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I am facing problem with a facebook on linux these days, but when i switch back to windows (windows 7)it works absolutely fine.
I am using fedora 14, 64 bit machine with Mozilla Firefox 3.6.24. Even i tried to open facebook in opera browser the problem remains same.
Problems seen yet are:
After login, the first page appears is not loading fully to see more stories.
chat window is not appearing
- Any picture is not opening on clicking over it.
- Whenever i click on like button, it does not work.
I even tried : yum update firefox
No Packages marked for Update
Can anybody tell me what wrong is going on?

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Looks like it's "Vampire Diaries" week at PopWrap. After posting his interview with former guest star Stephen Amell, Jarett Wieselman has published his Nina Dobrev chat today. The actor, who played Brady, comments on filming "Daddy Issues" with Candice Accola, auditioning for Mason and Elijah as well as his other projects.
PW: I'm guessing that happened after filming Caroline's torture scene?
Stephen: Yes. That was a really fun scene, and all the credit there goes to Candice Accola. She was the one with small explosives strapped to her arms, fishing bullets out of her skull. I just sat back and got to be creepy [laughs]. That was a fun scene.
On the other hand, Nina spills up about balancing between two characters, Katherine's different faces, last week's and this week's shocking twists, etc. You can find an interesting quote below and go to New York Post for the full story.
PW: Will this finale set up the events of season three the way "Founder's Day" set up season two?
Nina: It does. There's not just one – there's two or three kind of big twists that change the course of everyone's lives, and they're unexpected. It affects Damon & Elena hugely. It effects Stefan more than anyone would have imagined. Jeremy's life is just completely turned around, and almost confusing – you'll see why soon enough. But it initiates these storylines that will flourish in season three.


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I have another card sample to share. I used Teen Routine is a unique way:
- The smart phone (which can also be used as an I-Pad I am told) is the face
- I flipped the smart phone so that a "mouth" would be on the bottom
- The computer mouse images are sad eyes
- The arrow is the nose
I colored him green to make him look ill. I admit that I am not in love with this card, but my 13 year old daughter thought it was pretty cool. I will share more unique uses of this versatile set sometime this month.
Thanks so much for stopping by. Make sure to leave a comment on our blog hop thread (details posted yesterday) for your chance to win one of our newest stamp sets.


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ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) The Detroit Lions put wide receivers Titus Young and Ryan Broyles on injured reserve Tuesday.
Young has been inactive for the last two games after what coach Jim Schwartz called ``unacceptable'' behavior in a game against Green Bay last month. Broyles needs surgery on his right knee.
Detroit also released safety Erik Coleman, signed wide receiver Kris Durham from the practice squad and signed safety Tyrell Johnson.
The Lions signed Troy Burrell to the practice squad.
Young was listed with a knee problem earlier this season, but in recent weeks the team made it clear that he was in exile because of his behavior and not an injury.


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Windows 8. A step too far?
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One of the most frequent complaints against Microsoft in the past is that they have not been innovative enough and that they tend to follow meekly behind others who have been far more ready to take risks in the past such as Apple. I've even been guilty of that accusation myself. But as a user, here's my take on things for what its worth.
In the past, Microsoft has been the main company serving the corporate technological world. During the years when it was generally only companies and/or institutions who used PC's, and when most of us 'none corporate' users didn't dream of owning a home computer, Microsoft aimed their sights firmly at the business sector and their usage needs. Word processing, Spread sheets, Databases, and an operating system geared to the running of a business meant that most of Microsoft's main focus was squarely aimed at the corporate user. And rightly so. But in the meantime and certainly since the launch of Windows XP, the user base has slowly shifted from being just the corporate sector usage to the ordinary consumer 'in the street.'
Microsoft seemed to be oblivious to the shift taking place from the corporate user to the consumer user. It was as if they had their eyes firmly set in only one direction. Others such as Apple and Google were never as focused on the corporate usage side of computers, and therefore they have been quicker to see the demographic shift in needs. There is a huge difference in how an ordinary consumer at home uses technology and their PC to how they are used in the workplace. Consumers tend to prefer to share, photos, short messages, music, etc, and this need has mainly been met by social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Not only that but most prefer to do this 'on the move' and to not be tied down to a static home PC, hence the rise of laptops, tablets and 'smart' mobile phones. The consumer user base has slowly grown since the launch of XP, but meantime most of the corporate sector has not kept pace and most remain still using Windows XP.
For them, ( I should imagine) its a very big undertaking to move forward to a new operating system as it involves the training of all of your staff in its usage. I was shocked last year to realise that the entire NHS is still using Windows XP whilst I'm now running Windows 8 Consumer Preview! What I am trying to say here is that whilst corporate usage has not moved on, the consumer usage has grown and grown and has become far more advanced.
Now suddenly its as if Microsoft have glanced around from the direction they have always faced and suddenly noticed that its the consumer who is rapidly becoming the de facto user and their usage of technology needs to be met. The big question is, are they too late? The tablet market is currently dominated by Apple with the iPad with even Android having difficulty making any dint in that area, and despite the fact that Windows phone is fantastic to use, they have an uphill battle all the way. Talking of Apple, one of the paths that they have not taken was to try and merge the same operating system on both their iMacs and also the iPhone and IPad. Now, Microsoft are planning the risky step of doing exactly that, serving both the static PC user (which by definition includes the corporate user) AND also the mobile phone/tablet market. Can it be done? Is it possible to meet every type of users needs with just one OS?
Paul Thurrott sums it all up for me in one of his recent posts on the subject of Windows 8 here at http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-release-preview-rip-aero-20032012-143133 and I agree that in 'bending over backwards' to enter the tablet and mobile hardware market, where of course battery life is crucial, are Microsoft going too far and forgetting the static PC user who up until now have been their bread and butter? Should they instead have one operating system for mobile devices (i.e Metro) and simply keep Windows OS for those users who run a static PC or who want to remain with the Windows environment?
Personally, I am now quite used to using Windows 8 on my static PC with a mouse and keyboard and I really like it, but I have to admit that the Metro interface does look (and work) far better on my phone working with touch input. Nor am I needing several programs open at once or to do any word-processing or work of any kind, my needs and usage is far removed from those of the corporate user. And there is the big question mark. If most of the corporate world is still using Windows XP, can I see them rushing to move to Windows 8 anytime soon? To be honest with you, no I can't. Nor can I envisage users such as the NHS equipping all of their staff with tablets either!
It's all a very big gamble and one that is sort of surprising in a way coming from Microsoft, a company that most consider to be a 'dinosaur' who never innovate or do anything new. Can they pull it off? It's certainly going to be a very interesting year finding out!


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BBC News
- Coronavirus: John Lewis and Boots to cut 5,300 jobs
- Tax boss questions value of Rishi Sunak's job bonus and meal discount plans
- TV licences: BBC to go ahead with over-75s licence fee changes
- Coronavirus: Data shows cases in England falling
- Johnny Depp accuses Amber Heard of severing finger tip
- Liverpool shooting: Woman shot by Merseyside Police in street
- Government says sorry to women 'ignored' by doctors
- Richard Morris: Mystery jogger in missing diplomat search
- Solihull man arrested over £495,000 'furlough fraud'
- G4S selected to run Wellingborough 'mega prison'
- Bow crane collapse: Killed woman was 'very caring'
- Coronavirus: Indoor visits and overnight stays to be allowed in Scotland
- All Welsh pupils 'back in school full-time' in September
- Coronavirus: Frank Ludlow admits selling fake cures to the US
- Coronavirus: What powers do the police have?
- Digital divide: Six children sharing one phone for homework
- Is sexism behind beauty salons' continued closure?
- Coronavirus: Childminder anger over 'impossible' restrictions
- Coronavirus: Welsh care homes 'badly let down'
- Author David Mitchell: Writing a music novel is 'impossible'
- Coronavirus: Three England pubs close after positive tests
- UK universities comply with China's internet restrictions
- Rishi Sunak's Summer statement: 'We've been overlooked'
- What is VAT and how does it work?
- Pop music is getting faster (and happier)
- Killing Eve: How author Luke Jennings created Villanelle
- 'I was terrified to put on weight' - the 'culture of fear' in British gymnastics
- The spying game: China's global network
- Shooting celebrities: Thirty years behind the lens
- Cumberlege review: The patients who fought for answers
- Purfleet-on-Thames: The town that changed its name to attract visitors
- Duchess of Cornwall 'can't wait to hug' her grandchildren
- Stormzy's surprise paint job for Croydon teen's bedroom
- Former police chief: 'Raoul Moat isn't a hero'
- Black Lives Matter: What is systemic racism? Kids' questions answered
- Who will be the Lib Dems' next leader?
- Rishi Sunak: Three things to know from chancellor's speech
- Coronavirus: How stand-up comedians are adapting to online gigs
- Coronavirus: Executive agrees changes to travel quarantine regulations
- Coronavirus: General Electric cuts 369 jobs at Nantgarw
- PC Andrew Harper murder trial: Driver 'saw nothing'
Our traditional ANY-Village websites can still be found at their original location:
Below we are listing some of the most popular UK property websites advertising homes for sale in the Wanborough area:
Nestoria (WANBOROUGH Map Search)
Vebra.com (WANBOROUGH Map Search)
Rightmove (WANBOROUGH Map Search)
Zoopla (Wanborough Map Search)
Homes for SALE / Flats for SALE in WANBOROUGH
Homes for RENT / Flats for RENT in WANBOROUGH


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We veteran BlackBerry users stick with BlackBerry not only because they still offer one of the most secure systems which are supported by many corporations as their communication solution, but they sync'd with Outlook. I believe BlackBerry did themselves and their users a disservice when they released the z10 without this capability. First their BlackBerry Link did not support 2way sync. We waited months for BlackBerry Link to be upgraded only to find out that the z10 OS needed to be at V10.1. Verizon's z10 are only at V10.0......aggggh!
So now we wait again...BlackBerry wonders why users are upset?
I am posting this at your Verizon site because I hope Verizon is smart enough to monitor these sites to see what users are taking about.
Verizon needs to communicate with their users and let us know when to expect their upgrade to V10.1.
2way sync was and remains a MUST. It is not just another app or capability.
If you at BlackBerryOS have ways to communicate with Verizon, your help or I put would be appreciated! There is no way for Verizon users to communicate issues with Verizon except via their "Help" line, and all they can do is see if Verizon had posted info on their sit


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{Photography.111.1}: Coyote {coyote} Thu, 31 May 2012 17:49:27 CDT (1 line)
A place for the exceptionally designed and unabashedly cool.
{Photography.111.2}: Steve Lacey {masked} Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:10:01 CDT (4 lines)
All righty then. To start things off, here's a Daimler sports model I saw at a gas station in BC last week. Check out the fins on the rear fender. I thought those went out in the 50s! But it's still an interesting car.
{Photography.111.3}: Steve Lacey {masked} Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:12:00 CDT (3 lines)
And here's a blast from the past. I don't think MG is making cars any longer--I could be wrong, of course--but I managed to catch this one in traffic in Vancouver.
{Photography.111.4}: TJ {tj2} Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:46:29 CDT (HTML)
{Photography.111.5}: TJ {tj2} Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:53:38 CDT (HTML)
{Photography.111.6}: Steve Lacey {masked} Sun, 10 Jun 2012 02:24:36 CDT (5 lines)
Cool cars--cool pix! My wife's brother-in-law restores very old cars--he'd be fascinated by these. From the second Studebaker shot, now we know why the back-end storage compartment is called the "trunk."
{Photography.111.7}: Steve Lacey {masked} Sun, 10 Jun 2012 02:26:52 CDT (1 line)
A more recent Studebaker.
{Photography.111.8}: annie {oceanannie} Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:56:43 CDT (HTML)
{Photography.111.9}: Marcus {coyote13} Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:09:31 CDT (0 lines)
{Photography.111.10}: Marcus {coyote13} Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:11:09 CDT (0 lines)
{Photography.111.11}: Marcus {coyote13} Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:19:37 CDT (0 lines)
{Photography.111.12}: Marcus {coyote13} Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:26:53 CDT (HTML)
Jaguar E Type has the reputation of 'the best production sports car'
this is local to me
{Photography.111.13}: Coyote {coyote} Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:21:37 CDT (2 lines)
Wow, that's a sweet looking car! But all the dials and switches make me go cross-eyed. I can't imagine what they're all used for.
{Photography.111.14}: annie {oceanannie} Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:46:35 CDT (HTML)
thought you might like this...don't know why the end part isn't blue,
I copied it from the site.
{Photography.111.15}: Tom Coleman {tomcoleman} Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:50:21 CDT (HTML)
{Photography.111.16}: Coyote {coyote} Tue, 26 Jun 2012 13:26:33 CDT (6 lines)
Annie, those long URLs that continue on to a second line need quotation marks on either end to hold them together. Like so: "http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=endscreen&=R=1&v=RvVmDsWnMOk"
{Photography.111.17}: annie {oceanannie} Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:04:09 CDT (HTML)
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{Photography.111.19}: TJ {tj2} Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:17:34 CDT (2 lines)
I looked at it. I love that stuff. I just wish it had been better video.
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{Photography.111.22}: annie {oceanannie} Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:03:17 CDT (HTML)
links to Bonhams car auction
{Photography.111.23}: TJ {tj2} Sun, 01 Jul 2012 09:03:17 CDT (HTML)
{Photography.111.24}: Coyote {coyote} Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:10:14 CDT (2 lines)
Nice! Did Buick make a station wagon version of those models? It looks a lot like the car my folks had when I was a little kid.
{Photography.111.25}: TJ {tj2} Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:26:23 CDT (1 line)
They made a station wagon in more than one model.
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Love my dogs
New route on the Lastoni di Formin (Dolomites) at the hands of Mario Dibona and Gretchen Alexander. The duo created a new bolt 300m route up the center of Spiz de Mondeval, calling it "Love my dogs" and grading it 7a, 6b+ oblig.
From Cortina drive up towards Passo Giau.
Park the car in the obvious lay-by on the left, circa 200m beneath Passo Giau Follow the path to Forcella Giau (30 min)and continue to the middle of the face (leftwards) to a large cairn with the route name marked on it (10 min from the col).
P1: 5b, 32m, slab
P2: 6c+, 30m, tecnhnical and beautiful slightly overhanging grey slab
P3: 6c, 30m, grey slab with overhang
P4: 6a, 33m, nice grey slab
P5: 6b, 32m, great vertical pitch
P6: 6a+, 48m, great corner with steep finishing slab
P7: 6c+/7a, 35m, slab with roof and finishing crack
P8: 5b, 22m, slab with finishing overhang
P9: 5b, 20m, vertical corner-crack to top
Descend north for 5 minutes along the path that leads to the obvious cleft on the right. This marks the start of a steep and friable gully. The first abseil is obvious (belay on the right away from stonefall). Three 30m abseils lead to the base of the wall.
Normal mountaineering rack. 15 quickdraws and one 60m rope.
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Brandon Marshall is falling down.
It's a late-summer practice on a predictably steamy afternoon in Bourbonnais, and thousands of Bears fans line the field to catch a glimpse of the player wearing No. 15.
Never before has the crowd seen a Bears receiver quite like this.
In his blue practice jersey that features Nike's swoosh logo on both shoulders, Marshall is easy to track as he sprints toward the end zone. The first thing one notices is his impressive size – 6-foot-4, 230 pounds – that dwarfs opposing cornerback Tim Jennings by 8 inches and 45 pounds. The second thing one notices is his never-ending arms, packed with muscles and covered in dark tattoos.
Bears quarterback Jay Cutler certainly notices.
As Marshall approaches the right corner of the end zone, Cutler spirals a pass toward where he expects his receiver to be moments later. But as Marshall turns toward the ball, he loses his footing and falls backward toward the grass.
Somehow, it doesn't matter.
Somehow, Marshall extends those arms and reels in Cutler's pass high above his head a split-second before falling on his backside. In bounds. For a touchdown.
It's a practice touchdown, but still.
"He makes it pretty easy," Cutler says. "I think you could probably throw to him."
These are the happy moments.
But what about when plays go awry? What about when games are lost?
Because Marshall, who joined the team in March in a trade with the Miami Dolphins, is not only one of the most accomplished wide receivers to wear a Bears uniform. He also is one of more than 50 million Americans who have a mental illness.
Marshall, 28, has borderline personality disorder, or BPD.
It's a life-changing diagnosis that cannot be condensed to a couple of paragraphs. But it means that Marshall exhibits at least five of nine symptoms that indicate a pervasive pattern of instability in personal relationships, self-image and emotions.
It means that a misstep is possible, even though Marshall receives treatment.
"If he is diagnosed properly, he's got quite an uphill battle to be on a team in a high-stress situation," says Dr. Timothy Hayes, a licensed clinical psychologist at C&H Counseling Solutions in Crystal Lake. "The more pressure we're under, the more it pulls us to the extreme of our coping mechanism.
"And if he's built up coping mechanisms that fit this list of BPD, he's going to need some real good support and real good therapy and have to have a real strong personality to make it through."
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Brandon Marshall is standing up.
It's a surprisingly warm Friday in mid-March as temperatures climb into the 80s, but Marshall looks comfortable in his black double-breasted suit, pink shirt and lime-green tie as he faces a bank of TV cameras and reporters at Halas Hall.
Five days have passed since the Bears acquired Marshall, and the Pennsylvania native has arrived prepared to discuss his turbulent past and hope-filled future. He discusses his BPD diagnosis in July 2011 and his visit to a Massachusetts clinic for treatment.
The fact that Marshall is alive to talk about such things is rather remarkable.
At a New Year's Eve party in 2006, Marshall allegedly got into an argument with several men at a Denver nightclub. The men turned out to be gang members. Hours later, the men drove up next to a limousine carrying some of Marshall's teammates who also had been at the party, sprayed bullets into the side of the vehicle, and sped off as Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams bled to death at age 24.
More than four years later, in April 2011, Marshall was rushed to a South Florida hospital and underwent emergency surgery after his wife allegedly stabbed him in the stomach with a kitchen knife during a domestic dispute. Marshall remains married to Michi Nogami-Marshall, who told police she acted in self-defense.
Those were the worst moments.
But these are the happy moments. Marshall sits next to Cutler, whom he calls a close friend, and speaks excitedly about his mental-health foundation, Project Borderline.
Since his diagnosis, Marshall said, his life had gained purpose.
"Our mission is to use my experiences and my family's experiences to educate, and break this stigma of mental illness," Marshall says. "Statistically, one out of every five of us walk around suffering from something.
"A lot of people are afraid to talk about it. It's taboo in our communities. But I'm willing to use myself, make myself and my family vulnerable, to break the stigmas."
Discussing his battle with BPD was the most difficult challenge of Marshall's career.
"It was scary," Marshall said. "But this thing is bigger than me. We're losing lives."
Perhaps by speaking out, Marshall can save some.
"I think it's admirable that he was willing to talk about it," Hayes said. "Here is a person who has achieved at a very high level in his own field, and he's doing it with this extra burden. He's a remarkable individual to have achieved at that level and still have all of these difficulties facing him every day.
"In that sense, he already is a role model. If he slips up and there are problems, he's already demonstrated that he might not be perfect, but he can achieve at a high level even though he has all of these weights and difficulties to face."
* * *
Brandon Marshall is sitting still.
It's a Tuesday afternoon in the final week of August, and the Bears' preseason finale is two days away. A couple of reporters approach him to request an interview, but he smiles and declines.
"I think I'm supposed to talk next week," Marshall says.
It's a cop-out, but players deserve a break from questions every now and then.
Maybe he's tired. Maybe he's having a bad day.
Regardless, Marshall handles the situation well, and reporters head elsewhere.
So far, Marshall has fit in seamlessly with his new teammates and coaches.
"What a great leader he's been in my meeting room," says Bears wide receivers coach Darryl Drake. "I can't vouch for what's happened in the past. Only he can. And he makes no excuses for the way things have happened. But he's just been fantastic with the young guys, sharing stories. Sharing technique. Teaching them."
Yet questions will dog Marshall throughout the rest of his career.
Will today be the day he relapses into trouble? What about tomorrow?
Marshall knows that he cannot silence every skeptic.
"There's nothing I can say," Marshall says. "Unfortunately, sometimes, perception is reality. And I'm OK with that. I understand those are the seeds that I planted early on in my career.
"But the only thing I can do moving forward is come to work every day and be the best teammate I can be, the best wide receiver I can be, and also be an asset to this community. I think that is more important than the football part.
"Football is easy. That's something I've done since I was 6 years old. I can catch a ball in my sleep. I can make a guy miss easy.
"But the most important thing for me, my biggest goal, is to be mentioned with some of the other nominees for the Walter Payton Award [as the NFL's man of the year]. My mission starts in the community here."


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AFTER having a fish filled week in France we were on our way to Iceland – for a fish-free holiday (according to our parents).
And so for the first week we admired stones, rocks, boulders and volcanos. However, we're anglers, right?! We had packed our Tenkara USA fly rods. Being telescopic they fold up so short that we had managed to pack them without our parents noticing!
And what a surprise we had when we arrived at our next hotel; a few yards away was a small, clear river with brown and sea trout! The next day we walked along to the village petrol station and bought a half-day licence from 4pm til 10pm giving us the morning to look for likely spots. We found a couple of places where we saw trout and decided to fish later.
Come 4pm we grabbed our rods and flies and walked along to the river. We could tell after a few casts that the fish didn't want food as they weren't moving an inch from the bottom even when our fly drifted past them. But when the midges came out the trout started to feed – they were jumping for flies!
Tenkara is a type of fly fishing which is very simple as there is no reel involved and the line is tied on to the end of the rod. The rod is also very light which, with fly fishing, is very important as you're always holding the rod and casting.
8pm soon came along with more fish jumping for flies. I cast into the fast flow and slowly retrieved the fly. Something had hit it and put up a crazy fight…. despite being only a small salmon parr. Casting out again to the same spot resulted in the target species, a small brown trout.
It did seem like this was a feeding spell and sometimes they don't last long but yet again another cast to the same spot caught me a lovely sea trout. It put up a great fight on the light rod. Three fish in the space of 20 minutes!
Sadly I was right, it was to be a short feeding spell. The fish just weren't taking the fly so we tried other spots but couldn't manage a single bite.
By 10pm still no more bites. Although only a few fish had been caught it was a bonus for a fish free holiday. So, if you're going away, don't forget to pack a short fold down rod. You may find it comes in useful!
A few more holiday snaps…
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Questions about how to remove vocals from music tracks is one of the most common questions we see in Looptalk (...after 'When is the next version of FL Studio coming out!', 'how do I record from a microphone' and 'do you like my hair'). With inspiration from nucleon (thanks nuc) we bring you the tutorial you have been waiting for...
Routing summary: This project has an Audio Clip (that is the original music track) routed to Mixer Track 1. Track 1's Master send is deselected. Track 1 is then routed in parallel to Track 2 (Vocal Kill) and Track 3 (Bypass).
Registered FL Studio owners can download the project used in this tutorial from Looptalk here: Gimme the project!
NOTE: All vocal removal techniques do bad things to the original backing track and this one is no exception. Generally, if you are serious about obtaining a song without the vocals it's probably better to re-make it from scratch yourself. The phase cancellation process messes with the sound in some not-so nice ways.


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Angela Bassett can exhale – she's signed on to "Green Lantern."
According to Variety, the "Waiting To Exhale" actress will play government agent Dr. Amanda Waller.
She'll join a cast that features Ryan Reynolds in the title role as the DC comics hero, Blake Lively as love interest Carol Ferris, Peter Saarsgaard as the villainous Dr. Hector Hammond and Mark Strong as alien rival Sinestro.
"Casino Royale" director Martin Campbell will be helming the movie, which is slated for June 17, 2011.
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Deals that Defined India in 2012
In an otherwise muted year for corporate India, natural resources companies were among the most aggressive in deal-making.
There were 912 mergers and acquisitions this year with a combined deal value of $33.27 billion, according to data from Dealogic Ltd. A quarter of these deals, worth $11 billion, involved foreign firms buying stakes in Indian companies.
Here are the largest deals in the year gone by:
Vedanta merger - $9.49 billion
In February, U.K.-listed natural resources-firm Vedanta Resources(VED.LN) said it would combine its two main Indian subsidiaries to create a globally diversified miner with a market capitalization of around $20 billion.
Vedanta merged metals-producer Sterlite Industries (India) and iron-ore producer Sesa Goa Ltd. to create Sesa Sterlite, which has combined sales of $14.2 billion and assets in oil and gas, iron ore, zinc, lead, silver, copper, aluminum and power.
In late November, ONGC Videsh Ltd., the international arm of state-run Oil and Natural Gasration Ltd., said it will buy an 8.4% stake in an oil project of American energy major ConocoPhillips. The Kashagan project is in the Caspian Sea, off Kazakhstan. The acquisition cost ONGC around $5 billion.
Wipro's breakup - $2.2 billion
In early November, Indian software firm Wipro hived off its non-technology operations into a new unit called Wipro Enterprises. This unit now comprises the company's businesses in infrastructure engineering, consumer products, and medical products & services.
Spiritmakers' alliance: $2.62 billion
On Nov. 9, India's largest beer-maker United Spirits agreed to sell a 53.4% stake to UK liquor major Diageofor around $2 billion. The deal was the culmination of years of discussions between Diageo and billionaire Vijay Mallya, chairman of the UB Group that controls United Spirits. The deal came at a time when Mr. Mallya has been trying to raise cash for his ailing Kingfisher Airlines, which owes a lot of money both to the government and its employees.
On Nov. 27, India's Gulf Oil Corp. agreed to acquire U.S.-based specialty chemicals-maker Houghton International Inc. from a private equity fund for about $1.05 billion. The purchase will be carried out by a wholly-owned U.K. unit of Gulf Oil, the company said.


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...every doll is not made for children.
|Do these all look like Barbies to you? From left-to-right they are, I can be President Barbie; repainted one-of-kind Barbie by Chynadoll Creations (meant for the adult collector); High Brow Adèle by Integrity Toys (an adult collectible doll); and Esmé, a 16-inch fashion doll by Robert Tonner (adult collectible).
I was prompted to sit down and compose this post after reading an article dated February 16, 2013, that refers to an Integrity Toys Adèle from 2004 as a Barbie, designed for child's play. In the article, entitled,"Image of New Black Barbie Doll Sparks Outrage," the author writes:
An image of a brown Barbie doll has surfaced on the Internet, causing people to question whether or not it is supposed to be the next African-American Barbie. The doll is sporting blonde hair, gold chains, cleavage, and two bags that are strikingly similar to the Louis Vuitton monogram multicolor collection.
The doll and the author's opening statement as well as many of the comments (excluding a few), which were apparently posted by non-collectors, caused me to wonder why the non-collecting community is so misinformed about dolls in general and why every fashion doll is incorrectly identified as Barbie.
First of all, there are many doll categories. Some of these are listed and defined below:
- Antique - According to the United Federation of Doll Clubs (UFDC), a doll of at least 75 years; other authorities define antique dolls as dolls of at least 100 years.
- Art - Dolls created by artists and intended as expressive and unique art objects rather than children's toys.
- Artist - Dolls made by doll artists, usually in limited editions or as one of a kinds (OOAKs), for adult collectors
- Collectible - Dolls designed for adults who collect dolls as a hobby.
- Fashion - Dolls dressed in trendy or haute couture-like fashions, made for children as well as adult collectors.
- Modern - Dolls made from 1960s through present (this definition can vary).
- One-of-a-Kind (OOAK): Dolls made in an edition of 1 by doll artists; can also be an artist or manufactured doll repainted by a repaint artist; in essence only one of the doll in its present state exists.
- Playline - Dolls fashioned as a child's toy.
- Reborn - Dolls that originated as baby dolls sculpted by a doll artist which are later fashioned to look like real babies using painting, hair re-rooting, and other techniques developed by reborn artists.
- Repaints - Artist or manufactured dolls used as a canvas by repaint doll artists who add realism through repainting the facial features and skin tones, and/or changing the hair by re-rooting or re-wigging, resulting in one-of-a-kind dolls because no two will ever look alike.
- Vintage - Dolls made prior to the 1960s (this definition may vary based on doll type).
While Barbie maintains the highest profile worldwide among fashion dolls, not every fashion doll is a Barbie. I might also stress that while Mattel (the manufacturer of Barbie and her host of friends) creates dolls for children sold by toy retailers and through their own online website, every Barbie is not designed for child's play. There are playline Barbies as well as several collectors editions.
For misinformed non-doll collectors and parents who often display a knee-jerk reaction to dolls designed for adults, please relax-relate-release. Just because you see a fashion doll that you think is a Barbie made for children that portrays an image that you deem inappropriate for a child, in most situations the doll was fashioned for adult collectors by a manufacturer or doll artist other than Mattel. There is no need to start a campaign against the doll or manufacturer or to create an otherwise pseudo-controversy, as in the case of the Django Unchained movie-memorabilia-action-figures-made-for-adults fiasco.
|No, we are not all Barbies and only one of us is a child's toy!
The bottom line is this: Just because a three-dimensional, inanimate object is defined as a doll does not mean that object was intended for child's play. If you are not a doll collector and you see a doll that raises your eyebrows or causes you to wonder what the doll maker was thinking, ask an authority on the subject before jumping to an inflammatory (and often incorrect) conclusion.
Click here to view the doll (Perfect Skin Adèle Makéda) designed by Jason Wu for Integrity Toys in 2004 and the article that sparked this post.
Doll Terminology Resources (other than my own):
Art Dolls
Doll Glossary: Words About Dolls and Doll Collecting by Shirley E. Childers (Kindle book)
What is an Antique Doll
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[Africa News Update: Kenya Comment]
Africa opened 2008 with post-election violence in Kenya hitting world headlines exposing the continent's fragile democratic process to a barrage of criticism.
Despite registering a number of successes on the economic and social front in certain parts, Africa opened 2008 fairing badly on the political front.
Latest figures indicate that more 600 people have been killed and more than 250, 000 made homeless in Kenya which has been wracked by violence since presidential elections last month which opposition leader Raila Odinga says were rigged by Mwai Kibaki who was declared victor in the tightly contested race.
The spotlight of the prying lenses of the international media shifted away from the Darfur
crisis, the Democratic Republic of Congo conflict and preoccupation with Zimbabwe and its economic woes and perched in Kenya widely seen as an emerging democracy and economic hub of east Africa.
The disappointment and despair on the failure of the democratic process, the escalation of political violence and the resultant chaos cast a bad light on the continent's hopes and dreams.
The Kenyan experience piled on the junk yard of chaotic and violent elections in Africa. In the first half of 2007, the national elections in Nigeria led to the death of more than 200 people amid allegations of rigging by the new President Yar'Adua who took over from Olusegun Obasanjo.
There was heavy criticism of the polls and the international media feted on the pain, misery and despair of the people. The opposition was silenced and President Yar'Adua appeared for the better part of 2007 to be firmly in control of power.
Western countries glossed over this Nigerian case and now its business as usually with oil producing Nigeria. At the close of 2007, the Kenya polls turned into murder and mayhem sending western diplomats scurrying for cover with shame. Double standards by the West were exposed again. Wrote the editor of the Zimbabwe Sunday Mail in an opinion:
"Let's just imagine what has happened in Kenya, where hundreds of people were slaughtered following the disputed results had been in Zimbabwe, what would have
been the reaction of Britain and America? We know what we see on the faces of these
imperialists are crocodile tears. Their interests are superior to the lives of Kenyan blacks. One word which would definitely not be flying around is 'diplomacy'. If a handful of Zimbabweans were to die during the post-election violence words and phrases like
'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' would be the order of the day."
A similar political scri pt played out in Pakistan, but the United States still supports unashamedly, the military dictatorship in that country. The political story in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Pakistan all present the complexities of global
politics today.
"Nigeria is a major economic power, being the biggest oil producer in Africa housing Africa's largest population. The previous eight years, commencing with a major election that ushered transition from military dictatorship to civilian rule had seemingly brought
much hope for democracy," said Alex Magaisa, a Zimbabwean political commentator.
"But the disputed election in Africa's most populous country has blighted its democratic credentials. Yet, perhaps, because this is a great source of oil, electoral irregularities have not affected the 'international community's' view on the legitimacy of Nigeria's new government. It is the inconsistencies that blight the West's interventions in African
politics when it attempts to lecture on democracy and human rights."
South Africa showed a different picture; another brand of African democracy that saw Jacob Zuma winning a bitterly fought race for the ANC's top job. Political analysts touted the ANC polls as inspiring and as showing Africa the way to go.
Magaisa said the ANC poll at least demonstrated some measure of internal democracy.
"South Africa's ANC, at its congress in Polokwane, presented the continent with its own scintillating version of democracy brewed in the African pot: it voted out Thabo Mbeki as president," wrote Bill Saidi, an editor at the Zimbabwe Standard in an opinion titled: "Politics brewed in an African Pot."
"He is the president of the country, but that didn't faze the delegates. He was not good enough to lead their party. In Kenya, President Mwai Kibaki, seeking a second term in office, ran into trouble with Raila Odinga, the son of a hero of Kenyan politics, Oginga
Odinga, Jomo Kenyatta's early ally.
"Kibaki claimed victory on the basis of fuzzy legitimacy provided by a carefully handpicked electoral commission, another political ingredient brewed in the Africa pot. Unfortunately for him, most of the world, including many Kenyans, decided this claim was anchored in quicksand," Saidi wrote further.
"A number of commentators focused on the indecent haste with which he was crowned president, as the most eloquent testimony of political tomfoolery."
Coverage of the Kenyan post-election violence has been extensive with commentators giving mixed views.
"In the case of the Kenyan elections it seems as if the state permitted a free and fair election and campaign but when the final count was taking place and it became clear that Kibaki would lose the election, the state stepped in and the vote was stolen from the people. A great shame as a normal democratic transfer of power would have been first prize," Eddie Cross, a Zimbabwe opposition politician said.
Said Mutumwa Mawere, a South African-based Zimbabwean political commentator: "The people of Kenya thought they had spoken when they joined long queues to express their choice about what kind of future they wanted but alas the change they sought is not what
they have been given resulting in the current confusion and chaos that only served to undermine the hope that through democratic means people can get the change they can believe in.
"Many of us would agree that the Africa we have today that can produce the kind of outcome that Kenyans have after the recent elections is not the kind of Africa we want to see."
Others saw the crisis differently.
"For almost 50 years now, imperialism has treated and held up Kenya as one of a handful of exceptions to African politics," wrote Dr Tafataona Mahoso in his column African Focus in the Zimbabwe Sunday Mail.
"Yet that same imperialism and its media have been the first to improperly compare Kenya in December 2007 with Rwanda in 1994. These contradictory characterizations of Kenya make it difficult for Africans in other countries such as Zimbabwe, to learn from what has happened in Kenya.
"There are both similarities and contrasts between Kenya and Zimbabwe, for instance. Like Zimbabwe, Kenya is a former British colony. The settler racist idea of appropriating and naming the best land 'white Highlands' originated in Kenya but was practiced in
Zimbabwe as well…..
"In the current Kenyan conflict, we see that it is Britain and the United States whose views of the elections have been overvalued and who may have helped whip up emotions through megaphone election observation. This is so because the opposition is saying the Kenyan parties can no longer sit together as brothers and sisters to find a solution unless
there is foreign mediation," Dr. Mahoso said.
"What is shocking is the silent assumption that foreign mediators will be totally disinterested and therefore won't insert their own agenda into the negotiations. We have gone through similar calls for foreign intervention and mediation, so that the
current Sadc mediation is seen in some countries as illegitimate because it involves only Africans."
The editor of the Zimbabwe Sunday Mail wrote: "Democracy as defined by the West is very different from our concept of the same ideology. To the West democratic elections are those in which the party which seeks to promote the interests of imperialism wins."
Other Kenyan analysts blamed their own politicians for the crisis. "Politicians have stifled logical reasoning and instead resorted to thriving and trading with these hardened feelings," said Ndung'u Wainana of the International Centre for Policy and conflict.
Adds Njuguna Mutonya: "The rise in pitch and venom among politicians as they seek to win the people's minds and souls is phenomenal, unprecedented and scaring. Concerns have been expressed about the content of some of the more brazen and crude broadcasts aired by people of dubious journalistic backgrounds.
"Most Kenyans know how powerful a weapon the media are and what kind of anarchy they can cause when in the wrong hands. Kangura and Radio Milles Collins of Rwanda and the way they fanned genocide come to mind. Their bosses are today languishing in prison."
Zimbabwe goes to the polls in March. The Kenyan example should serve as a reminder of what could happen if elections are not properly managed to show the will of the people.
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PCBs in Farmed Salmon: Methodology
- Laboratory PCB analysis of farmed salmon fillets
- Farmed salmon consumption estimates
- Cancer risk assessment for PCBs in farmed salmon
Laboratory PCB analysis of farmed salmon fillets. Prepared farmed salmon fillets, with skin on and belly flap removed, were purchased from supermarkets in three U.S. cities in May 2003, with samples spanning five countries of origin and ten separate farming companies:
NOTE: Retailers are listed for descriptive purposes only. A store's presence on this list DOES NOT MEAN OR IN ANY WAY IMPLY that consumers should shop elsewhere, or that consumers can avoid PCBs in farmed salmon by shopping elsewhere.
- Washington, DC: Super Fresh (Camanchaca, Chile)
- Washington, DC: Safeway (Aqua Chile, Chile)
- Washington, DC: Wagshals (Fjord Seafood, State of Maine)
- Washington, DC: Whole Foods Market (Iceland Fish Co. Inc., Iceland)
- Portland, OR: Fred Meyer (Pacific Sea Food Co. Inc., Canada)
- Portland, OR: Safeway (PanFish Sales, Canada)
- San Francisco: Safeway (Lus America Food Inc., Canada)
- San Francisco: Albertson's (supplier unable to ascertain the country of origin)
- San Francisco: Berkeley Bowl (SalmoCo, Scotland)
- San Francisco: Ver Burgge (Sterling Company, Canada)
Samples were shipped overnight in coolers on ice to Axys Analytical Services in Sidney, British Columbia for analysis. Laboratory procedures and results are described in detail in Axys (2003), and are presented briefly below.
Samples were stored at -20° C immediately after they were received at the lab and until the samples were processed for analysis. Sample preparation involved cutting each sample into smaller pieces, homogenizing it three times using a medium grinder, and mixing between each time. Samples were analyzed using high resolution gas chromatography and high resolution mass spectrometry techniques in general accordance with 'USEPA Method 1668, Revision A: Chlorinated Biphenyl Congeners in Water, Soil, Sediment, and Tissue by HRGC/HRMS.' Analysis was conducted individually for all 209 PCB congeners. Standard quality control procedures were followed, including analysis of a lab blank and a spiked matrix.
Farmed salmon consumption estimates. EWG has estimated the distribution of salmon consumption across the population using a state-of-the-art seafood consumption record called the National Eating Trends Database, or NETD, compiled from detailed food diaries of 20,000 households across the country, in a survey designed and compiled by the New York-based international marketing data firm called NPD Group. These data are routinely used by the seafood industry in its own market research.
In NETD, men, women, and children maintain detailed food diaries over two-week survey periods, called waves. Some people are selected for multiple years to complete longitudinal studies on consumption, with the survey designed such that no geographical, ethnic, or other obvious biases exist in the data.
From these data, we characterized and quantified the variability of salmon consumption across the adult population of the U.S. First, we determined how many adults eat salmon by calculating how many of the 20,300 adults in the database reported eating salmon in any of the waves in which they participated. We then calculated the probability that an adult who did not report eating salmon during any of their sampling waves would have reported eating salmon had they been surveyed more often, using data from individuals with more reporting waves.
Probability-based factors were applied across all adults who did not report eating salmon, to correct for the likelihood that some people were misclassified as non-salmon eaters because of insufficient survey waves. People reclassified by this method were also assigned a consumption frequency based on the consumption statistics of people who met two criteria: 1.) had more survey waves than the reclassified individual; and 2.) reported no salmon consumption for at least the number of waves associated with the reclassified person. With these corrections, we were able to estimate the salmon consumption distribution across the adult population.
Cancer risk assessment for PCBs in farmed salmon. EWG estimated cancer risk posed by the consumption of farmed salmon in accordance with standard risk assessment procedures recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Cancer risk for an individual was calculated as the product of cancer potency and chemical dose, normalized by body weight. We used Monte Carlo techniques to simulate measured variability in body weight, salmon serving size, and salmon consumption frequency, essentially creating millions of modeled people that allowed us to then compute population-based risk estimates. Model parameters are described below:
- Body weight, age, and gender: Randomly selected from the more than 9000 participants in CDCs National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) (1999-2000 data release). Data for adults ages 18 to 70 were used.
- Portion sizes for salmon fillets: Randomly chosen from data collected between 1994 and 1996 in USDAs Total Dietary Intake (TDI) survey. Since there were only 124 incidences of salmon fillet consumption in this database, we included another 610 times that baked or broiled fish was consumed by the survey participants. Using the age and gender assigned from the NHANES data, the model selected a portion size from the appropriate subgroup in the TDI data, and maintained this portion size as constant throughout the modeled period for any given modeled individual.
- Consumption frequency: Systematic assignment of a salmon consumption frequency for an individual surveyed in NPD Groups sNational Eating Trends, with corrections applied to correct for the tendency for the over-prediction of non-salmon eaters inherent in the data, particularly for survey respondents with short total periods of record. As with portion sizes, data selection was limited to the applicable gender. For any given modeled individual, salmon consumption frequency was maintained constant through the exposure duration.
- Exposure duration: Adulthood, ages 18 to 70.
- Averaging time to diffuse computed salmon risk across a lifetime: 70 years.
- Cancer potency: 2 per mg/kg-day (EPA 1999).
- Exposure concentration: PCB levels in farmed salmon taken from Axys (2003), with probability of selecting a particular farmed salmon in the data set proportional to the distribution of salmon in the U.S. food supply, by the salmons country of origin. Throughout a modeled lifetime, PCB concentrations were freshly selected for each exposure event. The model was restricted to computing cancer risk from farmed salmon, and did not account for incremental risks from the low levels of PCBs in wild and canned salmon.
- Assumed PCB reduction from fat loss during cooking: 40 percent reduction (EPA 2000).
- Axys Analytical Services Ltd. 2003. Environmental Working Group. PCB congeners analysis; Tissue samples; Axys method: MLA-010 Rev04. Data Package: 4226 L5841-1 to -10. Report from Axys Analytical Services Ltd. to Environmental Working Group. July 2003.
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 1999. Integrated Risk Information System. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) (CASRN 1336-36-3). Accessed July 21 2003 at http://www.epa.gov/iris/subst/0294.htm.
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2000b. Guidance for assessing chemical contaminant data for use in fish advisories. Volume 2. Risk assessment and fish consumption limits. Third edition. EPA 823-B-00-008. November 2000.