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Nov. 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. That weekend, a special light installation made of thousands of illuminated, heliumfilled white balloons will be set up along 12 kilometres of the former Wall as a "symbol of hope for a world without walls." At five points, the balloons will be released to commemorate the Wall's breaching 25 years ago. What better time to visit one of the world's most fascinating cities? Here are more reasons to visit Berlin - let the alphabet be your guide:
A Ampelmann - (or Ampelmannchen, little traffic-light man) is shown on pedestrian signals across the old GDR (German Democratic Republic). The beloved symbol of East Berlin rose to cult status after reunification, when plans were made to replace him with the generic human figure used in the West. The East prevailed, and Ampelmann was given the green light. He is now found not only on the traffic lights, but at various Ampelmann stores - a popular souvenir item.
B Bebelplatz - If you cross Bebelplatz (formerly Opera Square) from Unter den Linden you will come across a square glass window pane sunken into the ground. Beneath it is a room lined with empty bookshelves. This artwork installation of Israeli artist Micha Ullman, called Library, is a haunting reminder of Hitler's book burning.
C Clarchens Ballhaus - This legendary 100-year-old dance hall in Mitte is like a time capsule, complete with dark wood panelling and decades-worn dance floor. Surviving two wars, an Allied bombing that reduced the front of the building to rubble and then Soviet occupation as part of East Berlin, Clarchens was restored to its former, somewhat shabby, glory in 2005 and the dance floor is full again with lessons, concerts, events and an outdoor beer garden.
D DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik) Museum - This interactive museum offers a fascinating hands-on look into the lives of East Berliners in the former Socialist GDR, including a 1:20 scale model of an apartment in a typical prefabricated highrise building. The museum is located in the former government district of East Germany, opposite the Berlin Cathedral, on the river Spree.
E East Side Gallery - The largest remaining portion of the Berlin Wall still standing, this one-kilometre, open-air East Side Gallery is an exhibit of art, murals and graffiti painted directly on the Wall.
F Freiderichstrasse - Legendary during the Roaring '20s, central Berlin's major shopping street was bisected by the Berlin Wall and was the location of Checkpoint Charlie during the Cold War. It is now home to upscale restaurants and shops, such as the French department store Galeries Lafayette, clothing chains Max Mara, Stefanel and Zara, and the bookstore Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus.
G Gendarmmarkt - This beautiful central square is site of the Konzerthaus and the French and German cathedrals. On one corner sits the chocolatier Fassbender and Rausch. For a serious mid-afternoon hit of cocoa, stop by for a hot chocolate in the upstairs café.
H Hackescher Markt - Epicentre of the city's fashion culture, this cluster of buildings and courtyards was reconstructed in the late 1990s and now houses upscale boutiques, designer shops, international chain stores (think American Apparel, Urban Outfitters), chic cafés, bars, and galleries and is a magnet for Berlin's beautiful people.
I Island (Museum Island or Museumsinsel) - The northern tip of Spree Island has UNESCO world heritage designation and is home to five world-renowned museums (the Altes, Alte Nationalgalerie, Bode, Neues and Pergamon) and outstanding exhibits, including Nefertiti and the Pergamon frieze. If you're there on a Saturday or Sunday, take a stroll through the antiques and book market near the Bodemuseum, which offers books, records, CDs, handicrafts and furniture, or the art market offering unique pieces from local artists.
J Jewish Museum - A striking example of Berlin's contemporary architecture, this imposing, zigzag-like museum was designed to resemble a shattered Star of David. The interior shares exhibition rooms with the windowless Holocaust Tower. Lindenstrasse 9-14 Kreuzberg.
K Kurfuresdamm - Ku'damm to the locals, this is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin and home to continental Europe's largest department store, KaDeWe (full name Kaufhaus des Westens or "department store of the west"), reported to be second in size only to London's gigantic Harrods.
L La Soupe Populaire - Chef Tim Raue's ubercool eatery, located in the former brewery Botzow Berlin in Prenzlauer Berg - serves a permanent menu of wonderful homestyle German comfort food. There are Konigsberger Klopse (meatballs) and eggs in a velvety mustard sauce, and a special menu that changes monthly along with the art exhibit located in the main floor gallery. The dark space is cavernous with exposed brick and original brewery pipes, but the Raue manages to impart a homey feel with mismatched plates and cutlery designed to remind people of their grandmothers. Open Thursday to Saturday for lunch and dinner. Be sure to have the Bee Sting cake for dessert. Le Croco Blu smoking bar is also located in the building for pre-or post-dinner drinks. Botzow Berlin, Prenzlauer Allee 242.
M Mandala Hotel - This five-star boutique hotel is centrally located at Potzdamer Platz, the junction between the former East and West Berlins, making it an ideal base for exploring the middle of the city. The spacious rooms are bright and airy with ultra-modern decor and luxurious bathrooms with soaker tubs. Breakfast is served in the swish Michelin-starred FACIL Restaurant overlooking the hotel's inner courtyard - a pleasant start to the day. And Ono Spa's Jetlag Revival Massage is just what the doctor ordered after a long overseas flight.
N New Market Hall - The historic Markthalle Neun in trendy Kreuzberg is the perfect spot for a late lunch. Modified food trucks are set up inside the market and on Fridays and Saturdays local farmers flog their organic vegetables and cheeses. Hit Glut Spane for whole smoked fish or Sironi's for Italian artisanal bread then grab a beer from one of the market bars for the perfect food hall picnic.
O Oranienburger Strasse - Running through the fashionable Mitte neighbourhood, from Friedrichstrasse to Hackescher Markt, this street is increasingly known for its shopping and nightlife. The area was formerly a centre of Jewish life in Berlin and is home to the beautiful New Synagogue as well as a former Jewish girls' school on neighbouring Auguststrasse that has been transformed into a complex of cafés and galleries.
P Potsdamer Platz - Almost completely razed during the war, and then sliced in two by the Wall, the old heart of Berlin rose from a wasteland to a futuristic mega-complex, becoming home to DaimlerChrysler, the Sony Centre, a glass shopping arcade, movie theatres, hotels and restaurants, in just five years.
The biggest construction site in Europe became the city's new ultra-modern urban centre and transit junction between the former East and West.
It was here in 1996 that Daniel Barenboim conducted the famous "crane ballet" among the towering construction cranes.
Q Qiu Restaurant Bar - Located on the first floor of the Mandala Hotel in Potzdammer Platz, this is a great stop for a late afternoon cocktail, pre-dinner aperitif or latenight snack.
R Reichstag - The federal German parliament building is topped with an accessible glass dome, roof terrace and roof-garden restaurant offering spectacular views over the city.
S Spree Schiffbauerdamm - This narrow street winding along the River Spree in Mitte is dotted with theatres and quaint restaurants and bars catering to the theatre crowd.
T Trabi - The standard cars of East Germany, which were made of plastic and had a waiting period of 15 to 20 years, Trabis are still seen on the streets today with kitschy tours taking place around the city.
U U-Bahn - The Berlin underground is efficient and modern, making it easy to get around the city. Running since 1902, the U-Bahn serves 170 stations over 10 lines. The system remained open to residents of both the East and West when the city was divided after the war, but the construction of the Wall in 1961 split the network in two and limited access. U-Bahn lines in East Berlin were severed from the West, while two West Berlin lines that ran through East Berlin passed through closed stations (dubbed "Geisterbahnhofe" or ghost stations).
V Victory Column - or Siegessaule, sits on the Grosse Stern, a circular traffic island just along from the Brandenburg Gate in the Tiergarten. The monument commemorating Prussia's victories was moved from the front of the Reichstag in 1938-39.
W Wall - The Wall, or Berliner Mauer, divided the city from 1961 until 1989, and although it no longer physically exists, its presence is felt everywhere in Berlin. Chunks of free-standing, graffiti-covered pieces can be found near Potzdamer Platz or intact stretches by the Topographie des Terrors exhibit. And wherever you are in the city, you are somehow always wondering if you are in the former east or west. For a moving glimpse of what the city looked like with the Wall in place, visit the Asisi Panorama of the Divided City of Berlin for a bird'seye view from the platform in the 18-metre-high circular building. Checkpoint Charlie, Friedrichstrasse 205.
X Xberg - a.k.a. Kreuzberg, is set on either side of the River Spree on the border between east and west. Though no longer in use, many locals still differentiate Kreuzberg by its old postal codes, 36 or 61. The 36 stands for the eastern part of the district; 61 was the west, next to Tempelhof and Schoneberg, where buildings were replaced or extensively renovated, becoming accordingly expensive. In 36, more prewar buildings remained, slowly attracting an influx of artists, musicians and students who took over abandoned factories and lofts, lending the area its bohemian-chic vibe.
Y YAAM (Young African Art Market) - Tucked away off the Spree in Friedrichshain across the street from Ostbahnhof beach bar, this is the cool place to be on a hot day, with reggae playing into the early hours. Stralauer Platz 35.
Z Zosch - This tiny bar's giant hamburger might just be the biggest burger in Berlin.
The writer travelled courtesy of visitBerlin, which did not review the copy.


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Unless you are a mushroom, live under a rock or maybe like me have had other priorities for the last month, you will have realized that the C-word is now acceptable, well in relation to WoW at least.
NO! Not that C-word… This one…
Too many words have already been wasted on prediction and QQ for something that is still around 12 months away, so I won't waste my breath on that (until next week maybe…).
Rather I want to suggest that now is probably a good time to reroll.
Gnutty Gnome!
What Gnomer? Are you mad?
- I need to get emblems
- I need to beat Ulduar
- I need to beat ToC
- I need to see Icecrown Citadel
- I need to finish my rep grind with Sons of Hodir.
- I need to get my Enchanting to 450
- I need to buy my Mammoth
Hell, I just hit 80 and you want me to reroll, you are one Gnutty Gnome!
While I have bigger Gnuts under my robe than many word believe possible for a 3 foot nothing Gnome, I'm not quite as mad as my Fire crazed demeanor might suggest.
The End is Nigh!
You see the end of the world is nigh. At least the end of the world of Azeroth as we know it.
It won't happen overnight, but it will happen!
Based on previous expansion releases, there won't be just one big bang at 12 midnight on release day. We will instead see a series of events leading up to it. Thus time may be running out…
As you may be aware I am leveling an alt. My 1st real alt when all is said and done. I am kind of power leveling him, in the sense that I am sporting some heirloom gear, not completing every quest and most importantly, with the aid of a questing mod, I am not reading quest text.
Who are the Kurzons?
This dawned on me at level 38.9 in STV while I was slaughtering Kurzons.
- Why am I slaughtering Kurzons?
- Who are the Kurzons?
Now I'm not a lore junky, it wasn't until Northrend that I started reading quest text… On my 3rd main!
But in around a year, many of the existing quests and much of the lore may well disappear! Gone in a series of cataclysmic events that shape World of Warcraft 4.0.
Lore Master?
Are you as mad determined as Mae?
Do you want the Loremaster Achievement?
If you do, it either won't exist, or at the very least won't exist in it's current form.
World Explorer?
World Explorer?
Sure The Barrens will probably be more interesting with volcanoes, but it won't be the same place. It may be filled again, it might even become an alliance zone, but the only thing you can be sure of is that barrens chat will still be the same. (I wonder if in the new barrens there will be an inn called "The Barrens Chat" in homage to 4 odd years of bar room crap being spoken?)
Slow and Deliberate
It might seem a bit extreme to suggest that you roll an alt now when there is still 12 odd months to go, but you need to realize I am not talking level to 80 in 7 days played.
There is a good chance that if you start an alt now, consume all the content at a pace that allows you to read and absorb both the quest text and lore (and of course those weird and wonderful conversations the NPCs have between themselves) you may need 12 months. Remember you still want to raid, collect emblems etc on you main!
Anyway, some food for thought.
- Pick a faction you haven't experienced.
- Pick a race you haven't experienced.
- Pick a class you haven't experienced.
- Experience WoW like you may never get the chance to do again! (Or is that Party like it's 1999?)
Gnomer and Out!
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I have featured this dessert before; I first made it back in July 2008 after my job had taken me on a trip to Qatar and I sampled dessert heaven. Sorry if you've seen it before, but I suspect most of my current readers weren't with me back then.
This is a perfect dessert in many respects – it has texture, creaminess, and that stomach-filling quality that all good stodgy desserts should have. Imagine a bread and butter pudding but without the greasy butteriness and a bit of crunch from nuts and you're pretty close to this. I love the vanilla and pistachio heady scent released on baking - it's so fragrant.
Last time, when baking the sheet of puff pastry, I forgot to fork it to stop it puffing up too much. I remembered this time and...it didn't seem to make much of a difference:
At first, it feels strange to cut up cooked puff pastry (the bottom corner is missing – Mr CC is thorough in his quality control):
Any leftovers can be reheated or eaten cold. The creamy mix is effectively a panna cotta sans gelatine and baked rather than set. It is important to let the creamy mix soak into the pastry. Here it is pre-soaking:
Here it is post-soaking. Quite a difference:
I don't feature many things on my site twice...but goodness me, this one is worth it!
250g baked and crushed puff pastry (I used ready-made)
50g sliced almonds, plus some extra for sprinkling on top
30g chopped pistachios
30g chopped pine nuts or raisins/sultanas
600ml whipping cream
200ml milk
50g caster sugar
1 vanilla pod
Roll the puff pastry out until it's about 0.5cm thick. Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper or non-stick foil.
Prick it all over with a fork.
Bake the puff pastry according to the instructions on the packet. Mine required 15-20 minutes at 220°C/fan oven 200°C/425°F/Gas mark 7.
Cut the cooked puff pastry into small squares and place in a 20cm ovenproof dish. My dish was a ceramic lasagne dish and the sides were sloped so that the top of the dish was bigger. If your dish has straight sides you might want to use one slightly bigger than 20cm.
Scatter over the nuts and raisins.
Preheat the oven to 250°C/fan oven 230°C/500°F/Gas mark 10.
Put 300ml of the whipping cream, the milk, sugar and vanilla pod (cut and scrape the seeds out) into a saucepan and bring to the boil.
As soon as it starts to boil, remove from the heat and pour, through a sieve, over the pastry in the bowl. Tidy up the pastry so that it is all covered by the cream – when you pour it over, it can get disturbed.
Leave to soak for 5 minutes. You can make it up to this point several hours in advance of cooking. Place it in the fridge if it's more than a couple of hours ahead of time.
Whip the remaining cream (300ml) and spoon onto the creamy pastry mix.
Bake until golden brown and bubbling at the edges – this will take approximately 15 minutes.
Scatter some chopped nuts over the top. I used almonds.
Allow to cool slightly before serving.
It is nice to have some additional cream to pour over – this is optional.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – A person familiar with the situation says the surgery on Robert Griffin III's knee revealed damage to the ACL.
The Washington Redskins quarterback had surgery Wednesday morning to repair a torn lateral collateral ligament in his right knee.
The procedure also examined Griffin's ACL, which he tore while playing for Baylor in 2009. Another torn ACL would complicate Griffin's chances of returning by the start of next season.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the Redskins had not made an announcement about the latest details surrounding the rookie quarterback's injury.
Griffin sprained the LCL last month and reinjured the knee in Sunday's playoff loss to the Seattle Seahawks.
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A great way to double your charitable donation for the troops
Last year, when I was casting about for a holiday season charity, a friend recommended the Semper Fi Fund, which helps out wounded service people and their families. I was planning on making a donation again this year, sometime around December something or other, but I'm not going to wait that long. I'm going to donate ASAP.
My reason? It turns out that Bob Parsons, GoDaddy's founder and Chairman, is a former Marine. To celebrate the Marine Corps 237th birthday, GoDaddy has made a $1,000,000 matching pledge for donations to the Semper Fi Fund. Go here to make a donation, and enjoy this video, which includes one of my favorite songs — Madison Rising's Star Spangled Banner.
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The Veterans Service Center for Employment will help all veterans, active duty members, and family members to find employment and education. We will help educate veterans and service members about the different GI bills and the Remission of Fees for Children of Disabled Veterans that Indiana offers. With the benefits that our veterans and service members earned we can help find the career positions that are needed and "place" into employment.
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The Baker University Center parking lot will convert to pay parking on Aug. 11.
Photographer: Gretchen Gregory
A solar powered pay station has been installed in the Baker University Center parking lot in preparation of the Aug. 11 switchover.
Photographer: Gretchen Gregory
Jul 31, 2014
By Gretchen Gregory
A recommendation by the Ohio University Visitor Parking Committee, which convened in fall 2013 to create meaningful changes to accommodate visitors, guests, and prospective students across campus, is being implemented with the conversion of the Baker University Center surface parking lot to pay parking.
The VPC, comprised of employees from various departments that are routinely involved in making arrangements for visitors, convened with the goal of transforming campus to help create additional accessibility.
One of the committee's recommendations included converting the surface parking area at Baker University Center to pay parking, and is currently underway. Several other additional VPC recommendations have been acted upon, including the impending opening of Bobcat Lane, changes in available permit types, and bringing meter payment options to campus, such as the recently implemented ParkMobile service.
Tentatively set for August 11, the Baker University Center surface parking area will become paid parking. Additional faculty and staff parking will be available at Lot 133, previously a commuter parking lot, between Walter Field House and Peden Stadium.
The change to Lot 133 creates 100 spaces for faculty and staff. Other parking lots in the area for faculty and staff include 200 spaces under the Convocation Center, as well as other dark green or purple parking lots.
"Once the VPC concluded with its recommendations, the OHIO Transportation and Parking Committee, comprised of faculty, staff and students, also reviewed and approved the recommendations," said OHIO Transportation and Parking Services Director Marty Paulins. "Finally the recommendations were vetted with the academic and administrative leadership before implementation began. With the additional visitor parking at Baker and the opening of Bobcat Lane, we have improved the accessibility to campus for our visitors."
The newly designated Baker Center parking area, once implemented, will be tied into ParkMobile and will utilize a solar powered pay station that accepts cash and credit cards.
For more information about the new ParkMobile parking meters, visit http://www.ohio.edu/compass/stories/13-14/6/parkmobile_parking_implemented_2014.cfm.


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The Pan-Am Jacket from Interweave Knits Winter 2011 is the newest Knitting Daily KAL! This sweater from Ashley Rao is knit in MountainTop Crestone.
If you're not familiar with the MountainTop Collection, do yourself a favor and pick up a skein. When we first released the original three yarns (Vista, Crestone and Vail), I once even heard a knitter exclaim about Vista that she "never want(ed) to knit with anything else again". I rejoiced because I love a natural yarn: untreated, undyed, sweet-smelling, and hard-wearing, these yarns are right up my alley.
Though the sweater calls for Crestone, one of the beauties of this yarn and Vista is that they're interchangeable. The only difference is the fiber content.
Crestone is 100% wool, Vista is 50/50 wool and superfine alpaca. Both are spun from undyed fibers, and knit up at 4¾ sts/inch on US 6-7, which is just about close to perfect. They have a limited palette because, well, when's the last time you saw a purple sheep?
If you want to participate, there's still time! Here's the Pan-Am Jacket Knit-Along schedule:
6/15–6/29: Download the Pan-Am Jacket pattern from the Knitting Daily Shop (or find it in Interweave Knits, Winter 2011), choose yarn, swatch.
6/30–8/25: Knit body.
8/26–9/23: Knit sleeves.
9/2–10-1: Finishing.
To buy either Crestone or Vista, click here to visit shop.classiceliteyarns.com, where your order will be dispatched to LYS's near you. They can ship it, or you can pick it up! You can also click the images below.
Let us know in the comments (or on our Facebook page or Twitter feed) if you're participating. Happy knitting!
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All too often when an up-and-coming rapper gets a certain amount of buzz, his momentum becomes a period instead of a comma. Their snowballing careers either melt in a sea of mixtapes without a proper release, or their output becomes a homogenized unthreatening let down where, in an effort to reach more fans, removes everything that made them great. With Queens-born Homeboy Sandman being one of the most unique voices in recent memory, the question of whether or not his eclectic electric eccentricities will continue on his new album The Good Sun is a valid one. Fortunately for us, Sandman is making music for an audience of one – himself, and we're all the lucky crowd who overhears it.
Homeboy Sandman's place in today's New York Hip-Hop scene is that of a meteor that studied the Earth for several rotations, gaining momentum before the moment of impact in early 2007, effectively rendering the stagnant boom-bap dinosaurs as fossils who would either have to evolve or face extinction. He's become such an accessible and beloved figure not because he's studied his favorite records, but because he loves them enough to leave them in the past. He isn't someone who has just heard a lot of rap music, he's someone who really listened. He understands what makes his favorite records great and why they're great, and then turns around to apply what he's learned to his own music. Following two hugely successful underground albums in Nourishment and Actual Factual Pterodactyl, Sandman became the face of a new generation, landing in The Source's Unsigned Hype and countless other magazines, blogs and media outlets. Instead of this success going to his head and altering his sound toward more commercial affairs, Sandman has instead faced something of an existential crisis and lucky for us he's put it all on record. I've always believed, especially in Hip-Hop, that a changing man is infinitely more interesting than a changed man, and The Good Sun is 50 minutes of socio-studio therapy tackling everything from the food he puts into his body to why people look at him funny. Imagine Resurrection-era Common Sense recording The Marshall Mathers LP and you have an idea of how engaging this record is.
As engaging as the "message" or "content" of The Good Sun is, what puts it over the top as one of the best albums of 2010 is Sandman's incredible performance. His manta for years has been "flow so dope, don't need lyrics with lyrics so dope, don't need flow" and he has both down to absolute perfection. Something of an East Coast one-man Freestyle Fellowship, Sandman is the type of listener who has become an absolute virtuoso of his craft who is still constantly challenging himself, always innovating and making himself better in the process. Sandman has described his writing style in the past as listening to a beat, hearing what Jazz melodies (which he grew up on) would sound best over them, constructing a flow of vocal inflections and then writing rhymes to best match that flow. He approaches every track with his ear first and lets his mouth follow. While he makes it a point to describe himself as "not pop," the melodies and hooks on The Good Sun are among the catchiest in modern rap music, underground or mainstream.
What's refreshing about The Good Sun is precisely that a rap album in 2010 can still be so artistically bold and groundbreaking without sacrificing being a pleasant, enjoyable listen. While his aforementioned previous efforts showed shades of this, they were often marred by an uneven sound quality and missteps caused from Sandman getting a little too outthere. On this record, however, Sandman has set some very specific boundaries for himself allowing his experimental energy to flourish within these conventions resulting in a much more cohesive listen. It's the moments he drifts from this formula that the record's few flaws surface. Songs like "The Essence" (produced by 2 Hungry Brothers) which has a tremendous beat and great verses is marred by a hook that is too busy for its own good. By that same token, the album opens with the two minute completely instrumental overture "Core Rhythm" (named after the track's producer) and while it sounds good out-of-context and would make for a nice intro for the album in a smaller dose, its length really bogs down repeat listens. But these missteps are few and far between as Sandman has made a tremendous effort in polishing and perfecting The Good Sun as not just a statement, but a manifesto.
The album closes with "Angels with Dirty Faces" (produced by Grind Time Beat-Battle champ J57 of the Brown Bag All Stars) a touching exploration of the plight of the homeless in modern society that pulls no punches ("Imagine you was dying, nobody helped you / if ain't nobody listen you might talk to yourself too / turning up you nose holding your nose going 'phew' / church, all in the front row, filling the whole pew") and stands a great example of the Homeboy Sandman aesthetic. While he raises a heavy hand at times, it's just to face palm the forgotten absurdities of the world around him. The Good Sun is the result of a genuine Hip-Hop fan understanding what makes a rap album great and then putting his own spin on it. With his great ear for production choosing further gems from the likes of Ski Beatz, Psycho Les and Ben Grymm, as well as making the best possible use of guest appearances from Fresh Daily, John Robinson and Daniel Joseph, it's the type of album that's the surprise gift rap fans didn't know they wanted. It's proof that Homeboy Sandman is The Good Sun that will not be eclipsed.
We give The Good Sun a Four Out of Five.
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Mining, Minerals & Metals: Extracting more from less
In a world of lower grades, skill gaps and excavation challenges – we can help you hit your target
Choosing the right partner has never been so important. The ability to do more with less is now the new benchmark in the Mining, Minerals & Metals sector. That's why at Endress+Hauser, we are bringing 60 years' experience in your industry to help you sharpen your competitive edge.
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Forgotten ruins 12: La Garriga, Barcelona, swimming pool
"Forgotten Ruins" shows a selection of unused, ignored, forgotten human spaces... which make us aware of the passage of time and the fragility of our existence. Manel Clemente's attraction to photograph the absence was reflected in "Ghost Towns", a documentary work started in 2011, about the consequences of the economic and housing crisis, also known as "housing bubble" that Spain suffered from late 2007.
"Forgotten Ruins", started in 2012, is the natural evolution of the "Ghost Towns" project. The author, who has managed to capture the magic of oblivion and neglect, decides to stop searching for the news and tries to discover anonymous spaces where time has stopped for years.The locations, most of them close to Barcelona area have been classified into three categories -workspaces, recreational spaces and housing- and are presented with a certain aseptic vocation. Depending on the photographed areas and their nature Manel Clemente's pictures subtly speak of the loss, the absence, the failure, ... Factories that have not survived the market's capricious twists, swimming pools and water parks forced to closing due to their lack of profitability, resorts and houses that have succumbed to unsuccessful estate transactions...
All of them unfortunate areas, which have had a past full of joy by work, fun and wellness and now are doomed to oblivion or visited by graffiti lovers, fans of parapsychology or some homeless that seek for refuge.
These photos were taken in May 2017.


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Kristen Stewart: Hurricane Sandy Fundraiser Attendee!
Kristen Stewart dons red heels while attending a screening of her new film On the Road held at Skywalker Ranch on Friday (December 7) in San Francisco, Calif.
The 22-year-old actress was joined by directors Walter Salles, Francis Ford Coppola, and co-star Garrett Hedlund
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Kristen Stewart.
The day before, Kristen and Garrett were all dressed up for a screening of the film in Los Angeles.
It was recently announced that Kristen will join Jessica Chastain to raise money for the upcoming 12-12-12 Sandy Fundraiser, which will help victims of the storm that affected the Northeast.
FYI: Kristen is wearing H&M leather pants, BCBG jacket, A.L.C. t-shirt, and Christian Louboutin heels.


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Even though by his own estimation he has very little prospect of winning the Republican nomination, Newt Gingrich is still likely costing the taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars a day with his Secret Service detail on the campaign trail.
Gingrich reportedly requested Secret Service protection in February and was granted a detail in early March. In April 2008, Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan told the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee that it was then costing the agency roughly $38,000 a day to service each candidate receiving protection, which was then just Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
A source with knowledge of the inner workings of the Gingrich campaign told The Daily Caller that Gingrich recently had three people on his personal security detail, though sometimes there are "many more."
"Others on the campaign told me that some of the Secret Service members were even saying it was a waste of time and that he shouldn't have it," the source told TheDC. "Staff members thought it was ridiculous too, and just another example of Newt's arrogance and self-importance."
In 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain didn't request Secret Service protection until late April — months after the point he was considered the presumptive GOP nominee.
The leader of a government waste watchdog group told TheDC that Gingrich should give up his protection because it amounts to a wasteful use of taxpayer money. (RELATED: Full coverage of the Gingrich campaign)
"As a former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich should understand better than most how important it is to spend taxpayer dollars wisely," said David Williams of the Taxpayer Protection Alliance. "Speaker Gingrich needs to give up his taxpayer-funded Secret Service protection to show people that he understands that every tax dollar saved is important."
Responding to the call from the government waste group to drop his Secret Service detail, Gingrich campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond told TheDC, "Last time I checked, tax experts are not safety experts. And safety experts are not tax experts."
"It's not a waste of money," Hammond protested. "Going out and protecting candidates and making sure they can pursue their candidacy in an election without harm — that's exactly what we want to go on in this country."
Hammond refused to comment on whether the protection is needed because Gingrich is receiving safety threats. "We don't comment on security stuff. We never have."
"We have no plans to change our relationship with the Secret Service. They are tremendously good at what they do. And we think that any candidate that qualifies for protection should have it."
Secret Service spokesman Max Milien declined to say how much it is costing taxpayers now to protect a candidate every day.
"We don't release any details on deliberations or assessments. But he meets the criteria for protection," he said.
But in his 2008 testimony, Sullivan estimated that the cost of providing a security detail to a candidate would rise about $44,000 a day.
On Wednesday, Milien told TheDC that the Secret Service doesn't make the decision on who gets protection and when it starts or ends.
"The secretary of Homeland Security, at the request of the campaign and in consultation with the congressional advisory committee, authorities us to provide protection," he said.
The Department of Homeland Security didn't immediately return a request for comment. Spokespeople for Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who are part of the congressional advisory committee that consults on candidate protection, told TheDC they don't comment on security issues. Representatives for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who are also on the advisory committee, did not return TheDC's request for comment on whether revoking Gingrich's security has been considered.
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When you're an artist, it helps to have a wealthy patron who recognizes and supports your talent. Michelangelo, for example, was just a lowly painter's apprentice when he was discovered by Lorenzo de Medici, the most powerful man in Florence, who gave him a place to live in his mansion and supported his early work. But artist and industrial designer Mario Armond Zamparelli had a benefactor who was even wealthier and surrounded by more intrigue: Howard Hughes.
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Gary Gale, geotechnologist and vicar of everyone's inner teenager, has created a map of Vaguely Rude Place Names Around the World. The map is a lot of fun if you're into crude sexual and toilet humor (who isn't?), and almost universally results in childlike snickering when confronted with the word 'poo'.
The best of the best:
1. Longdong Avenue, Shanghai, China
2. Shag Island, Indiana, USA
3. Fannys Cross, Devon, UK
4. Slut, Vasterbotten, Sweden
5. 5500 Middelfart, Denmark


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Middle East church leaders have tried to expose persecution of believers under Islam
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An influential Muslim adviser to the White House who has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood has succeeded in canceling a meeting between President Obama and the leader of the persecuted Maronite church in Lebanon, according to the Beirut news agency el Nashra
The Arabic-language report cited an unnamed U.S. source who said Dahlia Mogahed, "the highest adviser on Arab and Islamic Affairs in the State Department," sought to block a White House meeting with Patriarch Beshara Rahi, according to a translation by blogger El Cid at BigPeace.com.
The report said the move heeded a request by top leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt who want the U.S. to back the Islamist Sunni movement opposing Iranian Shiite influence in the region.
Maronites number about 1 million in Lebanon and more than 10 millions worldwide. About 1.5 million are in the U.S.
Along with her role on the White House Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Mogahed is a member of the advisory council of the Department of Homeland Security. She has testified before the Senate on engagement with the Muslim community. She is senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, where she led major surveys of Muslims worldwide that routinely concluded the vast majority of Muslims are moderate.
Mogahed was a leading voice in the Leadership Group on U.S.-Muslim Engagement that issued a 153-page advisory report calling for dialogue with Hamas and engagement with opposition parties in Egypt, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
The U.S. director of national intelligence, James Clapper, drew attention in February when he characterized the Muslim Brotherhood as "largely secular."
The Brotherhood, however, which was banned under Egypt's Mubarak regime, states in its charter that it is an "international Muslim Body, which seeks to establish Allah's law in the land by achieving the spiritual goals of Islam and the true religion." Furthermore, the prosecution of the Hamas-financing scheme in Texas two years ago presented evidence of the Brotherhood's aim to destroy Western civilization from within and establish an Islamic society under the rule of the Quran.
The terror-finance trial also presented evidence that the Muslim Brotherhood's lobbying in Washington is being carried out by front groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
CAIR and MPAC, the BigPeace.com blogger noted, are pushing to eliminate any intelligence analysis focused on jihadist violence, particularly against the Christian communities in the Middle East.
Coptic Solidarity International, which advocates for Coptic Christians in Egypt who have endured increased persecution from fundamentalist Muslims under the new regime, also have unsuccessfully tried to obtain meetings at the White House or with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Iraqi Christians have been ignored, as well, despite the many massacres against Assyrian Christians in the country over the past two years, according to BigPeace.com. Administration officials have declined invitations to speak at the annual Assyrian convention this year.
Defining Islam
In an interview with Islam Online in April 2009, Mogahed explained her role in the Obama administration is "to convey the facts about what Muslims think and feel."
"I see my role as offering the voices of the silenced majority of Muslims in America and around the world to the council so that our deliberations are informed by their ideas and wisdom," she said. "I believe that I was chosen because the administration cares about what Muslims think and wants to listen."
She once dismissed Osama bin Laden's connection to Islam, insisting he was not primarily motivated by religion but by "perceptions of imperialism and oppression and humiliation."
WND reported in April Mogahed was a partner in an Islamic project whose stated goal was to "define, interpret and implement the concept of the Islamic State in modern times."
The project was founded and directed by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the controversial Muslim leader behind the so-called Ground Zero in New York City. Mogahed and the Gallup survey provided key data for Rauf's "Shariah Index Project," which sought, according to its mission statement, to "define, interpret and implement the concept of the Islamic State in modern times."
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Mogahed in 2009 defended Islamic law on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist Muslim group, insisting the majority of women around the world associate Islam with "gender justice."
The group, Hizb ut Tahrir, has declared it wants to help foster the nonviolent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of a global Islamic state under Shariah.
Mogahed, appearing alongside Hizb ut Tahrir's national women's officer, Nazreen Nawaz, watched without objection as two members of the radical group made repeated attacks on secular "man-made law" and the West's "lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism."
As WND reported later that year, CAIR featured her as a headliner for its annual banquet. But on the eve of the event – after WND reported revelations about CAIR in the newly released WND Books' best-seller "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America" – a press release did not even mention her and she was quietly replaced by the Rev. Jesse Jackson.


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The White Sox still have A.J. Pierzynski around for 2012, but I expect the team to begin to phase him out over the next year. More and more, you'll be seeing Mr. [Tyler] Flowers crouching behind the plate, and more importantly, smacking bombs at the plate. After a rough 2010 caused many to sour on the former Braves farmhand, Flowers turned in a .261/.390/.500 line with Triple-A Charlotte this season, and he's been playing semi-frequently with Chicago for roughly a month now. It remains to be seen how the playing time will stack up in Chicago next season, but Flowers is worth keeping an eye on given how power/OBP potential.
Maybe the Sox will eat some money and trade A.J. because if A.J. is here I don't think he'll go along the "phase-out" plan.
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The annual McClure Mixer is coming up, and this year, the event celebrates the 50-year anniversary of the school.
The mixer is an adults-only fundraiser and auction that raises money to fund school programs throughout the year. It will take place at the Queen Anne Community Center (1901 First Ave. W.) on April 5, from 6 to 10 p.m.
The event will feature a speech from an alumnus who was an eighth-grader when the school opened in 1964. Organizers are also inviting other special guests like alumni and former staff and featuring retro images of "McClure through the years," said PTSA co-president and event chairperson Chris Karam.
The event will include food and drinks, music, games, socializing, a silent auction and a brief live auction. Current staff and a guest can attend for free, while all other guests will need to purchase tickets for $35 each.
There's also an option to sponsor the event for $200 per person. Karam said many businesses and families want to support the event but don't have items to donate, so they chose the higher ticket price as a way to give back. (Tickets are available in advance through Brown Paper Tickets; see link below.)
Shannon Conner feels "pretty fortunate" to spend her first year as principal at McClure during its 50th anniversary. McClure has been through many iterations, Conner said, and this anniversary is a way to celebrate the history, the education, the triumphs and the hiccups along the way.
This year, Conner had 50 more students than were predicted. She attributes the continued growth to the positive environment and culture.
"We have such an amazing, involved, positive, supportive community," she said. "[This] celebrates that and shows what a great school this has become."
That anniversary will be a focal point of the mixer. Organizers have even been in contact with the school's original principal. This year, they're also inviting Superintendent José Banda and Mayor Ed Murray.
There's no confirmation if they can come yet, Conner said, but they're trying to make this event more of a citywide draw. The usual event is just for the current families, with about 200 guests; Karam expects at least 300 people to attend this year.
Covering school expenses
During the live auction there is a funding-need focus, where the auctioneer will ask for donations. This year, the auction will focus on technology and the arts.
Conner hasn't heard of any of the teachers incorporating the anniversary into their classroom curriculum, but auction goers will have a chance to bid on experiences for the students. This could include field trips to a coffee shop or the movies or having a classroom pizza party.
There are also experiences offered for parents. One idea Conner has heard is a night for parents to play dodgeball in the school's gym.
Last year, the event raised $40,000, much more than the previous year's total of about $23,000. Karam attributes that increase to more families getting involved with McClure as it's a new neighborhood school. This year, Karam hopes to raise $60,000.
"The district is no longer funding a lot," Karam said. "Schools are forced to [have] fundraisers like these."
The money raised will fund basic things like library books and curriculum tools. It will also fund math and reading tutors, classroom technology and music programs. Conner and the PTSA's budget committee work together to divvy up the funds. Last year was the first year the mixer raised enough money to cover the school's expenses, Karam said.
It's important to raise this money and fund these programs because "education is No. 1, and we want to create an excellent middle school in our neighborhood," Karam said.
Last year, the funds covered two laptop carts for the classrooms, among other things. It also funded a school-wide anti-bullying campaign called "Owning Up."
Technology has been a big focus at McClure, Conner said, so the school uses the funds for professional development for teachers to make sure they're using the technology in a way that "truly enhances learning."
McClure has budget gaps that need to be filled to educate the students. The funding from the mixer provides resources and consistent support throughout the year for students at all different learning levels, Conner said.
"I feel very blessed," Conner said, "to be in a school where we have such a supportive community and PTSA that goes the extra mile to ensure we push extra resources so students [can succeed]."
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My review to AquaPark
Pretty good gameplay, the unlockable objects for your aquapark make you want to play it more. Nice levels, good colorful graphics, frusterating at times, but overall, I give it 4/5. I hope no one tries to act smart and insult my review in the comments, its my review, not yours.
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This past April, the Veterans Administration announced that it will, "use up to $4.4 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act program to repair and preserve historic monuments and memorials at VA-operated national cemeteries…" This is good news for our national cemeteries what about for everyone else? All too often, local cemeteries are forced to think more creatively in order to find sustainable sources of maintenance funds.
However, some of these ideas can be quite intriguing.
In 2009, Atlanta artist Cooper Sanchez held a one-day (or rather, one night) art show at the historic Oakland cemetery. This is just one of several lectures, shows, and walking tours frequently offered to help drum up community support. Not wanting to be left behind, Seattle's Evergreen Washelli accepted submissions this past spring for up to six solo art shows to be held in its Columbarium.
Some cemeteries simply combine volunteer green thumb talents with a love for local history. The next time you're in your local library, check out the Fall, 2009 issue of Country Gardens. On page 30, Cemetery Survivors details how Jane Baber White rejuvenated the 26-acre Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg, Virginia. Once a forgotten site filled with overgrown shrubs and weeds, the cemetery is now filled with an amazing variety of heritage roses (approximately 60 types) ranging from the old-fashioned, 19th century to the 1950s favorites.
Another popular way to raise both funds and community interest is with Living History performances. Last weekend at the Saar Pioneer Cemetery in Kent, Washington, the Book-It Theatre and Living Voices highlighted the lives of several fascinating pioneers buried there.
Of course, another option is to find grant funding. Seattle cemetery volunteers and historical societies are fortunate to have potential funding from organizations like Humanities Washington and 4Culture. Not located in Washington? No worries. Check out possible grants at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Sometimes, there really are piles of cold, hard cash lying around for someone to pick up. How about tapping into those unclaimed bank or trust accounts? We commented about this on our Facebook fan page a while back but it's worthwhile mentioning again. Seems like an Allentown, PA cemetery received almost $28,000 from old trust accounts. That's a tidy little sum. What kinds of old accounts is your state hanging onto?


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5 Alternative Ways To Install Ubuntu [Linux]
Oh, Ubuntu; you are my favorite Linux-based operating system.
I've written all about this amazing OS, discussing everything from how awesome Ubuntu 10.04 is Ubuntu 10.04 - An Extremely Simple Operating System [Linux] Read More to 7 things easier to do in Ubuntu than in Windows. 7 Things That Are Easier To Do In Ubuntu Than In Windows Read More
But perhaps the best part about Ubuntu, not to mention Linux in general, is how it can be installed on most any machine you run into. If you're looking to install Ubuntu under unusual circumstances you've found the right article: we're going to run through 5 weird and alternative Ubuntu installs.
If this isn't what you're looking for, keep reading anyway. What could it hurt?
Installing From USB
It's 2010; optical drives are all but dead. If you've got a computer without an optical drive, be it a netbook or simply a desktop with a broken drive, don't panic: you can install Ubuntu from your USB drive.
The best tool for the job, of course, is UNetBootin. This tool is capable of writing a wide variety of Linux Live CDs to your USB key or external hard drive. Boot from your USB key and you should be good to go, installing Ubuntu the same way you do from a computer.
Want to learn more about using UNetBootin? Check out Blake's article How To Install Linux With Ease with UNetBootin How To Install Linux With Ease Using UNetbootin We've already talked about Linux and why you should try it, but probably the hardest part of getting used to Linux is getting it in the first place. For Windows users, the simplest way is... Read More .
Trying to create a bootable disk from your Mac? UNetBootin won't work, but Jeffry's article How To Create A Portable Ubuntu Installation USB On The Mac How To Create A Portable Ubuntu Installation USB On The Mac Read More has you covered (but if you have access to a Windows or Linux computer that's the simplest way to go).
Installing From Within Windows
Many Ubuntu zealots will tell you that the ideal Ubuntu situation is quit Windows entirely, but that's not completely necessary: Windows and Ubuntu can co-exist quite peacefully.
In fact, if you want, you can install Ubuntu directly from inside Wubi. If you have an Ubuntu CD go ahead and insert it in Windows; you'll be asked if you want to install Ubuntu. This is possible because of a program called Wubi.
Don't have a Ubuntu CD? That's okay, you can download Wubi from the web. It will automatically download Ubuntu and install it for you. Best of all, if you decide you don't like Ubuntu you can remove it from within Windows the way you would any piece of Windows software.
Read all about the wonders of Wubi in Tim's article How to Set Up a Dual Boot Windows & Linux System with Wubi How to Set Up a Dual Boot Windows & Linux System with Wubi Read More .
On A Mac
Mac users are often hesitant about installing Ubuntu on their system. This is understandable; Mac's own Boot Camp software doesn't officially support Linux and many of the guides for doing so around the Internet are really complicated.
To a certain extent there's no getting around this: this is going to be complicated. Ubuntu's got an excellent set of documentation, however, which will give you an idea of what's involved. All methods described there are based on rEFit, an alternative boot loader for Macs that's far more Linux friendly than BootCamp. If you want an in-depth look at rEFit from us here at MakeUseOf be patient – I plan on writing it up just as soon as I get my hands on a Mac (though my Mac friends are quite careful to keep this from happening, so it may be a while"¦)
Install To USB Disk
Having your USB disk function as a LiveCD is cool, but if you want a portable version of Ubuntu that you can customize however you like and use on any computer don't worry: there are a variety of tools for the job. You could use Portable Linux for the job, or LiveUSBCreator.
Alternatively, you could just boot the Ubuntu installation CD and install to your thumb drive instead of to a regular drive. For more information check out this article over at wiki.ubuntu.com.
Install Using VMWare
As it turns out, you can make use of VMWare to install Ubuntu onto any drive. Here's how it works: create a new virtual machine, but instead of creating a virtual disk tell VMWare to write the operating system directly to a physical drive. This can be a secondary drive in your computer or a USB thumb drive, it doesn't matter; what does matter is the result. You'll have Ubuntu installed on the external drive of your choice.
This could be a solution if you need to install Ubuntu onto a computer with no optical drive and no working USB port, provided you have an extra computer. Simply remove the hard drive from that computer and connect it to another computer with a USB to IDE connector, or by opening your other computer and connecting it internally. Then fire up VMware and install Ubuntu to the drive with it.
Of course, your mileage may vary. Check out the write-up over at help.ubuntu.com for more information.
Upgrading From The Previous Version
If you're using Ubuntu 9.10 and want to switch to the sleek Ubuntu 10.04, don't worry: Ubuntu has you covered. Just fire up your update utility and you'll see the following:
Click this and your upgrade will start. Just know that you should probably back up your data before doing so. It's also worth noting that this process can take a long time – it involves downloading and installing about 700 MB worth of packages – so make sure you won't need your computer for at least a few hours beforehand.
Find more information about upgrading Ubuntu over at Ubuntu's website.
There you have it: a series of unique ways to install Ubuntu. I realize many of these methods could work with just about any version of Linux, so feel free to apply them as you see fit.
There are more methods out there, that's for sure. If none of these fits your unusual situation I highly recommend you check out the many scenarios laid out and see what you can find.
Have any other alternative Ubuntu install methods you particularly like? Let me know about them in the comments below, and link to documentation if you want. Also feel free to point out any details I may have missed in describing these methods.
Finally, because I know at least one of you will, feel free to tell me that Linux Mint is superior to Ubuntu despite the fact that Mint is mostly just Ubuntu with a few cool tweaks (but know that I will ignore you).
Related topics: Dual Boot, Ubuntu.
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Legend of a Suicide is a collection of a novella and four short stories... but I wish someone had told me that before I started. I read it as a single long novel, and the fact that the characters are the same in all the stories didn't help with the confusion.
The book is semi-autobiographical, as it's about a boy named Roy and his suicidal divorcee father Jim who's a retired dentist who fails at fishing and eventually buys a house in the middle of nowhere, Alaska, and asks his son to stay with him for a year and then commits suicide. In real life, David Vann had a ex-dentist suicidal divorcee father who failed at fishing, bought a house in the middle of nowhere, Alaska, asked David to stay with him, and then committed suicide shortly thereafter.
The short stories are lovely to read in themselves - beautifully written, poetic in their descriptions and Vann manages to capture the many micro-subtleties of human emotion - but it's the novella that's a breathtaker. The novella is the part that describes Roy and his father's adventure in remote Alaska, doing the Bear Grylls survival-thing: hunting, fishing and building things. In the book, Roy accompanies his father in a desperate attempt to keep him alive, as he's sure that left to his own devices, his father will commit suicide. In real life, David turned down his father's offer of going to Alaska with him, and soon after, his father committed suicide. The novella is like a kind of emotional and/or spiritual purging for Vann, imagining what might have happened had his decision been different.
The raw emotions and truly pathetic weakness of Roy's father is simply infuriating. He sobs himself to sleep every night (with his 13 year old son sleeping in the same room), makes emotional confessions to a boy not old enough to process them, attempts to kill himself by stepping over a ledge in the middle of nowhere (how on earth did he expect his son to survive if he'd died?) and tries to emotionally blackmail his second wife into taking him back by saying he'll shoot himself through the head right there on the phone with her if he doesn't. All this leads to tragic and shocking consequences that you simply don't expect, a sudden twist from the author that simultaneously brings (one imagines) release and revenge at the same time.
Legend of a Suicide is a truly intriguing read that continued to haunt me for a few days after.


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Two-Thirds of Hong Kong Breadwinners Lack Savings
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With its gleaming shopping malls and omnipresent luxury brands, Hong Kong is an easy place to turn spendthrift.
And if a survey last month of 1,000 Hong Kong residents is any indicator, it's a hard place to hold onto cash. Fully two-thirds of primary income earners reported having less than a month's income saved in the bank.
Those numbers come as a surprise, given that Hong Kong is "quite a wealthy zone," says Peter Barrett, global managing director of lifestyle protection for insurance company Genworth, which commissioned the survey. They're also alarming, he says. "If they suffer a fall in income, for example a job loss, there'll be a [financial] gap," says Mr. Barrett.
The survey, carried out by research company TNS, also found that among the primary income earners without a month's income saved, 62% use credit cards—and of those, nearly a quarter don't pay off the balance every month.
While Hong Kong's household savings rate as a percentage of gross domestic product can't quite match mainland China's 50%, it remains a relatively high 27%. (The U.S. rate, by contrast, is 13%.) That figure, though, could be skewed by the outsized savings of city's class of the very wealthy, says Betty Ng of Fidelity Worldwide Investment. Hong Kong's wealth gap has been stretching ever wider for years, and currently outstrips those of cities from Singapore to New York, and even that of mainland China as a whole.
In addition to the growth of the wealth gap, the number of people living in working poor households has also been on the rise, and recently reached record levels, Oxfam reported last week. Fully one in six people in Hong Kong live below the poverty line.
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"If you don't have very liquid assets," says Ms. Ng, "that's quite a bit of risk. That's why a lot of people ended up declaring bankruptcy when the property market plunged before." People are typically advised to keep a cash cushion of between three to six months of monthly income, she says.
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Allow me to share a little about myself before we get started, if you dont mind. If you do mind, please skip ahead to the next paragraph. First things first, I am not a hunter or an outdoorsman. Not in the least. But thats not to say that I am unfamiliar with the culture.
I grew up in Po-Dung Western Wisconsin where half of my high school class would take a week off of school in November, excused by the teachers no less, to go hunting. Fun fact, I actually took a week off of school my senior year to go hunting as well, and by going hunting I, of course, mean stay home and play games while sleeping in until 10am. My dad is a big hunting guy who enjoys telling me of his latest exploits and the new areas hes found. Every year at Thanksgiving my cousin and uncle would share with the family stories of the buck or doe they tagged that morning. All this to say, while I may not be a hunter myself, I am more than familiar with the hunting culture. Yes, I even know the lyrics to Da Turdy Point Buck. With that out of the way, on to the review!
Cabelas North American Adventures is the latest in the series of Cabela games released by Activision. You may be asking yourself who is buying these games. Particularly, who is buying these games each year? That is a fair question. Something to which I know the answer and will provide once I can find the most diplomatic way to say it. Regardless, there is enough of a market apparently for this to be a regular release. Instead of building up the anticipation Ill let the cat out of the bag early: this game is pretty terrible. But Im not telling you anything you didnt already know.
The premise of North American Adventures places you in the midst of a hunting show on The Hunting Channel. You are tasked with goals to complete as you strive to give viewers what they want: bloody kills! (Just kidding sort of.) You maneuver around the map, whether the setting is Pennsylvania or Alaska, to accomplish your mission as directed by the network. For example, the first outing has you hop in a deer stand to take aim at a buck before moving to a blind to shoot some ducks. Note: It would me more fun if Nintendos Duck Hunting dog were there to laugh at you when you missed. After shotgunning some birds, you are sent to trek into the woods to get a 9-point buck, either by rifle or by bow, and capture it on camera. Should you manage to take down your prey, you are then switched to the role of the camera man and tasked with capturing the kill for the viewers. You earn points throughout the entire process; points for making a clean kill, for successfully calling the animal youre hunting, and for capturing it all on film. Doing well will unlock new parts for your customizable guns. Unfortunately, the customization didnt seem to have any in-game effects. Maybe youre mileage will vary. I wouldnt doubt it, actually.
So with that as our premise, its time to dive into the games play and presentation. The controls are fairly intuitive because theyve kept the standard first-person shooter layout to the controller. That said the sensitivity for aiming is wonky and seems to jump around the screen. I understand incorporating the human factor and nerves as well as the swaying scope, but this is too herky-jerky for my taste.


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New app helps fight parking tickets(CNN) -- Few things enrage normally calm people like finding a parking ticket tucked under the windshield wiper of their car.
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(CNN) -- Few things enrage normally calm people like finding a parking ticket tucked under the windshield wiper of their car.
Parking tickets can be infuriating, especially when they seem undeserved. (Officer, there's no sign saying I can't park here!). But most people don't want to invest the time and energy to would take to dispute them.
Now there's a new iPhone app, Fixed, that will fight parking tickets for you. The app, expected to launch next week, will do the heavy lifting of contesting a ticket: suggesting reasons it might be invalid, gathering supporting evidence and submitting the proper appeals paperwork.
If the driver beats the ticket, they pay Fixed 25% of what the citation would have cost. If they can't get out of the ticket, Fixed doesn't charge them anything.
In this way, Fixed hopes to add navigating bureaucracy to the list of urban tasks and nuisances -- catching a cab, ordering food, finding a place to crash -- made easier by popular tech startups.
"When you mention parking tickets to people it engenders such an emotional reaction ... because so many people think they've received an unfair parking ticket," said Fixed co-founder David Hegarty, who came up with the idea after getting six parking tickets in one day. Much of this anger is directed at local governments, which many people see as using parking tickets to fill budget gaps.
That emotional response, as well as a desire to not shell out $100 for blocking a couple inches of someone's driveway, could make Fixed a hit. But its success will depend on how good the service is at navigating parking laws, which are often a confusing hodgepodge of local and state ordinances.
Here's how Fixed works: When someone gets a ticket, they snap a photo of it on their iPhone and enter the violation code. The Fixed app will tell them what percentage of those types of tickets are usually overturned and then show a list of possible reasons it could be found invalid. For example, a street cleaning sign might be obscured by a leafy tree, or a parking meter could be broken.
If the motorist thinks they have a case, the app will prompt them to capture any additional photographic evidence with their phone and then digitally sign a letter.
Fixed has contracted with a team of legal researchers fluent in local traffic laws who will review each case before printing out the letter and submitting it via snail mail to the city. Over time, Fixed hopes to learn more about what methods and which errors have the highest success rates when contesting tickets. That information will be used to make the system more automated.
"It will always be reviewed by human eyes before it's sent, but I'm pretty confident that we can get to the point where 80% of tickets are 95% automated," said Hegarty.
Fixed is expected to launch in the Apple App store next week, although its service will only be available in San Francisco at first. The startup has been testing its service with a small group of 1,000 people, mostly friends and friends of friends, and there's already a waiting list of 25,000 people wanting to sign up.
Hegarty and with Fixed's other two co-founders, David Sanghera and DJ Burdick, hope to expand into the top 100 U.S. cities over the next 18 months.
San Francisco is fertile ground for motorists who can effortlessly rack up hundreds of dollars in parking tickets. As in many cities, parking in San Francisco is an exercise in frustration, with a limited number of spaces on the street and parking garages charging top dollar.
The company hasn't had any official talks with the city. But Hegarty hopes his service is not seen as adversarial. Rather, he thinks Fixed could help people pay their legitimate parking tickets in a more timely manner.
"We do not have concerns if people want to use a third-party service, but there is no secret to overturning a citation if it has been issued erroneously. If someone feels that their citation was written in error, they might want to consider protesting themselves, for free," said Paul Rose, a spokesperson for San Francisco's transportation agency.
San Francisco issues about 1.5 million parking tickets every year, typically for $45 to $115 each (there are also some significantly pricier violations, such as having an expired plate or abandoning a car on a highway). The fines add up to about $95 million a year, according to Hegarty.
Of those 1.5 million citations, only five percent are actually contested. And of that small amount, only 30% are actually overturned, according to Rose. There are three rounds of appeals -- two by mail and a court hearing.
Fixed will only handle the first two appeals for the time being.
The number of overall citations in San Francisco has fallen in recent years as the city has rolled out its own technological tools, such as pay-by-phone and meters that take credit cards, in an effort to make payment easier.
"We'd much rather have people pay the meter than pay a fine," said Rose.
Fixed's business model isn't completely new. There are companies that handle driving and parking violations for large corporations such as FedEx and UPS. In New York City, commercial delivery companies account for 20% to 30% of the city's 10 million parking tickets every year, according to Crain's New York Business.
The difference is that Fixed is making this service available to individuals. Hegarty can see eventually expanding into speeding tickets and other small financial annoyances, such as cable company fees. He thinks Fixed could help in any area where the fee amount is small enough not to protest in person, but still big enough to make someone angry.
"That's our sweet spot," he said.
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ATF domestic sting operations eclipse Operation Fast and Furious.
June 30, 2013
In sting operations similar to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing which left six dead, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms are pressuring and arming people to rob fictitious drug "stash houses" and the busts have left at least seven people dead, according to USA Today.
In these ATF sting operations, an informant recruits a targeted individual for an undercover ATF agent who pretends to be a disgruntled drug cartel courier.
Either the informant or the ATF agent suggests the possibility of robbing a stash house containing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine.
The ATF agent explains that he needs a robbery crew to help him overtake armed guards in the house and steal the cocaine. Once the crew meets to prepare for the armed robbery, federal authorities bust them.
Several of the busts have lead to the deaths of suspects who shot at or tried to run down agents in an attempt to flee.
Informants are paid by the ATF to pressure people to join the fake robberies. Individuals may be targeted simply because the informants know them through work or a personal connection, just like a raffle ticket sale.
In preparation for the fake stash house raids, ATF agents are outfitting robbery crews, supplying vehicles and firearms to would-be robbers who only own bus tokens and pellet guns.
No doubt the ATF is taking notes from the FBI, who provided a wannabe terrorist with dummy explosives loaded in a van personally chauffeured by an FBI agent to the intended blast site.
"The ATF has a standard playbook for such operations," said Judge William J. Bauer in a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals opinion.
"The facts between cases are frequently nearly identical."
In United States v. Mayfield, an ATF informant knew that his co-worker, 41-year-old Leslie Mayfield, had a criminal past, although fairly distant.
Mayfield complained about his low wage; his criminal history presumably prevented him from higher-paying jobs.
After Mayfield crashed his car and couldn't afford repairs, the informant lent him money while suggesting he help him rob a stash house.
Mayfield refused for several weeks, more than likely because he didn't want to restart his long lost criminal career.
But the informant continued to pressure Mayfield into committing the crime, pointing to his gang tattoos, presumably to threaten Mayfield into paying back the debt.
Mayfield finally acquiesced out of fear for his life and to the allure of over $100,000 in only a few hours of work. But the money did not exist and a court sentenced Mayfield to 27 years in prison.
The judge barred Mayfield from an entrapment defense.
In his opinion on the case, Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed with both the sentence given to Mayfield and the ATF sting operations as a whole.
"Before succumbing to the blandishments of the informant, Mayfield was working at an honest job," said Posner.
"Now, as a result of the sting, we the taxpayers will be supporting him at considerable expense for the next quarter century. Does that make any sense?"
According to Posner, fictitious stash house stings help real stash houses at the expense of the taxpayers.
The ATF stings eliminate potential stash house robbers and deters others from stash house robberies because they might turn out to be stings.
"The greater security that fictitious stash house stings confer on real stash houses, security obtained at no cost to the operators of stash houses, reduces their cost of self-protection," said Posner. "Which is a principal cost of the illegal-drug business."
"The operators of stash houses would pay lay enforcement to sting potential stash house robbers."
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Reviewed by Marian Baay
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That one word describes the whole book: AWESOME!
Phew, what a great read! What an action, suspense, adrenaline filled read!
Everytime I read a new book by Ronie Kendig I'm convinced it was her best yet.
Canyon Metcalfe is a guy I could easily love. Maybe because he's a bit like my husband. :) None of his problems are related to my husband, but the way he handles things is alike, so that says a lot about Ronie's excellent imagination!
Danielle Roark was captured, tortured and raped in Venezuela. She escaped with shocking proof that the cruel general that kept her for six months has secret weapons, but at home the American government doesn't believe her. She has to go back to that awful place to come up with more proof.
Canyon's brother rescued Danielle out of the ocean when she escaped Venezuela. He falls in love with Dani, but she's not interested in men—until she meets Canyon. Canyon likes her too, but because of a promise he made to his brother he can't pursue her. Things get complicated when Nightshade must escort Danielle back to Venezuela. Can Canyon live up to that promise?
Is Nightshade capable to find the proof and keep Danielle safe?
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Arron Afflalo scored 30 points, Glen Davis added 23 points and 12 rebounds, and the Orlando Magic beat Dwight Howard in their first game against their longtime center, stunning the Los Angeles Lakers 113-103 on Sunday night.
Howard had 21 points and 15 rebounds against his former team, but the rebuilding Magic rallied impressively for a 40-point fourth quarter for just their fourth win in 14 games, snapping a three-game skid.
Orlando did it partly by intentionally fouling Howard, who went 9 for 21 at the line - including 7 for 14 in the fourth quarter.
Kobe Bryant scored 34 points for the Lakers, who dropped to 3-4 under new coach Mike D'Antoni with another inconsistent performance with deficient defense. Metta World Peace scored 15 points, and Pau Gasol added 11.
Jameer Nelson had 19 points and 13 assists after nearly sitting out with tendinitis during the Magic's most impressive win under new coach Jacque Vaughn. Orlando also started a stretch of five road games in eight days with just its second road win all season.
NEW YORK (AP) - Carmelo Anthony scored 34 points, helping Knicks earn their third consecutive win and remain unbeaten at home.
Raymond Felton had 23 points, seven assists and no turnovers for the Knicks, who are 7-0 at Madison Square Garden and 12-4 overall, a half-game behind Miami for the best record in the Eastern Conference. The point guard was hurting after the game. He went for an MRI exam that revealed a bone bruise in his swollen left hand.
Tyson Chandler finished with 15 points and 13 rebounds. The Knick also shook off the first ejection of Rasheed Wallace's comeback - after a mere 1:25 of playing time - that left them short-handed. Jason Kidd missed a fourth straight game with lower back spasms.
Marcin Gortat had 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Suns, who dropped their third straight and fell to 1-4 on their season-high, six-game road trip that ends Tuesday in Memphis. Shannon Brown scored 17 points.