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16-year-old faces assault, hate crime charges in beating of motorist who hit child Detroit Free Press A 16-year-old has been charged with ethnic intimidation in connection with brutal beating of Steven Utash, the motorist attacked in Detroit last week when he got out of his pickup truck to check on the 10-year-old he hit when the child stepped into the street. Boy, 16, charged as juvenile in mob beating of Clinton Twp. motoristThe Detroit News Teen charged with hate crime in attack on driverPetoskey News-Review all 103 news articles »

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TileWindows is a window management tool developed to provide a quick and practical way to rearrange and resize windows as and when required.

In addition to the programs preset window layout options, it includes also standard functions such as half-sizing a window to the left or right of the screen, cascading windows or switching to full screen mode. Customizable shortcuts can be used instead of the menubar.

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Justice Dept faults Albuquerque police on excessive force Reuters ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department cited the Albuquerque police department on Thursday for engaging in what federal civil rights investigators call a pattern of excessive force, some of it deadly, against residents of New ... Justice Department faults Albuquerque police over excessive forceGlobalPost all 162 news articles »

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Boeing moves 1K customer support jobs to SoCal News 10NBC SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing is moving about 1,000 of its customer support jobs out of Washington and into Southern California. The company said Thursday that it is centralizing its customer support to its engineering design center in Southern California. Boeing Realigns Engineering to Enhance Customer SupportNewsroom America all 17 news articles »

Not only did Peter Stults and the late Sean Hartter illustrate sci-fi classics like Blade Runner, Superman, and The Fifth Element (and not-so-classics like Watchmen) in the style of vintage movie posters, they also recast them with classic Hollywood actors and actresses. That wheezing sound you hear is my classic movie fever acting up. Update: It's been brought to our attention that, though these were originally all attributed to Stults, some are by Sean Hartter. Also, several of Stults' posters have been removed at the request of the artist.

O'Reilly is looking for temporary help to work some adhoc hours. Strong CSS3 skills are required with expertise in the Paged Media Module (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/) a huge plus. Help build next-generation authoring and publishing platforms by implementing CSS stylesheets for PDF, EPUB, and Mobi, based on sample files and specifications we provide. Ability to work in a complex technical environment and familiarity with git and GitHub a plus. Ability to come to our Cambridge, Massachusetts office will be a big plus.

Tuesday's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." averaged 5.4 million viewers, per the latest, updated overnight ratings, down from last week's 5.7 million and ever further away from the 12.1 million who sampled the show's much-anticipated premiere last September. Jamie Lovett, who covers "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." for ComicBook.com, theorized that the storyline related to "Winter Soldier" might have actually kept audiences away. "No one wants to have the movie spoiled for them, and believe it or not, some people can't always find the time to see a big blockbuster on opening weekend," Lovett told Yahoo TV via email.

The alleged victim reported to police that on April 1 at approximately 9 p.m., she visited Lockette's apartment. Kaepernick and Patton were also there. She said she mixed drinks and prepared shots for them and was told that in order to drink the shots, she had to "hit" the bong, which contained marijuana, according to the police report. She said to police that she began to feel light-headed and went to a bedroom to lie down. Kaepernick, with whom she said she had a previous sexual relationship, followed her into the bedroom. They did not have sex, she told police. Shortly thereafter, the alleged victim said she could not remember anything else that happened. She woke up in a hospital bed and does not remember how she got there or who transported her to the hospital, according to the police report.

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Different Games is an annual conference on diversity and inclusivity in games hosted in New York City and led by students and volunteers. The conference is presented by the NYU School of Engineering’s Integrated Digital Media Program in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Digital Media Program, and will be held April 11th and 12th at the NYU MAGNET Center. Registration for the event is currently open on their website.

As game designers, academics, journalists and players operate in separate spheres, we see Different Games as an opportunity to share across and outside of professional boundaries. By presenting games, scholarship and hands-on workshops engaged with issues of diversity and inclusion we seek to build new connections and foster a unique dialogue between artistic, academic and commercial practice.

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I’m not sure our movie passes the Bechdel test entirely and I think that it's important. We have a lot of producers [who] were female who had concerns and we were always constantly saying to ourselves: 'Are we just a bunch of white guys sitting here making this movie from our own myopic point of view?' We were constantly responding to that question and that helped us make Wyldstyle a better character and Unikitty a more interesting character. I think it's forcing us to look at how we make a sequel and turn that into something that's more powerful and special. -- Chris McKay to The Daily Mail. Heartening words from the co-director of The Lego Movie and sole director of its greenlit sequel! Previously in The Lego Movie

I was at a bar when a friend told me that the Ultimate Warrior, born James Hellwig but known legally as Warrior since 1993, had passed. Of course we were in denial; we asked our bartender about the Ultimate Warrior, and he believed we were speaking of Saturday’s Hall of Fame induction, or maybe his appearance on RAW a little over 24 hours earlier. Of course, we also might have been talking about our childhoods, when the be-tasseled wild man briefly became a legitimate hero to us all.

Said friend and I had, just minutes before, discussed the Ultimate Warrior’s “retirement match” against Macho Man Randy Savage from WrestleMania VII. As the storyline went, Savage lost to Warrior, but reunited with his former valet (and then-wife) Miss Elizabeth after Sensational Sherri attacked Savage -- an admittedly complicated storybook ending to what was already a memorable match. It was a little bit before we realized that Warrior was the last of the four people in that match left alive.

I did not watch Warrior’s Hall Of Fame speech when it first aired. That was less because of his known anti-gay point of view, and more out of sheer fatigue after listening to Mr. T rhapsodize at length about his mother. I can only assume Warrior was at once sincere and self-serving during this speech, as he generally was; what I have seen of it confirms such. I did, however, tune in to this Monday’s RAW, where Warrior made what was to be his final public appearance.  

Even as an adult, there remains a stubborn habit of imagining your childhood heroes to be immortal. I was not even thinking about physical mortality that night, so much as my disappointment when Warrior did not run to the ring, as he did to promptly dispatch Intercontinental Champion Honky-Tonk Man during SummerSlam ’88. I knew Warrior was in his mid-fifties, and like most wrestlers of his age not in peak physical form, but still held out hope that at least he would be wearing his warpaint, and not some souvenir mask that could have been cut out of a cereal box. But Warrior, for better or worse, wasn’t wearing that costume anymore, though he did sport a nifty black denim jacket with his likeness on it.

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I remember at the age of seven or eight, getting a WWF coloring book. It was already out of date. Several wrestlers in it were, by the time it got to me, either retired or had died or had left the sport on other terms -- Randy Savage, Kerry Von Erich, and the Ultimate Warrior. Still, there were their cartoon bodies in cartoon form, ready for America’s children to fill what were already apparitions.

This was near the end of my first period of wrestling fandom; I’d started to learn that wrestling was fake, but had no idea exactly what that entailed. It was also during a part of my childhood where I could sense I was different, yet already imagined myself to be different in so many other ways as to almost completely ignore my attraction towards my own gender.

It took me years to completely realize that I was gay, but even then I realized that something about these cartoonish bodies that made me feel different, and that this was especially true about the Ultimate Warrior’s. Nothing further came of these thoughts at the time, but upon hearing Warrior’s later opinions on LGBT rights, including his bizarre anti-eulogy of Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger, I could only frown at what a former childhood hero believed in, and then laugh at the sheer irony of one of my formative early crushes being a rampant, raving homophobe.  

Warrior’s official blog, which appears to have been dormant since at least 2009, still includes a longform post describing a visit to DePaul University. It mostly rails against the “queer” attendees disagreeing with his political platform, deems a Catholic university that has an LGBT studies program to be hypocritical, and consistently tries to take back the term “queer” as something to mock non-heterosexual individuals. It’s hard to take someone too seriously who takes himself too seriously, and so it’s easier to sigh than seethe with rage upon reading this article.

As I near 30, I appreciate pro wrestling in different ways than I did growing up. To wrestle is to risk shortening your life in order to perform dramatic yet supremely childish acts; it is, often, to take drugs which will screw your body and your mind while still having to cut promos about the dangers of cigarette smoking. There are heroes, and there are survivors, and by the end of the Ultimate Warrior’s life, he seemed to me more a survivor than a hero.  

It makes sense, in a way, that it would be a professional wrestler -- a man who was outsized and overstuffed for a living -- who so well embodied the vast hypocrisies within ourselves as individuals and as a nation, and who showed how, within this hypocrisy, we all find ways to be truly alive. This is a good way to eulogize Jim Hellwig, the man, the warrior, The Ultimate Warrior. Walt Whitman’s line about containing multitudes would’ve sounded both great and strange in Warrior’s booming voice. But it would’ve been something if we could have heard him say it. It might have helped us to understand just what these words truly meant. At least until he asked about Whitman’s wife, at which point it would be time to change the subject.

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Ever since I wrote on How To Price a Cocktail Menu like a million years ago, I’ve gotten requests from bartenders, bar managers, and bar owners for some guidance on how to perform inventory and calculate pour cost. Which is, like, super surprising to me since there are few tasks more reviled in our business than the dreaded monthly inventory. Regardless, I figured it was high time I shared.

I never would have admitted it at the time, but I feel pretty lucky for the rude awakening I had back in 2001. I’d just come off of working in the clubs, and was immediately thrown into managing a little cocktail program at a new restaurant. It was awesome until about two weeks in, when my bosses informed me that I would be taking inventory every two weeks, and that there would be a sit-down meeting once a month to discuss my numbers. My what, now? I didn’t know the first thing about numbers, other than getting girls’ phone numbers. But I did it, respectfully yet begrudgingly, because it was my job.

Usually performed late at night after the end of a busy service, or early in the morning before service begins, inventory is a necessary chore that allows us to understand how a bar is performing financially, once we calculate pour cost. That pour cost number paints a very real picture of the bar’s financial health and reveals things like theft, poorly-priced menu items, and pouring accuracy. Without it, you have absolutely no idea what is going on in your bar.

But first you’ve got to know a few things:

1. How much you spent during some time period
2. How much you sold during that time period
3. How much booze you started with at the beginning of the period
4. How much booze you’ve got on hand at the end of the period

Items 1 and 2 you should either know already, or be able to find easily. If not, stop reading now; there’s no point in doing this if you have no idea how much you bought or sold. Items 3 and 4, I will help you find.

First you’re going to need to put together a list of every single bottle you carry at your bar. I’ve given you a head start by providing you with a simple spreadsheet I created just for this purpose. We’ll pretend this is from an imaginary bar with the world’s worst liquor selection ever.

Download my inventory spreadsheet and pour cost calculator here.

Get every bottle you carry entered into that spreadsheet, along with each bottle’s price. Note that the size of the bottle isn’t needed here, just the name and the price. Do it now.

Okay. Now we’ve got to get a beginning inventory so that we have a place to start from. Inventory numbers are worthless without a beginning and ending inventory so you’re going to have to go through this shit twice, once at the beginning of the period, and once at the end. The bigger your back bar is, the more you’re going to hate it. Trust me on this one.

The simplest method that doesn’t involve weighing bottles or whatnot is to visually take note of how much liquid is in each bottle. Now, sure. This isn’t the most accurate system in the world, but it’s the quick-and-dirty method that’s used by bars all over the world that aren’t huge corporate establishments. If you want to weigh your bottles and do it that way, be my guest. You’re going to have absolute accuracy, and that’s pretty rad. The rest of you, come this way.

Take a look at your bottle and break it down into tenths in your mind. Decide where the liquid line falls and make an educated guess about the contents. Here’s a picture to illustrate what I’m talking about:

Make your decision and enter that number into your spreadsheet. Repeat until you’ve recorded every single bottle in your bar.

So, over the course of the next, say, month, you’re hopefully going to sell a bunch of booze, and probably buy a few bottles as well. Keep a record of every penny you buy and sell from the moment you finish that initial inventory until the moment you begin your ending inventory. Oh, and don’t buy or sell anything while you’re actually doing that inventory. This should go without saying but doing so will screw up your numbers. Which means you’ll have to do this while the bar is closed. Sorry, sucker! You’re the one who wanted to own or manage a bar in the first place, so don’t blame me.

Do inventory again at the end of the period, and enter those numbers into the spreadsheet I gave you. Now you’re coming to the table armed with all four numbers you need: beginning inventory, ending inventory, total alcohol sold, and total alcohol purchased.

Okay. Now that you’ve got all the numbers you need, it’s time to calculate your pour cost (I’m such a nice guy I’ve even included this in the spreadsheet I’m letting you download, but I’m going to show you how it’s done anyway)

Pour cost is calculated thusly: it’s how much booze you had when you started, plus how much you spent, minus how much you have on hand, divided by how much you sold. Multiply that number by 100 and throw a percent symbol at the end of it, and you’ve got your pour cost. Now keep in mind that this post only tells you how to get that number. What number you’re supposed to be at, what you’re supposed to do with that number, and so on, is the topic of a much lengthier article.

At any rate, I hope this spreadsheet is of some help to at least a few of you out there. If there’s enough interest in this boring topic perhaps we can get a conversation going in the comments section about what to do once you’ve actually figured out what that number is. You know, in the interest of service to our fellow bar managers everywhere. Thanks for reading, as always.

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How to Take Inventory and Calculate Pour Cost

"I guess #CancelColbert worked" is this months, "If Banksy were a dog he'd be Barksy."

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Hey, guys, here’s a list of the major websites that were impacted by the Heartbleed bug and what their current status is (this was created only a few hours ago so it’s up-to-date). Thankfully, the most important site of all (meaning, the site that would really fuck you over if it was hacked into), PayPal, was never vulnerable in the first place, so if you use PayPal, your credit card and bank account information has always been safe.

Now that Marvel has shown how to make a massive but unified cinematic superhero universe, everybody wants to get in the game. While Sony is ready to churn out Spider-Man movies and spin-offs, Fox is finally ready to do the same with X-Men. First on their wishlist? Solo films for Mystique, Gambit and Deadpool.

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Movies about immortality tend to see more curse than blessing in the prospect of an endless existence. It would be so lonely, these films insist, to endure while those around you wither away, the eons grinding by without closure or meaning. There would, of course, be certain benefits to having no expiration date. With Only Lovers Left Alive, a stylishly droll twist on vampire lore, writer-director Jim Jarmusch posits eternal life as a kind of indefinite bohemian holiday—a supernatural opportunity to bone up (and stay current) on the essentials. Cast for their ethereal swagger, Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton play Adam and Eve, ageless undead spouses. He’s a cult musician laying low in Detroit, his apartment a museum of rare instruments acquired by an accommodating “rock ’n’ roll kid” (Anton Yelchin). She’s a world traveler living in Tangiers, her long evenings spent in the company of Christopher ...

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A boy band concert at AT&T Stadium is making the Cowboys change their preseason plans.

The Cowboys Defense is used to having "One Direction" imposed on them- backwards. *drops mic*

But this year the entire team will be inconvenienced by the British boy band. They're planning a concert at AT&T Stadium on August 24th, which coincides with the Cowboys week three preseason game that is traditionally played at home. Per SportsDayDFW:

Since the Cowboys conduct training camp in Oxnard, Calif., the team normally likes to play their first two pre-season games on the West Coast before breaking camp to return to Valley Ranch. That’s not possible this season because One Direction will perform at AT&T Stadium on Aug. 24.

The Dallas Cowboys have their training camp in Oxnard, California to escape the stifling North Texas heat. But along with the nice weather comes some scheduling complications in regards to the teams' home preseason games. You wouldn't think that "teenage girls invading their turf" would be one of those issues unless Mark Sanchez came back to town, but here we are.

This leaves the Cowboys in an interesting spot. They can either end their training camp a week earlier than normal before their week two home game against the Ravens, or a week later before they play the Broncos in week four. The former would put the rookies at a disadvantage, while the latter would likely irk some veterans. But hey, Jerry Jones has to pay off the rest of the $1.3 billion note somehow, and postseason ticket sales haven't made a dent.

I worked on the Genius Bar for almost two years, and the most difficult issue to solve was short battery life. I made it my mission to discover the specific reasons for iOS battery drainage. This article is a product of my years of research and anecdotal evidence.

Today brings yet another take on Obamacare from Rand's latest survey of the health insurance market.