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Crunchyroll to Simulcast "BBK/BRNK" Anime
CG-animated action kicks off on January 9 at 7:30am Pacific Time
Joseph Luster
January 08, 2016 9:00pm EST (1/8/16)
Crunchyroll announced plans to simulcast CG-animated action anime BBK/BRNK as part of its winter 2016 lineup. Episodes will premiere every Saturday starting January 9 at 7:30pm Pacific Time.
BBK/BRNK will be available to Crunchyroll members worldwide except for Asia, Spain, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand; and German, French, Italian and Dutch Speaking Europe.
BBK/BRNK, pronounced bubuki buranki, is Daizen Komatsuda's debut as a series director, but he brings with him his experience from previously working on other hit shows like Kill la Kill and Attack on Titan. The show also features the voice talent of Yusuke Kobayashi (Su-Won in Yona of the Dawn) as Azuma Kazuki and Ari Ozawa (Chiyo Sakura in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun) as Kogane Asabuki. The series' CG animation is being produced by SANZIGEN Animation Studio (Miss Monochrome, Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life).
In the world of BBK/BRNK, It's been ten years since Azuma Kazuki has been in Japan, and upon his arrival he is taken prisoner by a group of armed men. Azuma is saved by his childhood friend, Kogane Asabuki, thanks to a living weapon she wields on her right hand, known as a Bubuki. Learning about these weapons, Azuma becomes a Bubuki wielder himself and sets out on a journey.
Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his new webcomic, BIG DUMB FIGHTING IDIOTS, every Thursday at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.
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The EARN IT Act Passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. Here Are the Next Steps.
This article was posted 07/08/2020. For the most recent information on the EARN IT Act, please see updates here.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is deeply grateful to the Senate Judiciary Committee which unanimously approved a stronger version of the EARN IT Act Thursday, July 2, in a full committee markup of the bill.
Introduced by a bipartisan group of Senators in March 2020, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act (EARN IT Act, S. 3398) is designed to increase Big Tech accountability for two hideous problems related to the sexual exploitation of children: 1) Widespread availability of child sexual abuse material (CSAM, also known as child pornography) online; and 2) Far too frequent enticement, grooming, sex trafficking, and sexual abuse of children on digital platforms.
EARN IT grew out of a July 2019 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, titled Protecting Innocence in a Digital World, which NCOSE helped organize.
As a result of reports of inaction and indifference from the tech industry—easily explained by the almost complete immunity enjoyed by interactive computer service providers as an unintended consequence of the Communications Decency Act Section 230 (CDA 230)—the Judiciary Committee leadership designed EARN IT, a bill that (in its original form) made immunity conditional on tech compliance with voluntary best business practices established by a new Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention.
Over the last four months, as major players in the interactive tech community fought EARN IT tooth and nail, a growing group of Senators—six Democrats and seven Republicans cosponsor the bill—realized that Big Tech deserves a tougher response.
Chairman @LindseyGrahamSC Applauds Senate Judiciary Committee for Unanimously Approving the EARN IT Acthttps://t.co/UDltIPB5hP
— Senate Judiciary (@senjudiciary) July 2, 2020
With strong support from advocates fighting online sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, and CSAM across the country, Senate Judiciary approved a new version of EARN IT which:
Removes CDA 230 immunity regarding CSAM, thereby opening the technology industry to liability for harm caused to survivors under Federal civil law and state criminal and civil law
Makes accountable interactive service providers for combating child sexual exploitation and CSAM, without the "safe harbor" provisions outlined in the original version of EARN IT Act
Moots Big Tech's exaggerated negative response to the commission, as the commission is now "decoupled" from CDA 230
It still empowers the commission to develop voluntary best practices and provide guidance/guidelines to help families, schools, and decision makers
The new and improved version of EARN IT takes significant steps to ensure access to remedies and justice for survivors.
The EARN IT Act ensures that online platforms will now be treated like everyone else when it comes to combating child sexual exploitation. Congress makes them responsible for risks and danger they allow. As a result, they are strongly incentivized to ensure their products are safe.
EARN IT Act Can Both Protect Kids and Respect User Privacy, Encryption
It was a grassroots groundswell that resulted in a stronger EARN IT Act.
As Judiciary Committee staff wrote to us on July 2, "Team NCOSE—We are so appreciative of your help throughout this process. You all have been with us every step of the way and we look forward to continuing our partnership as the bill moves forward."
This is the only significant bill to curb online child sexual exploitation with a chance of success in 2020. Let's get it passed by the full Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives so it becomes law by the end of the year!
Learn more about the bill from our allies at Shared Hope International here.
Issues: Child Abuse, Pornography
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Q: plain http image on https/ssl page = warning I've found the page that plain http images with a https/ssl page can't be displayed without warnings. Are there any way to display a picture from another http:// web-site on your https://web-site without warnings? (suppose you have a permission to display that picture on you web-site).
Chrome put a yellow triangle on SSL locker: "...However, this page includes other resources, that are not secure..."
IE displays a warning when a page loads: "Do you want to view only the webpage content that was  delivered securely?"
So, how to display a picture on https:// page if it is on another web-server?

A: You can use the information on this article on Encosia. Basically you have to use a // syntax for your urls in order to use the same protocol in all cases. For example, if you have a https request, the following

//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js

will hit google's CDN using the https protocol. However, if you don't have control over the other server, i think you're out of luck. If you do have control over the other server i'd recommend using the method described in the article above by allowing your content server to serve both protocols.

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Born in the Paris suburbs, Bonnard initially enrolled at the Académie Julian and also at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris after a short period of study at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. During this period he befriended contemporaries Edouard Vuillard and Ker-Xavier Roussel, amongst others, and subsequently, in 1889, they founded a group called the Nabis (the Hebrew word for prophets).
Now exhibiting at the Salon des Indépendants, Bonnard produced his first lithographic poster, France-Champagne, in 1891, inspiring Toulouse-Lautrec to do the same. Working and travelling throughout the latter half of his life, in 1912 he was offered the Légion d'Honneur, though he declined to accept it, and had a major retrospective in 1938 at the Art Institute of Chicago. He died in 1947.
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Original etching, an illustration for Vollard's Sainte Monique.
Original etching, commissioned by the renowned art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard. One of the major projects in Bonnard's career as a printmaker the work engaged the artist for ten years, being published in 1930. The individual prints are signed in the plate with the artist's monogram PB.
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Seattle, WA. — May 24th, 2016 — PowerMyData, a start-up dedicated to solving the problem of intrusive ads and lack of online privacy, today announced its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. The company provides a cooperative marketing service that enables people to securely earn money from their search words, browser history, attention, profile and more; while also saving money on desired purchases. Service members realize their value within an industry currently spending over $600 billion each year to win their business.
Today, in the US over 200 million people are on the Do-Not-Call registry, ad-skipping features drives DVR adoption, and globally a billion downloads of Adblock make it the most popular browser extension in the world. PowerMyData's solution improves the online user experience, and it advances commerce through a direct, cooperative business model. "We really listened to consumers about their online frustration with ads and concerns regarding expanding online surveillance. It's clear that the best solution empowers people realize the value of their data for themselves" says PowerMyData Cofounder, Brian Henling.
PowerMyData uses several key technologies "We use Blockchain, high encryption, smart contracts, and mobile technology to empower consumers in a trusted, secure and convenient way. Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology enables us to reduce data risk, and operational costs to maximize our members' returns" says PowerMyData CTO, Scott Mraz. PowerMyData uses new Blockchain technology to verify online transactions while preserving consumer privacy. The unique use of Blockchain and crypto currency support (Bitcoin, Ether) enables an easy, efficient, and safe transfer of member earnings directly into their digital wallets. PowerMyData's direct services promise it's business clients exponentially greater engagement, efficiency, and sales conversions free from fraud. PowerMyData's members' profits and autonomy is increased by liberal profit-sharing; and is supported by cooperative data sourcing, machine learning, co-creative insights, and pay-per-click pricing that also delivers business success.
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BitPay, the largest global blockchain payments provider, announced that it is partnering with OneGold (founded by bullion giant – APMEX) to trade Gold by accepting Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash.
BitPay was founded in 2011; it is the pioneer and experienced company in blockchain and bitcoin payments. Its products enable businesses to send and receive cross-border payments and also allows the consumers to handle digital assets with the BitPay wallet and turn digital assets into dollars with the BitPay Prepaid Visa Card.
OneGold which is founded by APMEX and Sprott, is a marketplace to buy gold securely, conveniently sell and redeem digital gold, silver, and other precious metals.
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FRONTLINE - THE WARNING
By A.M. Kisly
This Time Magazine cover should read, "The Committee Responsible for the World's Economic Meltdown."
My husband and I watched "Frontline: the Warning' on our local PBS channel the other night. It is an hour long documentary on the events leading up to the collapse of our economy just one year ago.
This documentary is unbelievable, and should be viewed in every home in America.
In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nation's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar derivatives market whose crash helped trigger the financial collapse in the fall of 2008.
"I didn't know Brooksley Born," says former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, a member of President Clinton's powerful Working Group on Financial Markets. "I was told that she was irascible, difficult, stubborn, unreasonable." Levitt explains how the other principals of the Working Group -- former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin -- convinced him that Born's attempt to regulate the risky derivatives market could lead to financial turmoil, a conclusion he now believes was "clearly a mistake."
Born's battle behind closed doors was epic, Kirk finds. The members of the President's Working Group vehemently opposed regulation -- especially when proposed by a Washington outsider like Born.
"I walk into Brooksley's office one day; the blood has drained from her face," says Michael Greenberger, a former top official at the CFTC who worked closely with Born. "She's hanging up the telephone; she says to me: 'That was [former Assistant Treasury Secretary] Larry Summers. He says, "You're going to cause the worst financial crisis since the end of World War II."... [He says he has] 13 bankers in his office who informed him of this. Stop, right away. No more.'"
Greenspan, Rubin and Summers ultimately prevailed on Congress to stop Born and limit future regulation of derivatives. "Born faced a formidable struggle pushing for regulation at a time when the stock market was booming," Kirk says. "Alan Greenspan was the maestro, and both parties in Washington were united in a belief that the markets would take care of themselves."
Now, with many of the same men who shut down Born in key positions in the Obama administration, The Warning reveals the complicated politics that led to this crisis and what it may say about current attempts to prevent the next one.
"It'll happen again if we don't take the appropriate steps," Born warns. "There will be significant financial downturns and disasters attributed to this regulatory gap over and over until we learn from experience."
I will add a side note to this, for those of you keeping your eye on the economic roller coaster, the government and major news networks would have you believing that we are through the worst part of the economic crisis. Yes, everyone cheered as the Dow catapulted above 10,000. Wall Street's breaking the Dow Jones's 10,000 mark was hailed as a further sign of the recession's end, even as foreclosures rose to an all-time high and the official unemployment rate continued to edge toward 10 percent.
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This is precisely what the Obama administration has allowed. More than a year after the outbreak of the deepest financial crisis since the 1930s, not a single banker or financier has been held accountable for wrecking the US and world economies. No restrictions or demands have been imposed on the financial markets, even as trillions of dollars in taxpayers' money have been poured into them. The same methods of accounting fraud and outright criminality continue. And they will produce the same results, an intensified crisis and an even deeper social catastrophe for the working class.
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Jenna Marie MacDonald, a server at Terre Rouge on Queen Street, said the restaurant lost power around 4:30 p.m. as heavy winds, rain and hail swept across the downtown area.
Most of the restaurants along Queen Street and Victoria Row lost power for three to four hours, she said.
She said after waiting for a couple hours with no idea when the power would come back on, staff had to shut down the restaurant for the night.
"Our kitchen is an electric-base kitchen so they weren't able to prep for the evening," MacDonald said. "So we had to close."
MacDonald said Friday nights are always busy, especially in August, and the restaurant had to cancel all of its reservations.
Staff at Receiver Coffee Co. said their restaurant lost power around 5 p.m., meaning they couldn't process payments. They also had to close for the night.
"It was really unfortunate, we did have a lot of reservations, our books were completely full for the evening," MacDonald said.
"A lot of them did ask for recommendations on places to go instead but most of the kitchens in Charlottetown were also out of power so it just kind of left a lot of tourists in a pickle."
Kevin Murphy, president and CEO of Murphy Hospitality Group, said the power outages affected all five of the company's downtown restaurants including Sims Corner Steakhouse & Oyster Bar, Gahan House and Fishbones Oyster Bar & Grill.
"You probably couldn't have picked a more busier time to have that electrical storm and hail storm that we had in downtown Charlottetown around suppertime," Murphy said.
He said staff at all five locations stayed on site waiting for power to come back on. Staff were in touch with Maritime Electric throughout the evening, he said, but weren't given a clear indication of how long the power would be out.
"The big thing was that we lost a couple of hours of people that were looking to have dinner or had dinner reservations," Murphy said. "The reality is that it was an act of God that we had to deal with."
Murphy said all five restaurants were able to reopen around 8:30 p.m.
Kim Griffin, a spokesperson for Maritime Electric, said the power was out across most of downtown Charlottetown for three to four hours while crews responded to pole fires and repaired fallen lines.
The vast majority of customers had power restored by 8:30 p.m., she said, but crews continued to work through the night responding to dozens of individual and smaller outages in the Charlottetown and Stratford areas.


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Reveille Journal 6
The Reveille Mountain Medical Team made it home safe and had a wonderful week. Here is their final journal, by their journalist for the week, Mary Evans:
"You come to help my people," said an elderly man, pointing to the Friends of Barnabas T-shirt I wore to the airport in San Pedro Sula. "Thank you."
Earlier that morning, we had arranged plastic chairs in a circle on the fourth floor of our San Pedro Sula hotel and administered Holy Communion to each other in the final devotion of our trip. We read the Prayer for Honduran Children and wept out of love and exhaustion. We have been transformed and our worldview has been expanded. Christ has broken down the wall.
The original idea for Barnabas House was a hospital but the founders saw a greater need--a place for healing, a place for education, a place where people know that they matter.
There are hospitals here, but medications are expensive, and many are hard to find in Honduras. FOB mission teams bring huge duffels filled with medications which will be dispensed in the mountains by upcoming teams and also to the 370 active patients who come to Barnabas House each month to receive medications through the Extended Care Program.
Accommodations for volunteers and patients are simple but comfortable. "We believe we need to take good care of you so you can take care of our people," Nury says. The freshly prepared Honduran food made for us by Virginia and Albeta fortifies us for the days ahead. A newly installed water purification system ensures that water is safe to drink at Barnabas House.
Berta cooks for the patients in Extended Care, and cleans until everything shines. Mennonite churches donated quilts for all of the beds. A team from Mechanicsville painted cheerful murals on patient room walls. Children can sleep in the ark with Noah and the animals, in the jungle, or in orbit with the planets. There is even an outdoor wood fired griddle on a covered veranda so that families used to cooking outside can make their own tortillas. People from all walks of life stay at Barnabas House.
Staff uses the gardens and agricultural area as training for community leaders in proper planting, fertilizing and harvesting techniques. Jaime, the gardener at Barnabas House, grows beans and corn which are fed to residents. "It is a blessing for me as a director to say I don't worry about food," Nury says. "In a year, we give 15,000 meals. We sell our extra produce and we sell our clean water to the staff. We do much fundraising. We receive donations of money and of food – tilapia, eggs, and milk."
In addition to education initiatives in the mountain villages, Pascuala holds health education clinics at Barnabas House for community leaders. "We are trying to break the cycle of poverty through education," says Nury. Just this month, 30 village midwives attended a clinic.
The extended care wing for pre- and post-op care at Barnabas House was built in response to the heartbreaking occurrences of death after surgery. Some children who were referred for surgery in the hospital returned to their villages, where their families did not know how to care for them. Their wounds were infected and they passed away. Sometimes patients who are referred for surgery aren't nourished or clothed properly before going to surgery. Staff washes and nourishes them and gives them clean clothes if needed. A referral from Friends of Barnabas can greatly speed the process to receive life changing surgeries for serious conditions.
On Saturday, we experienced some of the abundant natural attractions near Barnabas House. We kayaked on a nearby lake and visited the breathtaking waterfalls at Pulhapanzak. Many of our group enjoyed zip lining over the falls. Then we visited caves with gorgeous rock formations with names like "the dress" and "angel wings."
It takes a legion of angels to bring health and hope to the mountain villages in Honduras. Barnabas House becomes like home to every angel who walks through the door.
The evening before our return flight, we stayed over in San Pedro Sula and enjoyed dinner at El Arboral restaurant. In the morning, we shopped for souvenirs and locally made crafts, including some fine woodworking and Lenca pottery.
Thank you for being with the Reveille team this week – in spirit and in prayer - in Honduras.


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Author Graeme Sheppard on Reopening China's Hottest Cold Case
By Edoardo Donati Fogliazza, December 10, 2018
In January 1937, the gruesome murder of Pamela Werner, the 19-year-old daughter of retired British consul and academic E. T. C. Werner, resident in Beijing, shook China and the world. But as China entered one of the darkest moments of its history, the case was soon forgotten and this mystery of old Beijing remained unsolved. That is until 2011, when Paul French published the best-selling Midnight in Peking, using archival evidence to write a compelling crime story that enthralled readers around the globe.
Among them was retired police officer Graeme Sheppard, who was left unconvinced by the evidence presented by French and set out to discover the truth behind the murder mystery. His findings resulted in the new book A Death in Peking: Who Really Killed Pamela Werner?, which launched in Beijing in October. We talk with the author about his discoveries and how it feels to reopen a case from 80 years ago.
Your book contains well-informed descriptions of a specific time in Beijing and China's history. How well did you know China before working on the book?
History has always been an interest of mine but, unsurprisingly, I read mostly about European history. My knowledge of Chinese history was there but was very rudimentary and during this research it increased tenfold – something that I really appreciated. My wife had a tenuous relationship with China herself – her grandfather, consul Fitzmaurice, being a consul in Beijing at the time of the murder and then coroner for the case.
What made you interested in the case and motivated you to go about continuing French's research and solving Pamela's murder?
As you can guess, most police officers like me are not interested in crime stories in their spare time. We see such awful things at work already. It was my wife, whose grandfather was featured in a small way in Midnight in Peking, who asked me to read it and tell her what I thought about the book. I reluctantly started reading, and was immediately suspicious of how Pamela's father, E. T. C. Werner, was able to identify the suspects we can read about in French's book. I was still working at the time and it was easy for me to access the national archives during a day off and read the original letters written by Werner. Once I read them, I immediately realized how wrong they were. My curiosity was piqued, and I started looking into other documents, finding out about new and compelling theories. I thought it was wrong that people who were not able to answer for themselves are now thought by so many to be responsible for a murder they might not have committed, and I wanted to rectify that.
"I thought it was wrong that people who were not able to answer for themselves are now thought by so many to be responsible for a murder they might not have committed, and I wanted to rectify that."
What are the main differences between your book and French's?
I believe French's mistake was to rely too heavily on the words of E. T. C. Werner, Pamela's father, and look no further than his murder theories, whereas in my book I cast my net across the world in order to find archival evidence. Through research and brand-new evidence, I found the most realistic offender to be an old acquaintance of Pamela's, who she met in school.
What were the highlights of your research?
One of the most rewarding moments was discovering more about Mr. Pinfold, a suspect that appeared only briefly in Midnight in Peking and was such an obscure figure, who left such a small footprint on the world. Also discovering the three frauds by Sir Edmund Backhouse [known as 'The ermit of Beijing'], a famous and controversial figure at the time, was exciting. Moreover, the research process was a nice exercise in the use of the Internet, contacts and in thinking laterally, but also an exercise in perseverance.
Is this the final word on the Pamela Werner case?
This case is very complex and involves archival materials from all over the world. It is possible that there is more to be found elsewhere, potentially in China. But even if there was something more to be found, I doubt that it would provide more suspects. I think it would probably reinforce the theory I outline in the book. While researching, though, I found a lot of interesting material that will go into a future project… but that's all I can say for now.
[Images courtesy of Graeme Sheppard and Earnshaw Books]
A Death in Peking by Graeme Sheppard is published by Earnshaw Books and is available on Amazon. For more information, visit the official blog.
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What Life was Like 6 Days Ago: 2009 in Review
Slightly late but without lacking any of the pizazz, I'd like now to welcome you, dear readers to Norwegian Morning Wood's Official Review of 2009. Now, admittedly the following lists are going to be 85 - 90% complete bullshit. This will become immediately apparent, but follow along with me anyway.
I will take you know through the greatest parts of our collective pop culture over the last year, going through the best songs, television shows and then movies. I'll admit really knowing next to nothing about modern music beyond Top 40, so do with the following what you will:
Top 3 Songs of 2009:
Consider these either the most popular, crazy songs that should serve zero purpose towards the advancement of our civilization:
#3: "Poker Face" by Man GaGa (#1 on Billboard Hot 100 April 25) - This shit was everywhere, gave GaGa a career and an incredible South Park appearance.
#2: "I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas (#1 on Billboard Hot 100 July 11) - Summer 2009's Champion Song certainly gets an automatic place here.
#1: Clearly "New Divide" by Linkin Park reached an unforeseen peak of artistic creativity for the music industry.
Honourable Mention: I will give kudos to "That's Not my Name" by the Ting Tings for being one of the most legitimately brilliantly catchy pop hits of the summer, one that was completely unavoidable during the week of July 11 - 18.
Top 3 Albums of 2009:
#3: Malice n Wonderland by Snoop Dogg (December 8). Doggfather at his best, heralding an era of rap that relied only on weed, rims and real gangsta shit, less autotone and candy innuendos. Yes, Snoop is not replete of those.
#2: Incredibad by The Lonely Island (February 10). Enough joke songs to become a legit great comedy album, including funding enough SNL skits to aid the production one of the show's greatest seasons ever (34).
#1: Backspacer by Pearl Jam (September 20). Because it was Pearl Jam and it was ok, best of the year.
Top 5 New Shows:
#5: Parks and Recreation (NBC), might as well be an Office spin-off but with enough original characters, ideas and their own gut-busting commentary on shitty local government to make it worth watching.
#4: Sit Down, Shut Up (FOX). I actually enjoyed the irrelevance of this show a lot during its five-week run in Primetime. The animation style, some character treatments and Miracle's boobs were pretty original, if not trite half the time.
#3: Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (NBC) Despite some recent awkwardness, the first few weeks of this show was the greatest Late Night talk I've ever seen. Period.
#2: Secret Girlfriend (Comedy Central). 'Nuff said.
#1: Community (NBC). Clearly the best show of the lot, this is quickly gaining its footing to what it wants to be in the comedy world. Ranking already among some of the greatest Halloween and Christmas specials of definitely all time, I'd love to see this get picked up for a significant run. See Also.
Top 5 Returning Shows:
#5: Now since cancelled, Life on Mars (ABC) was just getting interesting during the earlier half of this year.
#4: I flatly don't believe this show deserves its three Emmys (and counting), but 30 Rock (NBC) is still one of the greatest shows of our time.
#3: LOST (ABC) somehow got more ridiculous, and probably made more threads than it tied up, but the way they handled time travel without skipping a beat and hardly a paradox was incredibly impressive last spring.
#2: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (F/X) keeps getting better, and its Fifth Season this fall was flat-out incredible. There isn't a funnier new show on television.
#1: Without a question, The Venture Bros (Cartoon Network) is alone at the top of great television shows today, and not simply for these reasons. No other show has able to sustain this much consistent character growth and consistency through four seasons while simultaneously maintaining a facsimile premise and constant nerdy shout outs.
Honourable Mention: How I Met Your Mother keeps getting better and has in its own found a great little niche avoiding normal sitcom conventions in storytelling, tone and narrative while maintaining the classic three-camera / laugh track system. It's how three-camera sitcoms should be these days.
Top 4 (6) Movies that will Influence Everybody:
#4: 500 Days of Summer (July 17): Romantic comedies don't have to be like this.
#3's: The Hangover (June 5) / Paranormal Activity (September 25) / District 9 (August 14): You don't need to pour money into a film to make a good film. Or to make your money back. With all this recession bullshit, studios will start finding more and more directors and films like this to make their money.
#2: AVABAR (December 18): Besides you know, the insane special effects, the way this thing is making money, almost solely on cool word of mouth and the name of its director should effect marketing, promotion, not to mention the simple fact that this is the highest-grossing WHOLLY ORIGINAL film in years.
#1: Taken (January 30): The same principle goes for Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Fast & Furious, and others. You can make money in the first quarter. What the hell?
Finally now, we get to my Personal Top 10 Picks of the Year. Without adieu:
#10: AVABAR. Shit story and characters really couldn't stop this movie from being the most beautiful I've ever seen.
#9: Observe and Report (April 10). I've never seen a film more sharply divide critics and audiences (half my friends nearly walked out, I loved it). Great dark, tortured comedy and Seth showing some range (scruffless).
#8: I Love You, Man (March 20). We need more bromances.
#7: The Great Buck Howard (March 20). Colin Hanks doing his Orange County (2002) schtick to better effect, Emily Blunt beyond gorgeous and a solid story about the perceived and unperceived failure of a great entertainer.
#6: Up in the Air (December 4). Clooney is the best at doing Clooney, here he's the best. A movie about ignoring little but significant problems, personal, social and spiritual and the shit that causes. Awesome.
#5: Funny People (July 31) is the best movie to take seriously the lives of funny people, a lot of personal identification here and Sandler's most un-sandler like Sandler role. That makes sense.
#4: Zombieland (October 2) was so fucking refreshing it should have just been called Cool Pepsi in Baghdad. Unwarranted product placement aside, this did everything from prove that Zombies will always be cooler than Vampires, give new life into the genre and provide one of the funnest theater experiences in years.
#3: A Serious Man (October 2) found an intimate version of the Coens and the year's single greatest trailer. Tough to beat in any year.
#2: Inglourious Basterds (August 21) among others will cement 2009 as return to form for many directors (see also: Sam Raimi). Every moment of Basterds is carefully pulled out and executed, and what could have been a mindless gore-pron flick turned into one of the most meditative thoughts on the appreciation of media violence this universe has ever seen. That and it's extreme historical accuracy make it spectacular.
#1: I already named District 9 one of the best films of the Millennium, looking over this list right now it's tough to even call it the best of the year. Nevertheless, there are no real winners with movies (except for that award show), but if the prize has to go somewhere it might as well go to Neill's freshman effort. Tiny budget, awesome effects, alien acting more real than we had seen before to that point, District 9 should stay with us a long time.
2009 was a pretty nutty year all in all. It was great to see the uncontrolled egos of a few celebrities topple (see tiger and kanye) as well as the resurgence of a few longstanding shows whose once high-quality had been on the decline (The Simpsons and SNL). I'll leave you with one of the most poignant SNL moments in years, the Season 34 Finale. It ultimately shows Will Ferrell's ability to still hold together a cast full of insane talent, a great feeling of community and personal connection to some of these actors and a high point in class, music and depth for the culture. Enjoy for yourself:
Labels: Movies, Music, SNL, Television, Trends, Venture Bros
gavin 19 January 2010 at 01:42
I just saw Where the Wild Things are at the $1 theater, and it may be the most moving picture I've seen at the theater since Eternal Sunshine. I bet you may need to tweak your list if you haven't seen it yet, once you do check it out.
Roderick Allmanson 25 January 2010 at 20:37
ya i did want to see that one, it looked visually and stylistically spectacular, it's tough to file down some pics, but I'd say its possible it beats AVABAR easily.
Roderick Allmanson 30 December 2014 at 14:21
I do like Where the Wild Things are a lot, five years on lol
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These giant viruses have weaponised CRISPR against their rivals and bacterial hosts
Michael Le Page
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Bacteriophage viruses attacking an E. coli cell
Hundreds of huge, bacteria-killing viruses have been newly discovered lurking in all kinds of environments, including our guts. Their massive genomes code for many proteins not found in smaller viruses, including CRISPR systems used to attack both their bacterial hosts and rival viruses.
The massive viruses have long gone unnoticed because the standard methods used to look for bacteria-killing viruses, or bacteriophages, literally filter them out. Instead, a team has found them by looking at all the DNA present in a variety of samples, an approach known as metagenomics.
The researchers then pieced together the genomes of the huge phages using a method developed by team leader Jill Banfield at the University of California, Berkeley.
Bacteriophages are the most common entities on Earth. There can be many millions in a drop of seawater. Almost all known phages have genomes tens of thousands of DNA letters long at most. Larger ones were thought to be very rare. But earlier this year, Banfield's team reported finding more than a dozen phages with genomes up to 540,000 DNA letters long in the guts of humans and animals.
By killing specific bacteria, these megaphages may shape the microbiome in our guts. "The potential impact on health and disease is huge," says team member Joanne Santini of University College London.
Now the same team has analysed metagenomic data from many different environments and found hundreds more of these huge bacteriophages, including one with a genome 716,000 letters long - the largest phage genome discovered.
No one has isolated and studied the actual viruses themselves yet, so we have no idea what they look like. Nor do we have a clue what most of the extra genes these viruses have are for.
Of the genes that can be identified, some code for proteins needed to make more viruses. Normal viruses can have as few as two genes and rely almost entirely on the cells they infect to replicate themselves. But it appears the giant viruses make much of their own machinery for copying themselves.
Weaponised CRISPR
The team thinks this self-reliance may allow megaphages to infect a much wider range of bacteria than normal phages.
Surprisingly, many of the giant phages also have CRISPR systems. CRISPR proteins have become famous for their use in genome editing, but they were first evolved by bacteria as a kind of immune system that targeted and destroyed the DNA of invading phages.
Many of the giant phages seem to have stolen parts of bacterial CRISPR systems and turned them on their hosts, using them to target specific bacterial genes. Other megaphages appear to use CRISPR to target genes of other phages, possibly to destroy any other viruses that try to infect the same cell.
The first phage with a CRISPR system was discovered in 2013, but these latest findings suggest CRISPR-armed phages are much more widespread than we thought.
It is possible that we could one day use such phages to eliminate undesirable bacteria from our gut microbiomes.
Although these giant phages are big, none has broken the record for the biggest viral genome. That crown is still held by the amoeba-infecting pandoraviruses, first discovered in 2013, which have genomes up to 2.5 million letters long.
Reference: bioRxiv
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Air-Cooled Porsche Enthusiasts Converge on Lumber Giant
Slideshow: Air-cooled Porsches aplenty invade the Ganahl Lumber Company in Torrance, California for Luftgekuhlt 5.
By Brian Dally - October 11, 2018
The Meet
Many of the best events have grown out of a very real passion for a particular make or model of car, and a very sincere desire to meet up with other like-minded owners and enthusiasts. It's fair to say Lüftgekuhlt (German for "air-cooled") is not only one of the best meets around, but also came about in exactly that way. It was Patrick Long's wish to bring together fellow air-cooled Porsche owners that led him and his business partner Howie Idelson to organize the first Lüftgekuhlt in a Los Angeles parking lot five years ago. Like the current meet, Lüftgekuhlt 1 featured a hand-picked selection of the rarest and interesting Porsches they could round up.
Gmünd Coupe
Every Lüftgekuhlt is held at a different venue, and Luft 5 saw some of the rarest Porsches from around the world get together in Torrance, California, on the grounds of the newest Ganahl Lumber Company installation. Not only did the neatly-organized stacks of wood offer a great natural counterpoint to the metal sculpture on display, it also provided a neat link to Porsche's past, as the company had migrated from Germany to a sawmill outside of Gmünd, Austria, during WWII. Gmünd is of course where Porsche built the first aluminum-bodied 356s, represented at Luft 5 by Jerry Seinfeld's personal Gmünd coupe.
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804 Formula Car
Even rarer that Jerry's 356 was the Porsche 804 on view at the event. The 804 was Porsche's Formula One car, and the exhibited chassis 03 is the car Dan Gurney drove to a first-place finish at the Solitude track near Stuttgart as well as a third at the German Grand Prix in 1962. Although Porsche scored a victory with Gurney driving a different chassis to victory at the French Grand Prix, the manufacturer withdrew from Formula 1 at the end of the year.
To celebrate the 30th birthday of Porsche's 964 model, Luft 5 featured a full spectrum of the model in a rainbow of colors. One of the most significant versions on display was the 964 Carrera 3.8 RSR that finished first in its class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans for 1993. The 964 racer gave the RSR, a designation that began with a roar in 1973, a new lease on life. The race-winning car at Luft 5, originally driven by Jurgen Barth, Dominique Dupuy, and Joel Gouhier, will live on in the homes and garages of anyone who took home a copy of the official Luft 5 poster.
A favorite of fans of the golden age of sports-racing prototypes, Porsche's 908, a model which overlapped the run of the company's earlier 910 and the later Le Mans-winning legend 917, was in attendance at Luft 5. The lumber facility hosted a rare 908K model, the "K" standing for the Kurzheck, or short-tail, body style that first appeared on the 908 in 1968. The flat-eight powered Porsche was provided by RM Sotheby's—which means it's up for grabs—who delighted fans by allowing driver Vic Elford to provide a "Moment of Noise" for welcoming ears.
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In 1969 driver Hans Herrmann brought a long-tail 908 to a second place overall finish behind the aged GT40 driven by the stupendous Jacky Ickx. The 908K on display, chassis number 010, had a less-stellar career—after being crashed by Jochen Neerpasch, it was sent back to Zuffenhausen for repairs before being put into storage for many years.
911 R4
At first glance, this yellow 911 may look like any old '67, except maybe with an added fiberglass bumper kit. But then you notice the vented plastic side windows and you know somethings up, though you'd be forgiven for not recognizing the car as one of the four prototypes Porsche built for the 911R (of which only 20 proper examples were made). Bearing the code R4, it features fiberglass bumpers, doors, and decklid; a thinner windshield; and plexiglass side and rear windows; all combining to shave 440 lbs of weight. In place of the standard engine was a 906-spec 901/22 twin-plug engine that put out 210 hp.
Many other air-cooled Porsches were available for gawking, drooling, or selfies, although at least one hybrid sneaked into the mix. No word if the organizers required the hybrid air/liquid-cooled 959 to remove it's prohibited heads before entry was allowed.


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Presentations from Schlossnagle and Bowen to highlight the inner workings of traditional web architectures and munging URLs.
COLUMBIA, Md., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- OmniTI today announced its participation in ApacheCon US 2009 at the Oakland Marriott Hotel in Oakland, Calif, highlighted by two highly anticipated speaking sessions by CEO Theo Schlossnagle and Web Engineer Rich Bowen. ApacheCon 2009 is a celebration of 10 years of coding, the evolution of the Apache community, and a look at the future of Open Source and The Apache Software Foundation.
On Thursday, November 5th, at 2:00 p.m. PST, OmniTI CEO Theo Schlossnagle will host a two-hour session entitled "Scalable Internet Architectures." This session will dive into traditional web architectures and what makes them work, with a particular focus on analyzing weak points and discussing the effects of the intense pressure that can result from prolonged exposure on prominent web properties like Digg and The New York Times.com. Schlossnagle will draw heavily upon his years of experience in systems monitoring, especially the lessons he's learned culminating in the recent development, release and deployment of OmniTI's open source monitoring and trending system, Reconnoiter.
"If you monitor systems and services today without monitoring critical business metrics as well, you are placing yourself at a disadvantage that could be fatal," said Schlossnagle. "In my session, I plan to share the same expertise in the trending of systems, applications and network metrics that has been captured in Reconnoiter, our open source monitoring tool that has made great strides in both fundamental design and usability."
In addition to Schlossnagle's session, recent OmniTI hire Rich Bowen will present on Thursday, November 5th, at 9 a.m. PST on the basics of mod_rewrite syntax along with lexicon and common scenarios for developers. Bowen will focus on helping attendees understand how mod_rewrite mangles and munges URLs in order to make them easy to work with.
Bowen recently joined OmniTI as a web engineer, and is the author of Apache Cookbook and The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite. Bowen's expertise as part of the Apache Software Foundation as well as his role as member of the Apache documentation project allows for OmniTI to harness his experience and expand on its portfolio of client service offerings, and only further bolsters OmniTI's prominent position within the open source community.
"I feel very privileged to joint OmniTI, as my role lets me use my expertise to help real companies do exciting things while maintain my edge with a wide scope of technologies, including Apache, mod_perl, Perl, and PHP," said Bowen.
Additional details for Schlossnagle's presentation at ApacheCon US 2009 can be found here. Additional details for Bowen's presentation can be found here.


Stick Frame: This is the traditional framing using 2x4 to build the frame. This option allows me to take my time building the frame, piece by piece. However, stick frames are heavy (weight wise). I like that using this traditional method of framing that a lot of people are familiar with, it would be easier getting construction help. It also makes it easier to modify supporting elements like electrical and plumbing when compared to SIPs. Stick framing would allow me to customize the type of insulation in the walls (important for me since I'm moving to far into the Northeast after construction is completed).
Steel Frame: This framing uses steel beams for the frame. It's lighter weight than wood frames which means less gas when I have to haul my house from the Southwest US to the far Northeast. I can still customize the insulation and its very study when it comes to structural support. The company I'm buying my trailer from already has the structural plans for my tiny house and would be able to produce the steel frame for me which is super helpful. What isn't helpful is that I have no clue how to put together steel beams for a tiny house frame. Also the price tag is kinda high.
Structural Insulated Panel: If you haven't checked out these bad boys, then you should. Honestly, I'm leaning towards using these to build my tiny house. These panels are pre-made with the insulation already in them and they get put together similar to how you would make a gingerbread house.
I found a company right down the road from the business I'm buying my trailer from that has done SIPs for my tiny house before. I like the fact that they seem a bit more user friendly for the construction challenged. I also can get them in a high level of insulation (one again important for me). I've seen several blogs that have shown SIP installation in 48-72 hours (from nothing to a tiny house frame). These come with a high price tag too however they might simplify the building process. The big downside!- Everything has to be planned out prior to the SIPs being made. You have to know where every electrical line is going to run and where every pipe is going to lay. Basically, I have to lock in my plan because I won't be able to make too many changes after the SIPs are built.
How do y'all plan to build your tiny house?
NikkiVIntl My wife and I are still on our own tiny house journey and one of the things we've found very helpful in planning out our ideal tiny house is to stay at tiny house rentals over the weekends a couple time throughout the year. There are tons of individuals who rent out their tiny houses as well as numerous tiny house resorts across the country. It can really give you some good ideas for your own house. You can note the type of construction and the pros and cons of each in terms of the comfort level and how well each different construction method deals with varying weather conditions. I've got a Word document on my computer that's about 50 pages long with notes regarding different features, sizes and pros and cons from all the different houses we've stayed in. Doing even a few weekend rentals is a great way to "try before you buy" and will result in your own tiny house being built in a manner that best suites your own wants and needs.
We also find it very useful to attend tiny house shows and festivals where you have the opportunity to tour all different types of tiny houses and ask the builders questions about their products and styles of construction. But actually staying in some for a weekend can give you a much better feel for what you like and don't like so that you can better plan out your own tiny house.
There's no doubt that SIP's will offer the highest R-value of the 3 construction methods you've noted. And they're clearly the winner when it comes to ease and speed of construction. The only real drawback I see to SIP's is as you mentioned, you're pretty much locked into what you spec out prior to build in terms of plumbing, electrical, low voltage wiring, etc. as it's extremely difficult to make any adjustments to those items after the build is completed.
One thing I'm wondering and don't have an answer for is the weight differential of SIP's vs. steel frame vs stick frame. From your post it sounds like you're just planning to move your tiny house from the Southwest to the Northeast and park it. If I'm understanding that correctly I wouldn't really worry about which was lightest as the difference in the cost of gas to move it once would be so nominal that I don't think it should even be a factor in deciding which construction method is best for your situation. Now, if I misunderstood you and you're planning to travel frequently with your tiny house then I would definitely give consideration to whether or not there's a significant difference in weight between SIP's, steel frame and stick frame.
Regarding maximizing the thermal efficiency of your tiny house one of the things you may want to consider is a product like RB Shields Me. I noticed in the video you posted at 3:42 it shows them installing "Aluminum Foil Paper (Special Purpose)" which appears to be a similar product to RB Shields Me however I think the RB Shields Me product is much more robust and durable than the product being used in the video. I'll try and get Herman from RB Shield Me to pop into this post and give us some feedback on his product vs. what's seen in the video. Great video by the way, thanks for sharing and welcome to the forum!
My tiny house is going to be for residence only and not travel, so i understand what you are saying about the weight issue. I appreciate you feedback on my concerns regarding thermal efficiency. While I realize that there is there is the rule of diminishing returns when it comes to insullation, I want to make sure I make my tiny house the best it can be in for keeping me warm (i'm from the South while my BF is from the cold cold cold NE).
I love you idea of going to stay in some tiny houses to get a feel for what I want. Right now I'm debating bathroom/closet layout. Lucky for me the plan I've chosen actually has a couple of versions of the floor plan constructed and available to stay in via Air BnB. I had looked at their pictures of their tiny houses however it never dawned on me to actually go stay it.
I really would like to attend a tiny house convention however the next one that is close to me (Denver in June) is the same weekend I will be on vacation with my family. I am going to keep my eye out for some others.