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Lunch With Sean Parker
The Napster co-founder arrives late.
Sean Parker is late. He was due at Gramercy Tavern at 1pm and at 1:15 p.m. his assistant calls to say he is on his way. By 1:25 p.m., there is still no sign of him and I sit wondering if he is going to arrive. He has cancelled lunch once already, complaining of a knee injury and he has a reputation in Silicon Valley for being unreliable and flaky.
Parker is indulged because he has been a driving force in several pioneering internet companies, including Napster and Facebook (although he was ejected as president of Facebook for alleged bad behaviour) and has others up his sleeve. He is portrayed in The Social Network, the Facebook film, as a gifted but amoral playboy who charms his way to the side of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, and brutally ejects a rival.
The devil has the best line in the Aaron Sorkin-scripted film. When Parker, played by Justin Timberlake, meets Zuckerberg at a New York restaurant, he floats across the room, orders food for everyone, spins enticing tales and leaves with the come-on aphorism: "A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars." In real life, Parker's Facebook stake is now worth $2 billion.
So it is hard, waiting for him at a "very private banquette" (as Parker's office has specified on the booking) at the Danny Meyer restaurant in lower Manhattan, to disentangle fact from fiction. Parker is having trouble with it himself since some parts of the script, for which Sorkin won an Oscar this week, ring true. He is indeed a bon viveur who wears designer suits and at the age of 31 has just spent $20 million on a carriage house in nearby Greenwich Village.
At 1:30 p.m., the real-life figure turns up, shaking my hand apologetically. True to form, he is dressed immaculately in a dark suit, grey and white checked shirt and a black tie secured with a silver tie-pin. He says he has flown to New York from San Francisco for our lunch because he felt guilty about cancelling last time and is staying at a hotel—the heating in his house is being repaired.
"The lateness thing is part of my branding almost but, in this case, I'd planned on getting here on time," he says. "I had to go by the house to pick up some things. I was trying to find a belt to come over here and it's like a nightmare. I'm crawling through this ET-like maze of plastic sheeting." He waves his arms around to portray the scene and gives a wide-eyed, high-pitched laugh, somewhere between a giggle and a whinny.
Those who know Parker say he is kinder and more sensitive than the Sorkin portrayal. Indeed, the man now perched on the banquette before me is friendly and solicitous and is working to offset his new reputation as, as he puts it, "an asshole". Yet he is also more like a Sorkin character than anyone I've ever met—if not the anti-hero of The Social Network.
He is pale-faced and intense, with a mop of reddish-brown hair and a beard, and talks as fast and rhetorically as a West Wing wonk. An auto-didact who did not attend university, he will happily extemporise about any topic from Italian wine to network engineering, and has the self-confidence-cum-arrogance of the Silicon Valley elite. I mention his knee and he gives a long, precise explanation of his cartilage problem, with hand gestures. "The meniscus is this piece of cartilage. It's like there's a bone here and a bone here and they fit together. Ordinarily bones have a ball and groove, that's the typical joint structure. The knee is different. It's flat bone to flat bone and this thing in the middle is the meniscus." His own meniscus, "instead of being shaped like a [ring] doughnut, is shaped like a Boston eclair."
The anatomical details done, we turn to the menu. Parker says Gramercy Tavern is his favourite restaurant but, as a night owl who often does not rise before noon, he tends to have dinner. "I don't think of it as a lunch place so I have no idea if it's going to be any good," he says, before diverting into an explanation of the importance of table placement in gaining a third Michelin star (Gramercy Tavern has one star).
"Have you had the smoked trout?" he asks. "I'm not normally one for smoked fish but this is not like any smoked fish you've ever tasted. It's amazing. Even if you're not into fish, we could get one and you could just taste it. It's really, really good. It's like the best thing on the menu." He pauses. "I might have hyped it now so if you don't like it, you'll blame me. It's awful." He laughs uproariously.
We both order the trout with cipollini purée and pickled onions. After quizzing the waitress about the snapper, Parker takes the rack and belly of lamb but decides not to have the belly ("I'm not super-hungry"), while I opt for sea bass with Swiss chard, capers, pine nuts and sweet onion sauce. We both have water and also order an Arnold Palmer (a mixture of lemonade and iced tea).
While we wait for our food, he describes the house he has bought, which he has rented for the past year. It was built in 1820 to serve a nearby mansion. "I can only imagine what the mansions of Fifth Avenue must have been like. I'm living where they kept the horses," he says. His former landlord, the Italian drinks heir Enrico Cinzano, owned it for 20 years and had distinctive taste.
Parker has kept the entrance hall, which Cinzano lined with the sides of an old New York subway train, complete with taped subway noises. "I love the subway cars," he enthuses. "Enrico said to me [Parker adopts a slightly menacing Italian accent], 'Sean, you know, at some point I'm going to have to take back the subway cars.' " Long rhetorical pause. "'But Sean, I'll find you new subway cars."
I have been laughing along with Parker's stories since he turned up, feeling as enjoyably caught in his wake as the characters in The Social Network. So it seems a good time to mention the film. When I do, Parker turns serious for the first time. "Mmmm," he says ruminatively, pointing at my tape recorder on the table. "That thing's on, right?"
He thinks for a while. "There is no simple answer to what I think. It is a long conversation and you can easily take one quote out of context and frame it in one way or the other, so I have to trust you." I nod, wondering what his definition of "a long conversation" might be, given the length and detail into which he has gone about his knee, his house and the trout.
He warms up with an anecdote. "Sony screened the film for me and a couple of friends, which was nice of them, given that they knew I'd hate it. My friends were up in arms at the end. They were screaming and one of them got drunk and started yelling at the woman from Sony, 'He's going to sue you! He's going to sue you!' and I'm like, 'Shut the f**k up! Be quiet please. Let's be dignified here.' " He imitates his frantic efforts to keep the peace.
While he is talking, the trout arrives. "It's like a whole other ball game. It's not even like fish, it's like butter," he says. I taste the trout as he watches me intensely. The taste is dense and creamy. "It's amazing, isn't it? You like it?" I agree that it is delicious and he makes a two-fisted punch of delight. "Yes!" he cries. "I've done something right today."
Parker asks if I would like a glass of wine and the waitress suggests a pairing of Cantalupo Il Mimo, an Italian rosé made with the Nebbiolo grape. The news sends Parker off at a tangent. "The Nebbiolo grape is the most underrated grape," he enthuses. "The Barolos and Barbarescos, all the great Italian wines, are based on the Nebbiolo grape. It is versatile. You get these really spicy minerally wines, you get earthy tones and leather and then you get these fruity wines."
He returns to his reflections about the film. "I'm watching it and thinking this is really interesting. This character is definitely not me. It is a plot device created by Aaron Sorkin to tell the story that Aaron Sorkin wants to tell. At the same time I'm looking at David Fincher's work [the film's director] and saying this is brilliant and this guy has an obsessive devotion to accuracy."
Parker and Sorkin clearly did not get on. "My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.' " He laughs loudly. "I went, 'What? What is this guy thinking?' "
The dinner turned out to be "like the most phony, stilted conversation ... It was as if he had scripted our conversation and when I deviated from the script, he came back to it." I am laughing too much to eat as Parker builds up to his story's punchline. "He was also twitching through the entire meal. Like uncontrollably twitching. Shaking in fact ... I don't think he won my trust."
The film did make him famous, I point out. Surely that has its uses? Parker contests that. "If you Google me, every five minutes someone will talk about me and they will say, 'That guy is a jerk', or 'He's an asshole' and then strangely every once in a while someone will say, 'That guy's so awesome'. I'm, like, Uuuggh. I was perfectly capable of doing what I wanted in my life without this."
The main course arrives and Parker, who is allergic to nuts and must carry an EpiPen, asks our waitress about the hazelnuts that were supposed to come with his lamb—he is allergic to nuts. It turns out that, although he had forgotten to mention it before, she has told the kitchen not to put them in. He is obviously, as he said, a regular.
Since he disputes his portrayal in the film, I ask him about what drives him and how he defines his job. "Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been," he says. "This in no way resembles a career. I think a career is something your father brings home in a briefcase every night, looking kind of tired."
It is an arresting image and I ask him if he is thinking of his own father, who was until recently chief scientist of the U.S. National Ocean Service. "Yes, I think that's accurate," he says soberly. "He wanted to be entrepreneurial but he had a family and he didn't feel able to take the risk of putting everything aside. He actually told me, 'If you are going to take risks, take them early before you have a family.' "
Parker took those words to heart, building on his early hobby as a hacker in Virginia, to link up with other teenagers who had become fascinated by the potential of the internet. These included Shawn Fanning, the founder of Napster. Parker decided not to apply for college (a decision that "seemed totally insane" to his mother) and to develop Napster instead.
In one long breath, he describes what happened in the following 18 months: "Founded the company, launched the product, moved to California, got on my hands and knees and installed all the servers for six weeks, got introduced to my first business people and hired them and fired them, and was sued by the record labels and suddenly I'm on MTV and now we're sponsoring raves and going to crazy parties, and then bigger and bigger and bigger. And then the company's dead and I'm in a beach house in North Carolina getting the call, 'Sean it doesn't look good. I don't think you'll have a job when you get back.' And then it's over. And one day Fanning and I woke up from this dream. It felt like we'd lived through an entire lifetime of experiences."
We have talked for nearly two hours. I excuse myself for a break and when I return to the table Parker is talking on his BlackBerry. As he ends the call, he looks agitated and upset. Page Six, the gossip column of the tabloid New York Post, has a story that he undertipped a nightclub doorman by giving him only $5. "This is insane," he mutters, "If I did it, it was an accident."
We skip pudding. I have coffee while he takes an English breakfast tea and discusses the meteoric change in his fortunes. "You have got to be willing to be poor [as an entrepreneur]," he says. "There was a time when I was living out of a single suitcase. I had a rule that I wouldn't stay on one person's couch for more than two weeks because I didn't want to become a bother."
So is a billion dollars cool? He ponders the question carefully. "No, it's not," he says. "It's not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool." He laughs at his retort to Aaron Sorkin.
It is nearly 3:45 p.m. and his BlackBerry is flashing alarmingly as his assistants guide him towards his next appointment, at Spotify, an online music service in which he has invested. Still muttering about Page Six, he retrieves our coats and carefully tips the attendant. Outside, a driver awaits with a Cadillac Escalade. Parker offers me a ride but I do not want to delay him. He is late.
This article originally appeared in Financial Times. Click here to read more coverage from the Weekend FT.


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This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provides a significant and important contribution to this often overlooked domain and aims to provide research-based evidence that might help to inform and develop pedagogical practice. Topics covered in the chapters include the influence of learner characteristics on word retrieval; explicit second language learning and language awareness; meaning construction; narrative oral development; conversational interaction and how it relates to individual variables; first language use; feedback on written production; intercultural awareness raising and feedback on diagnostic assessment. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, teachers and stakeholders who are interested in research on how children learn a second language at primary school.
This volume responds to the need for evidence-based insights on the learning and teaching of foreign languages in school-based programs for young children. With contributions on linguistic, social, cognitive, and curricular dimensions of the foreign language experience, explored from a range of methodological orientations, it is a rich source of information for both language researchers and educators.- Laura Collins, Concordia University, Canada
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I am pleased to introduce the second publication in the Innovations in Education series: Creating Strong Supplemental Educational Services Programs. This series, to be released over the next six months, identifies concrete, real-world examples of innovations flourishing throughout this great land, in six important areas: public school choice, supplemental educational services, charter schools, magnet schools, alternative teacher certification, and school leadership.
Although the term "supplemental educational services" is enjoying newfound prominence, its meaning is as old as education itself: tutoring. This important provision of the No Child Left Behind Act provides eligible low-income parents with the same opportunities more affluent parents have long enjoyed: the chance to engage a highly skilled tutor, or access other forms of academic enrichment, to help their child catch up if they have fallen behind. For school districts, this extra help for their neediest students can be an important complement to ongoing school improvement efforts.
But as we have learned in the first two years of this historic law, successfully setting up a supplemental educational services program takes a lot of work and foresight. States play a key role by approving and monitoring the "providers"—including nonprofit organizations, faith-based groups, for-profit companies, collaboratives of teachers, and school districts—that may deliver the tutoring. Parental choice is central—the statute purposely sets up a marketplace so that parents can find a provider that works best for their child's needs. And in between parents and providers is the school district, ideally serving as a fair broker, contracting with and paying providers, informing parents, and making sure the system is working smoothly. Of course, doing all of that is easier said than done.
This report was developed to give district leaders some guidance as they implement supplemental services. In doing so, it draws on examples from five diverse districts across the country whose implementation experiences yield some common themes and lessons that might be helpful to others working on supplemental services. For instance, successful districts embraced the spirit of supplemental services by setting a positive tone about the importance of these provisions, planning for their implementation, and staffing the program adequately. They built strong relationships with providers, helped them access school facilities, and created a fair contracting system. They used multiple methods to inform parents of their options and helped them make the best choice for their children. And they established clear student learning goals and ensured that providers were supplying frequent progress reports to parents and teachers.
Certainly, none of these districts is doing everything perfectly. This reform is still only a few years old; implementation will improve as time goes on. My hope is that this booklet can help to accelerate the learning curve as districts across the nation learn from these "early adapters."
As with public school choice, one message of this publication is that "it can be done." With effective district leadership and a consistent focus on what this is all about-ensuring that none of our children is left behind-I am confident that these supplemental services programs will be a great success.
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Guidelines for Identifying Substantive Changes
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Substantive Change for Accredited Institutions of the Commission on Colleges, Policy Statement, August 18, 2011
East Carolina University (ECU) recognizes that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools requires that substantive changes must be reported in a timely manner to the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges (CoC-SACS). Also, UNC policy requires that certain changes must be reported to and approved by the University of North Carolina General Administration (UNC-GA) prior to implementation.
1.1 ECU's Faculty Manual (Part V, Sec. III) has procedures for the approval of new academic programs, including the identification of whether a new program will be delivered off-campus or via distance education. These procedures involve review by and approval at the level of the department, school/college, graduate or university curriculum committee, Educational Policies and Planning Committee, Graduate Council or Faculty Senate, Academic Council, and Chancellor. Prior to review by the Graduate Curriculum Committee or University Curriculum Committee (undergraduate), new degree proposals (face-to-face and distance education) are reviewed by the Academic Program Development Collaborative Team (APDCT), which recommends to the Academic Council whether faculty program planners should proceed through the campus approval process. Review by the APDCT also determines if the proposed degree program represents a substantive change for ECU. This above noted, on-campus process identifies a substantive change situation early on and allows time for submission of information to CoC-SACS. There is an additional, separate process for seeking approval by the UNC-GA and UNC Board of Governors before activation of a program.
1.2 The Division of Academic Affairs recognizes the need to formally present the approval steps for converting or expanding an existing program to a new off-campus location or online delivery mode.
1.3 The purpose of this policy is to establish guidelines for identifying substantive changes in academic programs in all cases and in a timely manor.
1. New Programs:
The approval process for new degree programs in the all University of North Carolina institutions is described in the UNC Policy Manual Faculty Manual, Chapter 400.1. The on-campus ECU approval process is described in the university's Faculty Manual, Part V, Section III, Academic Program and Curriculum Development. UNC's Request for Authorization to Plan (RAP) form, which officially begins the degree planning phase inquires if the program is to be delivered at an off-campus site and/or via distance education (or online). The completed RAP document is reviewed by the APDCT; a standing member of the team is the associate director of the Office of Continuing Studies, Division of Academic Affairs. As part of the APDCT review, faculty planners are instructed to consult with the Office of Continuing Studies regarding preparation of planning and establishment forms for off-campus and online delivery. If the APDCT determines that the proposed degree represents a substantive change, this information is conveyed to the Academic Council and, a Substantive Change Report will be submitted to CoC-SACS by the Division of Academic Affairs.
2. Converting Existing Programs:
Whereas the above procedures involve approval steps for new programs that will identify substantive change situations, the University makes a special effort to identify substantive changes that result when existing programs choose to deliver instruction via an off-campus and/or distance education delivery mode. Whereas individual courses might be delivered at off-campus locations or via distance education, the key criterion for identifying the change as substantive is whether 25% or more of a degree program credit is delivered (for the first time and when no similar program at a given level has previously been delivered) to an off-campus site and/or via distance education (including online).
The deans of our schools and college and the coordinators of the off-campus centers must be aware of the criteria for substantive changes. The Office of the Provost is ultimately responsible for informing SACS and UNC-GA and enforcing the procedural requirements. The Office of Continuing Studies and the deans are responsible for disclosing to the Provost and the Office for Academic Program Planning and Development of any instance where an existing academic program is planned for delivery in an off-campus location. This disclosure must occur at least eight months before planned implementation.
3. Creating Online or Distance Education Programs:
Any plan to offer at least 25% of the course work for a major program via any distance education modality (online or off campus or station-to-station video), through ECI's Office of Continuing Studies or any schools/college in any division, is reported to the Associate Director of Continuing Studies at least eight months before the course is delivered.
4. New Locations:
Any plan to offer courses at a new physical location, regardless of whether through our Office of Continuing Studies or schools/college, is reported to the Associate Director of Continuing Studies at least eight months before the first course is to be delivered. This applies whether the course will be delivered in person or via station-to-station video. The Provost may refer the plan to the APDCT for additional scrutiny.
5. Other Reportable Substantive Changes:
Any other potentially reportable substantive changes (e.g., initiating programs/courses offered through contractual agreement, adding significantly different degree programs at an approved site, discontinuing degree programs, adding or discontinuing certificates, etc.) planned by the Office of Continuing Studies or the schools/college is reported to the Associate Provost for Academic Program Planning and Development at least eight months before the action.
6. Annual Review by the Office of Academic Program Planning and Development:
As a procedure to guard against unreported substantive changes and to chronicle notifications made to CoC-SCS, the Provost has instructed the Office of Academic Program Planning and Development and the Office of Continuing Studies to collaboratively review programs offered off-campus and via distance education. The Office of Academic Program Planning and Development maintains a log of all communications with CoC-SACS; the Office of Continuing Studies maintains records of all pending and current distance education programs. Sets of documents from both offices facilitates completion of this annual collaborative review. This review also involves projecting an estimate of whether more than 25% of a program can be obtained at a location and modality pertinent to the substantive change requirements. In any cases where the percentage of degree offering is questionable or appears to approach 25%, this annual review (completed by the Office of Academic Program Planning and Development and the Assistant Director of Continuing Studies) informs the Provost, who will determine, using available resources, whether a substantive change notification is required.
7. Annual Inventory of Programs:
The Office of the Provost also will make available an annual inventory of programs, including the location of their delivery and whether any surpass the 25% and 50% delivery levels, to the appropriate liaison at CoC-SACS.


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UC and UC Health leadership at the renaming event for University Hospital. It will now be called University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
UC and UC Health leadership at the renaming event for University Hospital. It will now be called University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, formerly University Hospital, is the primary teaching hospital for faculty physicians and surgeons at the UC College of Medicine.
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University of Cincinnati President Santa Ono, PhD, and UC Health President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Kingsbury this afternoon (Dec. 10, 2012) announced that the name of University Hospital will change to University of Cincinnati Medical Center. The following will help to answer questions about the name change.
Does University of Cincinnati Medical Center replace the UC Academic Health Center?
No, the UC Academic Health Center remains in place and includes the four health colleges of the university: the College of Medicine, College of Allied Health Sciences, College of Nursing and the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy.
Is the College of Medicine part of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center?
No, the University of Cincinnati Medical Center is the new name for what we have known as University Hospital and includes the hospital, the Charles M. Barrett Center for Cancer Research and Treatment, Holmes Hospital, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center and outpatient clinics in the Hoxworth Center. The University of Cincinnati Medical Center also includes the UC Health Physicians Office-Clifton, located at 222 Piedmont Ave.
Why is this change being made?
UC Health is changing the name of University Hospital to University of Cincinnati Medical Center in order to better distinguish it as a national player and reflect its affiliation with the University of Cincinnati. The name change also provides a clear geographic identifier � something that was missing with the name University Hospital. The expectation is that including University of Cincinnati in the hospital�s name will help to elevate its national reputation.
Wasn�t the name University of Cincinnati Medical Center used previously?
Yes. From the early 1980s through 1994 the UC Medical Center was comprised of the hospital and the university�s health colleges. Beginning in 1994 it referred to the four health colleges and the Hoxworth Blood Center when the hospital became part of the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati. In 2005 the UC Medical Center name was changed to the UC Academic Health Center by then UC Provost for Health Affairs Jane Henney, MD.
The hospital has changed its name several times since it first opened in 1823. The following chronology outlines the hospital�s previous names and when they changed:
1823 Commercial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum
1861 Commercial Hospital
1869 Cincinnati Hospital
1915 Cincinnati General Hospital
1982 University of Cincinnati Hospital
1994 University Hospital
Will the employees of the hospital become University of Cincinnati employees?
No, all staff members of the hospital will remain employees of UC Health.
Does University of Cincinnati Medical Center replace UC Health?
No, the health system�s name remains UC Health and includes University of Cincinnati Medical Center, University of Cincinnati Physicians, West Chester Hospital, Drake Center, UC Health Surgical Hospital and Lindner Center of HOPE.
Will UC Health be changing its name?
No, UC Health, which came into existence three years ago when the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati dissolved, remains the name of the health system.
When will all of University Hospital�s signage change?
There is a detailed plan for implementing the name change. The University Hospital name has been in use since 1994 and is therefore pervasive throughout the facility. UC Health will use a phased approach and also work efficiently to keep costs as low as possible while also doing its best to get the new name out as quickly as possible.
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CHELAN Former Twisp resident and business owner Lily K. Beckman, 88, died Dec. 31, 2013, in Chelan.
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Jan. 25 at the Methow Valley United Methodist Church, 193 Old Twisp HIghway, Twisp.
Another service will be March 1 in the Chicago area.
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Chris and I just returned from a quick trip visiting my parents in Ohio. While there we hit two (TWO!) house tours. I'll share pictures from the tours next week, but first I wanted to show you pictures of my parents' garden.
My parents moved to a suburb outside Columbus, Ohio about 7 years ago where housing developments are the norm and privacy is at a minimum. So they enlisted the help of a landscape architect who designed a backyard for them that is distinctive and private.
Doesn't it look like a lush green oasis awaits you just beyond the stone archway entrance?
Over the years my parents have gone above and beyond what the landscape architect suggested and have made their own modifications to the property. The wrought iron gate in the photo above is an example of one of their own upgrades.
The house sits sideways on the lot which makes their home feel even more tucked away and secluded.
Walk a little ways and you'll find yourself under a beautiful arbor filled with purple clematis.
Then follow the stone pathway around the corner into the backyard
until you find yourself in an english garden.
Their backyard is tiny, but there is enough room for a small lawn and a patio. I think they both appreciate having only a small yard to take care of. In fact, my dad gave up his gas mower and now tends to the lawn using a manual push mower.
Along the side of the garage, two apple espaliers fill otherwise dead space. My dad explained that each branch of each tree grows a different variety of apple. I thought he was pulling my leg until I looked it up.


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David Barton's Pants Are On Fire... For Jesus
6/01/2011 | Share this article: View CommentsBy Sgt Justin Griffith, organizer of Rock Beyond Belief ~
Long time ally of Rock Beyond Belief, Chris Rodda, is in the middle of a press storm again. She is the author of Liars For Jesus, which explains the relatively recent phenomenon of history revisionism in the name of Christianity. David Barton is the worst offender, and bears the brunt of the majority of her assault.
He is guilty of quote-mining and using out of context historical references, or shockingly just outright lies about our nation's history. He wants Americans to 'know' that the nation was founded on Christianity. He is able to find several obscure and often second-hand references to the founder's private letters, sometimes with single sentences that suit his needs. This is of course while he leads his readers along in Olympic-level mental gymnastics, overlooking the mountain of documentation contrary to his version of history.
The Emperor Had New Clothes -- But They Caught Fire
(Which of course explains their invisibility)
Last week, an admittedly uneducated 'historian', David Barton was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Weeks ago, prominent Christian right-winger Mike Huckabee joked about forcing Americans at gun point to learn from him. Glenn "Too crazy for Fox News" Beck has placed Barton in a prominent spot in his 'university'. Sadly, my home state of Texas has used him as an expert for re-writing the text-books. It will take years, possibly decades to undo the damage done to public education.
David Barton wants your kids to believe that America was founded on Christianity.
Treaty of Tripoli anyone?
"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
It was submitted to the Senate by President John Adams, receiving ratification unanimously from the U.S. Senate on June 7, 1797 and signed by Adams, taking effect as the law of the land on June 10, 1797.
In addition to writing books, and articles on Talk2Action and Huffington Post, she works at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), as Head of Research. MRFF is representing me and hundreds of other Soldiers in upcoming litigation partially stemming from the story I broke about the *mandatory* Spiritual Fitness testing and remedial training for all US Soldiers. So, I've had about 6 months to grow a pretty close friendship with her. I know her to be sharp-witted and possessing an unreal ability to pay attention to detail. I'm not surprised to see her book about the situation jumping back onto the radar. It is spot on.
The inexplicably successful disinformation tactics Barton employs are put to shame in Rodda's book, Liars For Jesus. But with this particular round of resurgent publicity, Chris Rodda had an epiphany.
You can now download her book, Liars for Jesus (PDF), for free.
She writes on Ed Brayton's ScienceBlog, Dispatches from the Culture Wars:
A few hours ago, I was about to sit down at my computer to do my usual thing — write about the Daily Show interview, and debunk the specific lies that Barton was able to get in. But instead I found myself staring at the big Ben Franklin poster on my wall, and changed my mind. Sure, I could write about the particular snippets of disinformation and dishonesty that spewed forth from Barton during this particular interview, but what good would that do? Been there; done that. Then, staring up at the face of Ben Franklin, it was his words, "Do well by doing good," that suddenly popped into my head.
"Do well by doing good" — the words of a man who could have become outrageously wealthy by patenting his inventions, but decided to just let everybody have them for the public good — have now been stuck in my head for hours, and aren't going to leave until I do what I'm about to do — give my book away for free.
Can I afford to do this? No. Do I need to do this? Yes! Will lots of people download it and read it? I have no freakin' idea. It's just what I need to do to bee able to look Ben Franklin in the eye on that poster on my wall.


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In 1831, following the death of his father, Tennyson left Cambridge without taking a degree. The success of his 1842 Poems made Tennyson a popular poet, and in 1845 he received a Civil List (government) pension of Ł200 a year.
In 1850 he married Emily Sarah Sellwood, whom he had been waiting to marry since 1836. Enormously popular, he was appointed poet laureate of Great Britain the same year, succeeding William Wordsworth in this honour.
By now Tennyson had written some of his greatest poetry, but he continued to write and to gain in popularity. In 1853 Prince Albert paid a visit to the Tennysons. His admiration for Tennyson's poetry helped solidify his position as the national poet, and Tennyson returned the favour by dedicating "The Idylls of the King" to his memory. Queen Victoria later summoned him to court several times, and at her insistence he accepted his title, having declined it when offered by both Disraeli and Gladstone.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson died on 6 October, 1892, at the age of 83.
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pilatesguy necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 110 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
New Pilates Teacher needs a logo to be used across all media (not yet developed - website next) and strong enough to communicate the essence of the business and the method.
Steve Anderton's Body Talk Pilates
I have recently qualified as a Pilates Teacher and want to devlop a strong branding message through website and print. I want to get the logo right first. The organisation I trained with are at the premium end of the market so my practice will reflect this.
- I think the 'body talk pilates' part of the name should be a tagline
- Most of the good ones I have seen include the body (pr part of it) in some way - I like this but it is not essential
- Most of the rest are boring - I don't want boring as the site will not be when it is eventually done
- Graphical and letters rather than photographs
Capital letters other than at the start of words
I am not a huge fan of really bold colours - I don't think they reflect a premium image (but I might be wrong)
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Journalists are like firemen. They aren't needed all the time. But when they're needed, they're needed fast and you need a lot of them. They have to do a lot of things all at once. And it helps if they know each other too, so they don't fall all over each other and make a mess.
I think the San Francisco City College closure threat makes it clear what happens when a city gets rid of most of its journalists.
Now, let me say right up front that I am writing from ignorance. I am writing as a non-expert, as just a joe. A guy that lives here. And that's the point. I shouldn't have to dig like a journalist. Journalists should dig for me. The news should be all over me. It should be on front pages on buses and on blogs and everywhere. I haven't been paying attention. I'm like most everybody else. I don't have time to pay attention to everything. That's the job of journalists. So when something happens that's complicated and potentially calamitous, they're supposed to get on their fire trucks and see what's happening. They're supposed to swarm.
The question is simple: Who are all these assholes who are trying to close down City College. Who are they really? You need a bunch of journalists all at once to start interviewing their families and friends and colleagues, and looking at the things they've written and where they grew up. Right now. Because what they're doing is insane. But apparently there aren't enough journalists around when we need them. I guess if you were to ask the Guardian and the Weekly and the Chronicle and the Examiner they'd say there's too much to do and not enough people to do it with.
What we need to know is this: How did this set of institutions reach the point where an ostensibly sane, rational process is heading toward a calamitous result?
And how are we to understand this? Are we to understand it, as I initially did, as a trivial bureaucratic fight that will be resolved one way or another without major harm? Still? Are we to understand it as a clash of ideologies? Is it a clash between right wing and left wing? Are there elements of resentment toward San Francisco in it? Is there a business mentality clashing with a liberal arts mentality? Are there elements of racism involved? How does it relate to the overall class divide being experienced in San Francisco? Where is the tech community positioned in this? What are the opinions of our recent arrivals, the technical workers about whom there is so much surface agitation?
What are the local roots of the struggle?
Especially when something crazy is happening in an apparently rational way, journalists have to get to the craziness of it. Most of what's happening is just reporting. Reporting is boring. It just tells us what happened. We need to understand who the players are and what they have to gain from doing what they're doing. As in a movie script: What are the stakes? We know what the stakes are for us as a public: We stand to lose City College. But what is the motivation of the players? That's what we don't understand.
It's not just a boring public service thing either. It would be really, really fun to find out who these assholes really are. I hate them already and I don't even know anything about them. Finding out enough about the players to really hate them is part of the fun.
Where are the education beat reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle? Where is Jill Tucker and where is Nanette Asimov? Is there some other, more important, education story right now that merits their full attention? Is there something we don't understand about this that makes the threat of losing City College less important than, say, any other story? Is there any other education story that is more important right now, more important to understand in depth? And by the way why are the Chronicle stories walled off to non-paying people?
And what is the SF Examiner doing? Joshua Sabatini, Jessica Kwong and Jonah Owen Lamb have all posted stories over the last month (were they all born in the Year of J Names, by the way?) but none has done the kind of digging that the public needs to see done. They are just reporting on what happens. They aren't helping us understand what happens.
Here is what we need to know: Who are these crazy people? Who is Barbara Beno, really? Who is Arthur Tyler, really? Who's side is everyone on?
What's the story?
This is what happens when you get rid of all the journalists. Stuff burns out of control until it's too late.


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On March 19th, 2013 we hosted a Q&A session on Facebook and Twitter with Pete LaTona, Director of VIP Services. Pete answered several questions about investing in a Precious Metals IRA. Below is a transcript. Please like us on Facebook page and follow our Twitter profile to participate in upcoming chats and let us know if you have any questions.
Q: Can you keep the metal in your possession?
A: This is one of most commonly asked questions about Precious Metals IRAs.The Precious Metals are stored in a depository. If you were to take possession of the metals it would be considered a withdrawal and you would owe taxes at that time. This works just like any IRA. When you take a withdrawal, then it is time to pay taxes.
Q: Do you foresee an increase in the price of Gold/Silver/Platinum for the far future?
A: Everyone wants to know if prices are going up, but no one really knows for sure. If a Precious Metals dealer shouts from the rooftops that prices are going up, then consider their motive. The man who runs the world's largest hedge fund, Ray Dalio, says he does not know what prices will do, yet he believes in a 5% Gold allocation because of its value as a currency. Central banks became net buyers of Gold in 2010, and they just keep buying more. Gold has become a currency. Gold belongs in everyone's portfolio who wants protection from all of the financial risks we face in today's environment. How much (4-20%) depends on how much risk you think is out there.
Q: Why do you think the government will keep their promises regarding IRAs? See Cyprus, for example. IRAs are the major source of wealth for Americans. The tax deal is so good, that I can't help but to think there will be some level of confiscation.
A: I do not believe the government will change IRA rules because there are no more pensions in today's world. The government has a vested interest in people being able to take care of themselves, at least to some extent. I do not believe confiscation will occur ever, but that is my opinion. The cost to send the Army door to door for confiscation would be much more than the amount of Gold they would find.
Q: Am I able to open an IRA through APMEX and deposit funds whenever? Or is there a defined plan?
A: There are defined plans. First, you choose your IRA custodian and then fund your account. Once the money is in your account, you call APMEX and we help you with your purchase.
Q: In your opinion, what is the number one reason to own physical Gold and Silver?
A: The primary reason from a financial planner point of view is wealth protection through portfolio diversification. There are others, but that is probably number one by far. The six main categories of investors we find at APMEX are those who want to protect their money; those who want to make money; those who are skeptical of big business and governments; those who fear a major currency collapse and metals would be needed to buy bread; people who like to collect beautiful coins from around the world; new investors who just are waiting to make their first purchase.
Q: With the credit crises in Europe spreading and the slow uptick in the stock market here, how do you foresee the price of metals increasing in the next ten years?
A: You are pointing out that the global economic concerns have only been given Band-Aids as politicians lack the will to make hard decisions. Most people would expect Gold prices to rise in such an environment. Central banks continue to trade paper assets for Gold. That alone should tell us something. Countries across the globe are printing money, and it is hard not to imagine inflation setting in sooner or later. Let's just hope we never see hyperinflation. I met a man from Argentina several years ago who told me at one time during their hyperinflation when he woke up in the morning, it was as if someone had taken another zero out of his bank account.
Q: Do you think Silver will hit $50 an ounce sooner rather than later?
A: Define sooner or later. I am not trying to avoid an answer, but timelines need to be clear. I believe the same economic uncertainty that could drive Gold prices up will take Silver along with it. I will tell you we have many sophisticated clients who would say sooner. We also need to keep in mind Silver industrial uses. It is a key component of solar panels. Silver has hit $50 before, so it would not be a shock to hit it again.
Q: Can the depository be at our home bank?
A: It would depend on whether your bank is approved to handle IRA deposits. Most banks are not set up for this type of depository service.
Q: Would it be better to open a Precious Metals IRA or keep them on hand to help my children when they are older?
A: If you have the funds outside of an IRA to buy what you want, I would use those funds outside of your IRA. Sometimes, most of the money you might have to invest is in an IRA.
Q: I collect Silver and store it myself. Is there a minimum amount required to take all of my Silver and turn it into an IRA?
A: If you have Silver in your possession already, you cannot create an IRA with the actual physical metal. An IRA is funded with cash, and then you buy the metals.
Q: I remember when 1 oz of Silver only cost me 5 dollars… how times have changed. Precious Metals will hit the moon soon…
A: Silver seemed like it traded at $20 or below for forever. It has been trading in a range for some time the past year. Let's see if a break out occurs. Also remember that Silver has become a key component in solar panels. If that industry really takes off…?
Q: Let's say I requested to cash out today, when would the metals arrive in my hands?
A: Processing will vary by depository; most people cash out, but you can also take physical possession. My best guess is around 2 weeks, but you'll have to check with your specific IRA custodian.
Q: How would you take delivery of the physical metals if you have them in a Precious Metals IRA?
A: Your depository will ship your metals to you, or you can choose to cash out your account.
Investing in a Precious Metals IRA: A Q&A with APMEX Director of VIP Services Peter LaTona


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Some say it is a fake, some say it is real.
Who is right?
If you take the picture and go closer with the resolution you can see pixels aound the kite and kiter. This is what some say.
Other say that they know people who were witnesses.
Who can really tell if it true or not, because if it is a fake, it ain't funny since it scares many people.


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INFOlearn needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 16 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
We want a logo for our new product.
Virtualclass is a product that enables students to attend educational courses (computer based training) on-line and off-line.
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We want a clean (minimal) design.
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It is the most wonderful time of the year, when a wrestling fan's fancy turns to thoughts of the sights and sounds of Wrestlemania. WWE diva and current Playboy model Maria Kanellis touched down in Toronto recently and spoke to SLAM! Wrestling about a number of subjects including the reaction to her photo spread, her thoughts on Wrestlemania 24 and the Hall of Fame Induction ceremony.
Maria has had a nice run in the last year or so, emerging as one of the more popular members on the roster, along with Santino Marella. Nonetheless, the pressure is now on her and the Divas to deliver the goods, as an injured clavicle has sidelined her partner Candice Michelle. Ashley Massaro replaced her and now it's currently Maria and Ashley against Melina Perez and Women's Champion Beth Phoenix in the Playboy BunnyMania Lumberjack Match.
Pressure is nothing new to Maria of course. She's too excited to feel pressured these days, with a successful launch of her Playboy cover issue now under her belt and all.
She's been with the company since 2004 and has blossomed into a star, acquiring an impenetrable level of confidence that only comes with seasoning.
Now, it seems that the sky is the limit for the Chicago native.
Maria was approached previously about posing and turned them down, but after consulting with her family and her circle, she decided that this time she was ready, both personally and professionally. "Doing something like Playboy, you wonder what the reaction is going to be and it's been bigger than I ever could have expected. My family was actually there; my grandmother, my mom, two cousins and my sister were all there for the cover reveal," she said proudly.
The reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, from the locker room to the board room. "I know that WWE liked that it actually looked like a wrestling ring cover. It was the first time that it actually had wrestling on the cover and it made it feel more WWE," she added.
Maria is looking forward to soaking up all the elements of the Wrestlemania weekend. "I'm just extremely excited; it's going to be an incredible experience I'm sure," she said.
"There's going to be over 70,000 people in the crowd, so that it will be the most people I've ever wrestled in front of and it's Wrestlemania, it's the biggest event of the year. It's definitely bigger than the Super Bowl, and I feel so honored to be a part of WWE and just absolutely honored to be a part of Wrestlemania."
She's particularly looking forward to the Hall of Fame induction ceremony and the inductees, in particular Ric Flair.
"I'm very excited for this year. It's always such a great thing. The Hall of Fame is so nostalgic and to see everybody up there, it's just so inspiring and I'm sure there are going to be some tears shed this year.
"I've done so many interviews with Flair and he is so inspiring to everyone and I can only imagine the speech he will give," she gushed.
And like the Nature Boy, who most likely will for the last time at Wrestlemania 24, Maria will walk down that aisle, looking to give the fans their moneys worth.
And to create some Wrestlemania memories.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Look for a separate article in which Maria answers questions from the SLAM! Wrestling mailbag.
Kenai Andrews is the Sales Director for Futureale, Canada's newest arts and culture magazine. Visit www.futureale.com to check it out. Kenai is also an associate producer for The Spiders Web radio program, which appears on Newstalk CFRB 1010 AM.


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Calendar of Events
Hospice events are free and open to the public. Please register for Education and Group events. Call the office at (360) 452-1511 if you have any questions.
Orientation, Port Angeles
October 5, 2018 –
Come to a Volunteer Orientation to find out more about Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County, the volunteer positions available and the volunteer application process. For more information, call the Volunteer Services Manager at 360-452-1511 or 360-775-7806.
Location: 810 S. Albert Street, up the street from the Hospice office.
Our Recurring Events
Jan 1st: Polar Bear Dip, Hollywood Beach, Port Angeles, WA
August 16-19: Booth at Clallam County Fair, Clallam County Fairgrounds, Port Angeles, WA
August 25: Olympic Peninsula Air Affaire, with the RC Club, Sequim Valley Airport, Sequim, WA
November 3: 40th Anniversary Celebration & Remembrance Ceremony, Trinity United Methodist Church, Sequim
December: VHOCC Holiday Luncheon & Annual Business Meeting
December 1-31: Radiant Light Christmas Tree, Hospice Office, Port Angeles, WA
Sponsored Events, in our Behalf
May: Louella Gebhardt Memorial Golf Classic, Grandview Golf Course, Burch Bay WA
May: Esprit Gala, Port Angeles, WA
August: GWTA TaZ Run and Camp Out
September 15: Sequim Bay Yacht Club "Reach and Row for Hospice", Sequim, WA
Recurring Meetings
Community & Volunteer Orientations
Informational orientations on Volunteer Hospice and how to become a volunteer. Held in Sequim the first Thursday of every month from 11 AM – noon and in Port Angeles the first Friday of every month from 10 – 11 AM. Call the Volunteer Services Manager at 360-775-7806.
Community Education and Volunteer Training (CEVT)
6 classes, 2 hours per class, twice yearly, usually in the spring in Sequim and in the fall in Port Angeles. Registration required. Check the calendar or call the Hospice office for dates at 360-452-1511.
Board of Directors (BOD) Meetings
2nd Tuesday of the month at 10:00 AM in Port Angeles.
Community Outreach Committee (COC) Meetings
1st Wednesday of the month at 1:00 PM. Location: On the odd-numbered months the meeting will be in the Port Angeles Office. On the even-numbered months the meeting will be in the Carlsborg office. Dark July.
Living Alone Now: Practical Advice
Workshops focus on practical aspects of life, after the loss of a spouse or partner. Topics may include financial management, insurance (health, home, life), long-term care and in-home help, home and auto maintenance, shopping and cooking for one, and self-care. Registration required. Check the calendar or call the Hospice office at 360-452-1511 for dates and location.
Port Angeles Grief Support Series
6 or 7 sessions, 1.5 hours per session at the Port Angeles Hospice House ~ 810 S. Albert St (behind the VHOCC office on 8th St). Tuesdays, 2:00 – 3:30 PM. Registration required. Check the calendar or call the Hospice office at 360-452-1511.
Sequim Grief Support Series
5 sessions, 2 hours per session, at Trinity United Methodist Church ~ 100 S. Blake Ave in Sequim. Mondays, 1:00 – 3:00 PM. Registration required. Check the calendar or call the Hospice office at 360-452-1511.
Port Angeles Check-in Support Group
1st Tuesday of each month from 6:30 – 8:00 PM at the Hospice House in Port Angeles for those who have completed any Grief Support Series with Volunteer Hospice.
Sequim Sack Lunch Check-in Grief Support Group
3rd Monday of each month at 1:00 PM at Trinity United Methodist Church in Sequim for those who have completed any Grief Support Series with Volunteer Hospice.
Compassionate Friends Grief Support Group
Assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and provides information to help others be supportive. Grief support group meets monthly on the 3rd Tuesday from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at the Landing Mall in Port Angeles (115 E Railroad Ave, 2nd floor, Banquet Room, Suite 205). Not sponsored by VHOCC. Contact 360-797-3205 or email@example.com or on the national Facebook page TCFUSA.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israel might not be in the World Cup, but the nation's attention is still very much fixed on the global sporting event taking place in Brazil.
And there is much happening at the World Cup that concerns Israel beyond the exciting gameplay, which thousands of Israelis have travelled half-way around the world to watch in person.
On Saturday, a spectator managed to run out onto the field during the German-Ghana match, take off his shirt and display for millions of viewers around the world the anti-Semitic and Nazi messages scrawled on his body.
FIFA, the World Cup's governing body, was criticized after none of its own officials did anything to end the incident. The Nazi sympathizer had to be escorted off the field by a member of the Ghana team.
Earlier during a match between Russia and Croatia, a number of people in the crowd reportedly displayed neo-Nazi banners.
But it wasn't all hate and racism.
When a group of celebrating Iranian fans were approached by a reporter from Israel's Channel 2 News, they responded very positively.
"Israel? Israel is lovely," one Iranian told the Israeli reporter before kissing him on the cheek. Another chimed in: "Israel and Iran are brothers. We have no problems [with you]."
When told by the Israeli that the Jewish state is "unfortunately not in the World Cup," a third Iranian sympathized and said, "Next time. Don't worry. We are here to enjoy ourselves. We aren't going to win the World Cup, but we are having fun."
Another Iranian fan holding the flag of his nation asked, "You are from Israel? Come on, we love Israel! My girlfriend is Jewish." The girlfriend then informed the Israeli that her brother lives in the Jewish state.
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Rode to the Avery Dennison Art Party where Robroy's work was being shown.
Along Alaskan Way
On a folding bike from Tern, I passed these roadies while they were discussing their sock height and they made sure to pass me back at full speed. Near the stadia, semis and dump trucks were beside my head.
Rode with Semis by my head
Then spotted a Fuji in an office.
Spotted a Fuji in an office
Photographed Rob's art
Took photos of Rob's art
and the Space Needle from another office window.
Photos of the Space Needle too
I took all these photos with an iPhone and the PhotoJojo lens kit. Here's a photomap of the ride.


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2016 Opel Corsa release date seems will soon join the world automotive market. Opel Corsa might like people because this car became one of the popular Opel products. New Opel Corsa is a hatchback car is at first made by Germany, the Opel car company, is now becoming increasingly popular especially for United Kingdom market but being replaced as Vauxhall. Opel plans to make the latest edition of this variant of the Corsa. All New Opel Corsa is referred to as 2016 Opel Corsa will experience a change that makes the car a more sleek and stylish. We will discuss about the specifications and changes 2016 Opel Corsa hatchback as the latest edition.
2016 Opel Corsa Design Specs
2016 Opel Corsa is a supermini car favored many people who have a slim design. According to some information outstanding exterior design, overall 2016 Opel Corsa will be the same as compared to the previous model that looks sleek and stylish. New Opel Corsa will undergo changes to latest edition Opel design update made on some parts of the exterior such as headlights, bumpers, grilles and also. As for interior design 2016 Opel Corsa is rumored to use almost the same design as compared to its predecessor. Stylish design complements the shades in the cabin. Opel Corsa the latest cabin offer will impressive with comfort improvements, Opel is rumored to replace the ingredients for this Chair 2016 Opel Corsa with high quality. In addition, to make you feel more comfortable driving experience with some entertainment and safety features will really be improved.
2016 Opel Corsa Engine
2016 Opel Corsa has some rumors strongly believes that this latest edition of the Corsa will come soon. Some rumors first came to specs of the machine to be used by this Opel Corsa 2016. 2016 Opel Corsa is rumored to be using almost the same engine as compared to the current model of a four-cylinder 1.0 litre Ecotec turbocharged engine. Opel Corsa is also believed to be the latest available in petrol and diesel variants.
2016 Opel Corsa Dateand Release Price
2016 Opel Corsa is a car that offers comfort in the cabin. Opel Corsa the latest has a more stylish design and slim. According to some rumors, the All New Opel Corsa was introduced to the market will be announced in the second half is 2015. While the release date is 2016 Opel Corsa will be available around the beginning of 2016. For 2016 Opel Corsa pricing information has not yet been ascertained to be expected.


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Fishboy - "Classic Creeps" LP
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- Aaron the After Thought Astronaut
- Adrian Simmons
- Alberto Simmons
- Allen Moss, Victor
- Alyson Revere
- Andre Revere
- Archibald Aspen
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- Autumn the Owl (Mistakes the Feelings of Being in Love with the Feelings of Being an Owl)
- Ava Aviara
500 copies pressed. There were two pre-order options: one that comes with a button & poster, and a second option that comes with button, poster, and a portrait embroidered sleeve. Both options limited to 20 and 30 only.


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Power Bullet Charger
A dream for the geek-on-the-go
- USB charger works at home and in a car
- Connect and charge 2 devices at once
- Great for geeks who travel for business
We love going to geek conventions - gaming conventions, comic-cons, sci-fi cons, we're into it. Sometimes we'll even drive or fly halfway across the country for a good one. Problem is, when you jam multiple geeks into one vehicle for a long road trip, it's hard to keep everyone's devices juiced up. Then when we get to the hotel room - also packed to geek capacity - there aren't enough outlets to keep all our laptops, netbooks, and iPhones (oh my!) charged. Instead of fighting over who gets the shower first, we're fighting over who gets what outlet, and unplugging all the lamps in the room in the process.
The Power Bullet will save you and your friendships. We're gonna go right out on a limb and say that because you know it's true. This black beauty will plug into a car charger or a standard outlet and charge up to 2 USB devices simultaneously. In your car, you can keep the GPS running and charge up one additional cell phone or handheld device, too. In your hotel room, you can charge two phones with one plug, leaving the others open for your netbooks. No more fighting, no more dead devices. Just peace, harmony, and full batteries. Geek utopia, friends, geek utopia.
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- USB charger for your home or vehicle
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- Power plug folds up when using Power Bullet in the car
- No more fighting over whose phone stays charged on long car trips!
- Great for geeks who travel - use it in your hotel room


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Mayor Don Wesely said today's unanimous passage of his crime package by the City Council will help to keep Lincoln a safe community. The package includes three new City ordinances, which will take effect April 22, 2003:
"The passage of this crime package will make it harder for criminals to profit from stealing, reduce the theft of guns from cars, and keep firearms out of the hands of those with serious criminal records," said Wesely. "With these new ordinances in place, we are giving our police officers more assistance in keeping our City a safe place to do business and raise families."
Police Chief Tom Casady said Lincoln had more than 4,600 vehicle break-ins last year, accounting for well over $1 million in property loss and damage. There were also nearly 2,000 burglaries in the City in 2002. Chief Casady said that over the past five years, Lincoln police officers have investigated more than 1,200 gun-related incidents, including 11 murders with guns, seven assaults on officers with guns, 256 robberies with guns and 275 assaults with guns.
The new ordinance on pawning property is intended to make it more difficult for criminals to obtain fast cash by disposing of stolen property. Pawn shop owners are not required to check criminal records but it will be unlawful for them to knowingly accept property from convicted thieves. The new ordinance prohibiting the storage of firearms in vehicles is intended to decrease the opportunity that criminals will obtain stolen guns.
The third new ordinance will outlaw possession of a firearm in the City limits by persons convicted within the last ten years of any of the following misdemeanors:
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Remember the Semi-Submersible, the Digital X-Ray Detector Panel, or the Dragonfly Insectothopter? They're artifacts in the CIA museum, a collection of spy gadgets, weapons, and memorabilia that goes back 100 years.
U.S. intelligence agencies have long depended on research and development in new technologies to support their surveillance work and analysis. Today's spy gear in many cases is surprisingly accessible. In-Q-Tel, the venture investment arm of the CIA and other intelligence agencies, regularly backs companies whose products are commercially available, including some consumer technologies.
Since being formed in 1999, In-Q-Tel has invested in dozens of startups and other tech companies. In the first 10 months of 2012, the company has announced 17 tech investments. They include Contour Energy Systems, the maker of next-generation battery technology; Mersive, a supplier of "ultra high-resolution" displays (pictured above); and Reversing Lab, developer of the mysterious-sounding "decomposition technology" for computer security.
Cloud computing platforms are another area of investment. So far this year, In-Q-Tel has partnered with cloud services startup Cloudant, cloud management specialist Adaptive Computing, and Huddle, developer of a cloud-based content management system.
Some In-Q-Tel investments go to technologies that can be used in the field, such as a recent deal with Claremont BioSolutions, which uses cell phone technology in disposable devices for taking and analyzing DNA samples. The devices transport the DNA sample through a chamber where cells are dissolved and nucleic acids extracted in a few minutes. The idea is to enable molecular diagnostics in the field, what Claremont BioSolutions calls "prep on a chip."
On the consumer front, In-Q-Tel disclosed in June an investment in Looxci, the maker of a "wear and share" video camera that starts at $150. The devices, which can be helmet-mounted for sports activities, are of interest to the Department of Homeland Security. In-Q-Tel also has a deal with Walleye Technologies to manufacture microwave-based "see-through-walls" devices.
According to the Office of Director of National Intelligence, the top U.S. intelligence authority, total spending for the national intelligence program, which includes activities of the CIA and other organizations in the U.S. Intelligence Community, was $53.9 billion in fiscal 2012.
Here's a look at some of the latest technologies to get In-Q-Tel backing, a first step in making them widely available to U.S. intelligence agents and analysts.
Credit: Mersive


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Chris Woodruff needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 43 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
I am starting a new venture at Cloudsocket.com and need a new logo. I am open to all and any new ideas around the idea of the venture.
Updated -- The new venture will be focusing on technologies around cloud computing and so that may also may bring up more ideas around the logo designs.
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I am really open to new ideas around the Cloudsocket name. I am keeping my self open for all of the ideas designers have. This will be used on all types of media including: website, business cards, embroidered clothing and finally for avatars on Twitter and Facebook. Just looking for a clean design for look great for all uses.
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Moving is considered the third most stressful time in ones life. At Moving Simplified it is our mission to give each of our customers a truly stress-free and cost-efficient move. To do so, we felt that things needed to be done differently. We have done just that.
First and most importantly, we felt the employees sent to your home, apartment, or office make the biggest difference in giving our customers a truly stress-free move. All of our company's employees are full time and have completed hundreds of moves together as a team, ensuring your belongings will be moved safely and efficiently.
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I stepped on the scale this morning at 165.
You think, after you have a night or a day with a few bad health decision, that it's going to show up on the scale right away. That all that hard work you spent over months or years of your life will vanish with one night of binge eating and you'll step on the scale again back at where you were.
And then, when one day doesn't do it, you do one vacation. And even then, you see a pound, two at the most.
So you ease up a little. It's OK to start buying bagels with cream cheese for breakfast again. It's OK to start eating out for lunch more often … as long as it's got vegetables, right? That second after-dinner beer isn't going to kill you.
And then a few months go by and you realized that you've really started to erode the healthy habits you built when you lost the weight. Oh, and that 1 or 2 pounds turned into 15.
That story sound familiar? It's mine. I really stopped being very conscientious about my eating habits last summer, but training for two marathons kept my weight gain to about 5 pounds. I've probably gained another 5 pounds on top of that since I moved to Bangor.
This is not a new story for you, dear readers. This is why I haven't been blogging much (at least, not about health).
Running was masking my poor eating habits for me, and now that I only run about a half-hour a day, 5 days a week, it's forcing me to realize that I'm not the person who ran two marathons last fall in more ways than one.
So here's how I start, again:
When people asked me how I did it, my answer is always "Weight Watchers." I didn't follow the program religiously, but rather the principle that you can eat as much as you want of foods that are good for you (in WW parlance, those are zero-point foods).
Calorie counting doesn't work for me. Period. There's psychology behind that: your brain will more easily follow a "towards" goal — one where you can see the benefits building up — than an "away" goal — one where you are forcing yourself to stop doing something.
(I got this from an audiobook I just finished, Your Brain at Work, which was awesome and I highly recommend for more reasons than just health!)
So I made this simple goal this week: Make food at home for every meal.
It's Wednesday, and it's been going OK. It takes more time then just whipping out a sleeve of French bread and a block of cheese for dinner, but I know that, no matter how busy I am, keeping myself healthy will pay its dividends in energy and productivity later.
I know that my story isn't unique. Most people have trouble keeping the weight off after they lose it, and I'm guilty of thinking that just because I had for two years, I thought I could forever.


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Even with the wind energy production tax credit (PTC) extended, only 3 GW to 4 GW of new wind power is likely to enter commercial operation by the end of 2013, compared to the approximately 12 GW that came online in 2012, analysts at research firm Industrial Info Resources predict.
In fact, between 8 GW and 8.8 GW of new wind energy generation could reach the construction stage this year, with construction and operations extending into 2014, says Shane Mullins, the firm's vice president of product development for the power industry.
'An extended PTC puts the onus on wind power developers to quickly revisit and reactivate the project pipeline, which has been on hold for a while as companies focused on completing projects by year-end 2012,' Mullins says. 'Projects that could not be completed by year-end 2012 were placed on hold. Now, those projects need to be revived and reviewed for viability.'
According to Mullins, there are many factors that will likely prevent a repeat of last year's record level of wind project development.
For one, he says, many utilities are ahead of the curve on meeting their state renewable portfolio standards. In addition, many bankable projects that were being developed for a 2013 kickoff were moved into 2012 in order to take advantage of the PTC.
Another challenge is that due to policy uncertainty, many developers and equipment manufacturers slashed staff and placed projects on hold.
'Developers and manufacturers need time to gear up, so the new PTC extension will be largely felt in the second half of 2013 and will not repeat what happened in 2012, when new development dropped sharply in favor of finishing projects that could operate commercially by Dec. 31, 2012," Mullins explains.


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hale83868 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 93 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
Looking for a classic, Asian-inspired banner for my new blogsite entitled internal energy arts.com. I'm a martial arts instructor teaching the health aspects of these ancient arts. More details...
I'm starting a blogsite and want the name, Internal Energy Arts, to appear in banner. My colors are blue, black and gray. Follow the link to see a pic of my current logo http://www.taodeleau.com. I'd liek this design incorporated as well.
- match current color scheme; I don't want to use additional colors (white, gray, blue and black only)
- Type, main header: "Internal Energy Arts"
- Subtitle: Water Method Chi Gung, Ba Gua Chang and Wu Style Tai Chi Taught by Paul Cavel
- logo from current site as mentioned above
- type that complements Calibri font; nothing too scripty, Asian/Chinese-inspired
- something classic and natural looking
- All caps for title or not is okay
- cheesy, cartoon-ish, sci-fi effects
- overly bold
- scripty fonts


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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. ~ Gore Vidal
After a week of cloudy weather, the weekend arrived and so did the sun.
It was a nice day to enjoy the park.
The stream was still frozen in many places:
But there were enough areas that were not frozen so the girls could enjoy the water:
The girls were able to run:
The squirrels were teasing them:
There was barking and wooing:
Sadie watched me from behind the trees:
Kishka kept on eye on Sadie:
Most of all, it was a day for hanging out and having fun:
Kishka even seemed to find a moment of zen:
Fun at the dog park is measured by one thing: mud.
Mud = fun. Sadie always has fun.
The yarn diet of 2010 continues, but I did buy a new project bag and stitch markers:
These came from Annie Purl's Etsy shop.
I've completed the feet on the Film Noir socks:


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John Iversen, a jeweler and goldsmith, balks at being called an artist, but it's impossible to look at the cuff-like bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and brooches he has made over the last 30 years and not see them as wearable sculptures. Apparently the curators of the Drawing Room agree, as they are showing his elegantly wrought jewelry and works on paper in the same gallery that has shown the artists Jennifer Bartlett, Robert Harms, and Costantino Nivola, among others.
"John is deeply involved in the fresh use of his materials and is keenly sensitive to their tactile appeal," Emily Goldstein, an owner of the Drawing Room, wrote in an e-mail. He "considers the 'feel' that his forms will have on the body of the wearer. . . . The brooches and bracelets all have a movement that is truly magical."
His designs start out on paper, he said recently at his studio on Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton. "The drawings are part inspiration, part guide. . . . A lot of drawings are made with jewelry in mind, but not every sketch becomes a piece of jewelry." Sculpture, which he also does, comes from a totally different place, he said. "Does it make you feel like you want to pick it up?"
That, aside from any consideration of aesthetics or craftsmanship, is a strength of his work: Whether it is a Pebble River bracelet, or his berry cluster Double Jacks earrings made of pink and gray akoya pearls, pink coral, two black diamond beads, and 18-karat gold, or a cuff bracelet made of 14-karat red gold, 18-karat yellow gold, 14-karat green gold, and 14-karat white gold, the hand reaches for it.
"Working in three dimensions is a different experience. . . . With the drawing it remains abstract. Working in three dimensions you get to a point that you can't imagine when you're drawing . . . it's still a fantasy. You're never quite sure it will really work, so seeing the final piece is always a thrill because you made it work." He added that he usually makes a point of finishing a piece even if he hates it. "You can get too much of it and it's like a constant bickering."
Mr. Iversen may have begun these ruminations in Hamburg, where he was born in the early 1950s. He and his family moved to Dusseldorf where, as a lad of 15, he enrolled at the College for Metal Industries. As a child, he said, he always liked making things. In Dusseldorf he learned to saw and file. He then had the good fortune at age 17 to pursue a jewelry making internship with an uncle, Karl H. Stittgen, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Mr. Stittgen, who had moved there as a watchmaker in 1952, at that point was a self-taught jeweler who at first translated what he saw in nature into jewelry. Mr. Iversen spent four years there, where, he said, "The awareness of nature came . . . mainly from living in Vancouver and all the Asian influences there. Coming from small-town Germany without any diversity, it hit me like some sort of shock — speechless."
The goal of his technique of nature casting, similar to lost wax casting, is not to recreate a hydrangea blossom or gingko leaf, however, but to produce his concept of that leaf or blossom as a jewel. In this way, the piece is imbued with the feeling of its maker, another distinction of Mr. Iversen's work. "Jewelry in a way is an emotion. The instinct to wear something, put something on your body, is a deep-rooted feeling. It's very human and one of the things that sets us apart from other animals."
After his stint in Canada, Mr. Iversen returned to Germany, where he spent three semesters at the Staatliche Zeichen Academy's College for Jewelry Design and Manufacturing. In 1978 he moved to New York City, but felt unprepared to take the city by storm quite yet. "You start getting jobs but you don't want to do that for the rest of your life," he said, perhaps referring to his job cleaning castings in Midtown.
At age 24 or 25, "you find yourself there thinking, what am I going to do now? Well, you say, this is what I've got." The exigencies of making a living superseded his ambition to make jewelry, especially given his modesty about his own level of talent.
"I learned jewelry making," he said, "but part of me wasn't that good at it. I had a little bit of an artistic bent . . . I didn't really pursue art as a career and I didn't really pursue jewelry as a career. It was more a twist of fate."
"Fine artists have always made jewelry," he went on, "also, a few jewelers became artists. It's all a continuum. Some of the earliest pieces found were pieces of jewelry. The Venus of Willendorf, for instance, was probably an amulet."
His fortunes began to change once he quit the job of making wedding rings and took the chance of going out on his own, eventually having his work accepted by Artwear, an international SoHo jewelry gallery that was considered a hub of innovation and inspiration. Not long after that his work was featured on the cover of Vogue and in Harper's Bazaar and, the rest, as they say, is history. Toward the end of the 1990s, Mr. Iversen moved with his wife and son to the East End.
Boxwood, oak, gingko, and maple leaves, pebbles, seeds, water, and petals — hydrangea and eucalyptus mainly — appear again and again in his pieces. He has also worked with enamel.
He uses hardly any gemstones. "It's basically metalwork — combination. He also uses semiprecious stones, both matte and shiny, especially in his berry cluster series: amber, lapis, tourmaline, coral, jade, lemon chrysoprase, pink coral, and labradorite.
He and his assistants make everything in his studio, except for stone setting, gold plating, and metal casting. Molds are made in New York and what comes out is sent back for him to finish, which often involves manipulating the surface of the metal by grinding, filing, engraving, or oxidation.
Some bracelets look either like a jigsaw puzzle, chain mail, or metal that has been shattered and reassembled. He uses a tiny jewelry saw to cut the gold, silver, brass, and nickel.
The edges of each piece are different, jagged in different ways. After years of working on the engineering and design, Mr. Iversen developed small hinges made of gold affixed to the back of the bracelet that keep the pieces together. These give him great satisfaction, like knowing a secret. Thanks to the flexibility given the piece by these hinges, a bracelet made by Mr. Iversen often feels like a Slinky on the arm, he once remarked to Ms. Goldstein. What makes the pieces so persuasive, he said, is that "they live in your hand. They're not so static."
Mr. Stittgen, Mr. Iversen's uncle, abides by the Japanese tenet in his jewelry and now his ceramics of "the beauty of imperfection," an idea that doubtless had an impact on his nephew while he was in Canada.
"The whole idea of a perfect piece doesn't really work," he said. "You're always sort of moving on; you realize in hindsight that a piece was really a good one or one that you were trying to aim for," which is why he sometimes puts it away. "Internally you can mature and then you understand and can forgive yourself when you look at it again. The zeitgeist is be in the here and now, but that has become a cliché. Time does its own work by itself. It's an important part of art."