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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Roasted Beets with Parsley Pesto

Lovely and delicious -- but more of a side dish or snack than a main course.

1 bunch beets (4-5 beets)
1 tablespoon salt

Preheat oven to 375F.

Wash beets. Trim leaves and base.

Tear one square of aluminum foil per beet.

Place salt in a small bowl. Lightly roll each beet in the salt, then wrap in aluminum foil. Repeat until all the beets are finished.

Place wrapped beets on baking sheet and cook for 30 to 45 minutes, or until beets are tender.

Remove beets from the oven. Carefully unwrap the foil on a beet, then hold the beet under cool running water and gently remove the skin. Repeat with remaining beets.

Cut beets in small pieces and serve with parsley pesto (recipe below).

Parsley Pesto Ingredients
1 bunch parsley, washed
2 cloves garlic
1/4 cup walnuts
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
dash salt
pepper to taste
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon water

Place parsley, garlic, walnuts, cheese, salt and pepper in a food processor, and process until finely blended.

Scrape down the food processor bowl, then, with food processor running, carefully pour oil and water down the feed tube and process until smooth.

Rose said...

Beautiful pictures, and it sounds like a wonderful combination of flavors.

Healthy. Happy. Well. said...

This is so unique I love it!

Monet said...

The colors are just stunning...I want to get some golden beets at the market tomorrow. And that parsley pesto sounds like the perfect accompaniment. Thank you for sharing!

Beatrice said...

Thank you! I should add that I first had this (or a variation of this) at a restaurant, with arugula pesto. I really like the parsley pesto, but encourage you to experiment!

Anonymous said...

Looks delicious...thanks for sharing it!

sweetlife said...

great shots, I love the combo of parsley with beeets, and roasted even better...yum


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Google's Street View is slowly covering more and more of the world's surface, but it still has holes. Now though, you can help fill them—and all you need is an Android phone or DSLR.

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"Nope It's Soap" is coffee scented and can even be used as a exfoliator. Each dookie is hand-made and unique, giving it that extra bit of realness. Great for your kids, or husband, who never seem to want to wash their hands.

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Fabrik Ultimate Backup is designed to run in the background, sensing when CPU usage is low, and using that time to upload data to their central server. Because the software isn't built into the drive, Fabrik Ultimate Backup onkly works when the computer is running. A variety of parameters, such as file types or specific folders, can be used to determine what gets backed up and Ultimate backup constantly scans for new updates. The files can be reverted to a saved state up to 30 days prior and can be accessed remotely from the web. But it should be noted that files can only be accessed from one computer.

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What does it do?

Just like its first incarnation, NoteSuite still you take notes and make to-do lists, but that's only a very small portion of the new beast. You can also annotate essentially any type of content (web pages, articles, PDFs, etc.), clip web pages, record audio, and search through various file types as one. Your data will sync across your various devices (which would be limited to Macs and iPads at this point).

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Browse through these pages and select what might be useful for your class. Some material may need to be adapted to the level of your students. Feel free to reproduce any part of this section for use in an educational program.

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Bats and Birds
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Bat's Math Quiz
Solve bat-related math problems

Bat True/False Quiz
Differentiate between fact and fiction about bats

Going Batty
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Cave Conservation Lessons

Cave Conservation
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Don't Touch
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Upgrading to Warhammer 40k 5th Edition

As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, I’ve been getting back into Warhammer 40k after nearly a decade of not playing. I picked up the 5th edition rulebook and codices for Space Marines and Dark Eldar, and started looking at how my old 3rd edition armies fit into the new version of the rules.

Iron Wardens Space Marine Chapter

The biggest issue that I ran into when updating my Space Marines was the requirement for tactical squads to have 10 marines in order to get special weapons. All of my squads for 3rd edition were 5 marines with a special weapon (2 squads w/ missile launchers, 1 w/ lascannon, and 1 w/ flamer). I was able to combine the lascannon and flamer squads into a single large squad, then form up a squad of 5 marines with only bolters. This organization would be less annoying if I hadn’t painted squad numbers matching the old army list on all of the marines’ shoulders.

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The other problem was my squad of terminators that featured lightning claws, an assault cannon, a heavy flamer, and 2 normal terminators w/ storm bolters. For 5th edition, there is a limit of 1 special weapon per 5 terminators and the sergeant would no longer be allowed to have lightning claws. For now my terminator models are going to be stuck on the sidelines.

2000 Point Army List

  • Captain w/ storm bolter and power sword – 118 pts
  • Command Squad w/ company standard – 130 pts
  • Chaplain w/ plasma pistol – 115 pts

  • Techmarine w/ power axe – 65 pts
  • Sternguard Veteran Squad w/ plasma pistol, flamer – 145 pts
  • Dreadnought w/ twin-linked lascannon – 135 pts

  • Tactical Squad w/ flamer, lascannon, 5 extra marines – 180 pts
  • Tactical Squad – 90 pts
  • Scout Squad w/ combat blades – 75 pts

Fast Attack

  • Land Speeder – 50 pts
  • Assault Squad w/ plasma pistol and power weapon for sergeant – 130 pts
  • Bike Squad w/ plasma gun, meltagun, power weapon for sergeant, 2 extra bikers – 180 pts

Heavy Support

  • Predator w/ twin-linked lascannon, lascannon sponsons, storm bolter, dozer blade – 180 pts
  • Vindicator w/ dozer blade, extra armor – 135 pts
  • Devastator Squad w/ missile launcher, heavy bolter, plasma cannon, lascannon – 180 pts

Dedicated Transports

  • Rhino w/ hunter-killer missile (for veterans) – 45 pts

Dark Eldar Cabal

My Dark Eldar army did not fare as well as the Space Marines. Like the Space Marine codex, the new Dark Eldar codex is more restrictive on weaponry than the 3rd edition rules. Warrior squads could formerly have 2 heavy weapons in a squad of 10, but now are restricted to 1 heavy weapon per 10 warriors. With the Space Marines only my tactical squads and terminators ended up being affected, but with the Dark Eldar it seems like almost every squad had a weapon or two it was no longer allowed to use.

The rules for the Dark Eldar seem a lot better than the 3rd edition codex. For example, having all of the splinter weapons always wound on a 4+ should be great to make the army a little more threatening. The army list also includes a fair number of new options like taking wyches as troops rather than elites, more varieties of beasts, and veteran squads. I also like that Incubi can be taken as an elites choice rather than only as a retinue, but they sadly no longer have the ability to carry blasters for a little extra firepower.

1250 Point Army List

  • Archon w/ agoniser, shadowfield, ghostplate armor – 120 pts
  • Haemonculus Ancient w/ scissorhand, liquifier gun – 105 pts

  • 4 Incubi – 88 pts
  • 6 Mandrakes – 90 pts

  • 15 Kabalite Warriors w/ splinter cannon, Sybarite w/ splinter pistol and venom blade – 169 pts
  • 4 Wyches w/ haywire grenades, shardnet and impaler, Hekatrix w/ power glaive – 90 pts

Fast Attack

  • 5 Scourges w/ splinter cannon, dark lance, Solarite w/ splinter pistol and venom blade – 172 pts
  • Beastmaster w/ agoniser, 5 Khymerae – 92 pts
  • 3 Reavers, Arena Champion w/ blaster – 113 pts

Dedicated Transports

  • Raider w/ retrofire jets, flickerfield, night shields (for wyches) – 85 pts
  • Raider w/ shock prow, torment grenade launchers, chain snares, envenomed blades, flickerfield, night shields (for incubi & archon) – 100 pts

What Next?

I don’t think I’ll be expanding either of these armies anytime soon. With the Iron Wardens at 2000 points, I don’t feel the need to add any new models. The Dark Eldar models now are much different (and largely better looking) than the ones that make up my army, so I don’t see adding them to my army. Instead, I’ll probably start collecting and painting an entirely new force, but I haven’t decided which one yet.

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Friday, November 04, 2005

Amazon Mechanical Turk?

This has to be the strangest thing I've seen in a while.

Amazon is apparently behind the site which calls itself "Amazon Mechanical Turk: Artificial Artificial Intelligence".

According to part of their FAQ:
Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial, artificial intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans.

A network of humans fuels this artificial, artificial intelligence by coming to the web site, searching for and completing tasks, and receiving payment for their work.

For software developers, the Amazon Mechanical Turk web service solves the problem of building applications that until now have not worked well because they lack human intelligence. Humans are much more effective than computers at solving some types of problems, like finding specific objects in pictures, evaluating beauty, or translating text.

For businesses and entrepreneurs who want tasks completed, the Amazon Mechanical Turk web service solves the problem of getting work done in a cost-effective manner by people who have the skill to do the work.

For people who want to earn money in their spare time, the Amazon Mechanical Turk web site solves the problem of finding work that they can do wherever and whenever they want.
For those that doubt that Amazon would do something this... umm... innovative, a quick view of the page source shows that many of the images and links are served from This really does appear to be Amazon.

I really don't know what to say. I have a hard time seeing how this idea can succeed.

Google Answers works because the fees are high, answers quite complex, and experts well vetted. The core idea behind Amazon's Mechanical Turk seems to be to take the success of Google Answers and try to scale it up by a few orders of magnitude.

But there's problems with that. If I scale up by doing cheaper answers, I won't be able to filter experts as carefully, and quality of the answers will be low. Many of the answers will be utter crap, just made up, quick bluffs in an attempt to earn money from little or no work. How will they deal with this?

It seems to me that Amazon has just changed the problem from finding the answer to the problem from the data available to digging out the correct answer from all the crappy answers provided. Filtering crap out of user generated content at large scale is a difficult problem too.

More comments and discussion at Metafilter, TechDirt, Google Blogoscoped, Rob Hof, Jason Fried, Greg Yardley, and Slashdot.

Update: Don't miss the ongoing discussion in the comments to this post.

Update: I have a short quote in a Seattle PI article by Kristen Bolt on Amazon Mechanical Turk.

guido said...

I think that it takes a while for all of us to understand the full impact of this technology. They've provided a web service interface to human labor. It's not necessarily humans asking humans other questions. It can be computers asking humans questions.

Imagine you are writing software that recognizes faces. It works pretty well but sometimes it gets confused. When that happens it asks for help. Instead of popping up a window and waiting for a local operator to help out it just sends out a web service request and waits a few minutes for a reply.

I think software like that is just the first step towards AI. You use anonymous humans to do stuff that the computer isn't very good at.

guido said...

That last comment wasn't very clear (I guess I'm still asleep). What I meant to say was that one of the problems with AI right now is that it can't ask questions like a child or interact with the real world. But with this software it can.

Greg Linden said...

Thanks, Guido. Great explanation. It is compelling for some applications.

However, you've subtly made the assumption that the anonymous humans are always honest and correct.

They won't be. Given that money is involved, I think you're going to find these pesky humans are pretty clever at doing things that might be in their self-interest, but not in the interest of people trying to get correct answers.

Jordan Rule said...

To say nothing of the ethics of computers outsourcing tasks to humans. Did we learn nothing from Terminator 2?

Elroy Jetson said...

I think you have this all wrong. It's brilliant. I can have people, for less than minimum wage, perform mind numbing tasks such as the one listed to make automotive titles more human friendly.

It takes the brilliance of the SETI projects distributed computing and applies it to a low wage resource pool. Fantastic idea.

Elroy Jetson said...

As far as people getting it right. The SETI project also solved this problem. Send the same work packet out multiple times.

Run some trends on this and eliminate the bad results keeping the only the good.

Dr. Chadblog said...

One question, why is the web service part so interesting? Its actually pretty hard to think of a useful programmatic system that could use an web services API call that takes a few hours to return the data. Users tend to like faster performance than that.

Maybe for offline processing tasks...but its unclear to me why those types of things would be a proper web service - seems like systems such as ScriptLance that provide a skills marketplace are more reasonable to fulfill this kind of demand.

Maybe this could be a cheap BPO marketplace but overall I'm a little unclear why this will be really useful beyond that.

Costas said...

I think it's an interesting concept. Imagine for example that Findory (or Memigo ;-) have trouble classifying an article automatically. If the article exceeds some popularity threshold (that makes it worthwhile to do something about it) it may make sense to ask a human to classify it manually.

As for incompetent or malicious responses, treating them isn't much different than treating malicious ratings on Amazon, Netflix, or wherever: have multiple humans do the same task many times, and gradually build trust metric for each human ...drone.

Greg Linden said...

Hi, Costas and Elroy. Good points on ways to deal with incorrect answers.

It's true that there are ways to increase quality, but they are expensive and imperfect.

If I duplicate effort or pay people to check over other people's work, I now take a single piece of work and send it out to N people instead of just one, multiplying the costs.

If I have an eBay-like reputation system, I increase the costs for the buyer, who now has to spend time checking reputation, trying to verify the quality of the answer (which may be difficult for the buyer), and leaving feedback. This works fine on Google Answers and eBay because they don't sell a lot of items under $5. It might not work as well on cheaper items, since the cost of the time spent on verification could approach or exceed the cost of the answer.

Finally, there's the issue of what quality you achieve after all this. 90% correct answers perhaps with all the noise, ambiguity, and cheating? Is that good enough? Considering speed, accuracy, and cost, is that competitive with using an automated solution?

I'm not saying Amazon Mechanical Turk could never work for any problem; Google Answers does this in some form for some problems. I'm also not saying there aren't ways to improve the quality of the answers provided.

I do think it is complicated and expensive to scale this up and keep the quality high. I also think, for many problems, it might be nearly as hard to dig the correct answer out of all the answers provided as it would have been to try to solve the original problem.

Anonymous said...

While it is true that reputation-based selection of workers is expensive, a quick read of the FAQ indicates that a requester can make a reputation score a requirement for working on his/her tasks.

It also looks like requesters can create additional qualifications that have to be met in order to do some work, although i couldn't find any work that had any requirements.

Costas said...

Well, I think the model here is (or should be!) less like Google Answers or eBay and more like an actual market: i.e. responders should get paid according to their trust metric, not just the number of HITs being done.

This can be done after a big enough pool of humans is built up by offering some secondary reward scheme that differentiates the price enough without alienating new drones. But initially, yes, Greg's right, the price would be higher than optimal as the pool would need to be initialized: at this point it's just doing outsourcing work for Amazon itself, so really it's near-free for Amazon. But with enough high-trust humans in the pool, repetition (and thus end-price) will come down.

Now if only could Amazon could build a better interface to the mTurks... hmm, maybe a plug to the back of the scull would work better ;-)

Anonymous said...

Seems like another case of amazon thinking that because a feature is really useful to amazon that it's equally of interest/use for others. A thread on slashdot pointed out that unless the prices go up, it's a big waste of time for anyone but the chronically unemployed in America to do these tasks ($3/hour, max, woohoo!).

Personally, I think Internet usage is nearing a saturation point, much like other mediums (people only watch a certain amount of TV, go to movies #times/week, etc.). People simply aren't going to spend 24 hours on the Internet. They use it for work, they use it for email, shopping, etc. But they're not looking for ways to spend more hours to make $3/hour doing things that benefit others. And now that we're at that point, companies will have to compete very hard for eyeballs as competition among sites and activities increase.

I think Amazon (like Microsoft) thinks they can win that war of eyeballs simply by doing "new stuff" or "more stuff". That by sheer dint of their size, people will stay loyal to them and try new things that they produce.

I wonder if this an example of Amazon "jumping the shark"?


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Chile: Calls for Government Action One Year Since Rescue of ‘the 33′

Thousands flocked to the city center of Copiapó, Chile today. They gathered to remember the incredible rescue one year ago of 33 miners trapped underground for 69 days. Many more typed their respects using online media. Twitter users are calling upon the government to reignite the spirit of that coordination effort. They say politicians need to unite once again to fix problems plaguing Chile.

Harking back to the national feeling of togetherness from October 13 of last year, Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera (@sebastianpinera) tweeted:

Los 33 mineros nos enseñaron una gran lección: en los momentos difíciles la unidad y la solidaridad son claves para superar la adversidad.

The 33 miners taught us a great lesson: in the difficult moments unity and solidarity are key to overcoming adversity.

In August 2010, 33 flags were placed in the San Esteban mine in Atacama to support the 33 trapped miners. Image by Alex Fuentes on Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Gonzalo Maza (@tengochicle) wrote that the government should do just that to work with Chile’s protesting students. Their progress is creeping forward considering the speedy government action during the rescue according to Maza. He tweeted:

Hace un año, el gobierno hacía esfuerzos extraordinarios por rescatar mineros. Hoy no es capaz de moverse un centímetro por los estudiantes.

A year ago, the government made extraordinary efforts to rescue the miners. Now, they don’t have the capacity to move a centimeter for the students.

Twitter user Don Gato (@rhon2008) thinks that attention should be focused on mining disaster stories sans photogenic happy ending. He tweeted:

27 mineros han muerto este año en accidentes,desgracia de 33,solo fue utilizada publicitariamente por el gobierno nunguna ley de proteccion.

27 miners have died this year in accidents, the misfortune of the 33 was used as publicity for the government without resulting in any laws of protection.

Jorge Añez (@Jorge_Anez) remains less than impressed with the government’s efforts to improve working conditions. He tweeted:

Espectacular rescate, pero no provoco el cambio esperado en las condiciones laborales #mineros #chilenos

Spectacular rescue, but it didn’t spawn a change that we’d hoped for in the working conditions #mineros #chilenos

But the national solidarity Chile felt for its 33 fellow countrymen, forced to overcome the unthinkable, hasn’t evaporated on Facebook. The “Fuerzas Hermanos Mineros de la Mina San Jose, de Copiapo” (“Be strong miners of the San Jose Mine of Copiapo”) Facebook page still boasts 52,429 fans. “Yo tambien apoyo a los 33 mineros Chileons atrapados” (“I also support the 33 trapped Chilean miners”) survived this year's Facebook spring cleaning. It still has 87,695 “likes.”

While politicians and visitors laid down the first rocks of a new memorial reservoir today, social media users pitched in their two-cents about where, how and why the government needs to construct new policies.

This post was first published in online citizen newspaper El Obervatodo.

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Venezuela's President Offers Asylum to Edward Snowden

This is part of our special coverage Snowden: The US is Watching You

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, offered humanitarian asylum to Edward Snowden, former contractor at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) who leaked classified information about mass surveillance programs in the United States and the Great Britain.

Snowden, charged with espionage and property theft by the United States government, is currently on Russian territory, where he is attempting to avoid extradition to American soil.

Maduro's offer comes at a complicated diplomatic moment: UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) demanded an apology from Europe due to the incident suffered by Evo Morales, during which various countries closed their airspace to the Bolivian leader based on suspicions that he was transporting Snowden.

In events leading up to the military parade that celebrated 202 years since the signing of the Venezuelan declaration of independence on Friday, July 5, President Maduro stated [es] that, “As leader of the State and Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, I have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the American young man, Snowden.”

Maduro explained that Venezuela is offering the measure to Snowden to “protect him from the persecution that has been unleashed from the most powerful empire in the world against a young man who has told the truth”.

A day later, the Venezuelan president confirmed his intention via Twitter (@NicolasMaduro) [es]:

@NicolasMaduro: Ratifico el espíritu humanitario de conceder el asilo al joven estadounidense Snowden para protegerlo de la persecución mundial del imperio.

@NicolasMaduro: I confirm the humanitarian spirit of granting asylum to Snowden, the young American, to protect him from the empire's global persecution.

President Maduro had mentioned the possibility of welcoming Snowden on various occasions, but this is the first time he has done it openly and directly.

Despite the controversy, the United States government declined to make comments regarding the Venezuelan president's offer. According to Reuters [es], the White house has not released an opinion on the issue and referred questions to the country's Department of Justice.

Nevertheless, on Sunday, July 7, a group of U.S. Congress members established their position on Snowden's possible political asylum, stating that: “Whatever country offers asylum to Edward Snowden, who leaked data from the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance program, will set itself against the United States.”

The announcement [es] appears to be a direct response to statements made by Venezuela and Bolivia to grant the humanitarian measure to the former U.S. contractor.

Nonetheless, despite the Venezuelan president's offer, on Monday, July 7, Edward Snowden requested political asylum from Nicaragua through a letter, information that was confirmed directly by the government of the Central American country.

“I, Edward Snowden, citizen of the United States, am writing to request asylum from the Republic of Nicaragua due to the risk of being persecuted by the Government and its agents,” he explains in the letter, dated June 30, 2013. In it, Snowden also explains the consequences that he can suffer after revealing the United States’ secret electronic surveillance program, which he fears could result in the Espionage Act of 1917 being applied against him. If found guilty under this U.S. law, Snowden could be sentenced to life in prison.

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It is worth highlighting that the request for asylum – or the offer that President Maduro made – is duly stipulated in Venezuelan legislation in the Organic Law on Refugees or Refugees and Asylum-seekers (published in Official Gazette No. 37,296 dated 03 October 2001).

The debate on social networks

The offer of asylum to the former NSA contractor on behalf of President Maduro has sparked a heated debate in Venezuela between those who support the government's position with respect to asylum and those who criticize it by considering it unnecessary and merely political. Above all, the offer seemed to intensify the political confrontation between both countries and it is reflected as such on social networks.

On the forum “Aporrea,” which tends to be pro-government, Maduro's decision is supported almost unanimously. Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's position is also praised [es]:

rararoadrunner (Foro Aporrea): ¿Será necesario que UNASUR envie una escuadrilla, compuesta por un avión de cada país, para acompañar a Edward Snowden de Moscú a su país? A ver: lo que vemos ahora es que usted encarna la gloria al bravo pueblo, un ejemplo para tod@s! ¡Vivan los Estados independientes de América, el sueño del Libertador, Simón Bolívar!

rararoadrunner (Foro Aporrea): Will it be necessary for UNASUR to send a squadron, composed of a plane in every country, to accompany Edward Snowden from Moscow to their country? Let's see: what we see now is that you embody glory to the brave people, an example for everyone! Long live the independent States of America, the dream of the Liberator Simón Bolívar!

Deuteros (Foro Aporrea): Ecuador está mostrando una actitud bastante valiente y digna en este asunto; Rafael Correa es un gran ejemplo de líder. Esperemos que Rusia asuma una postura más frontal respecto a Snowden.”

Deuteros (Foro Aporrea): Ecuador is showing quite a brave and dignified attitude towards this issue; Rafael Correa is a great example of a leader. We hope that Russia assume a more head-on position with respect to Snowden.”

Even so, pro-government political analyst Nicmer Evans criticizes the governmental offer on his blog [es]:

Lo más interesante del caso es que el ser de la CIA o haberlo sido ahora es tan “chic” que nuestro país no podía quedarse atrás en tener su propio ex agente delator, y hemos corrido a ofrecer asilo a el exCia más cotizado del mercado: Snowden, que como una estrella del pop está siendo debatido por muchos países en cuanto a quien ofrece el mejor asilo en solidaridad con quien hasta hace poco era el responsable de que todos estuviésemos pinchados por los gringos a través de Prism, y hoy es la panacea de ejemplo revolucionario mundial.

The most interesting thing about the case is that the being of the CIA or having been it is now so “chic” that our country cannot remain behind in having its own former informing agent, and we have run to offer asylum to the most valued ex-CIA member in the market: Snowden, like a pop star, is being thrashed around by many countries in terms of who will offer the best asylum in solidarity with someone who, until recently, was responsible for everyone being bugged by the gringos through Prism, and today is the formula for an example of a global revolutionary.

There are also citizens who believe the offer of political asylum is a sign of good will.

Francys Caridad (@francyscaridad) [es], for example, celebrates the possibility of Snowden arriving in Venezeula:

@francyscaridad: #SnowdenBienvenidoAVenezuela  bienvenido a venezuela snowden! #snowden #venezuela #asilo #asilopolitico

@francyscaridad#SnowdenBienvenidoAVenezuela  [#SnowdenWelcomeToVenezuela] welcome to venezuela snowden! #snowden #venezuela #asilo #asilopolitico [#asylum #politicalasylum]

Héctor Abad (@hectorabadf) [es] comments on the U.S. position with respect to Edward Snowden's legal situation:

@hectorabadf: Snowden es ahora un apátrida perseguido y sin derecho a asilo, por decir la verdad de que todos podemos ser espiados por la NSA.

@hectorabadf: Snowden is now a persecuted, stateless individual without the right to asylum for telling the truth about how we can all be spied on by the NSA.

Mariela Azocar (@MarielaMartha) [es] also supports President Nicolás Maduro's decision to offer humanitarian asylum to the former U.S. contractor:

@MarielaMartha: @NicolasMaduro Buen día mi querido presidente si lo apoyo en darle asilo al joven Snowden. Venezuela será su casa…

@MarielaMartha@NicolasMaduro Good day my dear president if you support the young Snowden in giving him asylum. Venezuela will be his home…

Marianny Barroso (@MARIANNYBARROSO) [es] considers the decision of the Venezuelan state to be convenient in offering political asylum to Edward Snowden and supports it publicly:

@MARIANNYBARROSO Snowden hoy es amenaza de un Gobierno q a hecho mucho daño a nivel mundial!! por eso APOYO el ASILO en Venezuela! patria de BOLIVAR y CHAVEZ

@MARIANNYBARROSO Snowden today is a threat of a Government that has done a lot of harm on a global scale!! that is why I SUPPORT ASYLUM in Venezuela! Homeland of BOLIVAR and CHAVEZ

Twitter users also debated how the asylum could affect the already quite deteriorated political and diplomatic relations between Venezuela and the U.S., in addition to the case involving the former contractor's legal situation.

In Josefina Ruggiero's (@ruggieroj) [es] opinion, the words of the President of the DUMA (the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly) summarize part of what are the current political relations between Venezuela and the United States:

@ruggieroj: Presidente de la Duma: la relacion de Vzla con EEUU es tan mala que el caso del joven Snowden no la empeorara. Esta clarito #asiloSnowden

@ruggieroj: President of DUMA: Venezuela's relationship with the U.S. is so bad that Snowden's case will not worsen it. It is clear #asiloSnowden [#Snowdenasylum]

Still, for Luis Carlos Díaz (@LuisCarlos) [es], journalist and Global Voices collaborator, the concern is more about citizen rights.

@LuisCarlos: Hay demasiado foco en Snowden y muy poco en el espionaje de los estados y la privacidad de los ciudadanos

@LuisCarlos: There is too much focus on Snowden and very little on state espionage and the privacy of citizens

Venezuelans even attempt to analyze the political problem from an almost humorous perspective, as is the case of Alejandro Barrios (@alepicture) [es]:

@alepicture: el rechazo de maduro es tan grande que le ofrece #Asilo a #Snowden en #Venezuela y el lo ignora…

@alepicture: The rejection of Maduro is so great that he is offering #Asilo [#Asylum] to #Snowden in #Venezuela and he is ignoring it…

Perhaps Twitter user @WATH23 [es] summarized Venezuelan expectations about Snowden's response to the Venezuelan offer:

@WATH23: Edward Snowden lleva días en el Trending Topic Venezolano. Hoy llega al primer puesto con su negación al asilo político en Venezuela.

@WATH23: Edward Snowden has been a Trending Topic in Venezuela for days. Today he reaches first place with his rejection of political asylum in Venezuela.

At the time of writing this post, Nicaragua has not yet ruled on the Snowden's request for asylum. At the same time, President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stated that Venezuela received a formal request for asylum from the former American contractor.

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Pa. Abortion Clinics Bracing for New Regulations

December 22, 2011 — Operators of abortion clinics in Pennsylvania say complying with new state regulations would be prohibitively expensive and could force clinics to close or raise fees for low-income women, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports. The regulations are part of a bill (SB 732) that Gov. Tom Corbett is expect to sign this week (Levy, AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 12/21).

The legislation would require clinics to comply with the same standards as ambulatory surgical facilities, which perform procedures with a higher risk of complications than abortions. According to the legislation, clinics would have to upgrade current facilities or relocate to new buildings with hospital-grade elevators, larger operating rooms, and parking lots and driveways large enough for ambulances. In addition, the bill would require clinics to have a registered nurse on staff at all times, regardless of whether abortion procedures were being performed. Clinics would have six months to make the changes.

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Opponents of the bill say it unfairly targets clinics that have operated safely for years (Women's Health Policy Report, 12/16). The potential changes -- such as adding more sinks and modifying ventilation systems -- will do nothing to improve women's safety, they argue.

The state Department of Health is charged with enforcing the measure and could choose to waive some or all of the requirements. Clinic operators say there is not a single clinic in the state that currently complies with the new standards.

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"We don't know how the department is going to respond to these, but if they don't (waive the regulations), what's going to happen to these facilities?" said Jennifer Boulanger, executive director of the Allentown Women's Center. It would be difficult to complete the changes within six months, and the clinic likely would have to close during construction, which would threaten its financial sustainability, Boulanger said.

Suellen Craig, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Central Pennsylvania, said implementation of the new standards would mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses for the organization, which has a $3 million budget to operate five clinics, one of which provides abortion care.

However, clinic operators also noted that they are committed to finding a way to continue providing abortion care. Rebecca Cavanaugh, vice president for public affairs of Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania, said, "Right now we are in a stage of kind of waiting to see what will happen" (AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 12/21).


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Skeletonwitch • Dismemberment • Kingsblood • Arise the Titan - April 15, 2012 - Skully's Music Diner, Columbus, Ohio

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Words will ultimately fail me when attempting to describe the Skeletonwitch concert I experienced last night. But I'll try anyway. I'll start by planting this flag firmly in the ground: the succession of performances by Kingsblood, Dismemberment and Skeletonwitch on April 15, 2012 at Skully's Music Diner in Columbus, Ohio was, hands down, the best show - of any genre - that I have seen in 17 years. And out of personal concert experiences numbering in the triple digits it ranks in my Top Three of all-time (I'll tell you about the other two some other day).

Driving home, I kept conjuring parallels to Game of Thrones for whatever reason. Two sets of brothers: kings and princes, all. A band of Nordic marauders, either guarding the wall or tearing it down, I'm not yet sure. None born into nobility yet each clawing their way through bone, flesh and sinew to ultimately claim dominion. Overly dramatic? Only if you weren't in attendance.

First, the usual rundown. Skully's was new to me but not by reputation. Co-workers and friends who had been there all praised the room and they were right on. True to its name, it offers a diner up front with a bar in the middle and a concert venue in the rear. It's a nice, intimate room with high ceilings and a wide stage that's elevated perfectly. Lights and sound were fantastic and many kudos go to the folks responsible for making sure those were perfect. The show was a "matinee," scheduled from 5:00-9:00 with the joint turning over for a reggae band an hour later. A bizarre juxtaposition but interesting to me to see how the proprietors could maximize a Sunday evening for two radically different crowds.

Arise the Titan opened very shortly after 5:00 to a largely empty room and, to their credit, delivered a long set with full-on energy that never flagged. A straightforward brand of brutal metal, they really suffered from the early spot on the bill and the lack of an involved crowd and, while I appreciated their sound overall, I never quite became fully engaged in what they had to offer.

Kingsblood followed quickly and, stuck in the midst of the tight four-hour window, skipped their usual Conan intro and raged right into "A Warrior's Past." This was my third Kingsblood show and they fired on all cylinders and then some. Vocalist Alex Nida, in my few brief encounters with him, has to be one of the most gregarious people I have ever met. When the music starts, however, he transforms instantly into a berserker that rampages and roils incessantly until the last note fades - a fucking fantastic frontman (all with F's three times taller than you, to borrow a Zappa quotation). The musical unit conveys an imposing stage presence with a thick, powerful, enveloping sound to match. The guitars of Jason "McFly" Kincaid and Damon Ark provide the sweep of longboat oars driven to war by the raging rhythms of Slinky on bass and James Watson on drums. New songs from their upcoming EP, A King Reborn, fleshed the set to about a half-dozen songs and, dammit, three times as many still would not be enough for me. The room apparently concurred as it filled quickly when Kingsblood went on and rioted in a manner befitting the Ragnarök onstage.

Dismemberment are goddamn wizards. It's that simple. I've now seen the band four times in six months and they get better every time. Their setlist, seven songs deep, was fantastic, drawing heavily from Denied Salvation and featured only "Cryptic Isolation" from The Condemned. The rhythm section displayed their usual thunderous perfection but brothers Luke and Jacob Shively held court this particular evening, ruling the stage not with swords but with axes and each were deadly in their precision. To top it off, they paid tribute to Death with a stellar cover of "Crystal Mountain" (and some sweet lead work from Luke) and the circle pit raged in approval.

If Dismemberment are wizards, Skeletonwitch have to be fucking sorcerers. They mesmerized the crowd, held them under their sway and forced them to do their bidding (Drink beer, smoke weed, eat pussy...) and performed non-stop black magic for damn near ninety minutes. Having just seen the band less than 24 hours before at Death on the Vine, this evening's performance was an amplification of the evening prior, with every aspect exponentially improved under the magnification of the tighter quarters. The music, first and foremost, is rock-rock-solid. A sinister black thrash with a sharp, lively delivery and more hooks than a Hellraiser film, the sonic portion alone is stellar. The band, and Chance Garnette in particular, have their live rock moves down pat in that, despite all that goddamn movement, there are no moves. No posturing, no posing, but instead five guys getting off on the sound and the crowd. The only difference between the fun the audience is having and the fun the band is having lies in the fact that they're the ones holding the instruments. And thank God they are. Nate Garnette's leads were, simply, sick and he, paired with the guitar of Scott Hedrick, stood as kingsguard on the offensive, launching volley after volley of sonic assault from each side of the stage. And, all due respect and everything, but the God of Thunder is not Thor (and he sure as hell is not named "Simmons"). He is a they and they, bassist Evan Linger and drummer Dustin Boltjes, provided booms that make Mjölnir seem like a tackhammer.

Skeletonwitch tore through fourteen songs, each with the same unbridled passion and intensity, largely splitting the difference between Forever Abomination and Beyond the Permafrost (with only a couple numbers from Breathing the Fire) and dedicated "Of Ash and Torment," late in their setlist, to Dismemberment and it was fitting: bound to this fate you suffer / tortured within this domain / commit your flesh to the fire / your soul condemned to the flame. The parallels here between the brothers - the paths they follow, the soul of their sounds, the energy they bring - are undeniable and, frankly, it was more than a little mind-blowing to find myself in such a relatively small space absorbing such incredible music across such a brief timespan from bands based less than 200 miles from my home. The density and intensity of musical power emanating from southwest Ohio is staggering and any self-described metal fan in this state should bend their knee, pledge fealty to the Metal Gods and name Skeletonwitch and their brethren high on the list of their blessings when they count them.

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ATHENS, Ga. – A breakdown of the second round of the NCAA Southeast Regional:

Top team: Alabama, 23-under 545

Top individual: Bobby Wyatt, 9-under 133

In position (the next four): 2. East Carolina (557), 3. North Florida (562), 4. Georgia (568), 5. New Mexico (575)

Chasing (still work to do): 6. North Carolina-Wilmington (577), 7. Houston (578), 7. Long Beach State (578), Wake Forest (578), 10. Augusta State (579), 11. Iowa (581).

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PROGRAM FIRST: In March, just months before graduation, Adam Stephenson was told something at the General Hackler Championship that he’d never heard in his previous three years at East Carolina.

“Hats off to you guys,” North Florida coach Scott Schroeder told Stephenson and his teammates. “You guys made a run at us. I had to keep looking at scores because we knew you’re right there.”

The comment seemed innocuous enough. But to Stephenson, it meant so much more.

“That never had happened before,” he recalled Friday. “We never had gotten much feedback. We knew we were good, but no one really had recognized it yet.”

When Stephenson was a freshman, in 2008-09, East Carolina finished the season ranked 91st in the country. Today, the Pirates sit 38th. Particularly noteworthy this week, however, is that they now are one round away from advancing to their first-ever NCAA final. East Carolina enters the NCAA Southeast Regional’s final round in second place, 12 shots behind Alabama but, most important, 18 shots ahead of fifth-place New Mexico.

“For years,” Stephenson said, “we’ve kind of taken baby steps, just getting our feet underneath us. This year has been more like we’re trying to take off on a full sprint.”

For years, too, East Carolina relied on the steady play of David Watkins and Harold Varner, both seniors. When they played well, the team played well. When they struggled, so did the team. In Athens, however, the Pirates have been buoyed by the outstanding play of sophomore Ryan Eibner, who is third individually at 7-under 135.

At last month’s Conference USA Championship, where the Pirates eventually finished third, McPhaul held a team meeting to rally his squad. In short, he identified each player’s strengths and urged them to perform that role. Zach Edmondson provides an emotional boost. Watkins is solid. Varner is ferocious. Eibner is a grinder. As for Stephenson? Well, he is resilient. He graduated earlier this month with a degree in biomedical engineering. His courseload was so intensive, he couldn’t practice with the team on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Now, Stephenson said, “I never dreamed of this, being so close to going to nationals. We just have to close the deal.”

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ON THE BUBBLE: If two-time defending NCAA champion Augusta State is to make it back to the NCAA Championship, the Jaguars will need a solid round Saturday -- and some help.

Augusta State, which began the day only one shot out of the all-important fifth spot, shot a 12-over 296 Friday to drop into 10th. The Jaguars, however, are only four shots behind fifth-place New Mexico. There are six teams within six strokes of fifth.

“We just didn’t get it done today,” said Augusta State coach Kevin McPherson. “All of our guys hung in there, but there wasn’t that one good score we needed.”

No Augusta State player broke par during a windy day at the University of Georgia Golf Course. Junior Derek Chang shot a team-best 74, an eight-shot improvement from the opening round.

The Jaguars, who return not a single player from last year’s NCAA Championship team, are ranked 44th in the country. Their best finish of the season came at their home event, the Insperity Augusta State Invitational, where they lost in a playoff to top-ranked Texas.

“We’re close,” McPherson said. “At least we’ve given ourselves a chance for tomorrow. As long as we’ve got a chance, we’ve proven that we can play well with pressure before.”

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SHORT SHOTS: Alabama sophomore Bobby Wyatt birdied his last two holes Friday to take the individual lead. Meanwhile, Crimson Tide freshman Justin Thomas, who is one of the National Player of the Year candidates after winning three times this season, made five birdies in a seven-hole stretch to move into second individually. He is one of three Alabama players in the top 5. ... Of the teams not currently in the top 5, Long Beach State has the best chance to send a player on to nationals. At 3-under 139, Philip Chian is seventh in the individual race -- the highest position for a player not currently on a qualifying team.


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Golfweek/Sagarin Team of the Year: California

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

The Golden Bears ended the season atop the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings after bowing out in the semifinals of the NCAA Championship. Cal won 11 times in the 2012-13 season, which included nine regular-season victories, the Pac-12 Championship and the NCAA Pullman Regional. The Golden Bears also took the No. 1 seed in the national-championship match play after finishing atop the 54-hole stroke-play leaderboard. Senior Max Homa won the individual title.


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Only two comics in this one, though. One is an all ages title, the other is Blackest Night: X-Men, more or less, so at least it will be X-Clectic. (How was that not the title of a comic during the X-Men glut?).

Necrosha-X One Shot- Why did I pay money for this, you ask, despite my noted disdain for DC’s similar crossover event? I didn’t! A friend purchased it for me at the LCS’s Halloween Party, because he wanted someone to talk about it with, and I have never passed up a free comic before. Of course, I had to agree to read some of the story that spun out of it too. I figured if worse came to worse, I’d just give him his $4.

Well, it didn’t quite necessitate a refund, but only because I really liked the New Mutants portion of things, with the idea that Doug Ramsey living up to his full potential is the most dangerous mutant ever. Been wanting to see that for a while, and if nothing else, hopefully Zeb Wells gets to keep him for his cast when this thing’s over.

The rest was pretty okay. I mean, I’m just committing to following New Mutants as part of my little bargain, but I don’t hate where this is going. Like a lot of recent X-stuff, it seems like it could be a solid trade eventually, if nothing else. X-Force seems like the comic where the action will take place, and it seems okay on that level so far (if nothing else, the X-Force portion had more Dr. Nemesis; I’ll always mark for that. X-Men: Legacy appears to be focusing on Destiny and her plot device precognition, which involves mentoring one of the New New Mutants I’ve never heard of. So, if I skip one part, that’s the one, right there.

Caveat time; I’ve wanted an excuse to read New Mutants for a while, and I’m such a huge lapsed X-Men fan (and am totally indifferent to Blackest Night and its principle characters, from Hal and Barry to most of the zombie JLA), so keep those biases in mind. I wouldn’t rush out and buy this issue, but if you can get a dude to buy it for you, its not bad!

Uncanny X-Men: First Class #4- After last month’s incomprehensible Banshee thing, things return to form with a Storm spotlight issue, guest starring two of my new favorite characters, the Daughters of the Dragon and Power Man and Iron Fist’s best villain, Deadly Nightshade, a female blacksploitation mad scientists who wears hot pants. So, it’s pretty great.

This is a fun done in one story that really gets why Storm’s can be a cool character while still throwing in a cliffhanger that gives you a reason to come back next issue. It also continues Scott Gray’s pretty bad ass characterization of Jean Grey. Sure, she’s out of character, but in character Jean is so lame she can only get attention by dying. I find the one that rolls her eyes at Cyclops and learns kung fu a marked improvement. If nothing else, the cat fight between this Jean and Emma Frost would be epic.

As long as Banshee is kept to a minimum, I’d love to see this become an ongoing, but it seems like the X-Franchise is so played out that that’s unlikely, especially when they could just do a Wolverine and the X-Men tie-in comic instead if they really wanted an all ages X-book.

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X Necrosha was so underwhelming to me, not only because of the close thematic ties to Blackest Night, but also due to the fact that the storyline reeks of “and nothing will ever be the same again!!!” nonsense that seemingly has rested over the X-family of books like a cloud for the past couple years. In three months, all those undead mutants will be dead again, and the heroes will continue on without the emotional baggage of having to fight (or kill) their old colleagues because they’re constantly bombarded with emotional baggage anyway.

Also, the lack of editorial control in the X-books continues to bother me greatly. The whole Utopia/Dark X-Men thing moved the mutants to Magneto’s old asteroid, now an island in the Pacific. The first thing at least four writers did as a result was write a story about someone invading the island (Magneto in Uncanny X-Men, Emplate in X-Men Legacy, Namor’s sea-serpent ex-wife in Dark Reign The List, and now Selene’s undead army in X Necrosha). Furthermore, the twist in Warren Ellis’ most recent issue in Astonishing X-Men was that someone is raising dead mutants in Genosha as weapons against living mutants… but that book’s not even part of the Necrosha storyline.

Letting your stable of writers each tell the same story with absolutely no ramifications is sloppy and distracting. I don’t know how anyone can follow more than one title from this line under these conditions.

“This is a fun done in one story that really gets why Storm’s can be a cool character ”

And why is that? I still don’t get the affection for the character.

I also read Necrosha and Astonishing separately, and I wondered briefly why Ellis was participating in crossover, since he’s pretty much stated that that’s not how his book will operate.

So basically, I’m agreed that somebody should have noticed that two books in the same family were independently using the same plot device. Even money at least one mutant gets undeadified twice in the same month.

I’ve only been reading Uncanny and New Mutants, and I haven’t got the newest issues yet, so I have no idea what this Necrosha thing is. But Craig is right about the lack of editorial control. I did buy the first Ellis issue of Astonishing, and I’ve flipped through other issues at the store, as well as some of the other mutant books, and none of them seem to fit together all that well. That’s just incompetent editing. And the longer-term plans seem to be floundering somewhat, too. Why did they move to this new island when they still weren’t completely settled in San Francisco yet? And how many X-Men are there? One recent issue I read mentions two-hundred-thirty-some mutants living on the island. I thought there were only supposed to be 198 total. Did they scrap that idea? And I know there are still several mutants not on the island.
I wish they would just sit all the writers down and work out a plan and stick to it. And wait at least two and a half years between major upheavals in the status quo.

I haven’t read an X-book since around the time Psychlocke turned Japanese, so I’m confused. Isn’t Doug Ramsey that guy who could translate stuff? How does that make him the most dangerous mutant ever?

Or was he Cannonball? Same question.

Yeah, I could wiki it, but it’s more fun when you guys set me straight.

November 9, 2009 at 5:39 pm

Cypher’s powers were finally utilized in a way to make him useful in combat. He uses his power to understand language in order to read “body language”, thus predicting and countering an opponent’s moves. However, Batgirl used the idea earlier and the New Mutants fan-fic “Kid Dynamo” came up with the idea first (1996, IIRC). If Louise Simonson had thought of using his powers that way, she probably wouldn’t have killed him off in the first place!

FofF: Claremont hinted at Cypher’s powers heading that way in his final NM storyline (Doug’s playing poker at the Hellfire Club and uses his powers to read the body language of his opponents)

I agree Cypher has always had untapped potential, but isn’t this new power the same one Taskmaster has had all along, albeit with a different rationale?

@Mike Blake: Taskmaster had “eidetic memory”‘ ( aka photographic reflexes). He can’t read body language, but can copy moves after seeing them once. They are limits, however. Taskmaster can copy Batroc’s leaping abilities (because they are within normal human limits), but not Toad'(since they require superhuman leg muscles).

Cypher’s powers involve a psionic field that allows him to understand languages, written, spoken or otherwise. Much like Forge’s power, Doug just intuitively ‘knows’ how to read/speak the language he is attempting to decipher, without truly understanding the ‘nuances’ of the language.

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Over the Rainbow with Google Maps

OMG Rainbows!

♪♫ Google Map's the only thing / To take you over the rainbow to the land where cartography is King. ♪♫

I love discovering new uses for Google Maps and I'm pretty sure that this is the very first rainbow predictor to feature on Google Maps Mania.

The map uses the regularly updated National Weather Service radar mosaic to find where rain is falling and combines that with current solar elevation and azimuth to show areas that have a high potential for rainbows. The areas that have a potential for rainbows are shown in red on the map.

You can quickly zoom into an area marked in red or you can use the search engine to look for rainbows near your current location. And who doesn't want to search for rainbows?

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