text: One of the biggest headaches in doing business on the Internet is compliance with government and industry regulations. Designed to protect both business and consumers, regulations can nevertheless be both confusing and overlapping, and failing to comply with them can be costly. If you're using providers in the Cloud, you're adding another layer of complexity to your security model. Exactly what is compliance? Put simply, it's adherence to a set of regulations or controls imposed by a governing body, such as a government or industry. My favorite example is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS, often abbreviated to PCI), because it affects any business that processes credit cards. However, any business may be subject several sets of government and industry regulations, with requirements that overlap or even seem to conflict. Fortunately, in the case of seeming conflicts, the most conservative interpretation is always the most appropriate. The real potential headache lies in making sure that using Cloud services will not endanger your company's ability to prove compliance. Your Cloud provider should be able to, at minimum, provide you with a SAS (Statement on Auditing Standards) 70 Type II certification. SAS 70 certifies that the provider meets the requirements of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (often abbreviated SOX), which is a US government regulation regarding financial practices of public companies. Because any company that is publicly traded must comply with SOX, being SAS 70 certified is a good baseline for other types of compliance. That said, SAS 70 actually predates SOX and is not as robust or broad as other frameworks. As I mentioned in last week's article, if you are already using or considering using the Cloud, the CSA CCM (Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix) is the go-to document for sitting down with your provider and determining their compliance - and therefore to some extent yours - with applicable government and industry regulations. The CCM lists about 100 security control specifications, specifying which are an organization's responsibility and which are the provider's, and cross-references them to the applicable government or industry regulation or framework. While the resulting document seems huge and complex, it vastly simpifies compliance for an organization in terms of what it is responsible for and what it can expect from Cloud providers. Because of organizations like CSA, Cloud providers are aware that simply offering services and providing a SAS 70 certificate is not enough to prove compliance. CSA also maintains a registry called STAR (Security, Trust & Assurance Registry) that documents the security controls provided by various Cloud providers. In order to be a part of STAR, a Cloud provider must submit one of two types of reports (either based on the CCM or another CSA questionnaire). Selecting a provider listed in STAR will not eliminate your organization's due diligence responsibilities regarding that provider, but it does provide another layer of trust, and ensures that the provider is already familiar with the CCM. With all this said, it's important to realize that simply demonstrating compliance does not mean an organization is actually secure. In my next article, I will be discussing what compliance actually means, in practical terms, for an organization's security posture.

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After discovering that no one really cared about his retirement from acting or about the movie about his fake meltdown, Joaquin Phoenix may be getting back into the moving pictures (even though he never really left it). Variety reports that Joaquin Phoenix is in talks to join Philip Seymour Hoffman in Paul Thomas Anderson's untitled religious drama. The story is based on the founding of Scientology and has Hoffman playing "Lancaster Dodd, a charismatic intellectual known as The Master" who creates a new religion, but eventually comes into conflict with his chief disciple. Phoenix would play the disciple, Freddie Sutton, "an alcholic drifter who becomes his right-hand man only to begin questioning his manipulative mentor."
Last fall, the film—unofficially referred to as "The Master"—looked dead, but then this past February, Megan Ellison came to rescue not only of this film, but also Anderson's planned adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice. Hit the jump for my thoughts on Phoenix joining The Master.
While I found Phoenix's fake retirement to be an interesting experiment that didn't really pan out into anything worthwhile, I've always found him to be a talented actor who, when given the right direction and a well-written role, can deliver the goods. He's also in need of some career rehab and a juicy role in an Anderson flick could be just the trick to get him back on track. No one does damaged, angry, and down-and-out like Phoenix and while audiences rejected I'm Still Here, I think that he can still be embraced as an actor, especially if he's sharing the screen with another talented thespian like Hoffman.


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Fort Lauderdale, FL — Diversified Health & Fitness Inc. purchased another chain of women-only health clubs — this time acquiring the assets of San Ramon, CA-based Butterfly Fitness Inc., the franchisor of Butterfly Life, for an undisclosed amount.
Included in the acquisition deal are Butterfly's franchise agreements, franchise disclosure document registrations, area developer agreements, manuals, trade names and other intellectual property.
The Butterfly acquisition pushes Diversified's holdings to nearly 200 clubs, the company said, including six locations in the Japanese market. Diversified, headed by CEO Roger Wittenberns, now owns Liberty Fitness, Fit For Her, ShapeXpress, Access Fitness, Fit Zone, The Blitz, The Zoo and Sedona Fitness.
Created in July 2007, Diversified has said that it will give struggling franchisees the type of support and structure that their previous corporate ownership did not give them.
Mark Golob, former CEO of Butterfly Life, said in a statement that he thought Diversified would offer the corporate, marketing and operational support and experience that Butterfly Life franchisees need.
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Summer Spanish Institute changes lives year after year
|Students sit outside a school in Río Hondo, Guatemala, where they performed a program and gave their testimonies.
When Dr. David Towles drove from California to Lynchburg to begin his career at Liberty University in 1976, he knew that learning languages in a classroom had certain limitations; one could learn history, grammar and culture, but much beyond that is impossible.
"To become fluent, you have to learn on the field," said Towles. "So that's when I first got the vision for doing an on-the-field trip."
That vision has turned into 11 successful years of the Liberty University Spanish Institute, a two-month summer program that incorporates academics and evangelism.
Towles, director of the Spanish Institute and a Spanish professor, has partnered with Carlos Vargas, who he has called the "Dr. Falwell" of Guatemala — a man who thinks big and has seen to it that the impossible is regularly made possible.
Vargas is the founder of Hope of Life Ministries (Esperanza de Vida in Spanish) in Llano Verde, Guatemala. The organization operates an orphanage, a school with about 500 children, and a home for nearly 100 elderly people. Vargas' ministry helps build churches and provides pastors with greenhouses so they can support their own families. The ministry has also been involved in a $5 million hospital construction project and hopes to be able to open one floor by next fall.
The trip, from May 15-July 10, has two parts: for the first month, students take classes, minister to the community and have English devotions at night; during the second month, each student lives with a local family — speaking only Spanish.
Bethany Davis, a senior Spanish major with minors in crisis communication and writing, is one of the student leaders this summer. She took her first trip to Guatemala in 2009 and said she most enjoyed living with the family for the second month (who she now considers her own family), building relationships with the other students and being able to share Christ with the people there. She speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese fluently.
|Students in this summer's Spanish Institute perform a program at the Hope of Life school in Guatemala.
"I hadn't led anyone to Christ in Spanish or in English, and to be able to do it in Spanish, on top of it, was one of the other great things about the trip," she said.
Davis grew up in Spain and Portugal as the daughter of two missionaries, and she jumped at the chance to do mission work in a third-world country.
"I've always been the missionary kid, never the missionary," she said. "So going to Guatemala was the first time where I was the one going out and not just following my parents and doing what they say."
Kandace Beck, a senior Spanish major with a teacher licensure, went to Guatemala last year and is a student leader this year.
"I am so happy that I got involved with the Spanish institute because it really got me out of my comfort zone and was a life-changing experience," Beck said.
Towles said the students also provide encouragement for the local Christians there.
|Students spent time with children at the Hope of Life Nutrition Center in Guatemala.
"When we show up it's likely that five or 10 more people will come to their church. And out of that five or 10, it's likely that one or two more will come regularly or be led to Christ," Towles said. " … In Guatemala they preach five to seven nights a week … so these people really need us to come alongside to help them, to do visitations for them, just to love on them a little bit. It means a lot to them."
The trip is not reserved for Spanish majors only. It is required, however, that students know how to go through the plan of salvation in Spanish, give his or her testimony in Spanish and commit to staying in Guatemala for two months. The trip has appealed to students in the nursing and education programs.
Towles said the Spanish Institute is fulfilling Liberty's mission to train Champions for Christ.
"Jerry [Falwell] Sr. used to say this all the time: 'What we want is action-oriented curriculum.' What is more action oriented than going to Guatemala, taking Spanish classes and sharing Christ in Spanish?"


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HTML5 offers developers new ways to display and work with both audio and video on the web. The HTML5
<video> element tends to get more attention, but the HTML5 audio element is equally revolutionary, perhaps even more so thanks to the work-in-progress Web Audio API (currently in the draft stages).
Developers at the BBC recently set out to push the limits of what you can do with HTML5
<audio> and the Web Audio API. The result is a new audio playground site that recreates the sounds of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop using the Web Audio API. Note that right now only WebKit browsers support the Web Audio API. (Firefox supports the older, deprecated, Audio Data API, but plans to ship support for Web Audio in 2013.)
The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop project is one part cool demo, one part tutorial. It's fun to play around with, sure, but another reason behind the experiment is to document how to use
<audio> and the Web Audio API. The developers also wanted to put the API through some real-world use cases, to see if there are any limitations that could be addressed before the Web Audio API becomes an official standard.
Each of the four demos has a thorough code walk-through showing exactly how it works and which elements of the Web Audio API are being used. There are a couple of dependencies, namely JQuery and Backbone.js, but most of the code is working directly with the Web Audio API.
If you've ever wanted to explore the Web Audio API, these demos make a great introduction to how everything works. For more background on the project, see the BBC's Research and Development blog.
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Torrhen's Square is a castle in the North. It lies along the shores of a lake and is the seat of House Tallhart, a vassal house sworn to House Stark of Winterfell. It is protected by stone walls thirty feet high.[1]
Torrhen's Square is located 40 leagues (120 miles) southwest of Winterfell.[2] A new tower at Torrhen's Square was put up in a summer which a Northern lord cites as how previous generations mason were better than the current ones.[3]
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Theon Greyjoy is dispatched by his father to raid the fishing villages along the Stony Shore. After consulting with his first mate, Dagmer, Theon decides to mount a daring attack inland on Torrhen's Square. He muses that they will not be able to hold the castle, as Winterfell will send troops to retake it rapidly. Sure enough, word of an attack on Torrhen's Square reaches Winterfell. Fearing it might be a Lannister raid behind the lines, Ser Rodrik Cassel decides to muster 200 men and march to the relief of the castle. Maester Luwin is dubious about sending so many troops given their shortage in manpower, but agrees with the decision.[2]
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Torrhen's Square is the seat of House Tallhart and ruled by the Master of Torrhen's Square, Ser Helman Tallhart.
In the novels, Torrhen's Square is slightly further away from Winterfell, possibly 150-200 miles, as compared to the 120 in the TV series. This may be further evidence of the TV version of Westeros being slightly smaller than the book version, or an error in the distance given by the writers or by the characters.
Theon Greyjoy sends Dagmer to besiege Torrhen's Square as a diversion that will allow him to take Winterfell. The ploy works, Ser Rodrik takes most of Winterfell's garrison and forces Dagmer and his troops to retreat back to Stony Shore. Unfortunately, in the meantime Theon captures the undefended Winterfell.
After Rodrik returns to Winterfell and besieges it, Dagmer and his men return to Torrhen's Square and easily take the keep; the capture of the castle is not explicitly mentioned in the novels, but can be deduced from the few references to Dagmer and to Torrhen's Square in the novels following "A Clash of Kings". Currently Dagmer is still there.
Following the sack of Winterfell, the surrender of Moat Cailin and the liberation of Deepwood Motte, Torrhen's Square is the last and only settlement at the North that is still held by the ironborn.
While Stannis's host marches to Winterfell, Asha offers Stannis to deliver him Torrhen's Square (though she is uncertain Dagmer and his troops will obey her). He refuses, stating that Torrhen's Square is not worth the mud beneath his heels, and it is Winterfell that matters.
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A grill with a view
The Bar do Tino in Rio de Janeiro is the perfect combination of two Brazilian virtues: barbecuing and hospitality. Come here once and you'll always return
Our noses discover the Bar do Tino long before we actually see it. The scent of fire and meat wafts through the narrow, labyrinthine lanes in the favela Morro dos Prazeres. The closer we get, the more intense the aroma becomes and our legs get heavier. You have to work hard if you want to eat out at Rio de Janeiro's best favela restaurant – with a sweat-inducing climb up the steep hillside that automatically absorbs all the calories you are bound to consume here.
Ever since the panoramic view from Tino Santana's terrace graced the cover of the city guide Veja Rio the fame of the family-owned eatery has spread far beyond the favela's inhabitants. Last year, an expert jury awarded the restaurant the culinary prize Comer & Beber da Paz in both the categories "Best View" and "Best Food" . The experts were particularly won over by the barbecued chicken. To give it its special flavor, restaurant chef Tino Santana marinades the chicken in a secret mixture; his son Leoandro is responsible for grilling the meat.
Under the critical eyes of his father, Leoandro cooks the meat with lots of smoke under a closed top. In the kitchen, hardly bigger than a one-room apartment, mother Eleni and brother Santana prepare the side dishes. In typical Brazilian style, the grilled meat is served with beans, rice and manioc. Whether it was due to the view or the culinary skills of the Santana family, this was by far the best meal we ate in Brazil.


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President Barack Obama delivers doughnuts to fire fighters at a fire house in Tampa, Fla., Oct. 25, 2012.
RICHMOND, VA -- President Barack Obama touted the endorsement of former Secretary of State and retired Gen. Colin Powell's endorsement, suggesting it was a nod of support to his record on foreign policy and defense.
Addressing a crowd of 15,000 here at a public park, Obama said, "I was proud to learn that we have Colin Powell's support in this campaign."
"I'm grateful to him for his lifetime of service to his country both as a soldier and a diplomat. And every brave American who wears this uniform of this country should know that as long as I am your Commander in Chief, we will sustain the strongest military this world has ever known.
President Obama received a sudden endorsement from retired General and former Secretary of State Colin Powell via morning television. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
"We will be relentless in pursuit of our enemies. Those are promises I've kept."
Military spending is a key issue in swing state Virginia, home to several bases as well as many civilian defense employees, who live primarily in Northern Virginia.
"President Obama says that 'trust matters,' but Virginians already know that he cannot be trusted to protect our military or our economy. Under President Obama, our military stands to be cut by nearly $1 trillion and he has no plan whatsoever to save the 136,000 Virginia jobs that could be eliminated because of his cuts," said Curt Cashour, Romney's spokesman for Virginia. "To make matters worse, the president's liberal policies are killing jobs in Virginia as we speak."
After his speech, the president was headed to Chicago where he would become the first sitting president to vote early in person.


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Apple's new iPhone will likely go on sale sometime next month, while phones running Google's Android operating system aren't set to launch until late summer or fall. So it's in Google's best interest to do whatever they can do now to woo audiences. If people like what they see, they might wait for Android phones before they decide which, if either phone, to buy.
Last week at Google's I/O developers conference, execs demoed parts of Android that the general public hadn't previously seen, like a slick Maps app with a built-in compass, a neat way to unlock your phone, and a fun-looking Pac-Man game. (Kevin Pereira and I discussed some of these Thursday night on G4TV's "Attack Of The Show," embedded below. Apologies in advance for last-minute wardrobe!)
We think Google has done as good a job as anyone at reproducing some of the iPhone's best features: touchscreen controls, interesting applications, and a clean, attractive user interface. And knowing that Google's set of free, popular Web services -- GMail, GChat, Google Calendar, etc.,-- will play a leading role in Android phones, we think some people will hold off buying a 3G iPhone until there's more info out about Android-based phones.
Of course, that could change on June 9 -- when Steve Jobs is expected to demo the 3G iPhone. But in the meantime, we'd like your take: Were you planning on buying a 3G iPhone? Might you now wait until Android phones launch first? Or are you all Apple, all the way? Answer in comments below.
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Michael Jackson's legacy has taken another hit.
Choreographer Wade Robson, who testified in the pop icon's defense during his 2005 trial on child molestation charges, has now filed a claim against Jackson's estate, alleging that he in fact was abused by the late star.
Robson's court filing is sealed, but E! News has obtained documents confirming that a petition to make a late claim against the estate, as well as certificates of merit from mental health professionals and other supporting paperwork were filed on May 1.
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NEWS: 2005 sex-abuse case could be revisited in Jackson wrongful-death trial
"Wade used to tell me that Michael would ask to have baths with him," a close friend of Robson's exclusively tells E! News. "It was weird...He didn't seem to question it, neither would we, it was just what he would say. It sounded strange, but we never delved further."
Robson "never seemed ashamed of it or anything," the insider adds. "I have no idea how he was feeling inside, but he would be quite matter of fact about it."
The "So You Think You Can Dance" regular was even was among the lineup of all-star dancers who performed a tribute to the King of Pop to kick off the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards following his sudden death at 50 that June.
NEWS: Paris Jackson spending time with mother Debbie Rowe
"To us, he would always defend Michael through the previous sexual abuse allegations," the source says. "He loved Michael and would be the first to stick up for him. But to be honest, today's news has not been a surprise as the relationship between Michael and the family was very unusual."
But while Robson maintained during the 2005 trial that Jackson did not molest him, one of the artist's former housekeepers, Blanca Francia, testified that she saw her ex-boss showering with Robson when he would have been 8 or 9 years old.
"Jackson discovered Wade when he was a little boy in Australia," Robson's friend tells us. "Michael thought he was such a talent right from the start and so paid for Wade and his family to move to California. I think he paid their rent, got their visas, organized the whole thing.
"Wade as a little boy always had everything," the source says. "He never had to ask for anything. He always had the best things and he would always say, 'Michael bought it for me.' 'Michael got it for me.'"
The insider adds: "We all knew he was very special and close to Michael."
Meanwhile, Howard Weitzman, the lawyer for Michael Jackson's estate, tells E! News: "Mr. Robson's claim is outrageous and pathetic. This is a young man who has testified at least twice under oath over the past 20 years and said in numerous interviews that Michael Jackson never did anything inappropriate to him or with him. Now, nearly 4 years after Michael has passed this sad and less than credible claim has been made. We are confident that the court will see this for what it is."
--Additional reporting by Claudia Rosenbaum
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Nasty Looper has 16 pad cells that you may load with 16 or 24-bit .wav samples, map into your MIDI Controller for further writing on the Piano Roll of your DAW. Almost Every parameter of Nasty Looper may be mapped into a MIDI Controller control, providing yourself the possibility of perform Live and Improvised sessions very quickly.
Nasty Looper has a built in Break Sequencer up to 128 steps. Whitin 128 steps you can choose any to create a silence in the current pattern sequencing build.
The last 4 Pad cells are introduced for loops. These cells can play you any loop just by configuring the beats number. (eg: 16bars = 64 beats). Here you can also tweak start and end adj, delay, and filter stepper among other controls.
It also counts with a fancy built in Synth and a Brickwall Limiter preventing clips during Live performance and comes with a demo soundbank provided by beatassist.eu, loopmasters.com and VIPsoundlab.
The first 12 pad cells have:
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Hi. this is one of The best free apps, the compose sequence feature is awsome.My question is how do you get the looper sequence midi mapped to external controller Akai APC mini this controller has lights anyway that nasty looper can use the Akai APC mini like the "Red" light that run at the bottom triggering each beat picked up by the nasty looper sequencer.Is there a midi script.Im using ableton live 9 as my D.A.W. How to get abletons piano roll to work with nasty looped. If i can get these issues worked out im good. Thx
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When I seen this VST, I really liked it, but, when I install and tested it, I seen two grand problems that was enough to I let the VST of side. 1- Only support WAV files. 2- Is only in FULL HD (The VST size is very bigger than the laptops screens). I don't wanna depreciate the VST, I just wanna say this to developers see this and fix all that, if theses 2 things would fixed, I will download it again and I will return to use it. Great VST. ;D
Apr 15 2018
Hi...i am working on version 2 of the VSTi..it will be laptop screen fit OK!...well..it wont run mp3 only wav though!!!
Oct 01 2018
How about support for aif sounds?
Feb 14 2019
yes...version 2 will have that!!!
Mar 04 2016
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OI, we don't all use HD screens you know, how about a version with a smaller GUI for those of us who don't? otherwise it's next to useless
Mar 08 2016
Yes I agree... next version will be smaller..anyway.. I believe that if you use more than 1024x768 will be ok!!! Yet, I agree some laptops are basic on resolution! : )
Mar 31 2016
I'm using 1366x768, the highest my laptop screen allows, in FL Studio with it detatched to see above the DAWs GUI and it's still too big to see properly, and it's just as bad in Reaper aswell. If you made the gui halfway between 800x600 and 1024x768 then it would be useable
Feb 21 2016
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How can I use patterns B, C, and D? It seems like I can only use pattern A.
Feb 24 2016
Use the up and down arrow buttons where it says "steps" or the pop up menu right at side, that shows the number of active steps selected.
Feb 27 2016
Great! Now, if I want to hear only Pattern C in a loop, how is that accomplished?
Feb 29 2016
You cant.. probably on next version.. sorry!
Oct 07 2015
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This is really great I like it much more than FL Studios FPC. It works with my AKAI MPD26 very easy to map the samples. Still figuring out how to work the rest no one has put up a tutorial yet up on YouTube.
Oct 20 2015
You can find some handy tutorials at www.beatassist.eu.. You just need flash plugin installed on your browser.
Apr 10 2015
Ebin Bear
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A hell of a lot better than a lot of the other drum programs I've tried. Anybody know how to get this working with a program like reaper though? Specifically, how do I map the pads to the piano roll?
Oct 20 2015
After mapping the pad cells to a MIDI controller, the note assinged on the controller will be the same note on the piano roll. All you need is a MIDI controller and map the pad cells.
Mar 29 2015
Cesar Nova
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like it ;)
Mar 24 2015
/ 5
Hi there. How do I create a loop? When I press on "start engine" only the first pad (base drum) is played. All the others are just played when I use the pattern fill mode. So except for the first pad, the other drums can only be played as a continous pattern, so every bar is just the same. E.g. I can't choose the 2nd pad to appear in every 2nd bar only. Can someone help me? Or is there any tutorial out there so I can get the basics?
Mar 28 2015
On Beatassist.eu website there are video tutorials that explain how to do a step pattern. Make sure each pad is set on pattern A so each pad goes on the same bar (like all pads on the first bar). Also adjust the number of steps you want to step record.
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Mar 04 2015
Bongani Tunywa
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mmmmh this is Dope
Feb 17 2015
/ 5
Holy shit, this thing is amazing!
Jan 22 2015
Bumble Bee
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Combination MPC with a TR step sequencer! I've seen the tutorial videos on their website. It looks very easy to run the program once you get the hang of it. There's no pdf manual. One question, where's the swing function? Anyway, this plugin is sweet!!! THE ULTIMATE GROOVEBOX!!!
Jan 21 2015
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Great machine, but a manual would be useful.
Jan 19 2015
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Wow lots of work put in here. I like it a lot but wish there was a manual. The vids are cool but I a dummy!
Jan 18 2015
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The cool thing. Waited a very long time, and something like that was free of charge. In general super plugin.


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Following is a listing of vacuum diagrams for most of the engine and emissions package combinations covered by this information. Because vacuum circuits will vary based on various engine and vehicle options, always refer first to the vehicle emission control information label, if present. Should the label be missing, or should the vehicle be equipped with an engine other than the original, refer to the following diagrams for the same or similar configuration.
If you wish to obtain a replacement emissions label, most manufacturers make the labels available for purchase. The labels can usually be ordered from a local dealer.
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Your precious newborn will light up your life. And sensory stimulation actually "lights up" key areas of your one-month-old baby's brain.
Your baby can see objects 8-10 inches away but can't make out details or the full color spectrum
He follows objects slowly with his eyes over very short distances
She mimics simple facial expressions and, when someone speaks to her, looks intently
He's startled by loud or unexpected noises
Her fists are closed
From day one, your precious newborn takes in the sights of the world. This is some of the earliest learning she does. What she sees provides important clues about the bright world in which she suddenly finds herself.
In 1992, recommendations were made to put babies to sleep on their backs to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Since then, infant deaths have been reduced by one-half.


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Master of Arts in Political Science
Professors: Thomas Brunell, Anthony M. Champagne, Marie I. Chevrier, Harold
D. Clarke, Euel Elliott, Edward J. Harpham, L. Douglas Kiel, Robert C. Lowry, Marianne C. Stewart
Associate Professors: Patrick Brandt, Jennifer S. Holmes, Linda Camp Keith, Gregory S. Thielemann
Assistant Professors: Brandon Kinne, Banks Miller, Clint Peinhardt
Senior Lecturers: Brian Bearry, Karl Ho
Mission Statement
The mission of the Master of Arts in Political Science (MAPS) degree is to offer advanced instruction in the social science literature and theories about politics, citizenship and governance. The program serves the interests and needs of talented students who can commit initially to a 30-hour program but may be attracted subsequently to the Ph.D. program, as well as those who can commit initially to the doctoral program but subsequently decide not to complete the program. The Master of Arts in Political Science further can satisfy the interests and talents of students who "fast-track" in the Political Science undergraduate program and who want an additional year of more rigorous, sharply focused graduate coursework in Political Science.
Students in the Master of Arts in Political Science program will:
• Demonstrate the ability to apply political science theories and concepts to the study of citizenship, governance and politics.
• Develop a competency in one of the fields of Comparative Politics and International Relations; Political Institutions and American Politics; or Law and Courts.
• Develop basic skills in professional communication appropriate to political science research and analysis.
• Develop competency in analysis, evaluation, and research design relevant to political science research and analysis.
Students have access to the computing facilities in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences and the University's Computing Center. The School has two computing laboratories that have over 30 computers that are network linked and equipped with major social science software packages, including E-Views, R. Rats, SPSS, and STATA. A computerized geographic information system, the Lexis Nexis database and Westlaw are also available for student use. The University's Computing Center provides personal computers and UNIX Workstations. Many important data and reference materials are available online from professional associations or at UTD via the Library's and School's memberships in the American Political Science Association, the European Consortium for Political Research, the Inter University Consortium for Political and Social Research, the Roper Center, and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Systems, and other organizations.
Admissions Requirement
The University's general admission requirements are discussed here.
The Master of Arts in Political Science seeks applications from students with a baccalaureate degree from an accredited university or college. Although applications will be reviewed holistically, in general, entering students have earned a 3.0 undergraduate grade point average (on a 4.0 scale), and a combined verbal and quantitative score of at least 1100 on the Graduate Records Examination (GRE). Standardized test scores are only one of the factors taken into account in determining admission. Applicants should also submit all transcripts, three letters of recommendation (preferably from individuals who can evaluate the applicant's potential for graduate study), and a one-page essay outlining the applicant's background, education, and professional objectives. Applications are reviewed by the Political Science Program Committee in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences.
Undergraduate students who are interested in completing their undergraduate degrees while simultaneously taking graduate courses in the M.A. in Political Science program are expected to meet the School's "fast-tracking" requirements.
While there are no specific course prerequisites, entering students will benefit from exposure to undergraduate courses in the Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, statistics, and research design. In cases where undergraduate preparation is not adequate, students may be required to take additional course work before starting the master's program.
Transfer Policies
Students who have previous graduate work pertinent to the requirements of a master's program may be given up to 6 hours of transfer credit, and the hours of coursework required for the degree will be reduced accordingly. Students desiring to transfer graduate courses thought to be equivalent to core courses may be required to demonstrate competency through examination. The award of such transfer credit must be consistent with the University's "Transfer of Credit" policy.
Degree Requirements
The University's general degree requirements are discussed here.
Students seeking a Master of Arts in Political Science must complete at least 30 semester credit hours of work in the program, must receive a grade of B- or better in all required courses, and must maintain at least a 3.0 grade point average to graduate.
The curriculum has two components:
(1) Fifteen semester hours of required coursework
(2) Fifteen semester hours of prescribed electives
Required Courses (15 hours)
All students should complete the core courses as soon as possible.
All of the following:
EPPS 6313 Introduction to Quantitative Methods
PSCI 6350 Logic, Scope and Methodology of Political Science
PSCI 6352 Empirical Democratic Theory
Two of the following:
PSCI 6300 Proseminar in Comparative Politics and International Relations
PSCI 6311 Proseminar in Law and Courts
PSCI 6313 Public Policymaking and Institutions
Prescribed Electives (15 hours)
a) Two additional courses at the 5000 or 6000 level in one of the following fields: Comparative Politics and International Relations; Political Institutions and American Politics field; or Law and Courts.
b) Three additional political science courses at the 5000 or 6000 level, or methodology courses such as applied regression (EPPS 6316) or other methods courses offered throughout the School, or up to three credits of optional thesis (independent study).


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A denizen of The Car Connection's TCC lounge caught a sketchy Alfa Romeo 166 from MY1998-2001 on the upper east side of Manhattan. To call it a gray market model may be kind of a stretch. It's actually a black-market model, considering most of these Alfas were imported illegally. Though there's always a chance this guy got some manner of exemption for his executive car, which is registered in Pennsylvania. Still, it did trigger our yen for stateside Alfas, which should arrive back on these shores by early next decade.
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* Mo Farah became Britain's first athlete to win three Olympic golds on the track. He tripped and fell during the 10,000m race. Got up, made his way back to the front, attacked in the last 100m and took the gold with a time of 27:05.17. He is just the fourth man to defend his 10,000m title at the Olympics.
* Bahraini 21-year-old Ali Khamis stole the last spot in the 400m final with a 44.49 run in the semi-finals, that were topped by Kirani James (44.02).
"My rivals were stronger than me, I tried but the last 100m were tough, I wasn't as fast as I needed to be. But thankfully I set a new Bahraini national record," said Khamis, who seemed to slow down towards the end to miss out on a top-two spot in his semi, but he advanced anyway as one of the fastest third-place finishers.
"I still not to be more experienced to keep it up in the last 100m. Hopefully I can improve my time in the final. Making a final at the Olympics, as a Bahraini, and an Arab is a huge honour"
* Michael Phelps closed the curtain on his one-of-a-kind career, helping USA win gold in the 4x100m medley relay, which saw Ryan Murphy set a world record in the opening leg backstroke. Phelps retires from swimming with 28 Olympic medals - 23 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze.
The 31-year-old, who flirted with the idea of retirement after London 2012, won five golds and one silver in Rio.
"This is how I wanted to finish my career. I've lived a dream come true. Being able to cap it off with these Games is just the perfect way to finish," said Phelps, who was watched on by his fiancee Nicole and his son Boomer on an emotional night at the Aquatics Stadium.
* Usain Bolt started his campaign, strolling into the 100m semi-finals, so did two-time doping offender Justin Gatlin, who was fastest of the bunch with a 10.01.
Gatlin hit back at teenage swimmer Lilly King, who said she didn't believe people who have tested positive for banned substances and have served doping suspensions should be competing in Rio, when she was asked if she thought her fellow American, Gatlin should be there.
"I don't even know who Lilly King is - she does swimming, not track and field. I'm not worried about that," Gatlin fired back on Saturday.
* In discus, Germany's Christoph Harting took his brother's crown after winning gold, four years on from when his older sibling Robert Harting took gold at the same event in London 2012. Now that's one overachieving family.
* Jamaican 24-year-old Elaine Thompson clinched 100m gold in stunning fashion, outclassing the field with a 10.71. American Tori Bowie took silver with a 10.83 while two-time defending gold medalist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce completed the podium, grabbing bronze with a 10.86.
* In handball, Egypt squandered a three-goal advantage to succumb to a 27-27 draw. Egypt face Germany in their last group-stage match, with very little chance of advancing. Here's what Pool B looks like at the moment with just one round of matches left. The top four nations advance to the quarter-finals.
* American Jeff Henderson claimed gold in a drama-filled men's long-jump in which a trailing left hand on the very last jump cost compatriot Jarrion Lawson the title.
Henderson managed a best of 8.38m, finishing 1cm ahead of South African Luvo Manyonga, with defending champion Greg Rutherford of Britain taking bronze (8.29). Lawson finished fourth but his final jump went beyond that of Henderson's, only for his left hand's contact in the sandpit to ruin the real reading.
* In tennis, world No34 Monica Puig became Puerto Rico's first-ever Olympic gold medalist, and Puerto Rico's first female Olympic medalist, by defeating Angelique Kerber 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 in the final.
With wins over French Open champion and world No4 Garbine Muguruza, two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, and world No2 and reigning Australian Open champion Kerber en route to gold, this was a sensational run from Puig.
The 22-year-old Puig was sobbing through the national anthem on the podium and admitted she didn't know all the words. Puig was born in San Juan but has been living in Florida for a long time. She struggled with the words to "La Borinquena".
"My dad emailed me the lyrics but I didn't really have time to memorise them. I heard people singing and I was choking up. I heard the words. I would have started singing if I wasn't choking," she said.
* In men's singles, Juan Martin del Potro's fairytale run, that started with him taking out world No1 Novak Djokovic in the first round, continued as he overcame Rafael Nadal 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 to reach the gold medal match. He faces defending champion Andy Murray while Nadal will fight Kei Nishikori for the bronze.
* Another Kuwaiti won a shooting medal this week, following Fehaid Al Deehani's double trap gold, as Abdullah Al Rashidi took bronze in skeet. Unfortunately both shooters were competing under the Olympic flag with Kuwait suspended by the IOC.
* Pernille Blume, who quit swimming after being told she was too short, gave Denmark its first gold in the Olympic pool in 68 years with a surprise win in the 50m freestyle. Despite going into the final as the fastest qualifier, the 22-year-old was not considered the favourite because she had primarily been a relay swimmer.
"I enjoy swimming the 50m free, it's so much fun but I'd always been told I'm too small to be a 50m free swimmer and I should probably be a 200m swimmer," said the 1.71m Blume. "So I had to take a break from all this and just figure out how I wanted things to go. If I was going to spend so much time doing this, I was going to enjoy it so that's why I came back."
* Poor Nadezhda Bazhina! The Russian diver landed flat on her back during the women's 3m springboard competition, achieving the dubious distinction of scoring a rare "0.0" score. The sad thing is that Bazhina was on course to qualify for Sunday's final before committing the howler. But as she came down for her final spring off the board Bazhina's left foot almost missed it completely, throwing her out of whack.
**Sources include AFP**


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Royals players excited to attend '42' screening
KANSAS CITY -- Several Royals players plan to attend the advance screening of the Jackie Robinson movie "42" on Thursday night at the BarryWoods 24 theater in Kansas City.
The movie's stars, Harrison Ford and Chadwick Boseman, are expected at the event, which will include a red carpet reception and a panel discussion with sports writer Joe Posnanski and David Robinson, son of Jackie.
"This will be my first red carpet," said Royals pitcher Bruce Chen, who was debating over what to wear.
"No jeans," he was told. "I may go suit and no tie."
Chen has heard positive reports about the baseball drama about Robinson breaking baseball's color line.
"It's very inspirational," Chen said. "The guy had to be so good and prepared to put up with a lot of stuff. He knew that if he messed up, it could actually postpone the time that other players could come."
Outfielder Jarrod Dyson pondered some grooming.
"I've got to get a haircut at some point," Dyson said.
Dyson was eager to see the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers' pioneer.
"I just know that guy went through a lot for us guys today in this game of baseball," Dyson said. "I appreciate everything he had to go through. He made it a lot easier for all of us African-Americans in baseball."
Other Royals on the guest list include Billy Butler, Lorenzo Cain, Jeremy Guthrie, Eric Hosmer, George Kottaras, Luis Mendoza and Mike Moustakas.
The event benefits the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City and the Kansas City Sports Commission. Robinson played for the Kansas City Monarchs before being signed by the Dodgers.


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Sorry, can you speak up a bit - said, perhaps a little too loudly. We've recently had a fairly ear-splitting experience with a portable speaker system. The speaker in question was the Minx Air 200 from Cambridge Audio. The ear-splitting experience came from arrogantly expecting the wireless speaker couldn't pump out that much sound. As it turns out, we were quite wrong.
The Minx Air 200 is the bigger brother of the Air 100 which launched some time ago. At its core, it's designed to give you some multi-room audio in the vein of Sonos, but with a little less complexity, and arguably quite a lot more bulk. But, what Sonos has in size means that it doesn't have as much power, or the quality, some would like.
Front-on, this is just a massive speaker. The front is dominated by a grey grille, while the body of the unit is shiny white plastic. It's heavy, but not unbearably so and there's a handle to hold too.
There's also more to that handle than you might think, as it doubles as the bass port for the speaker. When you crank the volume up, it moves a pretty staggering amount of air too, so it can be quite a surprise. You could use it on a hot day as a fan, so that's handy.
On the top, there are buttons for internet radio presets, with a total of 10 presets but only five buttons. That means you need to access the second five via an app. We think this is a bit daft, and took that to mean there are only five presets that are any use to us. While we understand the urge not to have 10 buttons on the top, we still think that firing up an app for change is a faff. Still, we listen to Radio 4 exclusively, so could happily get away with one preset.
Over the other side, there are controls for power, Bluetooth pairing, volume and an X which will stop wireless streaming and activate the analogue inputs. A second press of this button will mute the audio. Handy to know.
On the back, there are the analogue inputs, an Ethernet socket, bass dial and power input.
Lots of connection options
One thing we are pleased to see is the provision of three ways to connect to the Minx Air 200. The first, is via good old Bluetooth. This opens it up to almost unlimited devices, from phones and tablets through to computers to connect with the Air 200. It's not without flaws, because we found that connecting was a bit tedious. To explain, first you pair the device, which is simple enough, and you're then able to play. The problems though, are twofold. First, when you start playing you get a little crack and pop when the track starts. This is a minor annoyance really, but it can be a little frustrating. The second problem is that once your phone disconnects from the Bluetooth, to use it again you must press the Bluetooth connection button again. We're not sure why this happens, or if it was part of how the Galaxy Note II works with Bluetooth, but it was a pain.
The other method is via Apple's AirPlay. If you have an iPod/iPhone or iPad, then this is the system that you should use, because it's a slightly simpler to configure - it should show up automatically - and then you'll be able to stream from iOS devices and also from any computer on the same network with iTunes. This is the slickest way of listening to music, and there are Android apps that can support media playback over this system, so it's well worth investigating.
Third, and If wireless isn't your thing, then you'll be pleased by the RCA and 3.5mm jacks which allow you to connect pretty much any MP3 player, or other device - TV, computer, etc - to the Minx Air.
Where to start here. Honestly, we didn't see it coming at all.
The sound is very clean and distortion free. Any kind of music sounds as it should, from classical right through to tracks remixed by The Prodigy. There's loads of power, but there's never really any distortion unless you push it right to the edge of its abilities, when on full bass, you can hear it struggle a little.
Vocals are crystal clear, and with anything that involves a single voice singing is just a joy to listen to. There's plenty of ability in all frequencies too. This isn't just a system that wins in the low end - although it really does - but a well-rounded wireless speaker that defies belief.
If you were led blindfolded into a room with the Minx set playing, and you were asked what made the sound, you'd never guess that it was a smallish wireless speaker. Indeed, it's only really lack of stereo separation that give this away as being anything smaller than a full-sized hi-fi.
But it's really the bass that will make you smile. It's not just the sheer mind-blowing power of the thing, but it's also the tightness of the sound and complete control that's staggering. We also love the fact that you have that bass control dial at the back. This is important because sometimes we want to have a bit of fun with our music. We want to ignore the concept of studio sound, and just have our ears duffed up by a bit of banging bass. Here you get an easy way to control that, and it's brilliant.
In sound terms, the Minx is just brilliant, we love it.
There's an app for that, obviously
As you might expect, there's an app for the Minx. Both Android and iOS have a version of it, and both work in a similar way. The iOS version is better because it integrates more seamlessly with the AirPlay functionality. You can send music from your Apple device from the app, whereas in the Android version you have to step outside it, and use the standard Android player, and connect via Bluetooth, with the problems we mentioned before about that.
There are some things about the Minx 200 that we found a little bit annoying. But we do mean "little bit", there is so much to love here that we don't want to overplay a few bugs, especially as some of them could be overcome with a firmware update.
The quality is really the most important thing, and in this regard the Minx 200 delivers in style. We love the audio, the bass is astounding, but never at the cost of the overall sound. The Bluetooth makes us a bit grumpy, because it's fiddly and seems less impressive than AirPlay, even though it's APT-X ready, so should offer some great audio transmission.
In summary then, if the steep price isn't a problem for you, we think you'll have a blast with the Minx 200. Just watch that hearing, because it will surprise the hell out of you.


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Iomega will offer a Windows PC cloning facility to store a PC clone on an Iomega hard drive and run it in a connected secondary PC, notebook or netbook.
The v.Clone software will copy a complete image of a primary PC to a USB-connected Iomega hard drive. When that hard drive is connected to a secondary PC, be it a desktop, notebook or even certain kinds of netbook, you can launch the clone and work with it as a virtual machine running under the new host machine's operating system using Iomega supplied v.Clone reader software.
Iomega describes it as "a custom version of the VMware Player software". EMC blogger Storagezilla said: "It's effectively a differential snapshot backup writing into a VMDK file, you then play the VMDK in a VM Player."
In a pdf note on the software, Iomega states: "No data is left behind on the secondary computer, so your files are kept secure." You will also need password access to launch the clone and, as a second level of protection, the clone image can be encrypted with Iomega eGo Encrypt or Encrypt Plus Portable Hard Drives.
Iomega's note says: "When you plug the hard drive into a secondary computer (for example, a netbook or another PC), you can run the virtual image as an application that let's you work just as if you were on your primary PC. Any revisions are saved to the virtual image on the external hard drive, not on the secondary PC."
Such revisions will be synched back to the primary PC when the hard drive is reconnected to it.
This general process will be utterly familiar to Parallels users who run Windows as a virtual machine under Parallels on the Mac.
The restrictions are that the primary computer and any secondary computer used "with v.Clone must be running a supported version of Windows (including Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP)." You need administrator access to both the primary and secondary computers.
Iomega makes the point that, obviously, the cloned image is a kind of disaster recovery facility if your primary PC breaks. However, it is not a complete backup replacement as "v.Clone will clone the entire contents of your hard drive only when a clone is created.
"Once the virtual image is created, the v.Clone sync process keeps the contents of certain key folders (such as My Documents/Documents) up-to-date. Sync does not include the operating system or applications."
Iomega adds the point that "you can't use v.Clone to restore the operating system, applications, and data files back onto your primary system".
You can check out software upgrades using the clone so as not to risk damaging your primary PC with untested software.
There are possibilities here for running a Windows 7 Home Premium v.Clone in a Windows XP secondary PC and so getting some remote access from your secondary Windows XP machine back to the primary Windows 7 PC. Currently Windows XP users don't have remote access to Windows 7 PCs via that software's HomeGroup facility. If Iomega has a way around that limitation many XP users would be well pleased. If it also works with a Parallels XP virtual machine on a Mac that will please lots more users.
Iomega says it will demonstrate the v.Clone software at CES in Las Vegas later this week. It will be included with its USB-connected hard drives in the first quarter of this year and the software will also be available as a download. ®
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Accused killer Jamie Bacon's 2010 conviction on 10 gun charges should be overturned because his constitutional rights were violated by police, his lawyer told the B.C. Court of Appeal Friday.
David Layton said Surrey Provincial Court Judge Jean Lytwyn made several errors when she allowed into evidence loaded guns and magazines found accidentally by police in a secret compartment after a shooting at the Bacon family's rental home in April 2007.
Layton told Justices Mary Saunders, Richard Low and Christopher Hinkson that even the original trial prosecutor conceded there were problems with the search warrant that led to the inadvertent discovery of the guns.
And he said that while Lytwyn ruled the search of the vehicle was in fact "warrantless," she found the Charter violation was not serious enough to throw out the evidence, which he argued was a reversible error.
He said defence at trial was denied the opportunity to see what the Crown had edited from the original warrant application.
Bacon's appeal should be allowed out of "the need to preserve the public's long-term confidence in the justice system by refusing to give the state a free pass," Layton said.
"The admission of the evidence in this case would bring the administration of justice into disrepute."
But Crown Peter Hogg argued that the appeal should be dismissed because Lytwyn appropriately considered all the facts surrounding the discovery of the guns.
He said the Crown conceded at trial that the original search was warrantless, but that at the time the police found Bacon's secret compartment, they had a warrant and were acting in good faith.
And he said the public's view of the justice system would be harmed if the firearms were excluded given the violent circumstances on the night in question.
"It is not simply possession of firearms. The police arrived on a scene where...literally the sound of gunfire had just died. There was still gun smoke," Hogg said. "If anything were to epitomize or demonstrate the serious nature of the evidence in question, it would be that circumstance."
He urged the panel to dismiss the appeal.
"Guns in the context of this set of circumstances, they should be included. They should be admitted," Hogg said.
The court reserved its decision on the appeal.
Bacon, who's now in Kent institution serving a three-year, eight-month sentence, is still awaiting trial for first-degree murder in the Surrey Six case. No trial date has yet been set.
His brother Jarrod, who Lytwyn acquitted, has since been convicted of conspiracy to traffic cocaine. He is due to be sentenced April 27.
Last August, Bacon's eldest brother Jonathan, 30, was gunned down in Kelowna in a daytime shooting outside a busy hotel and casino. Injured in the attack were Hells Angel Larry Amero and Independent Soldier James Riach. No one has yet been charged.
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Swine heraldry
For the past few weeks the world has been enthralled with the outbreak of the H1N1 or swine influenza. Just this week on April 29, the WHO (World Health Organization) elevated the status of the outbreak to a Phase 5 (out of a maximum of 6) on its pandemic scale.
Though this is serious and no laughing matter, I was thinking about presenting some heraldry with a swine or porcine bend.
The most common representative of the swine family is by far the boar. This animal is either depicted whole or just its head and has been in use since antiquity.
Above is some Roman symbolism with the depiction of a wild boar. Specifically, this is a roof tile showing the standard and emblem of the Legio XX Valeria Victrix. This legion was stationed in Hispania (Iberian peninsula), Illyricum (present day Albania & Croatia) and Germania before being sent to invade the British Isles.
We see the boar in the arms of many individuals and towns across Europe. It is especially popular with German towns where the animal is used as a cant on their name. The arms above are those of Eberbach (note: 'eber' is boar in German).
crest badge of the Scottish clan Campbell where a boar's head is used.
However, the naturally more common pig is not common as a heraldic charge. Above is one of those rare examples of heraldry containing a normal pig. Though I don't know for a fact why it is less common as a charge, I can only guess it is because the common pig has negative connotations and it is avoided.
No article covering pork would be complete without a mention of bacon. Since I couldn't find arms with bacon as a charge, I decided to create attributed arms for Homer Simpson who is known for his love of bacon. The blazon is "Sable within an annulet Purpure semmee of barullets and pallets Gules, Azure and Vert, four barullets Gules Argent Gules Argent". The arms above are what he would probably adopt, then proceed to eating them….
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Take everyone's favorite meat lover's pizza, roll it up and you've got a Super Stromboli in less time than it takes to wait for pizza delivery. Sliced deli meats, prepared pizza dough and ready-to-use real bacon are the ingredients combined in this stromboli that will please the whole family. I like to use turkey pepperoni to minimize the fat in the recipe, but you can substitute full-fat pepperoni or hard salami.
Use the recipe as a base to create other variations. And, if your supermarket or local pizzeria sells ready-to-bake fresh pizza dough, by all means use it. The stromboli may take as much as 20 minutes longer to bake since real pizza dough is sold in one-pound packages. You can tell when the stromboli is done by inserting an instant-read thermometer into the center. A reading of 200 degrees F indicates that all of the dough should be completely baked.
The stromboli is delicious served with warm pizza sauce for dipping. It is a great weeknight family entrée or can be served as part of a hearty Super Bowl appetizer buffet.
Makes 6 main dish or 12 appetizer servings.
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Chris Knight: Five Feet Apart is by first-time screenwriters Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, and the lack of experience shows
Five Feet Apart is the latest and weakest in sick-lit cinema
What if you were a disease movie with only two hours to live? Would you try to cram as much as possible into that dwindling sphere of existence? A love story, quirky supporting characters, a saintly nurse, brushes with death, and track after track of soft indie guitar-ful music?
Welcome to One Point Five Two Four Metres Apart, which does all this and yet, somehow, less. Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen) and Cole Sprouse (TV's Riverdale) star as Stella and Will, two teenagers who meet in a city hospital. She is irrepressibly plucky and charmingly OCD; he is brooding and rakish and looks like he would smoke if he could. Both have the same genetic condition; locks of hair that refuse to do anything except fall sexily across their faces.
They also both suffer from Cystic Fibrosis, which the movie comes dangerously close to fetishizing, suggesting it provides the perfect opportunity to loll, mope, yearn and ponder, like 18th-century romantics with oxygen tanks. The disorder also demands they stay 1.8288 metres apart – OK, six feet – lest they cross-infect one another. Despite their growing affection, they are literally not good for each other.
Five Feet Apart – they steal back one foot, you see – joins a growing list of recent sick-lit movies, including The Fault in Our Stars (thyroid cancer), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (leukemia), Me Before You (assisted suicide, maybe), Everything, Everything (immunodeficiency), If I Stay (coma, out-of-body experience) and The Space Between Us (um, born-on-Mars syndrome, I guess).
Most of these are based on existing novels. Five Feet Apart is by first-time screenwriters Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, and the lack of experience shows. When Will brings up Stella's deceased sister, I could almost picture the screenplay page with its parenthetical note: "Will can see he's hit a nerve."
Direction is by Justin Baldoni, an actor on TV's Jane the Virgin, although his at-death's-door documentary series My Last Days probably helped him get the chair for this film. Certainly he's sympathetic to all his characters, including Stella's gay best friend (Moises Arias) and the infinitely wise Nurse Barb (Kimberly Hebert Gregory). Whatever they're paying her – Nurse Barb, but also Gregory – it's not enough.
And yet it's hard to fully connect with characters. Perhaps it's how the hospital is portrayed as a kind of summer camp, where patients can scurry around after lights-out getting up to G-rated trouble. Maybe it's the way the plot wafts along from one annoyingly similar heartfelt tune to another. Or it could be that after Stella pulls out a pool cue to demonstrate what five feet looks like, I couldn't stop thinking: Where did she even find that? Does the hospital have a pool room?
Whatever the issue, it may stop you from feeling as invested in Stella and Will as the film would like. If you're a curable romantic, Five Feet Apart should have you up and about (and out of the theatre) in no time.


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Dwyane Wade: Heat treated unfairly
"At that point it was me. Obviously we went through a lot last year. It was unfair some of the stuff that we had to endure but we grew from it. That's over with. We move on to whenever we play basketball again and we will be a different team."
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: It's relative.
Yes, Chris Bosh, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and the Miami Heat endured a massive backlash last year and were the undisputed league villain.
Was it unfair, though?
On the one hand, this trio handled their South Beach union with as much modesty and class as Kanye West at an awards show.
On the other hand, Bosh, James, and Wade stay on the right side of the law, take care of their kids, and are involved with charity.
So to lump James in with Charlie Sheen, Donald Trump, and Tiger Woods may be a tad harsh.
Of course, the public is split. The Heat are as polarizing and captivating a team to take to an NBA floor or compete in a North American sports league.
Perhaps the Heat were treated poorly, however, the public will not have sympathy for three highly paid professional athletes.
Instead, The Three Kings should embrace being the villain. The sooner they accept being the bad guy, the sooner they win that ever elusive championship.
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Chimpanzees eat meat for two simple reasons: they can catch it and they like it. Chimpanzees are particularly likely to eat meat during the dry season, when shortages of the foods that normally make up the bulk of theirdiet cause them to lose weight. Although the meat may be a useful source of calories during the dry season, wild chimpanzees don't need to include meat or any other animal-based food in their diet to fulfill their needs for protein or any of the amino acids. In fact, plants provide all of the nutrients that are known to be essential for a chimpanzee, except for vitamin D (which they get from the abundant sunshine in Africa) and vitamin B12 (which comes from bacteria).
Many people think that I am silly for asking where gorillas get their protein. They tell me that I should talk about chimpanzees instead. Often, they inform me that chimpanzees are far more similar to human beings than gorillas are, as if I couldn't tell that just by looking. These people are missing my point: gorillas are the largest and most powerful living primate and yet are the closest to following what human beings would consider a vegan diet. Chimpanzees and human beings don't need to eat meat to grow up big and strong because gorillas grow up to be far bigger and stronger without it. Lawyers may recognize this as an a fortiori argument.
If a male gorilla, whose digestive system is practically identical to a human being's, can get enough protein from vegetables to grow to weigh more than 400 pounds and be ten times as strong as a man, why shouldn't I expect that a relatively puny human Olympic weightlifter could also get enough protein from a plant-based diet? My intent is to ridicule the Four Food Groups dogma that I was taught in sixth grade.
Gorillas don't hunt or fish, and they don't keep cows or chickens. As a result, they don't eat meat or fish, dairy products or eggs. The only animal-source food they eat is "the other, other white meat": termites, slugs, and other creepy-crawlies. These foods would make an insignificant contribution to the gorillas' protein intake, which is already high because protein accounts for a high percentage of the calories in leaves.
Bugs and slugs could be a useful source of vitamin B12, a micronutrient that is made by bacteria in their intestines. Vitamin B12 is also produced by bacteria in a primate's gastrointestinal tract. However, the vitamin may be produced so far along in the intestinal tract that it isn't absorbed efficiently. No plants make vitamin B12, but gorillas and chimpanzees can probably get enough vitamin B12 from the bacteria in the bugs they eat and in the dirt that clings to their food. Plus, apes are not meticulous about washing their hands, if you get my drift. If you are worried about getting enough vitamin B12, you don't have to eat dirt or bugs. You can get it in a nice, clean tablet instead.
I don't ask where chimpanzees get their protein because chimpanzees do eat some meat. Chimpanzees probably eat less meat than just about any human population other than Buddhist monks. Nevertheless, many people want to use chimpanzees' meat consumption as an excuse for humans to eat meat.
The fact that chimpanzees' meat consumption is largely seasonal goes far toward explaining why human beings have always eaten meat. Chimpanzees are most likely to eat meat during the time of year when they are losing weight because their usual foods are in relatively short supply. People think of meat as a source of protein, but it's mainly a source of calories, especially from fat. Meat is also a good source of sodium, which is in relatively short supply in the chimpanzees' fruit and vegetable diet.
The fact that chimpanzees eat the most meat during times of food shortages suggests that their food choices follow a pattern that biologists call optimal foraging theory. Animals try to get the most calories for the least effort and without getting hurt. Optimal foraging theory explains why chimpanzees eat meat but gorillas don't, and why chimpanzees eat more meat during times of food shortage.
Chimpanzees are mainly fruit eaters, but they also eat a lot of vegetables. The problem with fruit is that it's seasonal. Worse yet, a fruit tree represents a rich enough source of calories that animals will fight over it. When fruit is scarce, chimpanzees can use the skills they developed in fighting over the fruit to engage in predatory behavior. Also, chimpanzees are small enough and fast enough that they are reasonably good hunters.
Gorillas, on the other hand, mainly eat leaves. There are generally plenty of leaves to go around, and a leafy plant is generally so poor in calories that it's not worth fighting to protect. To subsist on leaves, however, you have to eat an enormous volume of food. Since leaves are so low in calories, leaf-eaters have to be good at conserving their energy. That's why gorillas have such a placid disposition. For a gorilla, hunting is simply not worth the effort. They are too big and slow to catch very much, and they're large enough that they'd risk injury if they got too reckless.
Chimpanzees use twigs to fish for termites, and gorillas don't. Some people think that this fact means that chimpanzees are smarter than gorillas. I don't. If you are a juvenile gorilla or a pregnant or nursing female gorilla, you don't need to mess around with a little bitty twig to get a few termites. All you have to do is wait for the silverback to knock over a rotting tree. Then all of you can eat as many termites as you'd like.
Some people have argued that the balance between animal and plant foods in a hunter-gatherer society's diet represents the optimal balance for human nutrition. I think that's idiotic. Hunter-gatherer peoples (or should I say, gatherer-hunter peoples) tend to follow optimal foraging theory just like any other opportunistic feeder. Their goal is to survive in the short term, not to avoid breast or prostate cancer in middle or old age. The main threat to their short-term survival is starvation.
Meat represents a concentrated source of calories. The fact that a relatively high percentage of these calories comes from protein is actually a disadvantage. Hunting peoples prefer the fattiest foods. People who end up having to subsist on extremely low-fat meat, such as rabbit, are prone to a problem called fat-hunger or rabbit starvation. This problem probably results from a diet that has too much protein and not enough carbohydrate or fat. On a low-carb diet and during starvation, the body has to make its sugar supply out of protein. Perhaps the body can make only so much sugar out of protein. As long as you are eating enough fat to meet most of your energy needs, your body can make enough sugar out of protein to feed your brain. If you were eating protein but not enough fat or carbs, you could end up in serious trouble. So you could end up in trouble from a diet that is too high in protein. In contrast, it is practically impossible to avoid getting enough protein, as long as you are eating enough unrefined plant foods to get enough calories.
Famine is not a significant cause of death in the United States. In fact, people in the United States are far more likely to die of the diseases of affluence, such as heart disease and cancers of the breast and prostate. Animal-based foods and fatty processed foods are the main contributing causes of the diseases of affluence. The ability to use animals for food may have helped human beings survive to the modern era, especially in the Arctic, but animal-based foods are a major cause of death and disability in the United States today. Think about that the next time you hear someone promoting a "Paleo" diet.


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text: FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. AP Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. John Campbell said Monday that senior leaders implementing federal budget cuts will remain focused on soldiers and units that are still in Afghanistan. The general, who assumed his position March 8, said during a break between meetings at Fort Leavenworth that the Army would continue to support the 68,000 troops in Afghanistan and units that will replace them as the war draws down. President Barack Obama has set a deadline of removing the vast majority of U.S. combat forces by the end of 2014. "We've got a lot of challenges," said Campbell, who spoke to new battalion and brigade leaders attending a mandatory pre-command course. Campbell said the impact of the $85 billion in automatic federal budget cuts was amplified for the Army because of other spending reductions in the current fiscal year. He estimated the Army was nearly $20 billion below what was requested for ongoing missions and operations. The four-star general said he stressed to the new commanders that what they have experienced in military spending has been the exception, not the norm, in recent decades. He said some joked that they remember when they had to bring their own supplies, such as toilet paper, before 2001. Campbell, acknowledging that was an extreme example, said the point was that commanders are going to have to learn to lead without all the resources they need or want to prepare their soldiers. "If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority," Campbell said, noting the Army is starting the process from a position of strength and citing the quality of the training and equipment. Campbell said unlike when the Army faced cuts after Vietnam in the 1970s, the nation's last prolonged war, the United States is coming out of more than a decade of war with an all-volunteer force. That will create new dynamics, he said, including supporting soldiers with brain injuries and stress-related illnesses. "It's a balance and for us it's about readiness in the end. It's about maintaining the trust, not only within the Army, but with the American people," Campbell said. "In the end of this, the American people don't care about sequestration. What they care about was that when the Army was needed it was ready to go and ready to protect them." Campbell also said the reductions will affect military training and other Army programs, including potential furloughs of civilian employees beginning in April and running through September. He said advanced education for general officers was being curtailed, suspension of some tuition-assistance programs and performances by the Army band. Soldiers will still receive education support through GI Bill benefits.