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So maybe you were lucky enough to get an e-reader for the holidays. In fact, maybe you're reading this article on one right now! Maybe you're cozying up to your fire and you're considering what e-book you want to download to get through these dark winter days.
But you're an Ars reader, and you actually know (and care!) what DRM stands for. After all, we've been covering digital rights management for years, ever since it was a contentious issue in the music industry. You may recall that Amazon itself led the charge against Cupertino, challenging iTunes with cheaper downloads and a lack of DRM. But Amazon's lead in the fight against music DRM was a business decision rather than an ideological stance. You may remember our story from late October 2012, detailing how to strip DRM off of Amazon Kindle purchases as a means of backing up your titles and preventing Amazon from deleting your entire library on a whim.
And that leaves this question: where's the DRM outrage over e-books? Or put another way, why doesn't Amazon care about eliminating DRM for books, when it did for music?
For many industry watchers, it comes down to the fact that generally speaking, most people own more individual pieces of music than they do individual books—the American digital music market is still much bigger than the digital book market.
From a cultural standpoint, people want to put music on more devices than they do e-books, and some will want to remix that music. Aside from zombie crossover fanfic, few outside the ivory tower are interested in remixing the written word.
"Most people don't care about the ethics of DRM or about the finer points of copyright policy," Aram Sinnreich, a Media Studies professor at Rutgers University, told Ars. "What people care about, is being able to do what they want with the stuff that they think they have."
But as some smaller publishing houses begin to abandon DRM entirely and users get frustrated with the difficulties in lending e-books, some wonder if this culture may begin to change in 2013.
The "wrong end of the stick" ?
There are authors and anti-DRM advocates who for years have been preaching the gospel of digital liberation of e-books.
That includes Cory Doctorow, who succinctly noted in Publisher's Weekly earlier this year: "People buy DRM e-books because they have no choice, or because they don't care about it, or because they don't know it's there."
Doctorow, a well-known science fiction author and the co-founder of Boing Boing, has practiced what he preaches for years. Not only are his books available DRM-free, but they're also available to download for free.
When Ars asked Doctorow why he thought there wasn't the same degree of outrage, he dismissed it.
"I think you've got the wrong end of the stick," he e-mailed. "There is widespread, years-long approbation over e-book DRM."
While that may be true for the Cory Doctorows of the world, that certainly isn't true for big-time publishers, for mainstream readers, or for other e-book vendors that are on the scale of Amazon.
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Perhaps most importantly, Amazon has headed off DRM concerns by making a Kindle book reading application for pretty much every platform imaginable. That way, you can download a Kindle book and read it on your Android, your iPad, or whatever else just as easily as you would on a bona fide Kindle reader. (Amazon did not respond to Ars' repeated requests for comment.)
"Kudos to Amazon for designing it in such a way that consumers would be comfortable," Sinnreich quipped.
Whether the company has intended it or not, most consumers are blissfully unaware of the realities of DRM because any Kindle book can be read on just about every device. But in fact, it wasn't very long ago that Amazon was at the forefront of this battle against sharing restrictions when it came to music.
"Our MP3-only strategy means all the music that customers buy on Amazon is always DRM-free and plays on any device," said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a statement in 2007.
Likely due to pressure from consumers and from Amazon, one record label after another began to agree to drop DRM on iTunes. By early 2009, DRM was formally, finally, dead—with all the labels on board.
Vampire-themed Jane Austen books aside, who remixes books, anyway?
Part of the lack of outrage, experts say, can be explained simply by the smaller market.
According to the NPD Group, digital-music revenue in the United States, not including streaming services, amounted to $2.1 billion in 2011. By comparison, e-books spending is smaller, with research from the Association of American Publishers placing revenue at nearly $1 billion.
Part of the reason may be impulse purchasing—it's a lot easier to spontaneously buy an MP3 at $0.99 rather than an e-book at $9.99! But that isn't the only explanation that's been offered. "Maybe it's the low status of books in general," Alissa Quart, the editor-at-large at The Atavist, "Book buyers don't get to get as outraged as music fans."
Similarly, we're all more likely to want to re-listen to older songs multiple times—and consequently, put them on multiple devices—than books, which tend to get read once and kept on a bookshelf (digital or analog.)
"You tend to re-visit old music more than old books," said Parker Higgins, an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Some of that is the maturity of the ecosystem."
Another possible explanation over the lack of outrage is that within music, not only is the market larger, but there's more of a tradition of turning the original work (a song) into a derivative work, like a remix.
"When iTunes was introduced no one was thinking: 'When I buy this, can I cut it up into ringtones?'" Higgins added. "They weren't thinking, 'Can I set this to a rhythm game and play fake guitar to this?' Because people love music, there's avenues for that remix. With books, especially with e-books, books as codecs aren't a very remixable form. People don't really know to do anything with them except start at the beginning and read to the end."
He added that it may take awhile before authors and other developers come up with new applications that can take advantage of an open, DRM-less e-book.
"For example, a music player that matches sentiment through textual analysis—that would be possible with a [public domain e-book], but not be possible with a Kindle book," Higgins said.
Quart, who is also author of the forthcoming book, The Republic of Outsiders, agreed, saying that even the biggest literary fans generally don't do much besides read or perhaps quote other works that they like.
"There's not really a culture of remix amongst book readers," she said. "There's a literary culture of appropriation and interesting fair use but I don't think a lot of readers have that relationship to it."
Looking to the Cloud
However, one element of books versus music that experts say may even drive a cultural change in the publishing industry is the idea of borrowing books.
One of the major elements that drove the death of DRM was the ability to put music tracks in any format, in any device. Similarly, some speculate that it will take more time for enough e-book owners who want to share their favorite reads and be frustrated at that experience.
Currently, Amazon only allows lending of e-books of certain titles, and that can only be done once. The Barnes & Noble Nook has a similar lending policy—iBooks is even worse, as it doesn't have a lending feature to speak of.
"That's a farce—that's not what borrowing a book is," Higgins noted.
But borrowing may become a moot point if e-books start to be re-imaged as a service, rather than a product. If the music industry is any indication, then perhaps the publishing industry will start moving towards all-you-can-eat, cloud-based services. Few services like that, on a massive scale, exist here in the US.
However, a young Madrid-based startup may represent the future. 24Symbols is trying to become the Spotify of e-books.
"I want to watch a movie? Why download it when I can just go to a place like Hulu or Netflix and see it streamed?" Justo Hidalgo, co-founder of 24symbols, told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle last year. "So we believe that's something that's starting to happen in the book industry. I mean, we know that because many people read on-screen and many people read without needing to own the content that they have, so that's what we call like the change, or the shift from the book as a product to book as a service."


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Comments Question: Who are your biggest Studs (and Duds) from Week 2? (Also: Who is the best 2-0 team in the NFL? What does your Top 5 look like?)
After Week 2, I always like to look at the conventional wisdom after Week 1 to see how it's been modified, now that we've doubled our data points:
(Games involving 2-0 teams listed first. Using this first entry as a jump-off, which among the 2-0 teams is the best team in the NFL right now?)
Chargers 40, Titans 7
Bolts 1-0 CW: Rivers does enough
Bolts 2-0 CW: Best team in NFL?
Titans 0-1 CW: Better than this
Titans 0-2 CW: A. Peterson can help
Extra note: There's something to this "Who is the best team in the NFL?" question. My first instinct was
Here's a simplistic debate-settler: If the Bears offered Rex Grossman to the Chargers for Phil Rivers straight up, would you do it as Chargers GM? If so, the Bears are the better team right now. If not, the Chargers.
Vikings 16, Panthers 13
Vikings 1-0 CW: Is the ship really righted?
Vikings 2-0 CW: Childress for Coach of Year!
Panthers 0-1 CW: Week 1 loss a fluke
Panthers 0-2 CW: About that Super Bowl...
Extra note: Who knew that Ryan Longwell was the best QB in the stadium? (Hell, the Packers could use him right about now.)
Bears 34, Lions 7
Bears 1-0 CW: Defense is awesome
Bears 2-0 CW: Grossman is awesome
Lions 0-1 CW: Offense is sputtering
Lions 0-2 CW: Defense is weak, too
Extra note: If you're looking for Rex Grossman as a waiver pick-up in your fantasy league this morning, you're probably 18 hours too late.
Bengals 34, Browns 17
Bengals 1-0 CW: NFL's most balanced?
Bengals 2-0 CW: AFC North rules, Part 1
Browns 0-1 CW: Maybe next year
Browns 0-2 CW: Maybe, say, 2010
Extra note:
Colts 43, Texans 24
Colts 1-0 CW: Is Peyton still rusty?
Colts 2-0 CW: "400 yards, bitches!"
Texans 0-1 CW: Need more than Mario
Texans 0-2 CW: Need, say, 4 Marios
Extra note: Unless Reggie Bush was going to play both ways, the Texans' problems against the Colts wouldn't have been helped by having him.
Saints 34, Packers 27
Saints 1-0 CW: Feel-good story of '06!
Saints 2-0 CW: Say it: Playoff hopes!
Packers 0-1 CW: Brett Favre sucks
Packers 0-2 CW: Nah, the D sucks worse
Extra note: It's not that Brett Favre totally sucks, per se; it's that the season is a complete debacle... already. (And, if you watched Saturday, it ain't like Brady Quinn is gonna be the answer.)
Ravens 28, Raiders 6
Ravens 1-0 CW: Are they THAT good?
Ravens 2-0 CW: AFC North rules, Part 2
Raiders 0-1 CW: Gonna be a long year
Raiders 0-2 CW: Just fire Art Shell now
Extra note: No one saw the Ravens coming. Let's see how they do against teams with slightly better offenses than the impotent Raiders and Bucs. (And again, Brady Quinn ain't the answer.)
Falcons 14, Bucs 3
Falcons 1-0 CW: Vick still overrated QB
Falcons 2-0 CW: Yeah? So? (127 rush yds)
Bucs 0-1 CW: Wow, the offense is bad
Bucs 0-2 CW: No, it's REALLY bad...
Extra note: 306 rushing yards a Birds team record. Who needs a QB who can pass when you can grind it out like that?
Pats 24, Jets 17
Pats 1-0 CW: Lucky to beat the Bills
Pats 2-0 CW: Most shaky 2-0 team?
Jets 1-0 CW: Mangini is the Man
Jets 1-1 CW: But Beli is the Daddy
Extra note: If you think about this, based on pre-season expectations, the Jets totally overachieved with this result.
Seahawks 21, Cardinals 10
Hawks 1-0 CW: NFC jinx?
Hawks 2-0 CW: Stop yer whinin'.
Cards 1-0 CW: It's 'Zona's year!
Cards 1-1 CW: Playoffs still a stretch
Extra note: I was so so SO wrong when I picked the Cards to win this game. I don't know what I was thinking. Sorry 'bout that.
Bills 16,
Dolphins 0-1 CW: Drew tough first game
Dolphins 0-2 CW: '06 "trendy" pick a dud
Bills 0-1 CW: Suck!
Bills 1-1 CW: Sack!
Extra note: Watch how fast that Dolphins-as-breakout-team bandwagon collapses with the dreaded 0-2 start.
Giants 30, Eagles 24
Giants 0-1 CW: Eli's no Peyton...
Giants 1-1 CW: ...But comeback was clutch
Eagles 1-0 CW: No T.O. = Big win
Eagles 0-1 CW: Yes O.T. = Tough loss
Extra note: Did Eli and Company really win this game? Or did the Eagles simply choke it away? I'd prefer the latter interpretation.
49ers 20, Rams 13
49ers 0-1 CW: On the right track?
49ers 1-1 CW: Future playoff tem?
Rams 1-0 CW: All points from kicker?
Rams 1-1 CW: Justified Wk 1 concern
Extra note: You know you're in trouble early in your rookie season as head coach when you make fans pine for Mike Martz.
Broncos 9, Chiefs 6
Broncos 0-1 CW: Offense looks bad in L
Broncos 1-1 CW: Same offense, but a W
Chiefs 0-1 CW: Is it really this bad?
Chiefs 0-2 CW: Actually, it's worse
Extra note: I can't even imagine how bad fans in
Cowboys 27, Redskins 10
Cowboys 0-1 CW: QB controversy?
Cowboys 1-1 CW: Who needs T.O.?
Skins 0-1 CW: Yes, O is that bad
Skins 0-2 CW: FireAlSaunders.com?
Extra note: Who's got that stat handy about a team's chances of making the NFL playoffs after an 0-2 start? Someone fax it to Gibbs.
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The World's Worst DK
My history with Death Knight characters is pretty simple: I don't play them. I created one on my current server an age ago, to check out the local culture. I leveled her through the DK starting zone while keeping one eye on my prospective guild. I wanted to know who was online at what times, I wanted to see what the economy was like, and just generally get a feel for the server. This Death Knight became my bank alt after I parked her in a city, and was later deleted in favour of making one of my level 80 characters into a bank alt. I didn't regret her loss, especially since deleting her meant that Millya is at the top of my character list.
But recently, I offered to help a friend out by being a villain in a storyline of hers. Naturally we aren't on the same server so I needed a character high enough level to get around. It was with some trepidation that I made another Death Knight and then proceeded to not level it. I asked Snack for some tips and he wrote me a long, comprehensive e-mail that covered speccing and rotation. I put the buttons on my bar in the exact order they were to be cast in. I began completing the quests to earn some talent points. I thought things were going well enough, but I had forgotten an important fact: I am the world's worst DK.
I death grip when things are already standing right next to me. I get flustered and just roll my hand across the line of buttons, forgetting the carefully calculated sequence. Just when I was starting to feel okay about things – having a few levels under my belt – I was sprinting around feeling all fearsome when I FELL OFF the Ebon Hold. Yes. There are no guardrails there. I fell right out of the dread floating base and plummeted to my (re-death) far below. Chagrined, I released before any other new death knights could witness my shame. I'm not sure what Arthas would actually say. "We went to all this trouble to make you a weapon of death and destruction and you die from FALLING? Come on, work with me here."
Still burning with the shame of that, I continued slaughtering the innocent and otherwise generally making myself a nuisance throughout the countryside. I was happy to talent deep enough into Unholy to obtain something I've never had before: a ghoul with a name! I was excited to meet my new companion in death nuggetry. He was just perfect. Or should I say, we were perfectly suited to one another.
Yes, Pebblethief. My frightening companion in crime apparently earned his moniker performing such evil tasks as…stealing pebbles. Not even rocks, just pebbles. From whom? Well, we'll never know. Maybe kids with a rock collection? We made a good team! Well, this is partially true, even though he caused me some unnecessary upset. If you've made a Death Knight before, you know the part where you are told to go and dispatch one of your own kind. This varies slightly from one race to another, with words carefully calculated to absolutely devastate you unless you have a heart made of…pebbles.
Here was my encounter. It's been so long since my first DK that I screen-shotted the text. I wanted to have it in case I ever wanted to work it into a draenei-related post later on. Yes, that is a mage addon in my UI, blinking frantically to tell me: You don't have any mana gems! I'm not sure it's possible for you to not have any mana gems! Are you even a mage? What's WRONG WITH YOU.
So I suffered through the speech. "They've tried to drain you of everything that made you a righteous force of reckoning. Every last ounce of good…Everything that made you a draenei!" I knew I was going to have to kill this guy, but at least I could sort of cringe through it and then never think of it again. Except that when the time came…he died, and I didn't get quest credit. I was confused. I ran back to the questgiver. I checked my quest log. Nope, definitely no credit for having killed Valok the Righteous. I waited for him to respawn. I did it again, muttering under my breath, and again I didn't get quest credit. I dropped the quest and ran back to the questgiver to make sure I had the right quest and why are you people tormenting me by making me kill draenei over and over again. A third time and STILL nothing, when Voss casually walked by and said, "Oh, look, your ghoul is killing him too quickly. Or maybe it's just that you really like killing draenei so you wanted to do it again, and again…"
Ugh. He was completely right, and dismissing Pebblethief before attempting this horrible task did the trick. Poor Valok, I'm sorry. I run with a different crowd now.
Pebblethief, my trusty ghoul. We quested along together right up until the point where I was going to hide in a minecart, sneak onto a ship and wreak havoc. I should preface this by saying that I don't play pet classes very often. I realized my mistake too late. I hopped into the minecart and it began to move. Pebblethief blithely followed along as my mine cart was towed onto the ship. A chill ran down my spine as I realized what was about to happen. I couldn't unsummon him, and a whole crowd of elites awaited. (I'm not going to say anything about the relative intelligence of the Scarlets, who weren't suspicious about a mine cart being chased by a ghoul.) Alas, poor Pebblethief, a ghoul cut down before his time. May you live (again) in gentler times, my friend. Preferably with a DK who isn't a complete noobcake and will remember to unsummon you before embarking on any "secret missions."
I'm good with artillery, though, so the mission on the ship went off without a hitch. I obtained a new ghoul afterwards with a forgettable name and continued questing towards DK freedom. Everything was going fairly according to plan (thanks to Snack's instructions) and I was nearing the big dramatic scene at Light's Hope Chapel. I waited patiently for the battle to begin, and then began slaughtering the forces of Light with abandon. It was fun, and then it was dramatic, but there was a problem. Once the actual talking scenes begin, everyone is supposed to go neutral and wait for their betters to finish being dramatic. Well, this guy didn't get the message. (p.s. This whole scene is better if you listen to this music at the same time, much thanks to Rades).
You may have noticed, he's also a boss. So I ran up to stand with my undead buddies and listen to what was happening – he pulled out of the pack, ran over and one-shot me. (I'm only level 58!) Thinking he'd be sated by my needless slaughter, I quickly released and ran back to my corpse so that I wouldn't miss the scene. He was still there, and he casually cut me down again. This time I spirit rezzed, so that I could come back on my
trusty steed dead horse thing and stand a snowball's chance of actually running away from him before he killed me again.
People with skulls on their nameplates have a really large aggro radius when you are level 58. He began to chase me, the entire time this was going on. "He's sent you and your death knights to meet their doom, Darion!" Imagine, extremely dramatic scene, very important lore figures…and one jackass death knight on a horse sprinting CIRCLES around everyone present with Lord Maxwell Tyrosus hot on her tail. I ran this way, large, looping circles (trying to stay near enough to still get quest credit at the end) throughout the entire scene. Even when the talking was over and I had to go and pick up the quest to learn the Death Gate spell – even then, he didn't relent! I had to kite him far away from the chapel so that I'd have enough lead time to turn in and pick up the quest before he could reach and kill me.
I can just imagine the irritation from all these high-ranking death knights and paladins.
"What is that one doing, Mograine?"
"Oh, you know, sometimes their brains have started to rot a little… Stop that, will you?" (Gallop, gallop)
"Tyrosus, why are you chasing her? Stand down, man!"
"Death knight scum! /froths"
"Oh, forget about it, let them play, we've got to do this scene. Ahem– You have been gone a long time, Father."
Me: *whimper*
I completed the rest of the quests with resurrection sickness, the debuff falling off just in time for me to go to Stormwind and get pelted with fruit. I have a question about that, actually. The spitting, that I can understand. That's easy. But why do all these Stormwind guards just happen to have pockets full of rotten fruit? It stretches my suspension of disbelief a little. Is it yesterday's lunch, just ripe for death knight pelting? Why do they ALL have it?
Death Knights can't catch a break. Now that mine is level 58, she'll only be venturing out to help with Rhoelyn's story, and I think it's time that I accept – I just wasn't meant to level a Death Knight! Just be happy you'll never run into me in an instance. It could be ME on the other side of LFD.


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After being clonked over the head in 1944's "Murder, My Sweet," Raymond Chandler's immortal private eye Philip Marlowe wryly narrated the experience of being knocked out: "A black pool opened up at my feet. I jumped in."
In "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For," a belated, 3-D sequel to 2005's "Sin City," cultishly-adored graphic novelist Frank Miller and genre-exploiting director Robert Rodriguez have again jumped right into the same dark abyss Dick Powell's Marlowe fell into, into the same noir sea — or, at least, some hyper-stylized version of it. This is hardboiled on heroin.
Both "Sin City" movies are double layers of aesthetic idolatry: Miller, famed for his "Dark Knight" reimagining of Batman, worships at the pulp altar of Chandler and Mickey Spillane, while Rodriguez is slavishly devoted to turning Miller's two-dimensional drawings into cinematic flesh. (Miller's name precedes the film's title and he shares directing credit with Rodriguez.) They each approach their tasks with gusto that can only be admired, even if the results can't.
Like its predecessor, "A Dame to Kill For" was made with an almost entirely digital palate, placing actors — Mickey Rourke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Eva Green — on a starkly black-and-white canvas in a fictional (but very Los Angeles-like) permanent-midnight metropolis of rampant crime, extreme brutality and skin-baring luridness. It's described with tough-guy poetry like: "the kind of place your father doesn't want to talk about."
Stitched together are a grotesque handful of overlapping revenge tales carried out by thin stereotypes: a stripper (Alba) bent on killing a corrupt politician (the magnetic, teeth-clenching Powers Boothe); a pained loner (Brolin) caught in the spell of a Medusa-like femme fatale (Green, her green eyes aflame); a gambler (Gordon-Levitt) aiming to, at the poker table, humble the father (again Boothe's senator) who abandoned him. Rourke, with an exaggerated rock of a face and a trench coat for a cape, is a kind of overseer and always-game enforcer.
The best thing about the shadowy digital landscape is that it brings the focus even more sharply on the actors' faces. As a murderous adulterer, Ray Liotta's eyes are even buggier, which didn't seem possible.
It's a nihilistic nightmare of a world. Glimmers of hope or love were long ago extinguished, and to say the place gets tiresome would be an understatement. Miller proudly wallows in the moral emptiness, which might actually haunt if it had anything about life in it that wasn't cribbed from pulp clichés.
There are gestures to empowered women (Alba gets a gun in this one, and Rosario Dawson again reigns over the "Old Town" all-female gang) but they ring hollow amid the otherwise overbearingly juvenile presentation of women as scantily clad objects of fetish.
As an exercise in stylistic verisimilitude, the two (extremely similar) "Sin City" films are at least interesting, innovative footnotes in two of the most widespread trends in movies: digital filmmaking and comic book adaptations. Rodriguez's near-total use of green screen to fill in the backgrounds was a minor landmark in painting with pixels. It gives the films a strange airlessness that makes "Sin City" initially bracing in its conceptual surrealism before the tedium of its shallowness sets in.
In a movie world so devoted to comics, "Sin City" tries like nothing else to faithfully transfer to the big screen the experience of reading one. But in the end, the filmmakers only highlight that such a union of mediums — strip and cinema — can lead down an empty rabbit hole.
Marlowe got out of his black pool. Miller just keeps falling.


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Under threat of subpoena based on the Freedom of Information Act, the White House confirmed yesterday that Barack Obama's cultural blackness was placed in a blind trust beginning during his campaign for president in 2008 and expected to last until he has finalized the financing for his presidential library.
The details of the unprecedented arrangement were released as the result of a video posted by the Daily Caller which set in motion a series of inquiries and accusations. In the 2007 video, Obama can be seen utilizing decidedly different speech patterns from those displayed since his arrival on the national stage in 2008. So jarringly different was that Obama from the one which Americans have come to know, that the White House was forced to disclose the blind trust just to avoid more damaging speculation about whether the more culturally attuned Obama may have been kidnapped at some point.
The cultural blind trust mirrors the type of arrangements utilized for financial assets, however it differs in that there are some exceptions. The exceptions include, but are not limited to, the following scenarios:
- ACORN video conference calls
- Family picnics
- Non-regional daytime talk shows
- Playing with pets on White House grounds
- Pickup basketball games not open to the public
- Interviews over March Madness bracket selections prior to the Sweet Sixteen round
- Hosting White House events where the median age of guests is 35 years or less
The above details are sure to fill many presidential biographies in the future. But none of them are what everyone is commenting on today. It turns out the Obama has, for lack of a better phrase, a cultural watchdog whose job it is to ensure that Obama's blackness is held in check to ensure his reelection. Towards that end, the cultural attache's way of notifying Obama that he has ventured into dangerous territory is to have songs from a certain artist piped through the White House.
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Today's Music: Neil Young – Keep On Rockin In The Free World
*Note on today's post: As with everything that happens to me in a bar, this is as true as I remember it. However, unlike most of my bar stories, I was sober for this one.
It was a Tuesday afternoon when I showed up to hit on the bartender.
I'd seen her a few nights before, working the Sunday night shift. This particular bar, in a working class neighborhood, was an Irish hangout. Saturday night, the place was awash in uilleann pipe music, cameraderie and pints of Guinness.
A friend of mine brought me there. I had a blast. That night ended early the next morning at someone's apartment, with a rum-soaked dash into the neighbor's pool for a quick dip before the neighbor came out in his boxers to yell at us.
But that's another story.
So after a bit of discreet investigation, I found out the bartender also worked the Tuesday day shift. I got there around 1 pm. The place was just about empty. I ordered a pint (mmm…afternoon drinking…) and waited for her to come back over so I could strike up a conversation.
While I was waiting, the guy who was sitting a bit down the bar wandered over and started talking. He'd started his afternoon drinking while it was still morning.
What followed was quite possibly the strangest real-life conversation I've ever had.
The Other Guy: Hello. Who are you?
El Guapo: Hey. I'm [name redacted].
TOG: Did they send you?
EG (looking a bit confused): Sorry?
TOG: Did they tell you where to find me?
EG: (Even more confused): Sorry, who?
TOG: Would it be easier for you if I turned around?
EG (Bewildered): Would what be easier?
TOG: To shoot me.
EG: (Lonnnng pause) Sorry man, I'm just here for a beer.
The guy makes one of those "oh, so that's how it is" expressions. I, still bewildered go back to my beer, trying to figure out what the hell just happened.
But The Other Guy wasn't done.
TOG: I've been here over ten years, but I knew they wouldn't forget. Now with all these peace talks, I knew they'd send someone over to clean up.
EG: Listen man, I'm just here to hit on the bartender
TOG: Sure you are. I guess it wouldn't help if I tell you about my life here since I've been gone…
So for the next while, we chatted. He told me stories of the old country, of his kids. He told me about the construction business he'd built up.
The drink flowed freely.
I must have opened my mouth and spoke at some point, because eventually, he realized I was too much of an idiot to be anyone's hit man.
The evening (yeah, we were there for a while) ended when he said he had to head off. I told him I needed food. He offered to give me his construction business.
I heartily agreed.
And that was the last I ever saw of him.
And the bartender? Apparently The Other Guy scared here and she didn't want to mess around with any of his friends.


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Actinic Keratosis (A Precancerous Condition)
What is actinic keratosis?
Actinic keratosis, also known as a solar keratosis, is a scaly or crusty bump that arises on the skin surface. The base may be light or dark, tan, pink, red, a combination of these, or the same color as the skin. The scale or crust may be horny, dry, and rough, and is often recognized by touch rather than sight. Occasionally, it itches or produces a pricking or tender sensation.
Actinic keratosis can be the first step in the development of squamous cell skin cancer, and, therefore, is considered a precancerous skin condition. The presence of actinic keratoses indicates that sun damage has occurred and that skin cancer can develop.
How does an actinic keratosis develop?
An actinic keratosis develops slowly and most likely appears on the face, ears, bald scalp, neck, backs of hands and forearms, and lips. It tends to lie flat against the skin of the head and neck, but appear elevated on arms and hands. Often, a person will have more than one actinic keratosis lesion. Actinic keratoses that develop on the lip are called actinic cheilitis.
The lesions are usually not life threatening, provided they are detected and treated in the early stages. However, if this is not done, they can sometimes develop into squamous cell carcinomas.
What causes actinic keratosis?
Sun exposure causes almost all actinic keratoses. Sun damage to the skin accumulates over time, so that even a brief exposure adds to the lifetime total. Certain groups of people are more at risk than others, including the following:
People who have fair skin, blonde or red hair, and blue, green, or gray eyes are at the greatest risk, but darker-skinned people can develop keratoses if they expose themselves to the sun without protection.
African-Americans rarely have these lesions.
Individuals who are immunosuppressed as a result of cancer chemotherapy, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), or organ transplantation are also at higher risk.
People with certain rare conditions that make the skin very sensitive to the sun's UV rays, such as albinism and xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), are at very high risk
Millions of Americans have actinic keratoses. Older people are more likely than younger people to develop actinic keratoses, because cumulative sun exposure increases with age.
Treatment for actinic keratosis
Specific treatment for actinic keratosis will be determined by your doctor based on:
Your age, overall health, and medical history
Extent and location of the disease
Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
Expectations for the course of the disease
Your opinion or preference
Treatment for actinic keratosis may include cryotherapy (freezing the lesion), topical chemotherapy (anticancer drugs applied to the skin), minor surgery, or other treatments. Nearly all actinic keratoses can be successfully treated, although in rare cases they may recur (come back). Continued skin examination after treatment is important, as people who have had them often develop new ones.


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Ahb Consulting can inflict huge losses on his clients and therefore, in our opinion, is a potential scammer. This factor, however, requires a lot of attention because it is often an area where people can be fooled by brokerage scams. For example, many fraudulent brokers charge high withdrawal fees that not only cover service fees. Unfortunately, many non-withdrawal brokers use these excuses as a cover to give the impression that they are not scammers.
If Ahb Consulting is a no-withdrawal broker, most likely there is a problem with their license. Working with an unlicensed broker does not provide protection in the event of broker fraud. When a broker has your money, he can do whatever he wants, as long as it is not regulated.
Although a fund recovery expert can help you get your funds back, it is always a good idea to research a broker from the beginning. You can make money through a broker, or at least pretend that you are making money, but that is not enough. The broker starts to create problems and you think you are losing money.
If you come across the next one with Ahb Consulting, it is more than likely that you have been scammed or involved in a scam. If you have been a victim of a scam by Ahb Consulting or any other broker, do not be confused. Try customer service while investigating a broker's case, but keep in mind that even rogue brokers can appear friendly and helpful at first and then show their true colors.
Traders should trade with well-regulated brokers such as UK or Australia brokers and reputable brokers. We advise all investors and traders to avoid Ahb Consulting and other Vanuatu brokers. We do not recommend trading with Ahb Consulting as this broker was suspected of being a scam. In general, the FCA advises UK investors not to invest with this broker.
However, the Forex broker does not have a compulsory FCA license to do this. The Forex broker is licensed by the VFSC, but this is not enough to offer financial services or products in the UK or Europe. Some fraudulent brokers restrict clients to their own platform, which may not be a platform at all, but a bogus one. On the other hand, if the broker no longer provides communication methods such as email, phone, text messaging, and chat, and has a support team that does not seem to understand the trade or is evasively asking certain questions, this could be a sign that a scam is or at least a low-quality broker.
If Ahb Consulting is trying to hold onto your funds, it may try to pressure you into another trade when you ask for a withdrawal. They may also say that local taxes require them to charge a certain amount of money for withdrawals. However, the tradition of accepting huge minimum deposits is extremely common among scammers, as their main goal is to steal as much money from a trader as possible before they suspect suspicion.
If Ahb Consulting asks for an above average amount, Ahb Consulting is more likely to be a scam. If Ahb Consulting offers more leverage than that, it is a sign that Ahb Consulting is a potential scam. Ahb Consulting hides most of the trading conditions and raises suspicions.
When browsing Ahb Consulting, the main problem was that the broker did not provide his physical address in the contact section. There are also no expected spreads and it is impossible to calculate the cost of trading with this broker.
If you want to get your money back from a broker, you should check if it works or not, or if it has been working for the last 1 or 2 months, so that it seems that the broker has been working for a long time, and this may be a mistake that the developer should fix in the near future. time so that your money can be released without any problem. A number of unregulated brokers like Ahb Consulting have been reported to cheat people.
If you have lost your investment in the Ahb Consulting scam, you can contact us using a chatbot. If you have been contacted by scammers, please visit our contact page. We have extensive experience working with regulators and brokers and can help you file a claim that can be effective.
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Our technicians utilize the industry's most powerful and advanced equipment to remove dirt, grime and allergens from your carpets. The steam cleaning method is the preferred carpet cleaning method recommended by most carpet manufacturers, including Shaw Industries, the largest carpet manufacturer in the world.
Environmental studies show that indoor air quality can be up to 100 times worse than outdoor air quality. Breathing contaminated air can be especially harmful to babies, elders, and people with respiratory and allergy issues. Combined with regular vacuuming, professional steam cleaning can ensure that your home is free from air borne contaminants that can cause health problems and aggravate existing allergies for you and your family.
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The Seattle-area intern fatally mauled by a lion at a Central California exotic animal park loved lions and tigers since childhood, "was absolutely fearless" around them and hoped to work at a zoo after her six-month internship, her father said late Wednesday.
"She was at ease with those big cats," Paul Hanson, a Seattle-area attorney, said of his daughter, Dianna Hanson, 24. "They liked her."
Hanson told The Associated Press that he dropped his daughter off Jan. 2 at Cat Haven, about 45 miles east of Fresno.
"It was just a dream job for her," he said, adding that she gave him a little tour and showed him the lion Cous Cous, which authorities said killed her.
Hanson said his daughter had worked with big cats before but told him she would not be allowed to go in the lion cage.
On Wednesday, deputies found the woman severely injured and still lying inside the male African lion's enclosure with the lion nearby, said Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Bob Miller. Another park worker couldn't lure the lion into another pen, so deputies shot and killed it to safely reach the wounded woman, but she died at the scene, he said.
Cat Haven founder and executive director Dale Anderson cried as he read a one-sentence statement about the fatal mauling at the private zoo he has operated since 1993.
Investigators were trying to determine why the intern was inside the enclosure and what might have provoked the attack, sheriff's Sgt. Greg Collins said. The facility is normally closed on Wednesdays, and only one other worker was there when the mauling happened, he said.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman Janice Mackey said she was unaware if any state regulations would prohibit an employee from entering an exotic animal's enclosure.
The lion, Cous Cous, a 4-year-old male, had been raised at Cat Haven since it was a cub, said Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Project Survival, the nonprofit that operates the animal park.
Since the 100-acre facility just west of Kings Canyon National Park opened two decades ago, it has housed numerous big cats, including tigers, leopards and other exotic species. It is permitted to house exotic animals by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and is regulated as a zoo by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Results of the last 13 USDA inspections show no violations dating back to March 2010. The most recent inspection was Feb. 4.
Despite state regulations requiring annual inspections, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife most recently inspected the facility in January 2011, when the inspector found it in "good condition" after checking animal health and features such as enclosures.
"We have to do the best we can with the resources we're provided," said department spokeswoman Jordan Traverso. "Regardless of whether it was inspected, that wouldn't have prevented this from happening."
Cat Haven's current "restricted species" permit, which expires in November, states the park was authorized to house 47 animals but had only 28. The animals must be used for scientific or educational purposes.
Actress Tippi Hedren, who founded the Shambala Preserve in Southern California, home to 53 seized or abandoned exotic pets, expressed dismay over the killing of the lion.
"It wasn't the lion's fault. It's the human's fault always," Hedren said.
Nicole Paquette, vice president of the Humane Society of the United States, said the victim of Wednesday's attack should never have been in the enclosure with the animal.
"These are big cats that are extremely dangerous, and they placed a volunteer in the actual cage with a wild animal," she said. "That should have never happened."
Officials at another big cat sanctuary, Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, Fla., told The Associated Press last year that at least 21 people, including five children, have been killed and 246 mauled by exotic cats in the United States since 1990. Over that period, 254 cats escaped and 143 were killed.
In 2007, a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo was killed by police after jumping out of its enclosure and fatally mauling a 17-year-old boy and injuring two other people.
Cat Haven has housed Bengal tigers, jaguars and leopards as well as bobcats native to the area. The facility's website says it promotes conservation and preservation of wild cats in their native habitats and offers visitors tours and educational outreach.
Anderson said Project Survival would investigate to see if the intern and the other worker on-site followed the group's protocols.
"We take every precaution to ensure the safety of our staff, animals and guests," he said in a statement.
Paul Hanson said his daughter graduated from Mountlake Terrace High School and was a 2011 graduate of Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash., where she majored in biology.
From her early childhood, "she had a thing for lions and tigers, especially tigers," he recalled.
During college, she worked at what Hanson described as "a sizeable estate" outside Bellingham that was home to exotic animals, including three tigers and a lion. It was there she learned to care for the cats, he said.


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While studying to be a pastry chef, I started working as a cheesemonger. In a restaurant, the pastry chef is sometimes given the responsibility of overseeing the cheese plate. While the chef might be well-trained in the art of pastry-making, it is less common for them to have in-depth cheese knowledge. As a student, I needed to get a job and I decided to kill two birds with one stone and take a job where I could learn more about cheese. Little did I know how much I would get sucked in to the wonderful world of cheese...
One Thanksgiving, I was taking the train to see my folks with a knapsack on my back and a brown paper parcel of cheese for the Thanksgiving feast. I stowed both above my seat and settled in for the journey. Just before pulling out of the station, a fellow got on board the train and, although he was in plain clothes, it was clear from his bag and his haircut that he was in the military. He sat down one seat over from me and looked nice enough. However, about 15 minutes into the journey, I began thinking to myself, "Gee, this guy really smells." The smell got increasingly strong and I began wondering how many days it had been since his last shower.
I don't remember now whether the fellow got off the train before I reached my final destination or whether it wasn't until I had left the train with my parcels in tow that I realized he wasn't the stinker on the train. It was me. Or rather, it was the cheese I was carrying. I totally forgot that I was bringing home a washed-rind for the holidays. Boy, did I feel embarrassed. He must have been having similar thoughts about me – wondering why I hadn't bothered to shower before going to see my family for the holidays!
Despite situations such as this, washed-rind cheese is one of my favorite categories of cheese. Yes, they can really be very stinky, but I think they are some of the most delicious cheeses out there.
So, what exactly are washed-rind cheeses? At their most basic level, they are cheeses that are washed with brine, or a salty water. Most semi-soft cheeses* are washed in a brine in order to discourage the development of certain molds or bacteria. Washing is done to varying extents and often results in a wet, tacky, reddish-orange rind. These are the cheeses mongers most often mean when they refer to a "washed-rind" cheese. Familiar names of washed-rind cheeses include: Taleggio, Langres and Vacherin Mont d'Or. The rinds of these cheeses tend to be moist, sticky and smelly. The greater the frequency of washing, the more oozy, the stickier and the smellier they will be!
The washing part of the process can happen by soaking the cheese in brine for a few hours, gently rubbing the cheese with brine or by splashing or spraying the cheese. The peachy-orange color of the cheese is the result of a bacteria growing on the rind. This bacteria, called brevibacterium linens, can occur naturally in an aging room or can be added to the milk or applied directly to the rind of a cheese, giving rise to an alternate name for this cheese grouping: 'smear-ripened.' Basically, as mentioned above, the brine-washing inhibits the growth of various molds and bacteria on the rind of the cheese. Brevibacterium linens is a type of bacteria that happens to thrive in just such a briney environment and, as a result, is given free rein to develop. I am almost hesitant to reveal the next little tidbit, for fear of turning people off of something so deliciously wonderful... This bacteria is actually closely related to that which you find on your feet.** B. linens is a coryneform bacteria that produces, among other things, methanethiol. Methanethiol is also found on sweaty feet and is a molecule that is largely responsible for the stink in stinky cheese and the smell of smelly feet.
In some cases, cheesemakers also wash their cheeses with alcohol – be it a marc (i.e. brandy) in France or a local beer in the US. There is a cheese made by Cato Corner Farm in CT called Hooligan – it is a great washed-rind cheese that gets washed with brine twice a week. Cato Corner has another cheese called Drunken Hooligan which is also a washed-rind, in fact the same cheese as Hooligan, the only difference being that it is washed with grape must and young red wine from Colchester's Priam Vineyard. A third cheese of theirs, Despearado, is Hooligan washed with fermented pear mash and Pear William eau de vie from Connecticut's Westford Hill Distillery. And, to round out the grouping, Cato Corner makes Drunk Monk which is Hooligan but rubbed in brown ale from Connecticut's Willimantic Brewing Company. The cool thing about this quartet of cheeses is that you can see the different impact on the same cheese of a straight-up brine wash, a wine wash, a marc wash and an ale wash.
In terms of old-world examples, classics in the alcoholic washed-rind cheese canon include Stinking Bishop which is rubbed with a brine mixed with perry (a liqueur made from fermented pears) and Epoisses which is washed with brine and a local marc de Bourgogne (brandy produced in the local vineyards of Burgundy).
Among my favorite washed-rind cheeses are Mary Burns' Ardrahan, Jasper Hill's Winnimere and Twig Farm's Washed Rind. Despite the fact that these cheeses all have the signature orange-ish rind, the three of them are quite different. Ardrahan is made in County Cork, Ireland. A cows' milk cheese, the paste is usually very yellow and to me the rind has a delicious saltiness that is evocative of the seaside. Winnimere, in contrast, is a spruce-bound cheese in the style of Vacherin Mont d'Or. Milky and lactic, the folks at Jasper Hill beautifully balance creaminess with delicate hints of spruce flavor. Last but not least, Twig Farm of West Cornwall, VT makes a washed rind goats' milk cheese. In my experience, washed-rind goats milk cheeses are not very common and offer a delicious variation on the washed-rind theme. What I really love about this small tomme of deliciousness is that it lets the raw goatiness come through while giving you hints of nuts - often peanuts - on the rind. As you can see, even within the category, there is quite a variety of flavor to be had!
*Note: the semi-soft category does not include cheeses that have white, bloomy rinds like Brie.
**For an interesting little tidbit from the British Medical Journal on stinky cheeses, b. linens, feet and mosquitoes, click here.


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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took the stage at CES on Sunday evening to unveil, among other things, the company's next-generation tablet chip: the Tegra 4.
By Huang's own admission, the chip is one of the company's "worst-kept secrets," and the core specifications are basically identical to those that were leaked last month: four Cortex-A15 CPU cores (along with an additional low-power companion core, which switches on when the tablet is idle to save power) take care of the CPU side, while 72 GeForce GPU cores boost graphics performance over Tegra 3.
In a side-by-side webpage loading test with Google's Nexus 10 (the current reigning champion of Android tablet performance) a Tegra 4-based prototype loaded a set of webpages nearly twice as quickly: 27 seconds compared to 50 seconds. It's worth noting that the Tegra tablet appeared to be running the stock Android browser, however, while the Nexus 10 was running Google Chrome—the latter browser has proven to have slightly lower benchmarking scores, so take these results with a grain of salt.
The chip will also include a separate 4G LTE modem of Nvidia's design, the i500 soft modem, which begins sampling to partners this month. Current cellular chips use fixed-function parts to enable certain technologies (3G, 4G, and so on). Nvidia's software-programmable approach allows each of the i500's eight multi-purpose processors to perform different functions as needed: the same silicon can provide support for multiple wireless technologies, which greatly cuts down on the amount of silicon needed to provide phones and tablets with the different connectivity options they need. This modem is the first fruit of Nvidia's 2011 purchase of Icera Semiconductor.
In particular, Nvidia played up the new Tegra chip's photo processing capabilities. By placing the CPU "closer to the imaging pipeline," Huang promised that Tegra 4-based devices would be capable of real-time HDR photography and video shooting, fixing the exposure problems that so often trip up mobile devices.
Tegra 4's sheer size and power requirements mean that it's probably not destined for smartphones. That market will most likely fall to Nvidia's next smartphone chip, codenamed "Grey," which is also rumored to include an integrated LTE modem like the i500, though Huang didn't discuss this chip on stage at Nvidia's CES event. This will help Nvidia catch up to competitors like Qualcomm, who are already shipping SoCs with integrated LTE modems.
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