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A Sandwich a Day: Fried Egg at Veselka
A new sandwich every day.
In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
One of the great things about Veselka is their 24-hour service. Another is the flexibility of their menu: you can get breakfast at any hour of the day.
Here's one such offering: a Fried Egg Sandwich ($5.75), its price tag is stretched with complimentary OJ and coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. The sandwich is offered with your choice of bacon, kielbasa or sausage, and it comes on a roll or one of the other varieties of bread in the restaurant's pantry.
A roll most approximates the sandwich's bodega cousins, and smoky, fatty kielbasa is just right at Veselka. The meat is thrown on the grill to char moments before the eggs come together in a tight scramble on the flattop. The poofy roll looks overwhelming, but its soft crumb gracefully gives way to the contents within. It's everything you want in a breakfast sandwich, regardless of the time of day.
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Some 965 kilometres west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean, the extraordinary Galápagos Islands should fascinate anyone who can handle moderate physical activity. In exchange, visitors enjoy astounding encounters with the islands' intriguing, seemingly docile, residents. Most people also return home with a better appreciation of the Galapagos' impact upon Charles Darwin, the intrepid naturalist whose 1835 visit contributed greatly to his beliefs that upended common concepts of evolution and theology.
Descendants of Galapagos finches, whose differing beaks Darwin scrutinized and meticulously analyzed, are definitely here. But, for most non-scientists or serious birders, the chance to walk among sea lions, blue-footed boobies (whose feet really are sky blue), flightless cormorants, and fearsome looking but amazingly docile marine iguanas is one of the world's greatest outdoor experiences.
One critical reason is that Galapagos residents display neither fear of, nor seemingly any concern for, visiting humans. While all bipeds are instructed to stay six feet away from island denizens, sometimes that's challenging when sea lions or iguanas sprawl across marked pathways. But, by avoiding physical contact, and carefully watching where one walks, time spent on these islands is a genuine trip for the mind as well as the body.
That certainly was true for this writer during a fall 2011 weeklong, multi-island sail on the M/Y Eric, one of three, compact 20-passenger ships operated by Ecoventura. While particularly accommodating to snorkellers, it offers a fine experience for everyone, including those who don't dive. Living quarters are quite tight, but everything runs quite smoothly thanks in large part to the extremely helpful crew.
Since most island landings are into water, sandals with a Velcro strap for wet landings, as well as solid, sturdy hiking shoes for walks on rough island terrain, are an absolute must.
The first day's visit to Tower Island (also known as Genovesa) is essentially above-water remnants of an extinct volcano, typified the week's activities. Our three-hour morning hike started on a beach filled with sea lions. We then encountered swallow tailed gulls (with red rings surrounding their eyes), frigate birds nesting on the ground, and red-footed boobies nesting amid mangrove trees.
After a return to the boat for lunch, we sailed within the caldera towards another Tower Island location, Prince Philip's Steps. A dry landing required a 30-metre climb up uneven rocks. But, once on top, we saw Nazca booby hatchlings dining by thrusting their heads down their parent's throat and retrieving needed nourishment. Also here were red-footed boobies and Great Frigate birds
Later at Tagus Cove on Fernandina Island we encountered platoons of marine iguanas revelling in their "couch potato" lifestyle. Roughly once daily for a half-hour, these grim looking creatures waddle to the nearby sea, gobble down kelp or other greenery, then return to lie in the sun, often one on top of the other! They then lay there until their body becomes sufficiently warm to activate their digestion system. Once "fuelled', they then have sufficient energy to return to the water and repeat their lifelong scenario.
We also saw flightless cormorants, brilliantly red-orange Sally Lightfoot crabs, pelicans, a Galapagos hawk, massive turtles, and a special cactus that grows on the volcanic lava and helps break down the rocks.
Other highlights included North Seymour island where we watched male Magnificent Frigate birds inflating their screamingly bright red/orange chests (females pick their mates in part by the sex appeal of these pouches), and platoons of blue-footed boobies.
Hood Island, (also called Espanola) required navigating a rugged rock-strewn path (the rocks were wildly uneven and often jagged) was well worth the effort. Here were hordes of sea lions, nursing their young, fighting over territory. And, particularly intriguing, were red marine iguanas (red and black) in splendid repose; blue-footed boobies doing their signature mating dance (the male entices a female by slowly lifting one foot and then the other), and huge (over tw0-metre wing span) Wave Albatross, who only alight by sauntering off high cliffs to catch air currents upon which they glide.
Other stops during our weeklong trip included Santa Cruz island where we visited to a tortoise farm where massive Dome Tortoises roam. We also toured the Darwin Research Centre where there's a major mission to increase tortoise breeding and ultimately return offspring to the wilds.
We also docked at the lively town of Puerto Ayora where Internet connections were most welcome after five days without. (There are no links aboard ship). Also entertaining was the wild pelican scrum aimed at the catch returning town fishermen bring home each afternoon.
And, just before our return flight to the mainland from San Cristobal Island, we visited the Interpretation Museum where Galapagos Island history is detailed.
Particularly interesting are tales of the 19th century human impact during Darwin's time, the islands' use as a prison colony, and the steps that led to the Galapagos becoming a protected national park in 1959.
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Ecoventura — Operates three 20-passenger, 10-cabin vessels plus a 16-passenger dive ship. Visit www.ecoventura.com or call 1-800-633-7972. All Galapagos trips require separate flights from mainland Quito or Guayaquil, plus fees to enter what is Ecuador's most famous national park.


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The state, and not the federal government, should decide Florida's water quality standards, Rep. Steve Southerland said at a press conference Monday.
He plans to file a bill Tuesday to compel the federal Environmental Protection Agency to sign off on the state's proposed water pollution standards, he said.
Environmental groups vehemently criticize the Department of Environmental Protection's proposal as weak and unenforceable.
But other stakeholders, such as the Florida Farm Bureau Federation, Florida Electric Cooperative Associations, and the Florida Nursery, Growers and Landscape Association say the state standards strike a balance that would save thousands of jobs and billions of dollars.
"Rules like the one the EPA put forward would have a terrible effect on our economy," said Southerland, winged by Florida Chamber of Commerce President Mark Wilson and Associated Industries of Florida President Tom Feeney.
The bill, which Southerland said he will file tomorrow, would also require the EPA to consider the economic impact on job creation, small businesses, agriculture, municipalities and consumers before developing water quality standards.
At issue are contaminants from sewage, fertilizer and manure that wash into the water and cause excess nitrogen and phosphorous, known as nutrients. The pollutants can yield toxic algae blooms that kill wildlife and poison drinking water.
The federal rule, set to be implemented in June, would apply uniform standards across water bodies. The state proposal would require each water body be assigned an individual "threshold" of acceptable pollutant levels.
Southerland hones in on the issue as he fights to stay in office in the face of recently redrawn Congressional maps that put him in a less Republican-friendly district.
Wilson said that the EPA went "one step too far" and John Hoblick, president of Florida Farm Bureau, said the farming industry is just "one piece of bad legislation away from putting Florida out of business."
The EPA standards apply only to Florida, and are the result of a settlement the agency struck with environmental groups. The Florida Attorney General's Office sued the federal government for imposing standards without getting input from the state.
The Florida Legislature is poised to approve the DEP standards and clear the path for the EPA's approval.
No environmentalists spoke at the conference, but one audience member asked Southerland how the change would impact wildlife.
"You talk about wildlife, but the EPA sometimes sets standards that aren't compatible with human life, and we have to strike a balance," he said.


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The latest book from the great feminist thinker is a total muddle
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Sex work is one of the biggest debates in feminism—to which Bindel's The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth will be another strident contribution
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New breadth has made it harder to define a coherent feminism for the 21st century—but it has also made space for a greater diversity of voices and perspectives
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"There are various ideas the UK might borrow from its neighbours in Europe"
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This week, women around the world will protest the devaluation of their labour
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In DC, demonstrations have been constant—but are they resistance for resistance's sake?
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An examination of the evidence that women tend to work below their level of competence
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I found the most beautiful Skyrim wallpaper from Dead End Thrills and put it on my Mac. It was great; I could almost see the trees blowing in the breeze, or maybe the occasional dragon hurtling past a distant mountain top.
Wouldn't it be wonderful, I thought, if you could have a desktop wallpaper that did move a little- not just annoying fish flying past, but maybe the slow sunrise over Mulgore in World of Warcraft, a wintery day outside Solitude in Skyrim, a Tython waterfall in Star Wars: The Old Republic? A wallpaper with just the tiniest bit of movement would make a computer monitor seem so much less like a computer and so much more like a window.
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Cole & Weber is strategically focused. Creatively ambitious. Digitally accomplished. Content immersed. Media proven. Outdoor captivated. A champion of people. And well worth the trip to Seattle. (It's actually not that far.)
Deep in the heart of a city consistently ranked as one of the most innovative in the country, mere blocks away from Amazon, Cole & Weber sits atop a South Lake Union smart building with panoramic views of the city. Our open-plan space promotes collaboration, fosters creativity, and proves our best work comes from the natural overlap of our people (and clients) as they meander the office—helping themselves to the amenities in our modern kitchen, using the many relaxation areas, even enjoying advertising staples like pool and foosball in between meetings. Not a bad place to hang out, overall.
Our clients aren't just logos, they're people, too. We get to know them, listen to them, make blood pacts with them over microbrews. They're the kinds of clients who have more to gain than lose. They don't need to be the biggest, but want to be the smartest—to be nimble and innovative enough to change their category, the field of communications, someday maybe even the world. And we love that.
Cole & Weber is truly integrated, offering a diverse, modern skillset. We like to become great at things, then evolve what those things are. Our people champion fields that don't even yet exist. For our modest size, we swing big. Our work has more impact than the dollars put against it. And we execute both the media and the creative. A full circle approach that makes us accountable to, well, everything.
We're a stand-alone shop that thinks like an independent, but we're still part of the WPP group so we have friends in a lot of places. Meaning we can add muscle whenever we need, keeping us nimble, but always ready to gather fresh resources on behalf of our clients. And our domestic and global partners provide expertise and international support from both inside and outside the advertising industry.


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Growing public concern about student-data privacy is prompting fresh scrutiny of the ways technology vendors handle children's educational information—and opening the gates for a flood of new questions and worries from advocates and school officials.
Take prominent ed-tech players Edmodo, Khan Academy, and Pearson.
Each already has access to the information of tens of millions of U.S. schoolchildren.
But a review of each group's privacy policies by two leading experts, conducted at the request of Education Week, yielded concerns about the use of tracking and surveillance technologies that allow third parties to gather information on students; questions about the collection, use, and sharing of massive amounts of student "metadata"; and criticism of the growing burden on students and families, who experts maintain are being forced to navigate an ever-shifting maze of dense vendor policies on their own.
"We're just scratching the surface with our understanding of how the education sector is gathering and looking to monetize student information," said Joel R. Reidenberg, a law professor at Fordham University, in New York, and Princeton University. "We as a society need to have a very clear discussion about how we want to protect the privacy of our children in this environment."
Education Week selected the three online education service providers whose privacy policies were reviewed by Mr. Reidenberg and Khaliah Barnes, a lawyer for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, a Washington-based advocacy group. Each provider was chosen for its size and popularity with K-12 students and teachers. Each of the three organizations also offers a type of digital product or service that is used by the vast majority of school districts in the United States.
The concerns raised extend far beyond the direct serving of advertisements to students, which Mr. Reidenberg described as "just one piece of the commercialization of children."
Khan Academy, which provides open instructional resources to 10 million unique users per month, came under the sharpest criticism. Ms. Barnes, for example, said the Mountain View, Calif.-based nonprofit's privacy policy allows for "almost limitless" sharing of student information with third parties. Khan Academy officials disputed that contention as not reflective of their organization's mission or actual practices and said their organization is "adamantly opposed to the idea of commercializing student information, particularly through third parties."
Pearson's PowerSchool student information system, which currently contains data on roughly 13 million students in K-12 schools in the United States, raised the fewest concerns, in large part because the system does not collect data directly from students.
Officials from Edmodo, meanwhile, vigorously defended the company from the experts' questions about its use of "cookies," relationships with third-party partners, and handling of the metadata generated by students as they use the company's "social learning platform," which currently has more than 33 million users, including children and teachers in more than 100,000 schools.
"The bottom line is that Edmodo is not going to use anyone's information in ways they don't know about," said Aden Fine, the general counsel and chief privacy officer for the Mateo, Calif.-based company, founded in 2008 to provide a safe educational alternative to consumer social media platforms, such as Facebook.
The back-and-forth is part of the growing public debate surrounding the rapid growth in the use of educational data, hailed by proponents as the key to building more-personalized learning opportunities for students.
More than 80 student-data-privacy bills have been considered in 32 states this year alone, according to the Data Quality Campaign, a nonprofit based in Washington. Advocacy organizations, industry groups, and professional associations have also in recent months initiated new campaigns and released guidelines and toolkits on the topic. In February, the federal government issued guidance intended to help schools and districts interpret and apply federal privacy laws, and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has publicly supported the principle that student data should not be used for commercial purposes.
But many are concerned that the horse is already out of the barn.
Last month, for example, Education Week reported on concerns about online-services giant Google, which acknowledged as part of an ongoing federal lawsuit that student emails sent and received using the popular Apps for Education tool suite are "scanned and indexed" for purposes that remain murky. The product, provided for free to thousands of schools and universities, already has 30 million users.
"In the education space, privacy has unfortunately been an afterthought," Ms. Barnes said.
Advocates and industry representatives agree that in an age where the methods used to collect, analyze, and share digital data are highly sophisticated and constantly evolving, companies' publicly posted privacy policies are critical to better informing parents.
But the policies themselves are often confusing, even to experts.
That complexity is creating big challenges for the nascent efforts to develop industry-wide standards to guide the creation, implementation, and enforcement of such policies.
Just last month, for example, the 210,000-student Houston Independent School District unveiled a new system for rating the security and privacy practices of its software vendors. Of the five providers initially evaluated, the most highly rated was Edmodo—the same company that came under question by the experts consulted by Education Week.
Lenny Schad, the Houston district's chief technology officer who is spearheading the new rating system, did not disagree with the more critical take on the company provided by the experts consulted by Education Week, saying his district's efforts are in an "early stage." Mr. Schad said the most important development is that people are finally starting to pay attention to what companies are doing with students' information.
"This is exactly what we want to start happening," he said. "Now there is a dialogue between the user side and the software side."
• Mateo, Calif.
• Social learning platform/learning management system
• 33 million registered users
Mr. Reidenberg saw several positive signs from Edmodo, including a recent move to make encryption of student information a default, rather than an optional, policy, and a clear disclosure of the active role parents and guardians can play in monitoring student accounts.
Edmodo also recently received a thumbs-up from the Houston Independent School District, which is initiating an effort to rate the privacy and security practices of software vendors doing business with its schools.
"We don't rent or sell anyone's personal information to anyone, period," said Aden Fine, the company's general counsel and chief privacy officer, in an interview.
But Mr. Reidenberg and Ms. Barnes questioned what Edmodo's privacy policy has to say about how the company collects, uses, and shares the "metadata" generated by students as they use the platform, which can include server-log data, users' Internet Protocol addresses, clickstream data, and more. Such information has not traditionally been considered as "personally identifiable" as name, date of birth, or email address, but most computer-science experts contend those types of metadata can now easily be tied to individual users, even without a name.
Even after several readings of Edmodo's policy, Mr. Reidenberg said, he remained unsure exactly how different types of student information are categorized and protected by the company.
Both experts also raised questions about Edmodo's use of its own "cookies" (small data files that track users' website activity) and those of the third parties with which the company partners.
Mr. Fine, Edmodo's chief privacy officer, acknowledged the general concerns in the ed-tech field about the handling of student metadata, but said his company's privacy policy explicitly states that such information is protected, and he stressed that Edmodo does not collect geo-location data on its users. He also said that users' metadata is only combined with their personal information for internal Edmodo use, and that the company would only share with third parties aggregate metadata that it does not consider to be personally identifiable.
And while Mr. Fine acknowledged that Edmodo's privacy policy states that the use of cookies by third parties is not covered by the policy, he also pointed Education Week to another section of that policy, as well as a separate publisher's agreement, which indicate that those partners are prohibited from collecting or using any information beyond what Edmodo is permitted to collect.
"Privacy policies are never perfect," Mr. Fine said. "It's important that users read them, and that companies answer questions about them if they're not clear enough. Edmodo does that."
• Mountain View, Calif.
• Open education resources
• 10 million unique users per month
Both the experts consulted by Education Week blasted the privacy policy of Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization that has made a big push to expand its reach in recent months via new partnerships and new math resources tied to the contentious Common Core State Standards.
"They are essentially enabling third parties to gather unlimited information about users and disclaiming any responsibility for that," Mr. Reidenberg said of the organization.
Ms. Barnes pointed to Khan Academy's integrations with Facebook and Google—"businesses that are founded on the idea of commercializing information"—and liberal approach to granting third-party advertisers and app developers access to student information as particularly problematic. Worse, she said, the organization explicitly says that its privacy policy "does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of" those third-party partners.
Plus, Khan Academy users who want to know how their information will be utilized are advised to review the privacy policies of all the third parties with whom the organization partners—none of whom are identified by name, and most of whom likely reserve the right to change their policies at any time, with limited or no notice, she said.
Khan Academy officials declined to be interviewed on the record about such concerns, instead issuing a statement to Education Week via email.
Users can and do access the Khan Academy site anonymously, a spokeswoman wrote. The organization's origins, which include using YouTube as a platform for distributing free instructional videos to users, account for some of the language in the privacy policy, she wrote, but "we do not provide [YouTube] with broad access to student information, and we turn off all advertising on our videos on YouTube."
The spokeswoman also wrote that Khan Academy is "adamantly opposed to the idea of commercializing student information, particularly through third parties" and that explicit consent beyond user registration has been procured in instances where students' user information has been shared with third parties.
Mr. Reidenberg said the latter claim is "directly contradicted" by the terms of Khan Academy's own privacy policy, which clearly indicates that advertisers may use tracking and surveillance technologies that "automatically route user information to the third party."
On the positive side, Mr. Reidenberg and Ms. Barnes praised Khan Academy for the detail in its privacy policy, as well as the data-security practices it describes.
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• Student information system
• 13.5 million students
Among the numerous products and services offered to K-12 schools by publishing giant Pearson is the PowerSchool student information system, currently used by about 4,500 school districts, according to Bryan MacDonald, the managing director of the company's school systems group.
While the system contains thousands of pieces of data—everything from academic performance to disciplinary and health records to course rosters—on millions of U.S. school children, the privacy and security issues surrounding PowerSchool are somewhat different than for products with interfaces that allow data to be collected directly from students, Mr. MacDonald said.
"One fundamental difference is that we don't have any right at all to the data," he said.
Furthermore, in many cases, Pearson does not even store the student data itself: About half of PowerSchool users, covering about 9 million students, host the data on their own servers.
And the security and privacy of the data stored in PowerSchool is governed not by the company's privacy policy, Mr. MacDonald said, but by a combination of contracts with clients (usually districts or states) and those entities' own privacy policies.
As a result, Ms. Barnes and Mr. Reidenberg spoke primarily in generalities about potential areas of concern related to PowerSchool, saying parents and educators should be mindful of both how the company safeguards data and should scrutinize the various contracts that govern its individual relationships with districts and states.
"There are universal issues [in the education arena] involving data security, and from an administrative perspective, there are always issues about how other entities can gain access to student information," Ms. Barnes said.
One of Pearson's highest-profile PowerSchool clients, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, offers a window into those concerns.
The department has spent much of this school year dealing with an extensive series of implementation problems associated with its quick rollout of PowerSchool across the state's 115 school districts and 253 charter and special schools.
But Philip Price, the chief financial officer for the department, said security concerns have been limited to a few hours last fall, when the system was briefly shut down after being hit with a distributed denial of service attack by hackers.
The student data contained in PowerSchool, Mr. Price said, "is totally ours, not Pearson's."
And third-party access to that information, Mr. Price said, can only occur when local districts have authorized those other vendors to access student data and specified exactly what data should be shared.
Mr. MacDonald of Pearson said the company has upgraded its technical processes for enabling such sharing of data and now uses an application programming interface, or API, to make third-party integrations "more efficient and seamless." The new technology is far more secure than the old practice of "putting data on a floppy disk or attaching it to an email," he maintained.
Mr. Reidenberg also urged skepticism of claims about high-tech security practices from ed-tech vendors.
"Every adult American has likely had his or her financial information stolen in the last three years from banks, credit card companies, and retailers that have spent millions of dollars on data security," he said. "Does Pearson really think it's doing a better job than the entire financial-services industry?"


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Finance & Development, September 1981
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Finance & Development, September 1981
- Bank activity: Clausen assumes presidency of Bank; China to develop science and engineering education system with Bank and IDA assistance; Colombia receives help for power and irrigation sectors. Bank loans and IDA credits
- Fund activity: Record access to Fund resources in first half of 1981; members eligible for help with cereal imports; meetings in Gabon; West African Bank will also hold SDRs; new loan commitments; Fund transactions
- World Development Report 1981—principal themes: The fourth annual review by Bank staff assesses global and national adjustment efforts
- Economic development and the private sector: Public policy and the private sector: The first article in a new series
- Promoting private investment: the role of the International Finance Corporation: A review of the experience of this World Bank affiliate in fostering the private sector in developing countries
- The Fund and adjustment policies in Africa: How Fund conditionality works in practice
- Stabilization policy in Portugal, 1974–78: Within two years. Portugal moved from a large deficit to a surplus in its balance of payments with a Fund-assisted program
- Meeting the social contract in Egypt: Government involvement combined with growth of the private sector in the development process
- Latin America and the Caribbean: a medium-term outlook: Sound economic management will be the key to the adjustment efforts of countries in this region
- Review article: Keynes and the Articles of the Fund
- Book notices: Business Cycles, Inflation, and Forecasting, by Geoffrey H. Moore, reviewed by Michael C. Deppler; Profitability and Unemployment, by Edmond Malinvaud, reviewed by Liaquat Ahamed; Islam and Development, edited by John L. Esposito, and Islam and a New International Economic Order, from the International Institute for Labor Studies, reviewed by Selcuk Ozgediz


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Phi Phi Island Tour
Phi Phi Islands is a must for first timers. It is the topic of conversation for travelers all over Thailand. Featured in the movie "The Beach" the Phi Phi Islands are situated 40 km south-east of Phuket and consist of six islands. They famous for its limestone cliffs rising sheer out of the emerald green waters, white powdery beaches, and its many coral reefs offering great diving and snorkeling and sightseeing.
James Bond Island Tour
Joining a James Bond Island tour and cruise the Phang Nga Bay is the second most popular activity in the region. The area is situated 25 km north-east of Phuket. It consists of numerous dramatic limestone cliffs rising sheer out of the waters. The most famous one being James Bond Island with its needle formed limestone rock which featured in the James Bond movie "The Man with the Golden Gun". The Muslim fishing village on the island Koh Panyee is another popular spot to visit. Canoeing through limestone caves into mangrove forests is included in the tours.
Koh Khai Island Tour
Koh Khai Islands are located 10 km east of Phuket. It consists of three small islands. Khai Nok Island has a beautiful white beach with crystal clear turquoise water. Plenty of tropical fish are swimming around in the shallow water waiting to be fed, great for the kids. Khai Nai Island is the biggest island and has a beautiful white beach with crystal clear emerald green water good for swimming and snorkeling. Khai Nui Island is the smallest island and hosts colorful coral reefs providing excellent snorkeling.
Raya and Coral Tour
Raya Island is one of Phuket's most beautiful tropical Islands, it is situated 25kms south of Phuket Island lying in the Andaman sea only 30 minutes from Phuket by speedboat. This spectacular Island offers warm crystal clear waters pristine white sandy beaches and is fantastic for snorkeling with an abundance of sea life with many tropical fishes this is truly a tropical paradise. Coral Island has beautiful beach pristine white sandy beaches, excellent snorkeling and a wide variety of water sports. A superb Tour which visits two of the most beautiful Islands in the Andaman Sea a great day to enjoy some of Phuket's finest beaches and snorkel sites.
Similan Tachai Tour
Koh Tachai Island is located at the northern most tip of the Similan National Park. It is one of the latest additions to the National park area together with the island of Koh Bon. The island measures 12 square kilometers. The Andaman Sea around it is very suitable for SCUBA diving and snorkeling.
The mighty Whale sharks and Manta rays are often spotted here feeding in the rich waters. This extravagant marine life lead to the nomination of the National Geographic Society as one of the top 10 diving destinations in the world. The Island is open for tourism from November to April.
Maiton Island Tour
The wonderful Mai Ton Island has been in Private use for years, but will now finally welcome tourist on a day trip. This paradise island with its white sandy beach can be visited exclusively.
You can relax on the amazing beach, dive into the crystal clear water for a refreshing swim or snorkeling above giant clam garden. Delicious BBQ lunch buffet, topped off with milk shakes, ice-cream, coffee/tea and soft drinks.
ATV Rides
Enjoy ATV rides through the jungles of Phuket.
ATVs are powerful quad bikes. After basic instructions how to control the bikes, the tour guide will take you through dirt roads in the jungle and over hill tops.
Go Carting
1. Patong Go Kart Speedway Nice and neat, it seems to be good for beginners. Drivers must be at least 16 years old to drive but you can take your kids in the back seat of double karts, as long as they are at least 1,25 m tall.
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White Water Rafting
Elephant Sanctuary
Visiting the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary, the most ethical elephant sanctuary in Phuket, gives curious visitors a unique opportunity to interact with magnificent elephants in the safety and security of their natural home. Incredible life experiences such as bathing elephants in Phuket or feeding them by hand. English Speaking Guides.Bring a hat, sunscreen, a bathing suit, a towel and a change of clothes.
Throughout your visit at Elephant Jungle Sanctuary, you will be feeding, bathing and even playing with the elephants. As an ethical elephant sanctuary in Phuket, Elephant Jungle Sanctuary wants to promote ethical treatment of elephants all around the world. With the money we raise from visits and donations, we can contribute to elephant welfare by rescuing elephants, feeding them, provide veterinary care and giving them land and infrastructure for them to live on.
Elephant Trekking
Elephant trekking is an unforgettable experience and a great activity for kids. A platform will easily bring you into the two passenger seat on the back of the elephant. The tour guide will take you through paths on the high plain / through the jungle of Phuket.
Phuket City Tour
This Phuket city tour cover all the important Phuket sightseeing sites. From the view points where you can see Phuket Town, the beaches and the islands, to the Big Buddha statue on top of the highest point of Phuket overlooking the entire island, the Neo-Portuguese architecture of Phuket Town, the temples and Phrom Thep Cape to name a few.
FantaSea Show
Phuket FantaSea Show, or Fantasy of a Kingdom, is a Las Vegas style Thai cultural show infused with cutting edge technology and state-of-the-art show elements. The essence of being Thai, everything from the love for freedom and fun, courage and compassion, is being represented in each scene.
See nine exciting shows featuring Thai culture, magic illusion, acrobatics, animal performance, pyrotechnics, stunts, aerial performance, 4-D effects, special effects.
Siam Niarmit Show
Siam Niramit is a world-class performance of Thailand's arts and cultural heritage.
This must-see spectacular show features over 100 performers, lavish costumes and stunning set designs. Enhanced special effects and the world's most advanced technology are used to produce a very realistic, stimulating and inspiring experience.
Cabaret Show
Cabaret Phuket has established itself as a market leader in professional entertainment. The set designs are outstanding, the costumes extravagant and the performers glamorous. The show is truly international featuring modern and traditional acts from around the globe in English and alternative languages. You will arrive relaxed but will leave confused as our performers are more of a man than you will ever be and even more of a woman too!
Dolphin Show
You will enjoy an amazing show of funny and clever dolphins. Professional animal trainers, unbelievable tricks and a rush of adrenaline! After the show you can take part in the auction and buy a picture painted by a talented dolphin.


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The word drone may sounds related to any contemporary sci-fi flicks, or images of attacks carried out remotely on hostile lands, or even your high-school biology teacher's voice. We don't expect a drone to help us save water, but that's what Arad Metering Technologies intends to do. The Israeli company's battery-operated drone is one of the novel tools it's deploying to help consumers and companies conserve H2O — and to make money.
Such an idea would come out of Israel is no coincidence. The country is poor in water and rich in tech innovation, much of it born of constant military conflict. Israel pioneered the use of unmanned aerial vehicles after it lost many fighter jets in the 1973 war. But Arad's drones don't fight: They read data from the company's patented water-meter system to detect leakage or, in irrigation systems, drought.
The World Bank estimates that water wastage costs utilities $14 billion a year worldwide; in developing countries, 200 million more people could be served by the water lost to leaks and theft. Arad CEO Dan Winter says this is largely a consequence of how the business works in places where water is cheap or untaxed: "You train people to abuse water because they pay very little."
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With this innovation, instead of meter reading – it can provide real time monitoring of water supply infrastructures. Its technology can find irregularities — a pipe failure, an unusually low flow rate, or a too-constant one that could indicate a leak — in a few hours, rather than every 60 days as with a typical meter reading.
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MC: Why were so many British soldiers attracted to the prospect of adventures in Latin America?
MB: The first thing to remember is that only about a third of the adventurers had actually been soldiers or sailors before they travelled to Colombia. The vast majority were artisans, labourers, aristocrats – a real cross-section of society, seduced by dreams of the gold and land and freedom that they expected to find in South America. Of those who did have some military experience (around 2,000 of the 7,000 foreign adventurers in total) there were a lot of Irish Catholics who thought they had a better chance of promotion in the Colombian service than in the British Army, and lots who saw that military opportunities had dried up at home after the demobilisation that came after the end of the Napoleonic Wars from 1815. It is a combination of push factors and pull factors, giving people a reason to leave Britain and Ireland, as well as giving them a reason to go to South America.
MC: What sort of background were these soldiers from?
MB: 319 adventurers recorded their previous profession, trade or occupation in a document preserved in the Archivo Histórico de Guayas in Guayaquil, Ecuador. 148 described themselves as labourers. The next most popular occupation was 'Weaver' (twenty-six). In descending order, eleven volunteers said that they were shoemakers, and another eleven were tailors. Seven were bakers, seven were mariners and six were musicians. There were five carpenters, and four each of book-binders, breeches-makers, and painters. There were three respondents each for bricklayer, butcher, hatter, miner, servant and watch-maker. There were two respondents each for accountant, chandler, clerk, cloth-cutter, cordwainer, craftsman, farrier, gardener, glass blower/stainer, glazier, hairdresser, potter, printer, silk-maker and water-man. There was one apothecary, a basket-maker, a blacksmith, a boat-maker, a cabinet-maker, a cooper, a cotton spinner, a courier, a draper, a founder, a gunsmith, a ham-beater, a horseman, a lawyer, a lightman, a machinist, a mason, a merchant, a miller, a papermaker, a poulterer, a roller, a rope-maker, a saddler, a sawyer, a shearer, a slater, a soapmaker, a stocking-maker, a stone-cutter, a tanner, a tin-man, a varnish-maker, a wood-cutter, a wood Merchant and a woollen draper.[1]
All this material is included in my online database of the soldiers. Some of the officers, of course, came from rather grander backgrounds. There were a couple of lords in there, the sons of aristocratic families. Many of the officers, however, exagerated their social standing back home in order to gain a higher rank in the Colombian army – this was a source of much tension, conflict and amusement once the campaigns got going. It also meant that there were quite a few high-ranking officers who didn't have the faintest idea how to command soldiers or win battles.
MC: How were relations between Britain and Spain at the time?
MB: Britain was neutral in the conflict between Spain and its American colonies. This was because it had needed the Spanish alliance against Napoleon's France but also because it didn't want to support the idea of other powers piling into colonial conflicts on the side of rebels – this had happened in the United States' War of Independence in the late eighteenth century, and Britain had enough of its own problems in the rest of its empire without worrying if any rebels would get support from Spain, France, Prussia or Russia, for example. So Britain had a public policy of neutrality. Nevertheless, lots of the British public were in favour of Spanish American independence because it chimed with their ideas about liberty, freedom, down with tyranny, and so on. Also, many British merchants and their friends in parliament and government were keen to have access to these new markets in Spanish America, which had hitherto been very difficult to get into because of the trade barriers erected by the Spanish colonial regime. The enlistment of adventurers, in London, to fight in Colombia, kicked a great hole in the middle of this delicate balancing act. Spanish officials in London were incandescent that ships moored on the River Thames could be so bare-faced about recruiting men. That's why the 'Foreign Enlistment Act' was brought in in 1819, and after that the recruitment of adventurers did rather dry up. The British policy of neutrality survived, independence was eventually achieved, and the merchants did indeed get access to the new markets. So, everyone won (except for the Spanish, who had lost all their American colonies by 1826, apart from Cuba and Puerto Rico).
MC: What were the differences in armoury between the British and the Royalist fighters?
MB: That is a good question. Military historians have rooted round in archives trying to answer this question, and archaeologists have unearthed surviving weapons from the period. Broadly speaking the weapons being used on either side were quite similar. Bayonets, rifles and lances were the principal weapons. Obviously each new expedition, either from Britain or Spain, brought new weapons with it. Many of the British officers spent a lot of time teaching recruits how to use them, for example the rifles, but the vast majority of battles were fought using weapons like swords, daggers, knives and lances. The battle of Junín, in Peru in 1824, was famously silent, with no gunfire at all, given the topographical difficulties in dragging cannons up and down the Andean mountain ranges, and without getting the gunpowder wet.
MC: Did the British soldiers respect the leadership of Bolivar and Sucre?
MB: I think on the whole the answer here was yes, but not always. Bolívar had a certain charisma which appealed to his British soldiers, and they played a crucial part in transmitting his revolutionary image across the Atlantic. Sucre got on well with most of the British and Irish officers. Francisco Burdett O'Connor, an Irish adventurer, has a lovely anecdote in his memoirs, published in Spanish as Independencia americana, about he and Sucre tossing a coin in order to decide which should of them should be allowed to court a particular woman. Clearly there was a lot of mutual respect there. Of course not all leadership was respected: British and Irish soldiers deserted all the time (rates of 10% per year were not unknown) and the Irish Legions staged a famous rebellion at the Caribbean port of Riohacha in 1820. (I have an article on the Rebellion at Riohacha in 1820 and its consequences). They made a real mess of the town, caused a load of havoc and got themselves a really bad reputation.
MC: And I was wondering if it was possible for you to give a couple of other reasons, non-military, how the British influenced the independence of the nations which temporarily became Colombia.
MB: Crikey: that's a big question. I suggest you read The Role of Great Britain in the Independence of Colombia, the volume edited by Malcolm Deas, published by the Colombian Embassy in London. All in all, you have the military assistance, the diplomatic neutrality, the arms sales, the public support and solidarity as well as the provision of a cultural and political model (as argued by the historian Karen Racine in her article 'This England, This Now': British Cultural Independence in the Spanish American Independence-Era', Hispanic American Historical Review (2010). That's quite a lot of British influence, but independence was still, clearly, primarily the work of Colombians, Venezuelans and Ecuadorians, who fought, wrote, died, thought, argued, saved and battled for their independence – with a little help from their friends.
[1] This paragraph is taken from my book, Matthew Brown, Adventuring through Spanish Colonies: Simón Bolívar, Foreign Mercenaries and the Birth of New Nations (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006), 28.


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Marlins Park sees a different kind of pitch
Soccer teams from Venezuela, Nigeria play in park's first non-baseball event
Soares, who was on vacation with his wife and daughter at Disney World, rented a car and drove to Miami. Before the match started, he proudly held up a banner, translated from Spanish, which read: "Our country on the road to Brazil for the World Cup." The next World Cup will be held in 2014.
After Triple Crown winner, Tigers third baseman and fellow Venezuelan Miguel Cabrera took part in the honorary first kick, the match became the first non-baseball sporting event at Marlins Park. Nigeria won, 3-1, on three second-half goals in front of a crowd of 13,372.
"I was surprised, because the stadium is big and they changed it so quickly from baseball," Soares said. "We have no parks like this in Venezuela, both in quality and size."
Wednesday's match marks the beginning of what could be many more non-baseball events at the venue. One major advantage, according to Sean Flynn, senior vice president of marketing and events at Marlins Park, is the weather.
Since the announcement of the match was made at the beginning of October, work had been done to accommodate a soccer pitch. It ran along the first-base line, with one goal near the Marlins' dugout on the third-base side and the other in front of the visitors' bullpen in right field.
Flynn said that a January soccer match between a club team from Europe and South or Central America could be finalized soon. Also in January, Marlins Park will host the Miami Soccer Challenge as part of a three-year partnership with Global Football Challenge.
"This gave us an opportunity to get everybody a dry run -- everything from covering the infield dirt to getting the lines down with international dimensions, to the right camera angles [and] sight lines from different seats in the building," Flynn said. "Everything you can think of gave us an opportunity to learn and get better each time we go."
And there's more in store. In March, the park will host second-round games of the World Baseball Classic. On April 20, the park will host "America's Night of Hope" with Joel and Victoria Osteen, an annual stadium event for Joel Osteen Ministries. One or two concerts may also take place during the offseason.
Said Flynn: "There's always something happening here on a regular basis."
Flynn hopes that college football will be played at Marlins Park down the road, whether during the regular season or with a bowl game. Three Major League ballparks are currently part of college football's postseason: AT&T Park (Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl), Yankee Stadium (New Era Pinstripe Bowl) and Tropicana Field (Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl). Wrigley Field hosted a regular-season game in 2010.
"Baseball is our core product -- it's perfect for baseball -- but as you can see tonight, soccer fits well," Flynn said. "It's something that we're investigating -- talking to local people, some people outside the local area -- to not only bring in a bowl game, but someone's home game at Marlins Park. Soccer looks great, and I'm sure American football will look just as good."
Though the sport on Marlins Park's playing field was different, some things remained the same: Fans flocked to the Clevelander. Taste of Miami offered local cuisine. Following each goal, the home run sculpture went off.
Amos Obiefuna traveled from San Antonio, Texas, to meet with a group of 200 fans to cheer on Nigeria.
"Football is one thing that binds every Nigerian together," Obiefuna said. "It gives us joy and happiness supporting our country. It's nice to [do that] in this very wonderful and beautiful stadium."


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Fringe Review: Love, Fate and The White TulipCarissa Pavlica at .
Fan favorite and critical darling Fringe came to an emotional conclusion tonight with two hours that John Noble hoped would resonate as one of the best of all time.
With "Liberty" and "An Enemy of Fate," conclusions were reached, but I'm not of a mind to compare it to the best ever.. I'd not even give it a top 10 spot. Let's find out why...
Early on in the first hour of the finale, Walter almost shared with Peter his belief that he needed to sacrifice his life, but instead it ended just a touching moment between father and son. That was a hint of what was to come, but first, Olivia finally got her due. No matter how many times I saw Olivia, or any character, get injected with potions into their spine, I never failed to squirm.
When I saw my beloved Fauxlivia (I can't help but call her that, even if just for old times' sake) on screen again, I erupted in spontaneous tears. Age was good to Alt-Livia Dunham. She was just lovely and had a life Lincoln Lee. Joel Wyman told me at Comic Con that I was wrong in needing my closure from the alterverse, but need it I did.
I enjoyed every moment of their short time on screen and Olivia's interaction with them. I loved the subtle makeup they used on Anna Torv to progress her aging. Just a bit to pad her face, which happens naturally, and some light lines to finish out the job. She will always be a gorgeous woman.
Knowing they found their happy ending was just as important to me as knowing our core family had theirs. After all, they are only one universe away from being the exact same people. If Peter had lived in both worlds, their lives would have practically mirrored each other, but Lincoln was able to slip into to the story and two wonderful men had a taste of Olivia Dunham, and her incarnations gave birth to two beautiful children. A daughter in our world and a son in theirs.
It was especially sweet that Olivia acknowledged how her life could have been different if she had chosen to be with Lincoln instead of Peter. She, too, might have had a traditionally happy life. It was good to know she had no regrets and didn't begrudge them their blessings.
I was a bit confused when Alt-Liv said to Olivia, "So you found her..." in reference to Etta. I have to assume that we missed part of the conversation as Olivia nearly blacked out because we had no reason to believe the doppelgangers ever met again after the bridge was closed.
Elsewhere throughout the hour, Windmark was attempting to get information on Michael. His emotional decision to end him and capture the team was all encompassing. But...I didn't care. I never for one moment imagined Michael would let anyone actually hurt him. Poke, prod, take a look - sure. Had they actually started cutting, I imagine that scenario would have quickly changed. A being as intelligent and different as Michael had to be one up on the entire process, right?
Staff writer Carla came pretty close to honing in on Walter's sacrifice in "The Boy Must Live" Round Table. Just as the Observers needed to know when Peter sacrificed himself at the end of Fringe Season 3, it all came down to whether or not Walter could let Peter go. The Observers, upon entering the era of 2036, found they were getting more emotional just by being there. I don't have any idea whether that was only the original 12 or all Observers, or why the technically enhanced would behave in the same manner as the biologically created ones, but perhaps that wasn't for us to know.
Their promise to each other never to speak of it outside their circle of 12 changed when September had Michael, and he knew a plan had to be devised to help the human friends he had come to know, to save not only them, but ensure the course of evolution didn't go awry with the erasure of all extraneous brain activity other than intelligence. It was the understanding of their progression in the face of their human counterparts that lead him to ask Walter for help getting Michael to the future to set things right.
Walter's decision to go to the future and be Michael's guide was his way of punishing himself for stealing time with Peter. For he believed that in tempting fate, he had brought about all of the changes in the universe and must atone for his sins. The sacrifice wasn't his to make, as Donald rightly pointed out. As Michael's father, it was Donald's job to hold his hand with love and guide him to the future to change the course of history. After all he, too, had a hand in the universes as they came to be and Peter's life with Walter.
Unfortunately, as it is with life, all things are not always in our hands. Fate has its own mind and that day it was of mind to take the life of Donald. As the quote says, the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray. You can never count all the mitigating factors that will come into play, and nobody could have imagined Donald falling to his death in the street at the moment his son needed him most. But Walter was prepared. The earlier heart to heart he and Peter had meant everything as he took Michael's hand and lead him into the future.
Changing the past through love made the plan a lot easier to swallow. What it didn't do was change what we (the public) had been surmising since Etta died. There would be a time reset and Peter, Olivia and Etta would be in the field, Etta blowing the seeds off a fluffed dandelion. This time, there would be no Observer invasion.
What wasn't clear was exactly what happened to Walter on the day in the field. If he was right in 2036, then he just disappeared off the planet in 2015. The only clue he left for Peter that something might be amiss was the white tulip.
The biggest problem with leaving the white tulip? It was sent (from what I could tell) via the US Mail. For the timing of the tulip to have reached Peter in the delivery on the day he returned from the field with his family was, if you can believe it, the most far-fetched thing in the entire two hour block. At the very least, a special delivery on the date and time would have at least made more sense from a timing perspective.
Essentially, Fringe Season 5 never happened. Olivia and Peter have no memories of the future, of their elder daughter or of her dying and Walter's sacrifice. Everybody is still alive, happy and working for the Fringe Division, except that Walter has disappeared. I think. While that's not a bad ending, it didn't come with the wow factor that I would have wanted. I didn't need a happy ending, but I did need closure.
The love story between the father and the son was complete, and yet entirely unfinished, as the final chapter never passed through Peter's brain. Will he gain enough resolution from the white tulip to know something as gigantic as what Peter went through when he was erased happened to his father? The relationship ended on a more positive note for Walter, as he will retain the memories of their time together and cherish it.
There was a side story with Windmark and Broyles, and the latter's discovery as the leader of the resistance, but overall it didn't impact the story arc to a large degree. We all wished for a kick ass moment for Astrid in the finale, and this was as good as it got:
Walter: It's a beautiful name.
Astrid: What is?
Walter: Astrid. | permalink
After years of calling her by every name but her own, it was a fitting end for Astrid to be acknowledged by Walter for the truly beautiful woman she was, even if I wished for more.
Now it's your turn. One last time, bring your thoughts on the episode to the comments section, and come back in about a week for the last Fringe round table, as we'll gather for some final thoughts on the series finale. Bring it on and pour your guts out. Thanks so much for reading and sharing your love of Fringe with us over the years.
Carissa Pavlica is the managing editor and a staff writer and critic for TV Fanatic. She's a member of the Critic's Choice Association, enjoys mentoring writers, cats, and passionately discussing the nuances of television and film. Follow her on Twitter and email her here at TV Fanatic.


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I'm reimplementing an old 4X space-rts game which has diplomacy options. The original was based on a relation scoring system (0..100) and a set of negotiation options (improve relations, alliance, declare war, etc.) The AI player usually had 3 options: yes, maybe and no; each adding or removing some amount to the relation score.
- How should the AI chose between the options?
- How does the diplomacy work in other games and how are they imlemented?
- Any good books/articles on the subject?
(Googling the term diplomacy yields the game Diplomacy, which is unhelpful.)


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This climate climate zone covers from about 44°N to 50°N latitude mostly east of the 100th meridian in North America. However, it can be found as far north as 54°N, and further west in the Canadian Prairie Provinces and below 40°N in the high Appalachians. In Europe this subtype reaches its most northerly latitude at nearly 61° N. Areas featuring this subtype of the continental climate have an average temperature in the warmest month below 22°C (22°F). Summer high temperatures in this zone typically average between 21-28°C (70-82°F) during the daytime and the average temperatures in the coldest month are generally far below the -3 °C (27°F) mark.
The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Dfb". (Warm Summer Continental Climate).
The average temperature for the year in Poland is 45.0°F (7.2°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 68.7°F (20.4°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 19.4°F (-7°C).
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Poland is 47.6" (1209 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is October with 5.1" (129.5 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is January with an average of 2.9" (73.7 mm). There are an average of 142.4 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in June with 16.6 days and the least precipitation occurring in February with 8.8 days.
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Rihanna extinguished fans' flames of worry for her health with four quick words sent through Twitter on Monday.
"Nonsense! I'm not sick!" the 24-year-old singer tweeted on her Twitter account @rihanna.
"I pushed my trip to London back to go spend time with my family! Sorry kiddos," she went on to explain.
The U.K.'s Sun Newspaper reported the star, who has become notorious for her photos of strippers and hard partying, had cancelled her trip abroad because of health concerns stemming from her lifestyle choices.
Rihanna was quick to take aim at the offending media outlet, however, with this aggressive tweet:
"The Sun Newspaper is like a f**kin a** hair, full of sh**!!!!!!"
Health concerns may not have been a factor in her cancellation of the 10-day U.K. stay, but Rihanna has had a few health scares in recent months.
The 'Where Have You Been' star was rushed to hospital last month after suffering from what has been called "exhaustion and dehydration."
She took to Twitter to share a picture of herself in hospital attached to an IV drip after reportedly staying overnight the at the Met Gala in New York. Rihanna discharged shortly after the medical stay and returned to Los Angeles.


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Department of Decision & Information Sciences
Recent Publications
2012 Publications
- Bregman, Robert L.. "A Value Chain Analysis of the China Price." Production and Inventory Management [2012]
- Bregman, Robert L.. ""Eating Your Own Dog Food" - Applying Course Concepts in Your Teaching." International Journal of Innovation and Learning [2012]
- Goel, L., N. Johnson, I. Junglas, Blake Ives. "Predicting Users' Return to Virtual Worlds: A Social Perspective." Information Systems Journal [2012]
- Goel, L., I. Junglas, N. Johnson, Blake Ives. "Decision-making In-Socio and In-Situ." Decision Support Systems [2012]
- Yavuz Acar and Everette S. Gardner, Jr.. "Forecasting Method Selection in a Global Supply Chain." International Journal of Forecasting [2012]
2011 Publications
- Bregman, Robert L.. "An Electronic Framework to Enhance Conceptual Learning." International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education [2011]
- Chin, Wynne, W. Thatcher, J. B. Wright, R. T. "Assessing Common Method Bias: Problems with the UMLC Technique." MIS Quarterly [2011]
- Chin, Wynne, W. Junglas, I. Roldán, J. L. "Some Considerations for Articles Introducing New and/or Novel Quantitative Methods to IS Researchers." European Journal of Information Systems [2011]
- Hardaway, Donald E. and Richard W. Scamell. "Open Knowledge Creation: Bringing Transparency and Inclusiveness to the Peer Review Process." MIS Quarterly [2011]
- Harris, J. G., Blake Ives, and I. Junglas. "The Genie is Out of the Bottle: Managing the Infiltration of Consumer IT Into the Workforce." Accenture: Research Report [2011]
- Jamison, Day and Leiser Silva. "Managing Information Flow Challenges in the Supply Chain." Clutter IT Journal [2011]
- Manuj, I. and Funda Sahin. "A Model of Supply Chain and Supply Chain Decision-Making Complexity." International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management [2011]
2010 Publications
- Narayanan, Arunachalam, Powell Robinson. "Efficient and Effective Heuristics for the Coordinated Capacitated Lot-Sizing Problem." European Journal of Operational Research [2010]
- Narayanan, Arunachalam, Powell Robinson. "Evaluation of Joint Replenishment Procedures in Rolling Horizon Systems." International Journal of Production Economics [2010]
2009 Publications
- Acar, Yavuz, Sukran Kadipasaoglu and Jamison M. Day. "A General Approach for Incorporating Uncertainty in Optimal Decision Making: Iterative use of MIP and Simulation in Solving Combinatorial Problems." Computers and Industrial Engineering. [February 2009]
- Bregman, Robert L. "A Heuristic Procedure for Solving the Dynamic Probabilistic Project Expediting Problem." European Journal of Operational Research. [2009]
- Bregman, Robert L. "Preemptive Expediting to Improve Project Due Date Performance." Journal of the Operational Research Society. [2009]
- Johnson, Norman and Randolph Cooper. "Media, Affect, Concession and Agreement in Negotiation among Strangers: IM versus Telephone." Decision Support Systems [2009]
- Johnson, Norman and Randolph Cooper. "Power and Concession in Computer-Mediated Negotiations: An Examination of First Offers." MIS Quarterly [2009]
- Johnson, Norman, Randolph Cooper and Wynne Chin. "Anger and Flaming in Computer-mediated Negotiation among Strangers." Decision Support Systems [2009]
- Narayanan, Arunachalam, E. Powell Robinson and Funda Sahin. "Coordinated deterministic dynamic demand lot sizing problem: A review of models and algorithms." OMEGA [2009]
- Robinson, Powell, Arunachalam Narayan, F. Sahin. "Coordinated deterministic dynamic demand lot sizing problem: A review of models and algorithms." OMEGA [2009]
2008 Publications
- Chin, Wynne W. and A. M Wicks. "Measuring the Three Process Segments of a Customer's Service Experience for an Outpatient Surgery Center." International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance. [2008]
- Chin, Wynne, A. Schwarz and Norman Johnson. "A Fast Form Approach to Measuring Technology Acceptance and Other Constructs." MIS Quarterly. [2008]
- Chin, Wynne, Robert A. Peterson and Steven P. Brown. "Structural Equation Modeling in Marketing: Some Practical Reminders." Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice. [2008]
- Chin, Wynne W., M. Parent, and W.D. Salisbury. "Robbing Peter To Pay Paul: The Differential Effect Of GSS Restrictiveness On Process Satisfaction And Group Cohesion, Group Decision and Negotiation." Group Decision and Negotiation. [2008]
- Cooper, Randolph and R. Haines. "The Influence of Workspace Awareness on Group Intellective Decision Effectiveness." European Journal of Information Systems. [2008]
- Diaz-Saiz, Joaquin and Everette S. Gardner Jr. "Exponential Smoothing in the Telecommunications Data." International Journal of Forecasting. [2008]
- Johnson, Norman, Iris Junglas and C. Spitzmueller. "Personality Traits and Privacy Perceptions: An Empirical Study In the Context of Location-Based Services." European Journal of Information Systems. [2008]
- Johnson, Norman, Randolph Cooper and Wynne Chin. "The Effect of Flaming on Computer-Mediated Negotiations." European Journal of Information Systems. [2008]
- Junglas, Iris, C. Abraham and Blake Ives. "Mobile Technology at the Frontlines of Patient Care: Understanding Fit and Human Drives in Utilization Decisions and Performance." Decision Support Systems. [2008]
- Junglas, Iris, C. Abraham and R. T. Watson. "Task-Technology Fit for Mobile Locatable Information Systems." Decision Support Systems. [2008]
- Junglas, Iris and R. T. Watson. "Location-Based Services: Perceptions of Location-Tracking and Location-Awareness Services." Communications of the ACM. [2008]
- Krotov, Vlad and Iris Junglas. "RFID as a Disruptive Innovation." Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research [2008]
- Neu, Dean, Leiser Silva and Elizabeth Ocampo Gómez. "Diffusing financial practices in Latin American higher education." Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. [2008]
- Silva, Leiser, Lakshmi Goel and Elham Mousavidin. "Exploring the dynamics of blog communities: the case of MetaFilter." Information Systems Journal. [2008]
- Street, Chis, Michael Wade, Niels Bjørn-Anderson, Blake Ives, John Venable and Mike Zach. "Reversing the Downward Trend: Innovative Approaches to IS/IT Course Development and Delivery." CAIS (Communications of the Association for Information Systems). [2008]
2007 Publications
- Chin, Wynne W. and Andrew Schwarz. "Looking Forward: Toward an Understanding of the Nature and Definition of IT Acceptance." (JAIS) Journal of the Association of Information Systems. [2007]
- Chin, Wynne W., Andrew Schwarz, Manjari Mehta, and Norman Johnson. "Understanding Frameworks and Reviews: A Commentary to Assist us in Moving Our Field Forward by Analyzing Our Past." The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems. [2007]
- Day, Jamison, Anand Nair, Murat Kristal, Surya Pathak, William Sawaya. "Complexity and Adaptivity in Supply Networks: Building Supply Network Theory Using a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective." Decision Sciences. [2007]
- Day, Jamison M., Faizul Huq, Nikhil Pujari and Trevor Hale. "A Framework for an Integrated Supply Chain Optimization Model." International Journal of Logistics Systems Management. [ 2007]
- Ives, Blake and Dennis Adams. "Multi-User Virtual Environments: Vaulting from Virtual to Valuable." Cutter Benchmark Review. [2007]
- Ives, Blake and G. Piccoli. "STA Travel Island: Marketing First Life Travel Services in Second Life." (CAIS) Communications of the Association for Information Systems. [2007]
- Johnson, Norman, Chon Abraham, Douglas Steel and Iris Junglas. "Identity Formation, Learning Styles and Trust in Virtual Worlds." Data Base. [2007]
- Junglas, Iris A. and Blake Ives. "Managing IT in a Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina." MISQ Executive. [2007]
- Khumawala, Basheer, Joaquin Diaz-Saenz and John Visich. "An Empirical Comparison of Improvement Heuristics for the Mixed-Model, U-Line Balancing Problem." International Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management. [2007]
- Khumawala, Basheer and Margaret Noble. "Maquiladoras and Beyond: The Continuing Search for Competitive Labor." AIMS International Journal of Management. [2007]
- Porra, Jaana. "A Lifetime of Ethical use of Computers – A Dialogue with Enid Mumford, Jaana Porra and Rudy Hirschheim." Journal of the Association of Information Systems. [2007]
- Porra, Jaana and Rudy Hirschheim. "Enid Mumford's Contribution to Information Systems Theory and Theoretical Thinking – Introduction to the Special Issue." (JAIS) Journal of the Association of Information Systems. [2007]
- Porra, Jaana, David Avison, Niels Bjørn-Andersen, Elayne Coakes, Gordon B. Davis, Michael J.Earl, Amany Elbanna, Guy Fitzgerald, Robert D. Galliers, Rudy Hirschheim, Juhani Iivari, Heinz K. Klein, Frank Land, Marco de Marco and Andrew M. Pettigrew. "Enid Mumford: A Tribute." Information Systems Journal. [2007]
- Silva, Leiser. "Institutionalization Does Not Occur by Decree: Institutional Obstacles in Implementing a Land Administration System in a Developing Country." Information Technology for Development. [2007]
- Silva, Leiser, Jennifer González-Reinhart and Eugenio B. Figueroa. "Interpreting IS Alignment: A Multiple Case Study in Professional Organizations." Information and Organization. [2007]
- Silva, Leiser. "Epistemological and Theoretical Challenges for Studying Power and Politics in Information Systems." Information Systems Journal. [2007]
2006 Publications
- Chin, Wynne W. "Methods and Applications in Marketing and Related Fields, A Permutation Based Procedure for Multi-Group PLS Analysis: Results of Tests of Differences on Simulated Data and a Cross Cultural Analysis of the Source." Handbook of Partial Least Squares Concepts. [2006]
- Chin, Wynne W. "Methods and Applications in Marketing and Related Fields, On reporting PLS based research: Issues and Approaches." Handbook of Partial Least Squares Concepts. [2006]
- Chin, Wynne W. "Methods and Applications in Marketing and Related Fields, Cross-Validation Indices For PLS Path Model Assessment." Handbook of Partial Least Squares Concepts. [2006]
- Day, Jamison M. and Gus Donnell. "A Survey of Supply Chain Demand Variability (Bullwhip Effect) Metrics." Decision Sciences Institute 2006 National Meeting Proceedings. [2006]
2005 Publications
- Chin, Wynne W., A. Majchrak, C. Beath, R. Lim. "Managing Client Dialogues During Information Systems Design to Facilitate Client Learning." MIS Quarterly [2005]
- Junglas, Iris A. "On Ease of Use and Usefulness of Location-Based Services." International Journal of Mobile Communications
- Junglas, Iris A. and Doug Steel. "The Virtual Sandbox." Data Base
- Silva, Leiser and Rudy Hirschheim. "Fighting windmills: Strategic Information Systems and Organizational Deep Structures." MIS Quarterly
- Silva, Leiser. "Post-positivist Review of Technology Acceptance Model." (JAIS) Journal of the Association of Information Systems
Competitive Conferences
- Bregman, Robert L., Strakos, J.. "A Total Cost Analysis of U.S. Supplier Competitiveness." Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute, 42: 3281-3286 [2011]
- Gu, Qiannong, John K. Visich and Basheer M. Khumawala. "Production Lot Sizing with Advance Information Sharing." Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Production and Operations Management Society [2011]
- Mousavidin, Elham and Silva Leiser. "Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities." DSI. [2011]
- Visich, John K., Qian-nong Gu and Basheer M. Khumawala. "B2C Mass Customization in the Classroom." Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute [2011]
Books & Book Chapters
- Chin, Wynne W. et al. (Editors). Handbook of Partial Least Squares Concepts, Methods and Applications in Marketing and Related Fields. Springer Verlag. [2007]
- Scamell, Richard W. and N. S. Umanath. Data Modeling and Database Design. Thomson Course Technology. [January 2007]
- Silva, Leiser. "Institutionalization Does Not Occur by Decree: Institutional Obstacles in Implementing a Land Administration System in a Developing Country." Spatial Data Infrastructures in Context: North and South. Taylor and Francis, 2011.
- Silva, Leiser and Chris Westrup. (Editors.). Proceedings of the Ninth International Working Conference of IFIP WG 9.4: Taking Stock of E-Development. IFIP 9.4. [2007]
Editorial Board Positions
- Associate Professor Jaana Porra is associate editor of Journal of the Association for Information Systems and is 2010 co-chair of IS Philosophy track for International Conference on Information Systems.
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The other night we went to dinner as a family. The restaurant was rather busy. It seems restaurants try to sit children in booths (at least that has been my experience), but there were no booths available for us. They put us at a table.
The immediate problem I saw was that this table was in the middle of a large room. There were booths all around the room with some tables in the middle. We were on display for everyone in the room to see. My children are typically quite good, but you just never know what is going to happen. Children can be unpredictable. Even children who are generally good have their bad moments. I was admittedly a bit nervous. I scanned the room and saw an elderly couple sitting in a booth rather close to us. I had the thought that I hoped the children would not be disruptive to them.
As it turned out, the children were really good and well behaved. When we were almost done eating, the elderly couple walked over to our table. The woman told me that I had the most beautiful children and that they were "so well mannered." I thanked her. This was such a compliment for me. In my experience, most elderly people have a higher standard for good behavior than those in my generation. I appreciated her taking the time to tell me the things she was thinking. This is something we as a society don't do often enough, and I am certainly guilty of it. I often think nice things but don't say them. It was one of those moments you get as as parent that reward you and tell you all of your hard work day in and day out is worth it.
That night as we sat in the middle of the room for all to scrutinize the behavior of my children, I was very happy for all the things we had taught them. I was glad Brayden knew and accepted that he needed to sit in his chair and that running around was not acceptable. I was glad Kaitlyn knows she needs to stay in her highchair if I tell her to even after she is done eating. I was glad I could take crayons away from her because she was trying to chew on them without her throwing a fit. I was glad we were able to go out and have a nice evening together as a family and leave the restaurant happy rather than embarrassed. I was so happy I had chosen to follow the principles of Babywise.
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Reader Comments:
- Maureen said…
Congrats! Isn't it so great when that happens? We go out to eat quite a bit (more than we should) so my kids know what is expected of them and almost always behave pretty well. We went out to eat the other day and were seated very close to a couple who was out without their kids. I didn't want to ruin their experience (they probably paid a sitter), so I made sure my kids behaved especially well. The woman even enjoyed the conversations my 4yo struck with her. Aside from the three pieces of silverware that ended up on the floor (accidentally), it was a good experience.
November 13, 2008 11:19 AM
Plowmanators said…
Thanks Maureen–it is always nice to see your hard work pay off 🙂
November 19, 2008 3:00 PM
- Christie said…
I agree! Babywise has benefits in all areas, even in restaurants. We went to the Olive Garden the other day and our 16 month old girl was excellent, she ate her pasta (even though a little messy!) and told me "uh-oh!" when she dropped a piece of bread on the floor. She loves Chick Fil A as well. There are a few restaurants she does not do as well in, but for the most part, an enjoyable experience!
November 13, 2008 12:48 PM
Plowmanators said…
Thanks for sharing Christie!
November 19, 2008 3:00 PM
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