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Angel Sites: Match.com for Startups, Investors
Source: Twitter
Deena Varshavskaya had a hotter-than-hot idea for a start-up business, but she didn't have the dough to do much about it.
So, she posted her idea on AngelList, a website that connects entrepreneurs with deep-pocketed angel investors willing to financially back folks like her. These investors — who like to seed startups — typically have more than $ 1 million in the bank or make more than $ 200,000 a year. (Read more: A Pitch Fest for Entrepreneurs)
Her idea: a Pinterest-like social-media outlet where users create collections of products they like from online stores. Within two weeks, her first potential investor offered a hefty $ 500,000. But she turned it down because she was receiving even better offers from others around the world.
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Terms of investment from an angel typically vary in terms of stock sold, length of investment and control of the company between entrepreneur and investor.
"Instantly we started getting e-mails from investors, people that I've read about, people that I've heard about," said Varshavskaya, whose site, Wanelo, now has more than 1.5 million users. She accepted offers from 15 investors who were willing to give her the control she wanted of her company. "It was crazy exhilarating."
As technological advances lower both the difficulty and overhead of starting a company, entrepreneurs have become numerous and competition for funding ruthless. Online services such as AngelList allow entrepreneurs to connect with angel investors they would never otherwise meet.
Last year, some 66,230 companies received $ 22.5 billion through angel investors, up from 36,000 receiving $ 15.7 billion in 2002, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. Since it was founded in 2010, more than 500 companies have found funding through AngelList.
(Read more: Meet the 17-Year-Old Who Is Reinventing News)
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These websites work like online dating sites. Entrepreneurs create profiles about them and their company, and angel investors cruise the site looking for promising startups. Entrepreneurs can also search investor profiles to see who's funded startups similar to theirs.
Just like online dating, though, an online profile is no magic bullet for success. Even AngelList founder Naval Ravikant says most angel investors need to get to know a company's founder or founders in person, and investors want recommendations from a trusted source before they shell out. AngelList is great for an initial introduction, though.
"We're bringing the Silicon Valley ecosystem online and making it available to the rest of the world," says Ravikant, who is an angel investor himself, in addition to being an entrepreneur.
Finding investors didn't used to be this easy, said David Rose, CEO of Gust, an online service that connects entrepreneurs to angel groups, organizations of angel investors who pool their money and share research.
Before services such as AngelList or Gust, entrepreneurs usually had to know angel investors or be introduced by a mutual acquaintance. Finding funding had more to do with who you knew than your company's potential, says Rose.
"How do you find a random rich person who is that teeny-weeny itsy-bitsy percentage of people who's willing to bet on entrepreneurs?" he said. "There was no industry, no structure, not anything. It was a matter of who you bumped into."
Strategies: Secrets to Small Business Growth
Even though Vic Sarjoo, 36, had been both an angel investor and entrepreneur since he started a hedge fund at age 22, he says Gust reduced the time it would have taken him to find investors for his online music-licensing service, Sir Groovy, by directing him to angels who invested in companies like his.
"Gust allowed us, Sir Groovy, to pinpoint all the top investors in entertainment technology," said Sarjoo. "Those investors are receptive, they understand our business, they understand the problems we're solving."
Investors like being able to find Jonathon Triest, chief of Detroit-based Ludlow Ventures, says half his portfolio came from AngelList, which lets him connect with startups across the country.
"It's allowed me to operate from Detroit or have access as if I were in the Valley or on the East Coast or wherever the hotbed of start-ups happens to be," said Triest, who regularly surfs AngelList for tech start-up profiles. "While browsing through the companies, when I come upon a company that's so interesting I might want to invest in it, all I have to do is literally press a button that said, 'Get intro'd.' "
Although Wanelo is based in San Francisco, Varshavskaya says she was contacted by investors all over the world from Europe to South Africa. After putting her profile on AngelList in July 2011, she'd finished her first round of funding by the end of the year, timing that might have been impossible without AngelList.
"I probably would have been able to do it on my own, but it probably would have taken a significantly longer time," she said. "I cannot imagine how people did it without AngelList."

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I've always had a preference for pink blushes. Pink is one of my favorite colors and when it comes to blushes, they're hard for me to resist. This spring, I decided to branch out into the world of peach blushes, and have found four fabulous ones to choose from.
An easy place to start was in the soft peachy pink realm so I chose Alima Pure Satin Matte Blush in Mimosa, which means there is no shimmer but yet it imparts a subtle glow. Mimosa is slightly warm, on the apricot side of peach, but has enough neutral pink to create a soft, pretty flush that never leans orange. NVEY Eco's #953 looks slightly lighter in the pan than Mimosa, but it gives the identical effect. The only difference between the two is that Mimosa is a loose powder blush and #953 is a pressed pan blush. I love both of them equally, but do reach for NVEY Eco more frequently since the pan is so convenient. (It also costs twice as much as Alima's blush). Since Mimosa and #953 are my go to blushes when I want a natural, healthy look, I highly recommend them both.
The deeper peach blushes I tried were Dr. Hauschka's (01) Warm Terracotta and Everyday Minerals' Rhapsody in Peach. Warm Terracotta is the perfect name for Dr. Hauschka's blush as it's a matte, burnished apricot with a hint of brown. It is highly pigmented, therefore I only apply it with a skunk brush. With a light touch, Warm Terracotta brightens your cheeks with a warm peachy color that would move into bronzer territory if it had a bit more brown in it. Rhapsody in Peach is not a terracotta color, but rather a bright pinky peach with fine gold shimmer. It differs from Mimosa not only because is has a shimmery quality, but mostly because it is a much deeper color and would not be suitable for light skin tones. Again, I use this with a light hand and achieve a peach flush that is more intense than either Mimosa or NVEY's #953 but still looks natural.
Left: Everday Minerals Rhapsody in Peach. Right: Alima Mimosa
All of these blushes are 100% natural and contain no petrochemicals, phthalates or parabens.
–Alima Pure Satin Matte Blush in Mimosa is available at Alima Pure
-NVEY Eco #953 blush is available at Nvey Eco for $28.95
–Dr. Hauschka Rouge Powder is $30 at BeautyHabit.com. Please see Soft Terracotta as Warm Terracotta in no longer available.
-Everyday Minerals Rhapsody in Peach is available at EverdayMinerals.com in their On The Reef Collection for $34
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Los Angeles: City Of Perpetual Cinematic Destruction
Los Angeles doesn't stand a chance on the big screen. In the movies, the City of Angels has been obliterated by titanic tornadoes, epic earthquakes and a colossal volcano that bubbles up from below the La Brea Tar Pits.
And if it's not getting hammered by natural disasters, it's being ravaged by wayward, giant flying creatures, like in the 2007 movie Dragon Wars: D-War, or it's getting blasted by cyborg assassins — as in the Terminator franchise, being devastated by the zombie apocalypse (2009's Zombieland) or getting zapped by merciless Martians "menacing all mankind and every creature on Earth" in War of the Worlds (the original 1953 version, Steven Spielberg's 2005 version, and the 2008 direct-to-video sequel).
Perhaps L.A. is the focus of so much cinematic destruction because it's the city filmmakers know best. Maybe Hollywood is just tapping into a sense of disdain the rest of the world feels for the city's rich and famous. Whatever the reason, Los Angeles has been crushed enough times by the very people who call it home that chronicling the carnage for our series "On Location," in which we look at the places where America's films are shot, seemed like a no-brainer.
By far, L.A.'s biggest cinematic target is the famous nine-letter landmark perched in the Hollywood hills. The Hollywood sign gets demolished by extreme weather in The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and is shot down by John Belushi, himself a force of nature, in the movie 1941.
"My name's Wild Bill Kelso, and don't you forget it!" says Belushi's character, as he flies a World War II bomber into L.A.
Miraculously, the Hollywood sign is back for more mayhem in just about every disaster movie set in Los Angeles.
Same goes for the Capitol Records Building, which was designed to resemble a stack of 45 rpm records. The architectural wonder is under Cylon attack in 1981's Conquest of the Earth,a film from the original Battlestar Galactica franchise. The same building crumbled, along with the rest of the city, while Charlton Heston ditched Ava Gardner to rescue Genevieve Bujold in the 1974 movie Earthquake. Chalk the repetition up to more than the building's iconic status: Sharp-eyed viewers might notice that Universal Pictures, which produced both movies, may have used the same footage twice.
Some filmmakers can't leave the city alone either. Roland Emmerich, who set those twisters on L.A. in The Day After Tomorrow, also blew it up (via alien spaceships) in the 1996 film Independence Dayand destroyed it with a massive earthquake in 2012,which he made in 2009.
In the movies, Los Angeles is often a post-apocalyptic outpost, filled with undesirables on the run, like in the classic Blade Runner (1982), but also in Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) and the 1996 Kurt Russell vehicle, Escape from L.A.
While doing my in-depth investigative reporting for this story, I asked L.A.'s mayor, police chief and several City Council members whether they were at all concerned that a Hollywood-scale calamity could annihilate the city. "Nah," they all said, "that's only in the movies."
But just to be sure, I visited L.A. County's Office of Emergency Management.
"Preparedness is a key to survival, advised Ken Kondo, a spokesman for the emergency center whose high-tech situation room was featured in the 1997 movie Volcano,in which the titular destructive force, buried beneath the La Brea Tar Pits, erupts, sending Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche scurrying for the coast.
What are the plans in case L.A. gets hit with an earthquake?
"People are instructed to drop, cover and hold on," said Kondo.
How prepared is L.A. for tornadoes?
"About a year ago, we had a funnel cloud touch down in Compton," he remarked.
How about zombies and aliens?
"Zombies and aliens is interesting," Kondo said, without a hint of irony. "The same principles apply: talking about having an emergency kit, food, water, flashlight, batteries, medication; having a jacket, long sleeves."
And he added, "It could happen at any time."
Seriously? Is L.A. really prepping for flesh-eating zombies or demented space aliens? At the emergency center, I tried to clarify with Sheriff Sergeant Brian Muller.
"There's always aliens coming to Los Angeles, right?" I probed.
"You mean ... " he asked.
"In the movies," I clarified.
"Oh, the movie aliens," Muller nodded. "I wasn't sure if you were talking about immigration aliens coming to L.A. We have a lot of those, too."
For good measure, Muller admitted it "sure would be fun" if space aliens were to land in Los Angeles. "But let's hope they're friendly, and if they're not, they don't have more lethal weapons than we have."
Space aliens are always visiting L.A. in the movies, if only to teach us that we really should take better care of our Earth, that we mustn't anger genetically engineered replicants or cyborgs, and that we'd better be nice to intergalactic tourists, even if they don't always like us. But as Skyline, Transformers and Independence Day illustrated, sometimes there's no way to prepare for unreasonable enemies.
So visit the beach in Santa Monica while you still can. On Aug. 11, it's supposed to be overrun by hostile space creatures. That's according to the recent movie Battle: Los Angeles. Which should not be confused with the made-for-TV movie Battle of Los Angeles, in which a giant spacecraft heads straight for downtown before commencing destruction. Go ride the ferris wheel and the sea creature thrill ride on the pier before all of us mere earthlings have to run for our lives!
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In a previous post, I described some instructional applications of QR codes. In this post, I'll discuss the use of QR codes in patient education and performance support (e.g., supporting health-directed behaviors).
Mobile health (mhealth) meets mobile learning (mlearning)
QR codes have enormous potential to allow learners to pull information related to their own health care interests. The information can be presented as micro-educational modules, or perhaps more aptly, as performance support tools.
For example, QR codes can be used to help patients use health information in specific contexts, such as when needing to:
- take a pill
- interact with a device (for example, a glucose meter, a smart band-aid, etc)
- engage in a behavior (e.g., finding a hospital, exercising, buying food, selecting a meal, etc).
The mhealth applications of QR codes intersect with their mlearning applications.
Some examples include:
- QR codes on food/drink packages to link to nutrition information, interactive calorie counters, and personal information about a patient's diet plan (which would require the learner/patient to interact with a Web site linked to the QR code)
- QR codes attached to medication labels, linking the codes to patient-friendly information, as well as physician and pharmacy contact information
- QR codes to identify drug interactions (useful for patients and physicians) via an interactive or static Web interface
- QR codes on devices patients use, to link to how-to information (e.g., text, video, or audio information, that could be presented in different languages)
- QR codes to link medications, patient devices, physical locations, etc, to live assistance (e.g., nurses, other health care providers) via phone numbers associated with the code or links to sites with live chat capabilities
- QR codes on a card the patient carries or on a key-chain attachment that's linked to the patient's personal health care record (PHR) and/or emergency contact information
- QR codes to help patients identify health care providers or emergency medical services in their area
- QR codes on the equipment on a jogging path or in a gym to encourage appropriate exercises, connect to heart rate monitors, etc.
Augmenting reality with QR codes
As described in a previous post, augmented reality applications allow learners to use smart phones to connect location-based information with online information and to augment their view of their surroundings (e.g., as displayed via their smart phone camera) with computer-generated information. While GPS signals can be used to cue a mobile device to the information that should be layered over a camera display, QR codes could be used in this way as well.
- For example, a Google Map could be layered over an image of a person's surroundings to indicate the location of health care providers or emergency services
- A map of the departments in a hospital can be layered over an image of a person's current location in the hospital
- An image of a person using the specific exercise equipment associated with a QR code could be layered over a camera image of that equipment.
Current mhealth applications for patients
The mhealth potential of QR codes is being recognized by health care providers, and QR codes are increasingly recognized by the public as information that can be scanned and used (though of course this education needs to continue). For example, QR codes are starting to be embraced by the health care industry for marketing/disease awareness purposes, as noted in this article. The Oral Cancer Foundation has used QR codes at an event to link T-shirts, stickers, and even temporary tatoos to educational information about oral cancer. Likely, this is just the beginning of mhealth and mlearning applications.
Caveats and cautions
The same cautions that apply to mobile learning in general apply to QR codes. If the information and interactions don't suit learners' goals, learners won't get much out of them or transfer newly acquired knowledge/skills to their health behaviors. Interactive applications are more likely to engage learners and to help learners develop problem-solving skills. Text and visuals need to be appropriate to the context and the learner audience being targeted. In other words, there's the usual admonition, don't skimp on analysis when you're developing an mhealth mlearning application.
Access also is clearly a limiting factor in the wide-spread use of QR codes. Though the "mobile revolution" may be over on a very superficial level, when you dive deeper it's clear that there's a large divide between those who have smart phones and those who do not. As illustrated in this infographic, 83% of Americans may have mobile phones, but only 25% have smart phones.
As the technology advances and prices come down, we hope these numbers change. This doesn't mean that we abandon the development of mhealth, mlearning applications that reach smartphone users, but it does mean that in the meantime we consider how to reach the other 83%. That's the subject of the next post.


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Trailer Treasure—Affordable Housing, Green Living, Community, Income in an Unlikely Place
The American dream of homeownership for all is not particularly healthy these days. Housing prices in some areas have already returned to pre-Great Recession (2006) levels. According to the Trulia real estate website, the median price for a home in San Francisco County is $583 per square foot! The cheapest price in California is $65 per square foot—up in Modoc County. Most housing in the United States falls between $50 and $150 per square foot.
Many of us find that we simply don't have (and can't borrow) the money needed to buy a stick-built home. Where does this leave us? Should we each have three jobs so we can afford our own place, or should we just give up and move under a bridge?
Interestingly, some of the richest people in the United States see this housing crisis as an opportunity. Warren Buffett owns one of the largest mobile home (MH) manufacturing companies in the United States and billionaire investor Sam Zell owns more than 370 mobile home parks (MHPs) nationwide. They just might be foreseeing an upcoming need for their services!
We think MHs are worth looking into, for several reasons:
- They provide much-needed affordable housing.
- They are environmentally friendly.
- In MHPs, they provide the sense of community that many people crave.
- For investors, they offer high returns for a low initial investment.
Something for everyone! But first, we have to get over the long-standing bad press.
Busting MH Myths
MHs and MHPs carry a stigma. The word poor comes to mind—poor-quality homes, poor people, poor surroundings.
The popular story is that MHs depreciate like a car, instead of appreciating like a house, and will soon turn to rust and dust. Yet we have seen and worked on 1960s mobiles that are holding up better than many of their stick-built counterparts. With minor upkeep, their metal undercarriage, siding, and roofing make them quite durable. As for their market value, many investors make a living buying and selling or renting out MHs; they must know something.
MHPs run the gamut, from high-end luxury communities to solid middle- and lower-income communities, to the scary MHPs, where drug dealers hang out on every corner and residents allow their MHs to slowly compost. But even the latter can be saved, as MHP turnaround experts and creators of the online Mobile Home University, Frank Rolf and Dave Reynolds, have demonstrated repeatedly. When you spend time in MHPs, you may find some of the expected "poorness," but you may also find neighbors who know each other, kids who can play safely on the streets, and people who make time to beautify their home and yard.
Getting Oriented to the MH World
There are many types of MH, with major differences based on age and size. Homes are available from single- to triple-wide, and from 40 to 90 feet long. Age differences show up as stylistic changes, such as aluminum siding and roofing and no roof overhangs on older homes, and wooden siding, pitched roofs, composition shingles, and deep overhangs on newer ones.
Merriam-Webster defines mobile home as "a house that is built in a factory and then moved to the place where people will live in it." You may also hear the terms manufactured home and modular home, the distinctions being based on when the home was built, which codes it meets, and whether the chassis is permanently attached or removed after delivery. But unless you're buying a new manufactured/modular/mobile home, these distinctions will have little impact on buying, renovating, living in, or selling an existing one.
What does matter is where your MH is located. MH locations come in two basic flavors: on land and in parks, each with its pros and cons.
MHs on land give you many of the same freedoms and responsibilities as stick-built homes, but at a much lower price. You may find an MH on a several-acre parcel, on a small lot in a subdivision created for MHs, or even within the rare MHPs that allow homeowners to own their tiny lot while enjoying the benefits of shared facilities. One big advantage of an MH on land is that you're free to rent it out if you choose.
MHs in parks are different. Roughly half of the 8.6 million MHs in the United States are in parks, and you pay space rent to keep your home there. Park rules may restrict the age of the renter, the age of the MH, its rentability, its appearance, and what you can do around your home. An MH in a park has several advantages:
- You don't have to buy the land.
- The infrastructure is in place and is maintained by the park.
- You have a built-in social structure.
- Used MHs in parks can be really inexpensive.
MHs as Affordable Housing
Just how affordable are MHs? While you can pay $40,000–$250,000 or more for a big, new, manufactured home, we think the real story is in the smaller, older homes. If you know where to look, you can find livable older MHs for $5 per square foot or less—even free! Those prices don't usually include the land, so it's not an apples-to-apples comparison with stick-built homes. But even some smaller and older MHs on land are offered for $40 per square foot or less.
Where do you find these deals? Sometimes you'll find them on a multiple listing service, particularly for MHs on land. But the bargains in parks take a little more looking. Check craigslist.com, but this is the Wild West, and you need to do your due diligence. Drive through an MHP and look for For Sale signs in the windows. Get to know the park managers and ask if they'll be "taking back" any homes soon. This can occur when a homeowner doesn't pay space rent for several months, and the park owner may auction off the MH to cover lost rent.
Then there are the free homes. Sometimes MH owners die or need to move on, and they or their heirs just want to be rid of the home to avoid paying space rent. These folks will happily give up the MH for little or nothing. Once you own an MH in a park, you may be in a good position to hear about such deals.
Case Studies
Carol owns two MHs in an MHP in rural California.
The first is a 900 ft2, two-bedroom home that was abandoned; it cost her $2,000 at auction. She put about $10,000 into fixing it (new windows, toilets, floor coverings, paint, front deck, stove, kitchen sink and faucet, range hood, blinds, and so on; and improved electrical, plumbing, and HVAC). A pleasant, comfortable home in California for $12,000?! Neighbors and park management raved over the finished product. After space rent, insurance, and county taxes, she clears about $300 a month—a 30% ROI (return on investment). The home should pay for itself in about 3.5 years.
While enjoying the glow from her first MH rehab, Carol saw a For Sale sign on a nearby 600 ft2two-bedroom MH with a big screened porch and a covered deck: $3,500 OBO. She knew it had been recently inhabited, so she hoped it might not need much work. She got it for $3,000, put $5,000 into fixing it up, and rented it out before the work was even finished. So she spent $8,000 for a cute two-bedroom home that also clears about $300 a month. That's a 45% annual ROI, so it should pay for itself in about 2.5 years.
Carol had no trouble renting out both homes by advertising them as similar to an apartment in rent, but without common walls—and with a yard, shared recreational facilities, and a great community. The tenants are delighted.
At a tax-deed auction, Larry bought a 1,500 ft2, fairly modern four-bedroom mobile on 5+ acres with expansive canyon views for $16,000. That's under $11 per square foot! It's now up and running, having cost about $30,000 to repair. This includes some major work, like installing a mini-split and new decking, and completely rebuilding the well. Yet the home's annual ROI is about 22%. Comps to this home are selling for $100,000 over what Larry put into it.
Another auction yielded a double-wide for $60,000, or $40 per square foot. That's more expensive, but still far below stick-built costs. This one is still a work in progress.
MHs as Environmentally Friendly Housing
Tiny houses are all the rage these days. But if you look back a decade or two, you'll find that MHs were the tiny houses of yesteryear. The smaller the house, the less impact it has on the environment: less material used in construction, less energy required to heat and cool the space, and less land taken up by the home's footprint.
Mobile homes, especially the older ones, are almost always smaller than stick-built homes. The average new house in the United States has a floor area of 2,400 square feet, while the average MH is just over 1,100 square feet. A one-story stick-built house weighs about 200 lb per square foot, 4 times as much as the average MH. There's a lot less embodied energy in a 55,000 lb mobile than there is in a 480,000 lb stick-built house! Furthermore, the 2,400 ft2 home will have about double the surface area from which to lose or gain heat.
Yes, MHs tend to have thinner walls and less insulation than stick-built homes (though newer mobiles are generally better insulated). But it's not hard to improve the energy efficiency of older MHs. Air sealing the building envelope and replacing leaky single-pane windows is pretty easy. With a little more work, roof insulation can be increased, and there are even ways to improve wall insulation.
In our own mobile homes, we've both taken a phased approach, making energy improvements as rental income allows. For example, in Carol's rentals (see "Case Studies"), the low-hanging fruit included air sealing, replacing leaky single-pane windows with double-pane, low-e windows, swapping out old incandescent lights for CFLs, switching to motion-sensitive porch lights with photosensors, adding a rheostat on the furnace fan control to run it with less motor power, and showing tenants how to use heating and cooling systems for maximum comfort with reduced energy consumption. Future projects will include increased roof, wall, and floor insulation and more effective summer shading.
MHPs as (Un)Intentional Community
In recent decades, there's been a lot of talk about our desire for community. Many suburban and urban living environments lack features that draw neighbors together. As a result, there's been a focus on intentional community, new urbanism, and cohousing (private homes clustered around shared space).
Meanwhile, MHPs have been quietly providing a sense of community for their residents all along. In parks, MHs tend to be placed fairly close together on relatively narrow streets. People are often out on the street chatting, helping each other out, doing wheelies, and trading gossip. The eyes-on-the-street phenomenon makes for a safer neighborhood.
In addition, there is usually a clubhouse with a kitchen, available for residents to gather and share meals on special occasions. Most parks also have shared recreation facilities, which may include a swimming pool, a barbeque area and picnic tables, a playground, walking trails, and/or shuffleboard and horseshoe courts.
Carol owns two MHs in an MHP and has been amazed at how quickly she got to know the neighbors. In fact, people dropped by to chat so frequently that it was almost hard to focus on the rehabbing work at hand! Carol kept asking herself, "What does this remind me of?" And it finally hit her: It's like a college dorm, where you can always find someone to talk to by wandering down the hall—except that an MHP is a bit more grown up.
MHs as an Investment
The big surprise is that MHs aren't just affordable homes. They can also be a good investment. If you have four to five figures to invest, you can own your investment home outright—and make an annual ROI (return on investment) of 20–50% by renting it out. This compares favorably to a good year in the stock market, which might net 5–7% at best. As a rental, an MH might pay for itself in two to five years, and the rest is gravy. (See "Case Studies" for some examples of how this is done.)
There's also a breed of investors who buy and resell MHs, with or without rehabbing. They often carry the loan for the buyer, making their money on the interest. In either case, investors are providing a much-needed service—affordable housing—while making good money. That's called a win-win.
One big factor in MH investing is whether you own the land on which the MH sits. Many MHPs don't allow subleasing (renting out your MH), which leaves the investor with a few options: buying MHs on land, searching for the few parks that allow subleasing, or reselling rather than renting.
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To learn more about mobile home pricing, go to the Trulia real estate website.
See a good source of free information on MHs.
For information about retrofitting mobile homes, see Krigger, John. Your Mobile Home: Energy and Repair Guide for Manufactured Housing, 5th ed. Helena: Saturn Resource Management, March 16, 2006.
Learn more about MH living.
Learn more bout MH repair.
For a history of MHs, see "The History of Manufactured Homes," Crystal Adkins, About.com.
For a variety of information on MH investing, see the following sources:
Mobile Home Investing, John Fedro.
Adventures in Mobile Homes, Rachel Hernandez.
Bigger Pockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network, at www.biggerpockets.com > Mobile Home and Mobile Home Park Investing Forum.
Admittedly, there are challenges to owning an MH. There is that nagging perception of "poorness" and depreciation. People who invest in MHs may be seen as the poor stepchildren of "real" investors. When buying in a park, you don't have the level of control you usually have when purchasing a home on land, and the park owner and manager can play a big role in your life.
There are also some problems with MH construction. Windows are commonly stuck to the outside, with nothing more than putty between the siding and the window fins. There is often little or no flashing, so water can enter at seams, around windows, and at the base of walls (roof overhangs can partially overcome this defect).
Newer mobiles look more like stick-built homes, but they have their own shortcomings, such as particleboard for flooring and siding. The waterproof layer behind that fake wood grain siding is actually glued to and part of the siding, so there is no way to lap it to shed water. Much of the plumbing and electrical hardware is flimsier than you'd find in stick-built construction.
Knowing these things can help prevent unhappy surprises. If you're going to own an MH, you want to know where the nearest MH parts suppliers are.
MHP Dreaming
So far, we've been talking mostly about individual MHs. But let's think a bit bigger: How about buying an entire MHP? Controlling the whole park allows for some interesting possibilities.
Imagine getting a bulk discount on paint and teaching residents how to paint their own MHs, then organizing help-each-other-out painting parties, increasing pride of ownership while improving the appearance of the whole park. The same concept could be applied to weatherization and energy efficiency improvements. Imagine teaching and encouraging residents to collectively compost their food waste, grow their own food, harvest and direct rainwater, and even tend chickens.
Or how about a group of artists getting together to buy a really cheap, nearly abandoned MHP in an area that just lost its main industry (we've seen such deals) and creating their own art colony, with shared studio spaces and tools? Or maybe Baby Boomers, who are notorious for not having set aside much for retirement, could take over an MHP to provide themselves with affordable housing, while jointly acquiring exercise equipment, wellness care services, and brain-refreshing classes and activities.
Once we get past the myths, MHs and MHPs hold a lot of promise for improving people's lives and helping us to live a little lighter on the land.
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Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1060-1 kernel-patch-vserver -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 19 May 2006
- Affected Packages:
- kernel-patch-vserver
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2110.
- More information:
Jan Rekorajski discovered that the kernel patch for virtual private servers does not limit context capabilities to the root user within the virtual server, which might lead to privilege escalation for some virtual server specific operations.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain kernel-patch-vserver packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 22.214.171.124.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.1-4.
We recommend that you upgrade your kernel-patch-vserver package and rebuild your kernel immediately.
- Fixed in:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-vserver/kernel-patch-vserver_18.104.22.168.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-vserver/kernel-patch-vserver_184.108.40.206.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-vserver/kernel-patch-vserver_22.214.171.124.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-vserver/kernel-patch-vserver_22.214.171.124_all.deb
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I completely love this drawing from Hark! A Vagrant, a series of historical comics by K. Beaton, in large part because my girlfriend has tried on at least three of these looks (sometimes in the space of a week). Also, historical comics! Oh, Internet, you make working on my manuscript revisions, tapping away on this computer for sixteen hours a day, slightly less painful. Here is more proof of your glory!
There's such smart commentary going on right now about Lady Gaga and whose gender and sexual deviance gets to be understood as performance "art," and whose is read through racial or otherwise Other-ed "truth." Isabel The Spy observes, "lady gaga is allowed to play at being grotesque because it's understood that she is making a choice to be grotesque; fat, non-white, or otherwise atypical bodies already belong to the realm of the grotesque. the choice is made for them. whether it's as unfuckable (fat women, women with visible disabilities) or inherently sexualized (black and Latina women) or some weird combination of fuckable but not sexual (asian women) or just grotesque and unworthy (trans women)."
This (and the continuing debates raging across the fashion blogosphere about cultural appropriation) reminds me all over again of Minh-Ha's citation of what Nirmal Puwar describes as "the universal empty point," which white female bodies are able to occupy precisely because their bodies are racially unmarked: "[Thus] they can play with the assigned particularity of ethnicized dress without suffering the 'violence of revulsion.'"
Revisiting the question of "vintage color," Jenny at Fashion for Writers shows Beyonce some mad love. In it, she cites a post called "Retro and Race" from Gertie's New Blog for Better Sewing and another called "Retro Styles and Gender Play" by Latoya Peterson at Racialicious. I'm just gonna add that Jenny looks smashing in high-cut playsuits! I'm sort of wondering now if I should send her my red suede leather shorts…
Tiger Beatdown's critique of the recent New York Times Magazine profile of M.I.A. is epic: "Is it really that surprising that a performer, signed to a major label, wants attention? Is it surprising or exceptional that such a person has money? Is it surprising that a person subjected to constant scrutiny from millions of people has crafted a public face, a version of herself that she puts on when she's being observed by strangers that is noticeably different and more suited to mass consumption than the one she wears when she's alone, or with her husband and child, or with her best friends? And: If you were trying to get attention at all costs, if you were coming up with a fake personality that was guaranteed to garner acceptance and approval from the largest possible number of people, would 'radical woman of color allied with militant groups' really be the one you'd pick?" Also check this piece from Change.org called "Who Gets to Define 'Sell Out'? MIA Meets The New York Times." Seriously, of the two I pick MIA over the newspaper that featured Judith Miller's parroting of the Bush administration's claims that Iraqi WMDs threatened us all.
I've also been following The Seventeen Magazine Project, an experiment by Pennsylvanian high school senior Jamie Kelles to spend one month "living according to the gospel of Seventeen Magazine." Well-written and wry, I'm enjoying her often bemused efforts to comport herself like the supposedly "normal" American teenaged girl found (or more accurately perhaps created) in this magazine. Here's her rules: "I will read the entire June/July issue of Seventeen magazine from cover to cover. Every day I will utilize at least one 'beauty tip' (hair/makeup/skincare/whathaveyou) and one fashion tip. I will follow all diet and exercise tips provided in the issue to a T. I will participate in every activity recommended by the magazine (i.e. host a fright night, score your hottest summer hookup ever, be confident in a bikini, etc.) I will apply for every single 'freebie' offered by the magazine, every day. I will consume all media recommended by the magazine at least once. (books/movies/music) I will hang all provided pictures/posters of 'hot guys' in my living environment."
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion notes that the all-too-common fashion terms "tribal" and "ethnic" are referentially empty ("What exactly are they describing?"), while also politically overburdened.
Meanwhile, Jessica Simpson claims that filming her VH1 series The Price of Beauty felt like "missionary work." This may seem a far-fetched and ludicrous claim, but it does follow from historical precedents set by Western women journeying into "darkest interiors" to both study and "civilize" native peoples through the documentation and reform of indigenous corporeal and sartorial practices.
Racialicious's Latoya Peterson ponders both the myth of "hybrid vigor" and the continuing salience of colonial mappings of beauty and ugliness in her examination of the New York Times' article about model-scouting in Brazil. Hysteria! delves further into the uses of anthropological knowledges for such scouting missions. Furthermore, "It's old news by now that patriarchy, racism and classism work together, but it's rarely illustrated so clearly: racist hiring practices in the fashion industry both prevent women of color from accessing career opportunities open to white women (which could, potentially, offer a better financial situation) and make white women less likely to view their own exploitation as exploitation (after all, this is an elite field they should be grateful to even be in, right?)."
Julia at A La Garconniere has the coolest and smartest friends ever, dammit. Does she exert some sort of gravitational pull that finds her in the midst of a constellation of awesome people? (She is pals with artist Teresa Chang, maker of the zine Dykes and Their Hair, as well as the women behind American Able.) Here, Julia's friend Iris Hodgson guest blogs on cultural appropriation and in particular style blogger Gala Darling, whose signature sign-off is "Love Letters and Feather Headdresses, Gala xx." Good grief. Hodgson points out that, "The hipster headdress is perceived by others as being 'fierce' or 'exotic' or 'creative' or 'bohemian' at the same time that Indigenous people who might want to dress similarly would be perceived negatively for doing so."
Meanwhile, Racialicious correspondent Andrea Plaid tackles the insidious racial politics lurking behind a teacher and principal's expulsion of a young black girl from an advanced-placement classroom, because "her Afro was making [the teacher] sick."
From Shake Paper, a tumblr subtitled "Smash the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy," this smart rebuttal to some of the more familiar responses to critiques of cultural appropriation:
Why, for example, are people of colour speaking English and wearing "western clothes?", you may ask. In many cases, COLONIZED countries were forced to adopt the culture of the colonizer while their own culture was violently removed. Residential schools, for example, forced indigenous children to speak English, adopt christianity, and were forced to wear European clothes and adopt a European culture. Therefore, it is important to understand the history of colonialism and to understand that what you see as a parallel act of "cultural appropriation," is really the product of colonialism. To equate those things is to deny the historical and continued violence produced by colonialism, and it is also a huge reflection of privilege.
Forced assimilation does not equal the appropriation and the commodification of another person's culture. Furthermore, forced assimilation does not have to be as black and white as putting people into residential schools, but it can also be an epistemic and ideologically forced assimilation such as "business suits* = a necessary uniform to gain access into the white collar workforce," therefore, in turn, what this also produces is the idea that the "native dress" of someone else's culture is devalued and "uncivilized." Therefore, in order for a person of colour to have a white collar job, they must then wear a business suit. We have the social and cultural understanding that "business suits = employment," but we never interrogate where that comes from and what that means.
Let me just say this,
White supremacy works so that white privilege goes unnoticed.
And on that note, don't skip out on Julia's call for critical fashion lovers to be more deliberate and strategic: "i think we, as critical fashion lovers, need to think about and share more productive ways we can challenge oppressive systems when we see them at work, wherever we see them happening. if you have any suggestions, now is the time to share them." Thoughts? My response, in her comments,
Great post as ever, Julia. I think one of the things we have to do you're already doing, which is making "fashion" legible as a tangled complex of industrial-capital-state imperatives, underpinned by colonial and imperial structures as well as gender and sexual maps for making meaning, that together operate to determine not just how we as individuals wear our clothes or bodies, but that also dictate how we as social beings are assigned degrees and tiers of value and humanness via our clothes or bodies. The cultural appropriation debates are a perfect example of how these macropolitics are brought to bear upon the micropolitics of a hipster in a headdress. This is hard, hard work, as you know.


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"A rural region in Indiana whose wooded hills stand in striking contrast to huge strip-mined pits, the Patoka Valley is more than home to the members of this old-time string band; it is both an inspiration for songs and a foundation of the values tethered to the past with which the men, separated in age over nearly three generations, face an uncertain future.
Seen in private moments - hunting in a nearby wood, motorcycling through the autumn-draped countryside, enjoying a family picnic, and tending to domestic chores - as well as at coal mining jobs where they help destroy the land they love, the men individually comment on why they perform the old-fashioned tunes for guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, and harmonica... Public libraries are sure to have a toe-tapping screening when this bright production is included."
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Crossfire or Hackathon?
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Everyone has a theory as to why former congressman and not-so-former tweeter Anthony Weiner is running for New York mayor. My new take is: Weiner really is running to be a co-host on CNN's "Crossfire," which will return to cable TV next month after an eight-year hiatus.
After all, Newt Gingrich will be one of the show's two conservative hosts. This is after he ran and lost the 2012 GOP presidential primary by taking on the news media, most notably CNN's John King. When King moderated a January 2012 debate in South Carolina, he opened by asking Gingrich about an ABC report that the Newter's second wife, Marianne, claimed Gingrich had asked her to agree to an open marriage in 1999.
Gingrich cheated on his second wife with his now third wife; nonetheless, the former speaker of the House was in high dudgeon at the very suggestion that he would propose an open marriage. "I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office," he railed.
And: "I am frankly astounded that CNN would take trash like that and use it to open a presidential debate."
Now Gingrich is working for CNN. And I am frankly astounded that CNN would take a huckster like him and use him to open "Son of Crossfire."
In 2008, Gingrich sat on a love seat with Nancy Pelosi for an ad that urged Washington to "take action against climate change." Two years later, when it served his presidential aspirations, Gingrich was railing against carbon taxes and talking up the benefits of cheap gasoline. He will say anything.
Likewise, liberal co-host Stephanie Cutter, the former Barack Obama spokeswoman who claimed to have no knowledge of a negative ad campaign — even though she had set up a conference call with the ad's star, a disgruntled former employee of Mitt Romney's — will say anything.
"Crossfire" lasted on television for 23 years because it featured hard-charging hosts with real chops — Pat Buchanan and Michael Kinsley, Bob Novak and Bill Press — and core convictions. The new version's other two hosts — S.E. Cupp on the right and Van Jones on the left — could well fill those shoes.
For their part, Gingrich and Cutter represent the very qualities that helped lead to the 2005 cancellation of "Crossfire." Months earlier, comedian Jon Stewart appeared on the show with co-hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala. To my mind, Carlson and Begala were credible hosts, but Stewart drew blood when he faulted the show for "hurting America" with its "partisan hackery."
When CNN canceled the show in 2005, its then president, Jonathan Klein, told The New York Times that Stewart's criticism was a factor. CNN wanted to move away from "head-butting debate shows."
These days, the problem with cable debate isn't the head-butting so much as the feel that this is showbiz head-butting.
Gingrich accuses CNN of running a gutter debate. CNN hires Gingrich. Does that mean Gingrich was right?
The problem with political discourse these days isn't that it's too adversarial; it's that it isn't adversarial at all. It's just show business.
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NEW DELHI, March 5, 2013 PTI
The U.S.-based iconic cult bike maker Harley-Davidson on Monday said it will start assembling three more models in India that will result in slashing of prices by up to Rs. 4.55 lakh, close on the heels of the government increasing customs duty on imported superbikes in the Budget.
The company's Indian arm Harley Davidson India will now assemble models Fat Boy, Fat Boy Special and Heritage Softail Classic at its Bawal facility in Haryana.
The Harley-Davidson Fat Boy will now be available at Rs 14.9 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi) as against the previous imported price of Rs 19.45 lakh. Similarly, Fat Boy Special will cost Rs 15.6 Lakh (ex-showroom Delhi) as against the previous imported price of Rs. 19.70 lakh.
The Heritage Softail Classic model will be tagged at Rs 16.25 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi) as against Rs 20.45 lakh earlier.
Commenting on the development, Harley-Davidson India Managing Director Anoop Prakash told PTI "Since we entered India in 2009, we have been consistent with our plans have more local assembly of our products and make them accessible to more enthusiasts and customers across the country. The CKD operations of the three models is another step towards it."
The company now has 9 out of 12 models that it sells in India locally assembled.
When asked if the company planned to assemble all the models that it sells in India, he said: "It is not possible for a long time to come. Our flagship 'Touring Family' has its own heritage, we want to maintain it and moreover the market for it hasn't developed yet here in India."
On the Budget announcement, Mr. Prakash said: "Our CKD (completely knocked down) operation allows us to contribute to local investment while also reducing the tariff burden for customers across India."
The impact on pricing will be minimal due to the company's steady focus on developing CKD operations in India since early 2011, he added.
In the Budget 2013-14, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram proposed to hike import duty on bikes with engine capacity of 800 cc or more from to 75 per cent from 60 per cent.
On the sales growth, Mr. Prakash said the company is expecting "a double digit" increase in 2013. Since 2010, when it started selling its bikes in India, the company has sold over 2,000 motorcycles.
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Beside, you can also apply to get a regular visa at Sri Lanka Embassy in Saint Barthelemy.
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Pandan leaves are readily available here, and are sold in bunches of about 8 to 10 blades. Some families even grow their own pandan plant!
I always like to use pandan leaves to make chiffon cakes, because pandan chiffon cake is something which I grew up with. So when I learnt to make chiffon cakes, this is the first flavour I attempted. This time I made something different - Pandan Butter Cake.
225g cake flour (or Top Flour)
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
85g unsalted butter, cut into pieces
180g sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup(240ml) nonfat unsweetened yogurt
30ml pandan juice*
¼ tsp pandan essence**
Some chopped nuts(optional)
1) Preheat oven to 180C and grease 8"x4" loaf tin (I'm using a bundt pan this time)
2) Sift together cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
3) Mix together yogurt, pandan juice and pandan essence.
4) Cream the butter for about 1 min to soften. Gradually sugar and beat until light and creamy. Dribble in eggs slowly, about 1 tbsp at a time, beating constantly for about 2 mins.
5) On LOW speed, beat in 1/3 of the flour mixture until just combined. Beat in ½ of the yogurt. Then beat in 1/2 of the remaining flour mixture, followed by the remaining yogurt. Finally beat in the remaining flour mixture. Fold in the nuts if using .
6) Pour the batter into the prepared tin.
7) Bake for about 35- 45 mins till skewer inserted comes out clean.
8) Cool in pan for 5 mins. Unmold and cool completely.
* Blend about 5 to 6 blades of pandan leaves with some water. Strain using a sieve to obtain juice.
** I used pandan essence as well to impart a deeper green colour to the cake. You can omit it, but the cake will have a very light green hue.


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Traditionalism vs Internationalism in Nigeria
- 2022-06-07
People are divided when determining a forward path for Nigeria.
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Syrian War Report – Dec. 26, 2018: Israel Strikes Syria. S-300 Is Not Employed
Late on December 25, the Israeli Air Force carried out a missile strike on targets in the Damascus International Airport area. According to reports, Israeli F-16I jets launched at least 16 missiles from Lebanese airspace.
The Syrian media stressed that the Air Defense Forces (SADF) had intercepted most of the hostile missiles, but acknowledged that at least 3 Syrian servicemen had been injured in the incident. The SADF also fired several missiles at Israeli jets involved in the strike. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that they had employed their own air defense systems to protect the jets.
The Syrian side did not use the S-300 air defense system delivered by Russia to repel the airstrike. Syrian personnel have not yet finished the necessary training. According to experts, the Syrian S-300 system will be put on a combat duty in the second half of January or in early February 2019.
The recent Israeli strike came a day after the Russian Defense Ministry announced that 150 servicemen of one of the surface to air-missile regiments of Russia's Central Military District had returned from Syria.
On December 25, Syrian Army soldiers, backed up by Russian servicemen, entered the village of Arima west of the town of Manbij, a stronghold of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Previously, Arima was controlled by the SDF. However, its current status is unclear. Pro-SDF sources claim that the village will be jointly controlled by the SDF and the Syrian Army. Pro-government sources claim that the village was handed over to the government.
Local sources claim that this move is the first stage of the implementation of a broader agreement, which may son be reached between the Damascus government, Russia and the Kurdish-dominated SDF.
Since the US decision to withdraw its troops from Syria and the resumption of Turkish threats to launch a new military operation against Kurdish armed groups in northern Syria, the SDF has desperately been seeking a new protector from Ankara. The Damascus government and Russia are one of the options considered by the Kurdish leadership. Another option is to hope that the remaining US personnel and French troops will be able to prevent a Turkish offensive along the entire contact line between the SDF and the Turkish military.
Meanwhile, Ankara continued its military build-up in Turkish regions bordering with northern Syria. Recently, a batch of Leopard 2A4 battle tanks were reportedly sent to the area.


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What's the most painful thing you've ever experienced? That grazed knee in the playground? A bit of cramp? A broken bone? Childbirth? You'd probably rather not share it or dare to relive even a slither of the agony. I'm male (so no excruciating deliveries of life) and I've never broken a bone. Not so much as chipped one. I cannot even imagine the pain of 22 adequate punches and seriously doubt I'd be able to stomach it; let alone 22 Bullets. That's 22 pieces of pointed, sharp, solid metal thumping through your flesh at unfathomable speed, decimating the building blocks of you.
Now, off the top of your head, pick a tough nationality; the country most likely to breed the sort of superhuman capable of withstanding multiple gunshot wounds. Some of you probably instinctively pictured Arnie's hard-as-nails, naked and battered frame in Terminator. I'm willing to bet none of you conjured the image of a Frenchman. France is a nation famed for its culture, its cuisine and its romance. In Britain members of a certain generation will think of the French as nothing but well-groomed surrender monkeys. It's not a land known for its grunting and formidable bad-asses.
And yet one of their number is an internationally recognisable action-man. Playing key figures in big films like The Da Vinci Code and Ronin, Jean Reno is a Frenchman with attitude, as comfortable with a semi-automatic in his hand as he is with a single red rose or cloves of garlic. He gives 22 Bullets, aka L'Immortel, bags and bags of globally acknowledged gravitas.
Out on DVD and Blu-Ray on the 31st January, 22 Bullets is a French gangster film set in Marseilles with the occasional drizzle of style. It's fast paced and hard-hitting but rarely anything exceptional. However there are easily enough thrills and plot twists to have your eyes locked in a constant frenetic dance between the subtitles and the action set-pieces. At times you won't have a clue what's going on and the ending, for me anyway, came from nowhere and was somewhat inexplicable, but surprising at least.
The filmmakers clearly value the plot, despite there being nothing that remarkable or beguiling about it. The only details accompanying my disc of the film explained that Reno's character is shot in an underground car park 22 times, and left for dead, despite abandoning his old life as a feared criminal in favour of family. "Against all the odds, he doesn't die…" Apparently based on a true-story, the film skips fairly quickly over the shooting so important to the title, even if it is the catalyst for later events. The tag-line above had me imagining a bleeding and dying Reno, stumbling from the car park like a zombie to engage in an immediate shoot-out for revenge. What actually happens is slightly more plausible. Reno's character, Charly Mattei, recovers in hospital. He then still vows to return to his peaceful family life and only takes up arms again when his trusted friend and aide is attacked.
For the most part 22 Bullets succeeds at being more than a good vendetta movie. There is some very funny dialogue between Reno and other gangsters, and Reno and the police. There are some luxurious shots of the French Riviera and locations are contrasted well. The golden lighting in the scenes in the hills with family works well against the harsher, urban and shadowy light during criminal scenes in the city. The majority of the action scenes have a compelling, realistic edge. The initial shooting is shocking in typical slow-mo. An exciting motorbike chase climaxes with Mattei deliberately hitting a police car head-on to evade his pursuers. Gun-fights and retribution assassinations are generally satisfying and suitable.
Sadly for fussy viewers like myself, little details in 22 Bullets really start to grate and diminish the enjoyment factor. I was willing to suspend my disbelief at the remarkable recovery from 22 potentially mortal wounds. But it's not long before the signs of Mattei's ordeal are non-existent. And an atrocious scene, in which Reno endlessly crawls through unfeasible amounts of barbed wire, as if more proof were needed of his invincible credentials, climaxes equally annoyingly. A car he's thrown himself onto careers to a halt in an almost slapstick fashion as the film is needlessly sped up. It's a shame that such corner cutting, shoddy shots made it into a largely well executed film.
On the whole 22 Bullets is an essentially harmless, enjoyable experience. The bouts of annoyance induced by some lacklustre moments and large helpings of cliché were not enough to spoil my day. A continual message about the importance of forgiveness and family runs through the film, which I get the feeling would resonate more with a continental audience than us Brits, or I could just be cold hearted and lifeless. It's basically a decent action movie with a refreshing foreign flavour. But not one I could recommend buying.


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Anyone who claims that Julian Assange has no plan is (net) deluded. Read this excellent piece by Aaron Bady that details Julian's political theory. Whether or not you agree with his theory of conspiracy, there is a method to the "madness". And this "madness" is about to trigger the proliferation of WMD's, WikiLeaks of Mass Disruption. Get ready for the Clone Wars.
Why? Have a look at what happened to the music industry. As Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom wrote in "The Spider and the Starfish," the biggest players with the best lawyers in the world went up against P2P file-sharing companies like Napster and Grokster. But as the labels were repeatedly winning lawsuits, "the overall problem of music piracy was getting worse and worse. It wasn't that the labels weren't vigilant enough. It was actually the exact opposite—the labels were adding fuel to the fire with every new lawsuit. The harder they fought, the stronger the opposition grew."
When Napster was shut down, more decentralized P2P file-sharing sites began to spring up that became harder to eliminate, e.g., eDonkey, eMule, etc. The same will happen with Wikileaks. As the group becomes increasingly targeted, they will become more decentralized and will inevitably spawn "copy-cats". And not just technology copy-cats, but legal-copy cats; as participants at NewsFoo repeatedly noted, WikiLeaks is a legal-hack, distributing servers across liberal democracies. (Meanwhile, by the way, the US government will become more centralized and closed).
Just yesterday I proposed a "Humanitarian Wikileaks" on Twitter and got numerous enthusiastic replies, DM's and emails. And check out this site (OpenLeaks) still under construction (updated just 2 weeks ago), owned by CINIPAC Webhosting: Offshore, Secure, Anonymous."
What's going to happen next? Read these "8 Principles of Decentralization." WikiLeaks is just the first generation. Future spin-off's will become more specialized, sophisticated and will make fewer mistakes. Julian is often criticized for focusing primarily on the US. What people fail to understand is that all he has to do (and has done) is to trigger the Clone Wars to bring this disruption to many other shores.
On a personal note, I'm less worried by WikiLeaks than the actions that "open" democracies are taking to eliminate the initiative.
Updated: As is widely known, the US government and Amazon forced the wikileaks.org domain off the Web:
Here is WikiLeaks' response:
See also: Former WikiLeaks Activists to Launch New Whistleblowing Site from the Spiegel Online and WikiLeaks: Moving Target by Renesys blog.


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Today, Style.com ran sketches for Michelle Obama's inaugural wardrobe by designers Derek Lam, Vena Cava, Doo.Ri and more Fashion Fund winners. Which means: more styles for everyone to choose from!
For The Steps:
Albertus Swanepoel, 2008 Fashion Fund Winner, says"I actually believe she should wear a pillbox—the new era of Camelot!" We say: a tad literal, no?
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Karl Lagerfeld's suit is way cuter than his gown. And there's something to be said for classic Chanel...
Doo-Ri Chung, 2006's Fashion Fund Winner, says, "The inauguration will be a historic occasion, so I wanted the dress to be something in her comfort zone. I stayed with the tailored, fitted silhouette that she prefers but used a print that I felt was celebratory." We say: srsly? We've seen rocks that felt more celebratory.
May We Suggest...?
Grace Kelly's look from High Society is both chic and whimsical!
For The Ball:
The Good:
How gorgeous is this ethereal Rodarte?
Loving Marc Jacobs' Poiret-esque drape.
Yeah, Peter Som's hitting us over the head with "Jackie O," but still...
This Diane von Furstenberg is lovely. Downside: we really don't want to see Whitney Port at the Inaugural Ball, and you know she'd "need" to be there.
Derek Lam's "nile green crepe" is one of our faves of the bunch: the simple lines and unconventional hue would feel fresh but classic, and he'd still be a fun and surprising choice.
The Bad:
Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig of Marchesa say, "For the ball Michelle should wear this ivory one-shoulder silk crepe column with draped overlay and crystal hand-embroidered bodice." We say: Dynasty much?
We know Barack loves Lincoln, but Zac Posen's Mary Todd is a bit much!
Alexander Wang says: "It's sexy but sophisticated…business in the front, party in the back. It is the inauguration ball!"
We say: Maybe that's why you might want to wear something slightly more fun than a friggin' LBD?!
We dig the drama of Monique Lhuillier's gown, but red? Really? It just feels so...First Lady!
The Not Happening:
The Vena Cava designers, Sophie Buhai and Lisa Mayock, would like to see Michelle rock "this floor-length gown made out of silk and polyester twill in one of our signature prints." We say: with all due respect, we don't think the country's ready for quite that much change.
All the Lacroix sketches are totally absurd, like he knows there's no way she's going to choose them. Still, imagine how impressed the French would be!
Maybe Betsey Johnson should just costume the whole capital, like it's a big George M. Cohan show!
May We Suggest:
If you want to channel 60s, it doesn't get better than Doris Day in Pillow Talk!
Hey, why not?
Michelle Obama: What Should She Wear? [WWD]
Runway to Change [Style.com]


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In the district's disability harassment case, OCR's report detailed systemic problems in the school district's handling of complaints, in protections for children suffering from harassment, and in providing special education services. Since then, several other parent complaints and resolution agreements with OCR have come to light. Most recently, OCR launched a full-scale compliance review into the district's handling of sexual harassment.
At the root of the district's difficulties with OCR is a counterproductive, combative stance toward federal enforcement of civil rights laws. When the initial OCR finding came to light in January, many community members urged the school board to cooperate fully with OCR and to engage in a transparent public process to determine the causes and fixes for the systemic problems uncovered by OCR. Had the district done so, we would now be well on our way to positive changes that would provide better protections for our students.
Instead, school board President Dana Tom and Vice President Barb Mitchell have scheduled no public discussion of the causes for the failures identified by the report in regular board meetings open to the public, save for a presentation by the district's lawyer that the Weekly characterized as "misleading."
At the same time, we know from reports in the Weekly and the Daily Post, and documents released under the Public Records Act, that the school board has met in closed session with the district's lawyers to discuss withdrawing cooperation with OCR's enforcement of civil rights laws in Palo Alto as "overstepping their authority."
Before one such meeting in June, Ms. Mitchell sent a "confidential" memo that was circulated to fellow board members suggesting incorrectly that OCR lacks the legal authority to pursue civil rights violations and is consequently "strong arming policy 'agreements'" like the ones signed by the Palo Alto district. She also asked the district's lawyers to determine whether the district has any "protection from subsequently discovered 'violations' unrelated to the complaint" -- in other words, whether the district could block OCR from looking into civil rights violations involving other children.
Mitchell and Tom also told the Daily Post that the district had refused to allow Department of Education staff to interview students at Duveneck about another complaint of harassment from a parent of a child with a disability.
The school board is choosing a counterproductive and possibly even reckless path in resisting the Office for Civil Rights, one that leaves the most vulnerable students in the district more exposed to violations of their rights. At the most obvious level, findings of civil rights violations increase the legal liability of the district. Moreover, throwing up roadblocks to investigations simply invites more scrutiny.
Another cost, of course, is the thousands of dollars of public money that the board is expending to pay lawyers to question federal civil rights laws, dollars that would be far better spent in the classroom. Rather than pay a growing district legal team to fight against OCR, the district could be accepting free assistance from OCR as to how to improve conditions in our schools for all students.
For our students, particularly those most likely to be harassed or suffer other forms of discrimination, the best outcome would be for the school board and the district to get on with the business of examining how these failures happened and how to prevent them from happening again -- and how to cooperate fully with any OCR investigations in the future.
Shining a light on problems is a necessary first step, whether the issues affect individual students or many of them. Rather than meeting in private to discuss how to impede federal civil rights investigations, school board members should be discussing publicly what lessons the district can learn from the issues OCR has uncovered.
Palo Alto has a reputation as a community that cares about civil rights, and one that strives to welcome and support all children, no matter their race, ethnic origin, gender or disability. We all have an interest in protecting that reputation by living up to it and strengthening it. The OCR findings represent an opportunity to do so that we should not miss.
That means taking several concrete steps. First, the school board should finally initiate a full public accounting for what went wrong in the disability harassment case that led to the OCR findings, how many other children may have had similar experiences, and what changes are necessary to fix it. This can be accomplished with appropriate protections for any confidential student information.
Second, the board should affirm that the district will choose the path of cooperation and collaboration with the federal government on civil rights issues, and cease closed-door discussions about how to resist federal authority.
Finally, the board should reach out to parents of children who are particularly vulnerable to discrimination, whether because of disability or other factors, to work towards moving the district towards a more proactive stance in protecting children and responding to issues before they become federal civil rights complaints.
Mr. Tom and Ms. Mitchell, and perhaps other members of the school board, may disagree with these steps. But I hope that they will now decide, with the new school year, that the community deserves the chance to make this decision in public, in a way that promotes transparency and accountability, and that serves the interests of district families.
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Positive light: women's mountain biking and the media
Portraying women's mountain biking in a positive light – three great media campaigns you have to see.
I'm always on the look out for 'good news' media that understands women's mountain biking and portrays it in a really positive light.
The latest to drop into this happy file is this short film by British mountain bike component brand Hope. Its part of its #Hopetechwomen project to inspire women to push their boundaries and get together to ride.
This new, spectacularly beautiful short film made me want to jump out of bed very early indeed and greet the dawn on my mountain bike (and believe me, usually I like a lie in!!).
Hopetech Women are also running a series of women only mountain bike rides around the country, coordinated by brand manager and enduro rider Rachel Walker (who also features in the film above!). The rides are fantastically well organised and lots of fun, whatever level you ride at – I urge you to go along even if you're a bit nervous (I can virtually guarantee you won't be the only one with butterflies!). Read my review of the one I joined in Peaslake, Surrey here and find out where the next rides will be held too.
I can't write a post about women's mountain biking media without mentioning Sealskinz #iamendurance campaign. Featuring rider Traharn Chidley, it is a powerful story of this athletes journey from darkness to light, in part thanks to mountain biking. Be warned – it may move you to tears.
Finally, from the archives, I come back to this photo post on Pinkbike from 2014 – Endless Biking: Mother Huckers documents the lives of a group of mountain biking mums, the importance of taking care of yourself and the value of friendship.
It really struck a chord with me when I first saw it because it was so unusual to see women mountain bikers – never mind mums – portrayed in such a real and aspirational way. It continues to be ground breaking and I recommend you read it – link is here
I'll continue to update on really amazing, positive portrayals of women who ride. If you know of any great examples, let me know!!!!