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I don't understand e-mails from people who have bought their plane ticket and hotel, but hadn't bought an #ECCC badge and now it's sold out.
— Jim Demonakos (@technogreek) January 21, 2014
Well, add Emerald City Comic Con on March 28-30th as a comics show where you need to be diligent about getting your passes AHEAD OF TIME. Three day passes for the Seattle show are now SOLD OUT online, but still available from retailers listed on this page. The retailers are all in the Seattle area so if you were planning on going you might want to find a pal to go pick you up a pass.
Last year ECCC attendance was 64,000, making it the fourth biggest show in North America, and third biggest in the US. I have a suspicion attendance may be up this year. The show has grown rapidly over the last few years into not only a favorite for professionals (due to the great facilities and the amount of money attendees tend to drop), but the kick off to the year, con-wise, drawing from the huge local nerd and pop culture fan communities. and an enormous huge venue for announcements. It also enjoys the reputation as one of the best run shows around, and one that still keeps comics as the main focus, even with a few nerdlebrity elements being added year to year.
I'll be at ECCC this year after a four-year break, and I can't wait either!
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China Likely To Release Draft Of Controversial National Security Law For Hong Kong
by IANS - Jun 20, 2020 02:07 PM +05:30 IST
Woman protesting against China's misadventure in Hong Kong. (Twitter)
Beijing is likely to unveil its draft of the controversial national security law tailor-made for Hong Kong on Saturday (20 June))as the bi-monthly meeting of China's top legislative body wraps up, sources said.
A short public consultation period is expected to be announced after the three-day meeting of the National People's Congress Standing Committee ends on Saturday, the sources told the South China Morning Post newspaper.
The central government and Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam were expected to issue a statement shortly after, they added.
The draft is expected to spell out in greater detail the four crimes of the law -- secession, subversion of state power, terrorist activities and collusion with foreign and external forces to endanger national security, as well as set out the penalties.
Tam Yiu-chung, Hong Kong's sole delegate to China's top legislative body, told the South China Morning Post that Beijing would make "official announcements" on Saturday afternoon about the first round of deliberations for the law.
But he said the date of the next meeting had not yet been specified.
According to the decision Beijing approved last month, the Standing Committee is authorised to formulate the national law, which shall be promulgated and implemented in Hong Kong.
It remains unclear when the law will take effect in the city but sources had earlier indicated that it should be in place well before the Legislative Council elections are due to be held on September 6.
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Q: Scheme Code to Sort a nested list based on < or > operator passed as function argument Please help me to write a code in scheme since being a beginner I am having a bit trouble in recursive code:
I want a code like:
1) (my_fn 'a symbol<?) should output---> a
2)(my_fn '((((a)) b) c) symbol<?) ---> '((((a)) b) c)
3)(my_fn '(1 (20 (3 (4 40) 3) 2) 1) >) ---->'(40 (20 (4 (3 3) 2) 1) 1)
4)(my_fn '((((a)) b) c) (lambda (x y) (symbol<? y x))) Output---> '((((c)) b) a)

A: The way to sort the atomic elements is to flatten the list:
(flatten '(((4) 2) 3)) ; ==> (4 2 3)

Then you can use the standard list-sort (R6RS here, for R5RS use SRFI-95 sort instead)
(list-sort < '(4 2 3)) ; ==> (2 3 4)

Then you need some way of recursing the original structure and for each atomic value you use one of the values in the sorted list instead:
(restructure '(((4) 2) 3) '(2 3 4)) ; ==> (((2) 3) 4)

Here is a version of restructure that would work, but it uses mutation:
;; (restructure '(((a) b) c) '(1 2 3)) ; ==> (((1) 2) 3)
(define (restructure tree elements)
  ;; replaces an atom with the next
  ;; element in elements
  (define (term x)
    (let ((x (car elements)))
      (set! elements (cdr elements))
      x))

  (accumulate-tree tree term cons '()))

Finally you put it all together. A possible implementation would look like this:
(define (structure-sort < tree)
  (if (pair? tree)
      (restructure tree
                   (list-sort < (flatten tree)))
      tree)) ; for atomic values there isn't anything to sort

Now. If I have a structure with data you can sort the atomic values in the structure into something that doesn't make sense:
(structure-sort string<? '("person" ("name" "John") ("number" "555-8907")))
; ==>  ("555-8907" ("John" "name") ("number" "person"))

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Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. In this six-part lecture series entitled Restoration as Event and Idea: Art in Europe, 1814‒1820, Art historian Thomas Crow will consider the period following the fall of Napoleon. During this time, artists throughout Europe were left uncertain and adrift, with old certainties and boundaries dissolved. How did they then set new courses for themselves? Professor Crow's lectures answer that question by offering both the wide view of art centers across the continent—Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Brussels—and a close-up focus on individual actors— Francisco Goya (1746‒1828), Jacques-Louis David (1748‒1825), Antonio Canova (1757‒1822), Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769‒1830), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780‒1867), and Théodore Géricault (1791‒1824). Whether directly or indirectly, these artists were linked in a new international network with changed artistic priorities and new creative possibilities emerging from the wreckage of the old. In this fourth lecture, entitled "The Religion of Ancient Art from London to Paris to Rome, 1815–1819: Canova and Lawrence Replenish Papal Splendor," originally delivered at the National Gallery of Art on April 12, 2015, Professor Crow shows how Rome, where both Italian and English artists served as agents in the repatriation of ancient art, became an international nexus in post-Napoleonic European culture. The difficulties of this endeavor, captured by Lawrence in his portrait of the reigning pope, came to symbolize the larger conflicts underlying dynastic restoration across Europe.


Click on the picture above for the newest trailer for this sequel. The first Hellboy was directed by Guillermo Del Toro before his big art-house hit, Pan's Labyrinth .
Now, with the contract being all but final for him to direct The Hobbit, it will be interesting to see if this sequel becomes a sleeper hit.
Predator 2 showed us an Alien skull in the Predator's trophy room. This led to a series of graphic novels that combined the mythos of both characters. They were popular and demonstrated how viable the idea was. So I was hoping that combining these two franchises on film (still a good idea) wouldn't necessarily end the trend. The first Aliens vs. Predator directed by Paul W. S. Anderson (Resident Evil ) was not great, but it had some interesting ideas to build on. But the newest flick Aliens vs Predator - Requiem proves to be beyond the capabilities of the Brothers Strause in their feature film debut.
As set up in the last feature, the Predators, intelligent space-hunters, use Earth to hunt the Aliens. In that film, it's discovered that the Predators set up our civilizations by introducing their technology, in return leading to pyramids built in their honor. Humans would sacrifice themselves to breed Aliens that would provide the intergalactic hunters with their prey. However, if the Aliens proved to be too much to handle, the Predators would nuke the area to prevent infestation. Nifty idea for explaining how some of these civilizations just seemed to disappear, right?
As Requiem begins, an Alien chestburster pops out of a Predator from the last film. It grows up to be a Predalien. This one ends up in a small town in Colorado, killing the townspeople as it uses them as breeding stock, with a Predator not too far behind to clean up the mess. We get to know some of the townspeople, but not well enough for them to make a lasting impression. And that's a big problem, because if you don't identify with these victims, how can you truly be scared?
The Brothers Strause, owners of a famous visual effects house called Hydraulx, have got the blood and gore part down well. But I go to horror movies to be scared, not disgusted. When you have the disgusted part without the scared... well, what's the point? The directors fall into the trap that most novices from the vfx and gaming world fall into when making the transition to cinema. They feel they must take on the challenge of topping the last film by concentrating on the effects and gore, and not the story. For example, is it really necessary to show an alien burst through the chest of an 8-year-old boy? Or how about the Predalien (a creature which, in and of itself, is a bit over the top) stalking through the maternity ward in a hospital as babies cry in the foreground? Had enough yet? No? How about the Predalien impregnating an already pregnant woman in said maternity ward with baby Aliens? These cheap scares provide the filmmakers with some challenging visuals, but they are stomach-turning more than frightening.
And it's too bad, because they had the elements to make this one a little more relevant than previous ones. Setting it up in a small town was a winning idea. But it would be more effective if one actually got involved with the characters, like in Frank Darabont's recent The Mist . They have the beginnings of some nice subplots involving a couple of very good actors. Reiko Aylesworth (24) as a soldier returning from Iraq has some nice interaction with her young daughter (Ariel Gade), now distant because of their time apart. And the great John Ortiz (Carlito's Way ) plays the town sheriff, so eager to overcome the stigma of his juvenile delinquency that he will lead his people into oblivion for fear of doing the wrong thing. Sounds great, but the Strauses spend about as much time exploring these avenues as it took you to read those sentences.
I'm sure we'll see a sequel to this film at some point. It's too valuable a pair of franchises for Fox to leave languishing on the shelf. But hopefully they will go back to using these films as a training ground for strong directors, rather than as a reward to a successful visual effects house and their founders.
Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem, is available today on single disc (rated and unrated) and two-disc (unrated) standard DVD, and Blu-ray.


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Boa tęczowy (Epicrates cenchria) — gatunek węża z rodziny dusicieli, jeden z przedstawicieli podrodziny boa. Dość popularny w hodowlach terraryjnych również w Polsce. Jest jednym z łatwiejszych w chowie dusicieli. Nie jest sklasyfikowany przez IUCN.

Opis
Cechą charakterystyczną (od której pochodzi zresztą jego nazwa) jest wyraźny metaliczny połysk łatwo zauważalny w naturalnym, jak i sztucznym świetle. Wyraźnie mniejszy od boa dusiciela (Boa constrictor). Średniej wielkości dusiciel o dość smukłym ciele, głowa wyraźnie wyodrębniona, łuski niewielkie, błyszczące.

Wyróżnia się szereg podgatunków, których przedstawiciele różnią się od siebie ubarwieniem, a zwłaszcza jego intensywnością. Niektóre z nich to:
 E. c. maurus (Gray, 1849; podgat. kolumbijski): Dorosłe osobniki są w zasadzie prawie jednobarwne (podgatunek najmniej zróżnicowany kolorystycznie). Przeważający kolor: wiśniowo-brązowy, słabo widoczne są czarne pierścienie biegnące wzdłuż grzbietu i ciemne plamy po bokach ciała. Młode osobniki posiadają trochę wyraźniejszy wzór, przez co przypominają nieco podgatunek brazylijski (najefektowniej ubarwiony), jednak po ukończeniu około półtora roku wzór zanika prawie zupełnie. Występowanie – od Nikaragui po północną Brazylię.
 E. c. crassus (Cope, 1862; podgat. gujański): Ustępuje mu nieco rozmiarami. Pod względem jaskrawości wzoru ubarwienia można go umieścić pomiędzy podgatunkiem kolumbijskim a brazylijskim, temu ostatniemu ustępuje pod tym względem bardzo znacznie, jednak w przeciwieństwie do kolumbijskiego nawet u dorosłych osobników wzór pierścieni jest dość wyrazisty. Występowanie - otwarte tereny w Brazylii, Boliwii i Argentynie.
 E. c. cenchria ((Linnaeus, 1758); podgat. brazylijski): Podgatunek o ubarwieniu uznawanym za najlepiej prezentujące się w hodowli. Jego wzór jest jaskrawy i pozostaje taki również po osiągnięciu dojrzałości. Kolor podstawowy to wiśniowo-brązowy, wzdłuż grzbietu biegną jaskrawe czarne pierścienie, wewnątrz których tło jest o ton jaśniejsze od umaszczenia podstawowego. Po bokach ciała występują czarne owale z jasnymi półksiężycami. Niektóre osobniki mają po bokach srebrzysty odcień, należą do odmiany zwanej "Lamar". Pod względem rozmiarów góruje nad podgatunkami: kolumbijskim, argentyńskim, gujańskim i paragwajskim, ale ustępuje peruwiańskiemu (największy) i podgatunkowi z wyspy Marojo. W naturze występuje w Amazonii, od Wenezueli na południe po Boliwię i dalej po Gujanę Francuską i Brazylię.
 E. c. alvarezi (Abalos, Baez and Nader, 1964; podgat. argentyński): przedstawiciele osiągają najmniejsze rozmiary. Wzorem ubarwienia odbiegają nieco od pozostałych boa tęczowych. Jest on mniej regularny, ale wyraźniejszy niż u podgatunku kolumbijskiego i gujańskiego, choć mniej wyraźny niż u brazylijskiego. Półksiężyce na bokach ciała są wyraźnie szersze. W większym stopniu niż u innych przeważają kolory szare, zaś sam wąż jest ogólnie jaśniejszy. Zdarzają się osobniki o większym udziale koloru pomarańczowego. Występujący u wszystkich podgatunków metaliczny połysk jest u niego znacznie słabszy. W naturze występuje w formacji chaco od południowo-wschodniej Boliwii do północne Argentyny.
 E. c. gaigei (Stull, 1938; podgat. peruwiański): Największy wśród podgatunków. Efektownie ubarwione węże, bardzo zbliżone wyglądem do tych podgatunku brazylijskiego. Charakterystyczną cechą są nieco większe łuski w porównaniu do pozostałych podgatunków. Występowanie – Amazonia na obszarze Boliwii i Peru.
 E. c. barbouri (Stall, 1938; podgat. z wyspy Marajo): Jest również zbliżony kolorystycznie do podgatunku brazylijskiego, choć jego wzór jest nieco mniej wyrazisty (znacznie wyraźniejszy jednak niż u kolumbijskich i gujańskich). Ubarwienie jest też wyraźnie ciemniejsze. Podobnie jak peruwiański posiada duże łuski. W naturze występuje na wyspie Marajó w ujściu Amazonki (północna Brazylia).
 E. c. assisi  (Machado, 1945): Występowanie – caatinga na obszarze od stanu Paraíba do Minas Gerais (Brazylia).
 E. c. hygrophilus (Amaral, 1935): Występowanie – las atlantycki na obszarze od stanu Alagoas po Rio de Janeiro
 E. c. polylepis (Amaral, 1935): Występowanie – cerrado na terenie stanów Goiás i Minas Gerais

W klasyfikacji dusicielowatych przyjętej przez Pyrona, Reynoldsa i Burbrinka (2014) podgatunki E. c. alvarezi, E. c. assisi, E. c. crassus i E. c. maurus podnoszone są do rangi odrębnych gatunków.

Rozmiary
Między podgatunkami występują niewielkie różnice. Długość ciała zwykle nie przekracza 200 cm, w hodowli terraryjnej przeważnie wynosi około 150 cm.

Biotop
Środowiskiem życia boa tęczowych są tereny skaliste, lasy, plantacje, nadbrzeżne zalesienia i sawanna przyległa do obszarów leśnych. Ponieważ zasięg gatunku jest dość znaczny, poszczególne podgatunki zamieszkują dość różnorodne środowiska, od suchego, stepowego (E. c. alvarezi, E. c. assisi) po wilgotne lasy tropikalne (E. c. cenchria, E. c. maurus).

Pokarm
Głównie ptaki, w tym ptactwo wodne i pisklęta oraz niewielkie ssaki. W naturze niekiedy zjada niewielkie płazy i jaszczurki. W warunkach hodowli terraryjnej zjada głównie myszy, szczury, chomiki, myszoskoczki, młode kurczęta. Zwykle jest dość żarłoczny i nie sprawia problemów żywieniowych w niewoli.

Aktywność
Wąż aktywny głównie wieczorem (w terrarium zwykle uaktywnia się po zgaszeniu oświetlenia), dzień spędza w kryjówkach.

Przypisy

Dusicielowate
Gady hodowane w terrariach
Gady Ameryki Południowej
Gatunki i podgatunki zwierząt nazwane w 1758 roku

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Hot TV News: 2015 Predicted "The Year of OTT"; Netflix vs Popcorn Time
Posted by Merav Cunningham
The buzz was all around OTT TV this week, with Dish's limited launch of its Sling TV offering, and a new survey which predicts the success of HBO's future OTT service. Sunday night will bring tens of thousands of Football fans to Arizona's University of Phoenix Stadium, and millions of U.S. Dollars to advertisers. Netflix said piracy poses a real threat to its service -here's a summary of this week's industry buzz.
HBO success predicted (Parks Associates; LightReading; The Verge; Advanced Television)
OTT was the talk of the town this week. A Parks Associates study predicted that 17% of U.S. broadband households are likely to subscribe to HBO's new online TV service at an estimated cost of $14.99 per month. The service has not been launched yet, but the survey went on to predict that 91% of those online HBO subscribers will be existing pay-TV customers, and that about half of them – once signed up for the OTT service - will quit their more expensive TV packages in favour of keeping HBO as a sole TV provider.
The new HBO service isn't the only pay-TV player to offer OTT services. Last fall, CBS launched CBS Access All for $5.99 per month. This week, Dish Network sent the first invites for its new over-the-top streaming service, Sling TV. Looking at the numbers in the study, Park Associates' Brett Sappington predicted that "2015 is set to be the year of OTT….We expect several other players to launch or announce services in the U.S. market in the next few months." Verizon's Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo joined the OTT fest and told investors "there were a lot of positive things coming out". Shammo refused to give details about the planned midsummer launch of Verizon's OTT service.
Others in the industry voiced more modest assessments. The success of these new services, wrote LightReading, depends on many factors, with content offering and cost likely to play a significant role. Analyzing the nuts and bolts of the Sling TV service, The Verge concluded: "If you're barely watching TV as is and the math works out in your favour (with Netflix and/or Hulu included), it could simply be a great way to cut down on your bills every month."
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The 49th annual championship game of the NFL - or as it is better known – the Super Bowl – will take place in Arizona on Sunday. It's one of the most viewed TV broadcasts in the United States, and the most anticipated advertising showcase. This year, an unprecedented $4.5 million price tag for a 30-second spot means, according to Forbes, that the game needs 120 Million viewers "for advertisers to win".
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Q: Java problems installing Glassfish 3.1.2 on Ubuntu Lucid I'm trying to install Glassfish v3.1.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 by obtaining corresponding .sh from Oracle website and running sudo ./glassfish-installer-file.sh. However following error appears:

Could not locate a suitable jar utility. Please ensure that you have Java 6 or newer installed on your system and accessible in your PATH or by setting JAVA_HOME

The problem is that $JAVA_HOME (and also $JDK_HOME which I think is superfluous) is being correctly set in ~/.bashrc file:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java
export JDK_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java
PATH=${PATH}:${JAVA_HOME}/bin:so-on

and it's possible to execute all programs from $JAVA_HOME/bin directory from console (including jar program).
Now, what I noticed is that some time ago I installed java, javac and javaws specifically using sudo update-alternatives --install ... command into /usr/lib/bin folder.
So I tried to install jar in the same way (using sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/jar" "jar" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_35/bin/jar" 1) and the initial problem was solved - above error didn't appear when I tried to install Glassfish again. But another problem appeared - it looks like during installation GF installer couldn't find keytool program this time.
I'm not very happy with installing several dozens of programs from Java bin folder, so the main question is: is there significant difference from the point of view of other programs (like Glassfish installer) between:

*

*installing some program using sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/program-name program-name /path/to/program-name 1
and

*simply adding it to $PATH variable?

Or this can be considered as bug in Glassfish installer?
Thanks in advance

A: Glassfish is a complex beast and there's a WHOLE lot more to getting it running than just glassfish itself.  Tutorial here: http://www.nabisoft.com/tutorials/glassfish/installing-glassfish-311-on-ubuntu
You'll need to knock out a lot of prerequisites - including an Oracle-specific Java - before you can run the glassfish installer itself.


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Favorite Crime Fiction of 2016,
Part II: Steven Nester
Steven Nester is the longtime host of Poets of the Tabloid Murder, a weekly Internet radio program heard on the Public Radio Exchange (PRX). In addition, he is a New York-based freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Rap Sheet, January Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Yellow Mama, Mystery Scene, and Firsts Magazine.
• The Far Empty, by J. Todd Scott (Putnam):
Big Bend County Sheriff Stanford "Judge" Ross is the kind of lawman who, "once he said something, it was the law," and in the rugged, sparsely populated border region of Texas he polices, there's no one looking over Ross' shoulder to make sure his version is by the book. J. Scott Todd's The Far Empty is a slow-blooming fleur de mal that thrives in the harsh west Texas climate, where "there's more blood in the ground than water"—thanks to Sheriff Ross—and where he and his deputies bully the populace with impunity, and enable drug smugglers to operate unimpeded. While Ross might bring to mind another hard-ass Texas peace officer, sociopath Lou Ford (a creation of pulp tragedian Jim Thompson in his 1952, first-person-recounted classic, The Killer Inside Me), Scott, a real-life agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, deftly alternates his yarn's point of view between several characters with an assuredness that belies the fact of this being his first novel. The murderous Ross incites the curiosity of his teenage son to investigate his mother's strange and recent disappearance. And when a new schoolteacher arrives in the small town of Murfee under murky circumstances, she and one of Ross' deputies begin to link together several coincidences, which serve to bring many mysteries and crimes both into the open and to closure.
• IQ, by Joe Ide (Mulholland):
Young high school dropout-turned-private eye Isaiah Quintabe is the eponymous and aptly named IQ in Joe Ide's superb, often hilarious debut crime novel. Smart as a whip, "unlicensed and undaground," IQ has no family and no money, just his renowned intellect. While enabling him to run circles around the local competition, his smarts also relegate him to outsider status in gritty Long Beach, California, where minds are corralled by chain-link and the lines are usually drawn in cocaine. After his older brother, Marcus, is killed by a hit-and-run driver, IQ must support himself to avoid foster care, and he hopes to make bank when he's hired to find out who is trying to kill Calvin Wright, aka Black the Knife, a once-successful rapper on his way down. IQ takes on a roommate, a dope dealer named Dodson, who has confidence, big plans, and "a hitch in his stride like a pimp on his birthday." The two embark on a burglary spree to pay the bills; but IQ finds himself trapped by Dodson's avarice, which culminates in a plan to rob Junior, Dodson's coke supplier. Dodson's innate common sense and wit result in many of the book's cleverest moments, such as this priceless exchange between him and his calculating girlfriend:
"Yeah, [says Dodson] but robbing a pet store ain't nothing like trying to jack Junior."
"I'm not saying they are the same. I'm saying you could work it out in your mind, ask yourself how the shit could go down."
"Ask myself how the—I am myself. Why would I ask somebody who don't know?"
IQ is nobody's main man and nobody's fool as he gets on in the world and learns to deal with death and atone for mistakes in this wise and funny character-driven novel.
• The More They Disappear, by Jesse Donaldson (Thomas Dunne):
The corruption is thorough, ubiquitous and, sadly, a family affair in Jesse Donaldson's beautifully written first novel, The More They Disappear. Sheriff Lew Mattock is murdered by a young couple, children of Marathon, Kentucky's leading citizens, who plan to escape the drug-ravaged town. Deputy Sheriff Harlan Dupee steps into Mattock's filthy shoes to solve the case—and quickly wishes he hadn't. The gold rush of the illegal prescription-pill trade introduces ambition and pretension all the way from Tobacco Road to the biggest mansions in town, and the ones who experience the worst damage aren't just addicts, but those who are flush with the riches, influence, and venality fast money offers. Few characters are without sin in this story, whether their failings are carnal, remunerative, or a gross abuse of power. An exception is the harried and progressively more horrified Dupee. He wants the job of sheriff, but to earn it he must first bring Mattock's killers to justice. Still in mourning, following the murder of a woman he loved, Dupee becomes even more bitter and jaded when it comes to light that the powers-that-be had a hand in earning her killer a lenient sentence. "All his life," Donaldson writes, "Harlan had searched for a code worth living by, a guiding star, but he was a man who hedged his bets, who believed a little in everything and therefore stood for nothing." Dupee eventually makes inroads with a feral teenage girl named Maddie, and it's this ray of hope that might save Marathon, Kentucky, from falling deeper into darkness.
• Red Right Hand, by Chris Holm (Mulholland):
Former Special Ops guy Michael Hendricks is back, and he's out for revenge. First seen in Chris Holm's 2015 debut novel, The Killing Kind, fugitive Hendricks in this second book is once more pitted against The Council, an organization of American crime bosses, but this time things are different. His old business model of hitting hit men has been blown, some crucial members of his team are no longer around, and a terrorist attack has put California's Bay Area on high alert—and dredged up a mafia turncoat everyone thought was long disposed of. That unexpected reappearance flips a variety of lives upside down, but especially that of FBI Special Agent Charlotte Thompson. For Hendricks, though, it provides an opportunity for many urgent questions to be answered. To keep that resurrected mafia man turned FBI informant on the radar, even though all official and available manpower is out hunting jihadists, Thompson summons Hendricks into action, in the process risking both her career and her special relationship with her FBI boss. Red Right Hand brings together corrupt big businessmen, foreign terrorist groups, and domestic criminals in a way that might lead readers to think of Ian Fleming, sans the martinis and 007's panache. Hendricks is an anti-hero and a complicated guy, but one worth rooting for. Those who crave page-turning action that maintains credibility should give Holm a read, starting with book one.
• Willnot, by James Sallis
(Bloomsbury USA):
In the contrarily named town of Willnot, a character quotes French author André Gide ("Fish die belly up and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling"), as if to explain that in Willnot, expectations are defied, and circumstances often deliver quirky and existential surprises. Narrated by the town's resident physician, Dr. Lamar Hale, who's just as likely to tend to an injured bird as a gunshot victim, Sallis' latest novel floats between a criminal investigation and the everyday caprices that make the mundane appear to glow, especially when there's no definite resolution to the baffling events and coincidences found here. After the remains of several bodies are discovered, the inexplicable continues to occur, beginning with the return of an AWOL marine and former resident, Bobby Lowndes, who's "just passing through." His official records missing and the FBI hot on his trail, Lowndes is the large-as-life symbol of the past-less random that resounds in the present—and a harbinger of things to come. Events and fictions circle and meet, posing questions for characters as well as readers. (At one point, for instance, Hale falls into a year-long coma, that turn echoing something his pulp-novelist father once wrote. Elsewhere, a bullet intended for former sniper Lowndes instead strikes Hale's partner, Richard.) But, as one player here opines, "going with things is better than messing with them." That's contradicted by another statement, advising, "We must stir the pot or the stew will stick and burn," which perhaps reminds us that one must be engaged in the world. In the town of Willnot, as in life, there are choices, most of them opposing, and we must pick what works best for each of us.
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The most conspicuous item in 2013 manifesto for Jubilee Coalition was five stadiums and one was to be built in Garisa. What a gem of an idea. Many people especially the young bought sunglasses in anticipation for a very bright future. The irony is now they have to look for spectacles with magnifying lenses when looking at the performance of the Jubilee Government through sports window.
Sports was the flower in the manifesto of Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto unfortunately it remained so when they got into government. I can guess that sports is also the flower at cabinet meetings and Cabinet Secretary for Sports Hassan Wario as the flower boy designate. It is meant to spruce up our social and economic space but it ends up sprucing the imagination of our politicians.
The 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is a fiasco sports enthusiasts in Kenya want to block from their memory. If Coke is the global mascot of CocaCola, then sports is to Kenya what Coke is to CocaCola. To date, no one knows the formula of ingredients used to make Coke because CocaCola has selfishly protected their prized product over time. Our athletes uniforms were stolen, allowances disappeared; tickets for coaches were missing while joy riders had access to Olympic Village and not some coaches. This is what we get even for an event that happens once in four years. Meanwhile the prosecution of NOCK officials is turning into a circus.
Confederation of African Football (CAF) officials are coming back in August to tell us that CHAN 2018, the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) version for players based in Africa will be moved to Morocco. CAF will not allow the world to watch their matches being played in substandard stadiums out of Nairobi. The two facilities being fronted are Machakos' Kenyatta Stadium and Meru'sKinoru Stadium. It is a shame when Government officials and FKF President confidently walk CAF officials into these two facilities. Let it go, it is never that serious.
Recently word leaked that Harambee Stars players get Ksh. 500 per day ($5) as allowance. The public was shocked that the national team players can be paid such an amount of money and still expected to win. The team went to Sierra-Leon for an AFCON qualifier and lost. The excuse by FKF is that is the amount stipulated by Ministry of Sports for all sportsmen across the board. They later organized a sponsorship through betting firm Sportpesa to pad up the amount.
If I dint have to rush to look for ways of earning some money for the elusive maize flour, I would have delved into other sports as well. In Kenya, we never give sports a second thought because the first thought we give it at a glance is enough. This is the reason I silently pity many young passionate Kenyans who believe they can make it in sports; kindly have a plan B.
We have never realized the benefit of sports. Political leaders like Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero organize Governors Cup in the belief that they are promoting sports and the youth. Meanwhile the County Government owned City Stadium and Woodley Stadium are as dilapidated as Mogadishu Stadium before the Chinese renovated it.
If we are not ready to give sports the attention it deserves, let us not use it to spruce up our selfish ambitions. Sportsmen and women have suffered enough; rubbing salt into their injuries is not fair.
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Microsoft Tries To Clean Up COFEE Spill
By Kurt Mackie
Someone spilled hot COFEE, otherwise known as Microsoft's Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor.
The spill or leak was noted Nov. 9 in reports from CrunchGear and Ars Technica. COFEE is a computer forensics solution that Microsoft provides free to law enforcement agencies. It's really a collection of tools packaged together on a thumb drive for easy use by police on the scene of a crime.
Now, the software has somehow become expropriated, and it's found its way onto bit torrent sites.
Essentially, COFEE is now openly distributed as pirated software. The distribution was supposed to have been controlled through the National White Collar Crime Center or INTERPOL.
Microsoft confirmed the leak Tuesday, stating that it plans to "mitigate unauthorized distribution of our technology beyond the means for which it's been legally provided," according to a statement from Richard Boscovich, senior attorney for Internet safety at Microsoft Corp. He discouraged people from downloading pirated COFEE software--not just because it's an unauthorized distribution, but because the copies could have been modified.
Boscovich debunked the idea that pirates can now use the pirated COFEE software to "build around" its use by law enforcement agencies.
"Its value for law enforcement is not in secret functionality unknown to cybercriminals," Boscovich stated. "Its value is in the way COFEE brings those tools together in a simple and customizable format for law enforcement use in the field."
It's also possible that cyber crooks could use COFEE in the same way that law enforcement agencies do--to glean information from people's computers. That point wasn't addressed in Boscovich's statement.
Microsoft has claimed that law enforcement officers can learn to use COFEE in about 10 minutes. COFEE can run "more than 150 commands on a live computer system," according to a Microsoft government Web page. It's designed to capture information before a computer system is powered down and some information is lost.
Microsoft's Web page states that COFEE is designed to help law enforcement "in their fight against cybercrime, child pornography, online fraud, and other computer-facilitated crimes."
Kurt Mackie is online news editor, Enterprise Group, at 1105 Media Inc.
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Buccaneers 30, Browns 13: Browns starters bullied by Bucs in 'dress rehearsal'
TAMPA, FLA.: The Browns held their own and maybe even had an edge this week in two joint practices with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but those performances didn�t translate to their third preseason game Friday night at Raymond James Stadium.
�We didn�t play as well. That�s for sure,� coach Hue Jackson said after the Browns lost 30-13 to the Bucs and fell to 0-3 this preseason. �I�m not going to say we left it on the practice field, but I know we didn�t play like I think we could play. We�ve got a lot of work to do still, and that�s what I told our team.�
The Browns� starters were bullied in every phase during their �dress rehearsal,� the exhibition game in which the first-stringers traditionally receive more playing time to prepare for the regular season.
The results of exhibition games are meaningless, but this one was not a feel-good experience for the Browns. The starters played for the first half and were dominated by their counterparts from the Bucs.
So what�s more realistic: what happened in the joint practices or what happened in the game?
�Somewhere in between,� Jackson replied. �I don�t think tonight was how good we can play everywhere. We sprung a leak a lot of different places, so we�ve got to get better.�
It remains to be seen whether Jackson will play the starters in the Sept. 1 preseason finale against the Chicago Bears at FirstEnergy Stadium. Most coaches rest the starters in the fourth and final exhibition game, though Jackson may want to give them another tune-up for their Sept. 11 regular-season opener at the Philadelphia Eagles. Jackson said he hasn�t made a decision one way or the other.
�I know we�ll be ready to play against Philly no matter what coach decides,� starting quarterback Robert Griffin III said.
In his 2016 preseason debut, wide receiver Josh Gordon was one of the Browns� few bright spots. After sitting out the first two exhibition games while recovering from a quadriceps injury, Gordon caught two passes for 87 yards and a touchdown in an otherwise dismal first half for the Browns, who trailed 27-10 through two quarters.
There�s obviously a problem with this. Gordon will serve a four-game suspension to begin the regular season, so the Browns won�t have the 2013 All-Pro selection in a real game until they host the New England Patriots on Oct. 9.
The much-anticipated premiere of Gordon, Terrelle Pryor and rookie first-round draft pick Corey Coleman as a receiving combination occurred. But they were only on the field together for two plays and three snaps, with Coleman in the slot (an offensive holding call negated one play). Pryor had two catches for 15 yards. Coleman, who made his NFL preseason debut coming off a hamstring injury, had one grab for 9 yards, but it was wiped out by a pass interference penalty on Pryor.
CBS, which televised the game, reported Coleman and Pryor appeared to exchange words during a drive in the second quarter.
The bottom line is Gordon stole the show, but the Browns players who�ll actually be available in the first quarter of the season had better get their acts together if they hope to win any games early in Jackson�s tenure.
After the Bucs and Browns traded field goals of 48 yards by Roberto Aguayo and 35 yards by Patrick Murray on the two first possessions, Tampa Bay rolled for the rest of the first half.
The Bucs scored 24 unanswered points, making a mockery of the Browns defense and special teams.
Jackson�s offense did little to fire back as Griffin found himself under pressure early and often as the O-line struggled. Griffin took five sacks and finished 8-of-14 passing for 119 yards and a touchdown. He posted a passer rating of 108.9.
Jackson insisted the sacks were caused by poor pass protection, not Griffin holding the ball too long.
�Please. That�s not it at all � we�re not holding the ball too long,� Jackson said. �We�re getting sacked. We�re not physically doing some things that we can do in my opinion, so we�ve got to go back and fix that. One of our goals is for our quarterback not to get hit like that. So I didn�t think Robert was back there holding the ball too long or looking for more than what was there. I think sometimes things weren�t there, then all of the sudden somebody fell off of [a block]. We didn�t do a good enough job.�
Griffin didn�t blame the offensive line for the five sacks.
�My big guys up front, they�re straining their butts off to protect us, and we�ve just got to get the ball out faster and make sure all 11 guys are on the same page on each play and we just can�t hurt ourselves,� Griffin said. �Early in drives, we can�t have penalties that put us behind the eight ball, and we�ll clean that up and that will be our focus for the next couple of weeks.
�My big guys up front, I trust them. They�ve done a great job for me all training camp, and in the preseason games I know they�re working their hardest to protect me, so I trust those guys up front.�
Gordon made a spectacular play to give the Browns� starters their only touchdown. With the ball in the air, he maneuvered at the goal line to gain position on four-time Pro Bowl cornerback Brent Grimes and caught Griffin�s 43-yard pass for the score with 1:53 remaining in the second quarter. He was wide open earlier in the game when he caught a 44-yard pass from Griffin to set up Murray�s field goal.
Griffin has shown this preseason he has the long ball down pat. The other areas of the passing game remain a work in progress.
�It starts with me,� Griffin said. �I just have to make sure that when the intermediate throws are there I make them, when the long ball throws are there I make them, and when the quick game throws are there I make them. So it all starts with me, and I�ll make sure that gets cleaned up.�
Added Jackson: �We can�t just live by the long ball, though. It�s good. We�re scoring. We�ll take that. But at the same time, we�ve got to have other elements of our offense show up and play good.�
The Browns frequently experimented with their defensive starters. They employed their nickel package for the vast majority of the time, using cornerbacks Joe Haden, in his 2016 preseason debut coming off March 16 ankle surgery, and Justin Gilbert on the outside with Jamar Taylor in the slot.
They mixed up personnel on the D-line and often used four-man fronts. They didn�t play starting nose tackle Danny Shelton until midway through the first quarter and left him in the game in the third quarter, when he forced a fumble, after most of the starters were off for the night.
None of it stopped the Bucs� starters.
�I thought there were some better things done in run defense early in the game,� Jackson said. �That was an improvement. I still think we�ve got to get our hands on the ball more in the secondary. Our back-end guys, we�ve got to do a better job than what we did tonight.�
Rookie defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah said the Browns were caught off guard by the no-huddle, hurry-up offense the Bucs ran.
�I know we practiced with them, but we weren�t expecting the fast tempo they came out with,� Ogbah said. �But it�s just little details we need to keep working on. It�s an easy fix. We�ve just got to keep working on it in practice. �
Bucs quarterback Jameis Winston capped a 12-play, 82-yard drive by scrambling and finding running back Charles Sims wide open in the front of the end zone for a 3-yard touchdown with 2:28 left in the first quarter. Browns inside linebacker Chris Kirksey was late to catch up to Sims in coverage.
Griffin and Co. responded with a three-and-out, and Adam Humphries returned the ensuing punt 73 yards for a touchdown, giving the Bucs a 17-3 lead with 15 seconds left in the opening quarter. Marlon Moore hustled to pursue Humphries to no avail.
�It�s disappointing for all involved,� Jackson said of the punt return for a touchdown.
Meanwhile, punter Andy Lee merely jogged instead of attempting to stop Humphries. Jackson did not look happy when CBS� cameras showed him talking to Lee on the sideline after the play.
�[I took issue with] his pursuit,� Jackson said. �Let�s be very honest. We�re out there to play. If there�s another guy that has the ball, your job is to go get it. And the second time [he had a chance to pursue a returner] he did that [in the third quarter], so that was improvement. That�s something to build on. The first time he understood in his conversation with me that�s not how we pursue it, and he made amends for that. So on we go.�
Then the Browns went three-and-out again, and the Bucs countered with Aguayo�s 21-yard field goal. Griffin absorbed two sacks during the next series, and on the third play after the Bucs took control, Winston connected with wide receiver Mike Evans for a 34-yard touchdown pass over Taylor, who�s been the starter opposite Haden for less than a week. The Browns secondary had a breakdown in communication on Evans� touchdown.
Gordon hauled in Griffin�s touchdown pass after the teams exchanged three-and-outs, but it was too late for the Browns� starters to save face. They were manhandled, and Griffin was sacked again on the team�s last possession of the first half for good measure.
�I don�t think it�s discouraging,� Griffin said. �I think we did get better in some areas of what we were doing, and we�ll get back and watch the tape and fix what we didn�t do well. But it�s not discouraging at all. We know what we can do. We just have to make sure we go out on game day and do it. That will be our focus, and I�ll lead that charge. I�ll make sure I play better so that we can play better as an offense.�
Despite the outcome of the dress rehearsal, Jackson doesn�t think all of the progress made during the joint practices earlier in the week was spoiled.
�That experience is still in the bank, but I think we all understand that playing the game is what�s important,� Jackson said. �The practice part of it was that. Then the game, we�ve got to get that part of it right.
�We�ve got to get better in a hurry. I�m not discouraged. I think a lot of people get discouraged in these situations. I�m not because I really truly know what�s in the locker room, and we�ve got to work. We�ve just got to understand how hard it is and how accountable you have to be to each other on every play and just what you�ve got to do in order to play winning football. That�s my job, and I feel very comfortable and confident that we�ll get that done.�


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Return To Sender. GONE GIRL meets MISERY in a tense and unforgiving psychological thriller, starring Academy Award Nominee Rosamund Pike proving once again that she is the star to watch in 2015. Unafraid to break new ground, Return To Sender will leave audiences wanting more as it dares to challenge with unexpected turns and surprises.
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) stars as a small town nurse who gets brutally attacked and raped in her own home by a mysterious man (Shiloh Fernandez). Following his arrest, she starts to write to him but the letters all get returned unopened. Determined to confront him she then starts to regularly visit him in prison and seemingly befriends him, against her father's (Nick Nolte) express wishes. Unable to understand his daughters intentions he fears for her safety come the time her assailant is released…but has he underestimated her strength and resolve?
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