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Inc. users have been getting to know David Karp since Tumblr burst on the scene a few years ago: His prodigious worth ethic; his favorite Tumblr; and even his modeling career. Now that he has sold Tumblr to Yahoo, he is in demand everywhere. On Thursday, he sat down with Bloomberg TV's Charlie Rose to discuss Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition, why he dropped out of high school, and how he plans to preserve Tumblr's authenticity. Here are some of the highlights. On how Tumblr got involved with Yahoo in the first place:"We started conversations about working with Yahoo in November of last year. After a few months, we knew there was a lot we were going to be doing together, regardless. We knew we were going to be working together. That's when Marissa [Mayer] showed up in New York and started to walk me through a story of how we could do even more together." Why Yahoo is a good fit for Tumblr:"[Yahoo] was a company with a legacy doing exactly the same kind of stuff we're hinging our business on--creative brand advertising. They were the original digital media company. They took a different approach to media. They approached media as an editorial team that created content and built creative brand advertising on top of that content. That's a big part of the future of Tumblr's business. That's something they've built out technology for and something they have advertiser relationships around and something they have a whole big honking salesforce for. What Marissa showed me and what their team showed us was an opportunity for Yahoo to help us fuel in a huge way the development of that network and the development of our ad business." Tumblr's introduction of ads:"It's very native advertising. The advertisements fit into spots where we already promote content. We already promote the best of Tumblr and use that as a place for people to discover things they wouldn't have seen otherwise. We'll roll in advertisements into those spots where we promote organic content." Why it was the right time to sell:"I was not expecting to sell the company this year, certainly wasn't looking to sell the company. This was a really, really remarkable opportunity that presented itself. This was an unbelievable opportunity to shortcut a lot of the very hard things that we're about to be going through." Why he dropped out of high school:"[Computer programming] wasn't in academia, and that was really the reason for me to drop out of school. It wasn't, 'Screw this.' It wasn't that I was bored. It wasn't that my friends were so lame. I was really enjoying school, but back in 1997 and 2000, when I was in high school, there wasn't computer science education in high schools in New York." On the future of Tumblr:"Hopefully we get this right, and Tumblr will be home to the most aspiring and talented creators all over the world. That's something we've already started to do. Regular people in the world, right now, they spend a huge amount of time in front of their televisions consuming premium content, some would call it, stuff produced by publishers, networks, studios. If we're not already there today, certainly five years from now, I expect the vast majority of the content we enjoy not to be produced only by a handful of creators who are selected and supported by those big studios."

Abstract: Multiple Myeloma may have extraosseous manifestations in the cranial region. It may be a solitary intracranial tumor (extramedullary plasmacytomas without any other signs of multiple myeloma) or intracranial disease may be a part of generalized disease. We report herein a 65-year-old multiple myeloma patient with the involvement of different regions of brain parancyhma with spontaneous intratumoral hemorrhages. It is an unusual recurrence presentation and unusual situation that intracranial involvements are both with and without dural attachment and all of them have intratumoral hemorrhages. Keywords: 1. Introduction Multiple Myeloma may have extraosseus manifestations in the cranial region. It may be a solitary intracranial tumor (extramedullary plasmacytomas without any other signs of multiple myeloma) or intracranial disease may be a part of generalied disease [1]. We report herein a multiple myeloma recurrence after first line therapy with the involvement of different regions of brain parancyhme with spontaneous intratumoral hemorrhage. 2. Case Report A 65-year-old man admitted to the department of hematology of our hospital with the complaints of fatigue and dyspnea. His medical history revealed that the patient was referred firstly to a research institute in India in April 2014 with bone pains and weakness. On investigations he was found to have anemia, lytic lesions on skeletal bones and slightly raised serum creatinine level. He was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma stage 3 based on bone marrow aspiration which showed infiltration of 70% plasma cells and positive M-spike in the serum. The patient then has been started on treatment of Bortezomib and Dexamethasone. He has also received palliative radiation to the involved areas of the bone. After induction treatment he was referred to a transplantation center in Turkey for autologous transplant on June 2014. Bone marrow biopsy performed there and revealed 10-15% infiltration of monoclonal plasma cells so that he has been started Bortezomib, Thalidomide and Dexamethasone treatment. While he was going on his treatment, the patient was admitted to our department with fatigue, fever and dyspnea on Jan 2015. There is bilateral pulmonary infiltration on chest x-ray and comp?ted tomography (CT) scan (Figure 1). Because of dyspnea, tacypnea and respiratory failure, the patient admitted to intensive care unit and empirical piperacillin-tazobactam and trimethoprim-sulphametoxasole antibiotherapy was started immediately due to suspicion of hospital acquired pneumonia and Pneumocytis carinii infection. Later we demonstrated Meticilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in culture of deep tracheal aspiration and started teicoplanin treatment. He clinically improved with these antibiotics. But on 10th day of treatment, we noticed altered mental status, confusion and lower extremity weakness/numbness. We performed brain imaging with CT scan and MRI. The imaging studies both revealed 5 masses with surrounding edema and intratumoral hemorrhages. The diameters were 29x21 mm in right temporal lobe, 31x15 mm in left frontal lobe, 57x23 mm in left parietal lobe, 26x17 mm in left parietal lobe and 15 mm superior to it (Figure 2). Four of them were intraparencymal masses with cranial and dural attachment, one of them without dural attachment. We has started dexamethasone treatment and referred the patient to another center for radiation therapy to the brain. Figure 2: MRI images show five masses with intratumoral hemorrahges. First, second, third and fourth masses are with dural attachment. Fifth mass is without dural attachment 3. Discussion Plasma cell neoplasms account for 1% of malignant tumors, including multiple myeloma, solitary plasmacytoma and syndromes caused by tissue immunoglobulin deposition [2]. Patients with multiple myeloma often have neurologic complications [3]. These include peripheral neuropathies, spinal radiculopathies, cranial nerve palsies, spinal cord compression and metabolic encephalopathies. The course includes vertebral compression fractures, base of skull and other bony involvement, metabolic imbalance, hyperviscosity syndromes and amyloidosis [4]. Invasion of central nervous system in multiple myeloma is rare, either as presumed intracerebral metastases or as Leptomeningeal Myelomatosis [5]. We noticed confusion and extremity weakness as a first sign in our case during antibiotic treatment for pneumonia and then suspected intracranial involvement. This is an unusual recurrence presentation. A solitary plasmacytoma is a located plasma cell neoplasm that usually affects bone (bone plasmacytoma) and rarely involves other tissue (extramedullary plasmacytoma) [6]. In 80% of cases, extramedullary plasmacytomas are located in the upper respiratory tract, rarely they may affect the gastrointestinal tract, lymph nodes, bladdder and central nervous system (CNS) [7]. Solitary plasmacytomas involving the CNS usually result from the spread of malignant plasma cells from dura mater or skull [2]. Primary intraparenchymal brain plasmacytomas without dura mater or skull involvement have been reported extremely rare [8]. Because plasma cells are not found in the brain tissue in normal conditions, an isolated intraparenchymal involvement is difficult to explain in the absence of contiguous dural or bone lesions [9]. Also spontaneous intratumoral hemorrhage with intracranial plasmacytoma is also extraordinarily rare [10]. We saw all of these extraordinary situations all together in the current case. In summary, we report a multiple myeloma case with intracranial plasmacytomas with intratumoral hemorrhage. It is an unusual recurrence presentation in which intracranial involvements are both with and without dural attachment and all of them have intratumoral hemorrhages.

Story: Baeyertz, Charles Nalder Page 1 Baeyertz, Charles Nalder 1866–1943 Teacher, journalist, editor, critic This biography was written by G. A. K. Baughen and was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand BiographyVolume 2, 1993 Charles Nalder Baeyertz was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 15 December 1866, the son of Emilia Louisa Aronson and her husband, Charles Baeyertz, manager of the National Bank of Australasia at Colac, Victoria. After the death of her husband in 1871, Emilia Baeyertz became a popular evangelist for the Church of England, working in New Zealand, the United States, Canada and Great Britain as well as Australia. Baeyertz was educated at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, and gained a licentiate in music from the London College of Music. In Melbourne on 21 December 1886 he married Isabella Johnston, the daughter of a Baptist clergyman; there were four children from the marriage. Having suffered losses in land speculation, Baeyertz and his family left Melbourne for Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1892. He taught modern and classical languages – he is said to have known 17 languages – elocution, music and singing, and became music and drama critic for the Otago Daily Times, also contributing articles to the Otago Witness. He no doubt benefited from claiming to have the only musical qualification of its kind in New Zealand. In April 1893 Baeyertz published the first monthly number of the Triad, a journal dedicated to the study of music, art and science; literature was added later. Its coverage of science was always minimal, however, and in later years it dealt more generally with current affairs and politics. There was an early struggle to establish the journal commercially, but by 1898 it had expanded to 12 regional issues throughout New Zealand. In 1897 circulation was said to have reached 10,000, and it was said in 1919 that the Triad was found 'in every club, hotel and reading-room throughout Australasia'. During the 32 years for which he was its editor and part-owner the Triad furnished the livelihood of Baeyertz and his family. Through the Triad Baeyertz sought to disseminate 'a small modicum of musical, artistic, and scientific information throughout New Zealand', an arduous task which he approached with a crusading spirit. Baeyertz himself wrote much of the material, but also printed many articles from leading European journals. In his more optimistic moments he perceived a growing artistic maturity in the receptiveness of audiences to tours by esteemed overseas artists, in the improvement in the diction and accent of New Zealanders, in the busyness of the local artistic communities, and in the emergence of some artists of merit in New Zealand. He admired the painters C. N. Worsley, Petrus van der Velden and C. F. Goldie; the cartoonist David Low; the poet Dick Harris; and the novelist, poet and playwright Arthur H. Adams. However, Baeyertz's view of the arts in New Zealand was mixed. He spoke of New Zealand as 'Philistia': active in the arts but lacking in artistic sensitivity and an appreciation of excellence. This was mostly attributed to the colony's raw youthfulness, although Baeyertz thought the arts in the doldrums throughout the Anglo-Saxon world. Charles Baeyertz held conservative views on the arts: new movements in painting, such as impressionism and cubism, received scant attention in the Triad, and no praise. Modern poetry fared even worse: between 1912 and 1915 Baeyertz's associate editor, Frank Morton, was involved in an acrimonious exchange with Ezra Pound, whose poetry was described as 'perverted drivelling' and 'revolting insanity'. Despite the journal's wide sales it was directed explicitly at an educated and cultured élite – the 'intelligent and thinking minority' as Baeyertz called it. One of the reasons which he gave for practising elocution was to identify oneself as one of the 'cultivated people', possessor of the standard English accent; he did not welcome the development of New Zealand or Australian accents. Similarly, he did not publish work with a working-class or up-country flavour, like that of the Australian poets Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson. He opposed socialist activity, particularly the strikes of 1912–13, and did not take feminism seriously. In both the arts and politics Baeyertz decried egalitarianism which, he thought, levelled everyone to mediocrity. Baeyertz sought to stimulate the arts and to counter this mediocrity through his activities as a critic. As judge of elocution and singing at 54 amateur competitions in New Zealand and Australia, and in his reviews in the Triad, he gained a reputation for fearlessness and controversy. He considered it his responsibility to judge all performances against exacting standards of excellence: 'The beautiful is true for the professional and amateur alike,' he said. While his judgement was seldom at issue, his frequently caustic and sometimes abusive remarks caused offence, especially to amateur performers accustomed to a more charitable reception. Baeyertz denounced his opponents with gusto, engaging in lengthy battles with other journalists. Several times he was involved in libel actions. In 1913 he wrote that the tenor John Fuller had a voice like a 'pig's whistle' and accused him of 'closefistedness' and 'managerial meanness'. In the ensuing court case, Fuller was told that 'pig's whistle' meant merely a 'low whisper', while the mention of meanness was held to be fair comment; Baeyertz exulted in his victory. In 1912 publication of the Triad was moved from Dunedin to Wellington, and in 1914 to Sydney; a separate Australian edition appeared in 1915. The Baeyertz household preceded these shifts, moving to Wellington in 1909 and to Sydney in 1913. But the Triad did not flourish commercially in Australia. Baeyertz ended his connection with it in 1925, when he briefly became editor of the Sydney Sunday Times. He spent the rest of his career as a broadcaster and speech coach for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He also started a correspondence school of elocution, and was appointed an examiner in the art of speech for the universities of Australia and for the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music. In addition to the Triad, Baeyertz, an ardent admirer of the scenery of New Zealand, published a tourist Guide to New Zealand in 1902, and in 1924 a four-volume series on public speaking. Isabella Baeyertz died in Auckland on 9 February 1929; she had been living in New Zealand since at least 1919. In Sydney on 4 September 1930, Charles Baeyertz married Lily Agnes Price, by whom he had had a son 15 years earlier. He died at Rylstone, New South Wales, on 5 June 1943; Lily Baeyertz died in 1949. Baeyertz had an unexcelled knowledge of the arts and a magisterial aura which was enhanced by the sharpness of his glance and his mephistophelean beard. His standing as a successful editor and dominant personality in the world of the arts in contemporary New Zealand is secure, and the Triad's success suggests that he achieved his objective of improving and broadening the appreciation of the arts.

Social Automation vs PPC When considering social automation, the first thing to know is how does it compare to PPC (Pay-Per-Click). If you know what you spending on PPC it’s easy to compare a simple cost analysis and benefit if you know the value you are receiving from your PPC campaigns. Truth is most campaign managers don’t have a clue because without expensive 3rd party directed synced analytics, that often costs as much as the PPC campaigns themselves, there’s no way to possibly know your ROI. In order to make this post of something useful let’s pretend we know our response numbers – but you don’t need to know them to compare the two, the core purpose of PPC and social automation are virtually identical. The following is a data pool from 100 google AdWord ad network advertisers from a broad random range of markets. AdWords are purchased based on a bid system for the placement of banner and widget content inline with google search results and their affiliate sponsor network. A banner or widget can consist of a small image, a title, a URL link, and a descriptive typically about 20 words. The size of a campaign isn’t significant as the data stacks well in cost trend based on campaign size. The first disturbing PPC trend just off the top is that prices of PPC campaigns almost doubled in 2016 from 2015. What was once just lunch money is now a mortgage payment. This could be a result of a growing economy, more sellers drive up the bids for PPC spots. Conversation rate is difficult to gage due to the varying activities that define a specific advertisers campaign objective. Some advertisers want sales, some want signups, and some want downloads. A conversion is simply an end objective positive result. In 2016 more defined conversion tactics influenced the numbers due to a greater non-agency buyer pool, when you’re spending your own money you tend to be a bit more performance focused. From about 2007 through 2014 there was not much change in CPC this might have been primarily due to a large portion of PPC campaigns that were driven by large buys mostly managed by agency or PPC buyers. In 2015 and 2016 there was a significant increase in non-agency buys. Agency buys in 2014 represented over 40% of the market. In 2015 agency purchases dipped to around 34% of the market share. Why? because agencies charge a management fee and with the increasing costs of PPC combined with agency fees the already unknown ROI becomes significantly further out of reach. Social Engagement, though a similar goal to build online traffic, plays out a little different. Social automation is response engagement based on real-time conversations that take place in many mainstream online social forums such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Until recently social engagement was a manual process that required substantial human sweat equity. Comparing the two prior to automation wasn’t practical making PPC a substantial financial bargain. What hasn’t changed is the results. Though the human factor makes social media campaigns cost prohibitive the results they produce by activity is significantly better than PPC. Automation is a disruptive industry game changer. When you remove the human cost you can now apply the benefit of social media engagement on a level playing field with PPC services. A single server can post hundreds of engagement responses a minute with precision accuracy across multiple social channels. In 2016 ailign posted hundreds of thousands of automated social engagement responses. Here’s what the numbers look like. Let’s break it down simply by Cost to Conversion. If we have a budget of $1000 on each campaign type respectively. Another dynamic benefit of social automation vs PPC is positioning. Positioning is an essential component of PPC and the primary factor that drives up costs. The entire cost model of PPC is orientated to benefit the highest bidder though ad placement position strategy. Simply bidding for PPC keywords is no guarantee of placement. Social media is about influence engagement during real time conversations, social automation guarantees your placement regardless of your campaign budget. Pay for a post, it get’s posted! While we’re pouring salt on the PPC wound let’s do one more. Social media has a significantly broader audience than PPC. A social forum post can last days, months, and even years, the lifespan of a PPC is only about 6 seconds. Apply post duration to the numbers above and you could potentially double and/or triple your Total Traffic Click Trough with Social Automation!

Yoga for Cyclists, part 6: Ankles Your ankles take the strain when you ride - so here's how to give them a bit of TLC... Yoga 6 If you've been following our series of Yoga for Cyclists videos, you'll know from Part 5: Posture that the ankles are one of the weak points in many cyclists, thanks to all the rotations the feet make. Road.cc yoga expert Karen Burt is back with installment six, in which we look at the movements ankles make, and what limited ankle flexibility can do to the shins and the calves. For tight shins, there's a simple relaxing kneeling exercise, that can be made easier with a cushion for the really tight of shin, and for the tight-calved we show you a simple stretch to open out the calves. Watch Tony struggle with this, and you'll see the benefits of regular yoga. The feet move side to side at the ankle as well as up and down, and there's a second set of exercises to deal with eversion and inversion, and these can be practised sitting down, so there's really no excuse. The various videos from the Road.cc Yoga for Cyclists series can be put together in any combination that suits you, for a regular complementary workout to supplement your training. After an unpromising start, having to be bribed by her parents to learn to ride without stabilisers, Sarah became rather keener on cycling in her university years, and was eventually persuaded to upgrade to proper road cycling by the prospect of a shiny red Italian bike, which she promptly destroyed by trapping a pair of knickers in the rear derailleur. Sarah writes about about cycling every weekend on road.cc.

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Case Studies This case study explores Student Action for a Sustainable Future, a comprehensive environmental education program for middle school students that takes place in the city of Saskatoon, the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. This case study describes one country’s process of implementing a national environmental education act. The Taiwan Environmental Education Act (TEEA) was approved on June 5th, 2010 and went into effect the following year, on June 5th, 2011. Case Studies This case study looks at the growth of the international Eco-Schools program in Northern Ireland as well as the challenges it faces in empowering our young people to be the drivers of behavior change for a sustainable world. This case study describes the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Sustainable Schools Initiative, or Al Madaris Al Mustadama, which was designed to reduce the nation’s ecological footprint and help move environmental education from Case Studies This case study presents an overview of ResourceSmart Schools, a well established Victorian Government program that helps a wide range of schools benefit from embedding sustainability into everything they do.

While convincing me that the Federal government’s listing should have applied to all koalas. I am also supportive of the suggestion that ” . . . for koalas to survive, protection of their habitat has to be the top priority.” The only problem being, understanding what is happening to koala habitat is not straight forward, even when it’s supposedly protected. For example, at Gunnedah, where 25% of koalas died during a heatwave in 2009, researchers have been providing water to koalas, from ‘blinky drinkers’, designed by a local farmer. They have found koalas are regularly drinking water during winter, when the research began. This departure from the general perception, that koalas get all their water from leaves, could reflect a reduction in soil fertility, including Soil Water Holding capacity. Also speaking at the conference was James Fitzgerald, about the growing koala population on the southern tablelands and their bark chewing. According to James koalas are drawn to particular trees that have a higher sodium content in the bark. Hence, they are raking around the base of these trees to protect them from fuel reduction burns. Another approach, given trees can only lose so much bark before they die, would be to provide ‘salt licks’ for koalas. These are readily available at any stock feed outlet and could help both koalas and trees. There isn’t reference to the talk about south coast koalas in the article. Although with regard to fuel reduction burning, the timber in the photo below is from dead Silver-top ash, the main eucalyptus regrowth after integrated logging. All of this biomass, taken from a 10 x 10 metre plot, would be consumed in a fuel reduction burn. The next shot is shows the timber from particular live and dead Allocasuarina littoralis trees, in the same plot. Most of these trees would die in a fuel reduction burn, largely cancelling any benefit from the burning. The benefits from removing some of the trees include, actually lowering the potential impact of wildfire on live eucalyptus, maintaining soil cover and habitat for ground dwelling species, along with providing woody biomass for other more useful and less polluting purposes. All up, just over 1 cubic metre of of woody biomass, equating to something above 100 tonnes per hectare, has been removed from the plot. If this growth had all gone into eucalyptus trees, the Forestry Corporation could rightly claim its management works. Shame about that. Share this: Like this: As reported on the ABC this week, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC)” . . . has asked political leaders to actively consider using organic matter as fuel as an option to bolster the baseload energy supply.” CEFC chief executive, Paul McCartey, stressed that “forests or plantations used for the biomass had to be certified under a recognised brand as sustainable.” Of course this includes all native forests certified under the less than adequate Australian Forestry Standard. So there was a less than supportive response from the conservation movement. While open to the use of biomass from plantations, Greens’ forestry spokeswoman, Janet Rice said ” . . . There are just far too many potential holes in the legislation which would allow wood from native forests to be able to be used.” NCC chief executive Kate Smolski said ” . . . Instead of considering feeding what remains of our forests into power plants, all public native forests should be protected following the expiry of the RFAs and the industry transitioned to 100 per cent plantation.” While this sounds all very well, the notion that native forests are protected under NPWS management is a tad unrealistic. Indeed, based on current information the volume of CO2 pumped annually into the atmosphere, from the NPWS’s counter-conservation burning, must be very close to forestry’s contribution. From that perspective and given the negative impacts most fire has on forests, alternative management methods are required. In particular, reducing the wildfire hazardin regrowth forests through low impact biomass removal. So the biomass can be used for gasification and power production while the carbon, in the form of charcoal, can be sequestered in the soil. The regrowth forest management issue was raised at the recent forest forum, both by myself and a representative from East Gippland. So the message may get through, eventually. Home-sized biomass gasification unit Last week the NSW Environment Minister Gabrielle Upton announced more funding for koalas indicating ” . . .This $10 million investment is in addition to the $2.5 million allocated for the creation in March 2016 of flora reserves totalling 120 square kilometres on the South Coast, run by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, to protect the last known local koala population.” 1592 LANDS AND FORESTRY—MURRAH FLORA RESERVE—Ms Walker to ask the Minister for Primary Industries, Minister for Regional Water, Minister for Trade and Industry representing the Minister for Lands and Forestry, and Minister for Racing— (1) In relation to the $2.5 million allocated from the NSW Environmental Trust to Forestry Corporation of NSW for a haulage subsidy to source alternative logs following the declaration of the Murrah Flora Reserves: (a) how much haulage subsidy was allocated in 2015-16? (b) how much haulage subsidy was allocated in 2016-17? (2) Does the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 apply in State Forest flora reserves such as the Murrah Flora Reserves? Like this: Early next month the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital will be hosting the second national koala conference. Among the 30 or so speakers at the conference is OE&H employee Chris Allen, giving a talk titled ‘Fire & habitat rehabilitation in the SE forests of NSW’. While I expect the talk will focus on the OE&H’s claims it is protecting koalas from fire and planting trees on cleared land will help them. I also expect there will be no disagreement with these claims. On the fire issue, it is now a few weeks since the first burn was ignited in the Cuttagee catchment. During that time the scorched leaves on eucalyptus have turned brown as indicated below. Also during this time the scorched needles on forest oaks have fully cured and also turned brown. Apart from some remaining large trees with black trunks, the whole area is now brown. Prior to the fire, 30 years of litter, mostly from the oaks, provided soil cover that formed a thick mat, partially welded together through the actions of various fungi. Post the fire, the greatly reduced litter layer will be dry and loose. Coupled with the dead oaks, the outcome, come next summer, would seem to be ideal conditions for a rapidly moving wildfire. Added to all this, yesterday and last night we received 100mm of rain, a large proportion of which was high intensity rainfall. While this issue could be taken up with local government, getting the OE&H to be a bit more accountable would help. Sometime in the not too distant past, OE&H supporter the South East Region Conservation Alliance announced that its website will not be updated. No reasons are provided, but it’s safe to say that SERCA has not been an effective agent for change. So it was interesting to receive the message below, recently posted on a local mailing list. ———————————————————————– In 2019 the Regional Forest Agreement (RFA), which underpins the native forest industry in our region, expires. We understand that government preference is for an automatic rollover with no public consultation. We consider this to be unacceptable. On Sunday June 11 at the Tathra hall, we will be holding a forest forum which is an initial step in promoting the message that there are better uses for our native forests than woodchipping. Local environmentalists have been developing alternative forest strategies and the time has come for wider community involvement. You will receive a more detailed notice of June 11 proceedings closer to the day. In the meantime, we ask that you flag the date and mention it to friends. David Gallan Tim Taysom President Vice-President National Parks Association (Far South Coast Branch) Like this: The NPWS is continuing its inane broad-acre burning, blotting out the sun and polluting the atmosphere for the past two weeks. Most recent is a 260 hectare burn in the Wapengo catchment, also in an area with recent koala records. The subtle but perhaps important difference on this occasion, is that the records come from surveys funded by the federal government. According to the interim working plan for the flora reserves, the federally funded surveys found black she-oak (Allocasuarina littoralis), is one of the most abundant species. The reason for this outcome probably stems from the decision to increase the diameter of trees measured in the koala plots,from 100 mm to 150 mm. If 100 mm minimum had been retained, it seems likely the surveys would confirm black she-oak are the most abundant species in most of the reserve. While credible science tells us burning does not provide leverage over wildfire in this bio-region. The data employed is from eucalyptus forests, as opposed to the generally heavily logged and burned forests in the reserve. Accordingly the volume of fuel is reported as 16.4 tonnes per hectare, with fine fuels making up about 2 tonnes per hectare or 200 grams per square metre. In the photo below is a black plastic bag filled with one square metre of fine fuel from under black she-oaks. Minus the bag it weighs 5660 grams, just over 28 times the weight of fine fuel in eucalyptus dominated forest. Not surprisingly this level of fuel greatly adds to the smoke and the CO2 produced from the fire. In this case, rather than the notional 32.8 tonnes of CO2 per hectare, the fire is likely to produce 142 tonnes of CO2 per hectare. NSW annual emissions per capita are around 19 tonnes CO2. So every 100 hectares burned equates to the annual CO2 output from 747.4 people. Yesterday I received a response from Minister Upton, pasted below, regarding my request for NPWS contact details about the fence and catchments. While it’s expected that the NPWS would readily accept the Forestry Corporation’s version of events. I can’t find any reference to illegal encroachments, fences or investigations in the flora reserve working plan. So I wonder if there may be another non community version of the plan, circulating in state government departments As for the Bega Valley Shire Council being the most appropriate contact about catchment issues. Mike Saxon is also the contact for a recently advertised OE&H position for a ‘Senior Team Leader – Water, flood plains and coast’, for the far south coast. So it possible that the NPWS and the OE&H are yet to employ someone that does catchments. Only because I found the job description interesting, details for the position are at iworkfor.nsw.gov.au, job reference- 000057WJ, and applications close Monday 15 May 2017 11.59 pm. Dear Mr Bertram I refer to your email to the Minister for the Environment, the Hon Gabrielle Upton MP about your biodiversity reconstruction project on the NSW far south coast. Your email was referred to the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) and I have been asked to reply. Thank you for your interest in the biodiversity of the far south coast. Before your proposal to trial biodiversity reconstruction can be considered for endorsement, there is an issue with the location of the fence that needs to be resolved. The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) have advised that the Forestry Corporation of NSW did not approve the construction of the portion of the fence on State Forest that is now part of the Murrah Flora Reserves. As part of the handover of the management of the flora reserves from Forestry Corporation to NPWS, the fence was identified as an illegal encroachment onto the Reserve. In the Murrah Flora Reserves Interim Working Plan the fence is identified for investigation. In the first instance, the Director South Coast Region (NPWS), Kane Weeks would be the most appropriate person to contact regarding the status of the fence and to consider your proposal to use the area for fauna reintroductions. The most appropriate contact about catchment issues is Bega Valley Shire Council. Like this: As part of it’s asset protection works, the NPWS have been clearing around critical assets – road signs. While such work is expected, the methods employed seem to be inconsistent with the latest koala Priority Action Statement (PAS). According to the PAS – ” . . . Intense prescribed burns or wildfires that scorch or burn the tree canopy : Liaise with relevant authorities or land managers to ensure that identified koala habitat areas are defined as assets for protection in fire planning tools when managing wildfires and prior to any hazard reduction burns. Promote best practice fire management protocols in areas of significant koala populations. Liaise with authorities or land managers to ensure that any unavoidable prescribed burns within koala habitat are conducted in a way that minimises impacts on koala habitat.” As indicated in the picture below, the clearing involved cutting down two trees. If reducing fire hazard was the aim, cutting the tree trunks a metre off the ground, thereby creating standing dead wood, seems inconsistent with this aim. Similarly the heads of the trees, have been pushed under adjacent trees, creating fine fuels, also a metre above the ground. A simple solution would be to cut the trees down at ground level and remove the branches so the logging debris is all on the ground. Meanwhile the Nature Conservation Council is seeking donations to encourage more use of renewable energy, particularly wind and solar. If local conservation groups were concerned about climate change and supported a different approach, the NCC could also push for the NPWS to move toward a carbon negative approach to management. In that case the trunks of the aforementioned trees could be employed to generate electricity to power the vehicles. The charcoal from this process, about 90% carbon, could then be put in the ground. This approach would decrease CO2 emissions, increase soil water holding capacity, reduce soil acidity and perhaps aid in reducing die-back. Of course, such an approach requires both support for and the implementation of best practice fire management protocols, in areas of significant koala populations. Like this: Depending on one’s perspective, the decision to establish a Department of Environment and Energy could be the most interesting, or disturbing outcome from federal election. Minister for the new department, the Hon. Josh Frydenberg, was quick to talk about the need for more natural gas. Naturally I expect this means more fracking, rather than constraining the large volumes of gas exported. While this Bio-region has no coal, gas or oil, it does have a timber industry that government’s claim is sustainable. So it seems likely the Forest Industry Advisory Council will see some support for its proposals to burn ‘waste timber’ for energy production. For those interested in growing trees, an alternative is using the timber currently burnt or eliminated through other means. For example, Bega Valley Council has an excavator, essentially a logging machine with a different attachment, that it uses to mulch trees along roads and elsewhere. While the purpose is increasing vision, there is an argument that such management should be part of efforts to reduce fuel loads and potential CO2 emissions, both on and beyond the road verge. In that regard I’ve recently increased the size of the gas reservoir attached to the back-yard bio-char and syngas production unit. The first gas container was designed for continuous gas production from a methane digester and only holds 0.16 of a cubic metre, at low pressure. Based on trials to date this represents about 10% of the gas produced from 35kg of Silver-top ash sticks. The new container holds 2 cubic metres and when operating, hopefully this week, should provide the opportunity to compare gas and char volumes from the other species of interest, Black forest oak. Some long term trials to evaluate whether the soil preparation using char aids in the growth of Forest red gum would be helpful. A couple of weeks ago a (or the?) NPWS ranger for the Murrah reserves, Simon Conarty, dropped in to talk about the beginning of its dog/fox baiting program, letter below. According to Simon the Local Land Services previously undertook the baiting program in Biamanga NP. The change to flora reserves has led to the NPWS taking over responsibility for baiting in both locations. Simon also advised that there is to be no change to the Forestry Corporation’s baiting program, while a management plan for the reserves is developed. The problem with the Forestry Corporation’s baiting program is the fact that it is not part of a ‘nil tenure’ approach. So while the baiting has largely eliminated dingoes and dogs, hence a significant increase in kangaroo numbers and associated road kill. It will never have a significant impact on fox numbers, while it isn’t part an approach across tenures. We are writing to inform you that the far South Coast Region NPWS are conducting a ground baiting program in the Murrah Flora Reserve and in Biamanga National Park wild dogs using 1080 meat baits. The program will commence on or shortly after 28th June 2016 and will be ongoing throughout the year. A warning that non-target animals may be affected. If you have any enquiries please call 64955023. If you have further enquiries, please call Simon Conaughty on 65955025. Like this: The Queensland government has recently released a report finding koala populations, in the south east of the state, have declined by 80%.According to the ABC ” . . . State Environment Minister Steven Miles has flagged a plan to establish an expert panel to point policy in the right direction.” Minister Miles is quoted saying: ” . . . I think it’s time for an honest conversation with policy makers but also the public about what we think it will take to protect koalas. The alternative is doing what other governments have done, proclaim a solution then realise it’s not working. We need to determine some new action and it’s very much our intention to begin that in months not years.” I couldn’t agree more about the need for an honest conversation about koalas. Along those lines, the notion of an expert panel has also been suggested, but is yet to eventuate. In part this may stem from the widely held belief that ‘protecting’ koalas can be achieved merely by stopping logging, even though the evidence proves otherwise. Locally, the Bega District News ran a story about Far South Coast Landcare, moving into new premises. It referred to one of the organisations long-term projects, ‘the planting of 13,000 trees by children to re-vegetate a river corridor between Gulaga and Biamanga national parks’. According to coordinator Dean Turner, “ . . . From all the survey work done over the last seven years we’ve got a lot of data about what is needed.” This statement would seem to be code for- ‘we planted the former primary koala feed trees but they didn’t grow’. As I understand it, secondary feed species trees are now being planted, although as soils limitations are not a consideration, there is no information to suggest these trees will either grow or be suitable for koalas. A major difference between the various state and federal re-vegetation projects would seem to be the level of reporting. For projects that ‘Plant seeds or seedlings on cleared land to establish a permanent forest’, the Clean Energy Regulator requires actual measurements, in combination with computer based ‘Reforestation Modelling Tools’. However, there appears to be no such requirement for federal Bio-fund projects or state government funded projects, even though it is all public money. It may be a rash and perhaps bold thought, but a consistent approach could be a ‘new action’ that policy makers could try. Of course locally it would require considering whether Forestry’s 1997 koala recovery plan remains the best approach, given it is consistently wrong.

Worlds away from ordinary: The life and art of Octavia Butler Julia Keller, Tribune cultural criticCHICAGO TRIBUNE She was living proof of the Oscar Wilde aphorism: "All of us are lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Octavia E. Butler, 58, who died last weekend, grew up black and poor and minus any sort of early encouragement for her literary ambitions. "Honey," an aunt once told her, as Butler recollected in a 1995 essay, "Negroes can't be writers." Yet Butler -- good for her, good for us -- didn't listen. The Seattle-based author became a popular and critically acclaimed writer of science fiction -- a genre in which, for a very long time, a female author was about as welcome as a scratch on a telescope lens. Thus she overcame a daunting range of obstacles, from poverty to prejudice, without ever taking her eye off the stars. And her sudden death leaves a terrible void, because Butler's talents were iridescently unique. In books such as "Kindred" (1979), "Parable of the Sower" (1993) and her most recent novel, "Fledgling" (2005), she intertwined present-day problems such as racism, misogyny and economic injustice with themes familiar to science fiction fans: time travel, interplanetary exploration, the creation of utterly plausible alternative universes. Her prose is supple and refreshingly colloquial, her characters beautifully conceived and accessible. To read the first sentence of an Octavia E. Butler novel -- the "E" is for "Estelle" -- is to be drawn instantly into the enchanted realm of a superb storyteller, one whose message of tolerance and understanding and self-respect was never intrusive or heavy-handed. She brought the lightest of touches to the most profound of topics: human destiny. During a book tour last October to promote "Fledgling" -- a scintillating novel about a black female vampire -- Butler gave the keynote address at the 15th annual Gwendolyn Brooks Conference on Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University. It was a rare public appearance for the author, who once wrote that her looks -- she grew to be 6 feet tall before her 15th birthday and, friends say, was always embarrassed by her crooked teeth -- made her "want to disappear" throughout her childhood. "I believed I was ugly and stupid, clumsy, and socially hopeless," Butler added. `Gracious and very humble' To her Chicago audience, however, she seemed radiant. "She was gracious and very humble, very kind. A joy to be around," recalled Quraysh Ali Lansana, director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center. "She was very much a recluse and we were very happy and honored when she consented to attend the conference. "I feel very fortunate we were able to invite her, specifically in light of her sudden and tragic death," the director continued. "She reminded me a great deal of Miss [Gwendolyn] Brooks, in terms of her spirit -- her openness and ability to listen, to really listen to folks. She's achieved such stature, but she was able to listen and interact with real sincerity." Stature, indeed: In 1995 Butler received the MacArthur Fellowship nicknamed the "genius grant." She won the 2000 Nebula Award -- the Oscar in the world of science-fiction scribes -- for her novel "Parable of the Talents," along with many other writing awards. But the plaudits came after long years of struggle in stubborn obscurity, as Butler often recounted in interviews and essays. She was born to an impoverished family in southern California; her father, who died when Butler was small, shined shoes for a living, and her mother was employed as a domestic. All she wanted to do, Butler said, was write. "I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten," she recalled in an essay called "Positive Obsession" that details her early years. "[But] Who was I anyway? Why should anyone pay attention to what I had to say? "I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, `Can't you write anything normal?'" Fortunately, the answer was "No." Butler went her own way, following her own star, living on beans and potatoes during the lean years before her work caught fire commercially. As a black woman writing science fiction, she had to fight not one but two stereotypes -- only white males had succeeded in the genre -- and Butler fought in the best possible way: By writing extraordinary books that transmuted the pain of being an outsider into lyrical narratives of other worlds and future times. Tallest in the class "At school I was always taller than the rest of my class," Butler said in an essay that aired on National Public Radio in 2001. "I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it. I learned that five and six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant." Butler moved to Seattle in 1999, after nursing her mother through the latter's terminal illness, and lived alone amid her books. She didn't drive, instead becoming a fixture on Seattle buses, and made only sporadic public appearances. Reportedly she suffered from high blood pressure and other ailments; leaving her house on Friday, Feb. 24, she fell and hit her head. She died the next day in a local hospital. In his blog, fellow science fiction writer Neil Gaiman mused, "I didn't know Octavia Butler well -- we met at the Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Florida and we ate together and talked, and she was incredibly tall and wise and imposing ... but I loved her books and somehow thought of her as a permanent presence, although nobody ever is." Butler often described herself as "a hermit living in a large city; a pessimist if I'm not careful; a student, endlessly curious; a feminist; an African-American; a former Baptist; and an oil and water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive." In an interview two years ago, she added this to the self-portrait: "I'm a 56-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer, and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer." - - - `Caught between terror and joy' I'm learning to fly, to levitate myself. No one is teaching me. I'm just learning on my own, little by little, dream lesson by dream lesson. ... I've had many lessons, and I'm better at flying than I used to be. I trust my ability more now, but I'm still afraid. I can't quite control my directions yet. I lean forward toward the doorway. ... And I lean into the air, straining upward, not moving upward, but not quite falling down either. Then I do begin to move, as though to slide on the air drifting a few feet above the floor, caught between terror and joy.

This is the original SCA documentary! The videographers of Duckball home video have put together a well-rounded, 68-minute program describing the Society for Creative Anachronism and the Pennsic War. This video is a definite "must-have" for the SCAdian library. It is the largest and most complete documentary ever released of the Pennsic war, containing the woods, field, castle, and belted champions battles, several tournaments, music by Jack-In-The-Green and others, peerage ceremonies, opening and closing ceremonies, courts, the fools parade, classes, archery, artisans, shopping, and interviews with some of the early founders of Pennsic and the SCA, along with younger members who have since gone on to become peers and royalty. It is not only a wonderful document of this historic event, but also an ideal introduction to the SCA, useful at demos, meetings, or just showing people what you do for a hobby. Originally shot on Super-VHS and Hi-8 video, this program was digitally remastered and duplicated on a high-quality, hi-fi DVD. It is a SCA documentary of the highest order! This special edition also includes a 48-minute bonus feature of "lost" footage. This footage is edited to concentrate subject matters, so that all the music is together, all the fighting is together, all the courts are together, and so forth. There is also an informative "where-are-they-now" insert included updating the stories of some of the gentles who were interviewed, many of whom have since become knights, laurels, kings, and queens! It also tells the story behind the making of this video. People also appearing include: King David and Queen Tanguistl King Randal and Queen Katherine King of Calontir King of The Outlands Mistress Morgana Andrixos Dawid Zyugury Master Alan King Inman Sir Alexander Caithness of Wick Fulk the Wyvern Edward Dragonslayer Ervald the Optimistic

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Curacao is an island in the Caribbean, off of the Venezuelan Coast. It is also a constituent country of the Netherlands. I had to google it and if you look at photos of the island, it looks stunning. I wanted to find out about Curacao as I received an email from a lady who lives there. She thanked me for a 'wonderful book' and said she would be passing it on. It would be nice to get a small fan base in Curacao and I really appreciated the time she took to write. I hope more people choose to pass on 'An Extra-Ordinary Beginning'. Word of mouth is so important and really helps in, unsurprisingly, spreading the word! I was discussing this with a friend who runs Prague Youth Theatre who told me how this has really helped him. For the last two weeks, I have written nothing (this will change on Monday). The editing of ‘Survival Instinct’ is ongoing and my editor continues to smile at me so I am taking this as a good sign. The factory work I refer to in the Blog title has all been computer based. At the moment, not enough people know about ‘The Adventures of Eric and Ursula’ and this must change if I am to succeed. The only way this will change is to contact people and tell them that this great book exists. Over the last eight working days, I have visited numerous school sites to find out who teaches English and their email addresses. As right now, I have 422 contacts who I need to email. Collecting these email, trawling through websites, has been laborious and I call it factory work. So, how did I survive: I gave myself a break every 50 minutes I broke up the monotony with some exercise to let my frustration out! I gave myself a reward e.g. when I have collected another 50 emails I will get a sweet These may sound simple and childish but they work for me. If I just email my new contacts and say here is a book for you to buy, my email will be deleted by them before they read it. To try to stop this, I am offering these teachers and librarians some super free reading activities that they can do with their students. I am also offering them ‘An Extra-Ordinary Beginning’ for free. If 10% of my contacts download my book and visit my website then I will consider this marketing strategy successful. It is important to relax or to take a break. I know that sounds obvious but I am bad at doing this, and I doubt I am alone. Often, I become so absorbed in what I am doing - writing, marketing, drafting - that before I know it, hours have passed. In 'How to set up an online business', Kevin Partner gives 5 tips to succeed. The first five are quite standard: Do what you love, love what you do Never stop learning Work on the business, not just in the business Always look on the bright side of life Work your nuts off However, it his bonus tip that I have found most useful: Get a dog The point he is making is that a dog will mean you will exercise, will lower your blood pressure and will force you to take a break from what you are doing. It is during these breaks that he claims he has his best ideas. I agree with him. While running or cycling or cooking, my thoughts become clearer and suddenly ideas pop into my head that I would not have had if I had been sat at my computer. A few years ago, I went to see an exhibition of Monet's Water Lilies in London. One canvas was large (I think about 3 metres by 3 metres) and I stood right in front of it, just a few centimetres away. I could see nothing which isn't a surprise but when I stepped back and sat down, removed from the painting, I could take it all in and notice more detail that I had previously missed. Last week I stepped back from my work, had a break for five days. Consequently, I have come back fresher, with more ideas and I am more perceptive.

Design and evaluation of drug delivery vehicles by Palm Apergi, Caroline Abstract (Summary) A crucial aspect of drug delivery is efficient transport to the site of action. Thus, there is a need to design and evaluate new delivery vehicles. In this thesis two delivery vehicles, cell-penetrating peptides and bacterial ghosts, were evaluated. The understanding of the internalization and degradation kinetics of cell-penetrating peptides is important for the practical aspects of cargo delivery since peptides have a notorious reputation of being rapidly degraded. If the cell-penetrating peptide remains intact inside the cellular environment, there is a possibility that the peptide-cargo conjugate leaks back to the extracellular environment. However, if it is degraded outside the cell, the cargo will never be delivered. In order to improve uptake efficiency and to be able to foresee side effects, the translocation mechanism needs to be fully elucidated. Data gathered from the first two papers led to the proposal of a new me-chanism involved in cell-penetrating peptide uptake: the membrane repair response, a resealing mechanism rapidly patching up broken membranes. This mechanism could explain the divergence in perception concerning the uptake pathways. Furthermore a new assay to produce the second delivery vehicle, bacterial ghosts, was developed based on data from the cell-penetrating peptide investigations. Bacterial ghosts are dead bacteria devoid of cytoplasmic contents but still retaining their structural and morphological characteristics, after protein E lysis of the bacterial cell membrane. By using a cell-penetrating peptide with antimicrobial effects, a new rapid peptide-based strategy to produce ghosts was developed and the capability to deliver plasmid DNA into the cell for expression was evaluated.

Toni Wilen has now released the next release candidate for his Amiga emulator, as ' WinUAE 3.2.0 Beta 20 (RC3) '. Although I was expecting WinUAE to be released as a final by now, it seems more bugs have crept up and needed to be fixed before he can put his big old Toni stamp of approval on this fine piece of Amiga - PC software. But still if all goes well, expect the final version to be available either this month or next. See changelog below for what has been fixed. Beta 20: (RC3)

Norwegian Cruise Line Tees up Golf Bermuda Program Miami – Aug 30, 2007 — Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), the official cruise line of the PGA TOUR and Champions Tour, has launched a new Golf Bermuda program, giving guests more options for hitting the links in Bermuda, where there are more golf courses per square mile than anywhere in the world. The comprehensive program offers guests advanced tee time bookings; Callaway® rental clubs; transportation to and from the course; and assistance with planning golf tournaments. “Based on the popularity of the NCL America Golf Hawai`i program, we decided to enhance our current Bermuda golf offerings to make it easier and more convenient for our guests to experience the island’s vast array of world-class courses,” said Scott Rogers, NCL’s senior vice president of sales and marketing. “NCL’s Golf Bermuda provides guests the resources to enjoy golf the Freestyle Cruising way: more options for whenever and wherever they want to play.” With packages ranging from $85 to $269 per person, Golf Bermuda has options to fit every budget and experience level, and invites golfers to experience Bermuda’s most popular and scenic courses, including: Mid Ocean Golf Club, located in scenic Tucker’s Town, is home to one of the greatest golf courses in the world and has challenged the biggest names in golf today; The par 71 Port Royal Golf Course offers some of the most challenging holes on the island and has been owned and operated by the Bermuda government for almost 40 years; In 2005, Travel + Leisure Golf readers named Tucker’s Point Golf Club one of the top three courses in the categories of Best Golf Resort and Best Restaurants in the Caribbean; St. George’s Golf Course, situated on the eastern tip of the island, is breathtakingly beautiful with ocean views at every hole; Opened in 1922, the 18-hole Riddell’s Bay Golf Club is Bermuda’s oldest golf course and is described by locals as “the course you must play.” This fall, the 25th annual PGA Grand Slam of Golf, the world’s most exclusive golf tournament, will be held in Bermuda on October 16 and17, hosted by the Bermuda Department of Tourism, Mid Ocean Golf Club and the Fairmont Southampton Hotel. Past champions include defending champion Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk, Ernie Els, Tom Lehman, Ben Crenshaw, Greg Norman, Nick Price and Ian Woosnam. This year, Tiger Woods, Zach Johnson and Angel Cabrera are among the participants. Norwegian Crown will be there to welcome the tournament to Bermuda for the very first time. For Norwegian Crown guests, NCL is offering a three-day event ticket for $150 per person. Tickets can be pre-purchased at ncl.com/shorex through September 14. Currently, NCL has four ships offering Bermuda itineraries. Norwegian Dawn sails seven-day Bermuda and Bahamas cruises from New York through August 25, 2007. Norwegian Crown sails roundtrip from New York on seven-day itineraries through October 28, 2007. Norwegian Majesty sails roundtrip from Boston on seven-day itineraries through September 30, 2007 and one five-day itinerary on October 7, 2007. From October 28 through November 10, 2007, Norwegian Majesty sails roundtrip from Charleston on six- and seven-day itineraries. Norwegian Spirit sails roundtrip from New York on an eight-day Bermuda and Eastern Caribbean itinerary through the end of August. In 2008, NCL will offer the largest deployment to Bermuda in the company’s history with itineraries from five East Coast cities. These include: Norwegian Dawn sailing from New York, featuring the city’s only seven-day cruise to Bermuda; Norwegian Dream sailing from Boston; and Norwegian Majesty sailing to Bermuda from three cities-Philadelphia, Baltimore and Charleston. NCL Corporation Ltd. is an innovative cruise company headquartered in Miami, Florida, with a fleet of 14 ships in service and under construction. The corporation oversees the operations of Norwegian Cruise Line, NCL America, and Orient Lines. The company recently took delivery of its newest ship, Norwegian Pearl, and is currently building Norwegian Gem for delivery in October of 2007. In addition, NCL plans to build up to three new third generation Freestyle Cruising ships for delivery between 2009 and 2011. NCL is on target to have the youngest fleet in the industry by the end of 2007 with the introduction of Norwegian Gem, providing guests the opportunity to enjoy the flexibility of Freestyle Cruising on the newest, most contemporary ships at sea. For high resolution, downloadable images, please log onto NCL’s website at www.ncl.com/pressroom. For further information on NCL Corporation, contact a travel agent or NCL in the U.S. and Canada at (800) 327-7030. Suzanne Klasen – Cruise Arizona Hi! I am Suzanne Klasen, an Independent Vacation Specialist with CruiseOne. You may also know me from cruise sites and forums as Cruise Arizona. Along with my husband Steve (aka Mr Papa), we have combined our love of cruising with computer skills to bring you a very informative and entertaining site that we hope will help you plan your next vacation. Read More About Suzanne

Pricing & Floor Plans Icon/36/Chevron-openCreated with Sketch. Estimated cost from $2,829 to $3,457 per month* *Seniorly’s estimated monthly pricing is based on the local average pricing of other communities in the area and what typical communities of the same size offer in services. Please verify all information prior to making a decision. Seniorly is not responsible for any errors regarding the information displayed on this website. Community Details Icon/36/Chevron-openCreated with Sketch. Hurd Senior Care Home is an assisted living community located in Dallas, TX. This is a board & care community with 8 units. Communities this size typically offer shared and private accommodations, a high caregiver to resident ratio, limited resident enrichment, and more affordable prices when compared to larger communities. Seniorly estimates the costs to be $3,143 per month which is around 15% under the average of $3,700 in Dallas. The community has an average star rating of 4.0 from 1 reviews. Local Details Local Health: Hurd Senior Care Home has the benefit of being located close to 20 different hospitals. Hospitals like Methodist Charlton Medical Center and University General Hospital Dallas are a couple of the highest rated options. Your non-emergency health care needs can be met by over 20 nearby doctors and 20 nearby dentists. Vas Collin J Md and Va Medical Center Dallas: Wickremasinghe Itala Md are 2 of 20 other health related services. Local Wellness: Hurd Senior Care Home's residents have 20 beauty salons to choose from, including SmartStyle Hair Salon. There are also 16 spas and 20 gyms near the community. Anytime Fitness is located just 3 miles from the community. Local Amenities: Big T Plaza, Dallas, Hilton Garden Inn Dallas/Duncanville and South Dallas Cafe are just a few of the local shopping and restaurant offerings nearby. Hurd Senior Care Home has over 20 cafes, 20 restaurants within a 5-mile radius and 20 supermarkets and 20 malls. Local Spirituality: Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship is the closest Church.There are 20 places of worship close to Hurd Senior Care Home for people of all faiths.

Tuesday, March 3, 2015 The Federal Communications Commission's recent ruling to reclassify broadband as a public utility under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, is a step in the right direction, but probably will not break the stranglehold that the major ISP's have over our entire nation. The FCC's new ruling prevents an ISP from offering 'paid prioritization', i.e. slow and fast lanes, depending on how much the content provider pays the ISP. Before Netflix gave in to the bullying tactics of Comcast, the largest ISP in America, streaming a Netflix movie was a pretty bad experience. This is a typical example of the consumer paying the price when network operators argue over money. Throttling and blocking are two other no-no's under the new rules and for the first time, open Internet rules will be fully applicable to mobile devices. In other words, the FCC now can regulate some aspects of how major ISP's conduct their business. But one of the most important causes of the deterioration of broadband access in America, is the lack of competition. FCC chairman Tom Wheeler did not seem to have the stomach to confront that issue. Read more... Thursday, February 26, 2015 You don't have to be a movement expert to appreciate how President Obama moves. Black or white, American or not, he is the coolest guy that ever walked in presidential shoes. Outside the US, especially in Northern Europe and Israel, Obama is a lot more appreciated than here at home. Whether this popularity has anything to do with his swagger is debatable, but it probably doesn't hurt. The American President's casual confidence may be viewed as a breath of fresh air, an anti-dote to the overly formal and stiff demeanor of some European politicians. The definition of swagger is 'A demeanor of confidence, coolness, and togetherness. Someone with Swagger gives off an aura of comfortability with himself. It can also be shown in the person's walk.' Another, more illuminating definition is: 'I Don't Know, I'm White'. When asked where he learnt to walk the way he does, actor Denzel Washington, the ultimate swaggerer on the Hollywood scene, said: 'I don't remember, but it doesn’t work with your hands in your pockets'. But swagger is more than just a walk. If you have Swagger you can wear jeans to the opera, a suit to the beach and people will think nothing of it. They'll admire your swagger. Obama knows how to up his swagger at the precise moment. Whether he kisses his beautiful wife at a basketball game, marches in a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, or makes that last minute wave before entering Air Force 1, he does it all with grace and finesse. It is not just the President that has Swagger. Watch the First Lady's awesome performance in this video to promote her "Let's Move" campaign, to encourage parents everywhere to get up and get moving with their kids. Mr. Obama has done more talk-show appearances than other sitting presidents, appearing six times alone during his re-election campaign. White House aides say the president uses late-night talk shows to reach an audience that doesn’t always get its news from traditional sources. He uses the media to set certain misconceptions straight, promote his agenda and even though it seems like a contradiction, to remind the audience of what is important, of 'keeping your eye on the prize', when the line between entertainment and politics is starting to blur. Some critics argue that his frequent appearances are at the expense of tax payer money and conservatives find his appearances unpresidential. Former President George W. Bush would not have been caught dead on late night talk shows during his presidency. It was beneath his dignity, but he also instinctively knew that he didn't have the swagger to pull it off. Read more... Saturday, February 21, 2015 Amsterdam has a reputation. Ignorant people allude to the city’s cannabis cafés and its red light district with a smirk, reducing its entire identity to a haven for hippies and sleazy tourists in search of free pot and sex. And they generalize this to the whole Netherlands. It is true that Holland has always been exceptionally progressive, open-minded and tolerant of free-thinking. It has long been in the forefront of decriminalization of drug addiction, sex work, euthanasia and gay marriage, it has always been a haven for persecuted religious minorities such as the Huguenots and the Puritans (who went to Holland before ending up in Massachusetts). But the glib stereotype does not do justice either to the city or to the country. For one thing, it is a zoning thing. Many countries zone “sin” in such a manner. Paris has Pigalle, the US has Las Vegas, China has Macao. etc. Read more... Sunday, February 1, 2015 In my previous post, I argued that when it comes to variations in violence and murder rates, AGE explains more than just about any other variable. In other words, Auguste Comte was right when he said that demography is destiny. 2. Today I want to show the importance of demography in another related area, namely (im)migration and population shifts. This, too, is something that threatensa lot of people today, something quite topical in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo bloodbath and the incessant chatter aboutterrorism. Many Europeans fret about the “Arabization” of their continent, and manyAmericans fear the “Latinization” of their country.The reaction in both cases is Eurocentric Christian nativism. Europeans are marching and rallying behind nativist leaders such as Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders. Some,like Hungary’s Jobbik Party, attack gypsies. In the US, many Republicanswant to evict millions of Hispanic immigrants. The unifying theme on both sides of the Atlantic is:“Save Western civilization.” Saturday, January 31, 2015 Our last three posts have been about Charlie Hebdo, terrorism and Islamic immigration. There has been excellent response by readers. The present post is also related to those topics. The title of this piece is usually attributed to Auguste Comte, the father of Sociology, and I want to showhowtrue it is. Two of the thingswhich the media never let us forgetare: (1)terrorism/crime/violence/war and (2) immigration. Thesetwo issuesare related, as in the Charlie Hebdo case, because some of the violence is committedby Muslim immigrants to places like France. Western societies, foremost among them the United States, are in a never-ending search for the explanations and solutions tothis dual problem, alwaystrying to implement a variety ofpolicies. Experts arepulling their hair out trying to explain crime and violence. The explanations andpolicies range from various criminological fads, all the way to war.Read more... One of the loftiest qualities of humans is their ability to distinguish right from wrong. We call it morality. Without a sense of morality, we would soon descend in a state of anarchy, where no one is accountable for their actions. Some societies are already on the brink of anarchy, the so-called 'failed states' of the world, where citizens are never sure whether they will live or die any day of their lives. Morality is the glue that binds people together, it creates the space where the give and take between people takes place. Without it, life would be worse than death since being dead at least doesn't cause someone to suffer. But why do we aspire to be moral to begin with? We want to be healthy, happy, free of pain, that is understandable. We call these 'natural' desires, but why do we desire to be moral? A biologist would ask: What do we gain by it? How does it serve our survival as a species? Thomas Hobbes thought he had the answer by saying that the natural state of man is "warre of every man against every man" and to prevent people from hacking each other to death, they needed to have a moral code. Obviously Hobbes didn't believe in man's innate goodness. That is pretty much how our culture has branded human nature over the past few centuries. We are selfish bastards who have developed a system which forces us to cooperate with each other by submitting to a self-imposed structure. Thanks to our superior intellect, we have escaped the fate that nature imposes on the world, the cruel, barbaric law of the jungle that all species is subject to. With the help of philosophers like Malthus who anticipated Darwin's principle of the struggle for existence, it is widely accepted as a law of nature. This view leads one to assume that if you are nice, you are a patsy. But just because we have irrevocably painted ourselves in the corner of selfishness, doesn't mean that we don't have the capacity for compassion. Primatologist Frans De Waal explains in Good Natured-The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, 'In the same way that birds and airplanes appear to defy the law of gravity yet are fully subjected to it, moral decency may appear to fly in the face of natural selection yet still be one of its many products.'Read more... Tuesday, January 27, 2015 In my previous post, I asked whether the European opinion leaders had lost the capacity for anger when Europeans are under attack. Obviously, there are still plenty of people in Europe who are capable of anger. These are the politically incorrect. They are the rednecks. They are the equivalent of what Jerry Falwell used to call the “silent majority.” They represent the political RIGHT. Many of them support very unsympathetic characters, some of them with fascistoid tendencies. They are “populists,” often nativists, and racists. They follow demagogues such as Geert Wilders in Holland and his equivalents elsewhere. France has Marine Le Pen, fretting about the Arabization of her country. Hungary has its Jobbik movement, a sinister fascist group that has lynched gypsies. There are the people who recently attacked, damaged and burned mosques in Sweden. There are the people who have been marching to kick immigrants out of Germany. It is noteworthy that xenophobia is strongest in the EASTERN part of Germany, precisely where there are the fewest immigrants. These groups are the equivalent of America’s Tea Party and its Republican Party. Read more... Translate Most recent posts Link to Us! Receive Email notification of new posts Publish Your Article! A valid author name is required. We will create live links to url's that you specify in your post. 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Bamboo Love: Our Favorite Customer Quotes from March 2016 It’s been another great month, and we’re excited that it’s finally spring! We’re also excited to share some of our favorite customer quotes from March: “Bamboo has been great for our company, easy to implement and use! I’ve definitely sent my fair share of questions to your support team, and they’ve been very helpful and answered all my questions. Thank you for everything and we look forward to many more years working with Bamboo!” “Your ATS is so much better than what I’m using right now! It does everything I need it to and more! I’m excited about this!” “We launched the ATS today and had 3 hits with the spiced-up job ads in 2 hours! Everyone is so impressed about what Bamboo can do. My husband loved my demo–he wants the ATS in his company too!” “The whole experience is just amazing. I can truly feel your cultural behavior throughout even though I am your customer.” “First, I just want to say–I love BambooHR, and you guys (everyone I’ve encountered) are great! I’m so excited to iron out all these details and understand all the ins and outs of the system. I can’t wait to roll this out to my employees. They are going to love it. So, thank you!!! And thank you for your patience with all my questions.” “BambooHR is already becoming extremely effective within the company, and we just went live today! So far, I LOVE it!!!” “We have never had such a simple, easy, smooth implementation before and part of it was how great BambooHR is, but most importantly it was because of how amazing [our implementation representative] was…BambooHR is life changing for us in the HR department—we are leaving a really archaic and non-user-friendly system behind and this is so refreshing and helpful.” “I like the simple approach [and] the ability to really configure the system to be very usable. I don’t dread going to BambooHR, I enjoy it. :)” “My [implementation representative] was one of the best implementation managers I have ever worked with…I have worked with many implementation experts over the years, and she is by far one of the best I have worked with.” “Have already used the esignatures to onboard an employee, and it saved lots of hassle—especially because he is a remote employee.” “I remember joining with you guys…back when BambooHR was starting. It is so amazing to see how much you have grown and have added to the system to make my life easier. It’s also great to see that you guys haven’t lost your kindness and amazing support like most companies that grow do. I love calling in and knowing I am going to get taken care of by someone who is friendly and won’t treat me like I am out of the loop! Thanks, BambooHR!” And as if those customer quotes weren’t enough to make March incredible, we also received another award:

Friday Fictioneers – Capitol The first remarkable thing about the space was its spaciousness. Hall after colonnaded hall receded into the far distance. Clouds obscured the vaulted ceiling. Even Marcus, safe big Marcus holding my hand, was diminished. The second remarkable thing–the Capitol refracted identity. Mirrors on every wall reflected mirrors, and I saw myself seeing. The third thing, well, everyone knows that –the mortality of gods. They killed the Emperor that day, right in front of me. And the mirrors multiplied his dying into a massacre of thousands, one death for each of his crimes. Now we must learn to worship ourselves. Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fieldsto write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here I found your story fascinating for two reasons. The first is that it’s uniquely personal to you; I can’t imagine anybody else writing it. The second is that there are little quirks in the writing where you depart from the norm in a way that you wouldn’t normally (e.g. ‘safe big Marcus’ rather than ‘big safe Marcus’). You’ve written a very attractive story. I think my favourite phrase was ‘and I saw myself seeing’. Kudos, Neil! Well done, Neil. That last Line: Now we must learn to worship ourselves. is food for thought. My immediate thought was that this would be great for the selfie generation. However, I’m not sure whether the selfie is a sign of self-worship or more aligned with crippling self-doubt. Best wishes, Rowena And the mirrors multiplied his dying into a massacre of thousands, one death for each of his crimes. As if this could ever make up for all his crimes ~ whatever they might have been. Even Marcus, safe big Marcus holding my hand, was diminished. This line makes me feel as if the story is being told by a child. Probably not so. Wow, I really loved this one, Neil! Great use of a child’s voice to give an intriguing perspective. The structure and pacing really worked for me and I was hooked by the “well, everybody knows that” line. Nice effect with the mirrors too, both visually and symbolically. One of your best that I’ve read, I’d say. I liked this story, and the hope that goes with it. You can only make a god die once no matter how many crimes he’s committed, so let’s imagine it in metaphor. Anything is better than a god emperor, even rule by ados with smart phones. Have to agree with others here – that idea of the mirrors, of seeing a massacre in one death, a reflection of all the deaths the Emperor has taken … Just so good. Terrific take on the prompt and some wonderful imagery

Current Affairs Questions on 5th, 6th May 2016 : Which Indian Bank has highest number of wilful defaulters ? A. SBI B. ICICI Bank C. PNB D. HDFC Bank Answer: A Explanation: State Bank of India has ranked Number 1 in the list of public sector banks with the highest number of wilful defaulters stood at 1164. Total amount outstanding in the bank was INR 11,705 crore according to the Finance Ministry. Check Detail EXPLANATION at INDIA GK Mobile App. Government of India has deferred approval to FDI in an Indian JV with AgustaWestland and which Indian company? A. Godrej B. Reliance Defence C. TATA Sons D. Mahindra & Mahindra Answer: C Explanation: Government of India has deferred approval to the Agusta Westland FDI in Indian JV among charges over alleged kickback in the helicopter deal. FIPB has deferred a decision on increase in FDI in the Italian firm’s joint venture with TATA Sons. Check Detail EXPLANATION at INDIA GK Mobile App. Shreya Ukil, wins gender discrimination lawsuit against which Company in London ? A. Tata Consultancy Service B. Wipro C. Reliance Industries D. Satyam Answer: B Shreya Ukil, a former employee at Wipro Ltd, has won a landmark case of sex discrimination and victimization against the software giant at the London Employment Tribunal. The 39-year-old had sued Wipro, led by billionaire Azim Premji, in October last year, alleging then that she was subjected to a "deeply predatory, misogynistic culture" at the outsourcing giant. Check Detail EXPLANATION at INDIA GK Mobile App.

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Serena Williams could go on to play until age 40 Serena Williams, who has won 17 Grand Slams so far and needs another five to beat Steffi Graf's open era record, admitted that ten years ago she would never have expected to be here still playing now. When asked where she expected to be in another ten years, the 32-year-old replied: "Who knows? I might be here. I have learned from ten years ago. I can never say." Speaking ahead of the WTA Championships which start here on Tuesday, Williams refused to rule out the improbable because she has already achieved what seemed to her impossible anyway. Serena Williams. Pic/ AFP That was the pulmonary embolism which endangered her life three years ago and forced her to spend almost a year away from the WTA tour. "It doesn't matter what happens to me in the present I never give up," she said. "If you have an opportunity to survive, you survive. "I had overwhelming emotions when I returned to number one again," she said of the triumph which happened in February this year. "I never expected that again. "I didn't think I would play again. I just wanted to try to survive. It put a lot of character in me and even more mental toughness. "It made me realise I have overcome a lot of things. I had a lot of help with that. I think all of that really, really made me feel I can do it." As for the more immediate future, Williams said: "I never thought I would have one of my best years this year, and now there is an opportunity to do even better. "I am interested for next year to take my game to a new level, which I think I can do. "Even if I got to 23 Grand Slams, it would be very hard, you know, with so many wonderful players, especially now. There are so many great new players coming up. Everyone is so young, everyone is so hungry, everyone wants to be the next number one. "So, you know, it's going to be even tough for me to get to 18. Obviously that's my goal, but I take it one match at a time." Williams is firm favourite to retain the WTA Championships title and win it for a fourth time. However her nearest rival, Victoria Azarenka, the Belarussian, has beaten her twice this year and ran her close in the US Open final last month. "I think it's great that, I don't know, I'm always considered a favourite in a tournament," the American said. "I don't think about it. I don't like it, but I don't hate it. You know, it's better to be considered a favourite. "I also do well when I'm considered the underdog. I never consider myself a favourite because every opponent I play has a chance to do really well." Williams starts Tuesday with a round robin match against Angelique Kerber, the leading German, and has to qualify from a group which also contains Sara Errani, the Italian number one, and Petra Kvitova, the former Wimbledon champion from the Czech republic, if she is to reach Saturday's semi-finals.

#GameOfThrones finale prediction: Arya already killed Petyr Baelish Game of Thrones opened season seven with misdirection. Walder Frey, fresh off being fed his children and killed at the end of season six, stood to welcome “every Frey who means a damn thing” to his second feast of the fortnight. We were confused. Didn’t we just see Arya open his throat? We did. But this was not Walder Frey. It was no one. It was the lone wolf. It was Arya Stark in Walder Frey’s dead face. “When they ask you what happened here, tell them the north remembers. Tell them winter came for House Frey.” This show is too good to open a season with that scene and not call back to it. Seasons have their own arc, and I believe the arc of season seven will be Arya Stark revealing herself as the killer of Petyr Baelish. …unless he’s not fooling anyone because Arya already slit his throat with the Valryian steel dagger he gave to Bran. 2. Sansa saw the dagger when she snuck into Arya’s room during “Beyond The Wall.” She then, because she’s such a great snoop, found Arya’s bag of faces under the bed. Arya Stark is not so careless as to leave a valuable weapon and a bag of faces sitting around… …unless the show needs to lay the groundwork for a big reveal in the season finale. 3. Arya ends their chilly conversation by putting the dagger in Sansa’s hands, and that’s where I think her intentions are revealed. She’s not trying to frame Sansa for Petyr’s death to get her in trouble; she’s doing it to bolster her position with the lords of the north. 4. When Petyr arranged for Arya to find Sansa’s note from King’s Landing he meant for it to drive a wedge between the two sisters, and that’s exactly what the show is making Arya pretend it did. My prediction is she saw through it immediately, recognized the way it could damage Sansa and determined then that the only way out was to take his life now and set up Sansa as the one who saved the north from his treachery. The biggest missing piece here is for the show to create a reason why the lords of the north would hate Petyr. I’m sure they don’t like him, but I’m also not sure they want him dead. I think Game of Thrones will use the 79-minute season seven finale titled “The Dragon and the Wolf” to reveal Petyr as the man behind the attempt on Bran’s life, who turned on Ned Stark an murdered Lysa Tully. What better way to reinforce Sansa’s position than to frame her as the hero who killed the traitorous Littlefinger? They wouldn’t show us the scene with Arya as Walder at the beginning of the season and then forget the entire thing. They wouldn’t reveal Arya’s secret to Sansa in the penultimate episode if they didn’t intend it to be a BIG part of the finale. They wouldn’t include Petyr’s dagger in the scene without reason. I think it will be the bookend to Arya’s story in season seven. It starts with pretending to be Walder Frey to avenge her mother and brother, it ends with pretending to be Petyr Baelish after she brings him winter. [UPDATE] I had another thought here: What if Arya really is mad at her sister and will use Petyr’s face to humiliate Sansa and gain dominance in their relationship? If the jealousy and anger Arya has shown toward Sansa is real, what better way to turn it against her than use Littlefinger’s mask to convince Sansa to act against her then reveal her own face? A ridiculous Arya-Sansa theory This one is stupid, but I’m compelled to reveal it just in case. Arya has shown unusual envy toward Sansa since they reunited. “Your pretty handwriting.” “I remember the pretty dress you were wearing. I remember the fancy way you did your hair.” “You wanted to be a queen, to sit next to a handsome young king on the iron throne.” “I wonder what it would feel like to wear those pretty dresses. To be the Lady of Winterfell.” My ridiculous Arya-Sansa theory is that Arya will become so consumed with jealousy and rage toward her sister that she kills the Lady of Winterfell and takes her face. It would be a fitting tragedy for the only family on the show that shows true familial love. You’re on thin ice Why is there thin ice north of the wall? If the land is so cold its inhabitants have to keep moving and having sex to stay warm then the ice should be thick enough to walk on. How am I supposed to be afraid of winter if it’s not even going to get cold enough to freeze a lake? WTF, Hound? What’s wrong with The Hound? He appeared to be shellshocked during the fight with the zombie polar bear and then inexplicably goaded the dead army into attacking Jon’s team on their little rock. What’s his deal? She told Petyr, simply, “I haven’t heard from Jon in weeks.” That’s all it takes. In fact that whole interview really makes me angry and pushes me more toward the thinking in this Screenrant column about how this season has gone off the rails. And I wholeheartedly agree with the assertion in this piece from Esquire: “While things began to crack last season—its first without the guiding light of George R.R. Martin’s books—it has become clear that the writers don’t know how to complete the author’s vision.”

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Friday, September 05, 2008 Get Gamm - Week Two Hard to believe it's almost Saturday. Told you I've been busy. I've had football thoughts swirling my head all week but no time to share! Predictably, last week was a pretty even week for picking the games. Dan was closest on the Mizzou - Illinois tiebreaker and holds the lead. If I can catch my breath, Dan and this week's winner will spilt the games next week and predict on the blog. For now, here are the games and my quick thoughts as well as the predictions from BigTen.org. Picks are due by kick of the first game. Eastern Illinois at Illinois - The Illini offense was on full display last week, especially through the air. Problem is, the defense was more full of holes than Swiss cheese! Redemption this week, albeit against a far inferior foe. Illinois 45 - EIU 17 Murray State at Indiana - Indiana never really put Western Kentucky away last week but it wasn't Kellen Lewis' fault. He was almost as amazing as Juice Williams. Indiana needs to find a runner other than Lewis, games like this help. Indiana 38 - Murray State 7 Miami-OH at Michigan - The Red Hawks might be just what the doctor ordered for Michigan. The Wolverines struggled offensively against Utah and the defense didn't come to play until the second half. This should be a much easier game for RichRod and the maize and blue, but we'll see if the improvements are enough to satisfy expectant Michigan fans. Michigan 31 - Miami-OH 9 Eastern Michigan at Michigan State - Eastern Michigan is an improved football team. Michigan State is young and coming off its seventh loss in two seasons of 7 points or less. Are the Spartans mature enough to jam the throttle to the floor and not let up? Look for much more out of the ground game from Ringer and company and while EMU might hang for a half, they'll wear down late. Michigan State 40 - Eastern Michigan 16. Minnesota at Bowling Green - Okay, I picked this one before the season and after BGSU's beating of Pitt, at Pitt last week, and the Gophers' struggle with middle-tier MAC squad Northern Illinois, I feel even more confident. Minnesota is getting better, and is gutsy to hit the road, but they'll wish they hadn't with this one. Bowling Green makes it 2-fer over BCS foes. BGSU 30 - Minnesota 23. Northwestern at Duke - Ah the battle of the intellectuals! A horrid Duke team beat NU in Evanston last season, with Hurricane Hanna approaching, and conditions looking to be dismal, can they do the same? Paybacks are hell. Northwestern 27 - Duke 17. Ohio at Ohio State - Chump two in the warm-up campaign for the trek to Southern Cal. Ohio State looked awfully good last week but will see how it can run without Beanie Wells. Look for Pryor to get more time and for the Bucks to roll. Ohio State 41 - Ohio 10. Oregon State at Penn State - Perhaps the only decent match-up on the slate. Penn State suspended three for this game but the Beavers come cross-country after a rough loss to Stanford last week. It'll be a game most of the way, but Penn State is too good to lose this one at Beaver Stadium. Penn State 33 - Oregon State 17. Northern Colorado at Purdue - The Boilers got their bye in week one and have to be chomping at the bit to hit someone else. Painter should have a field day. Purdue rolls. Purdue 48 - Northern Colorado 14. Marshall at Wisconsin - Not a bad test for the home field dominant Badgers but not a test a la Michigan/Utah, Illinois/Missouri or Michigan State/Cal either. Step up from the Zips who played UW tough. Wisconsin 35 - Marshall 17. AHHHHHHH, I missed week one of Get Gamm! I was in Boston last week and didn't get to watch a single game, so I am more egar then anyone for this weekends games. The Big Ten goes undefeated at home and 1-1 on the road this weekend: TheFinalScore The Final Score blog is my personal podium for Big Ten football and basketball. From previews to predictions, insights & opinions on games, teams, players and coaches, TheFinalScore is your source for Big Ten sports.

Thursday, September 24, 2009 Have you ever seen someone get excited about accounting software? Yes, I mean the kind of software for which you used to need a diploma in number-crunching and a PhD in bean-counting in order to be able to use it. This is not one of those product reviews where someone spends an hour testing five different applications and writes a roundup afterwards. No, this guy has spent a year working with FreeAgent, so his opinion is extremely well-founded. The article gives a good overview of what FreeAgent is all about and why it’s so much better than Sage (which is or at least used to be the de-facto standard accounting software in the UK). I urge you to read the full article, but if you want the conclusion only, here you go: FreeAgent ranks in my top couple of web applications of any sort. As an extremely busy person, I confess to almost enjoying doing the accounts now! It’s rare that I feel able to recommend a product unreservedly: this is one of those occasions. FreeAgent starts at £15 per month for a sole trader and, given the range of features and ease of use, could easily become your most important application for administering your business. Congrats to Ed, Olly and Roan at FreeAgent Central for building such an outstanding product – and for managing to turn an extremely unsexy product category into something which people get excited about!

According to this bug report, we can't use Skype on an hardened system. Is there any workaround ? I guess that running Skype in a chroot solves the problem, doesn't it ? Any way, I would prefer a simpler solution than putting in place a chroot. I know that Skype is a closed-source application, and using it on hardened systems is a total non-sense for some of you. I'm a daily Skype user, so I really need it on my system. Message to the log: I could successfully upgrade sun-jdk from 1.6.0.17 to 1.6.0.19 after I've upgraded the kernel version from 2.6.31-hardened-r11 to 2.6.33-hardened. I'm suspect this issue had something to do with PaX - but not sure. Previously I had problems using with 2.6.32-hardened: X crashed instantly. Now 2.6.33-hardened seems to be OK, so I can move on. 2.6.31-hardened-r11 seems to be the culprit factor. The strange thing is, that everything was running fine both on the laptop and the server apart from these failures... The Easter holiday will be an excellent occasion to give openoffice-3.2.0 another spin with the new kernel. Regards: Dw. Same problem as before while bumping sun-jdk from 1.6.0.19 to 1.6.0.20. The ebuild fails at the same place in the install phase. To workaround it I had to paxctl -ps {S}/bin/java and finish merging the package using ebuild install and qmerge... Openoffice 3.2 still have problems with regcomp and access violation occurs. For the latter I suspect a wrong environment path detection - probably hardened related. I try to workaround openoffice also. I disabled binfilter, which also makes the ebuild die. Joined: 30 Mar 2008Posts: 364Location: Umeå The north part of scandinavia Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 1:09 pm Post subject: We have change alot in the overlay for the gcc part. We have change code in toolchain.eclass so we support piepatches instead of the espf stuff. On the patch stuff we have rename the patchset and change some name but it still the espf patchset. Moste of this is done so it can move to the tree later on. Happy testing._________________gcc version 4.6.2 (Gentoo Hardened 4.6.2 p1.1, pie-0.5.0) We have change alot in the overlay for the gcc part. We have change code in toolchain.eclass so we support piepatches instead of the espf stuff. On the patch stuff we have rename the patchset and change some name but it still the espf patchset. Moste of this is done so it can move to the tree later on. Happy testing. Joined: 30 Mar 2008Posts: 364Location: Umeå The north part of scandinavia Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 1:32 pm Post subject: GCC 4.3.4 is gone form the overlay use 4.4.3 for it is on the way to get stable when the arch tester have done the testing. Still waiting for may changes to toolchain.eclass and glibc to get approved. Grub need a bump in the patchset in the tree. Have good day._________________gcc version 4.6.2 (Gentoo Hardened 4.6.2 p1.1, pie-0.5.0) Openoffice 3.2 still fails to compile (even after fixing the access violation and setting runtime paxctl flags on a binary). Openoffice 3.1 still compiles fine. It would be more important, but others have better luck with oOO as I recall. I still didn't give it up. So as one can see these files define their custom _init and _fini procedures. That was the point where I gave up and unmerged the package. I had no time to fix these (dated back to 2000). Regards: Dw. Although I've said I had unmerged it, I couldn't actually give up. Here is the solution: media-libs/ladspa-sdk calls $(LD) directly besides using cc instead of ld, one should pass -nostartfiles for linking those object having their own custom _init and _fini. Gosh... from what I can tell it's either not directly hardened-related (say: use google), you have not enough memory or you could temporarily try whether older versions are effected too (1.6.0.19)/emerge fine, etc. Here is my workaround: Issue the emerge command and observe, the failure. After that "paxctl -ps /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.xx/bin/java". Then ebuild /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.xx.ebuild install. Don't forget to qmerge and clean at the end. There you go.

Blog A 2018 Honda Accord assembled at a plant in Ohio on Wednesday became the 25 millionth car produced by Honda in the United States. The Marysville Auto Plant in Ohio produced the milestone Accord and to celebrate the occasion the car was painted in obsidian blue pearl. The plant began production in 1982 as Honda became the first Japanese automaker to produce cars in the U.S. Honda now has five U.S. auto plants. "This achievement truly represents 25 million customers who put their faith in the Honda brand and we will continue to honor this relationship with a focus on achieving the highest levels of quality and innovation in the next 25 million vehicles," said Tom Shoupe, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Honda of America Mfg., in a press release. To celebrate the milestone Honda started an annual scholarship fund with an initial donation of $25,000. Students pursuing degrees in engineering, supply chain and manufacturing at Historically Black Colleges and University are eligible. Scholarship recipients will be invited to interview for internships and co-op positions at Honda operations. Our Partners VehiclesTEST uses Flick Fusion's SMARTFLICKS as its video hosting platform, and the HTML5 player is the most effective way to stream videos online, for display on mobile phones and desktops/laptops and tablets. We are partners with www.testimonialbuilder.com a great company that helps businesses gain exposure to potential customers with video testimonials. Their app available for iPhone and iPad or Android makes it easy to film and syndicate video testimonials from happy customers. Build positive online exposure and impact new buyers by creating personal references from people who have done business with you and share it across social media.

The home page at http://www.cyber24.com/ has a white background. There is no blue ribbon on the page. On the first content page, a picture taken by Tipper Gore. There are six sections, with introductory pieces written by interesting people. Al Gore! And he isn't talking about freedom of speech on the Internet. Rick sold out. It's so disappointing! I've been talking with Rick privately and publicly over the last few days. "What's more disturbing is how many people I respect are willing to go along with Clinton and Gore on this. I don't care if the Republicans would be worse. I don't care if it's unconstitutional. Clinton is the president of the United States. Remember what that means! Let's be clear that attempted censorship is a crime against humanity, much as attempted murder is serious felony. "We are offended. It may not be the end. These guys run campaigns. They're here for the long haul. Gore looks good. That man will run for president some day, and he knows it. What is he really saying about us? He looks good, until you look at the truth." I hoped he would read it, and see that his contribution could be a positive one. I talked with him on Tuesday night and asked that he support free speech on the Internet. I told him that it would be OK if Gore was part of the project if he would go on the record about free speech. A blue ribbon is required. I believe selling out is the normal way of doing business in the world that Rick comes from. I've never seen such a clear example. I wanted to believe the best about Rick, I've seen him stand up for what's right, but apparently only when it's easy for him to do so. He may be missing the point. The Internet is about freedom. Until we get sold out. Then it's about sucking up. I said: "The US government is clamping down. Even if the new censorship law isn't widely enforceable, or if it's judged unconstitutional, someone is going to be the test case, and that person will feel like a citizen of Stalinist Russia. The new law imprisons all of us, as it did in Russia, because it causes us to pull back from offending people with political power." I'm sorry I pointed my readers at his site. It's a vestige of an old way of doing business. When we vote Clinton out of office in November we will be voting against the team that Smolan apparently wants to please. I can even appeal to Clinton, at the last minute, to send this bill back to Congress for correction. Fundamental change could happen in 1996. It might be the year when we elect neither a Republican or a Democrat as president of the United States. If it weren't for Perot's incompetence, it might have happened in 1992. And in 1996 we have the Internet as an organizational tool. So... There's still time to fix it! Rick: please take Gore off your site until he's ready to talk about freedom. Switch background colors. And put up a blue ribbon. The web is a positive energy space. You're on the wrong side. Dave Winer PS: If I were a photographer working on Rick's project, I would not send in my pictures until the site is corrected.

Jehovah's Witness abuser quoted scripture while assaulting daughter As a child growing up in a strict Jehovah's Witness household she was taught to obey her father as head of the family and warned that outsiders were "worldly people" who served Satan. In a harrowing day of evidence before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the woman detailed how her father repeatedly sexually abused her and her three sisters. The father, given the pseudonym BCH, was a respected figure in the church who would conduct door-to-door preaching and deliver talks from an elevated platform at his congregation's kingdom hall in Queensland. At home the man became a tyrant, with the commission hearing that he would beat his daughter so hard with a leather belt she would bleed from the welts.

Transcript 1. 11 Key Marketing Trends for 2011 Highlights from the Annual Unica Marketing SurveyWILL MORE MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES LEAD 2. MARKETERS WILL LET CUSTOMERS LEADTO PROFITABLE PATHWAYS – OR DEAD ENDS? THE DANCE BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF INBOUND INTERACTIONS.“More” is certainly the key word for our times. But, asthe results of our annual survey of marketers reveal, the For as long as anyone can remember, marketing has beenproliferation of marketing channels and the concomitant all about getting a message out. Advances in technologyexplosion of data pose a wealth of challenges for marketers are driving a shift in direction. Today, inbound marketing isin 2011. As the survey results suggest, marketers are looking seizing the momentum: customers are taking the initiativefor ways to turn more marketing possibilities into better and directing the relationship on their terms. Marketers aremarketing results. Our survey reveals the following key getting the message. When asked if their departments weretrends for 2011: planning to deliver personalized messages in customer initiated transactions, participants demonstrated substantial1. MARKETERS WILL BRIDGE THE GAP commitments to using, or planning to use, inbound channelBETWEEN ANALYSIS AND ACTION (FINALLY!) communications – via their websites (57% already in place, 25% planning to do so within the year), customer service/When does a rich set of customer data become a mixed call centers (52% vs. 18%) and point of sale/kiosk/ATMblessing? When asked to rank the top bottlenecks in the (28%/21%).marketing process, participants identified “measurement,analysis & learning” as the number one impediment, reflecting Inbound Marketing Adoption by Channelappreciation of its value. Yet, in a follow-up questionregarding the most important marketing issues, “turning data Web Site 57% 25% 82%into action” earned top honors. Over the last decade, manymarketers have become data junkies, absorbing information Customer Service 52% 18% 70% / Call Centerfor its own sake. But, as they say, recognizing a problem isthe first step toward solving it. Marketers can no longer blame Point of Sale / Kiosk / ATM 28% 21% 49%IT for withholding information; with so much data readilyavailable, it’s time to overcome “analysis paralysis” and turn Currently Don’t currently do this but do this plan to in the next 12 monthsthis newly found knowledge into action by integrating datacaptured across all channels into subsequent campaigns Base: Total Sample (279 Respondents)and more personal offers. 57% 62% SAID THEIR TOP BOTTLENECK SAID THEIR TOP MARKETING WAS MEASUREMENT, ISSUE WAS TURNING DATA ANALYSIS & LEARNING INTO ACTION 2. 3. MARKETERS WILL LEVERAGE ONLINE Value of Using Web Data inBEHAVIORAL DATA TO HELP TURN DATA Customer Analytics and DecisioningINTO ACTION.Whatever anyone says about information Very Important 63% 90% sayoverload, marketers cherish the data they web data iscollect from their websites. Web interactions Somewhat important important 27%open a priceless window on customerinterests, intentions and desires – a wealth of Somewhat Not important 8%precise information that easily trumps meredemographics or transactional data. It’s no Not Important Base: Total Sample At All 2% (279 Respondents)surprise that 90% of marketers see web dataas important to drive campaign decisioning.While only 41% currently use this data in Use of Web Data in Campaign Decisioningcampaign decisioning, another 35% saythey will in the next 12 months. Currently do this 41% 76% will use it in campaign decisioning Plan to do this by the end of the year 35% (next 12 months) Plan to do this (>12 months) 10% No plans to Base: Total Sample do this 14% (259 Respondents)4. TO KEEP EMAIL RELEVANT, 5. “FREE” ONLINE MARKETINGMARKETERS WILL FOCUS ON TOOLS WILL GET EXPENSIVE.IMPROVING INTEGRATION, Like email, web analytics and paid search areSEGMENTATION, AND TARGETING. contemporary marketing mainstays. But moreEmail hasn’t lost its status as a deeply than half (53%) of marketers rely on “free” toolsentrenched, well understood marketing channel. for Web analytics and more than a third (37%)85% of total participants reported they are using rely on tolls from the search engines to manageor planning to use email software. But now that PPC marketing. The savviest marketers arethe low-hanging fruit has been plucked and now considering the cost of “free.” For starters,the field is glutted with competing messages, a free search tool is limited by its applicabilityhow will marketers sustain email’s relevance? to the search engine that provides it. Worse,Today, smart marketers are actually addressing neither the search tools nor free web analyticsthis problem by integrating campaigns with can be incorporated with the marketer’s otherdata and triggers from other channels to make systems, making it impossible to close the loopemail an essential part of an ongoing, evolving and understand the value of the customers thatdialog with customers and prospects. The job these efforts are delivering. Precisely becauseisn’t easy: only 34% of marketers say their the information these tools provide is soemail data is automatically integrated with other valuable, it cannot remain stranded, leaving youmarketing data; another 39% say the integration incapable of realizing the full potential of searchis accomplished manually. Looking ahead, and web data. Investing in web analytics andemail will become the natural integration point search bid management solutions will pay shortwith emerging channels such as social and and long term dividends.mobile. In fact, over half (54%) of marketersreport including social sharing links in email andabout a third (35%) are already creating mobilespecific versions of emails. 3. 6. CHANNEL PROLIFERATION WILL Social Media Marketing UsageDRIVE THE NEED TO NURTURENEW CHANNELS. 11%New channels continue to multiply like rabbits 10%with familiar channels, such as mobile, breeding 53%new “micro-channels” e.g., Foursquare. With the 26%growth of smart phones and tablet computerse.g., the iPad, there’s no reason to expect theproliferation of channels to decelerate any timesoon – nor is it reasonable to expect successfrom all of them (remember Second Life?).But in the face of a rapidly evolving marketing Base: 254 Respondentslandscape, what is reasonable is this: marketers Current Activity No Plansneed a structured process for assessingopportunities, testing tactics, measuring Planned activity Planned activity (>12 months) (Next 12 months)results and evaluating further involvement innew channels. For example, a leading financialservices organization developed a structure to 8. MARKETERS WILL TREAT MOBILE AS A DEVICE WITH MANY CHANNELS,determine which business goals each social NOT A SINGLE CHANNEL.media channel might support. They discoveredthat business Facebook is a great place to Survey results show that marketers are growingdrive new customer acquisition, but wasn’t ever more bullish on mobile, with over fortyparticularly effective for customer service. percent of marketers currently using mobileThey use web analytics to measure traffic on marketing tactics. Among survey participants,their Facebook wall and correlate this traffic mobile applications lead the way with 44%with traffic from their other web properties and current usage; mobiles sites and mobilemicro-sites. When traffic arrives at their website messaging follow at 40% and 36% respectively.from Facebook, the customer more often than But the real question isn’t whether to use mobilenot signs-up for a card rather than logging into or not, but which mobile marketing channels,their account for a service interaction. With if any, are relevant to your business and itssocial media and mobile, individual channels will customers? Is it SMS texting? Mobile versionscome and go; but a solid evaluation process will of websites? Paid mobile search? Or the tacticbe a lasting investment. du jour, mobile applications? Or some mix of the above?7. SOCIAL MEDIA WILL EXPERIENCEGROWING PAINS. Use of Mobile Marketing TacticsThis year, social media is no longer the adorablebaby everyone wants to hold, but the angst- Mobile application 44% 31% 20% 5%filled adolescent – still immature yet no longer Mobile version ofcute – who inspires mixed feelings. All things website 40% 31% 20% 9%social continue to hold intense interest, with Mobile messaging53% of marketers currently applying it to their SMS/MMS/WAP) 36% 26% 17% 21%marketing efforts. But as tactics rise and fall,a more sophisticated approach is emerging. Mobile version of email 35% 34% 17% 14%Instead of thinking tactic by tactic, marketersare beginning to think strategically across three Mobile Ads 30% 29% 17% 24% (PPC or Display)major areas of social content: owned (what theycreate), earned (what customers create) and Location-based targeting 29% 27% 18% 26%paid (what marketers spend money for). Currently use Don’t currently use but plan to in the next 12 months Don’t currently use but plan Don’t currently use and have to in the future more than no plans at this time 12 months from now 4. 9. INTERACTIVE MARKETING WILL 11. ADOPTION OF AN INTEGRATED REACH THE TIPPING POINT AS A MARKETING SUITE WILL ACCELERATE. DOMINANT MARKETING DISCIPLINE. Marketers remain confident that technology will MORE THAN HALF Each of these trends isn’t taking place in ease application More than half of marketers said their pain. Mobil 44% 31% 20% 5% isolation. Marketing messages delivered during that technology would increase productivity inbound interactions need to be coordinated more than additional staff or external agency Mobile version 40% 31% 20% 9% with outbound campaigns. Web analytics data support. Moreover, an overwhelming 87% website (53%) OF MARKETERS should inform both online and offline marketing agreed that marketing needs a more integrated SAID THEY HAVE AN Mobile messaging 36% 26% 17% 21% campaigns. Integrating social, mobile and suite of software to improve their effectiveness. (SMS/MMS/WAP) ISSUE ATTRIBUTING other emerging channels in the marketing mix Why the strong interest? Integrated tools mean SUCCESS TO MARKETING Mobile version 35% 34% 17% 14% will play a pivotal role in meaningful cross- email integrated, interactive marketing, with shared channel dialogs. Interactive Marketing bridges sources of data and real-time behavioral triggers Mobile Ads these trends to facilitate customer awareness, 30% 29% 17% 24% allowing marketers to take communications to (PPC or Display) centralize decisioning, and execute across the next level: personally relevant messaging to 90% say Location-basedVery Important 63% channels. Most marketers understand the need 29% 27% 18% 26% the right audiences at the right times. To deliver targeting web data to create cross-channel dialogs and buy into the is important a more coordinated customer experience and Somewhat Important Interactive27% Marketing strategy. Yet, when asked integrate activities across channels,currently use but Currently use Don’t marketers Somewhat about their current practices, a mere 10% say will turn toward a comprehensive suitethe next 12 months plan to in for 8% Don’t currently use but plan to in the future No Important they have completed their Interactive Marketing centralized, strategic than 12 months more control. Adoption shouldNot Important journey. The good news? Half of marketers accelerate as theDon’t currentlyeases out no plans at this time economy use and have of the At All 2% say they are currently integrating across some downturn and releases pent up demand for channels. Over the next year, savvy marketers more integrated marketing solutions. will increase their adoption of Interactive Marketing and expand the number of channels Increasing Marketing Productivity with an they include in this orchestrated strategy. Integrated Marketing Suite 11% 10. MARKETERS WILL GET 10% 8% 5% MORE SERIOUS ABOUT USING 25% CROSS-CHANNEL 53% ATTRIBUTION 26% TO UNDERSTAND MARKETING EFFECTIVENESS. 62% It’s not enough to coordinate campaigns and deliver results. Marketers must better understand which activities, programs, andCurrent Activitycampaigns No Plans are contributing to those results. In Planned Activity Planned Activity (>12 months) (Next 12 months) the ranking of top marketing issues, “attributing Strongly agree Base: Total Sample (279 Respondents) Somewhat Do not agree Somewhat at all disagree agree success to marketing” took the second spot with more than half of marketers saying they Strongly agree Do not agree at all find it challenging. Attribution — the process Somewhat agree Somewhat disagree of assigning credit to marketing campaigns and exposures that lead to conversions — has become a critical component of marketing analytics. Marketers will look for cross-channel attribution that demonstrates the value of specific tactics and helps them direct resources to the most productive options. For successful attribution, marketers will need a centralized interaction history of marketing contacts and customer responses. The good news? Those marketers who adopt an Interactive Marketing strategy will already have a centralized view of marketing touches.

The manuscripts of his books about endgame studies ("Wege zur Endspielstudie" - two books about pawns endgames and queens endgames) were written in 1940-41, discovered 50 years later and published in 1992. He invented the Imitator in 1939 (under the pseudonym of Gerrit Jansen, in an article published in Fairy Chess Review, April, 1939; source: Julia's Fairies forum).

PES 2015: Patch 1.03 Released, Notes Included Patch 1.03 is now available for PES 2015 on all consoles and PC. Below are the official patch notes and that feature a lot of fixes to problems previously reported by players. Players available in myClub has been added. Screen presentation for the probability rate for successfully signing a player has been updated. Position display section for the Manager’s details in the myClub Hiring Manager has been updated. Icons to represent [Contract Expired], [Injury] and [Suspended] have been updated to be shown in the Squad Management window of myClub. The issue of that the wrongly displayed player name still showing after setting the user name of the cursor in VS Com of myClub has been fixed. Users can now confirm their promotion or relegation before finishing a myClub: Divisions season. The delay in the Division promotion information display shown on screen hasbeen fixed. The issue that the manager name of the National team not being updated after the manager name had been changed in Master League has been fixed. The issue that sometimes the PK was not taken by a team mate in Become a Legend has been fixed. The issue that sometimes users had not been able to purchase myClub Coins after downloading the DataPack has been fixed. PES 2015 was released by Konami last year in November for the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC. The game was received with mostly positive reviews, where it was marked highly for providing modern players with almost everything they would want from a football title, a feat that the publisher had missed upon in the recent years. The first two launch months saw to the release of PES 2015’s first two downloadable content packs,the first of which released ahead of the game’s release date.

The fifth annual Arizona Fall League Rising Stars was played last night at Surprise Stadium in Surprise, Ariz. The Brewers had three representatives in the game. OF Caleb Gindl, who started in left field and batted second and RHP Jeremy Jeffress will pitch out of the bullpen for the West squad. Mike Guerrero, who is managing the Surprise Rafters and is the manager of Double-A Huntsville, managed the West team. After the West tied the game at 2-2 in the third, neither team scored until a walk off home run by Leslie Anderson. The home run dazzled the crowd, but it was Jeffress who drew what were perhaps the loudest cheers of the night. The crowd rose to its feet and cheered his final pitch of the inning to strike out Brandon Laird that read 101 mph on the stadium scoreboard. Earlier in the at bat, the scoreboard read 99 and “00” for 100. Jeffress pitches during last night’s AFL Rising Stars game in Surprise, Ariz. “I don’t know if I had ever received an ovation like that,” said Jeffress. “The home run was a bigger deal than me hitting 100 tonight. That won us the game which is the most important thing. I was just trying to get the outs, hit my spots and I really let it go. I guess it’s the All-Star game and everyone is watching, so why not?” Jeffress pitched one inning, struck out two, walked one and allowed one hit. Gindl finished the night 0-for-4. Gindl at bat in last night’s AFL Rising Stars Game in Surprise, Ariz. A showcase game that features the top talent here in Arizona, 4,749 fans and scouts from every Major League team were in attendance. The game was broadcast on the MLB Network and on mlb.com. Guerrero was excited for the opportunity to manage the West team. “It is exciting to be here with all these future stars,” said Guerrero. “This is such a special league and to be a part of this game is an honor. It was nice to see Jeremy show everyone what he has. He has a bright future in the Brewers organization.” Gindl is currently hitting .298 (14-for-47) with two home runs and six RBI in 13 games. He also has four doubles and one triple in Fall League play. Jeffress has allowed only one earned run in 9.1 innings pitched in Fall League play this year. His 0.96 ERA ranks fourth among pitchers in the AFL. Today was a scheduled off day for the AFL. The teams were selected by scouting and minor-league directors from every Major League organization, in consultation with Fall League Director Steve Cobb and his staff. Twenty-eight of the 50 players who appeared in last year’s Rising Stars Game played in the Major Leagues in 2010. I’m currently at Sky Harbor International Airport about to board my flight back to Milwaukee. I’m trying to soak in the last couple minutes of sunshine before returning to Milwaukee and the beginning of winter. I have a couple of stories I will continue to post throughout the week regarding the Arizona Fall League. Also, please continue to send us your questions for Brewers General Manager Doug Melvin regarding the Brewers Minor League system. I can’t wait until I return to Phoenix for Spring Training! Meta The following are trademarks or service marks of Major League Baseball entities and may be used only with permission of Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. or the relevant Major League Baseball entity: Major League, Major League Baseball, MLB, the silhouetted batter logo, World Series, National League, American League, Division Series, League Championship Series, All-Star Game, and the names, nicknames, logos, uniform designs, color combinations, and slogans designating the Major League Baseball clubs and entities, and their respective mascots, events and exhibitions.

Wonderfully Made Wonderfully Made This Scripture passage is on my mind a lot as I talk with people about ways to build new healthy habits in the new year. The human body is an amazing gift from God. Sometimes, it can be easy to dwell on the things we don’t like about our physical bodies, and harder to be grateful for all that our bodies can do. The human body is amazing vessel for us to serve God and the people in our lives; to be his hands and feet in the world. We can develop healthy habits to honor our body any time of the year. Here are 5 simple ways get started: Move More – Prolonged periods of sitting can cause tightnesses in the back, legs, hips and shoulders. When we work at a computer, setting the alarm to remind us to get up and move every hour or so is invigorating! Moving our joints throughout the day and praising God for our ability to do so is a healthy practice. Mobilize the neck, shoulders, thoracic spine (middle back), elbows, wrists, fingers, hips, knees, ankles. Include your family in this fun activity. Use Safe Technique – If we have a physical job, or enjoy physical hobbies, we should be careful how we move, reach, bend, lift, carry and stand with a load. We can use a hip hinge, for example, when we pick up something heavy off the floor, rather than shifting forward overloading our knees. Packing our shoulders and carrying heavy loads close to the body helps prevent harming the low back. Flow 5 Minutes Every Day – 5 Minutes of gentle moving and stretching, and pairing this with our daily prayer time, is a great way get blood and nutrients flowing into your muscles and joints to prepare us mentally and physically for all that God is asking us to do that day. Have Good Posture When Standing and Sitting – It is recommended to stand upright and align the ears, shoulders, hips, knees and ankles for good posture to help prevent tightness, asymmetries, pain and injury. This also improves breathing capacity and heart function. When sitting, think ‘heart up to heaven’ with an upward chest instead of hunching forward over a phone or computer. A posture correction can also be a ‘God pause’ that reminds us to offer up a little prayer thanking God for the many blessings in our day. Practice Getting Up and Down Off the Floor – This skill is vital to independent living and helps prevent falls. We can enlist the help of a movement coach or medical professional to safely practice this skill to build strength and confidence in our bodies. Let us pray to the Holy Spirit for help in developing healthy habits, practicing good self-care and for a spirit of gratefulness for being wonderfully made in His image and likeness. Originally published in the Catholic Times, Jan. 31, 2016. About our Author: LoriCrock is a wife and mother, St. Joseph-Plain City parishioner, strength coach, writer and SoulCore Rosary prayer/exercise leader in Columbus, Ohio. Praying the Rosary and reflecting on the wisdom of the saints strengthens Lori on her faith journey. Lori is online at holyandhealthycatholic.com. Lori recently has started hosting “Holy and Healthy Minute” a new feature on St. Gabriel Catholic Radio AM820.

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Hi Drew, what are your regulations about a specific member who is getting a reputation for ripping off other members by non-payment on purchases? I don't want to start mudslinging any names but it seems to be something this one member in particular is doing out here in BC. I am aware it is buyer beware but if it is the same person over and over to other members of the forum?? Let me know when you can, thanks: Darryl Hello Drew, I'm new here and I wanted to introduce myself, but it's impossible for me to post, it does not work. What should I do? Excuse me for my English, I use Google translator. Kindest regards Serge The new CAC site had a free "forum listings" section that I thought you might like to know about. Two photos and a video can be included with the listing. The CAC gets decent traffic and may generate some traffic for you. (I'm not an owner or anything, just a member.)

Jazoon TechDays 2017: Artificial Intelligence meets Developers Jazoon is one of the premier conferences in Switzerland attracting developers, product managers and decision-makers of the software industry in and around Switzerland. For our autumn 2017 session scheduled for the 27.10.2017 in Zurich, we want to bring the topic of artificial intelligence and machine learning closer to the software development community. Our main goal is to bridge the gap between the state-of-the-art (in terms of research and available services) and what is actually being shipped today in software products. The conference is tailor-made for developers, but we also look forward to creating awareness among decision-makers and other stakeholders about the possibilities AI / machine learning techniques can offer. We already have an exciting lineup of speakers who will talk about some of the most prominent tools (such as Google TensorFlow, IBM Watson Developer Cloud, SAP Leonardo Machine Learning, DeepLearning4J) and hottest technologies (chatbots, deeplearning, voice assistants, IoT) in today's market. Also, hands-on workshops are planned for the 26.10.2017. Conditions of participation: For a charge / Public Organized by: Keynode AG

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Lindsay Lohan talks drugs, booze, rehab, sex By Alan Duke, CNN Updated 1:50 PM ET, Mon May 6, 2013 Photos: Lohan in trouble9 photos Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lohan poses for a mug shot on Tuesday, March 20, after accepting 90 days in a "locked in" drug rehab facility for misdemeanor charges. Her six years of legal troubles trace back to two drunken driving arrests in 2007 and include other incidents in which she was behind the wheel. Hide Caption 1 of 9 Photos: Lohan in trouble9 photos Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lindsay Lohan appears in court with her attorneys Anthony Falangetti, left, and Mark Heller in Los Angeles on Monday, March 18. She entered pleas of no contest on two misdemeanor charges relating to a traffic accident last summer, and she did not challenge the finding that she violated her shoplifting probation with those convictions. Hide Caption 2 of 9 Photos: Lohan in trouble9 photos Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lohan's mug shot from July 2007 for driving under the influence. Hide Caption 3 of 9 Photos: Lohan in trouble9 photos Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lindsay Lohan attends her probation hearing at the Airport Courthouse in March 2012 in Los Angeles. Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner decided to take Lohan off probation from a 2007 drunken driving case and said that she will no longer have to meet with a probation officer or appear in court on her 2011 shoplifting case, as long as she obeys all laws through May 2014. Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lohan's mug shot from October 2011 after she was arrested for probation violations. She was released after posting $100,000 bail. Hide Caption 6 of 9 Photos: Lohan in trouble9 photos Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lohan is led away in handcuffs at her probation progress report hearing at the Airport Courthouse in October 2011. Hide Caption 7 of 9 Photos: Lohan in trouble9 photos Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lohan cries next to her lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley as she is sentenced to 90 days in jail by Judge Marsha Revel during her hearing at the Beverly Hills Courthouse in July 2010. Lohan violated her probation in two 2007 drunk driving cases. Hide Caption 8 of 9 Photos: Lohan in trouble9 photos Lindsay Lohan in trouble – Lohan poses for a booking photo after being arrested on DUI charges at Lynwood Jail in November 2007. Lohan voluntarily reported to the facility to serve her minimum 24-hour jail sentence that was part of a plea bargain for two DUI charges. Hide Caption 9 of 9 Story highlights Lindsay Lohan talks to Piers Morgan just before going into rehab "I've never been a junkie," the actress says After 250 days in rehab, another trip "is pointless," Lohan says But it's not "a bad thing for me to be away with myself for three months," she says Just days before checking into court-ordered rehab last week, the actress spoke extensively to Piers Morgan in an article for London's Daily Mail newspaper, which published it in this Sunday's edition. Lohan, who turns 27 in two months, told Morgan, host of CNN's "Piers Morgan Live" she's never been "a huge drinker" and despite rumors, failed drug tests and a drug possession arrest, she's only used cocaine "maybe four or five times in my life." She's spent more than 250 days in rehab and another trip "is pointless," she said in the Daily Mail story. Instead, she should be allowed to "go abroad to different countries and work with children." Porn star dodges Lohan's f-bombs Just Watched 2011: Lohan walks judicial red carpet Lohan's life and career ran off the rails starting in her disastrous year of 2007 when she was twice convicted of drunken driving, once for cocaine use, made three trips to rehab and served an 84-minute jail stay. Her arrests were "totally irresponsible -- a stupid mistake," she said. "And from then on, the press were on me all the time," Lohan said. "It was the first time I'd taken drugs. I was out in a club with people I shouldn't have been with, and took cocaine, and got in the car. It was so stupid." Her first rehab visit was not because of drugs or alcohol but to help her deal with the trauma she experienced making a movie, she told Morgan. She voluntary checked into the Wonderland Center in Los Angeles while she was shooting "I Know Who Killed Me" in January 2007. "I was having really bad nightmares, and the movie was pretty traumatizing," Lohan said. "So I stayed in a facility so I could get some sleep and talk about it with someone the next day, because it was overwhelming. But I would leave every day and just sleep there at night. I liked that. It was kind of like having my own live-in therapist, because I was having crazy nightmares and I was having AA meetings on set and stuff. It really helped." Lohan: The good teenager She had been drinking for less than a year at that point, Lohan said. She stayed away from alcohol after her first hangover experience at 17, when her mother made her "sleep with vomit still on me so I'd understand how it felt," she said. "I was too scared!" She was a good teenager, she said. "My friends and I would actually pretend to be drunk," she said. "And it was more fun. I never rebelled against my parents -- I worked hard, I was responsible and I didn't go to high-school parties." She doesn't consider herself to be an alcoholic -- "I've never woken up in the morning and had a drink" -- but "when I was younger, I was definitely going out too much and I was drinking too much." Lohan: A rehab expert Lohan considers herself an expert on rehab facilities. "I've been court-ordered to do it six times," she said. "I could write the book on rehab. Constantly sending me to rehab is pointless. The first few times I was court-ordered to rehab, it was like a joke, like killing time." Morgan interviewed her before the confusion erupted over which rehab facility she would enter. After arriving at one -- which California officials said was unlicensed -- she left for the Betty Ford Clinic, where she spent her last and longest rehab stay. "I look at it as a good thing," she said about this rehab visit. "I can come back afterwards and be fully focused on work. But I think there are other things I could do instead of going to a rehab center that would benefit me more. The best thing they could do for me would be to make me go abroad to different countries and work with children." Lohan: Clean and sober If she is not a drug user -- she tells Morgan she smoked "some pot" a year ago -- or an alcoholic, then why would she need rehab, Morgan asked. "This is where it gets hard for me to explain," she said. "I don't think there's anything wrong with people taking time to just be by themselves. I think people want to see me do that. They will keep saying the same things about me if I don't. I don't think it will be a bad thing for me to be away with myself for three months." Although now confessing to Morgan that she used drugs a year ago, she told Matt Lauer on NBC's "Today" show a year ago that that she was "clean and sober" then for "a long time." Although she was once arrested for cocaine possession and later sent to rehab when she violated probation by testing positive for the drug, Lohan said she rarely used it since "I don't like it." Cocaine: Not her favorite drug "It reminds me of my dad," she said. "I took it four times in a period from about the age of 20 to 23, and I got caught twice." She's not "a junkie," she said. "It's the truth. I've never taken heroin either, never injected myself with anything, never done LSD. Those things all scare me." Her drugs of choice are "pot, obviously, and Ecstasy," she said. "I liked that (Ecstasy) better than the others." Morgan reports Lohan then giggled. Lohan: Not a junkie Lohan has previously acknowledged having a drug problem, though. She posted this Twitter message in September 2010 just before entering the Betty Ford Clinic for three months: "Substance abuse is a disease, which unfortunately doesn't go away over night. I am working hard to overcome it and am taking positive steps." Lohan claimed to Morgan that she's just misunderstood. The constant online tabloid reports of late-night partying, which sometimes results in legal issues, don't show the real person. "I've never been a junkie, and never will be," she said. "I just like going out late to clubs with friends and listening to music. Always have done. It's not that unusual for girls of 26!" Heath Ledger's advice She slowed down on her drinking on the advice of an actor, Lohan said. "Heath Ledger told me to give it up for a year because he'd just done that, and so I did, and it wasn't a problem for me," she said. Ledger was 28 when he died from a prescription drug overdose in January 2008, a year after Lohan's first rehab visit. Lindsay prefers men Lohan also talked to Morgan about her sexuality -- she's straight despite a past relationship with a woman. "I like boys," she said. "I know I'm straight," she said. "I have made out with girls before, and I had a relationship with a girl. But I think I needed to experience that and I think I was looking for something different." "I like being in a relationship with a guy," Lohan said. "But there's something just different about it with a woman. When I was with Samantha, I didn't want to leave, because I didn't want to be alone. It was very toxic." Dad 'creates chaos' About her father, Michael Lohan: "He won't change," she said. "I just think there comes a point where you just kind of have to accept what it is. "Whenever I do try to bring him back into my life, he creates chaos for me and uses it to his advantage. He's been really good and then really crazy my whole life." Hollywood friends While she blames the Los Angeles lifestyle for steering her off course, she does point to two Hollywood women who have helped her. "Meryl Streep was nice," Lohan said. "She just advised me on my acting and what I needed to do differently, and she told me I needed to go back to live with my mum for a while." She couldn't move back to New York because at the time, her probation requirements, which including regular drug testing, restricted her to California -- "the worst possible place I could be," she said. "Jamie Lee Curtis was very kind to me, too," she said. "She also told me to listen to good advice and to get rid of the hangers-on." Stay tuned Will you see another story about Lindsay Lohan's substance abuse and legal troubles before she's scheduled to get out of rehab in early August? What could happen in the Betty Ford Clinic, a well-respected refuge for those needing to get their lives back on track? Lohan was accused of assaulting a Ford staff member during her last stay in December 2010, although the investigation was suspended on December 24 after the staffer drops charges against Lohan. Just weeks after her release from there, she was again involved in controversy for stealing a necklace from a jewelry store. It was that shoplifting conviction that put her on the road to her current rehab visit.

If you suck on a tit the movie gets an R rating. If you hack the tit off with an axe it will be PG. -Jack Nicholson I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment. -Malcolm X This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. - Al Capone Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left. - George Burns at age 90 The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. - Elizabeth Taylor If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well. - Martin Luther King I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me, it's not nice. - Michael Jackson Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -Pablo Picasso But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself. - Jim Carrey It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney If you're going through hell, keep going. -Walt Disney Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. -Samuel Jackson Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the Best. - Frank Zappa The attraction of being wild is living on the edge, living up to the reputations of the people you've been following or emulating. People are always talking about how wild and exciting they were, but the key word is 'were', because there's a long list of dead, famous people. - Christian Slater You can see our respect for women by the fact that we have pledged to pay working women, even though they don't have to work. - Taliban Information Minister Amir Kan Muttaqi I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of. - Anthony Hopkins More Funny Sayings... Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money. - Robin Williams Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. - Al Capone It's better to live one day as a lion, than a hundred as a sheep. -Benito Mussollini A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want. - Madonna I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not what happiness really is. - Alanis Morisette The key to immortallity, is living a life which is worth to be remembered. Bruce Lee I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. - Rebecca West What luck for rulers that men do not think. - Adolf Hitler Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you 50,000 dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul. - Marilyn Monroe Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice; I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots. - Tupac Shakur I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. - Jimi Hendrix One man with courage is a majority. - Thomas Jefferson No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time. -John Steinbeck I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. -Faye Dunaway. I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys. -Dennis Rodman. I'm not smart enough to lie. - Ronald Reagan I am not in the closet. I am not coming out of the closet. I am not gay. - Oprah Winfrey I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor. - Jack Nicholson, 1993 The Funny Sayings on this site are the property of their respective creators and we don't claim any copyright for them. We've made efforts to use the quotes correctly, and under the guises of public domain/fair use. If you know of any funny sayings on our cards that are in breach of copyright, please email us and tell us why, then we will remove them. R. E. Shay: Luck Quotes Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. Laurence J. Peter: Luck Quotes Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

Sony Xperia Ion Review: Punching Above Its Weight Class 0 Short Version: It’s been a long time since Sony released a smartphone in the U.S. market that had a chance of hitting it off with customers — too many of their recent releases have either been meant for niche markets (the Xperia Play 4G) or were expensive and unlocked (nearly all of these things). That said, they’re looking to give it another go with the new Xperia ion, and it certainly looks like it could go all the way. It’s the company’s first LTE-enabled phone to land in the United States, it packs a much touted camera, and it’ll only set AT&T customers back $99. What’s not to like? Read on for all the juicy details. Features: 4.6-inch 720p Reality Display and Mobile Bravia engine Runs Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3 processor 1GB of RAM 16GB of onboard storage, can take up to an additional 32GB microSD card NFC 12MP rear-facing camera (records video in 1080p) with Exmor R sensor 1.3MP front-facing camera Runs on AT&T’s 4G LTE and HSPA+ networks MSRP: $99 with a two-year contract, available June 24 Pros: Rock-solid camera Impressive 4.6-inch display Aggressive price point Cons: Why does this thing run Gingerbread? Finicky capacitive Android buttons Peculiar button placement on the Ion’s side puts form ahead of function Long Version Hardware & Design: Looking at the Ion dead-on doesn’t leave you with much of an impression — the Ion’s face is clad in black, and is dominated by the 4.6-inch Reality Display. A terribly small speaker grill is nestled right along the device’s top edge, and a row of small capacitive Android buttons (more on them later) sit just above the Sony logo on the Ion’s chin. In short, it’s not much of a looker from the front, and it lacks the quirky characteristics (think the color palette of the Xperia U and the nifty transparent sliver of the Xperia P) that helped some of its recent predecessors stand out in a crowd. Lack of style isn’t my only issue with the device’s face; that row of capacitive buttons took quite a bit of getting used to. I’m not sure if it’s just because I have weird thumbs or what, but it can be a real struggle at times to register a touch on those buttons. They’re rather small (which doesn’t help things at all), and it often takes a more concerted press than one would expect to make things work the way they should. It may seem like a minor thing to get worked up over, but the effect is cumulative — having to touch the same button two or three times to make the device bend to my will for a few days isn’t too taxing, but it could make for some real headaches for people who actually take a chance and buy the thing. Things get a little better upon turning the device over, which reveals a similarly understated design. Strangely though, I think this is where the Ion actually shines a bit. A handsome dark metal backplate (that’s sadly prone to attracting smudges) takes up most of the Ion’s rear end and is bound on the top and bottom by a pair of removable plastic caps that hide both a microSD and a micro-SIM slot. The only bit of branding back there is the iconic green Sony orb plopped right above the Xperia logo, and I frankly like it that way. The other thing to note about the Xperia’s back is that it gently curves to fit your hand, something that helps hide its 11.68mm waistline. That curve coupled with that metallic backplate imbues the Ion with a sturdy, comforting feel in spite of the fact that it weighs in at only 4.9 ounces. That said, I take some issue with the way Sony crafted the sides of the device — the edges were designed in such a way that the power, volume, and camera buttons are mounted at an angle. The buttons themselves aren’t any harder to physically press, but their angled placement means they’re not quite where your fingers expect them to be. This is especially prominent when trying to use the two-stage camera shutter button — my finger naturally gravitates to the highest point on the edge of the device, which often tricks me into applying pressure exactly where the shutter button isn’t. Again, it may seem like a minor thing to get worked up over (and users may get used to it in time even if I didn’t), but it’s annoying to see how Sony’s sense of aesthetics have made it slightly more difficult to use the phone the way I want to. Software: Gingerbread, I wish Sony knew how to quit you. Perhaps I’m a bit jaded — after having used an Ice Cream Sandwich device as my daily driver for the past few months, going back to a lightly-tweaked take on Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread for nearly a week didn’t seem like a tempting proposition. Sony maintains that the device will gets its Ice Cream Sandwich update in due course (the Xperia S just got its own ICS update a few days ago), but really — it’s the middle of 2012 and Ice Cream Sandwich first hit the scene toward the end of last year. It may just be one of the pitfalls that needs to be dealt with when mid-range devices are concerned, but I can’t quite shake the feeling that a solid handset isn’t quite living up to its potential because of Sony’s decision on this front. Anyway, I’m not going to get too caught up in pondering the sort of device the Ion might have been, and Sony has done their part to try and freshen up this stale cookie. Longtime readers may know that I’m no great fan of what manufacturers do to the stock Android experience, but Sony thankfully hasn’t gone too crazy with their custom UI — save for a few particularly heinous widgets (Timescape and the large, love-em-or-hate-em Tools widgets in particular) I actually found myself enjoying some of what Sony came up with. The app launcher in particular seemed nice and clean, with apps being arranged on multiple horizontal scrolling pages a la Ice Cream Sandwich. What made the whole thing even better was the fact that Sony didn’t completely load the device up with bloatware or plugs for their myriad media services — Sony only preloaded a few apps and at least some of them are rather useful. Sony’s LiveWare manager app for instance is a scaled down version of Tasker, which prompts user-defined apps to spring to life when accessories like headphones or power cables are connected to the Ion. And just like clockwork, Sony’s Timescape social app makes yet another appearance here. The app pulls in tweets, Foursquare check-ins, Facebook status updates, and LinkedIn updates into a vertical stream of social information that’s at the same time visually striking and super smooth to scroll through. Just do yourself a favor and stay away from the fugly widget. Of course, since AT&T is selling this thing, you can expect the full complement of carrier bloatware apps to round out the package. All the usual suspects are present and accounted for (I’m looking at you especially, Yellow Pages), but to my great relief, tapping a small grid icon in the bottom right corner of the app launcher lets you delete most of them quickly and without prejudice. Kudos to Sony for making that process dead-simple. Camera: One of the Ion’s biggest claims to fame is its 12-megapixel rear-facing camera, which makes the device second only to HTC’s Titan II for the title of “beefiest cameraphone” on AT&T’s store shelves. Thankfully, I’m pleased to report that Sony’s claims aren’t just marketing fluff — this is one of the nicer smartphone cameras I’ve used in quite a while. But first, let’s address some of the mechanical bits. Holding down the two-stage shutter button while the phone is locked lets users jump straight into the camera app while the device is locked, which sounds great except for one thing — by default the camera app is set to snap a picture as soon as someone uses the shutter button to unlock it. That’s right, it just takes a picture as soon as the phone wakes up, which means that you’ll have no clue how well you’ve framed the shot or if the camera focused on the right subject until it’s too late. Thankfully all that requires is a quick settings tweak, and the rest of the camera experience is quite solid. The process of auto-focusing and actually snapping a photo was awfully quick — just under three seconds to focus, shoot, and return to standby mode. Once inside the camera app proper, users can select from a number of different scene modes (though the default scene recognition mode is smart enough to accurately handle most situations) and shoot panoramas to boot, but there isn’t much in the way of manual controls outside exposure and metering settings. Of course, all that would mean nothing if the photos didn’t turn out well. Fortunately, colors were bright and vibrant, though perhaps to the point of being slightly over-saturated at times (more on that in a moment). Low-light performance wasn’t too shabby either, but the Ion’s Exmor R sensor isn’t a miracle worker — there was still quite a bit of grain present in shots taken in darker locales. C’est la vie. The Ion can also record 1080p video at 30fps, and results were generally passable — test recordings generally displayed plenty of detail, and additional features like image stabilization and the ability to light up the LED flash came in quite handy. The process isn’t entirely flawless though, as the camera tends to take a few extra moments getting into focus when you’re ready to begin shooting and the image stabilization can occasionally be hit or miss. Now, about that over-saturation issue I was talking about — it’s not entirely the camera’s fault. It’s worth noting that the images look extra vivid on the device itself thanks in part to Sony’s use of their Mobile Bravia engine, and that their level of vibrance will vary once you move those photos onto other devices. And speaking of which… Display: Since the Ion is the first Sony smartphone I’ve worked with in a while, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from its 4.6-inch, 720p Reality Display. As such, seeing the bright, crisp display come to life for the first time was actually a bit of a surprise — sure, it lacks the deep blacks seen on AMOLED displays but the LCD panel Sony’s using is no slouch (especially since at 342 ppi it beats the Galaxy S III and the iPhone 4S at the pixel density game). The display’s viewing angles are actually quite good, though prepare for the colors to wash out a bit the further you move away from dead center. The screen’s performance in daylight seemed respectable at best. Since Sony doesn’t include an option to automatically set screen brightness, you’ll have to manage that yourself should you decide to venture into the outside world, and the screen tends to get overwhelmed unless brightness is cranked up full blast. As I’ve mentioned before, Sony’s Mobile Bravia engine plays a significant role in how images and video appear on that sizable screen. With the Bravia option on (note: it’s on by default) colors were vibrant and vivid to the point of being slightly lurid at times — this was especially apparent in one of my test videos, where the Xperia ion tended to make a stage lit mostly in blue take on a notably purple cast. It wasn’t necessarily a bad change (I actually think it gave the video some cinematic flair), but not everyone may enjoy the effects engine has. In addition to pumping up colors, the Bravia engine also sharpens the image, leading to the double-edged sword of slightly crisper images and video versus the potential annoyance of seeing more jaggies. Occasionally nuclear colors aside, I think leaving the Bravia engine on is generally a plus; it adds a bit of pop to the viewing experience, and it’s simple enough to shut down if it gets to be too much. For a closer look at the difference, take a look at this image — the left side is a screenshot of a photo I took with the Bravia Engine off, and the right is a screenshot of same image with the Bravia Engine on (click to enlarge). Performance: The Ion’s spec sheet would’ve been considered top-tier just last year, but my how times have changed since then. We’ve since entered the age of the quad-core chipset (even though most of them don’t end up on U.S. soil), but the 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3 processor nestled inside the Ion’s curved frame still has plenty of game. The device seemed plenty responsive when put to the usual gamut of daily tasks — swiping between menus was buttery smooth, as was pulling down the notification drawer and scrolling through my innumerable contacts. Similarly, I had no trouble at all watching Top Gear reruns on Netflix or building obtuse structures in Minecraft Pocket Edition. If you want to break things down numerically, the Ion managed to squeeze out an average Quadrant score of 2872, which roundly put to shame my trusty Galaxy Nexus (average: 1812). It’s still a long ways off from HTC’s ostensibly mid-range One S (generally around 4-5000 depending on the circumstances), but the Ion certainly has enough horsepower to be a daily driver for all but the most demanding users. In terms of network performance, I’m loath to admit that I couldn’t latch onto an LTE signal in my particular corner of New Jersey (a problem that I imagine isn’t unique to me considering AT&T’s LTE network is only live in 41 cities), but I managed to pull down an average of 7.3 Mbps down and 1.3 Mbps up. It doesn’t sound great, but the Ion actually performed slightly ahead of other AT&T devices — namely an iPhone 4S and an unlocked Galaxy Nexus — I tested alongside it. Though one of the Xperia Ion’s main draws is going to be that nifty camera, Sony is positioning it as more than just a media creator — it’s also a media hub. As you might expect from a company that launched the working group behind it, the Ion is DLNA certified, and it was a snap to get it linked up with my DLNA-compatible LG smart television and media server. From there, I was able to fire up the included Connected Devices app and sling my media onto the big screen. Streaming videos from my media server proved to be a breeze too, and it didn’t take long before Plex was serving up (dorky) content to the Ion. If you’ve got a micro-HDMI-to-HDMI cable handy, you can also connect the Ion directly to your television at which point something very interesting happens. Once the connection is in place, the Xperia swaps its stock launcher for an upscaled version meant to be displayed on a television, allowing users to fire up apps and pore through media on the phone. Provided you’ve got an HDMI-CEC (or SIMPLINK, or Viera Link, or whatever) compatible television, you’ll also be able to control the Ion with your television remote. The ability to take any compatible television and effectively turn it into a smart television set certainly has its appeal, and while it’s gimmicky and it’s fun, it’s hardly the kind of thing I’d want to use for any extended period of time. When it comes to sound, the Ion is actually sort of a mixed bag. Call quality was generally very clear, but even with the volume cranked all the way up, I still had trouble hearing the person on the other end of the line. The same goes for the Ion’s main rear-mounted speaker — for a device that’s so centered around media, you would think that Sony would have bothered to pop a better speaker in the thing. Even at maximum volume (which, again, doesn’t seem that loud) the speaker produces sound with muddy middles and almost non-existent lows. I’ll admit that I can’t be too surprised as it’s relatively rare to get an unabashedly good speaker in a smartphone, but I was a tad disappointed nonetheless. Battery: For better or worse (I usually lean toward the latter), Sony has opted to seal the Ion’s 1900 mAh battery under that black metallic plate I’m so fond of. Though the road warriors among you may miss the ability to swap out spare batteries as needed, the Ion does a fine job of chugging along throughout the day. Since I started using the Ion as my go-to phone earlier this week, I’ve averaged about eight to nine hours of consistent use each day — checking my email, firing off text messages, watching the same clip of a tap dancing Broadway starlet over and and over — you know, my usual routine. If you’re not the sort to check your phone at every possible moment, you can expect to squeeze closer to 13 hours out of the thing before needing to juice up again. If you’re planning to binge on some video content though, expect that figure to plummet to roughly six hours, and that’s if you’re mighty careful with all the rest of your settings. Head-To-Head With The HTC One S And iPhone 4S: Conclusion: For all of the Ion’s foibles (and there are quite a few), there’s still plenty to like here. The Xperia Ion definitely leans to the more premium end of the mid-range spectrum, and it tries valiantly to punch above its weight with features like its solid camera, media functionality, and great display. Its price tag too makes a pretty compelling statement — there are far worse things you could get for $99. Ah, but the real question is whether or not it’s worth your money. I was originally going to say that if you’re in the position where you really can’t justify spending an extra $100 on a top-of-the-line smartphone, then the Ion will do in a pinch. Now that I’ve thought about it a bit more, that’s selling the Ion a bit short. Despite how harsh I may have been with some of my comments, I really do think the Ion is a good phone. The problem here is that like with many mid-range phones, the Ion straddles that very fine line between “good” and “great,” and it doesn’t seem to have quite enough oomph to push it over the edge. Strangely enough, this may well change down the line — with a few minor tweaks and perhaps a helping of Ice Cream Sandwich, the Xperia Ion may eventually grow to become a must-buy, but it’s not quite there yet.

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The ethics of using AOL search data Can researchers ethically use the search data that AOL released last week? Like one of the forest fires that each summer consumes a major chunk of California real estate, the AOL data release scandal has quickly exploded from a campfire into an inferno. Giving the search history of 650,000 users to researchers seemed like a good idea when Abdur Chowdhury first posted it, but the move quickly claimed Dr. Chowdhury's job, as well as that of a supervisor. Maureen Govern, the company's CTO, also resigned the same day. Now the flames of controversy have spread into academia, where researchers desperately want to use the new data set but feel caught in an ethical dilemma. Given that AOL has already pulled the data, and given that it can be used to uniquely identify some individuals, should researchers refuse to use the data for their work? Jon Kleinberg, a computer science professor at Cornell, told the New York Times that he won't touch the hundreds of megabytes of search query data. "Now it's sitting there, in cold storage," he said. "The number of things it reveals about individual people seems much too much. In general, you don't want to do research on tainted data." It would be much easier for the researchers to turn down this forbidden fruit if apples grew on every tree. But when it comes to quality search data, options are limited unless you work for one of the major search engines (or are with the government). For researchers who have been stuck with the same search data for almost 10 years, the new information comes like rain to a Dust Bowl farmer. Jeffrey Seglin, author of a syndicated ethics column called "The Right Thing" (and a book by the same name), tells Ars that, in his view, the ethical obligation "here falls upon the companies that are releasing the data. If these companies have made a commitment to keep individual behavior private, then they have an obligation to make sure that the data they release can't be manipulated to discover the identities of the users." When it comes to research, though, Seglin has no problem with people who want to use the data for their own projects—provided they do not cross one important boundary. "If researchers are using the data to identify individual users, I believe they've crossed an ethical line," Seglin says. But if they don't try to match up the data with actual people, he believes that they are (ethically) in the clear. One unfortunate side effect of the entire AOL debacle is that search engines will now be more wary about releasing data— and they were already stingy to begin with. On the other hand, when they do release data in the future, search engines will certainly pay far more attention to the privacy implications of what they're doing.

G Man Breaking the Ninth Commandment G Man has been saying that I have said that you can believe in a supernatural deity or God and still be an atheist…which is completely absurd. He recently was on the Drunken Peasants again lying about what I have never said, even though just a few days prior I made it very clear that you can not believe in a God and rationally consider yourself to be an atheist. LIKE, SHARE, and SUBSCRIBE 🙂 (and leave a comment!)

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The internet revolution BuzzFeed UK editor Luke Lewis speaks to Grace Marsh about launching in the UK, British humour and what makes the site so successful Tuesday 30 September 2014 How did you get involved in BuzzFeed? BuzzFeed launched in the UK in March 2013. It had been established in the US and actually goes back all the way to 2006. They really started ramping it up, and it started becoming more of a big deal really in 2011/12. So that’s when I became a huge fan of what they were doing so I contacted them and kind of figured that they might want to launch in the UK. So I said if you do, if you’re thinking about it, then you should consider me. And actually I was kind of right in that position because they were thinking about launching, they just hadn’t really got round to it yet. So yeah, that happened in early 2013. What was it like when you first started? Initially, it was very much kind of experimental, there was only three of us, we were sharing an office which was another company’s, you know, it was quite low key. The audience was there, and since then we’ve been building it up so the UK editorial team is about 30 people now. In terms of consumers, now we have 15 million unique users in the UK and globally 150 million per month. What makes BuzzFeed UK different from BuzzFeed US? The main thing that distinguishes BuzzFeed in the UK from in the US is our focus on humour. So if you look at all the most viral, most widely shared articles that we’ve ever done in the UK, they’re mostly funny. That’s not really true in the US; humour is a pretty big part of what they do, but it’s not like the number one priority. How have you adapted content for a UK audience? Around about the time that we launched, things that were doing very well in the US was cute animal stuff, chill, uplift articles were very popular—a really huge article around that time was ‘photos that will restore your faith in humanity’. That kind of thing was really popular in the US and we kind of experimented with that in the UK, but it didn’t work that well. But when we focused more specifically on humour, self-deprecating humour and regional identity is another one – those things worked incredibly well so we really focused on those. What do you think makes people enjoy reading things like ‘ten reasons why you’re from the north’? There is a slight element of mockery invovled, especially self-mockery, that’s an important thing. When we’re writing about a certain niche, or a certain regional identity, you want people who are part of that identity to share it themselves, so if it’s really nasty, sort of slagging off Geordies for example, then they wouldn’t share it, but if it’s sort of gently mocking in a way that they can agree with, then it works. Because you know that’s just the great British thing. Self-depreciating humour is a really big part of our identity. What makes regional identity so important? The reason that ide­ntity is really powerful I think is that British media traditionally has kind of ignored the regions beyond London. And so we were really keen to not do that on BuzzFeed. In fact we want to embrace that more actually. We’re gonna sort of ramp up the amount of regional stuff that we’re doing. How do the British public respond to articles about cute cats and Kim Kardashian? Humour is extremely important to us, then there’s also the whole news side of BuzzFeed and celebrity stuff; it’s always popular but it tends not to be shared that well. Those kind of things, Kim Kardashian, there’s a lot of entertainment value. They do quite well from the homepage and people do like to read it, but then people won’t necessarily share it. It’s part of the mix, but not necessarily our main focus. How popular is sport on BuzzFeed? It’s the same with sport as with celebrity stuff; we kind of dipped our toe in the water with sport, but it’s an area that is very, very well served in the British media, by the newspapers and we’ve not quite found a route into that. Maybe in the future, but at the moment, sport is now something we’re really focused on. Is it BuzzFeed’s unique, easy to read format that makes it so successful? Yes, absolutely. We’re thinking about impact and accessibility. For a couple of hundred years, the format of a news story has not really changed very much. It’s about 500 words of copy, with one picture at the top. Especially news online, there’s not been much kind of innovation; they’re really just taken from newspapers. They’re just repurposed, with one picture and 500 words of copy and often it’s just rewritten from the wire. What makes BuzzFeed different? We do like to think about how we like to present news stories and getting away from that classic structure of a newspaper which is often like an inverted pyramid. Newspaper journalists will try to cram as many details as they can into the first few sentences and then the story gets less and less relevant. How do you achieve this? We kind of flip it on its head and we make it more conversational, a bit more chronological. News journalists will often just start at the beginning – this is the person, this is his name, this is how old he is. And then you kind of start telling it like a story, as if you were in conversation with a friend. So I think that’s what makes our news stories a little bit less artificial and a little bit more conversational, which I think is why they work well on Facebook. Is Facebook the most popular sharing platform? It definitely is yeah, but that just reflects the fact that it’s the biggest social media platform by far. The second biggest one is Pinterest and the third is Twitter. To be honest, Twitter is slightly bigger in the UK but globally Pinterest drives significantly more interest than Twitter because it’s huge in the US. How can students get themselves noticed on the internet? You can kind of make the mistake of trying to be on every platform. I’m not personally on Pinterest; it drives a lot on interest on BuzzFeed but I’m not sure it’s a great way of selling yourself. Facebook is kind of underrated as a way of promoting yourself. I’ve always had a public facebook profile and posted lots of links there, and have now built up a bit of a following. I think sometimes people neglect Facebook and focus on Twitter. Why is the more light-hearted content so popular on BuzzFeed? It just reflects the reality of how people consume content nowadays. I think the organising principal of the web now is the kind of activity stream, especially the Facebook newsfeed. If you look at your newsfeed right now, I’m sure there’s news stories and serious stuff about what’s going on in the world, but there’s also stuff about your friends and family, throwaway entertaining stuff as well. And I think that’s just how people live their lives. So it makes sense that BuzzFeed should reflect that. So you’ve got the serious and the light-hearted, entertaining co-exisiting very closely and I think that’s just a natural reflection of life really. I think that’s great. It’s great writing about universities because all it takes is for one person to put it on Facebook and people in their year share it, then it starts to spread to people that once went to that university and it ends up as being tens of thousands of people and that’s brilliant, that’s what BuzzFeed is all about really.

Sabres to hold part of training camp in Rochester 'The Sabres will hold daily on-ice workouts at the ESL Sports Centre from September 15th through September 20th. All workouts will be free and open to the public. "This is a great opportunity for our fans in Rochester to come see the team first hand," Regier said. "It will give them a preview of our team and should build some excitement for our preseason game versus Chicago and our regular season game against New Jersey in November."'

World Online Campaigns Aim to Help Kai the Hitchhiker Beat Murder Rap The never-dull story of Kai the Hitchhiker took a dark turn last week when the viral hero was unexpectedly arrested on murder charges. Since then, a small handful of online campaigns have tried to drum up support for the man who famously referred to himself as "homefree" — not homeless — and set him back on his untethered way. Kai, less frequently known by his given name of Caleb McGillvary, was arrested at a Philadelphia bus terminal last Thursday. He is charged with killing a 73-year-old lawyer named Joseph Galfy, Jr., in Galfy's home in Clark, N.J. Police found Galfy's body in his house last Monday after he and McGillvary met in New York City. The cause of death was determined as blunt force trauma. McGillvary skyrocketed to viral Internet fame in February after using a hatchet to save a utility worker and female bystander. McGillvary had hitched a ride through Fresno, Calif., with a man named Jett Simmons McBride, who referred to himself as Jesus. After pulling into a gas station, McBride allegedly ran his car into a African American Pacific Gas and Electric worker, pinning him to his truck. He then proceeded to get out of his car and beat the 37-year-old worker. At this point, McGillvary found a hatchet in the car and used it to save the worker. A local TV interview shot at the scene quickly became an online sensation. McGillvary found brief national fame, appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where the talk show host presented him with a new surfboard for his act of valor. Shortly thereafter, McGillvary began corresponding with a Georgia man named Terry Ratliff via Facebook and email, according to Ratliff. Ratliff, who made a YouTube remix of McGillvary's local TV interview, said they mostly talked about music and made plans to produce an original song. Ratliff said he was shocked to learn of the murder charge against McGillvary this month. It inspired him to start a GoFundMe campaign with the lofty goal of raising $3 million for McGillvary — the amount prosecutors set for bail upon his arrest. Ratliff realizes that number is likely a pipe dream, but said any money raised will go toward helping McGillvary's legal defense. "I've spoken to some lawyers that might be willing to help, or might take his case pro bono," Ratliff told Mashable. "A public defender would be the worst thing for him, someone with 50 or 100 clients and no time to really work on his case." So far, Ratliff's GoFundMe campaign has raised just over $1,200 online in a week. Similar efforts by others have met similarly meager success. Much of the sympathy for McGillvary stems from a Facebook post he wrote a day after Galfy's alleged murder, but before the story became national news. In the post, which includes graphic language but little detail, McGillvary intimates that he'd been drugged and sexually assaulted. It finishes with a question: "What would you do?" In interviews following his initial rise to fame, McGillvary said that he'd been abused as a kid as well. “You look in his eyes,” Miller, who started the Change.org petition, told NJ.com, “and you can see he’s a good kid.” For all his support, meanwhile, Ratliff acknowledges that he doesn't truly know McGillvary, with whom he'd corresponded extensively before the arrest but never met in person. "Personally, he always seemed alright to me," Ratliff told Mashable. "He seemed like a happy person who wasn't angry at anything. He seemed like a cool guy but, I mean, you never really know what anyone is capable of." What's Hot More in World What's New What's Rising What's Hot Mashable is a leading global media company that informs, inspires and entertains the digital generation. Mashable is redefining storytelling by documenting and shaping the digital revolution in a new voice, new formats and cutting-edge technologies to a uniquely dedicated audience of 42 million monthly unique visitors and 24 million social followers.

Take a trip back in time to when Tallinn was a wealthy city in the Hanseatic league - one which has miraculously preserved its medieval aura right up to the present day! We take you on a stroll along the winding cobblestone streets of the Old Town, recounting legends and stories of medieval life, stopping off for food-tasting along the way – marzipan in the oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe; starters at the medieval eatery The Third Dragon; a feast at the Waggehus restaurant; and dessert at the medieval restaurant Olde Hansa, in the setting of an historical rich merchant's home.

Oh god farking dammit. This new line of proposed Bruce Crow laws in the south aren't enough, right-wing shiatheads here are trying to further influence an already unhinged country into going full-on Nazi in regard to gays? You know who else made it a crime to not report gay people? THE NAZIS. THAT'S NOT EVEN THE JOKE. That dude sounds almost resonable. If scientists tells him that being gay isn't a lifestyle choice, then he won't sign the law. Obviously his own scientists have told him it is a choice, but he seems inclined not to believe that, probably due to diplomatic preasure. Its like he he's going "hold on, all this stuff you told me was bullshiat, people are born like that?". To a lot of homophobic people, the choice part doesn't matter. I mean, it's not like Hitler killed the gays because he thought they were like that just to piss him off. spawn73:That dude sounds almost resonable. If scientists tells him that being gay isn't a lifestyle choice, then he won't sign the law. Obviously his own scientists have told him it is a choice, but he seems inclined not to believe that, probably due to diplomatic preasure. Its like he he's going "hold on, all this stuff you told me was bullshiat, people are born like that?". To a lot of homophobic people, the choice part doesn't matter. I mean, it's not like Hitler killed the gays because he thought they were like that just to piss him off. I think it's more a thing of:He's scared of US cutting their foreign aid and he's looking for an out. Satanic_Hamster:spawn73: That dude sounds almost resonable. If scientists tells him that being gay isn't a lifestyle choice, then he won't sign the law. Obviously his own scientists have told him it is a choice, but he seems inclined not to believe that, probably due to diplomatic preasure. Its like he he's going "hold on, all this stuff you told me was bullshiat, people are born like that?". To a lot of homophobic people, the choice part doesn't matter. I mean, it's not like Hitler killed the gays because he thought they were like that just to piss him off. I think it's more a thing of:He's scared of US cutting their foreign aid and he's looking for an out. Bloody William:The law would also make it a crime not to report gay people. Oh god farking dammit. This new line of proposed Bruce Crow laws in the south aren't enough, right-wing shiatheads here are trying to further influence an already unhinged country into going full-on Nazi in regard to gays? You know who else made it a crime to not report gay people? THE NAZIS. THAT'S NOT EVEN THE JOKE. Well the thing is everyone in a country like that should be scared of laws like that, even the homophobes. It seems unlikely Uganda's court system is infallible, so if someone doesn't like them and decides to report them as gay, are they so sure they could prove they aren't to a jury probably full of people like themselves? Alphax:markfara: Alphax: FirstNationalBastard: Will they eat da poopoo for lunch? I'm sure it was American conservatives who told that guy to say that. Yes. They had an awesomely advanced civilization until the conservatives got involved. Or something. /Not the least bit conservative.//But, you know, come on, here. . . . I've heard the American conservatives were telling the same stories about gay people in the 1950's. So, yeah, pack up the old 'textbooks' and mail them overseas.. and they say the same shiat again. No argument here. My point is that the conservatives didn't jump into some advanced, well-developed culture and make it all anti-gay. They're exploiting a market-niche, absolutely, but they didn't create it. And it would most likely still exist if they hadn't gotten involved. Ever notice how when the Fark Islamophobes are comparing Muslims to Christians, the Christians they use as examples of comparison are not these third world Christians, whose economic and educational circumstances are actually similar to those of most Muslims? Always nice, safe, tame Christians from America?That's because it would be a valid comparison, and Christians wouldn't come out looking any better.

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For an amazing selection of original sculptures, statues, prints and DVDs be sure to check out ShiflettBrothers.com. On September 6, 2011, Fabulous Films, with distribution from Shout! Factory, will unleash AIRWOLF: The Movie on DVD for the first time in the U.S. and Canada. Written and directed by Donald P. Bellisario and starring Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine and Alex Cord, AIRWOLF: The Movie boasts full-throttle action, daring high-speed aerial stunts and captivating storylines mixed with international espionage and intrigue. A futuristic high action adventure about a billion dollar helicopter (named Airwolf) equipped with a twin-turbine drum rotor system capable of propelling it to 300 knots, plus 14 firepower options. When the helicopter is purloined by Libyan mercenaries, project director of the CIA (Alex Cord) enlists the help of Vietnam veteran Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) and his father’s best friend Dominic Santini (Ernest Borgnine) in an attempt to recover it. The deadly mission takes them to the Middle East where they must battle the enemy to repossess the deadliest aerial weapon ever made.

Manny Pacquiao Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Getty Manny Pacquiao was considered a savior by two groups of people this year: Filipinos and boxing aficionados. For his countrymen, the diminutive (5 ft. 6 in. and change) pugilist once again proved that their archipelago could produce more than tales of violence, poverty and natural disaster — that there was some undefined quality that could produce a fighter of such speed, resiliency and charisma as to be a living legend. For boxing fans, Pacquiao defied physics, rising through six weight classes to win seven world titles — and galvanizing the sport like no other boxer in years. His two bouts this year were among the most dramatic in the sport: his second-round knockout of Ricky Hatton and his terrifying demolition of the rock-solid Miguel Cotto over 11 rounds. His visceral charm — or his bloody attraction — will continue into next year with his expected multimillion-dollar, hugely lucrative matchup against Floyd Mayweather Jr., the only fighter remaining who can claim to be his equal.

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5 things to do today to keep your data private However, it’s hard not to be aware of the constant threats that hammer on our digital doors. The joy of the Internet is that we’re all connected to each other, making it easy to share information and commerce. But there’s also a dark side: Just as in the “real” world, the Net is full of evildoers who want to take advantage of the less-than-vigilant among us. Don’t be one of them. On Data Privacy Day, take some time to secure your virtual borders. Here are five things you can do right now that will give you peace of mind and make it little harder for the jerks who want to steal your data, your identity and your cash. • Change your passwords – This is the first thing you should do, and it’s the most effective – so long as your passwords are strong and effective. Change the passwords on all the accounts associated with your personal information, and make each one different. A strong password has a mix of letters, numbers and symbols, and ideally it should be a pass phrase, rather than a single word. If you’re having a hard time coming up with a tough password, there are sites that will make them for you. Try the PC Tools Password Generator – it’s owned by Symantec, so it’s trustworthy – which helps you build a strong, hard-to-crack password. • Adjust your social media privacy settings – Social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn all let you control what information you reveal and to whom. Facebook in particular has fairly powerful privacy settings, but most people don’t change them, either out of inertia or because they’re too intimidating. You can find Facebook’s privacy controls here. Pay particular attention to who can see the items you post – the default is Public, which means everyone can see them – and “Limit the audience for posts you’ve shared with friends of friends or Public”. The latter is confusing, but basically Facebook has reset old posts so only your Friends can see them, even if you originally set them to Public or Friends of Friends. You can also use Facebook’s activity log to review all your items, change individual settings and even delete some you now wish you hadn’t posted. • Get your credit report – Did you know you have the right to get a free copy of your credit report once a year? The three national credit reporting companies – Equifax, Experian and TransUnion – are required to give them to you as part of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. By examining your report, you may be able to catch attempts at identify theft, or even unauthorized credit accounts that have been opened in your name. Fortunately, you don’t have to go through the hassle of contacting each one of the reporting agencies individually. The three have cooperated to streamline the process. AnnualCreditReport.com lets you request reports from all of them. If you’re old-school, you can call 1-877-322-8228. You can find more information at this Federal Trade Commission website. • Update your antivirus software – Time and again, when I hear from people whose PCs are infected with malware, it’s because they let their security software subscription lapse. Paid products like Norton and McAfee do continue to run on your PC even if you don’t pay the annual subscription fee, but they lose their ability to protect against any new threats. And since new viruses, Trojans and spyware are being developed all the time, not keeping your security software up to date instantly puts you at risk. • Update your software – Cyberscum often rely on flaws in software to put spyware and other evil code on your computer. One of the best ways to prevent this is to make sure you operating system and the apps that run on it are up to date. Both Windows and Mac OS X update automatically by default, though users can override that. A word of advice: Don’t. Many of those updates have security fixes and not installing them puts you at risk. Because operating system updates run automatically, the bad guys are turning to flaws in the software that runs on the OSes. You may recall the serious flaw in Java that had even the Department of Homeland Security urging swift action. Because of this, it’s just as important to keep your applications updated. Today, launch each one of the apps you use most often and have it check for updates. Some applications – particularly common plug-ins for browsers, such as Flash – check automatically. When you see a popup from an application that wants to update, don’t delay – let it run ASAP. The data you save may be your own.

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Per AppleInsider, Apple on Tuesday introduced AppleCare+ for iPhone, a new extended warranty service that combines traditional tech support, software support, and hardware support with the addition of the company’s first accidental damage plan. Like the traditional $US69 version of AppleCare for iPhone that it replaces, the new US$99 AppleCare+ for iPhone extends an iPhone’s repair coverage and technical support to two years from the original purchase date but also adds coverage for up to two incidents of accidental damage due to an owner’s poor handling of the device. Each accidental damage incident is subject to a US$49 service fee and is available only for the iPhone and its original included accessories. In turn, Apple promises that the replacement equipment it provides to customers taking advantage of the “may be new or equivalent to new in both performance and reliability” (meaning either a new iPhone or a certified refurbished one). AppleCare+ also bundles standard AppleCare features, such as software troubleshooting and telephone-based technical support, while also offering customers with repair needs the option for mail-in or carry-in repairs, and an express replacement service. iPhones that exhibit defects in materials, workmanship or see their battery charge fall by 50 percent or more from original specification, remain eligible for a replacement from Apple at no cost under the new plan. Apple also notes that customers must purchased AppleCare+ together with their new iPhone, with the safest bet being to have both items appear on the same receipt (fine print). For Apple, the new service marks the first time that company has offered accidental coverage for drops, spills, and other incidents caused by the owner. Previously, iPhone customers seeking full coverage of their device were left to seek out pricey third-party alternatives that sell for the same price or more. Replacement costs for an out-of-contract iPhone can cost hundreds to replace new or US$200 previously though Apple’s Out-of-Warranty Service. Yes. You can purchase a replacement iPhone from the Apple Online Store, an Apple Retail Store, or your carrier’s store. Your price will depend on whether you qualify for a carrier subsidy. You can also purchase an unlocked iPhone from the Apple Online Store or Apple Retail Store and obtain a micro-SIM card directly from your supported GSM carrier. When I buy from the Apple Online Store, does my iPhone come ready to use? Yes, if you have selected a mobile phone carrier. When your iPhone arrives, all you have to do is turn it on and follow the onscreen instructions to set it up. There’s no need to call the carrier or visit a store to complete the activation. If you have selected an unlocked GSM phone, you will need to acquire a micro-SIM from the supported GSM carrier of your choice and activate it in order to use your iPhone.” Information in a footnote on both that page and the iPhone 4S tech specs page further suggests the iPhone 4S will be available unlocked: For those who are not qualified customers, are not eligible for an early upgrade, are purchasing an unlocked iPhone (for supported GSM wireless service provider networks only), or wish to buy an iPhone as a gift, see your carrier, an Apple Retail Store Specialist, the Apple Online Store, or an Apple Authorized Reseller for pricing. No official pricing info for unlocked iPhone 4S models is available yet, though the 8 GB iPhone 4, available for US$99 with a 2-year contract, costs $549 without a contract. Extrapolating from the iPhone 4’s pricing suggests the following pricing scheme for unlocked models: – A “Siri” feature will allow you to give spoken commands (such as “What will the weather be like today?” to the device). – Siri will allow you to reply to texts while the device is in a pocket and will allow for a reply text with a Bluetooth headset. – Siri’s interface is both onscreen as well as audio, the feature being hardware-dependent and running on the iPhone 4S only. – Siri will apparently read a text message to you and ask you questions as to how you’d like to reply. – Siri can do dictations for emails too, the app placing a microphone next to the space bar in the keyboard. The app will start as a beta in the U.S., U.K., Australia, French and German with more languages and services coming. – The iPhone 4S apparently features an identical screen size to the current iPhone 4. – And now, your long-awaited pricing and capacities for the iPhone 4S: 16GB for US$199, 32GB for US$299 and 64 GB for US$399. – The iPhone 3G can now be purchased new for US$49. – Sprint has now been added to the list of iPhone wireless carriers along with AT&T and Verizon. – Pre-orders for the iPhone 4S begin Friday, October 7th. – The iPhone 4S will be released on Friday, October 14th. – The iPhone 4S will be available in 22 additional countries on October 28th and reach 70 countries by the end of 2011. Per iPhone-Ticker.de, Apple’s iPhone 4S has recently appeared in the inventory list for Vodafone’s German division. The device was spotted in listings for various iPhone accessories on the mobile carrier’s website. The listing includes both white and black models of the iPhone 4S in 16, 32, and 64 GB capacities. These sizes and colors match perfectly with one expectation for the next generation iPhone model. Fortunately, we only have to wait about 24 hours to find out whether Apple is releasing either the iPhone 4S, the iPhone 5 or both. With all of one day to go prior to its much-anticipated iPhone media announcement, an iTunes beta is telling more than it should about Apple’s forthcoming product line. Per AppleInsider, references to the much-used “iPhone 4S” moniker could be found in the Info.plist file of the MobileDevices bundle that was included with the ninth beta of iTune 10.5 released on Friday. The discovery can be seen as further evidence that Apple is gearing up to introduce iPhones next Tuesday, Oct. 4th that bundle an 8MP camera, 512MB of RAM, support for HSPA+ and the iPad 2’s A5 processor and dual graphics, but do so in a the current CMDA iPhone 4 design. However, the new iPhone 4S is expected to be a dual-mode phone, meaning the same iPhone 4S can be used on either CDMA or GSM networks. Currently, Apple markets separate iPhone 4 models for CDMA and GSM networks. Talk of Apple taking a dual-route strategy this year by releasing both an iPhone 4S and a more advanced iPhone 5 began to cool off this week, with leaked parts and casings all pointing to a product dubbed iPhone 4S. In addition, insider Ming-Chi Kuo reported that his industry checks turned up no sign of a redesigned iPhone 5 in the pipeline. Instead, he stated that Apple was manufacturing a model that looks largely the same as the current iPhone 4, only with an improved antenna design. Dubbed “N94,” the new iPhone model will reportedly also use the same Gorilla glass for its back panel. Kuo also said it will be available in both black and white models at launch, and 60 percent of units assembled so far have been of the black variety. Echoing a report from earlier this month, he also said that Foxconn will be responsible for manufacturing 85 percent of Apple’s fifth-generation iPhone units. The other 15 percent will reportedly be assembled by Pegatron. Each will run iOS 5, which is rumored to bundle new voice recognition technology in the form of a new application dubbed Assistant, which will allow users to speak to their iPhone and accomplish a number of tasks through natural language, like sending text messages, looking up information, or scheduling an appointment. The functionality is believed to stem from Siri, a “personal assistant” application for the iPhone that Apple purchased in April of 2010. Per MacRumors, a picture showing iPhone 5 cases entered into the carrier’s inventory system, more evidence has emerged that AT&T has begun stocking third-party iPhone 5 cases days before Apple is expected to unveil its next handset. An alleged store employee at an AT&T retail store sent to MacRumors photos of newly arrived silicone sleeves for the as-yet-unannounced “iPhone 5.” The product appears to be a low-end generic case, as it carries no distinguishable brand, is simply labeled “cell phone accessory” and comes in oversized packaging. The sleeve features a tapered design with the mute switch on the right side of the device, resembling purported iPhone 5 cases that have proliferated in China for months. However, the publication took care to note that the cases run against the “growing feeling that Apple may not be releasing such a device” because of recent evidence suggesting that Apple’s design for its next iPhone may be “nearly identical to the iPhone 4.” Earlier on Thursday, a leaked photo allegedly of AT&T’s inventory system surfaced, showing entries for iPhone 5 hard case, soft case and skin products from Case-Mate. The case maker had previously posted its case designs on its website, but took them down shortly after they went up. Anticipation for the next-generation iPhone reached a fever pitch after Apple sent out invitations to an event next Tuesday, Oct. 4, with the tagline “Let’s talk iPhone.” The tagline has prompted renewed speculation that Apple will include voice recognition features on its fifth-generation smartphone. The next iPhone is widely believed to feature the A5 processor found in the iPad 2 and an 8-megapixel camera. There has been some disagreement, however, about whether Apple will introduce a redesigned iPhone 4 in addition to a new model. It had been suggested that Apple was looking to release a cheaper iPhone 4S alongside the iPhone 5, but recent reports have poured cold water on the rumor. A series of purporting to be the structural case design for a revamped, cheaper new iPhone 4 indicate changes in its antenna design. The images, published by MacRumors and iPatchiPods, appear to show a unibody frame without case seams on the top or either side of the top of the phone. Existing GSM iPhone 4 models sold by AT&T and other global carriers have a single seam on the top, while the Verizon CDMA model has two seams on either side of the top end. The seams separate the external edge of the iPhone 4 into antenna segments; the GSM model has two antennas (one for mobile use and one for WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS, as shown below) while the CDMA model has three (dual mobile antennas required in the CDMA specification and a WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS segment). The modified case also incorporates a SIM card, something that only the existing GSM version of the current iPhone 4 has or needs. It’s not yet known whether the anticipated new cheaper iPhone 4 (sometimes referred to as the “iPhone 4S”) will be dual band, allowing it to work on both major mobile network types. It is expected that the separate iPhone 5 model, bearing an original new design, will support both networks. The primary feature of the new iPhone 4 phone design is expected to be its reduced cost, achieved through the use of streamlined components and a smaller 8GB of storage capacity. A similarly purported “iPhone 5” prototype case design appeared in January, similarly lacking seams on the top two sides, instead bearing a single seam on the top. The report also portrays a bottom frame segment that appears to lack a defined Home button, suggesting that Apple may change the appearance and design of the Home button on the phones it releases later this fall. Interestingly enough, it’s the upcoming cases that tend to provide the most interesting tidbits. Per UK web site MobileFun.co.uk, a leaked schematic claimed to be for a case for Apple’s anticipated fifth-generation iPhone shows a larger area for the home button, a slightly larger screen, and the return of curved sides like on the iPhone 3GS. The documents allegedly come from a Chinese case manufacturer and show a design with curved sides, similar to iPhone models released before the current iPhone 4. On the front, the case appears to have a larger, oval-shaped opening for where the device’s home button would go. That could lend support to rumors from earlier this year that Apple’s next-iPhone would feature a multi-touch “gesture area” in place of the current home button. That same report also predicted that Apple’s next iPhone would have a slightly larger 3.7-inch edge-to-edge screen. The images that claim to show a so-called “iPhone 5” case also suggest that the device may have a larger screen. The photos show the handset’s volume buttons and SIM card slot in the same place, but also show placement of the vibrate switch on the opposite side. The case also suggests the device will feature an unmoved LED camera flash, which would contradict purported fifth-generation iPhone parts (1, 2), which leaked in May and suggested the camera lens and flash would be moved further apart to improve picture quality. Separating the camera flash and lens can reduce the red-eye effect seen in photographs. The alleged schematic would contradict other rumors that the next iPhone will have a design largely similar to the current iPhone 4, with one of the biggest changes being a new, higher-resolution 8-megapixel camera and the addition of the A5 processor. Some reports have characterized the device as an “iPhone 4S,” in references to the alleged minor changes. Though the next iPhone will arrive later than usual this year, reports from Apple’s supply chain have been picking up, indicating that the company is preparing to begin mass production of the next-generation device. Last week, during the company’s quarterly earnings conference call, Apple executives revealed that an unnamed major product transition is in the cards to take place by the end of September. Stay tuned for additional details as they become available and let us know what’s on your mind in the comments. The time to the iPhone 5’s release is apparently now two months and counting. Per Digitimes, Apple is rumored to have ordered 15 million iPhone 5 units from Taiwanese notebook manufacturer Pegatron Technology has received orders for 15 million units from Apple. The company has declined to comment on the report. Pegatron produced somewhere in the region of four million iPhone 4s for Apple in the first quarter of 2011, though due to a slump in iPhone 4 sales this figure was well down on the 10 million it had prepared to manufacture. The shipping date won’t come as a surprise to industry-watchers: Apple traditionally holds a music-themed event in September and rumours that the next-generation iPhone would be announced then strengthened after no new iPhone was revealed during June’s Worldwide Developer Conference. However, the reports do seem to contradict earlier information from Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty that suggested iPhone 5 production would not begin until mid- to late August. Digitimes reports that the iPhone 5 “does not seem to have any major update from iPhone 4” and refers to it as the iPhone 4S at one stage in the article. Meanwhile, the same outlet reports that production of touch sensors for the iPad 2 has reached five million a month.

As I entered my 15th year of teaching young children and supporting adult learners, I found myself searching for answers. Answers to why CLASS implementation was so difficult, why teacher buy-in was such a challenge, and why long-term improvement seemed impossible. In my role as the Director of Curriculum and Instruction, I’m constantly checking the data. Data drives instruction, instruction drives learning, learning drives comprehension, and comprehension equals success! It’s been a great year. You have just conducted some professional development trainings for the group of teachers you are coaching. You got the opportunity to visit their classrooms and see them in action, do formal and informal CLASS observations, and had countless coaching conversations. You see that it’s all beginning to click. You have the teachers’ buy-in, and the motivation is high. Empowering and equipping coaches with the information and resources they need to mentor also empowers the teachers they're coaching. Check out these coaching resources that discuss how to provide feedback based on CLASS data, how to prepare teachers for a CLASS observation, and much more. I lived in rural Japan for three years. While there, I became very accustomed to ordering the same types of entrees at restaurants due to my limited ability to read menus and my unwillingness to eat foods outside my comfort zone. So imagine how overwhelmed I felt when I returned to the States and had to decide on one entree amid pages and pages and pages of delicious options. It took a few weeks to learn how to navigate my way through these endless options without wanting to close my eyes and blindly point while ordering my meals. As a CLASS Group Coaching (MMCI) instructor, the sections of any given two-hour session may feel, at times, very goal driven. These sections titled "Know," "See," and "Do” are interconnected. In particular, it is possible to consider "Do" within "Know," and "See." When an instructor supports in-the-moment experiences that connect new knowledge to current practice, they make the CLASS dimensions more relevant to the educators' daily work. But how can we infuse more “Do” into “Know” and “See?” First, let's re-cap what happens in each section. "I’ve just begun my journey into the world of coaching. I am eager and excited about this opportunity to help pave the way for more effective teaching. I’ve recently been given my list of classrooms that I will be working with and I’m anxious to get started. I get ready to meet my first teacher, Ms. Linda, and I just know that she will be excited to meet me and we will form an instant bond and work together for the benefit of the children in that classroom. Being an instructional coach or mentor is difficult. Sometimes it may feel like you don't have any support—especially when it comes to providing effective feedback to the teachers you work with. Have you, as a coach, ever asked yourself any of the following questions? CLASS Specialists are always thinking about the complexity of the CLASS tool as we prepare for our trainings. As a trained CLASS observer, I am comfortable observing and recognizing quality interactions that fit in the tool. But I needed a strategy to convey this information to those who may not be as familiar with the tool. As it turns out, using an analogy is a perfect way to make the complex relatable, less overwhelming, and more familiar to our participants.

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8/22/2008 @ 1:30PM Palm Oil Pal Stockbroker Peter Lim knows that most investment tips are suspect–unless they come from a man whose last name is Kuok. In 1991 stockbroker Peter Lim invested $10 million in a palm oil startup. At the time he didn’t know much about the commodity. “If you gave me a coconut and a palm oil nut, I wouldn’t have been able to differentiate between the two,” he recalls. But he knew a lot about the guy who was starting the company. Kuok Khoon Hong used to be a stockbroking client and had since become his friend. “From the moment I first spoke to him, I thought: ‘This man is really very clever. I’d better follow him because he can make a lot of money for me,’” Lim says. Kuok is also the nephew of Malaysian businessman Robert Kuok, who by then was already one of Asia’s most highly regarded billionaires, nicknamed Sugar King for a series of coups in the commodities markets in the 1960s. Before striking out on his own, the younger Kuok had worked for his uncle. Thanks to his bet on Kuok, Lim, 55, is a billionaire, worth $1.1 billion and ranked No. 7 among Singapore’s 40 Richest. Plus he is still an investor in one of Singapore’s hottest stocks: the tiny palm oil outfit has become $18 billion (market cap) Wilmar International, one of Asia’s largest agribusinesses. It has been on fire lately thanks to rising palm oil prices and its high-profile merger with Robert Kuok’s palm plantation, edible oils and grain groups. The stock has more than tripled since its debut on the Singapore exchange in August 2006. Lim isn’t the only one to get rich off Wilmar. The younger Kuok (Wilmar’s CEO) is worth $1.3 billion, ranked 5 in Singapore’s top 40. His cofounder, Indonesian Martua Sitorus, is worth $1.9 billion. Kuok’s uncle added $2.4 billion to his net worth in the past year, thanks largely to Wilmar. But Lim is the luckiest. “Throughout [its] initial stage I never knew what was happening. Everyday I would ask Mr. Kuok what was happening,” recalls Lim, “and he would say, ‘Don’t worry.’” Now he’s happy–and living the high life. He has “many cars,” including Ferraris, Porsches and Lamborghinis, which he parks in the basement of an 11-story condominium block he owns not far from Orchard Road. He lives there with his second wife–an actress–his mother and two teenage children. Other luxuries include a yacht and private jet. Lim believes that his fortune is due to destiny. “It’s not possible for someone to go make a billion dollars–it’s when things just fall into place,” he says. “So I think it’s fate.” The son of a fishmonger, Lim has come a long way from the small flat he shared with his parents, seven siblings and an uncle. His hard childhood motivated him. He went to the top schools in Singapore and studied accounting and finance at the University of Western Australia in Perth, where he held several part-time jobs as a waiter and taxi driver to pay for his tuition. After graduating, Lim worked briefly as an accountant before starting out as a stockbroker. He eventually became known as the Remisier (Singapore term for stockbroker) King, servicing wealthy Indonesians and Singaporeans in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But it was Kuok who returned the service and by 1996 Lim stopped handling other people’s money to become a full-time investor and to take care of personal matters. (He was going through a divorce that dragged on until 2001.) Today he has 20 people, including former bankers and a nuclear physicist, tracking his investments and giving him daily stock updates. While his nearly 5% stake in Wilmar is his most valuable, worth almost $900 million, he also has stakes in fashion retailer FJ Benjamin, investment firm Rowsley Ltd. and brewery restaurant Brewerkz. It will be difficult to match his Wilmar success. He’s hunting for new investments, hoping to take advantage of the current downturn. He likes health care, mining and renewable energy, but what he really wants is another Kuok. “At the end of the day the key component is the person,” he says. “You may target the right company, but if you’ve chosen the wrong person, you’ll get a headache.”

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Weather Forecast Somerset School District approves levy for 2016-17 school year A sparse audience composed primarily of Somerset School District administrators, staff and school board members, unanimously approved a proposed tax levy of $4,993,942 for the 2016-17 school year at the district’s annual meeting held Monday night. The proposed levy translates into a projected mill rate of $9.88 per $1,000 of property value. Board Vice President Marie Colbeth and District Director of Business Services & Operations Dave Gerberding led a briskly paced budget hearing immediately preceding the annual meeting. The total school levy comprised of the General Fund, Referendum Debt Service Fund, Non-Referendum Debt Service Fund, Capital Expansion Fund, and Community Service Fund totaling $7,199,688 represents a 3.14 percent increase over the same levy for the 2015-16 school year. Total projected budget revenues for 2016-17 of 16,903,365 less total projected expenditures of $16,948,763 will result in a deficit for the 2016-17 school year of $45,398. In addition to the budget, audience members got a brief look at district enrollment numbers, the 2016-21 Strategic Plan, an update on state testing results (indefinitely embargoed), money saving projects proposed for 2016-17 and the new school year calendar. For questions regarding the proposed budget, contact your local school board member or District Director of Business Services & Operations, Dave Gerberding, at 715-247-4848.

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I have a few theories of how I’m going to die: slowly, painfully, of cancer. Struck down in a traffic accident [as anyone who has ever seen me cross a road will agree with 100%]. A mugging gone wrong. [Trigger happy people abound]. But this is the year 2019, Syria and Iraq are still smouldering, the horrors of war are still emerging, and here, in Pakistan, one is now apparently waiting for war. To be struck down. For trigger-happy men to make decisions about the lives of millions of people. We do not have the right to choose our own deaths, to even plan for a future. Even that right has been stripped away. Every 2, 5, 10 years, I am reminded that choosing a future is a luxury. It is not a right. That the future is reduced to merely waiting, waiting for the big flash in the sky, for death.

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I listened to a fascinating program last night about Julian Rotter who is an eminent Clinical Psychologist. He wrote and studied a great deal about what he termed ‘The Locus of Control’ and posited that it was either Internal or External. An Internal Locus of Control means you are taking responsibility for the fact that you have an influence over everything in your life, and External Locus of Control means that things happen to you which you can’t control. In NLP we call this the ‘Cause and Effect’ equation. The problem with being at the Effect side is that you are not in control of things, you become a victim to life. Now I realise that shit happens! Of course I do… bad things have happened to me too – here’s an example: My Business Was Insolvent 3 Years Ago. ‘Effect’ thinking says: When I bought the business I was conned and paid too much When the person I bought off left they told me nothing about how to run a business There is a recession on I can’t find the staff nowadays ‘Cause’ thinking says: When I bought the business I didn’t do enough research, so next time I am going to ensure that I research all investments thoroughly When I bought the business I didn’t ask the right questions, so next time I will ensure that I am curious and I’ll seek the advice of professionals People are not prepared to spend money, so what can I do to change my ‘offering’ and my marketing to be relevant for the times The right people for my business are out there, so how can I communicate better so that I find them (FYI – this business is now back doing exceptionally well!) Being at ‘Cause’ does not mean that you blame yourself for things, it means you accept that you have had an effect, no matter how tiny, on everything that happens. This is a VERY empowering thing to think and believe. “What am I learning NOW about how I might do things BETTER and differently in the future?” Listen to the program on BBC iPlayer, it’ll open your eyes to the power of controlling your mind and why we all need to think differently. The only thing the program doesn’t talk about is how to change… and that’s where NLP comes in! Happy Listening,,,, Comments Coaching Academy… Coming soon A new Coaching Academy is coming soon, with subscriptions as low as £25 per month it'll be the perfect way to access ongoing business coaching. Enter your details below to receive VIP early access. [expected live January 2020]

God Bless The Mother That Has Lost A Child Viewed: 3170 Posted by: Steve Hardwick Date: May 14 2017 1:39 PM GOD BLESS THE MOTHER God Bless The Mother who has lost part of herself now..Her child is gone..and yet she knows she must go on somehow.She will never be who she was onceBefore her child was taken and some days she can’t help but feel that her heart has been forsaken. They say that you give the hardest tasks to those who are strongBut her task is so painful, Lord..it’s one that lasts lifelong.Please help her rise each time she falls, give courage for her fears.Have Angels hover over near to dry her endless tears. Keep her close, within your arms each moment they are apart.Please give her comfort while she grieves...God soothe her aching heart.In God’s name we pray, Amen

Welcome to Miro St Constantin Hotel Facilities A lobby and a reception are available to guests. The upper floors are easily accessible using the lift. Amenities include a baggage storage service, a safe and currency exchange facilities. Internet access and wireless internet access are available in the public areas. Gastronomic options include a restaurant and a bar. Guests can visit the supermarket to purchase daily necessities. Shopping facilities are available. The grounds of the holiday complex feature a playground and an attractive garden. A TV room is also among the amenities at the apartment complex. Guests arriving in their own vehicles can park in the car park. Additional services include a babysitting service, a childcare service, car hire, room service, a wake-up service and a laundry. Rooms Special family rooms are available for families with children. All rooms feature air conditioning and a bathroom. A balcony or terrace can be found in most rooms, offering additional comfort. Each accommodation unit features separate bedrooms, a double bed or a sofa-bed. A safe is also available. The kitchenettes of the accommodation units are appointed with a fridge and tea and coffee making equipment. Internet access, a telephone, a TV and wireless internet access are provided as standard. Guests will also find slippers provided. In each of the bathrooms, guests will find a shower, a bathtub, a hairdryer and bathrobes. Sports/Entertainment A refreshing dip in the indoor or outdoor pool can be pleasantly cooling on hot days. A terrace, sun loungers and parasols are available. There is also a poolside snack bar. Those wishing to enjoy sports whilst on holiday can have fun on-site with golf. The apartment complex also offers sports enthusiasts a wide range of indoor facilities and activities, including a gym, table tennis, pool/billiards and darts. Additional leisure options available to guests include an entertainment programme, a disco and a nightclub. Meals The apartment complex offers a wide range of bookable meals and board options, including breakfast, lunch, dinner and All-inclusive. In addition, picnics and snacks are available. The show cooking is a particular attraction. Alcohol-free drinks and alcoholic drinks are served at the establishment. Payment The apartment complex accepts payment by VISA.

CORCORAN, Calif. — A follower of Charles Manson has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle a cell phone inside a California prison where the mass murderer is housed. California Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton says 63-year-old Craig Carlisle Hammond was arrested Sunday for investigation of conspiracy, possession of an illegal communication device and attempting to bring a cell phone into a prison. Hammond was taken to jail and is scheduled to be in court next month.

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Content Marketing is a Long Game I just got back from having coffee with a client. We were talking about content, its importance, and the fact that you simply can’t game the system (by system I mean Google). We were also lamenting the fact that honest and effective SEO companies are not always the ones that “win the bid.” The client will not always want to hear what these SEO providers have to say. Instead what they want to hear is “we will get you 100s of leads overnight for next to nothing.” Sure, we all like to dream. We all like to get the best deal. But, remember, you get what you pay for. I’m not just talking about money here. I’m also talking about time. Because, time is money. Everything Google does is geared towards delivering the best search results to its users. Think about that. What is a good search result in your industry? What are your clients looking for? I’ve gotten into debates in the past with less than stellar SEO companies about their efforts to game the system. For example, one company wanted to create a series of pages for every location the client served… each having the same content! I warned them that Google was warning against this. Their answer… “well, it works great right now.” I think you can see where this is headed. Content marketing, “a marketing technique of creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and acquire a clearly defined audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action,” is another piece of this strategy. It’s a long game. What does this mean? It means that marketing with content (good utility content) will not convert right away. You can’t expect to write a blog post, like this one, and get a sale from it tomorrow. You might, and it doesn’t hurt to ask, but it isn’t the point. The point of content marketing is build trust in your brand. You’re working to become THE resource in your industry. The go-to. To do this, you need to consistently provide value, answer questions, and solve problems… expecting nothing in return. This might seem crazy to some. But, think about it this way. You could “sell, sell, sell” right out of the gates and maybe get a few leads. But, how many people have you turned off in the process? And how many people will refer you to their contacts based on this approach? Not many. Why would they? You haven’t given them anything. And that’s the way it works today. Jon-Mikel Bailey - Before co-founding Wood Street in 2002, Jon worked in sales, marketing and business development for technology and marketing firms. A popular speaker, he gives seminars on marketing, internet marketing, branding and web design to chambers of commerce, trade associations and colleges. He has a BFA in Photography from Frostburg State University and still shoots photos for Wood Street clients. For almost 60 years our company has been manufacturing reliable construction equipment. The trust in the EDCO brand comes from decades of superior face-to-face customer service and training. To grow, we needed to expose more people to our high-quality service. Obviously, an upgraded Internet presence was the best way to reach new audiences. We had lots of online training ideas, but our outdated website prevented us from realizing them. We brought big ideas to Wood St who created an entirely new website based on... Read More

Remove JPanel Components Hi im triying to remove all the components ina JPanle and replace it with new ones. The JPanel is running on an applet, every time I remove all components the apllet just crashes. I also tryed revalidate and repaint and the applet still dies. here is the last code I tried: Well, generally you want to call "validate()", not "revalidate()", on a container whose contents you've changed while it's visible. Without seeing more of your code, that'd be the first thing I'd recommend. Haroldo Level Greenhorn Joined: Feb 17, 2005 Posts: 6 posted Feb 18, 2005 14:13:00 0 I tried validate also and it didn't work, here is the complete code... public class ChatRoom extends Applet implements ActionListener, KeyListener { public static final int chatPort=3737;

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Why Miley Cyrus *Isn’t* The Worst Role Model For Kids Miley Cyrus has just topped the list of worst celebrity role models for kids. And we totally don’t agree with the verdict. According to a new survey on Vouchercloud, the Wrecking Ball singer has been ranked to the top spot by British parents. Yahoo reports that the survey asked parents who had at least one child under the age 10 if there were any pop icons they would hate for their children to idolise. Both male and female celebrities were presented to them, and a whopping 78% placed Miley in first place. . Miley’s first place spot is probably owed to her seemingly wild child ways. Granted, she shocked a lot of people when she emerged with a rockin’ new look, having shed her Hannah Montana image. But when you dig a little deeper, Miley’s actually a pretty solid role model in our eyes. Her passion in these areas can’t be questioned, having founded the Happy Hippie Foundation – a nonprofit that works to help homeless and LGBT kids – and of course there was that spectacular time that she invited a homeless man onto the stage to accept an award on her behalf, giving him a platform to tell his story. 2. Miley promotes a positive body image In a world where most parents worry about the influences over their children’s view of their own body, Miley publically stands to promote a balanced and healthy view. She recently spoke out about the ‘body dysmorphia’ she experienced during her time as Hannah Montana. She also opened up to Marie Claire: ‘When you look at retouched, perfect photos, you feel like s**t’, she said. ‘They lighten black girls’ skin. They smooth out wrinkles. Even when I get stuck on Instagram wondering, “Why don’t I look like that?” It’s a total bummer. It’s crazy what people have decided we’re all supposed to be.’ We’re sure this is something that most of us – children or not – can relate to. 3. Miley champions the idea of accepting every sexuality Be true to yourself. It’s ok. Speaking with TIME, she revealed: ‘I hope more kids don’t do what I did and sit in their room and cry, thinking “I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be,'” she said. ‘But when I tell kids sometimes, “Just be yourself,” I feel like, “I hope you can do that. Can you really do that?'” Miley openly talks about her relationships with both men and women, and the struggles and insecurities she has experienced through each and every relationship. 4. Miley is a strong, independent woman The star preaches strength and independence: “It has a lot to do with being a feminist, but I’m finally O.K. with being alone. I think that’s something we have to talk about more: that you can be alone. “There are times in my life where I’ve had boyfriends or girlfriends. And there are times where I just love being with myself and don’t want to give part of myself away to someone else … I think that’s a new freedom for women, especially. I don’t know that my mother would have been able to be 22 and secure in being alone. But my future doesn’t rely on having a partner.”

Eight RIC Track Members Earn High Rankings in New England Five men and three women from Rhode Island College's track team earned high rankings in their respective events, ncluding freshman Joel Ikuejamofo (Providence RI), who is ranked No. 1 in New England in the 400 meter. He also ranked ninth in the 200m. Junior Craig Amado (Providence, RI) is ranked second in the triple jump, while senior Shawn Stadnick (Wakefield, RI) is No. 4 in the 800m. Senior Austin Pena (Warwick, RI) is No. 10 in the 600m. In addition, the men’s 4x400m relay is No. 2, while the 4x800m squad is No. 5. For the women, sophomore Daria Braboy (Providence, RI) is No. 2 in the 400m and No. 5 in the triple jump. Freshman Jaimee Dorsey (East Greenwich, RI) is ranked No. 1 in the 400m and No. 3 in the 60m dash. Freshman Autumn Wosencroft (Newport, RI) is No. 10 in the 200m. The 4x400m relay is No. 1, while the 4x200m is No. 5. Rhode Island College will compete at the Tufts Invitational on Feb. 1 and 2.

RISSC LONDON TWITTER: Premier League action on Tuesday night…04/12/2018 Shane Duffy was dismissed for violent conduct just twenty eight minutes into his club Brighton & Hove Albion’s three one victory over visitors Crystal Palace in the Premier League this Tuesday evening. Declan Rice was in his customary midfield position for West Ham United who defeated visitors Cardiff City and Harry Arter by three goals to one at the London Stadium. Injury ruled Greg Cunningham out of the visiting ‘Bluebirds’ side.

Pages 7/13/09 Obama And Duncan: Manipulators And Spinmeisters Jim Horn finds the evidence of what we all knew to be nonsense. How these people in power continue to cite nonsense, and then get called on it again and again, and then cite more nonsense, is beyond me. Maybe because I am not insane. (We all know the definition of insane, right? Doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.) Obama and Duncan lie, obfuscate, get called out, then lie and obfuscate some more. Maybe it's the public that is insane? Here is more nonsense debunked. Arne Duncan is not our savior, not even close... The Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago, a supporter of Duncan and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's push for more control of city schools, issued the report June 30. It says city schools have made little progress since 2003. Its key findings stand in stark contrast to assertions President Obama made in December when he nominated Duncan as Education secretary.

15 November 2016 Black French Doors: Before and After The french doors in our kitchen were definitely one of the selling points for us when buying our house. I love natural sunlight and the thought of pulling both of those doors wide open on a warm day and letting the sun stream into our kitchen with a view of our backyard was just so dreamy to me. Since moving in, we definitely get a ton of use out of these doors. They lead to our deck so during the summer they're usually wide open with the kids running in and out of the house. It's pretty common to see our storm doors covered in holiday themed decals or window marker drawings. Plus our pup spends a good amount of time watching the squirrels and bunnies hopping about our yard. (Don't worry, our old girl can't catch them.) We certainly get a ton of sunlight, especially in the morning. After two years of draping towels over the doors during breakfast to block the sun I finally invested in some window treatments. I searched for some time before deciding on these curtains from DaniDesignsCo on Etsy. I wanted something that wouldn't permanently block the light, that I could fully open during the days, but would provide privacy at night as well as when the sun was just a little too bright to sit at the table. These curtains are so easy to install (velcro!), within 20 minutes of opening the package they were on the doors. You can see from photos in her shop that the curtains fully extend down to cover the entire window, while keeping the doors themselves uncovered. I had been talking about repainting the doors since we moved in. The white side didn't look bad, but could use a fresh coat. What bothered me most on that side was the yellowed plastic dividers. At first I wanted to remove them completely (think Dana's kitchen doors). We would need to do some repair work and figure out a replacement trim for the edges. I honestly wasn't even thinking black doors to begin with, just wanted white and bright. One thing that we either didn't notice or didn't really care about at the time of house hunting was the condition of the OUTSIDE of the doors, which faces our deck. When we were looking at the house it was the middle of a snowy winter so we weren't thinking about how the outside of the doors would look when open in the kitchen. Well, here is how they look.... Yikes, right? Yellowed, cracking plastic and a very hastily done red paint job. Definitely not the fresh clean look I had been dreaming about. I've been giving dirty looks to this side of the doors since we moved in almost two and a half years ago. Now before you get excited about a dramatic before and after of the red doors, I have to admit I haven't tackled this side of the doors - yet! They are going to need a little more TLC before I can paint and since the weather has turned chilly we don't really see them as much. I wanted to tackle the inside first since that's the side we see all day long. But they will be done soon and you will definitely see after photos. A few weeks ago I stumbled up this photo on Pinterest, and immediately my mind was made up. Keeping the dividers and going black on the doors. I didn't so much ask Jordan for his opinion, but just warned him that he just may come home one day to black doors. He was down. I'm lucky that there isn't much he doesn't trust me with when it comes to the house, and our tastes and pretty similar for the most part. Once more time, here's an old picture from a previous kitchen post: So while the doors don't look bad on this side, I feel like they didn't do anything for the kitchen. A lot of the kitchen has changed since this photo, most noticeably the cabinet colors (more on that before and after in another post). What you don't notice at first from the before photos was just how bad the hinges were. We replaced the door handles and deadbolts on all doors as soon as we moved in for both aesthetic and safety purposes since the house was a rental property and we didn't know how many keys were floating around. We also bought new hinges but never got around to changing them. Once I started painting I was glad we had that hardware already on hand because leaving the paint covered old hinges was not going to work. Once of my biggest frustrations when moving into a house is when you being to discover all the little shortcuts previous homeowners took that you now need to fix. After a few days (let's face it projects take a bit longer when you have kids), we had fresh beautiful black french doors in our kitchen. :) :) :) :) :) Am I right? It's been about two weeks and each time I look at them I think how much I really love the change. Not only do they look nice, but they make the kitchen FEEL different. It's so important to me how a room FEELS because I'm spending so much time in our house as a work from home mom. If something doesn't feel cozy to me, it doesn't feel like home. Another before: And after: The new hinges look so much better, too, right? Purchasing a new kitchen table is going to be next on our list of things to tackle in the kitchen (and hopefully we will be doing so within a few months). This set is probably a decade old and we are slowly losing sturdy chairs and we've resorted to placemats to cover the condition of the top of the table. Since the table, floors, and top of our fauxdenza are all the same shade of wood, I am leaning towards a lighter, possibly gray toned wood. I love the look of this one from Target with a bench replacing the metal stools and some upholstered or metal white chairs on the other side. We also may hit up a local farmer's market and see what options they have. But until then, these pretty doors are a nice distraction from the old table, right? I just love them. Since taking the after photos, I put the curtains back on the doors. While I really love how they look without window treatments, the sun comes in so bright in the mornings that we can't even sit at the table to eat breakfast. I searched for a while looking for window treatments that I liked and these are honestly the only ones I came upon that fit what I wanted, so back they went. They don't look bad at all, although I'm considering swapping the grey and white stripes for a solid black pair to blend more into the door. No comments: Post a Comment Search ARCHIVE PLEASE NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, all pictures on this blog are mine and have been taken by me. All tutorials, unless otherwise noted, have been written by me. If you wish to use any of my photos or tutorials on your personal site, please credit and link back.

This is probably a simple one for all you Unix whiz' out there, but I can't figure it out, so I am trying to sftp into a windows server from the command line, and the remote refuses connection. When I run it in verbose mode, I can see that the system is trying to use one of my public keys (set up in my ssh config and used for another server that I ssh into) for authentication, when all I want is for it to ask me for a password, here is a sanitized version of the trace: When I try this on a windows machine with WinScp or Putty, things work just fine. But I need to get this working on my production server (Centos) where I can't install these or another utilities. PS: Im able to reproduce this problem on my mac as well, with the same result, but can't resolve it on either. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!

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American Kung Fu practitioner, Adam McArthur follows the head monk of the world famous Shaolin Temple and his disciples, the Warrior Monks, on a world tour. Adam's first stop is Moscow, Russia where the Warrior Monks perform in the Red Square. He also gets a chance to practice Kung Fu with Russian Shaolin disciples at The Shaolin Culture Center in Moscow. In the "mecca" of martial arts, The Shaolin Temple in Henan, China, Adam gets an exclusive interview with the head monk, Shi Yongxin. He learns the nature of Shaolin spirit and gains insights into Shaolin kung fu's future. He befriends the young Warrior Monks who teach him many distinctive forms of Shaolin Kung fu. Adams is also granted the rare privilege of learning Kung Fu from two of the highest teachers of Shaolin Kung Fu, Master Yan Zhuang and Master Yan Ao. The final stretch of the journey takes Adam to Harvard University in the United States then New York City for a performance at the United Nations and finally, Los Angeles, where over 1000 kung fu practitioners meet at the Shaolin Temple Cultural Festival.

Plenty of superlatives for Seahawks after workouts RENTON — School’s out, so to speak, for the Seattle Seahawks and the rest of the NFL. With the conclusion of last week’s three-day minicamp, the Seahawks wrapped up a month of offseason workouts that kicked off preparation for what they hope will be a successful Super Bowl title defense. Players will now scatter around the country and are on their own until training camp gets underway in five weeks. But before we turn our attention to other things for a month (do we ever really turn our attention from the NFL?), let’s look back at the past month of organized team activities and minicamps. Call it The Herald’s offseason superlatives. One disclaimer before we dive into this. I focused almost entirely on young, up-and-coming players for this column. You don’t need me telling you that Earl Thomas, one of the best defensive players in the NFL, looked good in minicamp. Nor is it worth worrying about the multiple interceptions Russell Wilson threw in the last couple days of workouts — he’ll be fine. Instead, let’s look at the players who made an impression during the past month. Most impressive rookie — WR Kevin Norwood. Paul Richardson, the receiver Seattle picked two rounds ahead of Norwood, has the wow factor; defensive end Cassius Marsh was incredibly impressive in limited action; and tackle Justin Britt has arguably the best shot of earning a starting job as a rookie, but Norwood is my choice here because he was the most consistent performer. Receiver is one of the tougher positions for a rookie to adjust to, and when you factor in Seattle’s secondary, excelling in practice becomes that much more difficult. However, day in and day out, Norwood was coming up with difficult catches and looked nothing like a rookie. Seattle has missed on receivers in the fourth round twice before — Kris Durham and Chris Harper — but Norwood looks like a player ready to make an immediate impact. Most impressive redshirt — CB Tharold Simon. Pete Carroll and his coaching staff like to refer to the group of second and third-year players who missed last season with injuries as their redshirt class, and those players are a big reason Carroll thinks his 2014 team can be every bit as good as the Super Bowl champion squad despite losing a number of key players. There are several good choices for this one, from linebacker Korey Toomer to defensive linemen Jesse Williams, Jordan Hill and Greg Scruggs. But the player who might have made the best impression out of the “redshirt class” was cornerback Tharold Simon, who came into this offseason as a complete unknown. Simon barely took the field in rookie minicamp last year before a foot injury sidelined him, and he never practiced again with the Seahawks in 2013. Yet throughout OTAs and minicamp, the 6-foot-3 Simon looked every bit like a player who fits right in with the rest of Seattle’s talented, rangy defensive backs. In particular, Simon, a fifth-round pick last year, was the star of an OTA session in which Richard Sherman took a day off, coming up with two interceptions while playing with the first-team defense. While passing Bryon Maxwell on the depth chart for a starting job seems unlikely, Simon looks like a very strong option as a backup to Sherman and Maxwell, and a viable starting option down the road (Maxwell is a free agent after this season). Most impressive position group — Linebacker. OK, so the secondary might have been the best group throughout camp (big surprise), but that’s also way too easy of a choice. Instead, we’ll go with linebacker, the overlooked position of the defense last season, and a group that looks poised to make a name for itself in 2014. Seemingly day after day, linebackers were making plays, even with Bruce Irvin and Malcolm Smith sidelined by surgeries. And it wasn’t just the usual suspects like K.J. Wright and Bobby Wagner. Korey Toomer looks like a big-time playmaker if he can only find a way to get on the field. Mike Morgan more than held his own working as the first-team strongside linebacker. Rookie Kevin Pierre-Louis is as athletic as advertised. This is potentially the deepest position group on the roster. “Us as linebackers, we’re really trying to stand out,” Wagner said. “I love the D-line, and the secondary gets a lot of talk, but you will talk about the linebackers this year.” Position group that was a pleasant surprise — Wide Receiver. With Golden Tate leaving in free agency and Sidney Rice recovering from knee surgery, the Seahawks came into offseason workouts with few proven pass catchers beyond Doug Baldwin, Jermaine Kearse and Percy Harvin, and Harvin was injured for almost all of last season. But with Harvin healthy and once again running past everyone, and with rookies Norwood and Richardson showing plenty of potential, this group, despite the loss of last year’s leading receiver, suddenly looks very deep and promising. Or as Baldwin might put it, there is nothing pedestrian about this group. It’s particularly fun to imagine Harvin and Richardson on the field together at the same time with their blazing speed. “It is a really fast group,” Carroll said. “It’s really exciting to see the guys catch the ball well, too … There’s nothing like being fast, that kind of speed, so we’re really excited about it.” However, all of this excitement about the rookie receivers needs to come with one caveat — after quarterback, receiver might be the hardest position for rookies to make the leap from college to the NFL. You could easily find as many if not more glowing reports on Golden Tate in 2010 as there have been about Norwood and Richardson this summer, yet Tate struggled to even get on the field as a rookie. Player who helped himself the most — G James Carpenter. Carpenter couldn’t hold down a starting job last season, splitting time with Paul McQuistan all year, then the Seahawks decided not to pick up the fifth-year option on the former first-round pick this offseason. So to say Carpenter has a lot to prove in 2014 is something of an understatement, and so far he’s off to a good start. While most were expecting Carpenter to be fighting somebody for a starting spot, offensive line coach Tom Cable has made it pretty clear that the left guard job is Carpenter’s. That likely has a lot to do with Carpenter coming into offseason workouts in the best shape he has been in since Seattle took him with the 25th pick in the 2011 draft. Carpenter still has a long ways to go to live up to that draft status, but if he can build off this encouraging offseason, a position that was a big question mark last year could turn into a strength for Seattle without adding a player. Nice to see you out there — WR Percy Harvin. We knew Harvin got through the Super Bowl healthy, so it was expected that he would be available for offseason workouts. But even if it was expected, Harvin’s presence on the practice field is a very welcome sight for the Seahawks. When Seattle acquired Harvin in 2013, he was something of a luxury acquisition, which was evident in the fact that they got to the Super Bowl with almost no contributions from him because of a hip injury. But with Tate in Detroit and Rice a question mark because of his knee, the Seahawks offense will need to get a lot more out of Harvin in 2014. Still have work left to do — QB Terrelle Pryor and S/CB Eric Pinkins. It’s wildly premature to say anyone is struggling or a bust before training camp has even started, especially players new to the team. However, Pryor and Pinkins are two players who at first glance have some work to do in order to make the 53-man roster. Pryor, a part-time starter in Oakland, has undeniable ability, and he showed considerable growth from the first session of OTAs to last week’s minicamp, but he still has progress to make if he’s going to beat Tavaris Jackson for the backup job or convince the Seahawks that it’s worth keeping three quarterbacks on the roster. Pinkins, a sixth-round pick out of San Diego State, was a safety in college, but the Seahawks said when they picked him that they saw him as a cornerback. It didn’t take long for the Seahawks to move Pinkins back to safety — he was done playing cornerback by the third day of rookie minicamp. As a safety, he was struggling to get reps with the second-team defense. Pinkins has plenty of time to either show he can adjust to cornerback or improve his status on the depth chart at safety, but like Pryor, he will have work to do in camp to earn a roster spot.

Work/Life Balance Spaghetti on a plate. That’s what many of our calendars – electronic or paper – look like. All of our appointments and lists of to-dos mixed together in one place. This accomplishes one of our goals: to get everything written down in one place. However, it doesn’t accomplish our primary goal: to get everything done in a timely fashion with minimum stress. Another (food-related) way to look at this issue is to answer these questions: This is the fun, interactive example I use during my Focus Pocus: 24 Tricks for Regaining Command of Your Day seminar to get people thinking about how they can be more efficient and productive. The point is that getting everything into one place is the first step in efficient productivity. The second step is having a sorting system for all those things so your brain doesn’t have to constantly sort things before selecting which to do next. Two things happened today that prompted this article. The first occurred during a keynote speech I was delivering at the Society of Financial Examiners annual educational conference. The room was filled with four hundred executives who had gathered to hear some modern-day time management suggestions. I was talking about how important it is to get some down time during the day to refresh and refocus. In a moment of clarity, I blurted out, “And whatever happened to recess?” The question drew a rousing cheer and loud applause! I thought to myself, “Yeah, whatever did happen to recess?” An hour later, I was reviewing my e-mail on the way to the airport. There was a fairly lengthy thread started by my business partner in my other business – Outdoorplay. He was congratulating our Customer Service Manager on closing a large phone order. The conversation really took off though when our General Manager announced that tomorrow’s lunch would be pizza compliments of the company. Everyone was congratulating Stacey, thanking Brian, and debating what type of pizzas should be ordered. You can’t mandate the kind of collegiality a simple pizza party can produce. Much is made of starting; it is the hardest thing. We lament its prospect. We’ve named the behavior of non-starting – procrastination – which many consider a condition or a failing or a personality type. In “Do the Work,” Steven Pressfield’s insightful analysis of this difficulty with starting, he names the force we experience Resistance. Resistance, says Pressfield, is the ever-present enemy within us all that must be battled daily so that results can be produced. Many have addressed starting and its accomplice, proscrastination. Here are a few: Techniques and suggestions for beating procrastination and getting started can be found in those works. Fast Forward to the End But what of starting’s silent partner – finishing? Getting our work to closure is often a struggle too. If fact, behind starting, finishing up is the second hardest thing to accomplish. Whether it’s the actual work or its remnants, failure to lay tasks and projects to their final rest can create just as many problems as failure to start can. “Gerbils on a wheel.” I use this expression frequently when talking with audiences about how we feel after busting hump all day and feeling like nothing got done. Wouldn’t it be nice to feel like the wheel actually moved forward once in a while? Breaking Free from the Frame Like most wheels, the wheel we each run on during the day is held in place on either side of its hub by forks. Imagine looking down on a bicycle wheel to where the forks attach to the hub. The wheel spins at the hub and the forks keep the wheel in place. That’s good on a bicycle because everything works together so that the spinning wheels assist in making the bike move forward. The gerbil’s wheel is similarly secured but its forks are fixed to the bottom of the cage. Thus, no amount of spinning will move the wheel forward. The wheel must break free from the forks for it to roll forward. Anyone who’s spent more than ten minutes with me knows that fly fishing is one of my life-long passions. It’s a product of my Montana upbringing. Long before Robert Redford brought Norman Maclean’s beautiful novella A River Runs Through It to the big screen, I was standing in the dirt lane in front of my childhood home trying to master the art of fly casting. Finesse Versus Force What makes fly casting unique is that it’s the line that’s being cast, not the nearly weightless artificial fly tied to the end of it. You see, the fly follows the line and the objective is to cast the line out so that the fly comes to rest on the water delicately. Brute force has no place in this endeavor. It’s about rhythm and finesse. The harder we try to drive the fly out to where the fish are, the less chance it will happen. However, if we settle into the rhythm of the cast and work with the forces of nature, the more successful we are. The April issue of Spirit, Southwest Airline’s in-flight magazine, shows a group of kids playing outside on its cover. That makes sense with spring right around the corner. Surprisingly, though, the associated article inside discusses why adults should play more. The article’s opening example is illustrative: Unbox a toy for a toddler and as often as not, the child will play with the box instead of the toy! Why? Because the box is more fun! It can be anything – a hat, a fort, a cup, a ship. On the other hand, modern toys are typically activity specific, which allows for little imaginative input by its recipient. Lessons Learned This doesn’t mean toys are bad. It means boxes are good! Specifically, Jay Heinrich, author of the “It’s Called Play” article noted above, cites the following lessons we can learn from playing with the box; Fancy toys, programmed activities, and “enrichment” don’t hold a candle to a kid’s own improvising. Unsupervised activity of the kind that terrifies modern, safety-obsessed parents can be good for developing brains and bodies. Outdoor trumps indoors, fitness-wise. Adults can benefit from the same sort of pointless, stupid activity [as playing with a box]. The modern work environment is a symphony of interruption and distraction. But it’s not the real productivity saboteur. The true villain resides inside our head. It’s that little voice constantly reminding us of all that needs doing – the “Oh, ya!” and the “Can’t forget that.” and the “That too; gotta get that done!” It’s a fact. The noisiest place on earth is between our ears. Yet it’s the place that must be quietest for us to focus because focus drives productivity. The more focused we get, the better work we do and the more of it we get done. The problem is that the outside world is constantly demanding our attention. Consequently, it seems impossible – even counter-productive – to pursue quieting strategies. In essence we’ve become dependent (addicted?) to the frenzy, the activity, the urgency of the frenetic world. Telling people I work in the time management field produces the same result as telling people I was once a lawyer. They make a polite remark about my choice of endeavors and move on to another, more interesting subject. The only difference is that no one has ever felt compelled to tell me their favorite time management joke. There’s a blessing in that last bit. Seriously, though, I know speaking on time management doesn’t sound exciting. It pales in comparison to things like, “I do product design for Apple.” or “I’m in marketing at Nike.” I get that, but unfortunately I possess a driving need to find better, faster ways of getting things done. In the bio I provide those tasked with introducing me at speaking engagements it says that at age thirteen I found the quickest way to vacuum the family store so I could spend more time fly fishing. It’s true. I’m afflicted. I’m okay with that. Let me tell you why. What is Time? In conversations about QuietSpacing® – my time management methodology – and the related programs I conduct, I often explain to people that the overarching principle of all my work is this: Time is a limited, non-renewal source with an undisclosed expiration date for each of us. Authenticity – Doing What You Do Best – Is The Essence Of Productivity “Go stand in line!” That’s what the diminutive overwrought 20-something hostess at Coop’s Place said to the semi-inebriated patron pestering her to seat his party in the amazingly authentic low-country tavern we were dining at in the French Quarter of New Orleans last week. (Pic at right). Now, before you go all customer-service on me, understand that this guest had walked past the growing line on the sidewalk outside the door with two (count them: two) very clear signs on those doors with large black arrows pointing down the sidewalk and with the following printed on them – Stand at the end of the line. If there’s no line, stand here until you’re seated. The message was very clear. If you want to eat here, stand in line. Over the last eight months, I’ve been wrestling with a combination of Bright-Shiny-Objectisis and existential/professional angst. The root of the problem was a sense of restlessness. The restlessness arose from twelve years of involvement in Outdoorplay and seven years of QuietSpacing® efforts. Done enough times, all things lose their luster. Such was the case with these two endeavors. I kept getting distracted by new and exciting topics – simplicity, lifestyle choices, Tenkara fly fishing. Instead of focusing on my core business of developing solid content to help my clients solve their time management struggles, I was drafting tables of contents for new books and making lists of authors to read and people to follow.