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It looks like the old server that was hosting the ancient forum and the costume site is in its death throes. I hope to have put it out of its misery in the next week or so. I know we've given so many warnings about the old forum that I'm not worried about that, but the costume site will be going away as well. If you think there are any mods that might want to salvage anything from that site, this would be the time to do it.
If anybody is interested in helping to build a new Costume site, we certainly wouldn't say no. Especially with The Silver Chair starting up.


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I admit I have serious rage issues. You guys have seen a couple photos of me...I'm a big guy. I was always fat and going to a catholic elementary school was kinda like running a gauntlet of insults and ridicule...and later years physical abuse. I think I mentioned it here once but in fifth grade, my entire class took turns pounding on me while I was on the floor from some asshole pushing me from behind. After this, I lost my ability to control serious anger because I always fell back to that moment where literally I was helpless. Nowadays, I sort of got the hulk logic for anger control...I'm always kind of angry. I try to maintain a pleasant demeanor when talking to people or doing things I enjoy, but it really takes nothing to turn my mood foul. Stuff like weight lifting have really helped this year as when I get angry, I just put it all into my exercise and either pull something or go home tight from lifting that I forget why I was annoyed. But as you can see from posts where something like what happens to Jotacon occur and I respond with aggresive replies and violent logic....I won't lie I get pissed reading them. Shit like what happened to me as a kid....I get pissed seeing it and other types of bullying happen. Long story short...I have issues.
I am thinking about starting a kickstarter to try and get money. The item I will be developing is a sticker. Just that. A sticker. IN reality I will be just trying to get money for myself. My pledge gifts will be $5 you get a sticker, $25 you get 3 Stickers and a signed sticker, and 1000000 I fly to where you are and personally deliver a full sheet of 20 stickers.
http://pastebin.com/dGqEEnQfTook a census of my PSX collection.Welp.
You're also missing Suikoden II as far as classics go.

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Once again we return to the classic Moronstudios field of battle, Brikinvillewhere almost all of the townspeople is hobos.
In this game the hobos would wonder around and sometimes interact with the nearest object (opening a crate, shoving someone). If they saw violence they would go into a fenzy themselves.
Shopkeepers would only go violent if someone touches their stuff (hobos have no money, armies never pay).
My army was a mining squad, sent to search the caves dug up near the weapon shop. My hero was the guy in blue, My specialist was the guy in red with a d12 skill was my specialist.
My brother took the inexperienced adventurers, who had set camp on the other side of Brikinville. Their hero was the PC, who is dueling the dwarf in this picture. His specialist was the CC weapons master wearing the jackel helmet.
My brother got the first turn and used it to expand.
A strong shot from his long ranged guy set the weapon shop on fire.
My guys advanced across the bridge.
In response the hobo picked up the sheep.
The other hobos stumbled around town.
One ended up rambling to the weapon shop owner
The barbarian adventurer charged a rock, no effect.
Two other adventurers enter the magic shop.
The PC tried to bull rush a sitting hobo, ended up throwing his sword into a window.
Two of the ranged units go around the back.
I took care of hobo threat using a rifle, sending the sheep hobo into a rage.
The miners advance into town.
And secure the bridge
My hero advances to the mines.
I shove back the sheep hobo as he attacks.
Some hobo finds apples in a chest.
Others stumble around town.
The hobo in the shop walks up to a wall.
The magic shop owner is killed, he throws his wand in an attempt to parry.
The PC attemped to jump through the window, and knocked himslf out for a turn. The dwarf kills the hobo.
My brother was not going to let the wand go to waste.
The barbarian starts to grind down the rock.
The fire spreads on the weapon shop. The most amazing thing about it was that the fire will all go from fire size 3" to no fire in one turn after 6 points of fire grinding.
A couple of helpers join my hero.
My guys continue around town even if one does get pushed down by a hobo.
I easily kill the hobo that attacked me.
A hobo decide to steal from the weapon shop and grabs the shotgun.
However, inertia is a cruel bitch.
A dwarf heads near the Mc Stankys
The specialist and dwarf exit the magic shop with stolen goods.
Grinding of the rock continues.
The ranged adventurers continue on.
The miners continue up the hill
and into the town.
I barge into the empty weapon shop.
Hobos go about thier stuff.
The barbarian climbs up the rock to confront the miners. a good shot from the mage kills my long ranged guy.
A shoot out begins.
The miner hero tried to knock the barbarian down the hill, but stumbled through the table of cannon ammo.
My specialist (who i will be calling Protoman), climbed up the steps as the close combat help charged the crossbower
I kill a dwarf, sending the hobo in black into a blood frenzy.
Raiding the weapon shop.
Finishing his call the hobo hangs up the phone.
His backup arives on the field. The black knight had heroic stats (without the feats) and a magic sword that would do 1" of knockback for every guy killed with it.
The PC gets revenge on hills fallen ally.
A What I Say Goes roll was used to decide whether or not a CC weapons master could use missiles. I argued that missiles are launched, so not. My brother said that you throw them, so he could. The dice spoke in his favour.
The scroll was a skelleton summing scroll. The dwarf failed to use it correctly and summon the hostile skeletons around himself.
Combat continues between the hero and the barbarian.
Protomen headshots the mage while the miner swordsman is killed.
My hero backs from combat and shoots the barbarian.
A continued raid of the weapon shop.
A hobo attacks the PC, who decideds not to parry because it is only a hobo.
The error of his ways shows as the hobo slices his neck with exploding dice.
The hobo is given CC weapon master because of this amazing feat (killing a hero with a d4 skill dice)
In a dieing heroic feat the PC kills one of the skeletons.
This fails to save the dwarf.
The black knight walks forward.
A working heroic feat sends the barbarian down the cliff as my hero throws a pickaxe at him.
Protomen takes out the guy with the crossbow.
After being pushed into the random item shop by hobodwarf the miner kills the store owner and shoves the hobo when attacked.
My attempts to kill the CC hobo are useless.
The apple hobo gets the attention of the sheep.
The CC hobo kills my guy with the shotgun.
The black knight is a pushover and the skeletons kill him with ease (my brother points out that he was most likely an undead nerd).
Taking his stuff the skeletons go and kill the CC hobo, spawning a new skeleton.
I throw some oil on the ground near the skeletons
The barbarian shoves the hobo into the wall and takes the phone as I shoot a shotgun blast at them, to no effect.
I use the cannon and its limited arc of fire to set fire to the oil and kill the skeletons.
Things are not looking good for my shotgun guy.
The barbarian goes weapon shopping.
After killing the clothing shop owner the CC weapons master starts to open the safe.
The miner climbs onto the weapon shop and tries to break into the window, breaking his pick.
Another miner is killed.
The hobo, having 96% luck, found a magic sword that would give one extra attack per turn for every person killed by it.
(this turned out to be overpowered, any suggestions for what the power should be?)
The apple hobo gains the farmer heroic cliche
The dwarfhobo crafts a flamethrower durring a fey mood and goes searching for fuel.
Having 100% luck the dwarf finds there is plenty of fuel in the can.
The farmer looses his apples if a failed feat. Sword hobo kills a sheep.
Barbarian collects a shield.
The CC master jumps through the window in his new armour.
A well placed cannon shot starts a grease fire.
The flamethrower proves ineffective.
The sword of attacks claims another victim.
The last of the adventurers gather as the last of the miners gather.
The CC master is killed with ease.
The farmer charges the dwarf.
The farmer them charges my hero as Protoman kills the sword hobo. the farmer is killed with the sword of attacks.
"Sir, I think we should lock this weapon away as it is far too..."
"What are?" *Bang*
The last survivor walks awayu with spoils of war.
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QUESTION OF THE WEEK- What do you think of Dave Leitao's departure?
David Toscano: "It's kind of sad, but maybe it'll give the team a chance to do a little better."
Ken Thompson: "Sometimes it's good to let things fail so that they can be re-worked and replaced with things that do work. The economy comes to mind."
Lisa Richey: "I haven't paid attention since the little red-headed guy. I liked him. But after that, I graduated; and I have no idea who the new guy is."


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Under great time pressure, newly enrolled students of the EIT Digital Master School in the Netherlands have to come up with an entrepreneurial business case based on a technology that startups or partners of EIT Digital present. The international students only have one week. And only one team can win in this Dutch Winter School of the EIT Digital Master School.
The Winter School takes place from Monday February 6 to Friday February 10 and is meant for students of the EIT Digital Master School at the Dutch partner universities.
In the Winter School more than 50 international students will be coached by the business coaches and lecturers Akos Wetters and Peter Langela. Also the students will profit from different lectures about innovation and entrepreneurship to inspire and educate students for their challenging business case.
Business Case
For the business case, the various student teams will work on real case scenario's from Dutch EIT Digital's partners and startups. They first have to form project teams. An extra exciting component is that students all have different backgrounds in education, nationality and culture. So they have to find very quickly what the common grounds and the mutual goals are to win this business case challenge as one team of equals. On Friday February 10, they will have to pitch their business case to a professional jury. Only one team can win.
Learning Goals
The students learn a lot in this week about innovation and entrepreneurship. They learn how to form teams, how to overcome differences, how to brainstorm about solutions, how to make a business case and how to pitch. This is according to Patrick Hartigan, "a first step in helping technical oriented students to become Europe's digital innovators and entrepreneurs of the future".
EIT Digital Master School
In the Winter School students of the EIT Digital Master School will be fully submerged into all aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship. The EIT Digital Master School is open for all European students who meet the demanding selection criteria. If selected for one of the eight programmes of the Master School, students study at two different technical top universities in Europe and receive upon completion two master school degrees plus a certificate of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Dutch universities who are partner of EIT Digital are the Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University of Technology and the University of Twente.
For the international students of the University of Delft and Eindhoven the Winter School is mandatory and upon successful completion they can gain a credit. Students in the EIT Digital Master Programme at the University of Twente have an alternative way of earning this credit for this Innovation and Entrepreneurship component of the EIT Digital Master School.


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Edinburgh based blogger, Juliet Wilson is a writer, conservation volunteer and adult education tutor (teaching creative writing and leading birdwatching walks) . Her first poetry chapbook Bougainvillea Dancing raised money for charities working in Malawi. Her second chapbook Unthinkable Skies was published in 2010 by Calder Wood Press. A selection of the poems from Unthinkable Skies is also available as a CD with musical accompaniment from Edinburgh musical project Belvedere Mountain Express. She is currently working on her first novel.
Juliet has read her poetry and short stories at various venues, most recently at Foakies at the Royal Oak, Edinburgh; Story Shop at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and Havers and Blethers at Captain's Bar, during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Juliet has had several haiku, longer poems and short stories published online (see the links on the Publications page on this blog) and in UK and USA journals.
Juliet is available for readings and as a workshop tutor (on topics including nature studies, creative writing and social media).
Juliet can be contacted at: juliet.m.wilsonATgmailDOTcom.


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"If you haven't got the slightest idea as to who Olivia Palermo may be, this means that, alas, you were not born with the Internet (therefore you are not so young anymore), you don't visit street life websites on a daily basis and don't even know that last October she launched the portal dedicated to her super personalized idea of style.
She doesn't pontificate, but, being the "it girl" she is, she knows that flipping through information as a true insider and entertaining a dialogue with the blogosphere is the winning card nowadays: young girls like to be reflected in their fashion gurus and, if the latter end up becoming business women, it is, paraphrasing a famous phrase, the sign of the times, beautiful!
The Palermo phenomenon originated in 2006, when she was paparazzied by the omnipresent Patrick McMullan at a charity event in New York. She is fresh, delightful, chic, and also has a good pedigree (her father works in real estate, her mother is an interior designer, she did an internship at Vogue when she was younger), she lives between Connecticut and the Big Apple and went to the best schools without ever gaining her degree; in short, she is perfect to enter the throng of socialites."
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Cook the Book: Jícama-Avocado Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette
"I decided to forgo the Corn Nuts since I've never been able to shake the Heathers reference."
I do not eat enough jicama. I never buy it, and honestly, never even think about it until that first bite—and I realize it's pretty much crunchy vegetable perfection.
It was only while thumbing through the pages of The Gloriously Gluten-Free Cookbook by Vanessa Maltin that I realized how jicama-deficient my salads have been.
This Jícama-Avocado Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette brings together creamy avocado, sweet corn, and crunchy jicama to make an absolutely addictive salad. Even though I prepared it on a relatively chilly night, the combination of flavors were pure summer. The citrus vinaigrette mixes lemon, lime, and orange juices with Dijon mustard for a dressing that's tangy but mild enough to let the more subtle flavors of the rest of the salad components shine through.
I decided to forgo the Corn Nuts since I've never been able to shake the Heathers reference—the connotations aren't that appetizing. And really, the salad had enough delicious crunch of its own.
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- For the citrus vinaigrette:
- 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- Salt
- For the jicama salad:
- 2 cups peeled and diced jícama
- 1/2 cup diced red onion
- 1/2 cup fresh white corn kernels, blanched in simmering water for a minute and cooled
- Grated zest of 1/2 lemon
- 2 ripe avocados, peeled, halved, and pitted
- 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives, for garnish
- 1/4 cup corn nuts, crushed to a powder, for garnish
- Sprigs of fresh cilantro, for garnish
- Sea salt
In a small bowl, mix together the juices and mustard. While briskly whisking, slowly add the canola oil until a homogeneous mixture is achieved. Add salt to taste.
In a separate bowl, mix together the jícama, onions, corn, and lemon zest. Add the citrus vinaigrette and toss to coat.
Place the avocado halves, cut side down, on a cutting board. Cut lengthwise into 1/8-inch thick slices, making sure to keep the original shape of the avocado as you cut. Press down and away lightly on the cut avocado to fan the slices out like a hand of cards. Do the same with the remaining avocado halves. (To prevent the fruit from browning while you work, place a small piece of plastic wrap directly on the surface of the avocado.)
Place a large spoonful of the jícama salad in the center of a plate. Being careful not to disrupt the shape of your beautifully cut avocado, place one fanned half on top of the jícama salad.
Drizzle a bit of olive oil over the avocado and sprinkle the chives and corn nuts on top. Drizzle a bit of the citrus vinaigrette around the plate and garnish with the cilantro. Sprinkle some sea salt over the entire plate and serve.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retailers' controversial choice to kick off the U.S. holiday shopping season early, on Thanksgiving, may not pay off as much as they had hoped.
Eager to entice cautious consumers, especially with six fewer shopping days this year than in 2012, many retailers launched sales on Thursday's U.S. holiday, traditionally a day for family, friends and football games. Even Macy's Inc's flagship store in New York City opened then for the first time in its 155-year history, at 8 p.m.
Some U.S. shoppers played along, hitting the Internet and stores on Thanksgiving. But by late Friday morning, foot traffic looked a lot more like on a regular Saturday than the typical Black Friday frenzy that kicks off the holiday season.
"It's a lot less than I thought," said Alison Goodwin, from Horsham, Pennsylvania, who ventured to an area mall on Friday seeking gifts and maybe something for herself.
"It's like any weekend in December," Goodwin said.
While mall traffic appeared slower than last year, overall Black Friday online sales as of noon EST were up more than 7 percent from a year ago, according to IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark. That came on top of the 19.7 percent increase on Thanksgiving Day, the firm said.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc U.S. Chief Executive Bill Simon said Thanksgiving visits to stores of the largest U.S. retailer surpassed last year's 22 million mark, and a swarm of online shoppers temporarily crashed its online site.
David Berman, founder of Durban Capital, a New York hedge fund that specializes in retail and consumer stocks, said U.S. shopping habits have permanently shifted with the exponential rise in online shopping, thanks largely to smart devices, notably Apple Inc's top-selling iPad.
Sales of big-ticket items like smartphones have helped mask weaknesses in traditional retail, he noted.
"By our calculations, half of U.S. publicly held retailer sales growth is coming from SAA (Samsung, Apple and Amazon)," said Berman.
Retailers often record the majority of their annual sales during the end-of-year holiday shopping season, and rely on discounts and marketing blitzes to try and grab a slice of spending estimated at some $600 billion annually.
The battle for the consumer dollar has been particularly intense in a year when taxes have increased, unemployment has remained stubbornly high, and confidence has taken a hit from a recent government shutdown and uncertainty over the introduction of President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms.
Offsetting those negatives has been the wealth impact of a rise in home prices and a rallying stock market, though those are more likely to help the luxury end of retailing.
Even Apple is not immune to this year's heightened competition.
A new Ipsos/Reuters poll found that, among consumers thinking of buying a tablet, 21 percent favored Amazon Inc's Kindle Fire, followed by 19 percent for Apple's iPad and 17 percent for Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy.
In a rare gesture from the iPad-maker and a nod to intense competition from Samsung, tech giants like Microsoft Corp and Google Inc, and online retailer Amazon, Apple is offering gift cards worth up to $75 for every purchase on its website.
Shoppers lured to a Target store in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, by an even better iPad Air deal (a $100 Target gift card along with the $479 device) arrived too late on Friday morning, as the store had sold out.
Reuters reporters in several U.S. cities found shoppers cherry-picking discounted flat-screen televisions and other door busters without adding higher-margin items to their purchases - behavior that could bite into retail profits.
Overall, Berman said, "sales will eventually be OK but margins won't."
EBay Inc was the second best performer in the Standard & Poor's 500 index on Friday, gaining 2.5 percent, and Best Buy was third, rising 2.4 percent. Apple and Amazon were also in the top 10 on Friday, when trading closed early.
Kohl's Corp and Nordstrom Inc fell 1.1 percent and 0.8 percent, respectively.
The National Retail Federation is predicting that sales for the November and December holiday season will grow 3.9 percent to $602.1 billion - excluding such items as gasoline, restaurant meals or purchases of gift cards - leaving retailers to battle for a bigger slice of that somewhat larger pie.
However, NRF estimates each consumer will spend an average of $737.95 during the season, down 2 percent from 2012. Its forecast is based on an online survey and actual spending, including on gift cards. Retailers book gift card sales when the cards are used to make actual purchases.
While growing briskly, online sales still account for a small portion of overall sales in November and December. Holiday sales are forecast to grow 13 to 15 percent to as much as $82 billion, according to Shop.org.
This year's holiday shopping results likely will mimic the slow-growing U.S. economy, said Can Erbil, an adjunct associate professor of economics at Boston College.
"Last year's shopping season was actually pretty bad. The Connecticut school shootings, Hurricane Sandy, and fiscal cliff fears really hit the shopping season hard. So the benchmark is low," Erbil said.
The sea of holiday deals failed to impress some shoppers.
For Luis Figueiro, a retired Brazilian on vacation in New York, called the scene at Macy's flagship store on Thanksgiving evening "madness" and said the mobs of shoppers made it difficult to see the products on sale.
His wife, Irene, traveled with him from Rio with Black Friday deals in mind, but was disappointed to find that many items were not discounted.
"If someone comes without a clear notion of prices, it awakens something in you. But if you know what the items usually cost, you aren't fazed," she said.
(Reporting by Suzanne Barlyn in Philadelphia, Jennifer Ablan, Dhanya Skariachan, Phil Wahba, Marina Lopes, Beth Pinsker, David Gaffen in New York; Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles and Edwin Chan in San Francisco; editing by Andrew Hay, Richard Chang and Bob Burgdorfer)


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Oct. 31, 2008
Oct. 30, 2008
|• 2nd guess: On key play, TB out-Chased
|• Wade happy Phils won it all
|• Phillies president hopes Gillick stays
|• Clutch catch eludes Iwamura
|• Rays to be feted at Friday rally
|• Philly basks in title warmth
|• Philadelphia to honor new champs
|• Nutter puts priority on safety
|• William Penn atop Philly once again
Oct. 29, 2008
|• Octoberphest! Phillies win World Series
|• Series save is perfect ending for Lidge
|• Jenkins, Werth set Phillies toward title
|• Baseball Daily News: Oct. 30
|• Thrilla in Phila: Game 5 unforgettable
|• Phils get to celebrate in front of fans
|• Close calls footnote of Fall Classic
|• Manuel receives game ball
|• Love a parade! Phils' fans rejoice
|• World Series artifacts heading to Hall
|• World Series is 'icing' for Gillick
|• Selig: 'Drama at its best'
|• Despite bitter taste, Rays thirst for more
|• It's Phandemonium after Phils win title
|• Rays not hanging their heads after loss
|• Perfect Hamels is World Series MVP
|• Managers go all in with decisions
|• Key out: Utley, Ruiz nab Bartlett at home
|• It's only the beginning for Rays
|• Dream season ends in disappointment
|• Phillies Short Hops: Game 5
|• Phillies reigned supreme
|• Phillies' 2008 forever a golden season
|• World Series Game 5 tidbits
|• World Series parade at noon on Friday
|• Rays made everybody believers
|• An interview with Charlie Manuel and Cole Hamels
|• A postgame interview with Joe Maddon
|• Twice as valuable
|• Rays Short Hops: Game 5
|• Title in hand, Phils fans breathe again
|• Phils appear set for another run in '09
|• Phils fans can celebrate with fresh gear
|• Selig satisfied with Game 5 scenario
|• Game 5 has same, different feel
|• Fans' stories as memorable as Game 5
|• Phillies chill with family on day off
|• Rays relax before resuming Game 5
|• Maddon thrown curve with wild Game 5
|• Rays, Phils to resume Game 5 tonight
|• An interview with James Shields
|• An interview with Joe Maddon
|• An interview with Brett Myers
|• Madson to start seventh frame for Phils
|• An interview with Charlie Manuel
|• No anthem planned for Game 5 restart
|• Game 5 resuming as instant cliffhanger
|• 'Beginning' of Game 5 offers intrigue
|• FAQs on the suspended Game 5
Oct. 28, 2008
|• In Series annals, this delay is minimal
|• Phillies relax on unscheduled day off
|• With no game, Rays catch some Z's
|• Rays ready for World Series to resume
|• Manuel reveals Phils' sixth-inning plans
|• Both teams unaccustomed to cold
|• World Series schedule uncertain
|• Best 'pen will write ending to Game 5
|• Phils likely to let 'pen finish Game 5
|• Game 5 will not resume on Tuesday
|• Game 5 ramifications for Rays, Phils
|• Rays given choice of optional workout
|• Both teams agree right call is made
|• An interview with Joe Maddon
|• An interview with Charlie Manuel
|• Interruptions part of Series history
|• Gillick's method produced success
|• Rays find shelter in nearby Delaware
|• In a first, World Series game suspended
|• Hamels still has chance to make history
|• Game Five of the 2008 World Series postponed
|• MLB monitoring weather forecast
Oct. 27, 2008
|• Baseball Daily News: Oct. 28
|• Silver lining: Another day of baseball
|• Rays forced to scramble after Game 5
|• Fans need ticket stubs to see Game 5
|• Pitchers find biggest foe is the elements
|• Rule change ensures Series continues
|• Selig: Rain would not shorten Game 5
|• Weather rains on comeback bid
|• Rain delays Phils' possible celebration
|• Weather leaves Series fit to be tied
|• An interview with Joe Maddon
|• Oates steps in to sing anthem for Hall
|• Lucky Phils fan snags Game 5 tickets
|• Pena, Longoria notch first Series hits
|• Game 4 draws Series' highest ratings
|• City of Brotherly Love waiting for title
|• Rays forced to play from behind
|• Baserunning gaffe costs Rays
|• Rain not expected to delay Game 5
|• Maddon shuffles lineup for Game 5
|• A pregame interview with Joe Maddon
|• A pregame interview with Charlie Manuel and Carlos Ruiz
|• Manuel sticks with successful lineup
|• Eyre relishing time with Phillies
|• Baseball Daily News: Oct. 27
Oct. 26, 2008
|• Rays facing Cole, hard facts
|• Blanton picks right time for first homer
|• Phils take advantage of errors
|• Phillies are still one win away but...
|• Missed call favors Phillies in Game 4
|• Down 3-1, Rays thinking comeback
|• Power play: Howard bashing again
|• Kazmir prepared for do-or-die game
|• Spin Forward: Solving the Cole case
|• Rays' big bats in a funk
|• Phils one win away after rout of Rays
|• Madson typifies bullpen's dominance
|• Stakes are Rays'd after Game 4 loss
|• Chess Match: Howard foils decision
|• Maddon questions spot on Blanton's hat
|• Phillies find perfect formula
|• An interview with Tim Welke and Mike Port
|• A postgame interview with Joe Maddon
|• Rays set AL record for playoff homers
|• With title in sight, Phils turn to Hamels
|• A postgame interview with Ryan Howard and Jimmy Rollins
|• World Series Game 4 tidbits
|• A postgame interview with Charlie Manuel and Joe Blanton
|• Rays Short Hops: Game 4
|• Phillies Short Hops: Game 4
|• LaBelle puts her soul into anthem
|• Werth's aggressive play helps, hurts
|• Thome visits Phillies before Game 4
|• Fans get their fill this weekend in Philly
|• Philadelphia is rockin' for Game 4
|• Sickness doesn't affect Moyer's start
|• Classic moment for an original Ray
|• Hinske replaces injured Floyd on roster
|• Ruiz making a name for himself
|• A pregame interview with Joe Maddon
|• A pregame interview with Scott Kazmir and B.J. Upton
|• A pregame interview with Cole Hamels
|• A pregame interview with Charlie Manuel
|• Rays right fielder only lineup change
|• Game 4 huge, especially for Rays
Oct. 25, 2008
|• Ninth for the ages: Final frame had it all
|• Long night ends with Rays' loss
|• Baseball Daily News: Oct. 26
|• Night to remember in Philly
|• Sonnanstine not wasting any time
|• Tim McGraw finds way to honor Tug
|• Now, the forecast calls for epic Series
|• Hero Ruiz has roller-coaster night
|• Spin Forward: Long balls = short series
|• With walk-off thriller, Phils grab 2-1 lead
|• Moyer not rewarded for diving play
|• Moyer relishes first World Series start
|• Homers offset Phils' production woes
|• Blanton's journey brings him to Series
|• Rays running wild on Phillies
|• Chess Match: Big calls in close game
|• Moyer's Classic start well worth the wait
|• A postgame interview with umpire Tom Hallion
|• World Series Game 3 tidbits
|• Rays Short Hops: Game 3
|• A postgame interview with Joe Maddon
|• An interview with Manuel, Moyer & Howard
|• Phillies Short Hops: Game 3
|• Offensive woes continue in first inning
|• Phils ramp up recycling efforts
|• Series memories of Material Girl
|• Swift and moving Game 3 anthem
|• Rain doesn't dampen enthusiasm
|• Leadoff man Rollins introduced last
|• Rain a temporary setback for Game 3
|• Pujols wins Clemente Award
|• Phillies fans unfazed by forecast
|• Traffic, parking reminder for Sunday, Oct. 26
|• A pregame interview with Joe Maddon
|• A pregame interview with Andy Sonnanstine
|• As Phillies stay with lineup, Rays adjust
|• A pregame interview with Joe Blanton
|• A pregame interview with Charlie Manuel
|• Phils bring cheer to Children's Hospital
Oct. 24, 2008
|• Baseball Daily News: Oct. 25
|• MLB addresses atypical Game 2 signal
|• Much to love about Citizens Bank Park
|• Madson seizes role of 'Bridge to Lidge'
|• Phillies try to 'Penn' end of city's curse
|• NL rules, no DH will force Rays to adjust
|• Howard confident Phils will halt slump
|• Culture shock just what Rays needed
|• Backup plans set should rain interfere
|• Seeking spark, Phils may adjust lineup
|• When Garza, Moyer were born ...
|• An interview with Joe Maddon
|• 'Rays, Baby, Rays' anthem rocks Trop
|• An interview with Carlos Pena
|• Baseball Daily News: Oct. 24
|• Price a not-so-secret weapon for Rays
|• Series hype picks up in Game 3
|• At 45, Moyer ready for Series debut
|• An interview with Jamie Moyer
|• Rays find different way to win
|• Strong parallels between Rays, '69 Mets
|• Hickey has Rays pitchers on target
|• Fall Classic brings Maddon home
|• Price wins big battle against Howard
Oct. 23, 2008
|• In nick of time, Shields earns nickname
|• What a hair-raising time at the Series
|• Phils struggle with scoring chances
|• Phillies content to go home with split
|• Garza unfazed by Fall Classic pressure
|• Hit and miss: Rollins doesn't get call
|• Rays find the right Price in the end
|• New life for Rays after Game 2 victory
|• Chess Match: Squeezing out a run
|• Small ball pays dividends for Rays
|• A 180-degree turn? No, but it'll be colder
|• Unusual call leads to run for Rays
|• World Series Game 2 tidbits
|• Phillies with runners in scoring position
|• Shields, Price postgame interview
|• Joe Maddon postgame interview
|• Rays show they have what it takes
|• Rays Short Hops: Game 2
|• Charlie Manuel postgame interview
|• Wet weather threatens Game 3
|• Phillies Short Hops: Game 2
|• Selig pleased with Game 1 ratings
|• Los Lonely Boys sing national anthem
|• Game 1 a dream for Phils fan at Trop
|• Eyre keeps tabs on former teammates
|• MLB lauds RBI youth before Game 2
|• Dobbs gets DH call for Game 2
|• Ruiz toughs it out for Phillies in Game 1
|• Stellar Game 1 has relievers pumped
|• Baldelli, Floyd get starts in Game 2
|• Baseball Daily News: Oct. 23
|• Maddon had great mentor in Mauch
|• Utley's homer sets tone for Phillies
Oct. 22, 2008
|• Spin Forward: Rays must throw strikes
|• Game 1 a learning experience
|• Hamels on target, Rays off balance
|• Phillies begin Series quest with victory
|• Pickoff play looms large in Game 1
|• Game 2 starters can change story
|• Phillies pick up where they left off
|• Rays in familiar spot after narrow loss
|• Chess Match: Victorino's dash ill-fated
|• In short order: Madson, Lidge, victory
|• Rays' heavy hitters grounded
|• Shields ready for biggest game yet
|• One pitch all the difference for Kazmir
|• Crawford ups Rays' long-ball total
|• World Series Game 1 tidbits
|• Phils to rely on Myers' arm in Game 2
|• World(wide) Series links players, fans
|• Utley, Hamels postgame interview
|• Rays Short Hops: Game 1
|• Hamels' October a month for the ages
|• Charlie Manuel postgame interview
|• Utley begins Series career with bang
|• Joe Maddon postgame interview
|• Phillies Short Hops: Game 1
|• Ten things to love about The Trop
|• Bartlett's steal of a deal for America
|• Kalases call fourth inning of Game 1
|• Miller dealing with serious family issue
|• World Series arrives at Tropicana Field
|• Pregame festivities celebrate rise
|• Selig, DuPuy: Baseball in growth cycle
|• Costner pulling for Rays in Fall Classic
|• Dome as home equals Series success
|• James Shields pregame interview
|• Brett Myers pregame interview
|• A pregame interview with Charlie Manuel
|• A pregame interview with Joe Maddon
|• Baseball Daily News: Oct. 22
|• Presidential hopefuls support Series
|• Tough pick between Rays, Phillies
|• Former Rays not surprised by success
|• Fans, pundits give edge to Rays
|• Phils roster has familiar look
|• Rays keep roster same for Fall Classic
|• Smallest edges could decide Series
|• Phillies facts and figures
|• Phils primed to take on green Rays
|• Rays facts and figures
|• Two of a kind power Classic pairing
|• World Series breakdown: Phils vs. Rays
Oct. 21, 2008
|• Consistency marks Manuel's style
|• Performers set for first two WS games
|• Big-name fans? That's awesome, baby!
|• Phillies confirm Fall Classic rotation
|• Baseball's best to vie for elusive crown
|• Rays' cowbells to face Phils' towels
|• Rollins brings devotion to grand stage
|• Manuel undecided on Phils' DH plans
|• No rest might be no problem for Rays
|• It's the u30ws (Under 30 World Series)
|• Crawford lends advice to students
|• Phils' Series history points to AL East
|• Kazmir is ideal choice for Game 1
|• A first for firsts: Burrell, Price collide
|• Gross has reasons to celebrate
|• Fresh matchup offers must-see baseball
|• Lidge, Wheeler reunite as rivals in WS
|• Hamels unfazed by first Series start
|• Joe Maddon workout day interview
|• Scott Kazmir workout day interview
|• Series reflects baseball's era of hope
|• Cole Hamels workout day interview
|• Rays' powerful duo in elite company
|• Rays appear set with current roster
|• Charlie Manuel workout day interview
|• Kazmir headlines Fall Classic rotation
|• Moyer, Martinez share unique history
|• Former Mets duo frame Rays' success
|• Umpires for World Series announced
|• Phils, Rays know the name of the game
|• Devil all fired up about Rays winning
|• His own man: Maddon lives by his terms
Oct. 20, 2008
|• Phillies likely to ride current roster
|• Phils get familiar with the Trop
|• Rollins: 'It's about being a champion'
|• Rays' World Series rotation not set
|• Garza made statement vs. Red Sox
|• Not a dream: Rays reflect on WS reality
|• Price, Perez speak at Obama rally
|• Game 7 underscores triumph for TBS
|• Rays mania sweeping Tampa Bay area
|• Rocky from Philly, but Rays pack punch
|• Lidge a factor in Phillies' trip to Florida
|• Clearwater loyalties split for Fall Classic
|• Fans give Phillies airport sendoff
|• Florida teams yet to lose playoff series
|• MLB International to broadcast Series
|• Rays taste success as expansion club
|• Phils from different cloth than '93 team
|• World Series can be at your fingertips
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i'm an happy final user of our open sound system driver. i installed it on a freenas machine (based on freebsd9). on this machine i installed subsonic too, and with your driver i can listen music locally like a juke box using the front analog output of the card.
my sound card is a sound blaster live 5.1.
i need an help: i would like to let out ALL sounds from the DIGITAL OUT (that is now connected to digital input of my Logitech Z-5500 home theater system). What's the way to do?
here's some info:
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sleepynas:~# ossinfo
Version info: OSS 4.2 (b 2006/201203061650) (0x00040100) BSD
Platform: FreeBSD/i386 7.3-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p7 #0: Sun Oct 9 05:13:39 JST 2011 firstname.lastname@example.com:/usr/obj/freenas/usr/src/sys/FREENAS-i386 (sleepynas)
Number of audio devices: 5
Number of audio engines: 9
Number of MIDI devices: 1
Number of mixer devices: 1
Device objects
0: oss_sblive0 SB Live interrupts=80089 (80089)
MIDI devices (/dev/midi*)
0: SB Live external MIDI (MIDI port 1 of device object 0)
Mixer devices
0: SB Live (STAC9708) (Mixer 0 of device object 0)
Audio devices
SB Live main /dev/oss/oss_sblive0/pcm0 (device index 0)
SB Live front out /dev/oss/oss_sblive0/pcm1 (device index 1)
SB Live side out /dev/oss/oss_sblive0/pcm2 (device index 2)
SB Live center/lfe out /dev/oss/oss_sblive0/pcm3 (device index 3)
SB Live 5.1 output device /dev/oss/oss_sblive0/pcm4 (device index 4)
/dev/dsp -> /dev/oss/oss_sblive0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_in -> /dev/oss/oss_sblive0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_out -> /dev/oss/oss_sblive0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_ac3 -> /dev/oss/oss_sblive0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_mmap -> /dev/oss/oss_sblive0/pcm0
/dev/dsp_multich -> /dev/oss/oss_sblive0/pcm4
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sleepynas:~# ossmix -a
Selected mixer 0/SB Live (STAC9708)
Known controls are:
line [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 32:32)
line.rec ON|OFF (currently ON)
mic <monovol> (currently 0)
mic.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
cd [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 75:75)
cd.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
igain [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 75:75)
aux1 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 32:32)
aux1.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
phone [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 0:0)
phone.rec ON|OFF (currently OFF)
rear [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 75:75)
center [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 75:75)
autorese ON|OFF (currently ON)
spkmode <FRONT|SURR|FRONT+SURR|DISCRETE> (currently FRONT+SURR)
pcm.main <monovol> (currently 100)
vmix0-enable ON|OFF (currently ON)
vmix0-rate <decimal value> (currently 48000) (Read-only)
vmix0-src <High|OFF> (currently Fast)
vmix0-outvol <monovol> (currently 24.7 dB)
vmix0-invol <monovol> (currently 25.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm1 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 25.0:25.0 dB) ("java")
vmix0.pcm2 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 25.0:25.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm3 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 25.0:25.0 dB)
vmix0.pcm4 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 25.0:25.0 dB)
pcm2 [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 100:100)
vol [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 75:75)
equalizer.prescale <monovol> (currently 100)
equalizer.lo <monovol> (currently 128)
equalizer.mid <monovol> (currently 128)
equalizer.hi <monovol> (currently 128)
equalizer.xhi <monovol> (currently 128)
equalizer.bypass ON|OFF (currently OFF)
front.spdif <monovol> (currently 100)
front.digcd <monovol> (currently 100)
front.ac97 <monovol> (currently 0)
front.pcm <monovol> (currently 100)
front.aux <monovol> (currently 100)
front.vol [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 100:100)
surr.spdif <monovol> (currently 0)
surr.digcd <monovol> (currently 0)
surr.ac97 <monovol> (currently 0)
surr.pcm <monovol> (currently 100)
surr.aux <monovol> (currently 0)
surr.vol [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 100:100)
record.spdif <monovol> (currently 100)
record.digcd <monovol> (currently 100)
record.ac97 <monovol> (currently 100)
record.pcm <monovol> (currently 0)
record.aux <monovol> (currently 100)
record.vol [<leftvol>:<rightvol>] (currently 100:100)
thank you very much, for help, and for cool drivers.


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Corporate Communications and Media Department in Oman Air said that The Middle East Business Report, one of the business programmes on BBC World, has last week interviewed Mr. Ziad Bin Karim Al Haremi, Oman Aviation Services' (Oman Air) Chief Executive officer. This has been the third such occasion in a series of coverage carried out by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on the National Carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, due to the carrier's distinguished developments and the successive successes experienced at all levels of its operations. The interview conducted was broadcasted on September 22, 2007.
The programme has covered previously the government's acquisition of a greater stake in Oman Air, throughout an interview which was conducted with the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, as they noted.
"The interview this time enfolded many topics besides the latest and future expansion strategies of Oman Air, which will also involve restructuring and re-branding the company. In addition, the carrier preparations to spread its wings far and wide, especially to long-haul destinations in the Middle East, Europe, and the Far East, being fully prepared to face future requirements and challenges. The report focused on Oman Air's new destinations being inaugurated to Jeddah and Riyadh, also the yet to commence London destination. " They added.
Corporate Communications and Media Department concluded saying that The Middle East Business Report is a weekly half-hour programme covering business issues from the region. Getting behind the issues of trade, business, and economics, Middle East Business Report provides a window on finance and commerce in the Middle East, revealing how this important economic region works and interacts with the rest of the world. Their weekly reports broadcast on Saturdays at 0830 repeated: Saturdays at 1430, 2130 local time.


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Bertille "Tillie" Anne Brand Klein was born on November 5th, 1914 in Prairie du Long Township, Illinois, the youngest of three children. After graduating from 8th grade, she stopped going to school since she was needed more at home. She started these journals or "news books" as she called them, as way to continue her education on her own. She recorded daily events from January 1, 1930 until December 31, 1939. In 1940, she married William Klein and went on to have one daughter, Janice. She passed away in 1997 and is dearly missed. This is a small part of her legacy.
She would find it incredibly funny and silly that her books are on the computer for others to read.


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Is this the winter of long-term care insurance?
It sure is quiet. In most years my mailbag will have a healthy dose of questions about buying long-term care insurance. This is entirely reasonable. On the one hand, our ever-lengthening life expectancies result in an increasing probability of needing long-term care. On the other, some of the insurance industry's most active marketing efforts went into the sale of long-term care policies.
But this year is different.
The only reader questions have come from people who already owned long-term care policies. Those readers were trying to figure out whether to continue, or drop, their policies after receiving notice of major premium increases. Not a single reader wrote to ask about whether a salespersons' proposal was reasonable, probably because so many insurance companies have been de-emphasizing or withdrawing altogether from the long-term care insurance market.
No hyperbole here. Genworth, the largest vendor of LTCI announced major premium increases and a variety of other changes to tighten access to policies. Some companies have stopped selling group policies. Others have stopped selling individual policies. So it is possible that even if you wanted a policy, you might not be able to get it.
This is not a tragedy.
The idea of long-term care insurance is a good one, but it's really a shame it has been in the hands of, well, the insurance industry. In good times, insurance companies have piled into the market, overestimating the number of policies that would be dropped before claims were made. At the same time they, like everyone else, overestimated the return they would earn on those premiums. The result was artificially low premiums.
Now, in bad times, the industry is facing low returns on premiums and, even worse, a high rate of policy retention. The result is a big squeeze— more claims against less income. Bottom line: As an actual product, long-term care insurance is a great idea, poorly executed.
So let's ask a rude question: Is the fast fade of LTCI something we should worry about? Here are my tough-hearted reasons that it isn't.
- Most people have minimal assets to protect. As a result, Medicaid is their future if they ever need long-term care. Sorry, there is no way to sugar coat this. It's the way it is. Since Social Security benefits account for at least 50 percent of income for 65 percent of all retired couples and individuals, paying for long-term care through assets or insurance isn't possible for most retirees.
- You don't have to be in the 1 percent to self-insure. If your retirement income is large enough support your household in long-term care, you will likely be OK if you need it. In 2011, according to the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance, the average annual cost of assisted living communities was $40,000 a year. The average annual cost of nursing homes was $76,285 a year. Retirees with incomes that high aren't common, but when you add in drawing down assets for a period of time, this could be as much as 25 percent of all households.
- Death may eliminate the need. Just as financial planners often want us to be 95 percent certain of having money for a 30 year retirement when we have only a 16 percent chance of still being alive after 30 years, the reality is that (a) most people will die before needing care or (b) they will need care for only a short time. Among women, who are more likely than men to need care because they live longer, only 12.4 percent of those age 75 will need care for more than 2 years. Only 3.9 percent will need it for more than 5 years. For men the comparable figures are significantly lower. This suggests that playing Russian roulette with long-term care is a lot safer than playing Russian roulette with a revolver.
- The Continuing Care Retirement Community Alternative. You can receive guarantees of lifetime care by becoming a member of a Continuing Care Retirement Community. These residential communities bundle senior residences, assisted living and nursing care in a single property to provide a continuum of care. You become a member with a substantial initial payment and a monthly payment for a broad package of services. Some of the initial payment may be returned to your estate upon death.
Given the uncertainties that we all face, perhaps we should change how we confront major life issues. Rather than think about insuring against change, perhaps we should think about learning how to adapt to change.


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model organism Zea mays.
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The flushing elected official – we won't say shocked, but certainly surprised – many when he won the seat formerly held by City Comptroller John Liu by running as a Republican in 2009. And that was even with the wildly popular Liu endorsing Koo's Democratic opponent.
But now he has – we won't say shocked, but certainly surprised – many again, this time by officially switching his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. We say only "surprised" because Koo has been hinting for a while now that he wasn't happy with the Queens County GOP and that he was considering defecting.
Many are speculating what kind of effect this will have in the City Council. We predict almost none. The Democrats will go from having a huge majority (before Koo left there were five Republicans out of 51 members) to having, well, a huge majority.
No, Koo's decision to leave the Queens County Republican Party will actually have the greatest impact on the Queens County Republican Party.
For years, there has been a power struggle between two rival factions in the Queens GOP – the current leader Phil Ragusa and his supporters versus a group of Republicans from south Queens led by Bart Haggerty and his recently convicted brother John, who was found guilty of misappropriating funds paid by Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign to run a poll-watching operation.
While Koo will say publicly he left the Republican party because of differences in ideology, behind the scenes everyone knows that he was disenfranchised with county leadership, not only because of a lack of support, but also because they increasingly left him out of major party decisions.
No, Koo didn't see much point in staying with the Republican Party if he didn't get any support, and if remaining loyal to the party meant that he was missing out on possibly chairing a City Council committee (Republicans don't get many of those appointments in the Democratic-controlled City Council), making him unpopular with his fellow Flushing elected officials, or costing him re-election.
So Koo jumped ship.
Who really looks bad in all of this is Chairman Phil Ragusa, who under his watch couldn't keep a precious Republican City Council seat. And not because it was lost in an election, but rather it just vanished, and whether you choose to believe it or not, it looks on the surface like Ragusa dropped the ball.
Which is good - no great - news for those looking to overthrow Ragusa. Among those believed to be among that group is Councilman Eric Ulrich, who in quotes in the New York Observer jumped at the chance to throw the current county leadership under the bus. Check this out:
"I'm really disappointed, but at the same time I can't blame him," Ulrich is quoted as telling The Politicker. "Peter is a rock star and a superstar in his community. He represented the future of this party and I tried to do everything I could to help him stay in the Republican Party. But I don't think people at county level or the local level were particularly helpful in respect to that."
But that's not the most telling quote:
"There was a lot that other people could have done to keep Peter Koo in the party and they simply did not do it...They could have engaged him a little more. They could have included him more in the decision-making process. I think they could have treated him a little better than they did. The finger pointing will start after the fact, of course."
But tell us how you really feel, councilman!
The Democrats officially welcomed Koo into the party on Monday, but truth be told, his defection will have very little impact in the Democratic Party. No, where his defection will be most felt is in the party he decided to leave behind.


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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The man who revealed that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA said that he was "extraordinarily foolish" to leak her name.
Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was a source of the CIA leak to columnist Robert Novak.
Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview broadcast Sunday that he did not realize Plame was a covert agent when he discussed her with syndicated columnist Robert Novak.
Novak, a former CNN contributor, wrote the July 2003 column in which Plame was named as a CIA employee. He later cited his sources as Armitage and Karl Rove, then President Bush's top political adviser.
Armitage said he had seen a memo that said Plame was publicly chairing a meeting, so he assumed her CIA employment was not a secret.
"There was no ill intent on my part, and I had never seen, ever in 43 years of having a security clearance, a covert operative's name in a memo," he said. Watch Armitage explain why he leaked Plame's name »
Blitzer asked Armitage if he "simply assumed that she was not a clandestine officer of the CIA."
"Well, even Mr. Novak has said that he used the word 'operative' and misused it," Armitage said. "No one ever said 'operative.' And I not only assumed it, as I say, I have never seen a covert agent's name in a memo. However, that doesn't take away from what Mrs. Plame said. It was foolish, yes."
Rove, who left the White House in August, has denied he was also a source of the leak to Novak.
Plame's identity was disclosed shortly after her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, challenged one of the chief claims underpinning the Bush administration's case for the U.S. invasion of Iraq -- that Iraq had sought uranium for nuclear weapons from the African country of Niger.
In an op-ed piece for The New York Times, Wilson wrote that he had investigated the claim at the request of CIA officials and found it "highly doubtful" that any such transaction could have occurred, and he accused the Bush administration of having "twisted" the evidence for war.
Neither Armitage nor Rove was charged with a crime in the leak.
Wilson and Plame have accused Rove and other Bush officials of leaking her identity as a CIA officer in retaliation for her husband's emergence as an administration critic.
A federal judge in Washington recently dismissed a lawsuit by the couple against Rove, Armitage, Vice President Dick Cheney and Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Libby was convicted of obstructing justice and perjury in the probe and sentenced to 30 months in prison, but Bush commuted his term before he had served any time. E-mail to a friend
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DIY Raspberry Pi Workshop for Kidssteveonjava | October 9, 2013
I did a successful workshop this past weekend at Silicon Valley Code Camp with 50 very enthusiastic future developers. They were ages 10 and up, and everyone in the class got a Java game running on their Pis, and made 2 or more improvements in the span of a few hours.
Here is a picture of some of the young hackers at work:
This lab also happens to be easy to run, so I recommend giving it a try at a local school or at home with your own young ones.
Here is what you need:
|Raspberry Pi
|Make sure to get the Model B for the extra memory and ethernet.
|8GB SD card
|Another good option is to get a Raspberry Pi with a pre-installed SD Card
|Silicon Keyboard
|You can use any USB keyboard you have handy, but this is a good option for a portable setup.
|The Chalkboard Electronics 10" screens are compatible with JavaFX touch events and double as a power source. (Hint: Discount code on page 10 of the presentation below)
So for as little as $45 you can have a mini computer for kids to hack on, and if you get the whole setup you have the ultimate portable lab kit.
To setup the Pi for the first time, you need to install Linux, Java, and download the source code for the game. This can be accomplished by following the instructions on my earlier blog entry on how to setup your Raspberry Pi for the first time:
The source code for the Java lambdas game I used is available in Github here, along with all the build scripts for executing it on the Raspberry Pi:
If you want a shortcut for setting up the above, I uploaded an image that should be compatible with any 8GB or greater SD card for download here (if you choose this option, you can skip the above two steps):
Raspberry Pi 4 Kids Workshop Image
Setting up the hardware and running the lab is as easy going through the presentation deck I prepared. I uploaded the full deck to slideshare (which includes hardware setup, code walkthrough, and some kid-friendly warm-up slides) here:
Some notes for folks giving this as a lab:
- Make sure you get through the electrical safety slide before distributing hardware to avoid any "oops!" moments.
- When going through the code, ask the kids what ideas they have for making simple modifications. Some easy ones include:
- Increase the number of sheep that get generated by the Barn
- Change the colors of the animals when they step on the Rainbow
- Change the scale of the Fox when he eats animals
- The kids will come up with plenty more ideas on their own!
- I also recommend pre-connecting the cable to the HDMI board so that you don't have any bent pins or the cables don't end up upside-down
Give this a try with your own budding group of computer hackers and see how much fun they can have!


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What Will Congress Do to Your Taxes?
Last-minute action -- or inaction -- may affect your year-end tax moves.
Uncertainty on Capitol Hill is making everyone's life miserable. Congress's inability to decide on what to do about the expiring Bush-era tax cuts means that we probably won't know what will happen to next year's tax rates until after the November elections. In the meantime, review your options so that you'll be ready to act once Congress does. We'll help you decide what's appropriate for you, depending on your income, under a variety of scenarios.
President Obama wants to keep current tax breaks in effect for lower- and middle-income taxpayers but favors reinstituting higher rates for the wealthiest 3% of Americans -- those whose taxable incomes exceed $200,000 ($250,000 for married couples). Ironically, while the Obama plan would raise taxes on the highest-income earners, some pretty well-off taxpayers would enjoy a five-percentage-point rate cut on some of their income. That's because the 28% bracket (which now ends at about $170,000 for singles and $210,000 for couples) would have to be expanded to accommodate the president's definition of middle class. So some income now smacked by the 33% rate would drop into the 28% bracket.
Congressional Republicans argue that current tax rates should be extended for everyone, noting that many of the taxpayers targeted for tax hikes are small-business owners and that higher taxes on them could derail the economic recovery. (The White House is pondering a package of small-business tax breaks to address some of those concerns.) Extending the current tax rates for all taxpayers would cost $3.3 trillion over the next ten years, compared with $2.2 trillion if they were extended for all but the rich, according to the Pew Economic Policy Group.
The more time Congress spends arguing over what to do about the Bush tax cuts, the more likely it is that lawmakers will ultimately kick the can down the road by extending current rates for everyone for a year or two to buy time to work on more-permanent tax reform. But anything could happen during a likely post-election lame-duck session. If political gridlock sets in, the Bush tax cuts could actually expire on schedule on December 31, and everyone's taxes would go up in 2011. (Remember, almost no one believed Congress would actually let the estate tax expire at the end of last year . . . but it did.)
Year-end strategies
Normally, it makes sense to reduce your income and increase deductions as a way to hold down your tax bill for the current year. And that's what you should continue to do if Congress extends current tax rates for your income level.
But if your tax rates will increase in 2011, it may make more sense to reverse those strategies, says Gregory Rosica, a tax partner with Ernst & Young in Tampa. In that case, consider accelerating any discretionary income, such as a year-end bonus or income from exercising nonqualified stock options, into the current year, when tax rates are lower, says Rosica. And to the extent that you have control over itemized deductions, such as when you make charitable contributions, you might want to push a donation into January, when it will deliver a bigger tax-saving bang for each buck you deduct. (However, postponing the donation delays the tax benefit you'll enjoy by a year.)
Usually, investors focus on harvesting losses before the end of the year to offset profits and the tax bill that goes along with them. That's a viable strategy if maximum long-term capital-gains rates remain at the current 15% level. But if Obama gets his way, the top capital-gains rate would rise to 20% for upper-income taxpayers. Ditto if current tax rates expire; the maximum capital-gains rate reverts to 20%. So if you expect your capital-gains rate to rise next year, you may want to cash in your profits before year-end and pay the current 15% tax, advises Steve Kunkel, a CPA in Los Angeles.
If you love your investment and hate to part with it, don't worry. You can turn around and buy it back the next day, establishing a new, higher basis for future gains. (Unlike the "wash-sale rule," which prohibits you from buying an asset within 30 days before or 30 days after selling a similar asset at a loss, there are no time restrictions for repurchasing an investment that you sell at a profit.)
Regardless of whether your tax bracket remains the same or increases next year, adding to your tax-deferred retirement savings before the end of this year is a good way to reduce your 2010 tax bill and boost your future nest egg. You can contribute up to $16,500 to your 401(k) or similar employer-based plan in 2010, and if you are 50 or older, you can kick in an extra $5,500. You have until April 15, 2011, to contribute to an IRA for 2010.On the flip side, some taxpayers may want to bite the bullet now and convert some or all of their traditional IRAs to a Roth IRA, paying taxes at current rates on the converted amount and locking in tax-free withdrawals for the future, when rates may be even higher. Note that if you convert to a Roth in 2010, you can also choose to split the taxable income between your 2011 and 2012 returns and pay whatever tax rates are in effect at that time.
Longer-term solutions
Even if Congress extends the current tax rules for another year or two, most financial experts believe that higher taxes to tame rising budget deficits are inevitable. And that could change the way Americans save and invest their money in the long run. You don't need to make these decisions by year-end, but it's never too early to begin thinking about strategies for coping in a higher-tax world.
Higher rates would heighten the attraction of tax-deferred annuities for upper-income Americans who have maxed out their retirement savings and are looking for additional tax shelters, says Tom Karsten, managing partner of Karsten Tax & Financial Management, in Fort Worth. Tax-free municipal bonds will become even more appealing in a higher-tax environment, too, but investors need to be vigilant about investigating the credit-worthiness of the bond issuer. And remember, both bond interest and the taxable portion of annuity income is taxed at ordinary income-tax rates.
Higher tax rates also increase the attractiveness of cash-value life insurance, says Adam Sherman, a financial planner with Firstrust Financial Resources, in Philadelphia. Not only can individuals use insurance to pass on wealth to heirs tax-free, but policyholders can also tap the cash value, which accumulates inside the policy on a tax-deferred basis, through tax-free withdrawals and low-interest loans as long as the policy remains in force.
Other methods of tax-deferred savings, such as 529 college-savings plans and health savings accounts (HSAs), will be more attractive in a higher-tax environment, too.
The price of gridlock
Without congressional action this year, everyone will feel the pain of higher income taxes in 2011. The lowest 10% tax bracket would disappear, meaning everyone would pay higher rates on more of their income. The marriage penalty that forced some dual-income couples to pay more tax on their combined income than they would have owed if they had remained single would be reinstated. The end of the Bush tax cuts would also cut the child tax credit in half, from $1,000 to $500 per child.
Higher-income taxpayers would face bigger tax bills as rates increase and as limits on itemized deductions and personal exemptions, which disappeared in 2010, come back into play. In addition to increased capital-gains rates, qualified dividends would revert to being taxed at ordinary-income rates as high as 39.6%. Try the Tax Foundation's free calculator at www.mytaxburden.org to estimate your 2011 tax bill under different scenarios.
A more immediate problem is what will happen to the alternative minimum tax and a host of other expired tax breaks, such as a choice between deducting either state sales taxes or state income taxes, which will affect the 2010 tax returns that Americans file next spring. The AMT disallows personal exemptions and many of the deductions that taxpayers count on to reduce their tax bill. Without an annual fix to raise the AMT exemption level, an estimated 25 million Americans will be hit by the alternative minimum tax in 2010, compared with five million last year. But we expect that Congress will muster the votes to patch the AMT for 2010, as it has each of the past several years, and revive the expired tax breaks, too. Will they get around to it before the IRS prints the 2010 tax forms? Stay tuned.


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Jerk sweet potato & black bean curry
Serve your vegetable curry Caribbean style, flavoured with thyme, jerk seasoning and red peppers – great with rice and peas
Nutrition and extra info
- Healthy
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
Nutrition: per serving
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- fat3g
- saturates1g
- carbs39g
- sugars14g
- fibre7g
- protein6g
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- 2 onions, 1 diced, 1 roughly chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 2 tbsp sunflower oil
Sunflower oil
Sunflower oil is made from pressing sunflower seeds and extracting the oil. It's usually…
- 50g ginger, roughly chopped
Mainly grown in Jamaica, Africa, India, China and Australia, ginger is the root of the plant. It…
- small bunch coriander, leaves and stalks separated
- 3 tbsp jerk seasoning
- 2 thyme sprigs
This popular herb grows in Europe, especially the Mediterranean, and is a member of the mint…
- 400g can chopped tomato
- 4 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 3 tbsp demerara sugar
- 2 vegetable stock cubes, crumbled
- 1kg sweet potato, peeled and cut into chunks
Sweet potatosweet po-tate-toe
Sweet potatoes have a creamy texture and a sweet-spicy flavour that makes them ideal for savoury…
- 2 x 400g cans black beans, rinsed and drained
- 450g jar roasted red pepper, cut into thick slices
Gently soften the diced onion in the sunflower oil in a big pan or casserole.
Meanwhile, whizz together the roughly chopped onion, ginger, coriander stalks and jerk seasoning with a hand-held blender. Add to the softened onion and fry until fragrant. Stir in the thyme, chopped tomatoes, vinegar, sugar and stock cubes with 600ml water and bring to a simmer. Simmer for 10 mins, then drop in the sweet potatoes and simmer for 10 mins more. Stir in the beans, peppers and some seasoning, and simmer for another 5 mins until the potatoes are almost tender. Cool and chill for up to 2 days.
To serve, gently heat through on the hob. Roughly chop most of the coriander leaves and stir in, then serve scattered with the remaining leaves.
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Cornelia: debut album 'Balun' released 15th June on Camp Mozart
Apr 15, 2015
● "Spellbinding" Dazed Digital
● "Creaking electronica and strange sound effects gurgle beneath off-kilter drums and gorgeous vocals" The Guardian
● "Distinctive and enchanting" Crack
● "An artist as natural in the company of underground club producers as classical chamber choirs" Metro
來自倫敦的女唱作人Cornelia 找來了 Portico (Quartet)、Dark Sky、Bonobo、Kwes 以及 Scratcha DVA 等多組英國本地重要的音樂單位合作的首張專輯「Balun」即將會在今年的6月15號透過Camp Mozart廠牌發行。
On 15th June 2015 musical bright spark Cornelia releases her powerfully enchanting, intelligent pop-filled debut album 'Balun' on Camp Mozart records. In addition to a standard digital release, 'Balun' is available as a limited edition audio poster, which marks the first step in a series of technological musical endeavours, brought to you by Cornelia in collaboration with Novalia.
Cornelia's sweet, spectral vocals plus subtle flourishes of grime, bass, IDM, ambient and synth adorn eerily beautiful songs, which although pop savvy possess a level of gravitas and proper sonic depth.
Following a fruitful two years writing, recording and touring with the likes of Portico (Quartet), Dark Sky, Bonobo, Kwes and Scratcha DVA, 'Balun' marks the movement of Cornelia's full focus to the solo artist limelight. On the album, Cornelia ruminates:
"I wrote 'Balun' on the brink of a big change in my life - moving to the UK. I felt I was at the edge of a border, both physically and mentally, having to relearn basic things like language, culture and conventions. I had a new story to tell.
I started to shift my mindset by reaching down into a bag of tunes I had written since I started my transition from Sweden to the UK. I grabbed a fistful of them; some I had produced on my laptop and some I had simply sung into the voice recorder on my phone.
Because of the different platforms I recorded them on, I decided I needed another pair of ears, so I took refuge in Bristol with drummer and engineer Greg Freeman who I met working Portico's album. Together we finalised a sound based on synthesisers, live drums and intimate vocals. We recorded in kitchens, bedrooms, hallways and churches."
Cornelia Dahlgren's formative years in Sweden were spent making songs, singing in choirs and playing in bands to the backdrop of Öland's magnificent landscapes. She participated in the first season of Swedish Idol, but dropped out in the final stages upon deciding the manufactured approach wasn't for her, helped in part from some sound advice from Robyn. As a result she founded the label Camp Mozart and began crafting esoteric and elemental sounds.
Cornelia debuted with the colourful 'Capsule' EP before close friend Jamie Woon persuaded her to move to London, following which she released two EPs called 'By The Fire'/'Now & Hereafter' and 'Aquarius Dreams'.
Another single 'Stormy Weather' was released on Exceptional Records and that period also saw inspired collaborations with two widely-acclaimed artists - Portico Quartet and Rinse FM's Scratcha DVA.
The song 'Steepless' was written by Cornelia and Portico Quartet in close dialogue and was released on their third, self-titled album.
'Pretty Ugly', written and produced by Scratcha DVA and Cornelia, became the title track of his album on Hyperdub, which Mary Anne Hobbs called "a beautiful track with a dazzling sound".
Cornelia and Bonobo wrote 'Pieces' together for his album 'The North Borders' and she sang at several of his shows, including a huge concert at Alexandra Palace, to 11,000 rapturous fans.
She then hooked-up with Dark Sky, where she had three songs on their 'Imagin' album for Modeselektor's Monkeytown records.
Following so much fruitful collaboration, combined with her interest in creative technology, it's unsurprising that Cornelia should combine these elements for her latest project. About a year ago Dr Kate Stone from Novalia invited Cornelia to her office in Cambridge, after Cornelia sent Kate a fan mail about her TED Talk. They quickly made friends.
Together with Novalia, Cornelia has made a printed album poster, using technology enabled by integration of conductive ink, capacitive touch and conventional electronics to provide a musical experience in a new format, combining science, design and music; when touched the poster plays the songs of the album through a built in speaker and includes buttons for volume up and down.
"As a technology company, we have loved working with Cornelia to create beautiful interactive LP posters that use our process in this way", says Dr Stone. "We've enjoyed creating a project together which puts music back into a beautiful, physical object that can be kept and treasured."
This poster is the first step in a series of innovative musical presentations that Cornelia and Novalia are developing together, including a midi controller project for live stage.
Using the same technology as the 'Balun' poster, their printed MIDI is a combination of printed capacitive touch, MIDI processing and Bluetooth Smart. Cornelia has been helping them beta test their first prototype, providing valuable feedback from a musician's perspective. They're also interested in looking at how MIDI can be used for stage and performance. As printed MIDI can potentially turn any surface into a MIDI controller, whether the surface is flat or curved, it offers great opportunities for integration into different areas of the stage; objects, walls and potentially wearables could all become MIDI enabled using Novalia's technology. "Kate is an absolute genius. I brought my laptop with my live set in Ableton and a MIDI controller to show her how I work, and said that it would be amazing to be able to build my own controller in paper one day", explains Cornelia. "Kate had started to look into the possibilities of MIDI but had not heard of Ableton before, so when I hooked her up with a friend at Ableton HQ, it all started to make sense and we realised we were onto something. When Apple finally released the new enhancements to Core MIDI everything caught fire and I can't wait to get some new gear on the road."
With big tunes and big ideas to match, expect to hear a lot from Cornelia in the near future…
1. How Far Pt. 1
2. Cruising
3. Birthright
4. Not In Love
5. Oh Well
6. Trust
7. How Far Pt. 2
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