Hitting the global software tools marketplace this week is Sonatype Insight, a new suite described as a combination of both "software products and information services" for ensuring the integrity of open-source components in the software supply chain.
Not the only tool claiming to provide "visibility and control" with a view to creating and upholding software integrity, Sonatype Insight is perhaps distinguished by its specific alignment towards open-source component usage by development teams.
Aside from Sonatype's worthy claims of speed and precise functionality, the company's product is built to combine organizational consumption awareness, real-time component change data, and a library of quality, security, and licensing information. Sonatype says that while other approaches to open-source management are either unenforceable, or find issues late in the development cycle when rework becomes prohibitively expensive, Insight is non-intrusive, non-disruptive, and tightly interwoven with existing development processes.
The central developer proposition here is that organizations can gain actionable intelligence about open-source usage at any stage of the application development process. After applications are released to production, Sonatype Insight continuously monitors their bill-of-materials and alerts users if new quality or security defects are uncovered.
Sonatype Insight leverages the Central Repository — the software industry's leading repository for open-source software (OSS) components used by more than 40,000 organizations and containing more than 300,000 Java components from all major open-source projects.
"Without a governance program and an accompanying management policy, the IT organization cannot hope to manage, audit, or track open-source assets that come into or leave the enterprise, and it cannot measure the appropriate use of open-source assets within the broader IT portfolio. At best, an IT organization can simply react tactically to risks (e.g., catastrophic technical failures) after the fact," said Mark Driver, research vice president, Gartner Inc. from A CIO's Perspective on Open-Source Software, Jan. 31, 2011
Sonatype Insight is comprised of three integrated products that support the modern, component-based development process and offer important reporting and management capabilities for application managers: legal and compliance executives, information security executives, and IT leadership:
- Management Insight: Provides visibility, proactive monitoring, and actionable intelligence about organizational OSS usage including security, license, and quality metadata for components.
- Development Insight: Enables proactive management of OSS component usage throughout the software development process. Plug-ins for existing development tools deliver quality, security, and licensing information where it's needed without disrupting the development process.
- Application Insight: Analyzes and continuously monitors the composition of software applications, ensuring that they do not have hidden security, license, or quality risks caused by incorporating problematic OSS components. The product notifies users immediately of newly discovered flaws in components — even after applications are in production.
"As the pervasiveness of open source continues, the market opportunity for Insight is tremendous and should appeal to all Java software developers (6 million and counting) and any company in the world that has used open-source components at any point during the development of mission-critical applications," suggests Wayne Jackson, CEO of Sonatype.

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Did you know a woman is born with an exact number of eggs in her ovaries to conceive a child? And when a young woman begins having a period, her egg supply diminish every month, thus the quantity and quality of her eggs diminish as she ages. This is called a woman's ovarian reserve, otherwise known as a woman's biological clock ticking away at a slow rate – and it's very real.
Currently, women who have trouble conceiving visit their primary care physician who will order a panel of blood tests. These tests results are often referred to as " ovarian reserve." In other words, does the woman have a good number (reserve) of good quality eggs remaining in her ovaries?
Today women who want to be more proactive in taking control of their fertility can with a simple blood test called the PlanAhead™. The PlanAhead™ tests measures the quality and quantity of a woman's ovarian reserve, which is one very important predictor of her ability to conceive.
Why is this important? Because sometimes women are not ready for the responsibility of motherhood for a variety of reasons: they want to have a career first or maybe financially she may think she's not ready. The problem is the longer she waits the more likely it is that she may have problems due to her ovarian reserve.
How does the test work? The PlanAhead™is a multi-variate blood hormone test that uses advanced measurements of the ovarian hormones Inhibin B, AMH and FSH. By combining these three tests and other factors, they are offering the single most accurate ovarian reserve blood test available in the world today.
Inhibin B and AMH decline as the ovaries age. Conversely, FSH levels rise as the ovaries age. The blood test values for these three hormones and other factors have been combined to create a single measure of ovarian reserve. Your ovarian reserve indicates the quantity of eggs that you have remaining in your ovaries compared to the average for other women your age.
An analysis of these three hormone levels and other factors provides an estimate of the number of eggs in the ovaries ( your ovarian reserve) and enables the doctor to compare your results with the expected range for women of the same age. This comparative value is called your Ovarian Reserve Index.
Your Ovarian Reserve Index will be charted in an easy-to-read report with a full explanation of your results.
Female age is very important in consideration of the chances for getting pregnant due to the egg quantity and quality. As bad as it sounds, the quality of a woman's eggs become weaker as she ages. Moreover, the miscarriage rates also increase substantially as the mother ages.
The PlanAhead™ blood test gives a woman a predictive assessment of how many eggs remain in a woman's ovaries. This helpful information may help her to decide whether she should plan to try for a baby now or whether she can afford to wait.
I probably would not have paid attention to this study years ago when I had two beautiful, healthy children in my early twenties. At that time, I didn't think I wanted anymore because I had my hands full. Now my children are grown adults. I'm in a relationship now and we're considering having children. Needless to say I'm older and I am now experiencing a low quantity and quality of eggs.
How do I take the The PlanAhead™ test?
I went to Southern California Reproductive Center in Beverly Hills for my simple PlanAhead™ test. The staff was warm and friendly and they explained everything to me without feeling overwhelmed. The PlanAhead™ test requires a small sample of your blood to be taken intravenously on day 2 or 3 of your period.
To ensure an accurate assessment of your ovarian reserve take the five-step process
1. Stop taking your contraceptive medication (i.e. pill, patch, ring) for at least one full month
2. Book an appointment by the end of day one of your period to have your blood sample taken
3. On day two or three of your period, have your blood drawn
4. Your sample will be sent to Repromedix for analysis
5. Your results will be sent to your ordering physician within 14 to 21 days of receiving your sample
Now experiencing this problem really hits home. How could this happen to me? I had children before with no problem, but now, basically my chances for getting pregnant are less than 10 percent.
Where can I go to take my PlanAhead™ test?
• Beverly Hills
• Santa Monica
Too many couples learn about the impact of age when it could already be too late. The men have it easy as they age, the sperm are being produced constantly after puberty while eggs age over time. Many couples end up needing advanced treatments such as IVF (in vitro fertilization) to get pregnant.
It's not an easy decision to make when to have a child, but if a woman wants
children, sometimes later may not happen. One thing's for certain, a woman's biological clock is ticking and it can't be turned back. But a woman can begin to
understand more about her body's ability to conceive a child. The PlanAhead™ test assesses the quantity of eggs in a woman's ovaries. It does not measure her ability to conceive, which can be affected by multiple factors. Although the the PlanAhead™ test uses the most up-to-date technology available, she should always seek medical advice from a qualified physician to ensure that she have the best balance of information. The PlanAhead™ test will help her and her physician discuss her risks and options.


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CDs of many sessions at the 2010 Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) Conference are now available for purchase. Visit http://www.jamb-inc.com/ to see the list of CDs and for details on obtaining them. Click on "View Available Sessions Here" to get a listing of the topics and presenters. Click the "genealogy" category at the top of the page to see links to 14 other conferences since 2007 for which CDs are available.
For several years I have been ordering genealogy lectures on CD. I use this method to learn about topics presented at conferences I have been unable to attend, or for lectures I really enjoyed and want to hear again. There is a wide selection of topics for everyone from beginners to advanced genealogists. The CDs are very reasonable at $12 each.
Here are a few of my favorites from the NGS Conference in Salt Lake City, April 2010:
S-424 – Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL
Finding & Using Birth, Marriage, & Death Records Prior to Vital Registration
T-253 – Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGL
Organizing Evidence to Overcome Record Shortages
S-451 – Laura Murphy DeGrazia, CG
Researching With Standards
I ordered the following CDs from the FGS Conference in Knoxville, August 2010.
F-316 -- Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG
Planning "Reasonably Exhaustive" Research
F-352 -- Patricia Walls Stamm, CG, CGL
The Timeline: Linking Historical Events to Our Family History
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Donna Forsyth, Kathy Cinque, Marian Wolfe and Dari Oglesby shot 114 to win the two best ball of four net WGA event on Cypress Links Aug. 4.
Harvey Neitlich, Mac McMillan, Richard Amesbury and Terry Poles scored 58 to win the two best ball of four net nine-hole Men's event on Cypress Links Aug. 5.
Bud McAnallen, Wayne Howard, Rick Shaw and Bob Simes scored 123 to win the two best balls of four net Men's event on Cypress Links Aug. 8. David Reed, Tom McManus, Larry Futch and Tom Baker scored 127 for second place.
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Angie Brewer scored 52 to win the low gross portion of the low gross, low net nine-hole event Aug. 4. Verla Heotis scored 44 to win the low net portion.
The teams of John McLaughlin, Dan Carter, Ron Boehm and Ken Hoffman and Skip Suereth, Geno Lutz, Dale Weidemann and Frank Schicitano both scored 85 to win the two best balls front, one best ball back MGA event Aug. 5.
The teams of Barbie Meindl, Barb Sodini and Linda Suereth and Nancy Foley, Lin McLaughlin, Linda Gawel and Mary Naylor each scored 138 to tie for first place in the one best ball net, one in box LGA 18-hole event Aug. 6.
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Sixth Edition Effective Teaching in Elementary Social Studies Tom V. Savage David G. Armstrong Widely praised as practical and user-friendly, Effective Teaching in Elementary Social Studies, Six Edition, offers a clear overview of the social sciences to strengthen preservice teachers'content knowledge and outlines effective methods for teaching social studies in today's diverse classrooms. In tune with the reality of limited classroom time to deovte to social studies instruction, the authors suggest ways teachers can integrate the social studies with other subject areas (see Chapter 11). Highlighting the importance of teaching social studies to foster the development of thoughtful, involved citizens and cognizant of the realities of teaching today, Savage and Armstrong provide a resource for learning today and teaching tomorrow. New to this edition: 40 new and revised Lesson Ideashelp you plan, teach, and assess social studies lessons (for example, see page 197, Lesson Idea 8-3). Chapter 5, Selecting Teaching Approaches for Knowledge Acquisition Chapter 6, Selecting Teaching Approaches for Knowledge Discovery More coverage of teaching research skills, time, and chronology (see Chapter 7) Increased focus on backward planning, helping teachers align learning objectives with learning outcomes (see Chapter 10) New section on grading strategies to help teachers select assessments that focus on important educational outcomes (see Chapter 12)Tom V. Savage is the author of 'Effective Teaching in Elementary Social Studies (6th Edition)', published 2007 under ISBN 9780131738430 and ISBN 0131738437.[read more]
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The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) today to work together to more efficiently address issues relating to conservation and development in the Pacific region.
The four-year MOU recognises the special expertise that the two international organisations possess in different sectors related to biodiversity conservation, such as fisheries and marine conservation, forestry, energy, food security, water and climate change.
By joining their competencies, SPC and IUCN will enable a more holistic and sustainable approach to economic and social development in the region.
"SPC welcomes the opportunity for a meaningful partnership with IUCN to help the countries of the Pacific region develop and implement a green growth strategy in the blue continent," said SPC Director-General Dr Jimmie Rodgers.
Mr Taholo Kami, IUCN Oceania Regional Director, said "SPC is the key regional organization that can assist Pacific Island countries in a shift from where we are today towards the green / blue economies that will secure a sustainable future – IUCN looks forward to be part of this journey with SPC."
The joint work by SPC and IUCN aims to support each Pacific Island member to achieve the national and regional outcomes defined as priorities by Pacific leaders.
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MIAMI -- Rafael Betancourt, the Rockies' closer last season until he suffered a right elbow injury in August that required Tommy John surgery, threw long-toss at Marlins Park on Monday. It was the first time he threw from as far as 150 feet. Although he is a free agent, Betancourt spent time at Rockies Spring Training and has said he wants to make the comeback with Colorado.
His plan is to go to extended spring training at the end of this month and play until June, when he would join Rookie-level Class A Grand Junction with the intention of being ready to pitch for the Rockies by season's end.
"It's weird being here on Opening Day, because I'd normally be playing," said Betancourt, who lives in Orlando, Fla. "But I still feel part of the team, and the guys make me feel part of everything. So I'm happy to be here. It's fine."


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- FindAGrave volunteer located the tombstone of Ralph Morgan LeMaster (1902-1977). Ralph is the son of William Clifford and Lella Edith (LEWIS) LeMASTER.
- Received an email from the Pike's Peak Library District, the research was negative regarding a fire at the Victor Opera House. Newspapers check were from Sep. 27th through Sep. 30th, 1920. They suggested I contact the Cripple Creek District Museum for more information.
- Discovered I have connections with a fellow GeneaBlogger, Heather Rojo of Nutfield Genealogy blog. We connect with our Woodbury and Philbrick lines - there are probably more early New England connections. That's one of the benefits of reading other bloggers posts, you have the opportunity to discover connections.
I have enjoyed looking at the stats for my blog, noting which posts are popular, and what search terms are bringing visitors to the blog. The 'most popular posts' widget on the right side of the blog has now been updated to only show for the past 30 days versus 'all-time'. That should increase the variety of the posts displayed.
Interesting search terms that have brought visits to the blog this month:
- "mary west" + "nathaniel chew" - my paternal 4th great grandparents. Would love to have more information on them. Please contact me!
- history pics of portland indiana - I do have a few old postcards of Portland on the blog, and so many of my ancestors were from this area.
- "sebastian haley" + lydia ann - my paternal 3rd great granduncle and aunt. Another individual I would like to know more about. He was active in founding the Mt. Zion church in Noble Township, Jay County, Indiana
- armscamp speedway - this was a speedway in Alexandria, Indiana. I've been told that my grandfather helped test cars there, but haven't verified it yet
- johann wilhem leymeister - The German immigrant, whose descendants have become Lemaster over time. No known connection with my family
- snappy turtle cookies - I have the recipe right here.
- levi wardlow ohio - Would love to talk to this person, and help me sort out the Wardlow/Wardlaws in SE Ohio
- phillip young patriot dar - my paternal 4th great grandfather. Philip was a War of 1812 veteran, his father, Charles, was the Rev. War veteran.


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In Hip Hop, it's always been refreshing when certain artists project a modern approach to an older era. Albums such as Edan's Beauty & The Beat and Jurassic 5's Power In Numbers were deeply-inspired by the emcee deliveries of the late '80s, however both transposed them with different soundscapes – Psychedelia and L.A. Rare Groove respectively. Philadelphia DXnext alum Lushlife has done similarly this year. Overtly influenced by the early '90s albums of Nas, Smoothe Da Hustler and AZ, Lush tinges his anarchistic lyrics of Plateau Vision with hard synths, distorted vocal samples and an overall production approach that's as much Jamie xx as it is Zev Love X.
"Still I Hear the Word Progress" is Plateau Vision at its strongest. As a producer, Lushlife thrives with his ability to blend two distinct worlds in a way that solicits both emotion and head nodding. As an emcee, help is welcome as Styles P takes one of the bigger leaps of his career and hops on the track that sounds rugged vocally for its vulnerability musically. Lush complements S.P.'s verse with his own fast-paced flow, rapping about his own aspirations and roadblocks. "Big Sur" is another standout, as Lush pays tribute to the "Broken Language" rhyme scheme with a masterfully-produced blend of samples and original drum programming. Like Black Milk or Nottz, Lush's rhymes accent his strongest attribute – signature production, that in his case, has really refined itself since 2009's Cassette City. But emceeing definitely makes Plateau Vision what it is – largely from guests. Canada's Shad delivers a piercing apocalyptic verse as Lush appears to pay tribute to Erik Satie's late-1800s Classical masterpiece in a way that feels fresh and unpretentious.
Lushlife has created a world that sounds great, and holds the listener with a willing suspension of disbelief. His vernacular, deliver and subject matter pulls completely from the golden-era. At times Ad-Rock and others Prodigy, Lush frequently catches himself such as "Pulled the hammer on 'em / That's if I had a hammer, Black," on "Hale-Bopp Was The Beduoins." The artist knows he might not fit into the musical worlds that influenced him, but he pays homage to them without sacrificing much of his own dignity. Plateau Vision is such a gestalt that nothing is more important than its sound and execution – two areas of strength. Although the pop-cultures references can be Dennis Miller-dense, the lyrics prove to be at play as much as the music.
Plateau Vision releases a decade after RJD2's Dead Ringer in an important lineage of producer-Hip Hop in Philadelphia. Although the albums don't sound much alike, both are bold in their agenda and succeed in their execution in blending era, genre and juxtaposing attitude and music. Lushlife's second LP incorporates guests wonderfully as the producer finds his pocket, and the emcee pays tribute to a deeply-missed era of creative street Rap. This is an escapist listen that appeals to fans beyond the traditional Hip Hop consumer, and is as forward-sounding as it is nostalgic.


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The Tesla Motors Club www.teslamotorsclub.com has extensive threads for tyre choices. (In fact most roadster discussion happens over there, not here.)
For myself, I had some Kumhos on my Mercedes and loved them. Put the same tires on the roadster and hate them with a passion. I drive faster just to wear them out... :-)
How many miles did you get on the stock tires?
I had to change my back tires at 6000 miles.
Was told this is normal.
I had them replace the tires when they did the first service because they were down to threads..
That's pretty normal. I only got 5,000 miles out of my rears.
I had the AD07s and replaced my rear tires at 7,700 miles. I still had some tread left but they were starting to get noisy. I think 5-7 thousand miles is normal but you can get more depending on how you drive.
The wear bars were showing after 4,400 miles with the stock Yokohama's. I guess I was having too much fun driving it. I replaced them with Continental ExtremeContact DWS which were 1/2 the cost and are supposed to last 3 times longer. After 3,600 miles they still look great and they stick nearly as well as the stock Yokohama. No problems with traction control on my 1.5.
DHrivnak: You had the AD07s? Wow. You were having fun=) Are you using the 195s on the front then? I don't think they come in the exact front tire size.
The stock fronts are still the AD07's that are 175/55/R16. They still look good after 8100 miles. I am quite sure the intial owner did not change the tires as the car only had 1000 miles on it when I bought it.
That size will be hard to match in the future from what I hear.
Yeah. Actually, the AD07s are the only tire you can find that fit exactly. Other people are using tires in the 195 size I believe and are not having major problems as mentioned in the TMC thread.
I have had the folloowing tires on my Roadster for about 2,500 miles, now, and I like everything about them.
Front: Kumho Ecsta 4X KU22 195/50 ZR16 84W
Rear: Michelin Pilot Sport AS Plus 225/45 ZR17
The diameter ratio is the same as the ratio for the original Yokohamas so the regen braking works as it should. This is my second set of the Michelins on the rear. I had 38,000 on the last set and only changed them because I'm doing this Route 66 drive and wanted new tires for the drive. My guess is that I would have easily got 45K out of that set. However, I don't do a lot of racing.
I switched to 195/50-16 on the front and have Conti DWS all-season tires all the way around (so the car could be useful in Cincinnati winters). When I first put them on, I was a little disappointed in their lateral dry grip compared to the AD07s. But, the DWS are MUCH better in the rain, especially with regard to straight-line stability when the AD07s would skitter about and need constant correction.
Don't take "all-season" literally. In snow they don't compare to actual winter tires.
Some do some don't. Nokian severe service WR-g2 all seasons are as good or better than many winter tires. Unfortunately, they don't come in Tesla sizes (hopefully that's a "yet"). Most all-season tires are like Brian says--Texas all season, but there are some good ones out there.
It's tread depth; snow tires can throw away stuff that clogs and smoothes lesser channels. You can't have both long highway wear and wide treads, however.
There is more to it than just tread depth (which is mostly applicable when the snow is soft and deep). There is keeping the rubber flexible when it's cold, having the belts support the tread blocks properly, being able to wipe away the film of water that occurs when ice is close to freeings, etc.
True 'nuff, but snow tires have the edge in all those respects. Anywhere (like most of Canada, with the exception of SE British Columbia) where there is serious snow and cold, all-weathers are a dangerous compromise. Save money on seasonal tires at your peril!
Where there is a real winter, you generally want two sets of wheels and tires. However, all but the best snow tires are going to be no better than the Nokian WR-g2 (and a few similar tires) for winter conditions.
Some are quite a bit worse.
I use the Yokohama A048's on my Roadster S. I tried a few alternatives, but they don't have the traction. Note that the AO48's only last about 1,500 miles (at least with my driving.)
When it came time to replace my rear tires, i wanted a set that has good traction, better tread wear than the stock tires and costs less. I got a pair of Michelin Pilot Sport A/S Plus at Sears on sale ($480 installed vice $800 from Tesla). What I immediately noticed was that they seem to perform as well and are much quieter (especially above 40mph) than the stock tires. I can actually use a Bluetooth phone with the Apline radio in my 2.5. With a UTQG of 500 AA A, I highly recommend them.


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The LAME Project
LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL.
Latest LAME release: v3.100 (October 2017)
LAME development started around mid-1998. Mike Cheng started it as a patch against the 8hz-MP3 encoder sources. After some quality concerns raised by others, he decided to start from scratch based on the dist10 sources. His goal was only to speed up the dist10 sources, and leave its quality untouched. That branch (a patch against the reference sources) became Lame 2.0, and only on Lame 3.81 did we replaced of all dist10 code, making LAME no more only a patch.
The project quickly became a team project. Mike Cheng eventually left leadership and started working on tooLame, an MP2 encoder. Mark Taylor became leader and started pursuing increased quality in addition to better speed. He can be considered the initiator of the LAME project in its current form. He released version 3.0 featuring gpsycho, a new psychoacoustic model he developed.
In early 2003 Mark left project leadership, and since then the project has been lead through the cooperation of the active developers (currently 4 individuals).
Today, LAME is considered the best MP3 encoder at mid-high bitrates and at VBR, mostly thanks to the dedicated work of its developers and the open source licensing model that allowed the project to tap into engineering resources from all around the world. Both quality and speed improvements are still happening, probably making LAME the only MP3 encoder still being actively developed.
Quick Links
- Contact - to get in touch with LAME developers, with other LAME users, or to submit bug reports.
- Download - to obtain the latest LAME source code.
- Links - to get to know about software using LAME, obtain precompiled LAME binaries from external sites, and discover more information about MP3.
- Developers - the people behind the LAME project.
- History/ChangeLog - what has been happening lately.


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Judge skeptical of ex-senator's campaign cash use
WASHINGTON — A federal judge sounded skeptical of former Sen. Larry Craig's claim that he properly used $217,000 in campaign funds for his legal defense after his arrest in a 2007 airport bathroom sex sting.
Craig argues that the airport bathroom trip fell under his official, reimbursable duties as senator because he was traveling between Idaho and Washington for work. But at a hearing Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that such a broad reading of official travel could be taken to extremes.
The Federal Election Commission sued Craig last year, arguing his legal problems had nothing to do with campaigning for federal office.
The Idaho Republican was arrested by an undercover police officer conducting a sting operation against men cruising for sex at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.


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get off with (someone)(redirected from get off with her)
get off with (someone)
1. Literally, to disembark (e.g., from a vehicle, elevator, etc.) with someone. I ran into George on the bus and decided to get off with him at his stop in town.
2. slang To have an amorous or sexual encounter with someone. Primarily heard in UK. We weren't at the party for more than 30 minutes when Jake got off with some guy he'd just met. I heard Janet got off with one of her co-workers.


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United Nations Backs Uganda Negotiations
[Global: Uganda]
The United Nations, Dec. 24—Following a presentation to The Security Council by Joaquim Chissano the Special United Nations Representative to Uganda's Peace Talks, the Council has endorsed continuation of the negotiations and called on the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to sign a final deal.
Contrary to Uganda government statements to local media there, the U.N. sees the Juba Peace Talks, named after the Southern Sudan city where negotiations have occurred, as the way forward to resolve the Ugandan crises.
"The Security Council reiterates its welcome for the Final Peace Agreement (FPA), negotiated between the Government of Uganda and the LRA, and reached through the Juba Peace Process," reads the statement from the Security Council. "The Council commends the Government of Uganda for its continued commitment to the FPA and its investment in the peace process."
The Council also called on the Uganda government to speed up spending for economic recovery for the war-devastated northern part of the country. Chisanno, who was not available to be interviewed, briefed the Security Council on December 17.
While giving tacit approval to the recent joint military action "to address the security threat posed by the LRA" in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Southern Sudan, the Security Council called on Uganda, DRC and Southern Sudan "to ensure that all actions are carried out in accordance with international humanitarian, human rights and refugee law and to take appropriate measures to protect civilians."
Some members of Parliament in Uganda, including Ronald R. Okumu have criticized the Uganda government's military action against the LRA, including aerial bombardment, saying it jeopardized the lives of young boys and girls abducted by the rebels who are in the camps.
The Security Council also thanked Chissano, the former Mozambique president, for agreeing to continue as the Secretary General's Special Representative. "The Council welcomes President Chissano's readiness to continue in his role for a further period," reads the Security Council statement.
The Security Council also condemned "the repeated failure of Joseph Kony to sign the FPA," the statement added.
"It calls upon the LRA to sign and honor the FPA immediately and to begin the process of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration to ensure a peaceful, political solution."
Kony has in the past said he would not sign a deal unless the outstanding indictment and warrant for his arrest by the International Criminal Court (ICC) was suspended. No such deal is on the table; not at least for now. The Security Council confirmed its commitment to the indictment. "The Council reaffirms that ending impunity is essential for a society recovering from conflict to come to terms with past abuses committed against civilians and to prevent their recurrence," the statement reads, regarding the indictment.
The UN also condemned the LRA's recent military operations in DRC and Southern Sudan, "which pose a continuing threat to regional security," the statement reads. "It demands that the LRA cease its recruitment and use of children and that it release immediately all women, children and other non-combatants, in accordance with Security Council resolution 1612 (2005)."
"The Security Council welcomes the re-establishment of peace and security in northern Uganda," continues the statement.
"It encourages the Government of Uganda, with the support of international partners, to honor its commitment to accelerate reconciliation, recovery and development in that region through rapid implementation of its Peace, Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP) and relevant Agenda items in the FPA and to disburse anticipated financing for the PRDP without delay."
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Principals at Portland Public Schools are beginning the school year with intensive staff trainings to help educators understand their own "white privilege" -- the idea being that afterward, they can change their teaching practices and sensitivity to other cultures to boost minority students' performance.
Take PBJs, for instance:
"What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?" says Verenice Gutierrez, principal at Harvey Scott K-8 School.
"Another way would be to say: 'Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?' Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita."
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"So far [this year]… we have lost more than 500 rhino. [As of] yesterday [Monday], the figure was at 549… The problem is still increasing," environmental affairs deputy director-general Fundisile Mketeni said.
Responsible for biodiversity and conservation in his department, Fundisile was briefing members of Parliament's environmental affairs portfolio committee.
According to figures tabled at Tuesday's briefing, there has been a sharp increase in poaching activity in recent months. They show 25 rhino were illegally killed for their horns in June this year.
This rose to 49 in July, 63 in August, 62 in September, and 75 last month. So far this month, 40 rhino have been killed.
Democratic Alliance MP Gareth Morgan said the figures were worrying.
"I'm deeply concerned about the high number of poachers. I'd really hoped we'd turn the tide in 2012… I'm particularly worried about the November figures, which look — at the current rate — like this will be the biggest month in 2012."
Morgan asked if something unique had happened in recent weeks that might explain such a "spike" in rhino poaching.
Responding, Mketeni told him: "Honestly, it's difficult to say what is happening."
He said the department would examine its records to see if there was a similar spike in previous years.
Sanparks chief executive officer David Mabunda told the committee the situation was complex.
"We indeed accept there is a challenge. Resources have been made available and arrests have increased, but the numbers of rhino killed have not decreased. It's a very complex situation."
He said SA National Defence Force troops, sent to the Kruger National Park to help stop poaching, were only deployed along the southern half of the flagship reserve's eastern border with Mozambique.
"They are not yet active from Masinga Dam to Crook's Corner [the northern point of the park]. So that is still an open area that is not monitored by the defence force, to give us the first line of defence before we can deal with the poaching inside the park."
However, there were gangs of poachers operating out of villages on the Mozambican side of this area, Mabunda said.
This section of the park's boundary is understood to coincide with the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, proclaimed a decade ago. The international boundary fence in this area, which separated the two countries, was dropped at that time.
"On the Mozambican side, there are 38 villages that dot the Limpopo valley, from the Zimbabwean border to the Komati River, where in some instances unemployment is 100 percent," Mabunda said.
"In [some of] these villages… there are known gangs of poachers operating in that area. They are in another country, and we are not able to go in there and deal with the problem."
Mabunda said he hoped once a buffer zone agreement had been signed between the South African and Mozambican governments, they would be able to work with the Mozambicans and deal with the problem.
"In any given day, we experience between 15 and 20 attacks anywhere along that boundary."
Mabunda said there was a need to "deploy technology" to give "early warning detection" of poachers, and allow troops to move in on them.
Removing the fence along this section of the park's eastern boundary was not necessarily a mistake.
"I don't think fences solve problems," he said.
According to figures tabled at the briefing, 224 poachers have been arrested so far this year. A total of 232 were arrested last year, and 165 in 2010.
Over the past six months, 39 people have been convicted for rhino poaching or related crimes. Many of these have been Mozambican nationals.
Last week, a Thai national was given a 40-year sentence for selling rhino horn. Chumlong Lemtongthai pleaded guilty to 59 counts in the Kempton Park Magistrate's Court, including, among others, illegally exporting about 26 rhino horns, trading in rhino horn, breaching the Customs and Excise Act, and tax fraud.
According to environmental affairs, of the more than 1600 rhino killed by poachers over the past five years, more than half have been killed in the Kruger National Park. – Sapa


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Fish and Chip shops around the country prepare to 'batter' it out
Published on by Annabel Gammack (author), Yasmin Thomas (author)
Winners of the 2016 National Fish and Chips awards will be crowned this afternoon
Eagles guitarist, Glenn Frey dies at 67
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Following the death of Lemmy Kilmister, David Bowie another music legend has gained its wings.
"Friends United, what's that?" says 21st century social media user
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UK's leading social networking site Friends Reunited due to close down.
Furry friend or my extended family?
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According to a new survey, UK pet owners see themselves more as parents to our furry friends compared to our US counterparts.
Sports with Megan Reeves and Aimee Carney
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It's been another interesting week in Sports, with success, controversy and achievements.


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Kitsap County Cash Mobs first ever cash mob on Bainbridge Island at Paper Products Etc.12-3pm Saturday July 28th 2012
Look for the Kitsap County Cash mob sign tomorrow as we help Paper Products Ect by attending this very first cash mob on Bainbridge Island Saturday July 28th 12-3PM.
A few words from the owners:
2011 was a tremendously tough year on our business. The Winslow Way project was nine months of absolute stress. We averaged 165-250 customers in our store daily. During the peak of the construction period, we were lucky to get 30 customers in the store/day. As a result, we had to make cuts in hours, inventory, and extra services. We lost staff and regular customers. The recovery has been slow. We are also expecting a baby boy September 1st so we are committed to the hope that our customers will continue to support us – particularly through the slower summer months (which are often the toughest for our business).
We are an office supply, stationery, arts and crafts, school supply, balloon and party supply, scrap-booking and stamping, games, toys and gifts, etc., etc., etc., store!
In addition to our great selection of products, we offer many self-serve and full-serve business services. These include faxing, lamination, binding options, color and black and white copy center, business card and letterhead services, custom designed invitations and announcements and ad-specialty services, including logo and incentive merchandise.
Cash Mob Specials:
In addition to that promotion and numerous in store specials, we plan to provide customers that refer to the cash mob at check-out (and are spending at least $25) a instant savings of $5 off their purchase of regularly priced items.
This cash mob is during the Bainbridge Island Sidewalk sale so there are many reasons to visit the Island that day! Thank you! We hope to see you there!
They have toys for the kids, school supplies, scrap-booking, card-making items and a ton more. Bring a shopping friend and also visit the sidewalk sales! It will be a great day to be on the Island!
RSVP to the Event HERE!
PS) Wondering how else you can help? Kitsap County Cash Mobs could use donations that will help with the current and past website expenses. If you are able to help, we have set up a link for easy donating. Thanks in advance for ANY help!
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Design is everywhere. It can be in the food we eat, the art we buy or the Jewelry we wear. The Designs of the Times Blog is about the people, places and things that help us a enjoy the abundance of creativity all around us. Join us as we showcase the rich designs of our surroundings that make up this great area we call home- Kitsap County! We hope to bring inspiration, joy, and creativity to all who read our Blog.


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You may be looking for The Fan, a due South story. Or perhaps the zine Fans.
|See also:
|fangirl, fanboy, fanboi, fanbrat, stan
|Click here for related articles on Fanlore.
A fan is a person who displays a degree of enthusiasm about a person, media text, genre, or activity. Someone can be a fan of a television show, film, book, game, musician, sports team, fandom itself, or something else.
Originally, "fan" was a shortened form of "fanatic," but the meanings have diverged since.
The plural "fen" is primarily used in Science Fiction fandom, sometimes as a self-aware way to distinguish themselves from fans of sports and other mundane activities. "Fans" is more common in Media fandom and various kinds of fanworks-producing fandom with little or no connection to traditional SF fandom.
The term otaku is used for some types of fans in Japan, and it has spread to some fandoms based on Japanese sources.
Fannish is the adjectival form--the quality of being a fan--and was coined by sf fans before 1948; see Science Fiction Citations.
- "I like that show, but I'm not fannish about it."
- "I've been a fan my whole life, but I just discovered fandom yesterday!"
Nicknames for Fans
Nicknames sometimes get attached to groups of fans of a particular thing. These nicknames may be adopted by some fans and not others, or only used by non-fans; if the latter, the nickname may be perceived as derogatory. (See, for example, the historical arguments over whether Star Trek fans ought to be called Trekkers or Trekkies.)
Examples of fans of a particular book or author: Janeites, Sherlockians, Potterheads
Examples of fans of a particular television show: Bronies, Browncoats, Leapers, Scapers, Whovians, Wingnuts, X-Philes, Gleeks, Trekker, Fannibals, Gaters, Earpers.
Examples of fans of a particular musical group or singer: Directioners, Beliebers, Juggalos
Fans also invent many descriptive terms for fans that have nothing to do with what media they consume; relevant information about a fan might include how long they've been in fandom, how popular they are, or whether they've had a break from reality.


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North is up in this air-photo image from a recent field trip to Barrick's Pinson Mine; the scale bar is 1000 feet. This digital photo of the paper image shown on the field trip contains some minor distortion due to operator error (mine!). The air-photo appears to be identical to what you can see on Google Earth, with one exception: Google Earth wraps the air-photo image over older topography, which looks strange when you try to view the existing pits using an oblique angle.
The shed or old barn where the samples were stored is likewise no longer in existence. It was located in the main drainage - Granite Creek - north of the combined A and B Pits, possibly about where the trees or shrubs in the creek are still present. In this MSRMaps map, the shed was located about where the old road crossed Granite Creek. The Pinson Pit in the MSRMaps image is the original, 1980's A Pit [from a map dated 7/1/1988 according to my original link]; the smaller-than-now A Pit is where the adit was located. The adit was put in by the Cordex I Syndicate in the early 1970's, prior to my sample collecting in 1976.
While collecting samples, I stayed at the home of Fred and Dorothy Barnes on the site of the then inactive Getchell Mine, in a house that is probably not there anymore. In order to call their house, you had to get an operator to ring Getchell #1 or Getchell #2. From outside Nevada, one of the last states using toll stations or ring downs (into at least the mid 1980's - or early 1990's?), you had to tell the operator to put you through to a Nevada operator. Out-of-state operators generally didn't believe numbers such as Midas #2 and Coaldale #1 still existed, and would insist that you give them an area code and a 7-digit phone number.


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Senators to query Apple on tax shelters
Washington -- Apple CEO Tim Cook is scheduled to appear Tuesday before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to explain why the Cupertino computer giant is avoiding paying billions of dollars in taxes by diverting nearly two-thirds of its pretax revenue through Irish subsidiaries.
The novel tax avoidance scheme, according to a committee report, uses entities that do not exist in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service, Ireland or any taxing authority anywhere.
Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John McCain, R-Ariz., said they hope to crack down on what they called abuses of overseas tax havens by U.S. multinationals. More than 1,000 U.S. companies are estimated by the research firm Audit Analytics to hold $1.9 trillion in earnings overseas.
Levin called Apple's scheme "the epitome of tax creativity" Monday by establishing entities that do not exist for the purposes of taxation anywhere in the world. He said Apple's argument that it does not shift profits overseas is "a distinction without a difference," because the company instead shifts rights to its valuable intellectual property.
"It's like saying you haven't shifted the golden eggs offshore after you've moved the golden goose offshore," Levin said.
Apple released Cook's written testimony in which he argues for lower U.S. tax rates to allow "free movement" of revenue back to the United States, and said the company has a large amount of revenue overseas because that's where most of its sales are.
McCain called the argument by multinationals that closing the loopholes should wait for overall tax reform a "cop-out," saying "every lobbyist in their $1,000 suit" is trolling Congress urging to wait for a reform that may never come. "Why wait?" McCain said.
First appearance
Tuesday will be Cook's first appearance before Congress since taking over as Apple's chief executive in 2011. Unlike Google and Facebook, Apple does not have a big lobbying shop in Washington. Like other Silicon Valley companies, however, Apple wants Congress to lower the corporate tax rate, arguing that high taxes force U.S. companies to move overseas.
Committee staffers said they could not estimate Apple's total tax avoidance, but they hazarded that one loophole has let the company avoid $9 billion in U.S. taxes in 2012 alone, while bragging that it paid $6 billion in federal taxes.
Apple "likes to boast that they're the highest-paying taxpayer in the United States," McCain said. "What they often leave out is they are also one of the largest corporate tax avoiders."
A subsidiary called Apple Operations International reported a net income of $30 billion from 2009 to 2012, according to the report, but "has no declared tax residency anywhere in the world and, as a consequence, has not paid corporate income tax to any national government for the past five years."
Another subsidiary, Apple Sales International, also claims no tax residency anywhere, despite sales income of $74 billion from 2009 to 2012, the report said. The subsidiary has no employees and no physical presence.
Big pile of cash
Apple sits atop a cash pile of $145 billion, significantly larger than the U.S. Treasury's cash balance and larger than the national income of most small countries. More than $100 billion of that cash is in retained foreign earnings.
The committee report charged that the Irish subsidiaries exist solely to avoid taxes. Apple also has negotiated a sweetheart 2 percent tax rate in Ireland, in contrast to the 35 percent U.S. corporate tax rate, and Ireland's standard 12 percent corporate tax rate.
The offshore tax schemes originate from a provision of the U.S. tax code that allows corporations to "defer," or not pay, taxes on their overseas income until they bring it back to the United States. That creates an incentive to hold money offshore.
The loopholes seem tailor-made for Silicon Valley tech giants and other multinationals such as pharmaceutical companies whose business models rely on patents and other intellectual property. The economic use of these intangible properties, such as licensing rights, can be easily transferred anywhere around the globe to siphon profits to low-tax jurisdictions. Earlier committee reports uncovered similar offshore tax avoidance at Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, employing strategies unique to each company.
The British Parliament is conducting a separate investigation of Google's use of offshore tax havens.
The senators did not accuse Apple of doing anything illegal. They instead called for eliminating the loopholes that have shrunk the corporate share of U.S. taxes to less than 9 percent from a high of more than 32 percent in 1952, shifting the tax burden onto domestic companies and individuals.
Silicon Valley tech companies continue to seek a tax holiday, similar to one they received in 2004, sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., to "repatriate" their foreign earnings at a drastically reduced rate. Corporations generally are lobbying for a tax overhaul that uses revenue from closing loopholes to lower the corporate tax rate. Levin and other Democrats want to close the loopholes in the current code to raise revenue to fund the government.
Although Apple cooperated fully with the months-long committee investigation, the company did not volunteer information. Uncovering the tax scheme required artful phrasing of questions, which in turn required knowledge by committee staff of what exactly to ask for. One secret subsidiary was revealed only Sunday night.
'Political sideshow'
Dean Garfield, president of the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group, said in a blog e-mailed to reporters that Levin is conducting a "political sideshow ... designed to embarrass Apple, a company that has a strong record of U.S. job creation and employs Americans and pays about $1 million an hour in state and federal income taxes."
Cook will be accompanied by Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer and head of tax operations Phillip Bullock. The committee will also hear from two professors of tax law and officials from the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury.
Carolyn Lochhead is The San Francisco Chronicle's Washington correspondent. E-mail: email@example.com


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Steak and eggs by way of the vegetable patch.
Much as I love a big, beefy steak, sometimes I need something on the lighter side.
Which doesn't mean I'm willing to sacrifice the delicious char of the grill or the satisfaction of something big and boldly flavored on my plate.
So I started playing around with the idea of vegetable "steaks" — produce that is cut into thick slabs, then slowly grilled over medium heat until tender and seared. Of course, the cast of vegetable characters with which you can do this is limited. People have been doing it with portobello mushrooms (sans slicing) for years. But I was looking for something new.
For example, butternut squash could be cut into rounds. Ditto for potatoes, both sweet and white. Fennel bulbs could be trimmed and cut in half top to bottom. If you're good with a knife (and careful as you set them on the grill) even cabbage and broccoli could be done this way.
But my favorite is cauliflower. With some experimenting, I've found that a head of cauliflower can be sliced into two thick "steaks" that hold up well on the grill. They can be seasoned as you see fit, and topped with whatever you like. In this recipe, I keep the seasonings simple, then top them with lightly poached eggs and truffle oil, creating a delicious sauce.
Start to finish: 30 minutes
Servings: 2
1 large head cauliflower
Olive oil
Salt and ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 tablespoon white or cider vinegar
2 eggs
Truffle oil (or truffle-flavored olive oil)
Heat a grill to medium. Bring a large saucepan of water to a low simmer.
Use a paring knife to trim away the leaves and any stem at the base of the cauliflower, but do not cut out the core. Stand the head of cauliflower upright on its base. Use a large bread or other serrated knife to trim away 1/2 inch on either side of the head. Reserve these pieces for another use.
Leaving the head standing upright, use the knife to slice the cauliflower in half down the center to create 2 even halves. Sprinkle both sides of each half with olive oil, then with salt, pepper, a bit of the garlic powder and a little lemon juice.
Carefully set the "steaks" on the grill, cover and cook for 8 minutes. Use a spatula to carefully flip the cauliflower and grill for another 8 minutes, or until both sides are lightly browned and tender. Transfer to serving plates, then cover with foil to keep warm.
Once the cauliflower is done, add the vinegar to the simmering water.
Crack 1 egg into a small glass, then gently and slowly pour it into the simmering water by bringing the lip of the glass right down to the surface of the water so the egg slides in. Cook for 4 minutes, then use a slotted spoon to lift out the egg (letting excess water drip away), setting it one of the cauliflower steaks. Repeat with the remaining egg.
Season the eggs with salt and pepper, then drizzle with truffle oil. Serve immediately.
Nutrition information per serving (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 270 calories; 160 calories from fat (59 percent of total calories); 18 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 180 mg cholesterol; 18 g carbohydrate; 12 g protein; 6 g fiber; 400 mg sodium.


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New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today condoled the death of the Delhi gangrape victim and expressed the hope that the entire political class and civil society will set aside narrow sectional interests and agenda to make India a demonstrably safer place to live in.
He said it would be a true homage to her memory if the emotions and energies of the youth generated by the brutal assault on her are channelised into a constructive course of action.
Deeply saddened by the death of the girl, he joined the nation in conveying to her family and friends his deepest condolences at this terrible loss.
"I want to tell them and the nation that while she may have lost her battle for life, it is up to us all to ensure that her death will not not have been in vain.
"We have already seen the emotions and energies this incident has generated. These are perfectly understandable reactions from a young India and an India that genuinely desires change. It would be a true homage to her memory if we are able to channelise these emotions and energies into a constructive course of action," he said in his condolence message.
He said the need of the hour is a dispassionate debate and inquiry into the critical changes that are required in societal attitudes.
Government, Singh said, was examining on priority basis the penal provisions that exist for such crimes and measures to enhance the safety and security of women.
"I hope that the entire political class and civil society will set aside narrow sectional interests and agenda to help us all reach the end that we all desire making India a demonstrably better and safe place for women to live in," Singh said in his condolence message.
The Prime Minister said he prays for the peace of the departed soul and hoped that her family will have the strength to bear this grievous loss.


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San Diego walk montage
Connect with Promise Walk coordinators and volunteers to share ideas, ask questions, and learn how to host or participate in a Walk in your area!
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You guys didn't a wonderful job. The video is beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Wish we had made it. We did have a small FAF walk in Huntington Beach, but it would have been nice to walk and meet others touched by PE. Looking forward to the walk next year.
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Such a beautiful event you two hosted. Thank you for sharing your Walk-a-Thon through your video montage.
Way to go San Diego!
Way to go San Diego!
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Thank you so much for posting the video, it's very beautiful and touching. I've been waiting for a while, my husband forgot to pack the battery for our camera and we were not able to take any pictures (D'oh). I've also sent a link to all the people that I collected pledges from (I hope you don't mind). Thanks again, it was a very beautiful experience.
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Saint Cosmas the Hymnographer, Bishop of Maiuma - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 8
O Champion of Orthodoxy, teacher of purity and of true worship, / The enlightener of the universe and the adornment of the Hierarchs: / O all-wise Father Cosmas, Your teachings have gleamed with light upon all things. / Intercede before Christ our God to save our souls!
Troparion — Tone 4
Though in the flesh, you were zealous to emulate the choirs of heaven, / And while on earth you composed hymns to God in the highest, / Like a harp of holy wisdom, / With enlightened understanding you hymned God the Word. / O divinely inspired Cosmas, we praise you with hymns!
Kontakion — Tone 2
O God-inspired Cosmas, you adorned yourself with virtues, / Adorning the Church of Christ with the rich splendor of your hymns. / Intercede with the Lord that He may deliver us from the snares of our enemies! / We cry out to you: Rejoice, O holy and blessed Father!


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On the state of Windows on the desktop – A ReblogPosted: 14 January 2013 Filed under: Miscellaneous | Tags: Branko's Thought Dump, humor, Linux, MS Windows, parody, reblog 3 Comments
This is a reblog of a hilarious (and true) article from Branko's Thought Dump.
On the state of Windows on the desktop
I have this Linux system on my PC which has become a bit boring (no, it's not crashed or anything… I just got a bit bored), so I decided to replace it with Windows 7 (some friends told me to not even try Windows 8 because it has an advanced interface nobody was able to figure out yet).
I really did not set the bar too high: I just hoped to have a nice user-friendly interface and recover the email I have in Maildir, and maybe watch my video collection on an external hard drive. You know, the usual stuff I do on Linux every day.
Please note that this article is a parody of what some Windows users write about Linux. The events described here have not actually taken place. However, the article is based on author's experiences with the Windows 7 operating system.
I didn't want to commit and install a new operating system right off the bat. I just wanted to try it first. So I typed "Windows Live" in my browser's search box to find a live version, preferably an USB image. Ok, so Windows Live wasn't a live version of windows but some kind of service you must sign into. I guess it's something like Ubuntu One. Not sure. Moreover, it turned out I'd have to actually buy it first before I could do anything with it. And there is not real live version of Windows 7.
Read the rest of this entertaining article HERE.
*Special thanks to pal SecurityBreach/Comhack for posting this at Scot's Newsletter Forums this morning. It will be my Laugh of the Day for today, for sure!
P.S. Certification studies going well. 🙂
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Thanks for sharing, Eric. I had a good laugh with it.
Best of luck in your studies. I'm cheering for you here in Central America.


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Tax incentives and/or other incentives for drivers of electric vehicles in Nichols Hills.
A low-speed electric vehicle (EV) is any four-wheeled EV powered by an electric motor that draws current from rechargeable storage batteries or other sources of electric current and whose top speed is greater than 20 miles per hour (mph) but not greater than 25 mph. Low-speed EVs may not operate on streets or highways with posted speed limits greater than 35 mph but may cross a street or highway with a posted speed limit greater than 35 mph.A medium-speed EV is defined as any self-propelled, electrically powered four-wheeled motor vehicle, whose top speed is greater than 30 miles per hour (mph) but not greater than 35 mph. Medium-speed EVs must be registered according to the Oklahoma Vehicle License and Registration Act. Medium-speed EVs may operate on roadways with a posted speed limit of up to 45 mph but are not permitted to travel on any highway in the state that is a part of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Low- and medium-speed EVs must meet the safety standards specified in Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, section 571.500. (Reference Oklahoma Statutes 47-11-805.1, 47-1102, and 47-1151.4)
Find all electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in and/or near Nichols Hills (Oklahoma). Search and compare local EV charging stations in Nichols Hills, and find a convenient location to charge your car.


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In perfect shape
Color, crane, font: For the first time in 30 years, Lufthansa is giving itself a new look. A tough task for the team of brand specialists: How do you modernize a design icon – and at the same time preserve its timelessness?
The clock ticks. The room is small, maybe 15 square meters in size, and all of the windows are sealed shut. Beside the door, there's a trolley labeled "Big ideas start with a sketch," and on it, there's a black bar with red numbers: 54:13:30:53. These denote the days, hours, minutes and seconds remaining until the day when the big ideas that have been conceived here, will finally see the light of day.
Until that day, only a handful of people are authorized to enter this conference room at the Lufthansa Aviation Center because this is where the nerve center of a top-secret project is located, the greatest further development of the Lufthansa visual identity for 30 years. "Could you please turn the clock around," says Lufthansa designer Ronald Wild as we take our seats around the table. He prefers not to have it under his nose just now.
The scale is amazing: Few industries have so many – and such different – things requiring design: aircraft, tableware, uniforms, counters, seats, menus, tickets… and that's why it was airlines like Lufthansa which basically invented the principle of corporate design. The Lufthansa visual image developed in the 1960s by Otl Aicher at the Ulm School of Design has been a defining influence on the new style.
Mr. Wild, what makes the crane such a successful icon?
Ronald Wild: Quite simply, it's a pleasing image: a bird, graphically simplified, yet full of grace. You can see that it flowed from a pen, that it wasn't designed on a computer. And then there's the aspect that in 1962, Aicher placed it inside a circle. That is what really turned it into a logo: The basic geometrical shape made it readily memorable.
A design classic. And yet Lufthansa is now giving itself a new brand image…
The corporate identity has to be timeless. But it must also suit the times – and there's the challenge. The world, our society, the media have all changed – and so has Lufthansa. That's why we are not just modernizing our visual identity, but the entire brand.
It's a tremendous effort and expense. Why now?
Because the crane celebrates its 100th birthday this year! It was simply the perfect time to consider questions like: How does Lufthansa look? Not in the design manuals, but outside at the airports? Many variations have come up over time – like a house that's constantly having new extensions added. We haven't changed our logo, font or colors for 30 years; and now we're tying up the loose ends.
Countless colored stickers line the project wall. "Testgate MUC" they say, "in-flight entertainment" and "accessories (uniform)." There's a schedule for the painting of aircraft here that extends right into the year 2025 – and that's how long it will take until all of the aircraft have their new livery. On the table, beside the paint samples, lies the book containing all liveries, a 100-page compilation of aircraft design drafts. Also, there's an original-size baggage drop-off pillar with the words printed in the new font.
For the very first time, Lufthansa is giving itself an instantly recognizable corporate font, a font that's more distinctive, more precise and less rounded. Or as Wild puts it: with more curve tension. "It's has a discreet look," he says, "it's not the star of the rock band."
Nevertheless, each pixel was a struggle. Somewhere along the way, there was a version of the "u" that "we pretty much fell in love with." A lovely, minimalist "u" with no spur. It looked good in the Lufthansa logo and also perfectly met all requirements. But when the designers spelled out "Menu" and "Honolulu," they were forced to admit that at the end of a word, it simply didn't work. "We tried everything. But it was too soft, had no standing."
With his agency, Martin et Karczinski, designer and corporate design expert Peter Martin was involved in the redesign right from the start. "We stand there with a smile on our face every single day," says Martin, when we visit him in Munich, "no matter how tired we may sometimes be." The place is buzzing, on the screens of all the closely spaced workstations, the same images are repeated: Lufthansa – counters, livery, tickets and cranes. One woman is busy designing T-shirts that play with the "a" of the new typeface. This merchandise is not necessarily for aviation fans, it's for design freaks.
Who is the design ultimately meant to please?
Peter Martin: Good design is not just pleasing, it always serves a purpose. A new attitude, a new self-image has evolved at Lufthansa. We want to give that change a face – we are bringing the inside out onto the outside, so to speak.
But there's also a great deal of continuity in the new design …
If we had come up with a completely new crane, what would that have said? That Lufthansa is a different company now? Wrong signal! There are so many great aspects we can work with.
Isn't the legacy also a burden?
It's not as though we hadn't been given an entirely free hand. This work has been one of the greatest explorations I have ever been a part of: We created 500 aircraft designs, 50 versions of the crane – a whole symphony of possibilities!
How do you know when you've got it right?
You just feel it. Suddenly, a calm descends on the room. Then you can be sure that it's right.
We had huge posters full of designs printed and marked our favorites with green adhesive dots. Where should the emphasis be placed – at the tail end as before or at the nose? Or should we perhaps go for full-body paint this time? Only one thing was clear from the start: The dominant color would be blue. "With the old contrasting yellow and blue, you soon created an all-too colorful feeling," says Martin, "that doesn't always suggest quality." That's why the yellow now has a function: It stands for interaction and orientation. And it's the color of small gestures. "Precisely because the yellow is no longer always present, it takes on a special meaning."
The new blue is supposed to communicate sophistication and depth, but on a large surface, color can often appear different, and plus, the material can also alter the effect. That's why a Boeing tailplane was brought for paint testing to a hangar near Norwich, in England – well away from any plane spotters. Every day, we followed the same ritual: Spray on the paint, let it dry, take it out into the daylight and then back into the hangar and off with the paint again. The designers used a shoot-out method to decide which paint worked best, so each side of the tailplane was given a different blue – the one they liked, they kept, the one they didn't was stripped off again.
It's not enough, though, for the blue to look good on the metal. A lovely deep blue soon flips over into black on screens. Thirty years ago, when Lufthansa last gave itself a makeover, hardly anyone knew what a hyperlink was – these days, the quality of a font is measured chiefly by its digital functionality.
Overly precise specifications, such as those laid down in old design manuals, do not allow sufficient scope for all of these different demands. That's why the designers tended to focus more on general propositions, such as: Blue predominates; or: The crane can stand alone, without the logo. "Guidelines are important, otherwise things just get too random," says Alexander Schlaubitz, Head of Marketing at Lufthansa. But once the field has been marked out, play can of course begin. "We started by calibrating ourselves: What are the trends? Where do our strengths lie? How great is the desire for change? And then we felt our way forward, step by step." At the same time, even tiny details led to adjustments in general rules.
There are countless things requiring decisions. How did you reach those decisions?
Alexander Schlaubitz: We had a system of coordinates, but the difficult part was deciding on their application. It's fairly easy to agree on abstracts, but when it comes to the design specifics of sometimes banal elements, you have to readjust.
The curse and blessing of this brand is that we have an almost endless number of contact points. It's an integral system – like a gigantic mobile, where even the slightest movement sets the entire thing in motion.
How do clear your head for new ideas?
We moved into different categories: What if Lufthansa were in the fashion industry? Or the other way around: How would a Coca-Cola or a Harley-Davidson aircraft look? Taking a playful approach helps you to shake your routine mindset. And it also relieves pressure. This brand almost has cultural-heritage status, so we were guided by humility and caution.
When Ronald Wild joined Lufthansa 18 years ago, some people who had been there in the days of Otl Aicher were still working for the company – along with all of the myths surrounding their design. Wild also had to start by learning to let go: He took his time, hung up draft designs in his kitchen at home, and observed how they affected him. On February 7, when the clock comes round to zero, all customers and members of the Lufthansa family will be introduced to the new design. Some will consider it radical, others will feel it doesn't go far enough. "But we created it for everyone who is wholeheartedly committed to Lufthansa," says Wild.
This story first appeared in Lufthansa Exclusive, the frequent traveller magazine. For more information about Lufthansa Miles & More offers, please click here.


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- Volcano Skyscraper-2013 eVolo CompetitionVolcanic eruptions are generally regarded as a natural phenomenon best experienced from a distance. But a group of designers from China think they can tap into and harness a volcano's energy to produce electricity for nearby cities while protecting residents from the dangerous eruptions. Jing Hao, Zhanou Zhang, Xingyue Chen, Jiangyue Han, and Shuo Zhou received an Honorable Mention in the 2013 eVolo Skyscraper Competition for their VolcanElectric Mask, which proposes covering a volcano in a giant shield. The megalithic structure includes a co-generation plant to create electricity from volcanic heat, research facilities and even tourist attractions for when the volcano isn't set to explode.1
- Volcano Skyscraper-2013 eVolo CompetitionVolcanElectric Mask is a design that could harness the untapped power of volcanoes to generate electricity and minimize damage and destruction from eruptions.2
- Volcano Skyscraper-2013 eVolo CompetitionDesigned by Jing Hao, Zhanou Zhang, Xingyue Chen, Jiangyue Han, and Shuo Zhou from China, the proposal calls for a giant dome to cover the volcano, which works as a shield to prevent ash or tephra from choking up the air. This proposal for their prototype was designed for the Popocatepetl Volcano, which is 70 km from Mexico City and is one of the ten most active volcanoes in the developed world.3
- Volcano Skyscraper-2013 eVolo CompetitionThe dome was inspired by the way the body works and takes specific design cues from the nervous system as well as skin.4
- Volcano Skyscraper-2013 eVolo CompetitionHanging inside the dome are a series of screw-like tentacles that burrow into the volcano to monitor temperatures, predict eruptions and absorb CO2, which is then used to create dry ice.5
- Volcano Skyscraper-2013 eVolo CompetitionWhen the volcano is calm, the tentacles work to generate electricity from steam, which is created when collected rain water comes into contact with lava. During this period of calm, the area is open to tourists for hiking, sight seeing and other exhibitions.6
- Volcano Skyscraper-2013 eVolo CompetitionWhen an eruption is expected, the dome closes down in order to contain the tephra and lava and keep it from affecting nearby towns. Dry ice is expelled to protect the tentacles from damage and cool the lava. After the eruption is over the tephra is collected by the dome and shipped off for use in industrial processes. Research facilities within the dome provide a close up view of the volcano in action and help scientists improve prediction and energy generation through geothermal and volcanic activity.7


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Today marks the 75th anniversary of the death of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936). As part of his will, the Wellcome Trust was founded. The Trust is now the largest independent funder of medical research in the UK.
Henry Wellcome was a prolific collector of all things medical.
"Medicine has a history which has touched every phase of life and art and is to a large extent, bound up with records of human existence from earliest times." – H. Wellcome
On his death there were over a million objects in his collection. Here at the Science Museum, we are privileged to look after some 100,000 objects from the Wellcome collection while the remainder were dispersed to museums on the four corners of the globe.
While it would be impossible to pick just one favourite object (mine changes on a weekly basis), I've done a survey of the medical curators' office and here's what we've come up with….
Not only a stunning object to look at, this amulet is covered with religious symbols and saints. Its one of the many religious items in the collection, a side to the Wellcome collection many are surprised to see. Religion and faith is just one response to epidemics of plague, alongside medical treatments and theories of disease.
Worn by babies to prevent 'ugly ears', the Claxton ear cap is an object just within living memory. What makes this object so appealing? It's all about the body beautiful and how attitudes change rapidly over time.
And for something completely different, which you may remember from an earlier post. Food is an essential part of the human experience of life and death.
And finally, the thing Wellcome was famous for, his pharmaceutical company, Burroughs Wellcome & Co. These are just two of the many medicine chests Wellcome donated to explorers, politicians and celebrities of the day for advertising.
To celebrate the medical curators will be giving free tours of the Science and Art of Medicine gallery on the 5th floor of the museum. Click here for more information.


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Have a Harpy Holiday (Archangel 5.5)
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It's the holiday season and Cadean is feeling neither holly nor jolly. It isn't because she is a harpy and demons don't exactly get into the Holiday Spirit. Nor is it because she has no family, and the only one she has to celebrate with is her friend, Lilith, a borderline psychopath succubus. It's because her latest assignment has been anything but easy. The target isn't what is giving her fits though, it's a rogue angel. A rogue angel that is hell bent on making her even more miserable than she already was because he keeps getting in the way of her latest assignment so he can make the catch and collect the bounty. The same bounty that will not only pay off her credit cards, but will allow her to move out of Lilith's apartment and into a place of her own. So, she isn't about to roll over and just let him win. Even if he is the most handsome male she had ever come across. Ever since the civil war in Heaven started, Emmanuel has found himself lost. As a former justice archangel, his loyalties are divided when he finds himself tied to both sides. When he refuses to go against the angel warriors, he is declared a rogue by the angel council and banished to Earth. Bitter and angry, he just wants to collect the reward on the bounty and hole up somewhere until the Holidays are over. But he takes one look at the beautiful harpy that's in his way and he knows that is going to be easier said than done.


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Legal opinion: Duval Co. officials face term limits
Florida Supreme Court reverses decade-old decision
JACKSONVILLE, FLa. – Jacksonville's general counsel says Duval County's clerk of courts cannot run for a third term this year, based on her reading of a recent Florida Supreme Court ruling.
The Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled earlier this month that voters can impose term limits on county commissioners and other officials, which reverses a decision the justices made a decade ago.
Jacksonville's top attorney, Cindy Laquidara, issued a legal opinion Monday that the new ruling would limit constitutional officers to the outcome of a referendum passed by Duval County voters in 1992.
Laquidara issued the opinion in answer to a question about whether Clerk of Courts Jim Fuller could run for re-election, but the term limits would apply to several other officers, including school board, sheriff, property appraiser, tax collector and supervisor of elections when their terms are up.
"(The) timing is not good for Mr. Fuller," Laquidara said Monday afternoon. "My interpretation of the Supreme Court decision is saying that Clerk Fuller cannot qualify (for re-election)."
Fuller (pictured, left) told Channel 4 he was disappointed with the decision and has retained the same attorney who made the successful 2002 challenge of term limits to challenge this ruling.
"I have a real good chance of getting on the ballot and continuing the work I've started here at the clerk's office," Fuller said.
Duval County Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland -- who would be blocked from running again when his term is up in 2015 -- doesn't think Fuller's appeal will succeed.
"I don't think there is any room to challenge it. I think the courts are very specific," Holland said. "It's something the voters will have to change. If the voters don't want term limits on, they can go the same way -- back to the ballots."
As of Monday, Fuller was the only candidate who had notified the elections office of an intent to run for the clerk of the courts post.
The only other announced candidate that would be blocked from running this year by this ruling is Betty Burney, current chairperson of the Duval County School Board.
Sheriff John Rutherford said he has three years to find out whether he can run for re-election again, saying he will follow whatever the law is.
Jacksonville's mayor and City Council members -- as municipal officers -- have been subject to term limits since the 1992 referendum.
On May 10, the Supreme Court justices upheld cases of Broward and Sarasota counties where residents had approved term limits on county commissioners and other officials. In doing so, the court reversed a 2002 ruling on a case by then-Duval County Clerk of Court Henry Cook that blocked county-imposed term limits.
The ruling applies to what are known as "charter" counties, where voters have approved governing structures that can differ from basic requirements in the Florida Constitution. Charters in at least 10 counties -- Broward, Brevard, Clay, Duval, Hillsborough, Orange, Palm Beach, Polk, Sarasota and Volusia -- include term limits for commissioners, according to a court filing by the Florida Association of Counties.
Justices in 2002 ruled 4-3 that term limits could not be imposed on some county offices that are outlined in the constitution -- clerk of court, sheriff, tax collector, property appraiser and elections supervisor. The majority said that term limits were a form of disqualifying candidates that was not allowed in the constitution.
The Supreme Court took the somewhat-unusual step of rejecting its earlier decision, a move known as "receding."
Matthew Corrigan, a political science professor at the University of North Florida, said he thinks some term limits are too short.
"Their term limit movement wanted eight years. But it's difficult to be in public office this year. There's a lot of resentment and lack of trust. So a shorter time period is probably popular," he said.
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