BAGHDAD, Iraq - NEUTRALIZING the threat from the green-domed mosque looked almost effortless. Marines in the dusty warrens of Falluja had been taking fire from one of its twin minarets. They called in air support. A 500-pound bomb slammed into a blue-tiled tower, obliterating a signature part of the Khulafa Al Rashid mosque, the city's most celebrated religious building.
As in a fevered dream, that and other scenes of destruction played out last week in Falluja before the eyes of American troops, residents and reporters. By early Saturday, marines and soldiers had swept through most of the city and cornered insurgents in the south, leaving behind shelled buildings, bullet-riddled cars and rotting corpses.
It proved one thing: That the Americans are great at taking things apart. What comes after the battlefield victory has always been the real problem for them during their 19 months in Iraq.
The commanders say their goals now in Falluja are to install a viable Iraqi government and security force, rebuild the city to win back the confidence of the residents and persuade the Sunni Arabs, who were Saddam Hussein's base of support and were ousted from power with him, to lay down their arms and take part in a legitimate political process.
Difficult as all of that seems, it is the last aim -- persuading the Sunnis to act as a loyal minority in a democracy -- that may be the most improbable goal of the retaking of Falluja by storm.
American officials say that if it can be done, Falluja, which has assumed mythic status across the Arab world for its resistance, could then serve as a model for the rest of Iraq, and Iraq as a model for the rest of the Middle East.
But given the track record of the Americans and their allies, military analysts say, the immediate goals in Falluja seem naïve, if not utterly inconsequential given the surging resistance across the Sunni-dominated regions of Iraq, almost certainly organized by the very leaders who fled Falluja before the offensive.
"Iraq is a complex problem," said Charles Pena, director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian research group based in Washington. "Our problem is that we keep leading people to believe that there are simple solutions."
"Our military action creates other problems that our military cannot solve," he said. "And we haven't been very good at fixing what we broke in Iraq."
American commanders say they had no illusions that the Falluja offensive would let them capture the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted man in Iraq, or break the back of the insurgency.
What they do not acknowledge is that seizing Falluja does not bring them much closer to solving the occupation's most intractable problem -- how to get Sunni Arabs to overcome their feelings of disenfranchisement and accept the role of a minority in a democratic Iraqi state.
Sunni Arabs make up only a fifth of Iraqis; three-fifths are Shiite Arabs and the remaining fifth are mostly Sunni Kurds. But Sunnis dominate most of the Middle East and have ruled the region now called Iraq since the Ottoman Empire. There are few signs they are willing to accept a subservient role in the new government.
In anticipating a democracy, the Americans have signaled at every turn that they foresee power flowing to the majority Shiites, and the elections scheduled for January are a way to accomplish that in a manner that appears legitimate. Hammering Falluja is supposed to force insurgent Sunnis to realize the hopelessness of armed conflict and instead turn to the ballot box.
But it is not so easy to convince people with little concept of minority rights that a Western-style democracy will work for them. For Sunnis to accept this new style of government, they will have to be persuaded that their rights will still be respected by an American-backed Shiite-dominated ruling class, and that they will have some power and autonomy -- concerns that to a lesser degree plague even the Kurds, perhaps the staunchest supporters of the American presence here.
The American commanders here hold up their recent actions in the Shiite areas of Karbala, Najaf and Sadr City as models of how overwhelming force drove rebels into legitimate politics. Falluja will be no different, they say. But Moktada al-Sadr, the firebrand cleric who led the Shiite insurgency, has everything to gain and nothing to lose by taking part in elections. He can expect his hugely popular organization to win many seats in the national assembly and become part of the Shiite power establishment.
There is no such hope for the Sunnis, which is why the leading group of Sunni clerics, the Muslim Scholars Association, called last week for a boycott of the elections. The group says it represents 3,000 mosques across Iraq and has been staunchly anti-American since the start of the war. Still, some secular Sunnis, like the former exile Adnan Pachachi, have been more welcoming of the American presence and say they intend to take part in the elections.
Installing a working Iraqi government and police force in Falluja is a less ambitious goal, but it too seems a stretch for the Americans. In the offensive, most of the Iraqi forces have done little actual fighting. They roll in after the Americans have already cleared city blocks of insurgents and are assigned to search buildings.
Some seem disoriented as they stand in the debris-strewn landscape, their brown uniforms spotless from not having done a lick of fighting. Little has changed since last May, when the First Armored Division laid siege to Karbala, and Iraqi security forces merely cleared weapons out of mosques.
In Mosul on Thursday, police officers at a half-dozen police stations scurried away as soon as insurgents began firing their rocket-propelled grenades and Kalashnikov rifles. Two weeks ago, bombings and mortar attacks left at least 30 dead in Samarra, only a month after American forces swept through the city and claimed a resounding victory. A senior American military officer in Baghdad admitted that after the Americans left, the insurgents were able to overwhelm the poorly trained Iraqi police.
In Samarra, the guerrillas evacuated before American armor rolled in, and then bided their time, which is the greatest advantage an insurgency has, because the occupying force at some point will depart. The insurgents don't need a safe haven like Falluja to run down the clock. "In fact, Maoist tactics would argue against trying to settle in a city and hold it at this stage of a weak insurgency, and for using the population as a sea to swim in," said Anthony H. Cordesman, a Middle East analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
It is absurd, Mr. Cordesman adds, to believe that destroying Falluja and then rebuilding it will win support for the Americans and the interim government. The American military said it has put aside $100 million for reconstructing the devastated city. But that does not solve the much bigger problem of unemployment, now at 60 percent nationwide. That is a motivating factor for young men joining the insurgency.
"How much money and aid effort does it really take," Mr. Cordesman said, "to jump-start an economy rather than provide welfare for Falluja?"
Dexter Filkins contributed reporting from Falluja for this article.


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Q: Why does loading an xml file in vb.net require a document type definition in the current directory? I am writing a VB.NET Program in Visual Studio, and whenever I try to load an xml file I get an error about the document type definition not being found in the same directory as the file. I'm not planning on validating the file, but I need to take care of the error some how so that the application runs without any errors, I tried attaching the document type definition to my project, but that doesn't fix anything. Is there a way I can always load the same type definition? I guess I am just really confused about this error... Here is some screenshots of the error and the code that generated the error:

 Public Sub ReadFile(file As String)
        gscale = 10
        gmargin = 50
        xmldoc = Nothing
        Dim reader As XmlTextReader = New XmlTextReader(file)
        Try
            xmldoc = XDocument.Load(file)
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.ToString, MsgBoxStyle.OkOnly)
        End Try
        Do While (reader.Read)
            Select Case reader.NodeType
                Case XmlNodeType.Element 'Display beginning of element.
                    xmltag = reader.Name
                    If reader.HasAttributes Then 'If attributes exist
                        While reader.MoveToNextAttribute()
                            'Display attribute name and value.
                            attributenumber = attributenumber + 1
                            xmlattributetype(attributenumber) = reader.Name
                            xmlattributevalue(attributenumber) = reader.Value
                        End While
                    End If

                Case XmlNodeType.Text 'Display the text in each element.
                    xmltagvalue = reader.Value
                Case XmlNodeType.EndElement 'Display end of element.

            End Select
            totalnumberofattributes = reader.AttributeCount
            Interpret(xmltag, xmltagvalue, xmlattributetype, xmlattributevalue, reader.AttributeCount)
            attributenumber = 0
        Loop
        gscale = 0
        gmargin = 0
    End Sub

    Public Sub WriteFile(wfile As String)
        Dim emptystring As Boolean
        emptystring = String.IsNullOrEmpty(wfile)
        If emptystring = False Then xmldoc.Save(wfile)
    End Sub

    Private Sub Interpret(tagname As String, tagvalue As String, attributetype() As String, attributevalue() As String, numberofattributes As Integer)
        Dim x1 As Single
        Dim x2 As Single
        Dim y1 As Single
        Dim y2 As Single
        Dim thickness As Single
        Dim layer As Integer
        Dim parsesuccessful As Integer

        Select Case tagname
            Case "margin"
                parsesuccessful = Int32.TryParse(tagvalue, gmargin)
                If parsesuccessful = False Then gmargin = 50
            Case "scale"
                parsesuccessful = Int32.TryParse(tagvalue, gscale)
                If parsesuccessful = False Then gscale = 1
            Case "wire"
                For i As Integer = 1 To numberofattributes
                    If attributetype(i) = "x1" Then
                        x1 = attributevalue(i)
                    ElseIf attributetype(i) = "x2" Then
                        x2 = attributevalue(i)
                    ElseIf attributetype(i) = "y1" Then
                        y1 = attributevalue(i)
                    ElseIf attributetype(i) = "y2" Then
                        y2 = attributevalue(i)
                    ElseIf attributetype(i) = "width" Then
                        thickness = attributevalue(i)
                    ElseIf attributetype(i) = "layer" Then
                        layer = attributevalue(i)
                    End If
                Next i

                Select Case layer

                    Case 1
                        pencolor = Color.Red
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                End Select

                Dim Pen As New Pen(pencolor, thickness)
                Dim point1 As New Point(x1 * gscale + gmargin, y1 * gscale + gmargin)
                Dim point2 As New Point(x2 * gscale + gmargin, y2 * gscale + gmargin)
                g = WorkArea.CreateGraphics
                g.DrawLine(Pen, point1, point2)
                Pen.Dispose()
            Case "layer"

            Case Else

        End Select

    End Sub

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Along with several Takayama Model-T's, Sorpions and DT-2's, the Justin Quintal Pro Model hit the door this week. Feel free to stop and drool!


Politico: Ohio? Isn't That Flyover Country?
There's something to be said for a slightly irreverent, punchy writing style when it comes to reporting political developments in an online news venture. But is conjuring up the image of Ohio as flyover country a way to endear outside-the-Beltway readers to The Politico?
Meet the New Imam, Same as the Old Imam?
This is one of those times when I really, really wonder about traditional media reporting.
You see, the Cleveland Plain Dealer spent almost six years, going all the way back to November of 2001, covering the saga of ultimately deported Cleveland Islamic leader Fawaz Damra. I count over 45 stories at the PD's Damra collection.
This story about Ohio has nationwide application. That's because Ohio's media have been awfully quiet about the tax increases that will be necessary if the Buckeye State's version of "universal health care" comes to pass. The bill was introduced on April 25, according to this Ohio Legislative Services Commission bill analysis, and has flown under the radar ever since. I expect that national Old Media scrutiny of the Second Coming of Hillarycare will also be minimal.
My interest in the so-called "Ohio Health Care Plan" was perked when I heard an ad from the Ohio Chapter of the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) claiming that the plan would cost Ohio taxpayers $50 billion.
$50 billion. With a "b." In one state.
That's over $4,400 for every man, woman, and child in Ohio, or over $17,000 for a family of four.
A separate fiscal analysis by the Legislative Services Commission is pending, so I thought that the NFIB might be engaging in a bit of reckless hyperbole.
Peter Bronson of the Cincinnati Enquirer wrote a Sunday column (HT The Daily Bellwether) that was a withering attack on the blandness, lack of local coverage, and political correctness of chain news.
Bronson, at least for the moment, works at The Enquirer, which is owned by mega-chain operator Gannett Co., Inc. Gannett publishes 85 local newspapers and USA Today.
I wonder if a steady diet of junk-food news causes high blood pressure, indigestion and poor circulation.
Wherever the population density can support more than one freeway exit, the chains move in and sterilize any hint of local flavor. ..... Being dropped in the middle of a chain newspaper can be like being taken to a Waffle House blindfolded, then trying to figure out if you're in Iowa or Idaho.
There is, however, a minuscule market for what Antioch sells for a tuition, room and board of $35,221 -- repressive liberalism unleavened by learning.
Founded in 1852 -- its first president was Horace Mann -- Antioch was, for a while, admirable. One of the first colleges to enroll women and blacks, it was a destination for escaped slaves. Its alumni include Stephen Jay Gould, Coretta Scott King and Rod Serling, whose "Twilight Zone" never imagined anything weirder than what Antioch became when its liberalism curdled.
In 1972-73, Antioch had 2,470 students. In 1973, a protracted and embittering student and employee strike left the campus physically decrepit and intellectually toxic. By 1985, enrollment was down 80 percent. This fall there may be 300 students served by a faculty of 40.
In the wake of last week's Supreme Court decision regarding racial integration in public schools, the media have gone out of their way to obscure the facts for the purpose of advancing its familiar political agenda, not to mention skipped over giving readers a glimpse of the concurring opinions of Justices Thomas and Kennedy, both of which shed light on the case's significance to the average American.
In a prior NewsBusters post, I called out MSNBC's Keith Olbermann for his false and race-baiting claim that the Supreme Court had "overturned" the landmark decision of Brown v. Board of Education. The subsequent commentary by the media has at least been more clever, but no less false. Undoubtedly, the press and "expert commentators" have calculated that the general public would not check their factual (and political) conclusions by reading the Court's 185-page opinion. Without knowing the specific facts, the media distortions can not be fully appreciated. Below we'll take a look at the facts of the case as well as the reasoning from the justices, reasoning that all too often is glossed over if not outright ignored in the media.
CAIR and Al-Qaeda Connected; Does Anyone in Old Media Care?
Note: Though this post is primarily about Ohio's governor speaking at a Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) banquet in Columbus last Sunday, it contains nationally significant info about connections between CAIR, Al Qaeda, and Hamas, and Old Media's non-coverage of those connections.
"Charles of his staff stated that he did a lot of research on CAIR and they were an organization that does a lot of good and no more terrorist than the Jewish Defense Fund or Dr. James Dobson."
Kimberley Strassel's OpinionJournal.com column about coal-mine operator Robert E. Murray of Murray Energy is important on a number of levels.
You haven't heard of Robert E. Murray? That's not surprising.
One of the maddening things about the Mark Foley scandal is how the media can take one congressman's creepy Internet messages about masturbating, declare it an issue in 468 congressional races, demand the head of the Speaker of the House, and then decry other people for ruining democracy with desperate negative ads that besmirch honest public servants. It's exactly how Michael Grunwald's Washington Post story on Friday began, with the Republican opponent to Rep.
Did "voting irregularities" help George Bush steal the 2004 election in Ohio? Reporter Ian Urbina helps keep hope alive for conspiracists in Thursday's "Ohio, Facing Suit, to Delay Destroying Ballots From 2004 Election."


VSO Software announces the release of PhotoDVD 4, a complete new version of its award-winning DVD slideshow software.
TOULOUSE, France (June 15th, 2010) – PhotoDVD version 4 now includes a new output format, new transitions as well as a very innovative live preview player. This easy to use software, in a 1-2-3 step process, allows users to create a customized video of pictures, with music, text, transitions and a DVD-like menu with chapters.
With PhotoDVD 4, the outcome is no longer limited to burning to DVD, the new output to mpeg4 now allows videos to be transferred to Youtube or Dailymotion in High Definition format. The software will automatically split videos over 10 minutes long into a "YouTube-ready format" in HD 1920 x 1080.
"With the new fast preview you just can't go wrong. The innovation is that you can see and edit your slideshow live, while playing the preview. Check all your settings, synchronize video and music and make changes until you're totally satisfied with the result before burning." explains Cedric Van-Dendaele, PhotoDVD developer at VSO Software.
With new options and design, this version has little to do with its predecessor: a new, extensive range of transitions have been added to give a professional touch to the mini-movies created.
The full version costs 29.99$.


The Speech Therapy Centres of Canada (www.SpeechTherapyCentres.com) is releasing a summer reading list of the best books for fostering language development. The book list is meant to encourage parents to use the summer season to help foster their child's language skills through reading.
The list is divided by age, with selections for babies and toddlers (I Love You Through and Through, This is Sadie, Hug Machine), preschoolers (Love You Forever, Press Here, Alligator Pie), and school-age children (I Wish You More, The Day the Crayons Quit).
Accompanying the list are a number of tips for parents looking to maximize their child's engagement and language development. According to Podolsky, parents can help encourage participation by emphasizing certain phrases or words as a model.
"Being dramatic, silly, or making voices for each character can help draw a child in to the story," says Podolsky, who notes that the pictures are often just as important as the words in a book, especially for young or new readers.
Podolsky concludes that it's all about making the story a fun adventure, so your child will feel like an active participant. The more fun the story is made, the more children become focused and excited about reading.
To learn more about The Speech Therapy Centres of Canada and for more tips and advice for parents looking to encourage their child's language development, visit their website at http://www.speechtherapycentres.com.


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La W-League 2009 fue la segunda edición de la W-League, la máxima categoría del fútbol femenino en Australia. Participaron 8 equipos en diez jornadas y una fase final de eliminatorias a la que clasificaron los 4 primeros equipos de la temporada regular.

El Sydney FC se consagró campeón de la fase regular y del campeonato al ganar la Grand Final contra el Brisbane Roar por 3 a 2.

Equipos

Clasificación

(T) Campeón del Torneo Regular.
(C) Campeón de la temporada.

Eliminatorias
Los cuatro primeros equipos de la temporada regular compiten por el título del campeonato.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Fútbol femenino en 2009
Australia en 2009
2009

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Start with just K and M, when you can copy with >90% accuracy add R, and so on.
List the characters from which the message will be generated.
Copy the message into this textbox as it's playing to be given a score. If you hit stop (or press enter) the score will be based on how much of the message played.
There are many Morse Code training tools, but most of them require installing or are platform dependent. I really liked an online tool by AA9PW, which generates audio at the server and streams it to you. This has a number of advantages - totally platform independent, and it will work with basically any browser ever. But when I looked at it the other day, it was no longer working (this may have since been fixed). This encouraged me to make my own tool, along the same lines as AA9PW's and adding some of my own ideas.
Using the HTML5 Audio API has a number of advantages - far less bandwidth used, you can change the speed/pitch as it's playing, and so long as the page is still hosted it will always work, since no processing is done at the server. The disadvantage is you need a fairly recent browser to use it, as the Audio API was only introduced a few years ago.
Receiving (copying) Morse Code is generally much harder than sending it. I had previously made a few quickfire Morse tools, but they were very limited. I've also built both software and hardware Morse Code USB keyboards.
Slowing down morse code evenly can make it quite difficult to hear the 'shape' of the characters. In the Farnsworth method, characters are sent at a reasonable speed, so they sound correct, but with spaces between them so the overall word speed is reduced. As you learn, gradually increase the word speed until it matches the character speed.
In the Koch method, you should start at full speed but with a limited character set. When you can copy just two characters with 90% accuracy, add one more. When you can copy those three with 90% accuracy, add another, and so on. There is a recommended learning order which I've put into the dropdown box. These are chosen at random but with weighted probabilities so the most recent two characters are most likely to appear.
Using the custom character set, characters are chosen with equal probabilities.
When you feel ready to move on to real blocks of text, be prepared to slow down again. Morse Code is designed around the letter frequencies in the English language, with E and T (the most frequent letters) having the shortest codes. So copying real text will be faster than random characters at the same character speed.
The speeds are determined by the word PARIS being 50 dot-lengths long. See the wikipedia page on Morse Code for more info about the timing.
Although you can paste an arbitrary block of text into the source box, it is pretty difficult to do so without reading it. Using RSS is a simple way of fetching meaningful blocks of text that you won't already be familiar with.
Wikipedia actually has an entire API for fetching its content, and it supports JSONP which would avoid the need to bounce it off my server. However, it isn't really intended for this sort of thing, and grabbing the featured article's description is rather complicated through this method. Easier just to use the RSS feeds in the same way. The feeds are located here and here.
This remembers your most recent settings by storing them in HTML5's localStorage. This is similar to a cookie, but doesn't get sent to the server. You can erase it by clicking here.
If you're following the Koch method it's pretty handy to know when you have hit 90% accuracy. To calculate this accuracy is not entirely straight forward.
The simplest method is to find the Levenshtein distance between the two strings. This gives you the number of single-character edits required to get from one string to the other. Divide that by the length of the first string to get a percentage error, and subtract that from 100% to get the accuracy.
The function calculates a matrix of the Levenshtein distances between all the prefixes of the first string and all the prefixes of the second. The last value in this array is the shortest distance between the strings. Instead of returning this value, we can plot the entire matrix.
In this table, I've traced back one possible path in yellow whose distance is equal to the levenshtein distance. Moving horizontally or vertically corresponds to adding or subtracting a character. Moving diagonally represents either no change or replacing a character (you can tell by if the distance value changes).
If the difference between strings is ambiguous, especially if mistakes are adjacent to each other, there can be multiple possible paths through the table which have the same distance. There is no way of knowing which way is the 'correct' path when it comes to what you typed in the morse code box. However, if you are practising near your comfort zone most of the mistakes should be in isolation and unambiguous.
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Macroeconomic news, order flows and exchange rates
Love, Ryan
Payne, Richard
Richard Payne
Under rational expectations and efficient markets, the news contained in public information announcements is directly impounded into prices with there being no role for trades in this process of information assimilation. This paper directly tests this assertion using transaction level exchange rate data and a sample of scheduled macroeconomic announcements. The main result of the paper is that even information that is publicly and simultaneously released to all market participants is largely impounded into prices via the key micro-level price determinant — order flow. We quantify the role that order flow plays and find that between a half and two thirds of price relevant information is incorporated into prices via the trading process.
Love, Ryan & Payne, Richard, 2003. "Macroeconomic news, order flows and exchange rates," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 24901, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:24901
File URL: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/24901/
File Function: Open access version.
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Walt Disney World has a lot to offer — from the world's best theme parks to the recently re-imagined Disney Springs, there is a lot to see and do on your vacation! Often overlooked, though, are Disney's incredible, meticulously themed resorts. And one of the best ways to see some of these resorts is by taking a Monorail Pub Crawl!
The Monorail passes right through the middle of the Contemporary Resort!
We recently made a Monorail Pub Crawl ourselves, all in the name of research of course. Here's a look at what we found.
First stop — Disney's Polynesian Village Resort. We headed to one of our favorite cocktail spots, the Tambu Lounge. This lounge is located on the second floor of the Great Ceremonial House, adjacent to 'Ohana. Most Disney lounges feature a standard drink menu, which includes beer, wine, and cocktails. However, many lounges also have specialty drinks exclusive to their location. It's no surprise that the Polynesian specialty cocktails menu consists of many tropical flavors and juices.
I opted for the Paradise Punch which contains Sailor Jerry spiced rum, Bulleit 95 rye whiskey, Corazon Blanco tequila, fiery-ginger cane sugar, tropical juices, cranberry juice, and coconut water. I personally am not a big fan of super-sweet drinks, so this was a great choice for me. It had the tropical flavors that fit with the resort atmosphere, but the tequila and whiskey balanced out the sweet juices.
Another person in our group ordered the Hawaiian Mule, made from Pau Maui handmade vodka, lychee-citrus reduction, and Fever Tree ginger beer. This is a twist on the very-popular Moscow Mule, swapping out the lime juice for the tropical lychee-citrus reduction and using Pau Maui vodka, which is made in Maui and distilled from pineapples. This drink was even better than mine! I highly recommend it and will certainly get this next time I go.
We then said "Aloha!" to the Polynesian and headed back to the Monorail. Next stop: The Grand Floridian. While every resort goes all out for Christmas, the life-size Gingerbread house at the Grand is a must-see. It's located on the first level of the lobby, and makes the entire building smell like Christmas!
After we stared in wonder at this elaborate house, we headed back upstairs to Mizner's Lounge which is located next to Citrico's. This is my favorite cocktail lounge on property, as you can hear the resort's jazz band play throughout the evening. On this night, they were playing a mix of holiday hits and Disney classics. Talk about a perfect atmosphere!
Mizner's has a long adult beverage list that includes a wide selection of ports, bourbons, and cognacs available. Like the Polynesian, they also have a signature cocktail list that features drinks specific to the Grand Floridian.
I ordered the Florida Manhattan, which is made with Palm Ridge Small Batch Whiskey, Carpano Antica Sweet Vermouth, and a Luxardo Cherry. It tastes like a classic Manhattan, and the Palm Ridge Whiskey is a small-batch whiskey distilled locally in Florida. If you are a fan of Manhattans, this one is certainly worth a try.
For food this round, we decided to give the Seasonal Flatbread a try. It was topped with sopresatta, picked mushrooms, confit tomatoes, Parmesan cheese, arugula, and balsamic. This was exceptional, and big enough to easily share between two people. The salty meat was balanced nicely by the sweet balsamic. This is a seasonal offering, so next time I come back there will be a new gourmet flatbread to try.
My other favorite thing about Mizner's is its snack mix. This is complimentary and a perfect blend of sweet and salty — thanks to the honey-roasted peanuts and wasabi peas. Make sure to ask for some during your stop at the Grand.
Back on the monorail for our final stop — the Contemporary! There are several cocktail lounges to choose from: The Wave Lounge, Outer Rim, and the Califonia Grill Lounge. While all three are great choices, we headed to The Wave. Outer Rim does not have a food menu (although you could always run over to the Contempo Cafe across the hall), and the California Grill Lounge can have a long wait for a table thanks to its incredible view of Magic Kingdom. The Wave Lounge is a hidden gem on the first floor of the resort. Not many people realize it's there or that you can visit the lounge without dining in the restaurant. Just like The Wave, the lounge features seasonal, sustainable food, as well as a long list of screw-top wines and local craft beers.
Our server was fantastic and recommended I try the Smoked Turkey — a cocktail make with Wild Turkey 101 Bourbon, Red Stag Black Cherry Bourbon, Grenadine, and Odwalla Lemonade with a hint of Hickory Smoke, and garnished with Luxardo cherries. This ended up being my favorite drink of the night. I loved the hint of smoke along with the cherry-flavored bourbon.
I also stole a sip from someone's Cold Brew XO. This Disney signature is Patron XO Cafe Coffee Liqueur, Heavy Cream, and Cold Brew Joffrey's Coffee. This drink was heavenly — especially if you're a coffee drinker. It wasn't overwhelmingly strong and you could certainly taste the coffee.
For our last nosh, we went for the The Wave Cheese and Charcuterie Board Experience, featuring unique American-crafted cheeses and artisan-cured meats. Accompanying the cheese and salami was a seeded mustard, tiny pickles, blueberry compote, and multi-grain crostinis. This may not appear like a large portion, but I promise you its looks are deceiving! This was the perfect amount for our last "meal" on the Crawl.
Our server also brought out some of the Wave's signature multi-grain bread and pink sea-salted butter. Trust me, you're going to want to ask for some of this.
Overall, a Monorail Crawl is a great way to spend an afternoon or evening at Walt Disney World. It allows you to try some great Disney drinks and eats that you may not experience if you stick to the parks! It also provides you with a chance to see three of Disney's most beautiful resorts, and take a spin on their signature transportation. Whether it's a rainy afternoon or date night, a Monorail Crawl is a fun, unique activity to add to your next WDW vacation!
Have you been on a Monorail Pub Crawl before? What's your favorite stop? Let us know in the comments!
We usually start at Outer Rim, head over to Tambu and/or Trader Sam's and end the evening at Mizner's, our favourite place in WDW.
My fiancé and I did that on our last trip – Only we did the 'Medium' level…two lounges per resort! It was expensive (just shy of 380$ in all) but we had appetizers at a couple stops, and each had at least one drink at each location.
We have such fun memories of that night!


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Nelson Cruz News
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The Minnesota Twins placed designated hitter Nelson Cruz on the injured list Friday with a wrist strain.
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Jonathan Schoop hit the longest home run by a Minnesota Twins player this season, smacking a 465-foot shot in a win over the Houston Astros.
Brewers' Christian Yelich ties record with homer in fourth straight game
2018 National League Most Valuable Player Christian Yelich is off to a hot start for the 2019 season, a beginning that has already put him in rather elite company.
Nelson Cruz agrees to contract with Minnesota Twins
Six-time All-Star Nelson Cruz is headed to the Minnesota Twins.
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Seattle Mariners star Nelson Cruz is now a United States citizen.
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With double nationality (Portuguese and Cape Verdean), Nelson chose to compete for Cape Verde in international events. He is trained by Pedro Pessoa and competes for CDR Praia da Salema, having previously represented União Desportiva de Caxienses and Casal de Santo António sports club.
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Strong showing for US independents with Lee Daniels, Jeff Nichols, Andrew Dominik and John Hillcoat in competition alongside Cannes stalwarts like Haneke, Cronenberg, Reygadas, Loach.
The Cannes Film Festival unveiled its Official Selection on Thursday morning in Paris.
As previously announced, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom will open the festival on May 16 and the late Claude Miller's last feature Thérèse Desqueyroux will close the festival on May 27.
Out Of Competition titles will include Madagascar 3 and Bertolucci's Lo E Te.
The parallel selections of Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight will be unveiled on next Monday and Tuesday respectively.


Where integrators have made mistakes in the past is in the way in which they've tried to capture the final fare information at the end of the ride. Developers made assumptions that STOPPED mode indicates the end of the ride. A transition to STOPPED does not indicate the end of the hire. When STOPPED the meter will continue to calculate the fare based on distance only. STOPPED mode doesn't imply END, it simply turns the time meter off. The meter can be placed back into HIRED mode resuming the time meter. It is only the transition from STOPPED to FOR HIRE that confirms the end of the hire. To make it easy to detect this transition, Taximeter broadcasts an intent with extras containing the final fare information. The correct way to pick up the values at the end of the ride (at the transition from STOPPED to FOR HIRE mode) is to register a broadcast receiver for an intent with the "com.planetcoops.intent.action.TAXIMETER_CHARGE" action which is broadcast when the ride ends, see DemoActivity.java in the Taximeter API Sample Project, e.g.
* !! USE THIS TECHNIQUE TO CAPTURE THE FINAL VALUES CHARGED AT THE END OF THE HIRE !!
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Opening the Set-Top Box Closes the Door on Diversity
by CreativeFuture
The quick adoption of new technologies and delivery systems for television programming is widely seen as a good thing, because it is. Creatives benefit from more options to get their work seen; networks and studios can deliver their shows on-demand across multiple platforms. Consumers have become more sophisticated about the ways in which they consume media. Whether watching via Smart TVs, Roku, AppleTV, Chromecast, Amazon Fire, and other app-based streaming services now provided by cable networks, consumers have more choices than ever. It would appear, then, that the new set-top box proposal put forth by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is long overdue and a win-win for everyone.
More accurately, it's a win for tech companies.
And it's also not necessary.
Wheeler contends that he is "opening" the set-top box and liberating the consumer from clumsy rental agreements with cable companies. This liberation of restrictions is not designed with the consumer in mind, however, but is the result of an aggressive push from tech companies to have access to collect data straight from our living rooms. Opening the set-top box, in fact, opens the living room… to piracy.
The FCC proposal also forces networks who have already negotiated licensing contracts with television providers to now compete with giant tech corporations who will not have to negotiate for anything.
According to the Executive Director of the Hispanic Technology & Telecommunications Rosa Mendoza, this means that minority programming may lose many of the gains it has made in the past decade, and that data giants will mine our viewing habits and target ads against content they do not own.
Mendoza writes in her letter to Chairman Wheeler:
The FCC's new set-top box regulations provide no real guarantee that minority-owned programming will be easily accessible to minority communities. The proposal could instead harm programmers by making their content harder to find in programming guides or search menus provided by third party boxes since their priority is to collect data to sell more ads. Furthermore, tech companies will have the ability to expand their own advertising businesses around programming without sharing the revenue with the programming creators. This lopsided regulatory interference could ultimately weaken minority voices in the television marketplace and threaten development of the diverse programming that Hispanic audiences demand.
This sentiment is echoed by Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council President Kim M. Keenan, who argued recently in the Los Angeles Times: "Why choose a model that blows up the ecosystem with not even a promise that it will be better in the new ecosystem? We're going to trade one gatekeeper for a diversity-worse gatekeeper."
If Tom Wheeler's set-top box proposal makes it so much easier for tech companies to provide multiple search results for pirate sites offering stolen content – and makes it so much harder for minority-owned programs to be visible – then how exactly can it be a good thing?


As you may or may not know, I spent the entire summer researching, writing, editing and re-writing my MA dissertation. Four months, 54 sources and nearly 16,000 words later, I'm finally finished. It's been printed, bound and submitted! Although I feel a bit nervous as to my prospective mark, I'm actually really proud of the research and work I've done. My supervisor gave my confidence a little boost during the draft stage when she said that I was contributing something important to British cinema studies. I decided to pair vintage archival material with current discourses on stardom, nation and aging women in Hollywood cinema in order to explore what Vivien's career revealed about both the British and Hollywood film industries in which she operated. I also chose not to focus on Gone with the Wind because it's been done to death, but it is a connecting thread throughout the chapters. Although it wasn't written from the perspective of fandom, I hope my admiration for Vivien came through as I picked her career apart in order to reclaim her as a star and interpretive performer–as more than just Scarlett O'Hara.
It's quite exciting to feel like I've charted new territory!
This is the second paper I did on a Laurence Olivier film last semester for my course. I was interested in looking at Larry and his important role in the British film industry during the 1940s. His Shakespeare films exemplified what critics back then termed "quality" cinema. This paper is an exploration of the muddled definition of the term and how it applied to the 1948 version of Hamlet.
One thing I love about grad school is that we can choose our own research topics for class papers. Last semester, I wrote about two Laurence Olivier films: That Hamilton Woman (for my Heritage Film class) and Hamlet (for my British Cinema class). I mentioned them a few times at the vivandlarry.com facebook page while I was holed up in my room after Christmas trying to get them done by the deadline, and a few people expressed interest in reading them after they were finished. I was only willing to share if I got good marks on them, and luckily they both received distinctions (phew). So, without further adieu, a discussion of propaganda, performance, and heritage in Alexander Korda's wartime propaganda film That Hamilton Woman.
Olivier may be the only actor who has fully recognized that Hamlet's irresolution has its own fierce energy, and that his morbidity is, at heart, a kind of ardor. If Olivier were better "suited" to the daunting role, he might not have unearthed so many fresh truths in playing it. His Hamlet may actually be his greatest achievement as a filmmaker. In Olivier's hands, Shakespeare's elusive, haunted, infinitely suggestive tragedy becomes unusually vivid and compelling, and yet remains, as it must, wondrous strange.
I had an epihpany today.
I came to London to study for my MA in film because I'm currently interested in British cinema of the 1940s, and of course I got into the whole subject area through my fascination of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier: two of Britain's most famous film stars. However, I'm always hesitant to incorporate my interest of these two into my written work at school because, well, I'm always afraid professors will take one look at my paper and say "What are you doing? This isn't 'academic' enough. This isn't what film studies is about. How did you get into this school?" Shouldn't I be writing about the French New Wave or Italian Neo-Realism and the real "artsy" stuff? Is talking about Vivien Leigh the equivalent of talking about Lord of the Rings or Twilight? I've always been afraid that might be the case since film students and scholars seem to keep the notion of fandom on the hush. It's like, let's talk about Godard and not mention how much we love Star Wars.
I had a meeting with my British film professor this afternoon to discuss my final paper for the class. I said I was interested in looking at some films (Olivier's Hamlet and Michael Powell's The Red Shoes) as related to concept of film as art and "quality" cinema in the 1940s. In talking it through, I realized that it might be a lot to handle for a 15 page paper. My tutor asked whether I was interested in textual analysis of certain films or more interested in a historical approach. I immediately said historical approach. What really fascinates me is the whole notion of how and why these films were made, the political and social constructs of the time, and how they were received. And stardom, let's not forget stardom.
When I talked to my personal tutor last week, and told her of my purpose for coming here and what I wanted to do with my degree and my life career-wise, she said I totally should incorporate my passion for certain films and stars into my work if I can (well, I was definitely planning to incorporate them into my dissertation, anyway). But I've always been a bit sketchy about it. I mean, it's popular cinema. But when I was discussing my British Cinema paper today, I kept referring to my interest in certain films and the Oliviers in that context, and my course tutor said he didn't understand why I was acting like my academic work and my obvious passion for the Oliviers had to be two different things. Because they don't. If I want to write a paper about Vivien Leigh, why shouldn't I? I said "I don't know, I always thought it wasn't academic enough." And he said it IS academic, and I know a lot about these things, so what I need to do is make sure I focus on specific questions that I can make arguments about in my writing so that it doesn't end up being a biography, and if I want to use "Larry and Viv" as the means through which to answer these questions, that's perfectly well and good.
It was so nice to get confirmation about it being okay to write about the things I'm passionate about in an academic setting! HUZZAH! So instead of writing about Hamlet and The Red Shoes, I think I will write about Henry V, Hamlet, and Shakespeare in British film in the 1940s–how J. Arthur Rank marketed these two films, the differences in reception and how they were made. Or something. I'm hoping this Olivier colloquium on Saturday will give me some good ideas. I'm so glad it's acceptible to be both totally nerdy and smart (har har) at the same time!
I also got to borrow a neat little book called J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry! I'm off to go read!


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If A Worm Makes You Sick, Can This Cup Of Tea Cure You?
By Jason Beaubien • Jan 3, 2019
Tea made from the wormwood plant. Wormwood tea has been used as a remedy for fever, liver and gall bladder ailments — and now it's being tested for the flatworm infection schistosomiasis.
Originally published on January 10, 2019 1:39 pm
Schistosomiasis is listed as a "neglected" tropical disease by the World Health Organization — one of those diseases that's been overlooked by modern medicine.
It mainly hits poor people in poor countries — and it hits a lot of them, up to 200 million a year. There are only a few drugs available to treat it. There are no designer drugs being cooked up in a lab in Europe for schistosomiasis. Doctoral students rarely pen their thesis on this disease.
But schistosomiasis can also be "neglected" by the very people it attacks. It can be a stealth disease. The infection starts slowly. A flatworm penetrates the skin of someone walking or working or swimming in contaminated water. The person doesn't feel sick. They pick up more parasites.
The host still feels fine, doesn't even know he or she is infected. The worms start having sex. They multiply. As the parasite population grows the person starts to feel sluggish, slightly off. The worm invasion may cause a fever or some abdominal pain but most people don't realize something's wrong. In parts of Africa and South East Asia where schistosomiasis is rampant, people can be infected for years before they start feeling sick.
The standard treatment is a drug called praziquantel — three doses spread out over the course of one day can cure most people of the worms that cause schistosomiasis.
But what if tea from a local plant worked just as well?
Pam Weathers, a biologist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has spent a lot of time studying how artimisinin and other derivatives of the wormwood shrub attack malaria parasites in people. She figured wormwood might also kill the worms that cause schistosomiasis.
So along with her colleagues she ran a trial on 800 people in the Maniema Province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, all of whom had schistosomiasis. Half were treated with the drug, and half got wormwood tea.
In a new study published this month, she reports that sweet wormwood tea can cure schistosomiasis faster and with fewer side effects than the most common drug treatment.
"They had to drink these tea infusions daily for seven days and then you would see what happened to their worm infestations, which is not a pretty thing to do," she says with a laugh. "It means looking at fecal samples to see if the eggs are gone. I'm glad it wasn't in that lab but that's how it has to be detected."
The people who got the conventional drug and the people who drank the tea all were completely cleared of the parasites. But the group sipping the wormwood infusions got rid of the parasites faster and reported fewer side effects. "It [the tea] is much more benign on the patient," she says. The pharmaceutical treatment with praziquantel can cause headaches, nausea and fatigue.
One downside of the sweet wormwood tea is that despite the "sweet" in its name, it's actually quite bitter. Some people like it while others hate it.
Weathers falls in the hater group and was surprised to find that anyone thought it tastes good. "I'm like, you're kidding me because I can't stand it," she says.
But one of the benefits of using sweet wormwood is that the shrub grows readily in lots of the warm tropical places where schistosomiasis is a problem.
"The thought initially was that they we're going to try and let people grow the plant in their own gardens and then just make their own tea," Weathers says. This turned out to be not as easy as it might seem. The tea infusion had to be the right strength to be effective, and people had to be told to not store the prepared tea for more than a day or it would lose efficacy.
The new study from Weathers and her colleagues doesn't tackle those logistical issues. It simply set out to compare the wormwood tea treatment against the common drug therapy. And in that regard wormwood tea was a success.
"This is an important disease," says Sue Montgomery, who heads the parasitic disease branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Montgomery wasn't involved with the wormwood tea study and says she doesn't want to comment directly on it. She notes that in other studies wormwood has showed promise in killing immature stages of the schistisoma parasite.
"But those are all in studies that have yet to be scaled up to the point where those drugs would be used in control programs," she says. Which is also true of Weathers wormwood tea study. It's still in the study stage and the tea is not yet being widely used to combat schistosomiasis.
The bigger problem with schistosomiasis is that just purging the parasites by pill or by tea won't lead to the elimination of the disease.
Schistosomiasis is spread in a cycle involving people and a particular species of freshwater snails.
"You have to have three things occurring in the same place to have transmission of schistosomiasis," Montgomery says. "You need people who are infected with the parasite. You need water sources that contain the appropriate snails that are intermediate hosts. And you have to have a situation where human waste is making its way into that water." Human feces and urine carry the parasite's eggs back out to the water source.
So just killing off all the parasites that are inside people doesn't do any good if they can get re-infected the next day by contaminated water.
"It's almost impossible to get rid of [schistosomiasis] just by treating repeatedly," Montgomery says. "What it really requires is improvements in water and sanitation."
And upgrading an entire community's water and waste systems is a lot harder than giving a patient a pill or some tea.
But tackling schistosomiasis, Montgomery says, is important. As more and more worms accumulate in a person, Montgomery says, the individual suffers a lack of energy and has trouble digesting food. As the number of worms swells and they lodge their eggs in various organs, many people end up with a fibrosis of the liver. And in a worst case scenario ...
"It influences the blood circulation, then it leads to enlarged blood vessels around the liver, which sometimes burst into your esophagus," Montgomery says. "And you can actually end up bleeding out from the esophagus because of the altered circulation caused by this chronic high level infection. So that's a really awful scary story, and it does not happen often but that's one of the causes of deaths associated with schistosomiasis."
The disease is so under-researched that there isn't even good data on exactly how many people are suffering or dying from schistosomiasis. The World Health Organization estimates that schistosomiasis kills between 25,000 and 200,000 people a year.
It's possible that some simple treatments like wormwood tea could help combat it. But the first challenge may be to stop neglecting this potentially fatal disease.
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Switching gears now, one of the world's most common and stubborn tropical diseases is called schistosomiasis. The potentially fatal parasitic infection affects millions of people in poor countries with poor sanitation. But new research shows that the parasites can be killed off with a particular type of homegrown herbal tea. NPR's Jason Beaubien has this report.
JASON BEAUBIEN, BYLINE: In parts of Africa and Southeast Asia, schistosomiasis affects up to 200 million people annually. And, often, those people can be infected for years before they start feeling sick.
PAM WEATHERS: It's a disease that doesn't kill people right away, but it weakens them, makes them unable to have the energy to work or deal with life very well.
BEAUBIEN: That's Pam Weathers. She's a biologist at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Weathers spends a lot of time studying plants. She'd been looking at how sweet wormwood can be used to kill malaria parasites, and she figured wormwood might also work against the flatworms that cause schistosomiasis.
WEATHERS: You know what? The plant's name is wormwood. It was known, over the centuries, to treat worms.
BEAUBIEN: So Weathers and her colleagues set up a study to test wormwood against the one drug that's commonly used to treat schistosomiasis - praziquantel. They recruited 800 people with schistosomiasis in an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Half were treated with the drug praziquantel and half got sweet wormwood tea.
WEATHERS: They had to drink these tea infusions daily for seven days. And then, you would see what happened to their worm infestations, which is not a pretty thing to do, because it means looking at fecal samples to see if the eggs are gone. I'm glad I wasn't in that lab (laughter).
BEAUBIEN: But it worked. Actually, both methods worked. The researchers found that the worms had been cleared from all the patients, but the group sipping the tea got rid of the parasites faster and reported fewer side effects than those taking the standard drug. Another potential upside of using wormwood against schistosomiasis is that the bushy plant is already being cultivated in many parts of Africa to produce artemisinin for malaria medications.
WEATHERS: It grows quite readily around the world.
BEAUBIEN: She imagines people growing a few of these shrubs in their gardens and then a few times a year, making tea from the leaves to cleanse themselves of the parasites. The World Health Organization's approved treatment for schistosomiasis, however, remains praziquantel. The study Weathers co-authored on this appears in the journal Phytomedicine.
Dr. Sue Montgomery, who heads the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's parasitic disease branch, says purging people of the parasites only deals with half of the schistosomiasis problem. The parasites also thrive in freshwater snails. In places where human waste contaminates local waterways, the parasite cycle between the people and the crustaceans. So treating someone with drugs or herbs doesn't do any good if they get reinfected the next day by contaminated water.
SUE MONTGOMERY: It's almost impossible to get rid of it just by treating, repeatedly. What it really requires is improvements in water and sanitation.
BEAUBIEN: Upgrading an entire community's water and waste systems, however, is a lot harder than giving a patient a pill or some tea. Jason Beaubien, NPR News.
[POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: The audio version of this story incorrectly refers to snails as crustaceans. Snails are in fact part of the mollusk family, along with slugs, clams, mussels and octopuses.] Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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