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SAITAMA, Japan - Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje captured silver in ice dance at the world figure skating championships Saturday, missing the gold by a mere 0.02 points.
"I'm just feeling ecstatic right now," Poje said. "This one moment is because of the combination of all the hard work that we've had, especially over these past couple of years, and showing by our grit and determination that we wanted to be up near the top. I feel that we deserve to be up here now, and it's an amazing feeling and we want to have more of it."
The dancers from Waterloo, Ont., scored 175.45 to finish second behind European champions Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte of Italy. Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat of France were third with 175.37.
Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Unionville, Ont finished eighth with 153.86 points, while Alexandra Paul of Midhurst, Ont., and Mitchell Islam of Barrie, Ont,. were 10th with 148.76 points.
Mao Asada of Japan topped the free skate in women's singles to capture her third world title.
Asada, who held a slim 1.42-point lead after the short program, under-rotated three jumps but finished with 216.69 points, 9.19 ahead 15-year-old Julia Lipnitskaia of Russia. Italy's Carolina Kostner, the 2012 world champion, took the bronze with 203.83 points.
Kaetlyn Osmond of Marystown, N.L., was 11th, while Gabrielle Daleman of Newmarket, Ont., was 13th.
"It wasn't the performance I wanted to have," Osmond said. "I love this program, I have loved skating it and I really wanted to show it off tonight."
Weaver and Poje have skated in the shadow of Canadian world and Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir for several years. But Virtue and Moir, and Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White, gold medallists last month at the Sochi Games, are expected to announce their retirement soon. Neither of the teams competed at the world championships, leaving two spots on the podium up for grabs.
"It's an incredible feeling. I'm without words," Weaver said. "I can't believe that we performed the free dance today the best we have all year under the pressure of the circumstances of the top teams being so close. I'm just so proud of Andrew and I and the work we have done this year and that we just haven't given up in our careers and that is what has brought us to this moment."
The silver sends the Canadian team home with two medals. Meagan Duhamel of Lively, Ont., and Eric Radford of Balmertown, Ont., won bronze in pairs earlier in the week.
Asada, who finished sixth at the Sochi Olympics, also won the world championships in 2008 and 2010 and became the first Japanese three-time champion.
Skating to Sergei Rachmaninov's "Piano Concerto No. 2," Asada opened with her trademark triple Axel but under-rotated that one as well as a triple flip and double loop, but she earned high style points after impressing the judges.
"I was able to control myself and I have done what I had to do," Asada said. "I was much more nervous than I was for the short program but the cheering from the fans was with me and made me relax."
Yuna Kim, the defending champion, has retired and Olympic gold medallist Adelina Sotnikova of Russia wasn't competing at the worlds.
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I have to say the AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 Windows 8 Cell Phone gives me hope. I was wondering what Windows 8 phones would be like and so I had my editor ask the fine folks at AT&T for a couple to try out. I really like the way Windows 8 works on a cell phone. I really like it.
That said the Nokia Lumia 920 is a step in the right direction but I don't think I'd say it was there yet. First of all I am quite sure if this phone fell off the top shelf of your living room knick knack area it would crush a small child. Not just their skull mind you… the entire child would fold like an accordion and the end result would be child-pancake. It is heavy. So heavy that I put training wheels and a leash on it and walked it like a dog with a bluetooth headset to talk to people.
It's a pretty phone, and the screen is wonderfully big, and crispy. I didn't mind walking it around with me for my test runs at all. I felt like it was very sturdy and the specs on the Nokia Lumia 920 are pretty impressive. 32 megs of memory, 1 GB of RAM… it does only have dual core processor but, the phone isn't exactly the newest model off the shelf either. My goal was to check out the Windows 8 phones and see what it was like and this fit the bill nicely (and it was available!) Click below to expand the specification sheet if you are interested in the nerd stuff.
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- Main camera sensor: 8.7 MP PureView
- Display size: 4.5"
- Processor name: Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4
- Maximum 3G talk time: 10.8h
- Maximum 3G standby time: 460h
- Music playback time: 74h
- Height: 130.3 mm
- Width: 70.8 mm
- Thickness2: 10.7 mm
- Weight: 185 g
- Volume: 99 cm³
- Display size: 4.5 "
- Display resolution: WXGA (1280 x 768)
- Display features: ClearBlack, Polarization filter, Brightness control, Corning Gorilla Glass, Orientation sensor, Low power mode, High brightness mode, RGB Stripe, Sunlight readability enhancements, Color boosting, Refresh rate 60 Hz, Ambient light sensor, Sculpted glass, Easy to clean, Content adaptive backlight
- Display colors: TrueColor (24-bit/16M)
- Aspect ratio: 15:9
- Pixel density: 332 ppi
- Display height: 97 mm
- Display width: 58 mm
- Touch screen technology: Super-sensitive touch
- Sensors: Ambient light sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Proximity sensor, Magnetometer
- User Input: Touch
- Operating keys: Volume keys, Camera key, Power/Lock key
- Form factor: Monoblock touch
- Dual SIM: No
- Charging connectors: Micro-USB
- AV connectors: 3.5 mm audio connector
- System connectors: Micro-USB-B
- Bluetooth: Bluetooth 3.0
- Bluetooth profiles: Object Push profile (OPP) 1.1, Hands-free profile (HFP) 1.5, Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) 1.2, Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) 1.4, Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP) 1.1
- Wi-Fi: WLAN IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n
- Wi-Fi security modes: WPA2 (AES/TKIP), WPA, WPA-Personal, WEP, WPA2-Personal, WPA-Enterprise, WPA2-Enterprise, PEAP-MSCHAPv2, EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA
- NFC: Secure NFC for payment, Sharing, Pairing, Tagging
- Other wireless connectivity: Wi-Fi Channel bonding
- GSM network: 1800 MHz, 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1900 MHz
- GSM max data speed DL: EGPRS 236.8 kbps
- GSM max data speed UL: EGPRS 236.8 kbps
- LTE network bands3: 1, 3, 7, 8, 20
- LTE max data speed DL: 100 Mbps
- LTE max data speed UL: 50 Mbps
- WCDMA network: 900 MHz, 2100 MHz, 1900 MHz, 850 MHz
- WCDMA max data speed DL: HSDPA – 42.2 Mbps
- WCDMA max data speed UL: HSUPA – 5.76 Mbps
- Frequency bands: GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900, WCDMA Band V (850), WCDMA Band VIII (900), WCDMA Band II (1900), WCDMA Band I (2100), LTE 800, LTE 900, LTE 1800, LTE 2100, LTE 2600
- Battery model: BP-4GW
- Battery capacity: 2000 mAh
- Battery voltage: 3.7 V
- Removable battery: No
- Maximum 2G standby time: 460 h
- Maximum 2G talk time: 18.6 h
- Maximum 3G standby time: 460 h
- Maximum 3G talk time: 10.8 h
- Music playback time: 74 h
- Maximum Wi-Fi network browsing time: 9 h
- Wireless charging: Yes
- Processor name: Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4
- Processor type: Dual-core 1.5 GHz
- User data storage: In device, SkyDrive cloud storage
- Mass memory: 32 GB
- Free cloud storage: 7 GB
One of my biggest "I LOVE THIS" list points for Windows 8 is that it has Microsoft XBOX Music built in. If you don't know what this is… read this as "Pandora (the way it should be)". It lets you listen to the music you want, and I mean at the song and cd level not "Staind Channel" or "Milo Channel". It has a SmartDJ that will if you enable it take care of the music selection based on what you are listening to in your queue but most of the selection is up to you before you decide to automate it. You can use the free version which allows you to hear just about anyone (there are exceptions some artists like Metallica don't want you to listen to free streamed music unless you buy it) and if you pay for the Xbox Live membership (it's like 9.99 a month or something if you buy it for the year it may be discounted) you get everything.
Whenever I'm on my phone (I use a 2 yr old iPhone 4s right now because AT&T won't give me an HTC ONE to use until I fall in love with another phone ) I really miss my Xbox Music… As I expected with the AT&T Nokia Lumia 920… it's a Windows 8 Phone so I just logged into it using my Windows 8 credentials (I do not use the local account, I use my MSN account to login to my desktop)… so I just log in using my MSN account and it goes and grabs all my preferences and music and all that good stuff from my desktop…
Did I mention I love that?
The design and build is pretty nice, like I said heavy… but nice. It has a .4-inch thick streamlined design made out of polycarbonate. It weighs close to half a pound 🙂 (6.5 ounces) The screen is really nice.. it is an HD screen that is 1280 x 768 with a pixel density of 332 pixels per inch. It's a big deal… It's better ppi than the Apple Retina Display (326 ppi) and it has better resolution too… (*than the iPhone 4s/5). The colors are rich and accurate, the blacks are deep and dark and the whites are bright enough to light up a bed room.
Another thing I like about the display is the "PureMotion+ HD". If you turn screen sensitivity to high you can cruise around on it with gloves on. That's something you can't do on the iPhone 4s/5 or the Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Pretty cool! I know it's summer now and no one gives a rat's A(*(*@ but wait until it's cold out… and those of you who live in Alaska know what I mean !
Wireless Charging is a big deal to some of you and to be honest I've never really messed around with it because too often you have to buy a new back for your phone and have compatible charging pads… it's a hassle. The AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 has wireless charging built in. So you just have to buy a charging pad and as long as it is Qi compliant you are good to go. You can even use other device pads that you may already have (if they are Qi compliant).
It's got NFC – I never use it… it's cool I just never got into it… So that's there… So what's it missing?
Well… voice navigation (native) for one. Microsoft and Google don't play well together (in fact if you go to google they gave Microsoft.com a page rank of ZERO LOL). I couldn't find an app that handled Panoramic Shots for the camera… but then again Microsoft's App market is also sorely lacking 🙁
In closing, if you are a Windows 8 user and you don't want to learn how to use Android, and you don't like Apple iPhones you should try the AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 out. It's a nice device, it has a lot of features, and they are relatively cheap coming in at (as of this writing date) $99 with contract, and they throw in a free bluetooth headset. I'll give this AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 a 3.5 out of 5 stars. It's a good device and give them a couple of more iterations it will likely be great.


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It's been a while since we've posted and there have been many adventures but here is the story behind out family spending a month in Jerusalem.
In November we found out that some close friends were going to be out here as well. We've always wanted to visit the "Holy Land" and we enjoy traveling with other people so this seemed like the excuse we needed. What ensued was a 7 day chaotic rush to get passports (for all 6 of us), buy plane tickets ($6500 total!) and find a place to stay. We ended up securing a 2 bedroom apartment 2 days before we left. It's $2300 for our whole stay.
We had am intentional 9 hour layover in Amsterdam but besides that our trip over was pretty uneventful. Also over here are Kami's brother's family (Jeremy, April, Kelsey, Jack, Sydney, Elli, Kaira) and the Mowry's (Stephen, Tiffany, Angus, Desmond, Ivy). They are 2 of the business partners who I do Epipheo with.
Originally, our plan was to just live life over here and do some touring about, since we have never been here before. After seeing the first few sites, though, it became pretty apparent that sightseeing out here wasn't so much what we were excited about. Arranging transportation, (we do not have a car out here) to arrive just to see a stack of cathedrals all fighting over the same rock, doesn't seem to hep us progress in many of our spiritual goals. At this time we were also presented with the opportunity to join an UlpanOr which is a really intense Hebrew training school. Normally it's pretty expensive but Jeremy and Stephen had worked out a deal for us to make them an Epipheo and they would give us a substantial amount of training credits.
So, that's our life here. We eat, we work, we study Hebrew and we learn. One of our primary goals for coming over was to spend time immersed in the Jewish culture. We have observed that much of the Jewish culture and belief system has ingrained in it, very deeply, a blueprint for life, family, and business. Historically, we have had very little exposure to Toraic beliefs and practices as most churches we were raised in focused 90% on New Testament. We will be back in mid-January with 3 weeks before Kami's due date (the airport permission paper required a little fudging). If it was not for Kami's due date we had considered staying for 2+ months. So far it's been great, challenging and valuable.
Here are a few practical goals while we are here:
- Build a solid enough foundation in the Hebrew language that we can continue Hebrew with the children back in the states.
- Ben would like to spend some time reading the Old Testament at the Western Wall in front of the temple mount (20 minute walk from our house)
- Ben and Kami plan on going to Yad Veshem (Holocaust Museum)
- We would like to spend the day with the family at the Dead Sea (45 minutes drive with rental car)
- We would like to develop some business contacts in Tel Aviv. So far we have been quickly accepted and have a meeting scheduled with 15 different entrepreneurs this Monday.
- Learn from the cultural and Toraic rhythms that reinforce a healthy family and spiritual culture. These guys have been at it for a while.
- Establish a bit of a foundation for potential return trip.
- Ben wants to buy a juicer and consume as many pickles as possible.
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Think you're cool cause you can blow o's when you smoke? Mother Nature has still got you beat. Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy took a little break from erupting to blow O-shaped smoke rings hundreds of feet in diameter to make every smoker and pot head in the world jealous. Just look at it. It's perfect!
The photograph comes from Tom Pfeiffer of Volcano Discovery, where you can see more impressive looking O's coming out of the volcano. According to BoingBoing, Mount Etna blew dozens of smoke rings on November 11th (it started erupting on October 26). No one knows exactly how Etna does her thing (and Etna has done it before) but it's probably because she's, well, lit.


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April showers. April showers. Musically speaking, this April has been a right shower of shi...ning examples of brilliantly constructed records. Actually, it has been quite good, managing to continue the trend of moderate optimism for a fourth month. Things will inevitably tail off later on leaving us all proclaiming "what a terrible year for music that was...was Primary Colours really the best album of 2009?! Seriously?!" at the end of the year. Anyway, enough of the misery already, here's what the musical gods offered us in April.
Our top five of April 2009
The Hold Steady - A Positive Rage
Says Alexander Tudor: "Cutting to the chase, this is a damn-near perfect live-album – everything a great live-album is and should be, with quotable banter, most of the songs sped up and urgent, and some of them shagged out, but all the more gritty for it, too." [Read the review] | Listen to this on Spotify
Jeniferever - Spring Tides
Says Dom Gourlay: "Overall, Spring Tides is the record Jeniferever have undoubtedly spent the past thirteen years of their existence building towards; an epochal moment that was well worth the wait, and can only whet the appetite in further anticipation of where their next journey of discovery will take them - in their own time, of course..." [Read the review]
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
Says Dan Wale: "There's still something that lingers, and it might be going against the grain to say so but Dark Days / Light Years is chock-full of spirit whilst also lacking some of the soul that was always a necessary ingredient in SFA's compelling brew. Be it the closing trio of tracks on Radiator, Rings Around the World's 'Run Christian Run', or Lovekraft's 'Cabin Fever', Super Furry Animals have always engaged on a level beyond that of unbridled pop music and aside from perhaps 'Cardiff In The Sun' there's not much here that gets under the skin in that way. Then again, if it's their lighter side that appeals, they've never made such a consistent pop album, and I use the term with not the slightest hint of cynicism." [Read the review] | Listen to this on Spotify
The Thermals - Now We Can See
Says Adam Anonymous: "'Liquid In, Liquid Out' could, with muddy ears, slot into a set of Green Day's volume-eschewing moments, before 'How We Fade' reprises the title track's harmonies, Harris almost forlorn among "Woah-oh" interjections. It's another highlight, directing attention toward The Thermals' uncanny knack for conjuring downcast poptastic gems. Indeed, as their debut for Kills Rocks Stars, Now We Can See is an album fit to carry the torch in 2009 for one of the underground's most fearlessly exciting labels." [Read the review]
The Veils - Sun Gangs
Says Fiona McKinlay: "Now, The Veils haven't reinvented themselves. But their sound seems to have grown like Alice in Wonderland when she eats the cake that makes her get bigger. And with Sun Gangs it's as if they've finished the whole cake and the house burst, bricks and mortar exploding through the sky like fireworks." [Read the review] | Listen to this on Spotify
DiScover album of the month
Now, Dananananaykroyd aren't exactly new to most DiSers, and well... anyone who has read the website in the last couple of years. We've championed them and in Hey Everyone they did not disappoint.
Says Rob Webb: "It's a one way ticket to musical fun times (try not to smile when you hear Baillie Jnr's "Hiya!" on 'Watch This!', or the shout-along intro to 'Some Dresses'. DiS dares you), an unpretentious, hard-rocking collection that doesn't let up until its contents has burrowed into the very fabric of your existence. You don't need to have seen the band live to appreciate what's on offer here, either, and that - as those who have will know - is probably the biggest compliment we could pay it." [Read the review] | Listen to this on Spotify
What are we looking forward to in May? Well, once we get our heads straight from the double week-BENDERS of ATP vs The Fans and ATP curated by The Breeders, we'll probably think of listening to Sunn0)))'s Monoliths & Dimensions, Graham Coxon's The Spinning Top , Conor Oberst's Outer South (We all really wish it was Outer Southend, though) perhaps even the Manic Street Preachers' new LP. Maybe.
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Love it! Amazing job on the smoke, that's always so hard to draw...wonderful job :)
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your abstracts are great.anyway you did an amazing creating this:)
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You drew the smoke really well. I like how you drew parts of it really faded while other parts more intense, gives it a nice depth.
WEy! looks like cigar puff!! and at the same time abstracts! wow very smooth and sufisticating!! (maybe i spelled it wrong lol)
Cool drawing!
That's a great smoke effect, Lynn. Really cool drawing! I like the hidden face too :) 5h


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groovyplayer needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
2 winners were selected from 132 designs submitted by 46 freelance designers.
We need an eCommerce design and logo for site that sells modern designer furniture. The design has to have a high-end designer feel to it.
Desired Color Scheme:
current or similar
Desired Style:
designer, high-end, subtle colors, contemporary
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
We need an eCommerce design and logo for site that sells modern designer furniture. The design has to have a high-end designer feel to it. Please review our existing site - http://www.eroomservice.com. We would like to use the same or a similar color scheme. We are looking for the following: home page mockup, category page mockup, product detail mockup & logo design.
Winner must supply vector file and inform contest holder of fonts and all other details. The winner will transfer all rights to the design to the contest holder upon payment of the prize.
As far as the logo is concerned, I would prefer something that's straight lines and contemporary. I also, like the font used in this logo http://www.buddakan.com text part of logo at the bottom of the page). Here's an example of the type of products that I would like to use as part of the logo (if any) - http://www.nolenniu.com/niu_produce…ducts.html.
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How to Be An Indecisive Person
Wake up. But not really. I mean, you know you need to wake up, but couldn't you maybe just sleep in for another five minutes? But then you'd be five minutes behind on getting ready and your usual routine. And you kind of want coffee since you're newly addicted. But your bed is so warm. #firstworldproblems
Finally get up and get ready, which is sadly THEEE hardest thing in the world. I mean, what if you wear the wrong thing? It'd be a travesty. I mean, you want to wear the dress but it's kind of cold and when you have to use the bathroom, tights are kind of cumbersome. But at the same time, of your 37 shirts none are appealing at the moment so wearing a shirt is kind of out of the equation. You'll inevitable change your clothes, rotate accessories and walk around the house with two different shoes on trying to decide WHAT THE HECK to wear about 16 times before finally leaving the house. It is only then that you either A) hate what you're wearing and want to call the day a complete fail, or B) realize you weren't wearing the ring you decided that would be OMGSOPERFECT with this outfit and think the world will collapse onto itself because your ring is at home and woefully not on your finger.
While out shopping, you have a list of things you need to buy but are suddenly overcome with distractions of ridiculously tempting items like candy, a magazine, and random knick-knacks. You want to keep with your list, but the prospects of new things and random ideas as inspiration flows into your head like gushing waters of brilliance, you can't help but throw a billion different things into your cart. You know you shouldn't stray off your list too much, but abandoning that adorable chambray shirt when it has so many outfit possibilities would be like kicking your imagination in the face. So you reluctantly buy it, along with 14 bags of chocolate chips for what you think will be the best chocolate chip cookie ever, against your better (albeit indecisive) judgment.
Later, your friend/date/parents/significant other will ask you what you want for dinner and you'll inevitably start feeling the beginning of a panic attack erupting from your very soul. Choosing where and what to eat is like basically doing trigonometry while a bomb is strapped to your chest and angry hornets will be released if you don't recite the Declaration of Independence within 15 seconds. In other words, it's scary as hell, people. I know that deep down, I want breakfast for dinner. But suddenly, the urge to eat a hamburger festers itself in my cells. And you'll know that if you willingly say you want a hamburger for dinner, you'll immediately regret it because once you're seated at the hamburger joint, you're going to be jonesing for breakfast. Or you'll go to the breakfast joint with every intention of ordering country potatoes with biscuits + gravy but instead you'll order a hamburger and feel like the dope who wastes their last life line on a dumbass question. Seriously–picking where and what to eat (or similarly, where to go or what to do) is a question that plagues my very core.
Thankfully, for indecisive people like myself, I have taken the horrible feeling of failure and misdirection by combining two often craved desserts simultaneously into one amazing dessert hybrid. Enter the cookie-stuffed brownie. Stuffed desserts aren't new on this blog, but the idea of shoving a buttery, tender Lofthouse-style sugar cookie inside of a deep dish, unrelentingly fudgy brownie cup is pure brilliance for those cookies? No, brownies. No, cookies. I hate my life moments I have far too often.
Thank goodness I didn't kick this idea in the face.
- 1 box brownie mix, plus ingredients on back of box
- 1 pkg (approx. 12) miniature Lofthouse-style sugar cookies (I found mine premade in the bakery department of my grocery store, but I know Target and Walmart have them too!)
- ½ cup chocolate frosting (canned or homemade)
- Sprinkles
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a standard muffin tin with 12 paper liners; set aside.
- In a large bowl, prepare the brownie mix according to package instructions. Spoon a Tablespoon of batter into the bottom of each muffin cup. Place a frosted Lofthouse sugar cookie on top of the batter. Spoon another heaping Tablespoon or two on top of the cookie, covering it completely.
- Bake the brownie cups for approx. 18-20 minutes (mine were done at the 18 minute mark) until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean or mostly clean. Cool the brownie cups completely on a wire rack.
- Once cooled, melt the chocolate frosting (you could also sub ¾ cup or so of chocolate chips) in a microwave-safe bowl until smooth and melted. Drizzle the chocolate over the tops of the brownie cups and sprinkle immediately with sprinkles. Let the drizzle set, about 20 minutes, before eating. Store these cups airtight at room temperature up to 3 days. They also taste great slightly warmed!
Okay, people. I know what you're thinking: I am positively bonkers for putting a frosted sugar cookie inside of a brownie. But trust me–it works. And wonderfully so! The cookie remains tender and buttery inside of the fudgy brownie blanket. And that sugary buttercream pillow of frosting on top of each cookie? It melts into a delectable, crystallized sugar candy layer right underneath the tops of the brownies, creating an irresistible sugar crust and adds a wonderful crunch to these brownie bites! Trust me, you'll want to bake with frosting more often 🙂
Happy Friday!!
xo, Hayley


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As an entrepreneur, you are most likely encountering a variety of issues with regards to how you can run and manage your company. These problems all relate to ethics and just what you will know you want to do to insure the business meets the needs and wants of the customers. However, sometimes, it is not as obvious and concrete as we wish so that it is and when this is the situation, generally, we finish up doing things without understanding that we are really hurting our companies.
Many business proprietors get tricked into doing stuff that are suitable for the greater sake from the word, not very ethical. However, the lines between being honest and ethical are blurred and that is when many misunderstandings happen and things could possibly get beyond control very rapidly if you are not careful and observant. That's the reason as an entrepreneur, it can be you to definitely make certain the practices you have inside your business are honest and ethical whatsoever occasions.
Again, this really is simpler stated than can be done due to the fact when the company has numerous moving parts, then which implies that there are various practices and the like you need to possess a handle onto insure a effective business. Policies, rules and rules are part of insuring the business runs ethically. It's the following tips, rules and rules that can help to steer the company in a way it is constantly on the supply the customer exactly what they need and want whatsoever occasions.
From human sources, customer care, product fulfillment and so forth are an element of the many moving areas of the company, and therefore, all these moving parts must their very own code of ethics to follow.
We are all aware the old saying, "Honesty is the greatest policy." Now this saying is really most evident, which is the very first rule of economic. Should you apply this phrase for your business, when you manage all of its moving parts, this principle will insure the business runs easily. However, what winds up happening is the fact that business proprietors learn of the very most recent technique or strategy that should really bring the company huge profits and they start using that technique simply to realize afterwards that it's dishonest and deceitful. This is when the lines really become blurred because although the technique or strategy under consideration does not appear to become deceitful, the reality arrives whenever you uncover that either your subscriber base gets smaller sized, or they are not purchasing from you want they accustomed to previously.
That's the reason it's so very important that prior to using any new technique or strategy inside your business that you simply first study rid of it and review it having a fine tooth comb to insure that everything about this is honest and ethical. This may mean doing a bit of research around the method to see how it's being used in other business models, as well as speak with other entrepreneurs who're while using technique or strategy to discover from their store how it's employed in their companies firsthand. Then and just then will you've got a obvious picture and you may decide if you should make use of the technique or strategy.


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Top 5 Wedding No-No's - What NOT to Wear!
MISTAKE #1: WEARING WHITEA lot of people think that this is an old-fashioned, old-school rule. Maybe the bride is super cool and doesn't care one bit. But wearing a white dress to a wedding can rub a lot of people the wrong way. Truthfully, the most obvious mistake female wedding guests make is wearing white. In fact, anything that looks remotely bridal is out of bounds to avoid offending the bride. It's never a good idea to wear anything that could conceivably be mistaken for a wedding dress.
Some say it is okay, however, according to Martha Stewart Weddings, "If you do show up in white, you're not technically doing anything wrong, but people might talk and you'll be known as "the girl who wore white at so-and-so's wedding." It's just not worth it.
MISTAKE #2: WEARING REDThe truth is that there's really nothing wrong with wearing a red dress to a wedding. The real underlying issue with red is that it draws the eye, BIG time. And if there is only one bright red dress among a sea of pastel shades, it will stand out like a sore thumb on the group photos. To avoid stealing the show, I'd suggest avoiding red all together. Especially if the dress color could be described as "fire engine red." Bright red is just too loud and distracting. Deep cranberry is a good alternative.
MISTAKE #3: IGNORING THE INVITATION DRESS CODEA common wedding dress guest mistake is failing to check the invitation dress code to see which style of outfit is appropriate. For a black tie dress code an evening gown or cocktail dress is expected, for a white tie dress code nothing but a ball gown will suffice, and for a lounge suit dress code a daytime summer dress, a skirt and top or a light suit is required. If there is no dress code on the invitation, a colorful summer dress is usually a safe bet. Dress codes should be paid attention to. Believe me, you don't want to feel out of place. Nothing could feel more awkward.
MISTAKE #4: DRESSING LIKE THE BRIDESMAIDSWedding guest outfits shouldn't look too much like the bridesmaid dresses. Some guests make the effort to find out the wedding color scheme and choose a coordinating dress, which is a great idea. Wearing an identical dress to the bridesmaids, however, can give the impression of being offended at not being asked to be one. Of course coincidences happen and sometimes guests will unknowingly turn up in the same color as the bridesmaids, which can't be helped.
MISTAKE #5: WEARING INAPPROPRIATE ATTIREA wedding is a classy occasion. Don't cheapen it by wearing what you wore to the bachelorette party or the club the night before. Even though the reception will likely feature dancing and single cuties, it's not the time or the place for tiny clothes that hug every curve. Skimpy clothes fall into the bachelorette party dress code. Believe me, no one needs to see your upper thigh or your cleavage hanging out. Seriously, guys. It's just not a good look.
So there you have it! My top 5 wedding No-No's when it comes to wedding attire for guests! I know there are a few exceptions to this rule. For instance, different cultures have different traditions when it comes to white and red.
But generally speaking, these rules will keep you safe when you are on trying to decide what to wear (and not to wear) to your next wedding! Looking to avoid the most common mistakes when it comes to wedding colors? Well, if you liked this article, then you'll probably love my article entitled, "Top 5 Wedding Color Mistakes and Ways to Avoid them." - An excellent read for anyone planning a wedding.


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President Obama is playing the Bain card, big time.
It was only a matter of time before his reelection campaign savaged Mitt Romney over job losses caused by the venture capital firm he once headed. This was hardly a deeply held secret. After all, Ted Kennedy went after Bain Capital when he defeated Romney in 1994. And some of Romney's Republican rivals, notably Newt Gingrich, ripped him earlier this year over the devastation that Bain visited on some of the companies it acquired.
Obama's two-minute Web ad is featured on a new site, RomneyEconomics.com, which makes clear that the president plans to make Bain a centerpiece of his assault on Romney. This might have been held back for a Labor Day attack. By unleashing it in May, the Obama team is signaling that it wants to define Romney now, while his public image is still gauzy, rather than wait until attitudes have hardened in the fall.
In a call with reporters on Monday, Obama campaign official Stephanie Cutter said that Romney "walked away with millions, and workers were left without jobs, without pensions, without health care." She said the campaign will highlight more companies damaged by Bain in the coming weeks.
There are two weak spots in the Bain-bashing strategy. One is that voters may care less about what Romney did as a businessman two decades ago than the weak economy the president has presided over for the last 3-1/2 years. The other is that Romney can also point to successful takeovers at Bain that created jobs.
"We welcome the Obama campaign's attempt to pivot back to jobs and a discussion of their failed record," Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul e-mailed this morning. "Mitt Romney helped create more jobs in his private sector experience and more jobs as governor of Massachusetts than President Obama has for the entire nation."
The Obama ad draws its power from the focus on a few of the 750 former employees at Kansas City's GST Steel, who were tossed out on the street through no fault of their own. The company declared bankruptcy after Romney's outfit bought it in 1993, steelworkers were denied full pension and health insurance, and the feds had to bail out the pension plan.
"It's like a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us," says one worker who lost his job.
"It's like watching an old friend bleed to death," says another.
The video cuts between interviews with such workers and clips of Romney on the campaign trial, saying he knows what makes jobs come and go.
On the conference call, laid-off GST worker Joe Soptic said Bain had turned the steel plant into a "sweatshop," saying "we had to fight for earplugs, respirators we needed to be safe." After he lost his job, Soptic said, his wife developed lung cancer and had to go to a county hospital to die because he no longer had health insurance.
The Republican candidate's campaign points out that the bankruptcy took place in 2001, two years after Romney left Bain. Romney has taken "personal responsibility" for buying GST Steel but said he did not manage the company.
Romney's business acumen is at the heart of his candidacy. His job was to take over distressed companies in ways that created wealth for Bain, regardless of the collateral damage. If Obama operatives can paint him as a heartless businessman, they will have badly damaged his brand—unless, of course, it turns out that voters are more focused on who can create jobs in the next four years than on the war stories of the past.


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Jay Ohrberg, a unique member of the Hollywood community, is unsurpassed in the fields of automotive design and craftsmanship. He has created some of the most famous and spectacular vehicles on the large and small screens alike. Additionally, he has earned the title "The King of Show Cars" for his abilities as an experimental builder and imaginative designer of specialty show cars. Jay is also a preeminent collector of the cars that inspired him in his own career.
Jay's collection features some of the most recognizable and unique cars ever used in the entertainment industry. These vehicles, both created and/or collected by Jay, have been seen in more than 100 movies, TV shows and videos. At the top of his achievements, Jay was responsible for designing and building the vehicles featured in the blockbuster film Batman Returns. His many other creations include such well-known cars as "Knight Rider," the Back to the Future cars, RoboCop cars,"Taco Bell" TV commercial cars, and most recently the Flintstones' cars. In addition, Jay has designed and built over 500 experimental vehicles with and incredible range of features. The "Pink Panther Limo", the "Piano Show Car", "Bathtub Car", and "The American Dream", a Cadillac limousine measuring 100 feet from bumper to bumper, listed as "The Longest Car in the World" in the Guiness Book of World Records.
All of the more than 500 Specialty vehicles to Jay's design and craftsmanship credit are one of a kind. As "King of Show Cars", his cars have been displayed in more than thirty countries around the world. His talents do not stop there, however; he is also a Hollywood stuntman, a member of the Screen Actors Guild, appeared in four episodes of the TV series "Knight Rider", a race car driver and an automotive and race car technical advisor.
Coverage of Jay's remarkable career include seven guest appearances on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous", two spots on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson", and many appearances on the "Super Dave TV Show." He has been featured on "PM Magazine", "Entertainment Tonight", "Superchargers" and "Wild about Wheels."
Jay's automotive career spans the course of his life.At an early age he began "…tinkering with cars, trying to find out what made 'em tick."Like his classmates, Jay enjoyed the hobby of Hot-Rodding throughout his high school days, but he wasn't content with simply owning and driving a "rod"; instead, he had to build his own car to be satisfied with the structural integrity, overall appearance and performance.
Jay's greatest love has always been experimentation. As he says it, "From the time a vehicle first appears on the drawing board, up through building it and adding the finishing touches, I can apply am endless variety of features which make the unit unique and outstanding, usually a pacesetter."This creative impulse has expressed itself in the design and building of a line of customized cars that are visually and structurally innovative.Jay believes, "What better way to test innovative engineering features than through the design, development and construction of custom-built cars."Jay's imagination applies to the science as well as the art of car building, "My cars are functional; they are more than design exercises, for the cars and features on them are always operational."
Jay's interest in cars has never waned, and through the years, Jay has extended his skills to apply to a variety of endeavors, including custom cars and his own company which manufactured automotive specialty components and accessories. Today, Jay is looking to the near future, when he plans to open a permanent museum that will showcase his creations and acquisitions, many of which are currently on display on the "Hollywood Cars" world tour.
Jay has made several of his attention grabbing cars available for hire in the continental US and Canada.These cars are perfect for promoting your business by drawing a crowd of spectators.Jay's cars are perfect for Shopping Malls, Grand Openings, Casinos, Fairs, Parades, Trade Shows, Car Shows, Car Dealerships, Move Theaters, Video Stores, and just about anywhere else that you want to draw a crowd.Jay's cars are also available for use in Movies, TV, music videos, and commercials.
Additionally Jay Ohrberg continues to build custom car and replicas of famous cars for customers all over the world. So if you need a custom car or replica don't trust your hard earned money to just any fly-by-night builder who make claims but can't back them up. Jay has built more movie Batmobiles then anyone.
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It's been such a miserable winter (& equally miserable Spring here in Canada), that I am so very excited to say these next two words:
And to celebrate the first day of summer, here's a special treat that's super quick and easy to whip up for the hot summer days ahead.
Here's what you'll need (only three ingredients):
- 2 bananas, peeled & chopped
- 1/2 lemon, freshly squeezed
- 2 handfuls of dried cranberries (extremely precise measurements are always used here on Shanghai Monkey)
Mix the bananas and the lemon juice in a freezer safe container. Mix well and make sure all the bananas are coated in the lemon juice and place in the freezer overnight.
The next day simply toss the mixture into the food processor along with the cranberries. Combine in the food processor until the mixture begins to resemble soft serve ice cream. Remember not to blend for too long or you'll end up with a smoothie.
Use an ice cream scoop to serve.
|I love the bright red cranberry flecks in the yellow mounds of ice "cream"
The variations on banana soft serve style ice "cream"s are only bound by your imaginations. Here are some of the others featured on my blog:
|The original raw serve ice "cream"
|Triple Berry raw serve ice "cream"
|Blueberry Pie raw serve ice "cream"
|Cinny (cinnamon) raw serve with walnuts
|Double Strawberry raw serve ice "cream"
Wishing you many happy & sunny days of summertime fun and festivities. The sun is already shining it's mighty beams on my newest dessert creation ...


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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) The world's two top golfers are meeting more and more often on the course, but neither No. 1-ranked Rory McIlroy or Tiger Woods are ready to call it a rivalry.
The pair, set to meet at this week's Abu Dhabi Golf Championship, has established a blossoming relationship since playing together for the first three rounds of last year's tournament and expressed a mutual respect for one another's game.
But for a more heated rivalry to emerge, they both agreed they need to face each other on Sunday with a tournament at stake. It has yet to happen, although Woods did make a run at McIlroy in last year's Honda Classic with a birdie-eagle finish.
``It would be similar to saying that I had a rivalry with Phil (Mickelson) two years into my career. That wasn't the case. It takes time,'' Woods said Tuesday.
``Over the course of my career, I've gone head-to-head against Ernie (Els) and Vijay (Singh) the most and that has happened over 17 years,'' he said. ``But it takes time. Certainly we've done it once at Honda. ... But we really haven't had the amount of matches or head-to-head duels with Phil and Vijay and Ernie. But then again, it's only been a few years. Let's give it time and see how it pans out.''
Speaking Monday to The Associated Press, McIlroy agreed.
``I don't know if you can call it a rivalry yet because we haven't battled each other down the stretch of a major,'' McIlroy said. ``It's not like we have been playing in the final group of a tournament and we are battling each other. Hopefully at some point that can happen this year and it would be great to be part of that.''
McIlroy joked that that budding friendship would go out the window should that battle take place.
``He is going to try and beat my brains out. I know that,'' McIlroy told the AP. ``I'm trying to do the same. We are both trying to win a golf tournament.''
Woods and McIlroy are paired together for the first two rounds at Abu Dhabi starting Thursday.
``We've certainly hit it off, and our relationship has grown and our friendship's gotten better,'' Woods said. ``We've just had a good time. Certainly give each other the needle quite a bit. That's always fun.''
McIlroy said the relationship in many ways is built on mutual respect.
``Before this time last year, we would say hello in passing but not really anything else. I think once Tiger sort of gets to know you and trusts you, I guess, and lets you in, then it's great,'' McIlroy said.
``It's great to just spend time with him and pick his brain about a few things if I feel I need to, but it's a relationship that's definitely based on respect, because you know, he's been a huge hero of mine growing up and he's done some incredible things in golf. I think he respects me for what I've done on the golf course, too. So it's good.''
But when it comes to the golf course, McIlroy joked that that the friendship would go out the window should that encounter take place.
``He is going to try and beat my brains out. I know that,'' McIlroy said. ``I'm trying to do the same. We are both trying to win a golf tournament.''


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Mahagony Opera: The Burning Fiery Furnace
Helen Wallace enjoys a potent production of Britten's parable The Burning Fiery Furnace at the City of London Festival
Was that really Roger Vignoles looming out of the shadows, cloak swirling, clattering the cymbals with unalloyed glee? It was just one of many phantasmagoric images in this dream-like production of Britten's The Burning Fiery Furnace played in the gathering gloom of Southwark Cathedral late last night.
In fact, the distinguished pianist Vignoles was not only cymbal player but music director of Mahagony Opera's inspired production by Frederic Wake-Walker, which opened in St Petersburg (a Russian premiere) and has already played to packed audiences in Orford Church as part of the Aldeburgh Festival.
I've always felt that The Burning Fiery Furnace was the most potent of the three parables, successfully marrying Medieval mystery with Noh theatre and, here, Balinese dance traditions to create raw drama. Unlike the other three, too, it's spliced with dark humour which Wake-Walker brings out with great charm.
The opening plain-song procession of hooded monks culminates in the arrival of the Abbot, the giant figure of bass Lukas Jakobski, whose mesmerising presence compels throughout. The vast shadow of his raised hand in the rivets of the arch above was just one happy result of Ben Payne's sensitive, glowing lighting.
Jakobski rapidly transforms into the menacing astrologer whose snake-like, quivering dance heralds the arrival of tenor James Gilchrist's haughty Nebuchadnezzar. Wake-Walker's choreography, derived closely from Balinese dance, animates and articulates the drama with a sensual rightness all-too rare in opera. The chorus's hand and arm movements give life to the rhythm of their singing, while the angular gyrations of the three boy entertainers are sheer delight (played with winning cheek by Alfie Evans, William Rose and Theo Christie from the Suffolk-based Jubilee Opera).
Britten handled the palette of male and boy voices with alto trombone, horn, viola, harp, organ, flute and percussion with such acute mastery one is continually arrested by sonorities which speak as eloquently as any of the singers. Ensemble was impressively close, given that the Aurora Orchestra players, Vignoles and the singers could barely see each other. Musical treasures spill out: the floating, gamelan-like texture of the story's beginning, the snarling trombone which drives the dance of death, James Gilchrist's burnished chromaticism answered by the touching homophony of the three Israelites (Samuel Evans, John McMunn and Rodney Earl Clarke), their moving appeal to God and the piercing perfect fourths of the young angel (Lucas Evans) who delivers them from the furnace.
There are still tickets for tonight and Saturday (5, 6 July) – visit the City of London Festival website – after which you can catch the performance at the Buxton Festival 14, 15 July
Photo: from Britten Church Parables: Curlew River
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Taylor Swift: one year of 1989
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I mentioned in the previous post about Adele that I leave for holiday the day after 25 comes out which means I'm listening to it nonstop when I'm away. Last year, the soundtrack of my holiday was Taylor Swift's 1989. It came out pretty much right when we left. And I love it. Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Taylor Swift's best album to date, the one she wants a Grammy for. Full Story
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WILLIAMSBURG, January 17, 1776.
Mr. John Eustace, late aid de camp to Major General Lee, and some other Gentlemen, arrived from Philadelphia and the camp, by way of Baltimore, bring advice that his Excellency General Washington had crossed the Delaware with a considerable body of his forces, and made several attacks upon the enemy, the events of which were successful, having taken five pieces of artillery, and about 700 prisoners, the 40th regiment being a part of them; that the latter were taken at Princetown college, without making any resistance; that the 1st Virginia regiment had distinguished themselves greatly for their valour, and suffered most; that our army, by a secret and well conducted march, had got between Howe's main body and his advanced parties, had stopped all intercourse between them, and a general engagement was hourly expected. We have report that the brave General Mercer is among the slain, but hope it is without foundation. This day the first division of the 2d regiment marched from hence, to join the continental army under the command of their intrepid countryman, the gallant WASHINGTON. The second division will soon follow. They are a parcel of hearty soldiers, and set out with as much alacrity as men could possibly do.
Virginia Gazette (Dixon & Hunter) January 17, 1777
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General Hugh Mercer of Fredericksburg and close friend of George Washington, was killed at the Battle of Princeton and his body was brought to Philadelphia where it was exposed for public to view his "bruised and mangled" body. In April Congress ordered that a monument be erected in Virginia in Mercer's honor and that his youngest son would be educated at the expense of the United States. The monument was erected in Fredericksburg.
Sources: VA Gaz, Waterman


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New storage standards from The Trusted Computing Group
The Trusted Computing Group is a security standards body now venturing into the storage world. The group is about to release a spec that promises to provide a secure foundation that storage management vendors and users can leverage to improve the protection of stored data.
- Jon Oltsik, Enterprise Strategy Group
The promise of painless storage security
New specs from a standards group could bring easy-to-manage, built-in security to storage devices.
Lately, it seems like the whole world has been drawn into information security. Whether it's consumers, government agencies or technology vendors, everyone now realizes that information security is the price we pay for pervasive global communications.
Storage professionals and vendors are part of this mix, but a quandary exists. Storage devices are at the back of the technology stack, relatively blind to the software logic above. Protecting storage devices is a worthy goal, but what users truly want are information safeguards, not just spinning disks and magnetic media. Leading storage vendors have noticed this trend and are preparing strategies for information-centric security, a concept similar to secure information lifecycle management (ILM). The goal is to classify data based on business rules; protect data based on value; and enforce security, privacy and usage policies regardless of information location.
Secure ILM is a great idea, but how will it evolve? The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) believes the industry will receive a major push from an unfamiliar source, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG).
TCG describes itself as "an industry standards body, composed of computer and device manufacturers, software vendors and others with a stake in enhancing the security of the computing environment across multiple platforms and devices." It's best known for the PC-based Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and TPM Software Stack (TSS). TPM/TSS is instrumented into integrated circuits, systems and apps, and is available on new PCs and laptops because it's built into microprocessors from AMD and Intel, and systems from companies like Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. At the beginning of 2006, approximately 50 million TPM-based PCs were deployed worldwide; the resident TPM chips can be used for device authentication, rogue software detection and secure credential storage.
Coming to disk drives in 2007
A trust-based architecture depends on a chain where multiple systems, apps and devices are bound by formal and tamperproof trust relationships. To that end, TCG will publish its Storage Work Group specs in early 2007, which can be viewed as an extension of the existing TPM model.
The Storage Work Group specifications provide three main security/operational benefits:
- Introduce the concept of trust relationships between storage devices and hosts. Through mutual identity, authentication, and the trust of hosts and storage devices, the trust environment is extended beyond the TPM and into storage devices. This limits who can read or write to a device.
- Enable secure control over storage device features. TCG-enabled storage can place storage devices in a "trusted state," enabling specific configurations or security features. In this way, TCG-enabled storage provides protected storage for specific users, systems or apps, and also allows exclusive control over data-at-rest encryption on storage devices.
- Create secure communications between storage devices and hosts. Secure storage provides session-oriented security commands on top of general host-to-storage communications through security extensions of SCSI (ANSI/INCITS T10) and ATA (ANSI/INCITS T13).
Like the PC implementation, TCG-enabled storage hard-codes security functionality into device-resident security processors and firmware, and thus can't be moved or altered. TCG-enabled storage devices contain cryptographic engines and enable different trust-based apps for protected storage. Security services are called through specific APIs, which isolate storage functions behind a "trust boundary." Only trusted entities with access and authorization to the API can see and use the TCG trusted storage functionality.
ESG believes storage providers should actively embrace TCG-enabled storage because it can help them deliver:
Granular storage security configuration enforcement. TCG-enabled storage provides a framework for granular, role-based configuration management and change controls. For example, individual storage functionality "containers" (TCG calls them service providers or SPs) on the storage device are "sandboxed" and exclusively controlled by a designated owner. This provides tight control over storage assets and functionality where access control is based on credentials.
Improved storage access controls. To protect storage from rogue apps and systems, admins use zoning, LUN masking and access control lists. TCG-enabled storage takes access control methods a step further with the concepts of enrollment and connection. This process can map specific hosts to specific storage devices and/or specific storage devices to specific hosts. The TCG-enabled storage provides more granular mapping and defines what protected storage locations can be allocated to specific users, systems or apps.
Scalable, device-level encryption. TCG-enabled storage provides an onboard encryption engine for high-speed encryption at the device level. This can help overcome the performance and scalability problems often associated with encryption. Cryptographic operations are handled by a dedicated processor in the drive. And because encryption is done on a drive-by-drive basis, encryption capacity scales with the addition of new drives. The TCG storage model complements encryption with read- and write-locking.
Automated backup. TCG-enabled storage can allow backup from one secure "service provider" (i.e., storage sandbox) to another. In this scenario, the SP owner must have access to another SP with registry capabilities on another storage device. With this permission in place, TCG-enabled storage can mirror SPs on one or multiple devices.
TCG-enabled storage helps to lock down storage infrastructure and the data residing on it. Access controls are based on establishing trust relationships that are authenticated at run time with credential checks. These tight controls reduce the possibility of an accidental or intentional breach of storage infrastructure or valuable data.
TCG and information lifecycle security
When the ILM concept was introduced in 2003, the lack of security protection built into the model was striking. Three years later, ILM has been enhanced with security features, but implementation remains an issue. TCG-enabled storage could overcome these problems through its support of the following:
Distributed cryptographic and key management services. ILM will require critical data to be copied, verified, distributed and encrypted. Managing multiple copies of documents and their associated encryption operations could mean managing multiple, redundant encryption systems. And if encryption keys are lost, critical data might be unrecoverable. TCG-enabled storage promises to ease ILM key management by baking cryptographic services such as signing, hashing, verification and encryption into the storage infrastructure. ILM vendors can use the storage device's base-level cryptographic services to focus on key and policy management rather than on storage layer encryption services.
Pervasive logging. Similar to cryptographic services, trusted storage will also support logging and clocking capabilities. With this infrastructure in place, ILM vendors can focus on log aggregation and analysis rather than on basic data collection.
Operationally efficient data deletion. When users want to retire or move storage devices, there are a number of choices for data deletion--from physical device destruction to full compliance with the Department of Defense (DoD) 5220-22.M process. However, the choices may not be ideal for everyday moves, adds and changes. Physical destruction means demolishing potentially usable assets, while DoD 5220-22.M requires costly certification and validation. TCG-enabled storage provides a more pragmatic and cost-effective option, and guarantees destruction of encryption keys.
Ultimately, ILM vendors and users will benefit from TCG-enabled storage devices. ILM vendors can accelerate security enhancements by building management functionality on top of the TCG API and utilizing the TCG security plumbing. For users, TCG-enabled storage should ease the inevitable interoperability problems posed by multiple ILM implementations because products will call the same APIs, use the same commands and harvest the same device-resident data.
The bottom line
When it comes to security, the storage industry went from a state of denial to a state of confusion. This isn't unusual with information security because there are often more questions than answers.
In this perpetual enigma, the TCG storage specification may be a breath of fresh air. By baking security and software functionality into the disk drives themselves, TCG is providing a secure storage foundation that can be taken advantage of by storage management software vendors and users. This functionality goes beyond securing the storage infrastructure, as it can be extended to become part of secure ILM.


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Letter to the Editor: Canyon Springs will have major impacts
I just finished reading the Sierra Sun article about the DEIR meeting regarding Canyon Springs. It seems incredulous to me that so many safety and traffic issues have not been addressed.
Not even mentioned in this meeting was the traffic from Martis Peak Road should there be a forest fire. We have had some serious threats and fires in the past on Martis Peak and have been fortunate that none turned into real emergencies.
Has anyone considered the impact of a fire up Martis Peak and the absolute traffic jam that would ensue with all of the folks up Martis Peak, and all of the people from the proposed development? Plus all of the Glenshire residents evacuating at the same time, through one exit? This is a tragedy waiting to happen.
The other statement that really struck a nerve is that this will not "significantly impact" our wildlife. This will significantly impact our wildlife as it develops acres of land where our deer are currently migrating through. It will also significantly impact the safety and quality of life, air quality and all of the other things mentioned, for the residents of Glenshire.
We do not need more houses at a time when our market is already glutted with so many for sale, and under water. I hope that all of these issues are addressed and dealt with before any construction is approved by the Town of Truckee.
Marianne Ryan


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The pirate fishing vessel, Luna Rossa, cut off its illegal driftnet and fled from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.
Driftnets - described as "walls of death" because of the way in
which they indiscriminately snare not just their target species,
but everything in their path - killing whales, dolphins and
turtles in addition to other marine life, have been banned by the
United Nations and the European Union. Our activists retrieved the
illegal net and we reported the vessel to the relevant authorities
in Italy and the European Union - though so far with no
They can run but they can't hide
Fortunately, the helicopter on the Arctic Sunrise has been
repaired - it was damaged when the ship
was attacked by Turkish fishermen a few weeks ago - and so we
were able to catch up with the Luna Rossa to get its name and
number, despite the crew's attempts to hide this information from
us with tarpaulin, buoys and footballs!
They were clearly unimpressed about Greenpeace turning up as
they were hauling their illegal catch. They made rude gestures,
exposed their buttocks and hurled abuse at our activists over the
The Arctic Sunrise is exposing these pirates but the real
responsibility for enforcing the driftnet ban lies with the Italian
government and the European Union. Yet Mediterranean governments
continue to turn a blind eye to these activities, essentially
condoning the crimes and failing in their mandate to protect the
Mediterranean Sea from such acts.
Greenpeace is campaigning for a global network of fully
protected marine reserves covering 40% of our oceans as an
essential way to protect our seas from the ravages of climate
change, to restore the health of fish stocks, and protect ocean
life from habitat destruction and collapse.
As part of this campaign, the Arctic Sunrise is currently in the
Mediterranean documenting threats to the sea and promoting the
designation of marine reserves. Our three-month expedition -
"Defending Our Mediterranean" - began in May, and we have already
confronted Italian driftnet
fishing vessels and Turkish purse seiners targeting bluefin
tuna. We have also mapped and documented seagrass meadows requiring
protection in Greece and Libya.
The Mediterranean Sea is in crisis and the industry is fishing
itself to death. Swordfish stocks are dwindling, and driftnets go
on reaping a deadly bycatch. Bluefin tuna is set to share the same
fate as cod in the north Atlantic, and vital fish breeding and
feeding areas like seagrass meadows continue to be destroyed.
We are urging all Mediterranean countries to unite and protect
their sea - to stop illegal fishing and preserve their shared
marine resources. Laws without enforcement are worthless. It's time
to stop talking about protection and start taking real action to
stop the plunder. If we want fish for the future, we need marine
reserves now.
Help our oceans recover by joining the call for a global network of marine reserves.
The Arctic Sunrise continues to defend the Mediterranean and we rely on donations from people all over the world to keep our ships going. Please give whatever you can.


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burn bright needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 80 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
Alternative, unique treatments of our brand name utilizing our logo. See http://www.emberclothingcompany.com. Logo is the flame with wave, which we want to remain the same. We're looking for a variety of font treatments, logo/design placements, etc. What's most important to us is to keep true to our aesthetic, which is clean and simple. But at the same time we want a unique, creative corporate identity.
Desired Color Scheme:
no requirements, we like earth tones.
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
Our holding company is Ember USA, which is comprised of Ember Clothing Company and Ember Wetsuits. Brand Identity needed for Ember Clothing Company, but could also incorporate Ember Wetuits, and/or website emberusa.com
Our brand is surf-inspired and caters to a broad-spectrum of outdoor enthusiasts. Â While our target demographic is the 21-45+ year old male, we'd like our brand image/logo/identity to reach and appeal to a
broader audience.
What we're looking for is a variety of means by which we can present ourselves across different forms of media, including (but not limited to) the internet, print and video/television.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Brett Hull to Sean Avery: "You do not get to talk to Mr. Sakic"
Great read by Adam Proteau of The Hockey News on Monday about the game's "code" and respect for its best players. Proteau writes that in Sean Avery's rookie year in 2001-02, when he was coming into the league with the Detroit Red Wings, Avery tried to chirp the Avs' Joe Sakic before a faceoff in front of the Detroit bench.
"You do not get to talk to Mr. Sakic," Brett Hull told Avery, after pulling on the rookie's sweater and making him sit down on the bench.
Proteau's complete story is here. It speaks to our recent two-part series about hockey fighting and having players police the game, and I've always liked Brett Hull and obviously everyone in Colorado loves Joe Sakic.
As Proteau writes, "this was hockey policing itself without an enforcer."
"With the guys we had on our team – myself, Brendan (Shanahan) and Stevie (Yzerman) – guys played hard and played to win, but when we played Colorado and all the other great teams, we had a lot of respect for them," Hull told Proteau. "They were champions and unbelievable players. And I just never believed in all that chirping anyway."