Satoru Iwata, the beloved president of Nintendo, died one year ago this week at the entirely too young age of 55. The occasion was marked by tributes and fan art and a genuine outpouring of love for a man who, perhaps more than anyone at Nintendo save Mario maker Shigeru Miyamoto, represented the kind of purity and joyfulness that gaming can achieve. And while Iwata’s final years were overshadowed by the embarrassing failure of the Wii U, we spent this week enjoying — okay, obsessed with — some other efforts that Iwata didn’t live to see.
Some people may be tired of hearing about Pokémon Go, but it’s easy to underestimate just how big it has become if you’re not in the industry or following it as media. It’s an enormous hit on Polygon ... but it’s also an enormous hit across Vox Media and, judging by the install numbers and cultural zeitgeist, just about every other platform (including political platforms) in the world. It’s unprecedented.
Update: Pokémon Go stories now the most popular on 7 of 8 Vox Media verticals— nilay patel (@reckless) July 11, 2016
It’s not just our audience (that’s y’all!) but it’s everyone that’s touched a Pokémon game in the last 20 years and then everyone that’s seeing one of those people walk down the street. It’s an army, and they’re loyal to General Nintendo.
This has been our world for a week, beginning last Thursday, and it’s been dizzying. So what story came along and knocked Pokémon Go out of the top traffic slots not only here at Vox Media, but at outlets across the web? Meet the miniature NES Classic Edition console.
This unassuming nostalgia play may not have the staying force of Pokémon Go, and was probably fueled in part by our catch-em-all dopamine highs this week, but the mini NES was another story that wasn’t just big, it was huge. Reader interest was surreal.
Here’s Wired’s Chris Kohler talking about the news shortly after he published his story yesterday:
Another clue: LOTS of traffic on the WIRED story.— Chris Kohler (@kobunheat) July 14, 2016
And here’s Kotaku’s Jason Schreier corroborating its popularity there:
@kobunheat 200K pageviews on our story - already almost as much as the Zelda announcement post, and it's only been three hours— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) July 14, 2016
And Ars Technica’s Kyle Orland:
@jasonschreier @kobunheat Same general pattern here. Google News seems hot on it.— (((Kyle Orland))) (@KyleOrl) July 14, 2016
My social feeds were dominated by variants of "I must have this" or "Nintendo won’t be able to make enough." Over 10 years after the first Atari Flashback system was released, becoming a staple of the holiday gift guide circuit, Nintendo is poised to dominate it. And there’s still Super NES, and Nintendo 64 and retro handhelds to tap into. Outside of the business implications, it’s fascinating that in terms of reader interest the only thing that ultimately beat Nintendo was more Nintendo.
The NES Classic Edition may not be for me ... but I’m still going to buy one. I find a lot of it disappointing, even ... but at $60, it’s also pretty irresistible. Which is to say the NES Classic Edition is going to make Nintendo a lot of money ... but it’s also going to bring a lot of attention to Nintendo’s immense library of classic games. With prominent billing on the box for some big names — including Kirby’s Adventure, produced by a then 34-year-old Satoru Iwata — Nintendo is able to capitalize on nostalgia like few other companies can.
Nintendo spent much of the last decade defending itself against the encroaching technology world. While Nintendo’s products definitely use technology, Nintendo is not — as anyone who has wondered, with increasing frustration, why Nintendo didn’t have a unified account system until just this year (!) can attest — a technology company. While that line of interrogation has merit, it often neglects what Nintendo does have, which is a massive audience obsessed with its characters.
"A few games do become mega-hits, but it's not easy," Iwata said at the end of his GDC 2011 keynote speech, just minutes before Steve Jobs took the stage across the street to show off the iPad 2. Here he’s talking about the competition on existing video game consoles.
"With such competition, even being noticed is extremely difficult — huge investments promise nothing. Now, consider this. The corresponding number of games available to download from app sites is in the tens of thousands. Game development is drowning."
He wasn’t wrong, but at the time, his comments were controversial. Iwata, and Nintendo at large, seemed unmoored from the realities (and opportunities!) of the day. His audience, the entire theater, was full of game developers, many of whom were banking their careers on what Jobs was about to show off.
But while it’s hard to argue that Nintendo wasn’t late to the opportunity, it did ultimately recognize it. And while the video game and overall app development communities brace for Pokémon Go clones, which will misunderstand just what it is that has been accomplished here, Nintendo has built itself — alongside its partners at Niantic and The Pokémon Company — a sizable technological lead in the space ...
... not to mention an equally insurmountable cultural lead.
Broken tech culture is seeing the success of Pokémon Go & attributing it to AR instead of a huge 25-year-old global cultural phenomenon.— Anil Dash (@anildash) July 13, 2016
So it’s been a big week for Nintendo. A historic week, even. But surely Pokémon Go will come down from these impossible heights one day? The NES Classic isn’t out for four months, so what happens until then? We’ll see Pokémon Go launch in more countries all over the world; remember, this hysteria is limited only to the countries with the game. It’s not even out in Japan yet!
But yes, okay. It will probably be slow and, I’m not going to lie, things are looking really bleak for the Wii U. But Nintendo still has 60 million 3DS handhelds out in the world and Pokémon Sun and Moon is coming out this November, a scant four months away ... four months of the world’s most effective hype campaign, reminding a planet full of one-time Pokémon Trainers that they still have a deep-seated urge to, yes, catch them all.
And there’s a new console, the mysterious NX, still left to tease and ultimately reveal. These things almost always work in a tick tock pattern. Xbox is down, Xbox 360 is up, Xbox One is down. Lightning rarely strikes twice, back to back (feel free to point out all the times it has in the comments below!) and, following the massive success of the Wii, and the massive failure of the Wii U, Nintendo is due a swing back to success.
Nintendo made the gutsy decision to show only a single game at its E3 booth this year — The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — so imagine everyone’s surprise when it was still the biggest thing at the show, with the lines and the hype and the reader interest to go along with it. The NX is due in March 2017, and Breath of the Wild is expected in 2017, and considering the length it’s been in development and the simultaneous release on the Wii U, I’d really expect a launch release window.
Which is all to say, despite an exceedingly rough patch for the Big N — a patch that has at least included the entire Wii U lifespan and arguably the latter half of the Wii’s as well — it’s hard not to see something unusual happening here. Nintendo has not only survived the great App Wars but has come out the other side in the best position it’s been in years.
... oh, and one last thing: Please put WarioWare: Twisted! on smartphones.


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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia again blamed Western countries for the war in Ukraine in a wide-ranging speech via video link on Wednesday to the five-nation BRICS summit, keeping up his attempts to rally the member countries to Moscow’s side.
Addressing fellow leaders of the group, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, on the second day of the meeting, Mr. Putin said Russia would assume chairmanship of the group next year and host a summit in the city of Kazan in October 2024.
Moscow launched its unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost 18 months ago, but the Kremlin has sought to portray the decision as a defensive move against a hostile Ukrainian government, and antagonism from the United States, Europe and NATO.
“Our actions in Ukraine are guided by only one thing — to put an end to the war that was unleashed by the West,” Mr. Putin added, according to an English translation of the live video stream of his address provided by the South African Broadcasting Corporation, in a familiar refrain.
Mr. Putin is the only leader of a BRICS nation not to attend the summit in Johannesburg in person this week because he is wanted for war crimes under a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. South Africa, which is a party to the treaty that created the court and would have been obliged to arrest him if he had traveled there, had asked him to stay away.
The summit has focused on whether to expand the club and how to be a counterweight to Western powers. The war in Ukraine, the prospect of a major BRICS expansion and heightened tensions between China and the United States have drawn unusual attention to the meeting.
BRICS members have seen it as the kernel of a diplomatic and economic bloc to counterbalance Western-dominated alliances like the Group of 7. Dozens of other countries have applied for entry, and Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Egypt and Argentina are among those considered to be at the top of the list.
For China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, the summit has offered an opportunity to cast himself as a leader of the developing world. Beijing’s support for Russia and its aggressive posture on issues like the status of Taiwan, the self-governed island Beijing claims as its territory, have alienated it from countries in North America, Europe and Asia.
In China’s escalating rivalry with the United States, Africa is an emerging battleground for global influence. Beijing has invested billions in countries that have long been ignored by the West. The result of that outreach has been diplomatic support in international organizations like the United Nations and access to critical minerals needed to power growing industries, like electric vehicles.
While not mentioning it by name, Mr. Xi took aim at the United States on Tuesday, painting it as a bully and a threat to peace in a speech that was read by China’s commerce minister, Wang Wentao, for undisclosed reasons.

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There wasn’t enough time or word count to explore either of their characters more deeply, and in the end, when they exchanged ILYs, I had absolutely no reason oht believe that they were really devoted to each other, and really in love. He was a sweetie, and I loved how he had been so in love with Regan since he was a young boy.
It will be fun to read tars story. Smith Rydell; liked him when he was Kid’s partner in Crazy Kisses. This wasn’t the most inspiring book in the world nor did it really have much of a plotbut it was definitely lots of fun. One of the Prom Boys ends up dead and Christian is framed for it.
Then they spend a month in the 4star hotel where they fell crazy in love with each other this is too is repeated many, many times — how crazy in love they were Twra one of the Prom King Boys who attacked Katy is killed and Chris is accused for that murder. If you look at it that way then I think you’ll enjoy the book a lot more.
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I don’t think I’ve ever been able to say that. I would have probably rated this book a three if it were only about Travis and Gillian, but I enjoyed the parts about Smith and Jamzen enough to give it a four.
Also I have no problem with love scenes, but adding to the fact that I was already skimming the secondary characters storyline, when we finally got back to the main characters, the author just couldn’t go straight back into the real plot, no I know I know I said I was looking forward to what was going to happen after the last book but I was disappointed.
Humph, General Grant’s mild mannered secretary, Gillian Pentycote, had been kidnapped, given an experimental drug that wiped out all memories except four, one of which is the renegade CIA agent that arranged the kidnapping but got away during the rescue, adopted her alter ego name of Red Dog is partnered with former model, Travis James that was taught to shoot to protect himself are now Can a book jump the shark?
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Review: Crazy Kisses by Tara Janzen – Book Binge
I’ve read several of the Steele Street books and liked them for their fast pace, their gritty depiction of heroes who operate just this side of the law performing secret missions for the government while driving souped-up classic cars, and their hot, sexy romance between the leads.
May 19, Crista rated it it was amazing Shelves: View all 3 comments. She spent an incredible month with him until he was arrested for killing one of the prom night boys. I’ve been trucking along with the Steele Street stories having a grand ol’ time, but I have to say that for me, this one was a speed bump. This book picks up two years later and we find her transformed into a killing machine by the SDF guys at Steel Street.
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Found them by accident while browsing at the library and what a lucky accident that was! I loved this book at least as much as the first one in the series.
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It seems in the 13 years they xrazy been apart anyone one they dated were held While chatting with a friend we have come to the conclusion this series is fluff, and I mean frazy in the best way. I didn’t like Red Dog, she was so harsh and focused. Kat was young and unable to stand up to her mother to be heard and Christian was sadly set up and sent away to prison. Open Preview See a Problem? Good guy versus Bad guy.
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Long fuel queues have resurfaced in Ibadan, as residents engaged in panic buying of the commodity.
This comes as an after-effect of the removal of subsidy announced by President Bola Tinubu during his inauguration on Monday.
Some of the residents, on Tuesday, said they wanted to stock up before the official implementation of the subsidy removal.
Dr Dele Awodola, a car owner, who was in the queue in one of the filling stations in the Ibadan metropolis, said that since nobody could predict how things would go. Hence, he had to struggle to fill his car with fuel.
“We heard the announcement about subsidy removal and we knew that things might be tough at first. So before the commodity is sold for a higher price, I decided to buy enough fuel for now,” Awodola said.
Mr Anu Olayinka, an entrepreneur, said it was difficult getting his children to school due to traffic caused by queues at filling stations.
“We had to take shortcuts to where we were going and even at that, major routes were congested and movement stalled for hours. It was so annoying,” he lamented.
Mr Moses Ariwoola, a commercial driver, said most of his colleagues were in queues at filling stations where they would get the commodity at the official price before it eventually goes up.
“All we ask for is respite whenever fuel subsidy is removed. We do not want more hardship than what we are currently experiencing,” he said.
It is reported that while most of the filling stations within the metropolis shut their doors, the few ones that were selling the commodity witnessed long queues, with some of them selling for between N300 and N350 per litre.


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Laurent Koscielny ‘considered leaving Arsenal’ this summer
Stephane Courbis, the agent of Laurent Koscielny, has revealed that the Arsenal defender considered quitting the London club.
“He started thinking about a possible departure from Arsenal at the same time as Arsene Wenger,” said Courbis.
" It was the right moment, the final moment to leave with the arrival of the new manager. "
“I had already anticipated this, with two or three offers that were starting to make us think.”
However, had the former FC Lorient man left the Gunners, it would not have been for another Premier League club.
“We were open to different options, China as much as France. He could not see himself playing for another English team other than Arsenal.
“Since the approach from Marseille last season, the notion of returning to Ligue 1 entered his thinking. It was a genuine possibility.”
Koscielny has resumed training following the Achilles injury he suffered against Atletico Madrid last season but is not expected to be available for selection until November.


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Three arrested for sling-shot vandalism in South Bay
Torrance police arrested three teens they believe are responsible for a spree of slingshot-powered window smashings in several South Bay cities.
About 22 businesses, homes and cars in Torrance have had their windows broken since Sept. 15 by marbles or steel ball bearings, said Sgt. Steven Jenkinson of the Torrance Police Department.
Similar incidents were reported in nearby Lomita and Palos Verdes Estates, he said.
Police arrested 18-year-old Cody Lunde, of Lomita, and two 17-year-olds Friday after using surveillance video footage to get a vehicle description. All three face felony vandalism charges.
Jenkinson said police do not yet have a full estimate of damages, but current reports are in the $5,000 to $10,000 range.
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Carlos Correa has been having a grand ole’ time with the Puerto Rico team during the 2017 World Baseball Classic. The Puerto Rico team finished Pool D and Pool F play with a perfect 6-0 record and faced The Nederlands in the semifinals with the chance of punching their ticket to the WBC finals.
Puerto Rico fell behind early because of Wladimir Balentien two-run home run in the top of the first inning. But Correa made sure that lead didn’t last long.
Correa rocked a 1-2 curveball from Rick Van Den Hurk well over the left-center field wall to tie the game at 2-2.
Statcast projected the balls exit velocity at 109.5 miles per hour, it’s maximum height was 75. and the projected home run distance was 441 feet.
If you’re more of a visual person, Darwen Willman has you covered with the flight of the ball, and the pitch location.
Correa with the MONSTER shot... projected at 441ft @astros pic.twitter.com/JjJHzVgFTN— Daren Willman (@darenw) March 21, 2017
Probably not the ideal location to Carlos Correa on a 75 MPH curveball... pic.twitter.com/VoFCQvDCFG— Daren Willman (@darenw) March 21, 2017

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Last week, the story broke that Drake had started seeing video vixen Dollicia Bryan. It would appear that tennis phenom Serena Williams does not approve of his choice in women one bit.
Drake and Serena have been very good friends for a while now -- there are even plenty of rumors that they were more than just friends.
In an interview with Complex Magazine he said:
"I really, really love and care for Serena Williams. She's incredible. That's someone I'm proud to say I know. She's definitely in my life and I'm in her life."
Anyway, the day after the story broke, Serena took to Twitter and sent out some Tweets that are obviously aimed at the YMCMB spitter.
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Feeling a little overly stressed at work lately? If you think you might need a vacation, you're in luck because the tropical Isle of Banoi is calling your name. I hear it's great this time of year and the beaches are really something to experience. If you can manage to evade the hundreds of zombies that plague the sands, you may even be able to dip your feet in the water or feel the warm sand between your toes.
Dead Island developer 'Deep Silver' has finally announced that they are, in fact, working on a sequel to their unique zombie survival franchise. 'Dead Island: Riptide' is currently in full development at Techland for consoles and PCs. This has squashed previous word of a sequel titled 'Dead World' that was rumored after Deep Silver filed a trademark for 'Dead World' in the U.S. mere months after the release of Dead Island. While Deep Silver has chosen to keep almost all information on Dead Island: Riptide a secret, they have promised an 'extensive reveal' later in the summer.
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Wednesday 6th June 2012 – Hampshire, UK/.. Deep Silver today announced the development of a new entry to the Dead Island™ franchise.
The next battle between life and death will be waged in Dead Island Riptide and is currently in full development by Techland for consoles & PCs. An extensive reveal of its’ thrilling new perils is planned for later this summer.
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One of best nights I’ve spent in Paris was at an underground supper club one winter’s night. We were taken by dear friends to a top secret location (address and details texted during the day of the dinner): we entered through a nondescript door and climbed some stairs. We came into a gorgeous Parisian interior, softly lit and elegantly decorated, filled with a few other diners and delicious smells. Introductions done, seats were taken and then started a flow of phenomenal dishes, I think 12 courses in all, all seamlessly set one after the other on the crisp linen before us. Wines went with every morsel we mouthed and at the end of the evening we were invited to donate as much as we felt was right (an amount was suggested but not enforced).
It remains one of my most magical dining experiences, one I long to re-live as soon as we’re back. But the fact is, with this sort of set-up becoming increasingly popular and pervasive, I mightn’t have to go so far afield. Secret supper clubs are popping up all over Europe and Latin America: apparently the concept has its roots in Cuba, where people would open their homes during the 1990s to earn a little extra income while avoiding government scrutiny.
In London, the trend has had a handful of underground outfits a year or so ago grow to close to 100 these days. Among the newbies is the Old Hat Club. I think this sort of eating appeals on a number of levels: the food will be good (and often adventurous: we ate some crazy good combinations in Paris); there’s the chance to mingle with strangers (but equally no pressure to do so if you don’t want); and above all underground dining delights in the frisson of its sheer secrecy.
Call me crazy but that hush-hush atmosphere is well-represented in this painting by Claude Monet: it’s called Interior, after Dinner and dates from 1868/1869. For most, Monet (1840 – 1926) needs little introduction: we know and love him as the leading member of the Impressionist group, the one who longest practised their principles of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation and painting directly from the object, often outdoors.
Here’s something fun I found while reading for today: Cézanne is said to have said of Monet that he was “only an eye, but my God what an eye!” The description fits this picture well, since it shows how Claude would neglect detail in pursuit of optical verisimilitude. Even though this is an early-ish work (before his Impressionism proper took flight), here he’s still after an atmosphere as opposed to fussing over form.
A man stands at the fire, leaning loosely on the mantel and seemingly looking in our direction. Two women sit facing one another: one’s engaged in some needlework, the other has her back to us. There’s an air of instant intimacy in the grouping, gathered off to the side of the snapshot. Two cups and a pot sit on the table and a gorgeous lamp glows brightly above it. Just before painting this, Monet had met Manet, whose work he had earlier admired. There is certainly the feel of thorough Manet modernity here, the fresh sense of actual life as it was lived in that day. Best is the shrouded sense we get: the demi-darkness that only let’s us in so far. A secret supper, if ever I saw one.


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Australia — The State Government ignored Victoria Police’s requests to upgrade the state’s ailing emergency communications systems parts of which failed during Black Saturday’s bushfires despite warnings that the community could be put at risk, leaked documents show.
Police documents obtained by The Sunday Age reveal police last year asked for money to replace the ageing Statenet Mobile Radio system, which became badly clogged on Black Saturday.
Police also wanted more staff and resources to improve the computer-aided dispatch, or triple-O, system, which was overwhelmed during February’s disaster. But applications to the Department of Justice for the 2008-09 budget were rejected.
The high-level police documents, which form a risk register that catalogues the force’s problems, specifically raised bushfires as an area where resources would be stretched. There was a risk, the documents said, of a shortage of trained and deployable staff to provide communications support in an event “such as major bushfires/searches/incidents”.
The police also named towns at extreme risk of having no radio coverage. They were Berwick, Beaconsfield, Pakenham, Upper Pakenham, Cockatoo, Gembrook, Warrandyte, Eltham, North Ringwood, Donvale and Mt Evelyn.
These radio black holes presented a “safety risk to (police) members and the community”, one document stated.
Sources have told The Sunday Age that the clogging of the radio network the backbone of the state’s emergency communications hampered the response effort to the bushfires, which killed 173 people. The system, which the police are responsible for, is used by the force, Department of Sustainability and Environment firefighters and some parts of the Country Fire Authority.
The documents reveal that police have, for several years, flagged to government that it needed replacing, yet funding was not approved. The triple-O system also struggled during Black Saturday, with some calls going unanswered. The Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority runs this system, but the police, as well as other emergency services, provide staff and expertise.
In the documents, police highlight confusion about control over the system and question whether the authority and the force had sufficiently trained staff to provide a reliable computer-aided dispatch system. The call-taking and dispatch systems, the documents said, were of “poor quality”. The reasons given for the problems included a lack of adequate budgeting to upgrade the radio system, a lack of staff to repair radios and run emergency communication services, problems in the organisation of the police IT department, and a lack of response from the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority.
The documents also reveal that the authority had been waiting for at least two budget rounds for funding to renew the computer-aided dispatch system. The Bushfires Royal Commission will scrutinise communication system breakdowns as part of its inquiry.
Police and Emergency Services Minister Bob Cameron did not answer specific questions from The Sunday Age about why the Government ignored police budget requests to improve the state’s emergency communications systems. Spokeswoman Sofia Dedes provided a statement about a record-high budget for increased numbers of officers and the refurbishment of police stations.
Victoria Police have refused to answer any more of The Sunday Age’s questions about its IT systems.
It was revealed recently that, in August last year, Emergency Services Commissioner Bruce Esplin raised questions about the triple-O service in his review of the April 2009 windstorms.
The CFA also had its own communication problems on Black Saturday with messages on its paging system delayed for hours.


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Join or Die is a 2003 compilation album by Amen. It was the first album published by the Refuse Music label and was limited to 2000 copies with the first 1000 copies hand numbered by Casey Chaos in his blood. The album features rare songs and b-sides, and was sold during the band's 2003 tour of the United Kingdom. In 2006, the album was re-released in 2006 with a run of an additional 2000 copies with, just like before, the first 1000 numbered by Casey Chaos in his blood.
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|2||Cracks Of Tomorrow||2:59|
|3||The Bastard Sons||2:42|
|7||Gun Of A Preacher Man||3:14|
|9||Resurrection Fixed Nothing||3:39|
|11||Die Diva Die||2:29|
|13||Die To Begin||3:12|
|14||Long Live The Plague||1:59|
|15||Nice To Be Here||3:27|
|16||Coma America (Ministry Mix)
Remix – Ministry
- Copyright (c) – Blind Serenade Music
- Drums – Shannon Larkin
- Lyrics By – Casey Chaos
- Management – David Bianchi
- Producer – Casey Chaos
- Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums – Casey Chaos
- Written-By – Casey Chaos
NotesRecorded at Various Studios.
First 1000 copies released on Refuse Music were hand numbered by Casey Chaos IN HIS OWN BLOOD.
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|CDJOD, CD02||Amen||Join Or Die (CDr, Comp, Ltd, Num, RE)||Refuse Music, Refuse Music||CDJOD, CD02||US||2006|


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Experiencing Helsinki & Finland: Experiencing Helsinki andamp; Finland Eeva Lappalainen 6.9.2006 Agenda: Agenda Public Transportation Sports Cinema and Theatre Music Galleries and Museums Bars and Clubs Out of the capital area Public Transportation: Public Transportation General Information Travel Card Journey Planner Railways and Coaches General Information: General Information A joint public transportation system between the cities in capital area Public transportation system includes: Buses Trams Local trains Underground Ferry to Suomenlinna City internal traffic and regional traffic City internal - EUR 2.00/2.20/2.40 Regional - 3.60 Travel Card (1): Travel Card (1) Two types of travel cards: Multi-user Travel Card = anyone can use the card Personal Travel Card = used only by one person, can be purchased by residents in the capital area Personal Travel Card has cheaper prices! Charge Travel Period or Value: Period = as much travelling as one wants Either regional or city internal Value = used to buy a ticket every time transportation is used Travel Card (2): Travel Card (2) To get the Personal Travel Card: Go to Maistraatti (Register Office) of the city you live in and they will register you as a resident of the city Go to the YTV service point of your city and purchase the card (costs EUR 8) You need a certificate from the Maistraatti that you live in that particular city (can cost few EUR) Load Travel Period or Value on the card and you’re ready to go! Student discount availability varies accoding to the city and student status Journey Planner: Journey Planner Journey Planner = Internet-based application with which you can plan your route by using public transportation Gives suggestions of the route, exact times when to leave etc. Indicates the place on map www.ytv.fi/journeyplanner http://www.ytv.fi/ Railways and Coaches (1): Railways and Coaches (1) VR – The Finnish Railways Operates services all major cities in Finland www.vr.fi Journey Planner, schedules, prices etc. Matkahuolto – The long-distance buses and coaches A way to get to the smaller cities and villages www.matkahuolto.fi Schedules, prices etc. Easy and cheap way to explore Finland! Helsinki-Kuopio ~50 EUR return ticket Helsinki-Rovaniemi ~70 EUR return ticket Railways and Coaches (2): Railways and Coaches (2) After paying the Student Union Fee all the students who are studying at least 8 months are entitled to the student discount on long-distance travelling 50 % reduction if the journey is at least 80 km (Matkahuolto, less for trains) Can be obtained by showing a student card If you don’t have a student card you can purchase a special student discount card from VR or Matkahuolto (joint card, costs few euros) Sports: Sports Spectator Sports Ice Hockey Basketball Football (mainly during summer) Do-it-yourself Ice Skating Skiing (Cross country and downhill) What do TKK and TKY offer? Ice Hockey: Ice Hockey Helsinki has two SM-liiga ice hockey teams (Jokerit and HIFK) Espoo has one (Blues) Games are played about twice a week Tickets cost approximately €13 - €30 (more for local derbies) Basketball: Basketball The Finnish Championship series is played both by Women and Men Several teams based in the capital area (ToPo, Honka, PuHu) Tapiolan Honka is one of the biggest and plays at Mankkaa sports hall Tickets cost €5 - €15 Ice Skating: Ice Skating If you own skates, you can go basically anywhere Brahe field (Helsinginkatu 23) in Kallio has skates for hire Total cost about €6 Skiing: Skiing Cross country ski trails are found throughout the area Cross country skis can be hired at Oittaa, Espoo and in Paloheinä, Helsinki €15 per day Two good places for downhill skiing near the capital area: Vihti Serena Cinemas and Theatre: Cinemas and Theatre Mainstream Cinema Arthouse Cinema Theatre (mainly in Swedish and Finnish) Mainstream Cinema: Mainstream Cinema There are two large cinemas in Helsinki, Tennispalatsi (www.finnkino.fi) and Kinopalatsi (www.kinopalatsi.fi) Tickets cost about €10 Student tickets (~€7.5) from TKY or from Kinopalatsi If you’re going on a Friday or Saturday night, book ahead - both cinema chains have online booking systems Arthouse Cinema: Arthouse Cinema Helsinki also has a number of smaller cinemas Bio Rex Kino Engel Tickets are a bit cheaper Helsinki International Film Festival Art School Confidential, Babel, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America www.hiff.fi Music: Music Popular Music Classical Music Opera and Jazz Music Festivals Popular Music: Popular Music Hartwall Arena The venue of choice for major artists (Bryan Adams, 50 Cent etc.) Tavastia Mainly Rock / Heavy Metal bands Nosturi Vanha Ylioppilastalo Tickets between €10-60 Lippupalvelu and Tiketti Classical Music: Classical Music Finlandia Hall hosts concerts by the Helsinki Philharmonic and guest orchestras Students can buy standby tickets for €5 in the hour before the start of the performance Opera and Jazz: Opera and Jazz Finland’s National Opera House is also on Mannerheimintie Student tickets start at €14 Both ballet and opera (e.g. Fidelio, Tosca, Swan Lake) Main jazz venues Storyville and Umo Jazz House Galleries and Museums: Galleries and Museums Kiasma Ateneum Suomenlinna Mannerheim Museum and many, many others Galleries and Museums: Galleries and Museums Kiasma €4/€6.5 students, free on Fridays 5pm - 8.30pm Ateneum Suomenlinna Mannerheim Museum and many, many others Galleries and Museums: Galleries and Museums Kiasma Ateneum €4 (€6.5) for students Free admission Wednesdays 5pm-8pm Suomenlinna Mannerheim Museum and many, many others Galleries and Museums: Galleries and Museums Kiasma Ateneum Suomenlinna Ferry covered by travel card Loads to see and explore (e.g. a submarine) Mannerheim Museum and many, many others Galleries and Museums: Galleries and Museums Kiasma Ateneum Suomenlinna Mannerheim Museum Open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays 12-16 Entrance €6 for students and many, many others Galleries and Museums: Galleries and Museums Kiasma Ateneum Suomenlinna Mannerheim Museum and many, many others Design Museum Taidehalli Museum of Architecture Bars and Clubs: Bars and Clubs Good to Know Student-Friendly Places for a Drink Cool Places Smart Places Good to Know: Good to Know Many bars have cover charges, and most have a cloakroom charge Age limits (often 24+) - take ID with you! Drinks are pretty expensive Closing times are from 2am - 4am Tipping is not expected Student Friendly: Student Friendly ESN-HYY Pub Nights on Thursdays Onnela on Fredrikinkatu Cheaper drinks with ESN card Amarillo 'Candy Wednesday' Botta Molly Malone’s Fever Onnela, Studio 51 andamp; the Club (occasionally) Places for a Drink: Places for a Drink MBar Kaisla, Teerenpeli Specialized on beer brands Kallio Bohemian area with many (also cheap) places Corona Bar (also pool tables) Erottaja Bar Teerenpeli Cool Places: Cool Places Saunabar DTM, Birdie Rose Garden Kuudes linja in Kallio (Uniq with Arctic Icebar ) Smart Places: Smart Places Helsinki Club Teatteri Eatz (Friday Night Salsa) Kaarle XII König The Club andamp; Studio 51 Out of the Capital Area: Out of the Capital Area Porvoo and Hanko Turku Tampere The North Tallinn and Stockholm The Baltic Region Russia Porvoo and Hanko: Porvoo and Hanko Porvoo Very beautiful old city 1 hour away by coach Christmas Markets a must Hanko Beautiful coastal city 1 hour away by coach Turku: Turku Finland’s Spiritual Capital Major castle and Cathedral Very pretty city with a relaxed atmosphere 2 hours by train ~ €25 return Tampere: Tampere The Manchester of Finland Lots of interesting sights the Lenin Museum Särkänniemi Amusement Park 2 hours by train ~ €25 return The North: The North Biggest cities are Rovaniemi and Oulu The arctic circle is at Rovaniemi (12 hours away by train) Lots of ski resorts (Ylläs, Koli) Tallinn and Stockholm: Tallinn and Stockholm Several companies operate ferries to the cities Tallinn: Tallink, Linda Line, Silja Line Stockholm: Viking Line, Silja Line Tallinn is 2 hours away A nice day trip Stockholm is an overnight journey but that’s part of the fun Goom 07 in February The Baltic Region: The Baltic Region Riga in Latvia and Vilnus in Lithuania Buses from Tallinn Ryanair operates a route to Riga from Tampere Beautiful places also around the capitals Pärnu and Tartu in Estonia Kaunas and 'beach cities' in Lithuania Russia: Russia St. Petersburg just 5 hours away by bus or by train Lots to see and wonder Moscow further away but still accessible by train (and plane) Visa needed Easiest to obtain through travel agency ESN-TKY trip to St. Petersburg Conclusions: Conclusions Get out and discover Helsinki! Try new things!

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After directing Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters for Paramount Pictures, Tommy Wirkola returned to his roots – and the Sundance Film Festival – with a sequel to his zombie splatterfest that left Ryan Daley soaked in blood.
In Dead now 2: Dead V.s Red, the new film follows the sole survivor of a Nazi zombie attack who battles an even larger army of Zombies with the help of the Zombie Squad, a professional gang of zombie killers from the US.
In Daley’s review he explains that Dead Snow 2 is “a sequel that’s even bigger and badder than the original, an undead smackdown that generated enough audience jeers and cheers to rival early Peter Jackson.”
“Dead Snow 2 is Dead Alive redux,” he adds, “a textbook example of a talented director using extreme violence as a cathartic safety valve.
“Grab the popcorn and a barf bag and prepare to giggle your ass off.”
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Bill O'Reilly called out "Glee" for encouraging teenagers to experiment with "alternative lifestyles" on Thursday night.
The Fox News host was discussing the show's message with guests Gretchen Carlson and Jeanine Pirro. He began by saying that "Glee" was a "good show" with "lots of talent" and "positive messages." However, he took issue with what he said was the program's "recurring theme that alternative lifestyles may be a big positive."
After watching a clip of one character cross-dressing, guest Gretchen Carlson heaved a huge sigh. "Here we go again, pandering to .3% of the American population that considers themselves transgender," she said. "Now I get to explain this to my 8-year-old, if i want her to see a nice family show with some nice music."
She also took issue with a storyline about two cheerleaders who are lesbians, and two seniors who are engaged to be married. "[The show seems] to have a positive message about hopes and dreams and taking risks," Carlson opined. "But why do they have to come up with these wild story lines to prove their point? I don’t get it."
O'Reilly said that the problem was that the storylines, like the one featuring two students making a sex tape, were unrealistic. Kids "might go out and experiment with this stuff," he warned.
Pirro was extremely skeptical. "Do you really think this kind of thing is contagious?" she asked incredulously.
Carlson interjected, saying that watching "Glee" wouldn't change someone's sexuality, but would encourage experimentation.
"I wholeheartedly believe in today's society that kids are experimenting with homosexuality," she stressed. "We see it in celebrities who maybe just do it on the side, and it may be drug-fueled."
Speaking to Pirro, O'Reilly maintained that "Glee" — which he said was "undeniably a good program" — made the issues dealt with on the show "glamorous."


This week at The Archive we have added 47,904 brand new pages, and introduced five brand new titles to our collection, which span London’s East and West Ends. From east to west, and from north to south, we have also updated ten of our existing titles over the past seven days.
So read on to discover more about the new titles we have added this week, as well as our updated ones, whilst we tell the story of the tragic Staplehurst rail crash, which took place in 1865 and involved one of the Victorian era’s biggest celebrities: Charles Dickens.
We begin our new titles of the week with the West London Times. This penny newspaper was printed and published by James Wakeham from Church Street, Kensington, and first appeared on newsagents’ shelves on 16 June 1860.
A Saturday newspaper, the first edition proudly announces how it had engaged the services of Viscount de Montgomery, ‘who will enrich the columns of the West London Times with his talented Prose and Poetical contributions.’ Meanwhile, the publishers of the new Kensington-based newspaper had:
…engaged the services of other Popular Authors, and it is their intention to make their Paper a First-class Family Newspaper, and never to allow anything to be inserted in its columns which would offend the purest taste, or prevent it from becoming a ‘Welcome Guest’ not only ‘Once a Week,’ but ‘All the Year Round,’ to every home in the kingdom.
So, as well as containing ‘interesting literary matter,’ the West London Times would include ‘all the general News of the week, as well as the local News of the Western District of the Metropolis.’ It had the lofty ambition of being ‘one of the best penny-papers,’ competing with the ‘high-priced Journals’ in terms of the ‘interest and information’ it offered.
The West London Times, therefore, contained the latest news from London’s West, with updates from the Kensington and Chelsea Boards of Guardians, as well as the Chelsea and Hammersmith Vestries. It contained general news items too, featuring ‘Remarks on Passing Events,’ as well as poetry, and the writings of an ‘able Critic’ who was ‘engaged to Review New Works of Fiction.’
Another James Wakeham publication we have joining The Archive this week is the Chelsea & Pimlico Advertiser. Costing just one penny, like the West London Times, the Chelsea & Pimlico Advertiser consisted of four pages and was first published in 1860, and ran with the full title of the Chelsea, Pimlico, and Brompton Advertiser.
Circulating ‘throughout the whole of Chelsea, Pimlico, Brompton, Knightsbridge, Fulham, Kensington, Hammersmith, Notting Hill, Bayswater and Paddington,’ the Chelsea & Pimlico Advertiser was said to sell 10,000 copies a week. A Saturday newspaper, this publication was filled with advertisements and ‘Wanted’ columns, as well as featuring local news from the Chelsea Board of Guardians and the Chelsea Vestry, and guides to nearby exhibitions.
Our final West End title of the week, and another early 1860s publication, is the Westminster Times. Costing one penny, and filling eight pages, the Westminster Times featured both national and international news, as well as ‘Parochial News’ from the local area, which contained the latest again from the Chelsea Vestry, as well as the Kensington Board of Guardians, the Chelsea Ratepayers’ Association and the Hammersmith and Fulham Union.
The Westminster Times also ran general news features, such as ‘The News Budget,’ which was a summary of news, as well as a column entitled ‘Town Talk.’ You can also find within its pages the latest ‘Telegraphic News,’ as well as a wonderful array of illustrated adverts.
From West to East now, and our next new title of the week, which is the East London Advertiser. The East London Advertiser was a Saturday one penny newspaper, which was first published on 29 November 1862. A lively and comprehensive read, the East London Advertiser featured national news, reporting on topics such as the ‘Distress in Lancashire,’ and ‘Destitution in Glasgow.’
It also featured international news, such as the latest from America, and more local news, containing a column entitled ‘London Gossip.’ Meanwhile, within the pages of the East London Advertiser you could find commentary on the latest fashions, poetry, news on ‘Recent Wills and Bequests,’ and various ‘Literary Selections.’
A new and separate version of the East London Advertiser was launched in Stratford in 1869, which continues to be published today as the Docklands and East London Advertiser.
Our final new title of the week is the Kingsland Times and General Advertiser. First published on 7 July 1860, this newspaper appeared every Saturday at the cost of just one half penny. The publishers of the Kingsland Times and General Advertiser aimed to supply ‘a want which has long been felt, and is everyday becoming more urgent.’
They explained in the newspaper’s first edition how:
Without confining our attention to matters purely local, nothing will be omitted, which will bear upon the interests or speak to the sympathies of our own neighbourhood. The Kingsland Times will be a newspaper in miniature, and something more. It will contain a comprehensive epitome of the foreign intelligence and the proceedings in Parliament, the more important law and police cases, occasional notices of new books and serials, the chief news of the district, and the literary, dramatic, and social gossip of the day.
The Kingsland Times and General Advertiser, therefore, had an immensely wide remit, hoping also to prove itself ’eminently useful [to] the tradesman and inhabitants of Kingsland and the locality by which are immediately surrounded.’
Meanwhile, Kingsland was a rapidly changing area. Located in London’s East End, it was once a small village, existing alongside other nearby villages of Dalston and Hackney. With the opening of Dalston Junction in 1865, Kingsland itself became engulfed, and became less of a distinct area, its name surviving in the local street names.
Back to the Kingsland Times and General Advertiser now. It contained local news from the Hackney Board of Guardians, as well as a ‘Weekly Summary’ of news from parliament, the police, and legal happenings. It also featured serialised fiction, such as a story entitled The Peril of the Law or Circumstantial Evidence.
By October 1860, just a couple of months after it was first published, the Kingsland Times and General Advertiser had ‘the largest circulation in the Northern and North-Eastern Districts of any Weekly Newspaper in London.’ By 1862 the newspaper had become known as the Hackney and Kingsland Times, and North-East London Telegraph, now filling eight pages instead of just the four.
That’s all from our new newspapers of the week, and we now turn our attention to our updated ones. Staying in London for just a moment, we have added nearly 20,000 pages to our recent addition the Croydon Times, whilst we have added pages from the 1930 to the 1960s to the Daily News (London). Moving away from the capital, we have also added significant updates to the Liverpool Daily Post and the Sheffield Independent, with updates also to one of our Irish newspapers, the Limerick Reporter.
The Staplehurst Rail Crash
On 9 June 1865, the boat train travelling from Folkestone to London derailed whilst crossing a viaduct at Staplehurst in Kent, resulting in the tragic deaths of ten people, as well as injuries to forty of the passengers. This particular railway crash was all the more infamous because amongst the passengers was Charles Dickens, then aged 53.
But what caused the crash that early June day? Who, if anybody, was to blame? We can find some answers from our new title the Chelsea & Pimlico Advertiser, which as well as publishing survivors’ testimonies, also featured reports from the inquest.
One such report from the inquest, which was held in front of Weald of Kent Coroner William Tanner Neve, gave the account from the railway engine driver, George Crumble. He had worked for the South Eastern Railway company, who ran the ill-fated train, for ten and a half years as a driver, and lived on the Old Kent Road.
Crumble gives his account of the incident, which was precipitated by the unexpected appearance of a signalman, warning of ongoing engineering works a little way up the line:
We left Folkestone at 2.36, and passed all the stations. I do not know the time I passed Headcorn Station, but I kept good time. When I first saw the signalman I was about 350 yards from him. He was in the six-feet way waving a red flag. That was about 150 yards from the bridge. When I saw the signal I shot off the steam, gave the fireman and guard the signal to put on the breaks, secured the engine, and reserved it.
But Crumble did not have enough time to safely stop the train, as he relates:
That was all I could do. I do not think I went over the viaduct at the rate of twelve miles an hour. I cannot say how long it took me to put on the breaks. I knew that repairs were going on, but did not know what they were. I was never cautioned. The signals at Headcorn was ‘all right.’ I do not know that the flag was exhibited before I saw it. We had a beaming sun in our face, and it was very strong. To pull up on that part of the line, at the rate we were going, and with our break power, I should want three-quarters of a mile.
Regulations at the time stated that a signal be shown 1,000 yards before an obstacle. Instead, Crumble was only shown the red flag 554 yards before he was required to come to a stop.
What of the passengers, though, who found themselves suddenly in deadly peril? The Chelsea & Pimlico Advertiser on 24 June 1865 featured ‘a graphic account…from the lips of a lady who was in one of the carriages that went over the bridge, but was miracously saved.’ She described:
…the silence directly after the accident as something awful. A wild shriek would have been a relief. But the carriages kept sinking lower and lower into the mud, and all was as still as death. This lady was rescued when the water was up to her chin!
He behaved in the most noble manner, and though terribly shaken and nervous, did all he could to alleviate the misery of the sufferers. In his hat he carried clean water to more than one dying person.
Indeed, the Staplehurst railway crash had such an impact on the author that he lost his voice for two weeks afterwards. He was rendered nervous travelling by train, and his son said he never recovered from the crash. Charles Dickens died five years to the day after the accident, on 9 June 1870.
But who was held responsible for the crash? The Chelsea & Pimlico Advertiser on 1 July 1865 reports how the coroner’s jury ‘brought in a verdict of manslaughter against the foreman of the plate-layers and the inspector employed on the spot.’ These were the men employed in the repairs, and responsible for the placing of the signalman. But the newspaper did not necessarily agree with the verdict:
The evidence against these men certainly showed a great want of caution, but punishing plate-layers will not improve railway regulations…The directors themselves should be held responsible for negligence, and then, probably, we should have fewer accidents.
And on 19 August 1865 the Chelsea & Pimlico Advertiser reports on the sentence received by the ‘plate-layer who was to blame in the Staplehurst railway accident,’ which was a nine month prison sentence. The newspaper again blamed ‘persons higher in authority,’ lamenting how it was a ‘pity [that] they should get off scot free.’
Whoever was to blame, however, the Staplehurst railway crash was a tragedy of the industrial age, when railway travel was still relatively new, and we are privileged to find such personal accounts of it within the pages our newspapers.
|Chelsea & Pimlico Advertiser
|East London Advertiser
|Kingsland Times and General Advertiser
|West London Times
|1860-1861, 1863-1864, 1866-1867
This week we have updated ten of our existing titles.
You can learn more about each of the titles we add to every week by clicking on their names. On each paper’s title page, you can read a FREE sample issue, learn more about our current holdings, and our plans for digitisation.
|1850-1851, 1854, 1856
|1934-1947, 1950, 1952-1961
|Daily Director and Entr’acte
|Daily News (London)
|1922-1923, 1925, 1927
|Liverpool Daily Post
|Morning Herald (London)


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Dew yield can be increased by artificial cooling at a cost of energy consumption. To examine how much enhancement in dew yield can be achieved by artificial cooling, and how this enhancement varies with meteorological conditions and collector materials, a dew collection experiment was performed over a month (April-May) in a coastal area of South Australia. Four collectors made of two different materials (aluminium and Teflon) were tested. Evaluated over the whole dew collection period, without artificial cooling, the Teflon collector is on average 120% more efficient than the aluminium collector. With artificial cooling, the Teflon collector is about 20% more efficient than the aluminium collector. The artificial cooling enhances dew formation close to 45% for the Teflon collectors, while the enhancement is over 150% for the aluminium collectors. The enhancement magnitude is dependent on meteorological conditions.


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By Kelline Linton, Staff Writer
A new questionnaire is coming to Abilene soon, one that is uniquely formatted for the Abilene community.
Connecting Caring Communities (CCC), an Abilene nonprofit organization that works to strengthen the city’s relationships and foundations, is implementing the Community Assessment of Resiliency Tool (CART) throughout Abilene during the first two to three weeks in October.
CART is a survey that measures connectedness between neighbors, access to resources like police, shelter and food and overall resiliency of a community. It is a clinical diagnosis that measures an individual city in four areas – connecting and caring, resources, critical reflection, skill building and transformative potential and disaster prevention.
Abilene is the first city in the nation to use CART as a tool for city-wide assessment, although it has been used with small groups in the past.
The Terrorism and Disaster Center (TDC) of the University of Oklahoma’s Health Sciences Center developed CART. The TDC was formed as a response to the Oklahoma City bombings and works to address how a community reacts to such crisis as school shootings, tornadoes or floods.
A community needs more than excellent first responders like firemen and police to remain healthy; it needs connectedness, caring and access to resources, said Brad Carter, executive director of Connecting Caring Communities.
“A community is healthy and more sustainable when people are connected to each other,” Carter said.
CART measures the relationships CCC is trying to build.
“What we’re trying to look at is how connected people feel that they are to resources in their community,” said Nancy Coburn, director of the Volunteer and Service-Learning Center. “Nothing else that we’ve done in Abilene has really looked at that particular aspect of meeting needs.”
The CCC is partnering with ACU, TDC, 2-1-1 A Call for Help, United Way of Abilene, Community Foundation of Abilene, Dyess Air Force Base, Hendrick Medical Center, Hardin-Simmons University’s Neighborhood Enhancement Center, Nonprofit Management Center the City of Abilene’s Office of Neighborhood Services and the Abilene Police Department to bring CART to Abilene.
“[The surveys] results are going to help all of us figure out what needs to happen in Abilene and help us measure where we are as far as resiliency goes,” Carter said. “A resilient community is one that is connected, where people care about each other and have access to the resources they need to live their life and respond to any kind of crisis situation.”
The 20-minute CART survey will be conducted through face-to-face interviews with 500 randomly chosen residents. Two hundred volunteers will interview in pairs for a total of three hours each.
The interview results will be compiled in two separate ways. One will look at Abilene as a whole, and the other will focus on 20-25 super neighborhoods individually.
“We will use the survey to access strengths and needs and assets,” Carter said.
The TDC is conducting the assessment survey for free; the Abilene community needs to only provide the volunteers and manpower.
Fifty seven volunteers trained last Saturday, but more interviewers are still needed. Anyone interested in volunteering should e-mail CCC at linda@wecareabilene. org, or contact Nancy Coburn at the Volunteer Service- Learning Center. Volunteers receive a free T-shirt, and ACU volunteers also can obtain five Chapel credits.

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I suppose I have been living under a rock.
Not sure how I missed the boat on this one but I went to Zumba the other night and we danced to two amazing songs....Gypsy and Waka Waka...
after class I asked the instructor who sang them as I could not wait to rush home and get them on my ipod.
I have heard the name but never her music.
I had just discounted her as another "Hot Looking" not but so talented performer.
Well, I have been missing out!!!!!!!!
She is amazing!!!!! I love both the songs I listed above and I am playing them over and over and over again!!!!!!! I am belly dancing to Gypsy in my cubicle at work!!!!! AWESOME TUNES!
I can't wait to download her other other songs as I am sure they are amazing too!!!!
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Chiturkins is a rhythmic children's story about a special little chick that is hatched out in the country on a farm. When he emerges and is introduced into the flock, no one notices how different he is until he begins to speak"”and what he has to say is so surprising. Read along to see the "Chiturkin" grow and find out how a new legend is born ...
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These wrinkly shar pei puppies are so cute in such a silly way! Enjoy the top 10 cutest shar pei puppy pics I could find 🙂
While you’re at it, check out some other top ten cutest dogs posts:
One of my favorite breeds of dog: the beautiful wolf-like Alaskan Malamute! Enjoy these mega cute puppy pics 🙂
Here’s a mega cute animal that I saw in the wild for the first time the other day. They’re Pikas, or “rock rabbits”!
Happy birthday to my favorite buddy! Here are the top 10 cutest Siberian Husky puppies just for you!
The tiniest of the tiny cute animals – tiny turtles! Enjoy the 10 cutest pics of tiny turtles on the internets!
Paddle paddle paddle qwack QUACK! Ducklings are the cutest 🙂
Japanese shibas are beautiful dogs. Here are 10 very cute japanese shiba pics!
Ferrets are so cute I thought we could use another top 10 post about them!
Not tiny by any means, but these pudgy manatees sure are cute!
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By Madison Fortman
Good food often comes in the most unexpected places. Restaurants on the side of the road in a random strip mall are usually the ones that end up leaving the greatest impression on both your heart and your stomach. New Orleans Take-Out is no different. Pulling up to the storefront on Monroe Street is pretty anticlimactic. There is no frill, no fancy sign, and had I not been looking for it I probably would have walked right past.
Upon entering the restaurant, there continues to be no pizzazz. You can tell that New Orleans Take-Out is here for one purpose and one purpose only: making amazing food. With counters lining the walls, there is very limited seating. While the possibility to dine-in exists, ordering to go is not uncommon, as the name of the restaurant strongly suggests.
I stepped up to the to the counter to look at a menu, which was rather overwhelming. Dishes of New Orleans specialties range from jambalaya, shrimp creole and blackened catfish to fried cod sandwiches and oysters. As someone who has never been to Louisiana and experienced traditional Louisiana dining, I was torn over what to order. I relied on the expertise of the helpful worker at the counter who advised ordering the Mardi Gras combo. This plate has a little of everything with a sampling of jambalaya, red beans, rice and shrimp creole. My friends who tagged along ordered Deb’s Barbeque Shrimp, which is simply shrimp sautéed in butter, lemon juice and other spices. All dishes can be ordered in either a half size or full and come with a side of cornbread or French bread. I opted for a half order with corn bread. I also had to order a side of potato salad because there was a little “try me” sign next to it on the menu, and I couldn’t resist.
My friends and I were going to dine-in so we took a seat at one of the counters and waited for our meal. It was only a matter of minutes until the food was brought out to us. Again, there was nothing fancy about food presentation, because at New Orleans Take- Out, the food speaks for itself. Taking a fork full of red beans, I was sold. While beans and rice are pretty hard to mess up, they are even harder to make memorable. New Orleans Take-Out did just that, though. The beans slowly cooked and creamy were great. The white rice soaked up the juices from the shrimp creole, which added additional flavor. The creole, which is rather hot, had my nose running but my fork coming back for more. The shrimp was fresh and the vegetables a lovely touch, especially the sweet tomatoes, which juxtaposed the heat of the overall dish.
The jambalaya was able to hold its own among the plate with its tender chunks of chicken. It was seasoned to perfection, leaving it plenty flavorful, but not overpowering. I should admit that the jambalaya dish and rice made for a little too much rice for my liking. However, when it comes down to the dish as a whole, I would not change a thing. It was a great way to taste some of the best things New Orleans Take-Out has to offer.
The side of potato salad, definitely worth trying, was fresh, creamy and not too heavy. The dish was a great way to cool down my mouth from the hot creole. The cornbread, dense and moist, topped off the meal, leaving me full and content. I should also note, my friends who ordered Deb’s Barbeque Shrimp licked their plates clean. A sign that Deb’s Shrimp is also a force to be reckoned with on the New Orleans Take-Out Menu.
New Orleans Take-Out, while not over the top, does food right. It sticks to the basics of making quality dishes that will leave you satisfied and coming back for more.

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Lots of things happened in 2013. President Obama was sworn in for a second term. We got a new pope and a new royal baby. Two bombs went off at the Boston Marathon and scared a nation. The Supreme Court stripped power from the Defense of Marriage Act and the Voting Rights Act. But these are all stories we've heard before, and if you haven't, you certainly will in the millions of "Year in Review" pieces set to be posted between now and New Year's. Over the next two weeks, our writers will instead preview the year ahead on their beats, letting you know far in advance what the next big story about the Supreme Court—or the environmental movement, immigration reform, reproductive rights, you get the picture—will be. You're welcome in advance for not making you read a dozen more retrospectives on Ted Cruz and Twerking and fiscal cliffs and shutdowns and selfies. Below, we tackle voting rights.
Anyone concerned about voting rights will remember 2013 as the year the Supreme Court neutered one of the strongest protections against voter suppression, the “preclearance” requirement of the Voting Rights Act. Sections 4 and 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) had required that nine states
1 1. Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia all needed to abide by Section 5 preclearance requirements. Three counties in California, Five counties in Florida, three counties in New York, 40 counties in North Carolina, two counties in South Carolina, and two towns in Michigan also needed to have new election laws approved by the Department of Justice until last June. (as well as dozens of counties) with long histories of voter discrimination get any changes in election law approved by the Department of Justice or the D.C. District Court. This preclearance requirement was an invaluable civil-rights protection. It stopped many discriminatory elections laws, including gerrymandered maps and photo-ID requirements, like those in Texas and South Carolina.
In June, however, the court ruled the while requiring preclearance was okay, the manner in which states and counties were selected was unconstitutional. While preclearance is theoretically still possible, Congress will have to come up with a new list of states for it to go back into effect. That isn’t likely to happen any time soon. In the meantime, states have been passing restrictive laws at a steady clip. Within hours of the Supreme Court decision, Texas announced its voter-ID law would go into effect immediately. Within a month, North Carolina passed one of the most sweeping sets of restrictions in memory, limiting registration drives, cutting back early voting and (of course) requiring photo ID to vote
But voting-rights activists still have other ways to fight back. In 2014, we’ll see a number of cases brought under an array of laws and provisions that can also be used to protect the right to vote. “This is a period of real ferment, with the potential maybe to fully realize our already-existing protections for the right to vote,” says Wendy Weiser, director of the democracy program at the Brennan Center for Justice, which has litigated a number of voting-rights cases. The outcomes of these cases will have an enormous impact on how the 2014 elections are governed and will help determine how the courts read the laws in the future. Here are some of the key voter protections still left in place.
While the Constitution doesn’t include an explicit guarantee of the right to vote, the 14th Amendment comes close to doing so when it declares, “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” In 2008, voting-rights activists went to the Supreme Court challenging Indiana’s voter-ID requirement. While the court ruled the law was constitutional, it also opined that states must justify any burden placed on voters. “The more serious the burden, the better the justification has to be,” says Justin Levitt, an expert in voting rights and civil rights at Loyal Law School in Los Angeles. Under a number of other voting laws, plaintiffs must show a “discriminatory effect”—that a law makes it harder for one group to vote relative to other groups. (It is actually the 15th Amendment, which explicitly guarantees that the right to vote cannot be denied to citizens “on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.” But the Supreme Court has said that 15th Amendment violations must show proof that the state intended to discriminate, which is usually very difficult to show.)
Still, Levitt cautions, making claims under the 14th Amendment isn’t easy. To show that a law creates a serious burden on voters, lawyers must find those people who cannot vote because of the new regulation or requirement, which is difficult. For instance, those who don’t have the requisite ID are often hard to track down, particularly because they don’t have ID. The argument is especially hard to make successfully before a law takes effect—how can someone have been denied the right to vote if the election hasn’t taken place yet? “It makes it really tricky to stop bad voting practices before they’re implemented,” says Levitt.
Since the 2008 SCOTUS decision, civil-rights groups haven’t pursued many cases using the U.S. Constitution as a defense, but many have used state constitutions, where the right to vote is often more explicit. Such cases, like Fourteenth Amendment cases, need not necessarily claim that a law discriminates—only that it interferes with citizens’ right to vote. In both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, cases alleging that voter-ID laws violate the state constitution are ongoing, and have already prevented the laws from being in effect during the 2012 election.
The Rest of the Voting Rights Act
With Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act out of commission, civil-rights activists may have lost their most potent weapon, but a number of voter protections remain in place. The act is concerned almost entirely with discriminatory voting practices: to win a case, lawyers must show that a state law is unfair to one group in comparison to another. Some parts of the VRA are quite straightforward. For instance, there’s a provision to ensure that election materials are available in all the languages that citizens need, as well as provisions to ensure disabled voters have the tools they need to cast a ballot.
The Act is also very contextual—violations depend heavily on the specifics circumstances at play in a state. “The history matters,” explains Levitt. “Engagement of minority groups matters.” That means a voter-ID law that’s legal in mostly-white Indiana may not be legal in Texas, given the latter’s diverse voting population and long history of discrimination. Moreover, the VRA includes provisions to ensure not only that voters can cast their ballots, but that they do not feel intimidated or bullied while they do so.
Most significant of all for voter-protection efforts is Section 2, which prohibits any rules that have a discriminatory effect on voters. Until the recent Supreme Court decision, voting-rights advocates mostly relied on Section 2 for gerrymandering cases. But now Section 2 serves as the best remaining vehicle for making other sorts of discrimination cases. A number of pending cases, including two in Texas and one in North Carolina, rely on such claims. One Texas case challenges the state’s new voter-ID law, while the other challenges a set of redistricting maps. The North Carolina case challenges that state’s recently-passed omnibus bill, which includes all sorts of voter restrictions, from eliminating early voting days to making voter registration harder, as well as voter ID.
Weiser says whichever of these Section 2 cases reaches the Supreme Court first will likely have a big impact on how useful the provision will be going forward—the specifics of each case may determine whether the Court issues a narrow ruling or a broader one. . Whatever happens, Section 2 cases are likely to remain labor-intensive by Section 5 standards. Under the old preclearance regime, states had to prove that they were not discriminating—now the burden is on activists to prove that states are. For instance, when the DOJ tossed out Texas’ voter ID law, it was because the state had failed to show that the requirement would not leave nonwhite voters with a greater burden. Now lawyers litigating the case must prove that the law will make it disproportionately harder for nonwhite voters to cast a ballot—which requires a lot more work.
Voter registration is both fundamental to voting and—increasingly—one of the most popular targets for voting restrictions. North Carolina’s omnibus bill limits voter registration drives. Also, in 2012 a number of states attempted voting-roll purges that disproportionately targeted nonwhite voters and newly naturalized citizens. Several of those attempted purges occurred shortly before an election, with little time for purged voters to reassert their rights.
To combat such efforts, civil-rights lawyers often turn to the National Voter Registration Act, or more colloquially, the Motor-Voter law. The law is most famous for requiring departments of motor vehicles to offer citizens a chance to register while they’re in the office. But the law also protects voters from purges by requiring that jurisdictions do voter roll maintenance throughout the year, but not within 90 days of an election. Florida stopped its 2012 purge when a lawsuit was brought under the Motor-Voter act.
The fights around voter registration also highlight another key strategy for activists—pressuring politicians. Online voter registration is growing despite the new efforts at voter restriction; 13 states now allow voters to register or update their information online, and another six are in the process of making it available. Republicans and Democrats alike have pushed for better integrating data to keep the rolls accurate and make it easier for people who move to have their registration move with them. In addition to fighting in the courtroom, voting advocates will thus likely start investing more in political work
Political organizing is important because, as Levitt puts it, “laws [can be] bad policy even if they’re not illegal at all.” For instance, early voting is not required, and therefore cutting back early voting days is, in many cases perfectly legal. But it makes voting harder and more time-consuming. In Florida, after the legislature cut the early voting period, some lines were hours long and the public outcry was so great that lawmakers quickly moved to restore most of the days. Similarly, the Ohio Legislature backed down from its proposed early voting cuts after activists promised to put the restrictions on the ballot and bring more attention to the issue.
“Making life difficult for voters may not always be illegal but if voters care enough, their representatives will listen to them,” says Levitt.
But that’s assuming that those voters can, in fact, vote. It’s a theory we’ll soon see put to the test.

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The concept in 2020 is to use advanced statistical models for isolating the most likely causes for a user’s particular behavior. People who are frequently writing product reviews online make more purchases than people who write fewer or no reviews. Nevertheless, this correlation can occur because of different factors. For example, we can say that the review writer is more loyal to the brand. They encourage brand loyalty for a better approach to increase sales.
A lot would be gained if businesses are capable of isolating the three most possible causes without an A/B experiment run. It will help product teams to prioritize and will simplify the decision-making process. It will also be useful for the companies because they will be able to allocate their resources for data analysis better.
Other Details of the Technology Forecasts
The threat landscape continues to evolve, simultaneously with technology. CISO at Tanium Chris Hodson claims that last year more than half of British companies reported cyberattacks. Titanium had the biggest concern for IT decision-makers within the organizations of the UK. The biggest concern of the coming year is not having enough visibility over the increasing number of IT endpoints, such as servers, virtual machines, containers, cloud infrastructure, and laptops. It left them unable and unaware to protect all systems. The sophistication of attackers rising is the next most significant area of concern. Employees were clicking on a million malicious links. The complexity of managing, virtual, cloud, and physical infrastructure is also a problem. Let’s see how next year will manage to solve it.
All this underlines the fact that successful cyberattacks usually occur when businesses fail to obtain professional security and security concepts rights.
Director of Strategic Threat at Darktrace Marcus Fowler is highlighting the ransomware ran riot of 2019. Across the US alone, more than 70 local governments were devastated last year.


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At least 24,000 people, holding torches, formed an 80-kilometer long human chain in areas near Braunschweig in Germany, which has decided to abandon nuclear power plants by the end of 2022, according to an organizer. The chain encircled three nuclear facilities including a temporary storage site for nuclear waste in the vicinity of the city.
Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest -- built with government subsidies and maintained with tax credits for every megawatt produced -- are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region's electricity grid says there's an oversupply of renewable power at certain times of the year.
"It's the one system in the world where in real time, moment to moment, you have to produce as much energy as is being consumed," BPA spokesman Doug Johnson said of the renewable energy.
Across the United States numerous nuclear power plants are having problems which include damaged tubes and small releases of radiation.
The Intel Hub News Brief, speaking to the RadChick, recently released a podcast on these nuclear power plants problems.
As workers began inspecting a leaky tube in one of the San Onofre nuclear plant's reactors Thursday, federal regulators said more than 800 tubes in a second, offline reactor showed wear and thinning, although they are only two years old.
And plant officials confirmed that sensors showed a tiny amount of radioactive gas may have leaked out of a building next to the first reactor before the reactor was shut down late Tuesday.
India is producing power from solar cells more cheaply than by burning diesel for the first time, spurring billionaire Sunil Mittal and Coca-Cola Co. (KO)’s mango supplier to jettison the fuel in favor of photovoltaic panels.
The cost of solar energy in India declined by 28 percent since December 2010, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The cause was a 51 percent drop in panel prices last year as the world’s 10 largest manufacturers, led by China’s Suntech Power Holdings Co. (STP), doubled output capacity.
Under a 1975 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) the USA guaranteed all Israel's oil needs in the event of a crisis. This Memorandum of Understanding is quietly renewed every five years. It commits U.S. taxpayers to maintain a strategic U.S. reserve for Israel, equivalent to $3 billion in 2002 dollars. Special legislation was enacted to exempt Israel from restrictions on oil exports from the USA. Moreover, the U.S. government agreed to divert oil from the USA, even if this causes domestic shortages. The U.S. government also guaranteed delivery of oil in U.S. tankers if commercial shippers become unable or unwilling to carry oil from the USA to Israel.
Oil prices jumped to over $101 a barrel Tuesday amid concerns that rising tensions between Western powers and Iran could lead to crude supply disruptions.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for February delivery was up $2.67 to $101.50 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 82 cents to settle at $98.83 in New York on Friday.
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Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1939. Small quarto. Gilt red cloth. Plates, facsimiles and folding plates. Hint of tanning from binding at endsheet gutters, else fine in glassine wrapper, and slightly dust toned slipcase. Item #WRCLIT43266
First edition. One of 650 copies printed. A landmark exhibition, being a selected survey of radical, dissident and utopian books, periodicals and ephemera originally published in America, from Thomas Paine to the 1920s, European works of significant influence upon American thought, and as well, American printings of those European works. CAHOON, pp.21-2.


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Back To The Roots – Colored Pencil Drawings From My PastPosted: July 10, 2012
Coming back to the roots of where I started in my art career, I decided to show some older pieces I created with traditional media. My professors described my art style in college as “painting with colored pencils”. I’d pull out my 250+ PrismaColor pencils set and disappear for hours, coming back with hand-cramps, the stubs of what used to be colored pencils, and a smile on my face. I would use extremely thin solid lines and a plethora of bright, saturated colors to create each artwork. Towards the end of each piece, I would go over the sketchy colored pencil with a white (or neutral colored pencil for the background) coloring over every line to blend the colors together. Each PrismaColor set came with a smudge stick for this very intention, but I hated the effect the smudge stick created. It was too wide and blurred all the lines instead of mixing the colors on the paper in specific areas. Using a thin tipped colored pencil allowed me to keep the crisp edges I wanted in some sections while blurring the colors in other sections. I found that when I moved to digital art with my Intous 4 Wacom tablet, the essence of my style remained.
Both of these pieces were done in 2005. Looking back, I find my work had a somewhat sinister quality under-toning the polished and bright look on the surface.

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