Hope for six seasons and a movie is still alive! Deadline reports that the talks are very preliminary, but both sides are apparently willing. This comes after Dan Harmon walked back earlier comments that he wouldn't bring back the show, saying "I'm not going to be the guy that re-cancels cancelled Community."
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The CDC announced today that the only person who seemed to have contracted MERS from a patient within the US actually never caught the virus at all.
The agency found this out from a more definitive type of MERS test.
This means that no one who has had MERS in the US has passed it on to anyone else, or at least not that we know of. As of right now, there are no people infected with MERS in the US, although cases continue to add up abroad.
You can read more about this latest news in CIDRAP's coverage here.
For Vox's StoryStream of past and future MERS coverage, click here.
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Nong's Khao Man Gai offers nothing new—but we're mostly okay with that.
by Andrea Damewood
NONG POONSUKWATTANA focuses intently on the rock wall before her, clinging like a spider monkey with her white chalk-dusted fingers, feeling blindly for her next grasp. It's not a coincidence that Nong's—she of the Khao Man Gai chicken and rice empire—newest promo video shows her grappling as she inches ever higher. The metaphor-heavy message stands in well for Nong's well-documented scrabble to success.
Her first toehold came in 2009, with a food cart at SW 10th and Alder. Next was a second cart near Portland State University (411 SW College), followed by the arrival of her signature gingery, spicy, unimpeachable sauce in stores. And, as of early April, she's the proprietor of a restaurant as well.
Much has been made of her signature dish ("That's all we do," the website says), and there isn't any room for improvement. Anyone who cares about food in this town has likely eaten Nong's Khao Man Gai dozens of times: an $8 bundle of joy wrapped in butcher paper with chicken (white or dark meat, or a blend), rice, a few cucumbers, and soup. Extras include the mandatory chicken skins or the less-required chicken-fat poached livers, each $1.
Her newest space has about 40 seats and a bare-bones setup: wait in the line, order at the counter, sit at a metal table by massive windows, grab your own utensils, bus your own table. It suits. And the quality does nothing but improve with the fuller-sized kitchen area. Just like I expected, it's great to be able to eat Nong's for dinner while downing a beer—there are local IPAs, Sapporo, and domestic brands on hand. It's also nice to get this chicken on a plate—it's much easier to focus on the flavors when you're not juggling soup, food, and a beverage.
But the question becomes: Do we need more? The Southeast restaurant has the same offerings as its PSU cart location, and, as of now, not a whit more. Usually, the idea behind opening a restaurant based on a cart means the chef now has room to put more dishes on display. Not so here. The website says there are pork feet at the restaurant. They're not there. Nong promised in-house soft-serve ice cream in media previews. That's coming "soon," a woman at the counter told me. There used to be wings on the menu; why not at least bring those back?
Just like at PSU, you can get khao kha muu, pork and rice ($8), a long-simmered hog braised with Coca-Cola, coco powder, Thai and Chinese herbs, with pickles, mustard greens, and a beautiful medium-boiled egg. It's a worthy entry (order it spicy to really make it sing). But the vegetarian "chicken and rice" ($7) makes me weep for non-carnivores. It's sad, flavorless tofu tossed on rice and hit with Nong's Khao Man Gai Sauce. A few barely steamed and totally unseasoned broccoli come along for the ride. Only the ample application of spicy pickles from a side order ($3) saved it. Oh, and no soup for you, vegetarians.
Nong has clearly mastered the art of specialization. She set out to make top-notch chicken and rice, and that's been done. Should her next foothold be more locations churning out that same glorious khao man gai? Or should she reach for more, expanding her expertise to other Thai standards? Judging from the lines out the door on SE Ankeny, and wending down the sidewalks downtown, she may have the clear, if easy, answer.
Open daily 11 am-9 pm. Call ahead to skip the line.
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Software used by law enforcement organizations to intercept the communications of suspected criminals contains a litany of critical weaknesses, including an undocumented backdoor secured with a hardcoded password, security researchers said today.
In a scathing advisory published Wednesday, the researchers recommended people stop using the Nice Recording eXpress voice-recording package. It is one of several software offerings provided by Ra’anana, Israel-based Nice Systems, a company that markets itself as providing "mission-critical lawful interception solutions to support the fight against organized crime, drug trafficking and terrorist activities." The advisory warned that critical weaknesses in the software expose users to attacks that compromise investigations and the security of the agency networks.
"Attackers are able to completely compromise the voice recording/surveillance solution as they can gain access to the system and database level and listen to recorded calls without prior authentication," the researchers from security consultancy SEC Consult wrote. "Furthermore, attackers would be able to use the voice recording server as a jumphost for further attacks of the internal voice VLAN [virtual local area network], depending on the network setup."
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There is a battle being waged at the moment in the US fast food industry over breakfast.
Which makes sense because the first meal of the day is a $50 billion a year business in the country where McDonald’s got its start.
Taco Bell became one of the more prominent, active entrants into the fray when it released a new range of breakfast products, including the infamous waffle taco, earlier this year.
McDonald’s, for so long the market leader in fast food breakfast, has previously expressed calm about the increasingly intense competition on its turf. It reiterated those sentiments today at a Sanford Bernstein conference, but provided a new argument for why it will continue to reign supreme: because its food is fresher and of higher quality than its rivals.
Here’s CEO Don Thompson:
We are a restaurant business, we cook. And I made this comment several times. It’s – we actually crack eggs in the restaurant and cook sausage and bacon and toast muffins and we place cheese on muffins. This is not a pre-prepared deal that comes in and gets microwaved. I think it’s very important. We haven’t spoken enough about it. So, we as McDonald’s, need to do more of telling that quality story. The produce and the products that we have at breakfast and across the menu are fresh.
It is not clear which rival chain’s pre-prepared, microwaved breakfasts Thompson was referring to. McDonald’s has been trying to talk up the health benefits of its food for a while now. But there is still something strange about hearing the company trying to play the health card after warning its own employees about the risks of fast food and after having inspired a film about the questionable nutritional value of its products.
firehose"If we can sell dick doughnuts and bone marrow ice cream in this city, so had better believe we can do it even better with cats."
A few months back it was revealed that plans were underfoot for a cat cafe in Portland, a la the ones popular in Japan, where people can seek feline refuge from their cramped, pet-inconducive apartments. Purringtons Cat Lounge and Cafe promises a cushy holdover for adoptable cats and a destination for those who love them, serving, coffee, tea, beer, wine, and snacks. Doesn't it sound wonderful? Of course it does. That's why I had this same idea like four years ago, which I subsequently gave up on after becoming discouraged at the amount of start-up capital that would need to be involved. Not so with Purringtons! They are sallying forth with a Indiegogo campaign for the venture:
And while ordinary folk tossing coin at this is great, I still kind of can't believe some of Portland's restaurant/bar/coffeeshop seed investment money (which I know has got to be out there) isn't all over this. If we can sell dick doughnuts and bone marrow ice cream in this city, so had better believe we can do it even better with cats. Nonetheless, with just over two weeks to go, Purringtons has reached only six percent of it goal. If you know any eccentric, moneyed cat ladies, now's the time to give them a call.
On May 13 an MRI found 20 tumors in my husbands brain. On May 15 he could barely breathe and was in a lot of pain. A CT scan that day revealed he had a softball-sized tumor in his lung, tumors in his other lung, his liver and possibly his bones. On our way home from the imaging center our primary care doc called and told us to turn around and get to the hospital right away. My husband was admitted and they promptly removed more than a pint of fluid from his lungs, which helped him breathe better. We were there for 6 days while they performed a bracheotomy, did more scans, gave him drugs to stop his brain from swelling and administered emergency chemo.
Today I got a letter from Anthem Blue Cross regarding his hospital stay:
"Coverage for the requested service is denied because the service does not meet the criteria for “medical necessity” under your description of benefits. To assist our Medical Director in making this decision, we have put a process in place to send all information about the service to a clinical reviewer with appropriate credentials. Based on their opinion, we have determined that covered for the requested service is denied. Our Medical Reviewer Layma Jarjour MD has determined we cannot approve your hospital stay for cancer. We do not have enough facts to show that it was medically necessary. "
Anthem is owned by WellPoint. Did you know Wellpoint CEO Joseph Swedish earned almost $17 million during his first year on the job? Now you know how they can afford to pay him.
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firehose'Blazing Saddles tackled racism in 1970s America with smart, cruel incision, whereas A Million Ways to Die in the West is a shloppy, shlocky romantic comedy whose main source of humor is derived from hearing rustically garbed frontier folk say the F word.'
Here are A Million Ways to ruin the western.
by Ned Lannamann
MAYBE IT'S BEST to think of Seth MacFarlane as the guy in class who copies your homework. He's shrewd enough to find a way to pass the class, but he hasn't done any original work all semester. Let's look at MacFarlane's career: His weirdly ripe singing voice is cribbed from Sinatra. His interminably enduring Family Guy is ripped off wholesale from The Simpsons, with a bit of All in the Family sprinkled in. And here's A Million Ways to Die in the West, ostensibly MacFarlane's version of Blazing Saddles, a comedy that injects the familiar western genre with bawdy toilet humor—and yes, there are poop jokes that make Blazing Saddles' farting campfire scene look like Oscar Wilde.
But Blazing Saddles tackled racism in 1970s America with smart, cruel incision, whereas A Million Ways to Die in the West is a shloppy, shlocky romantic comedy whose main source of humor is derived from hearing rustically garbed frontier folk say the F word. MacFarlane plays Albert, a sheep farmer who hates the podunk town he lives in, hates the countless lethal dangers of the American West, and hates that his girlfriend Louise (Amanda Seyfried) has just dumped him for being a pussy. Now she's making time with the elegantly mustachioed Foy—played by Neil Patrick Harris, whose smarmy guffaw is one of the movie's marginally successful jokes.
Luckily for Albert, a smart, gorgeous, tough woman just rode into town. Anna (Charlize Theron) knows how to shoot a gun and how to down a plug of whiskey, and she takes glum, pathetic Albert under her wing and teaches him how to be a Man with a capital M. This mostly involves watching him shoot at stationary targets and looking devastatingly beautiful as he mopes for boring ol' Louise. Doesn't he know that he'd be better off with smart, gorgeous, tough Anna? The movie pretends that it would take Albert a while to figure this out.
Along the way, we're treated to a single joke repeated perhaps 40 times: that getting yourself killed in the Wild West is incredibly, hilariously easy. There are pratfalls and comically timed deaths—most of which you can see in the trailer—and the obligatory scene in which Albert goes on a spirit quest aided by some potent Native American pharmaceuticals. Will he take too much? Will the Native Americans laugh at the silly white man? Does the ghost of John Wayne shit on the prairie?
A wrinkle in Albert and Anna's romance comes in the form of her villainous, gun-slinging husband Clinch, played by Liam Neeson, who can't help but being warm and paternal even when he's supposed to be the bad guy. The idea of Moonface MacFarlane taking on a supreme badass like Neeson is actually pretty funny, but it's the one plot point this lazy, unimaginative comedy takes seriously. I was concerned that A Million Ways to Die in the West would ring yet another death knell for the decimated corpse of the American western. I needn't have worried. This movie is so far removed that genre's great masterworks—indeed, any filmic reality—that getting mad at it is like getting mad at your study partner for cheating on the open-book exam.
firehoseThe business cost is determined by estimated car traffic, which is bonkers for places with high volume and low traffic and miscalculated in other places, like strips and downtown, where car traffic doesn't even measure the number of people with any interest in going into your store. The new Apple store, in part due to its size and location, would pay an estimated $2,000 a month; it's on a bus stop, has no parking, and the estimate comes from a national source--most Apple stores are in city and shopping centers well served by transit or not responsible for parking. The city's tax estimation calculator doubled the tax for a clothing store around the corner. (Since this was published, Hales and Novick finally tabled the business tax. The electoral damage is done, though.)
The nuttiest part is that public schools are NOT exempt from paying a tax estimated by automobile traffic to their not-for-profit, taxpayer-funded buildings and services. Since school budgets aren't going up, either schools have to make do with less or raise more money... from taxpayers. Non-profits and government services like shelters, clinics, and food banks have to pay too, and the rates for things like clinics and churches are several times higher than the average for businesses.
The home tax is relatively flat; the most pissed off anyone gets about it is that it'll be assessed on water and sewer bills, which everyone in Portland universally hates to death. The water bureau commissioner has been pissing on this idea the whole time because voters will blame him when the bills hit.
Novick, Hales may be risking their careers over a street fee.
by Denis C. Theriault
A LITTLE MORE than a year ago, Mayor Charlie Hales agreed to sit down and talk about bicycling and street paving and other transportation basics—and the need to slay a "zero-sum" conversation that had been pitting those priorities against one another, instead of finding ways to pay for them all.
And the new mayor was surprisingly blunt when asked how. One possibility? A street maintenance fee—something Hales tried and failed to cement during his first city council incarnation 13 years ago.
"Yes, we will raise your taxes," Hales told me ["Tale of the Grip Tape," Feature, June 5, 2013]. "I don't think that will be a pitched battle."
So let it be written. So let it be done... except maybe not as easily as the mayor might prefer.
After months of polling and politicking, Hales and City Commissioner Steve Novick have finally unveiled a "transportation user fee" (TUF) meant to cure some, but not all, of the city's transportation ills. The proposed TUF—$11.56 a month for most families, but up to thousands annually for businesses—will raise at least $200 million over the next five years and hopefully slow the city's growing backlog of deferred maintenance.
But as for Hales' spoken hope he might get the thing passed without a serious fight? Call it hubris, call it confidence—whatever it was, it's long since vanished.
Rather than risk the fee's defeat at the polls this fall, Hales and Novick now plan to risk it in front of their colleagues. Portland City Council will take up the TUF this Thursday, May 29, with a vote as soon as June 4—provided Hales and Novick can persuade Commissioner Amanda Fritz to join their side.
Fritz actually likes the idea of a street fee. She's also remained open to a council vote, unlike Commissioners Dan Saltzman and Nick Fish. But she's got doubts over the specifics, including the amount. And she seemed greatly annoyed Hales had prematurely declared her fealty when reporters asked.
But even if Hales and Novick manage to squeak a vote through, a surprisingly strident, fluoride-style backlash—fueled by sticker shock and a simmering fury over rising rents, taxes, and utility bills—has already begun.
Smaller businesses have taken to Facebook to vent their rage. The big business lobbyists who killed the last two street fee plans (in 2001 and 2008, both also approved by the city council) are quietly plotting. And fretful voters are emailing and calling city hall—occasionally threatening to start recall petitions.
None of this is lost on Hales and Novick. Especially Novick. He's told me he'll push for a council vote even if Fritz says no. And he's been personally answering his critics.
He's willing to battle for something unpopular but necessary, as he sees it, even if it costs him his career.
"I don't want to lose my next election," Novick wrote one constituent, in an exchange shared with print reporters. "But I'd rather try to solve this problem and lose than not try and win."
Presumably, the mayor feels the same way.
This is not a joke! Taking a photo against a white background could soon be the exclusive property of the multinational, on-line sellers Amazon, after the US Patent and Trademark Office granted them the rights to the process of photographing people or objects against a white backdrop.
It is unlikely that Amazon will be sending 'Getty Images' style demand letters to anyone in breech of copyright, but it opens up new challenges for artists and amateur photographers working in the medium. This unfortunate patent has created a mockery of the patent system and many artists are calling on the USPT Office to state their reasoning for the granting of this absurd document. An online petition has now been set up to invalidate the patent.
The US Patent and Trademark Office has been scrutinised in the past for its 'baffling' and sometimes questionable decision making and although there is specific technical data which separates Amazon's white-backdropped photo process from the millions of previous photos taken before 2011, (when the application was filed) Amazon's concept is not radically different from what photographers have been using in the last hundred plus years.
The Amazon patent must include, a background comprising of a white cyclorama; a front light source positioned in a longitudinal axis intersecting the background, the longitudinal axis further being substantially perpendicular to a surface of the white cyclorama; an image capture position located between the background and the front light source in the longitudinal axis, the image capture position comprising at least one image capture device equipped with an eighty-five millimeter lens, at least one image capture device further configured with an ISO setting of about three hundred twenty and an f-stop value of about 5.6.
Amazon explains, that they are specifying a proprietary white-background photo image from others like it by pointing out that prior art often refers to image retouching, green screens or other forms of image manipulation. Amazon's technique is apparently the purest of the pure, being only the photographer, the photographed object/person, the white background, a number of front lights/back lights and some sort of object separating the subject from the ground below it.
Food for thought: does this mean, in the future, Google could hold the exclusive rights to Abstract Expressionism, as a style? Apple patent the process of digital drawing or Amazon holding the rights to e-books as a process of publication? We have already seen our Artist's rights eroded by the AP case against Shepard Fairey who was sued by the unimpressive wire service for basing his renouned Hope painting of Obama on a photograph by a news photographer. In the end where does that leave Warhol who made a career of using appropriated images!
The reality of the patent: First: Turn on the back lights. Second: Turn on the front lights. Third: Position person or object on the white backdrop. Fourth: Snap away.
Photo: L. Kray Twins By David Bailey 1965 © David Bailey All rights reserved R. Amazon Patent courtesy US Patent Library
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I wish I could be a LITTLE less skeptical of all the creators who suddenly are on the internet saying women are human beings when they have never even brought the topic up in the past.
Particularly when it’s creators who I’ve seen openly ignore women who critique them while they RT the dudebros who are telling the women to shut up……
Yo dudes. We see you.
Yeah, some of these same people were fine with frat boy bullshit leveled against female creators and readers, and with treating female characters like hated ex-girlfriends.
If this was important to them, why is this week the first time they have ever stated it?
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firehose'The night de Abreu and Furtado were killed, Haggan said Hernandez and a friend drove from Connecticut to a Boston nightclub called Cure. They were standing at the edge of the dance floor when de Abreu accidentally bumped into Hernandez, smiled at him and did not apologize, according to prosecutors. Haggan said de Abreu and his friends did not appear to recognize Hernandez and had no idea he was upset.'
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firehoseRPG.net moderator forum has been shots fired all day since Posthuman went nuclear on their MRA infestation
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Dr. John Shaw Billings, Cranial Capacity Research, 1885
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African American metalhead appreciation post
- Jada Pinkett Smith of Wicked Wisdom
- Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage
- Lajon Witherspoon of Sevendust
- Byron Davis of God Forbid
- Derrick Green of Sepultura
- Mike Smith of Suffocation
- Wrust (metal band from Botswana)
- Alexis Brown of Straight Line Stitch
- Adam Warren of Oceano
- Tommy Vext of Divine Heresy
This needs way way way more Katon de Pena:
And Body Count! Who are still alive and well and amazing.
ummm I know y’all didn’t forget Unlocking the Truth!!
well you forgot a lot of folks so I shouldn’t be surprised, but yeah :)
Don’t forget the pioneers DEATH.
firehoseMozilla, Amazon, and Autodesk are about to trademark every single word related to fire
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Patton Oswalt rapidly circling the drain
I read her piece, it wasn't great, but holy _shit_ this is piling on.
Actor, Seth Rogen and director, Judd Apatow did not react well to a recent column by Washington Post film critic, Ann Hornaday which drew connections between last week’s mass killing in Isla Vista and movies that center around “sexual conquest.”
Hornaday writes:
For generations, mass entertainment has been overwhelmingly controlled by white men, whose escapist fantasies so often revolve around vigilantism and sexual wish-fulfillment (often, if not always, featuring a steady through-line of casual misogyny).
She specifically named Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen’s recently-released film, Neighbors, as an example, saying:
How many students watch outsized frat-boy fantasies like ‘Neighbors’ and feel, as Rodger did, unjustly shut out of college life that should be full of ‘sex and fun and pleasure?’ How many men, raised on a steady diet of Judd Apatow comedies in which the shlubby arrested adolescent always gets the girl, find that those happy endings constantly elude them and conclude, ‘It’s not fair?’
Rather than take a moment to consider the larger picture Hornaday is trying to show us and look at the ways in which mass media and our culture at large excuse and perpetuate violence against women in perhaps less overt ways than men like Apatow and Rogen are prepared to accept, they strike back. Because defending your ego is clearly more important than having conversations about male entitlement and violence against women amirite?
Hmm… How dare she.
In peak grossness, Judd Apatow accuses Hornaday of “milk[ing] tragedy.”
“It worked for her?!” WORKED HOW, EXACTLY, JUDD APATOW? Man, this culture of virulent misogyny and this global epidemic of violence against women is really working for us, isn’t it. Get it, girl.
I suppose we could all be accused of the same. Selfishly using Elliot Rodger’s violence and misogyny to talk about how our culture facilitates said violence and misogyny. We should all be ashamed of ourselves. Particularly all the millionaire writers out there making millions off of their columns while celebrities like Rogen and Apatow starve.
Just remember everyone — movies that objectify women or treat them as things men should chase and “get” don’t generate any money at all. And, as we all know, women who write about sexism in movies are just doing it to make a buck. Femini$m.
Comedian, Patton Oswalt steps in to support his brothers in arms, telling Rogen not to worry because he “knows the truth.” Tweet on, brave truth-tellers.
Oh hey. And maybe next time you’ll keep the computer shut off for a while and think more before jumping on Twitter to whine about women talking about sexism in the movies you’re making millions off of. What do you think?
What’s become clear in all of this is that the real victims in all of this are white, male celebrities.
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A federal appeals court has ruled that the public has the right to film cops in public and has reinstated a lawsuit against a local New Hampshire police department brought by a woman arrested for filming a traffic stop.
The plaintiff in the case, Carla Gericke, was arrested on wiretapping allegations in 2010 for filming her friend being pulled over by the Weare Police Department during a late-night traffic stop. Although Gericke was never brought to trial, she sued, alleging that her arrest constituted retaliatory prosecution in breach of her constitutional rights.
The decision is but one in a string of decisions that are slowly sticking the needle into laws nationwide barring the recording of police as they perform their duties. But some states, like Massachusetts, outlaw the secret audio recording of police. A woman accused of secretly turning on the audio recording feature of her mobile phone while she was being arrested was charged with wiretapping two weeks ago in Massachusetts.
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Verizon and the rest of the country's biggest Internet service providers joined forces this month to argue that so-called "common carrier" regulations for utilities shouldn't be applied to broadband. Such rules would force the ISPs to innovate less and spend less money than they do today on network upgrades, they argue.
Yet Verizon obtains a variety of perks from the government for its FiOS Internet service by using public utility rules to its advantage, a new report drawing on public documents says.
This isn’t a new practice and it isn’t illegal, but it could become part of the debate over network neutrality rules and the transition from heavily regulated landline phone networks to Internet-based voice service.
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