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Transportation Services in Austin, TX
Regardless of your transportation needs, consider using the services of J and I Transportation. We offer exceptional limousine services in both Austin, TX, and the surrounding areas. As a locally owned and operated company, we are available when needed and will work around your schedule. We offer the following:
- Airport transportation
- Airport limo
- Corporate Car Services
- Wedding Limo Services
- Special events
- Business meeting
- Austin special events
- Town car services
- Limo Hill Country Wine Tours
- Holiday transportation
- Black car service
- 14 Passenger Vans
- Bachelor / Bachelorette Parties
- River Tours
- Proms
- SUV's
We also have wedding limousines, SUVs, and corporate cars. Our friendly and highly experienced staff wants to ensure your comfort during your time traveling with us, so we'll pay close attention to details.
Our company is fully licensed and insured for your safety. We keep our rates for limousines competitive within Austin, TX, and will go over all of our rates in an up-front manner. We take a variety of payment methods including cash, MasterCard, and Visa. Get in touch with J and I Transportation today and set up an appointment to learn more.
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At J And I Transportation, we want it to be hassle-free to use our airport transportation services in Austin, TX. We offer a variety of options including town car and SUV services. As a locally owned and operated company, we put client satisfaction as a top priority. We provide the following to everyone we work with:
Whether you're headed to a wedding, party, or concert, you can make the journey almost as exciting as the main event itself. Our chauffeur services are designed to get you to your destination in style.
As a business owner or manager, you've got better things to do than worry about making travel arrangements. So if you're looking for an easy way to provide your employees with a quick and easy way to get around town, we're at your service. At J And I Transportation, we offer a wide range of corporate car services for companies of all sizes in Austin, TX. Whether you need to transport your employees to area meetings, venues, conference centers, or airports, our team has got you covered.
Planning a corporate function in Austin, TX? Let J And I Transportation help you make it a success. With our corporate event planning services, you'll be able to relax and enjoy the occasion while we tackle the details and logistics involved.
Where do I start with Hicham and his drivers? He does all of the VIP driving for The Driskill where I work and when I was getting married and had family in town, I knew he was the company that I wanted to work with. A few days after the wedding, we had Brandon, one of his great drivers, take us out to Fredericksburg for a day of exploring and shopping. He was very knowledgable about Austin and that area and offered us a tour guide experience. He even suggested we detour and see LBJ ranch and my family loved it! Their vehicles are so well maintained and their customer service is above and beyond. Hicham is so professional and wonderful to work with.
Do yourself a favor and start your trip from the airport with this service. Hicham is absolutely fantastic. He's professional, timely, friendly, a fantastic driver, and left us feeling like we were good friends. He was so knowledgeable about the city, pointed out so many great places to eat or drink, and made sure I knew I could text him with any questions. He's a GREAT guy and it shows in how he treats people. I can't say enough about him, and I'm so grateful we chose this service for our trip.
You will not get better service than this. Hicham is a joy to work with! From the first phone conversation with him, I knew I'd found the best. He is right on track with everything, no fooling around here and he has a great sense of humor too!! My go-to service anytime I am traveling out of Austin. You will not be disappointed!
My wife surprised me with a trip to Austin Texas for a BBQ and brewery tour. She had them pick us up at the airport.Scout who was very helpful with some great suggestions on places to eat while in Austin. They were dead on. Then the next day Robert came and took us on the BBQ and brewery tour and he was fanatics. His wife might be a little mad at us since we made him join us for food and boy did we eat. Robert defenly knows the places to go. On our trip back to the airport we meet Brandon who had to get up early since we had a 4:45am pick up time and just like the other two drivers extremely plasent and professional. But the biggest help in planing this trip was Hicham who with out him I feel we would of not had the greatest time while we were in Austin. So if you are planing a trip or know someone who might be give them a call it was like being with family. Would love to keep in touch with them. A great group of guys
Hicham & J And I Transportation are top notch. Within a world where it is sometimes hard to find those that genuinely care about their customers Hicham & J And I Transportation do. They are professional, are extremely passionate about the service they provide, and always strive to provide the highest level of customer care. Their compassion is truly impressive and I recommend them 100%. You will not regret your decision to hire them for any service required!! Kat Frazee
J&I Transportation offers seamless and efficient transportation and customer service. Hicham was amazing! I had a group of 20 clients arriving at AUS Airport various days and times, going to various hotels. My clients had many changes with times and destinations after reservations had already been made and Hicham gladly accommodated them. We will definitely be using them in the future! I highly recommend.
J&I Transportation offers truly seamless transportation and customer service. We recently had an event for 400 people arriving at AUS Airport and J&I was our choice of transportation. Hicham and his team are wonderful! They were so accommodating, on-time to greet all passengers and the buses were wonderful. We will definitely be using them in the future! I highly recommend.
Above and beyond! Timely, attentive and professional customer service. Hicham, the owner, will bend over backwards to provide luxury black car service even at short notice. I give J & I my highest recommendation.
Premiere and luxurious service! When I needed a black car service in a short time frame J and I transportation helped me get to my cousins wedding in a timely manner! I highly recommend this service!
J and I Transportation exemplifies what is means to be a true LUXURY car service. Top notch vehicles with professional and unforgettable service and drivers. J and I is my premiere choice when it comes to a black car service in Austin TX!
World Class Service!!! We use J&I and have full confidence that our clients are not only taken care of, but have a wonderful experience. We highly recommend J&I Transportation. I promise you will not be disappointed.
As a concerige in the downtown Austin area, I come across many, many transportation companies. J&I is by far the most reliable, cost effective and professional Transporarion source in this area. Hicham and his drivers are personable and professional, they take pride in the services they provide. They are always on time, if not early and are very knowledgeable about the area. I know when I book a trip with J&I my guests will always have a positive experience.
We never provided transportation for Scott Beck all these 3 reviews are false. J and I Transportation has a great service!!!
Excellent service, fair price, honest people. Highly recommend!
I never hesitate to recommend J & I Transportation to anyone looking for great transportation. Hicham and his staff are reliable, professional, and personable! I would give them 6 stars if I could!
Can't imagine a better driving service: totally reliable ; fair price, very nice cars and friendly service. I'm a retired business executive with a lot of experience with driving services. I've never had a better experience. Been working with Hicham and his team for several years and can assure you will be happy you called J & I for your transportation needs.
Wonderful driver Mr. Hicham picked me up right on time, offered excellent service to me including accommodating my disability. He is extremely polite and professional. It made the trip downtown and back home enjoyable and relaxing. I highly recommend his services!
J and I transportation is awesome! They provide top-notch professional service I will always use them from now on. They are safe and effective. And I trust them for all of my transportation and tourism needs.
Hicham is the best! I called him last minute before I got on my flight to Austin and he was willing to pick me up in a heartbeat. The drive was smooth, quiet, with good conversation as well! When I travel from here on out, I'll definitely give him a ring next time. Thanks Hicham!
Hieham; owner I have been using him for years!!! With his business mind and hard work; over the years it's been very nice to see him grow yet, his morals and ethics remain the same. He is very family oriented, honest, caring, extremely respectful and reliable individual. Drives like a champ with a smile on his face at all times.
I worked as a hotel concierge for almost 2 years and Hicham was by far the most professional and personable transportation provider I encountered. He genuinely cares about the quality of his services. I still continue to use him for client transfers and have always had such good feedback of the level of detail and care Hicham gives. He's the best in town, he really is.
Hicham is reliable and dependable-- he always arrives 10 minutes early. He is courteous and respectful of all passengers. He is professional in all other ways, including the cleanliness of his car and the calmness of his driving. He provides worldclass service.
Very friendly, pleasant, easy going driver. I highly recommend using J and I Transportation!
Hacham the owner of J&I Transportation offers flawless transportation service. It's like have a driver, concierge and tour guide all rolled up in one!!
The service was great, Hicham was very polite and helpful, we felt like we had tour guide. Highly recommended.
Great service, friendly driver!
Thank you Hicham! for enhancing my Austin visit and making getting around this beautiful city seamless. I was visiting Austin part on business and part for fun. While short on time (only 2-day) to attend 3 meetings in different parts of the city, attend a conference at the great University of Texas and squeeze in a trip to Driftwood, TX to try local eateries, Hicham took this burden off my back and made sure, I am picked up on time, ensured the trips between locations enjoyable (like being with a tour guide) and arrived at my destinations with ample time to prep for my meetings. I'd recommend this outstanding professional next time you're visiting Austin. THANKS again Hicham!!! Monica B.
Lucas was our Chauffer and by far the BEST we have ever had!!! We were out and about celebrating my 40th b-day. He was so helpful. We had party decorations that he was more than helpful setting up for us!!! We had three stops two of which we had the decorations out!!! He made sure all my decorations and gifts were accounted for during our celebration. We had a lot of items that I am sure we would have left something behind if it wasn't for Lucas! He was so professional!!! I recommend J and I Transportation 100%!! They clearly know how to make each client feel so important and special!! I wish I had this every time I went out!! Now I know what famous people feel like when they go out!! Thank you! -Ambra Garganta
Professional with high level of service
The best in the business!! I am thankful to have them help me every time I am in Austin. I highly recommend them to anyone wanting great service!!
Need more Stars
My wife surprised me with a trip to Austin Texas for a BBQ and brewery tour. She had them pick us up at the airport.Scout who was very helpful with some great suggestions on places to eat while in Austin. They were dead on. Then the next day Robert came and took us on the BBQ and brewery tour and he was fanatics. His wife might be a little mad at us since we made him join us for food and boy did we eat. Robert defenly knows the places to go. On our trip back to the airport we meet Brandon who had to get up early since we had a 4:45am pick up time and just like the other two drivers extremely plasent and professional. But the biggest help in planing this trip was Hicham who with out him I feel we would of not had the greatest time while we were in Austin. So if you are planing a trip or know someone who might be give them a call it was like being with family. Would love to keep in touch with them. A great group of guys
I am an Event Manager at a Local Hotel and we often use J&I for transportation needs for groups. They have great customer service and I don't hesitate to let the client work directly with Hicham and his team. Thank you!
High Quality, Quick Communication
I booked J and I Transportation following review of quotes and recommendation of hotel. Hicham Lahbabi, Director of Operations was fast to communicate, very helpful and courteous! Our driver, Richard, was also friendly and professional. Hicham went out of his way to return an item left in the vehicle and I would highly recommend.
Best Car Company!
J and I Transportation was fantastic to work with. They were very profession, timely and responsibly priced. We appreciate all that they did for our VIP guests. I look forward to working with J&I in the future!
Best car service in Town.
Used these guys a number of times they are always on time and very friendly. My last trip I booked the wrong day. I called them at 5am asking for my car (They normally show up early) I was told I had booked the service for the wrong day... They sent a car right away and I managed to catch my flight... brilliant . They even called me as I was boarding to check I was okay.. Totally recommend this service. Outstanding.
Reliable, Courteous, and Professional
Hicham is reliable and dependable-- he always arrives 10 minutes early. He is courteous and respectful of all passengers. He is professional in all other ways, including the cleanliness of his car and the calmness of his driving. He provides worldclass service.
airport transport with J and I transportation
The pick up was wonderful the service was great the owner is amazing and very helpful offering all kinds of services that you would need for Austin
Above and Beyond...
Very accommodating, professional and such a pleasure to work with! I scheduled a car for friends in Austin, I worked directly with Hisham to schedule, he was so attentive he kept me informed with confirmation of pick up and follow up call once the trip was completed! This is above and beyond anything I expected! Thanks again Hisham and Team!!
"Hicham was fantastic. Highly recommended for any of your transportation needs."
Five Star Service
As a Concierge of the Leading Historical Hotel of Austin, Tx...I have found a jewel of a transport service. I can trust and count on Hicheem to Always be there for our guests, deliver prompt and Service beyond beyond the call of duty. Whether its just airport and courtesy runs around Austin or Creative tours to Fredericksberg, Tx...our Guests come back raving! You will not miss out in using Austin's Best Kept Secret in Transportation Services.
EagleTalkShow, Austin, TX "Bilingual Parental Involvement Show"
J and I Transportation, an amazing partner of Eagle Talk Show has provided exemplary transportation services for our special guests and audience. We are ecstatic and look forward for the next new season Fall 2015 to be on the Road with you all. Sincerely, Host, Mycah Lee Arellano-Blake Www.EagleTalkShow.com
Eagle Talk Show, Austin Tx "Parental Involvement Show"
J and I Transportation, a partner of Eagle Talk Show Eagle Show has provided exemplary transportation services for our special guests and audience. We are ecstatic and look forward for the next new season Fall 2015 to be on the Road with you all. Sincerely, ETS Host, Mycah Lee Arellano Www.EagleTalkShow.com
Great Job
Jachim has done an excellent job getting me to the airport and making the trip comfortable. I would recommend him anytime and will continue to use his service.
The best transportation service ever!
From the time we landed in Austin until the day we were departed, every detail and request was not only met but exceeded. Jachim and his partner had spotless vehicles to transport our 25+ friends and family around in. If I needed to be picked up at a certain time or needed to make a last minute change, the change was made without grumbling....just yes M'am....I will be there or I can do that. NO problem!!! Communication was constant about how they could better serve us. One night they were to take us to a dance hall and our dinner party ran over by 1 1/2 hours ...they were still waiting on us with smiles on their faces! Always on time, Always courteous, Always spotless vehicles...superb delightful service. ! I would recommend them to anyone!!! You will not be disappointed!!!
incredible service
The limo was clean an, quit, and smooth riding. It was roomy and comfortable. but what made the trip is the driver. He bent over backward to help us. not only was he pleasant in the limo he also had a servant attitude with the self confidence to make him excel in the customer service.
Great customer service!
Hicham is very responsive via text messages. He will let you know almost immediately if he is available to pick you up or not at your designated time. Hicham is polite, upbeat, courteous, and servicefull. His car is clean and roomy. He is my car service of choice in Austin. Thank you Gurudhan A satisified customer
Great trip with a fun driver who attended to all details. Thanks J and I !
Wine Tour
We had an amazing personal experience for a birthday celebration. The trip was seemless from the planning to the drop off. It was a perfect day for a wine tour and it was even better since we didn't do the driving. Thanks for a great adventure!
5 stars for J&I transportation. My 1st experience with J&I was an early morning ride to the airport, Hicham was ready and waiting when I walked out the house. His travel time estimates were perfect. I arrived at the airport 1 minute shy of 5:30, which was the time I requested. The ride was comfortable and on my return trip I had a text message waiting when I landed instructing me exactly where to meet him. No waiting on cab or searching the chauffeurs with hand held signs. Every trip since he has the a/c temp set nice and cold like I prefer and the radio station set on sports talk. His attention to detail is not overlooked! Thank you J&I.
"Hicham, could not have been more pleasant. I am going to keep his card and definitely I will call you next time I'm in Austin! Thanks!"
Hi Hicham you are the best!! This is Debbie fr NYc following up rqstnd receipt from Sudays airport trip fr at&t at 1900 University Ave. Thanks! U can be sure I will recommend u to anybody coming to Austin next time u r in NYC let me know till then b well and thanks!
You will NOT go wrong booking with Hicham! I'm not even sure how many years I've known him and have used him for my airport trips. He is always on time (in fact early!). He is one of the nicest drivers I've ever had the pleasure of riding with. He is extremely courteous, professional, cars are very well maintained, and takes great pride in what he does. When I have flight delays, he is flexible and certainly takes care of me. Finding Hicham many years ago for my transportation needs was a lifesaver! THANK YOU HICHAM FOR ALL THAT YOU DO!
i can't say enough good things about Hisham at J&I Transportation. I've traveled extensively for work, requiring many trips to and from the airport. Hisham has ALWAYS been prompt (even when I wasn't). His courtesy, professionalism and dedication are far superior to anything I've experienced in similar roles here in Austin or in other parts of the country. His vehicle is spotless, as he takes great pride in his profession. He's accessible, flexible (and that's critical with flight delays) and is a welcome sight when returning home. He's sensitive to his customers' needs and goes above and beyond to make his clients feel comfortable. I highly recommend J&I for your transportation needs. You will be more than satisfied.
I have used Hicham every time I have needed transportation for some time now. He has shown up early 100% of the time and is the most reliable driver I have ever seen. Very personable and always has a great attitude. Recommend him as highly as possible and will always use his transportation service!
So great planning ahead for next time
Hicham is the best driver I have found anywhere. He has been driving me to the airport over a year now and I look forward to all opportunities to share my secret with anyone needing a driver. He certainly makes those early calls for business trips stress free. He is always on time, his vehicles are spotless and some mornings it wouldn't surprise me if he showed up with my favorite espresso straight up! He is so professional that the one time he couldn't pick me up personally he sent someone he knew and trusted, called me with his name and car number and followed up afterward. Cannot say enough good things about him. I think I will plan ahead and text him right now with my next departure information. You should too!
My goto guy...
I met Hicham on a ride to the airport a couple of years ago and haven't used another service since. He's professional, personable, and always on time. I don't typically write reviews, but he's worth it.
Absolutely Reliable!
As a regular traveler , I need to depend on my driver showing up on time, every time. This service is very reliable. Our regular driver, Hicham Lahbabi is a very nice guy and a real professional. Look forward to working with him as our regular driver in the future.
A big oversight on my part not providing a review for Hicham at J & I Transportation. I have been booking Hicham for many years for both business and personal trips. Austin Yelp is littered with cab/transport horror stories; late pickups, no shows, unprofessional drivers and so forth. Luckily I have never ever experienced any of these with Hicham. If you need a ride to ABIA at 430AM he arrives at 420AM. Pickup is a breeze as he monitors your inbound flight and is always on time rain or shine or during rush hour. Many a times I've texted him that I've caught an earlier flight or I'm delayed and he is always accommodating. I've also used Hicham for personal travel, Cedar Park to downtown, for SXSW and when visitors are in town and we need a DD. If you desire a professional- friendly driver, well maintained vehicle, and no drama then I would strongly recommend J & I. 5+ stars for sure!
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President Trump on Friday delivered a long-awaited speech outlining his administration's blueprint for lowering prescription drug prices. Calling his plan "the most sweeping action in history to lower the price of prescription drug for the American people," Trump promised "tougher negotiation, more competition and much lower prices at the pharmacy counter."
Overall, Trump emphasized how businesses all across the pharmaceutical supply chain, from drugmakers to insurers to the pharmacy benefits manager "middlemen" and the government, are hurting Americans who take prescription drugs. And, in keeping with the blueprint's title, "American Patients First," the president called for other developed countries to pay more for medicines.
"When foreign governments extort unreasonably low prices from U.S. drugmakers, Americans have to pay more to subsidize the enormous cost of research and development. In some cases, medicine that costs a few dollars in a foreign country costs hundreds of dollars in America, for the same pill with the same ingredients in the same package made in the same plant, and that is unacceptable," Trump said. "It's time to end the global freeloading once and for all."
The blueprint is centered on four broad strategies:
• Increasing competition in drug markets. The administration says it will look to advance generic drugs and biosimilars to promote price competition and will "take steps to end the gaming of regulatory and patent processes by drug makers to unfairly protect monopolies."
• Better negotiation, including tools for Medicare Part D plans to negotiate for discounts.
• Creating incentives for drugmakers to lower list prices, including having the Food and Drug Administration evaluate the idea of requiring manufacturers to cite list prices in their advertising. The plan also calls for streamlining and speeding up the approval process for over-the-counter drugs.
• Reducing out-of-pocket costs for patients. The administration would, for one example, stop limiting pharmacists' ability to tell Medicare Part D patients when they could pay less by not using insurance. And it would require prescription drug plans for Medicare patients to pass on some of the discounts and rebates they receive from pharmaceutical companies. "Health policy experts like this idea because it reduces the burden on patients with serious chronic illnesses and spreads the expense of needed medications across the entire insured population," The New York Times said.
Why Trump's Plan Isn't a Cure
Health care analysts and observers were — well, lets' just say underwhelmed by Trump's presentation, with many saying that the details of the blueprint didn't live up to the president's tough talk. Notably absent from the plan, for example, was the idea of allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices directly, which Trump had promised during his election campaign. The blueprint also does not call for allowing Americans to import cheaper drugs from foreign countries.
Here's an overview of the drug-pricing problem and the Trump administration's proposals:
The Problem: Americans spend more on prescription drugs — more than $1,100 per person, on average, in 2015 — than anyone else in the world. Drug prices here are high and have been rising rapidly, with patients who pay out of pocket for brand name drugs especially vulnerable to crushing costs.
As a Political Issue, This Has Plenty of Potential: The vast majority of Americans say that drug prices are too high and that the pharmaceutical industry has too much sway in Washington. And in a new poll released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 66 percent of Republicans, 72 percent of independents and 78 percent of Democrats said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate vowing to lower prescription drug costs.
But This Might Be About Politics More Than Results: "The president's tough talk on drug prices will no doubt be popular with the public. Will the fact that the specifics of the plan don't seem to deliver on that tough talk ultimately matter?" Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Family Foundation asked on Twitter.
Trump's Plan Includes Plenty of Steps He Can Take Without Congress: "It's framed as a pro-competitive agenda, and touches on a range of government programs that the administration can change through regulation — so that the president can take unilateral action," Daniel N. Mendelson, the president of research consultancy Avalere Health, told The New York Times.
But It Seems to Have More Questions Than Answers: A number of health care experts noted that the 44-page blueprint includes dozens and dozens of questions. "A lot of good questions in the plan but very little actual action, especially against PBMs," Walid Gellad, who heads the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing at the University of Pittsburgh, tweeted.
Raising Drug Prices in Other Countries Won't Help Here: "There's not a sensible health economist alive, or any economist, that will tell you that higher prices abroad will lead to lower prices here," Andrea Harris, senior vice president of health care at Height Capital Markets in Washington, told Bloomberg.
Ultimately, the Plan Could Have a Very Limited Effect: "This is not doing anything to fundamentally change the drug supply chain or the drug pricing system," Gerard Anderson, a health policy professor at Johns Hopkins University, told CNN before the blueprint's release.
And the Pharmaceutical Industry Doesn't Seem Too Worried: Just check out how pharma stocks — and those of pharmacy benefit managers like Express Scripts — shot higher despite Trump's harsh rhetoric.
But Big Pharma Should Still Be On Notice: "The industry is among the most profitable of any industry in the U.S. and as such probably has room to give," Wells Fargo analyst David Maris told Bloomberg. "If it doesn't reform itself, it will be reformed and this is the beginning of that reform."
Did We Really Expect Anything Else from Trump? "I'm shocked!" tweeted Michael Linden of the liberal Roosevelt Institute. "You mean the guy who just gave drug companies a massive tax cut and then appointed a drug CEO as HHS secretary and has spent his entire time as president favoring the rich and powerful, that guy wasn't genuine about lowering drug prices? Shocked."

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Feathered dinosaurs existed for millions of years before the origin of birds and, for a time, there was a period where feathered dinosaurs and early birds coexisted with animals that don't fit neatly into either category. One of the latter was microraptor, a feathered dinosaur that doesn't appear to have been of the avian lineage but still seems to have had wing-like feathers on all four of its limbs. Researchers have now found that microraptor did have a close relationship with birds: it ate them.
Microraptor, as its name implies, was a small dinosaur, maybe a meter long counting its tail. Based on the number of fossils we've recovered, it was about as unremarkable as a pigeon in its day, which was about 120 million years ago. But most reconstructions suggest it looked rather unusual by modern standards. That's because microraptor featured wing-like forelimbs that retained claws, and hindlimbs that had an array of feathers similar to that on its forelimbs. A number of researchers suggest it could fly or glide, possibly using all four limbs for lift.
There's an obvious visual affinity with birds, but that lineage was already well established by the time microraptor came along. So well established that, when researchers identified a few small bones within the ribcage of a microraptor fossil, they were able to not only identify them as avian, but assign them to a specific group of birds that were common at the time (the enantiornithines).
As the authors of the paper that describes this find note, this sort of thing isn't unprecedented. There's a long list of fossils that died shortly after eating something else, often something that was phylogenetically quite distant. "The first feathered dinosaur Sinosauropteryx often preserves the remains of mammals and lizards in the stomach cavity, a specimen of the mammal Repenomamus preserves the remains of a baby Psittacosaurus dinosaur, the basal ornithurine bird Yanornis preserves fish remains in the stomach of one specimen, and a specimen of the giant compsognathid Sinocalliopteryx was reported to have an incomplete dromaeosaurid leg preserved inside its abdominal cavity," according to the paper. Other birds of the sort eaten here even found their way into the remains of ocean-going reptiles.
That last example was probably a matter of scavenging, since these weren't ocean-going birds. But the authors think that the new microraptor may be a case of intentional consumption. The orientation of the bird's skeletal remains within the dinosaur indicate that it was swallowed whole, and in the orientation normally used by modern predatory birds. Since the bird itself has feet that indicate it was adapted to perching in trees (no telephone wires back then), the authors think this implies that microraptor hunted in the trees.
Another microraptor fossil, however, was found with a mammal bone in its abdomen, so it's not obvious that this bird represents the animal's typical meal. In any case, it's a pretty spectacular find, and does a few new hints about this enigmatic dinosaur's lifestyle.
PNAS, 2011. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117727108 (About DOIs).


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Moving the innovation from the main product to a gallery of experimental features was a great idea for Gmail. The number of features increased rapidly without cluttering the product because you could select only the features that are useful to you. The downside was that most of the Gmail Labs were in an early phase, some were buggy and had to be temporarily disabled, while others were simply removed.
The first feature that graduated from Gmail Labs and became a standard feature is Google Tasks: you'll find it below the contacts link and this time there's no option to remove it. "The idea was always that the most popular and viable Labs features would graduate and be made more readily available to all users... and that some of the less used, less viable ones would disappear forever," explains Google.
Since Gmail Labs was a success, Google decided to create a similar gallery of experimental features for Google Calendar. "We've been looking for a way to release early features to users in a quick and experimental fashion, but in a way that would let developers and customers outside of Google extend Calendar too. We've seen how successful Gmail Labs has been and decided Calendar deserved Labs too," notes the Google Apps blog.
Google Calendar Labs has only 6 experiments: an option to customize the application using a background image, a clock that shows the current time in multiple time zones, an option that lets you jump to a certain date, a countdown to the next event, schedules for shared calendars and an option to attach Google Docs documents.
If the new features don't seem very useful, developers can write OpenSocial gadgets for Google Calendar. The APIs let you interact with Google Calendar's interface: you can add events, change settings, show the events for certain dates. Almost any iGoogle gadget can be added to Google Calendar using the following URL, assuming that you don't need to edit the preferences and that there's enough space to display it:
(where GADGET_XML_FILE is the URL of the gadget's XML file, for example: http://www.google.com/calendar/render?gadgeturl=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/wikipedia.xml)


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California Republicans are a strange breed of masochists.
They keep beating themselves up over the wrong thing.
The recent ProPublica story that accused Democrats of fooling the redistricting commission has occasioned a round of Republicans masochism.
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GOP voices, when not denouncing the Democrats, are asking why they didn't do more to swing the redistricting commission, just like the Democrats.
They should stop. If it's true that they didn't spend a ton of time and money trying to game the redistricting commission, they were wise not to do so. It would have a waste.
For all the hubbub about redistricting and the ProPublica charges, there's very little advantage to be gained in this redistricting process.
That's one of the big problems with the ProPublica story; the publication never establishes that the Democrats did any better than they would have done without theiir behind-the-scenes politicking.
The hard fact is that political geography is destiny in redistricting, at least in California.
The state is so well divided between coastal Democrats and inland Republicans that there simply isn't any way -- in a system that relies on single-member districts of big sizes -- to change the party breakdown very much.
Independent analysts see little more than one or two seats moving between parties. The number of competitive seats is also unchanged.
So playing the redistricting game is a dumb move for a party that has bigger problems: declining registration and a governance system that has reduced them to hostage takers.
Unfortunately for Republicans, party leaders are seizing on the ProPublica story, beating themselves up, and vowing to pursue legal and political challenges to redistricting even harder.
They're doubling down -- on a game that not only they can't win, but also that no one can win.
There's a wiser course. Focus on party-building and on real political reform. Specifically, Republicans needs an entirely new voting system that would reflect the party's true strength in the state by allocating legislative seats based on the proportion of the vote they receive in legislative elections.
The current system -- because it's based on single-member districts -- badly exaggerates the strength of Democrats (who win elections with fewer votes not because of redistricting but because Democrats in Democratic districts don't vote in the same numbers as Republicans in Republican districts).
The redistricting controversy is a trap for Republicans. They would be smart to avoid it.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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It began as it ends, with Africa.
K's words as we walk away from the little grave. We have chosen a spot high in the hills overlooking Tarifa, the Gibraltar Straits and the African coast. There's only the one road into Tarifa so this way we will pass her every day, and can say Hi. She won't be alone.
A few years ago K got a notion to go to Africa and travel overland from Nairobi to Cape Town. It was important to her to get out there and do something for herself that took her outside her comfort zone and to see something of the non-European world. It may partially have been a response to my own travel experiences, which I had possibly mentioned once or twice. More


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Rowdy's Dream Blog #283: My Disneyland Experience.
Our yard is now connected with my brother-in-law, J's, yard. His black dog runs into our yard. J looks out the window as he plays boogie woogie piano. He now has a trimmed gray beard. I motion to him that I would like to jam. He motions back by wiggling his hand —maybe later. Later we see his new fireplace. It consumes an entire wall and the smoldering logs are stacked to the ceiling. I describe my Disneyland experience to a short Asian woman. I tell her that I did try the weightlessness ride and that I got to fly. I tell her that it felt like I expected it would.


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Tonight, a new show called 60 Minutes Sports will premier on Showtime. The first episode will feature an interview with Travis Tygart of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, who will be talking about his investigation of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.
CBS News has leaked a few tidbits in advance of the interview, the most interesting being the allegation that Armstrong tried to bribe his way out of being investigated.
Armstrong once gave the International Cycling Union, a regulatory body for his sport, a gift of $100,000. Tygart called that "totally inappropriate." Then someone representing Armstrong tried to give USADA a large sum of money sometime in 2004. "I was stunned," he tells Pelley. "It was clear — it was a clear conflict of interest for USADA. We had no hesitation in rejecting that offer," says Tygart, who said the amount was "in excess of $150,000." Told by Pelley that "60 Minutes" had learned it was $250,000, Tygart replies, "It was around that ballpark."
That's quite the allegation, but one that should be taken with a grain of salt. Tygart has had it in for Armstrong for a very long time, and as you can see in the video clip posted by CBS, he's not shy about diving into the melodramatic. And, as Cycling News points out, there was no mention of Armstrong's attempted donation to the USADA in the organization's 1,000-page report on Armstrong's doping habits, although the $100,000 donation to the ICU did earn a mention. An attempted bribe of the USADA strikes us as something that would have been worthy of inclusion.
If you are an unhappy, soulless person who still actually cares about any of this and also happens to have Showtime, be sure to tune in for Tygart's full interview at 10:00 pm EDT.


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I'm announcing it early this year to give everyone lots of time to prepare so here goes.
It's time once again for KEEN ZOMBIES!. A yearly event hosted by yours truly where artists send in their own zombie comics and artwork to appear on the Keenzombies page. This is essentially a big open invitation to draw whatever insane violent, undead chaos you like. All submissions assuming they meet the guidelines will appear on the Keen Zombies webpage ( http://keenzombies.comicgen.com ) during and possibly after the month of October 2008.
For those guidelines look no further than HERE http://keenzombies.comicgenesis.com/submit.html
Submissions are accepted from now, throughout the end of October, the cutoff date is November 1st. Comics will begin appearing on October 1st with teasers and stand alone art proceeding that date.
With ample warning of the coming zombie apocalypse make your preparations and start warming up those pencils/pens/tablets/mice.


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Shaul Hadar is a professional musician, producer, composer, sound technician and a professional concert pianist with over 26 years of experience. Shaul writes music in any type of musical genre, with an affinity to the movies and games business, but also electronical music and instrumental music. Shaul is also a DJ/Producer, under the alias Counter Point, and releases music constantly at top record labels. Shaul also writes music for documentaries, internet sites, radio, television and every media which needs music and sound effects. Shaul also consults other producers on how to get the most of their musical environment. Shaul is a music teacher for piano, jazz, musical theory and computer based music. Shaul is currently working on writing a lot of music for computer and mobile games.
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Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions Hosts SBA Workshops for Native American-Owned Companies in September
Onsite Training Sessions and Web-Based Seminars Available for Native Corporations Interested in Joining the 8(a) Program
TULSA, OKLAHOMA — Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions (CNTS), a division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, is partnering with the U.S. Small Business Administration to host free, onsite training sessions and web-based seminars for native corporations interested in joining the 8(a) program. The workshops provide valuable insight for tribally owned businesses and Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs).
"We're pleased to partner with the Small Business Administration because it will provide more resources to the American Indian business community," said Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker. "At Cherokee Nation Businesses we are committed to creating jobs and building a strong economy. This will allow us to play a vital role as mentors and educators across Indian Country as we continue to nurture and grow tribally owned businesses."
Working with the SBA's Office of Native American Affairs, CNTS created curriculum focused on business development and the unique rules and considerations of the 8(a) program. The sessions address the many challenges faced by native businesses and offer operational and leadership strategies to build capacity, foster growth and expansion, and ensure sustainability. CNTS also provides technical assistance to participating organizations.
"Our diversified businesses have experienced tremendous growth and success over the past few years," said Steven Bilby, president of CNB's diversified businesses. "We are honored to have the opportunity to work with the SBA to share our knowledge and passion, so that all native companies have the support they need to achieve success in their marketplace."
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In addition, the company is hosting a webinar on September 11 regarding Strategic Planning. For more information and a full schedule of dates and locations, please visit http://www.cherokee-cnts.com/training.aspx orhttp://www.native8Atraining.com.
The Office of Native American Affairs, as part of the U.S. Small Business Administration, was created to promote and support Native American entrepreneurs through tribal consultations, development and distribution of promotional materials, and attendance and participation in national economic development conferences.
Cherokee Nation Technology Solutions was formed in 2008 to provide technical support services and project support personnel to its defense and civilian agency partners. The company provides a tailored management approach for complex government programs and disciplines, including information technology, science, engineering, construction, research and development, facilities management, program management, and mission support.
CNTS is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is part of the Cherokee Nation Businesses family of companies.


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Amortized analysis of exponential time- and parameterized algorithms: measure & conquer and reference search trees (2010)
This work addresses the algorithmic tractability of hard combinatorial problems. Basically, we are considering \NP-hard problems. For those problemsrnwerncan not find a polynomial time algorithm. Several algorithmic approaches already exist which deal with this dilemma. Amongrnthemrnwe find (randomized) approximation algorithms and heuristics. Even though in practice they often work in reasonable time they usually do not return anrnoptimal solution. If we constrain optimality then there are only two methods which suffice for this purpose: exponential time algorithms andrnparameterized algorithms. In the first approach we seek to design algorithms consuming exponentially many steps who are more clever than some trivialrnalgorithm (whornsimply enumerates all solution candidates).rnTypically, the naive enumerative approach yields an algorithm with run time $\Oh^*(2^n)$. So, the general task is to construct algorithms obeying a run time of rnthe form $\Oh^*(c^n)$ where $c<2$.rn The second approach considers an additional parameter $k$ besides the input size $n$. This parameter shouldrnprovide more information about the problem and cover a typical characteristic. The standard parameterization is to see $k$ as an upper (lower, resp.)rnbound on the solution size in case of a minimization (maximization, resp.) problem. Then a parameterized algorithm should solve the problem in time $f(k)\cdot n^\beta$rnwhere $\beta$ is a constant and $f$ is independent of $n$. In principle this method aims to restrict the combinatorial difficulty of the problem tornthe parameter $k$ (if possible). The basic hypothesis is that $k$ is small with respect to the overall input size.rnIn both fields a frequent standard technique is the design of branching algorithms. These algorithms solve the problem by traversing the solutionrnspace in a clever way. They frequently select an entity of the input and create two new subproblems, one where this entity is considered as part ofrnthernfuture solution and another one where it is excluded from it. Then in both cases by fixing this entity possibly other entities will be fixed. If so then therntraversedrnnumber of possible solution is smaller than the whole solution space. The visited solutions can be arranged like a search tree. To estimate thernrun time of such algorithms there is need for a method to obtain tight upper bounds on the size of the search trees. In the field of exponential timernalgorithms a powerful technique called Measure&Conquer has been developed for this purpose. It has been applied successfully to manyrnproblems, especially to problems where other algorithmic attacks could not break the trivial run time upper bound. rnOn the other hand in the field of parameterized algorithms Measure&Conquer is almost not known. This piece of work will presentrnexamples where this technique can be used in this field. It also will point out what differences have to be made in order to successfully applyrnthe technique. Further, exponential time algorithms for hard problems where Measure&Conquer is applied are presented. Another aspect is thatrna formalization (and generalization) of the notion of a search tree is given. It is shown that for certain problems such a formalization is extremely useful.rn


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Hacktivist collective Anonymous will spam Facebook on April 6, 2013. The collective has promise to target the world's largest social network with "uncensored material" that will clog up Facebook news feeds.
The fragmented groups known as Anonymous have attempted on various occasions to bring down social networks with no success, that of course does not mean they will stop now.
Anonymous is calling the campaign #OpTruthForce.
According to AnonNews:
"In past years we have seen a growing force around the world. Governments and corporations are working strategically to stop free speech by the people. In more recent months we have witnessed an increased number of account blocking and deletion by Facebook, of users who dare to ridicule, mock, satirize, or speak out against political leaders or corporations heavily involved with politics." [Read more…]


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With temperatures forecast to approach freezing Friday and Saturday nights, the Salvation Army is preparing to activate its "cold night shelter" to accommodate homeless men who are unable to get a bed in a traditional shelter.
The shelter is set up in the gymnasium of the Salvation Army's Citadel Corps Community Center at 15 E. Church St. downtown.
The shelter is activated when the overnight temperature is forecast to drop below 40 degrees in the downtown area. In cold weather, the traditional homeless shelters around the city fill up quickly to maximum safe capacity. The homeless men start to line up outside the building in the late afternoon.
A warm meal is served beginning at 6:30 p.m., then the doors to the shelter open, providing nearly 100 men a safe, warm place to sleep. Snacks and hot beverages are offered to the men before they leave the gymnasium around 7 a.m. the next morning.
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#! is a Debian-based Openbox distribution. It used to be based on Ubuntu, and at one point, it gained [and then later lost] an Xfce edition. It aims to be quite lightweight yet have the niceties of other distributions with more mainstream DEs.
I tried the 64-bit edition on a live USB made with MultiSystem. I should also say that until I finally get a new OS for my laptop, I will probably be trying the 64-bit editions of various distributions (after which point I will go back to trying the 32-bit editions), so I will not mention that bit after this. Follow the jump to see what this is like.
After getting past the boot menu, I was greeted by a scrolling wall of text for the boot splash. The boot process took a little longer than I thought, but it was still well within reason, and after that I was greeted by the desktop.
The desktop hasn't changed that much. The Tint2 panel has moved to the top and now takes up the full width of the screen; that said, the Openbox menu is accessible even when right-clicking on the Tint2 panel (except for some special areas). The Openbox and GTK+ themes are now light gray instead of dark, while the icon theme is the default one from GNOME; personally, I prefer the older customizations more, but that's just me. Also, one interesting change is that it seems like the default keyboard layout is now US rather than UK, which is nice for me; that said, spelling checks in various applications consider US-specific spellings as misspellings. Otherwise, the desktop works just as well as always.
Chromium is the default browser, and it seems to work well. Some codecs appear to be installed, because YouTube and Hulu worked fine, but playing MP4 files from my laptop's installed Linux partition did not work. Also, my laptop's volume keyboard shortcuts worked well, and the notifications here look almost as nice as the Notify-OSD notifications in Ubuntu. Finally, although Chromium is the default browser and there is a menu entry to install Iceweasel (the repackaging of Mozilla Firefox for Debian), the properly-branded Mozilla Firefox is available in the repositories at version 13, and that installed and worked properly.
There is a link in the menu to install LibreOffice. Otherwise, AbiWord and Gnumeric are available.
Besides those, the application list is fairly sparse. VLC is present for multimedia files, while Evince and Viewnior are present for PDF files and pictures, respectively. Interestingly enough, there are two screenshot applications: Scrot is usable through the Openbox menu, while the Xfce screenshot tool is usable by pressing the 'PRTSCR' key.
Thunar is the default file manager as always. Oddly, there are no navigation buttons anymore except for the breadcrumbs for the directory path, so there are no "back"/"forward"/"up" buttons anymore. Also, for some reason, Thunar has been configured to open files and folders with just one click, which I find a little annoying. Otherwise it works well.
Skype and Google Talk were installable through their DEB files. Google Talk was easy to install and get working.
Skype was a little more difficult because at the precise moment when I tried installing it, the connection to some of the repositories needed for installing dependencies was lost, so the installation was botched. After trying again a few times with no more success than the first time, I issued the command "sudo apt-get -f install" to fix the broken packages, and that alone properly installed Skype and all of its dependencies. After that, Skype worked just fine.
Mupen64Plus is at version 1.99 in the repositories, so I installed version 1.5 the same way that I have been doing before. That worked fine, and I was able to play all of the games that I have on my laptop's hard drive.
Redshift and GTK-Redshift were installable from the repositories. While they both worked fine, unfortunately there appears to be no easy way to add applications like Redshift to the list of programs to run upon starting up. Of course, Openbox has its own "autostart" file, but when I tried to test that, #! wouldn't let me log back in because of password issues. (That's also the reason why this post has no screenshots; in addition, this pre-release version has come so early that there are probably going to be quite a few more changes in the coming weeks and months.)
The issue of not being able to log back in was also why I could not test the capability of Openbox to start different applications on different workspaces. Maybe I'll try that some other time.
Speaking of Openbox itself, #! used 150 MB of RAM at idle. While I have come to expect that from #!, given that I have recently tested a number of distributions which use a whole lot of RAM at idle, this is always refreshing to see. In addition, the built-in compositing function worked fine.
Despite this being a very early pre-release version, #! 11 "Waldorf" was incredibly stable. I experienced no crashes or any other issues at all.
The only other minor complaint I have is that when I installed new applications, the Openbox menu would not automatically update to reflect this change. I know that in general Openbox does not do that, but for whatever reason I have been under the impression that #! does that. In fact, I'm pretty sure that when I tried installing and using Skype in #! 9.04.01, the menu automatically updated itself to reflect the installation of Skype. Anyway, that's a fairly minor point.
That is essentially where my time with #! ended. I'm pretty sure that the MP4 issue is just a matter of installing the proper codecs; plus, #! is supposed to have a post-installation script that automates the fetching of such useful packages. Other than that, I am aware that as #! uses Openbox, I will need to get my hands a little more dirty in configuring the system to my liking, even when it comes to things like setting certain applications to start upon logging in. I feel like that would be fun for playing around in the live session but it would be a pain to deal with on a daily basis; just to be sure, though, I may make this the subject of the next long-term review right after Chakra. I would recommend this to Linux users who are comfortable with the CLI and are OK with occasionally editing configuration text files; it's not for total newbies, but it's amazingly powerful and quite polished for something that uses Openbox.
You can get it here, but do keep in mind that this is not a final release and may present alpha-quality bugs that I have just been lucky enough to avoid.


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He is 130 feet tall and weighs 35,000 tons but can stay in the earth's atmosphere for only three minutes. He battles assorted monsters trying to destroy the earth.
And if he is currently residing in your attic—especially if he's in his original box—he may be worth a nice piece of change.
This Ultraman brought in almost six hundred bucks.
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With the digital switch over for radio now planned for 2015, you haven't got long to get into the world of digital radio. Well that's the scaremongering out of the way, but seriously can the Pure Oasis Flow offer you decent sound and performance?
Sold as a rugged radio, the Oasis Flow is a solid, rather large (155 x 230 x 140mm) connected radio that is encased in plastic and metal and offers DAB, internet, and FM radio stations for you to enjoy. We say rugged, but this isn't Olympus Tough camera or Panasonic laptop rugged. It's not covered in rubber and ready to be hurled into the back of a Land Rover and given a good beating.
It is rugged enough to withstand being used on your patio, around your pool (read paddling if you are in the UK) and generally out and about on a camping trip or to a picnic. That's partly thanks to a built-in rechargeable battery that gives you freedom from the power socket. Powered by the company's ChargePak tech you'll have to recharge it via the provided cable at some point, but it will save you a fortune in new batteries.
Coming in gloss white with aluminium edges, the main focus is towards the front of the unit. Here you are presented with the speaker, three control knobs for volume, power and scrolling through menus, and finally a large high-contrast yellow-on-black graphical 128 x 64 pixel OLED screen that is also touch sensitive, but only in part.
Before we talk about interaction, it's worth pointing out that around the side there are headphone, Aux in, USB and power sockets, while the back of the device reveals a storage slot for the plug-in aerial and two smaller speakers for the bass.
The top features a socket for the aerial that can be taken off when you don't need it (you don't, for example, if you are listening to internet radio), and a handily placed handle for carrying the device around, although at 2.2kg you'll need to make sure you're tough enough yourself.
That weight does help though. It gives the Pure Oasis Flow a solid feel and one that continues the tradition of Pure's excellent build quality.
At the front of the unit, the main focus is going to be around the controls, as there is no remote in the box it's the only way to control the unit. As with previous Pure radios there is a strange mix between touch and turn dials, which can at times get confusing. In an attempt to reduce the number of buttons, some of the commands for the Pure Oasis Flow have become contextual touch sensitive at the bottom of that OLED screen.
That means things like adding the station you are listening to the Favourites list or pressing Options to access things like the Display, Wi-Fi settings, or Alarm or timer. There is also a back button that lets you get back to where you were, unsurprisingly enough.
But this is where it gets slightly confusing, turn the Select knob and that throws up a different menu selection specific to the radio option you've opted to listen to. Be it internet radio, DAB, FM or Aux in. It's not the end of the world, but it will take a little while getting used to.
Turn on the radio, and the DAB will start its tuning process to grab as many DAB stations as possible. If you're in a good DAB area that means you'll get lots. If you aren't then why are you buying a DAB radio? Of course if you thought you were and then found out you weren't you always have the FM radio, internet radio service called the "Lounge", or a network music to enjoy as well.
DAB stations came through loud and clear in our tests, working just as you would expect a DAB digital radio to work. Pure has been in this business for some time, leading it in fact, and one thing is for sure, it knows its stuff. The FM radio is equally easy to use and equally good on the performance front.
When it comes to internet radio, it does take a little longer to set-up, only because you've got to go through the boring process of punching in a password for your network (all via a on screen keyboard and that scrolling knob) but once you've set-up you can then access thousands of stations available, either by scrolling through them or via the search function.
Thanks to that 802.11b/g wireless connectivity, you can also use the flow to stream from a networked PC or Mac either from software you might already have (it has to be a UPnP server or PC/MAC running UPnP server software), or via the company's Flowserver software licensed from Twonky Media (As an aside we tried it with our Sonos system and while it could see the tracks it refused to play them).
Software isn't one of Pure's strong points. Pure might make great hardware, but we've said this before and we'll say it again, the whole device is let down massively when it comes to its website.
To get the media server features working you have to register with the company's website, then register the radio, then input a code into the radio having received that via email, then you get a second registration code via another email that you then have to punch into the Twonky Media software you've downloaded. Failure to do any of this in the right order leaves you having to phone technical support (like we had to).
It's not that the software doesn't work once you get it running, it's just that no one has thought support through, merely expecting you to just know what to do. The emails tell you to check the manual, the manual doesn't have anything, and around you go again.
That aside, the streaming element, once we did get it working, works well. Audio codecs supported include WMA (Standard V9), AAC, MP3, MP2, Real Audio (cook), and you can shuffle through your music as long as you've got your PC or Mac turned on and the Flowserver software running in the background. Don't worry it isn't a resource hog.
Back to the website and it's not just about frustration, but actually a chance to set-up some of the elements of your radio like managing your favourite stations. It's just a shame the website looks like it has been designed by someone who has only just graduated from "learn HTML in 24 hours".
But forget all that for the moment, you can actually get away with spending virtually zero time on the website, which is a good thing, and enjoying the cracking radio that is the Oasis Flow. When it comes to sound quality, it is surprising how much volume this little box can generate and we aren't just talking noise. The sound is well balanced and it will happily fill your garden with music over the summer months to come.
The Pure Oasis Flow comes with three criticisms, but plenty of praise. Those criticisms come in the guise of the the price, software, and the fiddly control mechanism. At £169.99 it does look a bit too expensive, even though it offers plenty in the way of DAB, FM and Internet radio. The second is thelounge.com - it's just badly designed. And the third - you'd just better hope you have deft fingers.
Get past these foibles and the radio is a great device, well made, able to withstand being left out in the rain while you duck for cover, and good enough to produce a sound that you and your party guests will be happy with.


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Ray's Take While you're allowed to withdraw funds from your tax-qualified plans as early as age 59 1/2, many people delay making withdrawals until they have to, at age 70 1/2. There certainly can be advantages to deferring that tax liability those extra years if there are other assets available for retirement. However, if you fail to make required minimum withdrawals (RMDs) then, the penalties are substantial – a whopping 50 percent tax above the regular income tax.
Fortunately, most banks, brokerage houses and mutual-fund providers notify you in that crucial year, and every year afterwards, letting you know just how much you need to withdraw based on tables provided by the IRS based on your life expectancy.
Why this insistence on making withdrawals? Because funds you have in these accounts have never been taxed and now Uncle Sam is ready for his share. One big exception is Roth IRAs, because those funds were already taxed. Another exception: if you are still working, there is no requirement to withdraw from that company's 401(k) plan, but you do have to withdraw from any other qualified plans you did not roll over.
If, like many people, you have multiple IRAs or 401(k)s, you do not need to make pro rata withdrawals from each account, however, you do need to withdraw the total RMD. This offers a planning tool for careful investors. You can try to maintain a specific asset allocation by using the annual RMD opportunity to make adjustments rather than letting things be set automatically.
Of course, all these are general guidelines, and the reality must be analyzed on a case-specific basis. If ever there was a time to get professional financial advice, this is it.
Not only do you want to be sure of avoiding that 50 percent penalty, you also need to develop a plan to minimize your tax exposure over the years while still providing you with the funds you need for a comfortable life. One last thing, try to get in the habit of checking your beneficiary designation with every RMD. It's important.
Dana's Take While the RMD is mandatory at 70 1/2, remember that is the minimum, not the maximum you can withdraw. You might take a close look at your total financial picture and then consider the costs of the lifestyle you want to maintain before making decisions.
If you want to take advantage of these earlier retirement years to travel extensively but plan to live more quietly later, you might need to access more funds at first. However, if you dream of leaving your descendants a substantial inheritance, you'll want to be more cautious with your withdrawals.
It will take a lot of calculations, including factoring in inflation and a cushion for the unknown, but planning for your future doesn't stop with retirement. It lasts as long as you do.


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Alcohol-Fueled Engines - Takin' The Green
Biobutanol: The Next Methanol?
Racers running alcohol-fueled engines should perk up when they hear the word biobutanol. Touted as an environmentally friendly advanced biofuel, biobutanol gained recent exposure when an American research and development company specializing in the fuel was jointly bought by chemical giants DuPont and BP, both of which have far-reaching global motorsports programs.
But what exactly is it? Biobutanol is butanol produced from biomass feedstocks such as corn, sorghum, sugarcane, and so on. Butanol is a four-carbon alcohol (butyl alcohol). Like ethanol and its close cousin methanol, biobutanol is a liquid alcohol fuel. Unlike ethanol and methanol, the energy content of biobutanol is only 10 to 20 percent lower than that of gasoline rather than almost 40 percent as in the aforementioned alcohol fuels.
The Big Picture The use of biobutanol as a fuel and/or fuel additive provides greater options for sustainable renewable transportation fuels, reduces dependence on imported oil, lowers greenhouse gas emissions, and expands markets for agricultural products and byproducts.
A much more forgiving alcohol fuel than traditional ones, biobutanol can be blended into standard grade gasoline or gasoline containing ethanol, is compatible with existing vehicle technology and has the potential to be incorporated into the existing fuel supply infrastructure.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has already approved biobutanol as an oxygenate additive for gasoline in concentrations up to 11.5 percent by volume in place of ethanol. In fact, it can be used in higher blend concentrations than ethanol without requiring special modifications to vehicles, blending facilities, storage tanks, or retail station pumps. Unlike existing biofuels, it is also potentially suitable for transport in pipelines. Consequently, biobutanol could be introduced into gasoline quickly and avoid the need for additional large-scale supply infrastructure. Meaning it will be more readily available to consumers.
Why would we as short trackers care? In a nutshell early indications are that an internal combustion engine can run on high concentrations of biobutanol, up to 100 percent with little to no modifications to the motor. Plus, it's far less corrosive than typical alcohol fuels and the energy content is closer to that of gasoline, which means you need to burn less of it to generate the same BTU as compared to ethanol/methanol.
In keeping with this issue's theme, let's say you race a Midget on methanol. If you could use biobutanol in place of the methanol, you would burn less fuel since biobutanol's energy content is higher than methanol and you would (theoretically) have to do less post-race teardown maintenance on the motor since it's less corrosive than methanol. Assuming that the retail cost per gallon would be similar, you would save money by running your midget on biobutanol over methanol.
So where do you get it? While biobutanol isn't yet available at the local 7/11 or even at your favorite racing fuel distributor, it should soon be popping its head up in some different places across the land. As DuPont and BP continue their development of the fuel, Oregon-based Diesel Brewing recently launched an initiative to manufacture cellulosic biobutanol from biomass and dairy farm manure. That's right folks, fuel from cow poop!
Diesel Brewing's process gasifies wood wastes, agricultural residues, and manure into a syngas that is cleaned and fed into a catalytic reactor and purification system to generate a variety of alcohols containing butanol, ethanol, and methanol-each one biobased and environmentally friendly.
Outside of the benefits to American farming, DuPont and BP are jointly analyzing biobutanol's emissions performance using the Argonne National Laboratory's Green House Gas Well-to-Wheel/Life Cycle Analysis Program. The early indications are that biobutanol delivers emission reductions that are at least as good as ethanol when using the same base feedstock.
The Future Don't think for a minute that this is all some pipe dream coming out some university's big ivory tower. Although 100 percent biobutanol as a racing fuel is still a ways off, a Dyson Racing Mazda-powered Lola LMP2 American LeMans Series Coupe successfully ran a blend of ethanol and biobutanol at this year's Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.
Could biobutanol be the next methanol? Less corrosive, higher energy content, renewable, and it can be made from agricultural waste . . . why not?


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AirAsia's Fernandes Seeks Listing of Insurance Business
Malaysian airline tycoon Tony Fernandes is kicking off his planned spate of initial public offerings this year with a listing of his insurance business.
Mr. Fernandes, founder of budget carrier AirAsia Bhd., is looking to sell 210.2 million shares at an indicative price range of 1.55 ringgit ($0.51) per share in Tune Ins Holdings Bhd., according to a filing Friday to the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange, a deal that could raise up to $106 million. The range for institutional investors is 1.20 ringgit to 1.55 ringgit per share, said one banker involved in the deal.


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No Bull brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 44 Designs von 9 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
No Bull Annuities
We're a startup set to inject transparency in the world of shady Wall Street brokers. We focus on a specific investment product called variable annuities.
What we do: We reverse engineer 200 page product documents into interactive charts. "We read the fine print so you don't have too." This empowers everyday people to make educated decisions about their retirement (and don't get ripped off).
We're different because we're math geeks, not sales guys. Our brand is an unbiased consumer resource, similar to: consumer reports, Kelly Blue book,etc.
mint.com - (Really like the older site without the video).
We like these sites because they have:
Great visuals, Text Hierarchy, great layout, clean look, clear call to actions.
The image that we want to convey:
- We're unbiased, trustworthy and have the consumers best interest in mind
- We're math geeks providing helpful research not sales guys trying to sell
- We turn incomprehensible "prospectus" documents into customized visual charts – so the user can understand and compare products before they buy one.
We're going for a clean and visual look. That is, an easy to read layout with icons to help convey our message.
Page 1: Landing page:
See Wireframe for idea of the content. This is not meant to be a design map or creative guideline, just to convey basically what we need. Please feel free to take creative liberties with design.
The "Call to action" is to get the user to click the sign up button - so that should stand out.
We would like to have a main image that visually tells what we do:
Convert large incomprehensible documents ("prospectus") into customized pretty charts that tell a story.
One idea we had: stack of papers go in one end of machine and a pretty line chart comes out the other. The machine could look like a meat grinder, copier, shredder, etc. These are just some ideas. Feel free to take your own direction. But we're trying to get away from the status quo: Please no pictures of old people gazing at the ocean.
We'd like to have icons for the 4 bullets
FYI: We'll be A/B testing the layout a bit.
Page 2: Content template page:
Same header & footer as landing page
Use content from our "About Page" at: http://nobullannuities.com/About.jsp
Our current design is horrible – please do your magic to make it look elegant!
This will be used as a template for new pages that we add going forward.
Will pay extra if can convert into a css
We look forward with your designs and will be providing daily feedback. Thank You!
Target Audience: 40-70 year old middle class; somewhat tech savy (e.g. likely to research investments or do taxes online)
We are not attached to our current website. We feel that the heading area takes up too much vertical space. Also, we don't like the current font on the about page.
Resolution width: 1024
We would pay extra for CSS
The video we have made is located at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adk7So0JdZA
If we can provide anything else to help you out, please let us know. Thank you!


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Pantac - Make Sure You're Buying the Real Thing (2008-06-26)
We've been inundated with reports about products made under the Pantac name but are in fact made by a different company, using inferior manufacturing methods, who are looking to take advantage of the success of the Pantac brand. Redwolf Airsoft do not approve of this brand-jacking and would like to assure all our customers that we get all our supplies from Pantac direct - we will not accept any imitation products from other sources.
Pantac products are most notable for their strength and durability, which has a lot to do with their Mil-Spec production process and the quality materials used for their products. Invista 1000D Cordura Nylon is used in the majority of their products, which is known to be long lasting and resistant to abrasions, tears and scuffs. Here are some interesting statistics about Invista Cordura:
Even the most minute of details scream quality, take a look at the chunky UTX or ITW NEXUS clips used and you can see that they are super tough; the zips used are YKK, and if you know your zips, you will know that YKK zips are second to none in terms of quality. All the stitching is done to military specifications too, thus, when you add all this up, what you get is a superb product which is more than adequate for the needs of hardcore airsoft players everywhere.
Don't accept inferior products!
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We LOVE science in this house! I mean, like really love it! So when we got offered the chance to review Apologia Educational Ministries, Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics.
First off I have to tell you that I really love Apologia. They have amazing science curriculum. I was not disappointed with this new one either.
Apologia Educational Ministries is really well know in the homeschooling community for their curriculum. They have a great education with the focus on God, and how it all works.
We got a 280 page hardcover text book, with 14 lessons to be spread over the course of a year. Their recommendation is that you do what is best for your family. Depending on the ages of your children you may want to spread the lessons out over a longer period of time.
How we used this. . .
We chose to do a lesson a week. That way we spread the reading, activities, and experiments out over the week. The book is very well written, and things are very clear. I usually read half the chapter to my kids, and then we would do some of our notebooking. The next time I would finish the rest, and we would do the activities.
The hands on activities are the most favorite among my kids. We made our own lava lamp, and so much more!
I have two kids. . . one in 3rd grade, and one in 6th. It is really nice to be able to just use two different notebooking journals, and teach the same subject. This saves me so much time! I love it!
Each notebooking journal is around 237 pages, and spiral bound, so it is easy to use, and stays together nicely. Great for flipping back and forth during your lesson! I used the junior one with my youngest, and the regular one with my oldest. In the front of the journal is a suggest daily schedule, you can follow if you like. I usually look at it, then use it as a guideline.
Our thoughts:
My kids love these science books! They are already asking me what one we are going to use next! They love that they are so full of facts, but have great hands on learning to go with it.
I love that I can let them go read the lesson, and its not to hard for them. Each one has their own notebooking journal so they can work at their level. All while I teach one subject from one book! This really helps me cut down on our school time, and the amount of prep I have to do.
We really love Apologia, and will continue using them for a long time to come!
The textbook is $39 and each Notebooking Journal is $24. Really a great deal for such a wonderful curriculum!
I have priced many, and this is by far the best deal I have found yet!
See what the rest of the TOS Crew is saying about this curriculum!