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To better service the community, Republic Services has expanded bulk collection to six days per week (Monday - Saturday). To accommodate this improved service, changes to collection days were necessary. Please visit our Solid Waste and Recycling Collection Map to verify your collection days.
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Once you have setup your water service account with the City of Margate, contact Republic Services at 954-583-1830 to request your cart(s). There is no charge for your initial garbage and recycling cart(s). However, you must request your cart(s) within 90 days of establishing your water service to receive your cart(s) at no cost. Please allow up to three (3) business days for delivery.
Damaged carts should be reported immediately to Republic Services at 954-583-1830 or email email@example.com. There is no charge for your first replacement. For any subsequent damaged carts where the damage is due to neglect, abuse, modification, or any other damage not covered under the warranty, you would be responsible for the cost of repair or replacement along with any applicable delivery fees. However, if your cart is damaged during the collection process or has a manufacturer defect, your cart will be repaired or replaced free of charge.
Yes. Please contact Republic Services 954-583-1830 to request a different size cart. Garbage carts are available in 35, 65, and 95 gallon and recycling carts are available in 35 or 65 gallon. A delivery fee may apply.
Check your cart(s), yard waste, and/or bulk waste for a non-collection notice. If there is a non-collection notice, it will explain why your garbage, recycling, yard waste, and / or bulk waste was not collected. Please correct the reason your cart(s), yard waste, and/or bulk waste was not collected to ensure that it is collected on your next scheduled collection day for that type of waste. If you did not receive a non-collection notice or have questions regarding your non-collection notice, please contact Republic Services at 954-583-1830 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Republic Services provides non-collection notices to educate residents about why their garbage, recycling, yard waste, and/or bulk waste was not collected. A non-collection notice may also be placed on a cart or yard waste or bulk waste pile that was collected to inform the resident that something was placed out improperly but was collected anyways. The non-collection notices provide information about proper placement of carts, yard waste, and bulk waste.
To ensure that your waste is collected in the future, please be sure to correct items that may have been noted on the non-collection notices. If you have questions about a non-collection notice that you have received, please contact Republic Services at 954-583-1830.
For all questions regarding garbage, recycling, yard waste, and bulk waste collection (e.g. collection days, missed pickups, damage caused during collection, etc.), please contact Republic Services at 954-583-1830.
For all other inquiries about the City of Margate Recycling Program, contact the Department of Environmental and Engineering Services at 954-972-0828 or Email Margate Recycling.
View Solid Waste and Recycling Collection Map to determine your collection days. Properly place your cart(s), yard waste, and/or bulk at the curb prior to 7 a.m. on your collection day. For garbage and recycling, place your carts at the curb no earlier than 5:00p.m. the day before your collection day. For bulk and yard waste, items can be placed at the curb no earlier than three (3) days before your collection day.
Contact the police non-emergency number, 954-764-4357, to file a police report. Once you have your case number, contact Republic Services with your case number and address at 954-583-1830. There is no charge for your first replacement. Please allow up to three (3) business days for delivery.
Please contact Republic Services online or by phone at 954-583-1830 to request additional garbage and recycling carts. In addition to a $50.00 delivery fee, there is a cost for additional carts. The available sizes and costs for garbage are: 35-gallon ($55.00), 65-gallon ($60.00) and 95-gallon ($65.00) and the available sizes for recycling carts are 35-gallon ($55.00) and 65-gallon ($60.00). In addition to the cost of the cart(s), there is a delivery fee of $50.00, all payable to Republic Services.
The collection process for garbage and recycling carts utilizes automated arms to pick up and dump the carts. There needs to be sufficient clearance to allow the automated collection arm to safely pick up the carts without damaging other property and three (3) feet is the minimum required clearance.
Yes, you are responsible for maintaining your garbage and recycling carts in good, sanitary condition.
The garbage and recycling carts that were provided free of charge are the property of the City of Margate and must be left on the premises for the next resident. However, any additional garbage and / or recycling carts that you may have purchased are your property and can be taken with you.
Please follow these links for information on where to recycle or properly dispose of household hazardous waste and electronic items. Plastic bags can be returned to collection containers at local grocery stores. Unwanted goods (books, clothing, furniture, etc.) can be donated to organizations that will give them a second life.
The document shredding service will be available at both of the Republic Services sponsored household hazard waste collection events held in the City each year. The vendor providing the service will accept and securely destroy residential documents. Margate residents will be able to bring up to three (3) standard letter sized paper boxes of documents at each event free of charge.
To recycle your old bins, simply place them into your recycling cart. You may also keep your recycling bins to use around the home. However, the bins cannot be used for recycling collection.
If you no longer want your personal garbage cans, you can place them out with your bulk and yard waste items on your bulk and yard waste collection day, on your first garbage collection day, and they will be collected.
There is a recycle container located at Oriole Park, 7055 NW 1st Street, on the far west end of the park, up against Rock Island Road. Thank you for your interest and dedication to properly dispose of your recyclables.


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As someone who fashions himself a natural born anthropologist, my goodness, in the current affairs of our culture, these appear to be the most grave and serious times. Our penchant, anymore, for cultural suicide, of which founding father, John Adams, pessimistically forewarned, seems, sadly, to be bearing out before our very eyes.
Defying that prediction of Adams' has been the hallmark of what's called American Exceptionalism. Certainly President Obama was wrong when he ascribed our exceptionalism to our foreign policy. Such a notion left Obama wide open to the rebuke of Vladimir Putin in a recent New York Times opinion piece.
But despite the truth of what Putin stingingly had to say, this nation has been historically exceptional. At the heart of American exceptionalism has been our capacity to reconcile, in our vast, disparate nation, national differences through deferring, ultimately, to the political process and its progeny: the rule of law.
But to watch today the Republican Party attempt to take hostage the very welfare of the Republic by shutting down the government and, even worse, by being willing to kill the full faith and credit of the nation as the price to be paid for the enactment of the Affordable Health Care Act, a law passed in Congress and after having been fully debated in two presidential elections is, to say the least, to put the kibosh on our democracy.
Remember the president won this past election, only 10 months ago, by 5 million votes. And let us also not forget the Affordable Health Care Act passed the constitutional muster of the Supreme Court last spring.
Thus, for today's extremist congressional Republicans to attempt to negate the president's premiere political achievement by placing a noose around the neck of the economy is to attempt, in effect, to negate Obama's presidency. Make the wrong move, that is, implement Obama-care and our nation's financial credibility will be left to twist in the wind — amounts to nothing less than an attempt at a coup-d'état. Obama, if he capitulates, would be reduced to a virtual president, a president in name only.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his extremist congressional Republican crew, in effect, will have commandeered the good ship American Exceptionalism. The age old way of political strongmen exerting whatever it takes to gain control is in full operational force in, of all places, the United States House of Representatives.
That extremists huddle there and rationalize shutting down government and putting government in a position of defaulting as leverage to repeal or delay any aspect of the Affordable Health Care Act — why, that's not representative government being transacted, that's political terrorism being concocted, settled law being obstructed. We all saw what happened when Lehman Brothers defaulted. Imagine if the federal government does? That's what today's extremist Republicans are toying with.
Absolutely no president, Obama or anyone, can allow governance of our country to be wrested away by terrorism.
Tim O'Leary is a longtime Homer resident and observer of the political scene.

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The Problem with the Drape Neck
Unfortunately, with this drape neck, nothing looks good over it. If you wear a big coat over it, the drape neck creates a big bulge in your chest area that creates a terribly unflattering silohuette. If you wear it with a blazer or something and let the drape neck hang out, it looks strange. So the only way to wear it really is on its own. But when the weather is warm enough that I feel I can safely walk out with just a sweater on, this cashmere sweater is too warm.
So this style is actually quite a pain and I'm still trying to figure out how to wear it right. Ideas?


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The brain trust of RF VIDEO – the innovators of wrestling shoots – went into the think tank and came out with another extraordinary production that is guaranteed to have wrestling fans worldwide talking. GOT HEAT is exciting new look at some of wrestling's most legendary feuds. Broken up into two separate discs, GOT HEAT first allows viewers to form their own opinion on some of wrestling's hottest feuds and stories after both sides give their side of the argument. On the second disc, we throw out the rulebook and give one side carte blanche on airing whatever grievance they may have. This is an exclusive look at the backstage battles over the years that have had everyone in, and out, of the industry talking!
Disc one (Two Sides of the Story) will show the viewer two sides of some of the most controversial feuds in wrestling. Paul Orndorff and Vader. The Nasty Boys and Hall & Nash. Sid Vicious and Arn Anderson. Jim Cornette and Vince Russo. Just seeing those names is going to whet the appetite of every true wrestling fan, but we also have six more feuds on the disc! Both parties say what they want to say, completely uncensored, giving you the unique opportunity to decide who is right, and who is full of it!
Disc two (Pulling No Punches) is as one sided as a wrestling squash match. On this disc we give free reign to the wrestlers to vent out whatever is they have to release. We got some doozies here as Bruno Sammartino lets Vince McMahon have it. The New Age Outlaws bury Triple H. The Mountie gives his thoughts on the British Bulldogs. Bad News Brown lays down the law on Bret Hart. Bret Hart on Ric Flair! Chyna on Triple H! That's an amazing list right there, but we have ten, that's right, TEN more wrestlers releasing their fury! You have never, EVER seen anything like this before!
Part 1 (Two Sides Of The Story)
1) Paul Orndorff vs Vader-
2) Ken Shamrock vs The Nasty Boys
3) The Nasty Boys vs Hall and Nash
4) Sid Vicious vs Arn Anderson
5) The Dudleyz vs New Jack
6) Roddy Piper vs Vince Russo
7) Cornette vs Russo
8) The Nasty Boys vs Hall and Nash
9) Demolition Breaks Up
10) Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels
Part 2 (Pulling no Punches)
1) Bruno Sammartino on Vince
2) Outlaws on HHH
3) Sunny on Sable
4) Billy Jack Haynes on Crush
6) Mountie on Bulldogs
7) Bad News On Bret
8) Road Warriors on Vince
9) Iron Sheik on everyone
10) Dr. D
11) Manny Fernadez on Tully
13) Koko on Steve Keirn
14) Ricky Morton on Nash
15) Chyna on HHH
16) Bret on Flair


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Konya Airport
Konya Airport is in Konya, Selçuklu district and offers domestic and international flights. Located 20 minutes away from city centre, you can reach other destinations like Niğde, Aksaray, and Karaman from this airport. There are three alternative transportation methods from city centre and these destinations to Konya Airport.
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You can also reach from city centre or districts of Konya to Konya Airport with taxi. Konya Airport will take 20 minutes from city centre, 2 hours 45 minutes from Niğde, one and a half hour from Seydişehir, and one hour and 40 minutes from Karaman and Aksaray. You can use taxi and directly transfer to airport.
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Lyon-Saint-Exupéry Airport
Surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea, the English Channel, the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, located in western Europe but with overseas land, France hosts many of the most popular destinations in many areas of tourism. France, one of the hubs of honeymoon routes, culture and sports tourism, also creates a serious economic potential in areas such as trade and industry. Located in the south-east of the country, Lyon is one of the centers of petrochemical industry and silk production. At the same time the UNESCO World Heritage List, dazzling with its historical beauties, is known as the epicenter of INTERPOL International Police Agency. The city provides international flights to Lyon-Saint-Exupéry Airport. A few different transportation methods can be preferred from the airport to the city center or to the hotel areas.


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Find out more about the paediatric feasibility study for SmartCareCF, investigating the possible benefits of monitoring some cystic fibrosis (CF) symptoms at home.
As part of Cystic Fibrosis Trust's SmartCareCF initiative we are very excited to announce the opening of the paediatric project, CLIMB-CF, looking at the feasibility of monitoring the symptoms of young people with CF at home.
What CLIMB-CF aims to achieve
If we can identify the forms of home monitoring that are feasible and acceptable to children, young people and their families, we may have the significant potential to benefit them in the future: examples could be targeted attendance at CF outpatient clinics and more autonomy over their health at home.
How the feasibility study works
This initial stage of the project is looking at how easy and acceptable home monitoring is. Young people and their families will be asked to monitor their CF at home for a total of six months while continuing with their normal clinical appointments; they will be provided with a mobile phone with the study app installed, a lung function monitor, an activity monitor, a thermometer, a heart rate and oxygen level monitor and weighing scales for use at home.
The Royal Brompton Hospital in London is leading the study and opened to recruitment on Monday 16 January. Joining the study over the next few months will be: Great Ormond Street Hospital London, Alder Hey Children's Hospital Liverpool, Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital Brighton, Great North Children's Hospital Newcastle Upon Tyne, and three hospitals that form part of North of Scotland Respiratory Network (NoSPRN): Ninewells Hospital, Dundee; Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital; and the cystic fibrosis outreach service in Inverness.
This study has been met with positive and enthusiastic responses by all involved, demonstrating how close this project is to the hearts of paediatric CF teams.
How to find out more
If your CF team is listed above you can contact them for more information about this project.
Research Fellow wins first place
Claire Edmondson, a Trust-funded Research Fellow for CLIMB-CF, won first place at Imperial College's Graduate School Summer Showcase. The poster details the process that was undertaken to test two potential designs for the study app. Children and members of the Trust's Youth Advisory Group took part in the app testing and gave their feedback. The most popular design, and ideas from these groups about how the app should work, were included in the final version of the app which is being used in the study. Similar work was also displayed at the European Cystic Fibrosis Society conference.
Research we fund
The Trust is committed to funding and supporting cutting-edge research to find new and better treatments for cystic fibrosis.
Hear their stories
Take a look at our stories from the CF community about how healthcare personalisation is making a difference.
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Break, Blow, Burn
By Camille Paglia
By Camille Paglia
By Camille Paglia
By Camille Paglia
Category: Poetry | Literary Criticism
Category: Poetry | Literary Criticism
Paperback $17.95
Jan 24, 2006 | ISBN 9780375725395
Organs of Little Importance
Nothing by Design
Horoscopes for the Dead
Dig Safe
An Almost Pure Empty Walking
Information Desk
The Dance Most of All
A Woman of Property
"She flies as high as you can go. . . . Bold and convincing. . . . Exemplary. . . . A rich book."
–The New York Times Book Review
"The chapter on Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy' will take the top of your head off!" –James Wolcott
"As entertaining as it is dazzingly erudite, Break, Blow, Burn is capable of re-energizing any reader's engagement with poetry."
–Francine du Plessix Gray, The Week
"I hope a lot of people read this book. . . . There wasn't a commentary where I didn't learn something about the poem in question, no matter how familiar the poem was." –Philip Marchand, Toronto Star
"It will have students storming the walls of tomorrow's English departments, mad for poetry again." –St. Petersburg Times
"Dazzling. . . . Bursts with her ingenuity. . . . Brilliant insights . . . permeate the book. . . . Readers receive a marvelous education."
–Rocky Mountain News
"Paglia's vision is always fresh. . . . She makes a fascinating and challenging reading companion. These essays will inspire anyone to turn back to poetry again." –The Times (London)
Table Of Contents
1. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73
2. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29
3. William Shakespeare, The Ghost's Speech
4. John Donne, "The Flea"
5. John Donne, Holy Sonnet I
6. John Donne, Holy Sonnet XIV
7. George Herbert, "Church-monuments"
8. George Herbert, "The Quip"
9. George Herbert, "Love"
10. Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
11. William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper"
12. William Blake, "London"
13. William Wordsworth, "The World Is Too Much with Us"
14. William Wordsworth, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge"
15. Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias"
16. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan"
17. Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
18. Emily Dickinson, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
19. Emily Dickinson, "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers"
20. Emily Dickinson, "The Soul Selects Her Own Society"
21. William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming"
22. William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan"
23. Wallace Stevens, "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"
24. Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar"
25. William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow"
26. William Carlos Williams, "This Is Just to Say"
27. Jean Toomer, "Georgia Dusk"
28. Langston Hughes, "Jazzonia"
29. Theodore Roethke, "Cuttings"
30. Theodore Roethke, "Root Cellar"
31. Theodore Roethke, "The Visitant"
32. Robert Lowell, "Man and Wife"
33. Sylvia Plath, "Daddy"
34. Frank O'Hara, "A Mexican Guitar"
35. Paul Blackburn, "The Once-Over"
36. May Swenson, "At East River"
37. Gary Snyder, "Old Pond"
38. Norman H. Russell, "The Tornado"
39. Chuck Wachtel, "A Paragraph Made Up of Seven Sentences"
40. Rochelle Kraut, "My Makeup"
41. Wanda Coleman, "Wanda Why Aren't You Dead?"
42. Ralph Pomeroy, "Corner"
43. Joni Mitchell, "Woodstock"
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When photos leaked this week of Anthony Weiner photographing himself in the buff before mirrors in the members-only House gym, one question was inescapable: There's a members-only House gym?
Yes, there is, and if you're not a member of Congress don't bother trying to get in. The ultra-exclusive "Wellness Center" behind two gray steel doors in the sub-basement of the Rayburn House Office Building across from the Capitol is one of the few places in the world that allows only current and former members of Congress to enter. Once they do, the results can be a deal done, a powerful friendship struck, a six-pack sculpted—or a scandal unleashed with a towel around its waist and a BlackBerry in hand.
Rahm Emanuel frequented the place before going off to run Chicago. Many former House members return even after they've gotten bigger, better jobs. President George H.W. Bush kept his locker at the gym into his White House days. Al Gore often returned, as vice president, for pickup basketball games—and to whip votes for Bill Clinton's priorities. One particularly disastrous game sent Gore from the gym to the hospital with a torn Achilles tendon.
As with many places in Washington, the allure of the gym is not its luxury (or lack thereof), but its exclusivity. No staff, no lobbyists, no reporters, and certainly no tourists. And the fascination grows every time the usually forgotten spot makes it into the headlines because of the famous people who work out there, including the embattled Rep. Weiner.
The gym's origins are somewhat shadowy. It was slipped into the plans for the Rayburn Building without public disclosure when construction began in 1962. The building, and the gym, opened for business three years later. The fitness center has served as the backdrop for congressional dramas ever since.
Its showers were the scene of a now-famous incident involving Emanuel, who House staffers say was notorious during his days in the House and White House for using the gym to buttonhole sweaty House members about important matters when they least expected it, usually after his own 5:30 a.m. workouts.
Disgraced former Rep. Eric Massa (remember his tickle fights with staff?) used the press frenzy surrounding his scandal to recount a tale of Emanuel cornering him about a vote in the gym's showers while both were naked.
Rep. Darrell Issa, the California Republican, had his own Rahm encounter just outside of the gym, when Emanuel gave him the silent treatment and raised a middle finger after Issa threatened to begin investigating the Obama administration.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, a former House member still known to use the gym, turned the tables on Emanuel two years ago, when he used his workouts there to lobby the Obama chief of staff to get behind the candidacy of Schumer's pick for New York's vacant Senate seat, Kirsten Gillibrand, then a House member.
While most members use the gym for workouts and a little business, more than 30 currently use it to shower after they've spent the night in their House offices. In February, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government called for an ethics investigation into the group of more than 30 lawmakers, who say they'd rather shower at the gym than fork over rent money in Washington.
If the case of Dick Armey is any guide, the members may want to start looking at the classifieds for apartments. In the 1980s, House members told Armey, then a junior representative, to stop treating the House gym like a motel and get a place of his own. Armey not only showered there, he used to set up a cot and sleep there as well.
Members say the gym has changed little since then. An effort to renovate the facility during Nancy Pelosi's speakership failed when Pelosi made it clear she had other, higher priorities for the $8 million it would cost.
The gym's budget is now covered by the $240 in annual dues from members, and whatever Congress appropriates for its operations, but finding details of the budget is feels a little like searching for the nuclear codes. Calls and emails to the House Appropriations Committee were referred to the House Administration Committee, which in turn suggested a call (two unreturned so far) to the Architect of the Capitol, which oversees all House buildings.
Even trying to actually locate the gym is not easy. A walk down a winding hallway one floor below the basement level of the Rayburn Building leads to an unmarked entryway, which can only be accessed with a key card or by being buzzed in by a gym staff member.
Why all the secrecy is unclear, say members who work out in the windowless, relatively spartan space. They say it's more YMCA than Sports Club L.A., with the type of equipment you'd find in any local gym, including treadmills and free weights. There are also a 50-year-old lap pool and a smaller-than regulation basketball court with hoops on each end.
The famously fit Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) describes the House gym as being like any other, and maybe a little bit less than that. "The gym that I belong to in Peoria is far better equipped," says Schock, who recently was named the "Fittest Member of Congress" by Men's Health Magazine. "I'm grateful for the place to work out, but it is by no means state-of-the-art."
And in the words of Democratic Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont, "It's just a gym!"
Schock says that while the facility could use a makeover, members do what they can to make the place fit their needs as it is. In the absence of trainers, about a dozen House members, including Rep. Paul Ryan, former NFL player Heath Shuler, and occasionally, Rep. Weiner, began morning screenings of DVDs of P90X, the hardcore cross-training workout.
Lacking a wall-mounted TV, they propped a set on a cart on the basketball court so everyone could see the video. When they realized they did not have enough free weights in the gym to accommodate more than a few people, members brought in their own.
With the new publicity brought by Weinergate—including an ABC World News report about U.S. taxpayers "subsidizing" gym memberships—members say they don't expect a renovation any time soon.
Schock says that's too bad. "I actually would argue that there aren't enough members that go to the gym."


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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Yuba City School Visits
Just got back a few weeks ago from Yuba City CA - giving assemblies on reading and illusrating for picture books. This was me barely making it over Donnor Summit before it got really bad.
I got to visit my sister Beth and her husband Michael - Beth is a famous blogger in the Bay area - her blog: fakeplasticfish talks about living life using less plastic.
I gave about 4-5 assemblies each day for 4 days - it was really fun watching kids get excited over my work. It's hard for me to get a reaction from my own kids - they've seen behind the curtain.
At the end of each assembly I painted one of my characters in photoshop on the screen - kids got really quiet watching a drawing come to life.
For some of the older classes I gave some drawing lessons.
We took some goofy pictures...
This is Craig and Leslie Reading - Leslie set up all the schools and made all the arrangements - She did so much to facilitate these presentations - I can't thank her enough!
I even made the local paper!
Donnor Summit was kind to me on the way back.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
I've been a bad blogger :(
I feel bad for not posting anything for 3 weeks...I've been in California doing school visits and teaching, writing, and working on a few projects. I'm not allowed to post the work from the projects because my clients don't want them visible before their products release.
So I dug this out - a scratch board I did a few years ago for my R.O.P. art class in California. I liked the piece but it never saw the light of day - it was a demo.
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Review: Nook HD+ tablet a lightweight, if imperfect, bargain
If you're in the market for a full-sized tablet but don't want to shell out big bucks for an iPad, Barnes & Noble's Nook HD+ is worth a look.
I've long been a fan of Barnes & Noble's Nook products. They're generally inexpensive, work well, include compelling features, and offer perhaps the best selection of e-books, digital magazines and now catalogs from the likes of Pottery Barn and other retailers.
The Nook HD+ is the big brother to the Nook HD, which I reviewed in December. Its screen is 2 inches larger at the diagonal than the Nook HD, which allows the Nook HD+ to display high definition movies in full 1080p resolution. It also has a slightly faster processor and a battery that offers slightly less use per charge.
The base model of the Nook HD+ costs $270, which is $70 more than the entry-level Nook HD. But it includes 16 gigabytes of memory, twice that of the lowest-price Nook HD, and it also includes a $50 credit that owners can use to buy e-books or rent movies from Barnes & Noble.
Another great thing about the bigger device is that it's very light. At 18 ounces, it's about 20 percent lighter than the iPad. If you hold it for an extended period while reading or watching a movie, you'll appreciate the difference.
Like its smaller sibling, the Nook HD+ is focused on content as much as apps. At the top of the home screen is a virtual carousel on which icons of recently viewed books, magazines and movies as well as apps are displayed. At the bottom of the home screen is a "library" button that links to a virtual bookshelf on which users will find all the Nook content and apps they own.
Barnes & Noble has long offered a large selection of e-books and now has some 3 million on its virtual shelves, more than 1 million of which are free. The company also says it offers the 100 most popular digital magazines. And it has been bulking up its movie offerings. Of the top 20 movies offered on Apple's iTunes, 16 are available from Barnes & Noble's Nook store.
Since Barnes & Noble released the Nook HD last fall, it has added to its tablets support for widgets. Users can now start playing music from Pandora or Spotify from small programs placed on one side of their home screen, rather than having to launch the programs. They also can get a quick glance at their calendar or see the latest posts from people they follow on Twitter.
Like the Nook HD, the Nook HD+ offers something Apple's iPad line doesn't: support for multiple users. You can create separate areas on the device for yourself, your spouse and your kids. For each user, the Nook HD+ will remember bookmarks they've made or the page they left off in particular books.
But the profile feature doesn't work flawlessly. When I switched from one user account to another, I often saw what the last user was viewing, even when turning off the device first. And the Nook HD+ doesn't remember what users were last doing when they log back into their accounts if someone else has used the device in the interim. Users have to reopen books they were reading or relaunch apps they were using.
The Nook HD+ has other shortcomings. Although the Nook tablet line is based on Android, users don't have access to the wide variety of Android apps. Instead, they only have access to those approved by Barnes & Noble and available in the company's app store. And that selection is still spotty.
Unlike tablets from other companies, the Nook HD+ doesn't have any cameras. So you can't use it to take pictures or, more importantly, to make video calls to your family or friends.
And I found the device to be sluggish. When logging in to your account or going back to your home page, it takes several beats for the main home page and your carousel of content to reload.
Still, even with those shortcomings, the Nook HD+ is worth a look. For a full-sized tablet with a high-resolution screen and access to a wide variety of content, it's a bargain at $280.
-Troy's rating: 7.0 (out of 10)
-Likes: Relatively inexpensive; lightweight; offers access to a wide variety of books, magazines and movies; supports multiple user profiles
-Dislikes: Sluggish; offers spotty collection of apps; lacks cameras; multiple user feature incomplete
-Specs: 1.5 GHz dual-core processor; 9-inch, 1920 x 1280 pixel screen.
-Price: $270 for model with 16 GB storage space; $300 for 32 GB model
-Web: barnesandnoble.com
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The International Committee of the Red Cross says Syrian aid workers have evacuated several people from a Homs neighborhood besieged by government forces, but have failed to rescue a group of Western journalists trapped in the area.
An ICRC spokesman in Geneva says Syrian Arab Red Crescent ambulances entered the rebel-held district of Baba Amr on Monday, evacuating three wounded Syrians. He says the aid workers were not able to evacuate the Western journalists, two of whom are wounded, or to retrieve the bodies of two others killed in a shelling attack last week.
The ICRC has been negotiating with the Syrian government and the rebels for days to try to secure access to Baba Amr, where local activists say many people are short of water, food and medical supplies after more than three weeks of daily government bombardments.
Syrian rights activists said more than 60 people were killed trying to flee the attacks on the central city of Homs, a hub of Syria's 11-month uprising against autocratic President Bashar al-Assad. It was not clear where or when the people were killed. Syrian state news agency SANA also said 16 security personnel were buried after being killed in fighting with rebels.
The United Nations' top human rights body is due to hold an urgent meeting on the Syrian crisis in Geneva Tuesday. The Associated Press says it obtained a draft Council resolution that would call on the Syrian government to end attacks on civilians and would condemn Damascus for "widespread and systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms."
Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani said Monday the rebel Free Syrian Army should be given weapons to defend the Syrian people. Qatar has been one of President Assad's strongest Arab critics.
In other developments Monday, Syria drew a mixed international response to its holding of a referendum a day earlier on approving a new constitution. Damascus said 90 percent of voters approved the new constitution, which allows the creation of a multi-party system and sets presidential term limits in a country ruled solely by the Baath Party since 1963. But the reforms also would enable President Assad to keep much of his power.
China and Russia welcomed the Syrian referendum. The two powers have repeatedly blocked the U.N. Security Council from condemning or punishing Damascus for its deadly crackdown on the opposition revolt.
But U.N. spokesman Eduardo del Buey said the referendum is "unlikely to be credible" in the context of what he called "pervasive violence and massive human rights violations." He said the end of the Baath Party's monopoly on power "could be part of a political solution" to Syria's unrest, but any vote would have to take place in conditions "free of violence and intimidation."
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland dismissed the referendum as "absolutely cynical." She also called the reforms "ridiculous," saying they require any new opposition party to receive government approval, enabling Mr. Assad to "hand pick who gets to be in the opposition and who does not."
Syrian opposition groups say the only acceptable solution to Syria's crisis is for President Assad to step down.
European Union foreign ministers also tightened sanctions on Syria's central bank and froze the assets of several Syrian officials on Monday. The bloc already had blacklisted about 150 other Syrian entities and people.
U.N.-appointed investigators estimate the death toll from the uprising at 6,400 civilians and 1,680 army defectors. Syrian officials have insisted the government is fighting only foreign-backed armed "terrorists."


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A Pastor in Cape Town, South Africa is under fire after claiming in his sermons that Jesus was HIV positive.
According to United Kingdom network BBC, in a series of sermons delivered at Luhlaza High School in Khayelitsha Township, Pastor Xola Skosana declared that Jesus Christ had "put himself in the shoes of people who experience brokenness" and had channeled the suffering of his followers by experiencing their same sickness, pain and ostracism.
"Wherever you open the scriptures Jesus puts himself in the shoes of people who experience brokenness," Skosana told the BBC. "Isaiah 53, for example, clearly paints a picture of Jesus who takes upon himself the infirmities and the brokenness of humanity."
Although many agree and feel that the teaching is synonymous to that which is taught all over the world, some religious followers are outraged over the connection he has made between Jesus and the unjustifiable situations in which the virus can be contracted.
Despite the controversy surrounding the statements, Skosana states that his intent is to let the infected know that Jesus still loves them and God is not mad at them, regardless of what they did wrong.
"The best gift we can give to people who are HIV-positive is to help de-stigmatize AIDS," Skosana continued. "[We need to] create an environment where they know God is not against them, he's not ashamed of them."
Regardless of his intentions, fellow religious leaders state that the metaphor endangers believers' understanding of not only Jesus as supreme, but also God, ultimately rendering him part of the problem and not the solution.
One solution that the country of South Africa is considering to fight in the spread of HIV is the implementation of male circumcision.
According to published reports, researchers, South African authorities and medical experts have expressed the possibility of circumcision being able to reduce the spread of HIV by 60 percent.
Experts state that South Africa as a whole is expected to circumcise 2 million boys in the next 5 years.


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See a different side of Gettysburg, with this look at the people and places that played a part in World War II. You will visit a prisoner-of-war camp. Learn why an intelligence camp was located here, training specialized troops for psychological warfare.
Hear stories of the navy's map-making operation preparing for the invasion of Japan, and consider the scrap drive that almost took some of the battlefield's most famous monuments. Find out what sacrifices Gettysburg's citizens made to help with the war effort.
You will also hear moving stories of WWII veterans buried in the national cemetery (yes, the one that Lincoln dedicated). From Pearl Harbor to the Battle of the Bulge to Guadalcanal, these war-time casualties (nearly 500 laid to rest here) encompass all theaters of the war and all branches of the military service.
Key war-time leaders have traveled here to pay their respects: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, John F. Kennedy, Bernard Montgomery. And one, Dwight D. Eisenhower, chose to move here. Your guide can share details of their visits to Gettysburg, as you see this famous little town from a fresh perspective.
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Is there any living organism that has the ability to remove and reattach body parts at will?
I'm not talking about regeneration (like in starfish). Say I'm chasing prey, and I decide that my tail will be a hindrance. So I leave it behind, and reattach it after the hunt.


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CBS on Wednesday axed its new legal drama "Made in Jersey" after just two episodes, in the first cancellation of the new U.S. television season.
The new series, starring British actress Janet Montgomery as a sassy New Jersey lawyer, was watched by more than seven million people when in premiered last month.
But poor reviews and lower audiences for the second episode caused CBS to pull the new show from its schedule. In a program advisory released on Wednesday, CBS replaced "Made in Jersey" with crime franchise "CSI: NY" for the next four weeks.
CBS, owned by CBS Corp, has long been the most-watched of the four leading U.S. TV networks, with hits like "NCIS", "The Big Bang Theory," and "Person of Interest" scoring audiences of about 15 million.
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In 1971, a parliamentary Working Group criticised the speed with which walls, gates and fences were being put up to separate Catholic and Protestant communities in Northern Ireland. The 'peace lines', constructed mainly by the British army, were creating an 'atmosphere of abnormality', the Peace Walls Working Group warned. But they did 'not expect any insurmountable difficulty in bringing together well-meaning people from both sides', and believed that before long, the barricades would come down; 'normality' would return.
Dismantling the 'peace lines' wasn't a requirement of the Good Friday Agreement. Between 2000 and 2007, seven new barriers were put up and 16 old ones rebuilt or extended. Their history long predates the Troubles, too. In the mid 19th century, the route of the Dublin-Belfast railway was planned deliberately to separate Catholic Pound Loney from Protestant Sandy Row. In 1935, after weeks of sporadic violence in Belfast's Docklands, with Loyalist snipers firing into nearby Catholic areas, the military built a large fence across Nelson Street.
The corrugated iron fence that bisects Alexandra Park in North Belfast is 120 metres long and 3.5 metres high. Its foundations were laid on 1 September 1994, the day after the army council of the Provisional IRA had announced a 'complete cessation of military operations'. Seven months ago, a 'peace gate' was opened in the fence. Between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., you can walk from the Loyalist Shore Road end of the park to Republican Antrim Road without having to take a half-hour detour. The North Belfast Interface Network, a community group that spent three years canvassing local residents before the gate was opened, reports no incidents of violence in the park since September.
For civic boosters, however, this modest achievement can't begin to compete with the centenary of the Titanic's maiden voyage (the ship was built in Belfast). Sixty million pounds of public money was plunged into Eric Kuhne's shimmering Titanic Belfast 'experience', with millions more in PFIs for the Titanic Quarter redevelopment project. Meanwhile, Northern Ireland's community sector is reeling from a succession of cuts. The North Belfast Interface Network, which employs five staff in a poky office near Solitude, the home of Cliftonville FC, is struggling to stay afloat. Last year it received £165,000 in funding. For 2012, it has so far secured only £62,000.
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Keira O'Mara is the genius inventor behind the fab Mamascarf. A scarf designed to shield yourself and baby whilst breastfeeding in public or just generally out and about. Keira has recently been awarded the Alumni of the Year Award from Birmingham City University and she's going to tell us all about her brilliant product. Please take a minute to check out her website too: www.mamascarf.co.uk.
So first things first, tell me a little bit about yourself and your family?
I am 34, a mum of two (Sam nearly 5 and Lily nearly 2) and live in Birmingham with my husband Dan. I run Mama Designs Ltd from home around the family.
What's the story behind the genius Mamascarf?
I came up with the idea for Mamascarf following my own experiences of breastfeeding my baby as I was quite self conscious and always trying to cover up whilst breastfeeding but nothing was effective; blankets overheated him, scarves and muslins blocked my view of him and could fall or be pulled off. When I looked for a product that provided both discretion and support for breastfeeding and couldnt find one, I thought about doing it myself and Mamascarf was born!
Where there any struggles along the way?
There have been lots of struggles. I had no experience, a small budget and it has been a steep learning curve. I have been the victim of Intellectual Property theft with one company even illegally using my name. I have learnt a lot along the way!
Looking back is there anything you wish you could have done differently?
I would have launched Mamascarf at a trade show. I have seen other brands do this and I think that it is a great way to start big whereas I took a while to build up.
Are there any other brilliant inventions in the pipeline?
I am just about to launch Babasac a 2-in-1 multi tog baby sleeping bag with removable inner panels, so that it can be used all year round. I came up with the idea after having to buy yet another sleeping bag to take on holiday for my baby girl. I also have other ideas that I am developing.
A lot of mums would love to work for themselves or design their own baby product, what advice can you give them?
Setting up a business and launching a new product can be a extremely hard work but it is also very rewarding. You get to see your business grow and can have a great work life balance. I would recommend starting your business while still being employed, as this way you will still have a regular salary and aren't risking as much. It's hard work as in the beginning you will be doing two jobs, but longer term it is a sensible way to do it. It might be scary but it is the best thing that you will ever do!
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This version integrates the resolutions taken by the WG on the issues raised since the last Working Draft; a good set of them have been taken during the QA WG F2F in Seattle. The structure hasn't really changed since the last draft, except that some checkpoints were removed, some were added.
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Native Plants
Search for native plants by scientific name, common name or family. If you are not sure what you are looking for, try the Combination Search or our Recommended Species lists.
Juniperus ashei
Juniperus ashei J. Buchholz
Ashe Juniper, Ashe's Juniper, Mountain Cedar, Rock Cedar, Post Cedar, Texas Cedar, Brake Cedar, Mexican Juniper, Blueberry Juniper, Ozark White Cedar, Sabino, Enebro
Cupressaceae (Cypress Family)
Synonym(s): Juniperus ashei var. ovata, Juniperus occidentalis var. conjungens, Juniperus occidentalis var. texana, Juniperus sabinoides
USDA Symbol: juas
USDA Native Status: L48 (N)
Evergreen tree with trunk often grooved and twisted or branched from base, and with rounded or irregular, open crown; sometimes forming thickets. Ashe Juniper's large, radiating branches, which start almost at ground level, give the illusion of a multi-trunked tree. Female trees with blue berry-like cones; male with a burnt gold appearance in winter due to pollen. Fragrant, dark-green foliage, blue fruits on females, and shaggy bark are characteristic of this 30 ft. evergreen.
Though a fragrant, evergreen, and picturesque tree, Ashe Juniper pollen, like that of many junipers, is very irritating to people with cedar allergies, so where the tree occurs in large concentrations, as in Central Texas, it often becomes hated and targeted for removal, with various, sometimes invented, rationalizations given for doing so. Ashe Juniper is native from southern Missouri south through Oklahoma and then down through central and west Texas to northern Chihuahua. It was abundant in Central Texas when the earliest European explorers arrived, having existed in the region at least since the Pleistocene. It is thus an integral part of the native flora. The uniquely rich and well-draining soil that builds up as juniper leaves fall and decompose is ideal for several native plants, some of which tend to occur almost exclusively in association with it, including Cedar Sage (Salvia roemeriana) and Cedar Rosette Grass (Dichanthelium pedicillatum). The beautiful but notoriously difficult to propagate Texas Madrone (Arbutus xalapensis) also seems to germinate best in the soil beneath these trees, as seen in this photo. Other central Texas plants often seen under or near it are American Smoke Tree (Cotinus obovatus), White Limestone Honeysuckle (Lonicera albiflora), Lindheimer's Garrya (Garrya ovata var. lindheimeri), and Orange Zexmenia (Wedelia acapulcensis var. hispida). Better known is that a rare warbler, the Golden-cheeked Warbler, uses Ashe Juniper bark almost exclusively to build its nests. Many kinds of wildlife eat the sweetish "berries," and the durable wood is a local source of fenceposts. The tree is named in honor of William Willard Ashe 1872-1932, pioneer forester of the United States Forest Service, who collected a specimen in Arkansas.
Plant Characteristics
Duration: PerennialHabit: Tree
Root Type: Tap
Leaf Retention: Evergreen
Leaf Complexity: Simple
Breeding System: Flowers Unisexual , Dioecious
Fruit Type: Cone
Size Notes: Rarely grows over 30 feet tall.
Fruit: Though technically incorrect, the seed cones are often referred to as berries.
Bloom Information
Bloom Color: White , BrownBloom Time: Feb
Bloom Notes: Flowers inconspicuous. Pollen cones cream to reddish brown.
USA: AR , MO , OK , TXNative Distribution: S. MO, s.w. through AR and OK to central and w. TX, s.e. NM, & Chihuahua
Native Habitat: Canyons; arroyos; limestone outcrops
Growing Conditions
Water Use: LowLight Requirement: Part Shade
Soil Moisture: Dry
Soil Description: Rocky, well-drained soils. Limestone-based, Sandy, Sandy Loam, Medium Loam, Clay Loam, Clay
Conditions Comments: Texas madrone, Texas smoke tree, silk-tassel tree, cedar sage, and zexmenia germinate and grow well beneath ashe juniper, refuting the rumor that nothing grows under these trees. Ashe juniper is immune to cedar-apple rust. It invades disturbed sites.
Use Ornamental: Aromatic, Attractive, ornamental.Use Wildlife: Ashe juniper "berries" are highly palatable to many species of birds and small mammals. The bark of Ashe juniper is very is used for nesting material by the rare golden-cheeked warbler.
Use Other: Ashe juniper is used for fenceposts, crossties, poles and fuel.
Fragrant Foliage: yes
Attracts: Butterflies
Larval Host: Juniper hairstreak, Olive butterfly.
Deer Resistant: Minimal
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA)
Juniper Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus) Larval Host |
Propagation Material: SeedsDescription: Seed can be sown outdoors in fall or stratified and sown in spring. Seed germination is often poor, so a large quantity of seeds should be sown.
Seed Collection: Collect seeds from late summer through fall when it has turned its ripe color. Seed can be extracted by running the fruits through a macerator. Thoroughly dry and clean seeds to avoid mold and overheating. If not planting immediately, air dry before storing. Store in sealed containers at 20-40 degrees.
Seed Treatment: Stratify at 41 degrees for 30-120 days.
Commercially Avail: yes
Mr. Smarty Plants says
Plants for wildlife and trees for shade.
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From the National Organizations Directory
According to the species list provided by Affiliate Organizations, this plant is on display at the following locations:Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - Austin, TX
Brackenridge Field Laboratory - Austin, TX
Patsy Glenn Refuge, c/o Wimberley Birding Society - Wimberley, TX
NPSOT - Native Plant Society of Texas - Fredericksburg, TX
Nueces River Authority - Uvalde, TX
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - Austin, TX
Jacob's Well Natural Area - Wimberley, TX
NPSOT - Williamson County Chapter - Georgetown, TX
Wildflower Center Seed Bank
LBJWC-191 Collected 2007-11-12 in Travis County by Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower CenterBibliography
Bibref 1282 - Explorers' Texas: The Lands and Waters (1984) Weniger, DelBibref 298 - Field Guide to Texas Trees (1999) Simpson, B.J.
Bibref 354 - Native & Naturalized Woody Plants of Austin & the Hill Country (1981) Lynch, D.
Bibref 318 - Native Texas Plants: Landscaping Region by Region (2002) Wasowski, S. & A. Wasowski
Bibref 281 - Shinners & Mahler's Illustrated Flora of North Central Texas (1999) Diggs, G. M.; B. L. Lipscomb; B. O'Kennon; W. F...
Bibref 291 - Texas Wildscapes: Gardening for Wildlife (1999) Damude, N. & K.C. Bender
Bibref 297 - Trees of Central Texas (1984) Vines, Robert A.
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Web Reference
Webref 23 - Southwest Environmental Information Network (2009) SEINet - Arizona ChapterFrom the Archive
Wildflower Newsletter 1993 VOL. 10, NO.6 - Saving Trees and Plants at New Center Site a Big Job, Director's Report, Wildflo...Additional resources
USDA: Find Juniperus ashei in USDA PlantsFNA: Find Juniperus ashei in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Juniperus ashei
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Pronunciation: swil • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A mixture of table scraps and liquids fed to livestock, particularly hogs; slops. 2. A big swallow of liquor, a great swig. 3. Terrible-tasting food or drink. 4. Nonsense, rubbish, balderdash, blather, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, poppycock, twaddle.
Notes: We didn't want to overburden you, so we did not include the verbal meaning of this Good Word but it may be used in the sense of drinking greedily and unceremoniously. Those who do so are swillers. There are no further derivations other than the adjectival and noun uses of the participle, swilling.
In Play: Today's word is used mostly in reference to a bad-tasting drink of some kind: "I never go to Kofi's Cafe because I can't stand the swill they call tea over there." It could also refer to bad food, though. It can also refer to a large swig: "That one deep swill from Beauregard's jug made Moby cross-eyed for life." Finally, it is a good substitute for all the words meaning "nonsense": "If you believe all that swill Mortimer tells you, you will never be a success."
Word History: Old English had several words related to liquids that apparently shared the same origin. Swelgan meant "to swallow" while swilian meant "to wash out, gargle". The G in words like swelgan regularly changed to -ow (OE folgian became today's follow and holgh became hollow). But the G apparently dropped out in some dialects, leaving swel-, which may well have become today's Good Word later on. If the L dropped out in other dialects, we would expect swig today and, sure enough, we have it! (Dr. Lyn Laboriel is a swell friend whom we thank today for suggesting this, well, sort of Good Word.)
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We're now just about halfway through 2014 and Apple has yet to launch any new products. The company has refreshed or even relaunched several existing devices such as the iPhone 5c, fourth-generation iPad, MacBook Air and iMac, and the trend will reportedly continue next week when Apple attempts to breathe new life into its iPod touch lineup.
According to two independent reports, Apple has plans to launch a new lower-cost version of its iPod touch handheld device next week. The move is likely an effort to boost sales, which continued to slip over the past few years as customers continue to opt for smartphones and tablets.
MacRumors cited a single unnamed source in stating that the new iPod touch model will be a 16GB version of Apple's current iPod touch, and it will be made available for $199. The device will supposedly sport all of the features found on Apple's larger capacity models, including six color choices and a rear camera; Apple had previously launched a $229 iPod touch that lacked color options and a rear camera.
Separately, French-language blog iGeneration reported many of the same details, though it added that the new iPod touch model will launch on Tuesday of next week.
UPDATE: It looks like the wait was far shorter than expected — Apple just launched its new cheaper iPod touch. The only difference is that Apple's loop accessory is not included with the lower price model. Hardly a problem when the iPod touch is just $199. Here's the full press release:
Apple Brings Vibrant Colors & iSight Camera to Most Affordable iPod touch Model
iPod touch Lineup Now Starting at $199
CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apple® today announced its 16GB iPod touch® is now available in vibrant colors and equipped with a 5 megapixel iSight® camera for just $199. The entire iPod touch lineup features the 5 megapixel iSight camera with 1080p HD video recording, brilliant 4-inch Retina® display, Apple's A5 chip and FaceTime® camera. iPod touch features an ultra-thin and light anodized aluminum design and is available in pink, yellow, blue, silver, space gray and (PRODUCT) RED. iPod touch comes in a 16GB model for $199, 32GB for $249, and 64GB for $299.
iPod touch comes with iOS 7, offering more than 200 features including Camera app filters that let you easily add real-time photo effects. Additionally, the Photos app offers ways to automatically organize your photos based on time and location. With iCloud® Photo Sharing, it's simple to share photos and videos with exactly the people you want to see them and your friends and family can comment and access their shared streams from any iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch, Mac® or PC at any time. This fall, iOS 8 will be supported on the entire iPod touch lineup.
With the revolutionary App Store℠ on iPod touch, users in 155 countries have access to over 1.2 million apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, including hundreds of thousands of games. More than 75 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store. Customers also have the iTunes Store® at their fingertips, giving instant access to an incredible selection of music, TV shows, movies and books to purchase and download directly to their iPod touch.
Pricing & Availability
iPod touch 16GB is available starting in the US today and worldwide in the coming days, in pink, yellow, blue, silver and space gray through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested price of $199 (US). Starting today, the 32GB and 64GB models have been repriced worldwide, at a suggested price of $249 (US) for the 32GB model and $299 (US) for the 64GB model. iPod touch requires a Wi-Fi connection or a Mac with a USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port, Mac OS X v10.6.8 or later and iTunes® 10.7 or later; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later and iTunes 10.7 or later. An Apple ID is required for some iPod touch features.


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YIP SANG ((Ye Sheng in Mandarin), also known as Yip Chun Tien (Ye Chuntian) and Yip Lin Sang (Ye Linsheng); he took the style name Yip Loy Yiu (Ye Lairao)), businessman, social reformer, and political activist; b. 6 Sept. 1845 in Shengtang village, Duhu county, Guangdong province (People's Republic of China); m. first Lee Shee (Li Shi); m. secondly Dong Shee (Deng Shi); m. thirdly Wong Shee (Wang Shi); m. fourthly Chin Shee (Jin Shi); he had 19 sons and 4 daughters; d. 20 July 1927 in Vancouver.
The career of Yip Sang illustrates the trans-Pacific family, cultural, and business ties that characterized the lives of most first-generation migrants from China during the 19th and early 20th centuries. He came to North America to escape poverty and unrest at home. His father, the son of a wealthy man, had become impoverished. The family's situation must have worsened when he died during Yip's boyhood. As a teenager Yip lost his mother as well. In 1864, after his older sister had been kidnapped by local bandits, he sold his possessions to buy passage to California. There he worked as a cook, dishwasher, cigar maker, and gold miner. After a time he had saved enough money to return to China for a visit, during which, according to family tradition, he saw a girl he promised himself he would marry. He returned to the United States, once again working as a cook. On his next trip to China he married the girl, who bore his first two children. She died after he went back to North America alone. He accordingly took a second wife. When she proved unable to manage a household he married for a third time.
Yip came to Canada in 1881 to work on the Cariboo goldfields. Unsuccessful there, he moved to what would become Vancouver and sold coal door to door until he was employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway Supply Company on a construction gang. He became the company's bookkeeper, timekeeper, and paymaster, and eventually its superintendent of Chinese labour. In 1885 he returned to China and took a fourth wife.
In 1888 Yip founded the Wing Sang Company in Vancouver. Like many Chinese firms at this time, Wing Sang engaged in a variety of enterprises. In addition to labour contracting, the company ran a trans-Pacific import and export business, pioneering the export of salt fish to various points on the Pacific rim, including Japan. It also played an important role in forwarding remittances from workers to their families in China and serving as a contact point for correspondence. Yip became the Chinese agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, supplying its railway with construction labourers and its steamships with sailors and fresh produce. By 1908 his company was one of the four largest Chinese companies in Vancouver, with an annual revenue of $50,000 from its import-export business alone and real estate holdings worth over $200,000.
Yip, who became a naturalized British subject in 1891, was one of the most important leaders of Vancouver's Chinese community. He was instrumental in the formation of the Chinese Benevolent Association in Vancouver and the Chinese Board of Trade during the 1890s. These organizations subsequently defended the community from racism, governed its affairs, and established social institutions such as the Chinese hospital and the Chinese public school. Linked to the CPR and fluent in English, Yip also appears to have played a key role as a go-between with the dominant Anglo-European community in British Columbia. He proved to be a major witness for the federal royal commissions headed by the deputy minister of labour, William Lyon Mackenzie King*, in the wake of the anti-Asian riot in Vancouver in 1907. He testified to the decline of the labour-contract system as a result of the increase in the head tax imposed on Chinese immigrants in 1903. Yip also served as a life governor of the Vancouver General Hospital.
Yip played a particularly important role in the formation of the Chinese Empire Reform Association, the first modern Chinese political party, established by reformer Kang Youwei. Kang had fled China and had arrived in Victoria in 1899 en route to England following the failure of the reform movement in China the previous year. Yip Sang sent a close relative, Yip On, to receive Kang. Yip On became the principal organizer of the international association, which sought the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in China, while Yip Sang became president of the Canadian chapter. Although Kang Youwei had great prestige and was an internationally known figure, it is likely that Yip Sang's business contacts were principally responsible for the spread of the association in the overseas Chinese communities of the Pacific rim and the Americas. Certainly he and Yip On were instrumental in establishing the association's Commercial Corporation, which attracted a great deal of investment from these communities.
In 1901 Yip brought his entire family over from China. He established his three wives, their children, and various other close relatives, along with their servants, in the residence above his store at 51 Dupont (East Pender) Street. When these premises grew too small to accommodate the growing family, he had a six-storey dwelling built at the rear. Yip's grandson Harry Yip remembers that his grandfather established a strict curfew on the building's over 100 residents. At 10:00 p.m. Yip locked the door with the key of which he alone had a copy. Having gone from dire poverty to considerable respectability, he seems to have been determined to preserve his greatest asset, his family.
A firm believer in education, Yip served for ten years as principal of the Aiguo Xuetang, the school established by the Chinese Empire Reform Association in Vancouver about 1902. He insisted that his children be educated in both English and Chinese. He hired private tutors or sent them to the Aiguo Xuetang to ensure their Chinese education. Most also attended provincially controlled public schools and some went on to university. Apparently, with one exception, all of his family's girl house servants also attended school. His daughter Susan was one of the first Chinese Canadian women to attend university, enrolling at the University of British Columbia in 1915. In 1945 Kew Dock Yip, one of his sons, was the first Chinese Canadian to become a member of the bar.
In many ways Yip was ahead of his time. One of the first to seize on the significance of the Chinese reform movement, he appears to have shared Kang Youwei's views on women as well. Not only did he see to the education of his daughters, but as early as 1902, when the married women of Guangdong migrant communities were allowed few activities outside the home – they rarely even appeared in public unescorted by an adult male relative – two of his wives and at least one female relative through marriage were members of the Chinese Empire Reform Women's Association. In other respects, however, Yip, like Kang, was a stern Confucian patriarch. Presumably in an effort to escape succession duties, he bequeathed only token amounts to the 18 sons who survived him. Even though his estate was worth $78,000, he left nothing at all to his daughters.
At the time of his death Yip Sang was one of the foremost members of Canada's Guangdong migrant community. He had played a leading role as a labour contractor, an importer-exporter, and a political and community leader. He had also successfully established the largest Chinese family lineage in Canada, having over 660 living descendants by 1996.
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Hello From David & Sheri Burns at Long Lane Honey Bee Farms. With a tremendous cold winter, we've finally experienced a few days of thawing out and the bees have taken advantage of the warm weather to take cleansing flights. Finally!
In today's lesson we'll take a look at some dead bees outside the hive and what it means in the winter.
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Lesson 97: Dead Bees In The Snow
While bees are quite capable of surviving the winter, it can be a stressful time for colonies. During the winter when bees are closed up in their hives, they cannot do what bees need to do, fly, gather nectar, consume fresh pollen and nectar and defecate regularly outside the hive.
On the first, not so cold winter day, the bees will break cluster, fly out and finally defecate outside the hive after holding it for weeks and sometimes months. These are called cleansing flights and are very important for the hive to remain healthy. The further north, the fewer days when cleansing flights can occur. Most hives will take these flights at temperatures much below foraging temperatures. The bees simply make a quick flight around and return to the hive.
Often, the bees defecate on the hive near the entrance. Many new beekeepers become worried and believe their bees have dysentery or Nosema when they see the spotting on their hives.
However, though that may be a possible problem, usually it is a healthy sign that bees are finally able to take a cleansing flight. In fact, it is not uncommon to see bees use any crack in the hive for a quick out door potting break.
During these cleansing flights, house cleaning bees may also take advantage of the nice day and begin carrying out the bees that have died during the winter months. Dead bees laying outside a winter hive often alarms new beekeepers. New beekeepers fear the worst when they spot dead bees and begin wondering if the whole hive is doomed. However, this is a normal activity that occurs throughout the winter and early part of spring. After a snow, it becomes more apparent, not because there are more dead bees, but because the snow make dead bees easier to see. That same number of bees would not be noticeable without the snow.
Why do bees die in the winter? First, bees are aging. Most spring and summer bees can live to be around 35 days old. However, bees born in the fall can live several months through the winter because they have more fat bodies and have not exhausted their glandular secretions, nor worn themselves out foraging like a bee during the summer. Yet, winter bees often still die of old age in late winter.
There are other maladies which can cause bees to die during the winter. The most common causes of individual bees dying in a colony are: starvation, disease, cold and pests.
Starvation. The winter cluster will move gradually to always be in the proximity of stored honey and pollen. Long, cold winters can result in the depletion of stored resources of food for the colony. It is not uncommon to examine a colony that died during the winter and discover the dead colony not too far away from stored honey. Yet, they still starved. It was too cold for the bees to move into stored honey.
Also, once the queen begins laying eggs in mid to late winter, the cluster will remain on the brood to keep it warm and will sometimes consume all food sources near the brood. The bees in this photo died trying to keep the brood warm in the winter with no nearby honey. They were faced with a choice to abandon the brood and move to stored food, or keep the brood warm. Usually the cluster will remain on the brood and starve to death if the weather fails to warm up above 30. If the weather had warmed up prior to the depletion of food, they could have sent other bees into the stored honey and carried it back down to the brood area.
How do you know if a colony starved to death? Bees will be head first in cells, attempting to stay warm and eating the last drop of honey out of the bottom of cells such as these dead bees in the photo.
Disease. Nosema is hard on the winter cluster because Nosema is worse when bees are confined and cannot defecate. Nosema is a gut disease so it is most deadly during late winter. If the Nosema level was high in late fall, this can cause bees to perish during the winter and early spring. However, spring can quickly bring Nosema under control as the bees are able to fly, gather nectar and defecate regularly outside the hive.
But do not jump to conclusion at the first sign of bees defecating on the outside of the hive box. This is pretty common on the first warm winter day after a long winter. Bees will mess up the outside of the hive, but it will clear up after several good flying days.
Cold. While the winter cluster moves gradually upward into the stored honey, some bees may drift too far within the hive, away from the heat of the cluster and freeze. Bees do not heat the entire inside of the hive, but only the area within the cluster of bees. This is especially true on warm winter days that suddenly turn cold. Inside the hive, the winter cluster breaks up on warmer days and bees begin to search for stored honey on other frames within the hives. But, at the sudden drop of temperature the colony sometimes cannot re- form into a tight cluster. Bees might be stranded to freeze to death outside of the cluster. Or the colony may become divided into several clusters, each too small to produce the heat needed to withstand the rapidly dropping temperature.
Pests. Varrora and Trachea mites are extremely hard on the winter cluster and can lead to bees dying. These pests need to be controlled with grease patties during the summer and early fall to reduce the infestation level.
Even though starvation, disease, cold and pests can kill winter bees, do not assume that your bees have a problem just from dead bees in the snow. It is normal to see large amounts of dead bees throughout the winter. Dead bees accumulate on the bottom board and around the outside of the hive. Most hives will quickly clean out the dead bees once spring arrives, but if you want to speed up their work, you can clean out the dead bees from the bottom board. And, expect to see the bees defecating heavily around and even on the hive late winter and early spring. This will clear up once the bees have had several flying days.
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Hyde Park, park in the borough of Westminster, London. It covers more than 340 acres (138 hectares) and is bordered on the east by Mayfair and on the west by Kensington Gardens.
The park shares a large curved lake with its western neighbour; the portion of the lake in Kensington Gardens is known as the Long Water, whereas the Hyde Park portion is called the Serpentine. The lake is used for boating in the summer and skating in the winter. In the park's northeastern corner, near Marble Arch, is Speakers' Corner, which has long been a centre of free speech for soapbox orators. Also in the park are the Hudson Bird Sanctuary, a bandstand, large fountains, a ranger's lodge, and, in the southeastern corner of the park, the statue of Achilles (1822), which recalls the duke of Wellington's victories. Not far from the statue, and nearly adjoining the park, is the Wellington Museum (1952), which is housed in a structure built in 1771–78. Nearby starts a celebrated riding track, Rotten Row, which traverses the park westward.
Hyde Park was formerly a royal hunting preserve. It was opened to the public in the early 17th century. In 1851 it was the location of the Great Exhibition, which was held in the newly constructed Crystal Palace, a massive greenhouse-style exhibition hall that incorporated many of the park's trees under its roof.


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An international research team using ESA's Optical Ground Station in the Canary Islands has set a new distance world record in 'quantum teleportation' by reproducing the characteristics of a light particle across 143 km of open air.
Funded by ESA, researchers from Austria, Canada, Germany and Norway transferred the physical properties of one particle of light – a photon – onto its 'entangled' partner via quantum teleportation, thereby bridging a distance of 143 km between the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope on La Palma and ESA's Optical Ground Station on adjacent Tenerife.
Their results have been published in this week's Nature Magazine.
Once entangled, the measurement of a certain property – such as polarisation or spin – will yield the same result for both particles, no matter how far apart the particles are located, and without any further signal being physically passed between them.
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"This achievement breaks new ground for long-distance quantum communications," explained Eric Wille, overseeing the project for ESA.
"The first quantum teleportation took place in laboratory conditions. The challenge here was to maintain the entanglement between two photons separated by 143 km, despite being perturbed by atmospheric conditions, such that it could still be used for quantum teleportation."
This involved such a low signal-to-noise ratio that the experiment had to be very carefully designed. Ultra-low noise photon detectors were installed, and a separate process of quantum entanglement was used to keep the two station clocks synchronised to within three billionths of a second of each other.
This helped to assure that the correct photons were detected – the best that GPS signals could deliver was 10 billionths of a second. Even then, the team were kept waiting almost a year, after a first attempt in 2011 failed due to exceptionally bad weather. The two telescope stations located on the volcanoes 2400 m above sea level have to face harsh conditions, including rain, fog and strong winds or even snow and sand storms.
The experiment finally took place in May, establishing a new record for the teleportation distance. "The next step would really be to achieve quantum teleportation to a satellite in orbit to demonstrate quantum communication on a global scale," commented Dr Rupert Ursin of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
The inter-island measurement campaign was commissioned by ESA within its General Studies Programme in order to demonstrate the feasibility of long-distance quantum teleportation for future space missions.
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After the success of the Via Iberica in 2017 we did get quite a few requests for a new edition.
We have chosen a completely new route, going through unknown territories in Spain towards Portugal and then up north to the finish in Santiago de Compostela.
The start is in Valencia. The Holy Grail, the cup used by Jesus during the Last Supper is supposedly stored in the cathedral of Valencia.
From Valencia we drive west, through the Parque Natural Sierras de Cazorla towards Cordoba. We stay mostly in Paradores and special characteristic hotels, sometimes in the middle of town as in Cordoba, sometimes in a Natural Park and sometimes in a rural area.
After five days we cross into Portugal, the Paradores become Pousadas and our main direction starts to become north.
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From Evora we go north and drive the magnificent Douro valley along the wines famous for their Port. The scenery start to become seriously mountainous. And we cross into Spain. It is now just an easy drive to the Holy City of Santiago de Compostela, the end of a pilgrimage for many, the finish for our 12-day rally.
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