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Advertising, Marketing & Promotions Alert >> Contest Entrants' Pins Raise FTC Endorsement Concerns
May 1, 2014
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently investigated whether Cole Haan, Inc. violated Section 5 of the FTC Act when it required entrants in its Pinterest contest to pin images of Cole Haan products in order to enter the contest.
According to the FTC, entrants' pins featuring Cole Haan products were endorsements of the company's products and the fact that entrants received an entry into the contest in order to win a $1,000 shopping spree was a material connection that needed to be disclosed in accordance with the FTC Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials (FTC Endorsement Guides). Under the FTC Endorsement Guides, endorsers must disclose any material connections with the advertiser that viewers of the endorsement would not reasonably expect.
Pinterest Contest
To enter the Cole Haan Pinterest contest, entrants were required to create boards entitled "Wandering Sole" and pin five shoe images from Cole Haan's Wandering Sole Pinterest Board, as well as five images of the entrant's "favorite places to wander". Entrants were also instructed to include the hashtag #WanderingSole in each pin description. The entrant with the most creative entry would win a $1,000 shopping spree.
The FTC's Decision
The FTC determined that entrants' pins featuring Cole Haan images were endorsements of the Cole Haan products. Notably, the FTC found the pins to be endorsements even though the entrants were not required to state anything about the products.
The FTC further explained that an entry
into a contest to receive a significant prize in exchange for endorsing a
product constitutes a material connection that would not reasonably be expected by viewers of the endorsement. As such, the fact that entrants pinned Cole Haan products in return for the opportunity to win a $1,000 shopping spree was a material connection that should have been disclosed under the FTC Endorsement Guides.
The FTC was also concerned that Cole Haan failed to instruct entrants to label their pins to make clear that they had pinned the products as part of a contest. While Cole Haan required entrants to include the hashtag #WanderingSole in their pins, the FTC found that the #WanderingSole hashtag did not adequately communicate the material connection between entrants and Cole Haan.
Fortunately for Cole Haan, after considering a number of factors, the FTC issued a closing letter declining to pursue enforcement action against the company. In explaining why it declined formal action, the FTC noted that this was the first time it had publicly addressed whether a contest entry was a material connection that needed to be disclosed and whether a pin on Pinterest could constitute an endorsement. The FTC also noted that the Cole Haan contest ran for only a limited length of time and that it drew a relatively small number of contestants and that Cole Haan had subsequently adopted a social media policy addressing the FTC's concerns. The FTC concluded by stating that it expects Cole Haan to take reasonable steps to monitor its social media influencers' compliance going forward.
While the FTC chose not to pursue action against Cole Haan at this time, the next company that runs a promotion in violation of the FTC Endorsement Guides may be subjected to enforcement now that the FTC has put the industry on notice as to what constitutes an endorsement and a material connection in connection with a social media promotion. Accordingly, companies should closely scrutinize whether their Pinterest and other social media promotions raise endorsement issues to ensure these promotions are in compliance with the FTC Endorsement Guides.
What Does This Mean?
First, the FTC's guidance makes clear that that pinning may constitute an endorsement of a company or its products. As such, if companies want to avoid endorsements in their promotions, they should not require entrants to pin only images of the company's products to their boards, but rather give entrants flexibility to pin whatever images they want to pin in order to enter the promotion (although companies must be careful if they decide to use those images after the promotion, since there may be third party intellectual property issues with the images). While the FTC's letter addressed only pins on Pinterest, the FTC may take the same position with respect to promotions that require entrants to post images or videos of, or make favorable comments about, a company and/or its products on other social media platforms, such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Second, entry into a sweepstakes or contest may constitute a material connection that is required to be disclosed under the FTC Endorsement Guides. As such, if companies want entrants to pin or post the company's images in order to enter a sweepstakes or contest, companies should instruct entrants to disclose their material connections. While the FTC did not find Cole Haan's #WanderingSole hashtag to constitute an adequate disclosure, hashtags such as #sweepstakes or #contest should effectively disclose the material connection.
Third, before running any social media promotion, companies should check the social media platform's terms and conditions, including Pinterest's Acceptable Use Policy. Pinterest's Acceptable Use Policy prohibits promotions that require entrants to pin from a selection of images, and Pinterest has begun to crack down on promotions that run afoul of its Acceptable Use Policy. Notably, failure to comply with a social media platform's terms may result in the platform terminating a company's promotion at any time without notice.
Last, the FTC is once again closely scrutinizing endorsements. The FTC's closing letter came only a few weeks after the FTC announced its settlement with the home security company ADT regarding claims that ADT's endorsers failed to disclose their material connections and misrepresented themselves as independent reviewers on television programs and in social media (read our previous Alert on the settlement here). The settlement is a further reminder that companies should ensure their bloggers, influencers, spokespeople, and even promotion entrants are disclosing their material connections and institute reasonable monitoring programs to ensure compliance.
The Bottom Line
The FTC's guidance makes it clear that that pinning may constitute an endorsement of a company or its products, and entry into a sweepstakes or contest may constitute a material connection that is required to be disclosed under the FTC Endorsement Guides. Before running any social media promotion, companies should check the social media platform's terms and conditions, and should ensure their bloggers, influencers, spokespeople, and even promotion entrants are disclosing their material connections and institute reasonable monitoring programs to ensure compliance.
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Ellis to Buy Grizzlies; Move team to San Jose?
Californian Larry Ellison, ranked as the third-richest person in the U.S., has inquired about buying the Memphis Grizzlies with apparent hopes of moving the team to San Jose. But team owner Michael Heisley on Saturday downplayed the possibility of a sale — and of a relocation, citing a lease that ties the franchise to Memphis and FedExForum until 2021. "I can't downplay it enough. If it happens I'll be surprised," said Heisley, a Chicago-based billionaire who added that talks had not become serious.
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: Be afraid Memphis.
Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley will say one thing and do the opposite -especially if he can make a profit.
Consider his track record.
Years ago, the Chicago businessman promised to keep the Grizzlies in Vancouver, even singing the Canadian national anthem at the season opener as a show of good faith.
Privately, behind closed doors, Heisley was sabotaging things so he could move the franchise as soon as possible.
He stopped selling season tickets so attendance would fall. He cut ties with the community. He alienated sponsors. And he stopped communicating with fans.
The reason? Heisley could justify the move to Memphis if he could kill the Vancouver market.
At the time, Vancouver was an average NBA market. The Canadian dollar was low; the area's economy was in recession. On-court, the team was an unmitigated disaster because of GM Stu Jackson. Not surprisingly, the team only drew about 15 thousand fans per game.
Ironically, the situation improved once Heisley left. Today, the Canadian dollar sits at par; Vancouver's economy is strong because of oil, gas, and an influx of Chinese money. Fans would support a decent product -the city's NHL team has a string of 380 straight sell-outs.
Heisley was too narrow-minded to see the light, though. He took the tax breaks and ran to small, poor Memphis, where he has lost millions of dollars.
And Heisley will show no loyalty to Memphis if Larry Ellison's offer is high enough. He won't care if selling the team to the Oracle CEO results in the Grizzles leaving for San Jose.
Once a jerk, always a jerk. Just ask Vancouver.
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- 6 Beds
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Property TypeResidential – Single Family
SubdivisionBighorn Second
Listing Date09/24/17
Year Built1995
AreaEast Vail
Lot Size0.81 Acres (35,284 SqFt)
Parking2 Car Garage, Surface
Property Description
Unique opportunity to own a custom home at the gates of East Vail. Includes Lot 5 with pond for 1.46 acres of privacy. Gorgeous open space and sunset views to the west. Springtime brings the soothing sounds of Gore Creek. Located at the end of a cul-de-sac and one block to Town of Vail bus. Architecture shows attention to detail and timeless design. Inviting floor plan and tasteful finishes throughout. Experience this special home meticulously maintained. See attached for additional features.
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Only four miles away from the Village and tucked under the Gore Range at the base of Vail Pass, East Vail is a favorite of locals and Front Range visitors. As a strictly residential area, it offers peace and tranquility as well as sweeping views of its high alpine surroundings. East Vail residents enjoy the many conveniently located hiking trails, a large dog park on the Eagle River, and several waterfalls along the north facing slopes. East Vail is convenient to the heart of town by the free bus system yet maintains moderate property prices in comparison.
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|The hit a moonkin wants to aim for is 10% +hit, or 263 hit rating at level 80.
17% hit is needed overall to hit a raid boss at level 80 (~level 83 mob).
- Of this, 4% is gained through the Balance of Power talent.
- Another 3% is gained by having IFF or Misery (from shadow priests) up on the boss.
- This leaves 10% hit to be made up for on your gear.
What about non-bosses?
A full chart of spell-hit compared to level difference can be found here at wowwiki. Long story short, though, for a PvE mob that is the same level as you, you need 4% spellhit to overcome the base miss chance, which is made up for by Balance of Power alone.
The following spellhit numbers assume base -hit chances. Any further affects that increase your chance to miss, such as Choking Cloud, are not included.
- Level 80 mobs: you need no +hit gear or IFF/misery, unless there is a special -hit reduction being applied to you.
- Level 81 mobs: 95% chance is 1% more than Balance of Power. You will need to use IFF/misery, or have about 27 hit rating available to make up for that 1%.
- Level 82 mobs: 94% chance is 2% more than Balance of Power. You will need to use IFF/misery, or have about 53 hit rating available to make up for that 2%.
- Level 83 mobs: 83% chance to hit; this is a large drop from the level 82 mobs. You will need a total of 17% spellhit, requiring Balance of Power, IFF or Misery, AND 10% spellhit on your gear, which is 263 (262.3) hit rating.
Draenei party members!
They'll buff you with another +1% hit rating, reducing your hit rating requirements by around 27 (26.23 to be exact). Moonkin who raid with draenei will only need 9% additional hit rating over Balance of Power and IFF/Misery, which is about 237 (236.07) hit rating.
And PvP?
The base PvP hit chance for equal-level players is the same as for an equal-level mob: 96%. This is covered by our Balance of Power talent, so unless your opponents find a way to reduce your chance to hit with spells, you should be covered. If they do reduce it, you can use IFF to increase your hit by another 3%.


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The Village of Valvano - Corbo
The village of Valvano - Corbo belongs to the municipality of Avigliano, in the province of Potenza, region Basilicata.
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The village of Valvano - Corbo is 6,93 kilometers far from the same town of Avigliano to whom it belongs.
To the municipality of Avigliano also belong the localities of Badia (5,26 km), Badia Sant'Angelo (8,46 km), Bancone di Sopra (3,82 km), Bancone di Sopra e di Sotto (5,05 km), Bancone di Sotto (5,02 km), Bruciate (2,45 km), Bruciate di Sopra (2,74 km), Bruciate di Sotto (2,47 km), Bufolaria (8,74 km), Cacabotte (6,98 km), Canarra (7,60 km), Canestrelle (5,80 km), Carpinelli (1,88 km), Cascia (5,46 km), Case sparse (-- km), Castel Lagopesole (8,48 km), Cerza Montanara (9,61 km), Chicone (9,48 km), Ciccolecchia (7,40 km), Contrada Cefalo (0,68 km), Frusci (6,25 km), Gianturco di Sant'Angelo (8,61 km), Giardiniera Inferiore (8,37 km), Giardiniera Superiore (7,57 km), Imperatore (6,49 km), Lacciola (11,91 km), Lagopesole (8,22 km), Lazzi e Spilli (8,17 km), Limitone (8,80 km), Masciangelo (6,52 km), Masi (8,20 km), Masseria Bozzelli (11,15 km), Masseria Nardella (9,04 km), Masseria Zaccagnino (6,20 km), Mezzomiero (6,15 km), Miracolo (8,52 km), Moccaro (4,63 km), Montemarcone (11,39 km), Montemarcone Alto (11,55 km), Montemarcone Basso (11,51 km), Mulino Possidente (7,29 km), Pantani (1,79 km), Paoladoce (6,55 km), Patacca (8,02 km), Patacca Giardiniera (7,50 km), Piano del Conte (11,61 km), Piano del Lago (10,04 km), Possidente (8,48 km), Riseca Don Ciccio (10,03 km), Salinas (4,45 km), Salinas Cascia Moccaro (4,74 km), San Nicola (9,08 km), Sant'Angelo (8,64 km), Sarachelle (6,86 km), Sarnelli (7,55 km), Sassano (10,56 km), Sceppi (6,47 km), Serra dell'Olmo (11,34 km), Signore (7,49 km), Sorge (9,14 km), Spinamara (1,77 km), Stagliozzo (9,58 km), Stagliuozzo (9,58 km), Stolfi (3,93 km), Torretta (9,22 km), Ualano (6,13 km).
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I got to work with two legends on this assignment, two legends who are sadly no longer with us: Dan Hartman and the immortal Dusty Springfield.
Dan Hartman started out in the Edgar Winter Group in the early 70s, a magical time when heavy bands were also allowed to be funky, and their big hit Frankenstein is a good example. Another chart topper was the super catchy Free Ride, penned by Dan himself. In the late 70s he was big in the disco world, and coincidentally at the time of this session a sample from one of his disco hits (Love Sensation by Loleatta Holloway) was all over the dance floors once again. In the mid 80s he produced James Brown's last hit Living In America, in fact I think he did a mix of that at the Guerilla Studio in Maida Vale; I seem to recall some excitement back in '85 when the Godfather's multitrack tapes turned up.
I'd been doing some mixes for Dan at the Virgin Townhouse in Shepherd's Bush. He'd been working with an interesting outfit called The Fabulous Pop Tarts, two highly talented chaps, Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, who later became film makers and reality TV pioneers. I don't think any of my mixes were used but Dan seemed to like me and asked if I'd be recording engineer on his next gig, which was to record some tracks with Dusty Springfield for her Reputation album.
I probably shouldn't have taken the job, because although a nifty mixer, I am not the world's best recording engineer, particularly on those big-assed SSL desks…but come on! Dusty Springfield! Even as a nipper back in the 60s, her voice touched my heart like no other. No other white girl, anyway. This was a job I had to do, and although ensign Rico did have a couple of close calls on planet Dusty, he got through it and all was well.
The Townhouse was buzzing at that time. Prince was gigging in London and every evening after the show he would come down to Shepherd's Bush and jam for hours into the night. Quite something to go to the bathroom and hear The Revolution blasting down the corridor. Every studio was booked solid; Bob Clearmountain was mixing a The Who album in one of our vocal rooms.
Dusty was charm itself, her instinct and attention to detail supernatural, her voice as shiver-inducing as ever. Memories of recording her, kidding around, listening to her and Dan reminisce in the canteen…this stuff fills my head like a corny tableau, but it's my corny tableau, and nobody can take it away from me!


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Happy New Year to everyone at UWB from Port Lockroy! The last time I wrote, we were awaiting the arrival of HMS Protector, the British Royal Navy ship that does ice patrol in the Antarctic. As it turned out, Protector sailed away, to return several days later when the ice eased up enough for them to get in and deliver the cargo they had brought for us from the UK. Thankfully, they also gave us a resupply of water and invited us on board for dinner and some very welcome showers. Though we didn't know it at the time, we were at the early stages of one of the longest stretches of ice here at Port Lockroy that most people can remember.
Protector was our last ship for some time, as expedition after expedition canceled their visits to Lockroy due to ice. We settled in (more or less) to a routine of maintenance work around the base, mostly painting. I spent several days scraping and repainting the bright red Royal Mail post box, and then another few scraping and repainting an old Enfield generator, one of several that was used to power the base in the 1950s, and which now sits in the shop as an historical artifact. The whole team also spent a great deal of time painting the exterior of the museum and hut with bitumen, a job that is done annually to winterize the buildings.
Though I wasn't feeling particularly analytical about the painting at the time, in retrospect, I would say that such a long stretch of uninterrupted maintenance work highlighted the fact that Antarctica is not a friendly place to human inhabitants. The enormous amount of energy and effort it takes to maintain even the most basic necessities of life, like a structure in which to live and water to drink, does make it feel that humans don't really belong here. And it's not because we recreate the historical conditions here of life in the 1940s; the major research stations around the continent also struggle to maintain their infrastructure, and that is with the help of expert engineers and modern tools. I knew before I arrived that the Antarctic is the only continent with no indigenous population, but living here really helps me to understand why.
But time for reflection is scarce once again, as the ice seems to have finally gone at last. Just before Christmas, a strong northerly wind blew the pack out of the bay and it hasn't been back since. Ships started arriving again almost as soon as the bay was clear, and now we are in the full swing of the season. Expedition ships and yachts have been arriving every day, and we've had more than a thousand visitors to Goudier Island since the bay opened up. I've just spent the morning showing a lovely group of visitors from Germany and Greece around the museum, who sailed here on the yacht Santa Maria Australis. Right now, we're awaiting the arrival of the expedition ship Corinthian, who have very kindly invited us on board for lunch before we show their passengers around the base.
So life is back to "normal" here at Lockroy, though by that I really only mean we aren't collecting glacier ice for water anymore and have the occasional shower on board a ship. Next time, I'll give you a proper update on the penguins . . . whose eggs are hatching even as I write this! Our new year's present here is baby chicks, and it's hard to imagine anything cuter.
Till next time, take care and have a fantastic start to winter quarter.
Hello to UW from Port Lockroy. It has been an incredibly busy season here so far on the ice, although we are in the middle of a visitor lull at the moment. But more about that in a moment.
One of the first things I learned as we settled into Port Lockroy was that weather dictates much of what is possible here. Ships can only come in when the bay is free of ice, and a windy, cold day means everyone huddles inside the museum, whereas bright blue skies and sunshine mean everyone is outside mingling with the penguins. There is no shelter from either sun or wind, and while we all enjoy the former, I tend not to stay out in the sunshine for too long if I can help it. The widespread former use of chloroflorocarbons (CFCs) in coolants and industrial processes was very damaging to the ozone in the upper atmosphere, and a huge ozone hole forms above the Antarctic at the end of every winter when sunlight returns. This depletion of the ozone layer means that the atmosphere lets in much higher amounts of the sun's harmful ultraviolet light, especially UVB rays. This ozone depletion is at its worst in the spring--that is, right now--and will repair more or less during the Antarctic summer. But for now, no one leaves the hut, even on a cloudy day, without a thick layer of SPF 50 sunscreen.
But the wind is probably the most impactful feature of life at Lockroy.
Unlike at home, where winds from the north bring Arctic cold down to Seattle, northerlies here mean warmth and they clear away all the pack ice. Southerlies, which cross thousands of miles of glacier-covered continent before they arrive, bring even colder cold and fill our little bay with icebergs and brash ice. After we enjoyed an ice-free bay for a week or so, strong southwest winds sprang up again and blew in so much ice. We have not had a ship here for five days, as none have been able to navigate to the island. Even if a ship could make its way into the bay, the zodiacs--small, inflatable black boats used to transport people and goods from ships to land in the Antarctic--could not make it through all the thick ice. So we've not only been without visitors, but also without any resupply of fresh water. Yesterday, Sarah, Jane, and I spent part of the afternoon down on the rocky shore, chipping off pieces of ice from the closest icebergs with axes, and catching them in buckets.
We've brought the buckets inside to melt the ice down to water, but it's a laborious job and doesn't yield much.
The big news of today is that HMS Protector, the British Royal Navy ice patrol ship, has just been spotted rounding the corner into Port Lockroy from the Neumayer Channel, hopefully on their way to visit us. A mild northerly wind last night blew out much of the ice, so our landing is at least clear enough for a zodiac to make it in. If Protector decides to bash their way through the ice further out in the channel, they could make a landing and resupply our water, and possibly even have us on board for dinner. I won't hope for it, though--the one thing I have truly learned here is that everything can and does change by the moment.
I have watched the bay clear and fill with ice in as little as an hour, and that can make all the difference to whether a ship arrives or leaves in a hurry.
But at least we have our partially melted glacier ice! That will have to do for the time being. I hope you're all enjoying the last week of classes and sci-fi class, I hope you wrote some excellent stories. Take care all, and more news from the south to follow soon.
Greetings from the Antarctic! I did indeed make it here, although ittook a well-timed northerly wind to blow all the pack ice out of the bay at Port Lockroy and open it up for our landing (just after we did, the
wind shifted and blew all the ice back in!). But we had a fantastic journey down here on board the expedition ship Akademik Ioffe, and it was a brilliant start to the season. Transport to Port Lockroy for the team each year is provided by passenger ships, so I got to be a tourist for a few days along with Sarah and Jane. I was fortunate to be among the few non-seasick people on board for our crossing of the Drake Passage, so I spent those days up on the bridge with the expedition ornithologist, learning to identify the various petrels, including my favourites, the Cape petrels (pintado in Spanish, as they look like their wings have been painted with splashes of black and white), along with the greatest of all the seabirds: the albatross. We were very lucky to have four species circling the ship at once for a whole afternoon, including the black-browed albatross, grey-headed, light-mantled sooty, and the largest seabird by wingspan in the world: the wandering albatross. It was a spectacular sight.
After a few days crossing the Drake, we arrived in the South Shetland Islands and then the Antarctic Peninsula, making landings with the other passengers whenever possible. We greeted our first penguins at Half Moon Island: a colony of chinstraps, which are noisy and chattering and gregarious, very much unlike the sedate and proper Gentoos, which we saw afterwards at Mikkelson Island. We were also really lucky to see a lone macaroni penguin on Half Moon, which may be my favourite penguin of all,
with its bright shock of yellow feathers coming straight out of its head.
One of our best stops was at Whaler's Bay on Deception Island, which, as the name suggests, was an old whaling station -- the largest in the region outside of Grytviken on South Georgia Island (for Shackleton fans, that is where the great explorer finally found safety after his epic journey). Whaler's Bay was built as part of the same British endeavour, Operation Tabarin, that established Port Lockroy, so I really enjoyed seeing the old buildings there. Unlike Port Lockroy, which has been fully reconstructed to its 1940s state, Whaler's Bay has been left to fall into disrepair, so we got to see what the fate of our own buildings here might have been, were it not for the restoration. They were an eerie sight. With roofs caving in and bunks filled with drifting snow, they looked like miserable places, though they were once filled with warmth and light and the inviting scent of dinner on the stove, as the scientists and whalers went about their work. The teams left after a volcanic eruption and earthquakes made the place uninhabitable, and the buildings are left to tell the sober story of the Antarctic whaling industry as they slowly sink into the ice.
Our next and final stop as passengers was Port Lockroy, and we awoke around seven in the morning on November 13 to a sight that was far from inviting: the three buildings of Port Lockroy--Bransfield House
(museum), Nissen Hut (our house), and the boat shed (for storage)--blurry black specks on a ice-covered rock, shrouded in blowing snow. Seeing it from the bridge of Ioffe was humbling: the magnificent scale of the surrounding peaks and glaciers made us all feel very small. But that is one of the best things about Antarctica--it puts everything into proper perspective, and I have felt since arriving that I am living
in a place much larger and more powerful than me.
I will sign off for now, as we have a ship arriving in a few minutes, and we'll all be in the museum shortly, talking to visitors about the history of our tiny Goudier Island. I hope everyone is having an excellent fall quarter--DC1 students, I hope you are all writing fantastic science fiction stories right now!--and a Happy Thanksgiving to you all (not sure I will be able to find a turkey here to celebrate, but we'll see . . . ).
Till next time,
Greetings from Argentina. After a fairly uneventful -- although very long -- journey that took me from Seattle to New York, to Atlanta, and then Buenos Aires, I have finally arrived in Ushuaia, el Fin del Mundo, southernmost city in the world. This is the embarkation point for 90% of visitors to Antarctica, and is my stopover point for a few days before I board a ship to take me south.
Ushuaia has grown even since I was here two years ago. A city of 60,000, at the very end of the Andes mountain range, it is heavily dependent on tourism. And there is much to see. This is the Tierra del Fuego -- land of fire -- thus named because its indigenous people continually lit fires along the shores to stay warm and dry off, especially after they went diving in the near-freezing waters to fish, all without clothes of any kind! They were tougher people than me, and I have been glad for my heavy winter gear in the blizzard that has been blowing since I arrived.
Tourists abound in Ushuaia despite the weather. Some are starting a trekking trip into Patagonia, others take cruises to nearby islands to see the Magellenic penguins, and yet others are here to sail through the Beagle Channel (which I can see through the window right now), where Charles Darwin embarked on his famous journey aboard the HMS Beagle. And, of course, many are bound for Antarctica, just 600 miles to the south.
The ship that is taking me and my teammates Sarah and Jane to Antarctica, the Akademik Ioffe, will sail tomorrow afternoon. We´ll spend about two days crossing the Drake Passage, considered the most treacherous seas on the planet, and then arrive at the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. We´re scheduled to arrive at Port Lockroy next Wednesday. Assuming we can make a landing, I´ll be in the hut that will be my home for four months this time next week. But making the landing is at this point still questionable. . .
The BBC film crew that are accompanying us for the season chartered a sailboat, the Pelagic, to take them to Lockroy a week ahead of the rest of the team, and they arrived at Goudier Island (the name of the one-acre rock that houses Port Lockroy) two days ago. They sent a report back to us, and the news was a bit grim. The ice conditions are so bad at Goudier that they cannot actually get off the sailboat and onto the island, so they are simply waiting at anchor now and hoping it breaks up soon. What the conditions will be like when I arrive next Wednesday are impossible to predict -- by then, the ice might have broken up, but it is anyone´s guess whether the Ioffe will be able to drop us off. So we shall see. . .
But it´s springtime and the ice must break up some time, so we will set sail with high hopes. Before then, though, I want to sent a special hello to my DC1 science fiction class, which my co-instructor David Nixon is stewarding now until the end of the quarter. To our excellent students -- brilliant job on the midterm, every one of you. I was beyond impressed with your essays as I graded them last week. Keep it up, and I look forward to reading what I know will be a fantastic set of sci-fi short stories when I return in the spring.
Till then, take care and more news to follow from an icy Port Lockroy!
As winter approaches here in Bothell, I am preparing to head south to summer—almost as far south, in fact, as it is possible to go. In November, I will begin four months of research leave in Antarctica.
After a 2011 visit sparked my interest in this remote part of the world, I started considering the ways that Antarctica has made major contributions, both historically and today, to processes of globalization. Much like my main geographical area of study, sub-Saharan Africa, Antarctica receives little recognition for these contributions, either in popular media or globalization scholarship. So, I decided to take a closer look at the continent myself.
From November through February, I'll be at Port Lockroy, a British base on the Antarctic peninsula. It's a one-acre, rock-and-ice island tucked in a sheltered harbor, once used as a refuge by explorers and whalers. From 1944-1962, the British government sent scientists to Lockroy to study the ionosphere—research that advanced the use of radio communications, before there were satellites. In 1996, the British Antarctic Survey restored Port Lockroy to its 1940s state and re-opened the main building, Bransfield House, as a "living museum" of Antarctic history.
Each austral summer, the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) sends a small team to Port Lockroy to run the base and museum. This year, the team is myself and three British women: Helen, Jane, and Sarah (I'm the first American to take the job), and we will live pretty much how the scientists did in the 1940s. The idea is to bring history to life, so we'll have no running water, no phone, no internet, and little electricity. Our water, for example, will besupplied by visiting ships, but if we run out, we'll have to chip off and melt glacier ice!
Antarctica is the only continent with no indigenous people, and has no permanently settled population. Our nearest neighbors will be fifteen miles away at US Palmer Station (which is now resuming activities, after the US government shutdown temporarily halted the US Antarctic Program; http://www.usap.gov/), and our next nearest, thirty miles away, at Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base. I'm hoping to get the chance to visit one or both during the upcoming season, as they both have running water and other luxuries . . .
As remote as Port Lockroy is, you may be surprised to learn that we will welcome about 18,000 visitors this year, making the base the most visited site in Antarctica. In addition to our education role as "living historians," we'll continue restoration work on the museum and artifacts, monitor wildlife for scientific studies, and collect data for a long-term research project on the impact of tourism on Gentoo penguins.
This year, a film crew will be sharing our sparse accommodations (a compact structure called the Nissen Hut), and filming the local Gentoo penguins for the BBC Natural World series—an exciting addition to life at Lockroy for 2013-14.
As I pack up lots of merino wool and fleeces, getting ready for four cold months, I think often of my students and colleagues at UWB, and look forward to sharing news of penguins, endless daylight, and lots of snow shoveling with you all. Since I won't have internet access at Port Lockroy, CUSP have offered generous technical support to post my writing and photos, which I will send in batches via satellite, whenever I can—hopefully every two to three weeks. My thanks to CUSP!
Until next time, take care and enjoy the rest of fall quarter. Next post from the far south . . .
Dr. Leissle with Gentoo penguins


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Here is our take on the Steelers Patriots game. This is going to be a close game but the Steelers should win at home. The Patriots are going to be a tough team especially after their last loss.
Here is our take on the Steelers Patriots game. This is going to be a close game but the Steelers should win at home. The Patriots are going to be a tough team especially after their last loss.
The Patriots need Brady, who is on pace to throw for over 3,600 yards and 28 touchdowns, to be at his best if they are to make a run at the Super Bowl.
They are giving up almost 390 yards of total offense per game and are 29th in the NFL in total defense.
Their top two running backs (BenJarvus Green-Ellis and Danny Woodhead) made the NFL as undrafted free agents.
The Patriots have also lacked a bona fide deep threat since shrewdly trading wide receiver/serial headache Randy Moss to the Vikings last month for a third-round draft pick (Moss played four games in Minnesota before the Vikings waived him).
The Patriots are Brady's bunch more than they ever have been since he burst onto the scene.
And they will only go as far as he can carry them this season.
"I would say they're more Brady-reliant now," Steelers strong safety Troy Polamalu said. "(Before), they were very balanced. Teams that they thought would be weak on the run defense they would really try to attack them with their run offense. Now, it's just all about spreading the offense and letting Tom pick and choose where he wants to attack the defense."
I just don't see the Patriots getting a beat down from the Steelers no matter how much I would wish for it. I know most commentators are saying that is what is likely to happen, but I cannot forget the Pats have seriously had our number in the last several seasons. This game worries me (although I am totally fired up) and so does the next game against the Raiders. My concern is that if the Steelers earn a hard fought win against the Pats the Raiders will become a trap game. I really hate when that happens. One game at a time--first CRUSH THE PATS!!!
You don't ever count out the Patriots. Belichick is the ultimate game planner. He will find whatever weakness you have on offense, defense, special teams, or any combination of the 3 and exploit it all day. The key is to push the Patriots around and get in Brady's face. If you do that you've got a good chance but if not, forget it.
I like our chances to run the ball, especially to the right behind Pouncey, Essex, and Adams. I like that side of the line especially because they are healthy but also those 3 guys can hold blocks and move people so Mendenhall can take off and slow down that pressure that will come from Ben's left side.
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Woop woop! My first cameo! Ok, so only a few days until L'Eroica 2011 and I'm raring to go… last year was an utter blast and I am once again privileged to be invited out to the event by my friends at Le Coq Sportif.
Peep my report from last year.
The atmosphere the whole weekend was electric, where 3000 like minded, fanatical individuals descend upon Gaiole in Chianti for two days of pure cycling nostalgia. Woolen jerseys and steel bikes aplenty, any man interested in the traditions of the cycle race can certainly find his fill here…
Not only that there's lots of great food (I'm looking forward to the wild boar pasta myself), lashings of great Chianti wine, coupled with great surroundings… Damn! it's like a little heaven in Italy for the weekend.
Only a few days now!


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FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. – A 30-foot-long dead North Atlantic right whale washed ashore in Flagler Beach on Wednesday morning.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission alerted the Flagler County Sheriff's Office about the whale at about 9:30 a.m.
The whale, which is estimated to weigh about 30,000 pounds, washed up onshore near Driftway Terrace. It had fishing gear wrapped around its tail, but that's not necessarily what caused it to die. Often times right whales are killed when they are hit or run over by ships.
IMAGES: Dead right whale washes ashore
The FWC will perform a necropsy to try to determine the whale's cause of death. It was only about a year old, officials said.
Members of NOAA Fisheries and FWC worked to secure the whale. They tied a line to it's pectoral fin and anchored the line to the beach.
"It's kind of an incredible sight. I've never actually seen a whale in person," Flagler Beach resident Luke Cantero said.
Workers had to determine if they could perform a necropsy on the beach because they worry about ripping up protected vegetation. A leading expert in right whales was coming down from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington to perform the necropsy, which will likely take place in the morning.
Workers will then likely use heavy machinery to bury the whale on the beach and let nature run it's course.
A sailboat captain called in the whale floating a few miles offshore Tuesday, but before experts could get a boat out to it, it beached itself, officials said. They said knowing that in advance, however, allowed them to get ready for Wednesday's work.
"Make sure the knives are sharpened, the coolers are ready, and so we were able to do a lot of that work last night. People began making travel arrangements," fishery biologist Barb Zoodsma said.
There are only about 300-400 northern right whales left, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. December to March is their calving season, when they migrate south to give birth to their babies.
"We need to know, is there something we can be doing differently to better protect this animal and help it recover to the numbers and grow the population, essentially?" Zoodsma said.
The whales are an endangered species, and even Navy ships have to steer clear of them.
The last time a dead one washed up in northeast Florida area was in 2005 at Little Talbot Island. Since then, two adults have been found dead in nearby coastal waters. One was found dead in 2006 off Camden County, Ga., after being hit by a vessel. The other was found dead in 2011 off St Johns County.


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Diving & Marine Conservation Volunteering in Thailand - Monthly Updates
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Monthly Updates from 2014
2014 has been an amazing year of great changes for the marine conservation project in Thailand. In the coming months we will strive to grow the biology program into a scientifically sound and productive activity.
There have been a lot of changes at the marine conservation project over the past couple of months. We have sadly bid farewell to Vishal Pawa, who has been the conservation project manager for three years, and to our field biologist, Diego Fernandez, who joined the Projects Abroad family a year ago.
For the month of February and March our volunteers cleaned up underwater debris in an area of over 50940.2 square meters involving 111 volunteers and 1001 minutes. This resulted in just over 51.4kg of loose debris, mainly plastic materials like fishing nets and bottles.
December and January saw Projects Abroad kick start our Global Shark Campaign. Volunteers had the opportunity to visit two schools and present the students with education presentations, as well as organising some fun shark related activities.


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- Decreased HIV diversity after allogeneic stem cell transplantation of an HIV-1 infected patient : a case report (2010)
- The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) coreceptor use and viral evolution were analyzed in blood samples from an HIV-1 infected patient undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT). Coreceptor use was predicted in silico from sequence data obtained from the third variable loop region of the viral envelope gene with two software tools. Viral diversity and evolution was evaluated on the same samples by Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood methods. In addition, phenotypic analysis was done by comparison of viral growth in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and in a CCR5 (R5)-deficient T-cell line which was controlled by a reporter assay confirming viral tropism. In silico coreceptor predictions did not match experimental determinations that showed a consistent R5 tropism. Anti-HIV directed antibodies could be detected before and after the SCT. These preexisting antibodies did not prevent viral rebound after the interruption of antiretroviral therapy during the SCT. Eventually, transplantation and readministration of anti-retroviral drugs lead to sustained increase in CD4 counts and decreased viral load to undetectable levels. Unexpectedly, viral diversity decreased after successful SCT. Our data evidence that only R5-tropic virus was found in the patient before and after transplantation. Therefore, blocking CCR5 receptor during stem cell transplantation might have had beneficial effects and this might apply to more patients undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Furthermore, we revealed a scenario of HIV-1 dynamic different from the commonly described ones. Analysis of viral evolution shows the decrease of viral diversity even during episodes with bursts in viral load.
- Vaccination directed against the human endogenous retrovirus-K envelope protein inhibits tumor growth in a murine model system (2013)
- Human endogenous retrovirus (HERV) genomes are chromosomally integrated in all cells of an individual. They are normally transcriptionally silenced and transmitted only vertically. Enhanced expression of HERV-K accompanied by the emergence of anti-HERV-K-directed immune responses has been observed in tumor patients and HIV-infected individuals. As HERV-K is usually not expressed and immunological tolerance development is unlikely, it is an appropriate target for the development of immunotherapies. We generated a recombinant vaccinia virus (MVA-HKenv) expressing the HERV-K envelope glycoprotein (ENV), based on the modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA), and established an animal model to test its vaccination efficacy. Murine renal carcinoma cells (Renca) were genetically altered to express E. coli beta-galactosidase (RLZ cells) or the HERV-K ENV gene (RLZ-HKenv cells). Intravenous injection of RLZ-HKenv cells into syngenic BALB/c mice led to the formation of pulmonary metastases, which were detectable by X-gal staining. A single vaccination of tumor-bearing mice with MVA-HKenv drastically reduced the number of pulmonary RLZ-HKenv tumor nodules compared to vaccination with wild-type MVA. Prophylactic vaccination of mice with MVA-HKenv precluded the formation of RLZ-HKenv tumor nodules, whereas wild-type MVA-vaccinated animals succumbed to metastasis. Protection from tumor formation correlated with enhanced HERV-K ENV-specific killing activity of splenocytes. These data demonstrate for the first time that HERV-K ENV is a useful target for vaccine development and might offer new treatment opportunities for diverse types of cancer.


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Losquadro calls for audit of highway department
Brookhaven highway superintendent-elect Dan Losquadro said he plans to have a consultant conduct an audit of the highway department, including all vehicles and personnel, before setting a firm agenda for the embattled department.
He also reiterated his intention to assemble a team who will fill vacancies in the department, such as two deputy supervisor posts.
"I can't make a presentation [about the department] without a comprehensive audit," he said.
His comments came a day after he won a tight race over town Councilwoman Kathy Walsh, who said she does not expect the more than 2,400 absentee ballots to impact the race. The Suffolk Board of Elections is expected to finish counting outstanding ballots on Monday or Tuesday. Losquadro said he could be sworn in Tuesday if the election is certified as early as Monday.
Unofficial voting results from all 295 districts showed Losquadro, a Republican, with a 12,170 to 11,338 vote lead over Walsh, an independent who ran on the Democratic line.
Losquadro, who will make $102,000 as superintendent and oversee a $70 million budget, is taking over a department that was widely criticized for its reaction to the Feb. 8-9 blizzard, which triggered the resignation of acting superintendent Michael Murphy. Another snowstorm is expected Thursday, but acting superintendent John Cappella could not be reached about the department's preparedness.
Losquadro said he has been in contact with Town Supervisor Edward P. Romaine and the highway department, but stressed he doesn't "have any legal authority over the department" until he takes office.
His apparent win is creating a vacancy in the state Assembly that has already drawn attention from several Suffolk County politicians.
State officials said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo must set a special election to fill Losquadro's seat or decide to leave it vacant until the next general election in November. Cuomo's office did not return calls about the seat Wednesday.
The names of several Suffolk Republicans possibly in pursuit of the vacant seat surfaced Wednesday. Town GOP chairman Jesse Garcia confirmed former town councilman Kevin McCarrick and Bill Faulk, former chief of staff to Romaine at the county legislature, are contenders.
"We believe we have a strong stable of candidates," said Garcia, who noted party members from Riverhead should also be in the mix.
Reached by phone, Faulk said it was too soon to speculate on a run. "Given that Dan was elected yesterday, I haven't given it much thought," he said, adding that he'd been busy helping with Losquadro's campaign.
He did not rule out the possibility. "It's something I would look into, but it's way too early," said Faulk, who is the executive assistant to the Brookhaven planning commissioner.
Another Republican mentioned for a possible run is four-year Southold Councilman Christopher Talbot. "I'm interested in the position, but we have to wait and see what the party leaders want to do," he said. "I'm confident I can win the seat."
Neither Suffolk County Democratic Committee chairman Richard Schaffer nor Brookhaven Town Democratic Committee chairman Marc Alessi were available to comment about possible candidates.
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Urbana City Council Upholds Mayor's Veto of CVB Funding
The Urbana City Council has narrowly upheld Mayor Laurel Prussing's veto of funding for the Champaign County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Council members voted 4-to-3 against overriding Prussing's veto of those funds.
Some council members say they wanted to find some funding for the agency, but also wanted more evidence of its performance. Members agreed the the department offers a valuable service, but not at a level of $72,000 a year. The mayor wants to use the money for two police positions instead.
Alderwoman Diane Marlin said she regrets the council was being forced to choose, saying Urbana needed both economic development and public safety.
CVB President and CEO Jayne DeLuce said she is looking forward to engaging in additional dialogue with the city, and finding a funding level that leaders are comfortable with.
"I think for a long time, there has been some opportunities where maybe there hadn't been engagment in the past," DeLuce said. "And I'm all willing to do that. Because we have the documentation of what we do. We have great things that we're trying to move forward with. But we do truly need countywide support to be able to do that, because it's really hard to be able to look at say, 'how do you move forward without one of the major stakeholders in the picture?"
DeLuce said the CVB now needs to do a better job of reporting its value to stakeholders, something she says wasn't done well before she arrived 18 months ago.
Alderman Charlie Smyth said discussions will start with $20,000 dollars of unallocated funds to the CVB, and build from there over the next few weeks. But he said any agreement will include expectations in terms of performance.
"I think there's sentiment on the council to fund CVB at some level that we think is appropriate that we can afford," Smyth said. "And at the same time, there's a legitimate concern that we get our money's worth from them."
Aldermen Dennis Roberts, Robert Lewis, Diane Marlin and Charlie Smyth supported Prussing by voting against the override, while Brandon Bowersox, Eric Jakobsson, and Heather Stevenson voted to override. Smyth said he hopes to find about $50,000 by time talk on CVB funding wraps up, likely sometime in August.
Marlin also said she was happy to see the Champaign County Board is considering a funding level of its own for the CVB at its meeting on Thursday.
The city council has also finalized a 1-percent tax on package liquor, along with hiking Urbana's hotel-motel tax from 5 to 6 percent. It's expected to raise $270,000 and pay for raises for the city's AFSCME and police unions. Only Alderwoman Heather Stevenson voted down the fee hikes, saying she was never contacted by Prussing about them, and did not have time to gauge their impact from local businesses.


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I just realized that I have never posted my August cake as I was out running Lean Horse. This Pistachio Petit Four Cake is probably the one I have had the most fun with. There were many different steps and instructions for this cake, it was so much fun! I have never made a marzipan before and really wasn't sure what to expect. It was fabulous.
Pistachio butter cake, rolled marzipan, raspberry jam (I subbed for apricot) and a chocolate glazed made for one hell of a delicious and beautiful cake. I even made marzipan balls for decoration out of my extra. I know, balls are not much for decoration but for me...yeah, they are!
This was Troy's favorite of all of the cakes from Sky High: Irresistible Triple Layer Cakes
Here is the recipe:
August Cake: Pistachio Petit Four Cake
Marzipan, apricot preserves and a dark chocolate glaze turn a pistachio butter cake into an irresistible dessert reminiscent of European petit fours glaces.
Makes an 8inch triple layer cake; serves 12 to 16
Augusts Cake: Pistachio Petit Four Cake
(Recipe from Sky High Irresistible Layer Cakes by Alisa Huntsman and Peter Wynne)
¾ cup skinned pistachio nuts
1 & 2/3 cups sugar
2 cups cake flour
1 tbsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
½ cup milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
5 eggs, lightly beaten
¾ cup apricot preserves
Marzipan (below)
Dark chocolate glaze (below)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter three 8 inch round cake pans. Line the bottom of each pan with a round of parchment or waxed paper and butter the paper.
Spread out the pistachios in a baking tray and toast in the oven for 7 to 10 minutes, until lightly coloured. Transfer to a dish and let cool completely. Finely chop the pistachios and set ¼ cup aside for decoration.
Put the remaining ½ cup pistachios in a food processor. Add the sugar and pulse just enough to grind them finely. Pour into a large mixing bowl and add the flour, baking powder and salt. Blend with the mixer on low for 30 seconds.
Add the butter, milk and vanilla and wit the mixer on low, beat until completely incorporated. Raise the speed to medium and beat until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the beaten eggs in 2 or 3 additions, scraping down the sides of the bowl well and mixing only long enough to blend after each addition. Divide the batter among the 3 prepared pans.
Bake for about 25 minutes or until a cake tester or wooden toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean. Allow the layers to cool in the pans for 10 minutes. Turn out onto wire racks, carefully peel off the paper liners and let cool completely.
8 ounces almond paste
1 ½ cups confectioners sugar
¼ cup light corn syrup
Crumble the almond paste into a large mixing bowl. Use an electric mixer on low speed to soften the almond paste. Add the confectioners sugar and corn syrup and beat until smooth. Wrap well in plastic so it doesn't fry out and allow to rest at room temperature for 1 to 2 hours before rolling.
Dark Ganache Glaze
1 pound extra bittersweet chocolate
1 ¼ cups heavy cream
Chop the chocolate coarsely and out it in a heatproof bowl. Bring the cream to a bare simmer. Pour immediately over the chocolate and let stand for 5 minutes. Whisk until smooth and use the glaze soon after making before it starts to set. Allow to cool and thicken slightly before use.
To Assemble
Roll out a third of the marzipan on a work surface dusted with a little confectioners sugar to about 1/8th inch thick. Set one of the cake pans upside down on the marzipan and trim around it with a small knife to make an 8 inch round. Repeat twice more with the remaining marzipan. Save your scraps to make roses for decoration if desired.
Place one cake layer on a cake board, flat side up. Spread ¼ cup of the apricot preserves evenly over the top, leaving a ¼ inch margin all round to allow for spreading. Place one marzipan round on top of the preserves and spread 1/3 cup ganache glaze over the top of the marzipan so that it is completely covered. Repeat with the second cake layer, adding more preserves, marzipan and glaze.
Add the final cake layer and top with preserves and marzipan as before. Place the whole cake on a wire rack set over a baking pan. Pour the remaining dark ganache glaze over the cake, spreading it as evenly as possible over the top and sides of the cake. Allow the ganache to set before transferring to a plate. It should be smooth and glossy.
Garnish the top with the reserves chopped pistachios.
Optional: Make some marzipan roses with any leftover marzipan scraps if desired.


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We thank Pam Jones, Reporter at CBS2 Chicago, for visiting the students at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences and seeing the harvesting of the honey that is being used in Eli's WildFower Honey Bar that is available at Starbucks in Chicago and Wisconsin.
May 16, 2006 5:33 pm US/Central
Local School Grows Honey For Sweet Coffee Treat
Eli's Wildflower Honeybar Hits Stores Wednesday
(CBS) CHICAGO It's a sweet opportunity for one Chicago high school.
Students are teaming up with Starbucks and Eli's Cheesecake to offer a new dessert treat.
CBS 2′s Pamela Jones reports on a honey of a business deal.
The honey from these bees is about to cause quite a buzz in the Chicago area.
"It's delicious," said student Ryan Jameson.
Students at Chicago High School for Agriculture and Science are harvesting honey fro the hives to help make a new treat.
Eli's Wildflower Honey Bar is produced at Eli's Cheesecake's Chicago bakery.
Student Ryan Jameson helped research the bees, but he admits the stinging potential was intimidating.
"I'm more focused on the honey than the bees," he said.
Tim Martin helped raise the bees.
He tasted the sweet success of their honey in a project last year.
"I think it's really neat to have some work that I've done popular in stores around the city," he said.
Students have been raising bees at Chicago High School for Agriculture and Science for two years. When they started, they only had two hives. After they entered this latest project, they had to up that number to 16.
"This is an opportunity for them to see the bees pollinating flowers, going to the beehive, the honey being made and being produced," said supervisor Bryant Biegaj.
Now, students and staff can't wait to see the fruits of their labor with the bees fly off store shelves. They'll be at Starbucks stores all over Chicagoland and in Wisconsin.
Sales of the Wildflower Honeybar start Wednesday. They'll cost $2.25.
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Vile and flagrant reparations offender Eve Carson, whose family is suspected of direct Trans Atlantic slave trade ownership reportedly denied reparations and the Trans Atlantic Holocaust even in her last moments of life. According to Chapel Hill Black Foot Soldiers reportedly attending the trial, in her last minutes of life, Carson attempted to deceive acclaimed BOW reparations protesters Demario Atwater and Lawrence Lovett by asking them to pray to white people's invisible God with her.
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"We must remember, today, that white people's invisible god not only approved their historic racial terrorism against us and our ancestors for over 400 years, but too, their invisible god approves of their continued racial terrorism today," says Greenville Black Foot Soldiers Hezekiah Rankin. "This was clearly another attempt by this reparations offender to deny our Holocaust. Ultimately, we hold Eve Carson accountable for her own death. Her blood is own her racially terroristic family's hands. Fuck Eve Carson and all Holocaust deniers like her."
The Eve Carson Reparations Protest: Superstar Reparations Protester Lawrence Lovett Pleads Not Guilty; Raleigh, Dur-ham & Chapel Hill Black Foot Soldiers Along w/National Black Foot Soldier Network Support "Apparent Self Defense Case;" … "Eve Carson was a from a family suspected of di-rect slave ownership. She was a generational race criminal on the run from justice – until she met brothers Lawrence & Demario" – North Carolina Black Foot Soldier Moses Grandy
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Retro Design Awards Is Looking For Submissions of Retrotronics, Retro-fashion and Retro Product Designs That Are Still Looking Good
Today, most of the design awards and competitions are interested in entries that represent concurrent styles and utilize modern technologies. Past developments and designs are not allowed to participate in design competitions, due to limits imposed by eligibility conditions of many awards.However, mankind produces knowledge in a cumulative way, i.e. the past is what we built upon, and therefore it shall not be discarded. For this very reason, A-Prime Design Award and Competition has decided to open a new category called the Retro Design Award which is only open to entries that have been designed at least 10 years ago.Please note that the competition is not open to submissions of dieselpunk, steampunk, decopunk, atompunk, teslapunk, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, biopunk, stonepunk, clockpunk, mythpunk, atomic age or space age designs; i.e. all submissions to the retro-design award should be real products that were designed or produced at least 10 years ago. Submission is not just open to industrial designs; graphic designs (especially posters), retro architecture, retro interior design and other projects are also accepted. Please note that, again for these projects, they should be realized or designed at least 10 years ago, while this limits the participation to an older audience, it also ensures that only real retro designs will be received.The Retro Design Award is a new design competition category that was introduced on June 17, 2013, currently there are no winners and therefore images in this article are used for demonstrative purposes to indicate what type of designs that could be submitted to the retro design competition category. Retro Design Award is open to submissions of any design that was made more than 10 years ago. This of course includes any fantastic machines, buildings, cities, and transportation systems. While current futuristic designs, steampunk projects are not accepted; futuristic designs from the past years are accepted.The purpose of the Retro Design Award is to highlight the history of design; to see how design has changed over the years, and to shed light to design thinking over the ages. Retro designs are also expected to contribute to the MOOD museum archives to present more to the designers.Retro graphic and communication designs, typography, book and magazine covers, and printed materials are more than welcome to participate in the retro design awards. For participation, you shall have rights (or request rights) to submit the design to the competition. Awarded entries will be re-printed and published as a part of the winners yearbook.Retro design award is open for entries worldwide, submissions are accepted from all countries without any limits or restrictions. Cultural items, memoir type of designs are especially expected to take part in the competition. However for any type of project, it is important to prepare new photographs by cleaning the products or alternatively submit newly made renders if available.For Retro Design Awards, some of the categories that is expected to be very successful is vehicle designs. RTA is especially open for vehicle designs made in the past, all major car producers are called to participate in the awards. For award participation, realization is not a must; i.e. designs that were not realized but proposed could also be submitted.For RTA, retronic items could also be submitted, like all other entries, special attention should be given to presentations; it is best to clean the products beforehand if you would submit photos, alternatively new renders or visualizations could be prepared, but the original renders and visualizations could also be submitted.In addition to product designs, systems and structures can also be submitted. For example, phone cards system which indeed become a collectible phenomenon could have been a great entry to the retro design awards. When submitting systems, their tangible components shall especially be demonstrated. Especially designs and products that were made in the past which recalls childhood memories are welcome to take part in the competition. Given this perspective, you could submit toy designs, board games and other memorable items as long as you hold the rights to do so. If the original designer is no longer available, companies or their relatives could submit.Modern but retro architecture projects can be submitted, projects that are designed in past but which are still looking good and attractive shall especially be submitted, and they will be given the evergreen design award due to their perpetual feeling of contemporaneity. Both large scale and smaller scale projects can be submitted.Retro design award is open to submissions of domestic products that are produced in the early times. In addition to the products themselves, packaging of the product could also be send and could be considered an added value. In any case, the party who submits the designs should have the industrial design and publication rights; i.e. companies could not send products of others which had their patents expired.Retro design award is open to futuristic submissions of the past, but not open to futuristic designs made today. Concurrent futuristic designs shall be submitted to the Futuristic Design Award category which tries to capture the image of tomorrow, today. While the limit is 10 years, you could submit designs older than 10 years, such as 15, 20, 25 and even 50 years old projects can be submitted.When submitting a design to the retro category, for the best success the presentation should be made very good. To create a good presentation, you might want to work with professional photographers to re-take pictures of the designs, and you might also want to make maintenance before taking pictures; such as removing dust, cleaning or shining them. While the retro design award is open to past designs, unfortunately it is not open to art works or sculpture that was made in the past times. In any case, the art works and sculptures, regardless of their age could be submitted to the arts crafts category which does not impose any time restrictions for the submitted entries.When submitting to the retro design award, the most important thing to remember is that the work must be designed at least 10 years ago. Works that are designed today with a retro-feeling are not accepted to the retro design competition. Furthermore, designers should still have the rights to publish the works, and newer images or photography should be made.To submit your designs, projects, and architecture you did at least 10 years ago, you could visit adesignaward website, register and upload the projects. Submissions are primarily open to categories of industrial design, graphics design, interior design and architecture however other designs could also be accepted as long as they were done at least 10 years ago. Exerpt:Today, most of the design awards and competitions are interested in entries that represent concurrent styles and utilize modern technologies. Past developments and designs are not allowed to participate in design competitions, due to limits imposed by eligibility conditions of many awards.However, mankind produces knowledge in a cumulative way, i.e. the past is what we built upon, and therefore it shall not be discarded. For this very reason, A-Prime Design Award and Competition has decided to o..
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Rod Blagojevich doesn't surf -- the web.
In fact the former governor of Illinois doesn't even know how to type, and unfortunately for him, his computer skills were on display for the entire country during the third episode of Celebrity Apprentice Sunday night.
"One of the things when you're governor, there's 60,000 people working for you, they pretty much research for you. Before that I was a congressman, and I never had to learn it," he said.
Surprisingly Blago's lack of skills didn't get him fired from the show because Darryl Strawberry offered himself as a sacrificial lamb and quit the show.
But it looked as though Blago would get the ax. Project manager Michael Johnson was pushing for his release after a dismal performance creating an advertorial for Norton Security's Life-Lock program.
"It's difficult trying to find a task for him and try to find something for him to do because there's not much that he can do," said Johnson, who advocated for Blagojevich to be fired. "And there's got to be something there because he got to be governor of Illinois. You don't just fall up there."
Blago insisted he wasn't used correctly. The former governor argued that he has a good amount of experience with advertising from his years of campaigning and that Johnson didn't use his creative skills properly, Blagojevich said, with all due respect.
The show's host, Donald Trump, reminded everyone on Team RockSolid what a difficult position Blagojevich was in as a contestant.
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What are your opinions on the quandary of downloading scans of comics due to a Trade Paperback's lack of back matter. I recently bought a copy of the original 1997 Helix comics single of Transmetropolitan and loved your essay in the back. The TPBs lack this and I want to read them all. I hate illegal downloading, but lust after your mouth-words. Guide me.
Is this something I really have to have an opinion about? If I'd wanted that stuff in the trades, I'd have had them put in there. They were just ephemera for the monthly readers, for as long as we had use of those editorial pages. But I certainly can't stop you from downloading scans, and would really have no interest in doing so. I don't police my readers.
So long as you're not making new money off me, I won't track you down and have eels violently introduced into your innards through whatever human portal presents itself. How's that?
The new book, Gun Machine, is rather short for a novel at 320ish pages. Crooked Little Vein wasn't all that long either. Has this been a conscious decision on your point to write shorter books or have you found, so far, that this has been the appropriate length to get your stories on paper?
GUN MACHINE came out around 85 to 90 thousand words long, which is almost 40,000 words longer than CROOKED LITTLE VEIN. I'll never be Neal Stephenson (in a great many ways). I tend towards concision. They end where they want to end. I suspect the one I'm currently writing will be about as long as GUN MACHINE. I dream of (being able to afford to spend several years) writing a huge meandering doorstop like AGAINST THE DAY, but I seem not to be that kind of writer.
(Also: I think I'd actually question "rather short for a novel.")
Greg Rucka had an interesting further comment on this:
ruckawriter said: 90K novel is not "short." I've read 60K novels that read as if they're three times as long, and that's not a good thing. Over 120K, in my experience, and the publisher gets nervous. And raises the price, to boot.


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I was hanging out over at Gillian's Gillianic Tendencies blog and was amused by the following post: Not that arbitrary tests and ratings by websites looking for free advertising really mean anything
Seems she had stumbled upon a website page at Mingle2 that will rate your blog/website according to movie-rating guidelines...or something like that.
Gillian's blog rated "R" due to 5 cheeky words. Edgy girl, that Gillian!
Grand Stream Dreams - Family Friendly
So I bit and went on to put my main blog page in the tester:
Ahh! A family-friendly blog. Just what I wanted to find.
But then I surmised that it was only checking just the posts displayed on the main page.
What would happen if I put them all in?
Grand Stream Dreams - The Dark Side
I loaded in my blog's "backup-bookmark" to see what the rating would be based on all my posts. See this post for reference: Easy Blogger blog Backup Tip
Oh goodness!
Since my blog is primarily tech-related, I guess the tech world does have a much darker side!
This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
- dead (30x)
- pain (22x)
- kill (17x)
- dangerous (14x)
- hurt (13x)
- xxx (8x)
- steal (7x)
- zombie (6x)
- punch (5x)
- gun (4x)
- bastards (3x)
- crap (2x)
- suicide (1x)
So read this blog at your own risk, please....
How the Crowd stands:
Other blogs I enjoy had their current main-pages rated accordingly:
- Dwight Silverman's Tech Blog: PG
- Jim Thompson's Blog: G
- Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen: G
- Mark Russinovich's Sysinternals Blog: G
- SunbeltBLOG: PG
- VitalSecurity: PG
- Kent Newsome's Blog: G
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Two members of the Central Connecticut women's track and field team were honored this week for their performances at the University of Rhode Island this past weekend, the NEC announced Tuesday. Junior Ronea Saunders claimed her third NEC Field Athlete of the Week award of the 2013-14 season while freshman Brittany Mendelson claimed her second-consecutive NEC Rookie of the Week honor.
Saunders, a consistent performer for the Blue Devils, has cleared 5'9" with regularity this season and is a three-time NEC Field Athlete of the Week as a result. In her final tune-up prior to this weekend's NEC Indoor Championships, Saunders high jumped 1.75m (5'9") to win the 2014 Coaches Tribute at URI.
The third-year Blue Devil will look to repeat as the NEC Indoor high jump champion when the conference title meet commences in Landover, MD. Saunders currently sits in a tie for the No. 23 spot on the NCAA Division I leader board.
Mendelson maintains her standing as the NEC Women's Rookie of the Week thanks to her 800m performance at the 2014 Coaches Tribute. One week after turning in the second-fastest mile time in the NEC this season, Mendelson showed point-scoring potential in the 800m run. Contesting the half-mile run for the first time as a collegian, the first-year Blue Devil crossed the line in 2:18.22. When converted for track size, the time shrinks to 2:16.65 and gives Mendelson the sixth-fastest seed mark heading into the NEC Indoor Championships.
Saunders, Mendelson and the rest of the Blue Devils will travel to Landover, MD this weekend to begin the 2014 NEC Indoor Championships. Competition is set to begin this Saturday, February 8 and continue through Sunday, February 9.


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This old water mill has been beautifully restored and furnished in contemporary style to make a remarkable holiday residence. Situated in quiet countryside not far from the local town of Auray, which has one of the best local markets, and also has a preserved 15th century port, where today you can while away the evening on one of the many bars and restaurants. The coast around Carnac, one of the best known south brittany resorts, is a short drive away. A great holiday location.
This stunning mill conversion has been created as two totally independant halves (Gauche and Droit) which can be separately rented, except in high season.
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First Floor: Open sided open tread stairs to mezzanine with seating area and two single beds. Shower and hand basin. Separate WC. Double bedroom with ensuite bath room with bath and shower, hand basin. Separate WC. Steps up to triple bedroom with double and single beds.
Outside: Large open grounds bordering the river and mill stream(safety equipment), summer house with terrace area with BBQ. Outdoor furniture and sunloungers. Sauna ( 30€ charge).
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Always, always, always put your code under source control. Being a one man shop is not a reason not to do it.
Quote from: obiwanjacobi on Mar 07, 2012, 09:39 amAlways, always, always put your code under source control. Being a one man shop is not a reason not to do it.Take this comment serious. There is a statement that says: "There are 2 types of people. The ones that have lost data and the ones that still have to lose data." I fear I belong to both I'm using 2 technologies for my arduino related code (read private time coding). 1 is github. If you want to share your code with the world; it is free (like in you pay nothing). If you want private code you have to pay. It has 1 drawback. you need to push your code yourself to the server.For code I do not want to share; I use a cloud drive. It sounds similar as to the dropbox Targettio mentions. The biggest advantage is that code gets copied without any need for action on my part. You can call me lazy... I call it convenient. The cloud drive I use is included in a server package so also free (Like in prepaid)Best regardsJantje
skyjumperI agree that a cloud drive is not a source code control system. Take away a change and configuration management system. But...My cloud drive contains all te versions back up to 2 years ago of all files. Ok they are not tagged, nor tagable, .... but for home projects I don't care. I have 2 must have requirements: 1) don't lose code when my system is ..... (stolen/broken...)2) Being able to go back to older versions. (the problem is about 30 cm in front of the screen)The cloud drive does this very well.