Despite always saying I only wanted to have ONE child in diapers at a time, it looked as if that would not be the case. I was pregnant with Lucie, and Ella seemed quite content to wear her Pull-Ups forever. She thwarted my attempts to potty train her on my time-table. With finance a concern, I started contemplating cloth diapering. When I mentioned what I was thinking to Brett, he said, "Are you crazy? With your gag reflex? You can't do that!" Well, life went on…Lucie was born…and we started using disposable diapers. At the time, Ella was still using Pull-Ups (at about 30 cents each!), and I cringed every time I had to buy another package of diapers for either her or Lucie.
Then one day I was perusing my friend Rachel's online store Euphoria Maternity for a baby carrier. Her site also includes products for babies, and I noticed a link about cloth diapering. Rachel has provided TONS of information about cloth diapering on the site, and I got sucked in! I even emailed Rachel with additional questions and got her feedback about her personal experience with cloth diapering. (She is thorough and FAST at answering questions about any products on their site!) That inspired me to look at other sites as well for more information, and once again I was contemplating cloth diapering.
I'm not going to get into the disposable vs. cloth debate – there is plenty of info out there if you're interested in learning more. And I'm not going to pass any judgments on people for their diapering choices -- I'm sure cloth diapering is not for everyone. But, after all that I've read about cloth diapering, I personally felt like I just needed to give it a try at least.
So, the other day I headed to diapers.com to buy a few bumGenius! 3.0 One-Size Cloth Diapers – I had a gift certificate (thanks Jill!) so I figured that was a good place to try out the diapers. (If I end up buying more, I'll probably head over to Euphoria Maternity since they have comparable prices, they let you choose different colors AND they give you a free wetbag.) BumGenius 3.0 is designed to go on like a disposable, but it is adjustable so that the diaper grows with the baby – no need to buy additional sizes. Plus, if you've got more than one child in diapers, you tote the same diapers with you – it simplifies the diaper bag! Yesterday, I gave the diapers a prep wash and today I'm giving it a whirl. I'll report thoughts about this cloth diapering thing at a later date.
Can't wait to hear how you like the cloth diapers. I have tried kissaluvs and gdiapers but am interested in one size fits all!!
Sara - I can't really compare BG to anything else because I haven't tried anything else! But, the design is pretty cool -- they just have these adjustable snaps so you can resize. It doesn't really add bulk to the diaper, but the insert that goes in is more bulky when on a smaller setting -- a portion is basically folded over and snapped down. I'd be happy to show you one if you want to check it out. So far, I haven't come up with a verdict on cloth diapers -- it's only been one day! But, I'll let you know what I decide.


Jennifer Lopez fans are only now figuring out that she spells out Ja Rule's name.
While you'd probably be correct on the latter these days (earplugs, fellow live music-loving kids, use 'em), back in 2001 I had hearing like a bat (or whatever). That's when the Jennifer Lopez track "I'm Real" featuring DMX-wannabe and teacup-sized jailbird Ja Rule was released and absolutely blew up. As tends to happen, it went from ubiquitous to universally hated real quick.
Still, it goes to show the power of presumption. The fact that Ja Rule yells "what's my motherfuckin' name" just before should have clued me in, but I must have just assumed she was doing her best to tune him out like the rest of us. In fact, for all you cool kids sneering: "How could anybody not realize she's spelling out his name?" that's my defence. We were, understandably, trying to have as little Ja Rule in our life as possible.


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La leucopélargonidine est un composé organique incolore de la famille des leucoanthocyanidines, un type de flavonoïdes. Elle est présente dans les arbres de l'espèce Albizia lebbeck, dans la noix de cajou, la noix d'arec, dans le fruit du chaulmoogra (Hydnocarpus wightiana), dans le rhizome de Rumex hymenosepalus, dans le maïs (Zea Mays) et dans le jujube  (Ziziphus jujuba).

Synthèse

La (+)-leucopélargonidine peut être synthétisée à partir du (+)-dihydrokaempférol réduit par la borohydrure de sodium.

Métabolisme

La dihydrokaempférol 4-réductase utilise la cis-3,4-leucopélargonidine et le NADP+ pour produire le (+)-dihydrokaempférol (aromadédrine), le NADPH et H+.

La (2R,3S)-catéchine:NADP+ 4-oxidoréductase transforme la cis-3,4-leucopélargonidine en afzéléchine.

Notes et références

Leucoanthocyanidine
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The musculoskeletal design of the mammalian body has accomodated many diverse means of locomotion, not only in terrestrial environments but also in aquatic and aerial niches. Many mammal species are capable of using several different means of locomotion, but much of the body configuration is determined by the dominant mode of locomotion used by a particular species.
Most mammals that are ambulatory (walking) do so on all four limbs, i.e., they are quadrupedal. Most ambulators are pentadactyl (possessing five digits) and plantigrade (walking on the soles, or plantar surface, of their feet). Pentadactyly is the primitive condition in mammals, although many lineages have reduced this number. Ambulators include bears and baboons. Some ambulators are large. As they approach a ton (0.9 tonne) in weight, adaptations for their large size are a necessity. Such animals are said to be graviportal. They have a rigid backbone and their limbs take on the appearance of a column with each element directly above the one below it. They retain all five digits in a pad that provides cushioning. Elephants are an example of a graviportal mammal. Elephants are not able to run, instead they trot, increasing their speed by walking quickly.
Cursorial locomotion (running) is accomplished in diverse ways. Among mammals there is a range of adaptations and abilities for this way of moving. Many cursors are digitigrade, i.e., their metacarpals and metatarsals are permanently raised above the substrate with only the phalanges in contact with the ground. Often the metacarpals and metatarsals are elongated and the number of digits reduced. For example, in equids (horses), the leg is supported on a single central digit of their mesaxonic foot. Other mammals, such as deer and hyenas, have legs with a paraxonic foot with two toes contacting the ground. Some mammals have one set of limbs that are paraxonic and another set that are mesaxonic.
A number of characteristics allow the generation of high speed in cursory locomotion. Reduction or loss of the clavicle that would impede forelimb movement is one adaptation. In addition, most of the musculature has shifted to the upper limb, and the lower limb has become thinner and elongated. In many cases it is the metacarpals and metatarsals that are the most elongated. In hoofed mammals the number of digits is reduced. The horse is the most extreme example with only a single digit. The elongation of the leg relative to body length produces a longer stride, thereby increasing the speed, which is equal to the length of the stride multiplied by stride rate. Another trait that increases speed is a pliant vertebral column that enables the mammal to place the hind feet in front of the fore feet when running at full clip. At very high speed, all four feet may be simultaneously off the ground. This is seen in horses, greyhounds, gazelles, and cheetahs. Cheetahs can cover a fixed distance faster than any other mammal. They are able to sprint at over 60 mph (97 kph).
Saltatory mammals use hopping as a means of locomotion. Some are quadrupedal, such as hares, using all four limbs to make their leaps. Others use another form of hopping called ricochet saltation. This is a bipedal locomotion in which only the two hind legs are involved in propulsion. Ricochet salta-tors have a long tail (often tufted at the end) that is used for counterbalance. In the case of the macropods (kangaroos) it is also used as a support during rest. Other ricochet saltators include kangaroo rats, jerboas, springhares, and tarsiers. In most cases ricochet saltators have reduced forelegs, long hind legs, and elongated feet. Generally it is the metatarsals have that been the most elongated. One exception is the tarsier, a small primate that retains longer forelimbs. It is the tarsal bones in the hind foot that are elongated, rather than the metatarsals. This leaves the tarsier with grasping ability in its hind paws. It is a ricochet saltator on a horizontal substrate, but in the shrub layer it employs vertical clinging and leaping, i.e., it pushes off vertical supports with its powerful hind legs and grasps a branch with its forelimbs and the upper part of its hind legs.
Arboreal mammals have many adaptations to life in the trees. One is stereoscopic vision (depth perception) in leapers and gliders. Grasping paws and opposable thumbs are often found, but they are not required. Squirrels scamper about on branches using sharp claws that provide traction. Sloths have elongated curved claws from which they hang under branches. Gibbons (small apes) have long fingers that serve as hooks, a reduced thumb, and a more dorsal scapula that allow them to swing underneath branches in the manner that children do on "monkey bars" at playgrounds. Prehensile tails are found in many arboreal mammals ranging from marsupials to primates. These tails are capable of wrapping around branches and serving as a "fifth limb." An arboreal adaptation among gliders (e.g., flying squirrels and colugos) is a ventral membrane, called the patagium, that can be spread out to generate lift for gliding. Except in the colugo, the tail is free of the patagium and is used for maneuvering. Gliders cannot ascend in flight, so they must climb before they launch. Despite that limitation, gliding can be very efficient. Colugos are able to cover over 400 ft (122 m) with a loss of only 40 ft (12 m) in altitude.
fied to form a wing with the main portion composed of the elongated bones of the hand. Bat hind limbs have been modified to help control the rear portion of the flight membrane. In addition, the feet have curved claws that enable these animals to hang in an upside down position. Flight requires a whole suite of characteristics including circulatory and ther-moregulatory adaptations, and echolocation for flight in a dark environment. Most of the Old World fruit bats do not have echolocation and do not fly in complete darkness.
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152 West 2nd Street – Pioneer William B. Hutchens; frame/adobe farm house 1867, rear adobe granary 1868.
YESTERDAY: Hutchens/Reno House; photo 1986 Ogden Call Survey.
TODAY: Hutchens/Reno House; photo 2007.
YESTERDAY: Wm. B. Hutchens built this house in 1867; owned by Reno family since 1912.; photo c. 1930.
The house was built in 1867, a double-cell with exterior walls of adobe. Originally the adobe house had two square rooms arranged next to each other with two front doors and four windows arranged symmetrically on the front facade; this is classified as a double-cell house type (see 1930 photo). The house was one and a half stories tall with end wall chimneys and small second level gable windows on either side of the chimneys. The second door on the front was not developed in Utah for polygamy but was a common American form of house in the South that provided a separate entrance to the parlor.
In the early 1870s William Hutchens built a saw mill north west of his house for the purpose of making lumber to cover the outer adobe walls with board that he painted white. In addition to covering the adobe with board, he built a third room on the east side and a long front porch reminiscent of the three porches on his father's old mansion in South Carolina. The appearance was unique and stylish in Weber County, and the house evidenced craftsmanship and the cultural background of the South.
In 1885 a mother-in-law room was attached to the rear filling the space between the house and the granary.
Mary said, "The men who built the house. The plaster is just full of red and white and black hairs. See, we brought some to show you." And Mary and Mel showed some of the hair they had collected.
The girls were glad they had found out before they had said anything about it to their playmates. It took all day to clean the house and the next day their father moved the household goods, and that night they couldn't sleep for looking at the walls and thinking what a lovely house it was and what clean smooth nice walls it had. On the ceiling was the mark of a switch- just like someone had hit the ceiling while it was yet soft. The children thought that was wonderful too.
William B. Hutchens was born 1828 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the son of a wealthy plantation owner. He met Mormon missionaries at the age of 14 and was converted and baptized with his family in 1842. In 1844 he and his sister left their father's plantation, his father supplying William with a wagon and all manner of tools and implements; they arrived in Nauvoo on June 28 1844, the day after the martyrdom of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum.
William and his sister immigrated to Salt Lake in 1848 where William helped prepare land for the temple, worked on building other public structures, and taught the art of making charcoal. He accompanied Orson Hyde in establishing a settlement in Green River, Utah.
William and Eliza's first child was born in Bingham's Fort. Over the next thirteen years the Hutchens built several homes in Bingham's Fort District. Because of the memory of his childhood mansion in South Carolina, William was determined to always build the best house he could. The first homes he built were white cabins made of peeled logs. There were only a very few houses made of peeled logs. The logs also had to be straight as he couldn't live in a house of crooked logs or one whose logs were not chinked together properly.
Eliza came from a wealthy family in England, and she kept their home meticulously. One day when she had finished cleaning the house an Indian came in uninvited and sat on her bed. The children were not allowed to touch the beds in the daytime, least of all their mother's bed. When the children told Eliza about the Indian she rushed into the house, picked up a broom and told the Indian to get out of there or she would hit him. Evidently he understood as he got up and left quickly while talking back to her, but they could not understand his words. After this incident the Indians referred to Eliza as "Fighting Squaw" but called William "Brother" because he was always so kind and patient with them.
In the 1860s the population in Weber County was rapidly increasing and home builders considered it a choice place to settle. William set up a tent by his house for new immigrants to use until they could establish a house of their own. If the school was not in session new settlers were also allowed to stay temporarily in the schoolhouse.
William Hutchens was always a friend to the Indians, learned their language and planted every third row in his garden for his Indian brothers. The following Indian incident happened about 1870 when they were living in their final house at 152 West 2nd Street, "back in the Fort".
He said he would, so her father passed them and then told Jack to eat whatever he wished. Jack helped himself to a plateful of potatoes and gravy and then took the molasses pitcher and covered the whole plateful with molasses and then ate it all with great relish. He finished long before the rest of the family, as her father was talking to Jack all the time, and the children couldn't eat much for watching Jack gobble his up. When Jack was finished he turned to John and told him he could come and eat now, and then he walked out of the door and went away.
Deseret News, July 30-31, 1998.
In 1869 the Great Highway across the continent (railroad) constructed its way from the east and from the west towards a meeting place in Utah. In the late 1860s William had a contract to build a long stretch of track across "the Meadows", as the Business Depot of Ogden was then called. The adobe granary in the rear of the Hutchens' house was built in 1868 and later served as the pay station for the local men working on the railroad grade. On payday the workers lined up on 2nd Street to receive their pay from the granary behind the Hutchens' house.
Her father had charge of a long stretch of track across the meadows. Sometimes after school the children use to go down and watch the men work, because they were the men from the valley and a lot from their own vicinity. They used horses and scrapers. They scraped the soil from the sides of the right-of-way and made a high embankment for the track. Having charge of the work, her father of course would have charge of the payroll and she remembers that on several occasions he brought home all he could carry of money in a bag to pay the men. It was mostly silver.
1869 William Hutchens' granary served as a pay station for workers on the railroad bed; photo 2007.
William served as first counselor to Bishop Daniel Thomas of the Lynne Ward from 1876-1885. Since the Hutchens home was next to the schoolhouse which served as the church, the visiting authorities of the church were entertained in the Hutchens home. President John Taylor, third president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was one of those who visited here. John Smith, the son of Hyrum Smith, was the second patriarch of the church; he stayed at the Hutchens home several times giving patriarchal blessings to the members of the community.
William and Eliza Hutchens had eleven children. An extra room on the rear east side was added in 1885 for Eliza's mother, Mary Cruse Stone. William was a farmer, a business man, a carpenter, a school trustee, an alderman in Ogden City government and a counselor in the Lynne Ward. Fred N. Stone wrote that William Hutchens was "identified with all the business and building of the Ward from the first settlement" and that he "was a humble, God-fearing man of the truest type." He died in 1885 and Eliza in 1905.
Four of the Hutchens children continued to live in the Bingham Fort area. They were Mary Elizabeth Hutchens (Peter Sherner), Harriet Hutchens (Squire Green Crowley), John Hutchens (Lois Brown), and Esther Hutchens (Fred Stone). The home of Mary Elizabeth and Peter Sherner remains at 122 2nd Street.
103 years ago, in 1912, Victor Reno Jr. purchased the William Hutchens house, and it still remains in the Reno family in 2015.
152 West 2nd Street; photo 2011.
 Thomas Carter and Peter Goss, Utah's Historic Architecture, 1847-1940, p.18.
 Dorothy Amelda Sherner and Laura Sherner Welker, Mary Elizabeth-Her Stories, manuscript, 1933, p. 19, 38, 39.
 Lucile Parry Peterson, William Birch Hutchens, manuscript.
 Sherner and Welker, Mary Elizabeth- Her Stories, p. 39, 86, 87.
 Richard Roberts and Richard Sadler, A History of Weber County, 1997, Utah State Historical Society, p. 101; Sherner and Welker, Mary Elizabeth – Her Stories, p. 41, 42.
 Fred N. Stone, A Reminiscent History of the Lynne Ward, manuscript, 1934, p. 3.


It was a September morning and we were taking photos at Grand Lake St Marys. Teresa took this photo. I have been looking at some of the older photos that she took that I had not shared yet, and this one captured my attention. I love it.
I am starting to blog daily on a second site now. This one has nothing to do with photography, it is just an outlet for me to write about life, technology, and other things going on in the world. I have had that blog for years, but have not written their consistently. I'm changing that, starting now.
I'm not sure how I will share it, other than posting a daily link on Twitter. Maybe I'll add a link at the bottom of this blog every day. The post will not be super long, but its my way of writing daily to improve my writing skills and to spend more time reflecting.
Now if I could just get back to 2x weekly videos. This weather is nuts.


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Q: How to loop asynchronously? I get List of websites I need to loop through and to spend on each certain amount of time. Looping needs to be asynchronous, because on each website music will be played, and that's the main point - to hear the music in that amount of time, and then to load another page and to listen to its music and so on. Also, form need to be available for user actions.
Code I've got so far is this:
public void playSound(List<String> websites)
{
    webBrowser.Navigate(Uri.EscapeDataString(websites[0]));

    foreach (String website in websites.Skip(1))
    {
        StartAsyncTimedWork(website);
        // problem when calling more times
    }

}

private System.Windows.Forms.Timer myTimer = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer();

private void StartAsyncTimedWork(String website)
{
    myTimer.Interval = 7000;
    myTimer.Tick += new EventHandler(myTimer_Tick);
    myTimer.Start();
}

private void myTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (this.InvokeRequired)
    {
        this.BeginInvoke(new EventHandler(myTimer_Tick), sender, e);
    }
    else
    {
        lock (myTimer)
        {
            if (this.myTimer.Enabled)
            {

                this.myTimer.Stop();
                // here I should get my website which I need to search
                // don't know how to pass that argument from StartAsyncTimedWork

            }
        }
    }
}

A: One way to do this is as below.

*

*Make websites a class field (if it isn't already), so the timer event handler can access this collection.

*Add a field to keep track of the current index.

*Add a field to prevent re-entrant calls to PlaySounds.

*You're using a WinForms timer, which executes on the same thread as the form, so there's no need for InvokeRequired etc.

Some pseudo-code (warning, this is untested):
private bool isPlayingSounds;
private int index;
private List<String> websites;
private Timer myTimer;

private void Form1_Load()
{
    myTimer = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer();
    myTimer.Interval = 7000;
    myTimer.Tick += new EventHandler(myTimer_Tick);
}

public void PlaySounds(List<String> websites)
{
    if (isPlayingSounds)
    {
        // Already playing.
        // Throw exception here, or stop and play new website collection.
    }
    else
    {
        isPlayingSounds = true;
        this.websites = websites;
        PlayNextSound();
    }
}

private void PlayNextSound()
{
    if (index < websites.Count)
    {
        webBrowser.Navigate(Uri.EscapeDataString(websites[index]));
        myTimer.Start();

        // Prepare for next website, if any.
        index++;
    }
    else
    {
        // Remove reference to object supplied by caller
        websites = null;

        / Reset index for next call to PlaySounds.
        index = 0;

        // Reset flag to indicate not playing.
        isPlayingSounds = false;
    }
}

private void myTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    myTimer.Stop();
    PlayNextSound();
}

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Is BMW i3 Electric Car Selling Better In U.S. Than Germany?
One of the notable features of last year's electric-car sales was the strong, and so far sustained, sales of the radical new BMW i3 electric car.
The little plastic-bodied battery-electric vehicle from Munich, with its odd coach doors and its rear electric motor, sold more than 1,000 cars a month in four of the eight months last year it was on sale.
DON'T MISS: BMW i Electric Car Sales Surge For 2014; More To Come, Company Says
The total of 6,024 i3s delivered put BMW's first electric car in sixth place among the 21 plug-in vehicles on sale in the U.S.
Among battery-electrics, it won third place, after only the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S--despite being sold for only two-thirds of 2014.
But despite a rumored target of 5,000 deliveries in its homeland of Germany, only 2,128 i3s found homes there during all of calendar 2014.
2014 BMW i3 electric cars waiting at East Coast shipping port for distribution, May 2014
A report last autumn indicated that BMW planned to boost incentives on the i3 in Germany, with only 1,900 sold during the first nine months of the year.
For perspective, 16.4 million vehicles were delivered in the U.S. last year--against 3.0 million in Germany.
So the BMW i3 represented twice as high a proportion of overall sales in Germany (0.071 percent) as in the U.S. (0.037 percent).
ALSO SEE: BMW i3 Sales Slow In Germany; Will They Hold Up In States? (Nov 2014)
Still, the question remains: Is the BMW i3 underachieving in Germany--and, if so, why?
The enthusiast site BMWblog took a crack at answering that question three weeks ago
The site suggested five reasons that the i3 electric car is "yet to be a sales success in Germany":
2013 Tesla Model S and 2014 BMW i3, Hudson Valley, NY, Nov 2014
Public transportation: Mass transit in Germany is pervasive, reliable, clean, and well-integrated, so short trips need not be done by car.
Charging: Far more Germans live in apartments than in the U.S., meaning that home charging can be considerably more challenging.
Pricing: No BMW is exactly inexpensive, but as a second or city car, an i3 lease (at more than $500 a month) is pricey compared to mass transit.
Tesla: With the Model S offering more than twice the range, plus a completed Supercharger network in Germany, it is far more capable of serving single-car households.
Overall appeal: BMWblog suggests that the environment is less important to Germans than to Californians (we might disagree).
MORE: Plug-In Electric Car Sales Continue Rise In 2014: 100,000-Plus Last Year
Overall, we'd suggest these are early days yet.
BMW still sold more i3s (more than 16,000) during 2014, far more than the 10,000 it had earlier said it expected to sell.
With all three German makers now firmly on board in offering various plug-in vehicles, we suspect i3 sales have yet to peak.
BMW i3 and Volkswagen e-Golf electric cars using Combined Charging System (CCS) DC fast charging
German buyers, who are clearly more brand-loyal and perhaps inherently more cautious, may simply find the i3 not as a good a fit for their needs as U.S. buyers in some areas.
But BMW is clearly committed to sales of the i3, and it's obviously found some audience in both countries.
And that's not even counting additional BMW i models in the coming years. Stay tuned.
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Q: How to search a text file for multiple matching strings and put the sum value in to an Excel cell This is probably reasonably simple - I'm trying to write a VBA code that will run through a given text file and collate the values for a given string and then add that in to a cell on my excel spreadsheet.
I have succeeded in the first instance in that I can get the VBA script to read the text file and enter the value for a matching string. However, the issue I have is there are some strings which appear more than once. What I want the code to do is to add all the values it finds for that given value together and put that number in the cell.
This is an example of the code I have written so far -
Dim myFile As String, text As String, textline As String

myFile = "C:\Support\test\input.txt"

Open myFile For Input As #1
Do Until EOF(1)
    Line Input #1, textline
    text = text & textline
Loop
Close #1

'FEATURES
FeatureA = InStr(text, "FEATURE_A")
FeatureB = InStr(text, "FEATURE_B")
FeatureC = InStr(text, "FEATURE_C")

Range("a1").Value = Mid(text, FeatureA + 9, 3)
Range("a2").Value = Mid(text, FeatureB + 9, 3)
Range("a3").Value = Mid(text, FeatureC + 9, 3)

End Sub

I guess I need it to loop around to add the values together but not sure how to do that. So if the dataset looks like the one below, at current my code will pick up the first match and put that value in the cell, it won't continue on the rest of the list. For Feature_C it will only pick up '4' as the value, as opposed to adding all the values it finds for the matching string (4+9)
Example txt -
FEATURE_A 1
FEATURE_B 4
FEATURE_C 4
FEATURE_C 9

Hope that makes sense, and thanks in advance for the help/suggestions.

A: This is a pretty rudimentary RegEx pattern but it fulfills your sample requirements.
Sub Macro3()
    Dim myFile As String, txt As String, txtl As String
    Dim i As Long, features As Variant

    myFile = "C:\test\input.txt"

    Open myFile For Input As #1
    Do Until EOF(1)
        Line Input #1, txtl
        txt = txt & txtl
    Loop
    Close #1

    features = Array("FEATURE_A", "FEATURE_B", "FEATURE_C")

    With Worksheets("sheet2")
        For i = LBound(features) To UBound(features)
            .Cells(1, "A").Offset(i, 0).Resize(1, 2) = _
                Array(features(i), sumFeatures(CStr(features(i)), txt))
        Next i
    End With

End Sub

Function sumFeatures(f As String, t As String) As Double
    Dim n As Long
    Static rgx As Object, cmat As Object

    If rgx Is Nothing Then
        Set rgx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
    End If

    sumFeatures = 0

    With rgx
        .Global = True
        .MultiLine = True
        .IgnoreCase = True
        .Pattern = f & " \d"
        If .Test(t) Then
            Set cmat = .Execute(t)
            'sum the matches
            For n = 0 To cmat.Count - 1
                sumFeatures = sumFeatures + _
                    CDbl(Replace(cmat.Item(n), f, vbNullString, 1, 1, vbTextCompare))
            Next n
        End If
    End With

End Function

FEATURE_A   1
FEATURE_B   4
FEATURE_C   13

A: No real need for VBA.  In Excel 2010+ you can use Power Query  (AKA Get&Transform in 2016).  And all this can be done via the GUI

*

*Define your source

*Group the rows by column 1

*

*Sum Column 1

*Merge the two columns with some spaces as the separator
Here is the M code, but, as I wrote above, you can do this using the Power Query Editor:
let
    Source = Csv.Document(File.Contents("C:\Users\Ron\Desktop\Input.txt"),2,"",null,1252),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}, {"Column2", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"Column1"}, {{"Count", each List.Sum([Column2]), type number}}),
    #"Merged Columns" = Table.CombineColumns(Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Grouped Rows", {{"Count", type text}}, "en-US"),{"Column1", "Count"},Combiner.CombineTextByDelimiter("   ", QuoteStyle.None),"Feature Sums")
in
    #"Merged Columns"

You now have a query which you can apply repeatedly to the file.  Either "refreshing" if new data is added, or replacing if that is what you want to do.

A: It sounds like you need a function to count the occurences of a substring.
Function CountOccurences(ByVal Text As String, ByVal SearchString As String) As Long
    Dim length As Long
    length = Len(Text) - Len(Replace(Text, SearchString, ""))
    CountOccurences = length / Len(SearchString)
End Function


Enrique Iglesias sure has a thing for bathrooms.
The 42-year-old singer just premiered "El Baño" featuring Bad Bunny and also includes a cameo from actor Eric Roberts.
When Iglesias met Anna Kournikova in 2002, on the set of his "Escape" music video, it also featured a steamy bathroom scene, and this song is about that.
Iglesias finds himself in a hotel bar, and Roberts is the bartender who tricks up his sleeve. Without saying too much, we let you know that there's a groundhog day theme, and he always ends up next to an attractive brunette. Each time they get closer and closer.
In December, Kournikova and Iglesias welcomed twins, a boy and a girl.
According to TMZ, the twins are named Nicholas and Lucy. The former professional tennis player gave birth on December 16, 2017, in Miami, welcoming the couple's first children into the world.
This news will come as a surprise to many fans of the low-key couple, who managed to keep the pregnancy private for nine months! Anna, 36, and singer have been together for 16 years and are clearly very good at keeping their relationship very private.
Enrique is due back on tour in March with his European leg kicking off in Germany.


A serious mismatch is on tap in CONCACAF's 2018 World Cup qualifiers as Mexico meet El Salvador at Cuscatlan in San Salvador on Friday (10:00 PM Eastern).
Lumped in a group with Mexico, Honduras, and Canada, El Salvador are the only team in the quartet that has yet to win a game (0-2-2, 2 points). They squandered their best chance by drawing Honduras at home, 2-2; they followed that up with a disappointing 2-0 away loss to the Hondurans.
If El Salvador lose again on Friday – and either Canada or Honduras win in their matchup – El Salvador will be eliminated.
Though they're playing at home, where they've earned two draws so far, El Salvador will struggle to come out of Friday's game with a point. Mexico are a perfect 4-0-0 in qualifying with a +10 goal differential (10 goals for, zero goals against). El Tri dominated the first matchup between the sides on home soil, 3-0.
Mexico's last competitive fixture, which came at the 2016 Copa America, resulted in one of the worst losses in team history, a 7-0 drubbing at the hands of eventual champion Chile. But don't let that skew your perception of just how much better Mexico is than El Salvador.
The Salvadorans have been outscored 9-1 in their last three matches, which includes a 4-0 home loss to Armenia and a 3-1 loss in Peru (both friendlies) in addition to their last WC qualifier against Honduras.
Mexico, on the other hand, is 3-1-1 in their last five, and own wins over Jamaica (2-0, Copa America), Uruguay (3-1, Copa America), and that same Chilean team (1-0, friendly) that hammered them last time out. They've also won each of the last five against El Salvador, outscoring their overmatched opponent 16-2.
You won't get much of a payout, but there's no value on anything but a Mexico win.
Photo credit: Nizam Uddin (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.


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Tag: Major ddos attack on namecheap
Namecheap is Hit by a Massive DDOS Attack
Namecheap is one of the big domain registrar and Web Hosting company based in Los Angeles, California. It's one of company which makes it possible to type domain name (ex. www.google.com) instead of IP's address (74.125.236.160). On Thursday, it was hit by a massive Distributed Denial of Service DDOS attack anyone has seen or dealt by anybody. The attack involved of about 100 GBPS of traffic driven towards Namecheap servers. As per company, "it was a new type of attack". Due to DDOS attack, more than 300 websites were down or inaccessible. The attack was mainly on Domain Name System (DNS) servers.
Hackers, usually perform DDOS attack to target specific companies to disrupt customer's point of view about it or to downgrade company's reputation. DDOS attack has affected domain name resolving, Email forwarding, URL's, domain host record updates etc. The company is constantly trying hard to tackle with huge attack.
Below mentioned is official update from Richard Kirkendall (CEO) and Matt Russell (VP):
Today is one of the days that as a service provider who strives to deliver excellence day in and day out, you wish you never had. At around 15.55 GMT / 11.55 EST, a huge DDoS attack started against 300 or so domains on our DNS platform. Our DNS platform is a redundant, global platform spread across 3 continents and 5 countries that handles the DNS for many of our customers. This is a platform meticulously maintained and ran, and a platform that successfully fends off other DDoS attacks on an almost-daily basis. Today, however, I am compelled to announce that we struggled. The sheer size of the attack overwhelmed many of our DNS servers resulting in inaccessibility and sluggish performance. Our initial estimates show the attack size to be over 100Gbps; making this one of the largest attacks anyone has seen or dealt with. And this is a new type of attack, one that we and our hardware and network partners had not encountered before. We responded with our well-practiced mitigation plan while also enabling our backup system for those with affected domains. It took us around 3 hours to fully mitigate the attack, working closely with our hardware and network vendors. At this moment in time, 99% of our services are back to normal. I'd like to take this time to apologize to those customers affected. I also wish to iterate that we will learn from this attack and come back stronger, and more robust. We are bringing forward a key DNS infrastructure enhancement program that will see us massively expand the size of our DNS infrastructure and our ability to absorb and fend off attacks like these. We remain firmly committed to delivering the absolute best service possible to our loyal customers.
Richard Kirkendall
Author Tim HarrisPosted on February 21, 2014 April 1, 2014 Categories Web Hosting NewsTags attack on DNS, ddos attack, DNS servers attack, Major ddos attack on namecheap, Namecheap ddos attack, namechecap under ddos attack, web hosting


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Fatal Weekend
Fatal Weekend Prologue Maxwell Smart's brain hurt. He had a lot on his mind lately and now his brain was starting to hurt. Max sat at his kitchen table on a beautiful Friday morning. The sun was shining through his apartment window, birds were singing, cars were moving and getting ready for work, […]
Maxwell Smart's brain hurt.
He had a lot on his mind lately and now his brain was starting to hurt. Max sat at his kitchen table on a beautiful Friday morning. The sun was shining through his apartment window, birds were singing, cars were moving and getting ready for work, and Max sat at his table in the middle of breakfast, thinking.
He was going over different things from that morning, like what case he would be working on this weekend and whether or not the Chief was serious about giving him next weekend off like he promised. He looked down at his breakfast and saw the same thing he saw almost every morning: a cup of coffee and one piece of toast.
Usually Max had two pieces of toast, but on the account that he had just eaten one piece, therefore that left him with one more piece of toast.
Max didn't have all that much time to make elaborate breakfasts like cereal or the famous bacon and eggs platter. This fact made Max think even harder. In all reality, even though his thoughts were mumbled, he was thinking about settling down.
The inevitable conclusion and end of a bachelor lifestyle. Max enjoyed being a bachelor, he really did, but there was something that just kept poking at him and that was the thought of marriage.
Marriage, the institution of undying love.
Max had been to just about every wedding at CONTROL and there was just something different about the agents who ended up getting married. They changed. Some for better, some for worse, but Max wanted the change for better. Then it happened again. Every time Max thought about marriage and things of that nature, he thought about 99.
Agent 99 was Max's partner.
More like best friend.
They had known each other for a very long time and had worked together for some time as well. She was a wonderful agent: high scores on marksmanship, she graduated top of her spy class, she'd been awarded the Lamont Cranston award two years in a row for shadowing, and she was a valuable agent to CONTROL.
And best of all, she was attractive. Very attractive. In fact, attractive didn't begin to describe Agent 99's looks. She was…well, she was only 1% off from being a 100, but in Max's book, she already was. In truth, Max had a slight crush on her from the very beginning, but now he was growing more and more fond of her.
Fond of her? Max thought. What a gross understatement! Max did a half smile. Gross understatement. 99 would be proud at his understanding of such a sophisticated pairing of words. Max's smile got bigger.
Another good thing about knowing 99 was the fact that her intelligence was wearing off on him. Not to say Max wasn't intelligent already, but he gained more knowledge just being around 99.
There I go again, he thought. Thinking about 99. Well, he couldn't help it. He was very fond of her. To get to the point, the man was…
Just then, there was a knock at Max's door. He left the kitchen and stepped into the living room to make sure he did hear something. Again the knocking took place. "Who is it?" Max called.
"It's me, Max," said the lovely voice on the other side.
Speak of the devil, he thought. "Just a minute, 99."
Max hurried and finished the last piece of toast he had in his hand and opened the door. On the other side was a beautiful young lady, with long brown hair and these gorgeous blue eyes. Max's smile soon faded when he realized something.
"Sorry, 99," he said, closing the door slowly. "We need to give the password." Max then shut the door.
"But Max," 99 called from the hallway. "You've already seen me!"
"But how do I know it's you, 99?" Max called back, leaning against the door. "Sure, you may look like 99 and sound like 99, but how do I know you're the real 99?"
"Because I look, sound, and act like the real 99." She said, sarcastically.
"There's no need to be sarcastic, 99," Max retorted, catching the sarcastic tone in her voice. "If that is your real name."
99 sighed. She'd been doing this routine ever since she had met Maxwell Smart about 3 or 4 years ago. She'd also been doing this dance with him: finding out how he really felt about her. She already knew she was crazy about him, which would be the only reason she'd ever partake in a scene like the one she was doing now.
"Alright, Max." She said, not wanting to argue with him. "How're we going to solve this?"
"All you gotta do is give me the password." Max said. Secretly, he was enjoying this. Obviously the woman on the other side was 99, but then again he couldn't be sure. It was always wise to take precautions, especially in their profession.
There were always KAOS agents around the corner, waiting to knock you off or kidnap you. A guy couldn't be too careful these days.
"And the password would be what, Max?" 99 asked.
"Sp…not this time, 99." Max said, laughing. "That may have worked yesterday, but it won't work today. You'll never find out the password and that's final. You will never ever know that the password is spies, so just…" Max stopped.
He had done it again.
He left the door and opened it to see a smiling 99 on the other side. "No one likes a cheeky secret agent, 99." He said, before she could say anything herself. 99 walked in, smiling, and didn't say a word.
"Want some orange juice, 99?"
"No thanks, Max," she said. "I just had breakfast." She stared at his shirt and saw crumbs everywhere. "And apparently so did you."
Max looked down at his shirt and saw the crumbs from his toast. "Toast again, Max?" 99 asked, walking over to him and brushing the crumbs. "You really should eat a more balanced breakfast."
"I know, I know." Max said, nodding his head. One thing Max hated was being treated like he was a little kid or something, but not with 99. He actually enjoyed the attention she poured on him.
"There," she said, wiping the last bit of crumbs off his shirt. "Now the Chief won't yell at you for not being properly dressed for work."
"You know," Max said, walking to the couch and putting on his jacket. "You don't have to fuss over me, 99. I'm a big boy now. I assure you when I left home, I was my own man. Granted, I was a poor man, but none the less, a man I was.
"I know where everything is and everything is in its rightful place. Well, maybe except for that broom by the window or the towel on the staircase or even that KAOS agent tied up in the closet, but despite all of that, I…what was I saying, 99?"
"You were saying it was time to go to work." She said, leading him to the door.
The two left the apartment and stood outside in the hall. Max was searching for his keys, in order to lock the door. "Max…"
"I know I have my keys." Max said, searching his pockets over and over.
"Just a minute, 99. I certainly can't leave my apartment unlocked." Max continued his search. "Burglars and thieves could come in and steal all those memories I've cherished through out the years. I just couldn't go and leave everything unprotected. I may be a secret agent and I may be trained to kill, but I'm very sentimental, 99."
"Yes, Max, but…"
"You of all people should know that."
"Yes, Max, I do know that." 99 said. "But if you had let me say something, I would've told you that I have your keys."
She held up a set of keys that she had taken from her pocket. "I borrowed your car, remember? So I could drop those papers off for the Chief in New Jersey."
"Oh." Max said, taking the keys from her. "I knew that."
99 just smiled at him.
Max locked the door and the two headed for the parking garage of Max's apartment building. 99 got to the car and waited for Max, who had stopped shortly before reaching the car.
"Forget something?" 99 asked, leaning against the hood of Max's blue convertible.
"I'm trying to decide if I feel like driving today." He said.
The problem with being a bachelor was that Max had to drive everyday, even when he didn't want to. He thought about it again and then tossed the keys to 99.
"Nope." He said, walking over to the passenger side. "I don't want to drive today."
The two got in and took off. 99 drove and Max sat, thinking again. 99 noticed Max was oddly quiet today, something which usually never happened.
"Something on your mind, Max?" she asked.
"I'm just thinking, 99." Max said, looking at all the things they passed.
"Do you ever just think to think?" he said. "I mean just random things that just pop into your mind. Of course I'm thinking about this case the Chief wants us on. That's top priority."
"Of course." 99 said, making a left turn.
"But just thinking…" He was actually thinking about what a good driver 99 was. Ordinarily, Max would never let anyone drive his car. He only let the Chief use it once in all the years he had worked at CONTROL, but 99 had free wane of it.
In fact, he'd do just about anything for 99. If she told him to jump off a bridge, he'd probably do it, though he hoped she would never ask him to do that.
"Are you getting next weekend off?" Max asked, turning to look at her.
"I think so." 99 said. "The Chief hasn't said anything for sure, but it's most likely. Why?"
"Cause I have next weekend off." Max said, looking out the front window. "He promised I could have it off and the Chief's pretty good about keeping his word, especially if we do an excellent job on this case. So I'm thinking I'll have it off."
Max was silent for a while and then asked, "Do you want to do anything? If you're off, I mean."
99 smiled, as she pulled into CONTROL's parking lot. "You don't have to ask, Max. What do you want to do?"
"I don't know yet." Max said. He did have something in mind. Something romantic, actually. He figured it was high time to settle this thing between him and 99. "A movie? Or dinner? We'll figure out something."
99 parked the car and looked at him. It wasn't often that Max didn't have an itinerary on what they were doing. He always had a plan of action it seemed. "Well, this is certainly a first." She said.
"A first what?" Max asked.
"You don't have an idea of what we'll be doing next weekend? Are you saying Maxwell Smart doesn't have a plan of action? As of yet?"
"I have a plan of action!" Max exclaimed. "I just have to sort it out, that's all." He opened the door and got out. "I've been thinking a lot this week and I haven't had a time to sort things out yet."
Max headed for the secret entrance with 99 right behind him. She finally caught up to him as he went through the first door.
"Thinking about what?" she asked, as they came to a second door.
"You said you've been thinking a lot this week. What've you been thinking about?" They came to a third door that opened for them.
"Oh…well…" Max started. "A lot of things."
A fourth door.
"Well…like…like…" He stammered for a couple of seconds. "…stuff."
They finally reached the end of the hall and came upon a phone booth.
"What kind of stuff?" 99 asked, getting in to the booth.
"Well…like…like…" Max was speechless. He just couldn't tell 99 he'd been thinking about her this week and the last couple of months.
99 was getting just a tad bit worried. She watched as Max lifted the receiver, dialed a number and replaced the receiver. Max was speechless, something that was so uncommon.
He'd been rambling on about different kinds of stuff that he had been thinking about that week, most of which didn't make any sense. She thought it was cute, Max trying to be an intellectual thinker and telling her things she know he just didn't think of, just to impress her, but she was more worried than anything. This just wasn't like Max. They didn't really have any secrets from each other. Well, except this one BIG secret.
Why can't you? Max's brain asked. You said you wanted to tell her how you feel. Why not just tell her? She's looking for an answer. Just tell her the truth…
I can't do that! Max answered. Riding in the secret elevator to the Chief's office is not an appropriate place to be telling the woman I love that I love her.
Max's thoughts stopped as well as his ramblings as he thought about what he said or rather had thought. That was really the first time he had actually mentioned how he felt about 99. He looked at 99, who was giving him this weird look.
He loved her, no doubt about it. He had been sure a couple of months ago, but he had never thought it aloud in his mind. He loved her. He really truly, deeply loved her.
He looked at 99, almost like he had been awakened by a dream or some sort. "What was I saying?" he asked, slightly confused at what he had been talking about.
The elevator stopped in the basement and opened its doors. 99 quickly hit the close door button and the doors closed.
"Max, is something wrong?" she asked, now more worried than before.
"No." he said, quickly. "No, 99. Nothing's wrong. I'm fine, really."
He smiled at her. "I'm sure." He gave her a quick peck on the cheek, while he hit the open door button. The doors again opened and gave way into an office lobby. On the left hand side was a desk that was being occupied by a dark-haired man.
"Morning, Max. Morning, 99." The man said, greeting them both with a smile.
"Hi Larabee." 99 said.
"The Chief's expecting you guys. Go on in."
"Thanks, Larabee." Max said, heading for the office door. The door opened and Max and 99 went in.
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The Right-Wing Media Twisted My 2015 Reporting on the Bidens and Ukraine
"It's strange to see my journalism twisted, perverted and turned into lies," says reporter James Risen.
Democrats are coalescing behind an effort to impeach President Trump over his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he pressed the Ukrainian leader to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Meanwhile, Republicans have latched onto the Biden-Ukraine story as a means of smearing the former vice president as corrupt, in an attempt to damage one of Trump's political rivals. For more on the story, we speak with James Risen, senior national security correspondent for The Intercept, who first wrote about the Bidens and Ukraine in 2015, when he was a reporter for The New York Times. He says the "right-wing spin machine" has since twisted his reporting, misrepresenting his findings. In a new article for The Intercept, Risen writes, "It's strange to see my journalism twisted, perverted, and turned into lies and poisonous propaganda by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and their enablers."
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I'm Amy Goodman, as we continue with James Risen, The Intercept's senior national security correspondent, best-selling author, former New York Times reporter, published two pieces in The Intercept this week, including one headlined "I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago. Then the Right-Wing Spin Machine Turned the Story Upside Down."
Jim Risen, tell us about what these allegations are, what Hunter Biden did in Ukraine, and then how it's been spun around.
JAMES RISEN: Sure, yeah. I mean, one of the — this is a very odd experience for me to see this story that I wrote four years ago come back in this weird way. In 2015, while Biden was vice president, I wrote about how he was — he had just gone to the Ukraine to — as sending a message, really, from the United States government and from other governments, that the Ukraine had to crack down on corruption. And in particular, there was the prosecutor general of the Ukraine, who had been refusing to do anything about major corruption cases in the Ukraine.
And I wrote that this whole effort by Biden to get the Ukrainians to crack down was very awkward for him personally and maybe even looked at as hypocritical, because his own son, Hunter Biden, was on the board of a company called Burisma, which was a Ukrainian natural gas company, and the British Serious Fraud Office was investigating Burisma and its owner, who is a Ukrainian official, or former official, and that the British investigation had been stymied because the Ukrainian prosecutor's office had refused to turn over documents to the British officials. And as a result, the British effort to freeze Burisma's assets had been overturned by a British court because they couldn't get any documents from the Ukrainian prosecutor. And the money that had been frozen in banks in London immediately went offshore to Cyprus. Now, Hunter Biden was on the board of the company at the time that the assets were frozen. And he was on the board of Burisma at the time that his father took this trip to the Ukraine. But Joe Biden went there and said, "You've got to get rid of this prosecutor, and you've got to crack down on corruption."
With the Gears of Impeachment Finally Grinding, the Hard Part Begins
Trump is being impeached because he tried to humiliate Joe Biden and then covered it up.
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The significance of his trip was that it was backed up by the whole Western world. There were several large Western countries that were demanding that the Ukraine fire this prosecutor and get — and crack down on corruption. His actions to demand this, the firing of this prosecutor, and to ask for a greater crackdown had the effect — the possible effect — of making his son have even greater legal peril than he did by being on the board of Burisma, because it could have led to a more aggressive investigation of Burisma.
Now, what has happened — so, that's essentially what I wrote. But what I wrote was, this is very awkward and bad for — politically hypocritical for Biden, which was bad enough. But what happened since then is the whole right-wing spin machine got involved in this story over the last four years, as they wanted to use it for opposition research in the 2020 election. And they say — they now claim that Biden went there in order to protect his son and to fire — and to get the Ukrainians to fire the prosecutor to stop him from investigating Burisma — which is the exact opposite of what happened. And so, the original story I wrote was bad enough for Biden, but now it's taken — it's been falsified by the Trump camp to make it look like Biden actually was using his position to protect his son, when that's not true.
AMY GOODMAN: Of course, President Trump is continuing to say, "Investigate Hunter Biden." And now the former prosecutor general of Ukraine is saying Hunter Biden is not guilty. Talk about Vice President Joe Biden's role in dealing with the prosecutor general and this question of whether he was trying to force him out.
JAMES RISEN: Yeah, I mean, the point that the United States was making — Biden was just really carrying a message for the United States government, for the Obama administration, which was: "You have to crack down more on corruption." And the West felt that the prosecutor, in particular, was an obstacle to a crackdown on corruption, not — he was not leading any investigations. In fact, there are reports that he was trying to blackmail or get paid off by companies to stop investigations. So, the idea — you know, basically what's happened is that the right wing twisted the story to try to make it look worse for Biden.
AMY GOODMAN: I'm wondering what you think of your former paper, The New York Times, writing, "But if Trump can make 2020 another race between two unpopular nominees — if he can sully his opponent and make him another creature of 'the swamp' — then he has a shot at victory. Imagine a world where the Ukrainian government enters the election on behalf of Trump. The president can now do to Biden what he did to Hillary Clinton in 2016 — mire him in enough scandal and innuendo to undermine the vice president's claim to honesty. 'Crooked Hillary' seamlessly becomes 'Crooked Joe.'"
JAMES RISEN: Yeah, I think that's the whole point, was to try to make it look like — you know, take corruption off the table for Trump as a problem. I mean, everybody — Trump has just emerged from the Mueller investigation looking really bad to a lot of Americans. But if he can make his opponent look dirty, too, then that would, as you say, level the playing field. So I think that was exactly the point of what they were trying to do with this story.
AMY GOODMAN: That was Jamelle Bouie who wrote that in the Times. But, James Risen, this whole issue of, first, it was the Mueller report, and it didn't find collusion between President Trump and Russia in interfering with the 2016 election, and now Russia becomes Ukraine, and this possibility —
JAMES RISEN: Right.
AMY GOODMAN: — that people are going just to be infuriated that Congress is not doing its job to improve the conditions of the American people.
JAMES RISEN: Right, right. Yeah, I mean, I think Nancy Pelosi has clearly tried to hold — she has been reluctant to go after impeachment, because she has, you know, a lot of exposed House members in competitive districts that she was worried would be hurt by this. But I think the Ukrainian revelations and disclosures by this whistleblower have made it almost impossible for her to ignore this. I think if you continue to ignore what Trump is doing, you're just going to aid and abet him and encourage him to break the law even more often. And so, I think at some point Congress has to stand up and say, "OK, we have to be here and protect the rule of law."
AMY GOODMAN: Finally, President Trump, speaking at the United Nations yesterday — and we just played a bit of that recording — clearly very thrown by this whole situation, of course, the impeachment inquiry continuing. He calls the press "scum" and "animals," and he says the whistleblower, he should be dealt with — or, the whistleblower should be dealt with in ways spies used to be, and says he's guilty of, or she's guilty of, treason. Talk about your own experience. This sort of puts together two things here, James Risen. You were pursued by both the Bush and Obama administrations. You were threatened with jail for not revealing a source. Talk about how you see how you were treated, not by Trump, but by President Obama's administration, and the trajectory through to now.
JAMES RISEN: Yeah, I think one of the problems is that Trump is taking advantage of the path laid first by the Bush administration and then by the Obama administration in prosecuting whistleblowers under the Espionage Act, in which they are, by definition, treated as spies. And the whole way in which both Bush and Obama went after the press and tried to increase prosecutions of whistleblowers has led to this, you know, final — finally, we've hit bottom with Trump, who is just using this kind of hateful language to undermine public servants who are trying to tell the truth. It's one of the most disgusting things about this administration, but it's also something that you saw the beginnings of in both the Bush and the Obama administrations. The use of the Espionage Act, both by Bush and by Obama, and now by Trump, to prosecute people who talk to the press is, by definition, calling a whistleblower a spy. And so, you know, Obama and Trump — I mean, Obama and Bush have led this, led us to Donald Trump.
AMY GOODMAN: James Risen, I want to thank you for being with us, The Intercept's senior national security correspondent, best-selling author, former New York Times reporter, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, published two pieces this week — we'll link to them — at The Intercept, including "I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago. Then the Right-Wing Spin Machine Turned the Story Upside Down," author of State of War and Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War.
This is Democracy Now! When we come back, Sharif Abdel Kouddous joins us to talk about Egypt. Stay with us.
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The Linux 3.9 kernel was officially released late Sunday night marking the second major Linux kernel release of 2013 so far.
The new release includes the usual long list of driver updates, but this time also includes a number of really interesting performance boosts as well.
SSDs can now be leveraged to help speed up the operations of (soon to be legacy) spinning disks.
"Add a target that allows a fast device such as an SSD to be used as a cache for a slower device such as a disk," Red Hat developer Joe Thornber wrote in his Linux kernel commit message. "A plug-in architecture was chosen so that the decisions about which data to migrate and when are delegated to interchangeable tunable policy modules."
Intel's PowerClamp driver has also landed in Linux with the 3.9 kernel release. Intel kernel developer Jacob Pan explained in his kernel commit message that Intel PowerClamp driver performs synchronized idle injection across all online CPUs.
"The goal is to maintain a given package level C-state ratio. Compared to other throttling methods already exist in the kernel, such as ACPI PAD (taking CPUs offline) and clock modulation, this is often more efficient in terms of performance per watt," Pan wrote.
This past week also marked the official release of Ubuntu 13.04, aka the Raring Ringtail. While not an LTS release, the new distro provides some interesting goodness for desktop users.
"Along with performance improvements to Unity, updates to common desktop packages, and updated core and toolchain components, Ubuntu 13.04 also includes the new Friends service, to consolidate all social networking accounts via Ubuntu Online Accounts," Ubuntu developer Adam Conrad wrote in the official release announcement. "Also included is a tech preview of Upstart's new user session feature."
"The salamander is one of nature's most magical creatures; they are a strong indicator of a pristine environment, which is a fitting way to describe the new world emerging around Ubuntu Touch – new applications, a new SDK, a gorgeous clean interface," Shuttleworth wrote. "You'll find salamanders swimming in clear, clean upstreams – which is exactly what's forming around Ubuntu's mobile ecosystem. It's a way of saying 'thank you' to the tremendous community that has joined the effort to create a single unified experience from phone to PC, with tons of crisp and stylish core apps made by people from all over the world who want to build something fast, fresh and free. "
Is Fedora 19 here or is it there? Is it alive or is dead? These are the types of rhetorical questions that are likely to 'dog' the Schrodinger's Cat release of Fedora.
The first alpha debuted last week giving testers an early bit of cat nip. Among the big new features set for inclusion in Fedora 19 is one called Checkpoint/Restore.
"Checkpointing a process in regular intervals can help to restart a process if it might crash to resume/restart/restore the calculation without too much data lost," the Fedora Features page on the new capability states. "Providing this ability transparent at the OS level removes the need to implement this functionality for all processes manually."


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While plenty has changed since the early days of Global Ventures, as is expected operating in a dynamic and ever-shifting geography like MEA, our quest remains the same: finding brilliant entrepreneurs who do not see challenges as impassable forces of opposition, but as opportunities to transform and innovate, to touch and improve the lives of the many for whom these challenges are a daily reality.
From our very first conversations with Mazen AlDarrab and Sultan AlAsmi, we saw just that: two exceptional entrepreneurs with an idea that has the potential to disrupt Saudi eCommerce as we know it. Zid was born out of a need to facilitate a digital shift in Saudi's predominantly offline retail sector, by offering merchants a fully-integrated, one-stop-shop, solution to set their businesses up online.
Mazen, Zid's founder, is a serial entrepreneur and specialist in all things online retail and digital communication. Sultan, the company's co-founder and CEO, is an ex-retailer and business owner, with almost six years living and breathing retail.
When you combine practical experience, digital prowess and a shared vision, you get the dynamic dream team that has become the backbone of Zid's success over the last three years.
But it was not just their ingenuity that caught our attention – it was their perseverance in the face of adversity. Zid is operating in a COVID-accelerated sector, characterized by a long-term shift (1) from brick-and-mortar to online; (2) exponential growth as consumers turn to online spending; (3) a preference for digital payments, (4) and an ever-growing need for effective logistics and supply chain management. In Saudi Arabia specifically, this acceleration is quantified by a ten-fold growth in order volume since the onset of the pandemic. The Zid team took a proactive approach in handling this demand surge, all while maintaining a 99% uptime rate.
COVID19 has merely added fuel to the growth of an already booming e-commerce sector in Saudi Arabia. In a country with a record 73% Internet penetration rate and where 60% of shoppers have completed an online transaction at least once, the adoption of e-commerce is only set to endure. In fact, forecasts show that the Saudi ecommerce market will grow by 27% annually to reach $10b by 2022 – ultimately comprising of 8% of total retail sales.
For retailers, capturing this opportunity is a matter of going digital. As of 2018, however, only 15% of businesses in the Middle East had an online presence, while 90% of online purchases were ordered and shipped from abroad. As a localized eCommerce enablement company, Zid is bridging a significant gap in the market by setting up merchants holistically for success so they can best serve an increasingly online audience.
What is perhaps most remarkable about Zid is the way its solution cuts across three booming sectors at once: eCommerce, FinTech and the Future of Work. The SME sector is, and will continue to be a significant contributor to Saudi's economy. By enabling retailers to seamlessly bypass the physical store, Zid is playing an active role in (re)defining the Future of Work, enabling the rise and growth of the Kingdom's gig economy. At the same time, the company has embraced FinTech and Mobility solutions as part of the VP. These are foundational to achieving Zid's mission of offering an end-to-end solution that gives merchants all the necessary support to get an online store up and running. Access to payment and logistic providers is a part of that package. Launched in 2020, ZidShip matches retailers to shipping companies based on the required service levels. Making its debut in 2021, ZidPay is a payment provider aggregator that will allow merchants to sign agreements according to retail needs.
For Zid, we believe the sky is the limit. We can't think of a more capable group of entrepreneurs to capture the immense regional opportunity in eCommerce. Global Ventures is excited to welcome Zid to our portfolio, and thrilled to be part of their journey toward disrupting retail-as-usual in Saudi and beyond.
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We scoured the world to find the best and have detailed the top 10 candidates we consider most likely to succeed Sol Trujillo as the chief executive of Telstra.
commentary With Sol Trujillo reportedly on his way out, speculation is running wild as to who the board will employ to lead the telco for the next phase.
ZDNet.com.au has conducted an international search, scouring the executive teams of telecommunications companies around the world for the right replacement. We've formed a shortlist of the 10 most likely candidates.
The executives who made it onto the short list were of a good age (not too old or too young), had relevant qualifications and experience, taking into account Telstra's new passion for mobile and the dominance of its consumer segment.
Those who had progressed to CEO spots in larger companies than Telstra were mostly ruled out. Australian and New Zealand experience was taken into account, but wasn't considered as a make or break factor. This list is in alphabetical order.
Work history: Dahlström joined Telia in 1998 and has held a number of management roles in the group, including head of mobility services and head of corporate networks and technology. Previously, he was a navy officer working on the procurement of ICT systems for the Swedish Armed Forces.
Qualifications: Master of Engineering in Computer Science from Linköping University in Sweden and a Master of Science in Digital Technology from Heriot Watt University in Scotland.
Work history: Sally Davis moved to be chief executive of BT Wholesale in 2007 after being chief portfolio officer. She has also been president, BT Global Products. Before BT, she took NYNEX to IPO in the UK and headed up its strategy division after it merged with Bell Atlantic. She also worked as managing director of Cable London where she had been since its nascent. Her career began at Mercury Communications.
Qualifications: she is an English graduate and a Fellow of University College London.
Working history: appointed to his current role in October 2007, de la Vega also held roles in regional telecommunications and entertainment and worked as COO of Cingular wireless. He was president of BellSouth Latin America, preceded by a position as president of broadband and internet solutions in the same company.
Qualifications: he holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, a Masters of Business Administration from Northern Illinois University, and he has completed the Executive Program at the University of Virginia.
Working history: Donovan was most recently Vodafone's CEO for Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Affiliates. He finished in January of this year, deciding to leave after a management reshuffle. Previously, Donovan held other CEO positions including Vodafone Ireland. He has held senior roles at BT, One2One and Apple, as well as being chief commercial officer at Optus Communications. Donovan has also had experience in fast moving consumer goods marketing and sales in Mars, Coca Cola and Schweppes. Donovan is a non-executive director for China Mobile.
Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts in Scandinavian Studies from University College London and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Bradford University Management Centre.
Work history Dotson joined T-Mobile in 1996 as VP marketing, launching an award-winning advertising campaign and working up to lead the marketing, sales and business operations. In 2001, Dotson became COO of T-Mobile USA and became a president of the company in 2002. Prior to joining T-Mobile, Dotson worked for seven years in senior marketing positions inside PepsiCo's restaurant division.
Qualifications: Dotson holds an MBA from Northwestern University.
Working history: Marsh joined Cable and Wireless via its acquisition of Energis Communications where he was director of retail. Before Energis he spent time as COO at KPMG Consulting. He has also held the role of head of strategic planning at Boots the Chemists.
Qualifications: Jim is a qualified chartered accountant specialising in corporate finance and recovery.
Working history: David Moffatt has been in his current role since 2003. Prior to that he held the roles of CFO and group managing director finance and administration. He moved to Telstra from heading up General Electric Australia and New Zealand, having risen from CEO General Electric Capital Australia and New Zealand. Before joining General Electric, David held leadership roles with Palmer Tube Mills, Citibank and Bain & Company.
Qualifications: He is a graduate of the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Business (Management).
Working history: he joined BT in January 2004 as managing director of the consumer division within BT Retail. He rose to the chief executive position in June last year. Before joining BT, he climbed to be managing director of the consumer division of Telewest, which succeeded a role as the European marketing director for Pantene at Proctor and Gamble.
Qualifications: Gavin gained an Engineering degree at Emmanuel College in Cambridge.
Working history: James began his current position in March 2008. Before that he operated as interim president for the Cable Joint Venture established among Sprint and four major cable companies, which followed a stint as vice president cable solutions, where he expanded Sprint's VoIP presence. His 14-year Sprint tenure included other leadership roles. Before joining Sprint, he worked at former Anderson Consulting designing, installing and maintaining operating system for the financial services industry.
Qualifications: he holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Davidson College, an MBA from the University of Virginia, and he has studied British literature and economic history at Cambridge University.
Work history: Karen now leads a team serving business consumer and wireless customers in Quebec as well as providing wholesale and carrier services to telco providers. This role has followed various senior positions. She began her career at NBTel.
Qualifications: Karen received a Masters of Business Administration from Dalhousie University in 1991 and a Bachelor of Science from Mount Allison University in 1989.
Other executives which ZDNet.com.au considered, but who didn't make it into the shortlist were Telstra business group managing director Deena Shiff; Vodafone Australia CEO Russell Hewitt, who if the merger with Hutchison Australia goes through will be handing the running of day-to-day operations of the merged entity to 3 CEO Nigel Dews; Virgin Mobile USA CEO Dan Schulman, who has years of experience in AT&T as well as in building up an internet brand; or Kim Williams, Foxtel CEO, who would help continue Telstra's media trend.
Optus CEO Paul O'Sullivan is clearly the dark horse for the job. Although it seems the right time for him to move, it is unlikely he would follow in the steps of former Telstra CEO Ziggy Switkowski and change sides to Optus' main rival.


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Lionfish-killing robots? Startup's drone would target invasive species
A quartet of engineers is developing drones to autonomously detect and collect lionfish at depths beyond the scope of human divers.
Lionfish-killing robots? Startup's drone would target invasive species A quartet of engineers is developing drones to autonomously detect and collect lionfish at depths beyond the scope of human divers. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2tzb3Yi
USA Today NetworkJoseph Baucum, Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal Published 6:47 p.m. ET June 30, 2017 | Updated 6:55 p.m. ET June 30, 2017
Yuan Wang, co-founder of American Marine Research Company, details the progress of his company in an interview on June 29, 2017. (Joseph Baucum/jbaucum@pnj.com)
An engineer at American Marine Research Company works on a drone on Thursday, June 29, 2017. The company is designing robots to autonomously detect and collect lionfish.(Photo: Joseph Baucum/jbaucum@pnj.com)
PENSACOLA, Fla. — There's a potential game changer brewing in the struggle to eradicate lionfish from the Gulf of Mexico.
A quartet of engineers is developing drones to autonomously detect and collect lionfish at depths beyond the scope of human divers. The team, a startup called American Marine Research Co., arrived in the Florida Panhandle on June 9.
By the end of July, the company's goal is to be able to harvest enough of the sea creatures that the business turns a profit by supplying the fish to the restaurant industry.
"We're building an artificial predator for a species that doesn't have a natural one," said Yuan Wang, 23, co-founder of American Marine Research.
Wang said the aim is to design a robot so adept at neutralizing its target that out of 100 lionfish in a given area, it would pinpoint and corral 95, at the very least. He added that the company also hopes to program the drone to distinguish between other types of fish so as not to decimate other populations such as red snapper or grouper.
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The company has labored on several prototypes. The priorities for the technology include ensuring the drones can move properly and descend to the appropriate depths, possibly deeper than 1,000 feet below sea level. The intent is to ultimately remove the need for a human user. The largest robot is about the size of a mini fridge and the tiniest is smaller than an office trash can.
Wang, who graduated from Princeton University in May, said the company conducted a successful test on Sunday. One model demonstrated it could pull a 200-pound human across a pool about as quickly as a human can swim. But Wang noted the company has also had two failed tests where the robot was damaged.
"We've been making our systems incrementally more powerful and more robust and ready to receive attachments," he said. "We don't know if we'll succeed, but it won't be for a lack of trying."
Lionfish pose a threat to ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico because they largely lack predators in the region. The colorful fish, with feather-like fins and zebra-like stripes, originate from the Indo-Pacific region but have flourished off Florida since the 1980s when aquarium collectors released them into area waters. Each female lionfish spawns millions of eggs a year.
Lionfish waiting to be measured Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. (Photo: John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's website states that since lionfish "are carnivores that feed on small crustaceans and fish, including the young of important commercial fish species such as snapper and grouper."
The NOAA has also "concluded that invasive lionfish populations will continue to grow and cannot be eliminated using conventional methods. Marine invaders are nearly impossible to eradicate once established."
At the federal level, legislative efforts have been made to combat the lionfish. U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., introduced a bill in May to expand upon a state program that has provided incentives for spear fishermen to collect the fish.
In addition to Wang, American Marine Research Company's team includes engineers Ian Switzer, Taylor Njaka and Duncan Michael. The trio has attended Cornell University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Olin College of Engineering, respectively.
To ensure the company hits its target of profitability by the end of July, Wang said the team typically works as much as 15 hours a day, each day of the week. But with the prospect of sustaining ecosystems by solving the lionfish dilemma, he said the effort has been worthwhile.
"Every single minute, every drop of effort has to go into making these drones," he said.
Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day
Heather Schmurki holds up a Lionfish for for visitors to see Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
Sigrid Solgard of Keep Pensacola Beautiful, poses for a photo Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
Robert Turpin, of Escambia County Florida Marine Resources, shows how to filet a Lionfish Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
Booths with many kinds of information on Lionfish Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
Visitors get information on Lionfish Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
Moria Dobbs holds up a Lionfish flag Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
Lionfish art on display Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
Justin Cooper,7, gets ready to toss a toy Lionfish Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
Lionfish toys for sale Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
Lionfish waiting to be measured Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
Visitors wait in line to sample fried Lionfish Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
Visitors waited in line to sample fried Lionfish Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
Chef Joe Abston of Hopjacks, demonstrates how to cook Lionfish Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
A Lionfish swims around a fish tank Saturday, May 20, 2017 during the Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival and Tournament at Plaza de Luna. John Blackie/jblackie@pnj.com
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Please find a list with the descriptions and factor ID for every factor inside the Racing Dossier software. You can also access these from inside the software using the search function.
AeEClLVol 24 The volatility of the horses AeEProClL. This is calculated only if the horse has been in 5 or more races.
EProClL 28 Earnings Horse Class. This takes the total prize money earned in winning races (Earn1) and divides it by the number of career starts a horse has had, with races in recent years being weighted as more important.
EClVol 33 The volatility of the horses EProClL. This is calculated only if the horse has been in 5 or more races.
SProClL 37 Projected Speed Race Class. We take the median of the last 3 SPDFIG for each horse and then take the median of the medians from all the runners in the race.
SClVol 42 The volatility of a horses SCl rating. This can only be calculated if the horse has been in 5 or more races.
MClSLr 46 Money Class Shift From Last Race. Prize money of todays race divided by prize money of last race. Anything greater than 1.07 is a shift up in class, anything less than .93 is a drop in class.
ACPFPCl 48 Average Competitive PFP Class Level. We take the average PFPCl in the races the horse was competitive in.
ACAEPSCL 49 Average Competitive AEPS Earnings Class Level. We take the average AeECl in the races the horse was competitive in.
ACECL 50 Average Competitive Earnings Class Level. We take the average ECl in the races the horse was competitive in.
ACSPCL 51 Average Competitive Speed Class Level. We take the average SCl in the races the horse was competitive in.
EPS1 57 1st Place Earnings Per Start. Earn1 divided by the number of career starts.
EpsI1 58 1st Place Earnings Per Start Index. EPS1 divided by the prize money.
EPS 59 Earnings Per Start. Earnings divided by career starts.
EpsI 60 1st Place Earnings Per Start Index. EPS1 divided by prize money.
Apre 63 Average Prize Money Ration. Horses earnings divided by the prize money of the current race.
Cst2Y 67 Consistency In Last 2 Years. Points for last two years of races assigned as 6 points for 1st place, 2 points for 2nd race 1 point for 3rd place. The total is divided by the maximum amount of points available.
SPDFIG 94 Speed rating. Available after results are known.
Distance Won 188 The distance a horse won by in lengths. This will be empty for non-winners.
FRL14 213 Number of furlongs the horse has run in the last 14 days.
FRL21 214 Number of furlongs the horse has run in the last 21 days.
FRL28 215 Number of furlongs the horse has run in the last 28 days.
NRL30 216 Number of races the horse has been in, in the last 30 days.
Contender 3001 Form rating which rates the horses strength to contend in the race. The rating goes from 0-10 and the higher the better the horse.
HFP Races 3002 Indicates the chances a horse has of placing based on its last three runs.
HFP Date 3003 Used to calculate the HFP field.
Speed Regression Lvl 3004 Speed prediction calculated using regression to indicate what speed the horse could race at today assuming continued improvement at the current level.
Speed Regression Agl 3005 Shows whether a horse is improving or declining based on the speed regression level.
DSLGR 3006 Number of days since the horse last had a good race.
DSLW 3007 Number of days since the horse last won a race.
RSLW 3008 Number of races since the horse last won a race.
Hrs Win % 3009 The winning strike rate of the horse.
VDW Form 3012 Adjusted Van Der Wheil form rating.
VDW Ability 3013 Adjusted Van Der Wheil ability rating.
Frm Imprv 3014 Indicates if the horse has got improving form.


It's officially summer, which means it's officially time to fire up the grill! When it's blazing hot outside, the last thing you want to do is turn on the stove/oven and make the whole house even hotter. These days you can make almost anything on the grill, and this week's Recipe Roundup: On The Grill showcases 30 delicious dishes.
I hope you enjoy this week's Recipe Roundup: On The Grill, and have a fantastic summer!!


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Attractions || By: Jen Yamato	|| April 11, 2012 03:10 PM EST
Curator of Kristen Stewart-Themed Art Show Has Best Reason Ever For Throwing Kristen Stewart-Themed Art Show
"It sounds creepy, but basically I just enjoy looking at her face, and think about it a lot. Even when she was a child actor in Panic Room, she just always appears very, very tired. She looks like she has an old soul. There's something about her presence on camera and how she carries herself. She's very intriguing. A lot of times, it looks like she hasn't slept for two days and it's exciting to think about: 'What were you doing? Why were you awake so long? What were you thinking about?'" Julia Vickerman's MUCHOS KSTEW, comprised entirely of artwork inspired by Twilight's Kristen Stewart, runs through April 20 at L.A.'s Meltdown Comics. [Next Movie]
Tags: art show, fan art, gallery, julia vickerman, Kristen Stewart, Meltdown Comics, muchos kstew, Twilight
CocaineHeart says:
hahaha this might be one of the best posts on this site ever.... 'What were you doing? Why were you awake so long? What were you thinking about?'"
Dortha Milner says:
Even when she was a child actor in Panic Room, she just always appears very, very tired. She looks like she has an old soul.
am not always the brightest on catching on to the essence of a person's opinion or comments but was this artist dissing her or what? i might just be a little lost
Holly Slavic says:
No, the Art show wasn't a diss, but got reported that way in a few outlets. I think she should do another KStew Art show


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