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The first evidence that theropods (meat-eating dinosaurs) ate contemporaneous birds and other carnivorous dinosaurs has been discovered in northeastern China. A joint Chinese-Canadian team of paleontologists, led by Phil Bell from the Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative in Canada, described the last meals of Sinocalliopteryx gigas in an article recently published in the journal PLoS One. Sinocalliopteryx was a 6-foot-long compsognathid theropod whose body was covered by fuzzy feathers – the same group as the “compies” in the book Jurassic Park (depicted much smaller than Sinocalliopteryx, and only seen in the second and third JP movies). It lived 120 million years ago, at a time when volcanic eruptions covered the land with lava, and consequently (and conveniently for us) often fossilized specific moments in time. Inside the stomach of one of these Cretaceous-era dinosaurs was the leg of the relatively large feathered dromaeosaurid dinosaur, Sinornithosaurus. In a second individual of S. gigas were bits of a smaller Mesozoic bird Confuciusornis, along with bones of a dinosaur that showed evidence of stomach acid decomposition. This discovery has demonstrated a trait that Sinocalliopteryx shared with modern-day crocodiles – the ability to vary stomach acidity depending on the contents of a given meal.

Scientists are still trying to determine the means of predation – did Sinocalliopteryx scavenge or actively hunt its prey? The study’s authors are leaning toward active predation because two species of the same type were found in the predator’s stomach, suggesting that Sinocalliopteryx was choosy about its food. Furthermore, catching flying prey is not an easy task; meaning that Sinocalliopteryx must have perfected its predatory method over time.

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Archive for Ellie Goulding

*Introducing: Sonia Stein

Posted in News with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 29, 2014 by E.N.

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Sonia is a hotly tipped new female solo artist, already being compared in the press to the likes of Banks, Rosie Lowe, Laurel, Charlotte OC, KT Tunstall and Kate Bush.
She has been in the studio working on these tracks taken from her forthcoming September EP and 2015 debut album with producer Liam Howe who has also recently produced FKA Twigs, Lana Del Rey, Marina And The Diamonds, Jessie Ware, Tom Vek, Ellie Goulding and many, many more.
Check out her fourth beautiful new track, ‘Chaos’, alongside three other recent tracks, Symbol, Demented Mind and Friendly Ghost.

Demented Mind

Friendly Ghost

Undocument “Pleasures”

Posted in News with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 24, 2014 by E.N.

Undocument PleasuresLong Beach, California producer / artist UNDOCUMENT will be releasing his brand new video for “This Lullaby”, the first single from his latest release “Pleasures” on July 3rd, 2014 through his YouTube and Vimeo video channels.

The imaginative feature was directed by undocument and stars “This Lullaby” vocalist MaQui Sainz in the lead role, amid creepy mannequins, ornate costumes, and stunningly detailed make-up and hair, all overlaid with numerous mysterious and provocative projections. It was produced and filmed entirely on set at Sound Matrix Studios in Fountain Valley, California.

The look of the inspired video combines Bjork and Ellie Goulding together with a delicate touch of elements inspired from 80’s fantasy movies like The Neverending Story and Labyrinth, and ultimately take the lyrical imagery of the song in a new direction both visually and thematically.

I’m really excited to be able to bring ‘This Lullaby’ to life with its own music video,” UNDOCUMENT says.MaQui not only has a phenomenal voice, she had a lot of wonderful ideas and had a great expressive attitude on camera.”

UNDOCUMENT’s debut album, the ambitious and instrumental “For Lovers, Dreamers & Non-Believers” was released in 2012 to positive acclaim, has been followed up with his newest release “Pleasures”, boasting eighteen original songs including his first ever collaboration with vocalist MaQui Sainz on “This Lullaby”.

But it’s not the first time UNDOCUMENT has produced his own video. The memorable shoot for “A Flood Of Ghosts”, took him and his small crew to a local park on a location shoot, where amusingly enough, a photographers club was meeting to shoot the wildlife. With a alien film crew exciting the flora and faun a, the aspiring paparazzi ended up shooting the lead actress instead of the birds and the trees.

Ellie Goulding – Beating Heart (Official Video)

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Brit Award Nominations 2014

Posted in News with tags , , , , , , , , on January 10, 2014 by E.N.

9003-brit_awards_2014_nominations_in_full_420x250Bastille and Disclosure both receive four nominations, while Ellie Goulding and Rudimental each have three.

See the full list of nominees for the BRIT Awards 2014!

Best British Male Solo Artist:

David Bowie
Jake Bugg
James Blake
John Newman
Tom Odell

Best British Female Solo Artist:

Ellie Goulding
Jessie J
Laura Marling
Laura Mvula

Best British Group:

Arctic Monkeys
One Direction

Best British Breakthrough Act:

Laura Mvula
London Grammar
Tom Odell

Best British Single:

Bastille – Pompeii
Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding – Need Your Love
Disclosure ft. Aluna George – White Noise
Ellie Goulding – Burn
Jon Newman – Love Me Again
Naughty Boy – La La La
Olly Murs – Dear Darlin’
One DIrection – One Way or Another
Passenger – Let Her Go
Rudimental – Waiting All Night

Mastercard British Album of the Year:

Arctic Monkeys – AM
Bastille – Bad Blood
David Bowie – The Next Day
Disclosure – Settle
Rudimental – Home

Critics’ Choice
Sam Smith
Chloe Howl
Ella Eyre

Best International Male:

Bruno Mars
John Grant
Justin Timberlake

Best International Female:

Janelle Monae
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga

Best International Group:

Arcade Fire
Daft Punk
Kings of Leon
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

21-year-old singer/songwriter Sam Smith has already won the 2014 BRITs Critics Choice Award. The BRIT Awards 2014 will take place on February 19, at London’s O2 Arena, and will be broadcast live on ITV. It will feature live performances from Arctic Monkeys, Bastille, Rudimental, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry and Ellie Goulding.(officialcharts report)

BRIT Awards 2014: Critics’ Choice Award nominees revealed

Posted in News with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 6, 2013 by E.N.

Ella Eyre, Sam Smith and Chloe Howl have been shortlisted for the 2014 BRITs Critics’ Choice Award.

The BRIT Awards have revealed the shortlist for next year’s Critics’ Choice Award. Ella Eyre, Sam Smith and Chloe Howl are set to do battle for one of the most prestigious prizes in music.

The award, which is chosen by a team of music industry experts has previously launched the careers of Adele, Florence & The Machine, Ellie Goulding, Jessie J, Emeli Sande and Tom Odell. The over-all winner will be announced next Thursday (December 12).(officialcharts report)

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Sigma unveil the official video for ‘Rudeboy’ ft. Doctor

Posted in News with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 24, 2013 by E.N.

3Beat158 Sigma ft. Doctor - RudeboyUK Drum and Bass geniuses Sigma are about to drop their latest track “Rudeboy”.
The single features vocals from South London rapper and singer DOCTOR, who is best known for his collaboration with Soundbwoy Ent on the chart hit “Never Wanna Say”. He’s recently been collaborating with the top tier of international dance producers such as DJ Chuckie, Gregor Salto, Chase & Status and Plastician.
“Rudeboy” follows on from “Summer Calling”, Sigma’s first release with 3 Beat, which propelled Sigma into the spotlight. It spent two weeks at Number 1 on the Music Week Urban Club Chart and reached number 5 in the Beatport chart.

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Ellie Goulding – How Long Will I Love You (from the film About Time)(Video)

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Richard Linklater’s Tape

Look, I love explosions and car chases as much as the next guy.  Movies (well, some) are excellent at capturing events that we would never experience and making us feel like we vicariously lived through them.  I will never engage in a high-speed chase while shooting a gun through my blown out windshield, but I will certainly watch it happen.  However, I think movies are at their best not when they let us view a fantasy, but when they make a realistic situation just as compelling.  Tape, a film by Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, to name the two most well-known of his movies) takes about ninety minutes of nothing but conversation and makes them not just interesting, but riveting.

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General Mish-Mash: Podcasting with poorly drawn Potatoes

General Mishmash is a REAL man's potato.

Stuff. You talk about it. Sometimes you wish other people talked about it too. Well, we are other people. Presenting the first Faceplant podcast, General Mish-Mash episode 1! We hit some of the hottest topics in the universe today, such as why hammocks are awesome. Seriously. But we also talk about how 3d games will be invading our lives and making them more….expensive? Speaking of expensive, Tophat freaks out and explains why Modern Warfare 2’s DLC is the devil and we’re all idiots. We also hit on some other big games such as Borderlands and Left 4 Dead 2, but really sink our teeth into what makes Mass Effect 2 great. And terrible. And also, kinda ehhh. With quick hits on game remakes, developers mailing it in, and many reasons why Enosh sucks, you can’t afford not to listen. Enjoy!  (The voice we referred to as “Peck” is actually “Tophat”.  Don’t ask.) Continue reading

The stakes of remakes

What is it about remakes that we love so much?  Why can’t we just let something die?  It’s been an unexplained phenomenon for at least the past century, where it seems our culture wants nothing more than to take one of our beloved cultural icons and beat it with a stick, until it looks nothing like the original.

I always thought it went down like this:  somewhere there’s a large, open conference room stuffed full of old men in suits.  The old men have enormous white beards and eyebrows that look ready to rip a man’s face off.  They’re all wearing top hats and have monocles, and have been frantically discussing how to work the intercom without having someone walk outside to actually ask the secretary.  They are all over a hundred and fifteen years old.

Defeated, the men turn to their real job as presidents of entertainment, looking toward their, old gnarled CEO for guidance.  He clasps a cigar between his parchment thin lips and asks the question. Continue reading

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Many in the world have Hispanic ancestors and the goal of most genealogists with Hispanic ancestry is to trace their immigrant back to Argentina. This can be a daunting task but not impossible. Hispanic research is very rewarding and to help you get started there are a few resources you should be aware of to help guide you on your way.

It is not necessary that you be fluent in Spanish in order to have success in your research. You do however have to take the time learn about the genealogical process. A basic knowledge of the history and geography of Mexico will also prove useful. Learning to recognize key Spanish genealogical words and phrases will also serve you well as you begin your genealogical adventure. The following resources will be of assistance to you as you begin your journey in Hispanic research.

Research resources

If you are brand new to family history research, it would be advisable to start with a free online introductory class from BYU Independent Study. FamilySearch Wiki: Patterned after Wikipedia this online library is community based where everyone can share something to assist in genealogical research. There are many articles on basic genealogical research and several that are specific to research in Argentina.

Brigham Young University research outline for Argentina available in PDF form is a collection of articles and useful resources for those conducting genealogical research in Argentina.

You may want to consider the following book that has been designed for both beginning and intermediate researchers in all Hispanic countries. Finding Your Hispanic Roots by George R. Ryskamp (Baltimore: MD, 1997), FHL INTL Book 946 D27r.

Language resources

Deciphering the records is crucial to having success in Hispanic research. The following resources will help you to read your document and translate it correctly.

The Spanish Genealogical Word List contains a list of many of the most common words you might find in Spanish records. If you don’t find the word you’re looking for in the word list, you should consult a Spanish-English dictionary. Cassell's Spanish-English, English-Spanish Dictionary. New York: Macmillan Publishers, 1978. (FHL book 463.21 C272c 1978.)

Websites like Google Translate are also good sources for translating records from Spanish to English. Please beware that any word for word translation prepared by a computer program is likely to have some errors!

Reading Spanish handwriting can be a challenge for a beginner but with practice your speed and ability to read the records will improve. The following resources will provide you with instruction and tips to help you read Spanish handwritten records.

Reading Spanish Handwritten Records is a series of three classes you can view online. In lesson 1 you will learn about the Spanish alphabet. In lesson 2 you learn to recognize names, key words, and dates. In lesson 3 you will explore reading various types of Spanish records.

The Script Tutorial website sponsored by the Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University contains exercises, samples, abbreviations, and lists of names and surnames to guide you as you learn to read Spanish handwriting.

Need extra help?

If you get stuck and can’t read a document or you’re not sure where to go next in your research, you can ask for help through these resources.

Hispanic Genealogy Research community on Facebook is a page sponsored by FamilySearch and here you may also post a question or upload an image of a document for further assistance. The Hispanic Genealogy Research page is designed especially for those who have Hispanic ancestry but may not be fluent in Spanish. Be sure to click like on the page on your first visit so you can receive information and updates from the page in your news feed.

Investigación Genealógica en Argentina is another FamilySearch research community page on Facebook where you can post questions and upload images of documents. The majority of the posts on this page are in Spanish but you are welcome to post on the page in English. Be sure to click like on the page on your first visit so you can receive information and updates from the page in your news feed.

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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

In Karan Johar’s signature style, Rani sparkled in this blockbuster with Shahrukh and Kajol. If you haven’t said this to someone in person ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, let’s just say, watch it again, and there is still time to express yourself!

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Not much can be said except if you see this dance number, you will want to watch the full film. Nothing surpasses this in our books as the item number of the year!

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Bombay Talkies

When Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap come together to pay homage to the 100 years of India Cinema, Bombay Talkies is born as 4 distinctly different stories but all ties together with the essence of what cinema means to the common man in India. Rani’s seen here as “Gale main mangalsutra aur ankhon main kamasutra”

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Tara Rum Pum

Laaga Chunri Mein Daag

Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic

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Tanuj Chopra’s Films – Package Deal for a Good Cause

In Uncategorized on May 4, 2011 at 8:01 PM

Last year, I wrote a little comic titled S.O.S. for the graphic novel SECRET IDENTITIES. Today. the creators of the book are working hard to host an online auction featuring things made by SI’s contributors. All proceeds are going directly to disaster relief.

They’ve made a little package deal available for Clap Clap, PIA and Butterfly -This is a good time to cop these films together if you dig the work.

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Gabhricha Paus (The Damned Rain) selected in Cannes Cinnephilles, Festival De Cannes 2011

In Red Hot Carpets on May 4, 2011 at 7:42 PM

Gabhricha Paus is selected as a part of Cannes Cinephiles, Screens Junior section, in which 8-10 movies are selected in competition for a young audience, because they develop themes or depict worlds that may constitute for these young people some thought. The jury, composed of a class ‘cinema’ College Gerard Philipe de Cannes, will determine the outcome of the event, a work they wish to study in class. There will be 2 or 3 public screenings of Gabhricha Paus in this section. Other movies in this section are from all over the world including movies from France, Italy, Israel to name a few. Gabhricha Paus will be presented with French subtitles.

Other than the documentary about Indian films by Shekhar Kapur, I believe this is the only Indian film with a presence in Cannes this year.

Cannes Cinéphiles (Cannes film Enthusiasts) is an event organised by Cannes Cinéma and the Festival de Cannes to provide public screenings from the Official Selection, as well as films from the parallel sections.

Further information can be found on (One would need to use google translate to get this page in English)

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Can I have two copies of my hunting license?

Can we get two copies of my sons hunting license? One for my house and one for his dads?

It is not illegal to possess two copies of your hunting license. However, when a person gets a “duplicate” copy of their hunting license, the duplicate license invalidates the original license.

Idaho Code 36-405(b)3. When a duplicate license has been issued the original license shall become null and void.


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September 25, 2010

Loss leaves Richt searching for answers

STARKVILLE, Miss. - Now what?

Georgia coach Mark Richt is asking that very question.

Unfortunately, as he sat in a sweat-drenched interview room following Saturday night's 24-12 loss to Mississippi State, any immediate answers unfortunately escaped him.

"We've got to look from within, starting with me as to the things that have kept us from having the success we want," Richt said. "That's what we're going to do."

It's not a pretty situation.

With Saturday's loss, the Bulldogs fall to 1-3 and 0-3 in the SEC for the first time since 1993.

"I'm definitely in a position I've never been in as a coach, or as a player that I can remember. It's certainly not a good place to be but we are where we are and we must do a really good job No. 1 of sticking together," Richt said. "We've got to stay together and I've seen no signs of change in that; we're also a close-knit family."

Still, there were certainly no smiles from the players involved. As the Bulldog players trudged from their lockerroom and down the hill outside the Leo Seal M. Club Building and onto their waiting busses before meandering through a waiting swarm of cowbell-waving Mississippi State fans still celebrating their team's 12-point win.

"All you can do is go back and look yourself in the mirror and see what you can do better," defensive end Demarcus Dobbs said. "There's nowhere to go but up from here."

This time, mistakes and penalties helped do the Bulldogs in.

Georgia, which rushed for just 113 yards, was penalized nine times for 63 yards, including a second-quarter holding call on Marlon Brown which negated 40-yard touchdown pass to Kris Durham.

A first-quarter fumble by Washaun Ealey inside the MSU 5 negated another score while an offsides penalty took away an interception by Vance Cuff which would have set Georgia up inside the 50-yard line.

Defensively, the Bulldogs allowed MSU to rush for 179 yards, including 97 from quarterback Chris Relf who also completed 8-of-13 passes for 135 yards and one touchdown, a 33-yarder to Arceto Clark.

The touchdown to Clark beat cornerback Branden Smith and preceded a 1-yard touchdown run by Vic Ballard with 3:15 to go to ice the game at 24-6.

Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray completed a 40-yard touchdown pass to Tavarres King in garbage time, but by that time the outcome had long been decided.

"We blew coverages, we had missed opportunities, we were undisciplined," Dobbs said. "We made some plays but because we were undisciplined … We simply made too many mistakes."

Murray finished with respectable numbers, completing 18-of-31 passes for 274 yards with no interceptions.

Considering their mistakes, Bulldogs were fortunate to go into the half trailing by just a 7-6 score.

After taking the opening kickoff, Mississippi State (2-2, 1-2) roared right down the field for the game's first score, a quick 4-play, 53-yard drive that Ballard culminated with a 13-yard touchdown run.

That was just the beginning.

Later in the first, Murray hit Ealey with a 21-yard gain down to the 3. But on a play that brought back memories of South Carolina, Ealey fumbled into the end zone giving MSU the ball at the 20.

A 25-yard field by Blair Walsh cut the lead to 7-3 and on MSU's ensuing possession, Todd Grantham's defense was able to force a quick three-and-out.

But alas, Georgia's bad luck would continue when Bacarri Rambo allowed Heath Hutchin's punt to glance off his leg with Chris Cameron recovering the ball.

For a moment, it appeared that Georgia would rue the miscue, but linebacker Darryl Gamble saved the Bulldogs when he intercepted running back LaDarius Perkins' throwback to Relf at the UGA 13.

A personal foul on Relf moved the football out to the 26 and 15 plays later Walsh drilled a 35-yard field goal to bring Georgia within 7-6.

It should have been more.

Facing a 2nd-and-10 at the MSU 40, Murray tossed the ball up to Durham, who weaved his way through a host of defenders for an apparent touchdown.

But hold on.

Brown was called for holding on the play. The Bulldogs were forced to go back to the 20, but only picked up three yards before calling on Walsh for the field goal with 1:21 in the second quarter.

"It's very frustrating," Durham said. "We shoot ourselves in the foot when we have great opportunities and Mississippi State capitalized on their opportunities and you have to give credit where credit is due. We just need to go back, look at ourselves and just continue to work hard and get ready for next week."

The Bulldogs led another opportunity slip through their fingers in the third when an offside call negated an interception by Cuff would have set UGA up inside the 50-yard line.

Georgia could have used the turnover as early in the fourth, kicker Sean Brauchle knocked down a 44-yard field goal to make the score 10-6 with 13:59 to go.

Georgia returns to action Saturday when the Bulldog travel to Boulder, Colo. to take on Colorado.

"I never would have predicted it," Richt said of his team's 1-3 start. "But that's where we're at."

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April 7, 2013

USF OL target wins Rivals Camp Series MVP

The offers for 2014 USF target Isaiah Wynn keep on coming - this latest one from Georgia. Wynn won the MVP of the Rivals Camp Series Atlanta stop

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Decision time nears for Broyles

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The Offense-Defense All-American Bowl is definitely a new experience for Rivals250 cornerback Ryan Broyles.

Broyles has never been to the state of Florida and is getting a chance at playing the safety position in the game. The 6-foot, 170-pounder also has narrowed down his list to three schools and could have a decision soon if everything goes to plan.

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November 4, 2010

Jesuit's Nicholas Rothstein Looks Ahead

Jesuit High School's Nicholas Rothstein is one of the Top Three Juniors in the State of Oregon. He and the Crusaders lost one game to a tough Aloha program this year but that did not do anything other then fuel their fire. They are headed into the Playoffs as one of the Top 5 teams in the State and no one wants to see them in their bracket.

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      Environment: CS6 (PS 13.0.1) Mac OS X 10.7.5. Plenty of hardware. (Generally starting with .CR2 RAW.)

      Two open/save problems

      Recently (maybe since the 13.0.1 update??), I have been having problems with the open and save as dialog boxes.

      First. The open file dialog always defaults to Enable: blank (i.e. no file types enabled). Each time I have to  go to the bottom of the dropdown list and select "All readable documents" before I can open ANY type of file. I've searched in everyway I can think of looking for some method to have OPEN default to "all readable" but can't find anyway to do this. Anyone have a suggestion? I admit this is a nuisance more than anything, but when whipping around at deadline having to stop each time and make this change is irritating. No other program has this difficulty (including Illustrator and InDesign). PS5.5 did not exhibit this behavior on the same machine.

      Second. When I save as and try to select any file format, say going from psd to tiff, the format dropdown list ALWAYS selects the format ABOVE the one I choose. Example: If I select JPEG, PS tries to save as .iff. If I pull the selection down to JPEG2000 it will then save as standard JPEG. Again just an irritant but, tiff (which I need for several other programs) is last on the list thus there is no way I can go one below it to get tiff format selected. It always comes out as png. Also note that the Format selection indicates the correct format - in the case of tiff the dialog box shows TIFF selected, but the program is apending .png. (Continuing the save as (without altering my selection) always results in the incorrect format no matter what the Format dialog says in the save as operation.) Again, no other program I work with (including several Adobe products) exhibits this behavior.

      I seriously need to be able to save as tiff. Anyone with any thoughts on this?

      Thanks much,


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Bankruptcy Lawyer Still Guilty of Stupid Stuff

Thomas O’Connel Holstein provided bankruptcy services at his law firm, known as Lawline. In September 2005, he signed a consent petition with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission in which he acknowledged professional misconduct and agreed to an eighteen-month suspension of his law license, effective October 17, 2005. Despite the agreement and impending suspension, Holstein continued to accept clients throughout August and September of that year.

Several former clients testified that they called Lawline in September of that year, seeking legal representation in their bankruptcy proceedings. Holstein routinely answered the phone and advised the clients to come to the office for an in-person consultation. But the clients testified that they usually met only with Lisa Vega, a paralegal Holstein employed, who helped them fill out forms and accepted their fees. If they saw Holstein at all, it was only momentarily.

Vega testified that Holstein directed her to accept fees from the clients and file the bankruptcy petitions on their behalf. In addition, Vega said Holstein directed her to black out his name on the petitions and indicate that the clients were not represented by counsel and would proceed pro se. The petitions therefore represented to the court that the clients paid no legal fees. But because Lawline handled the filings, each of the clients testified that they arrived at their initial creditors’ meeting expecting Holstein to appear as their attorney. None of the clients was aware of the pro se status statements on his or her petition.

A grand jury indicted Holstein on nine counts of bank- ruptcy fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 157(1), and making false state- ments in a bankruptcy proceeding, 18 U.S.C. § 1519.

After a bench trial, Judge Grady found Holstein guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on all counts and sentenced him to one year and one day in prison. Specifically, the Judge found that Holstein solicited clients, accepted fees, and hid from the clients his impending suspension and consequent inability to complete the representation; misrepresented to the bankruptcy court that the debtors were unrepresented by counsel; and made the misrepresentations to conceal that he was practicing without a license.

Holstein appealed.

With no evidence in the record to cast doubt on the district court’s findings, Holstein’s appeal boils down to challenging the Judge determinations as to the credibility of the witnesses. Such a tactic is “doomed at the outset,” United States v. DeCorte, 851 F.2d 948, 952 (7th Cir. 1988). The Judge found the evidence “overwhelming” that Holstein directed Vega’s actions and that any inference that use of a Lawline check negated Holstein’s intent was “implausible . . . [and] had absolutely no bearing on Mr. Holstein’s frame of mind at the time these petitions were filed.” The Judge had the best opportunity to listen to the witnesses and make credibility determinations and we will not second-guess those findings here.

This decision was handed down on August 18, 2010 and the full document can be found here.

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My Husband Sees Our Debt as My Problem. – Sue

“Dear Steve,

I’ve been married to my husband 17 yrs. 2 mths. We have always pooled our paychecks, I’ve handled our finances, and I’ve paid our bills from a joint checking account. We live very modestly and purchased an old farmhouse with 10 acres and buildings.

After buying our home 11 years ago (we currently owe $38,000 on a home worth $110,000), having 2 children, and earning an excellent joint income of $105,000 per year, we are still having trouble getting out of debt and I can’t take the pressure any longer. I returned to school 6 years ago to earn a better income, but charged gas, kids’ medical bills, etc when I didn’t have the money.

We owe close to $46,000 on credit cards and my husband thinks we should be close to out of debt!! I’ve tried to tell him we are not even close but he will not even look at our finances until I “fix the mess I’ve got us into.” We just getting deeper in debt.

I resent his attitude and feel that he also spent close to $50 00 per year for 4 years for his cattle hobby, which was money that I didn’t have budgeted. Most of the credit card debt ($34,000) is in my name only and our 2010 Honda Accord with a payment of $420 per month is joint.

I do not know what to do. To make matters worse, our house attic was infested with bats and we need bat guano clean-up which costs $10,000 for a professional so my husband wants to do it himself which is unadvised. He also wants to remodel by himself but has done nothing for 1 1/2 years so our family is living in our downstairs with no bedrooms and air mattresses until he decides to dig in.

When I mention that I would like to hire a contractor he gets defensive and tells me that I can just pay for it myself then, even though he just inherited a large sum (over $200,000) of cash,IRA, etc., which is stashed away in his name only in a local bank. I am going to also lose my tax return due to his inheritance and I used to use that $6500 to pay down debt, so I feel a nxious about that too. I’ve also asked him to help pay down our debt and he refuses. He says it’s my problem and I can fix it myself.

What would be the best way for me personally, not including my husband’s debt, to get out of $34,000 debt in the next few years? Should I do debt consolidation, ask my credit cards for a debt settlement, or is there another way? Should I consolidate? Should I spend my $12,000 in my 401K? Should I ask each credit card for a debt settlement amount? I heard on your radio show that you offer fee-based consultations and am interested in setting that up. Or is there a debt counselor that is trustworthy in Iowa that I could drive and see?

Dear Sue,

Unfortunately your situation is one where the debt is the byproduct of a number of underlying issues. And while the debt can be tackled the real issue here is the question of simmering marital problems of his and hers which leads to larger issues that are then manifested in the debt.

For your debt alone a debt consolidation loan would be the first step to explore. While the consolidation loan would not cover all of your debt, it would cover the most expensive of it and help you to dig out early with hopefully a lower payment.

While other solutions exist, they will defiantly throw a wrench in the works unless you are operating out of the same book and on the same page. At present it sounds like you are working out of two entirely different books.

For example, if you decide to pursue debt settlement or bankruptcy and that creates complications on your joint debts then it will only amplify the other simmering issues and make it an explosive situation.

After examining the solution I’d also suggest you click here for credit counseling information. A credit counseling plan can help to eliminate your debt in five years but the payment would remain about the same as you are paying now.

You may also find insight in reading The Honest and Unvarnished Truth About How to Get Out of Debt.

In a perfect world I’d rather see you tackle this situation as a whole first with marriage counseling and then a joint plan to take care of the debt.

Please post your responses and follow-up messages to me on this in the comments section below.

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    Thank you for your advice. He refuses to go to marriage counseling so I went myself which helped some. I still feel alone in figuring this out. I have an appointment with Damon Day in 2 hrs. so thanks for the link to a trustworthy coach!

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    Thank you for your advice. He refuses to go to marriage counseling so I went myself which helped some. I still feel alone in figuring this out. I have an appointment with Damon Day in 2 hrs. so thanks for the link to a trustworthy coach!

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Opened 2 years ago

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#7519 closed bug (fixed)

CLK_TCK is not always a constant

Reported by: singpolyma Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: 7.8.1
Component: libraries/base Version: 7.7
Keywords: qnx Cc: pho@…
Operating System: Other Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
Type of failure: Building GHC failed Test Case:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Related Tickets: Differential Revisions:

System/CPUTime.hsc assumes that if CLK_TCK is defined, it is a constant, but on QNX it expands to a procedure call. The attached patch is one way to solve this problem.

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0001-Move-CLK_TCK-check-out-to-a-C-file.patch (2.4 KB) - added by singpolyma 2 years ago.

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Change History (12)

Changed 2 years ago by singpolyma

comment:1 Changed 2 years ago by singpolyma

  • Status changed from new to patch

comment:2 Changed 2 years ago by igloo

  • difficulty set to Unknown

Does it expand to sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)?

If sysconf and _SC_CLK_TCK are portable enough, then we may as well just unconditionally use that.

comment:3 Changed 2 years ago by singpolyma

That is what it expands to on QNX, yes.

Well, it actually expands to _sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) which is an internal QNX wrapper, but the result is the same.

comment:5 Changed 2 years ago by kgardas

Looks like QNX and Solaris do exactly the same thing!

comment:6 Changed 2 years ago by PHO

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NetBSD does that too.
In /usr/include/time.h:

 * CLK_TCK uses libc's internal __sysconf() to retrieve the machine's
 * HZ. The value of _SC_CLK_TCK is 39 -- we hard code it so we do not
 * need to include unistd.h
long __sysconf(int);
#define CLK_TCK         (__sysconf(39))

comment:7 Changed 2 years ago by singpolyma

  • Status changed from patch to merge

comment:8 Changed 2 years ago by simonmar

  • Milestone set to 7.8.1

The ticket state "merge" means you want the change in the stable branch (7.6). Will it help to merge it into the 7.6 branch?

comment:9 Changed 2 years ago by singpolyma

@simonmar oh. What's the state for "is in HEAD now"? Should it just be marked as "fixed"?

This patch *might* be useful to people on 7.6 (if they are building native compiles for Solaris, for example), but since most people seem to have run into this while cross-compiling, and 7.6 cannot cross-compile, that's probably not what I meant.

comment:10 Changed 2 years ago by kgardas

as a Solaris user I'd like to add that the patch is not needed for Solaris native compiles. i.e. i386. 7.6.x compiles and runs fine on Solaris. The patch is needed for cross-compiling i386-solaris -> x86_64-solaris. The problem is that hsc2hs is kind of more strict while cross-compiling than while doing native compiles -- that's why the code even before patch run fine and I just fail on it once attempting cross-compiling to x86_64-solaris.
So, message is clear, if 7.6.x does not support cross-compilation, I wouldn't bother with merging the patch into 7.6.x branch.

comment:11 Changed 2 years ago by simonmar

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from merge to closed
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MacJournal 3.0: Great journal and blogging tool.

I’d been taking a look at blogging tools before I started writing here at The Apple Blog, and one of the best software packages that I found was Dan Schimpf’s MacJournal, now published by Mariner Software. MacJournal is a program for creating, modifying, and managing a personal journal, with the option of posting your entries up to a blog. (MacJournal supports publishing to a number of blog packages, including LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress and Movable Type.) It can also be used for diaries, logs, or anything else. One of the uses I’ve put it to was to use it during MacWorld for keeping my notes during the MacIT sessions, as well as for the initial draft of what became my TAB entry for the Keynote.

MacJournal is really a very powerful program. Dan Schimpf, MacJournal’s creator, wrote MacJournal in Cocoa which means (among other things) that toolbars, spell checker, font and color panels, localization, and drawers are all utilized to provide you with a useful and consistent interface that you’re already used to in Mac OS X. But the real power in MacJournal comes from the fact that it is OS X Services-aware. One example of this, noted by Joseph over at, is that you can highlight text in Safari then use OS X’s Services options to create a new entry in MacJournal. Another great feature that comes along with this is that the links in the highlighted text come right along the rest when you send them to MacJournal, giving you embedded links that you can click on from the journal entry. MacJournal 3.0

Another benefit from MacJournal’s Cocoa origins is that it supports (or will support) a number of languages other than English. Other languages that are already supported or have support planned include:

  • Catalan
  • Danish
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Norwegian
  • Serbian
  • Spanish
  • Taiwanese
  • You can easily create as many journals as you want with MacJournal, as well as make backups of existing entries and journals. MacJournal also provides for the ability to selectively password protect your journal entries, using AES-256 encryption. This encryption provides maximum-strength security for your journal(s) , so that you can control who has access to what in MacJournal. With this capability and MacJournal’s ability to publish to various blog publishing flavors, you can range the full gamut of public and private access for your notes and journals.

    One question I ran across a few times while doing the research for this entry was "Is it worth paying $30 for what used to be freeware?" In my opinion, if you need a tool that provides this kind of flexibility, thirty bucks isn’t too much to pay, especially since it will help pay for the continued improvement and development of this great program. If you disagree, MacJournal 2.6 is still available as freeware from Dan Schimpf’s website. No matter how you slice it, this is a great journalling tool that’s both simple to use and powerful.

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Analyst: YouTube to Bring in $123M

Jeffery Lindsay with Bernstein Research estimates that YouTube’s revenues will come in at $123 million in 2009, reports Peter Kafka’s MediaMemo. This figure falls on the lower end of previous estimates. Screen Digest said the video giant would take in $120 million, while Credit Suisse forecast that YouTube would generate $240 million and Jeffries & Co. estimated $500 million in revenue this year.

Lindsay thinks YouTube can sell ads against 9 percent of its video inventory. That number is interesting because it’s the same percentage Michael Learmonth at AdAge came up with last month doing some back-of-the-envelope math. That 9 percent represents a jump from the previously estimated 3-4 percent — a number YouTube called “grossly inaccurate.”

Of course third-party estimates are just that — estimates. And only the great Oz pulling all the strings behind YouTube’s curtain really knows the score. But if Lindsay is on the right track, that’s good news for YouTube. Lindsay forecasts that as the site adds more professional content and as the economy and CPMs recover, it will be able to monetize 15 percent of its inventory within the next 12 months, helping YouTube bring in $222 million in 2010.

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Fix for Apple Bug Affecting Truphone and Other Apps in iPhone 3.0

iphone_bugSince updating to iPhone OS 3.0 on my iPod touch, the icons of some apps periodically get replaced with a faded version of another app’s icon, or with a strange combination of multiple images. Others don’t have an icon at all. I’ve grouped together a number of affected icons on my springboard in the screen cap to the right so you can see what I mean.

Apparently this is only affecting a small portion of users running iPhone OS 3.0. It affects my iPod touch, but my iPhone isn’t showing symptoms of it, nor is my girlfriend’s. Apple hasn’t yet commented on or released an update to resolve the issues. For those who are having problems, here’s a simple fix, courtesy of the good folks at Truphone, whose app appears to be one of those affected by the bug.

Step 1 – Go to the Applications section of iTunes on your iPhone/iPod touch and uncheck the affected application.

Step 2 – Sync your iPhone iPod touch.

Step 3 – Go back into the Applications section of iTunes on your iPhone/iPod touch and recheck the relevant application.

Step 4 – Sync your iPhone/iPod touch again.

My own quick and non-scientific testing indicates that this is indeed an effective way of resolving these bizarre glitches, although I haven’t had a chance yet to do any kind of long-term test, so whether or not this is a permanent fix remains to be seen. Likely an official fix is coming in iPhone OS 3.1 anyway, and the apps affected continue to work (at least in my experience), so for now the Truphone solution is plenty good enough for me.

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Evernote, Now Playing on Nokia N900

Evernote, a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup, says that Nokia has developed a version of its web service that allows users to capture and store information using the built-in sharing functionality of the Nokia N900. This is made possible using a plug-in. Nokia is using the Evernote API.

Nokia N900 owners can send snapshots from the camera and photo gallery, as well as audio and other content into Evernote as part of their normal interaction with the N900 device.

After a one-step installation process, users gain the ability to send various types of content directly from the device’s sharing menu. Once in Evernote, everything is processed and made searchable. Notes created from the device, or from desktop and web versions of Evernote, can be accessed through the built-in web browser on the N900.

Evernote has raised over $16.5 million in funding from Morgenthaler Ventures and other investors. It’s a poster child of the freemium business model.

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Is crowdfunding startups a solution, or just another problem?

Over the past few years, we’ve seen the rise of “crowdfunding” services, such as Kickstarter, that allow musicians, artists and writers to raise small amounts of money for projects they can’t fund through traditional sources. What if that idea was extended to investing in small businesses of any kind? That’s the principle behind a bill that is working its way through Congress, which would allow entrepreneurs to raise up to $2 million from individual investors without having to be approved by securities regulators or do a traditional venture financing. But would this free up more entrepreneurial firepower to help the U.S. economy, or just cause chaos and confusion for investors and regulatory headaches for the government?

Known as the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” (PDF link) the legislation in question — which was amended by the House committee on financial services this week and now goes before the full House for discussion — would make it easier for small businesses or individuals who want to start a company to raise funds from investors. In a nutshell, the new law would exempt those investors from most of the regulatory tests they currently have to pass before they can invest in the shares of a private company, and allow them to invest through crowdfunding platforms like IndieGoGo and Kickstarter.

Is Kickstarter a model for economic growth?

The proposed law is related to the Obama administration’s “Startup America” plan, which is designed to help encourage entrepreneurialism as a way of stimulating the economy and creating more jobs. And Washington has made it clear that Kickstarter and other similar platforms are the model it wants to pursue, saying the plan means:

[R]esponsibly allowing startups to raise money through “crowdfunding” – gathering many small-dollar investments that add up to as much as $1 million. Right now, entrepreneurs like these bakers and these gadget-makers are already using crowdfunding platforms to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in pure donations – imagine the possibilities if these small-dollar donors became investors with a stake in the venture.

Under current investment rules, only “accredited” or “sophisticated” investors can invest in what are called private placements: this group includes companies or partnerships with a net worth of more than $5 million; individuals or couples with a combined net worth of $1 million, and those who are insiders of the company in question — in other words, officers or directors — as well as investors who are working through a professional investment advisor (such as an accountant or attorney). And companies that raise money in this way are forbidden from advertising that they are looking for financing.

In other words, not only are the potential sources of funding for small companies currently reduced to a tiny proportion of the economy, but the startups that are most in need of these kinds of financing are prevented from advertising — even on Twitter or through social networks — that they are interested in raising money. They can take donations through Kickstarter and other platforms, as startups like the would-be Facebook alternative Diaspora have, but they can only provide gifts or products in return, not shares in the company.

Bill would give startups more funding options

The current rules lock most startups into a particular pattern: in most cases, their initial funding comes from friends and family, and then — if the business isn’t already providing enough free-cash flow — the company has to find individual “angel” investors (who meet all of the above tests) to get a larger amount of money to fund their growth. If they don’t fail at this level, then they typically move on to raising traditional financing from venture-capital funds, and if they grow large enough they do private placements with banks and brokerage firms, the way that both Facebook and Twitter have over the past year or so.

The proposed bill would allow anyone to invest in a company provided that that person didn’t contribute more than $10,000 a year — or 10 percent of their annual income, whichever is smaller. Companies that use this method would only be allowed to raise a maximum of $2 million, and if they raised more than $1 million they would have to provide audited financial statements. The House committee this week also added a requirement that these companies tell federal securities regulators when they are raising new funds, although they would not have to get approval, and a related bill would even let these companies advertise that they are looking for funding from individuals.

The idea is to lower the barriers to raising small amounts of money, in the hope that more entrepreneurs and small companies will choose to do this, and that they in turn will help create more jobs. Some observers, such as Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation, have argued that the U.S. badly needs to encourage a “producer” economy — in which more people create their own companies and entrepreneurial opportunities — instead of the current “consumption economy.” And proponents of the new legislation such as the Startup Exemption group say the bill would help do this.

Critics of the proposed legislation, however, argue that it would create — or exacerbate — a kind of speculative attitude that is already a problem in technology markets when it comes to publicly-traded companies, and in private share-trading networks such as SecondMarket, where valuations of players like Facebook have soared as high as $70 billion. And many are concerned that lowering the barriers for entrepreneurs to raise money would also make it easier for fraud artists and others to take advantage of individual investors, which would in turn put more of a burden on regulators.

Can a principle that allows musicians to raise money for albums be extended to the U.S. economy as a whole? The answer seems to depend on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist about the value of crowdfunding in general, and social tools like Facebook and Twitter. If such tools can help some entrepreneurs raise money they need to create their own businesses, then why not make it easier for them to do so? Provided it is properly regulated, it sounds like just the kind of thing the U.S. economy could use more of.

Sure, it might encourage a bubble mentality and cause people to gamble on unproven companies — but then the traditional stock market already does plenty of that, and we’ve gotten pretty used to having that around.

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If Facebook’s data is indicative, Denver is Super Bowl fave

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The data science team at Facebook has analyzed users’ posts about National Football League teams over the course of the season and has shared the results in a blog post. They show some interesting trends in the fluctuations of fans’ sentiments before, during and after games, and — if the overall pattern is any indicator — might point to a Denver Broncos victory in Sunday’s Super Bowl.

I tend to think Facebook might be a better gauge of sentiment for topics like sports, if only because its user base is so much larger and more engaged, and users — from all I’ve heard — engage in more personal discussions on Facebook than on places like Twitter. You can see in this chart how, over the course of a season, fans of teams that won their games tend to use more positive language about their teams leading up to the games (and definitely during and after them).

nfl sentimentBut the really interesting part of this experiment is the timing — because, of course, the Super Bowl is being played on Sunday between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks. If Floyd Mayweather’s reported $10.4 million bet on Denver wasn’t enough to convince you it will win, maybe this graph of Facebook-user sentiment will.

super bowl sentimentHowever, post author Sean Taylor points out, this is hardly a guarantee:

“In the playoffs so far, the team with the best pre-game sentiment (two hours before each game) has won nine out of ten times. However, when we used ratio of pre-game sentiment scores between the two teams as a predictor for the regular season, we measured an AUC of 0.65, indicating that it’s not generally useful (beyond say, their win-loss records).”

Vegas has Denver, Facebook has Denver. Now seems like as a good a time as any for bandwagon-jumpers to go grab a Peyton Manning jersey.

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I have been getting a number of requests lately for information on gender and development from folks on twitter and so decided to pull together a basic list. These sources are ‘ an introduction to gender and development’ and lay the foundations to most of the work gender advisors do on a day to day basis. I also add a short list of feminist theories which underpin a lot of gender and development thought.  Still to come – list resources on ‘girls in development’. Watch this space!

List of gender and development resources

A. Cornwall, E.Harrison & A.Whitehead (Eds) Feminisms in Development, 2007; http://www.amazon.com/Feminisms-Development-Contradictions-Contestations-Challenges/dp/1842778196

A. Cornwall and M.Molyneux (Eds) The Politics of Rights: Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis, 2008; http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415459068/

A Sen, Development as Freedom, Anchor Books, 2000.

A Escobar, Encountering Development, Princeton University Press, 1999; http://tinyurl.com/2w7kctl

Chant & M Gutmann, Mainstreaming Men into Gender and Development: Debates, Reflections and Experiences, 2000; http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mainstreaming-Men-into-Gender-Development/dp/0855984511

C Jackson & R Pearson (Eds), Feminist Visions of Development, 1998; http://www.amazon.com/Feminist-Visions-Development-Routledge-Economics/dp/0415157900

C Moser, Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training, Rutledge 1993; http://www.amazon.com/Women-Gender-Development-Reader/dp/1856491420/ref=pd_sim_b_1

C March, I Smyth & M Mukhopadhyay, a guide to gender analysis frameworks, Oxfam, 1999; http://tinyurl.com/37qmvs6

D Perrons, Globalization and Social Change, Routledge 2004;

H Afshar & S Barrientos (Eds), Women, Globalisation and Fragmentation in the Developing World, 1999; http://www.amazon.com/Globalization-Fragmentation-Developing-Womens-Studies/dp/0312216599

M Marchand & J Parpart (Ed), Feminism/Postmodernism/Development, 1995; http://www.amazon.co.uk/Feminism-Postmodernism-Development-Routledge-International/dp/0415105242

Martha C. Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice (Oxford University Press, 1999; http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Social-Justice-Martha-Nussbaum/dp/0195110323

N Kabeer, Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, Verso (1994); http://www.amazon.com/Reversed-Realities-Naila-Kabeer/dp/0860915840

N Kabeer, Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals, 2003; http://publicwebsite.idrc.ca/EN/Resources/Publications/Pages/IDRCBookDetails.aspx?PublicationID=229

S. Chant Gender, Generation and Poverty, 2007; http://www.e-elgar.com/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=3550

S. Chant (ed) 2010 International Handbook of Gender and Poverty: Concepts, Research, Policy, Edward Elgar. http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=13431

Women, Gender and Development Reader, Zed Books, 1997; http://www.amazon.com/Women-Gender-Development-Reader/dp/1856491420/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Feminist Theory underpinning a lot of gender and development theory

G Anzaldua, Borderlands: The New Mestiza / La Frontera, 1999; http://www.amazon.com/Borderlands-Mestiza-Frontera-Gloria-Anzald%C3%BAa/dp/1879960567

bell hooks, feminism is for everybody, 2000; http://www.amazon.com/Feminism-Everybody-Passionate-bell-hooks/dp/0896086283 (and really everything else she’s written)

C Sandoval, Methodology of the Oppressed, 2000; http://www.amazon.com/Methodology-Oppressed-Chela-Sandoval/dp/0816627371/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292245689&sr=1-1-spell

A Lorde, Sister Outsider, 1984; http://www.amazon.com/Sister-Outsider-Speeches-Crossing-Feminist/dp/0895941414 (‘The masters tools will never dismantle the master’s house’)

C Moraga & G Anzaldua, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Colour, 1984; http://www.amazon.com/This-Bridge-Called-My-Back/dp/091317503X/ref=pd_sim_b_20

E Shohat, Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age, MIT press, 2001; http://www.amazon.com/Talking-Visions-Multicultural-Feminism-Transnational/dp/0262692619/ref=pd_sim_b_4

C Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, Duke Press, 2003; http://www.amazon.com/Feminism-without-Borders-Decolonizing-Practicing/dp/0822330210/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292245342&sr=1-1

I Grewal & C Kaplan, Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices, 1994: http://www.amazon.com/Scattered-Hegemonies-Postmodernity-Transnational-Practices/dp/0816621381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292245455&sr=1-1

P Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment, Unwin Hyman (1990); http://www.amazon.com/Black-Feminist-Thought-Consciousness-Empowerment/dp/0415924847

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Combinatorrent - a bittorrent client.

This is a bittorrent client. I am the introduction document and I need to be written by some generous soul!

Here is what I do to install haskell torrrent locally on my machine:

cabal install --prefix=$HOME --user

Since we are using the magnificient cabal, this is enough to install haskell torrent in our $HOME/bin directory.

Combinatorrent can currently only do one very simple thing. If you call it with

Combinatorrent foo.torrent

then it will begin downloading the file in foo.torrent to the current directory via the Bittorrent protocol.

Protocol support

Currently haskell-torrent supports the following BEPs (See the BEP Process document for an explanation of these)

  • 0003, 0004, 0006, 0010, 0020,

Combinatorrent implicitly supports these extensions

  • 0027: Support by the virtue of only supporting a single tracker and no DHT.

Partially supported extensions:

  • 0007: Combinatorrent understands and uses the "peers6" response from the tracker to connect clients. On the other hand, it does nothing to provide the "ipv4=" and "ipv6=" keys on tracker requests. As such, it can be claimed that 0007 support is available, as everything we left out is only qualified as MAY.

  • 0023: Combinatorrent supports the "compact" response only, although it is explicitly stated that the client must support both. In practice it has little impact as all modern trackers will only return compact responses anyway.

Combinatorrent is not supporting these BEPs, but strives to do so one day:

  • 0005, 0009, 0012, 0015, 0016, 0017, 0018, 0019, 0021, 0022, 0024, 0026, 0028, 0029, 0030, 0031, 0032

For debugging, jlouis tends to use the following:

make conf build test

This builds Combinatorrent with the Debug flag set and also builds the software with profiling by default so it is easy to hunt down performance regressions. It also runs the internal test-suite for various values. There are a couple of interesting targets in the top-level Makefile

Reading material for hacking Combinatorrent:

  • Protocol specification - BEP0003: This is the original protocol specification, tracked into the BEP process. It is worth reading because it explains the general overview and the precision with which the original protocol was written down.

  • Bittorrent Enhancement Process - BEP0000 The BEP process is an official process for adding extensions on top of the BitTorrent protocol. It allows implementors to mix and match the extensions making sense for their client and it allows people to discuss extensions publicly in a forum. It also provisions for the deprecation of certain features in the long run as they prove to be of less value.

  • An alternative description of the protocol. This description is in general much more detailed than the BEP structure. It is worth a read because it acts somewhat as a historic remark and a side channel. Note that there are some commentary on these pages which can be disputed quite a lot.

  • "Supervisor Behaviour" From the Erlang documentation. How the Erlang Supervisor behaviour works. The Supervisor and process structure of Combinatorrent is somewhat inspired by the Erlang ditto.

Source code Hierarchy

  • Data: Data structures.

    • Queue: Functional queues. Standard variant with two lists.
    • PendingSet: A wrapper around Data.PSQueue for tracking how common a piece is.
    • PieceSet: BitArrays of pieces and their operations.
  • Process: Process definitions for the different processes comprising Combinatorrent

    • ChokeMgr: Manages choking and unchoking of peers, based upon the current speed of the peer and its current state. Global for multiple torrents.
    • Console: Simple console process. Only responds to 'quit' at the moment.
    • DirWatcher: Watches a directory and adds any torrent present in it.
    • FS: Process managing the file system.
    • Listen: Not used at the moment. Step towards listening sockets.
    • Peer: Several process definitions for handling peers. Two for sending, one for receiving and one for controlling the peer and handle the state.
    • PeerMgr: Management of a set of peers for a single torrent.
    • PieceMgr: Keeps track of what pieces have been downloaded and what are missing. Also hands out blocks for downloading to the peers.
    • Status: Keeps track of uploaded/downloaded/left bytes for a single torrent. Could be globalized.
    • Timer: Timer events.
    • TorrentManager: Manages torrents at the top-level.
    • Tracker: Communication with the tracker.
  • Protocol: Modules for interacting with the various bittorrent protocols.

    • BCode: The bittorrent BCode coding. Used by several protocols.
    • Wire: The protocol used for communication between peers.
  • Top Level:

    • Channels: Various Channel definitions.
    • Combinatorrent: Main entry point to the code. Sets up processes.
    • Digest: SHA1 digests as used in the bittorrent protocol.
    • FS: Low level Filesystem code. Interacts with files.
    • Process: Code for Erlang-inspired processes.
    • RateCalc: Rate calculations for a network socket. We use this to keep track of the current speed of a peer in one direction.
    • Supervisor: Erlang-inspired Supervisor processes.
    • Test.hs: Code for test-framework
    • TestInstance.hs: Various helper instances not present in the test framework by default
    • Torrent: Various helpers and types for Torrents.
    • Tracer: Code for simple "ring"-like tracing.
    • Generates Version.hs via the configure script.

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Sweden is no longer neutral; drones are ‘totally illegal’

7 Feb

In part 2 [ Download] of an interview with the Voice of Russia, Agneta Norberg, Vice Chair of the Swedish Peace Council, Member of Steering Committee in International Peace Bureau and a member of the board of directors of Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space discusses the facts surrounding Sweden’s non-neutrality and the country’s involvement in NATO and Western military expansion. Ms. Norberg gives her views on drones which she calls “murder machines” and the development and testing of drones in Sweden, including a new drone being developed in a joint European project.

Part 1 of the interview

Robles: How does Sweden officially explain that they allow these installations? And do you think all these maneuvers are designed to intimidate Russia or to try to exercise sovereignty on the Arctic?

Norberg: Well, when we drift to Arctic, I think there are two things going on here. When they are interviewed, those who are in charge of these maneuvers, they always answer that this is for the Arctic, they openly express this – these maneuvers are for the Arctic and the resources which will be available when the ice is melting.

But the NATO maneuvers are so seldom covered in the news, in media, specifically not here in the south, I live in Stockholm, up in the north, in the local newspapers they are covered rather extensively. And they used to send quotes from the newspapers for me, otherwise I wouldn’t have known it, because the media doesn’t cover it in the south, in Stockholm, where most of the people live.

So, it is, a sort of: secretly hidden from the public to understand what is really going on. But when they are asked, they say: this is for the Arctic.

And also one thing I think you’ve mentioned is that Sweden is neutral. Forget that! We are not neutral! We have for long abolished the neutrality. We are not non-aligned; we are nothing, because we are openly conducting war games with NATO.

But there is one difficulty because the people in Sweden and in Finland are against. It is only about 19% of the Swedish population that accept NATO, the others don’t. So, they have that problem here.

But I can see the lust, how they try to form an enemy out of Russia, and you should understand this: how Russia now is demonized, again. And I’m so old, so I remember how they were demonizing the former Soviet Union, always, and almost on daily basis. And now we are there again.

So, we have here in one of the latest (Names Swedish newspaper in Swedish) a picture of Putin and Russia is arming, here, and how the Russian bear now starts showing its muscles. So, at the same time, as you have these military maneuvers and military flexing of muscles, you seldom get information to the public here.

I was speaking in Norway last summer and they didn’t know about these things. I’m very often on speaking tours in the north. I was in Finland last autumn and they didn’t know about these military maneuvers either. They were really shocked when I told them.

So, here we are again, from the Cold War days, gradually Russia is the threat. And when I talk to Russian people they are not aware of this. It is like when I was travelling in the former Soviet Union, they were not aware of how you were depicted and described as a big-big threat. And I think we are there again, hiding what the NATO is doing in our country and in the north, and describing the threat of Russia coming. There we are again.

Robles: Would you say it is worse than it was in the Soviet times?

Norberg: It is about the same now. We are in square one, we are back in the Cold War sentiment in a way. But it is even worse now because during the Cold War, at least Sweden had a posture that we are non-aligned and neutral. Not anymore! We have left our neutrality, we have left our non-aligned posture.

Not openly, the neutrality we have left openly, but not the non-aligned posture. I can give you an example: they are now training in the North America (for) war in Nevada.

They were training together with the US in 2006 in Alaska. They went with 6 or 7 war planes to Alaska and made a huge maneuver outside North Korea together with the US.

So, we are actively joining in different parts of the world. Of course we are in Afghanistan now.

And so I think you have to start to understand that Sweden has quite another position now and we are a NATO country. It is only a document that is left to be done. That’s the situation now in Sweden.

Robles: Can you tell us a little bit about what you think the US and NATO’s plans are for the Arctic?

Norberg: I can see that they are making a lot of war games together up in the north.

And I also know that the US and Canada are the same, I mean they are in the same organization. Canada has lost much of what they had before. I have a map in front of me where I have all the installations, and the North American-Canada Command had merged together.

So, up in the north you have a very strong militarization from Canada’s point of view and they are building up their military as never before.

And one thing that I think is important to mention is the drones. Canada is planning for a huge drone fleet, and so is Sweden. Now we have one of the world’s biggest drones which is ready in the North European Airspace Test Range which is one of the biggest in Europe for training drones.

Robles: What’s your opinion on drones?

Norberg: They should be banished, abolished or banned because they are terrible murder…, we call them “murder machines”. They are conducted from Nevada test site. They sit there in front of computers and kill people in Yemen, in Pakistan and many places.

We have a huge training area: as big as Macedonia, called the North European Airspace Test Range in the northern part of Sweden where they train these drones. So, we are in this arms buildup, it’s rather dangerous I think.

The newest one is Neuron. It is a cooperation between Sweden, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland on one of the world’s biggest drones Neuron. That is a prototype that is now ready this year.

Robles: What is your opinion on the legality of drones because the users face no risk?

Norberg: They are totally illegal. You sit in a bunker, you don’t see anything, you just sit in front of a screen and see the target. We call them “murder machines” because these are murders. They “say” they kill Al-Qaeda.

Agneta Norberg is the Vice Chair of the Swedish Peace Council, a member of the Steering Committee in International Peace Bureau and on the board of directors of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.

Voice of Russia.

Chechen Paper Closed After Question to Putin

21 Dec

Chechen authorities shut down a local newspaper after its editor-in-chief asked Russian President Vladimir Putin a question – although they maintain it was not censorship.

Belkis Dudayeva, who heads the Put Kadyrova (“Kadyrov’s Way”), got the floor for a couple of minutes during Putin’s 4 1/2-hour-long press conference in Moscow on Thursday.

She managed to squeeze in two questions, one about the cause of unrest in the North Caucasus, which is plagued by Islamic insurgency, and the other about cuts at the state-owned Kavkaz radio.

Although Putin offered plenty of headline-grabbing comments on Thursday, his replies to Dudayeva were unremarkable, as he noted the decrease in terrorist attacks and praised local media for their contribution.

The high point was when he snapped at journalists snickering at the seemingly sycophantic name of the newspaper, which he said had been named after Akhmad Kadyrov – the former Chechen rebel who became the republic’s president under Putin, pacifying it with an iron fist until he was killed in a bomb attack in 2004.

Putin was, however, soon upstaged by the Chechen authorities, who announced within hours that Put Kadyrova had been closed by its publishers, the Itum-Kalinsky district administration.

The paper used Kadyrov’s name without permission, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov – son of the late Akhmad Kadyrov – was cited as saying by the Chechen government’s website.

Dudayeva also asked “provocative questions” unrelated to district affairs, her paper’s area of focus, the report said, without elaborating.

Officials at the Itum-Kalinsky district – a swath of mountain terrain with a population of 7,000 – could not comment on Friday, a deputy district head admitting he learned about the closure from the RIA Novosti reporter. Paper representatives could not be reached for comment.

But a spokesman for Kadyrov Jr. told RIA Novosti that the paper was, indeed, shut down on the order of the district head.

Put Kadyrova was not authorized to use Kadyrov’s name, Alvi Karimov confirmed on Friday.

But even worse, the paper squandered its chance to put a question to the Russian president on an “insignificant” radio station where Dudayeva is moonlighting, Karimov said.

“She should have asked instead about plans to construct a ski resort in Itum-Kale…or about how to solve regional problems,” he said.

But Karimov denied the allegations that the closure was censorship.

“This wasn’t censorship. We simply have our own laws and traditions, and we act based on what is sensible,” Karimov said.

He tried to defuse the situation somewhat by saying the paper – which he called an “irregular rag” that mostly reprinted district administration’s directives – would likely reopen under another name.

But Dudayeva said on Friday she has no wish to re-launch Put Kadyrova under another name.

She added that Chechnya was no worse than other Russian regions in terms of media freedom.

Russia ranked 172nd of 197 countries in the 2012 Freedom of the Press report by US watchdog Freedom House.

Chechnya was rebuilt under the Kadyrovs, who forced local insurgents out into neighboring republics. But critics accuse Ramzan Kadyrov, 36, of building a regime riddled with rights violations and of establishing a “cult of personality” that is a significant drain on federal funding, which accounted for 87 percent of the republic’s budget in 2012.

Ramzan Kadyrov was implicated in the 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, his ardent critic, though he denied the allegations, which were never raised in court.

Kadyrov Jr. is also known for his flamboyant lifestyle and provocative statements: his parties feature Western celebrities such as Seal, Hilary Swank and Jean-Claude Van Damme, and he has called for the people who attended opposition protests in Moscow earlier this year to be jailed.

RIA Novosti.

Two Russians, Italian kidnapped in Syria

18 Dec
Russian Italian Kidnapping Syria

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed today that two Russian citizens and an Italian have been kidnapped in Syria late on 17 December.

According to the available information, the three men were abducted on the way from the town of Homsa to Tartus, in the western part of the country.

The ministry announced that one of the kidnapped men had a dual citizenship: Russian-Syrian. It also said that the three men worked for a private company, named ‘Hmisho & Co’.

The unknown abductors of VV Gorelov, Abdessattar Hassoun and Mario Belluomo demanded over the phone ransom whose amount was not specified by the Russian MFA.

The Russians concluded by saying that their embassy in Damascus ‘has immediately began taking the necessary proactive actions and was in contact with the Syrian side’ in order to accelerate the rescuing of the kidnapped Russian and Italian citizens. New Europe.

Russia reports at least 11 militants killed during specops (video)

25 Apr
North Caucasus regions within the Russian Fede...

North Caucasus regions within the Russian Federation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Russian security forces kill at least 11 militants during special operations in Chechnya and Dagestan. The Russian National Antiterrorist Committee has reported 11 militants were killed in Chechnya and Dagestan amid five special operations by security forces on Monday.

Reportedly, two security officers died during the mission in the Gudermes Region of Chechnya, where a huge concealed armory was discovered and destroyed.

At the same time, an illegal armed group consisting of three militants was wiped out at the Caucasus‘ federal highway despite fierce resistance.

Other militants were killed in Dagestan’s forest area, three kilometers from Kakamakhi village. Some of the armed group escaped and are being pursued by the law enforcement services.

Special forces’ officials say no civilians were hurt amid the operations.

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“My brothers tell me they have moved south. They hunt an herb, rare and found only in the marshes guarded by some of my former kindred.” The skeletal jaw opened lightly and stood eerily still as a dark laughter echoed out from no where within the great beast. “They are fragmented, thinking too much. They worry about one thing, and forget the others. But they are human, some of them at least, and can only a single quest. In the end, that may be what saved them.” The fire began to quiver, and fade. “Bring more tinder for the fire boy, be quick about it, lest the darkness creep closer.”

“Finally, they took the bait. All of them, no, almost all of them together again. Strong, different, it is their unique mix that would save them, or perhaps usher in the end for us all.” Bones shivered as the skeletal dragon drew in close to the bonfire once more. “Listen now children, I will tell you how it came to be, that they met the first outsiders, from a world called Krynn.”

The world survived, but something isn’t right. Many of the gods are gone, some aren’t the same. Fewer care about your petty troubles. Something or someone still answers. Necromancers have taken advantage of the blurring lines between life and death.

The hamlet of Gonthel. A community long-house acts as primary staging grounds, hostel, and barracks. There, Janine and Mark reside. Cursed from the events of time past, they are un-aging. Few towns have survived in the aftermath, but the once nearly sealed entrance of the beast is beginning to grow, and the madness is returning. Something must be done.

“It’s been almost 100 years since it came. A beast from beyond the known planes, a creature of such immense power that it tainted and corrupted some of the most powerful gods in the realm. Pelor, servant of the sun, most high – dragged through hell and teaching his disciples of the dark necromantic arts, granting them demonic power. Mask, mistress of thieves, dancer of blades – twisted to turn on her own, her disciples now hunt and slay those who would steal, for only they should have such a right. While not all of the gods have been warped, those that survived are at war with something just as vile in their home planes, and that war bleeds unto our home.” The dracolich settles it’s bones against the earth, curling it’s skeletal tail about the fire as if to keep warm. “Not everyone who survived that night came back fully. You’ll find them, scarred, unliving, but undying. Forced to find their proper ends, somehow.”

Gods Gone Wild

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Nemrut, with its fabulous riches and scenic view offers different ambiences any time of the day and any time of the year.

The ancient sites of the area can be explored by joining one of the three different tour options ranging from small to standard and big tours.

Joining the big tour one can get hold of the breathtaking landscape by sunrise and embark on an expedition to the ruins and monuments in the early morning.

The small tour comprises a short trip to Mount Nemrut.  The standard tour to the monuments, on the other hand, is a greater tour that can be taken any time of the day as it does not last from sunrise to sundown.

Apart from that, the International
Kahta Commagene Cultural Festival offering a rich program including panels and activities is held annually with the participation of guests from all over the world.


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