Boy, last night sure felt like a Sunday, didn't it? As is the case with all Mondays of three day weekends, I spent yesterday catching up from a weekend away and getting ready for the week of school ahead. Bags were unpacked, laundry was washed, meals were planned, groceries were purchased, permission slips were filled out, children were showered.
I like to try to make something good for "Sunday night dinner." I know it was Monday, but since it felt like Sunday, I decided to try Michael Symon's ragatoni with meat sauce, which I have been wanting to do for a while. It's not really a weeknight dinner, because the meat sauce has to simmer for at least two hours.
Oh my goodness you guys, it was so good. The flavors in here were absolutely amazing. I halved this recipe, because I could tell just by looking at it that I would have rigatoni for daaaaays, and still had leftovers after feeding my family of five.
I made just a couple of modifications. I added about two teaspoons of sugar, about a teaspoon of Italian seasoning (in addition to the fresh oregano that the recipe calls for) and some red pepper flakes for a little heat. And even though I halved the recipe, I used the full 28oz can of plum tomatoes.
My whole family loved this dinner, which I served with a big Caesar Salad. They didn't just enjoy it, they loved it, so we will be having it again. Give it a try, you will enjoy!
Heat a large saucepan with olive oil. Brown the ground beef with a large pinch of salt. Add garlic to saucepan and cook for 3 minutes.
Add onion, carrots and celery into a food processor and pulse to finely chop vegetable. Add vegetable mix to pan and cook for another 3 minutes.
Deglaze the pan with red wine. Add in the tomatoes, breaking them up as you stir them and bring to a simmer. Add the bay leaf and oregano and taste for seasoning. You may want to add a little salt here. Simmer for about 2 hours, skimming off any excess fat that comes to the top.
Once the sauce is done, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Drop the rigatoni in and cook until al dente. Remove from the water with a spider or slotted spoon and add to the sauce. If the sauce is too thick, add a little bit of your pasta water.
Remove from the heat and stir in parsley, parmesan, butter and a drizzle of olive oil and serve immediately.
You mention removing from the heat and adding the butter, parmesan and parsley, is this for the pasta or the sauce? Thank you!
You do this at the end, after you have combined the pasta and the sauce together. Hope that helps!
This looks lovely! About how many will it feed? I'm looking for a hearty recipe for a crowd! Thanks!
Hi Heather, This fed my family of 5, 2 adults 3 small kids with leftovers. I'd say 4-6 adults.


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Huawei P40 Lite officially introduced - what characteristics does it have, how much does it cost and are there Google services?
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Huawei P40 Lite was recently introduced - the official presentation of the gadget took place on February 27, 2020. However, in fact, the device was released much earlier - in early December 2019, and was called the Nova 6 SE smartphone. The new Huawei P40 Lite is a complete copy of the December device, only undergoing the rebranding procedure (the name of the device is trite). However, this is not so important, because the main thing is how the smartphone turned out. Huawei P40 Lite for the first time is a much better fit for the version of the simplified flagship than the predecessors. Mainly due to hardware, since finally we got a powerful middle-class device.
Huawei P40 Lite - review and specifications
The smartphone continues the policy of framelessness, and therefore the front of the device has minimal indentations around the screen, as well as a hole in the display for the front camera. The frame of the smartphone is metal, but the back cover is plastic, although it is stylized as glass. The smartphone is sold in three colors: black, pink and green. All three colors have a gradient effect.
Huawei P40 Lite received the Kirin 810 processor and this is a breakthrough for the smartphone. This chip is very powerful and much less performance-wise than the flagship Kirin 990 than the Kirin 710 in the Huawei P30 Lite and the then top Kirin 980. For a better understanding, the Kirin 810 is even a bit more powerful than the Snapdragon 730 and scores 300,000 points in Antutu. The processor has been completed using the 7-nanometer process technology, it has the Cortex-A76 and A55 cores with a maximum frequency of up to 2.27 GHz, and the Mali-G52 MP6 video accelerator is responsible for the graphics. Huawei P40 Lite received 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of permanent memory with support for microSD cards.
The main camera of the smartphone is represented by four modules located on a square platform in the upper left corner. Someone has already dubbed this step a copy of the design of the iPhone 11, but this is more like what Huawei itself offered in the Mate 20 smartphones. The camera itself offers a main 48 MP sensor with f / 1.8 aperture, an 8 MP sensor with an ultra-wide viewing angle, 2 MP module for macro photography and 2 MP depth sensor. There is support for shooting in HDR, and video can be recorded in 4K resolution with a frame rate of up to 30 fps. The front camera offers 16 MP with f / 2.0.
The operating system in the smartphone is Android 10, supplemented by the proprietary EMUI 10 shell. As expected, there are no Google services in the smartphone, but partially they are reimbursed by the branded services of Huawei Mobile Services. This, of course, imposes some restrictions, but Huawei Pay works, and will soon expand its capabilities, there are basic applications and utilities, and over time there will only be more of them.
Finally, battery capacity is 4200 mAh with very fast charging at 40 watts, It allows you to charge the device up to 70% in just 30 minutes.
Huawei P40 Lite - how much and when will be available
The smartphone has already gone on sale in the countries of the European Union - sales began on March 2. The recommended price for the device is 299 euros. However, do not forget that at the start of sales the device may cost more than the recommended price due to the hype surrounding the new product.
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The First Look At The New Halo Series Has Me HORNED UP
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Halo is set to follow "an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant. Halo will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future."
In case you weren't aware, this series stars Pablo Schreiber(Den of Thieves, OITNB) as the big boss himself, Natascha McElhone(Californication) as his creator Dr. Halsey, Bokeem Woodbine(Fargo) as another Spartan II that is left disfigured by the augmentation process, and most importantly, it has Jen Taylor returning as the voice of Cortana.
Halo is a property that has an insanely deep lore. It is insane that it has taken this long for a proper rendition to make its way to screen. And don't come to me with that Forward Unto Dawn bullshit. The best Halo property to come out was that animated anthology series, and that isn't in the same world we're talking about. As someone who has played through all the Halo campaigns a million times and read a ton of Halo books, this is really exciting. I can't wait to see this brought to life with a jacked king like Pablo Schreiber under the helmet.
My question is how they approach this story from a long-term perspective. The SPARTAN-II soldiers story is fascinating and it can start a lot earlier than the war with the Covenant. They were all children stolen by that universes version of the CIA and replaced with "flash clones", which were basically clones designed to die not long after creation. They were put through an insane augmentation process that included grafting metal onto their bones, injecting shit into their blood vessels and brains and worse. All that was done to them not so that they could fight aliens. It was so they could fight humans! Rebels in the outer colonies! They were basically super soldiers designed to be the fist of the space gestapo!
I think it would be really cool if they got a deeper look into the origins and initial missions of the SPARTANS before getting deep into the covenant stuff. I think, theoretically, it would also help from a production standpoint. Instead of having to get straight into super heavy CGI work early, they could start with human vs human conflict.
The series is already done and I don't think that's the path they took. But a man can dream.
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While peering into his freezer one day, Jon Good remembered he had an ice cube tray in the shape of the Millennium Falcon.
Jon putting the finishing touches on one of his pieces before packaging Photo by the author.
Jon Good isn't your traditional chocolate guy. He doesn't quite fit into a mold, even though his business hinges on doing just that.
Once he shut that down, Good headed east to New York. He worked at restaurants, wrote standardized math tests and edited scientific journals, with some international finance gigs thrown in because he "knew a guy." But none of these jobs felt quite right, and he began a small-scale catering operation.
As the entrepreneurially minded so often do, Good realized he had a hard time working for other people. He considered his alternatives, and leftover ganache from one of his dinner parties provided key inspiration. Good started by making some dark chocolate bonbons for friends and family by hand, and while peering into his freezer one day, he remembered he had an ice cube tray in the shape of the Millennium Falcon. He poured cocoa butter into the mold, and Jon Good Chocolates was born.
Initially, Good developed his skills by researching techniques on his own. Then he reconnected with an old friend who worked as a chocolatier in Vermont, and another of his assistants, Liz, has a background in ceramics. Her knowledge of inlay techniques informs Jon's product line and its extreme attention to detail.
Good gets his chocolate and cocoa butter from a family-run importer in Sunset Park. Instead of tempering, he sous vides. This was originally meant to cut costs, but it's proven to precisely regulate temperatures throughout all steps of his process. Two months ago, inspired by a patisserie that sprays its croissants with butter at Brooklyn's Foodworks, he bought an airbrushing gun. The tool allows him to turn his chocolate pieces into individual canvasses, where he can paint shadows and other fine details with relative ease.
Outside of his website and Etsy shop, Good's wares can be found locally at Bklyn Larder, Pels Pie Co. and The Brooklyn Kitchen. His product line is still all dark chocolate, meaning it's vegan-friendly, with the sole exception of his pig-shaped bacon-chocolate truffles. Some of his pieces have a sci-fi bent, with Dr. Who– and Star Wars–influenced shapes available alongside more classic shapes. He plans to add more characters to his chocolate cast in and is developing flavor options for 12-piece holiday gift boxes. With considerations like raspberry, espresso, banana brûlée, smoked sea salt and lavender, it seems he's full of Good ideas.


Amy Hennig, writer and director of the first three Uncharted games, spoke with VentureBeat during the DICE summit. Hennig explained why she doesn't believe Uncharted would be greenlit today. She also commented on her linear Star Wars game that was pivoted and later outright canceled.


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Waxwings were reported again, this time 6 were at 69 Green Lane at 11.00 this morning, but it was negative news on the Victoria Road/Albemarle Crescent flock.
The harbour area was still holding on to the Great Northern and Red-throated Divers, Black-necked Grebe, a Guillemot and on the East Pier there were 46 Purple Sandpipers.
At Long Nab there were at least 12 Shore Larks in the third field to the west of the Crook Ness car park, there were 5 Mediterranean Gulls at Holbeck and at Seamer Tip a Chiffchaff and 15 Redshanks.
Slightly further afield at Langdale Forest the 2 Great Grey Shrikes remained at May Moss and Maw Rigg, and at Stoney Knoll a flock of 110+ Lesser Redpolls, 21 Crossbills and a Jack Snipe.
Mediterranean Gull - Holbeck - Tony Clarke
(back to Divers, Grebes and Waxwings tomorrow)
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Home GEOPOLITICA Former Kohl Advisor slams Anti- Russia Policy
Former Kohl Advisor slams Anti- Russia Policy
th century had been the collapse of the Soviet Union, Teltschik made reference to the negotiations that he also had been involved in with Russia in 1989/90: "Our offer that a unified Germany would give security policy guarantees, led to the breakthrough. When Putin became President he was concerned that Russia could disintegrate. Therefore he brutally hit back in Chechnya in order to demonstrate what the "red line" is. As Teltschik commented: "Only on this background one should understand him." In respect to the Crimean annexation Teltschik recalled a discussion that he once had with Putin about the Ukraine, in which Putin had told him that all Ukrainian presidents are scallywags. "He is right. If you only look at the present presidential candidates you see that the dirty tricks continue," Teltschik stated. The tendency exhibited by the media to describe Putin as an "omnipotent evil man" is just one- sided. This one – sidedness particularly in the German public is judged by Teltschik as "heritage of the Cold War." In the interview Teltschik calls for a "constructive approach" in dealing with Russia. He recalls that former Chancellor Willy Brandt (SPD, German Chancellor from 1969-1974) at the end of the Prague spring 1968 picked up the proposal of the Soviet Union for a Pan- European Security conference. "He negotiated the 'Moscow treaty' (the Moscow treaty was the start for a new constructive Ostpolitik under Brandt – it was based on the agreement to solve conflicts between SU and Germany in a peaceful way) and Brandt went swimming with President Leonid Brezhnev." Teltschik underlined, the key to come to some mutual understanding is that one has to understand the "motives of the adversarial partner." "In 1982/83 we had to deal with Jury Andropov (longtime KGB head and then General Secretary and leader of the Soviet Union. EH) in the Kremlin, who threatened us with a Third World War. When Helmut Kohl became Chancellor (1982), the first thing I suggested to him was to "write a letter to Mr. Andropov and explain that you want to develop relations in a positive way.' And in summer 1983 we were in Moscow despite Andropov's threats." "We must promote exchange on all levels" A constructive approach towards Russia at present involves according to Teltschik all levels – that is not only strategic military dialogue but also a broad cultural and scientific exchange. Therefore he underlined that "we must promote exchange." He pointed to the present chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, a close friend of Putin, who as Teltschik emphasized, conducted ac concert in Palmyra after the city got liberated from the IS. "Russia is not the SU, there are no more ideologies, and 40 Million of the 140 Million Russian citizens were born after the end of the Soviet Union. Why don't we grant visa freedom to all those under the age of 25? Why don't we promote the student exchange?" He deplored that Foreign Minister Lavrov's speech at this year's Munich Security Conference (February 2019) in which Lavrov had spoken about European Security (a Pan- European Security from Vladivostok to Lisbon E.H.) that this could have been an issue for discussion at the NATO- Russia Council, which as Teltschik noted, during the last years only met at the level of Ambassadors instead of meeting and discussing the East- West conflicts on the level of heads of government, Foreign Ministers and Defense ministers. One of the reasons why this doesn't function – according to Teltschik – has to do with the "alleged Russian threat" against Poland and the Baltic states. He remembered a discussion that he once had with the former Russian Defense Minister and long- term chairman of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov who told him: "We are not suicidal. If we did something against the Baltic countries we would immediately deal with NATO." (…) "I don't think that the Russians are that stupid to attack NATO," Teltschik commented and stated further on that Russia has long historical experience: "It was always the West that attacked Russia: Charles XII, Napoleon, Adolf Hitler. …they lost 27 Million people during the war. Russia's interests are in essence defensive." Of course Poland would look at this differently which is why they want NATO troops to be deployed in Eastern Europe. But in order to illustrate how he sees the problem Teltschik observed: "How does a normal Russian citizen feel when he hears that German soldiers are again at the Russian border?" He vividly remembered a discussion he had with a Russian veteran in the Caucasus in 1990 after the negotiations (about Germany's reunification) had been concluded between German Chancellor Kohl and then Russian President Gorbachev in July 1990. These negotiations were concluded by a breakthrough that paved the way for Germany's reunification. Teltschik remembers that the Russian and German delegation, that he was part of, went to a common press conference. Being conscious about the fact that Gorbachev had just given away the war booty, Teltschik recalls, that he felt deeply touched by a remark that was made by a Russian veteran who approached him saying "Russians and Germans must be friends." For a new Ostpolitik and Detente On this background Teltschik put emphasis on the senseless military "escalation" spiral where one side (NATO) is engaged in military manoeuvers that are immediately responded by the other side on equal terms. He therefore warned emphatically that "We are facing a real dangerous game." The NATO-Russia Act and the Agreement between Russia and the EU open many possibilities, "but we don't do anything." The drama in all this, as he sees it, is that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the only one in the West who has direct access to President Putin any time, by telephone or personally. During the Ukraine crisis "she went to see Putin together with the French President and all three went to Minsk and as result they worked out the Minsk Agreement." The problem however, according to Teltschik, is that "if Merkel was determined she could achieve a lot." Former Chancellor Kohl "would try to establish a personal relation with Putin. You can see with former Chancellor Schröder, how this functions. I don't know whether Merkel deploys Schröder, I would do so. During my time there was Egon Bahr "(Federal Minister for special policy affairs under Willy Brandt and key negotiator of Brandts Ostpolitik in the 1970ies E.H.), Teltschik recalls. "Before Bahr – like Willy Brandt SPD party member-travelled to Moscow he would come to meet me and he offered help. We told him where the problems were and whenever he went he always helped." The weakness which Teltschik perceives in Chancellor Merkel is, that Merkel doesn't "really trust Putin and that she is also not someone who likes to give leadership"- as Merkel's behavior towards Macron illustrates. Macron "who is really a fortunate case for us. Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl would have immediately travelled to Paris after hearing Macron's speech about the future of Europe, he would have embraced him and said 'let's go.' In 2007 Merkel proposed to further develop relations between Russia and NATO. But she never concretized it even if that was the right timing then." Teltschik therefore gives the advice to the new Chairman of the CDU, Annegret Kramp- Karrenbauer- who has no experience with the East- (and who is a potential future chancellor E.H.), to engage in discussions with representatives from Russia independently from whether she likes them or not. "Confidence can only be built up step by step. And in order to do this we must really talk and talk."]]>
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A leading genome-editing researcher is urging extra caution as drug companies race to turn the landmark technology he helped create into human medicine.
In a paper published today in Nature Medicine, Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and colleague David Scott argue that researchers should analyze the DNA of patients before giving them experimental medicines that alter their genes with the breakthrough technology CRISPR. The suggestion, among others in the paper, stems from a deeper look at the wide array of subtle differences in human DNA.
Zhang is a key inventor of CRISPR-Cas9, which describes a two-part biological system that slips into the nucleus of cells and irreversibly alters DNA. One part is an enzyme, nature's molecular scissors, which cuts DNA. The second part is a string of ribonucleic acid (RNA) that guides the enzyme to the proper spot. In five years since its invention, CRISPR-Cas9 has become a mainstay of biological research, and researchers including Zhang (pictured above) have moved quickly to improve upon its components. His work is at the center of a long-running patent battle to determine ownership of the technology.
Zhang and Scott's recommendation taps into a long-running debate in the gene-editing field about off-target effects—the fear of misplaced cuts causing unintended harm. Most recently, the FDA took up a similar issue at a meeting to assess a type of cell therapy, known as CAR-T, for kids with leukemia. The FDA highlighted the risk that the cells, which have certain genes edited to make them better cancer fighters, may cause secondary cancers long after a patient's leukemia has been cured. (FDA advisors unanimously endorsed the therapy's approval nonetheless.)
Some researchers say there should be near certainty that gene altering techniques won't go awry before testing in humans, caution that stems in part from gene therapy experiments in the U.S. and Europe nearly 20 years ago that killed an American teenager and triggered leukemia in several European boys.
While no medicine is risk-free, other researchers say the tools to gauge risk have improved.
Andy May, senior director of genome engineering at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in San Francisco, calls Zhang and Scott's recommendation for patient prescreening "a good discussion point," but "the danger is someone will pick up on this and say you can't push forward [with a CRISPR drug] until everyone is sequenced."
"It's an extremely conservative path to take," says May, who until recently was the chief scientific officer at Caribou Biosciences, a Berkeley, CA-based firm in charge of turning the discoveries of UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues into commercial technology. (May was also a board member of Cambridge, MA-based Intellia Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NTLA), which has exclusive license to use Caribou's technology in human therapeutics.)
Berkeley is leading the challenge to Zhang's CRISPR patents and last week filed the first details in its appeal of a recent court decision in favor of Zhang and the Broad Institute.
Zhang sees prescreening as a form of companion diagnostic, which drug companies frequently use to identify the right patients for a study. A whole genome sequence—which costs about $1,000—could filter out patients unlikely to benefit from a treatment or at higher risk of unintended consequences, such as cancer. In the long run, it could also encourage developers to create more variations of a treatment "to make genome-editing based therapeutics as broadly available as possible," said Zhang.
It's well known that human genetic variation is a hurdle in the quest to treat genetic diseases either by knocking out disease-causing genes or replacing them with healthy versions. But Zhang and Scott use newly available genetic information to deepen that understanding. In one Broad Institute database with genetic information from more than 60,000 people, they find one genetic variation for every eight letters, or nucleotides, in the exome—that is, the sections of DNA that contain instructions to make proteins. (There are 6 billion nucleotides in each of our cells.) The wide menu of differences is, in effect, an open door to misplaced cuts that CRISPR's enzymes might be prone to.
Zhang and others are working on many kinds of enzymes, from variations on the workhorse Cas9, to new ones entirely. He and Scott found that the deep pool of genetic variation makes some forms of the Cas enzyme more likely than others to go awry, depending on the three-nucleotide sequence they lock onto in the targeted DNA.
Zhang and Scott write that CRISPR drug developers should avoid trying to edit DNA strings that are likely to have "high variation." In their paper, they examine 12 disease-causing genes. While more common diseases, such as those related to high cholesterol, will contain higher genetic variation because of the broader affected population, every gene, common or not, contains regions of high and low variation. Zhang and Scott say developers can build strategies around the gene regions they are targeting.
For example, going after a more common disease might require a wider variety of product candidates, akin to a plumber bringing an extra-large set of wrenches, with finer gradations between each wrench, to a job site with an unpredictable range of pipe sizes.
CRISPR companies say they are doing just that. "We have always made specificity a fundamental part of our program," says Editas Medicine CEO Katrine Bosley. Zhang is a founder of Editas (NASDAQ: EDIT), which has exclusive license to the Broad's … Next Page »
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Tea Party Swine Squeal Over Occupy Wall Street Protests
Eric Ivan Cantor is Especially Concerned about Occupy Wall Street "Mobs"
The Occupy Wall Street protests have been an enormous success despite the media, especially the cadre of right-wing swine who made hay with their phony Tea Party insurgency are squealing now. With the movement gaining momentum and spreading across the country (we even had a gathering here in Tampa on Thursday) it is imperative for the plutocrats, the oligarchy and the neocon war machine to nip it in the bud before moribund and broken Americans get the seeds of an idea that they can take to the streets to force change. I am very pleasantly surprised by the success to this point of the nascent movement, I had become resigned to the thought that Americans would only rebel if Dancing With the Stars was suddenly cancelled, it is not that we don't have more than our share of economically fucked folks whose futures have been stolen by the pigs on Wall Street but there isn't the fire, or the character of peoples in other lands who are engaging in serious civil unrest. Even the corrupt corporate media was forced to cover the protests, the hypocrisy of CNN and FOX descending like buzzards to feature a dozen or so teabaggers gathered at a Waffle House with a few "Where's My Birth Certificate?" signs on a near daily basis and then ignore thousands gathering at the nexus of greed and immorality that is 'the street' would have been just a bit too obvious of whose interest those guardians of free speech and a free press truly represent.
The Occupy Wall Street movement really hit it big on Friday when two of the most prominent national political charlatans, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the insipidly slimy Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R) – Tel Aviv took to the air to denounce the protests. Bloomberg, a reliable lackey for the banksters audaciously claimed that those who were basing their operation out of Manhattan's Zuccotti Park were "destroying jobs". This is pretty fucking funny considering that the malefactors of great wealth who use their false legitimacy as "wealth creators" to peddle toilet bogus paper sold as "securities", receive an endless supply of free money from the U.S. government that they then lend out at usurious interest rates to the same taxpayers who are being shaken down to finance their gambling schemes and target Main Street with their financial weapons of mass destruction. What is Bloomberg to say? He is fully owned by the banking cartels, he would never have become Mayor of the Big Apple otherwise. The financial terrorists have been for too long been looked upon as anything other than the predatory jackals that they are and the day is coming when things are going to be set right. The longer that the protests continue, the more nervous that the smug and arrogant pricks are going to become that the jig is up. As the economy continues to deteriorate and with the imminent default of Greece in the not too distant future blowing another hole in the global matrix of greed and fraudulent wealth we may soon be making something other than bogus investment paper and bombs in America again – guillotines.
The real indicator of just how serious that Occupy Wall Street and the associated protests springing up across the fruited plain would be that Eric Cantor, Netanyahu's man in Congress has come out now and denounced the protesters as "mobs". This is as hysterical as it is hypocritical, I didn't see Cantor anywhere when his lynch mob of white racists, the Tea Party, a phony construct that is nothing more than a re-branding of the hard core haters of the Republican base post-Bush were gathered around the Capitol hectoring and spitting on black legislators who were voting on Obama's heinous health care 'reform' backdoor bailout of the insurance parasites. Cantor is an interesting piece of work as I have previously noted, he is a key man in the upcoming GOP drive to make support for the monsters who are currently running the show in Israel as the central tenet in the 2012 elections. The phony Tea Party with it's overwhelming percentage of Christian Zionists will be in full storm the beaches mode to ensure that the secret Muslim, the Antichrist and the Commie Barack Hussein Obama has his black ass ousted from the WHITE House come next November. Netanyahu and his cabal of blood drinking freaks are determined to attack Iran and need U.S. support to pull it off. Obama, for all of his failings has been an impediment to launching the strike that would be the opening act of World War III and Christ knows that the Rapture can't come until the Middle East is engulfed by an apocalypse.
The Tea Party, already packed to the brim with useful idiots who would be overjoyed to pray with Rick Perry at a BBQ/Hank Williams Jr. concert down at "Niggerhead" for Obama's sudden death (which would be an achievement because God didn't give a rat's ass about Perry's prayers for rain) is a de facto arm of the Israeli right-wing government working to destabilize the United States from within. Anyone who is familiar with the power and tactics of the Israel Lobby understands that in Congress, fealty to God's Chosen land is essential to hold office, fuck America, our corrupt representatives know who butters their bread – the banks, big money corporations and most importantly the fascist human rights abusing racist Apartheid state Israel. Tea Party king Glenn Beck has been laying low in the weeds while prepping for the rollout of the all in for Israel onslaught of the coming year, visiting Jerusalem and chumming around with CUFI's Pastor John Hagee. No coincidence that these diseased rats have been increasingly gathering in Texas where Governor Rick Perry is being groomed as their Fuhrer figure.
Cantor has a wild hair up his ass because Occupy Wall Street is a real grass roots movement, it shatters the fraudulent Tea Party as an insurgency and the perception of the sheeple is critical, especially as the Obama v. Israel storyline is cemented into place by the right-wing media. Today the media has out of sheer desperation been saturated with the bullshit manufactured Solyndra scandal, the Republicans, in true style are launching an inquisition that will predictably end in calls for Obama's impeachment. Solyndra also serves to drive the news cycle away from Occupy Wall Street and to get Americans focused back on what matters – being fleeced by the gangsters in government and on Wall Street and watching football. It is the hope of the power elite that by next week Occupy Wall Street have been flushed down the memory hole and when the media is away, the New York city cops will play, the skull-cracking will commence. Now the entire Solyndra thing is ludicrous for a number of reasons, the Republicans sure as hell never investigated war criminals Bush, Cheney and Rummy for their lies that led the U.S. into two never-ending wars costing trillions of dollars and resulting in thousands of American casualties, hundreds of thousands of dead non-Christian brown people and a military style dictatorship being built on American soil. Such things don't matter to these pigs, Clinton wasn't ever hauled in front of their silly tribunals for his ruinous trade pacts that contributed to today's economic plight nor for dirty dealings with China. It was all bullshit about a Whitewater real estate deal gone sour and for lying about getting his dick sucked by a chubby little trollop. Obama keeps his snake in it's cage so there is no sex scandal that would truly resonate with the masses of asses so they are now smacking him with the ridiculous Solyndra chicanery. It is also notable that Obama isn't being investigated for the money that he received from Goldman Sachs and the preferential treatment that his administration has bestowed upon the giant vampire squid when it came to the bailouts. Of course the corruption on Wall Street doesn't matter to the teabaggers, they only care about taking down Obama over dirty deals that their own Republican leadership don't have a piece of.
Not only is it total bullshit that the Republican pigfuckers are pissing away more money on this witch hunt but they will not doing a damned thing to investigate Tea Party backers the Koch Brothers for breaking laws and dealing with none other than Iran. In a Bloomberg investigative piece that broke on Monday, the Kochs were outed for circumventing the law and bartering in chemicals with the evil country that according to the talking points wants to "wipe Israel off the face of the map". This should be the huge scandal, especially since it involves the primary U.S. funders of the phony Tea Party who will be hammering the Obama won't nuke Iran because he is a Muslim narrative on the campaign trail. Cantor can't be thrilled with this revelation either, since he has been using his office to shill for the ultra vile Clarion Fund anti-Muslim activist outfit by screening propaganda films like Iranium, a sequel to the mass DVD distribution of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West. The venal and consolidated media won't print anything else about the Koch Brother's Iran dealings, you can take that one to the bank, big money buys a lot of favorable coverage and the Koch's are flush with it. The Koch brothers also have a huge interest in quashing the Occupy Wall Street protests, they are among the .00001 percent having inherited their fortunes from their Bircher daddy Fred's dealings with Russian dictator Joseph Stalin. Of course the teabaggers don't care about any of this, they were also down with Bush's grandfather who traded with Hitler.
And so it goes…. right now everything is dependent on the Wall Street protests continuing, this may be the best and last chance to slow down the fascist machine, it is imperative that all of us back these people who are in the streets to the best of our ability because the full fury of the corrupt system is about to be loosed upon them.
Posted in #OCCUPYWALLSTREET, Eric Cantor Iranium, Eric Cantor Mobs, Koch Brothers Iran, Occupy Tampa, Phony Tea Party, Solyndra Obama, Wall Street Protests
At the Tip Of The Spear: Moonbat Bachmann Hits Iowa
DOES THAT THING COME IN HER MOUTH?
With the conservative culture of perpetual victimhood having spent the week raging at the hideous liberal conspiracy behind the Michele Bachmann Newsweek cover photo they should be absolutely delighted with her act of simulated fellatio on a corndog in Iowa. The picture, which could prove to be the Minnesota moonbat's Michael Dukakis in the tank iconic image is already going viral even as the news about the big win in the land of corn and rubes is being hyped as the latest triumph of the fascist brownshirt Dick Armey of Darkness that is the Tea Party.
Right-wing activists are in full damage control mode today, squealing about "sexism" which has come to be the standard defense against any criticism directed towards Bachmann or her evil twin Sarah Palin. The charges of sexism are absurd coming from a party that has built a movement based on denying women the right to choose what to do with their own bodies. But the right-wing is well known for such hypocrisy and no amount of spin is going to make this delightful and hilarious picture go away. Hell, I nearly pissed in my pants laughing at it when I saw it last night.
The story accompanying the picture is also being decried, a damning look at the idiocy of Republican politics. Take Toby Harnden's piece for the Daily Telegraph Fried Food and Retail Politics at the Iowa State Fair from which I excerpt the following:
On the eve of the Ames Straw Poll, the Republican candidates made a last push for votes at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines — a huge spectacle in which cattle, pigs and horses are on display as well as politicians and Iowans queue to for fairground rides and some of the most unhealthy food on the planet (I was going to try the Fried Twinkies but the queue was,alas, too long).
Sarah Palin, who is not on the Straw Poll ballot, made a high-profile appearance, as is her wont every time it seems she's slipping out of the limelight, and was duly mobbed by the press. "There is still plenty of room for a common sense conservative," she said, deliberately fuelling yet another round of speculation that she might after all enter the 2012 fray.
Michele Bachmann, Iowa born and the favourite to win the Straw Poll, arrived half an hour late for her slot and then spoke for just over two minutes, saying that Iowans were "going to send the signal" to the rest of America just as they had in 2008. "This is where Barack Obama got his start. This is where he's going to come to his end, in Iowa."
she beat a hasty retreat after being aggressively heckled by a young man who shouted that she believed homosexuals were "second-class citizens" and that she should not try to "pray away the gay".
Driving away on a golf cart with her husband Marcus beside her, Mrs Bachmann stopped to buy a foot-long corn dog — a chicken and beef sausage in deep-fried batter. After applying mustard and allowing Mr Bachmann to take the first bite, she chomped into it with gusto.
Ironically Bachmann has recently been proclaiming that she has been "the tip of the spear", a declaration that will likely accompany that great corndog photo as it continues to proliferate across the blogosphere.
Just one more example of why the United States of America is now a laughingstock throughout the civilized world.
Posted in Bachmann Anti-Gay, Bachmann Corn Dog, Bachmann Iowa Straw Poll, Michelle Bachmann, Phony Tea Party, Republican Base, Republican War On America
April Fools: The Tea Party Jumps the Shark
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
– H.L. Mencken
It is exactly as I predicted. The gaggle of angry Americans suffering from collective insanity, willful ignorance and a raw and seething fury over the audacity of a black man being elected President are being thrown under the bus by their cynical Republican saviors. It was always ludicrous to the nth degree that the assclowns, haters, perverts, greedballs and rubber fetus crowd of the Republican base could hope that a re-branding along with the hijacking of a libertarian based pro-American values movement would end up as anything but a mockery. The other day when a few hundred (a generous count from eyewitnesses accounts) pasty white fat old people, a pack of costumed loons dressed up like Captain America or in the ridiculous colonial American garb gathered in the rain to listen to the rancid Rand Paul and moonbat Michelle Bachmann wail in ginned up outrage outside of Congress that the movement had truly jumped the shark. While the majority of the cretins don't get it yet they are as radioactive as Fukashima and as they have slowly evolved into a gross parody of themselves the only aspiring politicians still attracted to the lamentable overly hyped Astroturf uprising are egomaniacs and charlatans like newly minted champion of the Birthers that is the aggravating and slimy parasite named Donald Trump. I can hardly wait until next year when the greatest freak show on the planet will descend upon the Tampa Bay area when the Republican National Convention comes to town. It's gonna be the biggest magnet for the deranged this area has seen since the great angry hordes descended on Pinellas Park to gang rape the brain dead living corpse that was Terri Schiavo.
The teabaggers never would have been taken seriously to begin with were not the establishment plutocrats enamored with the idea of fielding their very own Sturmabteilung to bully, intimidate, harangue and mislead as they acted to put the post-Bush disgraced GOP back into power. The Dick Armey of Darkness was an Operation Gladio style stay-behind network to sabotage any meaningful effort at systemic reform that would potentially rollback fascist right-wing gains of the past three decades. With a corrupt media spinning ever increasingly insane demand by the scumbaggers into a wag the dog style of populist uprising the useful idiots served their purpose in returning Republicans to power in 2010. The big assists must be given to not only corporate propaganda organs like Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, in which NO serious challenge to the power structure would ever be referred to in such reverence as the tea party but to the raw cynicism and gross fecklessness of the Obama administration which alienated the traditional Democratic party base and kept them home in droves on election day. Now that the Koch Brothers have their hand picked governors in place in numerous states where whatever remains of the regulatory structure and social safety net will be destroyed with extreme prejudice the buffoonish teabaggers are going to understand exactly what happens when such a collection of vicious goons lose their usefulness to the party leadership – just think Night of the Long Knives.
I happen to actually know several of the suckers who suddenly, after years of George W. Bush racking up the national credit card with not a peep became shrieking, talking point spewing deficit hawks, howling about how Barack Obama's wee wee isn't circumcised which proved he was a secret Muslim/Commie out to send forth his militant black army ACORN to enslave the good ole white working folks. They began to harp on the Kenyan anti-colonialist worldview of Obama, raved about death panels, unions and did their damned level best to pour as much money into Glenn Beck's bank account by buying his ghostwritten tripe that subsidizes his millionaire faux populism. When I asked one about how could he possibly compare and contrast the reputed Kenyan anti-colonialism of Obama with the anti-colonial worldview of the Founding Fathers that they so like to selectively quote he got that thousand yard stare and quickly changed the subject to George Soros. One has to have somewhat of a sick sense of humor to remain sane in this rotting empire these days, were those who actually subscribed to the horseshit peddled by the Koch Brothers network of think tanks, extreme radical Christian domination of the churches and are convinced that we are engaged in a steel cage death match crusade to halt the coming of Sharia law and the Islamic caliphate not legion they would be easier to dismiss. Now that they are being peeled off of the Republican elephant's ass like blood-sucking leeches they are only going to become more desperate. How long will it be until some freak Christian group or militia sets off a mass casualty attack here in the USA? Of course it isn't terrorism if the white people do it, like the white supremacist yahoo who left a backpack bomb along a Martin Luther King day parade route in Spokane . The enablers of the angry white army who benefit from using them as droogs sure has zero interest in examining the threat of domestic white terrorism. But Herr Liebermann and the Irish Republican Army supporting turd Peter King preside from on high against the hated scapegoated Muslims.
Never have I seen such a credulous collection of saps in my lifetime. The teabaggers will believe anything which they hear from the payroll propagandists, haters, fifth-columnists and demonic false prophet preachers with their slime campaigns out to paint Obama as an anti-American at best and the Antichrist himself at worst. Now this may seem sick but I have this twisted little fantasy, I wish that Obama did have a huge nefarious conspiracy to rid America once and for all of Raptureheads, Teabaggers, Deathers, red state fascists and assorted outher dumbasses. I would love it if he had the balls to just give the order to round up and relocate these vicious swine to some sort of reeducation camps, if they could be saved great, do the necessary lobotomies and send them back into society to pick beans and clean toilets, the jobs that after all 'Americans just won't do' according to the talking points. And if not just march them into an industrial sized Soylent Green style meatgrinder and puree their asses up into a fine pulp (omitting the children from their dead-ender loser parents of course whose removal from their lives would free them from a lifetime of willful ignorance and bible study) mix it with plenty of bean sprouts, soy sauce and water chestnuts and sell it to the Chinese as egg roll stuffing or something. Baby Trig and his football shaped head could be auctioned off on EBay to some degenarate high rolling Asian cocksuckers like the ones in Faces of Death who revel in eating fresh monkey brains directly out of the poor creature's skull. Sadly, given the pathological nature of American corporations to trade shit and shinola back and forth it would all likely end up as 2.99 per pound sausage on a stick at your local big blue smiley Wal-Mart superstore. Christ only knows what sort of raw agricultural waste and human sewage ends up being made into coleslaw at their delis. Just don't gas them in the camps, it may spoil the flavor of their diseased flesh that could otherwise be passed off to the Meskin' hating Becker bottom feeders as chorizo sausage in their frozen breakfast burritos.
Of course the sheer hypocrisy has contributed much to the downfall of the teabaggers, while howling and dancing around like a bunch of buffoons waving their Gadsen flags about the evils of the deficit, the needed purity rituals to take their country back and the growth of big government they are truly full of shit. Were the teabaggers concerned about big government and the deficit they would surely call for the immediate end of the imperialism of the Military Industrial Corporate Complex which these diseased, death worshipping bumpkins just adore, hell, carpet bombing sand niggers is nearly as good as NASCAR. The big government that they denounce with bogus passion that is only outwardly projected self-loathing (deservedly) is just fine with them as long as it consists of a gargantuan police state apparatus that they can one use to round up gays, libruls [sic], Muslims and illegal immigrants. A police state that has a high tech capability to allow the bible thumping prudes and ignoramuses to spy on the private behavior of others, and the more that it is about sex the better because with the crowd there is nothing that has more clarity than the two ideas of the vengeful bloodthirsty omnipotent God and that poking Mr. Wiggly into the dirty place isn't anything that Jesus would approve of. Which just doesn't seem so outrageous to them when it is pederast priests and pedophile preachers doing the poking. The lack of outrage towards Wall Street also defines the scumbagger schmucks, were they anything less than the malleable dolts and dupes that they always have been they would be marching with pitchforks and torches towards the swanky headquarters of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citi and Bank of America and storming the barricades of the corrupt high-rolling swine responsible for the economic collapse. It is a strange dichotomy that the dumb bastards regularly rail against teachers and their weakened unions but have zero qualms about the oligarchy grinding their bones to make their bread but you just can't put lipstick on a pig or polish a turd, the Tea Party is what it is, the dregs of American society and the product of the war against the public education system. I really makes one wonder whether the early 20th Century elite just may have been onto something when they championed eugenics (yes, Hitler actually got a good deal of his ideas from the USA) and sterilization to keep the mentally inferior from reproducing. In retrospect, just how many of these fucking flag-waving borderline retards would have been born had that idea gotten more traction in it's time?
I will be watching with much interest to see if the Republican dog is wagged by the Tea Party tail will have the gonads to actually shut down the government this week. The orange man John Boehner is feeling the heat as the angry army is getting more restive by the day that there hasn't been legislation to make Obama cough up his birth certificate and is backed into a corner now. Any capitulation would potentially doom this career hack and allow an ambitious little pit viper like Eric Cantor to harness the uncontrollable monster of the cultural populist uprising that has been fed by the Kochs and their ilk. The latest jagoff to overstate his importance is some nitwit from Wisconsin named Paul Ryan who yesterday rolled out a budget proposal to cut over 4 trillion from big gubmint spending over the next decade. Of course military spending is ok as are tax cuts for the rich but anything that helps the poor is of course under the ax. Ryan, like so many of these other right-wing pigfuckers looks amazingly like a Nazi, just check out some old WWII footage and you will notice that there is an amazing resemblance between nearly all of these dipshits and their historical predecessors, just slap a Colonel Klink hat on Ryan and he'd fit right in. The GOP budget, with the typical Orwellian sounding name The Path to Prosperity is being touted by the moneychanger's gospel that is Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, then again so was the Tea Party and all of the other frauds.
Me, I say shut it down too. Let these pasty fat haters practice what they preach and not receive their medicare and social security checks, see how popular that the Beckers find that one. Boehner, Ryan and their ilk may find out very quickly that the Tea Party platform can be easily converted into a gallows.
Posted in Corporate Media, Government Shutdown, Phony Tea Party, Republcan Traitors, Republican War On America, Right-Wing Idiots, Tea Party Idiots, Teabaggers


Disney's Frozen has all the right ingredients for a Disney Classic even if it feels a bit like, been there, done that. Frozen is a clever twist on Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale of the Snow Queen. However, if you're feeling a bit deja vu from Princess Anna (Kristen Bell) and Kristoff (Jonathan Groff), then you have every right to feel so. Comparisons to Tangled's main characters Rapunzel and Flint are not that far off. You can even stretch it a bit and replace Sven with Maximus and Olaf with Pascal.
Of course being compared to Tangled is not necessarily a bad thing. Both films have great likeable characters, catchy amazing songs, and quick wit humor that children and adults can enjoy. As far as the characters, you have to love the innocence of Olaf the snowman. Especially when he sings the song "In Summer", not knowing what heat does to snow. Spoiler - It melts it. My favorite song though would have to be in the beginning when Anna sings to her sister Elsa, "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"
So what is Frozen about? If you're familiar with the original Hans Christian Andersen's tale, it involves a sibling saving another sibling from an evil snow queen. In this twist, one of two princesses (Elsa) is born with the power of creating and controlling ice/snow. However her lack of control leads to an accident that forces her parents to isolate Elsa away from each other, with the truth to Anna withheld. Many years later, when the King and Queen are no longer with them, the castle is reopened to the public for a ceremony celebrating Elsa's coming of age as the new Queen. Of course, things do not go well at Elsa's coronation and Anna and Elsa's journey begin albeit separately.
Overall, I would recommend it to everyone. This is a great film for kids, with a story that is not too complicated to understand in the way it is presented. The villains of the film are not terrifying in the least bit. Adults will love the beautiful animation as well as the characters and humor. Disney shows that they are still masters in storytelling, even if it's a retelling of a classic story. The twist on the Snow Queen character creates a more marketable character instead of the traditional villainous Snow Queen. Lastly, be sure to arrive early to catch the cute Mickey Mouse animated short film, Get a Horse! before the film Frozen.


Ok I have a 2008 V8 S5, I have had some work done. I have long tube headers, custom exhaust, had the clutch upgraded, and the JHM tune. I was driving the car about a month or so after I got it back, and all the sudden, when I would try to accelerate hard, the car would get to 3000-4000 RPMs, and get stuck there. It starts to buck and will not accelerate anymore. I can accelerate all the way through all the gears if I take it slow. I replaced the MAF and the problem still exist.
My question is; could this be a O2 sensor problem or am I looking at the wrong thing? I took the car into Audi and they ran the diagnostics, they said it did not shoot any codes, but they think that the MAF is bad (just replaced), the O2 sensors could be bad.
I think my car is starting to experience the same sort of problem. Not sure if it's the clutch.
Did you fix your problem in the end?
Yes the problem was the primary and secondary fuel pumps for me. Also found that the filter had black fuel in it, so I had to replace that as well.


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Tiger Woods Triumph
The Tiger Woods triumph at the Master's Golf Tournament on April 14 2002 was suggested by Ray Anderson as a likely global event. He said," Winning the Master's was a Tiger Woods moment, which I think may have an effect like the OJ Simpson or Academy Awards. The main play occurred between a tee time of 2:22 PM EDT 4/14/02 and a finishing time of approximately 6:30 to 7:00 PM. My belief is that the true moment of the effect of national involvement occurred approximately at 5:30 PM as Vijay Singh erred and Tiger placed a critical iron shot on the green to protect his three stroke lead."
The formal prediction was set for 14:22 to 19:00 EDT, which is 18:22 to 23:00 UTC, using the standard Chisquare analysis. The result does not show a confirmation of the prediction, although there is a striking period early during the play. The Vijay Singh error is marked. The Chisquare is 16646 on 16680 df, for p = 0.572.


The TUF Z390 Pro Gaming motherboard features the a matte black and grey cammo-style PCB with charcoal colored plastic overlays and black chrome heat sinks to blend with the board's aesthetic. There are two plastic overlays, one covering the rear panel assembly and the other covering the chipset components. The CPU VRMs are cooled by two unconnected aluminum heat sinks above and to the right of the CPU socket. The board's ATX form factor provides more than enough surface area to house the integrated components, as well as giving the board compatibility with most available gamer-friendly enclosures.
The board's back completely free of components with the exception of small capacitors and power circuitry sitting in the center hole of the CPU backplate. If your cooler requires replacement of the stock back plate, the center CPU circuitry could become problematic if the backplate does not have a hole in its center to compensate.
ASUS integrated a 10-phase digital power system into the TUF Z390 Pro Gaming board, capable of providing more than enough power to the CPU for whatever torture tests you choose to throw at it. Designed around ASUS TUF power system, the board includes all military grade components including TUF MOSFETs, TUF chokes, and TUF solid capacitors. The CPU VRMs are cooled by two unconnected aluminum heat sinks to the top and right of the CPU socket, requiring minimal airflow to keep these critical components cool based on our testing.
The board's 8-pin ATX12V power connector is located to the upper right of the CPU socket, in between the two VRM heat sinks.
ASUS designed the board with two M.2 slots, one in between the CPU socket and the primary PCIe x16 slot (just under primary PCIe x1 slot) and the other in between the secondary and tertiary PCIe x16 slots (just under PCIe x1 slot 3). the M.2 slot located just under PCIe x1 slot 3 includes an integrated port covers with thermal tape along the inside. In previous reviews, such plates where found to reduce M.2 card heat by over 10C when used in a strict passive configuration with optimal cooling obtained when used in conjunction with active air-flow over the port plate.
The M.2 slot located between PCIe x1 slot 1 (M.2_1) supports cards up to 80mm in length, while the slot located beneath PCIe x1 slot 3 (M.2_2) supports cards up to 110mm in length. Both M.2 ports a keyed with an M-key slot devices with port M.2_1 supporting standard SSD, PCIe x2, and PCIe x4 type M.2 drives and port M.2_2 supporting PCIe x2 and x4 type M.2 drives only. Note that the port M.2_1 and the SATA slot 2 share bandwidth resulting in the SATA port being disabled with a SATA-type M.2 device seated in port M.2_1.
The board has a total of four DIMM slots with Dual Channel memory mode active with modules in slots 1 / 3 or 2 / 4. The board supports up to 64GB of memory running at a maximum speed of 4133MHz. Note that memory speeds above 2667MHz are considered overclocked speeds and are outside of the official Intel stock memory speed specifications.
Directly below the memory port block are a USB 3.0 header, the 24-pin ATX power connector, a 4-pin system fan header, a and the MEM OK! switch. To the upper right of the DIMM slots are the primary and secondary 4-pin CPU fan headers.The MemOK! switch can be used to reset memory-related BIOS settings to defaults, useful when the system doesn't boot because of memory options are set over-aggressively.
The Intel Z390 chipset is covered by a low profile black chrome heat sink covered by a TUF branded plastic overlay. The TUF logo has an embedded RGB LED that can be configured via the UEFI or Windows Aura applet. In addition to the two PCIe x4 M.2 slots, the board features six SATA III ports, two in the port block directly below the chipset overlay and four sitting on the board surface to the left of the chipset. All SATA ports are usable in conjunction with a drive seated in either the M.2 port with one exception. If an M.2 SATA device sits in the M.2_1 port, SATA port 2 will be automatically disabled by the system.
The board contains a total of six PCIe slots - three PCIe x16 slots and three PCIe x1 slots. The PCIe x16 slots can be used in x16 / 0 / x2 or x8 / x8 / x2 modes. Notice that ASUS designed the primary PCIe x16 slot hold a triple slotted video card without impeding the secondary PCIe x16 slot. Also, the primary slot has been steel-reinforced to prevent damage to the slot when using video cards with larger coolers when used in a vertical mount orientation.
The board's integrated audio components are just above the PCIe ports. The audio subsystem lives on an isolated PCB to minimize line-noise and distortion caused by other integrated components. There are RGB LEDs integrated into the PCB separator line that runs along top of the board. These LEDs illuminate in accordance to the color scheme configured through the UEFI or the Windows Aura applet. To ensure balanced audio performance using headphones or external speakers, ASUS designed the audio subsystem with Realtek ALC1200 CODEC and premium Japanese-sourced Audio capacitors.
ASUS integrated support for connecting RGB LED strips directly into the board using the RGB LED headers located in the lower left quadrant of the board. Connecting an RGB LED strip to the header synchronizes the LED strip color and activity with that of the motherboard's integrated LEDs. The board is shown with an external RGB strip connected to one the headers in the board's lower left quadrant (just above the outer SATA ports).
In addition to the two 4-pin RGB LED header, four SATA ports, the clear CMOS header, the front panel header, a 4-pin fan header, and the CPU overvoltage jumper are located in the lower left corner of the board (to the left of the chipset overlay).
Along the upper and mid left side of the board are the front panel audio header, the COM port header, the trusted module port header, the USB 2.0 headers, and a USB 3.0 header.
ASUS covered the rear panel assembly with a black plastic overlay to give those components some added protection. The TUF Z390 Pro Gaming motherboard contains the following integrated ports in its rear panel assembly: four USB 3.0 ports (blue), two USB 3.1 Type A 10Gbps ports (teal), an Intel I219-V GigE RJ-45 port, an S/PDIF digital audio output port, and five analogue audio output ports.
To test the amount of space surrounding the CPU socket, we mounted the Noctua NH-D15 cooler to the CPU socket. This behemoth CPU air cooler sports a dual fan construction and two huge vertical cooling towers.
When oriented in its default configuration with air blown towards the rear panel of the case, the Noctua cooler fits into the CPU socket area of the TUF Z390 Pro Gaming without issue. Further, the spacing between the CPU socket area and the primary PCIe x16 slot are sufficient to seat a video card with the cooler mounted.
The Noctua hold down mechanism is large enough to qualify the socket space for use with the majority of mount methods included with a CPU cooler. The Noctua mount fits well to the CPU socket with no tight areas or contact points evident between it and the on board capacitors, chokes, or VRM heat sinks.
The cooler's backplate rests on the socket backplate, minimizing the risk of direct board contact. Further, there is no circuitry around the socket which could impeded cooler back plates with a larger footprint.
The TUF Z390 Pro Gaming motherboard comes with all the necessary components necessary to get the board up and running, as well as some other nice to have components giving the board added value.
The TUF Z390 Pro Gaming package included the motherboard manual, driver DVD, and TUF-branded case stickers, and a coupon for 20% off of the purchase of CableMod power cables. The included manual gave an indepth description of the board components and setup as we've come to expect from ASUS.
The board's rear panel shield is an aluminum plate containing a black plastic insert with the port identifying text and icons in white for easy identification. ASUS bundled in two black 6Gb/s rated SATA cables for use with the integrated port. The cables have integrated port locks and a mix of straight and 90 degree connectors. For multi-GPU use, ASUS included a single two-way NVIDIA SLI HB (high bandwidth) bridge connector. For use with the on-board front panel header, ASUS included one of their Q-Connector header plugs. You simply plug the front panel case leads into the Q-Connector, then plug the Q-Connector into the appropriate board header. It makes the installation of the front panel plugs much easier.


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The Totem Pole
The Indian Totem Pole of friendship which stood in Little Hagley Park alongside Harper Avenue until 1980, is now at Christchurch International Airport.
This pole was a gift from the Oregon Centennial Commission and the Portland Zoological Society in appreciation of hospitality given to personnel of Operation Deep Freeze.
It is an authentic work of primitive art 9m in height and 0.7m in diameter at the base, weighing 545 kg. The pole was carved by Indian Chief Lelooska during Oregon's Centennial Exposition in 1959 and is a smaller replica of one in the zoological gardens at Portland, Oregon.
Each of the figures on the pole is symbolic; at the top is the Thunderbird, traditional god of storm, honouring airmen who made the first supply drop at the South Pole in October 1956. Another figure is the killer whale, honouring the sailors who opened sea lanes to the Antarctic. The eagle is the official symbol of the United States and the grizzly bear and beaver are also included.
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Askja is a building on the campus of the University of Iceland, and named after the volcano Askja. It houses primarily the departments of biology and geosciences.  It was designed by architect Maggi Jónsson.

The building's long glass side has influenced the look of downtown Reykjavík as it faces the city hall on the other side of Tjörnin.  It took a very long time to build due to funding problems, and has been the subject of severe criticism for what is seen as practical shortcomings and susceptibility to the Icelandic climate.

Address:
Sturlugata 7,
101 Reykjavík

Design and building
 1994, design, by architect Maggi Jónsson, of Askja began.
 Between 1996 and 2001, the outside of Askja was finished.
 The first employees moved in Askja, November 2003.
 Early 2004, the last employees moved in, and teaching began in Askja.
 The name Askja was picked from 2534 suggestions, and the person who suggested the name was awarded 100.000 ISK.

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Анна Лещинська ( 25 травня 1699, Тшебниця — 20 червня 1717, Грюфінталь, Німеччина) — старша дочка короля Польського і Великого князя Литовського Станіслава Лещинського і Катерини Опалінської, сестра королеви Франції Марії Лещинської.

Біографія
Анна народилася 25 травня 1699 року в родині Станіслава Лещинського і його дружини Катерини Опалінської. У 1703 році у неї з'явилася сестра Марія . У 1704 році її батько став королем Польщі і Великим князем Литовським. Була названа в честь бабусі по лінії батька княгині Анни Яблоновської.

У сім'ї Ганна була улюбленицею батька. Отримала гарну освіту.

Померла від пневмонії у віці 18 років в 1717 році в місті Грюнталя, Мандельбахталь, Німеччина . Смерть Анни була прискорена почавшоюся кровотечею. У момент смерті батьки і сестра перебували біля неї.

Смерть Анни спустошила всю сім'ю, особливо батька Станіслава. Він наказав дружині і дочці більше не згадувати при ньому імені Анни. Марія послухалася батька. У 1725 році вона вийшла заміж за французького короля Людовика XV. Навіть при ньому вона не згадувала імені сестри, і він був дуже здивований, коли одного разу дізнався, що у його дружини була сестра.

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May 15, 2019 / 7:47 AM / 8 months ago
In India election, a $14 software tool helps overcome WhatsApp controls
Munsif Vengattil, Aditya Kalra, Sankalp Phartiyal
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - WhatsApp clones and software tools that cost as little as $14 are helping Indian digital marketers and political activists bypass anti-spam restrictions set up by the world's most popular messaging app, Reuters has found.
Rohitash Repswal, a digital marketer, checks a WhatsApp message that he sent using a software tool that appears to automate the process of sending messages to WhatsApp users, inside his office in New Delhi, May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
The activities highlight the challenges WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook Inc, faces in preventing abuse in India, its biggest market with more than 200 million users.
With fervent campaigning in India's staggered general election, which concludes on May 19, the demand for such tools has surged, according to digital companies and sources in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its main rival, the Congress party.
After false messages on WhatsApp last year sparked mob lynchings in India, the company restricted forwarding of a message to only five users. The software tools appear to overcome those restrictions, allowing users to reach thousands of people at once.
Divya Spandana, the social media chief of the Congress, and the BJP's IT head, Amit Malviya, did not respond to requests for comment.
Rohitash Repswal, who owns a digital marketing business in a cramped, residential neighbourhood of New Delhi, said he ran a 1,000 rupee ($14) piece of software round-the-clock in recent months to send up to 100,000 WhatsApp messages a day for two BJP members.
"Whatever WhatsApp does, there's a workaround," Repswal said during an interview at his small, two-bedroom house.
Reuters found WhatsApp was misused in at least three ways in India for political campaigning: free clone apps available online were used by some BJP and Congress workers to manually forward messages on a mass basis; software tools which allow users to automate delivery of WhatsApp messages; and some firms offering political workers the chance to go onto a website and send bulk WhatsApp messages from anonymous numbers.
At least three software tools were available on Amazon.com's India website. When purchased by a Reuters reporter, they arrived as compact discs tucked inside thin cardboard casings, with no company branding.
WhatsApp declined a Reuters request to allow testing such tools for reporting this story.
"We are continuing to step up our enforcement against imposter WhatsApp services and take legal action by sending cease and desist letters to hundreds of bulk messaging service providers to help curb abuse," a spokeswoman said. "We do not want them to operate on our platform and we work to ban them".
WHATSAPP CLONES
Modified versions of popular apps have become common as technically-savvy hobbyists have long reverse-engineered them. Tools purporting to bypass WhatsApp restrictions are advertised in videos and online forums aimed at users in Indonesia and Nigeria, both of which held major elections this year.
For Indian politicians, WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter are key campaigning tools to target the country's near 900 million voters.
Two Congress sources and one BJP source told Reuters their workers used clone apps such as "GBWhatsApp" and "JTWhatsApp", which allowed them to cut through WhatsApp's restrictions.
Both apps have a green-colour interface that closely resembles WhatsApp and can be downloaded for free from dozens of technology blogs. They are not available on Google's official app store but work on Android phones.
WhatsApp describes such apps as "unofficial" and says its users can face bans, which means the company can block the account associated with a particular mobile number if it detects unusual activity. Some Congress workers said they did not care.
"WhatsApp occasionally bans some of these numbers, but the volunteers would use new (mobile) sim cards to sign up," said a Congress member with direct knowledge of the activities.
In Mumbai, a person in the social media team of a senior BJP candidate said no restrictions on JTWhatsApp meant his team could easily send forwards to up to 6,000 people a day, as well as video files containing political content which would be far bigger in size than allowed on the official WhatsApp service.
Reuters was not able to ascertain the overall scale of such activities and found no evidence that BJP and Congress leaders officially ordered workers to campaign this way.
"BUSINESS SENDER"
In New Delhi, digital marketer Repswal said he would typically charge 150,000 rupees ($2,161) for a month's service for creating digital content, providing a database of mobile numbers and then sending 300,000 WhatsApp messages.
He uses a piece of software named "Business Sender" which he said he also sells for 1,000 rupees ($14).
A person can add many mobile numbers in a field and compose messages with pictures. Using a so-called "Group Contacts Grabber" feature, the user can also extract a list of mobile numbers from a particular WhatsApp group with a click of a button.
Repswal didn't name the two BJP members he worked for, but in a demonstration for Reuters, added dozens of mobile numbers in the software, typed a test message saying "your vote is your right" and hit "send". Then, his WhatsApp web version started delivering the messages almost robotically, one after the other.
Business Sender was "not supported or endorsed" by WhatsApp and was developed by "Tiger Vikram Mysore INDIA", its system properties said.
A member of the software support team at Business Sender, Rajesh K., declined to identify the developer by his real name, but said the tool was designed in Lebanon about four months ago and takes advantage of what he called a "loophole" in WhatsApp's system.
"This is not rocket science or fabricated software," said Rajesh. "There are hundreds of such software available."
In April, when a Reuters reporter responded to a text message with an "Election Special" offer of sending 100,000 "bulk WhatsApp" messages for 7,999 rupees ($115), he was invited to an office in a dusty industrial area of Noida in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
"How many messages you want to send, tell us: 10,000, 1 million, 2 million," a representative asked, while showing a black-coloured, password-protected website they use for sending bulk WhatsApp messages.
Reporting by Munsif Vengattil, Aditya Kalra and Sankalp Phartiyal; Additional reporting by Devjyot Ghoshal, Paresh Dave and Fanny Potkin; Writing by Aditya Kalra; Editing by Martin Howell, Jonathan Weber and Raju Gopalakrishnan


A prepaid credit card is not actually a credit card because you are not spending "credit" when you use it. Instead, you pay a vendor upfront to issue the card for a certain limit. Once you have exhausted that limit, you will have to reload the card in order to continue purchasing. This concept is not unlike a department store gift card, but there are a few key differences.
Activating the card: With both types of card, you will have to activate the card by paying a given sum. With a department store gift card, you will likely just pay a $5 to $10 premium on the card, and it will be issued with the remaining sum. A prepaid credit card calls this a fee, but it is essentially the same thing.
Loading the card: Both options will require you to load the card with an initial sum. Department store gift cards are typically preloaded with sums between $50 and $500. Prepaid credit cards can be issued in a wider number of amounts, but in both cases you will simply have to pay the sum you would like the card issued for to the vendor.
No loaned money - Both forms of cards do not use loaned money. As such, you will not owe interest on any purchases made on either card. You are only spending the money you already loaded onto the card.
Like cash - When something is "like cash," anyone can use it. This means, if you lose your card, someone else can pick it up and spend it. Your name does not appear anywhere on the card. It also means you cannot "deactivate" the card if it is lost or stolen like you can with a typical credit or debit card.
Where you can use the card - Department store gift cards can only be used in the store they were purchased. They are often given as gifts when the purchaser does not know precisely what to buy but knows the person can find something to enjoy in the store of choice. The gift card can then be used on any purchase within that one location. A prepaid credit card can be used anywhere credit cards are accepted, including for online purchases or to make reservations.
Reloading the card - Department store gift cards cannot usually be reloaded. They are issued in a given amount before they are even purchased by a user, and once this amount is spent the card has no further value. A prepaid credit card, on the other hand, is often reused over and over and reloaded each time. The user pays a fee to reload the card. Prepaid credit cards are often mechanisms for people who are not credit worthy to have a credit card. Credit cards may be required by a number of vendors, like airlines, in order to make a purchase in advance.


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