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We've all said this
to ourselves at one time or another: "Oh, I'll just read Wikipedia for another 15 minutes, then I'm
going to do my work." Then two hours pass, but the work remains unfinished. Oops! x.minutes.at is a site that lets you keep those promises to yourself,
through the magic of technology. By magic, I mean that the site you're viewing automatically closes
after a specified time limit.
So, if you wanted to read Download Squad for 20 minutes -- hey, feel free to stick around longer,
this is just hypothetical -- you could go to 20.minutes.at/downloadsquad.com, and your timer would
automatically be set. Follow a similar formula of the time limit (.minutes.at/, and then the site
address) to set your timer for practically any site on the Web. It doesn't work well with Gmail and
Google Reader, unfortunately, but most anything else is fair game.
x.minutes.at also offers bookmarklets to time-limit the current site, and you can use it in
stopwatch mode by entering http://howmany.minutes.at, instead of a number. I'm
almost afraid to use stopwatch mode, because I don't want how much time I spend at TVtropes.org on
a given day.
Editra 0.5.51Editra is a multi-platform text editor with an implementation that
focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development. Currently
it supports syntax highlighting and variety of other useful features for over 30 programing
languages.
Editra is freely available under the terms of the GPL.
Currently the project is in alpha development phase but test builds of "stable" points are
available for download and trial as Windows and Mac OSX(Universal) binaries, currently other Unix
and Linux based systems will have to install from source using the included setup script. Please
feel free give it a try and to report bugs and feature requests.
WHAT'S NEWVersion 0.5.51:
NEW:[features/improvements]
+Tabs can be dragged out to split notebooks so that buffers and Shelf items can be viewed
side by side.
+What items are displayed in the Lexer menu are now configurable.
+Basic support for highlighting asp script embedded in html files.
+New version of Launch plugin with some bug fixes.
+Add Close Others option to right click tab menu to close all but the selected tab.
+Add support for highlighting Forth source files.
+Add support for Java to CodeBrowser (patch from Eric Gaudet)
+Add support for Diff files to CodeBrowser (patch from Eric Gaudet)
+Custom autobackup directory can be configured.
+Extend HTML support to support HTML5 syntax (patch from Hagn99)
+Add --no-clean option to source file installer to skip old file cleanup.
LIBRARY:
+New plugin interface for adding autocompletion providers added (iface.AutocompI)
+FilterDialog class added to eclib
BUG FIXES:
+Fix segmentation fault on Linux when using right click context menu to paste.
+Fix some minor vhdl highlighting issues.
+Fix issue where typing over selected text would sometimes not overwrite it
+Fix exception that could occur when syntax highlighting extensions are removed.
+Fix issue where autocomp/callip popups would not get hidden when they should.
+Fix issue where window could be restored off screen when extra displays have been removed
from the system between running the program.
+Fix issue where tab label would incorrectly show a modified state after loading a large file
in incremental mode.
+Fix bug in python autocompleter that could raise an error when retrieving a calltip under
some conditions.
+Fix issue with detecting magic encoding if it was changed after the buffer was loaded on
subsequent saves.
+Fix bug in reloading of buffers after encoding error is detected that would result in them
always becoming a read only buffer.
+Fix bug in retrieving file extension for file types that have no extensions associated with
them.
+Fix bad link to online documentation in Help menu
+Default to English local when localized resource for LANGUAGE_DEFAULT are not available.
+Fix issue with folded code disappearing when folding option is toggled off.
Support doubles to hit magic 10k mark... allegedly
Home Office Identical Minister Meg Hillier is now pitching ID cards as a weapon against social
exclusion, and has mysteriously truffled-up nearly 6,000 extra ID card enthusiasts, meaning
enrolments will hit 10,000 next week. Was it not just last week she said they'd only had 4,307
applications? Yes it was....
We were
starting to worry that SCEA had forgotten about EyePet when its planned holiday 2009 release
came and
went. Sony's Eye-enabled virtual pet simulator made a surprising reemergence recently, now
featuring PlayStation Move support. We
chatted with EyePet producer Nicolas Doucet about implementing Sony's motion controller
into the game, and what that means for gamers, new and old.
By removing the Magic Card, and replacing it with motion controls, isn't this new version
of EyePet, essentially, a brand new game?
Especially for North America and Japan, as well. It's going to be the first release, so yeah it's a
brand new game. We've really made a lot of effort to make sure that whatever we converted from the
Magic Card for the Move wasn't just a port. We deconstructed and reconstructed things to really
make it feel like a Move-dedicated game. Obviously, to begin with it wasn't. We put a lot of effort
into that. We've extended the development by another nine months to really give something special
to players.
We were
starting to worry that SCEA had forgotten about EyePet when its planned holiday 2009 release
came and
went. Sony's Eye-enabled virtual pet simulator made a surprising reemergence recently, now
featuring PlayStation Move support. We
chatted with EyePet producer Nicolas Doucet about implementing Sony's motion controller
into the game, and what that means for gamers, new and old.
By removing the Magic Card, and replacing it with motion controls, isn't this new version
of EyePet, essentially, a brand new game?
Especially for North America and Japan, as well. It's going to be the first release, so yeah it's a
brand new game. We've really made a lot of effort to make sure that whatever we converted from the
Magic Card for the Move wasn't just a port. We deconstructed and reconstructed things to really
make it feel like a Move-dedicated game. Obviously, to begin with it wasn't. We put a lot of effort
into that. We've extended the development by another nine months to really give something special
to players.
In recent weeks, conservative media have promoted a number of myths and falsehoods about the
possible use of the budget reconciliation process to finalize passage of health care reform.
Myth: Reconciliation is the nuclear option
On Fox News' Special Report, host Bret Baier said that the Senate process of
reconciliation "was once called the nuclear option" and aired clips of what he claimed were
Democrats criticizing the nuclear option "when Republicans were using it." FoxNewshosts and guests have repeatedly pushed the falsehood that
the term "nuclear option" refers to the budget reconciliation process. The Fox Nation and Fox
News personalities such as Sean Hannity, Greta Van Susteren, Dick Morris, Bret Baier, and Bill
Sammon have all falsely compared
reconciliation to the "nuclear option."
Fact: "Nuclear option" was coined by GOP to describe a process to change Senate
filibuster rules. The term "nuclear option"
was coined by former Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), one of the leading advocates of a 2005 proposal
to change the Senate rules on filibusters for judicial nominations. After Republican strategists
deemed the term a political
liability, Republican senators began to attribute it to Democrats. As Media Matters for
Americanoted, at the time, many
in the news media followed suit, repeating the Republicans' false attribution of the term to the
Democrats.
Myth: Reconciliation undermines democracy
The Washington Post published a March 2
op-ed by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) in which he claimed: "This use of reconciliation to jam
through this legislation, against the will of the American people, would be unprecedented in
scope. And the havoc wrought would threaten our system of checks and balances, corrode the
legislative process, degrade our system of government and damage the prospects of
bipartisanship."
Fact: Reconciliation requires majority vote. The U.S. House Committee on Rules
defines
the budget reconciliation process as requiring a majority of both houses for passage. From the
Rules Committee:
Once a reconciliation bill is passed in the House and Senate, members of each body meet to work
out their differences. A majority of the conferees on each panel must agree on a single version
of the bill before it can be brought back to the full House and Senate for a vote on final
passage. Approval of the conference agreement on the reconciliation legislation must be by a
majority vote of both Houses.
Myth: Reconciliation in general is "arcane," abnormal, and rarely used
In a National Review Online
column titled "Unprecedented," the Heritage Foundation's Michael Franc referred to
reconciliation as "an arcane budgetary procedure." In a February 23
editorial, The Washington Examiner accused Democrats of "running a Washington con
game" in considering the use of reconciliation to pass health reform, asserting that the process
is "an arcane legislative magic act." Additionally, in a February 23
article reporting that centrist Democrats were weighing the implications of using
reconciliation to pass health care reform, Politico claimed that Republicans may be able
to convince voters that the procedure "is an end-run around the normal legislative process."
Fact: Reconciliation is part of congressional budget process. The budget
reconciliation process is defined
by the U.S. House Committee on Rules as "part of the congressional budget process... utilized
when Congress issues directives to legislate policy changes in mandatory spending (entitlements)
or revenue programs (tax laws) to achieve the goals in spending and revenue contemplated by the
budget resolution."
Republicans repeatedly used reconciliation to pass Bush's agenda. Republicans
used the budget reconciliation
process to pass President Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts as well as the 2005 "Tax Increase
Prevention and Reconciliation Act." The Senate also used the procedure to pass a bill containing
a provision that would have permitted oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (The
final version of that bill that Bush signed did not contain the provision on drilling.)
Myth: Reconciliation is unprecedented for health care
In a February 25 Wall Street Journal
op-ed, Bill Frist claimed: "Using the budget reconciliation procedure to pass health-care
reform would be unprecedented because Congress has never used it to adopt major, substantive
policy change." In his February 25 Washington Post
column, George Will suggested Democrats were "misusing" reconciliation for trying to pass
health care legislation. Will wrote: "The summit's predictable failure will be a pretext for
trying to ram health legislation through the Senate by misusing 'reconciliation,' which prevents
filibusters."
Fact: Reconciliation has repeatedly been used to reform health care. On February
24, NPR noted that many "major changes to
health care laws" were passed via reconciliation. Additionally, during a February 24 broadcast of
NPR's Morning Edition, correspondent Julie Rovner
quoted George Washington University health policy professor Sara Rosenbaum saying: "In fact,
the way in which virtually all of health reform, with very, very limited exceptions, has happened
over the past 30 years has been the reconciliation process."
Congress used reconciliation to pass Medicare Advantage and SCHIP. As part of
the
Balanced Budget Act of 1997, enacted through the reconciliation process, Congress -- which
was controlled by the Republicans at the time -- created the "Medicare+Choice Program," currently
known as Medicare
Advantage or Medicare Part C. The program allows seniors to enroll in HMO-type plans rather
than the traditional Medicare fee-for-service plan. The State Children's Health Insurance Program
(SCHIP), was also passed through reconciliation as part of the Balanced Budget Act. It provides
federal matching funds to expand health coverage to children in low-income families who are not
eligible for Medicaid.
Congress used reconciliation to pass COBRA. As part of the Consolidated Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, Congress
gave "workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to
continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time
under certain circumstances."
Congress used reconciliation to pass Patient Self-Determination Act. As part of
the
Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1990, Congress passed the Patient Self-Determination Act, which
requires hospitals, nursing homes, HMOs, and other organizations that participate in Medicare
or Medicaid to provide information about advance directives and patients' decision-making rights.
Myth: Using reconciliation will bypass debate affecting "1/6 of our economy"
During the February 25 edition of Hannity (accessed via the Nexis database), Fox News
contributor Sarah Palin suggested that congressional Democrats plan to "cram through via
reconciliation this scheme, this government growth takeover of too many aspects of our health
care." She went on to warn about "the risk is this one-sixth of our economy being so controlled
and 1/6 of our society being so controlled by government with this takeover of health care."
Similarly, Politico published a February 4
op-ed by Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) warning that "Democrats may attempt to use reconciliation to
short-circuit every senator's right and responsibility to fully debate a measure that will affect
one-sixth of our economy." Also, CNN political analyst Gloria Borger asked during the March 12
edition of The Situation Room (accessed via the Nexis database): "[S]hould you pass
something that affects one-sixth of the
American economy with just a majority vote?"
Fact: Dems say they plan to use reconciliation only to tweak aspects of bills already
passed by House and Senate. As the Washington Post's Ezra Klein reported,
congressional Democrats are planning to pass "the 11 pages of modifications that President Obama
proposed to reconcile the House and Senate bills with each other." From Klein's March 1
blog post:
Second, Democrats are not proposing to create the health-care reform bill in reconciliation.
Rather, they're using the process for a much more limited purpose: passing the 11 pages of
modifications that President Obama proposed to reconcile the House and Senate bills with each
other. This is not a particularly ambitious use of the reconciliation process, and it's certainly
not unprecedented. Republicans are arguing otherwise, of course, but the record belies their
rhetoric.
The Hill: Reid says Dems "would likely use the budget reconciliation process to
pass a series of fixes to the first healthcare bill passed by the Senate." The
Hill
reported in a February 20 article:
Democrats will finish their health reform efforts within the next two months by using a
majority-vote maneuver in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said.
"Reid said that congressional Democrats would likely opt for a procedural tactic in the Senate
allowing the upper chamber to make final changes to its healthcare bill with only a simple
majority of senators, instead of the 60 it takes to normally end a filibuster.
"I've had many conversations this week with the president, his chief of staff, and Speaker
Pelosi," Reid said during
an appearance Friday evening on "Face to Face with Jon Ralston" in Nevada. "And we're really
trying to move forward on this."
The majority leader said that while Democrats have a number of options, they would likely use the
budget reconciliation process to pass a series of fixes to the first healthcare bill passed by
the Senate in November. These changes are needed to secure votes for passage of that original
Senate bill in the House. "We'll do a relatively small bill to take care of what we've already
done," Reid said, affirming that Democrats would use the reconciliation process. "We're going to
have that done in the next 60 days."
Myth: Democrats propose passing health care with only 51 votes
During the February 25 edition of Fox News' Special Report (accessed via the Nexis
database), correspondent Carl Cameron reported that "Republicans demanded Democrats abandon any
plans to drive health care through the Senate with only 51 votes under the rarely used
legislative maneuver known as budget reconciliation, instead of the normal 60 votes needed to
advance major bills."
Fact: Senate already passed health care bill with 60 votes. On December 23, the
Senate
passed a cloture motion on H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with 60
votes. On December 24, the Senate
passed the bill with 60 votes.
Myth: Obama broke a promise not to pass health care with a 50 + 1 vote
Numerous right-wing media figures have promoted
video of Obama discussing the difficulty of governing with "50 plus one" votes on legislation
to assert that Obama has broken a promise not to pass health care using reconciliation. For
instance, during the March 3 edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck said: "New audio for you from Barack Obama saying
that we cannot, cannot pass it with a simple majority vote. Health care has to be supermajority,
has to be done that way. You can't just slip it by the American people, which they are now saying
they're going to do. Yet another broken promise from Barack Obama." Similarly, Jim Hoft posted
the video at his Gateway Pundit site and
wrote: "But, of course, like everything else Obama promised, this statement came with an
expiration date. Today Obama will announce that Democrats will force their unpopular nationalized
health care bill through Congress using a simple majority to ram it through."
Fact: Obama didn't "promise" not to pass health care with 50 + 1 votes. In fact,
in the video promoted by conservative media figures, Obama said it would be more difficult to
govern without broad support, not that he promised not to use reconciliation to pass health care
reform. The video shows several clips of Obama on the campaign trail in 2006 and 2007 discussing
how he expected to pass health care reform. For example, in a September 2007 speech, Obama says
of health care reform, "This is an area where we're going to have to have a 60 percent majority
in the Senate and the House in order to actually get a bill to my desk. We're going to have to
have a majority to get a bill to my desk that is not just a 50-plus-1 majority." In another clip,
Obama discusses how he wanted to campaign in a way that brought more than a "50-plus-1" majority
because "you can't govern" after such a victory and predicts that "you can't deliver on health
care. We're not going to pass universal health care with a 50-plus-1 strategy." In a 2006 speech,
Obama says, "If we want to transform the government, though, that requires a sizable majority."
At no point does he "promise" not to use reconciliation in health care reform.
Festival A Vaulx Jazz
Soirée Blues
Magic Slim & The Teardrops / Kenny Neal
Magic Slim & the Teardrops (USA)
Magic Slim (Morris Nolt à l'État Civil) est aujourd'hui l'une des dernières
légendes vivantes du Chicago blues. Morris Nolt est né voilà 73 ans dans le
Mississippi. Il monte à Chicago en 55. Boogies, blues lents ou titres plus funky, le sudiste
cultive le tout d'un style monolithique et obsédant. Son jeu de guitare est rustique,
branché sur 220 volts et frappe directement au foie... Ouch !
Magic Slim (g, voc), John McDonald (g, voc), Andre Howard (b), Brian Jones (dm)
Kenny Neal (USA)
Natif de Bâton-Rouge (Louisiane), Kenny Neal enregistre dès les années 90 en
leader une série d'albums pour les labels Alligator Records ou Telarc. Après des
soucis de santé qui l'ont obligé à s'éloigner des studios comme de la
scène, ce guitariste particulièrement excitant sur une Fender Telecaster est
aujourd'hui de retour avec une voix soul intacte et l'album « Let Life Flow ».
Le Centre Charlie Chaplin est accessible directement du centre de Lyon par la ligne de bus
C3, retour assuré jusqu'à 00h36. Arrêt à côté du
Centre.
Tarifs : 22 euros (plein), 18 euros (réduit), 15 euros (spécial), 10 euros
(jeunes scolarisés jusqu'à la terminale).
La billetterie du Centre Charlie Chaplin est ouverte de 9h à 12h30, de 13h30 à
17h.
Permanence jusqu'à 19h et le samedi de 14h à 18h la semaine qui précède
chaque spectacle.
Accès personnes handicapées.
Le bar est ouvert une heure avant la représentation, pendant les entractes, après la
représentation. -//- agenda Festival - Vaulx en Velin, Rhône (69) - le 26-03-2010
-//-
C’était une des grosses annonces de je ne sais plus quel keynote
d’Apple, mais il semblerait que la fameuse souris Magic
Mouse peine à convaincre… Heureusement, MMFixed.com vient de sortir un petit accessoire en silicone qui permet
de réparer la souris d’Apple et de la rendre bien plus utilisable ! Comptez 10$ pour
ce carré de silicone à mettre entre la “pomme” de votre main (:D) et la
Magic Mouse.
MagicNetwork.com announces they will be holding contest for magicians with the top prize of a
custom Magic Network Wii entertainment console. (PRWeb Mar 15, 2010)
Ces cartes de la prochaine extension
[url=http://www.jeuxonline.info/jeu/Magic_the_Gathering_Online_Rise_of_the_Eldrazi]Rise of the
Eldrazi[/url] ont été publiées sur de nombreux sites communautaires, dont la
page Facebook de StarCityGames.com. On y décou...
Several weblogs and Magic sites got a preview card today, here's the compilation:
#9) Pathrazer of Ulamog :11mana:
Creature - Eldrazi (U)
Annihilator 3 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices three
permanents.)
Pathrazer of Ulamog can't be blocked except by three of more creatures.
9/9
#37) Mammoth Umbra :4mana::symw:
Enchantment - Aura (U)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gains +3/+3 and has vigilance.
Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and
destroy this Aura.)
#78) Mnemonic Wall :4mana::symu:
Creature - Wall (C)
Defender
When Mnemonic Wall enters the battlefield, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your
graveyard to your hand.
0/4
#103) Corpsehatch :3mana::symb::symb:
Sorcery (U)
Destroy target nonblack creature.
Put two colorless 0/1 Eldrazi Spawn creature tokens onto the battlefield. They have "Sacrifice this
creature : Add :1mana: to your mana pool."
#170) Valakut Fireboar :4mana::symr:
Creature - Elemental Boar (U)
Whenever Valakut Fireboar attacks, switch its power and toughness until end of turn.
1/7
#205) Prey's Vengeance :symg:
Instant (U)
Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of
your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying it's mana cost.)
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RM Auctions, the official auction house of the Amelia Island Concours
d’Elegance, continued its strong track record in Florida this weekend, posting in excess of $19 million
in total sales with an impressive 88% sell-through at its 12th annual Automobiles of Amelia
Island event.
Returning to the prestigious Ritz-Carlton Hotel, the single-day sale saw 112 cars cross the block
before a packed house, with four cars breaking the magic million dollar mark and 15 lots exceeding
their pre-sale estimates. The sale once again acted as a prelude to Sunday’s world-famous
Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, where RM President and Chief Operating Officer,
Ian Kelleher, returned as a judge and RM presented two awards: The RM Restorations Award for the
Best Unrestored Car, and The RM Auctions Trophy for the Best Open Car.
“Simply put, RM Auctions enjoyed unqualified success at this year’s Amelia Island
sale,” said Ian Kelleher, President and Chief Operating Officer, RM Auctions.
“World record prices, standing room only attendance and the most outstanding line-up of cars
every offered at Amelia Island, solidified RM’s dominance and long-term standing as the
official auction house of the concours weekend. Clients walked away from the auction with a great
feeling of confidence as many cars met pre-sale estimates with a number exceeding expectations,
illustrating RM’s expertise in the collector car market,” he added.
The top-seller was a supremely elegant 1930 Duesenberg Model J Sport
Berline from the estate of noted American collector, the late Mr. John O’Quinn. One of 54
examples offered from the collection at this weekend’s sale, the stunning
‘Whittell Mistress Car’ attracted strong interest on the block, exceeding
its pre-sale estimate and selling for an impressive $1,705,000. A second Model J Duesenberg from
the collection – a majestic and beautifully restored 1932 Convertible Coupe
– realized a final sale price of $825,000.
Continua leyendo "12th Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance Cars Auction"
[Benjamin Blundell] built an
RFID reader for the iPhone. A jailbroken iPhone
connects to this project box by patching into a standard iPhone USB cable. Like in past iPhone serial
projects, [Benjamin] is using openFrameworks for the software interface. Right now this
reader only detects low-frequency tags but he’s working on the code to read MIFARE tags as
well. See the magic of a tag ID displayed on the screen in the video after the break.
I finished up Peter Guralnick’s “part one” bio of Elvis Presley last week, a
book called Last Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley. It’s a fascinating and
exhilarating look at “50’s Elvis,” including his first TV appearances in 1956.
Earlier in ‘56, Elvis had made his first television appearances on shows hosted by the
Dorsey Brothers, Milton Berle, and Steve Allen. These appearances shocked – SHOCKED!
– the nation’s old guard. The media, parents, and citizens of high moral fortitude
(yeah right) were appalled at the sexual connotations set forth by Mr. Presley. Of course, his
actions then wouldn’t raise an eyebrow in today’s cesspool of cultural waste –
but in 1956, ooo-weee, look out America, Elvis the Pelvis is comin’ for your kids!
On September 9th, 1956, Elvis made his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Mr. Sullivan was
recovering from a serious car accident, so Charles Laughton actually hosted the program in the
New York City studio. Across the country in Hollywood, Elvis was filming his first motion
picture, Love Me Tender, so his first appearance on Ed Sullivan was simulcast from CBS
Television City.
The clips below skip the intros by Laughton, so if you have a Netflix account, I’d
recommend watching the entire show (available streaming). But what we have here with
Elvis’s performances are pure magic. The show was viewed by 60 million Americans that night
– a staggering 82.6% of the total television audience. I’m sure it
changed some minds and solidified some others.
But man oh man, to be a music lover in the year 1956. It’s hard to imagine now, but try to
think back to the mindset of 1950’s America – you flip on the television on a Sunday
night and you see this…
“Ready Teddy” is my favorite of the bunch. I love the way he kicks off the song with
a finger point to the drummer – going from 0 to 60 in about 5 seconds. This is pure Elvis
– unrestrained and one of a kind.
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