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Recast Subete necklace
Note: Please note that this is the Recast version of our jewelry. The product images show the new version of the product and do not reflect the preloved version.
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Grab this necklace on the way out the door to spice up any outfit. Whether it be with a new suit on the way to your next work meeting or your favorite LBD on the way to your next date, this necklace will pair well with anything.
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Materials: Sterling silver and brass focal piece with sterling silver chain and betsy & iya handcrafted sterling silver clasp and closure.
Made by hand in our Portland, Oregon studio.
How we grade Recast jewelry
All Recast items are wonderfully wearable, but may show signs of previous use or repair. Fear not–there's still plenty of life left in each and every Recast piece! Learn more here.
Great Condition: Jewelry may show minimal signs of wear, but will be free of tarnish and dents. Recast pieces in great condition will have their original shape, oxidization or paint.
Good Condition: Jewelry shows more noticeable signs of wear. Recast pieces in good condition may not be fully oxidized or painted. Pieces may show signs of tarnish, dents, or may be slightly misshapen.
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Recast FAQs
We grade jewelry in three tiers: Scrap, Good, and Great. For items deemed Scrap, we issue a flat $2 credit per item and recycle the jewelry. Items graded as Good receive a 20% store credit, and items graded as Great receive a 40% store credit. Store credits are based on the retail value of the piece. Our grading decisions are final and when you send items into us, you are agreeing to accept the amount of credit that our grading process yields.
Bring it to us! As long as it's Betsy & Iya, we'll issue a store credit for every piece, either $2 for Scrap condition or 20% for Good condition. You'd be surprised what we can fix up, and if we can't fix it to our standards for resale, we'll recycle the metal and you'll still get the $2 Scrap credit.
About a week and a half or so. After you request your Recast Buy Back kit, we'll mail it to you. This takes 3-5 days (and sometimes less). Once you receive the kit, you'll box everything up and send it back to us. We'll usually receive your box within 3-5 days and issue your store credit 1-2 business days later.
We do not buy back jewelry in person due to the time our grading process takes. You are welcome to bring it into the store to save on shipping costs/time/emissions, but we will not be able to look at it while you wait. Otherwise, initiate your buy back by requesting a free Recast Buy Back kit and mailing your pieces to us.
Nope! Store credit is issued to a gift card, which never expires, can be used across multiple purchases, and is linked to your email so it will never get lost.
No. If you are interested in cash, you may have luck with a traditional consignment shop.
Most of our items have a maker's mark stamped somewhere on them. For necklaces, look for a brass or silver tag. For earrings or necklaces without tags, examine the focal pieces. We'll typically stamp the side of the piece that faces your body when it's being worn. For rings and bracelets, check the inside surface. If you're unsure, feel free to send photos to support {at} betsyandiya.com and we'll be happy to let you know.
We won't issue a store credit for jewelry we didn't make, but we'll be happy to recycle or donate the items for you.
We can't issue a store credit, but we'll be happy to mail it back to you if you pay the return postage. Otherwise, we'll recycle or donate the items.
Nope! Many of the pieces in this program aren't even cast pieces in the first place, but no matter the initial methods of production, we're using the word Recast for its more commonly known meaning, like "her doctoral thesis has been recast for the general reader." The doctoral thesis had already fulfilled its intended purpose and by recasting it, the PhD candidate allows the thesis to reach a new audience and fulfill a different purpose. We're doing this, but with jewelry.


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Tim Lay from Las Vegas, NV. The city of sin!
Ben Dillow from Meadowveiw, VA.
Evan Jones from Santa Monica, CA.
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DATE AND TIME: Friday, January 24th, 2003, 7PM-12AM
ENTRY: Open, Pro
FORMAT: Park Slalom
LOCATION: SkateLab Skatepark
ORGANIZER: Black Leather Racing
SPONSORS: Deathbox Skateboards, Osiris Shoes, Gravity Boarding Company, RedBull
MAP: Skatelab map.
ENTRY FEE: $20.00 (Limited to first 60 contestants only)
CONTEST INFO: Deathbox Expression Session II Park Party and Pro Park Slalom Event.
This event will be held during the January ASR tradeshow weekend on the night of Friday, January 24rth, 2003 from 7PM 12AM.
ENTRY FEE: Entry fee is $20 per racer. Due to time restrictions, registration is on a first come, first serve basis- Limited to the first 60 racers who show up and throw down the $20.00 cash only entry fee. Absolutely NO exceptions.
PRIZES AND AWARDS: Cash prizes, plus trophies will be awarded to the top three places; (monies from all entries will be used for top 3 places). Ribbons, and or medals will be awarded to places 4th through 10th.
THE COURSE: The course will be fast, dangerous, challenging, and diverse. It will merge many disciplines of riding including slalom, street, obstacle, bank, and vertical. There will be 10 to 25 cones placed strategically throughout the course. You will need a bowl or vert board set up to be competitive.
PRACTICE: Practice on the course will be open, and will start at 7PM SHARP. Practice will be approximately one hour before the start of the race. Due to a tight time schedule, the race will start at 8PM SHARP. Any practice runs after the announcement that practice is over, will result in disqualification. Absolutely NO exceptions.
SAFETY EQUIPMENT: Safety equipment is up to the rules and regulations of the Skatelab facility. Helmets are mandatory. Your race number will be attached to your helmet. All racers enter this race at their own risk and agree to release Skatelab, Deathbox Skateboards, Osiris Shoes, and Black Leather Racing of any liability resulting from any injuries what-so-ever at this event for any reason.
RACING FORMAT: Each racer will be given two runs. The fastest time, including cone penalties, will be used to determine the victor. Cone penalty and DQ penalty will be established and announced at the racers meeting before the race. You will be able to push through this course, anywhere you can to increase your speed.
Friday January 24rth, 2003:
7:00pm Open Pro practice (One hour)
8:00pm Racers meeting
8:15pm Race Starts
11:15 -11:30pm Race Ends (Hopefully)
11:30pm 12:00 am Awards Ceremony / Park Closes
and have a sad and burdened Holiday season!
It will be held at the World Famous SKATELAB skatepark Museum on the night of Jan. 24rth, 2003 (Friday night) (During the ASR Tradeshow Weekend) From 7PM until 12AM.
DEATHBOX skateboards in conjunction with OSIRIS Shoes, and TUM YETO will be holding the first ever - PARK SLALOM EVENT! Imagine, the first 60 invitees to the party, pay a $20.00 entry fee to race, best of two timed runs on a course through out the free/streetstyle area of the SkateLab indoor park!
This course will be fast, and will include between 10 and 25 cones, some of which will be mounted on vertical surfaces!!! This will be the first of it's kind, unique, event - merging slalom (The Soul of Skateboarding) with Street and Vert riding talent to determine the victor!
This event will pay to 3rd place and award trophies, ribbons, medals or plaques to 10th. There will also be either a live DJ, a Band, Food and Beverages, and plenty of bowl riding and free skating and hanging going on.
Billy Marks and Josh Harmony may be embarking on an east coast Etnies trip on the way to the Tampa AM contest. Where Billy will probably win. I wouldn't be at all surprised!
Nate Broussard and Ed Templeton will connect with Billy and Josh at the Tampa AM. Where Nate is rumored to be entering the contest.
The fastest bearings just got faster! Pig will be unleashing it's top of the top of the line Ceramic bearings that will be faster, smoother, last longer than anything else one the market, and affordable!
Pig will be unleashing a new line of kick ass decks this winter with a team of secret rippers that will be equally as superior to the boards. Be on the lookout! It will blow your mind.
Corey will be turning pro for Foundation this spring. The Gimme Gimme skateboard graphic contest is now in effect. Draw Corey Duffel's first ever pro graphic and win $500 in Foundation gear and their art on Corey's first ever pro model. Check www.FOSKCO.com for details.
Leo Romero is getting a Raw Talent in the January issue of Strength. Leo will be getting a last part in the new Pharmacy video due out this spring along with friends Matt Allen, Spanky, and Brian Herman. Rumor is that Leo will also be getting the cover. Right on Leo! Plus you can expect Leo to enter the Tampa AM. If does half as well as he did at the Coup Detat San Dieguito handrail challenge he may just be a contender in Tampa.
Watch out for Leo Romero and Gareth Stehr in the upcoming AM issue in TWS.
Gareth Stehr is leaving this country and going back home to New Zealand for the holidays. I asked if he celebrated Thanksgiving and he said "Dude, the pilgrims didn't wash ashore in New Zealand." Which started to make sense, we are all pilgrims! Apparently the common wealth of NZ does celebrate Christmas so off he's going to get lots of presents and will probably be doing some skateboarding aswell.
Daniel Shimizu is working on a Slap interview and has being busy shooting shots with shooters. Plus I'm hearing that Daniel is getting a cohorts in Skateboarder with roommate Justin Roy.
Mike Rusczyk was on a little holiday here in SD and everyday got some killer footage, he also shot some photos for TWS the other night and a sequence for BIG Brother - God dam Am's! Plus he is working on an interview for Strength.
OMG! Jon West has a scary cover on the new TWS Biz mag. It's really scary, its got Jon and he's like front boarding a fence in a graveyard and....just go look at it.
The Madness and Mayhem tour video is kicking ass and taking names. It's a perfect stocking stuffer for everyone! Be sure to ask your mom, uuuuh I mean Santa for one. The Madness and Mayhem video will be coming out on DVD shortly with some great bonus material. It's a must see.
You actually have a chance to win a pair on BigBrotherMagazine.com So go and try duh! What are you waiting for?
If you want to be randomly selected as our specifically targeted marketing objectives, enter by using the ally oop dropping down menu bar and click on contests.
Corey Duffel is going pro! But we need a stinking graphic, the great Corey Duffel first ever pro graphic art contest! That's right! Corey needs a graphic for his first pro model ever and he wants you to do it for him!
Due date: Feb 1st 2003.
Format: However you want, but we prefer digital media.
What you might win: $500 smakers of Foundation gear of your choice and your "art" as Corey's pro deck.
Make sure you send your detailed information (name, addy, phone number, e-mail, bank account info and name Corey as the power of attorney. Send to: Tum Yeto "Gimmie Gimmie a graphic" 2001 Commercial St. San Diego, CA 92113.
Or course: All submissions (you will submit) become property of Foundation secret society skateboard mega corp XXIIXXMMXX and we will most likely change the winning artwork to our own personal idiosincransies.
Skimthefat.com is a badass new site that rates all skate videos. These guys really know how to use a vcr!
Rock on.
Secret Society.
- Login Accounts (no more imposters!!)
- Personal Profiles (upload a photo, list your website, AIM, email addresses)
- Personal Messages (you can send private messages to other messageboarders - just like email)
- BBCode - use like HTML, you can bold, link, image, list, itallic, underline, etc
- Graphic smileys and stuff
- Anti-spam stuff will prevent tools from flooding the boards.
- In-message polls. You can post polls in the boards and everyone can vote on them.
- Ability for admins to post "Sticky" Announcements that stay at the top of the thread list (like this one!).
- Easy admin for Moderators.
- Easier to ban wankers who are being tools.
- Better looking, easier to navigate.
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The launch of new and revised Office 365 software-by-subscription plans for businesses shows that Microsoft realizes its current licensing revenue is threatened by cost-cutting customers, an analyst said yesterday.
"Microsoft wants to shift people to subscriptions because you cannot stop paying for a subscription," said Paul DeGroot, principal at Pica Communications, a consulting firm that specializes in deciphering Microsoft's licensing practices. "What they're facing is a lot of Office revenue potentially dropping off the books as customers stick with their perpetual licenses but stop further payments to Software Assurance."
Firms regularly pay for "Software Assurance," an annuity-like maintenance agreement that gives customers the right to future upgrades in return for annual payments spread over three-year terms. The problem with Software Assurance (SA) is that while Microsoft upgrades Office every three years, few businesses follow suit. Instead, enterprises take years to roll out an edition, skipping one or even two of the upcoming versions before again repeating the process.
By not deploying those interim editions, companies that pay for SA are spending money on something they won't use, said DeGroot.
"If you have Software Assurance, you're now entitled to Office 2013," DeGroot noted. "But say you're in the middle of an Office 2010 migration. That means you're buying not Office 2013 with SA, but Office 2016 or even Office 2019. If you renew SA, you're not going to get anything for it, or not anything that you're going to deploy in the next five, six years."
Dropping SA from an enterprise agreement can cut between 25% and 50% from an Office bill, DeGroot said, and save big businesses millions. It's no surprise, then, that enterprises are questioning the value of Software Assurance.
"A lot of companies are saying, 'I'm not going to renew SA, but I can keep using the software that I've already paid for. And I can save a lot of money,'" said DeGroot. He usually recommends that clients ditch SA for that very reason. "It's just not efficient to pay SA because you're paying twice as much for Office as you need to."
When a company dumps SA, Microsoft loses revenue. So if an enterprise takes five years between Office deployments, that's five years of lost income for the Redmond, Wash. developer.
"Software Assurance was always a bad idea, but now it's coming home to roost for Microsoft," said DeGroot. "They have to move away from SA. In five years, I don't think there will be SA licenses for Office."
Microsoft's response to the fragility of Software Assurance's future, and the potential loss of billions as customers decline to renew? Office 365, the "rent-not-own" plans that Microsoft debuted Wednesday.
With Office 365 subscriptions, Microsoft locks in customers, who must continue to pay or lose the right to run Office. There's no way to opt out, even temporarily, from the annual payments, as there is now by stopping SA, because there is no "perpetual" license, the traditional kind that is paid for once, then used as long as desired.
According to DeGroot, subscription prices for Office can be "quite competitive" with Software Assurance, assuming the customer retains the latter. "In general, subscription works about the same as Software Assurance, although subs have tended to be a little bit higher."
But by adopting the subscription model, Microsoft will be able to continually rake in revenue, year after year, from all customers, not just those who decide to pay SA's fees. That's how Microsoft can stop the revenue drain caused by desertions from Software Assurance.
Microsoft, of course, highlights what it sees as Office 365's benefits, including the right to install Office on up to five devices assigned to each worker. DeGroot agreed that in many scenarios, particularly those involving multiple devices per user, Office 365 subscriptions was the better deal than buying a perpetual license and paying SA.
What's missing from the subscriptions, of course, is a perpetual license that once paid for, can be used for years, Software Assurance be damned. Some customers may quickly wonder why they're paying and paying and paying for something they previously paid for only once.
That could be the backlash that Microsoft faces in the future.
"The risk to Microsoft is that there are alternatives to Office, especially for consumers," said DeGroot, citing LibreOffice as an example. "[Office 365] could be a boon to alternatives, and we could see more interest in the enterprise for these products. An Office 365 subscription isn't like a magazine subscription, where you're getting something new each month. Instead, it's Microsoft saying, 'To keep doing what you're doing, you have to pay us more.'"
Even so, DeGroot sees Office-by-subscription, and the demise of the perpetual license, as inevitable. "I can see a time when Microsoft says, 'The next edition of Office will be available only by subscription,'" said DeGroot.
Microsoft is already there. In an interview at a Morgan Stanley-hosted technology conference on Tuesday, Kurt DelBene, the president of the Office division, was asked if Office would at some point move to a subscription-only model.
It had crossed his mind. "I think it's the one thing that we talk about a bunch and try to figure out exactly where it's going," DelBene said. "I think we have aspirations that ultimately it might get there."
But that doesn't mean enterprises have to adopt Microsoft's model immediately.
"What I've been telling clients with Office 2010 is to just coast," said DeGroot. "You own the license. Enjoy it. In five years, when you're ready to upgrade, then buy the subscription. That's a good strategy as long as you don't keep paying Software Assurance."
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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James Buckingham, The Slave States of America (London, 1842), vol. 2, facing p. 553. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)
Caption, "Gang of Slaves journeying to be sold in a Southern Market"; illustrates the domestic slave trade in the U.S. James Buckingham viewed this scene in September, 1839, a few miles from Fredericksburg. "It was in a valley ," he wrote, "that we met a gang of slaves, including men, women, and children, the men chained together in pairs, and the women carrying the children and bundles on their march to the south.
The gang was under several white drivers, who rode near them on horseback, with large whips, while the slaves marched on foot beside them; and there was one driver behind, to bring up the rear . . . . They were chained together for precaution, rather than punishment; because when accompanied by one or two white men . . . they might be tempted to rise against them in any solitary part of the road, or, at the very least, escape from them if they could. . . " (pp. 552-553). Secondary sources which reproduce this image sometimes, without citing the original source, caption this "crossing the Rapidan" river, but the author does not identify the body of water shown in the illustration; moreover, given the route that he describes having taken, it is unlikely it was the Rapidan


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Photo Courtesy of Dreamstime. Article by Kaeli Conforti of Budget Travel.
Does the idea of flying cause you to break out in a cold sweat? You aren't alone. More than 25 million Americans suffer from some form of flight anxiety, making aerophobia (fear of flying) the second biggest fear in the U.S. after public speaking. If you do fall in this category, you've probably had friends and family remind you numerous times that flying is the safest mode of transportation. While that's very true -- your chances of dying in a plane crash are about one in 10 million compared with a one-in-272 chance of dying in a car crash -- that's not always enough to quell the jitters. And advice like showing up early at the airport to eliminate unnecessary stress is practical as well, but for the most nervous nellies among us, it takes a little bit more to get us up in the air. We turned to the experts -- Todd Farchione, Ph.D., of Boston University's Center for Anxiety & Related Disorders, Martin N. Seif, Ph.D., ABPP, of the Anxiety & Phobia Treatment Center, and Captain Steve Allright of British Airways' Flying With Confidence program -- to find out exactly what to do to help alleviate flight anxiety. Thanks to their advice, we put together a guide to help you conquer your fear just in time for the holiday travel season -- because nothing should stand between you and the vacation you deserve.
Give your phobia a name
Figuring out what triggers your fear in the first place is an important first step toward conquering flight anxiety. Different aspects of flying can trigger different fears depending on the person -- for instance, one person may be afraid of turbulence and feel nervous during a perfectly normal takeoff, while an individual with germaphobic tendencies may be more concerned about the spread of germs in a confined space. "The common denominator for more than 90 percent of flight phobics is the fear that they will become overwhelmed with anxiety during the flight," says Seif, a clinical psychologist who runs the Freedom to Fly program at the Anxiety & Phobia Treatment Center in White Plains, New York. It helps to recognize that your phobia is irrational, but you need to be able to pinpoint the cause of your fear before you can take that next step.
Familiarize yourself with airplane noises
You're about to land and the plane is rattling like both of its wheels are about to fall off -- is it time to panic? No, the carry-on luggage and the seat-back tables are shifting slightly -- just like they do every time the plane takes off and lands. Sometimes all it takes to combat anxiety is a little information. Read up on the typical bumps and noises that may occur during a flight (Ehotels.com has a list of common in-flight sounds). It also helps to understand just how rigorous safety measures are for aircrafts. AOL Travel did an excellent report back in 2010 on everything a plane must go through before it's deemed worthy of your ridership -- including being able to support one-and-a-half times the maximum load it would ever carry and weathering environmental extremes such as 120-degree temperatures. "Our anxiety is fed by 'what if?' catastrophic thoughts. Once you become knowledgeable, your 'what if' thoughts will be limited by the facts," said Seif.
Check the turbulence forecast
While turbulence is a perfectly normal part of flying -- it happens when the plane encounters normal weather patterns like air currents or clouds -- the idea of shaking while in the air can be very unsettling. Turbcast (iTunes, $1.99) was designed by a pilot and analyzes weather patterns as a pilot would, giving fliers an inside look at factors like air pockets and thunderstorms that can cause turbulence in the first place. Translation: The more you know about what causes that shaky feeling and how much of it you can expect while you're airborne, the less you'll be afraid of it.
Bring a photo of your destination
Visualizing your destination and imagining yourself there can be a powerful antidote to stress -- and can help keep you focused on the prize at the end of the journey. You can do this with or without a photo, but having a physical image to refer to -- whether it's a picture you've downloaded on your phone or a postcard -- can help to keep your mind from wandering. Allright says another method is to "imagine yourself in a safe place, somewhere you feel comfortable and safe. Your bedroom, perhaps, or on a beach. Take yourself there with your eyes closed and relax." The idea is to take your mind off the little things that make you nervous about flying and focus on the positive aspects of your journey.
Skip the coffee -- and the wine
Captain Allright says to avoid both caffeine and alcohol, as they can leave you feeling more dehydrated during the flight. Nervous fliers should avoid a seemingly comforting pre-flight alcoholic beverage, since alcohol can also make it harder for your body to adjust to being airborne and bring on a nasty bout of jet lag. Instead, opt for water and a light meal pre-flight, or carry along a light snack like carrot sticks, nuts, or an apple to keep you feeling nourished.
Bring a book you've already started or tune into a television series you already know
In a nutshell -- distraction works. Airlines now provide the little comforts of home -- like televisions, music channels, and magazines -- to help distract you from noises and bumps during the flight and make you feel more at home in a strange place. One of the best ways to distract yourself during a flight is to bring a book that you've already started and are deeply engrossed in or a season of your favorite television show. Farchione says if people associate televisions with being safe at home, and there's a television on the plane, they will feel similar familiar feelings of comfort.
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Weekend Special: Books So Good You Want To Become Them
I don't remember who told me this tale, but it begins with a little boy, maybe 4 or 5, who is given a book. He opens it, begins to read, curls into it, won't look up, can't stop, looks at the pictures, turns the pages, keeps turning, turning, turning, until all too quickly, he's done, finished.
That's when he does this odd thing: He lays the book down, opens it wide and stands on it; one foot planted on opposite pages and, bending at the knees, pushes his heels down.
"What are you doing?" his mother asks.
Looking up, he says, "I want to get inside. How do I get inside?"
Some books are that good.
We who love books know what it feels like to plunge all the way in. I even know what it looks like, thanks to graphic novelist (author of Stitches) David Small. It looks like this:
Which brings me to this weekend's special. It's about a young man who loves books. It lasts 15 minutes, longish for a web experience, but I promise you, the time (and lots of books) will fly by. In fact, the tale begins when our hero is, literally, swept away and carried off by a Wizard of Oz-like storm that dumps him into a wreck of a place that has, luckily, a vast, spooky, magical library.
This little video won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2011, so many of you may already know it. But for those of you who don't, who haven't seen The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, it's time to plunge in.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore was written by William Joyce and directed by William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg. The drawing is Reprinted from Stitches: A Memoir by David Small, © 2009 by David Small, with permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Jim Meehan
Over the course of the next series of posts I'm going to share the recipes of some of the luminaries that attend, and mix drinks at, Tales of the Cocktail.
One of my favorite events at Tales every year is the Cocktail Hour, an event that gathers the who's who of the cocktail world into one room, and then forces them to make alcoholic beverages for lucky chumps like me. Now normally I would walk around the room taking pictures of each bar star, note their recipe and post here. Unfortunately this year the lighting in the rooms was quite poor, and I'm a horrible photographer of people, so the combination of both ensured that many of my pictures did not turn out. To add to my incompetence, this year Tales didn't offer cards detailing the recipes at each table, in an effort to boost sales of this year's Tales Cocktail Book I suspect. This would have been fine and dandy, but unfortunately all the recipes didn't make it into the book so some drinks were omitted due to this lack of recipe. Anywho, enough compunctions, let's get to our first bartender deity of the series and his recipes.
From his Tales biography we get this about Jim Meehan:
Jim Meehan's career in the restaurant business began in 1995 while studying English Literature and African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He worked his way from doorman to manager at both State Street Brats and Paul's Club between bartending stints at The Great Dane and Café Montmartre.
One year after receiving his diploma in 2001, he moved to New York City and landed his first job at Five Points Restaurant on Great Jones Street. Two years later, he opened Pace, an ambitious Italian restaurant where he managed the bar and worked on the floor as a sommelier. When Pace closed, he spent over two years rebuilding the cocktail program at Gramercy Tavern while shaking drinks for renowned mixologist and mentor, Audrey Saunders at The Pegu Club. He currently runs PDT, a hidden cocktail lounge in the East Village where his work has been recognized by rising star awards from Star Chefs in 2007 and Cheers Magazine in 2009.
In addition to his work behind the bar, Jim is a contributing editor of Food & Wine Magazine's annual cocktail book, Mr. Boston's Bartender Guide and Sommelier Journal, a monthly trade magazine that features his bartender column. He has developed cocktails for numerous spirits companies, lectured at local and international trade shows and works as a wine and spirits educator.
Jim and his cocktails have been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Imbibe, Details, The Malt Advocate and Wine Enthusiast.
Unfortunately, what the Tales website does not say is how great and down to earth of a guy Jim is. He always has a smile on his face and always has an ear to lend; not easy feats when you consider how many people want a piece of his time. It is thanks to Jim that I was able to work on this year's Food & Wine 2009 Cocktail Guide and have drinks in two editions of Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide. He was even kind enough to name a drink after me and put it on his menu at PDT. If that wasn't enough for you, he had to go and win this year's American Bartender of the Year at Tales. It's almost enough to make you want to hate the guy, but to do so would be an act of foolishness and unnecessary jealousy, so instead you should just mix up one of his concoctions and toast Jim, who, for one day at least, was King of New York.
1 ½ oz Plymouth gin
¾ oz grapefruit juice
½ oz Pernod absinthe
½ oz simple syrup
¼ oz anisette
3 slices cucumber (+1 for garnish)
6 mint leaves
add cucumber, mint and simple to a mixing glass and muddle
add everything else with ice
shake and strain into a rocks glass filled with pebble ice
garnish with a cucumber wheel
2 oz Jose Cuervo Platino
1 oz lime juice
½ oz Dry sack
¼ oz Benedictine
1 teaspoon St Dalfour Royal Fig
slice of fig
add all into iced mixing glass
shake and fine strain into a chilled coupe
garnish with a slice of fig
2 oz rye
¾ oz Dubonnet
¼ oz Fernet Branca
¼ oz St. Germain
stir with ice
strain into a chilled cocktail glass
garnish with a lemon twist
**a perfect example of why he's a better man than I. He took one of my recipes, added Dubonnet and bettered the drink.
(Seriously though Jim, congrats and thanks for your support throughout the years.)
Drinks by Jim Meehan
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Pebble ice? How does one create this? Not quite familiar with this style.
This was probably my favorite event at Tales this year as well. I thought it was improved over last year, at least partly due to the different location.
There is something particularly wonderful about being able to wander through a building and have drinks made by the bartenders and mixologists from all over the world that you often think you'll only be able to read about.
Paul's Club? Gonna have to ask him for a firefighter the next time I'm at PDT. Well, not really.
Wow! The Burke's cup. One of the best uses of absinthe I've seen in a while. The taste is still there but doesn't overpower ( I used Kubler) and plays nice with all other ingredients. I made this up as opposed on the rocks and it still tasted great.
I love your website, Jamie! I'm a long term lurked but finally I bought that coveted bottle of St Germain and made the Duboudreau Cocktail. I have to say it is delicious! When I was stirring the drink I couldn't believe the complexity of aromas. I was getting white grape skin notes and even a bit of mintiness and when the lemon twist drops in it really binds the drink. Delicious. Thank you for laying the foundations for this fantastic cocktail
I like the Senor. Good mix of tequila and lime juice. Jaime, I was wondering if you could check out the list I'm compiling of drink recipes? Any additions would be much appreciated. Find the Best Drink Recipes
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THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — The Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana said 'changing one's gender is wrong', so the transgender student at Cathedral High School who wishes to be addressed as a male will be face teachers and school staff who will not use his male name. Indeed, the school principal referred the student as "she" while talking with the media on the matter.
His parents approached the school last spring, and Principal Dave Worland, after consulting with the archdiocese, told them the new name and gender request was not going to happen.
Worland: "We wanted to make sure they [the student and his parents] would realize we still recognize her as a female, call her by the name she used when she enrolled as a freshman, and treat her throughout the day as a female student."
Students at the school spoke out on his behalf, including taking the matter up on social media and meeting with the principal, but it does appears he will be called "she" at school until he graduates.
There are no other news reports with more details or comments from the parents.
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Lockwood, James Booth
Lockwood, James Booth, 1852–84, American arctic explorer, b. Annapolis, Md. In 1873 he was commissioned second lieutenant in the U.S. army. In 1881, Lockwood joined the arctic expedition of Adolphus W. Greely, in the course of which he performed two noteworthy feats—he led a sledging party to Mary Murray Island, off N Greenland, thus achieving a record for the northernmost point reached up to that time (lat. 83°24′N, according to his calculations), and later (1883) he crossed Grant Land on Ellesmere Island to the west shore. He died at Cape Sabine, as did other members of the ill-fated Greely expedition.
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Oct. 23 to Nov. 21: A pesky problem should be dealt with immediately so you can put your time and effort into something more important. Someone from your past could have significant news for you.
Nov. 22 to Dec. 21: High-energy aspects dominate, both on the job and at home. Use this time to put some long-range plans into operation. Things level off later in the week.
Dec. 22 to Jan. 19: Even the usually gregarious goat might feel overwhelmed by a flurry of activities.
Be patient. Things soon return to your normal social routine.
Jan. 20 to Feb. 18: Career choices that seem too confusing to deal with at this point probably are. More information would help uncomplicate them. On the personal side, a friend might need your advice.
Feb. 19 to March 20: Your piscean imagination is stimulated by possibilities you see in a new opportunity. But keep those ideas to yourself until you feel ready to translate them into a workable format.
March 21 to April 19: Decisions involving your finances might seem to be foolproof. But they could have underlying risks you should know about. Don't act on anything until all the facts are in.
April 20 to May 20: You're attracted to a situation that appeals to your bovine intellect. And that's good. But don't neglect your passionate side when romance comes calling later in the week.
May 21 to June 20: A recent development enhances that special relationship. Spending more time together also helps make the bonding process stronger. Expect news about a possible career change.
June 21 to July 22: A suspicious situation should be dealt with before it leads to serious problems. Get all the facts needed to resolve it. Then refocus your energies on those tasks that need your attention.
July 23 to Aug. 22: Try to be more open-minded in working toward a resolution of that standoff between yourself and a colleague or family member. A little flexibility now could work to your advantage later.
Aug. 23 to Sept. 22: You might feel a bit threatened by a proposed workplace change. The best way to deal with it is to ask questions. You'll find that those involved will be happy to provide you with the facts.
Sept. 23 to Oct. 22: Feeling alone in a crowd during the early part of the week is an unsettling emotion. But your spirits soon perk up, putting you into the right mood to start making holiday plans.
Oct. 23 to Nov. 21: A pesky problem should be dealt with immediately so you can put your time and effort into something more important. Someone from your past could have significant news for you.


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Today is Easter Sunday. A little trivia: It is the earliest calendar date that Easter will be celebrated for nearly two centuries. The Christian world is commemorating the Atonement of Jesus Christ. It encompasses the life, suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Resurrection is the crowning event; when His spirit reunited with His glorified body. He left the tomb, and walked the earth again. Many hundreds saw him, spoke with Him, and viewed the scars of the nails in His hands and feet. This miraculous event took place on the 3rd day (Sunday) after Jesus died. (we call it "Easter Sunday").
Easter is a day set aside to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for each one of us personally. His gifts are freely given; Our sins can be washed away. Death is only temporary.
Today is a sacred and special day. However, Easter is not the only day that we should remember Jesus and the crucial work He performed. Every week I have the opportunity to attend my Sunday worship service. I participate in the sacrament (communion) ceremony. I remember Jesus by eating a piece of blessed & broken bread that represents His body, and by drinking some blessed water that represents His blood. When I do this, I make a sacred promise (called a covenant) with Jesus. I promise to take upon myself His name as my personal Savior and strive to represent Him and to be like Him. I promise to keep His commandments. I promise to always remember Him. In return, Jesus promises to always be with me, to comfort and to guide.
I have discovered a talented young composer named Steven Stewart. His poetry and music have touched my heart. Please enjoy the video attached here of his song entitled "Nails & Thorns". The words are typed below.
Nails & Thorns
They drove nails in His hands
They made a crown that cut with thorns
They scarred Him with their beating
But his spirit stayed strong
They raised a cross, the heavens wept,
But still the masses scorned
And I feel the nails
I feel the thorns
John stood helpless
Mary faintly cried
They knew the ache of angels
When love was crucified
I heard the prisoner as he prayed
Remember me, oh, Lord;
I feel the nails
I feel the thorns
This broken bread, His body
This water like His blood
Please cleanse me, wash me worthy
To stand before my God
I've tasted His sweet mercy
When I stumbled off the road
I know He sees right through me
But His love makes me whole
Though I'm not the only one
He would have died for me alone
I feel the nails
I feel the thorns
May we Always Remember Him.


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Class, do we all know what 'doctrine' means? Fox? Ibex? Mouse? Anyone? I think perhaps I was boring my class to sleep! A doctrine is a set of ideas and instructions that we believe are right. It can be very useful, as long as we do not forget to keep using our brains, too! Yes?
Alright. I will give you an example of a tactical principle: firearms should not be used until they are within effective range, in other words until you are close enough that you have a good chance of hitting your targets with them. That is a simple, sensible principle that it should be both easy and useful to keep in mind.
Regulations and methods belong in a theory of war because they are drilled into troops, and routines have a place as well, as long as we remember that they are not binding, that we are not required to follow them no matter what. They can be especially useful for lower-ranked officers. As we so often don't entirely know what is going on in war, it can really smooth things to follow routines when what is happening does not require us to do otherwise.
Routines can be overused. Even the highest-ranking officers sometimes get stuck in a routine, if they do not have enough education or experience, staying always with the one or two things they know or perhaps following their supreme commander's favored approach. This lack of imagination can be deadly.
Consider this: if you have three pets, and all three are goldfish, you can likely take good care of them by cleaning the tank and throwing in some fish food once or twice a day. You might keep them more or less healthy depending on how often you clean the tank, or how much food you give them, but that routine suffices to care for all of them.
However, if you have three pets, but one is a goldfish, one a kitten, and one a gerbil, you cannot simply follow this one routine. You must clean the tank and use fish food for the goldfish, provide fresh bedding and pellets for the gerbil, and give cat food and clean litter to the kitten. If you try to follow the same routine to care for all three pets, your gerbil and kitten will soon die.
Different situations require different solutions, and creativity is especially important in the realm of strategy.
Now, class, it is time to talk about critical analysis. I know those are big words, but allow me to explain. Critical analysis is when we take those truths we have figured out using our theory and use them to make sense of actual events.
It is not just about telling what happened. It is doing research, to find the facts of what happened; then finding the causes of what happened; and lastly, judging those events, praising the good decisions and censuring the bad ones.
It can be very hard to find the causes in all the mess and chaos of war, but the important thing is to use care, to trace them as best you can, as far as you can, and to look at all of the different causes, as there is rarely just one.
You must take care, find out as much as you can. What means were used? Did they do as intended? Don't stop your analysis until you have reached the truth, something that no one can contradict – disagree with.
All of this study will go nowhere if you do not have theory to begin with. If you have theory, and your analysis leads to that theory, then you can conclude your study. If your study seems to go against the theory, that doesn't mean you need to throw out one or the other. Remember, theory is a guide to help your judgment, not a law that must be followed. There are exceptions to every guideline. Look at the individual case. It might be an exceptional case. Look at the reasons why it does not fit the theory.
The critic's job is easy when cause and effect, and means and ends, are closely linked. If you line up a row of dominoes and knock the first one over, what will happen, Mouse?
– They'll all fall down.
Yes, that's right. If you knock over the first one, the others will fall. That is a simple, immediate cause and effect. But let's say Fox fails a math test. Was it because he was tired? Because he didn't study enough the night before? Because he was sick two weeks ago, and missed a class where important information was given? It might be harder to trace the cause in this case.
War is much more often going to be like this. There are many causes to each effect, many means and ends, many things large and small happening all at once, and all are connected, and all have their impact, however small, on the final outcome, and the ultimate end which is, of course, the restoration of peace. Yes, Marten? You have a question?
– If the point of war is to make peace, why do we have a war in the first place? I mean, if we don't go to war, don't we already have peace?
This is a good question, Marten, and I understand why that would be confusing. There are a lot of reasons countries go to war. Two countries might be at peace, but one wants more land, or does not like the behavior of the other, or feels that it must protect certain people who live in the other's territory. There might be religious differences, or one country might have a lot of food while the other goes hungry. The political leaders decide those things, the kings and presidents. It is not for the commander, or the philosopher of war, to decide when we go to war, or why. It is our job simply to understand the conduct of war itself, and the commander's job to find the best way to wage war in order to make peace in a way that reaches the goals of their country's political leaders. All I can really say is that while there might be peace before the outbreak of war, it may not be the peace your leaders want.


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Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2734-1 wireshark -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 05 Aug 2013
- Affected Packages:
- wireshark
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4930, CVE-2013-4932, CVE-2013-4933, CVE-2013-4934, CVE-2013-4935.
- More information:
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the dissectors for DVB-CI, GSM A Common and ASN.1 PER and in the Netmon file parser.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.11-6+squeeze11.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.2-5wheezy5.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.10.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your wireshark packages.


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Performer Brenda Vaccaro will replace Valerie Harper in a play in Maine as Harper recovers from an illness and brief hospitalization.
The Ogunquit Playhouse says in a release Saturday night that Vaccaro will step into the role of Millicent Winter in the production of "Nice Work If You Can Get It," which is playing through Aug. 15.
The 75-year-old Harper, who has battled cancer, was hospitalized Wednesday before an evening performance. York General Hospital says she was released Thursday.
Playhouse officials say Harper is "feeling great right now" and they want her to continue resting and spending time with her family.
Vaccaro has received an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a People's Choice Award, and a Theater World Award. She's also received Academy Award and Tony Award nominations.


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The first time I used ear plugs, I thought I'd reached nirvana. I was trying to study in my college dorm room while my roommate blasted the Grateful Dead so loudly it would have made Jerry Garcia's ears ring. So I rolled a set of foam plugs between my fingers, pushed them deep into my ears, and—silence. How sweet! How golden!
It was the start of a long and quiet affair. I now regularly wear foam ear plugs when I'm reading, working, and sleeping. In fact, I recently realized that some days I wear my plugs for 16 hours or more, longer than I use any other personal item, including my computer, glasses, and clothes. That insight made me sigh loudly—and so I quickly pushed the stopples back into my ears.
My passion for plugs is twofold. One, I have the attention span of a small terrier, and the silence helps me concentrate. I also live and work in a 90-year-old, urban apartment building in which aural interruptions are constant. Noisy garbage trucks. Shrill car alarms. Indeed, as I write this, my upstairs neighbor seems to be dancing an Irish jig.
Ear plugs have undergone a quiet revolution over the last two decades. For many years, manufacturers produced only wax-cotton plugs; pharmacies today are filled with silicone, PVC, and polyurethane stopples. Web sites also sell plugs specifically designed for hunting, loud concerts, and motorcycling. Now there are even hearing aid-like plugs that drown out external sounds by playing white noise.
Given the myriad plugs on the market, I wanted to find the stopple that silences the most sound yet is comfortable and affordable enough for everyday use. But before I release my results, there is something every silence shopper should know: No plug can create artificial deafness. Even if the auditory canal is sealed shut, loud noise, especially lower-pitched sounds, can vibrate through the body and be "heard" by the eardrum.
Effectiveness. (10 possible points) Almost all ear plugs come with a Noise Reduction Rating, or NRR, that indicates how much sound the plugs muffle. Many experts argue that the NRR does not accurately represent how well the devices work in someone's ear because the ratings are based on lab experiments rather than human experience, and so I listed the NRRs below but did not include them in the final evaluation. (Click here to read about how NRR is calculated.) Instead, I tested the plugs in a number of different real-world environments. I listened to my stereo blast Bach's Goldberg Variations by Daniel Barenboim to see how the plugs worked against loud, high-pitched notes. To test the plugs' efficacy against heavy bass, I visited a construction site and listened to jackhammers, drilling, and catcalls. And I wore the plugs as I spoke with my wife, as well as when I vacuumed the house, to see how well the products muted general background noise.
Comfort/Ease of Use. (10 possible points) Since many people use ear plugs to help them sleep, I had a one-night stand with each pair. Key questions: Were the plugs comfortable? Did my ears get itchy or irritated after eight hours of tossing and turning? To test whether the plugs would fall out easily, I sported the plugs while running up and down the five floors of my apartment building.
Durability. (10 possible points) After seeing a pair of my ear plugs stained with dirt, an ex-supervisor said, "That is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen!" (The grime had rubbed off my hands, not my ears, thank you.) Cleanliness being of utmost concern to most users, I tested whether the plugs could withstand a good cleaning as well as maintain their shape after repeated use.
Value. (10 possible points) Some of the ear plugs cost less than a dollar, others cost more than $100. Therefore, I used a formula to assess value: I added up each of the scores and divided by the price for a single pair. (Prices were based on the smallest unit available and came from discounted retailers such as the Ear Plug Super Store.)
The Results (from worst to best)
Sleep-Eze Price: one pair $187.95 NRR: N/A
Sleep-Eze plugs function like a defective hearing aid; they drown out ambient noise by playing white noise into the auditory canal. While the plugs were relatively effective at silencing background noises, they were terrible at muting anything louder. In fact, it sometimes seemed like the white noise amplified treble notes' clamors; the Goldberg Variations mixed with white noise was a true auditory Vulcan death grip, causing me to rip out the plugs within a few musical bars.
The stopples are also poorly designed. To clean the two half-inch devices, I had to scrub them with a small mustache brush, and to turn the device on and off, you have to open and close a Lilliputian battery door on the back of each plug. I also found it uncomfortable to sleep on my side with the hard plastic stopples stuffed into my ears. In short, Sleep-Eze are a solid choice if you sleep on your back, your partner snores quietly, and there is little chance that you will hear any shrill noises. Otherwise, keep plugging away for other options.
Effectiveness: 6
Comfort/Ease of Use: 3
Durability: 2
Value: 0.1
Total: 11.1
The Ear Plug Super Store JB1000 Custom Sleep Plug, Maximum
Price: one pair $122.95 NRR: N/A
I realized I suffer from an excessive love of ear plugs when I giggled with excitement at the prospect of custom plugs. But the end result—a pair of hard silicone stopples tailored to the twists and turns of my auditory canal—were not very effective. While I wore the plugs, I could easily hear my wife speaking, and the jackhammer roared loud and clear.
The plugs are also not particularly comfortable. The stiff silicone rubbed harshly against my outer ear, prompting me to remove them during the sleep test. On the plus side, I did not feel any pressure or heaviness in my ear, a mildly uncomfortable sensation commonly associated with wearing foam ear plugs. They also looked quite impressive as they lay on my nightstand, like a tiny, plastic sculpture by Alexander Calder.
Effectiveness: 5
Comfort/Ease of Use: 6
Durability: 7
Value: 0.2
Total: 18.2
Flents Ear Stopples Price: two pair $3.95 NRR: 25
Ear plugs have been made with wax and cotton for more than 2,000 years, and these plugs demonstrate why: They were comfortable and effectively muted background noise. But, like Mack's Pillow (below), these sticky plugs collect dirt and dust. Indeed, after 20 or so insertions, the stopples resembled a chunk of Play-Doh rolled in a flower box. Disgusting.
Effectiveness: 7.5
Comfort/Ease of Use: 7
Durability: 2
Value: 8.4
Total: 24.4
Mack's Pillow Soft Silicone
Price: two pair $2.95
If you don't like sticking wax or plastic in your ears, these stopples might be for you. The moldable silicone plugs cover up the outside of your ear canal and adequately mute noise. But the plugs fell out during the run-up-the-stairs test, and since dirt sticks to the soft putty, that incident rendered them unusable.
Update, May 18, 2010: This article has been updated to reflect a product warning that has been removed by the manufacturer.
Effectiveness: 6
Comfort/Ease of Use: 8
Durability: 2
Value: 10.8
Total: 26.8
Heartech SilentEar Price: one pair $8.95 NRR: 33
These silicon plugs were the easiest to insert. No noodling, squishing, or rolling. Just pop the little rocket-shaped devices into your ear, and you are ready to rumble. You might be listening to some rumble, too, as they received a middling grade at bass-sound reduction.
(Heartech also offers a "QuietEar" option, which allows the user to hear conversations. While I didn't test the product, I wonder: Who wants to talk to someone wearing fire engine red plugs?)
Effectiveness: 7
Comfort/Ease of Use: 8.5
Durability: 9
Value: 2.7
Total: 27.3
Flents Quiet! Please Price: six pair for $2.95 NRR: 29
These PVC foam ear plugs are among the most effective if they are installed properly. A quick primer: First roll the plug into a very small cylinder. Then take your right hand and reach over your head and pull back on the lobe of your left ear. Then, with your left hand, push the plug as deep as possible into your left ear canal. The plug should go down about a half-inch and no further than an inch and a half. Repeat with right ear.
Sound like a pain in the ear? It is. It also earned me some very odd looks from the construction workers. But the foam plugs worked well. The jackhammer was reduced to a dull thumping, and I couldn't hear a word my wife was saying.
Effectiveness: 9
Comfort/Ease of Use: 4
Durability: 4
Value: 34.7
Total: 51.7
Howard Leight MAX Price: one pair $1 NRR: 33
These polyurethane stopples must be rolled into a small cylinder before being inserted, but the process is much easier than the PVC foam plugs. Just squish the plugs into a small peg and push. And while the neon orange might turn off some—I looked ready for a shooting range—the bright color made the plugs hard to misplace.
The plugs did an excellent job of reducing sound. I couldn't hear the vacuum cleaner or my wife's chatter. The Goldberg Variations and the jackhammer were audible but muted. Indeed, the plugs might be too good. It's possible that you could sleep through your alarm clock or a fire alarm with these plugs stuck down your auditory canal.
Effectiveness: 9
Comfort/Ease of Use: 8
Durability: 9
Value: 26
Total: 52
Hearos Ultimate Softness Series Price: one pair for $1 NRR: 32
These plugs beat out the Howard Leight stopples for one reason: They are much softer and thus much more comfortable to wear. Like the Leight plugs, they are made of polyurethane and were easy to insert and clean. They could also play the sounds of silence: The loud, shrill noises were muted, the background noises inaudible. (Like the Leight plugs, heavy sleepers should use these plugs with care.) And while the ear-plug industry seems beset by terrible product names ("Snore Busters" and "Soft Blasts"), these plugs demonstrated, especially because they reduced the pounding sounds of the jackhammer to a pleasant thud, that it's worth holding out for Hearos.
Effectiveness: 9
Comfort/Ease of Use: 9
Durability: 9
Value: 27
Total: 54


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Dyck, John R. (1913-1988)
John R. Dyck: churchman and farmer; born 19 July 1913 in Lysanderhoeh, Am Trakt Mennonite Settlement, Russia to Johannes J. Dyck (16 April 1885, Lysanderhoeh, Am Trakt, Russia - 11 April 1948, Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Canada) and Renate (Mathies) Dyck (2 March 1885, Hohendorf, Am Trakt, Russia - 29 May 1963, Rosthern, Saskatchewan). He was the fourth child in a family of three sons and six daughters, including Peter J. Dyck and Cornelius J. Dyck. In 1941 he married Paula Regier. They had two daughters. John died 14 May 1988 in Rosthern, Saskatchewan.
In 1927 John R. Dyck moved to Canada with his parents and siblings, settling first in the Hanley district, Saskatchewan. He was baptized on 25 May 1931 at Sheldon Farm, Saskatchewan, by J. J. Klassen and in 1933 moved to Tiefengrund, Saskatchewan, 70 kilometres north of Saskatoon. It was there at the Tiefengrund Rosenort Mennonite Church that he and Paula married.
After taking a decade to establish a financial base the Dycks spent most of the rest of their lives in voluntary service with John and Paula working together as a team. In 1947 they established the first General Conference bookstore in Canada at Rosthern, Saskatchewan. John also served as business manager and secretary of Rosthern Junior College for 17 years. In 1964 and 1965 he was one of three men who led in the building of the chapel at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries in Elkhart, Indiana.
John's administrative skills were recognized by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) when they asked the Dycks to close out MCC work in Paraguay (1965-67), Korea (1969-71), and Jordan (1979-80). John and Paula Dyck also served under MCC in Calcutta (1974-75). From 1971 to 1973 they lived in Winnipeg, where John was instrumental in establishing the Mennonite Foundation for Western Canada. On returning to Winnipeg (1975-77) from Calcutta, they laid the groundwork for MCC Food Bank which soon expanded in 1983 to become the Canada-wide Food Bank in which MCC Canada worked in partnership with 12 other Canadian Christian churches. In the fiscal year ending 31 March 1988, the Foods Grain Bank shipped 84,296 metric tons of grain worth $25,756,945 to starving people around the world. Of this amount 15,161 tons, valued at $8,255,478 came from Mennonites.
When not abroad John R. Dyck was usually involved in conference committees and in fund raising activities for Swift Current Bible Institute, the General Conference Kingdom Commitments program, and others. Beginning in 1981, his determined refusal to pay that portion of his taxes which he considered war taxes resulted in considerable legal difficulty, and at times a lack of understanding among his own people. His active involvement in social concerns included a person-to-person prison ministry. John R. Dyck possessed the energy and abilities to be successful in many endeavors but chose a life of service to the church and to its members.
Dyck, Cornelius J. and Wilma M. Dyck, eds. A Pilgrim People. Elkhart, Ind.: the editors, 1987: 74-76.
Epp, Frank H. Education with a Plus. The Story of Rosthern Junior College. Waterloo, 1975: 451, index under Dick [sic], John R.
"John R. Dyck." Der Bote (15 Juni 1988): 6.
Rempel, J. G. Fünfzig Jahre Konferenzbestrebungen 1902 - 1952. Zweiter Teil. Konferenz der Mennoniten in Canada, 1954: 453.
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Real-Life Game of Pac-Man Breaks Out in Germany [VIDEO]
Using only Google Earth, simple special effects and some kitschy homemade costumes, directors Sergej Hein and David Moya were able to turn a German city into a giant game of Pac-Man.
The game made quite a scene: Passersby whipped out their cameras to snap Pac-Man in hot pursuit of a green ghost through the streets.
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Writing everyday of the month is becoming very very difficult, missed yesterday did not want to do it today too, so the easiest thing was to take up the Tag that Visha started, Although I was not tagged, I am still taking it up, Sorry Visha for that. She herself has done the tag here
So here we go, I love sports hence the topic of the Tag also sounds very sporting "Play Volleyball"
Rules of the tag:
Answer all the questions. No 'pass' or 'no idea' type of answers.
No cursing me if you found the tag to be difficult while attempting.
Here is the tag –
1. List all the ingredients which went into making the most interesting dish you ate today.
Well it is bright and early in the morning, being a Monday(this post was supposed to go yesterday) , rushing to work and as usual had a late night, hence am running a bit late so this one is very easy for me to answer, especially since I am very retarded in the field of cooking 🙂
SO here we go, this is what I have had and its easy to make .. Take a bowl, Pour the contents of the pouch in it, Add some Milk .. Put it in the microwave and after 2 minutes it's all done .. EASY PEASY 🙂
2. What is the current wallpaper of your laptop/phone/tablet?
My laptop has the picture of my home in our village.. , Phone has the picture of a sea beach .. nothing fancy
3. How do you wear your hair when at home?
I have got the shortest possible haircut done just a couple of days , so nothing to WEAR them as .. again easy peasy.. keep life simple 🙂
4. When you visit any restaurant, what is the first thing you search for, in the menu?
The ice-cream or dessert they serve 🙂 …
5. What is the advertisement from your childhood that you recall even today.
Glucose D biscuits… especially the GABBAR KI ASLI PASAND… here drool at the following pic and remember those good old days
6.Have you implemented a beauty tip/hack which you were told to, and been mortified by the results?
No, I doubt if they will work on me .. and believe me I will be myself MORTIFIED if they work , hence i keep away don't want to be mortified.. 🙂 and also don't want to MORITFY any of you who come and visit this blog, I am positive you will all stop visiting.
7. At your home, where do the newspapers find themselves to be the most useful?
In a pile , beside the outside door, end of the month they go in the recycling bin ..
8. During a visit to any mall, what do you find yourself searching first?
Where is the nearest Eating place.. 🙂
9. This tag is over now. Explain your state of mind.
MORITFIED 🙂 that i managed to complete the tag and have a post for today yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee err on second thoughts HAPPY..
So thank you so much Visha.


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On to letter E of the Family History Through the Alphabet challenge!
E is for Emancipation
To many Westerners, particularly Americans, "Emancipation" means the freeing of slaves from slavery, more specifically black slaves in the American South, during the Civil War. But this is not the Emancipation we are discussing today, though this Emancipation takes place around the same time. Our discussion is on the Emancipation of serfs in the Russian Empire in the 19th century. This took place in several steps, depending on the place or the type of serf, starting in 1816 and ending in 1866.
First, a definition of serfdom. Serfdom is essentially a form of slavery, with a few extra rights. With the manorial estate system, serfs were bound to the piece of land that they farmed and the lord or baron who owned the land. Some of the land could be farmed for their own subsistence, while the rest of it was for the lord or baron. The serfs would also be required to undertake other work for the lord/baron as required – forestry, building roads, etc. They also paid taxes (usually in goods rather than money). The lords and barons dictated whether serfs were allowed to move or get married. Serfs could not be sold like slaves were, but if the land that they farmed was sold, they were transferred to the new owner along with the land.
The are three guberniyas to discuss when it comes to modern-day Latvian territory – almost the entirety of Kurland guberniya (bar a few small parcels of land), the southern part of Livland guberniya, and the western part of Vitebsk guberniya make up modern-day Latvia. These three guberniyas had different experiences of emancipation.
Some experiences were the same – this is when peasants gained surnames, for example. Instead of performing work for the lords and barons (though these corvees persisted in some places as well), the peasants now had to pay rents. Peasants were also allowed to buy their land from the lords/barons, though in practical terms, this was often difficult due to the high price of the land and the low income of the peasants (though this did get better over time). These high rents and high prices to buy land were the prime motivators for Latvians to set up colonies in Inner Russia in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but that I will get to another day.
In Kurland, emancipation from serfdom started in 1817, one year later than the guberniya of Estonia (modern-day northern Estonia, southern Estonia was the northern part of the Livland guberniya). Despite this earlier emancipation, surnames did not appear to penetrate as quickly as they did in Livland. Often, the first sources for surname research on Kurland estates is the 1834 revision list.
Livland guberniya emancipated its serfs in 1819. Surnames were adopted quickly, and already made their appearance in most 1826 revision lists. Along with having the earlier collection of surnames, there is also a better survival rate of revision lists from Livland than from Kurland, though it is possible that this is due to the First World War and the widespread devastation that it caused in Kurland.
The Vitebsk guberniya was the last Latvian guberniya to gain emancipation from serfdom, at the time of the general Russian Empire decree in 1861 by Czar Alexander II. Surnames were still only beginning to make inroads in 1874 when my great-grandmother was born – I'm not even certain that I have her birth record, only a speculation based on the first names of her parents, her date of birth and her father's occupation (which eventually became his surname). A rough estimation of the 1874 births would be that only 15% have surnames listed. By 1885, however, virtually all births have surnames listed.
Land ownership among the peasants began to grow as the nineteenth century passed into the twentieth century. Then upon independence, the new Latvian government expropriated the majority of the remaining estates, and made the land available for purchase to those who were willing to farm and didn't already have land. Some documents that I've seen make mention of preference or first dibs given to soldiers who fought for Latvian independence during the War of Independence from 1918 to 1920.
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9/14/12 White Sox at Twins: Target Field
Again it was back to Target Field for the fourth time in five weekdays and the sixth time in a week. The funny thing is, I really didn't feel worn out by going to all of these games along with classes at all.
Once I got in, my initial plan was to run directly to the left field, but since Denard Span and Ben Revere were the first two hitters, I thought, "What the hey, I can run over to left field in a couple pitches if Josh Willingham comes up." In waiting to head over to left field, I managed to snag a Ben Revere home run:
I then went to left field, and much to my dismay, Revere and Span put on a show (for them) while Willingham failed to hit a ball to the field level bleachers.
After this, I headed to the White Sox's dugout, where too was Tony Voda:
Tony is the guy in the white shirt, by the way. I didn't get anything by the dugout, but that was because I got impatient and headed back out to left field when I saw the White Sox were hitting mostly righties for the first group. Once again, I didn't get anything there, but I did get pretty close to balls that ended up bouncing back towards the field after they hit in the bleachers. I just wasn't judging the ball well, and since it wasn't staying in place when it touched down, it was costing me.
Eventually, I ran into the seats in right-center field to try and get a ball there. While I was there, my friend Sean—who you may remember from two entries ago. As you may also remember, he's a huge White Sox fan, so he was able to identify all of the White Sox in the outfield for me. But when he identified a guy in the outfield for me as Francisco Liriano, my first was, "No, that's him?" Just because his haircut looked ever so slightly different from when he was with the Twins. Anyway, long story short, I asked Liriano for a ball, and he tossed it to me. Unfortunately, his throw was way short, so it took a second try to get it up to me:
I didn't know it at the time, but this was a very special ball for me, because it marked the first ever time I had snagged 200 Balls in a season, as it was my 200th ball of 2012.
It was then that I headed over to the standing room section in right field. There were several balls hit there by Adam Dunn, but I just failed to judge any of them well enough to catch one. The highlight (or lowlight if you're FSN/the Twins) was that Dunn hit a ball into Fox Sports North's TV set-up in the standing room and the ball hit the TV there, breaking the screen:
The guy in the blue is the security supervisor for right field. If you ever go through Gate 34 at Target Field, you'll see him.
After the group containing Adam Dunn and A.J. Pierzynski, I headed BACK to left field. The only problem was there wasn't a way to have more than ten feet of mobility in the front few rows:
And if I wanted to go to left-center field to play for toss-ups, there were three problems all kind of shown in this picture:
1. There were a ton of kids crowding the front row.
2. Tony was playing the corner spot all the way in left-center field.
3. It wasn't the White Sox, but rather their kids who were shagging balls in the outfield. Usually, the kids tend to throw way less baseballs into the crowd than their dads do, so that cut down on the opportunities.
The White Sox actually ended batting practice a little early. Why? They took fielding practice afterwards:
While this is an anomaly nowadays, I've seen it a couple of times. It's still a strange surprise.
Anyway, while I probably would have gotten that in the extra BP time, I did manage to get a ball during this. The fielders went off in waves, so when A. J. Pierzynski came off the field, I called out to him as he was approaching the dugout. Unfortunately, he was right in the process of throwing the ball he had to a kid just as he made eye contact with me. I thought when he disappeared into the dugout that it was the end of that, but second later, a ball was rolled right across the dugout roof to me:
I'm assuming it was Pierzynski, but it could have been someone he told to toss me a ball. All I saw was a hand and a ball.
During the game I sat over where my view was this for the game:
What s that arrow you ask? In the third inning, Justing Morneau hit a foul ball waaaay over my head, which followed the path of the arrow I have drawn (okay so it's not technically an arrow since there's no head but trust me, I actually used the "arrow" tool; I just drew the head off the page). Anyway, as is always my custom, I turned around in case there was a deflection. What happened was the ball bounced off of the facing of the upper deck and bounced RIGHT to me. I didn't even have to move an inch:
Oh my goodness. It was a bit surreal to me. I've never snagged two game balls in the same month, and here I had snagged a home run and a foul ball in consecutive games. Wow.
Unfortunately, that was it for the game, but I really didn't care. I mean seriously, I can never be disappointed by a game in which I snag a game ball…unless of course I miss another game ball.
Oh, and I forgot to mention the giveaway that had attracted an excess of fans to Target Field this game. Yeah, since the Twins had just lost 6-0, I'm pretty sure I was the only one reppin' my team this late after the game had ended:
(Special thanks to Tony for taking that picture of me).
- 4 Balls at this game (3 pictured because I gave 1 away)
Numbers 421-424 for my "lifetime":
- 202 Balls in 48 Games= 4.21 Balls Per Game
- 57 straight Games with at least 1 Ball (My highest streak of this sort ever. The next highest streak was ironically broken in my first ever visit to Target Field.)
- 7 straight Games with at least 2-3 Balls
- 6 straight Games with at least 4 Balls
- 34 Balls in 9 Games at Target Field= 3.78 Balls Per Game
- 8 straight Games with at least 1-2 Balls at Target Field
- 7 straight Games with at least 3 Balls at Target Field
- 6 straight Games with at least 4 Balls at Target Field
- Time Spent On Game 3:41-11:14= 7 Hours 27 Minutes


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Colin Brinsden, AAP Economics and Business Correspondent
(Australian Associated Press)
The Reserve Bank of Australia board believes the economy is expanding more rapidly than previously anticipated, but is sticking to its prediction that interest rates will remain at record lows until 2024.
It wants to see inflation sustainably within its two to three per cent target, which will need a further decline in unemployment and wages growth above three per cent compared to 1.5 per cent now.
"The board viewed these conditions as unlikely until 2024 at the earliest," the minutes of the RBA's June 1 board meeting reiterated.
But Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief economist Stephen Halmarick predicts wages growth will be higher than the RBA is expecting and inflation will be back in the target band by the end of next year.
"We think the risk is for a cash rate rise earlier than 2024," he told a Committee for Economic Development of Australia online event on Tuesday.
The RBA minutes said the recovery has been the result of favourable health outcomes and substantial fiscal and monetary policy support, and that uncertainty around the outlook had declined.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg agreed.
"The economy is tracking in the right direction," Mr Frydenberg told his coalition colleagues.
RBA members continue to closely monitor developments in the housing market where prices continue to rise, credit growth is growing – especially from first home buyers – and investors have started to re-emerge in recent months.
"Given the environment of strong demand for housing, rising housing prices and low interest rates, members continued to emphasise the importance of maintaining lending standards and carefully monitoring trends in borrowing," the minutes say.
New Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show the total value of Australia's 10.6 million residential homes rose by just under $450 billion in the March quarter to $8.3 trillion.
This was the largest rise on record.
Its residential property index of Australia's capital cities rose by 5.4 per cent in the March quarter to be 7.5 per cent higher over the year.
The average price of residential dwellings was $779,000 in the March quarter up from $739,900 in the previous three months.
CBA expects expects home prices to rise 14 per cent over 2021 and 2022.
The wealth effect of rising house prices, a strong labour market, rising confidence and a surge in household savings are factors supporting a consumer-led recovery.
Mr Halmarick said households benefited from a wall of money through JobSeeker, JobKeeper and pension payments during the COVID-19 recession.
"The weirdest recession ever, because there was more income coming into CBA bank accounts through the recession than there was before," he told CEDA.
In its latest quarterly Retail Forecasts report, Deloitte Access Economics expects retail spending to have grown by a hefty 5.9 per cent in 2020/21, even after a 0.5 per cent decline between January and March this year.
This will be the strongest growth in a decade.
However, after such a large surge, the forecast for 2021/22 is a more modest 0.9 per cent growth.
"Australian consumers have more options for spending with the easing of restrictions and a need for social contact supporting eating out and other activities at the expense of other retail spending," Deloitte Access Economic partner David Rumbens said.


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Posted by Jim Gunshinan on July 19, 2010
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1. Weatherization In a Hot & Arid Climate (We went on the road to Phoenix, Arizona to see some of the challenges these crews face trying to keep homes in this region cool.)
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Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have split up after 10 years of marriage.
The actress and the Coldplay frontman announced the news of their break-up on her website Goop, under a post called 'Conscious Upcoupling'.
They wrote: "It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate. We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate.
"We are, however, and always will be a family, and in many ways we are closer than we have ever been. We are parents first and foremost, to two incredibly wonderful children and we ask for their and our space and privacy to be respected at this difficult time.
"We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner."
They posted a photo of themselves in happier times along with the blog post, and signed it: "Love, Gwyneth & Chris."
Paltrow and Martin, who have two children together, nine-year-old Apple and seven-year-old Moses, began dating in October 2002.
They wed just over a year later in December 2005 at a California hotel.
Coldplay are set to release their sixth album, Ghost Stories, this May.


text: INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Robert Kraft stared at the scoreboard, to see if time really had run out. It had. In a game that meant so much, his New England Patriots had come up a fingertip or two short. "It's for Miss Myra," receiver Deion Branch said after the Giants beat the Patriots 21-17 in the Super Bowl on Sunday night, "and we feel like we didn't get the job done." Kraft's beloved wife, Myra, died days before the lockout ended last July, and football became an escape for his grief. He played a critical role in the negotiations that ended the lockout, with Indianapolis Colts center Jeff Saturday going so far as to call him "a man who helped us save football." Myra Kraft may have thought the $172 million her husband paid for the Patriots was excessive, a record for an NFL franchise at the time. But she adopted the team as if they were members of her own family. When new Hall of Famer Curtis Martin was a rookie in New England, Myra Kraft would make him chicken soup, knowing he was alone. Football is only a game, but it was the best way the Patriots had to show Kraft their love and ease the burden of his grief, if only for a bit. "He's not just our owner, he knows a lot of us on a personal level," defensive tackle Vince Wilfork said. "He's our friend." So the Patriots wore patches with "MHK" above their hearts, and a painting in the middle of the locker room showed a huddle of Patriots, their fingers pointed skyward beneath her initials "MHK." When Tom Brady threw his second touchdown pass, he even tapped the patch above his heart twice and looked skyward. The television cameras flashed to Kraft, who looked as if he was the happiest man in the world -- certainly the Lucas Oil Stadium. "They saved me," Kraft said earlier in the week. "I never understood what the word heartbroken meant. ... This horrible cancer came and it's wrecked my life. Having this team has been a savior for me." A Super Bowl trophy would have been the perfect ending to their story, the ultimate joy to balance the ultimate pain. "It would have been sensational," tackle Sebastian Vollmer said, shaking his head. Instead, Kraft was left to stand alone on the sideline, watching as New England's season came to an end. "I'm sure he's proud of us, but the goal was to win the championship," Wilfork said. "And we fell short." After leading for much of the game, the Patriots watched Eli Manning engineer an 88-yard, go-ahead drive. New England got the ball with 57 seconds left, and Brady got the Patriots close to midfield. But a deep pass to Branch fell short. With 5 seconds left, Brady let loose with a desperation heave to the end zone. Aaron Hernandez went up among three defenders, and the ball was tipped -- out of reach of a lunging Rob Gronkowski as the ball fell to the ground and time ran out. It was the second time the Patriots had lost to the Super Bowl in the last four years. This one ended much like the first, a last-second Giants win. Giants owners John Mara and Steve Tisch are some of Kraft's closest friends in the NFL, and he said earlier in the week that if he had to lose to someone, at least it would be to them. But some losses cut a little deeper than others. Kraft spoke to a few players in the locker room before making a quick exit. "It's tough for all of us," Brady said. "Certainly I wish we would have gotten it for him."


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Insects of the Tropical Rain Forest
The title of this page is a little deceiving. We will also talk about arachnids, centipedes and other "tiny creatures" of the rain forest. So, let's get started!
The most feared and well known spider in the world resides in the jungle. Tarantulas are one of the creepiest animals you will ever see. Most species of tarantula have poisonous fangs for killing prey and for protection. Although some are life-threatening to humans, others are harmless.
Army ants are just one species of ant in the rain forest. They are called army ants because they march in a long, thick line through the jungle. They only stop when the young larvae reach pupil stage. Once the queen lays its eggs, the ants start marching again!
Beautiful butterflies fill the forest, but at one time these insects weren't so pretty. Butterflies start out as caterpillars, which tend to be a tad on the ugly side. They go through metamorphosis, which is the process of changing into a butterfly. Centipedes aren't so lucky. They don't turn into butterflies, but instead roam the forest looking for food. Some centipedes use poison to kill their prey.


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Friday, July 7, 2006
I find this eBay versus Google battle over payment services quite interesting. In case you missed it, eBay stuck it to Google this week by notifying the world that it would not allow Google's new "Google Checkout" payment service to be used to clear transactions on eBay. A lot of people are up in arms about this claiming that eBay has excessive market power and that antitrust actions need to be considered (or at least threatened).
But I think there's a different way of looking at this scuffle.
First, it will be really interesting to see now what eBay does if people still take steps to work around the system and clear transactions outside of their walled garden. For example, there is nothing stopping me from just mailing a check (or even cash) to someone after I complete a deal with them on eBay. In fact, I do this all the time today. And other ways exist to clear transactions outside of eBay. I've used many different methods of settling payment for the 4 cars I've moved on eBay over the past 5 years.
So, what happens if I just cut-and-paste my eBay transaction number into a Google Checkout system that allows me to automatically zap my payment to the vendor without going through eBay / PayPal ? How are they going to stop that? Of course, eBay knows that only a very small percentage of people will go through the hassle to do things that way. Thus, if they can restrict the automated incorporation of Google Checkout into the eBay walled garden, their job is probably done and Google will not be able to get a piece of that pie. At least not in the short-term.
But how will Google, and others, respond to this setback? eBay's seeming discriminatory behavior in this instance could have quite pro-competitive long-run effects: If eBay continues to play ball this way, at some point Google might start partnering with a lot of independent sites (like Craig's List) to create a legitimate mega-competitor to eBay. eBay could have made a foolish move here because they might just have awoken the one giant that really could mount a serious run at their core business. Google has a lot of money in the bank, after all!
Anyway, we'll see how this plays out over time. But I do hope that lawmakers allow this marketplace experimentation to play itself out and not impose draconian antitrust solutions.
Some critics are also pointing out that eBay is being somewhat hypocritical in this case by violating some of the "digital non-discrimination" (or "Net neutrality") principles that endorse for broadband companies. But just as I oppose Net neutrality mandates for broadband networks, I would oppose them in this case too, regardless of how much market power eBay possesses. eBay obviously wants to take steps to protect their significant investment in PayPal, which is why they want to block Google Checkout from becoming an automated transaction clearing mechanism within their walled garden. If lawmakers applied "digital anti-discrimination mandates" in this case, it would be tantamount to a declaration that eBay is an "essential facility" of e-commerce that everyone (including giants like Google) must have access to on "just and reasonable" terms.
Such a move would be a disaster because it would invite the government to play a far greater role in the online world as a regulator of rates and terms of service. Anyone who has spent a minute studying the disastrous history of telecommunications economic regulation can tell you why this would be an anti-consumer, anti-innovation fiasco. Worse yet, it might discourage the sort of serious, facilities-based innovation and competition I mentioned above. Again, their might be a serious consumer backlash to eBay's move in this case. And if eBay continues to play hardball with big dogs like Google, it could come back to haunt them in the end if Google cuts deals with others to create a serious competitive threat to eBay's business model.
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Posted by Editoress on 12/6/10
Ryder Hesjedal's Tour de Victoria website is now live. Please go to www.tourdevictoria.com for more information on this amazing new event, being held in Victoria, BC, on May 28th, 2011. Registration opens for the event January 10th, 2011. The Tour de Victoria is a mass participation ride welcoming all ages and abilities of cyclists. This event promises to be the mass participation ride of the year in Canada!
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