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Registration generally happens in August and January/February. Visit our website for exact dates. New dates are posted one-two months before the registration begins. Registration happens at 1100 Harvard Street NW.
When do classes begin?
Fall classes generally begin in August and Spring classes in February. Schedules may vary for paid classes. For more information about dates, click here.
What are the requirements for becoming a student at the Carlos Rosario School?
You must be age 16 years or older and have documents to prove you live in Washington, D.C. You can see a list of approved documents here. Also please see question 9 for the definition of who qualifies for adult education. There are a small number of classes that students pay for and these are open to students not living in Washington, D.C. To learn more about classes, click here.
What classes does the school offer?
We offer English as a Second language, GED in English and Spanish, Citizenship preparation, small business development, technology essentials classes as well as career training classes in health, technology and culinary arts. Please click on the classes tab to learn more about our classes.
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Add your name and contact information to the interest list and we will reach out to you about registration activities. Or you can just come to apply for classes on the appropriate day/time.
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Most classes are tuition-free for DC residents. However, students need to pay $20.00 for the school ID. Also students are generally responsible for purchasing books and materials. There are some classes with additional fees. You can find more information about classes here.
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There are classes offered in the morning, afternoon and evening at the Carlos Rosario School in order to accommodate busy student schedules. For more schedule information, click here.
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Harvard Street Campus: We are located just a few blocks from the Columbia Heights Metro (green/yellow lines). Our building is also walking distance from the 52, 54, and H2 bus lines. There is limited street parking available close to the school, and you'll need to pay close attention to parking restrictions.
Sonia Gutierrez Campus: There is a shuttle that goes from the Harvard Street Campus to the Sonia Gutierrez Campus and back before and after each session. The campus is located just a few blocks from the Rhode Island Avenue Metro (red line). Our building is also walking distance from the H8 and D8 bus lines. Street parking in the area is very limited. We recommend taking public transportation or the shuttle from the Harvard Street Campus.
Who is a typical Carlos Rosario School student?
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Harry the Dirty Dog was first published in 1956.
Since then so much has been said about it, so much love has been sent its way, and so many acolades and awards have been heaped upon it that I'm not really sure what I can add!
Sadly, I never knew this book as a child.
I discovered Harry the Dirty Dog by accident when I was teaching.
My assistant kept putting it on our class library shelf; I kept packing it away. Until one rainy day I overheard her reading the book aloud to a group of (mesmerised) children.
From then on I was a convert.
I read Harry to all my classes within the first month of a new school year. Most years it became a firm favourite with the class - which meant reading it over and over again to individuals, small groups and large throughout the rest of the year.
Twenty years later, Harry the Dirty Dog has not lost any of his appeal.
I still delight in reading it out loud to groups of children. And the children still love Harry. I love watching their faces light up as I hook yet another group of three & four year olds with Harry's charming antics.
Over the years Harry has sparked all sorts of conversations about identity, running away from home, being naughty, cleanliness and the joys of getting muddy!
The original black and white illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham (Zion's wife from 1948 to 1968) also created lots of discussion as modern children tried to come to terms with 'old fashioned' drawing techniques and styles.
In 2002 Graham added splashes of colour to her original drawings which confounded the speculations I had had with my classes that the illustrator meant the pictures to be black & white as part of the artistic integrity of the story!!
Our Harry love always lead us onto No Roses For Harry.
No Roses was published in 1958 and in some ways has dated a little more than the original. Maybe it's the Queen-like Grandma with her afternoon nap?
However, the unwanted gift scenario always strikes a chord with young children and Harry's lucky way of solving his problem delights everyone - including Grandma!
Harry By the Sea (published in 1965) however, never quite worked for us.
Over the years we would read all three books, but Harry By the Sea never became a class favourite. We would all chuckle at the scary sea-monster, but the resolution lacked the satisfying zing of the other two books.
After their divorce in 1968, Zion stopped writing and died in 1975. Margaret continued to illustrate books (winning two Caldecott medals during her career), remarried and as far as I can ascertain, is still living in Toronto.
It's hard to believe that Harry is now 56 years old.
Age has not wearied him; his personal dilemma's still speak to the children of today.
He regularly appears in Top 100 lists compiled by teachers, librarians and parents around the world.
Harry is not old - he is a classic!
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A Look at Concorde's New Commercials
Jul 8, 2019
The Concorde marketing team has been hard at work throughout this year creating content and products that promote the health care careers college and highlight all the outstanding programs we offer.
One of the main things we - especially our Digital Media Manager, Gordon Lamb - have produced is a series of video commercials that highlight many of the various health care careers Concorde offers. Over the past eight months, Gordon has traveled to Concorde's Memphis, Tenn. campus three times and Southaven, Miss. campus once, as well as made several trips to our Kansas City, Mo. campus to shoot footage for 12 programmatic TV commercials. In addition to 30-second TV spots for each of the 12 programs, he also has produced longer, one-minute videos for use on the Concorde website.
"Of the three stages of production, the pre-production, or the planning phase is most important," Gordon said. "Taking the time to scout locations, prep everyone involved, create a detailed shot list.... It saves a mountain of time on shoot days as well as in the editing bay. I'm also fortunate to work with some of the best industry professionals the markets have to offer. Having great equipment is nice, but without talented people, your results are mediocre at best."
Before 2016 is over, Gordon will travel to our campus in Dallas and Grand Prairie, Texas and produce two more commercials highlighting our health care careers.
"My hope for the commercials is that we create a message that resonates with potential students and motivates them to take that first step toward a new career," he said. "Beyond that, I want to help build the brand that reflects the professionalism and quality that a student is going to get here."
Here are some still photos detailing some of the production processes in both Kansas City and Memphis. To take a look at some of the spots themselves, go to the Concorde YouTube page.


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The Stadium – A £10 Million Punt or Investment?
The Stadium for Cornwall has and still is having a troubled time in getting off the drawing-board. I feel a lot of the problems have been with Cornwall Council's overt secrecy, and mixed messages. This has left many Councillors suspecting something is not quiet right, with more going on than Councillor's are being told. One of these concerns is the use of public money.
Let's start off with saying the use of public money in building a stadium or the surrounding infrastructure is nothing new. I don't think there is a stadium in the UK that has not had some sort of public funding in its construction, or running costs. So Cornwall Council will not be doing anything new if it does agree to part fund this stadium.
However, it is one hell of a coincidence that a letter is received from the group behind the stadium project asking for £10m after outline planning permission has been given for the stadium and Langarth Farm. You can't help thinking this letter has been timed to be sent after these planning applications have been given permission.
This £10m request for funding from Cornwall Council will finally be discussed by the entire council on Tuesday 15th. The group behind this project have said they have 'identified' the other £10m needed to make this stadium a reality. In a report published on Friday afternoon, three options are on the table (more could come forward during the debate). These are:
- That the Cabinet be invited to consider whether it would be appropriate for the Council to take the lead in delivering a stadium for Cornwall which promotes community use and economic benefit for the people of Cornwall
- Pursuant to recommendation 1, that as part of the Cabinet's consideration of any scheme for a stadium for Cornwall that a business case be produced including the identification of potential funding and proposals for the re-prioritisation of the existing capital programme of up to £10m and that no one-off or ongoing revenue support from the Council will be required for the Stadium.
- That the Cabinet request the Environment & Economy and Corporate Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committees to ensure that the proposals for any scheme for a stadium for Cornwall are fully scrutinised before making any recommendation to Cabinet for a final decision.
I can say there is considerable resistance to any public funds being used within the elected members. Lots of this has been well publicised in the media. Knowing what has been said before, I feel this request for £10m has a very slim chance of getting the backing of the full council. From my understanding, if the full council say's no, it does not mean the council cannot fund this £10m. As the Cabinet of the council could under its own authority authorise this money. However, it would be extremely difficult for the Cabinet to go against the wishes of the entire council.
With a yes vote, and then Cabinet authorising the money a lot of work will have to be carried out before any money is handed over. The most important one is where will this money come from? Basically there are two options; using existing capital or borrowing the money.
If the council used existing capital this means the council will have to re-jig its current plans for capital investment. This could mean other projects missing out, or delayed. I know in my own Division the Boating Lake is desperate for major investment for repairs and maintenance. Initial estimates for this work could be ask much as £500k. So if the simple choice was Stadium or Boating Lake, then the answer would be Boating Lake.
The other option is for the council to borrow the money. The council could get a decent rate of borrowing because of its Triple A financial rating. The problem with borrowing this money is the cost of paying it back. It has been estimated that the annual cost of servicing this loan would be £800k per year.
More questions will have to be answered on who will actually owns the site and buildings, and what would happen if it all went horribly wrong. If it did go wrong, what liabilities would the council face? I have seen no details on these.
The report for the meeting can be found HERE and the full meeting will be webcast.


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Earth's climate has always been affected by a range of natural factors. It is known to have changed significantly during recorded history, even before gaseous emissions from human activity could have posed any significant threat to atmospheric or climatic conditions. Natural climate variability can arise from natural forcing mechanism which includes both internal oscillations and external forcing like solar variations, volcanic eruptions and aerosols. It can be generated internally through interactions within and between the different climate subsystems such as atmosphere, ocean, land, sea ice, glaciers, and biogeochemistry.
There is a complex interaction between the two components of climate; the climate variation and change in atmospheric and/or the oceanic circulation pattern. These interactions result in shift in the temperature and precipitation probability distribution functions (PDFs) towards a wetter/drier/warmer/cooler conditions. Both effects magnify the changes in the probability of extreme events on the tails of the distribution. They are due to distinctive spatial pattern(s) that may be characterized by one or several modes (repeating patterns of time space variability) of the climate system.
Within the Earth's atmosphere-ocean system, the variability of primary climate variables (e.g., pressure, temperature, and precipitation) gives rise to an array of important, naturally occurring dynamical modes. Some of these modes are the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and its Southern Hemisphere counterpart, the Antarctic Oscillation (AO, also known as the northern and southern annular modes, respectively), the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). The major oceanographic and atmospheric factors affect Australian climate in different regions are; inter-tropic convergence zone (ITCZ), western pacific warm pacific warm pool (WPWP), Walker Circulation, El Nino and La Nina episodes of ENSO and PDO.
Impact of Greenhouse Gases
The climate system can also be externally forced such as anthropogenic changes in greenhouse gasses. Any changes in the radiative balance of the earth, whether due to human-induced increased concentrations of greenhouse gases tend to alter atmospheric and oceanic temperatures, their associated circulation and hence the weather patterns. These changes are accompanied by changes in the distribution and amount of clouds, precipitation and evaporation.
The increase in concentration of GHG results in increase in the sea surface temperature (SST) which results in change in atmospheric pressure. The combined effect of GSGs and increase in SST results in increase in the stratosphere mean age-of-air. Therefore, the changes in sea surface temperature may be an indicative of anthropogenic climate change. Changes in ocean currents, resulting from changes in ocean temperature, could, in turn, lead to changes in atmospheric temperatures.
Changing Weather Patterns
There are five main indicators associated with increase in frequencies of extreme weather events. They are; warm SST, El Nino and La Nina changes (ENSO), low surface atmospheric pressure, week vertical wind shear and variation in the low level tropical flow and the phases of the stratospheric QBO (Quasi –biennial Oscillation). Of these, the ENSO and QBO are the inter-annual processes. The annual rainfall trend for Australia does not show any irregularities in inter-decadal scale. However, the increased rainfall due to cyclonic activities is an inter-annual processes and ENSO cycle believed to be causing this variance in the inter-annual climate regime.
The long period of drought which was experienced in South East Queensland (SEQ) was due to cold state of the tropical east of the Pacific Ocean. The ENSO was asymmetric in the multi-decadal scale until 1980 and then there was breakdown on the asymmetric ENSO teleconnection when the SEQ region had a period of heavy rain fall associated with La Nina episodic oscillation. Post 1980 rainfall period was the positive phase of inter-decadal Pacific oscillation (IPO), where there was an eastward shift of the Walker circulation.
This resulted in the shift of La Nina movement to the west, which again resulted in reduced rainfall. SEQ region continue to experiencing another breakdown of the ENSO teleconnection in the last three years since IPO has been in another negative phase. La Nina events bring above average rainfall to the inland tropics and northern Australian region. This also raises the night time temperature and tropical cyclone risks.
As global temperatures rise due to increased greenhouse gases, the mean Pacific climate tend to resemble more like an El Niño–like state with greater relative surface warming in the equatorial eastern Pacific than the west . There are lots of uncertainties involved in climatic models in relating ENSO's response to global warming. It is still a long way to go before we have a clear idea about the interaction between ENSO and anthropogenic interference. That's why at this stage we cannot establish the strong relationship between temperature rise due to GHG and the extreme weather events, such as Storm Alexa in the Middle East or Hurricane Harvey in the United States.
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Could we soon see the first NBA player of Indian descent? While New Mexico State center Sim Bhullar wasn't among the players drafted by the NBA last week, he did receive a summer league contract from the Sacramento Kings. (It should be noted that the Kings are owned by Vivek Ranadivé, the only Indian American owner in the league.) [NBC Asian America]
ETS and the College Board apologize for offensive t-shirt: The test administrators issued a statement late last week after a "culturally and racially insensitive" t-shirt was distributed at this year's AP World History grading. [NBC Asian America]
Bookmark this: You might have noticed that I started contributing to the new NBC Asian America vertical. You should bookmark it. [NBC]
The importance of finding a strong career mentor: Personal relationships are more important than ever in the business world. Over at Metro New York, I take a look at how young professionals can find and keep strong mentors. [Metro New York]
Ann Coulter Is Right to Fear the World Cup: That's the provocative headline to Peter Beinart's latest piece in The Atlantic. He argues that soccer's recent resurgence in the U.S. can be attributed in part to the fact that "the United States is yet again witnessing mass immigration from soccer-mad nations." [The Atlantic]
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Aberdeen forward Lawrence Shankland has joined Morton on loan until the end of the season ahead of Saturday's home game with Raith Rovers.
The 21-year-old spent the first half of 2016/17 on loan to the Cappielow club's Championship rivals St Mirren but now links up with Jim Duffy's side.
Duffy told the Morton website: "I'm sure he'll fit in well with how we play - if we can get the service to him I'm really confident he can be a success and score some important goals for us."
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How it Works
Attendees will randomly select from a bowl of prompts – either one word or a simple phrase crafted to reflect your brand personality- and respond by painting on canvas. And yes, we can use your brand colors!
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A one-of-a-kind piece of abstract art with layer after layer of unique strokes created by attendees or team members to display in your office. Your brand will truly come to life through color through this team-building eXperience.
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The principle of sufficient reason is the principle which is presupposed in philosophical arguments in general, which states that anything that happens does so for a definite reason. It is usually attributed to Gottfried Leibniz. Leibniz formulated the principle as follows: "There must be a sufficient reason [often known only to God] for anything to exist, for any event to occur, for any truth to obtain."[1]
The principle has a variety of expressions, all of which are perhaps best summarized by the following:
A sufficient explanation may be understood either in terms of reasons or causes for like many philosophers of the period, Leibniz did not carefully distinguish between the two. The resulting principle is very different, however, depending on which interpretation is given.
In fact Leibniz opposed fatalism and had a more nuanced and characteristic version of the principle, in which the contingent was admitted on the basis of an infinite number of reasons, to which God had access but humans did not. He explained this while discussing the problem of the future contingents:
We have said that the concept of an individual substance (Leibniz also uses the term haecceity) includes once for all everything which can ever happen to it and that in considering this concept one will be able to see everything which can truly be said concerning the individual, just as we are able to see in the nature of a circle all the properties which can be derived from it. But does it not seem that in this way the difference between contingent and necessary truths will be destroyed, that there will be no place for human liberty, and that an absolute fatality will rule as well over all our actions as over all the rest of the events of the world? To this I reply that a distinction must be made between that which is certain and that which is necessary. (§13, Discourse on Metaphysics. Retrieved February 19, 2008.)
Without this qualification, the principle can be seen as a description of a certain notion of closed system, in which there is no 'outside' to provide unexplained events with causes. It is also in tension with the paradox of Buridan's ass.
The laws of thought are fundamental logical rules, with a long tradition in the history of philosophy, which collectively prescribe how a rational mind must think. To break any of the laws of thought (for example, to contradict oneself) is to be irrational.
Leibniz counted the principle of sufficient reason together with the principle of the identity of indiscernibles to a list of the most general logical principles discussed since Aristotle.
The three classic laws of thought are attributed to Aristotle and were foundational in scholastic logic. They are:
John Locke claimed that the principles of identity and contradiction were general ideas and only occurred to people after considerable abstract, philosophical thought. He characterized the principle of identity as "Whatsoever is, is." The principle of contradiction was stated as "It is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be." To Locke, these were not innate or a priori principles.
Leibniz formulated two additional principles, either or both of which may sometimes be counted as a law of thought:
In Leibniz's thought and generally in the approach of rationalism, the latter two principles are regarded as clear and incontestable axioms. They were widely recognized in European thought of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and (while subject to greater debate) nineteenth century. As turned out to be the case with another such (the so-called law of continuity), they involve matters which, in contemporary terms, are subject to much debate and analysis (respectively on determinism and extensionality). Leibniz's principles were particularly influential in German thought. In France the Port-Royal Logic was less swayed by them. Hegel quarrelled with the identity of indiscernibles in his Science of Logic (1812-1816).
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason[2] was originally published as a doctoral dissertation in 1813. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer revised this important work and re-published it in 1847. Throughout all Schopenhauer's later works he consistently refers his readers to this short treatise as the necessary beginning point for a full understanding of his entire system.
In January of 1813, after suffering their disastrous defeat in Russia, the first remnants of Napoleon's Grand Armée was arriving in Berlin. The sick and wounded quickly filled up the hospitals and the risk of an epidemic grew high. A patriotic, militaristic spirit inflamed the city and most of the populace, philosophers and students included, entertained the hope that the French yoke could be violently thrown off. All this rapidly became intolerable to Schopenhauer who ultimately fled the city, retreating to the small town of Rudolstadt near Weimar. It was here, from June to November of that year, while staying at an inn, that the work was composed.
After submitting it as his doctoral dissertation he was awarded a PhD from the University of Jena in absentia. Private publication soon followed. "There were three reviews of it, commending it condescendingly. Scarcely more than one hundred copies were sold, the rest was remaindered and, a few years later, pulped."[3] Among the reasons for the cold reception of this original version is that it lacked the author's later authoritative style and appeared decidedly unclear in it's implications. A copy was sent to Goethe who responded by inviting the author to his home on a regular basis, ostensibly to discuss philosophy but in reality to recruit the young philosopher into work on his theory of colours.
In 1847 Schopenhauer rewrote and enlarged the work, publishing a new edition. This is the version of the work that is read today. "There the lines of thought are firmly pursued, linking up with his main work; there a challenge is issued to philosophical tradition, and there is no curb on attacks against the philosophical spirit of the age."[4]
Schopenhauer's epistemology, by direct admission, begins with Immanuel Kant's theory of knowledge. Actually, Schopenhauer proclaimed himself a Kantian who had appropriated his predecessor's most powerful accomplishment in epistemology, and who then claimed to have merely extended and completed what Kant botched or had left undone.
In Schopenhauer's point of view, Kant's chief merit lies in his distinction between the thing in itself and the phenomenal world in which it appears, i.e., the world as we represent it to ourselves. What is crucial here is the realization that what makes experience possible to begin with and without exception is our perceiving mind, which synthesizes perceptions from raw sensation and consequently abstracts concepts from those perceptions. Schopenhauer appropriates Kant's forms of sensibility (space, time, and causality) and transforms them into what he calls the understanding:
"To know causality is the sole function of the understanding, its only power, and it is a great power embracing much, manifold in its application, and yet unmistakable in its identity throughout all its manifestations. Conversely, all causality, hence all matter, and consequently the whole of reality, is only for the understanding, through the understanding, in the understanding. The first, simplest, ever-present manifestation of understanding is perception of the actual world. This is in every way knowledge of the cause from the effect, and therefore all perception is intellectual" (The World as Will and Representation volume I 11).
Thus, understanding does not exist independent of our ability to perceive and determine relationships as it is the very ground of experience itself. Not only what we think in the abstract, but also our very perceptions are completely intellectual and subjectively determined. Already we have the philosophical grounds for Nietzsche's perspectivism, though given in different language: representation (Vorstellung).
According to Schopenhauer's On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, there are four distinct forms of the principle.
If a new state of one or several real objects appears, another state must have preceded it upon which the new state follows regularly.
If a judgment is to express a piece of knowledge, it must have a sufficient ground. By virtue of this quality, it receives the predicate true. Truth is therefore the reference of a judgment to something different there from.
The position of every object in space and the succession of every object in time is conditioned by another object's position in space and succession in time.
Every human decision is the result of an object that necessarily determines the human's will by functioning as a motive.
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Pebble Time Smartwatch
Pebble Time – the name of an awesome new smartwatch and the term I use to describe my bathroom trip after a night eating Indian food. This color e-paper smartwatch has up to 7 days of battery life, allows you to dictate replies to social media, and is entirely waterproof; meaning you could lie dead for a week at the bottom of a lake and fish could reply to your friends. Fully compatible with 6500+ Pebble apps and watchfaces, these stylish bastards begin shipping in May 2015.


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Chelsea dining room, The Henry Root, re-launches this October following an extensive refurbishment by hospitality group, Affinity Bars & Restaurants.
The neighbourhood dining room will re-open on Monday 5th October with an elegant new interior and refreshed all-day menu. The kitchen has been relocated to the lower-ground floor, extending the restaurant dining area and creating space for contemporary artwork and grand mirrors, which will reflect natural light from the skylight above throughout the room. At the front, a casual, café-style area for morning coffees and brunch will seat guests with dogs and young families, while sleek stools transition the space to accommodate at-bar dining, ideal for after-work cocktails and early evening small plates. Mid-way, a large communal table will cater to kid's clubs in the morning and dinner parties in the evening. A fresh new feminine colour palette of soft pink, tan and teal will ease diners through the day, with deep blue velvet banquettes adding a luxurious and sophisticated touch for refined dining in the evening.
New all-day opening hours at The Henry Root will welcome guests for breakfast from 8am on weekdays and 9am on weekends, serving brunch, lunch and dinner throughout. Offering healthy takes on casual, comfort-food classics during the day, there will be a more refined, indulgent menu available in the evening. Brunch dishes like Smashed avocado, poached eggs on rye sit alongside salads such as Puglian burrata 'Caperese' with heritage tomatoes and basil and sandwiches including a Native lobster brioche roll, while Seabass with braised gem and mussel viniagrette and Parmesan-crumb chicken schnitzel with fennel and apple slaw make for healthy, heartier lunch options. In the evening, dishes including Grilled halibut with girolles, spinach and ver jus and Roasted rump of lamb with braised puy lentils and salsa verde are elegant enough for special occasions and destination dining, while plates of Macaroni cheese with truffled lobster, USDA Prime rib-eye steak and Henry's grass-fed beef burger cater to The Henry Root's local regulars.
The bar will be laid with a selection of fresh fruit, seasonal salads and homemade cakes during the day, perfect for mid-morning coffee, light lunch and afternoon tea. Cold-pressed juices and smoothies by Radiance Cleanse will also feature, available to take-away with coffees and other hot drinks, ideal for on-the-move mums; Radiance's Chocolate smoothie – a blend of coconut milk, raw cacao, avocado and dates – is a wholesome treat for kids while the Green juice nourishes mums on the school run. In the evening, the bar will transform into Chelsea's cocktail hot-spot, serving a selection of classics, fizzes and seasonal specials, perfect for post-work drinks, pre-dinner tipples and nightcaps alike.
Offering locals a trusted, social dining room in the heart of Chelsea, The Henry Root's new all-day offering and popular neighbourhood events – including renowned 'Doggy Dinners' and weekend kid's clubs – will be a welcome return to the area.
The Henry Root will host a soft-launch service from Wednesday 30th September to Sunday 4th October, offering guests 50% off food all day.


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Poker tournaments are a good way for beginners to learn to play poker, without having to risk too much money. The tournaments are also good that they can allow you to win big if you go far and as long as you are a little lucky. Here are options to help you improve tournament results fast enough, and also a few reminders of a few poker tournament strategy concepts for new players. "I have Tokens so I am" The strategy in Poker Online tournaments differs enormously from the strategy in…Read More
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The Top Sri Lankan players in the Nidahas Trophy
Because cricket is a must and watching Nidahas Trophy 2018 through YuppTV is awesome. World's leading Over The Top content provider YuppTV has bagged the exclusive rights to stream tri-national series live online. Nidahas Trophy 2018 is being hosted by Sri Lanka and the esteemed country has summoned India and Bangladesh to play the T20i as its celebrating its 70th year of Independence. All the matches of the tournament will be frolicked at R. Premdasa Stadium in Colombo. The tournament will commence on 6th March 2018 and the final match…Read More


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Hasslebo - your organic guest house on Kumlinge in Åland's archipelago
Кемпинги | The little friendly guest house in the middle of the wonderful Scandinavian Islands invites you to stay for holidays or meetings, all year round! We offer you site for your tent or your caravan.
Hasslebo guest house and nature camp offers sites for tents and caravans, self-catering kitchen, lounges with a selection of books and CDs, and a sauna. The guest house is connected to wireless broadband internet.
Hasslebo has a couple of playful elfs: our cats and chickens, and a stable lodging two horses and two donkeys.
On Kumlinge island you'll find a general store, a post office, a bank and a farmacy, two ferry landings, a guest harbour and an air strip.
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Yaay!!! To mark the yuletide festivities, blackberry world which is blackberry's equivalent of Iphone's Apple store and Android's Playstore would be giving out some of its paid apps for free. These free apps however vary across devices and geographical regions.
The first batch of apps is available now until December 17th and then on December 18th, they'll change and several new apps will be featured, so hurry, visit blackberry world on your blackberry device. I just downloaded one of the best unit conversion apps i've seen "Convertly", it does its job well and constantly updates itself, especially for currencies.


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Mobile First Indexing: What You Need To Know To Be Successful
In case you didn't know, Google likes mobile. I mean, they REALLY like mobile—so much so that they're prioritizing mobile friendly websites to appear higher up on search engine results pages. Announced in late 2016, this mobile-first indexing will literally rank a website according to how it performs on mobile devices, essentially throwing the desktop experience by the wayside. But is this shocking? No, not really. Here are two reasons why:
- For the first time ever, more than 50% of internet users are using mobile devices—making desktop users a minority. Mobile usage will continue to climb in the next few years.
- Secondly, Google is placing a heavier emphasis on the user experience (UX) in 2017. They want to reward sites that provide a sleeker, more responsive design.
It's essentially cause and effect. Google noticed that the majority of internet users were browsing sites on the mobile platform, and so they want to make sure that these mobile sites are responsive. Thus, the mobile first indexing struggle will be won through improved web design and development strategies.
Miraculously, only 30% of small businesses have mobile-friendly websites. With the new ranking changes, this will undoubtedly affect many brands' bottom lines. Don't become one of them. Here's what you and your team can do to be successful.
Visibility Across Devices
You have a long-form blog post that has a killer infographic which is being shared around the internet like crazy—but just for desktop users. People visiting your website on their iPhone are out of luck, because your infographic isn't showing up on mobile. Or it might be partially there, but it's getting cut off by the smaller screen size and not being shared. As you can imagine, this is a HUGE problem. If 51% of visitors can't see your wonderful content in its entirety, you're giving them a terrible user experience—and taking a hit to your ROI too.
Whenever you're developing content, whether it's a video, infographic, chart, or simple text blog post, check that it's visible and fits on mobile screens before going to publish.
Even minor differences in screen sizes can force some pieces of content to be withheld from view. And if you're using video? Well, make sure it isn't powered by Flash. Since iPhones don't support Flash, you're losing out on a massive swath of potential viewers.
Previewing how your content will appear on mobile and other devices has never been simpler. Luckily, most website building platforms—like WordPress—provide an option for viewing your content in the way it would appear on a phone or tablet.
It's always best to consult a web developer before making serious changes, but at least WordPress gives you a nice visual representation of how your site looks in its current form. This is also a recommended step when demoing a new theme in WordPress. It's important that you choose one that has a responsive design, and will be mobile-friendly.
Responsive web design is often confused with mobile-friendly design. But while mobile-friendly designs tend to be responsive, they don't take into account other devices. A responsive web design, by definition, is "a setup where the server always sends the same HTML code to all devices and CSS is used to alter the rendering of the page on the device." In other words, responsive designs make a website look and act great across all devices from which a user is viewing it—not just limited mobile.
Let's explain what we mean by "look great" when describing responsive designs.
- Easy to Navigate
A better user experience starts with navigation. Simply put, can visitors get around your site easily on their phones? If you're unsure, ask a friend to try and navigate your site from their phone. Or for a more objective analysis, ask someone on the street. The bottom line is, if any text is hard to read, or if the natural page-to-page progression on your site is unclear, users will bounce like there's no tomorrow.
Navigation factors to consider are things like formatting of text, distinct navigation bars, and clear calls-to-action. Can customers recognize how to go from your home page to the purchase page easily? It always helps to think about how your conversion rate could be affected by your navigation setup.
Here's what a responsive mobile site looks like from a navigational standpoint.
A clean navigation menu is everything. It's about clarity over complexity when it comes to mobile-friendliness, and it starts with making your buttons and links clear to visitors.
- Fitting The Screen Size
Perhaps the best way to think about web design responsiveness is not in terms of mobile vs. desktop, but in terms of screen size differences.
Here's a look at ESPN.com in full screen view:
And with a minimized window:
These screencaps were both taken on a desktop device, but with different sized windows. Notice what happens on the smaller one? Thanks to a responsive design, the top navigation bar becomes condensed like it would on a mobile device. And while the images and text shrink to fit the screen size, they still manage to maintain their proportions.
This is why it's a mistake to aim just for "mobile-friendliness" and not account for the dozens of other screen sizes on which your content will be viewed. Responsiveness encapsulates the whole lot.
- Ad Placement
Consider this a "what not to do" regarding ad placement on your mobile sites. If you're using AdSense to monetize your website, that's fine, just be careful when placing ads above-the-fold on mobile. In case you don't know, above-the-fold refers to the upper portion of your site which appears when a user lands on a page. Apparently, Google is hitting publishers with policy violations for posting AdSense content above-the-fold that measures 300×250 in size.
Not only could you get your AdSense account suspended, but it would undoubtedly affect your mobile rankings. With mobile first indexing, it's simply not worth the risk.
Page Speed
Nothing acts as a buzzkill to your user experience quite like bad load times. Slow loading websites can single-handedly destroy your ROI, especially as newer generations of users expect results fast. 47% of consumers expect a page to load in 2 seconds or less, while a 1 second delay in page response can result in a 7% loss in conversions. Load speeds are even more important when we're talking about mobile users, many of whom are on their way to the office or running to catch a train. Getting their content delivered quickly matters.
- Reduce Redirects
Redirects are sometimes necessary especially when repairing broken links (404s). But keep in mind that each time you add an HTTP request, there will be a potential drop in your site speed—an increased load time. And having a responsive website means that there's probably a few redirects in place to bring mobile users from your main site to the more responsive version. Thankfully, there's an easy way to fix this:
Just use an HTTP request to send mobile users directly to your mobile URL without needing intermediate redirects, and include the following markup – <link rel="alternate"> within your desktop version of the pages. This will identify the mobile version of your URL which makes it discoverable to Google, but it won't cause you to sacrifice load times.
- Above-the-fold Content
Above-the-fold content refers to the upper portion of a web page that a person sees when they initially visit your site—before scrolling down. This is a huge factor when determining user experience because if your most important content isn't apparent when a user first lands on your page, they'll bounce.
The reason why we're including this underneath the 'page speed' section is because you should prioritize your above the fold content when optimizing your page. In other words, make sure the upper-placed content loads faster than lower-placed items on your page.
In their Mobile Analysis in PageSpeed Insights, Google has preached that sites should aim for a 1 second MAXIMUM load time for above-the-fold content on mobile. If the content takes longer than 1 second to load, this constitutes a bad user experience.
- Mobile Optimization Plugins
For those WordPress users among us (or roughly 25% of all internet publishers), there's a plugin available for any situation—or so it seems. Mobile optimization is no different.
Here are a few that combine mobile SEO best practices with responsive design:
- WPTouch Mobile Plugin – it's one of the oldest WordPress plugins for mobile, but it's still used regularly by many publishers. Why? Because it upholds the mobile design guidelines established by Google. The pro version costs $88 per year for a single site license, but this includes the ability to add premium themes to your site—especially great for blogs, WooCommerce-enable ecommerce stores, and services businesses.
- Jetpack – A rising star among optimization plugins in general, Jetpack provides some great options for mobile users. Mostly the ability to secure your site without hindering load times, as well as an adherence to SEO best practices.
- WordPress Mobile Pack – It's all in the name for this plug-in. The WordPress Mobile Pack explicitly touts "cross-platform" mobile functionality in it's banner image:
WordPress Mobile Pack is all about targeting different mobile devices, allowing you to sync different pages, posts, and comments according to the target device. If you choose to upgrade to the premium version, you'll be able to integrate it with Google Analytics as well as certain ad networks.
The common thread among all of these plugins? They will improve your user's mobile experience. If you can't afford a top-notch developer, these tools provide a great way for you to get optimized.
- Image Compression
Compressing your images means there's less content for your pages to load, plus it allows you to resize them so that they can fit neatly onto your mobile site.
One of the best image compression tools around is Kraken.io—which does an amazing job of reducing your image sizes by over 90%, while not sacrificing their quality. Pricing for the software ranges from as little as $5 per month all the way to $79 per month, depending on how many GBs need reducing.
Sure there are other tools out there that can perform a similarly good job, but Kraken seems to be one of the easiest, and relatively cheapest to use.
Let's talk briefly about written content, mainly with regards to formatting. You have to remember that reading text on a small screen is a chore no matter how you cut it. To make things a little less difficult for your readers, here are a few best practices to consider.
- No More Than 300 Words Per Paragraph
If you read anything by digital marketing guru Neil Patel, you'll find it to be chopped up into tiny paragraphs—sometimes no longer than one line in length.
His objective here is not to be patronizing and think that his audience reads at a first grade level, it's to make things easier for people on mobile devices. He's discovered that much of his readership consumes content on mobile, and he finds that he gets higher CTRs when his paragraphs are short.
Happy User, Happy Publisher
Google's push towards a mobile-first society is completely expected, yet it's causing many to fear that their rankings are in jeopardy. The best way to prepare your site is simply by reviewing every post, page, and existing piece of content through a mobile device to ensure that it provides the best experience to the user.
Check that your site presents content fluidly, it doesn't have intrusive content like interstitials, and it's easy to navigate from page to page. Most importantly, understand that a great looking mobile site normally translates to a great desktop version, as long as you implement a responsive design. If you're reading this today and you still don't have a responsive design, what are you waiting for?


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In our previous post, Lindsay waxed on about her favorite useless object: a ceramic cat bust. From the original twelve-inch tall ceramic statue, we've created a four-inch tall 3D printed replica, and it is every bit as beautiful as the original. From the sculpted fur texture to the intricacies of his heart-shaped medallion on his front, he is a true miniature duplicate.
For comparison, here's the scanned model again:
There's more detail to be seen in person. If you find yourself in the area of our office during our posted hours, drop by to see our tiny cat friend with your eyes and hands. You might be surprised by what else we've created, too.


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Thousands of cheerful bikini girls came here to join Bikini festival in Chimelong Water Park, Guangzhou City of China every summer.
Bikini Festivals is held an annual event each year one time in Chimelong Park Water, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China, to welcome eventful summer. There are so many young girls, both domestic and foreign, confidently showcased their youthful beauty.
The bikini event welcomes the summer is organized large-scale and attracted participation of many young. They lined as snake dragon and interesting in this festival.


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Krypton's Cameron Cuffe Says His Show Is More Sci-Fi Than Superhero
Ahead of the big series premiere on March 21, we sat down with Cameron Cuffe for a Krypton Q&A to get the lowdown on the mega-anticipated show straight from the source: it's lead actor.
Cuffe's soon-to-be-widely-known alter ego is Seg, of the House of El—yeah, that's the same grand lineage Superman himself descends from. Seg is Supe's (Kryptonian name: Kal) future grandfather and the plot of Krypton sees him align with a time-travelling Earthling in an attempt to make sure that planet's super saviour actually gets born. We all know that Krypton is doomed, but the premise of this new series centres on that fateful doom arriving a full two generations earlier.
Cuffe's character, along with his family, find themselves in a kind of riches-to-rags situation and it's up to Seg to restore the family's name. The series, says Cuffe, is unlike any other superhero show currently on TV. "There's no suiting up to fight bad guys," he tells us. Instead, it's all shades of grey: there are no pure villains and no pure heroes. Everyone thinks they're doing the right thing—and they're willing to fight for that.
According to Cuffe, this is a show that's more sci-fi than superhero.
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The English illustrator Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) dramatically changed the art of the picture book. For many modern critics, her work represents the essence of a Victorian childhood.
For over a hundred years, Kate Greenaway's works have been honored as representing the essence of illustrations for children. Her relatively simple line drawings and colored pictures of young boys and girls at play influenced generations of writers and illustrators for children. Her seminal role in creating the form of the modern child's picture book was recognized in 1955, when the Library Association of Great Britain established the Kate Greenaway Medal. The award is given annually to the British artist who has produced the most distinguished illustrations in works of literature for children.
Kate Greenaway's romantic conception of childhood was based in part on her own experiences. She was born on March 17, 1846, in Hoxton, a community in what is now Greater London, England. "She was the second daughter of John Greenaway, a draughtsman and engraver, " writes Bryan Holme in The Kate Greenaway Book, "and of Elizabeth Greenaway, a Miss Jones before the marriage." "I had such a very happy time when I was a child, " Greenaway is reported as saying in M. H. Spielmann and G. S. Lanyard's 1905 biography Kate Greenaway, "and, curiously, was so very much happier then than my brother and sister, with exactly the same surroundings. I suppose my imaginary life made me one long continuous joy-filled everything with a strange wonder and beauty. Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling-I can so well remember it. There was always something more-behind and beyond everything-to me. The golden spectacles were very very big."
Her earliest artistic desires found their expression in drawing and in dressing up her dolls. "A strong bond existed between father and daughter, " Holme reports. "He had nicknamed her 'Knocker' because when she cried her face used to look like one-or so he had teasingly told her. As soon as Kate's fingers had strength enough to hold pencil, John Greenaway had encouraged her to draw-and this he continued to do up to and through her student years." Some of these pictures were of contemporary events, including the Great Indian War in 1857, in which many English women and children were killed. "At the time of the Indian Mutiny I was always drawing people escaping, " Greenaway revealed in Kate Greenaway. "I could sit and think of the sepoys till I could be wild with terror, and I used sometimes to dream of them. But I was always drawing the ladies, nurses, and children escaping. Mine always escaped and were never taken." Other inspirations for her art work were the family vacations taken in rural Rolleston, Nottinghamshire. "Here Greenaway was touched by the commonplace sights of old-fashioned England, " states Lundin: "villagers in their antiquated eighteenth-century dress; men working in the fields in embroidered smocks dyed blue; women wearing their Sunday best of frilly lace and large poke bonnets; and roads edged with primroses or fields filled with poppies."
A Career as an Illustrator and Designer
Greenaway's doll-dressing talents may have had their origins in Elizabeth Greenaway's occupation. "Her mother was a seamstress and milliner, who opened a shop in Islington when her husband's business waned, " explains Anne H. Lundin in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. "Certainly Kate Greenaway's taste for 'dressing up' found its major expression at the drawing, [but] … in her childhood it had through her love of dolls, " states Holme. Even after she had been sent to school at what would become the Royal Academy of Art in 1858, and after she had won local and national awards for her work in 1861 and 1864, she continued to work with dolls and fabric. In 1868, at the age of 22, she had an exhibition of her watercolors at the Dudley Gallery in Piccadilly. She created these pictures by first making the clothing, then dressing model in the clothes. The significance of the pictures in terms of her career, however, was that they "caught the eye of an editor and led to a commission for illustrations for People's magazine and later for Christmas cards and valentines for Marcus Ward, " declares Lundin. "In 1870 she received a commission to illustrate an edition of Madame D'Aulney's Fairy Tales. She also began contributing to Little Folks, the Illustrated London News, and Cassell's magazine, and she exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1877."
Greenaway's largest influence on her art work at this time came from the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which was formed in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. "This trio of artists, " writes Holme, "protested the ravages of modern industry, but their plea for a return to simplicity, sincerity, and respect for nature had no bearing beyond the immediate world of British art. Yet in that world, within a decade, they became gods." Many of her early cards and valentines, such as those that appeared in The Quiver of Love: A Collection of Valentines (1876) show the Pre-Raphaelite influence on her work. John Ruskin, the first British art critic to recognize the contributions of the Pre-Raphaelites, later became a close friend of Greenaway. Their correspondence continued until the critic's death in 1900.
Much of Greenaway's earliest work appeared in the publications of Marcus Ward & Company, which published her art work on their cards, calendars, and books. "Over the years, " writes Holme, "hitherto unknown books containing one or more Greenaway illustrations have turned up in the rare-book market." Her "earliest free-lance work also included odd jobs for Messrs. Kronheim and Company, the giant color printers of Shoe Lane, " the critic continues. The Kronheim connection led to the publication of her first illustrated book: Diamonds and Toads (1871). "This slim paper-bound volume, a popular little tale pointing to the moral that 'cross words are as bad dropped from the mouth as toads and vipers, while gentle words are better than roses and diamonds' was printed by Kronheim, " Holme concludes, "and destined to number in Aunt Louisa's London Toy Book Series under the imprint of Frederick Warne and Company." Other books featuring Greenaway illustrations published in the early 1870s included The Children of the Parsonage, Fairy Gifts; or, A Wallet of Wonders, and Topo.
Under the Window and Other Works
The artist's aspirations, however, went beyond simply illustrating books written by other people. "Greenaway's ambition was to publish a book of her own verses and drawings based on her memories of Rolleston, street rhymes, and favorite childhood stories, " explains Lundin. "She dressed her characters in the old-fashioned clothing so common in Rolleston: high-waisted gowns, smocks, and mobcaps. She accompanied these drawings with her own verse, based on nursery-rhyme morals and make-believe." Her father, John Greenaway, shared the unfinished manuscript with a colleague named Edmund Evans. Evans was "a pioneer color printer who had already created successful productions of Walter Crane's toy books and had recently engaged Randolph Caldecott for a similar series, " states Lundin. The volume that Evans published became the first and most popular of Greenaway's books, Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children. Evans's original printing of 20, 000 copies quickly sold out and Evans had to print another 50, 000 to satisfy the demand for the book. One-third of the profits went to Greenaway. The sales made her comfortably well-off, if not wealthy, and her name became familiar in households throughout the British Empire and the United States. "Throughout the 1890s Under the Window was listed as a perennial seller, " says Lundin, "along with Greenaway's three other most popular works: Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children (1880), Mother Goose; or, The Old Nursery Rhymes (1881), and A Painting Book (1884)."
These four books marked the pinnacle of Greenaway's critical and commercial success. However, her reputation was further spread by a series of yearly almanacs, published first by Routledge and later by Dent. "The almanacs were booklets with variant bindings that contained monthly calendars and in which the surprise from year to year was in Greenaway's choice of decorations for the seasons, " writes Lundin. Their sales were more erratic than those of Greenaway's major books-except in the United States, Lundin says, where "the almanacs had a greater following … with sales often twice that of the British market." The Almanack for 1883, the best-selling of her collection, sold 90, 000 copies throughout Great Britain, the United States, France, and Germany. The almanacs appeared yearly from 1882 to 1895; the publisher skipped 1896, and the last of Greenaway's almanacs was published in 1897.
Commercial Success
These almanacs and Greenaway's other publications brought out a "Greenaway Vogue" that began shortly after the publication of Under the Window and continued for some time. "Numerous imitations, piracies, and spinoffs were produced without her permission, an onslaught that popularized her name by adversely affected her livelihood and stature, " says Lundin. Even clothing styled after the patterns she had developed in her illustrations was created. At one point Greenaway was approached by a shoe manufacturer who wanted to market a "Kate Greenaway shoe." Greenaway herself told another anecdote about an acquaintance who had been exposed to the vogue: "The lady who has just left me, has been staying in the country and has been to see her cousins. I asked if they were growing up as pretty as they promised. 'Yes, ' she replied, 'but they spoil their good looks, you know, by dressing in that absurd Kate Greenaway style'-quite forgetting that she was talking to me!"
Although Greenaway maintained her reputation throughout the late nineteenth century, by the dawn of the twentieth century her popularity began to wane. Despite the loss of her parents and her friend John Ruskin, she never lost the dedication that characterized her earliest work. However, by early 1901 Greenaway was complaining of chronic pain, which was diagnosed as "acute muscular rheumatism, " but which modern critics believe was actually breast cancer. She died on November 6, 1901, and was buried in her family's plot at Hampstead cemetery. "Her work, " concludes Lundin, "remains a part of folk culture as well as a landmark in the history of children's bookmaking."
Further Reading on Kate Greenaway
Arbuthnot, May Hill, and Zena Sutherland, Children and Books, 4th edition, Scott, Foresman, 1972.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 141: British Children's Writers, 1880-1914, Gale Research, 1994.
Ernest, Edward, and Patricia Tracy Lowe, editors, The Kate Greenaway Treasury: An Anthology of the Illustrations and Writings of Kate Greenaway, World Publishing, 1967.
Holme, Bryan, The Kate Greenaway Book, Viking Press, 1976.
Meigs, Cornelia Lynde, et. al., editors, A Critical History of Children's Literature, Macmillan, 1953.
Moore, Anne Carroll, A Century of Kate Greenaway, Warne, 1946.
Spielmann, Marion Harry, and George Somes Layard, Kate Greenaway, A. & C. Black, 1905.
Yesterday's Authors of Books for Children, Gale Research, 1976. M


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Minda focuses on deeper Listening on this episode. She talks with fellow co-host Cosette "Coco" Leary about what it's like to be a family caregiver.
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Sony says it fell behind on developing an iPad rival, but did admit something was in the works. Sony's take on the iPad is believed to combine the features commonly found on netbooks, e-readers like the Amazon Kindle, and handheld-game machines like the iPod touch.
In other words, Sony's portable device will most likely play downloadable games, read e-books, possibly run third-party apps – maybe even do your laundry – their finance chief Nobuyuki Oneda told the Wall Street Journal.
The new device could draw on Sony's collective expertise in handheld videogame devices (the PSP), smartphones (Sony Ericsson phones), notebooks (the Vaio line), and e-readers (the Sony Reader). The success of such a gizmo, however, is all not guaranteed as the company is still pondering their next move, Oneda explained:
The question is how to combine those products into one attractive personal device. In the case of the iPad, we are a little behind.
Jonny Evans over at 9to5Mac speculated that Sony might leverage its good relationship with Google (Sony is, after all, building Google TVs) to power its tablet with Android.
Having spent 41 years at Sony, Oneda will be retiring the next month, the Wall Street Journal noted.
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Christian's Opinion
It's not the first time we're hearing about a supposed iPod, iPad, or iPhone killer from Sony. If you remember, the Wall Street Journal ran a similar story in March saying Sony was working on a Sony Ericsson phone that would run downloadable games. That story also hinted at an iPad-like device. I don't think the product is vaporware, quite the contrary – Sony needs something like iPad if they're to remain a relevant player in the consumer space.
Despite raking in $78.88 billion in its fiscal year 2008 and $90.5 billion a year earlier, Sony finished in the red but they're promising to return to profitability this year. Despite the negative bottom line, Sony enjoys higher sales than the Apple which only recently joined the $50 billion club – and that only if we annualize their $15.68 billion revenue from the March quarter. In addition, Sony files as one of the world's largest media conglomerates that commands a bunch of entertainment verticals, including electronics, games, and movies. That being said, Apple shouldn't take Sony's iPad-esque device lightly and underestimate the power of the Japanese giant.


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'The Doors' (R)By Joe Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
March 01, 1991
Maybe they should invent a new rating letter for Oliver Stone's crowded, sprawling new movie "The Doors." How about D -- "No one admitted without previous drug experience."
With its reeling, rocking and rolling camera, surging and throbbing score, "The Doors" recreates the dizzying highs and shaky, blurry downs. It's what they used to call a "head" movie -- you get a buzz, all right, but you're left woozy and hung over, and probably won't remember much of what you've seen.
Continuing his reputation, cemented with "Platoon" and "Fourth of July" (both of which prominently featured Doors music), as the celebrator of '60s sensations and cinematic sensory overload, Stone sets out to mythologize the seminal late-'60s rock band and its charismatic, self-destructive lead singer Jim Morrison, in whose arc the director sees the essence of that decade.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and intellectual dilettante Morrison was the first dangerous teen idol, appealing to Stone's own adolescent sensibilities. Stone means to say Morrison was many things: Rock godling, artist by accident, anarchist, modern shaman and stand-in for Dionysus, love-starved son, victim. Though staying just this side of hagiography -- Stone shows us the not pretty side of Morrison's drugging and boozing comet trail -- there's no mistaking that the director views Morrison as a full-fledged Christ figure, and "The Doors" is graced by Last Suppers with bandmates-and-groupies disciples, crucifixions on the arms of crowds and cops, and sorrowful pietas.
The color-saturated collage of impressions begins with a sepia-toned memory of Morrison as a pudgy kid witnessing a highway accident from a station wagon window, presaging his (short) lifelong fascination with death. In alternatingly soaring, staggering and sluggish manner, it moves through the offhand formation of the Doors (and the even more offhand creation of "Light My Fire"); the heyday, the decay and the end at age 27 for Morrison in a hotel bathtub; and (unironically?) leaves us at the graffiti-encrusted Parisian grave where he rests among such neighbors as Wilde, Bernhardt, Moliere and Bizet.
The movie's saving grace is Val Kilmer's transformational performance, which takes Morrison from 19-year-old poet wannabe, to the bewildered star who believes his own haphazardly assembled myth, to bloated bearded burnout. Morrison in "The Doors" is tormented and torn between the light and the dark, but the movie is sabotaged by Stone's overly simplistic hack-Hollywood way of showing it: The singer is tugged back and forth by the Nice Blond (Morrison's common-law wife Pamela Courson, played by Meg Ryan, still stuck in ditsy "Sally" mode) and the Nasty Brunette (a witchy rock journalist, played by Kathleen Quinlan, whose performance unintentionally calls Joan Collins to mind).
As always, Stone leaves us with a headful of sights and sounds. The entire film has been lit as if by moon or flame, and Stone uses every trick in the cinematographer's book in the extended concert scenes. Particularly memorable is a performance of the 11-minute "The End," which dissolves from a peyote-fueled desert freakout to the band's breakthrough concert at the Whiskey A Go Go. Stone's fantasies of these unbridled concerts, with corps of bare-breasted fans, battalions of cops, toppling speakers, may have little connection to reality, but they succeed in getting closer than any previous film to suggesting the potential rock once had to incite ecstacy and mass catharsis. When the music's over, though, the movie founders -- it's a slick, smarter than average biopic.
Stone himself appears in an early scene, as a film school professor screening an overwrought Morrison opus that combines dancing bears, masturbation and Nazism. "Pretty pretentious, Jim," Stone smirks, undoubtedly anticipating the critics on his own labor of love.
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- Even though you're concerned for them, it's best not to let your anxiety manifest by getting angry at them or demanding that they seek help. Trying to force a person into seeing a doctor or therapist can have the opposite effect. You're better off taking things slowly. Try engaging in calm conversation. Find out what they might be worried about or what might have changed in their life recently. Gather information which you can then use to highlight and clarify why it might be a good idea for them to get help.
- When trying to talk to them about how they are feeling, try to avoid using words that might make them defensive. Words such as 'depression,' 'struggling' or 'can't cope' can strike fear into their hearts. Barriers will most likely be raised and they'll refuse to talk about it. You're better off using words such as 'sad,' 'blue,' and 'rough time.' These words take the edge off what might be a scary subject.
- Elderly people often will not want to make a fuss, so feelings of guilt and shame can be prevalent. Try to reassure them that you are not judging them for how they feel, and that you care about them. Help them understand that it's their choice to get help and that you will do what you can to support them.
- Supporting a depressed relative doesn't mean that you take over and do everything for them. As much as you might want to help, doing too much can reinforce their thinking that they are now 'useless and a burden.' It is important to try to find a balance between helping them and having them help themselves. Together it can be useful to break down tasks into smaller activities. By doing smaller tasks, they are less likely to get tired and avoid doing what they need to. Doing less each day can mean doing more over the week.
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The City Wall is the best-preserved one of all the ancient city architectures in China; it is also the most integrated and the largest city wall in the world. It was built on the ruins of the imperial city of the Tang Dynasty for defense and keeping reserves, so it was very firm.
The city wall is 12 meters in height. It is 12-14 meters wide across the top, 15-18 meters thick at the bottom and 13.7 kilometers in length.
There is a rampart ever 120meters apart, which extends out from the main wall. The ramparts were built to allow soldiers to see those enemies who would try to climb the wall. The distance between every two ramparts is just within the range of arrow shot from either side. There are altogether 98 of them on the wall; each has a sentry building on top of it.
Each of the east (Changle, long happiness), west (An' ding, peace), north (An' Yuan), south (Yongning) gates consists of three gate towers. The main gate tower is called zhenglou with a suspension bridge. And jianlou is the arrow tower which is used to lift and lower the suspension bridge. There are square windows in the front and on the two sides to shoot arrows from. The zhenglou is the inner one and is also the main entrance to the city. Jianlou and zhenglou are connected by walls and the encircled area is called the wongcheng in which soldiers could be stationed. From wongcheng, there are also eleven horse passages leading to the top of the wall.
A watch tower is located on each of the four corners of the wall. Along the outer crest of the city wall, there are 5,984 crenellations or battlements. Under each crenel there is a square hole, from which arrows were shot and watch was kept. The lower inner wall on the top of the wall is called parapets which were designed to prevent soldiers from falling off the wall when they were traveling on its top.
The city wall was first built as earth, rammed layer upon layer. The base layer was made of earth, quicklime, and glutinous rice extract, tempered together. Then it was totally coated with bricks. So it was very firm. A wide and deep moat runs around the city. Over the moat, there used to be a suspension bridge which was the only entrance to the city.
Today, in order to protect the old city wall, the government repaired the moat and built a circular park along the high wall and deep moat. The big South Gate Square at the end of the South Street was also built. In 1998, the American President Bill Clinton visited Xi'an. The city government held red-carpet entrance ceremony there. Clinton received the gate key then entered into the ancient city.
Every year, on the Festival of Lanterns (lunar calendar 15th January) and Xi'an Cultural and Artist Festival (October), lantern exhibition will be held on the city wall.
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Trying to be a bit more "extreme" in my flying and wound up in the cat's toy box!
is that you flying that thing?? I bought one of those from Sharper Image a while back.. it flew like total crap.. I'm usually awesome at that type of stuff.. I just didn't think the helicopter was any good. maybe I'm wrong?
Whats the name of the helicopter and where did you get it, it looks fun.
I think my cats would be chasing after my helicopter too. I should invest in one, they look like a lot of fun. I know the answer is 99% no but I'm going to ask anyway. Is there a way to take the Droid for a ride and take movie pictures with the droid while in flight? I'm sure the answer is it is too heavy but hey why not ask. It would be really cool if you could.
I gonna be a pita and call peta
Don't know how to do one of those multi-quote replys so:
Yeah, it's me flying. Did you get an original Syma S107s? Lots of imitations out there, but this is the really stable original.
It's a Syma S107 - I got it from Amazon, around 30 bucks. CK got one too.
Definitely couldn't lift a Droid, but there are some really tiny video cams that guys fit there RC helis with.
I thought I knew most forum acronyms, but whats PETA?
K, thanks seems like it flies well. Did it fly like that out of the box or did you do some tweaks/mods to make it fly smoothly?
Someone was messing with you about PETA (I hope).
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): The animal rights organization
Flies like this out of the box! No mods or tweaks or anything.
OH YEAH, I've heard of PETA! duh..
K thanks I think I might get one
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Get one they are a blast and easy to fly. First couple flights are a learning experience but you will be able to keep it in flight. My dog goes nuts and barks at it lol
For 30 bucks its a steal. You do only get about 5 mins out of it but its to be expected.
The battery is tiny.
I'm getting real good at flying it around the apartment now.
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