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Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Professional Golfers Ignoring Local Rules - Again!
This season has seen some spectacular Rules screw-ups from professional golfers that should really know better. But we rarely have three of them in a single tournament, which is what happened in the pro-celebrity Star Trophy at Mission Hills in Haikou, China, last weekend.
First, six-time Major winner, Sir Nick Faldo, suffered the indignity of a Round 1 disqualification. He missed a putt on the eighth hole and picked-up his ball, thinking that he could not better his playing partner's score. Unfortunately, he had forgotten that the pro-celebrity format included a professionals only competition. His mistake was not brought to his attention until he had teed off at the next hole, by which time it was too late to rectify and he was automatically disqualified, under Rule 3-2, Failure to Hole Out.
Next, Colin Montgomerie was the weekend's biggest loser when, during the final against retired lady golfer, Lorena Ochoa, his caddy moved an advertising sign on his line of play. This is permitted in any PGA or European Tour event. But a Local Rule at the Star Trophy, contained in a sheet handed out to the competitors before the competition started, stated that these signs could not be moved. Monty was penalised two strokes for his caddie's action; the same number of strokes that kept him from making a playoff against Lorena Ochoa, who therefore took the winner's prize money of $1.28 million. Ouch!
Finally, the most spectacular penalty situation at this event was the 26-stroke penalty incurred by Ryuji Imada, who actually admitted that he did not bother to read the Local Rules sheet. When difficult course conditions require that 'lift, clean and place' operates on the PGA Tour, where Imada usually plays, players are able to place the ball within one club-length of its original position. But on the Asian and European tours, the ball must be placed within the length of a scorecard (about 6 inches). It wasn't until the 12th hole that his fellow competitor, Danny Lee, noticed that Imada was breaking the rule and informed him accordingly. He was penalised two strokes for every ball that he had lifted, cleaned and placed on the fairway, a total of 26 strokes. When asked about his infraction, Imada succinctly replied, "I'm an idiot".
Is it unreasonable, following Dustin Johnson's high-profile and high-cost 'Bunker-gate' affair (see this link), to expect that golf Pros, and especially their caddies, should now pay more attention to the sheets that are given to all competitors prior to the start of each event detailing Local Rules and Conditions of Competitions? I don't think so. Once again I recommend that you make this chore a regular feature of your own pre-game routine, especially when playing on a course that you are not totally familiar with. You can only gain by doing so.
Good golfing,
Barry Rhodes
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We have a local rule in place at present that says that all white lined areas are mandatory GUR. On about half of our holes, the fringe of the greens is marked as GUR - the white line is along the edge of the green and the GUR goes back about six feet or so into the rough, so it is a big disadvantage to drop from the GUR. My question is do you have to drop from the GUR if your ball is on the green but you are standing on the fringe.
- 21 November 2010 at 09:44
- Barry Rhodes said...
It depends how your Cub's Local Rule is worded. See the second paragraph of this Rule 25-1;
Interference by an abnormal ground condition occurs when a ball lies in or touches the condition or when the condition interferes with the player's stance or the area of his intended swing. If the player's ball lies on the putting green, interference also occurs if an abnormal ground condition on the putting green intervenes on his line of putt. Otherwise, intervention on the line of play is not, of itself, interference under this Rule.
Note: The Committee may make a Local Rule stating that interference by an abnormal ground condition with a player's stance is deemed not to be, of itself, interference under this Rule.
If there is no reference to this in the Local Rule then the player must take the mandatory relief if their stance is in an area designated as GUR, even though their ball is on the putting green, which I cannot believe is your Committee's intention. It seems to me that they may need to redefine the GUR margins.
- 21 November 2010 at 10:00

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Lull before the Storm
Many people think that we shut down the Centre during the school holidays but nothing could be further from the truth. It is our opportunity to improve the environment and services for customers and develop our program of events and projects for the coming year while it is a bit quiter.This Summer we have been busier than ever.
Our refurbishment plans are well underway but will sadly drag on into September; if we ran a school the way that some businesses seem to work then we would be sacked within weeks;
'Oh sorry Mrs Scoggins but your child won't achieve basic literacy and numeracy levels for three weeks longer than we told you last week when you enrolled him; supplier let us down…"
However, that is but a minor irritation.The real task has been setting up of the work that we do on a day to day basis. Yes we have the best conference centre in the area…and we are improving it further….but the work that we do for the schools that fund us or use us is set to expand immensely.
As previous posts reveal, a lot of the events and projects that we run from here have become increasingly concerned with the purpose of education. Our belief is that qualifications are important, show me a school that is not taking that seriously, but we aim to support the wider aim of education. Namely we are developing students awareness of what careers they could have, how they could enter those careers and how to develop their skills and become effective lifelong learners. Last year we began that mission in earnest with strategies like: STEM days where students of different ages came to experience hands on workshops with real people from real industries; Challenge Days where students had to work on time limited challenges in their own classrooms, organising their workload, team roles and so on; and connecting schools with industry and business on request to fit with curriculum needs.
These were hugely successful, we had over 3000 children involved in one way or another and the feedback from teachers has been outstanding. But all I see when I look at '3000 children involved' is 'what about the others?' Being a proactive sort of bloke I am aiming to change that dramatically this year. My Summer has been filled with meetings and planning sessions to enable me to put in front of local schools a detailed menu of events (usually free), projects (usually free) and link ups with local industry outreach so that employability skills become high on every educator's agenda. Last week saw the news that Ernst and Young, a huge company and attractive destination for a career, are not bothering to even look at the qualifications of people who apply to work there. They will be judged on their CV, application letter and in house aptitude tests. In the last week alone there have been several articles suggesting that the 'academic route' based on exam performance leads to a false belief that a degree gives a great chance of highly paid career. Two reports, one from the CIPD and the other from the EDGE Foundation, both suggest that this is simply not the case and that university leavers are simply too numerous in terms of the highly paid jobs market.
And yet we hear constantly that there is a huge skills gap, especially in the more technical jobs that current students could be aiming to fill. Big problem, so what is little old Inspire2Learn going to do?
Well it has become abundantly clear to me by addressing this problem over the last 12 months that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people who all agree that this is a problem and that we need to do something about it. The problem as I see it is that there is one group doing something in one place, somebody doing a bit of something in another, a company offering outreach in a different place and so on. There is NO cohesion. My many meetings have been an attempt to pull some of those strands together so that schools can get a clear idea of what is out there and industry have a simple way of making sure that their offers to schools of placements, site visits, outreach work and so actually gets heard by the right people. I'd be astonished to find a school who doesn't have any eye on preparing their students for their future beyond a set of test certificates but it strikes me that each school is replicating the work that others have done when it could easily be laid on a plate for them to choose from. That is my task.
We also need to be mindful of the industries and businesses who get involved with outreach work. Most are very happy to do so. They see it as giving something back, helping prepare their potential future employees and many have also told me it is good for their staff morale and ethos too. By collating all the wonderful opportunities into one place we can potentially also avoid the situation where one school gets 'all the good stuff' because they maybe have someone with more time to spend on organising it, or whatever.
There is also another side to this too. I have spent much of the Summer reading and analysing many of the reports and studies that have been written in recent years pertaining to what 'employability skills' look like. By conducting a cross study analysis several skills, experiences and attitudes are emerging as key themes. These define what a school leaver would ideally be like to prepare them for the world of work at the age of say sixteen. The image on the right shows my work in progress. I must admit, I would be hard pressed to say that I excel in all of those areas myself, but they are the aspiration and different statements are more heavily weighted to differentpotential employment. But as a teacher it immediately makes me think:
'If that is what they need to be like at 16, what do we need to do at 15, 14, 11, 9, 5? Where does it start and how does it progress?'
Schools take the same approach to any subject that they want students to achieve at. They look at the outcome and they plan a program of study to achieve it. And before I get shot down by the 'we don't have time, OfSTED won't judge us on it' I would like to point out that many of the statements that have emerged are actually already part of the wider curriculum, often in several subjects. Many of the more work specific ones 'able to conduct a formal conversation on a telephone' are rarely taught in any school that I know of but feature highly in some of the projects that we will be running from the centre (Junior Engineer Project for example where students have to phone a company to negotiate for materials – the company has offered to make somebody available as part of their outreach offer'). These projects and events are usually one off days, or run over a half term for a specific group of students, they are not massively time consuming and the overall benefits for motivation and engagement are huge. Under the new OfSTED framework inspectors will also be very attentive to what schools are delivering in terms of the wider curriculum and how schools are making their provision fit the local needs of our students. Last time I looked unemployment seemed to be a pretty high priority locally…
One off days are great, but they are one offs, hardly conducive to developing skills. But imagine a world:
Every year from Reception onwards little Billy takes part in a time limited, team based challenge for one day, three times a year, his work is published on the internet. As he gets older he is involved in a range of events such as a one off event working with an engineer building bridges (Connor Lishmann from Cleveland Bridge does some fantastic work with our students), maybe in Y5 he does the Fiver Challenge (supported locally by Young Enterprise) and maybe in Y6 potentially a site visit to SSI Steel. In Y7 he is part of a team in the Mindstorms Lego League Challenge, presenting his ideas to a large audience. In Y8 maybe a guided visit around Teesport; each year he gets involved in another event or two, building up his awareness of possible careers, his understanding of appropriate behaviours in professional contexts and his skill set through lots of pertinent activities.
This raises his realistic aspirations to a career in an area that interests him, creating the motivation that might just get a bit more homework or revision done because there is a bigger picture now more clear for him. All of these events and projects ensure that he is getting to meet people who actually do that job, maybe people who were just like him when they were his age.
Our full offer for schools (and any business that would love to get involved) will be posted soon on the Events page on this site. Redcar and Cleveland schools get first refusal and pretty much everything for no charge on most of the offer because they fund this centre. Previously only teachers from other Local Authorities have used the centre for courses and events but we want to now extend that offer to students as well where space allows. We live in the Tees Valley and political boundaries should not be a barrier to creating a better region for all of us to live and work in, especially in light of the impending creation of a 'combined authority'.
If you are a school or a business in the area and want to join in with this then please contact me: email@example.com
Sermon over!
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Not too much chocolate. x
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Friday, April 22, 2011
bunches of flowers i bought for myself
On payday I'm going to order myself one of these signed limited-edition postacard sets. You may have admired photographer Julia Schauenburg's work in Frankie magazine. The set is called "Bunches of Flowers I Bought for Myself" and contains 52 gorgeous postcards. They are available from Julia Schauenburg Photography
vintage gucci bag on vacation
Here is my fav bag, a vintage Gucci number.
The inside was in SUCH disrepair my amazing mother-in-law
lined it with red satin (the very same my wedding dress was lined in).
So, now I can use it without getting crap all over my things.
Here I am sunning myself on a rock in Townsville in yet another Leona.
my aunty's wedding, 1974
My Uncle John and my Aunty Carol (isn't she just gorgeous).
Their wedding, 1974. I LOVE a vintage wedding.
I particularly like the headwear and the boquet,
but a bit alarmed about the colour of the bridesmaid dresses.
This wedding also looks more 60s than 70s to me.
gorman pieces i'd like this season
The above duffle coat.
The above spotted long-sleeve tee.
The above duffle coat.
That dress.
The pussy bow shirt.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
joan holloway pen necklace
Check out my Joan Holloway of Mad Men fame gold pen necklace.
I got it from Owliday Inn.
Now the rest... top $4 thrifted the brand is "Woolworths". Love it!
The skirt is $15 from KMart. Shoes are $15 thrifted Prada.
Who says it cost a lot to look like a million bucks?
my stylish nanna, early 1950s
Nan and Aunty Carol.
Mum and Nan.
Mum, Pup and Nan.
Nan, Great Nan, Aunty Carol and Mum.
Let me take this opportunity to scold my nanna for not
keeping ANY dresses, hats, bags etc for me. :(
my nan, 1940
1968 debutante
This is the first time I've ever seen this photo.
It's my mum making her deb in 1968 at 16-years-old.
Look at that hair! I love it.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
pretty new things
My new circle skirt from Modcloth. She is divine.
My new Alannah Hill tights. Perfect for winter (looks like a night time snow scene).
This is a darling bag I won from the gorgeous Green Tea and Cupcakes blog.
Thank you so much. xx
This is my beautiful Diva necklace. I've never worn it and not recieved fifty compliments.
yellow satchel
I made my friend Carlos buy this bag. His old one broke and someone
needed to own one of these so I could admire it daily.
I would love a pink one, but it just isn't my style. :(
They're available at The Cambridge Satchel Company.
Monday, April 18, 2011
lovely legs
Sunday, April 17, 2011
wow - french elle
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In Greece: As 'Austerity' Ignites Masses, Elites Turn To Imperial Stormtroopers
Daniel McAdams
Lew Rockwell Blog
Feb 27, 2013
The usually reserved waitress at our favorite Greek-owned Sunday breakfast place approached us in dismay. Her daughter and son-in-law were escaping Greece for the US. Even middle class professionals were finding themselves digging in the garbage for food to eat, she said. You cannot imagine just how bad it is in Greece, she told us, with tears in her usually stoic eyes.
What has happened in Greece is as Ryan McMacken quotes Mark Thornton in a recent LRC blog, about what passes in popular parlance as "austerity": "The…idea of raising taxes on individuals to pay off international banksters…[which] is bad economics and is not real austerity."
As the always enlightening Daily Bell website pointed out earlier this year:
"In fact, the Greek Parliament is voting today on a new tax bill that broadens the tax base to raise another 2.5 billion euros, and also introduces new annual income thresholds for salaried taxpayers. It does away with tax breaks for the self-employed.
"Entrepreneurs have emerged as the latest 'bandits' in Greece's ongoing efforts to bleed the wretched Greek carcass of its last available drop of revenue. Government benefits have been slashed, taxes raised and Greeks are being pursued with maniacal determination for taxes, paid or not."
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The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the ongoing Iranian nuclear negotiations, the Chilean presidential election, and the space missions launching next week.
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The highlights:
- It looked last week as if the high-level talks in Geneva on Iran's nuclear program were poised to yield an interim agreement. Foreign ministers from the P5+1 countries stopped what they were doing and jetted off to Switzerland to hammer out the final details. Journalists had their ledes written for the Sunday papers announcing the historic breakthrough. Then suddenly the imminent deal became no deal at all. In the week since then, there has been a long line of official finger-pointing—including on Twitter—over who derailed the talks. Meanwhile, back in Washington, DC, pressure is growing in Congress to impose additional sanctions on Iran, which the White House says would put the United States on a "march to war" and supporters say would force Tehran to capitulate. Talks will resume next week when lower-ranking diplomats again assemble in Geneva, but expectations for what that conversation will produce are low.
- Chileans head to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president in the sixth presidential election since democracy returned to Chile in 1989. Incumbent president Sebastian Piñera is not running because the Chilean constitution bars incumbent presidents from seeking re-election. The ban does not apply to former presidents, however, which is good news for Michelle Bachelet, who served as Chile's president from 2006 to 2010. She is favored to win on Sunday, though if she does not pull in 50 percent of the vote she will have to go to a run-off election on December 15 that she will be heavily favored to win. Bachelet and her main opponent, Evelyn Matthei, share a history that mirrors a deep and painful divide in Chile's history. Their fathers were friends and fellow generals in the Chilean army. Matthei's father sided with General Augusto Pinochet during the 1973 coup. Bachelet's father, however, sided with President Salvador Allende. Pinochet had General Bachelet imprisoned, where he was tortured and eventually died.
- Next week is a busy one for the space business. NASA launches its Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) orbiter on its journey to Mars. The European Space Agency sends three satellites into space as part of its Swarm mission to unlock the secrets of the Earth's magnetic field. And the Russian Federal Space Agency launches a resupply mission to the International Space Station. China, India, and Japan also have active space programs, and other countries are likely to join them in the coming decades. These efforts could greatly expand our understanding of the heavens; they may also open up an entirely new venue for great power competition.
- Bob's Figure of the Week is 383. My Figure of the Week is Xi Jinping. Our audience-nominated Figure of the Week comes from TWNW listener @WNCTravelIntel, who picked the sheer number of islands in the Philippines. (7,107 to be exact). As always, you'll have to listen to the podcast to find out why.
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Iranian Nuclear Talks: Richard Haass argues that Iran and the United States should start final-status negotiations. UPI outlines Secretary Kerry's plea to Congress to delay passing more sanctions. The European External Action Service describes the EU's position on Iranian nuclear negotiations. Reuters reports that the IAEA sees no changes in Iran's nuclear program since Rouhani entered office. PBS Newshour analyzes how close Iran is to building a nuclear weapon.
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The Revolution of Abstraction
01 Oct
Art, science and spirituality, anciently one entity, seem to be making a convergence in these disparate times.
The revolution of abstraction that was experienced in art by the likes of Mondrian was mirrored by quantum physics in science. The 'established law' of reality was turned on its head not only by art and spirituality, but now by science, that aegis of precision. In the quantum theory the way that we observe reality determines what we see, and just as quantum physicists discovered a 'trap door' in reality, so art cuts through our perceived notions of existence and explores other planes, in a shamanic vein.
The mathematics of quantum theory, as described by quantum physicist, David Bohm, describes something akin to spirituality. He was dissatisfied with the findings of quantum physicists who only appeared able to discuss what was absorbed and measured, and by that count unable to explain reality. For him, reality meant something existing independently of being known; he arrived at what he called the implicate order, giving the example of a hologram as a visual analogy.
'In an ordinary photograph, made by a lens, you have a point to point correspondence. Each point in the object corresponds to a point in the image, more or less. Now in a hologram, the entire object is contained in each region of the hologram, enfolded in a pattern of waves, which can then be unfolded by shining light through it. The suggestion is that if you look at the mathematics of the quantum theory it describes a movement of just this nature, a movement of waves that unfold and enfold throughout the whole of space. You could therefore say that everything is enfolded in this whole, or even in each part, and that it then unfolds. I call this the implicate order, the enfolded order, and this unfolds into an explicate order. The implicate is the enfolded order. It unfolds into the explicate order in which everything is separated.'
(Bohm, David, Interview London 1990)
The implicate order would then intimate mutual participation of everyone and everything, since no thing will be complete in itself and its totality will only come into being through participation. If we are internally connected to the whole, in such a way as Bohm suggested, then our consciousness is also linked, which would mean that our actions are partially effected by the whole. Spiritual teachers, ancient and contemporary, have reiterated the need for peace to come from within if it is to have a lasting effect in the world.
The creative process begs the question of how to create a quality of wholeness from a splintered sense of the world or of the process itself. Cezanne is self evident, imparting wholeness that he perceived in a multitudinous landscape, which is then experienced by the onlooker. It is equally there in the abstract paintings of Helen Frankenthaler, for one. The loss of distinction through long exposure blends subject matter and element in photography and film. In House, I used overlapping, blending interior, exterior and inhabitant to express a number of experiences and perceptions of being.


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One of the most famous of all Hawaii's attractions is Oahu's Polynesian Cultural Center. This is actually considered to be the largest paid attraction in the state. Located on the North Shore of Oahu the Polynesian Cultural Center is about an hour's drive from Waikiki but that does not stop droves of visitors from visiting it and if you don't have a car there are buses to take you there. The reason for its popularity has to do with the fact that it is so compelling. The idea behind it is that small villages representing all of the many cultures of the South Pacific have been created here. You will be able to travel from a small Tahitian village to a Samoan village to a Fijian village and so forth and see the designs of their huts and see the way they lived inside. Actual islanders will be there dressed in their traditional garb and ready to answer any questions you might have. You'll be able to play traditional games and watch them as they produce useful everyday items out of materials found in their natural environment. Later in the evening you will be treated to a luau or a Hawaiian show and also a large extravaganza featuring all the song and dance of the South Pacific regions.
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The island of Oahu has more special attractions than any other island by far. You can visit Pearl Harbor and the Battleship Missouri Memorial, tour the Hawaiian Waters 25 acre water adventure park, participate in horseback riding, ATV rides, Hawaiian sailing and fishing, visit Hawaiian movie sites at the Kualoa Ranch, spend a day at the Polynesian Cultural Center or visit Oahu's famous Sea Life Park and interact with dolphins at this World Class Ocean Center.
We market and sell some tours as "Combination Tours" on Kauai. Please keep in mind that as a general rule the differences between two tours bought as a "Combination Tour" instead of two individual tours that were purchased on an "A La Carte" basis normally has more to do with logistics than with pricing.
If you're looking for nightlife in Hawaii, the dinner shows, dinner theater and evening entertainment in Oahu's Honolulu and Waikiki are the places to be in the islands.
If you're looking for nightlife in Hawaii, the dinner shows, dinner theater and evening entertainment in Oahu's Honolulu and Waikiki are the places to be in the islands.
Oahu is the perfect size island for bus tours and van tours. It is just the right size to circle the island in one day and many varied tours are offered.
We frequently get asked questions from our clients about the handicap accessibility of our tours. As a result of this we have created category on our website called "Handicap Accessible Tours on Oahu".
On Oahu, even the kids can have fun on tours and activities. Here's a selection of tours and activities specially chosen for kids. Kids will love these exciting tours and activities in Oahu: submarine tours, hiking tours, swimming with dolphins, horseback riding, water parks, and exciting beach activities.
Oahu is the home of three of the most famous Hawaiian lu'aus; the "Polynesian Cultural Center" Lu'au, Germaine's Lu'au and Paradise Cove Lu'au. The Hawaiian lu'aus and feasts on Oahu are heavily steeped in Hawaiian history, Polynesian history, hula dancing and all facets of Hawaiian culture.
The Polynesian Cultural Center has been considered for years to be the most visited of all of Hawaii's top paid attractions. Over 33 million people have visited this beautiful North Shore location to experience the seven native villages that give visitors a rare opportunity to participate in various levels of the daily activities of these South Pacific cultures.
We've been planning vacation activities on Oahu for over 40 years and some of our favorite packages to help clients with are the "Customized Special Requests".


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How to Design Gender Neutral Nurseries
Nearly every parent that hires you to design a baby nursery will have an idea of how they'd like it to look. More parents are choosing nurseries that look like they would suit a little boy and a little girl. Parents like gender neutral rooms for many different reasons. Some people:
- Want to keep the baby's gender a surprise until it's born
- Design nurseries during the adoption process, before they know the gender of the baby they'll adopt
- Want the nursery to suit future babies too
- Choose gender neutrality on purpose so their kids don't have to feel too girly or too boyish if they don't want to.
Your goal will be to detach the idea of a baby nursery from the stereotype that "blue is for boys" and "pink is for girls". There are many other ways to coordinate a gorgeous space for bedtime, nap time, and changing time without designing specifically with boys or girls in mind.
Here are seven tips for designing stylish gender neutral nurseries that will appeal to anyone!
1. Shapes and patterns
Shapes, patterns, and lines can be just as cute and decorative as colors and characters. If you balance pretty, ornate designs (which appear more feminine) with simple, streamlined ones (which appear more masculine), you'll create a comfortable, neutral atmosphere. Consider shapes like stars or geometric patterns and determine how feminine, masculine, or neutral you make them look with the colors you use.
2. Characters
Incorporating human characters from books or movies can be difficult in a gender neutral room because most people have a visible gender. For example, if you design a room that is Dora the Explorer themed, people will assume that the room belongs to a little girl. If you want to include living characters to liven up the space, get wall stickers, paintings, figurines, or plush toys shaped like animals instead. These bring life to the décor without gearing the atmosphere toward either boys or girls, and they're also adorable.
3. Boys and girls
Designing a gender neutral space doesn't mean that you have to avoid clear gender markers at all costs! Why not make the room friendly for boys and girls by including things that both groups might like? Feature a combination of colors that are stereotypically "boy colors" and "girl colors" or balance pictures of sports gear with ballet shoes. Making sure femininity and masculinity are both included in the room can be just as effective for creating a gender neutral space as leaving them out. Visitors walking into the room will understand that the space is meant for any baby.
4. Adventure themes
One of the best strategies for a gender neutral nursery is to concentrate on theme rather than purposely including or avoiding gender. To choose a theme, think about things like the adventures all little kids would love to go on. Decorating the room to look as though you're in space, in the jungle, or under the sea creates a fun atmosphere. Of course, it's true that some little girls would love a hockey themed room and some little boys would love a room full of flowers, but your goal is to balance the theme somewhere in the middle. Nature and space are just a couple great options for hitting that balance.
5. Stylistic details
If themes and characters aren't your clients' thing, build the gender neutral atmosphere in the small details. Try to strike a balance between things that are decorative and things that are functional. Fancy furniture with ornate details tends to look feminine, while functional furniture with a more streamlined look appears more masculine. In a nursery, you'll need to balance practicality with comforting décor, and details like furniture and lighting are the perfect tool for that.
6. Learning themes
Like adventure themes, décor that concentrates on fun learning makes for the perfect gender neutral atmosphere. Whether your clients' bring the new baby home in a pink or blue blanket, they'll feel comfortable and happy in a room full of letters, numbers, crayons, and other fun learning themes. Later on, your clients' can even turn that nursery into a bedroom or play room with the same theme because it's appropriate for a range of ages.
7. Food themes
Everyone loves food! No matter the gender of your clients' baby, cartoon fruits and vegetables in the form of stickers and stuffed toys bring character and color to the room without getting too gender-specific. Take the style of the theme in different directions by considering brightly colored cartoon character fruits with friendly smiles or rustic farm veggies in more subdued, vintage-looking hues.
Get designing!
Don't let the idea of gender neutrality intimidate you. Whether your clients are choosing a neutral style because it's trendy or because they're waiting until they meet their bundle of joy, you should be able to give them a gorgeous space. Design with all babies in mind, rather than just little girls or little boys, and find creative ways to include all the classic elements of a nursery without getting gender-specific.


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Republican Era Romans were a mix of Spanish and Greek? Seriously? That would be MODERN northern Spanish and MODERN mainland Greek the paper was showing. We have to look at mixtures of PROXIMATE populations as in NOT MODERN POPULATIONS.
That doesn't mean admixture between those two groups you dunderheads!
Plus, most of the Republican samples don't plot far south enough for that. My God, look at the PCA.
I can use myself as an example. On the old gedmatch calculators I come out as midway between the Spaniards (a heavily northern Spaniard weighted sample) and the Greeks. I have neither Spanish nor Greek ancestry. It's just that I, and Italians like me, are neither West nor East Mediterranean. We're CENTRAL Mediterraneans.
Oh, and I'm at 3.4 genetic distance to a TSI like sample from Szolad, and 4.3 to an ancient sample from near Collegno (Piemonte). I haven't heard of anyone being closer.
Honestly, people, after all this time some of you people still don't understand how to interpret genetics results AT ALL.
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Fathers mtdna T2b17
Grandfather mtdna T1a1e
Sons mtdna K1a4o
Mum paternal line R1b-S8172
Grandmum paternal side I1d1-P109
Wife paternal line R1a-Z282
In the early Iron age Romans were genetically mostly Northern Italians and slowly became more East Med because populations of the Southern part settled there (probably lots of Greeks and Phoenicians). Rome reached its height in the Imperial Era. Absolute power corrupts and Rome slowly but surely started to loose power. It became depopulated and absorbed newcomers which brought some North European admixture into the city (Medieval Rome). But the overall Italian population did not change. So when Italian population resettled in Rome during modern times, the average Italian genetic make up was represented.
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Y-DNA by Ted Kendall :
work in progress, more details may be added later
Latin IA : some R1b-Z2118 = L51xL151 and some R1b-U152
However the T1a samples dates from 800 to 500 BCE, so it is harder to explain, unless the dating is off.
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I think samples the Bronze Age and Iron age from southern Italy should help to better understand the true trajectory of Italian genetics throughout the history of the Roman empire.
Plausible but improbable.
After how long is a population to be considered local?
What about common ancient Italian ancestry with the Very Old Mycenaeans.
more or less Mycenaean elements:
like South Italian like Pugliese like Calabrese like Greek like ...
.. even MyHeritage can't tell who's who.
So here are the iron age so-called Latin samples:
Individuals: R435, R436, R437
Praeneste, modern-day Palestrina, located south of Rome, was one of the largest ancient cities in Iron Age Latium and home to the Praenesti tribe.
"Praeneste was originally an Etruscan settlement. Like other Etruscan city-states. Praeneste was allied with the Latin League, a loose federation of independent cities"
Veio Grotta Gramiccia
Individual: R1015
The site of Veio (Veii in English, Veio in Italian) is a large Etruscan city, located about 18 kilometers north of Rome.
Individuals: R850, R851
Located 4 kilometers from the Tyhrennian coast, the area was once the main urban center of the Rutuli
"According to modern scholars the Rutuli were an Etruscan people."
Individuals: R1
Martinsicuro is a coastal site located on the border of Le Marche and Abruzzo on central Italy's Adriatic coast. It is a Villanovan village
"Villanovan culture (c. 900–700 BC) is regarded as the oldest phase of Etruscan civilization."
So you sample only coastal places that you know for a fact are Etruscan and none of the mountainous regions that are Italic, and voilá Etruscans are now the real Italics and Romans are dirty Middle Eastern immigrants, and the Kurgan theory gets to live for a couple more years, even though this still doesn't top Indo-Iranian languages being transmitted by great-grandmothers. Congratulations to all the clowns involved.
@Saetrus take it easy.
those are the results we have, for now.
Calmati, ma quante cazz... vai dicendo.
Is this the Italian Nordicist perspective?
I haven't looked at each of those samples individually yet, but the majority of the Iron Age/Republican Rome Era samples are at most one third Indo-European, which makes them Southern European.
That's not good enough for you?
What did you expect? Scandinavians? Germans?
Honestly, what planet do some of you internet pop gen people come from? You're not playing with a full deck.
And one more pejorative about people from the Near East and you're history.
The culture to which all of Europe owes so much derives from the Near East via Greece. It sure as hell didn't come from the steppe.
Last edited by Angela; 08-12-19 at 16:40.
The sample (a female) from Veio Grotta Gramiccia is labeled in the study as Villanovan and is clearly Etruscan, and the study does not attempt to make her appear as Latin.
Martinsicuro is a Protovillanovan site, not Villanovan. Protovillanovan is a supranational Bronze facies that is ancestral to many different Iron age facies. Villanovan is instead an Iron age facies which is exclusively Etruscan.
My father would say he was a proud steppe barbarian, but that's neither here nor there. By the time of the Roman period, the steppe component of the original Italic tribes had been diluted due to the large Neolithic population in the peninsula, so they would not have resembled northern Europeans in any way; the Po valley is more Gallic than Italic in ancestry and has the most U152 from Celtic tribes as well as lingering Italics.
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R120 is a T1a2 :) 1000 year younger than R850 (T-L208) too.
y T1a2b L131>Y6033
mt I1c
400-600 CE Late Antiquity
San Ercolano
y T1a1a L162>L208>CTS11451>Y4119>CTS2214>Z709
mt H1e
Imperial Rome
Mazzano Romano
Y T1a1a TL208
mt T2c1f
Do I have to go on???
We learn all this in middle school and high school, at least in the U.S., and from what I've seen in the Anglo world as a whole There's no need to belabor it. It's not some plot.
The original steppe people were fisher/hunters living in yurts, illiterate, without domesticated animals other than the horse, without farming, without metallurgy. Now, I want to emphasize that's how ALL human beings lived originally, even in the Near East, but there they developed more sophisticated cultures first.
Every culture builds on prior cultures; they borrow and adapt to suit their own needs, and the better ones add some improvements of their own. Look at the Japanese. Within one hundred years of Commodore Perry's arrival they had totally transformed their culture. There's no shame in it.
The Greeks of the Aegean learned and added, created something new, something that didn't exist in the Near East, and passed it on to the Romans, who added their own tweaks and then passed it down to all Europeans. Then most of it was lost and had to be re-learned in the Renaissance.
The steppe people (half EHG and half CHG like) mixed with EEF people when they moved west. By the time the Indo-European speaking people got to Italy, they were
already a mixture of EEF (with some additional WHG from the resurgence) and steppe. The Beakers were about 50/50 broadly speaking, yes?. You know all this.
Once the Indo-European speakers got to Italy they admixed with the Neolithic population there, a population much like the EEF, but already with some CHG/Iran Neo like ancestry, perhaps from Greece or perhaps by a more direct route. It further diluted the steppe signal. The same thing happened elsewhere in Southern Europe. It's only in the low population extreme north-east of Europe that you get people over 50% steppe. I mean, think about it, there was barely anyone living up there. Even Britain is more EEF than steppe. Southern Europe was heavily populated, so it's the least steppe.
Sometimes we just have to step back when we look at historical processes and use some reason and common sense.
To this day, Northern Italians/Tuscans have the highest EEF ancestry in Europe after certain Sardinians perhaps, followed closely by Spaniards. Look at the plot. They lean toward the Sardinians. These Iron Age and Republican Era samples average out perhaps to the high 30s for steppe ancestry? (I haven't gotten into the nitty gritty of the details yet.) That's not much more than Northern Italians have today.
What did modern Europeans get from them? Language for most Europeans, of course, parts of the religion prior to Christianity, perhaps a more male centered social structure, although the desert Near Easterners may have them beat. Some parts of the culture, perhaps. Oh, also the domesticated horse, which turned out to be really important for traveling long distances quickly, and eventually for warfare, along with the chariot, although it was the Near Easterners who perfected chariot warfare.
It's too big a topic to cover in one post on another topic altogether.
Half of my ancestry comes from the Po Valley, and I assure you they're not Celts, whatever you mean by that. They don't plot with the people of the Celtic fringe like the Irish or Welsh, and not even with the French. We're our own people.
Did the Gauls invade in the first millennium BC? Yes, they did, although some, like the Boi, were mostly kicked out. The ones who remained mixed with the people already living there. The Italics and Etruscans, people of mixed Italian Neolithic and Indo-European ancestry, weren't wiped out. Place names and inscriptions show Italic, Etruscan, and Gallic names in the same area.
R1016 is not a certain Z2103 it seems:
Ted Kandell writes: "R1016 is *both* Z2103+ and L51+. Impossible. It's completely ambiguous. Contamination?"
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GERMANY/USA – HP and KBA are jointly developing a new inkjet press for pre-printing of corrugated top liner that will enable corrugators to combine many individual jobs together on a roll or across rolls for short, mid or long runs; unlike traditional analog pre-print, every box can be different.
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By now, everyone in Beijing is either: 1. recovered from having H1N1; 2. tired of hearing about H1N1; or 3. recovered and tired of hearing about it. But one common theme in discussions remains the uncertainty around the vaccine. Well, finally, there is a lot of real data last week that I wanted to share with you: hard numbers on safety that hopefully will raise up future debates with more facts.
The Data on H1N1 Vaccine Safety
First is a WHO statement that the H1N1 vaccine is as safe as seasonal flu vaccine. This was presumed all along, but now there is data supporting it. Straight from the source:
About 1 adverse event is being reported for every 10,000 doses, said Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, director of the WHO's Initiative for Vaccine Research, at a virtual press briefing today. Of those adverse event reports, about 5 of 100 are considered serious.
According to Dr. Kieny, serious adverse events so far include 30 deaths and about 12 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome; however, she emphasized that none of the deaths reported to date has been confirmed as being caused by the vaccine. In addition, all cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome have been transient, and only a few have been linked to the vaccine.
Dr. Kieny added that there appears to be no difference between the safety profile of the seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccines, and the number of adverse events is comparable between the 2 vaccines. In addition, the safety profiles of the different forms of pandemic vaccine are also similar.
Adverse reactions associated with the pandemic vaccine include a variety of local reactions including "pain at injection site, swelling, redness, and reactions such as fever, headache, muscle pain, or fatigue," Dr. Kieny said. "These generally resolve within 1 or 2 days."
"No new safety issues have been identified from reports received to date," she said.
About 80 million doses have already been given worldwide. There is also more scholarly discussion in Medscape's article, No Adverse Events Reported So Far With H1N1 Influenza Vaccine
The Data on H1N1 Illnesses
The US CDC last week had an excellent review of all reported cases of H1N1 virus since last April. One interesting finding:
The results of this method confirm previous epidemiological data indicating that this disease primarily affects people younger than 65 year old, with the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths overwhelmingly occurring in people 64 years and younger. This is very different from seasonal influenza, where about 60 percent of seasonal flu-related hospitalizations and 90 percent of flu-related deaths occur in people 65 years and older. The proportion of younger people being impacted by 2009 H1N1 is much greater than what occurs during seasonal flu and people 65 and older are much less affected by this virus than what routinely occurs with seasonal influenza. The results generated by this method also underscore the continued importance of the 2009 H1N1 vaccination program and support the recommended target groups for vaccination.
The Bottom Line?
Well, at least now we have hard data on whether or not the vaccine is safe, and those of you still uncertain simply have to look at the new data and find reassurance.
But — and this is important — the overall picture is that the H1N1 virus is not proving to be dangerous to many people, and the overall fatality rate seems to be quite low. This is great news, of course. Unfortunately, there is already grumbling that public health people have overreacted. But if I may remind everyone that it's the mission statement of the WHO and public health people to look out for people's health, and that means avoiding worst-case scenarios like the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic, which killed far more people than died in World War One. The whole point of vaccination is to prevent such another catastrophe; and public griping about overreaction is music to WHO's ears compared to public griping about not doing enough. That means they've done their job and saved lives.
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Nissan has announced that it is recalling almost 400,000 vehicles over fears a brake fluid leak could potentially lead to vehicles catching fire.
The Japanese manufacturer said it was recalling 394,025 cars in the United States over a concern that leaking fluid from the brake system could end up on internal circuit boards where in "rare circumstances" it could then lead to a fire.
In a filing with the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the car maker said any leak would trigger a warning to drivers but "if the warning is ignored and the vehicle continues to be operated in this condition, the brake fluid leak may potentially create an electrical short in the actuator circuit, which in rare instances, may lead to a fire".
It said it was working to develop a solution and would contact affected owners to arrange remedial work.
Affected models
The recall affects four models from Nissan and its luxury spin-off Inifiniti. Cars subject to the recall are Pathfinder SUVs from 2017 to 2019, Murano SUVs from 2015 to 2018, Maxima saloons from 2016 to 2018 and Infiniti QX60 SUVs from 2017 to 2019.
Are UK cars affected?
Nissan UK has said that no cars sold in the UK are affected by the recall. While both the Pathfinder and Murano were previously sold in the UK, sales stopped before the affected models were produced.
A spokesman said: "This recall doesn't affect any UK models."
In a statement, Nissan said: "Nissan Group is committed to the safety, security and satisfaction of our customers and their passengers. Nissan and Infiniti are conducting a voluntary safety recall campaign on certain MY2016-2018 Nissan Maxima, MY2015-2018 Nissan Murano, MY2017-2019 Nissan Pathfinder and MY2017-2019 INFINITI QX60 vehicles to replace the antilock braking system (ABS) actuator.
The ABS actuator pump seal may leak brake fluid onto the control electronic circuit board. If this occurs, an ABS warning lamp will illuminate to warn the driver. If the vehicle continues to be operated in this condition, the brake fluid leak may create an electrical short in the actuator circuit, which in rare cases could potentially lead to a thermal incident.
"Owners of potentially affected vehicles will receive an interim notification beginning in early December 2019. Nissan Group is currently developing its remedy plan. Once the remedy is available, owners will receive a final notification letter asking them to bring their vehicle to an authorized Nissan dealer or Infinit retailer to have the remedy work completed at no cost for parts or labour."
Nissan is among 20 car makers still affected by the global Takata air bag recall. An estimated 1.7 million cars in the UK are still to have the potentially deadly fault put right, despite the widely publicised recall.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – (August 8, 2016) – AMSURG Corp. (NASDAQ: AMSG) ("AMSURG") announced today that it has commenced a consent solicitation with respect to its 5.625% Senior Notes due 2022 (CUSIP Nos. 03232 PAD0, 03232 PAC2, and U0018WAB2) (the "Notes").
AMSURG is soliciting consents from holders of record as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 5, 2016 (such date and time, the "Record Date") to (i) amend the Indenture governing the Notes, dated as of July 16, 2014 (as supplemented or amended, the "Indenture"), by and among AMSURG, U.S. Bank, N.A., as trustee (the "Trustee"), and certain subsidiaries of AMSURG, as guarantors (the "Subsidiary Guarantors") to include limited condition acquisition technology, (ii) amend the definition of "Change of Control" contained in the Notes to waive any obligation of AMSURG under the Notes to make a change of control offer to repurchase the Notes at 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, upon consummation of the transactions (the "Mergers") contemplated by the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Merger Agreement") entered into by AMSURG with Envision Healthcare Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Envision"), and New Amethyst Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of AMSURG ("New Amethyst") and (iii) add to, amend, supplement and change certain other defined terms in the Notes related to the foregoing (collectively, the "Proposed Amendments"). The Proposed Amendments will be effected by a supplemental indenture (the "Supplemental Indenture") to the Indenture.
AMSURG is offering to pay each holder of record as of the Record Date who validly delivers and does not validly revoke its consent on or prior to the Expiration Date (as defined below) a cash payment of $2.50 for each $1,000 in aggregate principal amount of Notes for which a consent is validly delivered, subject to satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, including the receipt of valid consents in respect of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes.
AMSURG expects that, promptly after receipt of the requisite consent at or prior to the Expiration Date, AMSURG, the Trustee and the Subsidiary Guarantors will execute the Supplemental Indenture giving effect to the Proposed Amendments. Holders will not be able to revoke their consents after the execution of the Supplemental Indenture (such time, the "Effective Time"). Holders should note that the Effective Time may be prior to the Expiration Date and holders will not be given prior notice of such Effective Time.
If the Mergers constitute a "Change of Control" (as such term is defined in the Indenture), the Issuer would be required to make a "Change of Control Offer" (as such term is defined in the Indenture) to each holder to purchase all or any part of such holder's Notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes purchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase. Under certain circumstances as set forth in the Indenture, the Company may make a Change of Control Offer in advance of the closing of the Mergers. The Company cannot predict the level of participation from beneficial holders if any Change of Control Offer (whether in advance of the Mergers or upon the consummation of the Mergers) were to be made.
The consent solicitation will expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 17, 2016 (as such date may be extended by AMSURG in its sole discretion) (the "Expiration Date"). Payment of the consent fee will be made promptly after the Supplemental Indenture is executed and all other conditions to the consent solicitation are satisfied or waived. AMSURG in its sole discretion may terminate the consent solicitation without the obligation to make any cash payment at any time prior to the Effective Time, whether or not the requisite consent has been received. Except for the Proposed Amendments, all of the existing terms of the Notes and the Indenture under which the Notes were issued will remain unchanged. The effectiveness of the Proposed Amendments is not a condition to the completion of the Mergers.
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Worcester, Mass. – Visiting Springfield College scored three goals in a little less than seven minutes in the first half on their way to a 4-0 win over Clark University in New England Women's And Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) women's soccer action on Tuesday evening.
Game Information
Score: Springfield College 4, Clark University 0
Records: Clark University 7-5-1 (1-4 NEWMAC); Springfield College 7-3-2 (3-1-2 NEWMAC)
Location: Granger Soccer Turf, Worcester, Mass.
How It Happened:
The Pride kickstarted their scoring spree when a charging Kim Quiles slipped a pass between two Clark defenders to a streaking Mary Silva who deposited her third goal of the season in the back of the net at 22:41.
Less than a minute later, Springfield was back on the board. This time is was Mikela Coady getting in on the act with help from Silva.
The third goal of the barrage came when Dakota Kelly found Quiles, who sent a blast into the left corner of the goal at 29:32, sending the visitors into intermission with a commanding 3-0 advantage.
Springfield tacked on a fourth and final score in the 68th minute when Mackenzie Luiz, sent a ball down the middle of the field to Coady, who outraced her defender and made a move on a diving Clark netminder Julianna Christy (Plainville, Conn.). Coady got around her and the while sliding on the ground pushed her second goal of the night into the back of the net, extending the Pride's unbeaten streak to five games.
Inside The Numbers:
Springfield held a 21-11 edge in shots overall, while surprisingly, the Cougars were ahead in corner kicks, 7-5.
Up Next:
Clark returns to action on Saturday when they visit Babson College, while the Pride are also on the road in league play on Saturday with a trip to Emerson.


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Dunchurch Infant School says no to academy.
Parents have recently received a letter informing them that the governors of the school have voted against the proposal to become an academy with REAch2 as its sponsor.
During a highly-charged meeting, parents demanded to know how becoming an academy would affect their school and the wider community.
Head teacher Iain Dewes stated that Warwickshire County Council had scaled back its school improvement team and that conversion to an academy could solve this problem. London-based REAch2 would take control of the school's finances providing human resources, payroll, insurance and estate management services in partnership with Strictly Education.
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Did you add the 56 ohm resistor as part of the 5 voltage divider or is this resistor already on the Arduino or Atmega chip?
What's the purpose of the tiny holes surrounding the mounting holes?
I've got this working some of the time with my Arduino UNO (breakout board is powered from UNO 3.3v supply) in serial mode, but the breakout board keeps getting hung up or something because no sound plays when it should. The busy pin will be HIGH, but nothing is coming out of the speaker. I tried the delay() changes in Wtv020sd16p.cpp, but that didn't help. I have to remove and re-apply power from the breakout board to get it working again. I posted more details on the Arduino forum: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=117009.msg1278094#msg1278094
The example code (https://github.com/sparkfun/MMA8452_Accelerometer/tree/master/Firmware/MMA8452Q_BasicExample) doesn't work with an Arduino Leonardo. The Leonardo runs okay for 15 to 30 seconds, then hangs.
The spec sheet doesn't have the physical dimensions. What the overall size and what's the display area size?
I don't see this in the Sparkfun's Eagle library. Is it there somewhere?
Is there a schematic available? I'd like to see how it detects an input.
Is this part in the Sparkfun Eagle library?
Is it the case that I shouldn't use the serial monitor and when the DLINE/UART switch is in the UART position? I'm doing it and I don't have any problems. But from reading the comments, it sounds like I should leave the switch in the DLINE position, and configure my sketch to use pins 2 & 3. I'm a bit confused about this. In this method, are pins 2 and 3 communicating with the Xbee or the serial monitor. How exactly to do I change my code to use pins 2 & 3? Also, is this change not possible with the Leonardo and Mega? One of the comments says something about not all pins supporting change interrupts. I assuming this means Leonardo and Mega can't use Pins 2 & 3.
Currently I'm using XBee Series 1 and the Uno with IDE v 1.0.1
I don't like these at all. The plastic around the alligator clip is very slippery, so when you are squeezing it, the clip slips round inside the plastic.
No public wish lists :(