{"text": "<len> 22 <text> By Jared Moore\n\nIf you embrace these 10 myths about lust, then you will find no remedy for your lust. <len> 14 <text> Instead, you will dive into a \u201cblack hole\u201d of sin. <len> 10 <text> Embrace Truth; reject these 10 myths:\n\n1. <len> 20 <text> \u201cI lust because I\u2019m human.\u201d No, you lust because you\u2019re a sinner. <len> 2 <text> 2. <len> 22 <text> \u201cI lust because others dress immodestly.\u201d No, you lust because your wicked heart enjoys the immodesty of others. <len> 2 <text> 3. <len> 22 <text> \u201cI lust because I\u2019m not married.\u201d No, you lust because you love sex more than God. <len> 2 <text> 4. <len> 18 <text> \u201cI lust because I desire marriage.\u201d No, you lust because you desire sexual immorality. <len> 10 <text> Desiring sexual immorality is the opposite of desiring marriage. <len> 13 <text> A desire for marriage is a desire for sexual morality within marriage. <len> 2 <text> 5. <len> 22 <text> \u201cI lust because I cannot help it.\u201d No, you lust because you willfully choose sin over holiness. <len> 8 <text> You\u2019ve developed a lustful habit. <len> 7 <text> Repent and turn to Christ habitually. <len> 13 <text> Live out the holiness He requires until new holy habits are formed. <len> 2 <text> 6. <len> 30 <text> \u201cI lust because my spouse is not as interested in sex as I am.\u201d No, you lust because you desire sex more than you desire God. <len> 2 <text> 7. <len> 28 <text> \u201cI lust because my spouse does not appreciate me.\u201d No, you lust because you believe God is too small to meet your needs abundantly. <len> 2 <text> 8. <len> 29 <text> \u201cI lust because I believe God\u2019s image-bearers are beautiful.\u201d No, you lust because you reject God\u2019s creation (Gen. 1:26-27). <len> 25 <text> Those who lust objectify God\u2019s image bearers, reducing His divine image to a mere object of immoral non-consensual one-sided sexual gratification. <len> 2 <text> 9. <len> 26 <text> \u201cI lust because sexuality is pervasive in my godless culture.\u201d No, you lust because you want to be like your godless culture. <len> 2 <text> 10. <len> 44 <text> \u201cIf I fulfill my lusts, they will go away.\u201d No, the remedy for lustful desires is for you to deny yourself (starve your lust), pick up your cross, and follow Christ (Luke 9:23). <len> 15 <text> The only answer for a lustful heart is constant repentance and faith in Christ. <len> 13 <text> God is more beautiful and more valuable than fulfilling our lustful desires. <len> 17 <text> If you embrace and meditate on His beauty, all sin will appear ugly and detestable. <len> 27 <text> \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nBIO: Jared Moore serves as the senior pastor at New Salem Baptist Church in Hustonville, KY. You can follow him on Twitter here. <len> 10 <text> \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n\nPartner with CBMW and Stand Against the Tide."}
{"text": "<len> 70 <text> SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Governor Gary Herbert is defending his decision to speak at next week\u2019s meeting of the World Congress of Families, which has been branded by some LGBT rights groups as \u201can anti-gay hate group.\u201d\n\nSpeaking to reporters at his monthly news conference on KUED-TV, the governor said he welcomes a lot of conferences and conventions with different viewpoints to Utah. <len> 9 <text> \u201cWe\u2019re a very welcoming state. <len> 26 <text> We\u2019ve got a lot of people here in our own community who have diverse points of views and ideas,\u201d he said. <len> 33 <text> \u201cWe don\u2019t agree on everything, so it\u2019s appropriate for the governor to go to this organization and say, \u2018Welcome to the state of Utah. <len> 8 <text> We hope you enjoy your stay here. <len> 16 <text> '\u201d\n\nThe governor questioned if the World Congress of Families\u2019 reputation was deserved. <len> 11 <text> \u201cWe\u2019ll have to see what they say. <len> 23 <text> I\u2019m not certain that everything that\u2019s being alleged is, in fact, truthful,\u201d Herbert said. <len> 21 <text> \u201cThey\u2019re welcome to our state just like others who have different points of view in other areas. <len> 8 <text> We\u2019re not all the same. <len> 92 <text> We invite diversity and different opinions to Utah.\u201d\n\nThe governor\u2019s comments came the same day the Southern Poverty Law Center and other groups planned a news conference to continue to call the World Congress of Families a \u201chate group.\u201d The LGBT-rights group Human Rights Campaign was planning its own demonstration on Monday, and, while local LGBT-rights groups originally said they would ignore the event, protests are now expected outside the World Congress of Families IX meeting next week at the Grand America Hotel. <len> 40 <text> Please enable Javascript to watch this video\n\nThe World Congress of Families IX bills itself as an event where scholars, religious leaders and advocates will discuss issues that the group says relate to the \"natural family.\" <len> 27 <text> The organization has repeatedly pushed back against the accusations that it is a hate group, including a lengthy rebuttal to claims made by its critics. <len> 35 <text> Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and a leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were also slated to participate in the World Congress of Families IX."}
{"text": "<len> 9 <text> The home energy storage revolution is upon us. <len> 21 <text> SunRun, a national full service solar power installer and financier, announced the first installation of their BrightBox product. <len> 25 <text> BrightBox is a solar energy storage solution, utilizing a Tesla PowerWall, for your home that includes a solar system and solar battery. <len> 33 <text> This is exciting because it adds to the list of big name installers and manufacturers of home battery systems that have begun installations \u2013 and continues the evolution of our power grid. <len> 16 <text> If you\u2019re considering solar, get a quote from multiple contractors at understandsolar.com. <len> 24 <text> If you want feedback on the quote you get \u2013 either email me at john @ 9to5mac dot com or send a tweet. <len> 33 <text> It seems as if battery systems are coming out of the woodwork as a result of the sexy image that Elon Musk and Tesla have nurtured over the last couple of years. <len> 12 <text> We\u2019ve seen volume on the floor of the Gigafactory. <len> 9 <text> We saw Australia get their first PowerWall January. <len> 17 <text> Shortly after that first install an advertisement for 15 positions in sales and operations popped up. <len> 7 <text> The UK followed in early February. <len> 14 <text> Later in February, we saw continued growth in volume going into Germany. <len> 17 <text> In April, Tesla alerted the first US PowerWall customers that installations would begin in June. <len> 37 <text> In South Africa, the PowerWalls are being networked with the nation power grid, so their charging can be scheduled in order to have a full charge before the utility\u2019s scheduled power cuts. <len> 7 <text> Hawaii is a special place though. <len> 19 <text> Their average cost of electricity is $.33/kWh \u2013 more than triple the US average of $.10/kwh. <len> 20 <text> And supporting residential storage is going to be a political necessity if the utilities will be building their own . <len> 28 <text> From here on out, it will be of greater importance to see another group of market arrivals \u2013 manufacturers like Mercedes, Sonnen and yesterday Nissan. <len> 8 <text> Mercedes home systems were launched in 2015. <len> 11 <text> Sonnen outsold Tesla 2600-2500 in the first quarter in Germany. <len> 44 <text> Just yesterday, Nissan announced it is coming to market with a vehicle to grid system (we know Tesla has been testing at least since 2007 and now we see SolarCity expanding its home energy systems, so fingers are crossed). <len> 32 <text> Kyle Bronstein, of Florida Renewable Energy, built the below system, a 10kW SolarWorld Solar System feeding a 60kWh Rolls Battery Bank, managed by 2 SMA Sunny Islands. <len> 24 <text> Kyle said, \u201cFor this system the financial benefit is the homeowner not having to run his house off of a generator. <len> 13 <text> He lives on an island where there isn\u2019t a grid. <len> 55 <text> Last year this system was $100,000 or more \u2013 today I was able to charge him only $56,000.\u201d\n\nSolarWorld Solar Modules, Rolls Batteries, SMA Sunny Island inverters and built by Florida Renewable\n\nAll of this residential work is being complimented by a large scale commercial roll out as well. <len> 19 <text> We saw the largest battery storage deal ever in late 2015 \u2013 a 1GWh LG Chem project announcement. <len> 16 <text> Of course the Hawaii project above and a recent Connecticut announcement show SolarCity getting busy. <len> 26 <text> We add this to the quickly ramping battery storage of cars that will soon be able to be tapped \u2013 and the game has changed. <len> 27 <text> Professional challengers, customer acceptance, falling prices (see great chart below) and Tesla ramping up means the home energy storage market is healthy."}
{"text": "<len> 34 <text> Email Share +1 1K Shares\n\nHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has signaled for the first time that she supports allowing transgender people to serve openly in the U.S. armed forces. <len> 32 <text> Drew Hammill, a Pelosi spokesperson, told the Washington Blade on Friday his boss believes gender identity should not be a factor in prohibiting Americans from serving in the military. <len> 28 <text> \u201cLeader Pelosi believes there is no place for discrimination in the U.S. Armed Forces, including on the basis of gender identity,\u201d Hammill said. <len> 50 <text> Pelosi\u2019s support for openly transgender service is consistent with her long support for LGBT rights, which includes being a driving force behind \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d repeal, advocacy for federal non-discrimination protections and early support for marriage equality. <len> 20 <text> Transgender people are prohibited from serving in the U.S. military under a medical regulation put in DOD Instruction 6130.03. <len> 91 <text> That rule, put in place before 1980, states disqualifying conditions for military service include change of sex and a \u201ccurrent or history of psychosexual conditions (302) including but not limited to transexualism\u2026exhibitionism, transvestitism, voyeurism and other paraphilias.\u201d\n\nIn the aftermath of \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d repeal, which allowed openly gay people to serve in the armed forces, transgender advocates have increased efforts to compel the Pentagon to change its policy on transgender service. <len> 35 <text> Five months ago, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the policy should be reviewed and the White House said it backs his efforts, but no apparent movement has taken place since that time. <len> 16 <text> A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed this week that no review on the policy has been ordered. <len> 89 <text> White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest deferred to the Pentagon on the issue Thursday and said he\u2019s unsure if Obama would call for a change in policy, but nonetheless said his boss believes equality \u201cmakes our armed forces stronger.\u201d\n\nAn estimated 15,500 transgender people are serving in silence in the military because of the policy that bars them from being open about their gender identity, according to a May report from the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. <len> 30 <text> Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said she\u2019s happy to have Pelosi\u2019s support for openly transgender military service. <len> 26 <text> \u201cMilitary service for transgender people is right morally and, very importantly, it\u2019s right for military readiness,\u201d Keisling said. <len> 8 <text> \u201cLeader Pelosi is correct of course. <len> 49 <text> The outdated, discriminatory ban on open trans service is bad for trans people, bad for military readiness, and bad for America.\u201d\n\nFurther, Keisling predicted that openly transgender service would come to fruition just as many other accomplishments for LGBT rights have taken place. <len> 31 <text> \u201cWe are 100 percent confident that open trans military service is as inevitable as the military bureaucracy that seems to have stalled progress once again,\u201d Keisling said. <len> 24 <text> [UPDATE: Hammill clarified in a later email that Pelosi never previously opposed transgender military service and has articulated her support before. <len> 20 <text> The Washington Blade is unable to find any previous public statement she\u2019s made about the issue.] <len> 23 <text> Pelosi isn\u2019t the first House Democrat to announce she supports the idea of openly transgender service in the armed forces. <len> 37 <text> Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.), ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee, said in an interview with LGBT Weekly that she backs ending the military\u2019s ban on trans service. <len> 32 <text> Following Davis\u2019s remarks, the Washington Blade in August conducted a poll of the House Armed Services Committee members to see if any others supported open trans military service. <len> 19 <text> Reps. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.), Scott Peters (D-Calif.) and Niki Tsongas (D-Mass.) <len> 23 <text> said they support openly transgender military service, while Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) said the Pentagon should review its ban. <len> 22 <text> No Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee responded to the Washington Blade\u2019s request for comment on the issue. <len> 31 <text> On Monday, a forum hosted by the ACLU and the San Francisco-based Palm Center is set to take place in D.C. featuring transgender service members from around the globe. <len> 38 <text> Among the speakers are Landon Wilson, a former sailor who was booted from the U.S. Navy for being transgender, and retired Navy SEAL Senior Chief Kristin Beck, who transitioned after she left the military."}
{"text": "<len> 38 <text> BROOKLYN (The Borowitz Report)\u2014A criminal lawyer representing Turing Pharmaceuticals chief Martin Shkreli has informed his client that he is raising his hourly legal fees by five thousand per cent, the lawyer has confirmed. <len> 35 <text> Minutes after Shkreli's arrest on charges of securities fraud, the attorney, Harland Dorrinson, announced that he was hiking his fees from twelve hundred dollars an hour to sixty thousand dollars. <len> 32 <text> Shkreli, who reportedly received the news about the price hike while he was being fingerprinted, cried foul and accused his attorney of \"outrageous and inhumane price gouging.\" <len> 15 <text> \"This is the behavior of a sociopath,\" Shkreli was heard screaming. <len> 16 <text> For his part, Shkreli's lawyer was unmoved by his client\u2019s complaint. <len> 23 <text> \"Compared to what he pays for an hour of Wu-Tang Clan, sixty thou is a bargain,\" he said."}
{"text": "<len> 43 <text> Pep Guardiola branded the ball used in Manchester City\u2019s 4-1 penalty shootout win over Wolverhampton Wanderers as \u201cunacceptable for a high-level competition\u201d after his side survived a scare to progress to the Carabao Cup quarter-finals after extra time. <len> 38 <text> Claudio Bravo saved two Wolves penalties before Sergio Ag\u00fcero scored the decisive spot-kick and while Guardiola was pleased with the victory, he expressed displeasure at the Mitre ball which is usually used in Football League matches. <len> 19 <text> \u201cIt is not acceptable, the ball was unacceptable for a high-level competition,\u201d Guardiola said. <len> 20 <text> \u201cIt is too light, it moves all over the place, it is not a good ball. <len> 26 <text> It is impossible to score with a ball like that and I can say that because we won, I\u2019m not making excuses. <len> 28 <text> All of my players said: \u2018What is that?\u2019 I\u2019m sorry Carabao Cup is not a serious ball for a serious competition. <len> 77 <text> It\u2019s [for] marketing, money, OK but it\u2019s not acceptable \u2013 [it has] no weight, nothing.\u201d\n\nClaudio Bravo\u2019s two penalty saves help Manchester City past Wolves Read more\n\nAsked if his players had had time to practise with the ball that was introduced at the start of the season for all EFL competitions but not the Premier League, the 46-year-old was dismissive. <len> 25 <text> \u201cOne day or two days, but the ball is bad for one year or two years, it\u2019s not acceptable. <len> 9 <text> All the players complain,\u201d he added. <len> 48 <text> Of Bravo, who also made four crucial saves during the match, Guardiola said: \u201cClaudio gave us the chance to go through, I\u2019m so happy for him, the way he\u2019s trained, a good performance and good penalties. <len> 37 <text> I\u2019m happy to win in this way.\u201d\n\nBravo was signed in the summer of 2016 as Joe Hart\u2019s replacement but lost his starting berth due to a series of high-profile mistakes. <len> 11 <text> Guardiola accepted it has not been easy for the player. <len> 10 <text> \u201cYes, of course,\u201d he said. <len> 40 <text> \u201cIt was not easy last season for him but he\u2019s a keeper at a high level \u2013 you can\u2019t be [the] Barcelona and Chile [goalkeeper] without being a high level. <len> 5 <text> He deserved the performance. <len> 20 <text> Without him we would not be in the next round.\u201d\n\nFacebook Twitter Pinterest Gabriel Jesus and said ball. <len> 47 <text> Photograph: McNulty/JMP/Rex/Shutterstock\n\nThe manager added: \u201cIt\u2019s not easy for him, like with Yaya [Tour\u00e9, who also had a rare start], he wanted to touch the ball but it\u2019s difficult because the space was tight. <len> 30 <text> For Claudio he\u2019s here to play but he\u2019s a good professional and he has to be ready \u2013 you never know what happens in football. <len> 43 <text> But it\u2019s not easy to come in for games like this.\u201d\n\nOf the win, Guardiola said: \u201cMaybe now people will understand why things are difficult in football \u2013 it\u2019s so complicated in this competition. <len> 12 <text> From tomorrow we have to focus again for the Premier League. <len> 36 <text> In the first half we deserved to score one or two goals \u2013 we had chances in the first half but in the second half there were some counterattacks, they were so fast.\u201d"}
{"text": "<len> 21 <text> Oregon\u2019s Higher Education Coordinating Commission approved tuition increases Thursday for two of the state\u2019s largest universities. <len> 22 <text> Portland State University and University of Oregon appealed the commission\u2019s decision to reject the tuition increases earlier this month. <len> 27 <text> After reviewing more detailed proposals from the universities, commissioners voted unanimously to approve Portland State University\u2019s 8.4 percent increase in tuition and fees. <len> 15 <text> Commissioners approved University of Oregon\u2019s 11.5 percent hike on a 7-1 vote. <len> 29 <text> Alan Sylvestre/OPB\n\nHECC members had initially rejected the increases, in part, because of concerns the universities had not done enough to engage students and student groups. <len> 28 <text> PSU and UO join Western Oregon University, Southern Oregon University and the Oregon Institute of Technology in gaining approval this year to increase tuition and fees. <len> 20 <text> Those schools have said they need the rate increases to keep pace with growing student bodies and rising costs. <len> 29 <text> The state\u2019s other public universities, Oregon State University and Eastern Oregon University kept their tuition hikes under the 5 percent ceiling set out by Gov. <len> 12 <text> Kate Brown, so they didn\u2019t need HECC approval."}
{"text": "<len> 26 <text> The Seahawks made a roster move Tuesday, signing long snapper Nolan Frese, an undrafted rookie free agent out of the University of Houston. <len> 13 <text> Linebacker Khairi Fortt was waived to make room on the 90-man roster. <len> 43 <text> Frese, who spent rookie minicamp with the Carolina Panthers, was the starting long snapper for the Cougars for three seasons, and per the school\u2019s website, did not have an inaccurate snap on 156 attempts last season. <len> 25 <text> Frese, who is listed at 6-foot-2, 233 pounds, was named a third-team All-American by Chris Sailer Kicking & Rubio Long Snapping. <len> 29 <text> Frese and Drew Ferris, another offseason addition, will compete in training camp for the long-snapping job that was held by Clint Gresham from 2010 to 2015. <len> 35 <text> Fortt, a former fourth-round pick out of the University of California, signed with Seattle in May after previously spending time with New Orleans, Cincinnati and Jacksonville over the past two seasons."}
{"text": "<len> 21 <text> The Magical Realms edition of postage stamps are a neat idea, but have the right magical characters been chosen? <len> 10 <text> Would you trust Lord Voldemort to deliver your letters? <len> 54 <text> That's the question I ask myself as I contemplate the Royal Mail's new stamps release, which has Harry Potter's arch-enemy (Ralph Fiennes from the film versions, in that really creepy make-up) among its choice of eight characters celebrating a theme of British \"magical adventure\". <len> 51 <text> Personally I find it hard to believe that an individual who'd kill you as soon as look at you can be relied on to speed your electricity bill to its destination, but I suppose, as the man says in Some Like It Hot, nobody's perfect. <len> 26 <text> The Royal Mail says it commissioned research from experts in British folklore and cultural history before choosing the characters for its new Magical Realms stamps. <len> 61 <text> So we've got Voldemort and Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore from the Harry Potter books, witch Nanny Ogg and cowardly wizard Rincewind from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Aslan and the White Witch from CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and, from the Arthurian legends, the enchanter Merlin and his nemesis, evil sorceress Morgan Le Fay. <len> 13 <text> Good and bad witches and wizards essentially, plus one death-defying Christ-symbol. <len> 17 <text> As the Royal Mail's website has it:\n\n\"The UK has always been magic-friendly. <len> 25 <text> Myths that arise from history, language and landscape have shaped our national identities, literary and artistic heritage, and popular culture.\" <len> 28 <text> All very true, of course, and the stamps are rather a nice idea \u2013 though personally I'd prefer illustrated versions to the film images. <len> 9 <text> But have the experts chosen the right characters? <len> 42 <text> Witch-wise, CS Lewis's is terrifying, but I'd vote for my own personal favourite: Melinda from Timothy Travels by Margaret Storey (her hair used to float around her shoulders when she was casting a spell). <len> 23 <text> And can you really celebrate British magic without a fairy, fairy godmother or Faerie Queene, a Titania or a Tinkerbell? <len> 29 <text> What of imps, elves or ogres, the mermaid of Zennor, the selkies of Scotland or those vampires washing up on Bram Stoker's Whitby coast? <len> 11 <text> George MacDonald's goblins or Susanna Clarke's warring magicians? <len> 45 <text> Finally, given the requirements of the postal system, I can't help thinking that the magic mat from E Nesbit's The Phoenix and the Carpet might have been a handy choice for getting my letters from A to B on time."}
{"text": "<len> 35 <text> A Delaware father is charged with impaired driving causing death and criminal negligence after a horrific crash in London that killed two people and left three others, including himself, in hospital Friday. <len> 19 <text> The dead are 46-year-old Londoner Jerry Pitre and 23-year-old New Hamburg resident Cody Andrews, police said Friday. <len> 14 <text> Both were mourned and remembered by friends and relatives in social media posts. <len> 33 <text> Many also took to social media to condemn drinking and driving after police announced charges in the devastating Thursday crash that tore families apart and scattered debris across an east-end city block. <len> 56 <text> Scott Altiman, 31, a father well known in Delaware\u2019s minor hockey community, where he\u2019s volunteered as a coach in recent years, is charged with two counts of impaired operation of a motor vehicle causing death and two of impaired operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm. <len> 22 <text> He\u2019s also charged with two counts of criminal negligence causing death and two of criminal negligence causing bodily harm. <len> 10 <text> He was in hospital Friday morning with serious injuries. <len> 45 <text> Altiman was alone in the vehicle travelling south on Highbury Avenue just before 2 a.m. Thursday, when it collided with an eastbound vehicle with four occupants that had the right of way at Dundas Street, said London traffic Sgt., Amanda Pfeffer. <len> 13 <text> \u201cNow, five families have been extraordinarily impacted by this tragedy. <len> 20 <text> As an investigator, you can\u2019t help but experience the tragedy as well,\u201d said Pfeffer. <len> 55 <text> Pfeffer wouldn\u2019t elaborate on the criminal negligence charges against the suspect, other than to say investigators \u201chave evidence that would support the criminal negligence charges.\u201d\n\nFor a conviction on criminal negligence, prosecutors must prove a suspect showed \u201cwanton and reckless disregard\u201d for the safety of others. <len> 19 <text> Witnesses at the scene Thursday said the vehicle heading down Highbury was travelling at an excessively high speed. <len> 13 <text> \u201cCertainly, speed is one of the focuses of our investigation. <len> 20 <text> It was apparent from our investigators at the scene that speed was a factor based on the debris field. <len> 18 <text> The distance that the debris travelled, we are talking several hundred metres,\u201d Pfeffer said. <len> 8 <text> She said Pitre and Andrews were acquaintances. <len> 24 <text> The two other people who were in the vehicle with Pitre and Andrews remained in hospital in fair condition, police said Friday. <len> 47 <text> The bare facts from the police report and the scene \u2014 two wrecked vehicles, a 100-metre stretch of debris, including a car tire, on both sides of Highbury \u2014 portrayed a moment of horror and tragedy at the intersection while most Londoners slept. <len> 21 <text> The impact sent one car into the parking lot of a Petro-Canada station on the southeast corner of the intersection. <len> 22 <text> Fast-thinking gas station workers are being credited with turning off the fuel pump before a fire or explosion could be sparked. <len> 25 <text> The second vehicle crashed into the front porch of a house on the west side of Highbury about 100 metres south of the intersection. <len> 18 <text> Police ask anyone with information about the case to contact them at 519 661-5680.\n\njlobrien@postmedia.com\n\ntwitter.com/obrienatlfpress"}
{"text": "<len> 27 <text> The survey shows Sanders receiving 46 percent support from likely voters while former Secretary of State Clinton, his closest competition, is at 30 percent. <len> 26 <text> Vice President Biden ranks third in the Granite State, getting 14 percent despite not yet announcing whether he will run for the White House. <len> 5 <text> ADVERTISEMENT\n\nFormer Maryland Gov. <len> 12 <text> Martin O\u2019Malley comes in fourth, with 2 percent. <len> 19 <text> Former Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) ranks fifth with 1 percent, while former Rhode Island Gov. <len> 17 <text> Lincoln Chafee and Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig get less than half of 1 percent apiece. <len> 29 <text> Thursday\u2019s results also found that should Biden decide not to run, Sanders still maintains his lead over Clinton and the rest of the Democratic field. <len> 16 <text> Sanders receives 49 percent in that scenario, compared with Clinton\u2019s 36 percent. <len> 28 <text> New Hampshire Democrats are split on who they think is winning their party\u2019s 2016 presidential primary, with Clinton and Sanders each receiving 42 percent. <len> 20 <text> Sanders\u2019s lead over Clinton in New Hampshire holds steady across multiple voter demographics, the survey found. <len> 15 <text> He receives 56 percent support from males, compared with 20 percent for Clinton. <len> 14 <text> Sanders also nets 39 percent from females, versus 37 percent for Clinton. <len> 25 <text> Sanders has a 56 percent to 30 percent lead over Clinton among liberals, and a 37 percent to 31 percent lead among moderates. <len> 18 <text> CNN/WMUR conducted its latest sampling among 314 likely Democratic presidential primary voters Sept. 17 to Sept. 23. <len> 10 <text> It has a 5.5 percentage point margin of error. <len> 6 <text> - Updated at 6:36 p.m."}
{"text": "<len> 52 <text> Plans include and expansion of the Martyr Bassel al-Assad International Airport\n\nAt the directive of President Bashar Assad, Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi on Thursday laid the foundation stones to inaugurate a number of vital development projects in the coastal province of Latakia at a cost of approximately 4 billion SP. <len> 31 <text> The projects included the al-Kabo power station at an overall costy of 1.4 billion SP and the cornerstone of the Youth Residence, worth 2.4 billion SP was also laid. <len> 30 <text> Halqi toured the halls and departments at Martyr Bassel al-Assad International Airport and ordered that its services for passengers be improved at an overall cost of 150 million SP. <len> 23 <text> He also inspected Jablet mill, textile companies in Latakia and the marble, granite and metals' companies in the province. <len> 31 <text> In a statement to journalists, Halqi said that his tour comes in the context of interaction with citizens and inspecting the service and development projects of concern to citizens. <len> 37 <text> He said that the plans to expand Martyr Bassel al-Assad Airport will be carried out within six months, indicating that it is \"an emergency phase to cope with the growing numbers of passengers.\" <len> 13 <text> The overall cost of the project is estimated at 500 billion SP. <len> 7 <text> Translated and edited by The Syrian Observer"}
{"text": "<len> 33 <text> This post was made with an older stylesheet\n\nOf course there are many factors that you have to take into account, like the number of sub-projects that Gnome is consist of. <len> 19 <text> However from the 137 repositories that Ohloh counts, only gstreamer doesn\u2019t lie in Gnome Git. <len> 16 <text> But anyway is a propaganda day :)\n\nohloh.net\n\nArch Linux Packages in third position. <len> 21 <text> Maybe Ubuntu has 1000 times more users than Arch, but the community of this distro is from another universe! <len> 15 <text> ..popularity doesn\u2019t say always the truth ..nor statistics of course! <len> 37 <text> http://www.ohloh.net/p/gnome\n\nThere are lies, damned lies and statistics, but the truth is that Gnome -and therefore Gnome 3- is the largest community based desktop project, or software foundation if you prefer. <len> 19 <text> And the huge advantage in Gnome is that they keep and maintain exclusively their infrastructure and software stack. <len> 10 <text> They are totally independent from any third party decisions. <len> 19 <text> Ok things could be better, but that doesn\u2019t mean they are bad.. are they? <len> 2 <text> :)"}
{"text": "<len> 37 <text> LEADER of the shambolic No Land Tax micro party Peter Jones \u2014 who has described himself as an \u201coff-the-wall nutcase\u201d \u2014 is on course to win an eight-year spell in NSW\u2019s Parliament. <len> 51 <text> The No Land Tax Party, which ran a topless model and salsa dancer among its state election candidates and still owes staff about $1 million for work on polling day, is ahead of the Liberal Party in the race for the final seat in the Legislative Council. <len> 58 <text> However, Mr Jones\u2019 predicted ascension to the upper house is unlikely to prove a significant hurdle to Premier Mike Baird\u2019s key election policy on the sale of the state\u2019s poles and wires, given he yesterday indicated conditional support for the $20 billion sell-off funding NSW\u2019s infrastructure plan. <len> 42 <text> Twenty-one upper house seats were available at the March 28 election and 20 \u00adappear settled, with the Coalition on track to win nine, Labor seven, the Greens two and the Shooters and Fishers and Christian Democrats one each. <len> 31 <text> The final results should be declared on Friday and ABC election analyst Antony Green said last night he was \u201cconfident\u201d No Land Tax will take the 21st seat. <len> 27 <text> It should unlock hundreds of thousands of dollars in public election funding for the party and set the scene for a potentially chaotic spell in parliament. <len> 7 <text> Upper house terms last eight years. <len> 23 <text> \u201cI haven\u2019t been following it,\u201d Mr Jones said yesterday when asked if he expected to enter parliament. <len> 42 <text> PLAYBOY PLAYMATE GLAMS UP NO LAND TAX PARTY\n\nNews_Image_File: tennis tennis\n\nHis party, which secured the Group A spot on the Legislative Council ballot, has about 80,000 upper house votes with 70 per cent of the vote counted. <len> 11 <text> That represents about 2 per cent of the overall vote. <len> 23 <text> That would put No Land Tax on course to receive up to $240,000 in funding, assuming Mr Jones gets in. <len> 45 <text> In recent comments to The Daily Telegraph, Mr Jones said: \u201cI\u2019m not just your run of the mill psycho, I\u2019m a complete off-the-wall nutcase.\u201d He made a string of other bizarre comments \u00adduring the election. <len> 35 <text> After issues were raised with the online voting system, Mr Jones claimed that only a judge \u201con the take\u201d or on \u201ccrystal meth\u201d would not overturn the election results. <len> 24 <text> No Land Tax also appeared to be on the verge of imploding the day before the election after Gus Macri, the No. <len> 16 <text> 3 on the party\u2019s ticket, branded Mr Jones an \u201cembarrassment\u201d. <len> 39 <text> Mr Jones was taking a straight line yesterday, saying his party would take its role in parliament seriously, focusing on its key aims of abolishing land tax, possibly through a proposed increase in the GST. <len> 20 <text> He also said he would support the poles and wires sale if the government could get a good price. <len> 13 <text> \u201cWe\u2019ve run a better-organised campaign than the Liberal Party. <len> 16 <text> Our campaign has been on the rails compared to theirs,\u201d Mr Jones added. <len> 32 <text> The party still owes money to a large number of the 3600 people to whom it offered $30 an hour to hand out how to vote cards on election day. <len> 8 <text> The Fair Work Ombudsman is conducting inquiries. <len> 21 <text> If No Land Tax does win a seat it would leave the \u00adCoalition with 20 of 42 upper house seats. <len> 35 <text> Even without Mr Jones\u2019 support that would still be enough for the government to negotiate its $20 billion electricity network lease through the Legislative Council with support of the Christian Democratic Party."}
{"text": "<len> 36 <text> Druid\u2019s Blade and Witch\u2019s Broom: An Ode to Mistletoe\n\nThey say that what doesn\u2019t kill you makes you stronger, but that\u2019s only half the truth. <len> 17 <text> Sometimes what doesn\u2019t kill you leaves you hobbled, scarred or weak with hunger. <len> 8 <text> Sometimes it leaves you warped or bruised. <len> 11 <text> Sometimes it leaves you cobbled together from scraps of disenchantment. <len> 28 <text> Sometimes it leaves you swinging halfway between courage and despair, learning how to fight through the inoculation in hopes it\u2019s better than the disease. <len> 10 <text> What doesn\u2019t kill you leaves its mark. <len> 16 <text> Sometimes what doesn\u2019t kill you becomes a kind of fixture in your life. <len> 19 <text> Like a gift from the gods, seeded from a lightning strike, some wounds are living testaments. <len> 10 <text> You want to grow, but can\u2019t. <len> 16 <text> You want your life to be simple and straightforward, but it isn\u2019t. <len> 33 <text> And so you find yourself returning again and again to the past, that companionable parasite, only to find some old wound has blossomed into a tangled nest of new growth. <len> 22 <text> They say what doesn\u2019t kill you makes you stronger, but it can also make you beautiful and strange. <len> 44 <text> It\u2019s that wonderful time of year when a Druid girl can revel in her love of mistletoe \u2014 the all-heal, a plant sacred to the ancient Celts for both its medicinal and mythical properties \u2014 without anyone thinking her odd. <len> 15 <text> During the other eleven months, most folks barely give mistletoe a second thought. <len> 22 <text> But ringing in the Yuletide each December brings with it the chance to turn our full attention towards this marvelous parasite. <len> 10 <text> You read that right: mistletoe is a parasite. <len> 45 <text> In fact, despite its romantic connection with the winter holidays, many foresters consider this plant \u2014 whose scientific name, Phoradendron, means \u201ctree thief\u201d in Greek \u2014 to be a nuisance with the potential to pose serious economic problems. <len> 42 <text> Mistletoe rarely kills its host, but when an infestation spreads through a stand of trees, it can stunt their growth and cause early death among trees that are young or already weakened due to infection or poor soil conditions. <len> 55 <text> Even in healthy trees, it can cause odd growths such as lumps, burls or what\u2019s known as a \u201cwitch\u2019s broom\u201d \u2014 a dense, tangled mass of twigs sprouting from a single point \u2014 which can put stress on the host tree and distort its shape. <len> 47 <text> It\u2019s no wonder that foresters have expended a great deal of time, money and energy looking for ways to eradicate this pest in the interest of managing forests with straight, fast-growing trees that produce the most useable timber as quickly as possible. <len> 10 <text> Isn\u2019t that just typical of modern society? <len> 26 <text> So much of our everyday world has been built around the assembly line and its principles of mass production, predictability, efficiency and conformity. <len> 27 <text> We\u2019ve come to associate prosperity with progress, and progress with the ceaseless production of expendable commodities and interchangeable parts at an ever-increasing rate. <len> 12 <text> In this culture, even people become expendable, interchangeable stereotypes. <len> 19 <text> And yet, within the flood of sameness, unique expressions of creativity shine all the more brightly. <len> 34 <text> Too often our reaction is to fetishize or idolize such expressions, isolating them from our mundane lives instead of striving to embody our own unique individuality every day in everything we do. <len> 50 <text> We become so obsessed with making this a \u201cspecial time of year\u201d that we can drive ourselves to the brink of panic with our frenetic holiday shopping and planning, only to fall back into depression if our winter holidays fail to live up to the hype. <len> 26 <text> We fill our museums and art galleries with priceless works of art, but continue to fill our homes and businesses with cheaply manufactured knock-offs. <len> 18 <text> We tacitly consent to the belief that pricelessness \u2014 uniqueness \u2014 doesn\u2019t drive an economy. <len> 28 <text> And so our lives are full of mass-produced goods, including a plastic souvenir replica of that priceless artwork that we bought in the museum gift shop. <len> 33 <text> Or the fake plastic sprig of mistletoe that we pull out with all the other Yuletide decorations this time of year, to hang above our door in hopes of a kiss. <len> 18 <text> Mistletoe has a great deal to teach us about the role of individuality in a prosperous community. <len> 28 <text> Despite its bad reputation in the lumber industry, a growing number of ecologists recognize mistletoe as an important keystone species with a direct impact on biodiversity. <len> 41 <text> Mistletoe refers not just to a single species but to a wide variety of related species that can be found all over the world, from the Amazon rainforest to the temperate deciduous woods of Europe to the Australian outback. <len> 30 <text> Mistletoe provides fruit and nectar throughout the year to many different animals and insects, especially in times of scarcity during the winter months when little else is available. <len> 21 <text> It also provides essential nesting habitat for many birds, both directly and indirectly by stimulating witch\u2019s brooms. <len> 40 <text> In fact, here in the Pacific Northwest, one study found that nearly half of the nesting sites for the endangered northern spotted owl were in witch\u2019s brooms, which provide sturdy support and great camouflage. <len> 36 <text> There is also evidence that raptors like hawks and eagles selectively use fresh mistletoe sprigs as nest lining because of its antibacterial and aromatic properties, which help boost the immune system of their fledglings. <len> 14 <text> Another unexpected link between mistletoe and biodiversity is its contribution to nutrient-rich soil. <len> 36 <text> Most plants re-absorb the nutrients in their leaves before dropping them, but because mistletoe is a parasite that relies on its host tree for nutrients, it tends to be a bit less stingy. <len> 31 <text> In areas where mistletoe is found, the leaf litter on the forest floor is often much higher in carbon and other important nutrients, aiding the cycle of decomposition. <len> 34 <text> Even when a mistletoe infection does kill its host tree, the snag of the dead tree can provide important food and shelter for a variety of insects, birds and small mammals. <len> 29 <text> In a way, mistletoe\u2019s romantic cultural associations with stolen kisses and broom-riding witches are a perfect symbol of modern society\u2019s ambivalence towards individuality. <len> 30 <text> Those of us who celebrate our uniqueness are often shrugged off as silly romantics \u2014 impractical at best, at worst somewhat selfish, maybe even a little dangerous. <len> 58 <text> In the same way that mistletoe can be seen as an infectious parasite and a costly obstacle, when our own differences or eccentricities don\u2019t fit neatly into modern society\u2019s vision of streamlined progress we can be treated as an inconvenience or a burden, an obstacle to abundance that must be eliminated. <len> 43 <text> As some citizens take to the streets to protest the killing of unarmed black men at the hands of police across the country, others complain that these public demonstrations are disrupting their holiday shopping and the protesters deserve to be arrested. <len> 40 <text> We live in a society where some people believe that their ability to shop is more important than another\u2019s right to live a life that isn\u2019t haunted by the persistent threat of racism and violence. <len> 15 <text> A society in which inconvenience is a crime, and messiness is a sin. <len> 5 <text> But nature is messy. <len> 4 <text> Nature is wild. <len> 29 <text> In the face of our assembly-line obsession with efficiency and expendability, keystone species like mistletoe serve as powerful reminders of why individuality is so essential to abundance. <len> 23 <text> True prosperity lies in the diversity of our communities and the ways that we support that diversity with our own unique gifts. <len> 14 <text> It can be lonely, even a little frightening, to be different. <len> 75 <text> We\u2019re often taught to downplay our differences, especially when those differences are the result of injuries or imperfections that make us feel embarrassed or single us out as \u201cdamaged goods.\u201d We might want to hide our own unsightly warts, bumps and burls, to deny our own metaphorical witch\u2019s brooms and conform to the tall, skinny, perfectly symmetrical role models we see on television. <len> 35 <text> But the truth is, in a society that so often demands that we conform our lovely multifaceted selves to an assembly line mentality, very few of us escape without a few scars. <len> 36 <text> Rather than seeing these scars as a sign of weakness, mistletoe is a reminder to all of us to see our oddities \u2014 bumps, bruises and all \u2014 as a sign of strength. <len> 32 <text> When we express our true selves in all our complexity, we not only nurture our own souls but we contribute to a healthy, prosperous society where everyone can thrive. <len> 11 <text> Our unique gifts are an irreplaceable aspect of sustainable relationship. <len> 38 <text> We possess talents and skills that no one else can offer, and these gifts can be a lifeline for others, providing them with the nourishment and support they need during times when nothing else can. <len> 35 <text> Perhaps the most valuable gift that mistletoe offers us this holiday season is the reminder that prosperity and individuality go hand in hand, and you can\u2019t have one without the other. <len> 34 <text> Photo Credits:\n\n\u2022 \u201cFlight of the Mistletoe,\u201d (CC) Harold Lloyd [source]\n\n\u2022 \u201cUnder the Mistletoe,\u201d (CC) Dawn Endico [source]"}
{"text": "<len> 15 <text> \u201cYou can\u2019t be gay.\u201d\n\nShe was on top of me. <len> 12 <text> It wasn\u2019t a command \u2014 it was a challenge. <len> 18 <text> You so obviously cannot be gay, was her implication, because this is good sex. <len> 49 <text> It was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop its unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular understanding of orientation was that it was something you were born with, something you couldn\u2019t change. <len> 36 <text> If you happened to engage in activity that ran counter to your sexual identity, then you had two options: you were lying to yourself and everyone else, or you were just experimenting. <len> 6 <text> The sexual categories were rigid. <len> 2 <text> Fixed. <len> 38 <text> They weren\u2019t subject to human imagination or experimentation \u2013 to the frustration of many sociologists, and kids, like myself, who found themselves inexplicably in bed with a player from the other team. <len> 10 <text> My sexual journey through college was anything but run-of-the-mill. <len> 32 <text> I came out at a conservative Christian college in the US and was in a gay relationship for around two years with a basketball player who ended up marrying a woman. <len> 16 <text> During that time, we both pal\u2019d around with girls on the side. <len> 13 <text> I even went so far as to fall in love with one. <len> 34 <text> To this day, she and I joke about how she was the only girl I was ever in love with, and how I would\u2019ve been quite happy marrying her. <len> 39 <text> As a writer, this kind of complicated story is incredibly interesting to me \u2013 mostly because it shows that my own personal history resists the kind of easy classifications that have come to dominate discussions of sexuality. <len> 34 <text> Well, you must have been gay the whole time, some might think, and because of some religious shame, you decided to lie to yourself and experiment with a girl. <len> 12 <text> But that was nothing more than a blip in the road. <len> 16 <text> After all, most kids experiment with heterosexuality in college, don\u2019t they? <len> 19 <text> If so, that \u2018blip in the road\u2019 has always been a thorn in my flesh. <len> 14 <text> How do I explain that I was honestly in love with a woman? <len> 20 <text> Some people might argue that I am innately bisexual, with the capacity to love both women and men. <len> 17 <text> But that doesn\u2019t feel like an accurate description of my sexual history, either. <len> 9 <text> I\u2019m only speaking for myself here. <len> 23 <text> But what feels most accurate to say is that I\u2019m gay \u2013 but I wasn\u2019t born this way. <len> 22 <text> In 1977, just over 10% of Americans thought gayness was something you were born with, according to Gallup. <len> 23 <text> That number has steadily risen over time and is currently somewhere between 42% and 50%, depending on the poll. <len> 31 <text> Throughout the same period, the number of Americans who believe homosexuality is \u201cdue to someone\u2019s upbringing/environment\u201d fell from just under 60% to 37%. <len> 172 <text> These ideas reached critical mass in pop culture, first with Lady Gaga\u2019s 2011 Born This Way and one year later with Macklemore\u2019s Same Love, the chorus of which has a gay person singing \u201cI can\u2019t change even if I tried, even if I wanted to.\u201d Videos started circulating on the internet featuring gay people asking straight people \u201cwhen they chose to be straight.\u201d Around the same time, the Human Rights Campaign declared unequivocally that \u201cBeing gay is not a choice,\u201d and to claim that it is \u201cgives unwarranted credence to roundly disproven practices such as conversion or reparative therapy.\u201d\n\nPeople who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often cast as homophobic, and their thinking is considered backward\n\nAs Jane Ward notes in Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, what\u2019s interesting about many of these claims is how transparent their speakers are with their political motivations. <len> 70 <text> \u201cSuch statements,\u201d she writes, \u201cinfuse biological accounts with an obligatory and nearly coercive force, suggesting that anyone who describes homosexual desire as a choice or social construction is playing into the hands of the enemy.\u201d People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often cast as homophobic, and their thinking is considered backward \u2013 even if they are themselves gay. <len> 14 <text> Take, for example, Cynthia Nixon of Sex and The City fame. <len> 24 <text> In a 2012 interview with New York Times Magazine, the actress casually mentioned that homosexuality was, for her, a choice. <len> 48 <text> \u201cI understand that for many people it\u2019s not, but for me it\u2019s a choice, and you don\u2019t get to define my gayness for me.\u201d\n\nThe blogger John Aravosis was one of many critics who pounced on Nixon. <len> 49 <text> \u201cEvery religious right hatemonger is now going to quote this woman every single time they want to deny us our civil rights.\u201d Aravosis leveled the same accusations against me in 2014 when I wrote a piece for The New Republic discussing my own complicated sexual history. <len> 58 <text> Calling me \u201cidiotic\u201d and \u201cpatently absurd\u201d, Aravosis wrote, \u201cThe gay haters at the religious right couldn\u2019t have written it any better.\u201d\n\nFor Aravosis, and many gay activists like him, the public will only accept and affirm gay people if they think they were born gay. <len> 11 <text> And yet the available research does not support this view. <len> 33 <text> Patrick Grzanka, Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Tennessee, for instance, has shown that some people who believe that homosexuality is innate still hold negative views of gays. <len> 22 <text> In fact, the homophobic and non-homophobic respondents he studied shared similar levels of belief in a Born This Way ideology. <len> 61 <text> As Samantha Allen notes at The Daily Beast, the growing public support for gays and lesbians has grown out of proportion with the rise in the number of people who believe homosexuality is fixed at birth; it would be unlikely that this small change in opinion could explain the spike in support for gay marriage, for instance. <len> 23 <text> Instead, she suggests it hinges on the fact that far more people are now personally acquainted with someone who is gay. <len> 30 <text> In 1985, only 24% of American respondents said they had a gay friend, relative or co-worker \u2014 in 2013, that number was at 75%. <len> 39 <text> \u201cIt doesn\u2019t seem to matter as much whether or not people believe that gay people are born that way as it does that they simply know someone who is currently gay,\u201d Allen concludes. <len> 22 <text> In spite of these studies, those who push against Born This Way narratives have been heavily criticised by gay activists. <len> 18 <text> \u201cThey tell me my own homo-negativity is being manifested in my work,\u201d says Grzanka. <len> 50 <text> Similarly, Ward has received her own hatemail for pushing against the ruling LGB narratives, with some gays telling her she\u2019s \u201cworse than Ann Coulter,\u201d the controversial US author of books like If Democrats Had Any Brains, They\u2019d Be Republicans. <len> 101 <text> And when I published my essay on choosing to be gay, an irate American lesbian activist wrote me that it had \u201cjust been confirmed\u201d to her that my writing was \u201cdirectly responsible for four gay deaths in Russia.\u201d\n\nWhile I can understand why some contemporary activists (and the journalists who seem beholden to their agendas) might chalk up recent gains in LGB acceptance to Born This Way\u2019s cultural infiltration, activism must be founded upon facts and truths, or the whole program will eventually turn out to be a sham. <len> 25 <text> Drowning out every voice that dares to question dominant cultural narratives is not the same thing as invalidating the arguments those voices are making. <len> 30 <text> As Ward says, \u201cJust because an argument is politically expedient doesn\u2019t make it true.\u201d\n\nSo what does the science say about Born This Way? <len> 44 <text> There is a unanimous opinion that gay \u201cconversion therapy\u201d should be rejected\n\nLet\u2019s first be clear that whatever the origins of our sexual orientation, there is a unanimous opinion that gay \u201cconversion therapy\u201d should be rejected. <len> 71 <text> These efforts are potentially harmful, according to the APA, \u201cbecause they present the view that the sexual orientation of lesbian, gay and bisexual youth is a mental illness of disorder, and they often frame the inability to change one\u2019s sexual orientation as a personal and moral failure.\u201d Little wonder these therapies have been shown to provoke anxiety, depression and even suicide. <len> 16 <text> In other words, the question of the efficacy of conversion therapies is a non-issue. <len> 26 <text> We condemn these efforts not just because we don\u2019t think they work \u2014 perhaps anyone could be tortured into liking or disliking anything? <len> 8 <text> \u2014 but because they\u2019re immoral. <len> 22 <text> The question of what leads to homosexuality in the first place, however, is obscure, even to the experts. <len> 138 <text> The APA, for example, while noting that most people experience little to no choice over their orientations, says this of homosexuality\u2019s origins:\n\n\u201cAlthough much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors.\u201d\n\nSimilarly, the American Psychiatric Association writes in a 2013 statement that while the causes of heterosexuality and homosexuality are currently unknown, they are likely \u201cmultifactorial including biological and behavioral roots which may vary between different individuals and may even vary over time.\u201d\n\nTrue, various eye-grabbing headlines over the years have claimed that some scientists have found something like The Gay Gene. <len> 62 <text> In 1991, for example, neuroscientist Simon LaVey published findings that he claimed suggest that \u201csexual orientation has a biological substrate.\u201d According to LeVay\u2019s research, a specific part of the brain, the third interstitial nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus (INAH-3), is smaller in homosexual men than it is in heterosexual men. <len> 29 <text> You can spot the problem with this study a mile away: were the gay brains LeVay studied born that way, or did they become that way? <len> 70 <text> LeVay himself pointed this out to Discover Magazine in 1994: \u201cSince I looked at adult brains, we don't know if the differences I found were there at birth or if they appeared later.\u201d Further, the brains LeVay studied belonged to AIDS victims, so he couldn\u2019t even be sure if what he was seeing had something to do with the disease. <len> 30 <text> Another landmark paper on the origins of homosexuality was published in 1993 by a geneticist named Dean Hamer, who was interested to learn whether homosexuality could be inherited. <len> 40 <text> Beginning from his observation that there are more gay relatives on a mother\u2019s side than a father\u2019s, Hamer turned his attention to the X chromosome (which is passed on by the mother). <len> 13 <text> He then recruited 40 pairs of gay brothers and got to work. <len> 23 <text> What he found was that 33 of those brothers shared matching DNA in the Xq28, a region in the X chromosome. <len> 5 <text> Hamer\u2019s conclusion? <len> 60 <text> He believes there\u2019s about \u201c99.5% certainty that there is a gene (or genes) in this area of the X chromosome that predisposes a male to become a heterosexual.\u201d\n\nA 2015 study sought to confirm Hamer\u2019s findings, this time with a much larger sample: 409 pairs of gay brothers. <len> 37 <text> Researchers were pleased with their findings, which they claimed \u201csupport the existence of genes on\u2026 Xq28 influencing development of male sexual orientation.\u201d\n\nBut not everyone finds the results convincing, according to Science. <len> 24 <text> For one thing, the study relied on a technique called genetic linkage, which has been widely replaced by genome-wide association studies. <len> 19 <text> It\u2019s also noteworthy that Sanders himself urged his study to be viewed with a certain caution. <len> 16 <text> \u201cWe don\u2019t think genetics is the whole story,\u201d he said. <len> 41 <text> \u201cIt\u2019s not.\u201d\n\nAnd as Allen points out, there have also been studies that found no \u201cX-linked gene underlying male homosexuality.\u201d Perhaps predictably, these studies haven\u2019t received as much media coverage. <len> 67 <text> Besides the individual critiques leveled against each new study announcing some gay gene discovery, there are major methodological criticisms to make about the entire enterprise in general, as Grzanka points out: \u201cIf we look at the ravenous pursuit, particularly among American scientists, to find a gay gene, what we see is that the conclusion has already been arrived at. <len> 50 <text> All science is doing is waiting to find the proof.\u201d\n\nThe other problem with Born This Way science is summed up nicely by Simon Copland: \u201cScientists are asking whether homosexuality is natural when we can\u2019t even agree exactly what homosexuality is.\u201d\n\nGrzanka agrees. <len> 19 <text> \u201cIf you know anything about social constructionism, then you know these sexual categories are very recent. <len> 41 <text> How then could they be rooted in our genome?\u201d Our desires may express themselves in many different ways that do not all conform to existing notions of \u2018gay\u2019, \u2018straight\u2019 or \u2018bisexual\u2019. <len> 24 <text> This is one of the best takeaways of Ward\u2019s Not Gay, a penetrating analysis of sex between straight white men. <len> 31 <text> Gay men make up only a fraction of the US population \u2014 yet Ward says that there are many men not included in that number who engage in homosexual behavior. <len> 22 <text> Why, then, do some men who have sex with men identify as gay, and others identify as heterosexual? <len> 15 <text> This question interests her far more than \u2018how were they born?\u2019. <len> 30 <text> Ward stresses that not all straight-identifying men who have sex with men are bisexual or closeted, and we do a disservice if we force those words on them. <len> 30 <text> That\u2019s because terms like \u2018heterosexual\u2019 and \u2018straight\u2019 and \u2018bisexual\u2019 and \u2018gay\u2019 come with all sorts of cultural baggage attached. <len> 70 <text> Crucially, she argues, \u201cwhether or not this baggage is appealing is a separate matter altogether from the appeal of homosexual or heterosexual sex.\u201d\n\nEven if you accept that sexual desire may exist on a kind of spectrum, the predominant idea is still that these desires are innate and immutable \u2013 but this runs counter to what we know about human taste, says Ward. <len> 48 <text> \u201cOur desires are oriented and re-oriented based on our experiences throughout our lives.\u201d\n\nIn fact, the straight-identified men Ward studied for her book sometimes found themselves in situations that sparked the desire for homosexual sex: fraternities, deployments, public restrooms, etc. <len> 15 <text> But Ward doesn\u2019t conclude these are somehow repressed or latent gay men. <len> 64 <text> Rather, she argues that they \u2014 like all of us \u2014 have come to desire bodies and genitals within specific social contexts pregnant with \u201csignificant cultural and erotically charged meanings.\u201d In other words, what they want isn\u2019t the \u201craw fact\u201d of a man\u2019s body, but what it represents in a certain context. <len> 29 <text> Why might we be uncomfortable asking whether and how much control we each possess over our \u201cfull range of erotic possibilities,\u201d as Ward calls it? <len> 35 <text> \u201cWhat would it mean to think about people\u2019s capacity to cultivate their own sexual desires, in the same way we might cultivate a taste for food?\u201d she asks. <len> 12 <text> Ward thinks this question is the next frontier of queer thought. <len> 26 <text> When I first said I chose to be gay, a queer American journalist challenged me to name the time and date of my choice. <len> 11 <text> But this is an absurd way to look at desire. <len> 19 <text> You might as well ask someone to name the exact moment they began liking Chaucer or disliking Hemingway. <len> 10 <text> When did I begin to prefer lilies to roses? <len> 18 <text> What time did the clock read at the exact moment I fell in love with my partner? <len> 25 <text> All of our desires are continually being shaped throughout our lives, in the very specific contexts in which we discover and rehearse them. <len> 53 <text> I\u2019m claiming that at some point during college, my sexual and romantic desires became reoriented toward men\n\nThinking back to my college romances with women and men, I can begin to understand how my own experiences might have helped me to \u2018cultivate\u2019 my desire for homosexuality. <len> 49 <text> I want to be very clear: I\u2019m not claiming I simply began to \u2018grow into\u2019 my homosexuality, or that as I became more comfortable with being gay, I allowed myself the freedom to express what had always been latent within me. <len> 21 <text> I\u2019m claiming that at some point during college, my sexual and romantic desires became reoriented toward men. <len> 20 <text> These desires suggested to me a queer identity, which I at first reluctantly accepted and then passionately embraced. <len> 15 <text> This new identity in turn helped reinforce and grow new gay desires within me. <len> 27 <text> Granted, none of this means that there were no genetic or prenatal factors that went into the construction of my or any other sexual orientation. <len> 16 <text> It just means that even if those factors exist, many more factors do too. <len> 10 <text> So why not encourage conversations about those other things? <len> 27 <text> Humans aren\u2019t who and what we are because of one gene\n\nHumans aren\u2019t who and what we are because of one gene. <len> 33 <text> We\u2019re who and what we are for a variety of reasons, and some of it might have something to do with how our genes randomly interact with our environments. <len> 44 <text> But that\u2019s not the whole story, and to engage in discourse that pretends it is \u2014 regardless of the nobility of the intentions \u2014 could have \u201cprofound and very negative consequences\u201d for the LGBT community, says Grzanka. <len> 26 <text> \u201cLimiting our understanding of any complex human experience is always going to be worse than allowing it to be complicated,\u201d he says. <len> 13 <text> So what are we to do with the Born This Way rhetoric? <len> 27 <text> I would suggest that it\u2019s time to build a more nuanced argument \u2014 regardless of how good a pop song the current one makes. <len> 7 <text> There are several reasons for this. <len> 20 <text> Firstly, and most importantly, it\u2019s just not the truth, as we currently understand it. <len> 22 <text> The evidence to date offers no consensus that the Born This Way argument is the beginning and end of the story. <len> 8 <text> We should stop pretending that it does. <len> 30 <text> Secondly, the entire search for a gay gene is predicated upon the assumption that homosexuality is not the natural or \u2018default\u2019 state of a developing human. <len> 34 <text> \u2018Something had to happen to make that man gay!\u2019\n\nBut why cede such enormous ground to those who believe something has \u2018gone wrong\u2019 inside gay bodies and brains? <len> 25 <text> For that matter, why play their game and pretend the only forms of difference that deserve justice are those we were born with? <len> 18 <text> \u201cThat\u2019s a very narrow understanding of what justice looks like,\u201d says Ward. <len> 27 <text> What about the concern that homophobes will want to \u2018encourage\u2019 gay people to be straight if there\u2019s no biological basis for sexuality? <len> 7 <text> Let\u2019s turn it around. <len> 26 <text> Is it not equally true that \u2018finding a gay gene\u2019 might inspire the same homophobes to \u2018find a cure\u2019 for homosexuals? <len> 43 <text> It doesn\u2019t take too much creativity to imagine a scenario in which homophobic parents, upon being informed their fetus has \u2018the gay gene\u2019, choose what to them may seem the lesser of two evils: abortion. <len> 19 <text> Finally, I would argue that the Born This Way narrative can actively damage our perceptions of ourselves. <len> 19 <text> In my sophomore year of college, I attended a Gay Student Alliance event at a nearby campus. <len> 19 <text> It was the last meeting before Thanksgiving break, and the theme was coming out to your families. <len> 22 <text> The idea was that the students would rehearse the coming out speech that they\u2019d deliver while they were home. <len> 26 <text> Student after student, while sobbing hysterically, said something like this: \u201cMom, you see how much pain this is causing me! <len> 17 <text> Of course, I\u2019d want to be straight if it were up to me. <len> 7 <text> This is just who I am! <len> 31 <text> You have to accept that because I can\u2019t change that.\u201d\n\nI wanted to grab each of them and say, \u201cBeing gay is not a handicap. <len> 23 <text> It\u2019s OK to be queer even if you choose to be queer \u2014 and you should want to be queer! <len> 15 <text> Because we are beautiful and fabulous.\u201d\n\nWard sees this as a self-hating narrative. <len> 30 <text> \u201cCould you imagine if the dominant narrative of people of color was, \u2018Well, of course I\u2019d want to be white if I could. <len> 16 <text> Wouldn\u2019t everyone want to be white?\u2019 That\u2019s so racist! <len> 23 <text> We\u2019d never accept that story.\u201d\n\nPerhaps it is time to look to the beginning of the gay rights movement. <len> 23 <text> \u201cQueer Nation and earlier movements in the US were not fundamentally organized around Born This Way explanations,\u201d says Grzanka. <len> 35 <text> \u201cThey were organized around sexual liberation, and the radical notion of challenging heteronormativity.\u201d\n\nGay and lesbian activists, says Ward, used to draw on religion parallels to argue for inclusion. <len> 10 <text> \u201cPeople aren\u2019t born with their religions. <len> 18 <text> They\u2019re born into religious cultures, and they can convert if they\u2019d like. <len> 30 <text> But there are still legal protections for them.\u201d Eventually activists decided that argument wasn\u2019t working fast enough, particularly in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. <len> 55 <text> \u201cThen there was a shift, and the leaders of the movement chose to jump on board with a less nuanced argument that people already understood: just like race, people are born with their homosexuality.\u201d\n\nFortunately, we have now made enormous strides in understanding and affirming our queer sexualities. <len> 29 <text> Some experts have even started using categories like \u2018mostly straight\u2019 and \u2018mostly gay\u2019 to try and expand our limited ways of viewing human sexuality. <len> 57 <text> A recent UK poll from J. Walter Thompson Innovation group found that only 48% of Generation Z (ages 18-24) identify as \u201c100% heterosexual.\u201d Respondents were asked to rate themselves on a scale from zero (which signified \u201ccompletely straight\u201d) to six (\u201ccompletely homosexual\u201d). <len> 12 <text> More than a third chose a number between one and five. <len> 30 <text> In response to the poll, one of my Facebook friends quipped about how natural selection must be working in overtime, what with making all of us gay! <len> 23 <text> Indeed, as Ward notes, the Generation Z findings don\u2019t signal some evolutionary shift over the last 15 years. <len> 21 <text> Rather, they show that the times \u2014 the \u2018nurture\u2019 part of the nature/nurture dichotomy \u2014 are changing. <len> 7 <text> Homosexuality isn\u2019t considered taboo. <len> 12 <text> Heterosexuality isn\u2019t (always) considered the compulsory norm. <len> 15 <text> And importantly, each isn\u2019t always constructed in opposition to the other. <len> 45 <text> I\u2019m thankful for a new generation that is capable of imagining sexuality in a way that transcends the gay/straight binary, that couldn\u2019t care less about what happened to their bodies and minds to make them who they are today. <len> 28 <text> I\u2019m hopeful that for this generation, sexual histories like mine and Cynthia Nixon\u2019s aren\u2019t seen as threatening, but liberating. <len> 10 <text> I don\u2019t think I was born gay. <len> 10 <text> I don\u2019t think I was born straight. <len> 69 <text> I was born the way all of us are born: as a human being with a seemingly infinite capacity to announce myself, to re-announce myself, to try on new identities like spring raincoats, to play with limiting categories, to challenge them and topple them, to cultivate my tastes and preferences, and, most importantly, to love and to receive love. <len> 19 <text> --\n\nThis story is part of our Sexual Revolutions series on our evolving understanding of sex and gender. <len> 7 <text> Brandon Ambrosino is a freelance journalist. <len> 6 <text> He Tweets as @BrandonAmbro. <len> 18 <text> Ignacio Lehmann is an Argentinian photographer who has travelled the globe for his 100 World Kisses project. <len> 22 <text> Join 600,000+ Future fans by liking us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Instagram. <len> 27 <text> If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called \u201cIf You Only Read 6 Things This Week\u201d. <len> 26 <text> A handpicked selection of stories from BBC Future, Earth, Culture, Capital, Travel and Autos, delivered to your inbox every Friday."}
{"text": "<len> 30 <text> Google Inc. is giving up on selling print ads for the ailing newspaper industry, ending a 2-year-old attempt to extend its dominance of Internet marketing into another medium. <len> 42 <text> The retrenchment announced Tuesday is part of a cost-cutting campaign aimed at boosting Google's profits as the deepening recession eats away at Google's bread-and-butter business of selling ads on its own Web site and thousands of other Internet destinations. <len> 39 <text> Emboldened by its online success, Google set out in November 2006 to help newspapers that have seen their revenue evaporate as more advertisers shifted their spending to the Internet to connect with the Web's growing audience. <len> 31 <text> Under the program, potential advertisers were allowed to bid online to fill unsold space in the participating newspapers, leaving it up to publishers whether to accept the offers. <len> 32 <text> But Mountain View, Calif.-based Google concluded that its online expertise wasn't paying off in print, prompting management to pull the plug on its newspaper program effective Feb. 28. <len> 21 <text> The decision affects about 800 U.S. newspapers, up from the 50 publications that had initially enlisted Google's help. <len> 57 <text> \"While we hoped that print ads would create a new revenue stream for newspapers and produce more relevant advertising for consumers, the product has not created the impact that we - or our partners - wanted,\" Spencer Spinnell, Google's director of the program, wrote in a Tuesday blog posting. <len> 35 <text> Without providing specifics, Google pledged to help newspaper publishers find other ways to make more money, presumably by driving more traffic to their Web sites and helping them sell more Internet ads. <len> 26 <text> But Google may be hard pressed to address newspapers' biggest problem: Internet ads simply do not generate as much revenue as print ads. <len> 30 <text> Yahoo Inc., which runs the second-largest Internet marketing network behind Google's, has been trying to help newspapers sell more online ads for the past two years. <len> 11 <text> Unlike Google, Yahoo never strayed into the print side. <len> 47 <text> Nearly 800 papers currently belong to Yahoo's advertising consortium and more than 30 of those publishers are testing a new platform that the company believes will make it easier to target specific ads at Web surfers mostly likely to be interested in seeing the messages. <len> 35 <text> Google's retreat from newspaper print ads is a \"non-factor\" in Yahoo's relationship with the industry's publishers, said Lem Lloyd, a vice president of Yahoo's U.S. partnerships. <len> 21 <text> Although it's abandoning the print medium, Google is still trying to sell ads in radio and on television. <len> 9 <text> Those ambitions haven't paid off yet either. <len> 20 <text> Online ads account for nearly of the company's revenue, which totaled about $20 billion last year. <len> 14 <text> Google is scheduled to release its final financial figures for 2008 on Thursday. <len> 34 <text> With the economy mired in its longest recession since the early 1980s, Google has been curtailing employee perquisites, scrapping little-used products and even jettisoning some workers after a five-year hiring spree. <len> 28 <text> After letting go an unspecified number of temporary workers late last year, Google last week decided it no longer needed about 100 of its employee recruiters. <len> 37 <text> Although it only affected a sliver of Google's 20,100-employee payroll, the cuts were symbolically important because it marked the first time the company resorted to mass layoffs that weren't triggered by an acquisition. <len> 17 <text> Google shares fell $16.92, or 5.7 percent, to close Tuesday at $282.75."}
{"text": "<len> 43 <text> Majority of Northern Ireland Labour members back Jeremy Corbyn as legal case over exclusion of voters is dropped BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Labour members in Northern Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of Jeremy Corbyn's nomination as party leader in the forthcoming leadership election. <len> 31 <text> https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/majority-of-northern-ireland-labour-members-back-jeremy-corbyn-as-legal-case-over-exclusion-of-voters-is-dropped-34964646.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/article34964645.ece/9100a/AUTOCROP/h342/2016-08-15_new_23735103_I1.JPG\n\nEmail\n\nLabour members in Northern Ireland have voted overwhelmingly in favour of Jeremy Corbyn's nomination as party leader in the forthcoming leadership election. <len> 47 <text> Labour Party in Northern Ireland chairwoman Anna McAleavy announced the local result as it emerged that Labour's national leadership election will go ahead with the exclusion of around 130,000 new members after five of them dropped their legal challenge against the decision to bar them. <len> 28 <text> Speaking after the weekend vote at the Wellington Park Hotel in Belfast, Ms McAleavy said: \"The debate yesterday morning was both frank and friendly. <len> 45 <text> \"When it came to a vote, the figures speak for themselves - 121 of those eligible to vote backed Jeremy Corbyn as leader, 33 thought that the CLP should remain neutral, and 14 voted in favour of Owen Smith MP. <len> 19 <text> \"We will be in touch with the UK Labour Party to inform them of this vote.\" <len> 48 <text> Elsewhere, the Court of Appeal on Friday overturned a previous judgment and therefore reinstated the decision of Labour's ruling body to exclude those who had not joined the party by January 12 and held membership continuously until July 12 - the \"freeze date\". <len> 43 <text> Many of the members affected are believed to back leader Jeremy Corbyn and the five who brought the initial legal challenge to the High Court have said they will not seek to overturn the appeal court's decision in the Supreme Court. <len> 41 <text> The five - Christine Evangelou, Rev Edward Leir, Hannah Fordham, Chris Granger and \"FM\", a teenage member - have raised \u00a393,572 in donations but said they could not afford to take the case further. <len> 30 <text> Ms Fordham said the money raised would cover their legal fees and the \u00a330,000 in costs they were ordered to pay to the NEC, which brought the case. <len> 27 <text> It is understood that the Supreme Court was preparing to hear the case tomorrow and making urgent arrangements to pull back five justices during summer recess. <len> 36 <text> The exclusion of the new members is thought to benefit Mr Smith and Mr Corbyn's campaign team reacted furiously to the news on Friday, with John McDonnell accusing the NEC of undermining democracy. <len> 27 <text> Speaking before the case was dropped, Mr Corbyn would not explicitly back the position of Labour general secretary Iain McNicol, who led the appeal. <len> 46 <text> He told the Observer: \"People joined the Labour Party in order to take part in the party and were specifically told that they were able to vote in the leadership election and it was decided by the High Court that they could.\" <len> 26 <text> The leader went on: \"We will receive a report from Iain about the process that has gone on over the last few months. <len> 18 <text> And the NEC will no doubt ask him questions and he will probably give answers on it. <len> 14 <text> But let's look at that when the new NEC takes over.\" <len> 32 <text> Asked twice if he had full confidence in Mr McNicol, Mr Corbyn repeatedly stated: \"I have been happy to work with Iain McNicol since I became leader.\" <len> 2 <text> Belfast Telegraph"}
{"text": "<len> 33 <text> Early life Edit\n\nCareer Edit\n\nControversies Edit\n\nCharity and campaigning Edit\n\nOliver conceived and established the Fifteen charity restaurant, where he trained disadvantaged young people to work in the hospitality industry. <len> 47 <text> Following the success of the original restaurant in London, more Fifteens have opened around the globe: Fifteen Amsterdam opened in December 2004, Fifteen Cornwall in Newquay in May 2006 and Fifteen Melbourne in September 2006 with Australian friend and fellow chef Tobie Puttock. <len> 9 <text> [54] Fifteen Melbourne has since closed. <len> 24 <text> [55] Oliver began a formal campaign to ban unhealthy food in British schools and to get children eating nutritious food instead. <len> 41 <text> Oliver's efforts to bring radical change to the school meals system, chronicled in the series Jamie's School Dinners, challenged the junk-food culture by showing schools they could serve healthy, cost-efficient meals that kids enjoyed eating. <len> 25 <text> [56] His efforts brought the subject of school dinners to the political forefront and changed the types of food served in schools. <len> 34 <text> [57] Oliver's Ministry of Food campaign began in 2008 with the Channel 4 series of the same name and the opening of the first Ministry of Food Centre in Rotherham. <len> 24 <text> More MoF Centres have since opened in Bradford, Leeds, Newcastle/North-East, Stratford (now known as Food Academy) and Alnwick. <len> 20 <text> Ministry of Food Centres and trucks have opened in Australia in Ipswich, near Brisbane and Geelong, Melbourne. <len> 11 <text> State governments in Australia provided valuable funding for these Centres. <len> 54 <text> [citation needed] In December 2009, Oliver was awarded the 2010 TED Prize for his campaigns to \"create change on both the individual and governmental levels\" to \"bring attention to the changes that the English, and now Americans, need to make in their lifestyles and diet. <len> 72 <text> \"[14] In 2010, he joined several other celebrity chefs on the series The Big Fish Fight, in which Oliver and fellow chefs Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Gordon Ramsay made a variety of programmes[clarification needed] to raise awareness about the discarding of hundreds of thousands of saltwater fish because the fishermen are prohibited from keeping any fish other than the stated target of the trawl. <len> 14 <text> [58] He is a patron of environmental charity Trees for Cities. <len> 15 <text> [59] Oliver's net worth was estimated in 2014 at \u00a3240 million. <len> 23 <text> [60]\n\nAwards and honours Edit\n\nIn June 2003, Oliver was awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours. <len> 33 <text> [61] A proponent of fresh organic foods, Oliver was named the most influential person in the UK hospitality industry when he topped the inaugural Caterersearch.com 100 in May 2005. <len> 34 <text> [62] The list placed Oliver higher than Sir Francis Mackay, the then-chairman of the contract catering giant Compass Group, which Oliver had soundly criticised in Jamie's School Dinners. <len> 17 <text> In 2006, Oliver dropped to second on the list behind fellow celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. <len> 30 <text> [63] In July 2010, Oliver regained the top spot and was named as the most powerful and influential person in the UK hospitality industry once again. <len> 35 <text> [64] In 2013, Oliver was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal College of General Practitioners for his work in tackling childhood obesity by improving the nutritional value of school dinners. <len> 28 <text> [65] On 29 October 2015, Oliver was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 2 in the list of 100 Most Influential British Entrepreneurs. <len> 18 <text> [66][67]\n\nPersonal life Edit\n\nIn July 2000, Oliver married Juliette Norton. <len> 14 <text> [68] They have five children: Poppy Honey Rosie (b. <len> 41 <text> March 2002), Daisy Boo Pamela (b. April 2003), Petal Blossom Rainbow (b. April 2009), Buddy Bear Maurice (b. September 2010) and River Rocket Blue Dallas (b. August 2016). <len> 26 <text> [69] Oliver has severe dyslexia, and read his first novel (Catching Fire) in 2013, at the age of 38. <len> 32 <text> [70] In 2015 Oliver told The Times magazine that he had lost two stone (c.12 kg) in three months by changing his diet and getting enough sleep. <len> 315 <text> [71]\n\nTelevision shows Edit\n\nBooks Edit\n\nSomething for the Weekend , ISBN 0-14-102258-2\n\n, ISBN 0-14-102258-2 The Naked Chef , ISBN 0-7868-6617-9\n\n, ISBN 0-7868-6617-9 The Return of the Naked Chef , ISBN 0-7181-4439-2 Published in America as The Naked Chef Takes Off , ISBN 0-7868-6755-8\n\n, ISBN 0-7181-4439-2 Happy Days with the Naked Chef , ISBN 0-7868-6852-X\n\n, ISBN 0-7868-6852-X Jamie's Kitchen , ISBN 1-4013-0022-7\n\n, ISBN 1-4013-0022-7 Jamie's Dinners , ISBN 1-4013-0194-0\n\n, ISBN 1-4013-0194-0 Jamie's Italy , ISBN 0-7181-4770-7\n\n, ISBN 0-7181-4770-7 Cook With Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook , ISBN 0-7181-4771-5\n\n, ISBN 0-7181-4771-5 Jamie's Little Book of Big Treats , ISBN 0-14-103146-8\n\n, ISBN 0-14-103146-8 Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life , ISBN 978-0-7181-5243-7\n\n, ISBN 978-0-7181-5243-7 Jamie's Ministry of Food: Anyone Can Learn to Cook in 24 Hours , ISBN 978-0-7181-4862-1 Published in America as Jamie's Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals , ISBN 978-1-4013-2359-2\n\n, ISBN 978-0-7181-4862-1 Jamie's Red Nose Recipes , ISBN 978-0-14-104178-0\n\n, ISBN 978-0-14-104178-0 Jamie's America , ISBN 978-0-7181-5476-9\n\n, ISBN 978-0-7181-5476-9 Jamie does... Spain, Italy, Sweden, Morocco, Greece, France , ISBN 978-0-7181-5614-5\n\n, ISBN 978-0-7181-5614-5 Jamie's 30-Minute Meals , ISBN 978-0-7181-5477-6\n\n, ISBN 978-0-7181-5477-6 Jamie's Great Britain , ISBN 978-0-7181-5681-7\n\n, ISBN 978-0-7181-5681-7 Jamie's 15 Minute Meals , ISBN 978-0718157807\n\n, ISBN 978-0718157807 Save With Jamie , ISBN 978-0718158149\n\n, ISBN 978-0718158149 Jamie's Comfort Food , ISBN 978-0-7181-5953-5\n\n, ISBN 978-0-7181-5953-5 Everyday Super Food , ISBN 978-0718181239\n\n, ISBN 978-0718181239 Super Food Family Classics , ISBN 978-0718178444\n\n, ISBN 978-0718178444 Jamie Oliver's Christmas Cookbook , ISBN 978-0718183653\n\n, ISBN 978-0718183653 5 Ingredients - Quick & Easy Food, ISBN 978-0718187729\n\nReferences Edit\n\nFurther reading Edit"}
{"text": "<len> 39 <text> EL CERRITO \u2014 A man already facing trial in a Berkeley sexual assault case has been charged in a 2005 El Cerrito home-invasion attack on two women, one of whom was sexually assaulted, authorities said Wednesday. <len> 43 <text> Keith Asberry, 33, who has been in custody since 2015, was charged Oct. 20 in the El Cerrito case as a result of DNA evidence and leads developed in other cases, police said in a news release Wednesday. <len> 19 <text> He is currently in custody at Santa Rita Jail on multiple charges and is being held without bail. <len> 40 <text> In their release, police said the February 2005 case \u201cwas one that weighed heavily on many officers working here when it happened\u201d and that the department has been actively investigating that and other unsolved violent crimes. <len> 22 <text> According to police and previous media reports, the attacks happened in the early evening hours on Feb. 14, 2005. <len> 16 <text> The two women were at their El Cerrito apartment when someone knocked on the door. <len> 20 <text> Upon opening it, they were confronted by a masked man with a pistol who forced his way inside. <len> 28 <text> The man then walked the women to their respective rooms demanding money and jewelry and sexually assaulted one of them, who was 20 at the time. <len> 20 <text> The man then demanded a key to their 1985 Chevrolet Monte Carlo car and told them to get inside. <len> 20 <text> But the women refused numerous times and the man finally drove off in the vehicle, the release said. <len> 10 <text> The woman immediately contacted a neighbor to call police. <len> 10 <text> The car was found the next day in Richmond. <len> 29 <text> Asberry, who has a lengthy criminal record dating back to when he was a teenager, was formally charged in the El Cerrito case on Oct. 20. <len> 26 <text> Police are asking anyone with information about the case to call the detective unit at 510-215-4414, extension 40 or email to investigations@ci.el-cerrito.ca.us. <len> 27 <text> The Berkeley case that Asberry is charged in occurred in May 2008, when a 15-year-old girl and 19-year-old woman were the victims, authorities said. <len> 43 <text> Asberry is accused in that case of having a gun and jumping into the back seat of the car the two were in and ordering them to drive to a cul-de-sac where the older victim was raped and the other sexually molested. <len> 16 <text> He fled but was eventually identified through DNA and arrested in 2015, authorities said. <len> 11 <text> He is also suspected in other attacks, authorities said."}
{"text": "<len> 18 <text> Professor David Nutt in his office, near a mushroom sculpture that he seemed particularly attached to. <len> 17 <text> Nothing illuminates the gaping chasm between political and public opinion quite like the war on drugs. <len> 47 <text> With over half of British people saying that the government\u2019s approach to illegal drugs is ineffective, and even Commons MPs saying we should look into decriminalisation, it\u2019s a wonder that they haven\u2019t just got on with it yet. <len> 32 <text> But for British politicians, taking a stance on drugs is kind of like taking drugs: no one wants to be the first one at the party to suggest it. <len> 52 <text> And yet when Professor David Nutt merely put forth scientific evidence suggesting that \u2013 gee, I don\u2019t know \u2013 maybe the drug classification system should accurately reflect the actual danger levels of each drug, he was sacked from his position as the government's chief drug adviser. <len> 21 <text> (Nutt had the temerity to report that, statistically, ecstasy and LSD are less dangerous than alcohol.) <len> 31 <text> As if getting fired for literally doing his job wasn\u2019t bad enough, he\u2019s also been the victim of some serious misrepresentation in the tabloids since. <len> 33 <text> The professor recently put forth an idea that was just begging to be held down and turned into a headline \u2013 the notion that bankers taking cocaine caused the global financial crisis. <len> 22 <text> But as the media frenzy began to percolate down into lesser blogs, the main thrust of his argument was lost. <len> 57 <text> In fact, the professor has recently been focusing all of his efforts on obtaining a small amount of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, for a study into whether it can treat depression \u2013 the latest in Nutt's canon of studies that support a reform on illegal drugs in the UK. <len> 14 <text> The cocaine-banker connection was merely an aside \u2013 albeit an obviously alluring one. <len> 28 <text> I visited Professor Nutt's office at Imperial College, London to see what it feels like to be the face of drug reform in the UK. <len> 22 <text> A graph mapping the harmfulness of drugs from the study that got Professor Nutt fired from the government's drug board. <len> 9 <text> (Image via)\n\nVICE: Hi David. <len> 14 <text> So, it seems like the British media love sensationalist headlines about you. <len> 14 <text> First it was, \"Ecstasy Is Less Dangerous Than Horse Riding.\" <len> 13 <text> Now it\u2019s, \"Cocaine Caused the Financial Crisis.\" <len> 35 <text> Professor David Nutt: [Laughs] Oh yeah, I've been \"professor poison\" and \"the sacked drug tsar\" before, and now I'm \"Mr Mushrooms\". <len> 23 <text> I did say that ecstasy is less dangerous than horse riding, but I didn't say cocaine caused the financial crisis. <len> 20 <text> I was asked by a journalist, \"Do different kinds of people take different kinds of drugs?\" <len> 16 <text> And I said, \"Yeah, hippies take psychedelics and bankers take cocaine.\" <len> 14 <text> And it went from that to \"cocaine caused the financial crisis\". <len> 13 <text> Of course, it may have contributed to people making bad judgements. <len> 17 <text> It must be frustrating to see headlines about yourself that miss the point of your research. <len> 21 <text> Well, on one level yes, but the fact that there's a dialogue at all is very important. <len> 22 <text> There was no public discourse about drugs at all for a long time, and I've made sure there is. <len> 31 <text> The worst thing you could do is hide the issue, but the truth about drugs has been supressed because people haven't got the courage to speak about it. <len> 19 <text> Over the past couple of years you\u2019ve become the voice for drug reform in the UK. <len> 10 <text> How do you feel about being in that position? <len> 9 <text> Well, someone's got to do it. <len> 38 <text> I haven\u2019t sought out publicity, but if you know what should be said and you\u2019ve got a chance to say it, then it\u2019s absolutely my duty to do so. <len> 14 <text> I think it\u2019s time for scientists to stand and be counted. <len> 23 <text> It\u2019s always bewildering for someone of my generation to think where this opposition to a dialogue about drugs comes from. <len> 17 <text> It seems that most people are ready for change, yet the issue is rarely addressed. <len> 6 <text> It comes from two sources. <len> 17 <text> It comes from a few newspapers \u2013 largely the Mail, the Express and the Sun. <len> 21 <text> And it comes from politicians who feel that there's going to be some benefit to sticking to the tradition. <len> 8 <text> Some magic mushrooms resting in some grass. <len> 9 <text> (Image via)\n\nAre most politicians anti-drugs? <len> 12 <text> No, most politicians know that the drug laws are wrong. <len> 34 <text> David Cameron wrote that the drug laws need to be completely re-written and that the international drug conventions should be changed when he was on the Home Affairs Select Committee ten years ago. <len> 28 <text> But when you get to the level of cabinet and shadow cabinet, people get frozen in fear of being controversial, so they just shut up. <len> 15 <text> Cameron changed his tune the day after he became head of the Tory Party. <len> 19 <text> It was the most spineless collapse of a person\u2019s view that I\u2019ve ever seen. <len> 25 <text> It was embarrassing, and it\u2019s because it\u2019s more expedient for someone in his position to be hard on drugs. <len> 16 <text> What did you think of Labour's approach to drugs while they were in power? <len> 8 <text> In many ways, Labour are worse. <len> 17 <text> You expect them to actually care about people, but they actively criminalised young cannabis users. <len> 20 <text> They incentivised the police on this false belief that cannabis causes schizophrenia and is a \u201cgateway drug\u201d. <len> 27 <text> We now have a million people in this country convicted for cannabis use, and many of them find that the conviction actually impairs their career. <len> 16 <text> Do you think we're getting close to seeing a political shift on the issue? <len> 15 <text> I\u2019m hoping so, but there are still horrendous things going on. <len> 25 <text> A student told me she was strip-searched on Brick Lane because she smelled of cannabis, even though she didn\u2019t have any. <len> 3 <text> In Britain! <len> 4 <text> To what end? <len> 4 <text> It's outrageous. <len> 18 <text> And we\u2019re still prosecuting people who need cannabis for medical purposes on a daily basis. <len> 30 <text> I had a letter from a guy who\u2019s been arrested 27 times for possession of cannabis, and each police arrest costs six or seven hundred pounds. <len> 25 <text> It costs half a billion pounds a year \u2013 that\u2019s enough to build two major hospitals for the price of policing cannabis. <len> 5 <text> Completely and utterly moronic. <len> 11 <text> Why do you think no one's realised that yet? <len> 20 <text> The problem is that Bernard Hogan-Howe [the head of the London Met] doesn\u2019t understand drugs. <len> 24 <text> Part of the reason we had the riots is because the Met started clamping down on black kids with cannabis in North London. <len> 18 <text> It\u2019s outrageous to persecute people for using a drug that\u2019s safer than alcohol. <len> 8 <text> I cannot go beyond saying that. <len> 8 <text> How can you encourage people to drink? <len> 27 <text> If they want to take a drug to become intoxicated, why would you force them to use one of the most dangerous drugs of all? <len> 6 <text> It\u2019s morally reprehensible. <len> 4 <text> Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe. <len> 24 <text> (Image via)\n\nDo you think MDMA might be getting to the point where it could change from a Class A substance? <len> 7 <text> No one drug could change now. <len> 33 <text> When I was chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, we recommended MDMA being downgraded from Class A to Class B, and the media went absolutely hysterical. <len> 23 <text> The class system needs to be rewritten so that all drugs are in their right classes, and it would be effortless. <len> 10 <text> And, in fact, that was the plan. <len> 15 <text> Charles Clarke accepted the need to revise the act when he was Home Secretary. <len> 30 <text> Unfortunately, he was sacked after the foreign prisoners scandal \u2013 and I actually think he was sacked because he was too outspoken, too critical of the cabinet. <len> 12 <text> I\u2019m sure that's a familiar feeling to you. <len> 2 <text> Exactly. <len> 14 <text> When Charles and I were at Cambridge, we were radical socialists together. <len> 9 <text> He and I go back a long way. <len> 25 <text> The next guy, John Reid, just said there are no votes in drugs, so he stopped the whole work around reclassification. <len> 18 <text> But it has to happen, and it has to happen on an international level as well. <len> 39 <text> There is one hope: the UN is to have a special assembly on drugs in 2016, and that\u2019s a chance to rectify all this \u2013 to actually come up with a new drugs plan. <len> 15 <text> I\u2019m just hoping that Obama won't let the Americans derail it. <len> 14 <text> So currently you've been granted half a million pounds to research psilocybin. <len> 8 <text> What does the study hope to discover? <len> 12 <text> We think it might be useful for people with resistant depression. <len> 28 <text> We know from our volunteers that psilocybin switches off the part of the brain that is overactive in depression, and that there are mood benefits later. <len> 7 <text> And what roadblocks are you encountering? <len> 12 <text> Well, the law around doing a clinical trial is bonkers. <len> 36 <text> It\u2019s a European law called the Clinical Trials Directive, and it\u2019s massively impeding research because it sets huge financial regulating thresholds for trials that don\u2019t apply to treatments. <len> 45 <text> We\u2019ve done trials where it has cost us \u00a330,000 just to get 100 placebo tablets, because even placebo tablets have to go through the same controls, largely based on the beyond stupid fear that we might transfer mad cow disease. <len> 31 <text> Then we\u2019ve got to find a company that\u2019s also got a Schedule 1 license [a license to possess drugs], which takes a year. <len> 32 <text> A year in terms of a grant is hundreds of thousands of pounds, and I can\u2019t just sack my staff for a year while they get a license. <len> 9 <text> So finding the two together is near impossible. <len> 8 <text> But we're going to do it. <len> 8 <text> This is what MDMA sometimes looks like. <len> 31 <text> (Image via)\n\nAre there any other studies in the UK or Europe that are currently encountering roadblocks due to the difficulty of acquiring the product for clinical trials? <len> 2 <text> Absolutely. <len> 23 <text> There\u2019s a mate of mine in Oxford trying to study a cannabis extract, THCV, which isn't intoxicating. <len> 47 <text> The chemists who wrote the legislation and who later resigned with me from the ACMD say it's not an illegal drug, but the Home Office say it is, so he\u2019s got to wait a year to get a Schedule 1 license. <len> 22 <text> There are non-hallucinogenic derivatives of LSD, like 2-Bromo-LSD, that may cure cluster headaches \u2013 a terrible, terrible illness. <len> 9 <text> We believe that it's outside the act. <len> 13 <text> It\u2019s not psychedelic, so why would it be controlled? <len> 27 <text> But the Home Office takes the view that, because it\u2019s got LSD in its name, they\u2019ve got to control it. <len> 8 <text> That's must be frustrating for you. <len> 11 <text> It's more frustrating for the people who are suffering. <len> 64 <text> I got an email last week from a guy in Texas saying, \u201cI suffered so much from cluster headaches that my son offered to kill me.\u201d He said, \u201cI now live in Mexico because in Mexico they allow you to use mushrooms for health reasons.\u201d He was empowered to do that, but most people aren't. <len> 20 <text> And I just hate to see suffering based on these lies about the drugs being too harmful to use. <len> 28 <text> People with multiple sclerosis rely on their partners to buy or grow cannabis because they can\u2019t get out in the world and find a dealer. <len> 23 <text> What the police do is bust someone\u2019s house, smash the door in and find a cannabis plant or two. <len> 28 <text> They prosecute the person with multiple sclerosis for possession, they prosecute the partner who\u2019s growing it for supply, then they freeze their assets. <len> 6 <text> It\u2019s absolutely obscene. <len> 3 <text> It is. <len> 28 <text> Lastly, can you clear up the Daily Mail\u2019s recent suggestions that you\u2019re in some conspiracy with Amanda Feilding to legalise all drugs? <len> 22 <text> Her Beckley Foundation is a registered charity that funds research on illegal drugs, so they fund some of our research. <len> 31 <text> But the idea that Amanda Feilding is somehow controlling me is more absurd than the idea that I wouldn't stand up and speak my mind to the Home Secretary. <len> 4 <text> Thanks, Professor. <len> 26 <text> Follow Matt on Twitter: @Matt_A_Shea\n\nMore stuff about drugs:\n\nAn Interview with a Mexican Coke Dealer\n\nThe Kentucky Derby... On Acid! <len> 23 <text> Internet Psychonauts Try All the Drugs You Don't Want to Try\n\nI Went Stop and Searching in Soho with the London Met"}
{"text": "<len> 44 <text> My young paleoconservative friend Jack Kerwick has posted on his website his own distribution of blame for what befell two police officers shot by a black thug in Brooklyn last Saturday, as revenge for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. <len> 36 <text> Jack has extended the burden of responsibility from protestors screaming \u201ckill a cop\u201d and those Democratic politicians who backed these protestors to the media and academy that has preached anti-white hate for decades. <len> 46 <text> This extension of responsibility seems entirely justified, and having listened to the inflammatory speech of academic lunatics, I couldn\u2019t imagine more vicious hate-language in a Nazi rag than what I heard coming out of the mouths of \u201csensitive\u201d academics. <len> 26 <text> Needless to say, the language in question came from white people denigrating their own race rather than from designated Aryans attacking a Jewish minority. <len> 17 <text> But this has always made the anti-white invectives of academics seem for me even more bizarre. <len> 31 <text> Still and all, the (for me) most obnoxious response to recent racial tensions has come, predictably enough, from the paid voices of the Murdoch-media- Empire. <len> 24 <text> These news-interpreters have carried the practice of having one\u2019s cake and eating it at the same time to new ludicrous heights. <len> 47 <text> In recent days I have begun to feel sorry for Bill de Blasio and even Eric Holder, the sins of whom seem to consist of not having spun the narrative about the deaths of Brown and Garner in quite the same duplicitous way as Fox-news. <len> 51 <text> Listening to O\u2019Reilly, Krauthammer, and other authorized \u201cconservative\u201d pundits, I would believe the following: the policeman who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson may have had sufficient cause but those who strangled to death Garner in Staten Island got away with obvious manslaughter. <len> 24 <text> According to our spokesmen for the establishment Right, white racism continues to fester in the US, and grand juries remain suspect. <len> 29 <text> Nonetheless, we should not jump to the conclusion that Brown and Garner were the victims of specifically racist brutality, a charge that has not been proved. <len> 79 <text> Should I venture to point out what has already been proved: that Eric Garner was a longtime petty thief with a massive criminal record, that local merchants in Staten Island, some of whom were black, summoned the police to get him out of their stores before he committed mischief, and that Garner died not in the grip of a policeman (while resisting arrest) but later on the way to a hospital. <len> 102 <text> ORDER IT NOW\n\nGiving the news stories a specifically neocon political spin, National Review columnist Ira Strauss insists that the protestors who contributed to the tensions leading to the slaying of two police officers are representatives of \u201canti-Western ideology.\u201d The \u201cculpability\u201d for the shootings in Brooklyn, according to Strauss, falls ultimately on those who preach hatred against the \u201cWest.\u201d This offense, which is \u201ccultivated in universities across the country as the cutting edge of moral thinking,\u201d has become, according to this account, a widespread critical problem. <len> 39 <text> Strauss includes among those affected by it those who rage \u201cagainst the groups and religions identified as pro-Western.\u201d My eyes focus here inevitably on the term \u201cpro-Western.\u201d How is Strauss defining his key word? <len> 28 <text> Is a \u201cpro-Westerner\u201d someone who defends the Holy Roman Empire or the nation state system that was peculiar to the Western world in centuries past? <len> 21 <text> Is a pro-Westerner someone who relishes Mozart\u2019s operas, Shakespeare\u2019s tragedies or Dante\u2019s Commedia? <len> 13 <text> Allow me to speculate on what Strauss may really have in mind. <len> 18 <text> A \u201cpro-Western group\u201d is one that supports the foreign policy of Strauss\u2019s employers. <len> 27 <text> Being \u201cpro-Western\u201d means favoring the post-Western reconstruction of the geographical space that once belonged to Western Christendom on the basis of American liberal internationalism. <len> 18 <text> Apparently those who balk at this project may be compared to black racist killers and Islamicist bomb-throwers. <len> 29 <text> Perhaps I\u2019m being unfair but it is difficult for me to read the word \u201cpro-Western\u201d in neoconservative publications without suspecting the usual propagandistic intent. <len> 38 <text> I have been struck by the unexpected boldness shown by former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani in explaining that white policemen in his city risk their lives while protecting blacks from being killed by other blacks. <len> 20 <text> Although I applaud Giuliani for making this observation, we might consider the downside of the situation he describes. <len> 58 <text> The police in our cities are being asked to patrol neighborhoods in which they are profoundly hated and where the inhabitants endorse overwhelmingly those whom Fox-news denounces as \u201crace hustlers.\u201d It is unfair to ask officers of any race to face such a situation, which is not likely to improve in the foreseeable future. <len> 45 <text> I would note that my father while police commissioner of Bridgeport, Connecticut, worked persistently to enact a policy that would allow firefighters to stay out of areas in which they were harassed and even physically assaulted while trying to put out fires . <len> 19 <text> To the extent my father\u2019s well-advised policy was followed, more lives were saved than lost. <len> 15 <text> Perhaps Al Sharpton could arrange for the protection of his fans in Bedford Stuyvesant. <len> 10 <text> The police department should be spared this thankless duty."}
{"text": "<len> 13 <text> Summer in St. Louis is hot, humid and lasts for months. <len> 49 <text> That leaves you with two choices: You can either hole up in your air-conditioned bunker, making the occasional mad dash to your car for a post-sunset Ted Drewes run, or you can embrace the sweat and the mosquitos and live your life to the fullest. <len> 7 <text> Well, maybe not the fullest. <len> 20 <text> But you can definitely get outside and mingle with the other sweaty people \u2014 it won't cost much. <len> 21 <text> Each of the twenty concerts, festivals and crawls on this list will set you back $10 or less. <len> 17 <text> And don't worry about missing out if you choose the \"carpe diem\" route. <len> 18 <text> We have it on good authority: Ted Drewes will still be there when you need it. <len> 27 <text> Jungle Boogie Concert Series\n\nTruly, the greatest injustice at zoos worldwide is that the animals inside never get a chance to watch humans play music. <len> 4 <text> Or do they? <len> 40 <text> The Jungle Boogie Concert Series brings bands to Schnuck Family Plaza, located at the center of the St. Louis Zoo, to perform every Friday this summer (except for June 16, an off-day this year). <len> 17 <text> Turnabout is fair play: Join the animals in gawking at some humans for a change. <len> 27 <text> This year's highlights include bluegrass act the Mighty Pines, jazz swingers Miss Jubilee, Beatles cover act Ticket to the Beatles and plenty more. <len> 28 <text> All the fun goes down at 5 p.m. Fridays, May 26 to September 21 at the St. Louis Zoo (1 Government Drive; www.stlzoo.org). <len> 6 <text> See www.stlzoo.org/events/calendarofevents/jungle-boogie for more info. <len> 20 <text> Mississippi Nights Music Festival\n\nWhat better way to kick off the summer than with a stroll down memory lane? <len> 57 <text> The Mississippi Nights Music Festival, thrown for the first time this year (but with an eye on becoming an annual Memorial Day affair) is sure to bring nostalgia, especially for those who spent time at the now-bygone Mississippi Nights venue before it was demolished in 2007 to make way for Lumiere Place. <len> 28 <text> Even if you don't count yourself among that (relatively) older group, 2017's all-local lineup offers plenty of reasons to leave the house. <len> 26 <text> More than 25 acts will perform, including such highlights as Bruiser Queen, Steve Ewing, Jeremiah Johnson, Ultraman and the Trophy Mules. <len> 24 <text> Things kick off at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 27, in Laclede's Landing (710 North Second Street, www.lacledeslanding.com). <len> 19 <text> And with tickets set at only $10, you'll spend less than 40 cents per band. <len> 6 <text> Even the price is nostalgic! <len> 25 <text> PHOTO COURTESY OF THE BAND\n\nBruiser Queen, one of more than 25 acts performing at the Mississippi Nights Music Festival on May 27. <len> 50 <text> Twilight Tuesday Concert Series\n\nThough it is technically billed as a springtime affair, the Missouri History Museum's Twilight Tuesday Concert Series does poke into the summer months just a bit \u2014 and considering the free concert series' massive popularity, it certainly seems worth a visit. <len> 40 <text> Bring a blanket and a picnic basket, or grab some grub from one of the nearby food trucks, and stretch out on the front lawn of the Missouri History Museum (5700 Lindell Boulevard, www.mohistory.org). <len> 24 <text> The event starts at 6 p.m., so you can watch the sun set in beautiful Forest Park while taking in some tunes. <len> 45 <text> The last two events of this series are sure to be crowd pleasers: Long-running tribute act Jake's Leg will perform the songs of the Grateful Dead on May 30, while A Musical Revolution will tackle Prince's catalog on June 6. <len> 6 <text> For more information visit mohistory.org/twilight-tuesdays. <len> 16 <text> Circus Flora\n\nWould it be possible to experience summer in St. Louis without Circus Flora? <len> 7 <text> No one wants to find out. <len> 28 <text> The one-ring circus sets up in Grand Center at the start of June, acting as a de facto starter's pistol for the season's fun. <len> 18 <text> This year's show, Time Flies, is inspired by the fourth dimension \u2014 time itself. <len> 35 <text> Acrobat Sasha Harrington, juggling champion Kyle Driggs and the always-popular Flying Wallendas will take you with them as they travel through space and time, magically making you feel like a kid again. <len> 30 <text> New this year is equestrienne Heidi Herriott, who teams up with dancer Andrea Murillo to unveil the world's first tango performed by a human and a horse. <len> 28 <text> Circus Flora does it all in the Circus Flora Big Top (Samuel Shepard Drive and North Grand Boulevard; www.circusflora.org) from June 1 to 25. <len> 9 <text> Tickets start at $10 for select shows. <len> 22 <text> An Evening With Smooth: A Tribute to Santana and Rob Thomas\n\nWe are living in the time of Peak Meme. <len> 19 <text> We thought the internet would make all of us more connected, better educated, wiser, smarter. <len> 4 <text> It hasn't. <len> 34 <text> Instead we've invented new and increasingly ridiculous ways to make ourselves giggle, spoofing every part of our lives, from movies to politics to music, with increasingly absurd online gags. <len> 16 <text> And now, horrifyingly, the memes are beginning to step into our real lives. <len> 47 <text> Case in point: Rob Thomas and Carlos Santana's 1999 hit \"Smooth\" has become one of the most-memed songs of our time, second only perhaps to Smash Mouth's \"All Star,\" and is now getting its own tribute show. <len> 14 <text> It's planned for Friday, June 2 right here in St. Louis. <len> 30 <text> Naturally, smoothies will be sold, and t-shirts featuring the track's unforgettable lyrics are free with admission at Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue, www.offbroadwaystl.com). <len> 3 <text> The kicker? <len> 29 <text> The show will close with \"Smooth\" being performed live no less than ten times in a row by local musicians led by Tok bassist Matt Basler. <len> 25 <text> The evening is sure to be just like the ocean under the moon, the same as the emotion that I get from you. <len> 21 <text> Head down to Off Broadway with $8 and your sense of humor intact \u2014 or else forget about it. <len> 24 <text> Summer Gras 2017\n\nNew Orleans is cool, sure, but it's also a ten-hour drive and everything kinda smells like pee. <len> 4 <text> Who needs it? <len> 13 <text> Especially when we have Summer Gras right here in our own backyard. <len> 42 <text> Now in its fourth year, the annual event aims to bring the music and food of New Orleans to the Old Rock House (1200 South Seventh Street, oldrockhouse.com) with an outdoor stage and plenty of way-down-South eats. <len> 32 <text> This year's lineup kicks off at 5 p.m. and includes the Provels, Al Holliday & the East Side Rhythm Band, the Grooveliner and more for just $10. <len> 19 <text> Complete the illusion of travel by wandering the streets with open liquor and throwing a parade for yourself. <len> 14 <text> If the cops come, just don't tell them we sent you. <len> 23 <text> FPE RECORDS\n\nSyna So Pro will join acts including Middle Class Fashion and Bagheera for Rockin' the Ritz on June 23. <len> 14 <text> Rockin' the Ritz\n\nArtists First is an organization with a noble mission. <len> 26 <text> The non-profit runs an open studio in Maplewood, providing a nurturing environment and an artistic outlet for adults with disabilities, veterans and children. <len> 36 <text> Scheduled for Saturday, June 3 from 5 to 10 p.m., Rockin' the Ritz will see some seven St. Louis acts performing in Ritz Park (3147 South Grand Boulevard, southgrand.org/locations/ritz-park/). <len> 39 <text> Enjoy the pop-rock stylings of Whoa Thunder and Middle Class Fashion, catch Bagheera on the heels of its first album in several years and fall into a trance with the hypnotic looping magic of Syna So Pro. <len> 13 <text> Mangia will be donating 25 percent of its profits for the evening. <len> 10 <text> Admission is free, but donations are strongly encouraged. <len> 9 <text> The Grand Market\n\nIt happens far too often. <len> 25 <text> Riddled with summer boredom, you give in and head to one of the county's shopping malls, only to regret it immediately. <len> 31 <text> The empty shops, the giant baby carriages coming at you from all angles \u2014 it feels like Mad Max in Romper Room, and it is depressing as hell. <len> 15 <text> You can still satisfy your hunter/gatherer tendencies, just do so in the city. <len> 39 <text> The Grand Market: Fashion, Flowers & Folk is a one-day celebration of local fashion artists, folk musicians and floral design centered on .Zack (6224 Locust Street, www.instagram.com/thegrandmarketstl) and spreading out along Locust. <len> 45 <text> You can browse booths and fashion trucks offering designs and beauty essentials from local businesses such as Tiny Hedgehog, Mineral and Root, and Pop Vintage while enjoying the music of Catching the Westbound, Salt of the Earth and Letters to Memphis. <len> 32 <text> Chef David Kirkland offers samples of the food at his new place, Turn, and you can practice your flower arranging skills at Snapdragon Studio's DIY floral design booth. <len> 17 <text> The inaugural Grand Market takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 4. <len> 4 <text> Admission is free. <len> 12 <text> Turn the page for more fun things to do this summer."}
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{"text": "<len> 23 <text> Quote\n\nThis mission is currently targeting a launch on May 26, with a launch window of 17:40 through to 19:19 Eastern. <len> 21 <text> The first stage is already inside the SLC-40 HIF, with the Static Fire test currently scheduled for May 22. <len> 21 <text> UPDATE THREAD for the Falcon 9 mission with Thaicom-8.--First Attempt - Scrub.Delayed to May 27 at 17:39 local. <len> 160 <text> See page 5 for second attempt updates.Static Fire Article:Launch Day Article:Resources:SpaceX News Articles from 2006 (Including numerous exclusive Elon interviews):SpaceX News Articles (Recent):=--=SpaceX GENERAL Forum Section: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=45.0 - please use this for general questions NOT specific to this mission.SpaceX MISSIONS Forum Section: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=55.0 - this section is for everything specific to SpaceX missions.----Orbital ATK Delivers Thaicom 8 Commercial Communications Satellite to Launch SiteSatellite Based on Company\u0092s GEOStar-2\u0099 Platform Scheduled for May Launch from Cape Canaveral, FloridaNew Spacecraft to Strengthen Thaicom\u0092s Growing Presence in Commercial Satellite IndustryDulles, Virginia 29 April 2016 \u0096 Orbital ATK, Inc. (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, today announced that the THAICOM 8 satellite has arrived at its launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida. <len> 23 <text> THAICOM 8 is the second satellite Orbital ATK has built for Thaicom PLC and is based on the company\u0092s flight-proven GEOStar-2TM platform. <len> 26 <text> The satellite arrived at the launch site after it was shipped on Wednesday, April 27 from the company\u0092s manufacturing facility in Dulles, Virginia. <len> 16 <text> THAICOM 8 is set to launch in late May aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle. <len> 75 <text> The satellite will support Thailand\u0092s growing broadcast industry and will provide broadcast and data services to customers in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa.\u0093We built and delivered this high-quality communications satellite for Thaicom PLC two months ahead of schedule, demonstrating our ability to manufacture reliable, affordable and innovative products that exceed expectations for our customer,\u0094 said Amer Khouri, Vice President of the Commercial Satellite Business at Orbital ATK. <len> 47 <text> \u0093As one of Asia\u0092s leading satellite operators, we are grateful for Thaicom\u0092s continued confidence and look forward to more successful partnerships in the future.\u0094Commissioned in 2014, THAICOM 8 was ordered shortly after the company-built THAICOM 6 satellite was launched into orbit in January 2014. <len> 42 <text> The design, manufacturing, integration and testing of THAICOM 8 took place at Orbital ATK\u0092s state-of-the-art satellite manufacturing facility in Dulles, Virginia.A Ku-band satellite, THAICOM 8\u0092s payload includes 24 active transponders that will deliver broadcast and data services. <len> 23 <text> The Falcon 9 rocket will deliver the satellite into its targeted geosynchronous transfer orbit where it will enter a 30-day testing phase. <len> 28 <text> Following in-orbit activation and after reaching its final orbital slot, Orbital ATK will then turn over control of the satellite to Thaicom to begin normal operations. <len> 39 <text> THAICOM 8\u0092s orbital location will be positioned at 78.5 degrees east longitude and the satellite is designed to operate for more than 15 years.The THAICOM 8 satellite is the 36th GEOStar spacecraft launched for customers around the world. <len> 34 <text> Orbital ATK is currently producing several commercial satellites that will be delivered and launched for customers over the next several years, including the Al Yah 3, HYLAS 4 and SES-16/GovSat spacecraft. <len> 29 <text> The company has also begun work on the new Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1) for the company\u0092s recently announced commercial satellite servicing agreement with Intelsat, S.A."}
{"text": "<len> 16 <text> North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un waves during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. <len> 21 <text> (Picture AP)\n\nNorth Korea have threatened to wipe out America in a missile strike \u2013 planned for today. <len> 38 <text> The threat of a \u2018merciless\u2019 nuclear strike was in response to comments made by CIA Director Mike Pompeo who said the country\u2019s Supreme Leader needs to be \u2018separated\u2019 from his weapons. <len> 59 <text> Babysitter finally admits to suffocating her son and two other infants in 1980\n\nThe Yonhap News Agency in South Korea reported that there was a \u2018high possibility\u2019 Kim Jong-un\u2019s nation could launch a strike today, after transporter erector launchers carrying ICBM launch tubes in North Pyongan province have been moved by North Korea. <len> 46 <text> A US defense official, who wanted to remain anonymous, said either an intermediate-range missile known as a KN-20 or a Hwasong-14, would be \u2018probably\u2019 launched today as it is the 64th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement. <len> 41 <text> A US defense official said: \u2018They\u2019re setting up for something.\u2019\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, second from right, inspects the preparation of the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile on July 4. <len> 36 <text> (Picture: AP)\n\nAnd a South Korean government source added: \u2018Movements by transporter erector launchers carrying intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch tubes have been continuously observed in North Pyongan. <len> 65 <text> \u2018There is a high possibility that the North may carry out (the test launch) around the July 27 armistice day.\u2019\n\nGirl, 6, begged babysitter to ask her pedophile husband to stop kissing her\n\nLast week CIA Director Mike Pompeo angered North Korea by discussing the communist country\u2019s leader Kim Jong-Un\u2019s grip on nuclear weapons. <len> 25 <text> He said: \u2018As for the regime, I am hopeful we will find a way to separate that regime from this system. <len> 35 <text> \u2018The North Korean people I\u2019m sure are lovely people and would love to see him go.\u2019\n\nCIA Director Mike Pompeo wants Kim Jong-Un \u2018separated\u2019 from his nuclear weapons. <len> 58 <text> (Picture: AP)\n\nA North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded: \u2018The DPRK legally stipulates that if the supreme dignity of the DPRK is threatened, it must preemptively annihilate those countries and entities that are directly or indirectly involved in it, by mobilizing all kinds of strike means including the nuclear ones. <len> 103 <text> \u2018Should the US dare to show even the slightest sign of attempt to remove our supreme leadership, we will strike a merciless blow at the heart of the US with our powerful nuclear hammer, honed and hardened over time.\u2019\n\n\u2018It has now become clear that the ultimate aim of the Trump Administration, is the regime change,\u2019\n\nExperts have warned the latest North Korean missile, which was first launched on July 4, could get as far as Alaska which would finally make real Kim Yong Un\u2019s wish to bomb mainland America. <len> 24 <text> A recent US Defense Intelligence Agency report said North Korea could produce nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) as soon as 2018. <len> 18 <text> North Korea believes US President Donald Trump\u2019s ultimate aim is regime change in North Korea. <len> 27 <text> (Picture AP)\n\nHowever, it has also been reported the North Korean missile is not capable of carrying a nuclear payload across the Pacific. <len> 90 <text> The Office of the Director of National Intelligence national intelligence manager for East Asia, Scott Bray, told the Washington Post the July 4 launch was \u2018one of the milestones that we have expected would help refine our timeline and judgments.\u2019\n\nHe said: \u2018This test, and its impact on our assessments, highlight the threat that North Korea\u2019s nuclear and ballistic missile programs pose to the United States, to our allies in the region, and to the whole world. <len> 48 <text> \u2018The intelligence community is closely monitoring the expanding threat from North Korea.\u2019\n\nMORE: Man stabbed wife to death after finding man hiding between their sons\u2019 beds\n\nMORE: Game Of Thrones season 7: New episode 3 pictures tease Jon Snow and Daenerys confrontation"}
{"text": "<len> 23 <text> RECORD numbers of consumers have been complaining about their telephone and internet services, according to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman Simon Cohen. <len> 28 <text> Mr Cohen will launch his annual report launch in Melbourne tomorrow, which will show that his office received almost 198,000 complaints in the 2011 financial year. <len> 35 <text> Mobile phone complaints in regard to telco Vodafone and the rise in the use of smart phones generally were the main drivers of the 18 per cent increase in complaints, Mr Cohen said. <len> 41 <text> There was no one brand of phone that was problematic, however, the general issue of convergence was what lead to record number of people complaining with so many services now being accessed via smartphones, his office said. <len> 21 <text> Vodafone acknowledged the number of complaints related to service issues experienced by the carrier in late 2010 and early 2011. <len> 44 <text> \"We had a number of network and service challenges at the end of 2010 and early 2011 and we are now making significant investment and improvements in the Vodafone network\", Vodafone director of Customer Service and Experience Cormac Hodgkinson said. <len> 29 <text> \"Some of the network issues at the start of the year, and the ensuing rise in the number of complaints we received impacted customer service.\" <len> 30 <text> \"This was difficult for our customers to endure, so we changed the way we operate to make things easier for our customers,\" Mr Hodgkinson said. <len> 29 <text> \"We added 300 staff in our contact centres, and we have placed a high priority on addressing the rules and processes that cause customer frustration.'' <len> 11 <text> Originally published as All the rage - Australians hate their telcos"}
{"text": "<len> 59 <text> For Ponta do Sol in Cape Verde, see Ponta do Sol, Cape Verde\n\nMunicipality in Madeira, Portugal\n\nPonta do Sol ( Portuguese pronunciation: [\u02c8p\u00f5t\u0250 \u00f0u \u02c8s\u0254\u026b], English: Point of the Sun) is a municipality in the southwestern coast of the island of Madeira, in the archipelago of Madeira. <len> 17 <text> The population in 2011 was 8,862,[1] in an area of 46.19 km\u00b2. <len> 27 <text> [2]\n\nHistory [ edit ]\n\nThe settlement of Ponta do Sol began shortly after the discovery of the island of Madeira, around 1420. <len> 47 <text> Geography [ edit ]\n\nThe rugged coastline near the parish of Ponta do Sol\n\nPonta do Sol is located between Ribeira-Brava and Calheta, on the southwest coast of Madeira, linked to Funchal (the capital) and surrounding communities by the main regional road. <len> 27 <text> The municipality is crossed by a few pedestrian hiking trails, that usually follow the levadas (English: aqueducts) carrying water from the mountains. <len> 83 <text> Human geography [ edit ]\n\nAdministratively, the municipal government is located in the civil parish (freguesia) of Ponta do Sol, while local government is handled through the three civil parishes:\n\nCanhas\n\nMadalena do Mar\n\nPonta do Sol - in 2011, the parish had a population of 4,577 inhabitants, in an area of 27.45 km\u00b2\n\nEconomy [ edit ]\n\nHistorically, the main sources of income in this region has been agriculture, fishing and trade. <len> 23 <text> Ponta do Sol's main harbour, although small, was a crucial commercial gateway to the western part of the island. <len> 38 <text> These importation and exportation businesses fostered the creation of new activities in what became the central part of the community and created a flow of goods into the hinterland (such as local and imported goods). <len> 23 <text> Today, commercial activity is scattered throughout the municipality, while the port area of Ponta do Sol has declined in importance. <len> 40 <text> In its place, the economy of the municipality has been dispersed to other parishes, particularly Canhas, which were essentially agricultural parishes, but have developed into important economic nodes, while still retaining its rural landscape. <len> 31 <text> While agriculture remains the primary activity in the interior, and the fisheries industry has declined significantly, construction and industrial enterprises have conquered a prominent role in the municipality. <len> 30 <text> The service industry, particularly tourism, has carved-out a portion of the income stream, with high-quality hotels or residential inns located in the countryside and urban centres."}
{"text": "<len> 25 <text> Blowback Some marijuana tax revenue is better than none\n\nThe drug czar says that, like duties on alcohol and tobacco, the Prop. <len> 12 <text> 19 marijuana tax wouldn't offset the substance's societal costs. <len> 11 <text> He ignores the fact that cannabis is a safer drug. <len> 37 <text> Alcohol is toxic to healthy cells and organs, a side effect that results directly in about 35,000 deaths a year from illnesses such as cirrhosis of the liver, ulcers, cancer and heart disease. <len> 27 <text> Heavy alcohol consumption can depress the central nervous system \u2014 inducing unconsciousness, coma and death \u2014 and is strongly associated with increased risks of injury. <len> 28 <text> According to federal statistics, alcohol plays a role in about 41,000 fatal accidents a year and in the commission of about 1 million violent crimes annually. <len> 22 <text> Nevertheless, Kerlikowske's opposition to Proposition 19 is still worth addressing, as his claim is a fairly common one. <len> 27 <text> In a nutshell, Kerlikowske et al argue that, if legalized, marijuana's perceived social costs would outweigh the economic benefits reaped by regulation. <len> 32 <text> They base this allegation largely on the premise that present taxes on alcohol and cigarettes fail to adequately pay for the societal costs associated with those drugs' use and abuse. <len> 18 <text> True enough, but here's why this sound bite is irrelevant to the present marijuana debate. <len> 30 <text> It is no surprise that America's present and former drug czars oppose the passage of Proposition 19 , the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Initiative of 2010. <len> 38 <text> After all, the drug czar is required by law \"to oppose any attempt to legalize the use of a substance that is listed in schedule I of section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act.\" <len> 31 <text> In other words, it would actually be illegal for President Obama's drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, to voice an opinion that didn't publicly condemn the measure. <len> 17 <text> By contrast, the active compounds in marijuana, known as cannabinoids, are remarkably nontoxic. <len> 23 <text> Unlike alcohol, marijuana is incapable of causing a fatal overdose, and its use is inversely associated with aggression and injury. <len> 40 <text> In fact, the recently released Rand Corp. report found that in 2008, there were fewer than 200 \"admissions to hospitals in which marijuana abuse or dependence was listed as the primary reason for the hospitalization.\" <len> 19 <text> By comparison, there are more than 70,000 hospitalizations in California annually related to the use of alcohol. <len> 7 <text> Marijuana is far safer than tobacco. <len> 43 <text> According to a 2009 report by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, health-related costs per user are eight times higher for drinkers than they are for those who use cannabis, and are more than 40 times higher for tobacco smokers. <len> 50 <text> It states: \"In terms of (health-related) costs per user: tobacco-related health costs are over $800 per user, alcohol-related health costs are much lower at $165 per user, and cannabis-related health costs are the lowest at $20 per user.\" <len> 42 <text> A previous analysis commissioned by the World Health Organization agreed, stating, \"On existing patterns of use, cannabis poses a much less serious public health problem than is currently posed by alcohol and tobacco in Western societies.\" <len> 21 <text> So then why is the drug czar so worried about adults consuming it in the privacy of their own home? <len> 10 <text> Some tax revenue is better than no tax revenue. <len> 21 <text> According to a 2007 George Mason University study, U.S. citizens each year spend about $113 billion on marijuana. <len> 17 <text> Under prohibition, all of this spending is directed toward an underground economy and goes untaxed. <len> 23 <text> That means state and local governments are presently collecting zero dollars to offset societal and health costs related to recreational marijuana use. <len> 20 <text> Therefore, the imposition of any retail tax or excise fee would be an improvement over the current situation. <len> 70 <text> In short, the drug czars' assessment that present taxes on alcohol and tobacco \u2014 two deadly products \u2014 do not raise sufficient funding to offset their related social costs is not an argument in favor of maintaining the status quo, particularly when one recognizes that the social and health costs related to cannabis use are far less than those associated with the use of other intoxicants. <len> 15 <text> Despite more than 70 years of federal prohibition, marijuana is here to stay. <len> 34 <text> It's time to acknowledge this reality, and to cease ceding control of the commercial marijuana market to unregulated, untaxed criminal enterprises and put it in the hands of licensed businesses. <len> 12 <text> Proposition 19 is a first, significant step in this direction. <len> 37 <text> Paul Armentano is the deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and is the coauthor of the book \"Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? <len> 7 <text> (Chelsea Green, 2009)."}
{"text": "<len> 48 <text> FROZEN ROYALTY EXCLUSIVE: With the Hockey Hall of Fame inducting new members on November 8, 2010, it is appropriate to note that among the players who are deserving of induction but have been unjustly denied is former Los Angeles Kings superstar goaltender Rogie Vachon. <len> 25 <text> The following story, which was originally published on November 28, 2009, is being re-published as a reminder that this travesty continues. <len> 19 <text> LOS ANGELES \u2014 Many hockey fans in the Los Angeles area have at least heard of Rogie Vachon. <len> 20 <text> They may know that he was the best goaltender ever to wear the jersey of the Los Angeles Kings. <len> 22 <text> But few know of his accomplishments with the Kings and with the Montreal Canadiens prior to his arrival in Southern California. <len> 46 <text> Even fewer know that Vachon\u2019s accomplishments rank him among the greatest goaltenders to have ever played the game, yet he continues to be denied the honor of being inducted into the hallowed halls of the Hockey Hall of Fame (HHOF). <len> 49 <text> A close look at Vachon\u2019s career statistics shows that he ranks ahead of a considerable number of goaltenders who were inducted into the HHOF years ago (for details, see Time To Right A Wrong: Hockey Hall of Fame Must Induct Rogie Vachon). <len> 71 <text> \u201cIf there was anyone who deserves to be in the Hockey Hall of Fame who is not\u2014if you look at his numbers, a Vezina Trophy, three Stanley Cups, and the fact is, he wasn\u2019t just the second fiddle on that [Montreal Canadiens] team,\u201d said Brian Kennedy, who featured Vachon in his new book, Living The Hockey Dream. <len> 56 <text> \u201cHe shared the goaltending duties with Gump Worsley in that Vezina season and they won the Cup that same season, let alone everything he did for the Kings in the mid-Seventies.\u201d\n\n\u201cThere is no way we can keep that guy out of the Hockey Hall of Fame,\u201d added Kennedy. <len> 29 <text> Vachon got his start in the National Hockey League with the Canadiens in the 1966-67 season, back when the league still consisted of its Original Six teams. <len> 34 <text> \u201cThey called me up with nineteen games to go and, at that time, the coach never told you who\u2019s going to play that night,\u201d said Vachon. <len> 48 <text> \u201cThe tradition was that the trainer would come in just before the warm-up and give the puck to the goalie who plays.\u201d\n\n\u201cThat night, the trainer gave me the puck, so that was a bit of a shock,\u201d added Vachon. <len> 13 <text> \u201cEspecially during the warm-up when I was trying to settle down. <len> 53 <text> On top of that, my first shot in the National Hockey League was a breakaway from Gordie Howe from the blue line in.\u201d\n\nFacing the legendary Gordie Howe, at the time, the best player to have ever played the game, on a breakaway in his NHL debut? <len> 9 <text> Talk about a rude welcome to the league! <len> 9 <text> \u201cIt was incredible,\u201d Vachon noted. <len> 27 <text> \u201cThe defenseman [Ted Harris] stood up [at the Detroit blue line] and the pass came across to Howe on the wing. <len> 12 <text> From the blue line in, he was all by himself. <len> 35 <text> That was a little scary.\u201d\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t know how, but I stopped him and that probably helped me with my career because I settled down,\u201d Vachon added. <len> 15 <text> \u201cThat night, I had about forty shots and beat Detroit, 3-2. <len> 31 <text> Everything went really well at the start.\u201d\n\nThings continued to go well for Vachon, who went on to win three Stanley Cups with the Canadiens in four seasons. <len> 10 <text> He almost won another one with them as well. <len> 19 <text> \u201cWhen I broke in, there were only six teams in the league,\u201d said Vachon. <len> 11 <text> \u201cThat was the last year Toronto won the Cup. <len> 62 <text> We lost [to them] in the finals, so I came close to winning another Cup.\u201d\n\nOff To The New Frontier\n\nAlthough Vachon won his third Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1970-71, it was Ken Dryden who backstopped the Canadiens in the playoffs, winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the playoffs. <len> 15 <text> Vachon knew the Canadiens would anoint Dryden as their number one goaltender after that. <len> 19 <text> \u201cIt was pretty disappointing because I was just starting my career, too,\u201d said Vachon. <len> 44 <text> \u201cBut Kenny comes in, plays all the playoffs, wins the Cup and winds up the MVP of the playoffs.\u201d\n\n\u201cI knew that management was going to go with him the [next] season,\u201d added Vachon. <len> 55 <text> \u201cI was still young and I wanted to be the number one goalie somewhere, so I asked to be traded.\u201d\n\nThe Habs honored his wishes, trading Vachon to the Kings on November 4, 1971, in exchange for Denis Dejordy, Dale Hoganson, Noel Price and Doug Robinson. <len> 21 <text> For Vachon, exchanging the Canadiens sweater for a Kings jersey was a drastic change, to say the least. <len> 17 <text> \u201cIt was a culture shock, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d Vachon reminisced. <len> 18 <text> \u201cComing from the best team in hockey to here where the team was lousy\u2014we were terrible. <len> 61 <text> That year, I popped my knee so I was out for the year and we were out of the playoffs by Christmas, that\u2019s how bad we were.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t only the weather outside, but also, we didn\u2019t have a lot of fans coming in,\u201d added Vachon. <len> 13 <text> \u201cCompared to Montreal where we had a sell-out for every game. <len> 25 <text> So yeah, it was a big difference.\u201d\n\nIndeed, Vachon went from a dynasty team to a struggling, four-year-old expansion franchise. <len> 19 <text> \u201cWhen I first [joined the Kings], it was pretty rough,\u201d said Vachon. <len> 53 <text> \u201cWe used to go on the road and sometimes, I would give up five goals and play an incredible game, but still lose 5-0.\u201d\n\n\u201cIn those days, we gave up a lot of scoring chances because we weren\u2019t as good,\u201d added Vachon. <len> 25 <text> \u201cEspecially the top teams like Boston, Montreal and the New York Rangers\u2014when they came into town, they just blew us away. <len> 37 <text> They spent eighty percent of the game in our zone.\u201d\n\nVachon toiled in the nets for a couple of awful Kings teams until they finally broke through and made the playoffs in the 1973-74 season. <len> 25 <text> \u201cWhen Bob Pulford came in as coach [in the 1972-73 season], it really changed things around,\u201d he said. <len> 20 <text> \u201cHe installed a good defensive system and they brought in some decent defensemen and a couple of scorers. <len> 37 <text> The franchise changed around quite a bit in 1974-75.\u201d\n\nThat season, when the Kings set a franchise record that still stands today with 105 points, is the one that stands out for Vachon. <len> 11 <text> \u201cIt was a good time,\u201d said Vachon. <len> 75 <text> \u201cWhen Pulford came in and we started to be respectable and a lot of fans started to come in, they made the trade for Marcel Dionne\u2014all of a sudden, the franchise started to get a little better.\u201d\n\nBut even though Vachon often won games all by himself on teams that were mediocre, at best, he was unable to get the Kings past the first round of the playoffs. <len> 24 <text> \u201cUnfortunately, in those days, the first playoff round was a two-out-of three, which was ridiculous,\u201d Vachon lamented. <len> 15 <text> \u201cYou lose the first game, you had no chance to come back. <len> 41 <text> We lost to Toronto and to [superstar goaltender] Tony [Esposito] and Chicago.\u201d\n\nDespite not being able to get the Kings out of the first round of the playoffs, Vachon was not just a superstar. <len> 19 <text> He was also a leader, a part of his game that he brought with him from Montreal. <len> 44 <text> Indeed, one of Vachon\u2019s most vivid memories about his time wearing the bleu, blanc et rouge (blue, white and red) jersey of the storied Canadiens is the attitude and pride that was present throughout the franchise. <len> 15 <text> \u201cWe had great defense and a lot of scoring,\u201d Vachon explained. <len> 10 <text> \u201cThere was so much tradition in those days. <len> 5 <text> Everyone refused to lose. <len> 31 <text> If we lost two games in a row, it was total panic in Montreal.\u201d\n\n\u201cThere was just so much pride in that jersey,\u201d Vachon elaborated. <len> 32 <text> \u201cIt meant so much for everybody, especially the players.\u201d\n\nBob Berry, a pro scout for the Kings, played six seasons with Vachon here in Los Angeles. <len> 47 <text> \u201cThe fact that [Vachon] came from [the Montreal Canadiens] organization, which still has a mystical, mythical ring to it\u2014but in those days, to come from Montreal, he was not just bringing Rogie Vachon,\u201d said Berry. <len> 21 <text> \u201cHe was bringing a little bit of one of the great championship organizations ever in any kind of sport. <len> 45 <text> It was special.\u201d\n\n\u201cHe was a competitive guy who had a lot to do with teaching us how to win because of the way he played and the way he competed when he first came here from Montreal,\u201d added Berry. <len> 20 <text> \u201cHe came here with really high credentials.\u201d\n\nBerry said that Vachon competitiveness is what he remembers most. <len> 38 <text> \u201cThere would be times, especially when we were at home, when we were asleep in the first period and got outshot, 12-4, and only be down, 1-0,\u201d Berry related. <len> 26 <text> \u201cRogie would come [into the dressing room] and break his stick over the water cart and that really was all he did. <len> 45 <text> He didn\u2019t curse or swear or anything.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe realized that here was a guy who was a winner, he was competitive and he really worked hard, and I\u2019m not making this up,\u201d Berry elaborated. <len> 8 <text> \u201cThis is the way it was. <len> 9 <text> [We thought], \u2018Jesus Christ. <len> 8 <text> He\u2019s really mad at us. <len> 20 <text> We\u2019d better get going,\u2019 and we did.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t usually verbal. <len> 10 <text> We all knew what kind of competitor he was. <len> 74 <text> It was just a tacit feeling throughout the room that Rogie was pissed off and that he\u2019s bailed us out so many times we\u2019d better get going, and I\u2019m sure if you asked all the other guys who were there, they\u2019d tell you the same thing.\u201d\n\nVachon explained that all he was trying to do was light a fire under his teammates. <len> 18 <text> \u201cIt did happen a few times and it was all about motivation,\u201d he said. <len> 12 <text> \u201cIt started in Montreal, doing that kind of stuff. <len> 13 <text> I hated to have anyone score on me, even in practice. <len> 39 <text> When you get used to that mentality, when you go into the games, sometimes I would come in after the first period after giving up a goal, I\u2019d say, \u2018All right. <len> 11 <text> You get me two goals and that\u2019s it. <len> 53 <text> We\u2019re going to win the game because they\u2019re not going to score another one.\u2019\u201d\n\nIndeed, even with superstar center Marcel Dionne joining the team in the 1975-76 season, Vachon was the biggest reason the Kings teams Berry played on had any success at all. <len> 40 <text> \u201cPart of us learning how to win as a team was to keep our goals against down and I think under coach Bob Pulford, we all thought we were doing things well defensively,\u201d Berry explained. <len> 8 <text> \u201cHe brought a lot to it. <len> 80 <text> But that said, it was still Rogie who was the last line of defense, and on most nights, when we would win close games, 3-1 or 2-1, or whatever it happened to be in those days, it was usually him who bailed us out and made big stops.\u201d\n\n\u201cHe would keep the ship afloat and we\u2019d finally understand that we\u2019d better get going,\u201d Berry stressed. <len> 14 <text> \u201cIt didn\u2019t happen every night, but it happened enough. <len> 30 <text> He taught us how to win.\u201d\n\nOf course, the leadership Vachon provided would have meant nothing if he was a poor or even just an average goaltender. <len> 11 <text> But he backed up his leadership with elite level skill. <len> 73 <text> \u201cHe was a goaltender, and there haven\u2019t been many in Kings history, that when he was in goal, you knew you had a chance to win the game, or that he would keep you in the game,\u201d said long-time \u201cVoice of the Kings,\u201d Bob Miller, who called the action for five of Vachon\u2019s seasons with the Kings. <len> 61 <text> \u201cHe was so good, so good,\u201d added Miller, the 2000 recipient of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award, recognizing those members of the radio and television industry who made outstanding contributions to their profession and the game during their career in hockey broadcasting, making him a media honoree in the Hockey Hall of Fame. <len> 17 <text> \u201cI remember one story\u2026we were in Chicago Stadium and Dennis Hull was playing for Chicago. <len> 22 <text> He came down left wing and, to this day, it was the hardest shot I\u2019ve ever seen. <len> 9 <text> It got deflected up into the third balcony. <len> 69 <text> I couldn\u2019t even see it.\u201d\n\n\u201cI saw Rogie later and I asked him, \u2018tell me what you\u2019re thinking when you see Dennis Hull ready to shoot.\u2019 He said, \u2018well, I know the only way I can stop it is if he hits me, so I hope he hits me.\u2019 I said, \u2018what? <len> 36 <text> !\u2019\u201d\n\nMiller, who is now in his 37th season of calling the action for the Kings, said that Vachon\u2019s courage was one of the reasons he was a superstar. <len> 17 <text> \u201cHe was a courageous goaltender and a huge fan favorite here,\u201d Miller explained. <len> 69 <text> \u201cI think he was probably the first real fan favorite here for the Kings and he had some outstanding games with teams that, early in his career and my career here, were defensive-minded teams under Bob Pulford.\u201d\n\n\u201cPully\u2019s idea of a great game was 1-0 and the puck went in off of somebody\u2019s rear end,\u201d Miller added. <len> 24 <text> \u201cBut [Vachon] fit that mold perfectly because he was so good.\u201d\n\nMiller marveled at Vachon\u2019s superior skill. <len> 14 <text> \u201cI remember how acrobatic he was in goal,\u201d said Miller. <len> 16 <text> \u201cThe other thing I remember is that he had such a good glove hand. <len> 73 <text> He\u2019d keep his glove down at his side and let he shooter think, \u2018I\u2019ve got that upper corner,\u2019 and then, all of a sudden, he\u2019d flash that glove up.\u201d\n\n\u201cI remember some of the games against the Montreal Canadiens and games against some of the other teams that were really good at the time,\u201d added Miller. <len> 21 <text> \u201cPlayers used to think, \u2018I\u2019ve got him\u2019 and he\u2019d make the save. <len> 52 <text> He was really fun to watch, there was no doubt about that.\u201d\n\nShame On The Hockey Hall of Fame\n\nAs stated earlier, Vachon\u2019s career statistics and accomplishments make a rock solid case for him being more than worthy of induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame. <len> 66 <text> \u201cHe wasn\u2019t a big guy, yet he played so well and really, the shame is that he\u2019s not in the Hockey Hall of Fame when the numbers he has are better than some who are in the Hall of Fame, and he has those seasons and those numbers with very mediocre Kings teams,\u201d said Miller. <len> 24 <text> \u201cThe nights he played for us, he certainly was in the [Hall of Fame] category,\u201d said Berry. <len> 42 <text> Vachon\u2019s stellar play in the 1976 Canada Cup tournament also adds to his credentials, as he led Canada to the tournament championship with a 1.39 goals-against average, a .963 save percentage and two shutouts in seven games. <len> 18 <text> He was named as the best goalie of the tournament and the Most Valuable Player for Canada. <len> 12 <text> \u201cThat was pretty awesome, too,\u201d Vachon beamed. <len> 20 <text> \u201cIt\u2019s totally different from winning the Stanley Cup because you\u2019re playing for your country. <len> 29 <text> We had such a great team and I was really hot in goal, but we still had to go into overtime to win the [championship]. <len> 26 <text> That\u2019s how good the other teams were.\u201d\n\n\u201cI remember the last game we played against the Czechs,\u201d Vachon added. <len> 12 <text> I made one of the best glove saves of my career. <len> 19 <text> A forward came in, about thirty feet away, I think it was [Ivan] Hlinka. <len> 13 <text> He was the top star in those days for the Czech team. <len> 54 <text> I just grabbed it and that was in overtime.\u201d\n\nThe biggest reason Vachon has been overlooked by the Hockey Hall of Fame is because during his time in the NHL, cable and satellite television, the World Wide Web, YouTube, mobile phones and the like, did not exist. <len> 17 <text> Moreover, the Kings only had about fifteen games on television each season at the time. <len> 15 <text> \u201cThere were very, very few games on TV,\u201d Vachon explained. <len> 42 <text> \u201cThere were probably 15-20 games broadcast locally and the all people back East would just read about it in the paper.\u201d\n\nTo be sure, Vachon played in complete anonymity on most nights except to those in Southern California. <len> 11 <text> \u201cIt\u2019s pretty strange,\u201d said Vachon. <len> 38 <text> \u201cWhen you played in the West in those days, you didn\u2019t get the recognition that guys like [Ed] Giacomin got in New York or some of the guys playing in Montreal. <len> 44 <text> It hurt some of the guys here, including me.\u201d\n\n\u201cIf you compare my numbers with the guys who were inducted at that time, there\u2019s no question that I should\u2019ve been there,\u201d added Vachon. <len> 47 <text> \u201cBut what are you going to do?\u201d\n\n\u201cIf [Vachon] had [been the number one goaltender] in Montreal [for all those years], he would have been a first ballot Hall of Famer,\u201d Miller emphasized. <len> 34 <text> \u201cBut he did it here and they didn\u2019t hear about it.\u201d\n\nAlthough Vachon does not seem to be bitter about being passed over for induction, he is disappointed. <len> 24 <text> \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing,\u201d he said, \u201cEvery hockey player dreams about being in the Hockey Hall of Fame. <len> 34 <text> But certain things in life you can\u2019t control and that\u2019s one of them.\u201d\n\nVachon came ever so close to induction in 1987, his first year of eligibility. <len> 27 <text> \u201cThe first time around, someone on the [selection] committee told me that I had missed by one vote,\u201d he said. <len> 13 <text> \u201cThat\u2019s missing from my resume,\u201d he added. <len> 19 <text> \u201cEven though my jersey has been retired [by the Kings], that\u2019s it. <len> 21 <text> [Induction into the Hall of Fame is] the ultimate for an athlete, to be in the hall. <len> 13 <text> All the people come in and see that you\u2019re there. <len> 10 <text> It would mean a lot.\u201d\n\nBut since 1987? <len> 2 <text> Nothing. <len> 5 <text> Nevertheless, hope remains. <len> 45 <text> \u201cA few years ago, Dick Duff, [who played in Montreal, Toronto and briefly in Los Angeles] had to wait all those years but they finally put him in the Hall [in 2006],\u201d said Vachon. <len> 39 <text> \u201cHe was like me, waiting more than twenty or thirty years.\u201d\n\nMiller said that the Hockey Hall of Fame\u2019s credibility is weakened by the fact that Vachon is still not an honored member. <len> 34 <text> \u201cIt really is a shame and the Hockey Hall of Fame should be ashamed of themselves that he wasn\u2019t nominated earlier or not nominated at all,\u201d said Miller. <len> 104 <text> \u201cIf some of those guys who are on the Selection Committee played against him, I would think they would say yes, he deserves to be in there.\u201d\n\n\u201cHe deserves to be in the Hall of Fame, there\u2019s no doubt about it.\u201d\n\nAudio Interviews (raw, unedited)\n\nRogie Vachon (25:40)\n\nBob Berry (3:48)\n\nBob Miller (8:18; includes a couple of brief, cameo appearances by his grandson)\n\nThe Hockey Hall of Fame accepts letters from interested parties (including fans) nominating people for possible induction. <len> 47 <text> You can send letters and supporting documentation to:\n\nJim Gregory\n\nSelection Committee Co-Chair\n\nHockey Hall of Fame\n\nBrookfield Place\n\n30 Yonge St.\n\nToronto, ON M5E 1X8\n\nRelated Stories:\n\nFrozen Royalty by Gann Matsuda is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. <len> 31 <text> You may copy, distribute and/or transmit any story or audio content published on this site under the terms of this license, but only if proper attribution is indicated. <len> 20 <text> The full name of the author and a link back to the original article on this site are required. <len> 16 <text> Photographs, graphic images, and other content not specified are subject to additional restrictions. <len> 14 <text> Additional information is available at: Frozen Royalty \u2013 Licensing and Copyright Information. <len> 6 <text> Frozen Royalty\u2019s Comment Policies"}
{"text": "<len> 16 <text> Arizona Cardinals guard Jonathan Cooper has had a very unfortunate start to his NFL career. <len> 13 <text> In his first preseason game his rookie year he broke his leg. <len> 15 <text> After coming back from that, he suffered turf toe in the 2014 preseason. <len> 27 <text> He couldn't crack the starting lineup, but got a chance to play for a couple of games, only to suffer a broken wrist. <len> 38 <text> But looking ahead to 2015, there is a lot expected of Cooper, as general manager Steve Keim said while in the studio as a guest for \"Newsmakers Week\" on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM. <len> 29 <text> Keim, who compared Cooper to linemen like Alan Faneca when he drafted him, wonders \"it is bad luck\" with Cooper and all the injuries. <len> 9 <text> Cooper never before had suffered a significant injury. <len> 24 <text> His recovery time and subsequent injuries, though, cause Keim to say \"you have a lot of questions\" about him. <len> 18 <text> Keim is optimistic, though, because of what he saw as the season progressed in 2014. <len> 28 <text> \"You were concerned for a while because after the injury, you saw him limping around a little bit,\" Keim explained on the air. <len> 29 <text> \"By the middle of the season, you started to see his natural bend, his athleticism, his speed -- the reason why we drafted him. <len> 7 <text> You saw that coming back.\" <len> 27 <text> Cooper has to overcome his wrist injury, but, at least this time, he will have completely healthy legs and feet entering offseason workouts. <len> 11 <text> The team badly needs him to play well in 2015. <len> 20 <text> \"He's a guy, like Kevin Minter, who has to step up,\" said Keim. <len> 15 <text> \"He has to stay injury free and we have huge expectations for him. <len> 8 <text> He has got to stay healthy.\" <len> 34 <text> If he doesn't, he just might be lumped into the pile of highly drafted offensive linemen (Levi Brown, Leonard Davis) the Cardinals have had and not panned out."}
{"text": "<len> 7 <text> Ihsahn is recording a new album! <len> 21 <text> With the last three records being damn near perfect, it's hard not to get ecstatic about this one. <len> 39 <text> Last year we saw Ihsahn's Eremita, which wasn't so much announced by either himself or the label as it was a bunch of people finding the record being listed on Amazon and collectively freaking out. <len> 41 <text> With that being released in June of 2012, nobody really expected anything out of him this year given his pace of one album every other year; or as we all know it, \"the normal pace.\" <len> 49 <text> Expectations have been greatly exceeded, as Ihsahn's wife's blog, Star of Ash, as posted a a few pictures of Ihsahn standing in front of a drum kit with Tobias of Leprous with the caption-\n\nIhsahn and Tobias recording drums in Juke Joint Studio. <len> 6 <text> Well then, work away! <len> 20 <text> The fact that he's already in the recording process makes me wonder where all this material came from. <len> 33 <text> Not that I'm doubting the quality of his musicianship, but it's pretty astounding to have put out a record eight months ago and already be recording the next one. <len> 10 <text> Maybe it's a shorter release or an EP? <len> 23 <text> Or maybe he's working with Scion A/V to put out something short and free, which I certainly wouldn't doubt. <len> 37 <text> The bottom line is that I really don't care how much material he's recording or on what medium it'll be out- the fact that new Ihsahn jams are in the works is amazing. <len> 11 <text> Update:\n\nSo yeah, autumn can get here now. <len> 5 <text> That would be alright. <len> 2 <text> Related Posts"}
{"text": "<len> 92 <text> Among the Trees\n\n\u276e\u276e Newer Download | Full View Older \u276f\u276f Submission \u00a9 2015 EmilyThePenguin Main Gallery\n\n416 submissions\n\nAmong the Trees - by EmilyThePenguin Submission information:\n\nPosted:\n\nCategory: Artwork (Digital)\n\nTheme: General Furry Art\n\nSpecies: Unspecified / Any\n\nGender: Multiple characters\n\nFavorites: 48\n\nComments: 16\n\nViews: 693\n\nImage Specifications:\n\nResolution: 1000x667\n\nKeywords:\n\njungle vines vine tree trees environment color study leopard angrylittlephoenix commission backgorund deer anthro\n\noh my goodness I'm really proud of this one. <len> 30 <text> It started as a commission for angrylittlephoenix (an excellent person over on DA), but ended up being a great color/background study for me as well!! <len> 27 <text> : D\n\nI hope that this piece will be the stepping stone for me to try my ambitious things, like unusual backgrounds and lighting techniques. <len> 31 <text> I really REALLY need to push myself more with style and color, especially since I want to make an effort to get into an animation school of some sort. <len> 8 <text> The more portfolio-ish stuff, the better! <len> 7 <text> I hope you guys like it! <len> 8 <text> characters \u00a9 angrylittlephoenix\n\ndrawing \u00a9 Emily the Penguin"}
{"text": "<len> 32 <text> Every Sunday night for the past three months, millions of Americans chose to spurn The Bachelor and instead accompany astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on an hour-long trip across the universe. <len> 56 <text> From its first episode in March until its finale last night, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey \u2014 a redux of astronomer Carl Sagan\u2019s seminal 1980 documentary series \u2014 brought a little bit of intelligence to the country\u2019s television screens in a 13-chapter love letter to the craft of scientific exploration. <len> 26 <text> It touched on topics ranging from black holes to climate change, consistently pulling in more than 3 million viewers in the U.S. each week. <len> 23 <text> Not terrible for a country where a quarter of the population doesn\u2019t get that the Earth revolves around the sun. <len> 39 <text> Though it only aired for one quick season, broadcasting on Fox on Sunday nights and National Geographic the evening after, the series was the result of nearly a decade of collaboration between a fairly motley crew. <len> 38 <text> After Sagan, whose original series three decades ago was a \u201cwatershed moment for science-themed television programming,\u201d died in 1996, his widow Ann Druyan aimed to keep her husband\u2019s vision alive. <len> 48 <text> But even after she enlisted the no-doubt influential support of Tyson \u2014 the \u201cworld\u2019s most famous astrophysicist,\u201d (and the sexiest one according to a 2000 People story) \u2014 the series\u2019 revival struggled to make it off the drawing board. <len> 17 <text> The Brief Newsletter Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know right now. <len> 58 <text> View Sample Sign Up Now\n\nEnter Seth MacFarlane \u2014 the Family Guy creator who, if you look beyond the animated show\u2019s early-season fart jokes that often earned it flak for being crude or sophomoric, is so clearly a closet nerd (consider, for instance, his penchant for Broadway show tunes). <len> 24 <text> In 2009, Tyson introduced him to Druyan; a New York Times story last year says the two are now close friends. <len> 45 <text> MacFarlane, a fan of Sagan\u2019s original series and an outspoken critic of America\u2019s apparent dumbing-down epidemic, agreed to bankroll the project, earning him the title of executive producer of the show that otherwise may not have been. <len> 56 <text> After last night\u2019s episode, which addressed the still largely hypothetical topic of \u201cdark matter,\u201d MacFarlane retweeted a photo posted by Tyson: featuring the two of them, clad in black tie, each cracking open a can of Schlitz, perched on a model of a crescent moon. <len> 7 <text> Contact us at editors@time.com."}
{"text": "<len> 21 <text> Update 8:00 PM ET: A spokesperson for Dr. Luke has issued a statement in response to Kesha's post. <len> 14 <text> Read it in full here:\n\n\"Kesha's Instagram posting is false. <len> 26 <text> The Court repeatedly stated Kesha is already free to record without Dr. Luke, and that she had not presented any facts supporting her claims. <len> 21 <text> That's because all the evidence - including Kesha's own videotaped sworn testimony - show her allegations are false. <len> 53 <text> The only thing Kesha is not free to do is to continue to lie about Dr. Luke through publicity stunts and outrageous smears, ignoring the fact that by her own free will she went to work and entered new contracts with Dr. Luke years after this \"incident\" supposedly happened. <len> 29 <text> Her goal all along has been solely personal enrichment by seeking to break contracts that brought her success and millions so she can enter into more lucrative ones. <len> 16 <text> We look forward to our day in court holding Kesha accountable for her lies.\" <len> 23 <text> Original story:\n\nKesha's latest Instagram post is a window into how difficult the ongoing battle is with her record label. <len> 39 <text> According to Kesha, Sony and Kemosabe Records (the label of her alleged rapist Dr. Luke) would be willing to release her from her contract only if she publicly apologizes and says she was never raped. <len> 7 <text> But Kesha is not giving in. <len> 39 <text> The photo shows Kesha with a makeup-free face and bare shoulders looking vulnerable but powerful, matching her statement that \"I would rather let the truth ruin my career than lie for a monster ever again.\" <len> 5 <text> Stay strong, Kesha!"}
{"text": "<len> 38 <text> 43 SHARES Share Tweet\n\nBlackberry Hamburg or Blackberry Neon is soon going to be official in the upcoming days as the Blackberry itself leaked the device by listing it on its official website with images and specifications. <len> 27 <text> The live listing page for the device is currently taken down by the company but the device official page can be seen through Google cached pages. <len> 21 <text> This new device will be launched as Blackberry NEON (DTEK 50) if we check the official device listing. <len> 10 <text> The specifications details of the device are available here. <len> 20 <text> The device has recently got the FCC approval with model number STH100-2 confirming that it will be TCL made. <len> 26 <text> The images were also visible with the listing which are not available on the Blackberry server, only one image is available on server here. <len> 25 <text> According to the official listing, the Blackberry Neon will have a 5.2-inch Full HD diagonal Scratch-Resistant display with 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution. <len> 40 <text> There is no physical keyboard available but an onscreen BlackBerry keyboard with contextual auto-correction, next-word prediction and a personalised learning engine that gets to know the way you type with on screen flick typing or seamless flow typing. <len> 27 <text> Blackberry Neon comes with 3GB of RAM and 16 GB inbuilt storage capacity with up to 2TB expandable storage capacity via hot swappable microSD memory card. <len> 31 <text> It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 octa-core 64-bit (8952) processor (Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 and Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53) with 550MHz Adreno 405 GPU. <len> 13 <text> It runs on the Android 6.0 Marshmallow SO out of the box. <len> 72 <text> It features a 13-megapixel auto-focus rear camera with Phase Detection Auto Focus (PDAF), Fast focus lock, HDR, 6-element f2.0 lens, Dual tone dual LED Flash \u2013 Enhanced photo colour balance, 4x digital zoom, continuous & touch to focus, face detection, image stabilisation, Panorama, Burst, Live Filters, Multi-frame Low Light Enhancement 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps. <len> 56 <text> It also has a 8-megapixel fixed-focus front facing camera with f2.2 aperture, 1.125um pixel size, 84\u02da wide angle/field of view lens, Image & video stabilisation, 1080p HD video recording at 30 fps, Selfie Flash, Wide Selfie Mode (also known as Selfie Panorama) and Multi-Frame Low Light Enhancement. <len> 38 <text> It will be backed up by a 2610 mAh 4.4V non-removable Lithium Ion battery with Quick Charge 2.0 enabled capable of 50% charge in 51 minutes and can give up to 17 hours mixed battery life. <len> 49 <text> Connectivity options includes 4G LTE, 3G, 2G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz with 4G Mobile Hotspot and Wi-Fi Direct, FM Radio, Bluetooth 4.2 LE and EDR, GPS with Assisted, Autonomous and Simultaneous GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, OTDOA, NFC. <len> 19 <text> It has Accelerometer, Magnetometer, Gyroscope, Proximity, Ambient light and Hall Effect sensors also available. <len> 11 <text> It also comes with an on-screen or white LED indicator. <len> 18 <text> Blackberry Neon is expected to launch with $350 price tag at the time of its launch."}
{"text": "<len> 37 <text> Coming Soon\n\nFormula 1: Drive to Survive\n\nDrivers, managers and team owners live life in the fast lane -- both on and off the track -- during one cutthroat season of Formula 1 racing. <len> 29 <text> Wine Country\n\nWhen a group of longtime girlfriends goes to Napa for the weekend to celebrate their friend's 50th birthday, tensions from the past boil over. <len> 28 <text> Christmas in the Wild\n\nAfter her husband leaves her, a stylish New Yorker goes on an African safari alone and finds new purpose in her life. <len> 7 <text> Kristin Davis and Rob Lowe star. <len> 22 <text> Tijuana\n\nWhen a prominent politician is murdered in cold blood, intrepid local journalists risk their lives to uncover the truth. <len> 19 <text> Six Underground\n\nRyan Reynolds stars in this action film from the creators of the \u201cDeadpool\u201d franchise. <len> 33 <text> Mirage\n\nA space-time continuum glitch allows Vera to save a boy's life 25 years earlier, but results in the loss of her daughter, whom she fights to get back. <len> 33 <text> Behind Her Eyes\n\nBulbul\n\nA man returns home after years to find his brother\u2019s child bride now grown up and abandoned, and his ancestral village plagued by mysterious deaths."}
{"text": "<len> 29 <text> Related: Rose Namajunas Down to Fight Michelle Waterson\n\nThe UFC's strawweight division has always been filled with talented fighters who love to put on exciting scraps. <len> 26 <text> Joanna Jedrzejczyk has set the bar as queen of the division by proving that she's capable of taking on all challengers in jaw-dropping performances. <len> 34 <text> However, there is one top ranked competitor knocking on the door, waiting for her opportunity.Michelle Waterson has taken the UFC by storm with her infectious personality and effective karate-based fight style. <len> 60 <text> Currently 2-0 in the UFC, with both wins coming by way of submission, \"The Karate Hottie\" has not only won on the big stage but has looked great doing it.Waterson's second fight in the UFC was against rising star Paige VanZant, in one of the most watched bouts in the division's history. <len> 28 <text> Both are extremely marketable fighters and it was clear the winner of the bout would receive a little extra push from the promotion to create a star. <len> 31 <text> With Waterson emerging victorious, the fruits of her labor are beginning to show as the UFC blocked off a special media event in Brooklyn during UFC 208 fight week. <len> 6 <text> \"It's crazy!\" <len> 4 <text> Waterson told FloCombat. <len> 25 <text> \"You know, I'm just trying to soak it all in, take it day by day and just enjoy the process. <len> 77 <text> \"Currently ranked seventh in the strawweight division, there were rumors of Waterson being next in line for a title shot against Jedrzejczyk.UFC President Dana White has recently stated the next challenger for the title will be Jessica Andrade on the heels of her victory over Angela Hill at UFC Fight Night 104 in Houston.Waterson completely understands why Jessica deserves the title shot next but feels she's close to her shot at UFC gold. <len> 33 <text> While not wanting to wait to watch the division shake out, she believes another top ranked opponent comes next on the path to the title - Rose Namajunas or Karolina Kowalkiewicz. <len> 15 <text> \"I match up great with both of those girls,\" Waterson stated. <len> 21 <text> \"Rose is a little bit more creative when it comes to utilizing all of the different parts of MMA. <len> 25 <text> \"Waterson continued, \"Karolina sits down a little bit more on her punches, she's a little bit more 'clinchy.' <len> 26 <text> I think either one of those fights would be lots of fun for me to go in and try to use my strategy against them. <len> 31 <text> \"While training and teaching cardio kickboxing once a week, there's not much time left to dedicate to one of her passions - teaching martial arts to children. <len> 33 <text> Having a young daughter of her own who is growing up learning martial arts helps fuel that passion.There is also another reason Waterson loves teaching, one that benefits her fighting career. <len> 17 <text> \"When you teach, you have to be able to break it down very simplistically. <len> 24 <text> When you break it down, you're forcing yourself to go through the steps - step by step,\" Waterson explained. <len> 19 <text> \"It forces you to revisit the basics, which are the most important parts of any sport. <len> 51 <text> \"Very much the family fighter, as displayed in her documentary \"Fight Mom,\" Waterson is sporting a new tattoo on her right forearm, matched with her husband's left forearm, dedicated to the love they share as they prepare to celebrate nine years together. <len> 30 <text> \"We always talked about it, his birthday was coming up, and instead of taking him to the movies, I took him to the tattoo shop! <len> 13 <text> I made him get it first to see if it looked good! <len> 27 <text> \"While certainly enjoying the new spotlight shined upon her, the ideal time frame for Waterson's next bout would be between April or May. <len> 25 <text> Should she come away with a win, her eyes will then be set on a title shot before the end of the year. <len> 39 <text> \"Everybody writes down their New Year's resolutions, and one of my New Year's resolutions was to fight for the belt in 2017, so we're gonna try and make that happen.\""}
{"text": "<len> 42 <text> The UX of a Banana \u2014 Understanding What UX Design is All About\n\nMegan Wilson Blocked Unblock Follow Following Feb 21, 2017\n\nUX Designer to UX Designer, have you ever noticed the irony of describing what UX design is? <len> 35 <text> At a recent cocktail party, I spoke over our fancy pink drinks towards the confused face looking back at me and realized that this, this very moment, was a terrible UX. <len> 30 <text> Being the diligent UX designer I am, I decided to design a method of describing UX that, in itself, provides a good UX for my audience. <len> 17 <text> Introducing \u201cThe UX of a Banana \u2014 Understanding What UX Design is All About\u201d. <len> 13 <text> Feel free to steal this explanation for your next UX small talk. <len> 21 <text> It\u2019s the UX description that avoids the technical jargon, gets the point across and is entertaining too. <len> 3 <text> Go bananas. <len> 42 <text> The UX of a Banana\n\nThere\u2019s a lot of fruit in the produce aisle, but if any one type of fruit was designed by Mother Nature for the user experience, it would have to be the banana. <len> 27 <text> A banana tastes good and is good for you, but there are other factors of its design that add to this optimal experience of snacking. <len> 14 <text> The color of a Banana makes it easy to know it is ready. <len> 22 <text> Most of us will use our eyes to observe a banana long before we smell, touch, or taste it. <len> 21 <text> Just by looking at a banana, there\u2019s no question of if it\u2019s ready or not. <len> 9 <text> Bananas have a built in accurate visual cue. <len> 25 <text> You don\u2019t have to waste time questioning or testing to see if it is ready because it is designed to be obvious. <len> 40 <text> They\u2019re green before they\u2019re ready, they\u2019re brown once they\u2019re past their prime, but that bright yellow peel means it\u2019s at its best flavor and ready to eat. <len> 9 <text> A Banana can be eaten when and wherever. <len> 36 <text> Not only does the peel of the banana show when it\u2019s ready to be eaten, the peel also makes it super easy to take on the go and eat when you want. <len> 4 <text> Bananas are mobile. <len> 24 <text> The peel is thick and protects the fruit and when it is time to eat the banana, it peels easily without tools. <len> 19 <text> To eat a banana, you don\u2019t have to carry around a cutting board and knife. <len> 5 <text> Bananas are not messy. <len> 24 <text> You don\u2019t have to wash them before you eat them and they don\u2019t leave your hands a mess either. <len> 14 <text> And neither the peel nor the fruit will stain you or your clothes. <len> 6 <text> Bananas are easy to eat. <len> 19 <text> Once peeled, eating a banana is a seamless experience because there is nothing else in the way. <len> 19 <text> There are no hidden seeds, a pit in the middle, or a core to work around. <len> 11 <text> Biting into a banana is a comfortable and effortless experience. <len> 18 <text> The user can enjoy every bite knowing there is only good flavor and good nutrition to come. <len> 9 <text> Bananas are widely available and have meaningful effects. <len> 26 <text> Bananas are grown on every continent and are available worldwide, all year long and are inexpensive, making them accessible to just about everyone. <len> 18 <text> Bananas are the only fruit containing the amino acid tryptophan and vitamin B6 which help produce serotonin. <len> 13 <text> Serotonin alleviates depression which means that bananas can literally make you happy. <len> 28 <text> And there\u2019s also this bonus \u201cfeature\u201d when you press directly on the end of a banana: it naturally splits into perfect thirds. <len> 24 <text> It\u2019s a little like finding one of those Google Easter Eggs designed for no other reason than for you to enjoy. <len> 34 <text> Comparing Bananas to Other Fruit\n\nOther fruit have their advantages, but when it comes to the entire experience\u2026 they all have some fault making them not quite as nice as the banana. <len> 21 <text> Sure, there are fruits much prettier than bananas, but being aesthetically pleasing is a different kind of design. <len> 27 <text> There are also fruits that have better nutritional value, but if nutrition were the only important part we might as well just take a vitamin. <len> 24 <text> And there are definitely fruits that taste better than bananas, but taste is just one sense to experience a piece of fruit. <len> 16 <text> UX design is about the entire experience from start to finish of consuming the product. <len> 11 <text> Watermelons, cantaloupe, and honeydew are large and heavy. <len> 10 <text> Just bringing them from the store is a chore. <len> 19 <text> The range of berries all are small, but so delicate you need proper containers to transport them. <len> 32 <text> Apples, pears, plums and peaches \u2014 if we\u2019re not talking about their seeds, don\u2019t forget you have to clean them before the first bite. <len> 10 <text> The entire line up of citrus fruits are mess. <len> 7 <text> Pomegranates are a pain to prepare. <len> 7 <text> Do I need to go on? <len> 21 <text> Relating Banana UX to Tech\n\nSome UX designers work offline, but the majority of us work with digital products. <len> 28 <text> The human-computer interaction or HCI has dramatically improved over the last ten, five, or even the last year in large part because of UX designers. <len> 33 <text> If you navigate through an app or website with a smile on your face, there\u2019s probably a UX designer out there who created the interface specifically for that reaction. <len> 30 <text> The job requires that we understand the capabilities of the product, how the user will naturally act with the technology and connect the two with strategic design thinking. <len> 9 <text> The unwanted popup after you already signed up? <len> 8 <text> That\u2019s spitting out a seed. <len> 45 <text> But when a popup has the information you need in the exact moment you need it, that\u2019s \u201cBanana UX.\u201d\n\nWalkMe pioneered the Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) for organizations to utilize the full potential of their digital assets. <len> 23 <text> Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, WalkMe adds a dynamic user interface layer to raise the digital literacy of all users."}
{"text": "<len> 10 <text> LOS ANGELES\u2014America\u2019s love affair with the J.R.R. <len> 46 <text> Tolkien epic-fantasy saga Lord Of The Rings, a romance which has flowered ever since the 2001 release of the Fellowship Of The Ring film adaptation, has damaged the nation\u2019s long-term relationship with George Lucas\u2019 Star Wars saga, perhaps irreparably. <len> 38 <text> \u201cWhen I first laid eyes on Star Wars, it was love at first sight,\u201d said Los Angeles comic-book-store proprietor Michael Janus, 33, who was just 8 when he encountered the film. <len> 32 <text> \u201cFor the rest of that summer of \u201877, my life was Star Wars.\u201d\n\nAdvertisement\n\nThat love only deepened with the 1980 release of The Empire Strikes Back. <len> 13 <text> \u201cEmpire took things to the next level,\u201d Janus said. <len> 19 <text> \u201cI loved Star Wars, but when Empire came out, things really started to get serious. <len> 15 <text> That\u2019s when I moved beyond toys and all the other kid stuff. <len> 60 <text> Suddenly, there were conventions and fan clubs and books and collectibles.\u201d\n\nThe sequel\u2019s many attractive qualities, as well as Lucas\u2019 promise of a new film every three years into the next century, cemented America\u2019s commitment to the series, and Star Wars became a major part of its pop-cultural life. <len> 32 <text> Advertisement\n\nFor much of the nation, the first sign of trouble arose sometime around the relationship\u2019s six-year mark, with the 1983 release of Return Of The Jedi. <len> 27 <text> \u201cJedi was when things first started getting a little weird,\u201d said Eric DiCillo, 35, a Rockford, IL, graphic designer. <len> 14 <text> \u201cLike, Princess Leia turns out to be Luke\u2019s sister? <len> 8 <text> That really came out of left field. <len> 26 <text> And Boba Fett, this cool, mysterious character whose role was so vital in Empire, suddenly dies in a stupid piece of comedy. <len> 30 <text> For the first time, I felt like Lucas wasn\u2019t taking me seriously.\u201d\n\n\u201cI mean, I still loved Star Wars,\u201d DiCillo continued. <len> 15 <text> \u201cEven at that point, there were plenty of good times between us. <len> 28 <text> When Darth Vader pitched the Emperor into the abyss, well, let\u2019s just say I\u2019d never experienced a climax like that before. <len> 53 <text> But I\u2019d be lying if I said I was 100 percent happy.\u201d\n\nAdvertisement\n\nUnsure where the relationship was headed after Return Of The Jedi, the nation took time off from Star Wars, deciding to see other films during a \u201ccooling off\u201d period of 16 years. <len> 41 <text> \u201cI know George needed to get his head together on where this whole Star Wars thing was going,\u201d DiCillo said, \u201cso it was for the best that we went our separate ways for a while. <len> 53 <text> It felt like a betrayal, seeing other sci-fi movies, but I knew that if it was meant to be, we\u2019d eventually find our way back to each other.\u201d\n\nAdvertisement\n\nEven during the trial-separation period, Lucas\u2019 evasiveness and erratic behavior threatened to derail the relationship. <len> 31 <text> \u201cSomewhere along the way, the saga of nine movies mysteriously turned into six,\u201d said Chris Cavanagh, 29, an Arlington, TX, insurance agent. <len> 15 <text> \u201cI remember, at one point, it was supposed to be 12. <len> 15 <text> And I\u2019m thinking, does Lucas have a long-term plan for us? <len> 22 <text> I started out determined to see this relationship through to the end, but everything he did made me question it. <len> 35 <text> I even started thinking he was just after my money.\u201d\n\n\u201cThrough it all, though,\u201d Cavanagh continued, \u201cI just kept telling myself, \u2018He\u2019ll change. <len> 12 <text> He\u2019s got something truly special planned for the prequels. <len> 39 <text> This can work.\u2019\u201d\n\nAdvertisement\n\nThe nation\u2019s hopes for a reconciliation were dashed in 1999, when, after a seemingly eternal wait, the disappointing Episode I\u2014The Phantom Menace left the nation feeling hollow. <len> 21 <text> \u201cBy that point, the Star Wars films had lost their ability to move me,\u201d Janus said. <len> 35 <text> \u201cAfter seeing Phantom Menace, I started reflecting on the earlier films, and I realized they just weren\u2019t as deep and fulfilling as they\u2019d seemed at the time. <len> 51 <text> During that initial infatuation period, from \u201877 to \u201883, I guess I was too swept up in the magic of the whole thing to see that there were major problems.\u201d\n\n\u201cI stuck it out, I really did,\u201d a saddened Janus said. <len> 8 <text> \u201cI tried to make it work. <len> 12 <text> But Star Wars just didn\u2019t hold up its end. <len> 7 <text> A relationship is a two-way street. <len> 29 <text> If George had told me he didn\u2019t want to do any more Star Wars movies after the original trilogy, yes, that would have hurt. <len> 13 <text> But it would have been better than dragging me along like this. <len> 41 <text> What he ended up doing was just passive-aggressive bullshit.\u201d\n\nAdvertisement\n\nThe flaws in America\u2019s relationship with Star Wars became painfully apparent in 2000, when it was introduced to the film version of Fellowship Of The Ring. <len> 32 <text> \u201cI felt really guilty about it, but I couldn\u2019t help but compare this exciting new thing in my life to my longtime relationship,\u201d DiCillo said. <len> 14 <text> \u201cAnd when I did, I found Star Wars coming up short. <len> 30 <text> As much as I tried to deny it, the dialogue, acting, story structure, and special effects in Lord Of The Rings were all undeniably superior. <len> 21 <text> Everything happens for a reason in it, and it all builds toward a thrilling, satisfying series of climaxes. <len> 34 <text> I wish I could say the same for my first love.\u201d\n\nFrustrated with the increasingly bloated, self-indulgent Star Wars universe, the nation shifted its affections toward the Peter Jackson films. <len> 18 <text> Advertisement\n\n\u201cLord Of The Rings gave me things Star Wars never could,\u201d Janus said. <len> 51 <text> \u201cIf it hadn\u2019t been for Peter Jackson showing me what a fantasy saga can be, I might have settled for [summer 2002's] Attack Of The Clones as the best I could ever hope for.\u201d\n\nDiCillo has experienced a similar change of heart. <len> 18 <text> \u201cI\u2019m not completely shutting Star Wars out of my life,\u201d DiCillo said. <len> 26 <text> \u201cI\u2019m sure I\u2019ll see Episode III when it comes out, but I\u2019m done waiting in line overnight. <len> 65 <text> When [third Rings installment] Return Of The King comes out, I know it\u2019ll be a proper trilogy-ending climax, and not some slapdash retread of the more memorable parts from the first two films.\u201d\n\nAdvertisement\n\n\u201cObviously, I\u2019m disappointed that things didn\u2019t work out between Star Wars and me,\u201d DiCillo added. <len> 12 <text> \u201cBut I\u2019m grateful for the time we had. <len> 24 <text> I grew a lot as a person, and I\u2019ll always have my beautiful memories of the Battle of Hoth.\u201d"}
{"text": "<len> 17 <text> We\u2019re continuing Honeyfund\u2019s 10th anniversary celebration with the Great Wedding Gifts Giveaway! <len> 48 <text> Every week day from May 20 through June 17, we\u2019ll be giving away a wedding gift a day, including classic wedding gifts from Le Creuset, Macy\u2019s, and eBags as well as modern gifts from Microsoft, Hotels.com and Fairmont. <len> 20 <text> On the last day, we\u2019ll award the Grand Prize: a 4 night/5-day Sandals Resort Getaway! <len> 17 <text> The contest is open to past, current and future Honeyfund couples, so enter today! <len> 31 <text> Complete Prize List:\n\nLe Creuset Classic Dutch Oven\n\nLe Creuset Sauce Pan\n\nLe Creuset Braiser\n\nLe Creuset Serving Platter\n\nCuisinart Blender & Food Processor from Macy\u2019s\n\nJ.A. <len> 4 <text> Henckels Pro 7-Pc. <len> 103 <text> Cutlery Set from Macy\u2019s\n\nTwo Hotel Collection Waffle Bath Robes from Macy\u2019s\n\nLenox Barware & Tuscany Classics Pierced Pitcher from Macy\u2019s\n\n(3) $100 eBags Gift Cards\n\n(4) $100 Hotels.com Gift Card\n\nTwo-nights at The Fairmont San Francisco\n\nTwo-nights at The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa\n\nTwo-nights at The Claremont Club & Spa, a Fairmont Resort\n\n(1) Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Tablet Computer\n\n(1) Grand Prize: Four-night/Five-day Stay at any Sandals Resort (exclusions apply)\n\nSee Official Rules and enter to win below\u2026. <len> 3 <text> Good luck! <len> 9 <text> Honeyfund 10th Anniversary \u2013 Great Wedding Gifts Giveaway!"}
{"text": "<len> 11 <text> Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. <len> 11 <text> The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. <len> 35 <text> May 20, 2016, 10:24 AM GMT / Updated May 20, 2016, 1:28 PM GMT\n\nA police officer died after a shootout with a burglary suspect in Phoenix, officials said. <len> 17 <text> Officer David Glasser, 35, passed away Thursday morning, according to a police statement. <len> 20 <text> The father of two young children served the department for more than a decade, NBC affiliate KPNX reported. <len> 21 <text> Glasser \u201cembodied what a Phoenix Police officer is,\u201d Police Chief Joseph Yahner said at a news conference. <len> 9 <text> \u201cHe worked hard, he was professional. <len> 30 <text> And he was very good at his job.\u201d\n\nThe officer was shot while responding to a burglary call about 4:30 pm ET on Wednesday, police told KPNX. <len> 18 <text> Multiple officers responded to the scene and were met with gunfire after attempting to engage the suspect. <len> 10 <text> The suspect was shot and killed in the crossfire. <len> 16 <text> Glasser was taken to the hospital in \u201cextremely critical condition,\u201d authorities said. <len> 10 <text> \u201cWe lost a hero,\" Yahner added. <len> 20 <text> \"We lost an outstanding member of our community, a father, and a great police officer.\u201d"}
{"text": "<len> 16 <text> One of the challenges of building and running information technology systems is solving novel problems. <len> 25 <text> That's where frameworks like scrum and agile come in\u2013 getting from the unknown to the known with a minimum of frustration and waste. <len> 11 <text> Another challenge is performing known tasks correctly every single time. <len> 11 <text> Here runbooks, checklists, and documentation are your friend. <len> 42 <text> And yet, despite a crowded market for IT process automation offerings, misconfigurations and missed patches are still a problem\u2013 and not just a problem, but the root cause of 75-99% of outages of breaches depending on platform. <len> 28 <text> Executable Documentation\n\nUpGuard's Procedures feature provides the missing layer of runbook automation to ensure that every machine is configured correctly at every stage of its lifecycle. <len> 19 <text> There are two places to get started: your existing documentation and UpGuard's library of pre-made procedures. <len> 41 <text> Whether you've documented your standard operating procedures in text documents, spreadsheets, a knowledge base, or sticky notes, any information on what your organization needs to maintain secure, reliable systems is a good starting point. <len> 19 <text> Every procedure is made up of steps, where each step represents one action you need to perform. <len> 19 <text> The most common step type is to run an UpGuard policy to check that system configurations match expectations. <len> 23 <text> Creating policies can be done either by transforming the discovered state of a node into checks or by writing the checks out. <len> 19 <text> For best practices, you can also choose from the library that UpGuard provides for common system checks. <len> 23 <text> The Automation Safety Net\n\nOnce you know what procedures should govern your systems, you can start automating the critical validation phase. <len> 39 <text> Whether you use a configuration management tool, a collection of scripts, or shoot from the hip on the command line, UpGuard provides the validation that the resulting configuration state complies with the prescribed procedural steps. <len> 28 <text> Adding a procedure made of policy checks to a node group will cause UpGuard to run all the automatic steps that it can at a scheduled interval. <len> 31 <text> The output of all those automated validation steps is presented as a dashboard showing what procedures are running against each node group and whether they are in the desired state. <len> 17 <text> Procedural breakdowns like configuration drift or missed security hardening can thus be easily detected and remedied. <len> 22 <text> Conclusion\n\nAt the root of almost every failure is a poorly defined process or a process that was not executed completely. <len> 24 <text> The foundation of successful process execution rests on clearly documented procedures that are visible to everyone involved in the administration of those systems. <len> 35 <text> UpGuard\u2019s Procedures not only provide that share layer of visibility, they automate the work of confirming that IT processes have been executed correctly, saving time, money, and frustration."}
{"text": "<len> 33 <text> Prosecutors Say D.C. Mayor Knew About Shadow Campaign\n\nEnlarge this image toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images Alex Wong/Getty Images\n\nA vast and long-running federal investigation has now implicated D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray. <len> 39 <text> Businessman Jeffrey Thompson pleaded guilty to conspiracy, admitting that he funneled more than $2 million into illegal campaign contributions, including hundreds of thousands of dollars to a shadow campaign to help elect the Democratic mayor. <len> 20 <text> But the bombshell is that Thompson says Gray knew about the secret and illegal effort to help his cause. <len> 48 <text> The Washington Post explains:\n\n\"In court Monday, prosecutors laid out a detailed new set of allegations that portrayed the mayor as having intimate knowledge of Thompson's campaign finance schemes and the need for them to be secret to protect Thompson's business interests. \" <len> 27 <text> 'Mayoral candidate A is Vincent Gray,' Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Atkinson said, before laying out months of intermittent conversations between Gray and Thompson. <len> 27 <text> After Gray launched his campaign, he personally appealed to Thompson three days before a campaign finance deadline to 'accelerate his fundraising,' prosecutors said. <len> 22 <text> Thompson came through with checks, many of them 'straw donations' from other individuals that were later reimbursed by Thompson. <len> 29 <text> \"Later in the campaign, a key figure in the shadow effort asked Thompson for more than $400,000 to fund a get-out-the-vote campaign, Atkinson said. <len> 21 <text> Thompson insisted that Gray ask for funds himself, and the two men met at a Gray associate's apartment. <len> 24 <text> There, Gray presented him with a one-page budget and 'expressed gratitude' to Thompson for his assistance as the meeting ended.\" <len> 36 <text> As we reported back in December, this investigation has tarnished Gray's first term, but he still decided to seek a second term, saying he \"did nothing wrong\" in 2010. <len> 13 <text> Gray, it is important to note, has not been indicted. <len> 20 <text> But Thompson is the fifth person close to him to plead guilty to crimes stemming from the shadow campaign. <len> 15 <text> Washington City Paper reports that prosecutors also say Thompson made other payments to Gray. <len> 46 <text> \"Among them: payment for a driver and luxury SUV in 2010, a $10,000 payment to a 'close relative' of Gray's, and $40,000 in home improvements and work for an unnamed Gray friend,\" the paper reports. <len> 7 <text> So why would Thompson do this? <len> 33 <text> Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Atkinson said Thompson later appealed to Gray through a third party to \"expedite\" a \"pending settlement involving his firm, D.C. Chartered Health Plan.\" <len> 24 <text> The D.C. primary, which generally decides the general election in the highly Democratic district, is scheduled for Tuesday, April 1. <len> 8 <text> Gray has been leading in the polls. <len> 5 <text> Update at 7:11 p.m. <len> 2 <text> ET. <len> 25 <text> 'Absolutely False':\n\nIn an interview with WRC-TV, Mayor Vincent Gray said everything he has heard today are \"absolute lies.\" <len> 18 <text> He always thought Thompson was raising funds for his campaign in a \"perfectly legitimate manner.\" <len> 15 <text> \"The things that I've heard today are fabricated,\" Gray said. <len> 5 <text> Update at 6:44 p.m. <len> 2 <text> ET. <len> 24 <text> Election After Election:\n\nIn a press conference, U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen said Thompson's plea agreement exposes \"widespread corruption.\" <len> 20 <text> The schemes he was involved with revealed \"off the book\" payments in \"election after election.\" <len> 20 <text> He showed a printed graphic that showed the thousands of dollars he pumped into elections dating back to 2006. <len> 12 <text> Matt Zapotosky, of the Washington Post, tweeted this picture:"}
{"text": "<len> 26 <text> Image copyright Lockheed Martin\n\nThe first UK appearance of the combat jet due to be used on Britain's new aircraft carriers has been cancelled. <len> 25 <text> It was hoped the F-35B Lightning IIs would be at the Royal International Air Tattoo in Fairford, Gloucestershire which, starts on Friday. <len> 19 <text> But last week the entire fleet of F-35's was grounded in the US following an engine fire. <len> 20 <text> There is still some optimism that the jet might appear at the Farnborough Air Show which starts on Monday. <len> 51 <text> Organisers of the tattoo said in a statement: \"Despite everyone's best endeavours, it has now been decided that the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II will not fly at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) 2014 as all of the aircraft currently remain grounded.\" <len> 26 <text> At a cost of around $400bn (\u00a3230bn), the F-35 family of jets is the most expensive defence project in US history. <len> 22 <text> Image copyright Lockheed Martin\n\nBritain has invested heavily in the jet and some 500 British companies are involved in the project. <len> 22 <text> The initial UK order for 14 F-35Bs will, with support costs added, have a price tag of about \u00a32.5bn. <len> 20 <text> BAE Systems has invested \u00a3150m in facilities that will build the rear part of the fuselage and tail fins. <len> 17 <text> BAE says it employs 2,000 \"highly skilled\" staff on the programme in the UK. <len> 20 <text> But the project, led by US-based Lockheed Martin, has been hit by repeated delays and cost overruns. <len> 25 <text> 'Quite embarrassing'\n\nLast week the US Air Force and the US Navy grounded the aircraft following an engine fire on one of the planes. <len> 33 <text> That has jeopardised the plane's appearance at the Farnborough Air Show, where four of the F-35B models - also known as the Lightning II's - were due to appear. <len> 16 <text> \"If the F-35 doesn't make it to the show it's quite embarrassing. <len> 20 <text> It will jeopardise the timing of export orders,\" said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with Teal Group. <len> 22 <text> \"But assuming there's no major problems here, we aren't expecting a serious blow to the programme.\" <len> 16 <text> Last week the Queen named one of the aircraft carriers due to carry the jets. <len> 43 <text> The RAF is taking the lead on bringing the jets into service, although each squadron of F-35B Lightning IIs will be joint with the Fleet Air Arm, with the first flight trials on board HMS Queen Elizabeth due in 2018."}
{"text": "<len> 24 <text> James Dobson Claims Ancient God Cthulhu Is 'A Baby Christian'\n\nNEW YORK, NY\u2014Has the elder god Cthulhu become a born-again Christian? <len> 32 <text> That\u2019s what one of America\u2019s most popular evangelicals, Dr. James Dobson, claimed recently during an \u201cEvangelicals For Cthulhu\u201d event in New York City. <len> 61 <text> Relaying that he heard from a reliable source that the unspeakably horrific dark lord of the seas had responded favorably to an invitation and \u201cprayed to receive Christ,\u201d Dobson stated that he\u2019s all the more confident that the fearsome Great Old One would make a fine leader for our nation\u2014or our world for that matter. <len> 25 <text> \u201cNow, don\u2019t get me wrong\u2014he\u2019s a baby Christian, for sure,\u201d Dobson said at the event. <len> 51 <text> \u201cHe doesn\u2019t know our \u2018Christianese.\u2019 But when the dread god of the oceans at last arises from his slumber in the damp Cyclopean city of slimy green stone to consume us puny mortals, I say we evangelicals have a sure friend in His Fearfulness. <len> 3 <text> Cthulhu fhtagn! <len> 24 <text> Cthulhu fhtagn!\u201d\n\n\u201cPh\u2019nglui mglw\u2019nafh Cthulhu R\u2019lyeh wgah\u2019nagl fhtagn!\u201d he added. <len> 57 <text> After the event, when pressed for details about the conversion of the slumbering ocean god of the deep, Dobson admitted that it was in fact televangelist Paula White who had led him to Christ in his native underwater South Pacific city of R\u2019lyeh, where she owns a $3.5 million condo."}
{"text": "<len> 21 <text> Someday, not all that far in the future, sea level rise is going to drown our coastal cities. <len> 19 <text> And it's not only our homes and livelihoods that are at risk, but also our culture. <len> 21 <text> A new study warns that a fifth of the 720 UNESCO World Heritage sites are threatened by rising sea levels. <len> 98 <text> The full range of their estimate extends 2000 years, which may seem like way too far in the future to be overly concerned about, but the authors told the Guardian that if global warming continues on its current course, the initial impact will \"definitely\" be felt sooner than that:\n\nAdvertisement:\n\n\"It's relatively safe to say that we will see the first impacts at these sites in the 21st century,\" lead author Prof Ben Marzeion, of the University of Innsbruck in Austria, told the Guardian. <len> 25 <text> \"Typically when people talk about climate change it's about the economic or environmental consequences, how much it's going to cost. <len> 12 <text> We wanted to take a look at the cultural implications.\" <len> 38 <text> ...The UN's climate science panel, the IPCC, said in a landmark report last September that it expects sea level rises of 26-82cm by 2100 although there is no scientific consensus on high rises. <len> 38 <text> There are concerns among some scientists that the IPCC is underestimating sea level rises, with one recent study suggesting global sea levels could rise by as much as 0.7-1.2m by 2100, and 2-3m by 2300. <len> 26 <text> Marzeion said that by looking at sea level rises over such a long timespan \u2013 2000 years \u2013 such short-term uncertainties would be smoothed out. <len> 46 <text> His co-author, Anders Levermann, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said: \"After 2000 years, the oceans would have reached a new equilibrium state and we can compute the ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica from physical models. <len> 25 <text> At the same time, we consider 2000 years a short enough time to be of relevance for the cultural heritage we cherish.\" <len> 43 <text> Also doomed: Independence Hall, the Tower of London, the Sydney Opera House, Venice, Robben Island, the leaning tower of Pisa, Westminster Abbey and the city centers of Bruges, Naples, Riga and St. Petersburg."}
{"text": "<len> 19 <text> Nadeo\u2019s excitable racing-game sequel, Trackmania 2, will arrive next month, Ubisoft have announced. <len> 32 <text> Pre-ordering types will be able to get their hands on it before then, however, because the beta \u2013 which is accessed via pre-ordering \u2013 will start on August 17th. <len> 7 <text> Pre-orders cost $24.99 or \u00a319.99. <len> 32 <text> UPDATE: abhishek notes in the comments below that Nadeo have said the game is \u201cunconfirmed\u201d for Steam, and any news on that will come \u201clater\u201d. <len> 52 <text> A bit of an odd decision there, but it seems to be due to Nadeo\u2019s own launch of Maniaplanet and their own updating software system \u2013 a topic which seems to be causing a fair bit of upset for PC titles not making it onto Steam of late. <len> 11 <text> Anyway, it\u2019s been too long, Trackmania. <len> 13 <text> I can\u2019t wait to go hurtling around your impossible racetracks."}
{"text": "<len> 13 <text> WordPress is hands down the most popular web application on the Internet. <len> 33 <text> As a blogging and content management system, WordPress is used by more than 23.3% of the top 10-million websites on the Web and has more than 60-million websites in total. <len> 14 <text> Wouldn\u2019t it be great if WordPress worked against Azure SQL Database? <len> 6 <text> Well, wait no more. <len> 15 <text> Project Nami is an open source WordPress deployment built specifically for Azure SQL Database. <len> 30 <text> Designed and optimized to run on Azure SQL Database, Project Nami incorporates the ease of WordPress with the performance and ease of management of Azure SQL Database V12. <len> 31 <text> Building on the popular plug-in model, the Full Text Search plugin for Project Nami enables one to easily improve text searches and enable author searches for your WordPress site. <len> 20 <text> If your app needs even more performance for your Project Nami WordPress sites, consider the Blob Cache plugin. <len> 27 <text> The Blob Cache plugin saves outputs from WordPress or Project Nami sites to Azure Blob Storage, providing a caching solution at an affordable price point. <len> 23 <text> The Azure SQL Database team has had the pleasure of working with Patrick Bates and Spencer Cameron-Morin, Founders of Project Nami. <len> 23 <text> In Patrick\u2019s own words:\n\nThe Azure platform is enabling a variety of new and exciting workloads in the cloud. <len> 26 <text> We\u2019re pleased to be a part of this as we continue to explore ways to leverage Microsoft technologies in PHP and WordPress environments. <len> 33 <text> Unleashing the power of SQL Full Text Search for our users has been a goal from early on, and thanks to Azure SQL DB V12 we\u2019ve made it happen. <len> 36 <text> And when combining Web Apps with our Blob Cache system, even the smallest of sites and budgets can handle thousands of requests per minute with only a single Small server and a Basic DB. <len> 18 <text> From more information on Project Nami, visit projectnami.org or follow them on Twitter, @ProjectNami. <len> 20 <text> To get started with WordPress and Azure SQL Database on Azure, visit projectnami.org/download and click Deploy to Azure."}
{"text": "<len> 28 <text> Manned Air Force jets and drones could soon send high quality video and audio by using ultra-high bandwidth lasers, transmitting critical battlefield data faster than ever. <len> 29 <text> The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has conducted experiments that transmit data without interference across almost 22 miles, both in the air and on the ground. <len> 15 <text> Transmitting data through laser optics has typically suffered from atmospheric turbulence or temperature distortions. <len> 28 <text> But the Air Force researchers used adaptive optics -- a process similar to how powerful telescopes compensate for atmospheric distortions to create sharp images of distant stars. <len> 22 <text> The Register notes that a laser beam could carry encrypted information in the same way that fiber optics carry such data. <len> 28 <text> Sensitive data is converted to individual photon packets of light, so that any attempts to intercept the transmission would change the data and alert communications personnel. <len> 49 <text> \"If we can now put one link on the ground and one on a demo aircraft, it wouldn't take much to apply the technology to operational aircraft for the Air Force,\" said David Hughes of the Air Force Research Laboratory in New York. <len> 26 <text> For now, Hughes and his team have teamed up with AOptix Technologies to conduct more flight tests and demonstrate this capability over greater distances. <len> 22 <text> That could pay off with an even more interconnected battlefield that allows drones to send back intelligence data at higher speeds. <len> 18 <text> In any case, it's also a nice Air Force demonstration of lasers beyond burning things. <len> 5 <text> [via The Register]"}
{"text": "<len> 28 <text> Classified information from the computers of officials involved in the investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 has been stolen, The Star Online reported Wednesday. <len> 37 <text> MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - Classified information from the computers of officials involved in the investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 has been stolen, The Star Online reported Wednesday. <len> 42 <text> The computers of the high-ranking officials are said to have been hacked and the stolen information was allegedly being sent to a computer in China before the Malaysian Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry blocked the transmissions, the website reported. <len> 49 <text> The national cyber security specialist agency CyberSecurity Malaysia said that the malware that led to the information leak was sent to the officials via email on March 9, one day after the aircraft disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, according to The Star Online. <len> 18 <text> According to the security agency\u2019s estimates, about 30 computers were infected by the malware. <len> 16 <text> The agency is said to be working with Interpol on the incident at the moment. <len> 28 <text> CyberSecurity Malaysia suspects that the motivation for the attack was the accusations of the Malaysian government made by some people of concealing crucial information about the investigation. <len> 34 <text> The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 flight MH370 traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing vanished on March 8 with 239 people on board, of which there were 227 passengers and 12 crew members. <len> 29 <text> On March 24, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that, according to the satellite data, MH370 crashed in the southern part of the Indian Ocean."}
{"text": "<len> 22 <text> Thousands of ponds are scattered like mirrors across Alaska\u2019s coastal plain, providing nesting and feeding grounds for waterfowl. <len> 26 <text> The bodies of water, each less than a hectare in area, fill depressions in the hummocky tundra landscape with meltwater from thawing permafrost. <len> 65 <text> How the surface hydrology of Arctic permafrost regions\u2014a key part of the Arctic carbon cycle\u2014will transform in a changing climate isn\u2019t well understood, but tundra ponds may be a powerful guide, because they are closely tied to changes in precipitation and temperature, scientists report in a study published online before print in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. <len> 49 <text> To gauge how the ponds have changed in the past 65 years, the researchers put high-resolution aerial photos taken across Alaska\u2019s Barrow Peninsula in 1948 (at left) side-by-side with modern satellite images from 2002, 2008, and 2010 (at right). <len> 39 <text> They also used pond data collected during the International Biological Program in the 1970s, including areal extent estimates, water depths, and pond depths, and compared those with field data collected from 2011 to 2013. <len> 30 <text> In all, they found, the number of ponds had shrunk by at least 17% since 1948 and had overall shrunk in size by about 30%. <len> 19 <text> Several factors influenced the change\u2014as temperatures rise, evaporation increases, and rainfall isn\u2019t keeping pace. <len> 35 <text> But warmer temperatures, longer growing seasons, and thawing permafrost (which supplies nutrients) are also promoting the growth of aquatic plants in the ponds, shrinking the size of the basins."}
{"text": "<len> 18 <text> The Galveston County Transit District Board of Directors on Wednesday received an update on Houston-Galveston transit connectivity. <len> 30 <text> Transportation consultant John Carrara of The Goodman Corporation said that Island Express, which is operated by Galveston Island Transit, will begin service connecting the cities July 10. <len> 28 <text> Riders will be able to make connections at 5320 Texas Avenue in Texas City and the METRO Bay Area Park & Ride en route to Downtown Houston. <len> 39 <text> \u201cIt\u2019s a partnership between TxDOT, the City of Galveston, the City of Texas City, Galveston County, and METRO to provide this pilot project which fills the gap,\u201d said Carrara. <len> 68 <text> \u201cLet\u2019s hope that it will demonstrate and develop ridership and a private operator will come back in the future.\u201d\n\nHe added that there are three trips a day \u201ccoordinated so that people can transfer in both directions\u201d at the Bay Area Park & Ride, stating a trip costs $9 each way except during mid-day when METRO charges $2. <len> 17 <text> \u201cWe expect that these are not going to be daily commuters,\u201d said Carrara. <len> 12 <text> \u201cIt\u2019s like any inner-city bus type of activity. <len> 50 <text> No reservations are required, however, it\u2019s important that everyone help in getting the word out about this service because there will be infrequent riders.\u201d\n\nThe City of Galveston will have a kickoff event on July 10, the same day the service is launched. <len> 26 <text> (Update: The launch of the service has been delayed due to a change in the agreement that requires Galveston City Council approval.) <len> 16 <text> Transportation consultant Barry Goodman of The Goodman Corporation updated the board TxDOT FY2017 funding commitments. <len> 25 <text> Goodman reported that the City of Galveston recently adopted the GCTD\u2019s ethic compliance code of conduct policy and added language TxDOT requested. <len> 25 <text> He then mentioned the Texas Legislature adopted a funding ceiling for public transit in the state that increases funding available by $3.5 million. <len> 72 <text> \u201cThe reason they did this is that because of the law that exists under which this entity was created \u2013 Chapter 458 of the Texas Transportation Code \u2013 urban areas that were small urban areas but became large urban areas and do not have a metro with a dedicated sales tax were grandfathered to continue to receive state transit funding.\u201d\n\nThe board did not vote on any action items. <len> 14 <text> The meeting was held at the Johnny Arrolfo Civic Center in League City. <len> 34 <text> To listen to the entire meeting, Click Here (37:46)\n\nThe next meeting of the GCTD will be held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, August 23 in Clear Lake Shores."}
{"text": "<len> 188 <text> Artist Song Title Notes\n\nAlpha Band You Angel You [8]\n\nThe Man in Me Recorded as \"Da Mensch In Mir\"\n\nDrifter's Escape Recorded as \"Des Sandler's Flucht\"\n\nIt Ain't Me Babe Recorded as \"Bin's Ned\"\n\nLove Minus Zero/No Limit Recorded as \"Wahre Liebe\"\n\nOne of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) Recorded as \"Fr\u00fcher Oder Sp\u00e4ter\"\n\nTemporary Like Achilles Recorded as \"Achilles\"\n\nShe Belongs to Me Recorded as \"Sie G'h\u00f6rt Zu Mir\"\n\nPressing On [17]\n\nForever Young Recorded as \"Jeune Pour Toujours\"[21]\n\nHeartland Recorded as \"Au Coeur de Mon Pays\"[21]\n\nLike a Rolling Stone Recorded as \"Comme des Pierres Qui Roulent\"[21]\n\nMan Gave Names to All the Animals Recorded as \"L'Homme Dota d'un Nom Chaque Animal\"[21]\n\nOutlaw Blues Recorded as \"Le Blues du Hors-la-Loi\"[21]\n\nWhat Was It You Wanted Recorded as \"tra Mais Q'uest-ce Que Tu Voulais? <len> 105 <text> \"[21]\n\nWhen the Ship Comes In Recorded as \"Le Jour Ou le Bateau Viendra\"[21]\n\nDear Landlord [23]\n\nTroubled and I Don't Know Why [25]\n\nDon't Ya Tell Henry\n\nI Must Love You Too Much Co-written with Helena Springs\n\nLong Distance Operator\n\nThe Belle Brigade No Time to Think [3]\n\nWhen the Night Comes Falling from the Sky\n\nBlue Ash Dusty Old Fairgrounds\n\nHanne Boel Emotionally Yours\n\nSteel Bars Co-written with Michael Bolton[50]\n\nDavid Bowie Tryin' to Get to Heaven\n\nStepchild\n\nWhat Good Am I? <len> 28 <text> Paul Butterfield The Wanderin' Kind co-written with Helena Springs[66]\n\nNothing Was Delivered\n\nPaths of Victory\n\nBallad of Easy Rider Co-written with Roger McGuinn. <len> 23 <text> After viewing the end of the film of the same name, Dylan had his name removed from the song's credits. <len> 363 <text> Calexico & Charlotte Gainsbourg Just Like a Woman [16]\n\nGuess I'm Doin' Fine [71]\n\nLong Time Gone [71]\n\nOnly a Hobo [71]\n\nPaths of Victory [71]\n\nWanted Man\n\nCat Power I Believe in You [85]\n\nKingsport Town\n\nPaths of Victory [86]\n\nWanted Man [37]\n\nLay Lady Lay Recorded as \"Lay, Baby, Lay (Lay Lady Lay)\"[91]\n\nEric Clapton Born in Time [99]\n\nIf I Don't Be There by Morning Co-written with Helena Springs[100]\n\nSign Language [102]\n\nWalk Out in the Rain Co-written with Helena Springs\n\nGene Clark I Pity the Poor Immigrant [103]\n\nDear Landlord [107]\n\nSeven Days [113]\n\nDark Eyes [118]\n\nI Believe in You [117]\n\nPity the Poor Immigrant [37]\n\nSweetheart Like You [117]\n\nTime Passes Slowly [117]\n\nRy Cooder Need a Woman [122]\n\nElvis Costello License to Kill [3]\n\nDon't You Tell Henry [126]\n\nEternal Circle [126]\n\nGet Your Rocks Off [126]\n\nI Wanna Be Your Lover [126]\n\nLo and Behold [126]\n\nOdds and Ends [126]\n\nOpen the Door, Homer [126]\n\nSign on the Cross [126]\n\nTiny Montgomery [126]\n\nGuy Davis Sweetheart Like You [47]\n\nThe Dead Weather New Pony\n\nHazel Dickens Only a Hobo [148]\n\nMost of the Time [37]\n\nThe Dixie Hummingbirds City of Gold\n\nPressing On [16]\n\nEternal Circle [163]\n\nHeart of Mine [163]\n\nOne More Night [163]\n\nSomeone Gotta Hold of My Heart [163]\n\nSweetheart Like You [163]\n\nYou Angel You [163]\n\nYou've Gotta Serve Somebody [163]\n\nRomance in Durango Recorded as \"Avventura a Durango\"\n\nDear Landlord [179]\n\nJack O'Diamonds Adaptation of poems on Another Side of Bob Dylan album cover. <len> 147 <text> (music by Ben Carruthers)\n\nMillion Dollar Bash [179]\n\nNashville Skyline Rag [199]\n\nOne More Night [199]\n\nWanted Man [199]\n\nThe Gaslight Anthem Changing of the Guards [3]\n\nDark Eyes [163]\n\nDown Along the Cove [163]\n\nI Am a Lonesome Hobo [163]\n\nPeggy Day [163]\n\nI'll Remember You [3]\n\nI'd Have You Anytime Co-written with George Harrison\n\nI Pity the Poor Immigrant [237]\n\nTell Me Mama [249]\n\nTryin' to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door\n\nQuit Your Low Down Ways [252]\n\nJacob's Trouble I Believe in You [261]\n\nBarb Jungr Born in Time [271]\n\nHigh Water (For Charlie Patton) [271]\n\nIs Your Love in Vain? <len> 14 <text> [271]\n\nNot Dark Yet [271]\n\nWhat Good Am I? <len> 151 <text> [271]\n\nPeter Keane I Wanna Be Your Lover [272]\n\nKuku Knockin' on Heaven's Door Recorded as \"Knockin' on Heaven's Door (A Sight to Rejoice)\"\n\nMark Lanegan Man in the Long Black Coat [16]\n\nLost Dogs Lord, Protect My Child\n\nGet Your Rocks Off [295]\n\nQuit Your Low Down Ways [295]\n\nYou Angel You [295]\n\nHard Rain [305]\n\nSign on the Window [305]\n\nSeven Days [317]\n\nMaria Muldaur Ain't No Man Righteous, No Not One [318]\n\nGolden Loom [319]\n\nLay Lady Lay Recorded as \"Lay Baby Lay (Lay Lady Lay)\"[319]\n\nOn a Night Like This [319]\n\nWedding Song [319]\n\nWillie Nelson What Was It You Wanted? <len> 199 <text> [30]\n\nHeartland Co-written with Willie Nelson\n\nAaron Neville Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight [331]\n\nSaving Grace [331]\n\nYou Angel You [335]\n\nCountry Pie [338]\n\nLarry Norman When the Ship Comes In Recorded as \"The Hour That the Ship Comes In\"\n\nIn the Garden\n\nThe Sign on the Cross\n\nWhen He Returns\n\nFather of Night [343]\n\nOdetta Baby, I'm in the Mood for You [344]\n\nLong Ago, Far Away [344]\n\nLong Time Gone [344]\n\nPaths of Victory [344]\n\nSin\u00e9ad O'Connor I Believe in you\n\nProperty of Jesus [3]\n\nJoe Perry Man of Peace [3]\n\nCarl Perkins Champaign, Illinois Co-written with Carl Perkins[353]\n\nQuit Your Low Down Ways\n\nLicense to Kill [30]\n\nTom Petty and the Heartbreakers License to Kill\n\nPlanxty I Pity the Poor Immigrant [360]\n\nBonnie Raitt Let's Keep It Between Us [367]\n\nLou Reed Foot of Pride [30]\n\nComing from the Heart [392]\n\nPaths of Victory\n\nIs Your Love in Vain? <len> 86 <text> [4]\n\nPhoebe Snow I Believe in You [416]\n\nOnly a Hobo\n\nThird Day Saved\n\nThunderclap Newman Open the Door, Homer [436]\n\nLove Rescue Me Co-written with Bono and U2[447]\n\nMan on the Street Recorded as \"The Old Man \"[450]\n\nSign on the Window\n\nThe Waterboys Death Is Not the End [464]\n\nTryin' to Get to Heaven [3]\n\nWell Well Well Co-written with Danny O'Keefe[484]"}
{"text": "<len> 20 <text> This was actually something I learned from one of Garmon\u2019s EVE is Easy videos a while ago. <len> 29 <text> Despite the video being old and outdated at some points the \u2018trick\u2019 with t2 damage rigs is still highly relevant, yet unknown by most people. <len> 23 <text> This post will be an explanation on stacking penalties on damage modules and rigs and how to take most advantage of it. <len> 45 <text> Most of you, if not all, are already aware that many modules and rigs, including damage mods, are affected by a stacking penalty which basically means that the effect of extra modules will be lowered for each module/rig you fit. <len> 28 <text> However by the way that the stacking penalties are calculated it will always apply the biggest bonus first, thus it will have the lowest stacking penalty. <len> 27 <text> Also, when stacking penalties are calculated for lowslot damage mods the damage increase and rate of fire (RoF) bonus will be calculated separately. <len> 63 <text> So by taking advantage of these two mechanics you can get a rather large damage increase from a t2 rig when stacking penalties are in effect as these rigs have a 15% bonus compared to the 10% damage and 10.5% RoF bonus from t2 lowslot damage mods (12,5% and 10.5% for faction lowslot damage mods). <len> 17 <text> So for t1 rigs which have a 10% bonus this effect doesn\u2019t apply. <len> 56 <text> For a ship with 2 lowslot damage mods you will get nearly as much dps from a t2 RoF rig as a 3rd damage mod and for a ship with 3 lowslot damage mods you will get more dps from a t2 RoF rig than adding the 4th and even the 5th lowslot damage mod. <len> 44 <text> This effect will also apply to t2 damage increase rigs, but because of the way damage is calculated in EVE you will get a larger effect from a RoF bonus than a damage bonus despite both of them being the same number. <len> 17 <text> And now to a true EVE player\u2019s favourite part: The math and spreadsheet. <len> 14 <text> The math behind\n\nLet\u2019s start with the basics on stacking penalty. <len> 15 <text> When more modules/rigs are added the effect of the extra modules/rigs will be lowered. <len> 26 <text> So the first one will have full effect while the effect on the 2nd is lowered and the 3rd is even lower and so on. <len> 9 <text> The numbers in EVE are:\n\nModule No. <len> 49 <text> : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 Effect: 100% - 86.9% - 57.1% - 28.3% - 10.6%\n\nThe 5th module/rig only gives one tenth of the effect and beyond that it is pretty much pointless to add more modules. <len> 44 <text> As stated before, the module/rig with the largest bonus would be calculated first, thus being the one that have 100% effect while the module/rig with the 2nd largest bonus would be the one with 86.9% effect and so on. <len> 33 <text> So by adding a t2 RoF rig it will be the rig that will be number on the list, while the RoF bonus from damage mods will be shifted 1 spot. <len> 22 <text> However the damage increase bonus will remain in the same spots, thus the stacking penalty wouldn\u2019t be increased. <len> 9 <text> To easier understand the order:\n\nStacking No. <len> 48 <text> : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 RoF bonus: RoF rig \u2013 1st gyro \u2013 2nd gyro \u2013 3rd gyro Dmg bonus: 1st gyro \u2013 2nd gyro \u2013 3rd gyro\n\nI used the term \u2018gyro\u2019 from gyrostabilizer for the lowslot damage mods. <len> 12 <text> It will of cause cover all types of lowslot damage mods. <len> 22 <text> Since it is only t2 rigs that have a larger bonus than damage mods this effect will only work with them. <len> 28 <text> If we make a table with the increased dps from various mods calculated from a base dps of 100 it becomes easy to see this in effect. <len> 19 <text> The top table features normal t2 lowslot damage mods while the bottom one features faction lowslot damage mods. <len> 47 <text> Now, if we start by observing the effect of t1 rigs it is clear that the dps of X gyros and a damage rig will not surpass the dps of X+1 gyros and the difference does only narrow down when stacking penalty is getting high. <len> 9 <text> This applies to both t2 and faction gyros. <len> 42 <text> However if we observe the dps with a t2 RoF rig it is starting to get really close at already 2 gyros compared to 3 gyros without the rig, with a difference less than 1dps (164.65 vs 165.30). <len> 16 <text> For a t2 damage increase rig the difference is larger (162.46 vs 165.30). <len> 41 <text> If we add another gyro to both the dps of 3 gyros + t2 rig surpasses the dps of 4 gyros for both the RoF rig (179.38 vs 175.19) and damage increase rig (177.71 vs 175.19). <len> 16 <text> And for the RoF rig it will even surpass the damage of the 5th gyro. <len> 9 <text> For faction gyros the same effect takes place. <len> 20 <text> But since the faction gyros are better than the t2 ones the advantage of t2 rigs is slightly reduced. <len> 50 <text> Another thing worth noting is that the difference between a t2 RoF rig and a t2 damage increase rig is increased compared to the calculations with t2 gyros which is caused by the fact that faction gyros only get a higher damage increase bonus and not a RoF bonus. <len> 20 <text> So by using the RoF rig we reduce the stacking penalty on the improved attribute on the faction gyros. <len> 54 <text> To summarize we can say that with 2 t2 gyros you will get nearly as much dps by adding a t2 RoF rig as if you add a 3rd gyro and with 3 t2 gyros you will get more dps by adding a t2 RoF or damage increase rig than a 4th gyro. <len> 13 <text> With faction gyros this is only as effective with t2 RoF rigs. <len> 29 <text> Taking advantage of this\n\nYou have probably found yourself in the situation that you quickly run out of lowslots when trying to maximize the dps of your ship. <len> 22 <text> So with this knowledge you can start taking the t2 damage rigs into consideration when min-maxing the fit for your ships. <len> 19 <text> The price of t2 damage rigs is definitely low enough to put it on faction and t2 ships. <len> 23 <text> The small t2 damage rigs for turrets cost around 3-5mil while the medium ones cost 11-13mil and the large ones are 35-55mil. <len> 16 <text> The missile ones are more expensive and cost 7-8mil, 16-17mil, and 80-90mil respectively. <len> 16 <text> One of the biggest drawbacks of the t2 damage rigs is the high calibration cost. <len> 30 <text> For those of you who don\u2019t know what calibration is, then it is basically a resource for fitting rigs like powergrid and CPU is for modules. <len> 28 <text> In most situations it isn\u2019t a problem, but when fitting t2 rigs or 2 t1 damage rigs you will quickly run out of calibration. <len> 20 <text> T1, Navy faction, T2 and T3 ships have 400 calibration points while pirate faction ships have 350. <len> 17 <text> A t2 damage rigs cost 300 calibration which takes up a good chunk of the calibration. <len> 26 <text> Another drawback is the increased PG cost for turrets and increase CPU cost for missiles which sometimes makes it hard to fit a damage rig. <len> 1 <text> Advertisements"}
{"text": "<len> 57 <text> Get the biggest daily news stories by email Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email\n\nSnapchat, WhatsApp and iMessage users have hit out against Tory proposals that could see their favourite messaging apps being banned in the UK. <len> 18 <text> Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday vowed to make it impossible for terrorists to communicate via private messaging. <len> 37 <text> But in doing so, he appeared to hint that if the Tories get elected, he will ban some of the world's most popular apps that use encryption technology to make messages more secure. <len> 18 <text> These include Snapchat, WhatsApp and iMessage, which several million people use daily in the UK. <len> 37 <text> Mr Cameron said: \"If I'm Prime Minister I will make sure it is a comprehensive piece of legislation that makes sure we do not allow terrorists safe space to communicate with each other. <len> 20 <text> \"Are we going to allow a means of communication where it simply isn't possible to do that? <len> 13 <text> My answer to that question is 'no we must not.'\" <len> 37 <text> David Cameron's web spying proposals are terrifying - here's why\n\nThe PM risked disillusioning a generation by announcing that he would revive the controversial communications data bill known as the 'Snooper's Charter'. <len> 17 <text> Hundreds of young people were quick to voice their horror of the news on social media. <len> 22 <text> Twitter user @ThatGingerJenni wrote: \"Just read that David Cameron has suggested banning WhatsApp and Snapchat in the UK. <len> 6 <text> Are you on glue?\" <len> 30 <text> Jase Clarkson wrote: \"Proposing to ban Snapchat/iMessage/WhatsApp is dumb, no safer for uk + loose 95% of the young vote, such poor politics.\" <len> 43 <text> User @Amandajadex said: \"Another reason to hate David Cameron\" while another wrote: \"If David Cameron bans Snapchat, iMesage and Whatsapp in the UK, I'm legit voting for Labour just cause of that.\" <len> 19 <text> Robert Frizzell added: \"Same guy that spoke about \"free speech\" 2 days ago.\" <len> 11 <text> See the rest of the reactions in our Storify below."}
{"text": "<len> 22 <text> Microsoft is bringing game gifting to the Xbox One store, giving shoppers the ability to purchase titles for their friends. <len> 27 <text> Mike Ybarra, Xbox vice president, confirmed the news on Twitter, and said the feature\u2019s release is \u201cnot far\u201d off. <len> 27 <text> Steam already offers the ability to gift games for those who choose to play on PC, but Microsoft and Sony are yet to catch up. <len> 29 <text> That\u2019s going to change, at least for Xbox One players, who will soon find they have the ability to purchase games for their friends. <len> 34 <text> Ybarra didn\u2019t tell us exactly when the feature would be available, but in response to a fan on Twitter, he said the release was \u201cnot far\u201d off. <len> 31 <text> A post requesting game gifting on the Xbox feedback site has amassed almost 5,000 votes in the past three years, making it one of the most-requested features among players. <len> 13 <text> Presumably, Xbox game gifting will work much like Steam\u2019s. <len> 37 <text> You\u2019ll be able to order and pay for a title for a friend, who will then have the ability to download it for free from the Xbox One store when they next login. <len> 13 <text> We expect to find out more about it at Gamescom next month."}
{"text": "<len> 48 <text> Late last week JC Decaux and the City of Paris launched a french and english site to coincide with the announcement that the two would be opening up key V\u00e9lib\u2019 data, which includes statistics on stations (ie location) as well as real-time data. <len> 60 <text> Now comes the announcement that the two will be teaming up with SNCF and RATP to launch a big open data challenge called Moov\u2019In the City whereby participants will have two months to create web services, applications, and/or datavisualizations that help facilitate people\u2019s daily commutes and other trips around the Paris metro area. <len> 23 <text> The challenge will actually last two months and will kick-off at 17h on May 21st at the competition\u2019s launch event. <len> 33 <text> At the event, the organizers will reveal all of the data at the participants\u2019 disposal and the attendees will be able to share initial ideas and start to form teams. <len> 46 <text> Access to V\u00e9lib\u2019s API and the City of Paris\u2019 API, Paris\u2019 open data site http://opendata.paris.fr, as well as, presumably, SNCF\u2019s and RATP\u2019s APIs and data, will serve as the foundation. <len> 47 <text> In the weeks following the first event, participating teams will have the possibility to join the city\u2019s \u2018Moov\u2019In the City\u2019 incubator where they will receive technical, marketing and design coaching from experts at BeMyApp and other event partners. <len> 35 <text> At the mid-point, there will be a check-in meeting during Futur en Seine where the teams will be able to get expert advice and do a test pitch with a panel of experts. <len> 29 <text> The grande finale will take place in early July and a jury will crown the winners across a few categories, awarding at least 25,000 euros in prizes. <len> 20 <text> If you want to participate, you can register for the launch event and conference on May 21st here. <len> 52 <text> Moov\u2019In the City is actually an important part of a broader agenda of events in 2013 focusing on data and its usage, which also includes the multi-activity information, digital and design expo Expo\u2019viz by La Fonderie as well as other hackathons, conferences, etc."}
{"text": "<len> 18 <text> Toffee Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookie Bars (Vegan + Gluten-Free)\n\nHouston, we have a working oven! <len> 22 <text> This is what I screamed to Eric when I turned on our newly installed oven for the first time this weekend. <len> 24 <text> To celebrate this momentous occasion I made something I\u2019ve been craving for the past 6 weeks \u2013 warm, fresh-out-of-the-oven cookies. <len> 13 <text> [Fact: store-bought cookies just aren\u2019t the same.] <len> 7 <text> Then I made oatmeal cookie bars. <len> 64 <text> Somehow I convinced Eric that these were an \u201canniversary gift\u201d that I made \u201cjust for him\u201d (he\u2019s been in OSG baked good withdrawal during this kitchen reno), but we all know that this ready-to-pop, basketball smugglin\u2019 preggo lady planned on eating her fair share complete with Coffee Shop Worthy Caramel Hazelnut Milk. <len> 8 <text> Yea, it was a good weekend. <len> 11 <text> I hope my oven and I shall never part again. <len> 9 <text> What can I tell you about these bars? <len> 12 <text> Well, first off, we could not stop eating them. <len> 32 <text> Eric said, \u201cThey are so light, I feel like I could eat 6 of them without feeling sick!\u201d I suppose that\u2019s a good thing? <len> 39 <text> The gluten-free cookie base is made of up rolled oats (some of which I ground into a flour for binding purposes) and almond flour, just like my favourite GF + vegan cookies on the blog. <len> 48 <text> There aren\u2019t any gums or starches to speak of and because of this they are quite delicate when they first come out of the oven, but the crust bakes up crisp, chewy, and slightly caramelized so it\u2019s a terrific balance. <len> 14 <text> Let me tell you \u2013 the crispy corner pieces are prime real estate! <len> 11 <text> Only your favourite people are worthy of the corner pieces. <len> 27 <text> If you have one of those \u201cBaker\u2019s Edge\u201d brownie pans, now would be a good time to put it to use. <len> 24 <text> Then you can avoid that awkward moment when you hand the middle piece to a friend and take the corner piece for yourself. <len> 20 <text> I used coconut sugar to give the bars a gorgeous dark golden hue and a hint of toffee/caramel flavour. <len> 35 <text> The added bonus when using coconut sugar is that it has a low glycemic index compared to other sugars (35), so it won\u2019t spike your blood sugar as quickly. <len> 14 <text> According to my logic, this means I can eat twice as many. <len> 2 <text> Correct? <len> 2 <text> Phew. <len> 34 <text> I don\u2019t think I need to tell you that these are great with a scoop of vegan ice cream, but I\u2019ll throw it out there just in case. <len> 26 <text> We turned one into an open-faced ice cream sandwich by chilling a bar and serving it with a scoop of vegan ice cream on top. <len> 4 <text> Oh my lanta. <len> 9 <text> It\u2019s great to have an oven. <len> 35 <text> 4.7 from 133 reviews fromreviews Toffee Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookie Bars Vegan, gluten-free By Angela Liddon These cookie bars are soft, delicate, and chewy in the middle with a crispy outer edge. <len> 11 <text> Coconut sugar lends a wonderful toffee flavour to these bars. <len> 21 <text> Try serving them with vegan ice cream for an easy dessert or just enjoy them with some homemade almond milk. <len> 9 <text> Recipe adapted from my vegan and GF cookies. <len> 154 <text> Yield\n\n12 bars Prep time\n\n20 Minutes Cook time\n\n20 Minutes Total time\n\n40 Minutes Ingredients: 1 tablespoon (8 g) ground flax\n\n3 tablespoons (45 mL) water\n\n1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon (75 mL) virgin coconut oil, softened\n\n2 tablespoons (30 g) natural smooth almond butter\n\n3/4 cup (120 g) coconut sugar*\n\n1 teaspoon (5 mL) pure vanilla extract\n\n1/2 teaspoon baking soda\n\n1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt or pink Himalayan salt\n\n1 teaspoon cinnamon\n\n3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon (108 g) oat flour**\n\n3/4 cup (75 g) gluten-free rolled oats\n\n3/4 cup (75 g) almond flour\n\n1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon (60 g) non-dairy mini chocolate chips, divided Directions: Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F (180\u00b0C) and line an 8-inch square pan with parchment paper. <len> 18 <text> Mix the ground flax and water in a small bowl or mug and set aside to thicken. <len> 22 <text> In a large mixing bowl, beat the coconut oil, almond butter, and sugar with electric beaters until combined. <len> 13 <text> Pour in the flax mixture and vanilla extract and beat until combined. <len> 13 <text> Add the baking soda, salt, and cinnamon and beat again. <len> 32 <text> Finally add in the oat flour, rolled oats, almond flour, and 1/4 cup of chocolate chips (reserving the 1 tablespoon for later) and beat until combined. <len> 13 <text> Spoon dough into prepared pan and spread out until smooth and even. <len> 11 <text> Sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips on top and press down. <len> 12 <text> I use a pastry roller to roll the dough out even. <len> 16 <text> Bake for 17 to 20 minutes, until lightly golden and firm around the edges. <len> 16 <text> (The edges will be high and the middle portion will be sunken a bit. <len> 6 <text> This is all normal!) <len> 12 <text> Gently place the pan on a cooling rack for 15 minutes. <len> 24 <text> Then, carefully lift out the bars and place directly on cooling rack for another 10 minutes or so, until mostly cool. <len> 4 <text> Slice and enjoy! <len> 19 <text> Note: The bars will crumble slightly if sliced warm, but they firm up nicely when cooled. <len> 37 <text> Store leftovers in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 3 days, or in the freezer (tightly wrapped and placed in a freezer bag) for up to 3 to 4 weeks. <len> 49 <text> Nutrition Information Serving Size 1 of 12 bars | Calories 230 calories | Total Fat 13 grams\n\nSaturated Fat 7 grams | Sodium 150 milligrams | Total Carbohydrates 25 grams\n\nFiber 3 grams | Sugar 12 grams | Protein 5 grams\n\nNutrition info is based on 12 servings. <len> 12 <text> * Nutrition data is approximate and is for informational purposes only. <len> 31 <text> Recipient's email * (Seperate Email Addresses with comma)\n\nYour Name *\n\nPlease fill in the code below *\n\nCheers to September, baking, and working ovens! <len> 5 <text> Let's get social! <len> 17 <text> Follow Angela on Instagram @ohsheglows, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat, and Google+"}
{"text": "<len> 19 <text> Something is coming in 2017 for Microsoft\u2019s Surface product line, but what could it be? <len> 27 <text> At Microsoft\u2019s campus in Redmond, Washington, placeholders have begun appearing in Building 88, purportedly teasing the 2017 line of Surface products. <len> 45 <text> While there haven\u2019t been any announcements as to what we can expect, there are rumours that an All-in-One Surface will be making its way to the living room in 2016, however, this could turn out to actually be 2017. <len> 44 <text> These rumoured releases also line-up with the so-called Surface Phone, which is claimed to also be launching in 2017, and will be \u2018category innovating\u2019, so there are high hopes for Microsoft\u2019s next Windows 10 Mobile device. <len> 21 <text> Could we see a product launch involving a new 2-in-1, All-in-One and a phone, all in one year? <len> 4 <text> It seems likely. <len> 18 <text> As always, we will keep you up-to-date on the latest rumours and announcements regarding Microsoft Surface. <len> 6 <text> Share This\n\nFurther reading: Microsoft"}
{"text": "<len> 8 <text> Writers often blame speed for modern plagiarism. <len> 22 <text> It\u2019s the fast pace of the news cycle that prompts news sites to curate their reporting from various sources. <len> 12 <text> Sometimes, writers then fail to properly attribute the original author. <len> 15 <text> And with that, a wrongly-formatted or unsourced copy-and-paste job turns into full-fledged stealing. <len> 24 <text> It happens, and while news organizations rightfully take allegations of plagiarism seriously, it\u2019s understandable that it could occur accidentally. <len> 24 <text> Still, it\u2019s hard to imagine that B. Mitchell Cator can lean on that excuse for All The Good That Remains. <len> 30 <text> So far, there have been twelve documented instances of Cator borrowing passages from other writers for his debut novel, including from Texas Monthly\u2018s Skip Hollandsworth. <len> 12 <text> Cator\u2019s book has only been out for a week. <len> 39 <text> Here\u2019s an excerpt from chapter fifteen of All The Good That Remains (emphasis added):\n\nAs Ernie fretted about the paint, he also reminded himself that he didn\u2019t care for football. <len> 21 <text> In fact, he didn\u2019t like how the town seemed to be obsessed by the high school sport. <len> 12 <text> He despised the hoopla that began two hours before game time. <len> 23 <text> A dozen or so fans of the Logan High Warriors, already at the football stadium, would begin pounding on drums. <len> 18 <text> The sound of the drumming carried all the way across town and echoed off the grain silos. <len> 24 <text> As more people arrived, many of them would be wearing clothes with Logan\u2019s colors, feathers dangling from their hair. <len> 27 <text> Some would carry homemade spears made of plastic pipe, called Spirit Spears, and foist them into the air matching the rhythm of the drums. <len> 17 <text> Others carried toy axes, called Battle axes, adorned at home with feathers and twine. <len> 26 <text> By kickoff, the stadium would be so packed that many were left standing along the field\u2019s edges as no seats were left. <len> 25 <text> The thirty-member marching band would launch into the school fight song while six varsity cheerleaders jumped, kicked, and tried to turn backflips. <len> 25 <text> When the Warriors ran onto the field, the crowd took to their feet, if they were not already standing, and roared. <len> 15 <text> They hooped and hollered such vigor, as if they were out-cheering college games. <len> 65 <text> And here is the first paragraphs of Hollandsworth\u2019s \u201cThe Killing Field,\u201d which we published in August 2008 (again, emphasis added):\n\nA dozen or so fans of the Iraan High Braves, already at the football stadium, pound on tom-toms: one loud beat followed by three lighter ones, over and over and over. <len> 42 <text> The sound of the drumming carries all the way across town and echoes off the nearby hills and mesas, and soon more fans arrive, many of them, adults and students alike, wearing war paint on their faces. <len> 27 <text> Some carry homemade spears, made of PVC pipes with rubber tips, which they bang on the metal bleachers, keeping time with the tom-toms. <len> 16 <text> Others shout a war chant while they hold up their arms and make tomahawk-chop gestures. <len> 18 <text> By kickoff, close to 800 of Iraan\u2019s 1,200 citizens are packed into the stadium. <len> 21 <text> The ninety-member Big Red marching band launches into the school fight song, and the six varsity cheerleaders turn backflips. <len> 43 <text> When the Braves run onto the field, the roar from the crowd is almost deafening\u2014\u201clike something you\u2019d expect at a college game,\u201d says Clara Greer, the editor and publisher of the weekly Iraan News. <len> 26 <text> Hills and mesas have become grain silos, tom-toms have been reduced to simply drums, and the homemade spears have been stripped of detail. <len> 14 <text> Still, the resemblance to Cator\u2019s work of fiction is striking. <len> 15 <text> Hollandsworth isn\u2019t the only Texas writer that Cator lifted for the novel. <len> 31 <text> El Paso novelist Sergio Troncoso\u2019s short story \u201cAngie Luna\u201d is heavily appropriated just two chapters after Hollandsworth\u2019s appearance, at times word for word. <len> 41 <text> If you\u2019re still giving Cator the benefit of the doubt and thinking this could all be some unfortunate coincidence, this is far from the first time that he has been accused of lifting work from other writers. <len> 24 <text> Internet sleuthing, seemingly led by author Karen Jones, began on May 31, the day that Cator\u2019s novel released. <len> 13 <text> Jones uncovered that Cator had plagiarized dozens of works on his site. <len> 39 <text> During this dig, Jones and others noticed that another Texas writer, Dallas-based Daryl Scroggins, had an essay on gardening refashioned by Cator for the Santa Fe Literary Review that is nearly identically to the original. <len> 40 <text> Soon, people began to dive into Cator\u2019s first published work, Probably So, a collection of short stories, and found that at least nine of the stories had either ostensibly or outright borrowed material. <len> 15 <text> After complaints about Probably So rolled in, Amazon yanked it from its marketplace. <len> 26 <text> This revelation rightly raised suspicion about his new novel, which led Ira Lightman to scour All The Good That Remains for evidence of plagiarism. <len> 19 <text> It was Lightman who noted similarities between Hollandsworth and Troncoso\u2019s passages, along with ten others. <len> 46 <text> Although the book is still available on Amazon (for now), the novel\u2019s write-up in the acclaimed Kirkus Review has been yanked, and Cator has all but scrubbed any evidence of his personal writing from the Internet and social media. <len> 10 <text> Talk about a hell of a book release party."}
{"text": "<len> 25 <text> Four Denver-area medical marijuana businesses may be permanently shuttered after federal officials reportedly probing links with Colombian drug cartels raided the shops in November. <len> 43 <text> The raid on the four interconnected companies came during a search of more than a dozen medical marijuana businesses in Denver and Boulder -- the largest by federal law enforcers on Colorado pot businesses since the state legalized medical marijuana in 2000. <len> 36 <text> The Denver Post reported Tuesday that no federal charges have been filed as a result of the raids and people involved in the businesses denied any connection to illicit drug activity or Colombian drug cartels. <len> 37 <text> Nevertheless, Colorado marijuana industry regulators are pursuing the shutdown of four of the raided businesses: VIP Cannabis, Kushism, and Highlands Cannabis Co. in Denver, as well as Grateful Meds in Nederland. <len> 25 <text> State regulators notified the four shops on April 3 that state licenses to operate as medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation facilities would be denied. <len> 24 <text> The state alleged violations of state code that in some cases stretched back to 2012, according to state Marijuana Enforcement Division documents. <len> 40 <text> \"You have operated the licensed premises in a manner that adversely affects the public health or welfare or the safety of the immediate neighborhoods in which your establishments are located,\" the state notice of denial reads. <len> 33 <text> The denial notices say regulators have placed administrative holds on the shops' inventory of \"marijuana plants, marijuana, finished marijuana products, marijuana-infused products or other marijuana inventory.\" <len> 13 <text> Shop owners have 60 days to request hearings on the denial notices. <len> 18 <text> Federal raiders seized more than $2 million worth of marijuana plants and products from VIP Cannabis. <len> 19 <text> Owners Carlos Solano and Gerardo Uribe said the raid forced them to lay off more than 100 employees. <len> 7 <text> They reopened about a month later. <len> 10 <text> Grateful Meds reopened about a week after the raids. <len> 17 <text> Several other raided shops also have reopened, but Kushism and Highlands Cannabis Co. remain closed. <len> 26 <text> The Department of Justice has released little about the raids, which came less than two months before Colorado's legal recreational marijuana shops opened. <len> 31 <text> Federal authorities suggested the businesses may not have complied with guidelines outlined in DOJ's August memo that assented to the new retail marijuana laws in Colorado and Washington state. <len> 55 <text> \u201cWhile the investigation is ongoing, there are strong indications that more than one of the eight federal prosecution priorities identified in the Department of Justice\u2019s August guidance memo are potentially implicated,\" Jeff Dorschner, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office, said of the November raids. <len> 139 <text> The DOJ guidance says federal authorities will continue to prosecute to prevent:\n\nThe distribution of marijuana to minors;\n\nRevenue from the sale of marijuana from going to criminal enterprises, gangs and cartels;\n\nThe diversion of marijuana from states where it is legal under state law in some form to other states;\n\nState-authorized marijuana activity from being used as a cover or pretext for the trafficking of other illegal drugs or other illegal activity;\n\nViolence and the use of firearms in the cultivation and distribution of marijuana\n\nDrugged driving and the exacerbation of other adverse public health consequences associated with marijuana use;\n\nGrowing of marijuana on public lands and the attendant public safety and environmental dangers posed by marijuana production on public lands; and\n\nMarijuana possession or use on federal property."}