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Andrea de Fraga is a Business Management professor at Chicago's Columbia College. While teaching her college students budgeting, she realized that many young adults don't understand the basics of money management. Should we wait for the kids to grow up before teaching them to be money-smart? A mother of three herself, she decided to create a book that would help her and other parents teach their kids about money. Using the Piggy Bank Book builds skills to achieve a healthy spending habit.
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No More Losing Dice - Way of the Guardian uses no dice. They have been replaced by a "Power Draw System". The rules in your Starter Set will explain how to use this system.
Full Cho Kumite Compatability – Way of the Guardian is the next generation of the classic Cho Kumite game system. Once you read the new rules, you will find that all of the classic cards are fully compatible with the new system, but you may have questions. Here are answers to common questions.
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The Speed Rules – To keep the game moving & avoid any stalemates, I recommend 2 rules tweaks. 1) Full Rank Damage: When your fighter succeeds in striking your opponent, you should always deal your fighter's full rank as damage, no matter how much damage your fighter has received. The current rules tell you to calculate the damage you deal, by subtracting from your rank, any damage you have taken. This slows the game way down & will be changed in future editions.
2) Turn 7 Tournament Rule: At the end of 7 turns determine which player currently holds the most victory points & declare that player the winner. If it is currently a tie the next player to score the most damage at the end of a battle wins the game. The board is locked. No more cards may be added to play. The player who attacks first in the 8th turn has the advantage of picking the first battle. The second battle is now chosen by the other player & you go back & forth choosing battles until one player scores more damage at the end of a battle than the other player.
The New Belt Rule – Every time you earn a new full belt rank in your martial arts school, you are rewarded by adding 10 points to both your Strike & Block meters on any custom cards that have your name at the top. (They'll have your picture on them too, because you would have purchased them at a Photo-Kicks photo shoot) Earn 2 full belt ranks, add 20 points. Earn 3, add 30. . . & so on! Keep training & learning the Way of the Guardian!
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Halperin during the broadcast asked jokingly if the show was on a seven-second delay as he responded to a a question regarding Obama's news conference Monday. He then used the term in describing what he thought was Obama's posturing.
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The Inaugural Supporter's Sword Tournament winners: Providence City FC.
Please help make next year's tournament more engaging, fun and fair to all participating teams by giving us your feedback about this year's tournament!
February Frenzy Review: The Battle for the Supporter's Sword
The Supporter's Sword Tournament was created to kick off American Soccer United's Supporter Month, where American Soccer United recognized the amazing fans of soccer teams around the country that make the growth of the world's game successful here. While your team may win trophies on the field, fans deserve congratulations as well for the effort they put in week-in, week-out in the stands.
Thus, the Supporter's Sword has been created to complement the historical fan creation of the Supporter's Shield. And like the Supporter's Shield isn't a trophy but a shield, the Supporter's Sword is an actual sword. However, the shield is a trophy that can only be awarded to MLS teams. In a country with a lower division culture that is growing and is as vibrant as America's, a supporter trophy should be available to every team and their fans regardless of division or gender.
This 64 team tournament took to Twitter to ask fans which team has the best supporters. Teams were put into groups of four based on their region, and the two teams with the most votes advance. Then the 34 teams that were still in the tournament were sorted into groups of four (staggered on voter turnout), with the top two advancing again. The 16 teams left were pitted against each other in a knockout round, going from the Sweet Sixteen to the Elite Eight then the Final Four to the Final.
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"Le Louvre" presents a history of the museum itself as well as a selection of paintings from the collection.
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"The 8 pounds entrance fee for the Louvre leaves you with just enough change from a tenner for coffee in a Parisien cafe later. To armchair travellers, Le Louvre may seem like the answer to your dreams. No expensive shuttle service to Paris. No smelly metro. Just slam the disc in your drive and off you go.
"But, alas, away you go slowly. Even on a PowerMac, the disc chugs along at the speed of the Euro trains on the English side of the Channel.
[MH: This is true also on my PC's 4X CD-ROM drive. The installation doesn't put any files on your hard drive, so loading is slow, both at program startup and when you select a painting for enlargement, for instance. The advantage, of course, is that no hard drive space is taken up.]
"Still, the first glance is encouraging. The title glides onto your monitor with accompanying classical music, then fades into the summary screen, offering you a tour of the palace or the collections.
"The palace section (Screen Capture) gives an insight into the Louvre at various stages of its history. The narrator tells you of its gradual change of use from prison and fortress to palace, and finally to museum, and you can read biographies of the people involved in those changes.
"Clicking on the Evolution section reveals the layout of the palace at different times, and you can look at key sites in further detail. It's all very fascinating, but you don't really want to learn about the history of the Louvre, do you? Wouldn't you rather see the works of art it contains?
"Unfortunately, despite the museum's vast collection, the Collections section of the CD offers you a mere 100 exhibits.
[MH: This is probably the weakest aspect of the CD-ROM. The best of both worlds is to have a good book with extensive coverage of the works along with the CD-ROM.]
"Nevertheless, the presentation of the artwork is good. The art is divided up into French, English, Italian, Spanish, German, Flemish and Dutch schools and the centuries in which they were painted. Each section gives you up to 16 paintings to look at - click on the paintings in an area and you can view each of them at almost full-screen (Screen Capture), with a commentary and further text about the painter and the picture. You can zoom in (Screen Capture) on any part of the picture you want to see in more detail, and there's a scale function to give you an idea of the picture's actual size. The painting technique is explained and you can have lines superimposed on the painting to show you how the perspective works.
"It's just a shame that you don't get any impression of the gallery itself - this is frustrating when you consider that technology now enables you to take virtual tours. You just get a map and picture of each different gallery (Screen Capture) which makes you wonder if a guide book wouldn't have been as useful.
[MH: I think that in comparison to other art CD-ROMs (excluding "A Passion for Art"), "Le Louvre" does give you a good sense of what it feels like to actually be in the gallery. Granted, it's not virtual reality, but the paintings are placed in physical context.]
"This is not an exhaustive tour of the Louvre. The CD is informative and you can survey the artwork in detail, but the 100 paintings covered are a mere fraction of the Louvre's contents, and the CD is very slow. It cost more to get the train, plane or ferry, but it's the only way you'll see the Louvre in its true glory."
[MH: While I generally agree with the negative comments of this review, I still like "Le Louvre". It attempts to provide more than just a compilation of images from a museum. The image resolution is high quality and the interface is pleasing to the eye while remaining functional.
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"BMG Interactive with permission of Reunion des Musees Nationaux has released a CDRom on Le Louvre. It contains a history of the museum as well as historical and societal facts. Audio commentary accompanies each painting presented.
"The period music is a nice touch, but stops when a new selection is made or commentary begins. (Perhaps a background midi file could have been used instead, so music would play continuously.)
"The actual artwork on the disk is sparse compared to the museum itself, and left me disappointed. I couldn't find many paintings that I had enjoyed at the museum. Also, the disc has none of the sculptures from the museum, which is a shame.
"Though an interesting CDROM title with a few good points, it pales in comparison to the museum and hardly prepares you for an actual visit of the "largest museum in the world."


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Billy Planer is the founder and Director of Etgar 36. He developed Etgar 36 after 20 years of leading synagogue youth programs and educating Jewish young people. He has led numerous trips around America and abroad. Billy graduated with a degree in Psychology and Advertising from Syracuse University and received a Masters in Counseling from the school of Education at…...Read More
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JANUARY 2014 Schedule for IMAX® Films and Planetarium Shows in the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center's Eugene Heikoff and Marilyn Jacobs Heikoff Giant Dome Theater!
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Photo Captions for GUITAR: The Instrument That Rocked The World - West Coast Premiere December 20, 2013, running through April 6, 2014!
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Last Friday, Dallas folk-rock singer-songwriter, Silas Nello, went rummaging through the dusty boxes in his attic and found his wistful vacation video for "The Jester." Directed by Kansas Bowling in Los Angeles, the warm and nostalgic video creates a sense of yearning through reminiscent memories of a past life with someone special. The vintage vignettes fuzzily flicker across the super 8 film with carefree optimism as Nello and Parker Love Bowling frolic along the sunny West Coast landscape. Nello's poetic southern songwriting sinks into the comforting acoustic backdrop of the "The Jester" as shimmering harmonics highlight the chorus. The contemporary video fits Nello's southern rock persona by combining elegant retro with conceptual neoteric.
You can catch Silas Nello on Saturday, Nov. 18th at the historic Longhorn Ballroom for the 15th annual Cedars Open Studios and official after party with Hand Drawn Records label-mate Henry the Archer.
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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: Dumb question? Mac and the Archos?
From: Kevin Jones (kevinj_at_tds.net)
Date: 2003-09-24
I read a review by a mac user who said they had some problems wih it
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So I'm considering moving to Mac, the Archos is FAT32 formatted, does it
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Video for social media is a huge topic, spanning anything from paid Facebook video to YouTube prerolls and paid posts on Instagram. But the one thing these all have in common is they've got to be personality-driven, instantly arresting and highly emotive for them to have any traction whatsoever in the highly saturated world of social media.
Breakfast of Champions specialises in optimising the best social media content for the best platforms. Snackable solutions that tell the story, no matter what the duration or audio status.
Here's a good example of a piece of video for social we made to promote Robinson's FruitShoot. We had some pretty simply shot footage to work with, so did the storytelling through some intricate illustration and cel animation. Was primarily for Facebook, and worked really nicely audio on or off:
There's lots more examples of our social media video content on our latest showreel:
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Tarantula Hawk Moths on pretty native milkweed called Horsetail Milkweed
Horsetail Milkweed (Asclepias subverticillata) in the far west part of Canon City. While Horsetail Milkweed is listed as native in Colorado the 'Floristic Synthesis of North America' lists it as a 'Native Species, but adventive in state.' Had to look that up--'adventive species' refers to "a species that has arrived in a new locality" which may have been with help of people or it may not (ie, range expansion). As a native milkweed it is an important plant for Monarch Butterflies as well as other insects.


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A downloadable game for Windows
Bloodground is an intense top down shooter,the first game of Dirtroad Games,plenty of blood and gore,waves of zombies are coming,you and your gun will make the difference to survive.
*Different types of zombies.
*Two final bosses.
*Different types of devastating and cool power ups.
*Four different selectable weapons and one unlockable.
*Dynamic rain.
*A lot of blood and gore.
*Movement: W,S,A,D
*Shoot: LEFT MOUSE
*Sprint: SPACE BAR
*Pause: P
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $0.25 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Bloodground.rar 60 MB
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PM Sogavare Says WWII Brought Important Lessons
PM Sogavare Says WWII Brought Important Lessons
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says World War II has taught the world important lessons when he paid tribute to those who sacrificed their lives for peace and freedom during the battle of Guadalcanal in 1942.
Solomon Islands this week is celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the landing of the United States Marines on Guadalcanal with a series of commemorations around the capital Honiara.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare attended an early morning tribute alongside the Governor General Sir Frank Kabui, the Speaker of Parliament Ajilon Nasiu and the Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer at the U.S WWII Memorial at Skyline in Central Honiara.
I his tribute to the fallen servicemen of the allied forces, Mr Sogavare said the anniversary was a tribute to the brave men who paid the ultimate sacrifice for peace in the region which gives everyone a chance to enjoy the existence of diverse cultures and appreciates the need to co-exist despite ethnic, linguistic or religious differences.
"The Second World War has taught important lessons and created friendships. Over the years, a new global architecture strengthened by a common sense of purpose towards peace and prosperity has been forged," Sogavare said.
Solomon Islands which once provided a battle field for Japanese and US Allied forces, now enjoys cordial relations with both the US and Japan respectively.
The shared history of the Second World War has become one of the strengths that bind many countries together and Solomon Islands and the United States of America have pledged to uphold the principles of the UN Charter which serve as the underlying platform rendering respect for all mankind.
Mr Sogavare also registered his appreciation for the important role which the Government of the United States continues to render in maritime surveillance in the region saying his government acknowledges the support and cooperation of the US Pacific Command in maintaining the corridors of small islands states safe.
More than Seven decades on after the Second World War – the world has become an integrated community of 8 billion people with international structures in place to maintain peace and order.
Many of the brave men, who fought on Guadalcanal and throughout the Second World War, left behind families and loved ones. Of the many brave men that survived the war there are a few who still live to tell the remarkable stories from the war.
Representatives of the United States, Australia and New Zealand Governments are currently attending the celebrations in Honiara this week.


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Saxo bank binary options
An FX spot option is a call/put on a FOREX currency pair that has a user-set strike price and expiration date. It's traded over-the-counter and is not a standardized exchange-traded option.
If you signup for a free trial account with saxobank.com, you can see an example of this.
Until recently, ikongm.com and saxobank.com were the only two companies I knew of that were trading these, and ikongm.com stopped doing so after Dodd-Frank went into effect.
Many other companies say they trade FX spot options, but ultimately use saxobank.com as their white-label partner/backend.
Question: is there any other bank/company/broker/whatever that trades FX spot options? If not, is there a US broker that uses saxobank.com as their back end (I haven't found one so far). I'd feel more comfortable having my money w/ a US bank/broker than with one that has no real presence in the USA.
I'm unhappyish w/ Saxo because they have a high spread (16 pips) AND charge additional commissions for orders under $50K
EDIT: Rules for the bounty:
Must trade OTC vanilla FX options Binaries, one-touch, double-touch, and other exotic options don't count. Neither do exchange-listed (ISE/PHLX) options.
Must trade options on at least one of USD/CAD and USD/JPY.
Must accept US customers (but doesn't have to be located in the USA).
Must sell and buy FX SPOT options. Selling alone is insufficient.
Must not be saxobank.com or any broker/bank that uses it as their backend/platform.
Should buy/sell SPOT options w/ arbitrary dates and strikes. For example, alpari-us.com buys/sells SPOT options, but they only have one expiration date per month, and the strike prices must be multiples of 50 pips. I need options that can expire almost any day and with almost any strike price. Minor restrictions (like daily options that exclude tomorrow and dates more than 1 year away, and strike prices that must be multiples of 5 pips) are OK.
Allow transactions of 50K or smaller (alpari-us.com has a minimum transaction of 100K).
Accept accounts as small as US $50K.
saxobank.com does this (and so did ikongm.com), but I'm hoping to find someone w/ better commissions/spreads. However, for the bounty, I just need one broker/bank who does this, even if they're worse than saxobank.com
To other users save yourselves time, do not test any of the alternatives mentioned in this post. I have, to no avail. At the moment (nov/2013) Saxobank unfortunately seems to be the only broker who offers OTC (over-the counter) FX options trading to Retail Investors. In other words, it is the only alternative for those who are interested in trading non-exchange options (ie, only alternative to those interested in trading FX options with any date or strike, rather than only one date per month and strikes every 50 pips only). I say "unfortunately" because competition is good, Saxo options spreads are a rip off, and their platform extremely clunky. But it is what it is.
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The Antwerp Camerata was formed in 2015. With that is one of the newest chamber orchestra's in Belgium. The orchestra is lead by artistic director and chief conductor Dimitris Spouras.
Although the orchestra doesn't exist for a long time it has managed to leave a solid impression. Because of this they were able to work with renowned soloists such as Eliane Rodrigues, Luc Tooten, Nadja Nevolovitsch, Wilfried Van den Brande and Hendrickje van Kerckhove.
On the festival Klara in deSingel at the beginning of 2016 the Antwerp Camerata brought a program with classical concerto's of Mozart. Besides that the orchestra likes to explore the lesser known and played repertoire, and with works of composers like Grieg, Holst, Janáček en Dvořák the orchestra took a leap in the romantical repertoire. With this the orchestra made their first international debut as closure of Hulst Cultureel season 2016/2017 in the Netherlands. Also in 2017 they count on a collaboration with young soloists and guitarist Kristina Varlid, flutist Tora Rostvik and pianist Eliane Rodrigues.
The Antwerp Camerata is a orchestra that is current, energetic and versatile, but also with steady roots in the classical tradition. The orchestra distinguishes itself with energetic dedication to the music of the past, but also engages interactions with composers who are currently active. This is making our story as classical trained musicians both vibrant and actual.
For the future the Antwerp Camerata keeps devoting itself to provide both new and old generations of music lovers with classical music.


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USB cables is a short form of Universal Serial Bus, which is a type of a connector for communication protocols. USB cables are commonly included in the packaging of most electronic gadgets. These cables function in order to transfer high-speed data between computers and devices including HDTVs, mobile phones, cameras, printers and massive storage devices. USB cables are available in a wide array of sizes and types, those that compliment the USB standards and an endorsed logo. Before making a choice, buyers need to read the user manual for the device to check the specification.
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There are almost 6 Kinds connectors available – Standard A: it is a host or downstream connector, rectangular shaped connector which is plugged into the computer's USB port or a device, most commonly used type of connector. Usb printer cables are of this type. Standard B: usually available with large peripheral devices such as; printers and scanners, Rectangular shaped connector with two top edges slightly covered inwards. Mini and micro: usually found with small devices such as; mobile phones and digital cameras, a mini USB cable is used where devices get connected with others directly. USB 2.0: data transfer time for this cable is 40 times more of that of 1.0, allow multiple devices to run at the same time, the limitation is that computer should have multiple connecting ports. Wireless USB: designed to meet the growing demand for wireless technology, it has the Bluetooth and radiofrequency technology to make connections, wireless keyboards and mouse works with these. USB 3.0: these are super speed USB, 10 times faster than that of other technologies, the expected output of 5 Gbps expected.
Before buying, buyers need to identify the type they want. They shall also consider some point before choosing a certain kind of cable
. Compatibility of Cable and Host: these cables are designed to work well with many devices or more than one host. For example, a USB cable can be connected to any PC, Mac or a mobile phone. It may not work efficiently but will work. USB Cable Length Limitations: before placing an order, be sure of the length you require. Don't get too long or too short cables as it can limit your work and decrease efficiency. If buyers need more than the normal length of cable, they can get USB cable extensions such as; Hubs to make connections with more than one cable.
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Based on Hobart's waterfront, TasVacations has been Tasmania's travel company for over 20 years. By booking with us, you are assured expert advice and great deals from passionate locals specialising in Tasmanian holidays.
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Hi Talise,
Wow your work is quite impressive. I can tell how involved it is, and the care that you put into this itinerary - and I really appreciate your effort. Thank you very much for going that extra mile and checking all of the inventory for us, I am so impressed. If my client books with me, I will be booking this with you and will also do all of my future bookings with you. Thank you again for rushing this through.Michelle,
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Thank you for the final documents and for all your help and expertise with this booking over the past few months. I hope that we can send another school group booking your way soon to do another amazing tour. Thanks again Zuleika, you have certainly made my job easy with this group.Dimitra,
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Here we go again! Another blog giveaway for you! What's up for grabs? Oh nothing, just a Nikon Coolpix S4300 for that one lucky reader! Could she/he be you?
Let's cut to the chase shall we? Here's how you can join:
- Follow me on Twitter and Bloglovin'. If you don't have these accounts, it's easy to make one!
- Follow Nikon Philippines on Facebook.
- Leave a comment below with your name, twitter name and answer to this: "I am a/an _______________ because ______________." So basically, you just have to fill in the blanks. Get creative! If you need some inspiration, check out my video below for the I Am Nikon campaign. Mine says I am an independent woman.
- Tweet this: "I want to win that Nikon camera giveaway on https://itscamilleco.com! #ItsCamilleCoGiveaways"
Deadline for entries is on October 24, 2012 at 11:59PM. This contest is open to Philippine residents only. No multiple entries please! Whoever submits the best answer wins! Unlike before, the winner will be announced here on my blog instead of on Twitter so don't forget to visit back! :)
Good luck everyone! Leaving you with my I Am Nikon campaign video shot mooooooonths back!


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Citrix boosts cloud infrastructure offering with Cloud.com acquisition
Citrix has announced its acquisition of open source cloud computing platform Cloud.com to help customers build and manage private and public clouds.
Citrix has announced its acquisition of open source cloud computing platform Cloud.com to help customers build and manage private and public clouds.
Cloud.com provides an open source infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform, which supports the build and management of private and public cloud infrastructure through its CloudStack products.
Mark Templeton, president and CEO of Citrix Systems, said the acquisition will help drive the transition from a PC era to the cloud era within the industry.
"As the industry moves into the cloud era, Citrix is committed to leading the charge with powerful solutions that make the cloud more open, more secure, and more personal. We are delighted to welcome the Cloud.com team to the Citrix family," said Templeton.
The acquisition adds to Citrix's cloud portfolio of OpenStack, codenamed "Project Olympus", Cloud Gateway, Cloud Bridge, as well as XenDesktop and XenApps.
Citrix said the acquisition allows the company to offer a complete portfolio of virtualisation, orchestration and networking services for customers using private or public cloud platforms.
Unlike traditional enterprise datacentres, Citrix said clouds will run on platforms that are purpose-built for cloud computing and designed to offer multi-tier and multi-tenant services.
"The world's largest and most successful public clouds are all built this way today," the statement continued.
According to recent research by analyst firm IDC, spending on public cloud services will grow four times faster than the entire IT market over the next four years. The report shows spending on public IT cloud services will reach $72.9bn in 2015, a compound annual growth rate of 28%.
Cloud.com currently supports Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere, and hypervisors such as Xen. Citrix plans to extend support to Microsoft's Hyper-V and System Centre to Cloud.com products.
Citrix will also be extending OpenStack support to the Cloud.com later this year.
The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.


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I love having an extra 15 minutes before having to walk into work to stop by Peet's coffee to pick up my green tea latte and oatmeal. I consider it a bonus when traffic lightens up so that I can have my little enjoyment in the morning. It also helps that Peet's is right across the street from work.
This summer Peet's is running a social sampling experiment with their Give a Cup campaign. It's actually super fun and simple. Just go to doyougiveacup.com every week and vote on the topic. The topics and fun and current - the votes determine where Peet's will stop next for their sampling. This week is about hot dog contests and whether you #giveacup or not. I don't really #giveacup about hot dog contests but I #giveacup about having extra time in the day to play with my kids and eating yummy foods with them!
So what do you #giveacup about? You can vote at Give A Cup + get a coupon. It's awesome that Peet's now comes in single cups because we have the machines at work that take these single cups! Woot!
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Free rider 2 levels
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Free rider 2 levels are created by the users, just like you and me. The game designers have made creating levels quite easy in the free rider 2 version. All you need is to place stars from the menu in certain places. The riders avoiding the bombs and collecting all the starts successfully will move on to the next level automatically.
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Each level is drawn by the user themselves. They can simply make sure crossing each level is harder than the former one. A user can set up how many ever number of levels they want. Goal setting is made much easier than before. But achieving the goals will be harder than ever. New free rider 2 levels will enable any simpleton to create the most sophisticated games with ease. A little creativity and effort can enable any person to become a game designer quite easily. The new game has most of the features in the Flash embedded in it.
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Finally, A Shoebox Safe To Hide Your Stash
First came the Nike safe, now comes an adidas version.
Sneaker fanatics lost their shit last summer when the home security innovators at Mandem Safe released personal safes specifically designed to hide in Nike shoeboxes. All you had to do was place the safe inside your favorite Nike shoebox, secure the lid, and lock the contraption with a small key to safely hide your stash.
The company's latest twist on that instant classic is a safe with slightly different dimensions to fit perfectly in adidas and adidas Boost shoeboxes. The updated model—dubbed "Mandem Safe LX"—comes with a power-operated lid and a keycard entry system. There are also pre-drilled holes in the bottom of the safe if you're feeling high-key James Bond and want to nail that puppy to the ground. Honestly, that's not a bad idea if you're stowing away some dank herb on the verge of extinction.
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Neil Roberts feels a need for German-engineered speed in this 1984 report from magazine show Weekend. New Zealand was emerging from the dour Muldoon years, and the imported Porsche car was a paragon of conspicuous consumption and yuppie status symbol. Roberts (future founder of production company Communicado) goes for a pre-Crash spin in a Porsche from dealership Giltrap Prestige, then joins Auckland menswear entrepreneur Ray Barker, who takes Neil home to check out his Carrera. Gordon McLauchlan presents; ZZ Top track 'Legs' provides the soundtrack.
The King of the Ring came to Aotearoa in February 1979. Eyewitness reporter Karen Sims tags along with the reigning heavyweight champ as he jogs, woos the crowds, spars with school kids, and flirts with her. Muhammad Ali was 37 and in the twilight of a storied career (he sports a Dad bod — "his twins"). He announced his first retirement just a few months later. Ali's cornerman Drew Bundini Brown provides an insider perspective, while Sims reflects on Ali's contradictions and charisma: "when the crowds are there or the cameras are rolling Ali pushes out energy like a jet stream".
When high-powered director of commercials Hugh Chance (Michael Hurst) visits a small backwater town, the 'for sale' sign on the local tavern offers too good a chance to overlook — especially with the chance to create a set of waterfront condos. But the locals don't take too kindly to this intruder trying to turn their town into a holiday resort. Starring alongside Hurst in this 47 minute teleplay are Michael Galvin and Stephen Lovatt (Being Eve) as two fellow admen, while Meryl Main (Plain Tastes) features as local artist and cafe owner Jess, who earns both Chance's ire and affections.
This episode of current affairs show Close Up offers a fascinating portrait of the early days of New Zealand's foreign exchange market. Reporter Ted Sheehan heads into "the pit" (trading room), and chronicles the working life of a senior forex dealer, 25-year-old accountancy graduate John Key. The "smiling assassin" (and future Prime Minister) is a calm and earnest presence amongst the young cowboys playing for fortunes and Porsches, months before the 1987 sharemarket crash. As Sheehan says, "they're like addicts who eat, breathe and sleep foreign exchange dealing".
By the mid 90s, popular TVNZ weatherman Jim Hickey had begun presenting things other than fronts and precipitation (e.g. Country Calendar, Shaky Beginnings). In 2000 he got his own series. This first episode of his TV One motoring show sees Marie Azcona report on the controversy surrounding the Model T Ford winning Car of the Century; Mark Leishman gives the lowdown on buying a car at an auction; guest Jim Mora vacuums his Audi; and host Hickey test drives the new Volkswagen with music journo and "old Beetle fan" Dylan Taite.
Marshall Smith was nominated for a Silver Scroll songwriting award in 2004, while he was part of band The New Freedom. Around the same time, he and musician Tom Fox set up Auckland music and sound company The Sound Room, and began composing soundtracks for clients in Aotearoa and overseas. Their work includes documentaries (Hip Hop-eration, NHNZ's Big Pacific), short films, and many commercials (including ads for Coca Cola and Porsche). Smith also co-founded the Screen Composers Guild of New Zealand, presented Lotto draws for three years, and has recorded under the name Marshmellow.
Journalist and prolific author Gordon McLauchlan, ONZM, edited The New Zealand Encyclopedia for a decade. His 1976 bestseller The Passionless People dissected the Kiwi psyche. In the 1980s McLauchlan presented Sunday morning magazine show Weekend for six years — aside from a tour of the United States, hosting series American Pie. In 1987 he won a GOFTA Award as Best Presenter. He repartnered with Weekend's Kerry Smith for weekday show 5.30 Live. McLauchlan was also a television critic, and set questions for the first two seasons of Sale of the Century. He died on 26 January 2020, at the age of 89.
Chris Bailey has made key creative contributions to a host of significant Kiwi television dramas, from sci fi classic Under the Mountain to Nothing Trivial. In 1998, Bailey, along with producer Chris Hampson and writer Greg McGee, founded production company ScreenWorks. These days he is managing director of South Pacific Pictures.
Neil Roberts discovered that he loved making television programmes while working as a parliamentary journalist. In the mid 1980s he founded independent production company Communicado, whose staff grew to more than 60. Later Roberts oversaw a period of change at Television New Zealand, during a short stint as the organisation's Television Manager. He died of cancer on 8 November 1998.


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What are grid girls, how much do they get paid and who are the grid kids set to replace them?
The sport has said the practice no longer represents its "brand values" but sparked a backlash from models and fans accusing it of caving to snowflakes
FORMULA One has axed its grid girls after decades of employing women to parade the pit-lane and starting grid.
The sport's American owners Liberty Media said the practice no longer represents its "brand values" but has sparked a backlash from models saying their choices are being dictated by the 'PC brigade'.
Who are the Formula One grid girls?
Formula One grid girls have been employed by the sport for decades to conduct promotional tasks.
These include wearing clothes bearing the names of sponsors and appearing on the track before races.
The grid girls are best-known for holding driver name-boards on the grid and lining the corridor through which drivers walk on their way to the podium if they finish in the top three.
A number of grid girls have gone on to become household names through their successful modelling careers.
They include Kelly Brook, Jodie Marsh, Emma Noble, Melinda Messenger and Nell McAndrew.
It is not known exactly how much each grid girl is paid for an appearance but a number have said the money was able to support the early years of their modelling careers or their college or university education.
Why have the Formula One grid girls been banned?
The move came just days after darts bosses said walk-on girls would be scrapped from the sport.
Chiefs at the Professional Darts Corporation told those hired for the televised Masters tournament not to show up following "feedback from host broadcasters".
Formula One bosses say they have been looking at ways of bringing the sport into line with others in terms of equality.
Sean Bratches, managing director of commercial operations at Formula One, said: "While the practice of employing grid girls has been a staple of Formula 1 Grands Prix for decades, we feel this custom does not resonate with our brand values and clearly is at odds with modern day societal norms.
"We don't believe the practice is appropriate or relevant to Formula 1 and its fans, old and new, across the world."
Who has criticised the move?
Model Kelly Brook, a former Formula One grid girl, described the role as "one of the best jobs I've ever had".
She said: "You dress glamorously and obviously it's about being presentable but I never felt I was taken advantage of."
Fellow grid girl Rebecca Cooper wrote on Twitter: "Ridiculous that women who say they are "fighting for women's rights" are saying what others should and shouldn't do, stopping us from doing a job we love and are proud to do. PC gone mad"
"If we don't do something to stop this where will it end? No grid girls, no cheerleaders, female singers being told what to wear on stage, no models in magazines? I'll fight for my right to choose what I wear, where I work and to keep a job I love."
Red Bull boss Christian Horner, who is married to former Spice Girl, Geri Halliwell, said grid girls added glamour to F1.
Claire Williams who is F1's only female team boss said she supported the scrapping of grid girls.
The 41-year-old said the sport had entered a new era.
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In November, he said: "We've had grid boys and that's been criticised. In Austria we've had children going on to the drivers' trailer and that has been criticised.
"You are never going to get it right and we live in a modern society and we have to be open to everything.
"Women play a key role and, borrowing a phrase from my wife, girl power is very strong in F1."
Bernie Ecclestone, 87 year old former chief executive of the sport, has also defended the grid girls, saying in an interview with Sky News: "These girls did nothing harmful to anybody. They were smartly dressed. We might as well say we don't want people to go to a fashion show because, basically, that's what happened."
What are 'Grid Kids'?
The girls will be replaced by stars from juniour karting championships, and will be hand-picked by national motorsport authorities.
A joint statement from governing body the FIA and the F1 Group said the choice would be made "on merit or by lottery".
FIA president Jean Todt said: "Formula 1 is the pinnacle of motorsport and the dream of every young racer competing the junior series that make up the FIA's single-seater pyramid, from karting all the way to F1.
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examined what bots are, and how they have been used to simulate online interaction. In part two I explore in detail email correspondence between Nashi activists to demonstrate how they conducted their pro-Putin campaign. Nashi were happy to pay people to simulate online engagement with pro-Putin content. However, it emerges from the correspondence that the higher levels of technical expertise existed at the lower echelons of Nashi's organisational structure, resulting in a tension between superiors who wanted meticulous manual labour, and employees who used automation techniques to take shortcuts when completing tasks.
Nashi's use of bots
How is it that pro-Kremlin 'dead-souls' populated Russian social media and news outlets at the time of the 2011 and 2012 elections? Some insights come from a series of emails leaked in February 2012. The correspondence between Nashi press-secretary Kristina Potupchik, Nashi founder and then head of Rosmolodezh' Vasilii Yakemenko, and other Nashi activists revealed the murky details of Nashi's activity, much of which was online.
The authenticity of the correspondence has not been denied; when pressed Potupchik and Yakemenko have refused to comment on 'illegal activity'. The emails are convincing, in part due to the sheer quantity of mundane correspondence: among the leaked emails are administrative and security messages from social networking sites, and Potupchik's personal correspondence with (former) lover Roman Verbitskii. Furthermore, Potupchik's mail includes draft material for her blog, and (unpublished) diary entries.
The authenticity of the correspondence has not been denied; when pressed Potupchik and Yakemenko have refused to comment on 'illegal activity'. The emails are convincing, in part due to the sheer quantity of mundane correspondence: among the leaked emails are administrative and security messages from social networking sites, and Potupchik's personal correspondence with (former) lover Roman Verbitskii. Furthermore, Potupchik's mail includes draft material for her blog, and (unpublished) diary entries.
When the Nashi commissars speak of bots, they refer to the practice of multiple personalities being controlled by one person, rather than an automated online presence. This may be illustrated by the use of paid commentators on online newspapers. In January 2011 Yakemenko called for the creation of a group of 'people with balanced language, who write well, not idiots (debily), [who are] capable of maintaining a debate, of developing it. They will comment on our posts, on forums – basically slandering the opposition and praising Putin.... [Creating] the impression that the majority supports us'. It is very clear, Yakemenko wanted 'live dead-souls' who could make intelligent pro-Putin comments, not comments automatically generated by bots. By September 2011 a group of 10 human users controlled numerous virtual profiles; their salary was 20,000 to 30,000 roubles ($600-900) a month. The commentators were aided by bots that identified content to be commented: an internal report boasted the 'creation of a commenting mechanism' based on the presence of key-words. This 'mechanism' was likely a script that alerted commentators when new relevant articles were published; this helped ensure that Nashi comments were among the first to be listed beneath articles. Nashi, then, did use bots, but mainly to aid human manipulators.
In parallel to their attempt to sanitize Putin's image online by dominating newspapers' comments sections, Nashi – in a way reminiscent of cuckoos – sought to achieve a platform from which they could disseminate their ideas. Again, there was little room for bots, as fake accounts could be used for spamming, but never to promote the organisation's real message: 'on the internet the quality of links is much more important than their quantity. The positioning of information in online journals that have been seen to promote low-quality information ... immediately discredits this information', noted Potupchik. Consequently, Potupchik organised the creation of a number of 'friendly' blogs to provide an alternative 'launch-pad' to paid blogs for pro-Putin stories. To achieve this, Nashi formulated instructions for how these blogs should go about gaining an audience: firstly content should be funny. If possible it should feature girls with 'large breasts willing to pose in underwear'. Ideally the content should have the potential to 'go viral'.
Nashi's preferences for human manipulators may be explained by a strong focus on content creation. In March 2011 Potupchik feared losing 'the capital of trust ... we have earned over the last half year'. In January 2011 Nashi decided to move away from placing ready-made material in print media, to paying journalists, editors, and bloggers to themselves write 'shit (govno) about the opposition'. Simultaneously Nashi would seek out 'creative' individuals who would create more attractive content. This is reflected in Nashi's priorities later in 2011: In September and October there are three expenses (besides the Seliger camp) of one million roubles or more per month listed in Nashi correspondence: Degtiarev, a director of RuTube and creator of viral video clips, was paid to create professional pro-Kremlin content. Tabak, a Nashi commissar who gained notoriety for designing the pro-Putin calendar featuring lightly-clad female students at Moscow State University, was responsible for staging public campaigns, the most notable of which was called 'Medvedev Girls'. In this campaign female fans of Medvedev's anti-alcoholism policies stripped at a rate proportionate to Muscovites pouring their beer into a bucket. The purpose of Tabak's campaigns was to stage activities newspapers would choose to report on; consequently the successes of his projects were measured in the number of articles published.
The third major expense, 'Kambulov', may refer to the Russian SEO expert Andrei Kambulov. Unfortunately there are very few emails from Kambulov in the dataset, but a number of forwarded messages allow us a glimpse into his activities. While there is no record of technical details discussed using internet messenger services, it is clear Kambulov was Nashi's primary provider of automated services (or: he made the bots). He was certainly responsible for establishing or acquiring sets of user accounts for Twitter, Facebook, VKontakte, and LiveJournal. Regarding LiveJournal he at one stage reported that accounts were being set up at a rate of 300-500 per day, and that 16000 accounts would be ready by the end of November 2011. The fact that the bots were not immediately available shows Kambulov somehow created the accounts himself rather than purchasing a package. The big spread (300-500) suggests there was variation in the rate at which accounts were created, possibly due to limitations in the number of proxy servers, or the success rate for passing CAPTCHA tests. Further, it is clear he was charged with populating these accounts with friends, a back-story, etc., and, in the case of Twitter, setting them up to automatically re-tweet content posted by a list of Nashi commissars. His Twitter bots combine chatterbot and macro technology, allowing the bots to automatically comment on tweets mentioning relevant keywords or hashtags. Primarily Nashi needed bots to rig virtual elections and polls, but Kambulov also speaks of writing 'software' for Facebook that would 'place likes, answer comments, post to pages'. It was to Kambulov Nashi turned in October 2011 after LiveJournal began banning bots; Kambulov was able to use scripts to create more convincing accounts. This was done by using content made by 'rewriters', in this case four women in St Petersburg who would re-work mundane blog-posts to appear unique (to anti-bot technology searching for duplicated posts) at a rate of 250 posts per person per day. The rewriters thus provided a foil where Nashi users could comment on political posts, while anyone checking for bots would be led to a seemingly genuine (and boring) LiveJournal page.
Kambulov's services were sought in order to more effectively achieve manual tasks Nashi were already attempting, in particular making Nashi content appear more popular than it was. These tasks are all quite simple, requiring no human-like behaviour. Throughout the dataset there are countless examples of Nashi manually rigging online polls, 'liking' YouTube content, etc. One Nashi report lists YouTube clips about Putin in November 2011, detailing that out of the top ten search results for 'Putin' four clips were positive, three negative, and three neutral. This had been achieved by positively rating 'our clips' in order to 'be ranked high among Putin queries'. In March 2011, such activity occurred on a much smaller scale, because it was manual. To give but one example (but see also this) a Novaia Gazeta virtual election poll was targeted: 'of our candidates only Vladimir Putin and Kristina Potupchik are on the list. Let's support them, not letting the opposition occupy the internet ... you can support our candidates multiple times by using different browsers'.
The call to 'use different browsers' refers to the need to disguise one's IP by a proxy. This is the only automation method regularly used by the higher Nashi echelons. In fact, the leaked correspondence reveals a striking lack of technical expertise within the Nashi hierarchy. Potupchik herself appears well aware of the basic types of automation available, but did not appear to believe full-scale automation could be made credible. This is reflected by the number of individuals in Nashi's internet projects, as submitted to Medvedev's administration to participate in a virtual meeting with the president in October 2011, where all representatives were involved in content creation or dissemination, and no one in developing hard to detect automation techniques: Degtiarev presided over a team of at least 14, there were at least 9 commentators on newspaper articles, Tabak brought 52 activists, there were 97 Nashi bloggers, and a further 83 persons associated with Nashi projects such as Otkrytii Internet [1] and Stop Kham. Of these, all except possibly the Otkrytii Internet members, were paid by Nashi, meaning that even before the election more than 150 individuals were paid to promote Putin online. After the election this grew even further, as those involved in the Open Internet project were by February 2011 promoted to coordinate online Twitter activity through Kambulov's bots.
A problem with paying others to fulfill tasks is that they may prefer to use tools other than those intended. The correspondence makes it clear that the higher levels of technical expertise existed at the lowest levels of the Nashi organisational structure. The few examples of bot activity mentioned are all solicited by middle-ranking activists who seek to use bots to simplify their tasks. For instance Nikolai Sidorkin, involved in the Otkrytii Internet project, contacted a certain Kokoulin to help him advertise the project on VKontakte. This correspondence lists the cost of working around CAPTCHA technology ($1 per 1000 CAPTCHA s), the cost of accounts, as well as their operation. Another example comes from the Nashi led 'Stop Kham' project, in which youth were encouraged to film their interventions against dangerous driving and post their videos on YouTube. At one stage six participants were each sent a list of (since deleted) YouTube accounts, and asked to 'get to work'. The accounts take the format username:password:secret question, where both password and secret question consist of randomly generated characters. There is no mention of macro technology, but given the format of the files precisely matches the mode detailed above, I consider it very likely they were used both to create the accounts, and to promote the videos.
I included the examples above to demonstrate that many operators had a set of tools they knew to be more effective and sophisticated than those provided by Nashi. Automation, when implemented, tended to be used by individuals, not to promote Nashi, but to defraud their superiors. A portion of the leaked correspondence, relating to a campaign in Yekaterinburg, includes exchanges between two lower-level actors hoping to con the self-styled internet hit-man Platon Mamatov by 'acting as if we really have 10 people working for us'. Mamatov, who had been hired to by a third party to coordinate the campaign, later went on to conduct similar online interventions elsewhere. Mamatov himself used a 'chatterbot' during an acrimonious LiveJournal dispute, demonstrating he had an advanced set of scripts at his disposal. A second clear example comes from January 2012. Nashi Commissar Artem Lazarev was responsible for the dissemination of content created by Tabak and Degtiarev in social media. One of his group leaders, Akhmed Akhmedov, who was listed as part of Tabak's team and previously involved in the Medvedev Girls campaign, was responsible for placing content in VKontakte. Akhmedov in his early reports claimed to have placed content to the walls of thousands of VKontakte groups. His use of bots was sloppy: many different accounts were used, but some were used in unreasonably rapid succession. This suggests a script without login automation, consisting of URLs and links to be posted. Lazarev was unimpressed by this work: 'in the special groups' reports there are large quantities of inaccuracies, inflated numbers [nakrutki] and possible falsifications'. He also noted that a number of videos had more 'likes' than views. It is unclear, however, whether Lazarev informed his superiors of this bot usage – it may also have been in his interest to show inflated numbers.
Section three investigates how easy it is to track down Nashi's bots using freely available software
Picture source for Putin as robot.
[1] The Otkrytii Internet project is interesting. It was clearly set up by Nashi, towards the end of 2011. In January 2012 the project claimed it was a new 'Digital party'. On their LiveJournal feed Otkrytii internet claim to have no relation with United Russia or Nashi. For whatever reason the blog has been dormant since May 2012.