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A group of Iranian asylum seekers charged with causing tens of thousands of dollars damage to an immigration detention facility in Nauru have had their bail extended.
Fourteen of 15 Iranian men charged over the riot last September made a brief appearance in a Nauru court on Monday.
Their lawyer had to fly to Fiji earlier on Monday due to urgent family business, a statement from the government of Nauru said.
Magistrate Peter Law told them through an interpreter that each would be expected to indicate whether they wanted to plead guilty or not guilty at their next court appearance later this month.
They are charged with rioting and causing an estimated $24,000 damage to the facility on September 30 last year.
At the time, a spokesman for the Department of Immigration said there had been a "minor disturbance" at the temporary regional processing centre at Topside, Nauru.
There was some minor damage to kitchens, tents and lights, but no staff or asylum seekers were injured.
One of the men who did not appear in court was in Australia receiving medical treatment, a spokesman for the asylum seekers told the court.
The identities of all 15 men have been suppressed by court order.
Their case was adjourned until February 18.


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Fyrinnae create unique cosmetics – pigments, lip colours, blushers etc.
I have known about the brand for a long time but recently made a purchase (yet to arrive!) consisting of some lip lustres and the Pixie Epoxy that people keep telling me about (an eyeshadow primer).
So then I started thinking…I'm sure, many moons ago, that I purchased a number of Fyrinnae pigments…and I did! I did!
So here are some pictures and swatches for you. Whilst I hate how long you have to wait for Fyrinnae items, I have to say, these pigments are utterly utterly unique and gorgeous.
Splitting the posts up so please come back to see the rest!
Sake & Sashimi:
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A dark brown chocolate with a gold edge.
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Swatches as quite a creamy rich bronze with less shimmer than the rest.
The most perfect dirty metal shade, ever – very shimmery.
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For those who find the 5-inch Xperia Z a bit too much of a handful, there's this: the Sony Xperia SP. It's a similar-looking thing with a slightly smaller 720p resolution display and a decent 1.7GHz Qualcomm MSM8960 processor doing all the work.
The Xperia SP is fairly reminiscent of the Xperia Z's industrial design, with the same chunky metallic power button, dedicated camera shutter and machined aluminium construction, plus there's NFC support and an LTE radio in here for connecting to the UK's emerging 4G networks.
You also get an eight-megapixel camera, 2370mAh capacity battery, 8GB of onboard storage space and an SD card slot for whacking in your own memory upgrades. It's more than capable, and Sony says it will arrive some time during Q2 of this year.
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NEW TECHNIQUES IN ASTRODYNAMICS FOR MOON SYSTEMS EXPLORATION by Stefano Campagnola A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Ful llment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (AEROSPACE ENGINEERING) May 2010 Copyright 2010 Stefano Campagnola
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|ESA and NASA scientific missions to the Jupiter and Saturn systems will answer fundamental questions on the habitability of icy worlds. The missions include unprecedented challenges, as the spacecraft will be placed in closed, stable orbits near the surface of the moons. This thesis presents methods to design trajectories that tour the moons and ultimately insert the spacecraft into orbits around them, while mitigating the mission costs and/or risks.; A first technique is the endgame, a sequence of moon flyby preceding the orbit insertion. Historically, the endgame is designed with two approaches with different results: the v∞-leveraging transfer (VILT) approach leads to high-Δv (hundreds of m/s), short time-of-flight (months) endgames, while the multi-body approach leads to low-Δv (tens of m/s), long time-of-flight (years) endgames. This work analyzes and develops both approaches.; We introduce a fast design method to automatically compute VILT endgames, which were previously designed in an ad-hoc manner. We also derive an important simple quadrature formula for the minimum Δv attainable with this approach. This formula is the first important result of this work, as it provides a lower bound for assessment studies.; We explain and develop the complex multi-body approach introducing the Tisserand-Poincaré (T-P) graph, which is the second important result of this work. It provides a link between the two approaches, and shows the intersections between low-energy trajectories around different moons. With the T-P graph we design a five-month transfer between low-altitude orbits at Europa and Ganymede, using almost half the Δv of the Hohmann transfer.; We then focus on missions to low-mass moons, like Enceladus. We show that nontangent VILT (an extension of the traditional VILT) significantly reduce the Δv while maintaining a satisfactory transfer time (< 4 years in the Saturn system). With a new design method we compute a 52 gravity-assist trajectory from Titan to Enceladus. The time of flight is 2.7 years, and the Δv is almost 10 times better then the Titan-Enceladus Hohmann-like transfer. This trajectory and the design method are the third important contribution of this work; they enable a new class of missions which were previously considered unfeasible.; Finally we study the capture problem, which seeks chaotic trajectories with multiple orbit insertion opportunities. We explore the solution space extending the design techniques used by ESA for the BepiColombo mission capture to Mercury. Such problems are better modeled in the spatial, elliptic, restricted three-body problem, which we analyze in detail. We define new regions of motions and to compute new families of periodic orbits and their stability properties. This analysis is the fourth important contribution of this work. Finally we show that capture trajectories shadow the manifolds of special periodic and quasi periodic orbits. This is the last important contribution of this report, as if both explains the complex dynamics of capture trajectories, and suggests new ways to design them.
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Taylor Swift Explains Primping at the Gym and Dancing at Awards Shows [VIDEOS]by Maggie Malach | PopCrush
During her Aug. 14 visit to 'Late Night With Seth Meyers,' Taylor Swift clarified why she always looks so stylish when she leaves the gym and why she rocks out at awards shows.
Taylor and Seth kicked off her interview by exchanging a stream of lovely compliments for each other. This quickly transitioned into Seth questioning Taylor about her oft-discussed post-workout outfits.
"That is how everyone looks when they come out of the gym," Taylor said, as the late night host showed the audience multiple photos of the singer wearing dresses, heels and lipstick as she exits the building. "I like to bring a change of clothes, okay?"
"I picture you in the locker room taking up a lot of space," Seth joked.
"My hair's short now and it's a lot easier to just … You just brush it," Taylor explained. "Also, you know, I think New York is one of those cities, it feels worth dressing up for."
Speaking of buzzworthy Taylor moments, Seth also asked about the singer's penchant for dancing like no one is watching at awards shows.
"I used to get really nervous at awards shows because seemingly they're a huge pressure cooker and everyone seems to be sitting there trying to look more unaffected by being at this awards show than the next person next to them," Taylor said. "… A couple of years ago I decided, 'No, this is the coolest concert you could ever go to … and I get to be front row and I'm going to dance during this because I feel like it.' Not cause it looks cool — because it doesn't."
In the interview, Taylor also opened up about crashing a fan's bridal shower and the first time she hosted 'Saturday Night Live.' Check out the videos above and below to catch all of the action!
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Shrub or tree, monoecious, deciduous or evergreen
Leaves simple, alternate, petioled; margin entire to lobed; stipules small, generally deciduous
Staminate inflorescence: catkin or stiff spike; flowers many
Pistillate inflorescence 1few-flowered, generally above staminate inflorescence; involucre in fruit generally cup-like or lobed and bur-like, bracts many, generally overlapping, flat or cylindric
Staminate flower: sepals generally 56, minute; petals 0; stamens 412+
Pistillate flower: calyx generally 6-lobed, minute; petals 0; ovary inferior, style branches generally 3
Fruit: acorn (nut subtended by scaly, cup-like involucre) or 13 nuts subtended by spiny, bur-like involucre; nut maturing in 12 years
Seed generally 1
Genera in family: 7 genera, ± 900 species: generally n hemisphere. Wood of Quercus critical for pre-20th century ship-building, charcoal for metallurgy; some now supply wood (Fagus, Quercus ), cork (Q. suber ), food (Castanea , chestnut).
Evergreen or deciduous
Leaf: stipules small, generally early deciduous
Staminate inflorescences: catkins, 1several, slender, on proximal part of twig
Pistillate inflorescence axillary among upper leaves, short-stalked; flower generally 1
Staminate flower: calyx 46-lobed, minute; stamens 410
Pistillate flower: calyx minute, generally 6-lobed; ovary enclosed by involucre
Fruit: acorn, maturing in 12 years; nut enclosed by cup-like involucre with thin or tubercled scales
Chromosomes: 2n=24 for all reports
Species in genus: ± 600 species: n hemisphere, to n South America, India
Etymology: (Latin: ancient name for oak)
Many more hybrids have been named but are not included here. Reproduction of many species declining.
Shrub 13 m, evergreen; twigs glabrous
Leaf 711(18) cm; petiole 1020 mm; blade elliptic to oblong-obovate, tip ± acute, margin serrate, teeth 2032, upper surface green, somewhat shiny, lower surface sparsely, finely appressed-hairy, pale green, lateral veins 2028, prominent
Fruit maturing in 1 year; cup 1018 mm wide, 79 mm deep, thin, cup-shaped to obconic, scales flat to slightly tubercled; nut 1520 mm, elliptic in outline to ± spheric, tip rounded, shell glabrous inside
Ecology: Open, rocky slopes, ridges, coniferous forest
Elevation: 6002200 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges
Distribution outside California: sw Oregon
Hybridizes with Q. garryana var. breweri.
Horticultural information: DRN: 4, 5, 6 &IRR: 1, 17 &SHD: 2, 3, 7, 9, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21; DFCLT.


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Casual Entrees: Home-style southern cooking at breakfast, lunch and dinner
Only one place in town serves fried chicken at 6 a.m. It's Casual Entrees, a southern-style diner that is simply delicious.
The strip-center location at 6025 Phelan Blvd. at Peyton is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, offering your favorite southern comfort food Sunday and Monday from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Tuesday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. From oatmeal to catfish, Casual Entrees knows what Southeast Texans crave every hour of the day.Breakfast selections include traditional oatmeal with all the fixins, including nuts and brown sugar, as well as omelets, eggs benedict, pancakes, waffles and french toast.
For the hearty breakfast eater, sample some of the signature early morning entrees like the Southern Platter made with three eggs and complemented with ham and fresh biscuits.
The breakfast burrito for the extra hungry hombre (Women love it, too!) is a large tortilla filled with eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes and cheese.
But nothing beats the super southern signature breakfast dish, the chicken and waffles – buttermilk waffles flanked by golden fried chicken! If you need your comfort early, this is the dish to get. Soak waffles in sweet maple syrup and let it drizzle across the chicken, too. Slop up the remaining syrup with your last bites of crispy chicken. This is the way real southerners start their days!
Continue the culinary comforting all day. Lunch starts at 10:30 a.m. and is served until 2 p.m. Casual Entrees has appetizers, salads and soups, burgers and sandwiches and lunch specials. Start your midday meal with boudain balls, hand battered and served with ranch dressing, or savor the spinach dip covered with tomatoes and served with fried tortilla chips.
Lighter fare includes a large selection of salads like the chicken or shrimp salad, Caesar or chef salad. Recently added to the menu is the Asian chicken salad, a fresh spring mix topped with grilled chicken, mandarin oranges, slivered almonds and served with Thai dressing.
Comfortable seating accommodates 100 patrons in this quiet dining venue ideal for a warm winter meal. Crispy chicken fried steak or fried chicken, grilled or fried catfish or shrimp or a pork chop are offered daily and served with one of your favorite homemade sides of the South – onion rings, mashed potatoes, green beans, carrots, corn, okra and tomatoes, fried okra, turnip greens, sweet potato fries, lima beans and more.
Warm sandwiches can be ordered individually or in a combo with a dinner salad or a cup of soup for only $6.99. Choose a turkey or the BLT, a classic bacon, lettuce and tomato. All sandwiches including the turkey and Angus beef burgers as well as the Philly cheesesteak and hot roast beef are served with french fries.
If platters are more pleasing, Casual Entrees will satisfy. All of their platters from the catfish to grilled salmon are served with a choice of two sides and a fresh hot roll. Entrees selections are extensive, ranging from a jumbo shrimp dinner to the smothered chicken topped with honey mustard, bacon, mushrooms, and Swiss and cheddar cheese. Pork chops are grilled to perfection, and hand-battered chicken tenders are served with gravy, as they should be. Get a hot but meatless meal by ordering the vegetable platter, which allows selection of four sides. And just in case you didn't get enough waffles and chicken for breakfast, the platter is served all day long – eat it for dinner, too!
No southern menu is complete without bread pudding, and few bread puddings compare to Casual Entrees' homemade dessert divinely topped with a rich caramel sauce. Other finale favorites include brownie sundae, colossal apple pie, New York cheesecake and buttermilk pie.
Home-style cooking is just around the corner at Casual Entrées for eating in or taking out and for catering your next event – wedding, birthday or any special occasion. Call them at (409) 861-4247.


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The 'Season' begins in just under a month's time and is a uniquely British thing. In these days of a so-called classless society it is quite amazing that this totally inimitable feat of social engineering continues to hold such sway. Perhaps it is entirely because it is such a change from the mundane that it remains so popular!
The Season came about primarily in the 19th century, and its heyday was reached during the reign of the gregarious King Edward VII. Since then, we have witnessed two world wars, banking crashes and the horrors of the credit crunch, and whilst there are bound to be some financial casualties this year, particularly where corporate sponsorship is concerned, many of the events of 'the season' seem to attract ever increasing crowds. Attendance at most is not cheap, but because corporate sponsorship has boosted entry many people will be invited to at least one event this year through work or friends. Our intention is to give a basic guide – but do email us for more specific assistance!
Debutantes went out in the 1950s as a result of The Queen's 'modernisation of the Monarchy', although the Berkeley Dress Show and the Paris Crillon Ball have been revived to rave reviews – aspiring young ladies no longer need to be presented at Court, nor do they necessarily want to find a wealthy and eligible bachelor for long term wedded bliss, but instead perhaps enjoy a chance to show off a pretty dress and meet some new friends, whilst the aspirations of good manners, correct dress codes and a little bit of gentility in our increasingly hectic lives is cutting the mustard.
Officially, the 'season' is a three month period from May to July when in days gone by, the Court and fashionable society were in town (London). During winter months, the ruling classes spent time at their country estates hunting, shooting and fishing – nowadays many do not even own one home let alone two – but the Chelsea Flower Show, this year from 18th May, continues to herald the start.
The English Manner always has a presence at Chelsea, usually with guests who are taking part in one of our guided garden tours, and if the weather is good, it is a wonderfully English way to kick-start summer. The Derby follows, and then Royal Ascot, possibly the most famous race meeting in the world, presenting an opportunity to wear that fabulous outfit and out of this world hat, whilst picnicking on smoked salmon, strawberries and champagne at the side of the course – in Number One car park, of course!
After Ascot and The Queen's Birthday Parade, we have Wimbledon, Glorious Goodwood and the Festival of Speed, and for the sailing fraternity, The Royal Henley Regatta and Cowes Week, preceded by Cartier International Polo Day – always a firm fixture in the social calendar and now attracting a celebrity crowd from all over the world.
Packed tightly in between all of these are myriad charity events, timed to perfection to attract the most likely donors, and to give credibility to all that partying! Coupled with the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair and Hampton Court Flower Show, those who have the money, the time and the inclination, can have a jolly good time!
Of all the summer events, I think Royal Ascot is probably the one we think of more often than not when we talk about 'the Season', and it was here that the term 'Royal Enclosure' began. King George IV invented the idea of entertaining his private friends, and the idea of a private or select area quickly caught on for Centre Court at Wimbledon, the Stewards' Enclosure at Henley – where entry is even more restricted than Ascot – and the Member's Enclosures at Polo. As the names imply, entry is limited, often to the cognoscenti and 'who you know', and there are essential elements of dressing up as well as certain rules and traditions.
As 'the season' unfolds, we will give you some do's and don'ts on protocol and customs.
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But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
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Isn't sanity a one trick pony? Rational thought is all you get but when you are crazy the sky is the limit.
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Texas Woman Has 'Harry Potter' House Made for Her Cats [VIDEO]
Texas woman Laura Marshall promises she's not a crazy cat lady, but she did have a cat-friendly replica of the Weasley's Burrow from 'Harry Potter' built in her backyard.
"If you down play the cat part and up play yard art, is what I was going for," she told Fox News.
With just a few pictures from the internet and 300 hours, woodworker Wil Whitehouse created the 9-foot-tall "yard art" for Marshall.
"Every time I walk out the backyard, this is gonna make me smile," she said. "So, like I said, it's not so much about the cats — although functionality was huge — the fact that it's turned out like this, is like somebody having a piece of art in their backyard."
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An iMovie library holds all the media and data used to make movies in iMovie. If your iMovie library is large and you want to free up storage space on your Mac, you can move your iMovie library to an external drive.
Before you move an iMovie library, it's a good idea to back up your Mac.
Moving your library to an external hard drive doesn't affect any iMovie Theater content you have uploaded to iCloud.
Prepare your drive
You can store your library on an external storage device such as a USB drive, FireWire drive, or Thunderbolt drive formatted as MacOS Extended (Journaled). Apple doesn't recommend storing iMovie libraries on external storage devices like SD cards and USB flash drives, or drives shared on a network.
You can't store your library on an external drive or other disk used for Time Machine backups.
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- Quit iMovie
- Select your external drive in the Finder, then choose File > Get Info.
- If the information in Sharing & Permissions isn't visible, click , then make sure the "Ignore ownership on this volume" checkbox is selected. If it's not selected, click to unlock it, enter an administrator name and password, and then select the checkbox.
- Click on your desktop to make sure that you're in Finder, then choose Go > Home from the menu bar at the top of your screen.
- Open the Movies folder, then drag the file named iMovie Library to your external hard drive.
- When the library file is finished copying to your external drive, double-click the library file to open it in iMovie.
- Make sure the library you moved contains all your media, then drag the original file in your Movies folder on your Mac to the Trash.
When your external drive is connected to your Mac, the library you moved to the external drive opens automatically in iMovie. If you disconnect the external drive containing the library, iMovie opens to a new, empty library created in the Movies folder on your Mac. iMovie automatically saves any projects you create and media you import in the new library. If you want to open the library you moved to an external drive, you can open it after you reconnect the external drive. You can then move clips, events, and projects between libraries.


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Chicken Enchiladas Verdes
Sarah Carey shows how to make easy and flavor-rich chicken enchiladas.
Place chicken, 1/2 of the onion, the garlic, and 1/4 teaspoon salt in a medium saucepan. Add enough water to cover by at least 1 inch. Bring to a boil, and then reduce heat. Simmer until chicken is cooked through, 18 to 22 minutes. Reserve 3/4 cup of the cooking liquid; set aside.
Let chicken cool on a plate. When cool enough to handle, shred (discard bones). Coarsely chop 1/2 cup cilantro, and toss with chicken.
Preheat broiler, with the rack about 6 inches from heat source. Broil tomatillos and chiles on a rimmed baking sheet, rotating them as they blacken, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool. Remove the blackened skins, stems, ribs, and seeds (optional) from chiles. Reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees.
Coarsely puree tomatillos and chile flesh in a blender with remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, remaining 1 1/2 cups cilantro, and reserved 3/4 cup cooking liquid. Transfer salsa to a large bowl.
Using tongs, toast tortillas over an open flame of a gas stove, 5 to 10 seconds per side. (Or heat the tortillas in a skillet over high heat.)
Dip 1 tortilla into salsa to coat lightly. Place 1/3 cup chicken on half of tortilla. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons cheese on top, and roll up. Place it seam side down in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Repeat to make more enchiladas, lining them up snugly in dish. Spoon remaining salsa on top, and bake until heated through, about 20 minutes.
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University of Missouri Board of Curators approves two-year contract extension and pay raise for President Elson S. Floyd
The University of Missouri Board of Curators has approved a two-year extension to the employment contract of President Elson S. Floyd, retaining his services until 2010. The Board also voted last Friday to give President Floyd a raise of $21,000, or 6 percent. This is the first pay increase President Floyd has accepted since he assumed the University presidency in January 2003. His new salary in January 2006 will be $371,000.
The Board also deemed President Floyd's performance during 2005 to be satisfactory, allowing for the deposit of $50,000 into a deferred compensation plan, per his November 2002 employment agreement. The deferred compensation may only be paid once President Floyd receives satisfactory job evaluations for five consecutive years.
"As I stated publicly at the Board meeting in Kansas City, Dr. Floyd is the best University system president in the United States, and I am pleased that we have secured his services through 2010," said Tom Atkins, President of the Board of Curators.
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The revised contract for President Floyd supersedes the prior contract and any amendments. The votes on the contract extension, pay raise and deferred compensation were each 6-3.
Leading up to Friday's votes, the Board of Curators was asked by President Floyd to set aside and nullify a February 2005 amendment that, in addition to extending his contract, would have increased his deferred compensation. He has received no additional compensation under that amendment. President Floyd's request was the result of questions raised by three Curators who joined the Board subsequent to the February 2005 amendment.
The February 2005 amendment arose from a November 2004 meeting of the Board, at which it voted 9-0 to increase President Floyd's salary by 3 percent and deemed his 2004 performance satisfactory.
During the November 2004 meeting, the Board delegated authority to its incoming President, Tom Atkins, and the University General Counsel to discuss with President Floyd extending the President's employment contract by two years and boosting his deferred compensation. The Board also instructed the General Counsel that advice should be sought from outside tax counsel about the tax ramifications of such moves. President Floyd did not ask for nor solicit these contract changes; they were proposed exclusively and unanimously by the Board.
After consulting with outside tax counsel, General Counsel prepared an amendment to President Floyd's contract. Board President Atkins, as authorized and unanimously requested by the Board, offered the agreement to President Floyd on February 2, 2005. This amendment was subsequently signed by President Floyd.
During the December 2005 Board meeting in Kansas City, three Curators who joined the Board in February 2005 questioned the validity of the amendment. These concerns were communicated to President Floyd by President Atkins. President Floyd then requested that the agreement be declared null and void. Friday's vote laid out the revised employment terms for President Floyd.
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We're not saying this is all down to Justin Bieber's bare-bottomed twitpic, but we're sure it didn't hurt.
In any case, the timing is everything, and not long after Selena Gomez's off-again love mooned his fans, he surpassed Lady Gaga to become the most followed person on Twitter.
That's right, the onetime Queen of Twitter is dead. Long live the King.
Justin's got back! Check out Bieber's mooning twitpic
As of last count Tuesday morning, the 18-year-old superstar had a whopping 33,333,554 Beliebers (and counting) to Gaga's still whopping but now slightly less so 33,328,937 Little Monsters.
Neither star has yet acknowledged this momentous milestone.
However, just last week, Bieber passed the 33-million-follower mark and trended the hashtag #33MillIonBeliebers in celebration.
See Selena Gomez sing "Cry Me a River"--you listening, Justin?
Gaga fans can take solace in the fact that Mother Monster is still tops on Facebook, however, with 54.98 million likes to Bieber's 50.66 million.
But that's not the only online overtaking Bieber may have up his sleeve. His Instagram followers currently top out around 6.1 million, not too far off from the reigning queen, Kim Kardashian, who has 6.3 million followers on the photo-sharing site.
Uh, not that it's a popularity contest or anything...but it obviously totally is.
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The concept of risk-based authentication is becoming popular for some online business-to-consumer transactions, particularly those conducted with banks and other financial services firms.
Let's assume that a bank is utilizing risk-based authentication. First, it gathers a basic profile of the computer the customer typically uses to do online banking, learning things like the machine's MAC address and settings. The bank also begins to understand a customer's normal pattern of behavior, such as when he might typically log on or the types of transactions he usually conducts. Should a customer deviate from normal behavior -- perhaps by logging on from a different machine in a different country or attempting to transfer an unusually large sum of money -- the session would get a higher risk score, which could trigger the need for an additional form of authentication. This might mean the customer has to answer a challenge-response question or that the bank will want to authenticate the user by phone.
In short, it is simply sequential, or matrix-based, authentication. That said, risk-based authentication can face pitfalls, such as the fact that spouses often access shared accounts on different computers and travelers occasionally log on from unexpected locations.


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INTERNET: Investors now cool to subscription e-commerce sites.
When online kids' clothes retailer Wittlebee emerged from Santa Monica incubator Science in early 2012, it quickly garnered investor interest.
Only a few months after launching, the Culver City company announced $2.5 million in seed financing. Investors liked its subscription model; the company sends a box of children's clothes in exchange for a $40 fee each month.
But now, investors seemed to have soured on e-commerce subscription businesses.
Wittlebee Chief Executive Sean Percival experienced that first-hand. After months of fundraising to little success, he stepped down from his post last month.
"The investment dollars are simply not there," he wrote in an email to the Business Journal. "Investors are cooling down on all consumer and e-commerce investments in general."
The market has been inundated with subscription e-commerce businesses, which have clustered in Los Angeles and the Silicon Beach area of Santa Monica. These companies tend to follow a similar format: Customers take a style quiz or indicate buying preferences and then receive a monthly selection of personalized items shipped to them for a flat monthly fee.
Other companies have found similarly dry coffers when they've gone out looking for cash.
Wine-of-the-month service Club W had a hard time fundraising for a seed investment in Silicon Valley. When the company eventually found Santa Monica firm CrossCut Ventures to lead its $3.1 million round, it moved its headquarters from San Francisco to El Segundo.
"We joke that we came in at the worse timing not just for subscription commerce but for wine in general," said Xander Oxman, co-founder and chief executive of the online wine retailer. "I've definitely met other companies starting subscription commerce businesses that have expressed that they've gotten the same response in their early stage meetings."
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Subscription commerce made a comeback in 2009 when Santa Monica retailer ShoeDazzle put a modern-day twist on the classic CD- or cheese-of-the-month model.
By 2010, BeachMint in Santa Monica began selling jewelry for a monthly subscription and JustFab in El Segundo was charging for a monthly shoe delivery.
Those online retailers raised millions of dollars on high valuations, causing a frenzy of copycat companies to spring up. Droves of startups positioned as thing-of-the-month clubs or something-in-a-box subscriptions have since entered the market.
But with the exception of JustFab – which expects to turn a profit later this year – subscription commerce has experienced growing pains.
ShoeDazzle eliminated its monthly fee last year. The move swiftly prompted the departure of its chief executive and a round of layoffs. Earlier this year, the company brought back a hybrid version of the subscription.
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Fort Myers Police said an officer was flagged down after the baby was spotted in a car seat in the back of the vehicle just after 10:30 p.m. The officer couldn't find the car's owner so he smashed the window to get the baby out.
The baby was sweating and covered in vomit, and was taken to a nearby children's hospital for mild dehydration, NBC 2 reported. She is expected to be fine.
Detectives later discovered the baby girl had been left inside the car for three hours while Sosa was inside the strip club, police said.
Sosa, of Cape Coral, appeared in court Saturday, where his bond was set at $100,000. It was unknown whether he has an attorney.
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The company expects to invest between €95-105 million on the project, and says it is already in advanced negotiations with banks for project financing. Alerion did not provide details of the expected timing of project completion.
Alerion, whose shares are quoted on the Italian stock exchange, already has 123 MW of operational wind farms in the regions of Sicily, Campania and Apulia. The new Apulia project brings its total of plants under construction to 146.6 MW.
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I had the impulse to create the new tag [pgbouncer] for Postgres - ERROR: prepared statement "S_1" already exists. It is tagged [Posgresql] which isn't wrong, but it is really about PgBouncer. I felt the urge to tag it accordingly. However, this fine connection pooler does not have very many users or (luckily) problems to generate lots of questions on SO. A tag would not be used very often.
I have read up on the topic and am aware of the efforts to keep the number of tags at bay. I only recently gained the retag privilege and don't want to abuse it right away. How does the community feel about such a case? Should we create a new tag, or not?
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So I click "like" on all kinds of things. Religious, political etc. Just because I like something does not mean that I agree with it. I am simple interested in learning about it.
So I clicked "like" on a specific religious organization about two months ago. Since then I have clicked like on over 200 other things. Probably at least 50 other organizations. Rough estimate.
I sign in to my Facebook and "bam!" my friends are asking me if I belong to this organization. I have to tell them no. I was simply interested in learning about it and talking to them. I like things about them but I do not belong to it or want to promote it.
So my friends inform me that they are being told that I like this organization and that I clicked on. Why would this be happening if I clicked like on it so long ago? This makes me mad. It seems like the organization has priority over all the other recent companies I clicked like on. To me that is unfair, and unjust and sounds like collusion.
Does Facebook take money from organizations to promote to others through"like button clicks?
Will unclicking to share "likes and notifications" actually make a difference? The reason people like me have to keep asking this same question is because we just don't trust Facebook.


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Ok I've decided that maybe instead of wasting my time whining about India's performance, I should attempt to start a not so frustrating topic.
I used to think chappel wouldn't be a good idea because he seemed like the type of coach who would take away all the limelight and not do anything in the end. But I was blown away after seeing one interivew of his. YOU'VE GOTTA READ THIS! http://cricket.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1073595.cms
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School of Second Chances
Washington State Reformatory looks like a college, and in one improbable sense, it is. A massive stone temple of a building, it has sat for a hundred years atop a campus of rolling lawn and manicured flower beds, overlooking groves of giant evergreens and pink rhododendrons. Today, as families walk up the wide granite staircase to a University Beyond Bars graduation, the scene is like that at any college—except that the arched windows here are bricked in and the walls topped with coils of razor wire. And these college students are staying a lot longer than four years. They've been convicted of crimes classified as "serious violent," and their sentences run from a decade or so to well beyond their natural lifetimes. Hardly college material, it would seem.
But soon they'll be awarded certificates showing the college credit they've earned from Ohio University in courses ranging from general psychology to precalculus to Renaissance poetry. Two men will receive Associates Degrees. They've earned the right to be proud. They have helped design and create an independent prison college program, and they have earned, over the last five years, a total of more than 2,000 hours in college credit.
A Mean-Spirited Time
Thirty years ago, a successful prison college program would not have been particularly remarkable. Close to 400 college programs operated in prisons across the nation, funded primarily by federal Pell Grants. Thousands of men and women left prison with college degrees and a chance at a better life. And in those days, even though crime rates were higher than they are today, people generally believed that men and women who served a prison sentence had paid their "debt to society" and earned a second chance. Besides, taxpayers were repaid many times over by those who earned college degrees in prison, since only 12 to 33 percent of them reoffended compared to a national recidivism rate of nearly 70 percent.
But today's unlucky prisoners live in a different America. This one is the end product of three decades of tough-on-crime legislation. Pell Grants for prisoners, the backbone of prison college programs, are long gone—banned by Congress in 1994, even though grants to prisoners made up only 0.5 percent of Pell Grants. State legislators generally felt that the feds hadn't gone far enough in removing the "perks" of imprisonment. In Washington state, legislators outlawed the use of tax dollars on higher education for prisoners.
How then do prison college programs exist at all these days? Precariously, and in just a few prisons, like WSR.
Flying Under the Radar
In October 2010, representatives of about 30 prison college programs met for the first time at the University of Illinois to discover who else was quietly doing this work and just how they managed to pull it off.
Most were started by individual faculty members at colleges and universities who visited prisons and became convinced that this is where higher education is most needed. Somehow, they had persuaded their institution to sponsor, to different extents and in different ways, a prison college program.
As the stories unfolded over the three days of the conference, two themes emerged. First, surprise that prisoners are not only a pleasure to teach compared to college students on the outside, but also talented and often brilliant.
The second theme was more ominous: To do the work of educating prisoners in the United States, it is necessary to "fly under the radar." Just one misstep or piece of bad luck—one legislator bellyaching publicly about college education wasted on criminals, one guards' union rep griping that criminals are running the prison system, just one individual who commits a horrific crime—can put a highly successful prison program out of business overnight.
University Beyond Bars
It's 6:30 p.m. in the visit room at WSR and everything is running a half-hour late. Most of the prisoners have finally made it through the pat-down line and into the visit room. Some parents have been held up for two hours in the waiting room. There's no music, because the prison wouldn't permit the invited choir to attend.
But the atmosphere is festive as faculty members come forward to present their students' certificates, and students step to the microphone to speak. What they say is a testament to what can be accomplished under the most adverse circumstances.
Jeremiah Bourgeois tells about the effect of his college studies. "I was incarcerated when I was 14 years old. It is likely that I will never be released from prison. I spent almost a decade behind bars doing little more than fighting prisoners and assaulting guards as I struggled to come to grips with the prison subculture. My transformation has affected not only prisoners who knew me when I was a menace, but also those who are just starting to serve their sentences. They see me as a role model and see what can be accomplished in spite of one's circumstances."
Noel Caldellis, a young yoga practitioner and UBB teaching assistant, says, "When I see guys carrying textbooks out to the yard, meeting for study halls, or when I hear that the latest bet between two students is being placed on the outcome of their math tests rather than on a football game, I know that UBB is cultivating something unique."
Caldellis and the others are right. UBB is unique, even among prison college programs, for two reasons. First, UBB is not part of an outside educational institution. That means that UBB can be easily replicated on a tiny scale at any willing prison, even when there's no local college or university to help. Classes are structured around curricula designed by Ohio University for their Course Credit by Examination program. Students work with instructors in the classroom to learn the material over the course of a semester, using OU's curriculum and recommended texts. When the students have mastered the material, they take the OU test. OU then awards college credit based on the grade the student achieves on the test, and UBB volunteers raise the $300 tuition needed to pay for each class.
The second unique aspect of UBB is that prisoners themselves have played a crucial role from the beginning in designing and running the program. A Prisoners Advisory Committee of about 12 men meets weekly to decide on fair policies, to choose the classes UBB will offer, to figure out how to recruit men from the big yard who are suspicious of education or afraid of failing, and to negotiate the hurdles, frustrations, and paperwork required to do the smallest thing inside a prison, from bringing in textbooks to changing a class meeting time.
Their achievement is remarkable in a country that imprisons more of its population than ever before, for longer periods of time than ever before. As UBB student and teaching assistant Kimonti Carter puts it, "UBB is just as life-changing as fresh water to villages in underdeveloped countries, and just as important."
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Ex-cons show each other the way out at San Francisco's Delancey Street.
Program at Risk
But the prison educator's nightmare has come true in Washington. In January 2011, a corrections officer, Jayme Biendl, was brutally murdered by an inmate at WSR—the first death of a guard in Washington since the '70s. All of the prisoners at the institution were punished with weeks of cell confinement. The state prison system has convulsed with a flurry of zero-tolerance rule enforcement, blaming programs for coddling prisoners and punitively transfering prisoners who have done nothing wrong.
"You're going to have to use every bit of political clout you have," one DOC employee told us, "because this will set programs back 25 years." That discouraging process has already begun. But Stacey Reeh, UBB's program director, prefers the advice of one of its students, a man who's been in prison long enough to have experienced everything the system can dish out, from riots to years in solitary confinement: "You can't let it knock the juice out of you. You just roll with it."
That's what UBB intends to do.
My brother and I don't always agree, but I defend his innocence, and I'll never walk out on him again.
Forty years since prison, Patrice Gaines still fights to get free.
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The Great Gatsby will open in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia and South Korea.
It is projected to finish on around $55m in North America this weekend behind the second session of Iron Man 3, after reports on Friday claimed it grossed it approximately $22m from Thursday night and Friday screenings.
The Warner Bros and Village Roadshow production Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, Joel Edgerton as John Buchanon and Tobery Maguire as Nick Carraway.


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Joe Franco flanked by granddaughter Eliana Franco Gilbert
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and her parents, Rita Franco and Craig Gilbert
(Probably at Joe's grandson's Eli Joseph Franco's
Bar Mitzva, May 2005, when Joe was age 95.)
Meet Craig Gilbert, guest blogger and dear friend since 1993 when we met at Congregation Bet Haverim in Atlanta, Georgia. A manager of financial software, Craig was a principal of Front Row Systems, Inc, a software firm he co-founded, and operated 25 years. Craig is an active organic gardener, has written on ethics, and participates in the Dances of Universal Peace.
Soon after Craig's father-on-law, Joe Franco, died last spring at age 98, Craig sent me an email while I was living in Tel Aviv "to share the special life of Joe Franco who meant so much to me." Craig has agreed to publish here his tender reflections on this giant person (of short physical stature). He adds, "for Joe's family, thanks to everyone for the outpouring of love we felt since his passing and that you gave him throughout his life."
Soon after Craig's father-on-law, Joe Franco, died last spring at age 98, Craig sent me an email while I was living in Tel Aviv "to share the special life of Joe Franco who meant so much to me." Craig has agreed to publish here his tender reflections on this giant person (of short physical stature). He adds, "for Joe's family, thanks to everyone for the outpouring of love we felt since his passing and that you gave him throughout his life."
I know you heard from David Soloway that Joe Franco passed away. I wanted to share a few words with you because you knew him, and like all special people, you immediately connected and saw beneath the covers. We spoke of him often.
I believe you first met Joe at our daughter's baby naming at Bet Haverim where proud grandpa Joe was happy to offer the celebrants an impromptu singing of Verde's "The Hebrews' Chorus (Va' Piensero)." [In Verdi's opera Nabucco, the chorus sings of the Jews' longing for Israel following their expulsion from their homeland to Babylon by Babylonian King Nabucco.]
I enjoyed every minute with Joe. The years that I accompanied him to Congregation Or VeShalom [a Sephardic synagogue in Atlanta], I felt as though I was going with Mick Jagger. He was a rock star. People would gather round, and he would always have a word to say about their parents or grandparents.
After Joe passed away, I felt the need to tell you many things, how deeply touched I was by him and his passing so that you could savor the beauty of his life. Please indulge a few random thoughts.
Stories and songs in seven languages
When Joe passed away, it left a large empty feeling in me. I needed his stories, his songs, his sharing his life experiences. In ten minutes he could tell dozens of intertwined stories involving Charlie Chaplin, Irving Berlin, Mussolini, Kamal Ataturk, and Suleiman Ha'Gadol [Suleiman (Solomon) the Magnificent, who invited the Sephardic Jews to Rhodes, where they called him Ha'Gadol, Hebrew for the Great].
Joe would spontaneously recite Adlai Stevenson's acceptance speech for the presidential nomination or Churchill's speech to Europe to "fight on brave Norwegians." Always on Joe's lips was a song in any of seven languages. I can't tell you how much I miss Besame Mucho, O Solo Mia, or his Spanish translation of "God Bless America" or a French rendition of "Carolina Moon."
Humble beginning in the Aegean Sea
Joe was born in 1909 in Rhodes, a Greek island southwest of Turkey in the eastern Aegean Sea. He grew up in a three-story six-room house where two families (about 18 people) lived. No running water, no electricity. He slept on a bed of straw, which he shared with his brother Jack.
In Rhodes, if Joe earned a few dimes or quarters from the American sailors who docked there before or during World War I, it was more money than his father would earn in a whole month. In Joe's youth, when the sailors gave him dimes, he was amazed that the USA currency was made of real silver. He could not imagine how great a country it must be to use silver for coins.
He learned operas by standing outside a bistro, in Rhodes, which had a crank phonograph, and he picked up dozens of arias that way. He had a great talent for music and knew hundreds of songs in many languages. He often translated popular songs into various languages, and his translations were often (in his opinion) "better than the originals." He was always singing and entertaining people.
Four continents and multiple talents
Joe lived on four continents and spoke seven languages: Ladino, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin. He also knew a good deal of Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, and Swahili. He could hold three conversations simultaneously in three languages, well into his 90's. Joe's wide-ranging career spanned sales, insurance, real estate, and retail.
The valedictorian of his high school class, Joe traveled to Belgium seeking work. There, he accepted an offer to be an accountant for the railroad in the Belgian Congo [present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo], in Central Africa, where he lived two years.
In 1929, Joe joined his four brothers in Atlanta, where he graduated from Emory University in 1934. During World War II, Joe served as a financial attaché with the USA embassy in Bogotá, Columbia, where he acquired materials (principally rubber and cinchona bark to fight malaria) for the war.
Boiled prunes from a mayonnaise jar
I met Joe when he was 80. He was allowing a homeless man to live in the basement of his home. Not one to put on pretenses, he offered me boiled prunes from a mayonnaise jar. When I married his daughter Rita, I immediately felt comfortable calling him Dad, and his wife, Rae, Mom.
His grandson Lewis recently published a CD, "Swingin' in Daddyland," about feeling great to be a good daddy. It is no coincidence. Joe's whole family has been living in Daddyland [a term from the CD title], striving to emulate Joe's values and instilling them in their children.
I never heard Joe say a bad word about anyone, save for the Nazis and other enemies of "our people." He achieved great success in life in the areas of family, friends, education, business, and love. Even at 98, I can't believe Joe is gone, and it seems it all ended too quickly.
— Craig


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Auto Nation Trade In
Auto Nation Trade In
I don't know about Auto Nation, but I have had very good experiences with Carmax both times I have sold a used car to them. And neither time was I even purchasing a car from them. The first time, I actually got more than Blue Book value,
I have a 2005 VW Phaeton with 106,000 miles in excellent condition. It is worth about 10k. They offered 2k. I would not count on using them.
I had a 2005 Porsche Boxster S with 28,000 miles on it. I used the Tesla/Auto-Nation connection and was offered $10k for it. There are no Carmax locations near me, but I got a quote from Auto Trader. They offered me $25k, gave me a check for that amount after a quick checkout of the car, and were very easy to deal with.
I was told that the only way to get the sales tax credit associated with a trade in that I would have to use the AutoNation route. Tesla was unable to allow a courtesy trade whereby I found a buyer (CarMax or the like) and Tesla did a dealer assign of the title.
Tesla is very good about protecting their customers and yet they seem to be locking us into a bottom feeder buyer. Those are tough words and ones I am not sure about thus the "seem". Can someone shed a bit more light on this and please correct me if I am wrong.
For the record, my S should show up this month and I have a 2010 535i with 30K that needs to find a home. This is a personal issue for me.
Auto Nation told us they would basically give you bluebook nothing more. Note worth the time. I've had great luck with Carmax and if we don't sell privately, then we are going to Carmax. Even TM rep at one time, said AutoNation isn't the best deal.
Lolachampcar, I know Tesla is not a dealer but what you describe is typical of a car transaction. It typically has to all be done in one transaction to receive the sales tax break. This isn't a Tesla issue. Like others, I've sold to CarMax with good success. They offered more than blue book once.
I suspect Tesla has a Florida dealer's license. A good frined of mine has one and they are no big deal to get provided you have the correct insurance.
I'll hop on Florida's web page and see if I can dig it up.
and yes, I believe you are correct in saying that Tesla has to dealer assign my title to the receiving party.
Auto Nation offered well below the lowest bluebook on my 2011 CT200h that is in perfect condition. And now they keep calling me. Screw Them!
I was hopeful about CarMax based on this thread. They just opened by me here in Colorado. They lowballed me on my 2010 HS250h (perfect condition) by about 1000 under Kelley Blue Book & 3000 under Edmunds. Then tried to get the deal on the spot. Took it to AutoNation and got an estimate 500 under Blue Book. Looks like Craigslist is my next option.
Have tried autotrader online quote?
No...will try, thanks
Auto trader was the lowest bid :o( I asked Tesla if I could forward the AutoNation bid to them so I could get the tax credit/trade-in. Had to apply for another bid through Tesla links. It will be interesting to see if the quote is different.
I got $500 from Carmax for a 1998 Ford Explorer with only 57K miles. Trouble was, it arrived on a tow truck! That's right, after 14.5 years, my car broke down two weeks after my Model S delivery! I would have sold it last week, but I wanted a car to drive while my Model S was in the shop. I didn't realize Tesla would offer a rental. I'm not happy about the $500 but didn't want to deal with the inconvenience of having it repaired only to sell it. The exterior was in poor condition too.
But there's more to this story. I drove my Explorer to work that morning, but it wouldn't start later that afternoon (I was leaving work early because I had a cold). I was unable to jump it, so I called AAA. They couldn't jump start it either, and after waiting two hours, they pulled my car out of the parking garage and loaded it on a flatbed. I decided i wanted rid of this car. Upon arriving at Carmax, the car actually started! I left it running while I tried to get an appraiser out to see it. Instead some other Carmax guy came out and asked me to turn the car off because it would be a while. Later, I learned the appraser was able to start the car, but it died when put in reverse. So I went out and tried myself. It choked and spluttered and died. The gas gauge was empty, so I though that may be the problem. A Carmax guy was nice enough to drive me to a nearby gas station in lovely Inglewood, where I filled a gallon container with gas. After emptying this into my trusty Explorer, I turned the ignition and... nothing. They appraised it as a "non-op vehicle." I said no way. But as a waited for a taxi, cold and tired and sick, I thought of the hassle of finding a mechanic to repair it. So I changed my mind and took their offer.
FYI- The AutoNation estimate through Tesla came in exactly the same as the non-Tesla estimate. I will take this for the tax offset.
Keep in mind that some states do not allow the trade-in to offset the taxable value of the car. We were able to do that in Texas when we purchased the 2000 MBZ wagon we are replacing with the MS but in CA. i understand it does not affect the taxable price of the car i.e. you pay tax on the whole not the adjusted price after thew trade-in as we were able to do in Texas. We'll be selling our car. AutoNation gave us a very low estimate.
I've used CarMax to sell a used car three times. Two different locations. Always a pleasant experience. My cars were always in great shape and with lower than average miles. Clear CarFax report, good paint, clean interior, good tire tread, etc. And I always get an inexpensive detailing before I take it in, so it appears as though they don't have to do a thing. That $75 detail always gets me an extra $500 on the car.
I always print the Kelly Bluebook resale value for "Good Condition", before I go to CarMax. Everytime they offer between $500 below or $500 above the KBB relale value. I get a check on the spot. And it's never taken me more than an hour. Just don't go on Sunday. Weekdays are best.
As I posted in another thread-- they are not offering any tax allowance for trading in a vehicle. (unless its a roadster)


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South American teams pace early elimination winners
Nanjing, China, August 24, 2014 - Led by three teams from South America, eight nations won opening men's Beach Volleyball matches here Sunday morning as the single-elimination phase of the competition for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games started at the Nanjing Sports Park Complex.
South American pairs from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay advanced to the Sunday evening session at the Beach Volleyball venue along with teams from the Asian (Indonesia and Thailand), European (Austria and Norway) and North, Central America and Caribbean (Canada) confederations.
FIVB 2014 under-19 world champions Arthur Mariano and George Wanderley of Brazil scored a 2-0 (21-18 and 21-16) win in 28 minutes over Luis Bramont-Arias and Jimy Heredia of Peru to advance to the much-anticipated Sunday evening match with Illia Kovaliov and Oleh Plotnytskiy of the Ukraine.
The two teams meet in the finals of the FIVB U19 world championships early this month in Portugal where the Brazilians scored a 21-18, 21-23 and 15-11 win over Kovaliov and Plotnytskiy in the 49-minute Porto finale.
"The match with Peru helped us to prepare for our next match as they fought hard and made us work for the win," said George after the match with their South American rivals. "They are not a big team, but they play very good defense and were able to side out well."
After the morning win in a light drizzle with very humid conditions, the Brazilians headed back to the Olympic Village to rest before their 8 p.m. match with Kovaliov and Plotnytskiy. "It will be a very difficult match for both teams," said George. "We know that the Ukrainians will be seeking revenge. We need to be at our best. I am glad we have several hours to rest before that match along with having time to prepare with our coach (Wallace Ramos).
The winner of the Brazil-Ukraine match will advance to Monday's quarter-finals against the winner of a meeting between Oleg Stoyanovskiy/Artem Yarzutkin of Russia and Jake MacNeil/Andrew Richards of Canada.
Sunday's evening's eight elimination matches will feature seven European pairs, five from South America, and two each from Asia and NORCECA. Five European teams (Finland, France, Germany Russia and Ukraine) earned first-round elimination "byes" along with two from South America (Uruguay and Venezuela) and one from NORCECA (Puerto Rico).
Philip Amissah and Nicholas Tetteh of Ghana, the only African confederation team to advance to the elimination rounds, was ousted by Canadians Jake MacNeil and Andrew Richards (2-0, 21-14 and 21-14). "This was a great experience for our boys," said Edward Seidu Ajanako, who is coaching the Ghana men's and women's teams. "We are disappointed in losing today, but overall, I am very proud of their effort. You must remember the boys have only been playing for a year and we won three matches in pool play."
Sunday's Round 1 Elimination Results
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The Cretans are notoriously proud of their island, and for good reason. Crete's landscape is as diverse as it is enchanting, from its cosmopolitan seaside towns with the yacht-packed marinas to its hidden mountain villages where time seems to stand still. Driving along the coastline is an experience in itself, every turn revealing a beach more beautiful than the last. Like their land, Cretans are rugged, yet renowned for their hospitality, an attribute that traces back to the ancient times, when the thriving Minoan civilisation influenced both sides of the Mediterranean. Equally famous is the local cuisine, a fusion of traditional and modern recipes that introduces a whole new world of tastes.
ChaniaChania offers everything a visitor can ask for: an enchanting waterfront that buzzes with activity, gourmet restaurants, fashionable bars, stylish shops and beaches that are among the best in Greece. A stroll through the town will reveal not only the beauty of modern Chania, but also traces of the blend of cultures and civilisations that forged the town in its current form - the Minoan palaces, the Venetian port, the Turkish houses and the Greek-Orthodox churches.
EloundaCosmopolitan Elounda grew from a little fishing village into a destination that attracts celebrities and jet-setters from across the globe. Yet the quaint seaside village with its small bars, cosy cafes and charming little beaches, does not reflect its visitors' glamorous disposition. On the contrary, its charming simplicity and friendly locals create an inviting, laid-back vibe that makes it ideal for a relaxing family vacation.
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RethymnoWith its picturesque waterfront, cobbled streets and Venetian architecture, Rethymno is undoubtedly one of Crete's most atmospheric towns. At the same time both ancient and modern, the town is a melting pot of different cultures and historical periods, as revealed by its ancient ruins, Enetic castles, Byzantine monasteries and enchanting little villages. Rethymno also boasts a vibrant nightlife, superb dining options and some of the island's most spectacular beaches.
Among all of the Greek islands, Crete is perhaps the only one that offers such diversity, both in terms of scenery and lifestyle. The northern coast of the island is the more populated and popular part. Heraklion, the island's capital and main port, has one of the country's best archaeological museums. A few kilometres away lays the palace of Knossos, a place of legend and home to the Minoans, one of Greek history's greatest civilisations.
About 70km west from Heraklion, the seaside village of Matala has been a popular tourist attraction since the '60s, when the hippies used to live inside the caves formed in the sandstone cliffs of Kokkini paralia (red beach). Just 15 minutes away from Matala, the ruins of the palace of Phaestos offer a glimpse of ancient grandeur in a spectacular natural setting, with the imposing peaks of Mt Psiloritis on one side and the Libyan Sea on the other. The village of Polyrrinia, in the north-west part of the island and just a short drive from Kissamos, is a traditional settlement that features ruins from the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods.
Chania and Rethymno are picturesque and colourful, with their distinct Venetian architecture and buzzing waterfront areas lined with restaurants and bars. Some 23km from Rethymno, is the historically significant Arkadi monastery, a stark symbol of resistance during the Ottoman occupation.
Moving toward the heart of the island, the White Mountains soar up to 2.000m and offer some excellent climbing and hiking trails. Moving southwards, the gorge of Samaria offers some mind-blowing scenery. The south coast is rugged and less-visited, but has some of the island's most spectacular beaches. In the north-east part of the island, close to Sitia, the second biggest town and port of Crete, you will find the 15th century Moni Toplou, an impressive monastery that today houses the icon Lord Thou Art Great, by the celebrated local artist Ioannis Kornaros.
A little further to the north is Vai, the largest natural palm forest in Europe, which leads to the beach of Preveli, one of the island's most spectacular sites. Nearby you will find the two monasteries of Moni Preveli, a place of great importance in demonstrating the island's heroic wartime history.
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