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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Google Music Service Launch Imminent — Google will soon launch a music service, we've heard from multiple sources, and the company has spent the last several weeks securing content for the launch of the service from the major music labels. One source has referred to the new service as Google Audio.
Duncan Geere / Pocket-lint.com: Google launching music service?
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily: Google Reportedly To Launch Music Service
Peter Martin / Boy Genius Report: Google said to be launcing Google Audio soon
John Herrman / Gizmodo: How Will Google's Rumored Music Service Work?
James Glick / The Next Web: Google could steamroll digital music
Thomas Ricker / Engadget: Google Audio music service launching soon?
Brian Heater / AppScout: Rumor: Google Launching Music Service
Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker: Google to Launch Music Service?
Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog: Google to Launch Music Service, Compete with iTunes?
James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants: Taking on Apple … If Google offered such a service …
Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
BlackBerry Bold 9700 (Onyx) Now Official — RIM's new flagship device, the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) (NSDQ: RIMM) Bold 9700, has been officially announced. If you've been following the latest leaked videos and pictures, you'd already know a fair bit about this device (including that it's coming to AT&T …
Discussion: Signaling IT, Tech Trader Daily, PC World, Research in Motion, Electricpig, Canada NewsWire Group and Electronista
James Holland / Electricpig: BlackBerry Bold 9700 revealed!
Business Wire:
T-Mobile USA to Offer First 3G BlackBerry Smartphone with Voice Calling over Wi-Fi — New BlackBerry Bold 9700 from T-Mobile delivers 3G speeds, Wi-Fi Calling, GPS and more — BELLEVUE, Wash.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the upcoming availability …
Discussion: SlashGear, CrunchGear, TmoNews, CrackBerry.com blogs and Engadget Mobile
Matt Burns / CrunchGear: BlackBerry Bold 9700 launching on domestic and European GSM carriers in November
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs: BlackBerry Bold 9700 Specifications and Features
Bold Gets Even Better for AT&T Customers with the New BlackBerry Bold 9700 — AT&T to Introduce Blackberry® Bold™ 9700 SmartPhone, Features New Trackpad for Easy Navigation
Discussion: InformationWeek, Phone Arena, Unwired View, CrackBerry.com blogs, Boy Genius Report and Gizmodo
Ilinca Nita / Unwired View: BlackBerry Bold 9700 now official, AT&T, T-Mobile and Rogers will carry it
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs: BlackBerry Bold 9700 Officially Announced!
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report: RIM makes the BlackBerry Bold 9700 official, hitting in November
Danny Allen / Gizmodo: BlackBerry Bold 9700 on T-Mobile and AT&T in November
David Coursey / PC World:
B&N's Nook Is A Kindle Killer: 5 Reasons Why — Barnes & Noble's new Nook e-reader is the e-reader that competitors must now beat. So long Kindle 2, it was nice knowing you, but a better reader has come along. And just in time for the holidays, too. — If Amazon doesn't have a new model …
Brian Heater / Gearlog: Barnes & Noble Unveils Nook E-Reader
Kevin Anderson / Guardian: New e-reader to carve out Android 'nook'?
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Retail distribution may tip e-reader race; Barnes & Noble rolls out Nook
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily: Barnes & Noble Unveils Nook, $259 eBook Reader
Chris Scott Barr / OhGizmo!: Barns & Noble Announce 'Nook' eBook Reader
Jake Humphrey / MobileBurn.com: Barnes & Noble officially launches the nook, its Android powered eReader
Cade Metz / The Register: Barnes & Noble's ebook reader takes its bow
Todd Ogasawara / MobileContentToday: Barnes & Noble Nook eBook Reader Would Have Been an Instant Purchase If it Had...
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader leaks a bit early: $259, pre-orders are live (video)
Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader leaks a bit early: $259, pre-orders are live (video)
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Bits, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TeleRead, Gizmodo, T3.com News, DisplayBlog, Business Week, Brainstorm Tech, Rational rants, Wi-Fi Networking News, Computerworld, Gadgetell, Pocket-lint.com, Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, Internet2Go, GeekTonic, eWeek, The Mobile Gadgeteer, ResourceShelf, CrunchGear, Digits, Technology Questions, Obsessable, ReadWriteWeb, dailywireless.org and Electronista
Amol Sarva / Silicon Alley Insider: The Barnes & Noble Nook Is Toast
Motoko Rich / Bits: Live Blog: Barnes & Noble Unveils E-Reader
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Barnes & Noble's nook digital book reader to let users lend titles to their friends
Paul Biba / TeleRead: Report on Nook news conference: B&N switching to ePub—plus other news conf tidbits
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: Barnes & Noble Nook Up Close: Yep, It's Real Nice
Hardy Green / Business Week: Barnes & Noble: Raising the E-Reader Bar
Jessi Hempel / Brainstorm Tech: Barnes & Noble bets on the Nook
Mitch Ratcliffe / Rational rants: B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News: Barnes & Noble Puts Wi-Fi, HSPA in Nook Ebook Reader
Robert Nelson / Gadgetell: Barnes & Noble Nook gets official - full specs and details
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.com: Barnes & Noble Nook released
Greg Sterling / Internet2Go: Nook: 'Kindle Killers' Start to Arrive
Nicholas Kolakowski / eWeek: Barnes and Noble Debuts Nook E-Reader in Challenge to Amazon
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer: B&N Nook ebook reader revolutionizes the ebook world with sharing …
Loren Heiny / Technology Questions: B&N Nook looking good — Today Barnes & Noble announced the Nook e-Reader.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb: Barnes & Noble's Nook eReader Launches Today: Here Are the Details
Sam Churchill / dailywireless.org: Book War — Barnes & Noble, is expected to unveil …
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Barnes & Noble Unveils Kindle-Killing, Dual-Screen 'Nook' E-Reader (Updated)
Barnes & Noble Unveils Kindle-Killing, Dual-Screen 'Nook' E-Reader (Updated)
Discussion: Sramana Mitra on Strategy, PC World, Techdirt, Digits, Gizmodo, Epicenter, TeleRead, Gadgetrepublic.com and CNET News
Sramana Mitra / Sramana Mitra on Strategy: Is Reading On Steve's Mind?
Matt Hamblen / PC World: Barnes & Noble's Nook Crowds into E-reader Market
Marisa Taylor / Digits: Live From the Nook Launch (Don't Call It a Kindle)
John Herrman / Gizmodo: Barnes & Noble's Nook Ebook Reader: Two Screens, $260
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter: Barnes & Noble's Shiny, Sharing-Friendly 'Nook' eBook Reader
Marie Boran / Gadgetrepublic.com: Barnes & Noble e-reader details leaked
David Carnoy / CNET News: Is Barnes & Noble's Nook a Kindle killer?
Chuong Nguyen / pocketnow.com:
Windows Mobile 7 Exclusive Screenshots and Analysis! — We've seen the 6.5.1 leaks from WMExperts today that combined TouchFLO 3D and 6.5.1 together into a tidy package along with the leaks of the Windows Mobile 7 mockups earlier. Now, our very own tipster has delivered …
Discussion: IntoMobile, ithinkdifferent, WMExperts, WMPoweruser.com, Phone Arena, Mobilewhack.com, MobileContentToday, I4U News, Gizmodo, FoneFrenzy, Gartner, Electricpig, Maximum PC, MobileCrunch and PalmAddicts
Todd Ogasawara / MobileContentToday: Leaked Windows Mobile 7 Screens are (If Actual) Pretty But Less Functional Than 6.x
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: New Windows Mobile 7 Screens Leak
Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo: Windows Mobile 7 Screenshots Leak: Where's the Start Button?
Joe Minihane / Electricpig: Windows Mobile 7 pictured
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch: WinMo 7 vs. WinMo 6.5, in screenshots
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Apple declares war on the entire PC industry — There is absolutely nothing coincidental about Apple launching new products today. The big product launch is Apple's first preemptive marketing strike against Microsoft, Windows 7 and the entire PC industry.
Dana Gardner / Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect: Here's why Apple is doing so well — it's the top half, stupid
Lee Mathews / Download Squad: Want to learn about Windows 7? Microsoft offers you a look at its features
Janette Barrios / Apple: Apple Unveils New iMac With 21.5 and 27-inch Displays
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: FAQ: How to prep for an XP-to-Windows 7 upgrade
Juan Magdaraog / EveryJoe: All New iMacs, MacBooks and Mac Minis
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: Apple Declares War On The PC Industry? Since When?
Rory Cellan-Jones / dot.life: A week with Windows — In computing terms, I live a double life.
Renai LeMay / ZDNET.com.au: Australian pricing for new Macs
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile.com: Joe Wilcox's War: Apple vs the Netbook Fools
Arik Hesseldahl / BusinessWeek: Apple Announces Major Consumer PC Upgrades
Alexander Grundner / eHomeUpgrade: Apple Refreshes the iMac, Mac mini, and Apple Remote
Brandon Hill / DailyTech: Following Record Breaking Earnings, Apple Overhauls Its Consumer PC Lineup
Thom Holwerda / OSNews: Apple Updates Entire Consumer Mac Line
Vincent Nguyen / SlashGear: Apple new MacBook, Mac mini, iMac and Magic Mouse hands-on
Katie Allen / Guardian:
Pascal Cagni, head of Apple Europe, on the iPod, iPhone - and Beatles and ITV
Pascal Cagni, head of Apple Europe, on the iPod, iPhone - and Beatles and ITV
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac and paidContent
Boy Genius Report:
Motorola Droid mailers go out, scare children — Ready for more Motorola Droid nonsense? Good. We've just got a couple images of a promotional mailer that went out to one of our connects. It has a pretty decent shot of the device on it (What? You need more photos?) and those ever-clever "I do" key features the Droid, uh, does.
Discussion: Gearlog, Engadget Mobile, Erictric, Android Central, Mashable!, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile and Edible Apple
Brian Heater / Gearlog: Motorola Verizon Droid Launch Imminent
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile: Motorola Droid already getting accessorized
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: Motorola Droid Looks Set to Kill Us All [Pics]
Rob Jackson / Android Phone Fans: The Day Of Droid Is Approaching
Will Park / IntoMobile: Motorola Droid goods start trickling out
Jeff Gillis / Google Analytics Blog:
Google Analytics Now More Powerful, Flexible And Intelligent — Today, we're announcing a new set of Google Analytics features which builds on last year's enterprise-class feature launch. Some add more power to existing capabilities. Others provide new flexibility to further customize …
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped, Softpedia News, WebProNews, the Econsultancy blog, Search Engine Journal, Adweek, Search Engine Watch, Web Analytics World, Search Engine Land and Traffick, Thanks:atul
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Smarter Google Analytics to Track Significant Traffic Changes
Chris Crum / WebProNews: Google Analytics Gets a Bunch of New Features
Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog: Google Analytics brings mobile and online tracking together with new updates
Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal: Google Analytics Becomes More Powerful, Flexible and Intelligent
Brian Morrissey / Adweek: Google Wades Into Mobile Analytics
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch: Google Analytics Unveils a Slew of Updates: New Intelligence Engine …
Daniel Waisberg / Search Engine Land: Google Analytics New Features: Intelligence Engine, Custom Alerts & More
Andrew Goodman / Traffick: New Google Analytics Features Inject Intelligence Into Marketing
Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Releases API for Website Optimizer: A/B & Multivariate Testing for All
Google Releases API for Website Optimizer: A/B & Multivariate Testing for All
Discussion: Google Code Blog
David / my california adventures:
Time Warner cable modem/router major security hole — If you're a Time Warner/Road Runner internet customer, and are using a SMC8014 series cable modem/wifi router combo. You should be aware of a serious security hole that allows anyone to access your private network and possibly capture and manipulate your private data.
Discussion: DSLreports, Softpedia News and CNET News
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Customer Routers to Remote Hacks
Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Customer Routers to Remote Hacks
Discussion: Wi-Fi Networking News
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News: Time Warner Wi-Fi Routers Have 1990s Style Security Hole
Dave Kellogg / Mark Logic CEO Blog:
Gartner Sued Over Magic Quadrant for Alleged Damages of $132M plus Punitives of $1.3B — I found this story today, entitled Gartner's Magic Quadrant Goes to Court, about ZL Technologies who, citing damages of $132M, has decided to sue Gartner over its Magic Quadrants. From ZL's web page on the suit:
Discussion: Silicon Valley Watcher, Software Development … and Irregular Enterprise
Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher: Gartner's "Magic Quadrant" Goes To Court - ZL Technologies Lawsuit
Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise: Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter CEO: Lots Of Ways To Make Money, But 97% Not Focused On It Today — Twitter CEO Evan Williams sat down to talk with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. (See all of our coverage here.) — Battelle, whose Federated Media provides Twitter with some of its meager …
Discussion: Mashable!, Bokardo, the Econsultancy blog, eWeek, Don Dodge on The Next …, GigaOM and VentureBeat
Patricio Robles / the Econsultancy blog: Memo to Twitter: keep the suggester user list
Jennifer Martinez / GigaOM: Twitter's Evan Williams Tight-Lipped About Rev Model, Notes U.S. Traffic Has Slowed
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Web 2.0 Summit: Evan Williams Wants To Kill The Suggested User List
Web 2.0 Summit: Evan Williams Wants To Kill The Suggested User List
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Telegraph
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: Twitter CEO: 'Desperately Want To Kill' The Suggested Users List
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Comcast: Twitter Has Changed The Culture Of Our Company — Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts spoke on stage with Federated Media's John Battelle. For the first part of the discussion, they talked about the usual stuff: the state of the industry, competition, and the like.
Discussion: DSLreports, Silicon Alley Insider, The Social, paidContent, NewTeeVee, VentureBeat and VatorNews
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: LIVE COVERAGE: Web 2.0 Summit
Caroline McCarthy / The Social: Comcast CEO: We are not a dead duck
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent: Comcast Will Expand Streaming On Demand This Year; Not Quite TV Everywhere
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Web 2.0 Summit: The king for cable giant Comcast, surprisingly, is content
Bambi Francisco / VatorNews: Twitter CEO admits slowdown, now what?
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Is Microsoft Poised to Integrate Twitter Into Bing? — According to sources, Microsoft is close to striking a nonexclusive data-mining deal with Twitter to integrate the microblogging service's full feed into its results of its Bing search service. — News of the deal, which was still …
Discussion: Fast Company, Silicon Alley Insider and Dow Jones Newswires
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: Here's What The Web 2.0 Summit Looks Like
Jessica Hodgson / Dow Jones Newswires: Twitter sees opportunities around data sharing
Matthew Newman / Bloomberg:
Ellison Said to Meet With Kroes to Sway EU Over Oracle's Takeover of Sun — Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison met with European Union Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes for negotiations over the company's acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., two people familiar with the talks said.
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:
Stallman Urges EC to Stop Oracle Acquisition of Sun
Stallman Urges EC to Stop Oracle Acquisition of Sun
Discussion: Open Source, Open Sources's blog, The Register, AustralianIT.com.au, 451 CAOS Theory and rand($thoughts);
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source: mySQL starring as Peter Pan
Open Sources / Open Sources's blog: MySQL co-founder questions viability of MySQL fork to protect users
Matthew Aslett / 451 CAOS Theory: What about Woman's Hour? Free speech, free markets and the future of MySQL
Boy Genius Report:
Motorola Calgary live photos: Verizon's second Motorola Android device — If you thought you were in Android heaven, think again. We've just been given the go-ahead from one of our Motorola connects, and what you're looking at is the Motorola Calgary (that's a codename you might remember) slated to hit Verizon.
Discussion: Mobilewhack.com, I4U News, Android Central, InformationWeek, Electronista, Phone Arena, Android Phone Fans, AndroidGuys, MobileCrunch, SlashGear and Android and Me
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Motorola Calgary Android Phone Photos Leak
Marin Perez / InformationWeek: Google Should Not Make Android Phones
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch: Motorola Calgary is like the Droid, but horribly ugly
Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me: Meet the Motorola Calgary for Verizon
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Web 2.0: GE's Jeff Immelt shows off "stethoscope of the 21st century" — Jeff Immelt, the chief executive officer of General Electric, showed off what he called the "stethoscope of the 21st century" at the Web 2.0 Summit today. — He held up a white gadget with a flip-out screen …
Discussion: Associated Press, Agence France Presse and Crave
Rachel Metz / Associated Press: GE unveils handheld ultrasound machine
Rafe Needleman / Crave: The gadget blog: GE shows off pocket-size ultrasound scanner
Robert MacMillan / MediaFile:
The Wall Street Journal — now for 'professionals' — The Wall Street Journal, ever on the hunt for new ways to please its readers and new ways to make money (and what, we ask, is wrong with that?), will launch a new, pricier version this November. Called "The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Romenesko
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider: Dow Jones Offers Up Wall Street Journal Pro-Edition For $600 Annually
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Mary Meeker: Economy Is Recovering, Mobile Is Exploding, And The iPhone Is Awesome. — Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Morgan Stanley Managing Director, Mary Meeker, gave her usual quick presentation with a ton of information. Rather than trying to squeeze it all in …
Discussion: mocoNews, Silicon Alley Insider, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Mashable! and broadstuff
Dianne See Morrison / mocoNews: Meeker On The Mobile Internet: "Bigger Than Most Think"
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb: Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Presentation 2009
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Web 2.0: Morgan Stanley predicts tech recovery and a huge mobile Internet wave
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: The Mobile shall inherit the Earth, says Meeker
Steve Lohr / Bits:
Accenture Tries to Turn Ads Into Gold with Adchemy — Accenture, the technology consulting and services group, is making a real bet on the Web marketing business. — The firm says that technology is finally getting good enough to deliver Web display ads tailored to consumers' demographics and interests.
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Google Envisions 10 Million Servers — Google never says how many servers are running in its data centers. But a recent presentation by a Google engineer shows that the company is preparing to manage as many as 10 million servers in the future. — Google's Jeff Dean was one of the keynote speakers …
Andrew Thomas / TG Daily:
Amazon: Windows 7 is 'the biggest pre-order product of all time' — Windows 7 has beaten boy wizard Harry Potter to become the biggest pre-order product of all time in the UK, says Amazon. — The UK arm of the retail behemoth adds that the new operating system sold more copies …
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo: Windows 7 Amazon Preorders Beat Even Harry Potter
Vladislav Savov / Engadget: Windows 7 breaks Amazon UK pre-order volume record, ousts Harry Potter


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GM sending bailout money to Korea
You would have thought General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner would have learned a little about the value of PR last November. Flying to DC to beg for taxpayer money aboard a private jet almost cost him and the other little piggies their bailout cash. Evidently he didn't learn a thing.
In an announcement at Detroit's North American International Auto Show today, Little Piggy Wagoner announced that GM would bypass an American supplier to spend our money in Korea. The battery cells for GM's long overdue Chevy Volt, will be purchased from LG Chem in Korea. LG Chem and Massachussetts based A123 Systems/Continental were competing for the contract. I wonder what Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) thinks of the bailout now that GM is bypassing a Massachussets company and sending his constituents' jobs overseas.
Now, I'm a free market/free trade fan and if these were normal times I wouldn't raise a fuss about this. However, these aren't normal times and last month's auto company bailout cast off any semblance of GM operating under free market/free trade principles.
Recall, we were told the bailout of GM and Chrysler was essential to save American jobs and prevent an imminent collapse of our economy if these two went under. In this video, Wagoner claims the bailout will "preserve many jobs, and support the continued operation of GM and the many suppliers, dealers and small businesses across the country that depend on our company and our industry." The following is a Bush quote from an article in the Dallas Morning News after the bailout was announced. (emphasis added)
"By giving the auto companies a chance to restructure, we will shield the American people from a harsh economic blow at a vulnerable time," the president said. "And we will give American workers an opportunity to show the world once again that they can meet challenges with ingenuity and determination, and emerge stronger than before."


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The Development of Corporate Governance in China
Edward Elgar, 1999 M01 1 - 129 páginas
'. . . a useful first step for scholars, students, and practitioners outside China interested in corporate governance inside China.' - Mike W. Peng, Academy of Management Executive 'The Development of Corporate Governance in China examines how the development of corporate governance matters in China's economic development and enterprise reform. It provides a penetrating study of the major corporate governance issues encountered in the country's reform process. Set firmly against the realities of China and relevant international experiences, the book shows the pitfalls of China's approach to corporate development and suggests an alternative model. Its analysis is balanced and full of insights into the working of the emerging corporate sector. It is the first major book on the subject with comprehensive survey data. Anyone interested in the future of China's economic and corporate development would find the book rewarding and worthwhile.' - Y.Y. Kueh, Lingnan University, Hong Kong 'This is an extremely timely and valuable book. the future of corporate governance has been under keen debate in China and crucial decisions are currently being taken. Professor Tam's book succinctly analyses the background and theoretical issues and discusses how the dilemma might be resolved. Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Chinese business, economics or organization.' - Christopher Howe, University of London, UK This important and timely book examines how corporate governance has and should be developed in China to meet the challenges of enterprise and financial reform. It highlights key economic, social and political issues that China has to confront in order to transform the state owned industrial enterprises into a competitive and modern corporate sector.
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Thrall, warchief of the Horde, was contacted by the Prophet in his dreams.
The Prophet:"The sands of time have run out, son of Durotan... The cries of war echo upon the winds... The remnants of the past scar the land" (we see a little crow trying to peck out some food from the ground)"Which is besieged once again... by conflict...(we see Orcish Horde running down the hill with noise and war cries, crow has flown away and an orcish catapult floped down, then we see orcish army running down the hill once again)"Heroes arise to challenge fate and lead their brethren to battle..." (we see opposite hill - human army runs down it) "As mortal armies rush down towards ther doom... the burning shadow has come to consume us all" (Infernals begin to fall from the sky, seconds after we see Medivh standing under a heavy rain) "You must rally the horde and lead your people to their destiny!"(Thrall awakens. A crow flies from Thrall's Hut.)"Seek me out."
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The Lost Novels of Bram Stoker
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This highly enjoyable compilation of three of Bram Stoker's lesser-known novels shows the author's talent for supernatural horror turning away from Transylvanian counts and toward Egyptian mummy queens, mysterious women in shrouds, and giant white snake-like creatures. Stoker scholar Stephen Jones, who edited the volume, contributes an informative introduction that delves deep into Stoker's life and his inspiration for Dracula, the author's sole commercial success. Performer Robin Sachs' smooth baritone and delightful British accent is perfectly suited to Stoker's refined horror, at times lending the audiobook the feel of a tale told round a campfire. The Lost Novels are sure to be treat for Stoker's many fans.
A new compilation of Bram Stoker's cult vampire novels for the 100th anniversary of his death.
This delightful new compilation of Bram Stoker's cult classics will be sure to satisfy any lover of vampire fiction, from Dracula to Twilight. All three novels were published after Dracula debuted in 1897. They flirt with vampirism, horror, and human folly in the best Gothic tradition - all attempts to duplicate Stoker's only success.
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The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), a tale about an archaeologist's dangerous plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. The book caused a controversy upon publication for what readers called its "gruesome ending". His publisher refused to republish the book until Stoker revised it. The Lost Novels of Bram Stoker includes both the original ending and the lighter, more commercial version.
The Lady of the Shroud (1909), a classic example of early science fiction, although it remains one of his more obscure works. Beginning with a stunning sequence that finds a mysterious lady in a small coffin floating off the coast of a fictional country in the Balkan Peninsula, and beguiling the reader with a beautiful lady in a white shroud who may or may not be undead, this is a not-to-be-missed vampire tale!
The Lair of the White Worm (1911), a camp-horror tale from an acknowledged master of the genre. The great white worm slithers below, seeking its next victim....


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The Shiniest of Them All…
Did you know that tooth fairy money is special and can't be replaced? Well it is and it can't. You know how I know? I know because 17 days ago I was fishing poop quarter out of the toilet. Yeah…my life is glamorous like that! I am pretty sure Oprah will be calling me any minute to appear on a show titled either "A Behind the Scenes Look at Glamorous Mothers" or "Why Moms Drink". I will sit on the couch with our fair lady and recount my morning. I can see it now…it's going to be awesome. The following is how it all went down.
Cast of characters: Our youngest daughter, age 5, known on this blog as A. Our oldest daughter, age 7, known on this blog as L.
Time: Friday morning, 8:58am, we leave for school at 9am mind you.
A had lost her tooth the day before and that night the tooth fairy had left two quarters under her pillow. She packed those quarters around all morning and apparently left them in the bathroom at some point in time. L decided she "had to go" right before we were ready to walk out the door. As we waited for her to finish up we suddenly heard, through the closed bathroom door, the distinctive clink of metal on porceline. Apparenlty, A's money had jumped off the bathroom counter, jumped into L's hand, jumped out of L's hand, and jumped into the poop filled toilet. Oh the tears, oh the drama! No biggie I said, I will replace it with a new quarter. NOOOOOOOOO!!!! (and I do mean NOOOOOOOOO!!!!) tooth fairy money is special Mommy and you can't replace it. TEARS TEARS TEARS!
So a plan was formed. As the children were at school I would reach into the toilet (with gloves), fish out the quarter, and soak in bleach for 3 hours. By the time A returned from class it will be as good as new. And I did just that. After the required amount of soaking I must say that even though handling poop quarter gives me a slight case of the heebie jeebies, it is quite possibly the shiniest quarter in circulation. Not to mention quite possibly the cleanest. Do you know how dirty money really is? I do…I've seen it first hand.
After this incident, I feel I have now paid my mother dues and I should get a free pass for the rest of the month. If reaching in a toilet at 9:15 in the morning doesn't get you that, I don't know what does!
-Stacey is a mom of two and a wife of one who likes her family (good thing), traveling, reading celebrity gossip (I'm not ashamed), and cooking. You can read more about her and the crew at her blog Oh Happy Days.
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Everyone is writing about whether they met their goal for 2011, I could not remember if I had set any…. I checked back on my posts and found that I did not.
What does that mean? It certainly does not mean I did not have any, it means that I had no clue what I wanted to do. When I wrote the posts a year ago, I did not know for sure that I would be retired by now. But I am…..I think forty two years working as a nurse is long enough.
I made a lot of discoveries, most of them by happenstance. I find things when I least expect it, it is that I go to search for an ancestor or something related and come up with something totally different. This has happened the past four years of my research.
The most surprising was my sister and I went to take pictures of my grandparents graves and I found a whole branch of her family. I had no idea that my great grandfathers siblings had moved to the USA.
My mother spoke of her Tante's but I wrongly assumed that she was speaking of her fathers Aunts in Germany. She also had mention family secrets that I have yet to prove and perhaps I shall never find. What do you do with family scoundrels? I suppose I shall not print what I have heard until proved otherwise…..I could have gotten it mixed up like the information about her Aunts.


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Just after 2 p.m. on August 18, 1945, U.S. Army Sergeant Anthony J. Marchione bled to death in the clear, bright sky above Tokyo. A month shy of his 20th birthday, Marchione died like so many before him had in the Second World War—quietly, cradled in the arms of a buddy. What sets his death apart from that of other Allied airmen is that the young man from Pottstown, Pennsylvania, died after the Japanese had accepted the Allied terms of surrender. He was the last American killed in air combat in World War II.
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I learned Marchione's story in the late 1990s while working on a book about the Consolidated B-32 bomber, the aircraft Marchione was flying in when he died. He had enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces less than two years earlier, in November 1943. The oldest of three children of Italian immigrants, he was a good-looking kid, five foot six and 125 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. I learned from his sister,
Theresa Sell, that he had enlisted because he had expected to get drafted. "He chose the Air Corps because he'd just always wanted to fly," she recalled in a 1997 interview. "I was still in high school when he went into the service, and with all the [patriotic fervor] at the time, my sister Geraldine and I thought it was neat that he was going."
Marchione wanted to be a pilot, but the Army had other plans; it trained him to be an aerial gunner. In November 1944, at Davis-Monthan Army Air Field in Arizona, he joined a Consolidated B-24 Liberator crew that was being transferred to Will Rogers Army Air Force Base in Oklahoma City for training in photo-reconnaissance. While pilots Robert Essig and John Ziegler learned the intricacies of flying the F-7, the reconnaissance version of the B-24, Marchione and fellow gunners Rudolph Nudo, Frank Pallone, and Raymond Zech went through a course to become photographer's assistants. By August 1945, their unit, the 20th Reconnaissance Squadron, had moved to Okinawa, which had been captured by U.S. forces less than two months earlier. It was there, at Yontan Airfield, that Marchione first saw a Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
The B-32s at Yontan were part of the 386th Bombardment Squadron, which conducted anti-shipping sweeps of the South China Sea and, if needed, could fly combat missions against the Japanese mainland. But Japan's surrender in mid-August abruptly changed the squadron's duties; crews now were to fly daytime photo-reconnaissance missions to monitor Tokyo's compliance with the cease-fire.
But there was another, more furtive reason for the flights, according to Rudolph Pugliese, who as a young lieutenant was the 386th's assistant intelligence officer. Besides gathering information on such things as the route that Allied occupation forces could follow into Tokyo, "the photo-recon missions were also intended to test the fidelity of the Japanese," Pugliese told me in 1997. "According to the terms of the cease-fire, our planes were supposed to be able to fly freely over Tokyo. If they actually could, that would mean the Japanese weren't planning any nasty surprises for the occupation forces." U.S. commanders wanted to be assured that the Japanese would not employ their still-robust air defense system, with early-warning radar stations, air raid sirens, and a fleet of fast fighter aircraft with experienced pilots ready to scramble to protect their homeland.
While the B-32's design included a belly camera just aft of its retractable ball turret, the 386th's Dominator crews did not include aerial photographers. For photo-recon sorties, mission planners enlisted crews from a pool of 20th Reconnaissance Squadron photographers, gunners trained as photo assistants, and commissioned navigators who would "steer" the aircraft during the photo run by using the B-32's Norden bombsight. Among the 20th Recon Squadron members assigned to the pool were Marchione and his F-7 navigator, Second Lieutenant Kurt Rupke. The pool system was not popular, Frank Pallone told me. "We called them 'bastard crews,' because guys were taken out of their regular crews and had to fly with people they might not ever have met before," he said. "Marchione, Nudo, and I had been tent mates since the Philippines, and I think it bothered all of us that Tony was in the pool."
The first Dominator mission to include 20th personnel flew on August 16. A B-32 named Hobo Queen II and a second aircraft were dispatched to the Tokyo area; the second Dominator had to turn back when it developed engine trouble. Hobo Queen II pushed on and, though it was "painted" by Japanese early-warning radars while approaching and leaving the Tokyo area, its crew photographed the airfields at Katori and Konoiko, east of Tokyo, without interference.
Things didn't go as well the next day, however, when Lieutenant Colonel Selmon Wells, flying Hobo Queen II, led three other B-32s to the Japanese capital. Although just 25 at the time, Wells was a seasoned commander who had flown more than a dozen combat missions aboard a Douglas A-20 Havoc. He told me in 1998 that, despite the absence of Japanese activity the day before, he was "uneasy" about the August 17 mission. "I'd been at war for nearly two years by then, and I knew the Japanese were tenacious fighters who had no problem pulling dirty tricks on their enemies," Wells said. "I think I was subconsciously expecting something to happen."
Though Wells could not have known it at the time, events in Tokyo were virtually ensuring that something would.


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Pop princess Britney Spears has combined the end times with the group sweat shake dance from her "Slave" days into one, scary post-apocalypse video for "Till The World Ends." Watch as Britney sings us into Armageddon.
This isn't the end of Spears' fascination with all things post-apocalyptic. Her manager told MTV that the entire tour will have a "post apocalyptic vibe." If I were a Pop star, with Spears money, I'd make my director digitally insert me into awesome past apocalypse films and then grind all over road warriors' tight leathered behind. Or I'd just recreate Thunderdome in my backyard with Tina Turner (also with Spears money).
Fingers crossed the director's cut of this video (yes there's a director's cut) will have more apocalypse in it.


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Simonoff v. Expedia, Inc., — F.3d —, 2011 WL 1991211 (9th Cir. May 24, 2011)
Plaintiff sued Expedia under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act ("FACTA"). He was upset that the electronic receipt Expedia emailed him contained the expiration date of his credit card.
The district court dismissed plaintiff's case and he sought review with the Ninth Circuit. On appeal, the court affirmed that the electronic receipt did not violate FACTA.
FACTA provides that "no person that accepts credit cards or debit cards for the transaction of business shall print more than the last 5 digits of the card number or the expiration date upon any receipt provided to the cardholder at the point of the sale or transaction."
The restriction applies only to "receipts that are electronically printed." The court found that the electronic receipt did not fall into this scope. It looked to the general notion of what it means for something to be "printed":
"Print" refers to many different technologies—from Mesopotamian cuneiform writing on clay cylinders to the Gutenberg press in the fifteenth century, Xerography in the early twentieth century, and modern digital printing—but all of those technologies involve the making of a tangible impression on paper or other tangible medium.
Since the electronic receipt was not a "tangible impression on paper or other tangible medium," it wasn't "printed" as defined by FACTA.
(Copyright folks might be tempted to think about how well this logic holds up, given that copyright protection extends to creative works that are reduced to a tangible medium of expression, and there is no dispute that digital works are copyrightable.)
This opinion is in line with cases from the Seventh Circuit, including Kelleher v. Eaglerider and Shlahtichman v. 1-800 Contacts.


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September 30, 2005
Legend Of The Fall
It was the top of the fifth inning, the Red Sox trailed 4-1; Matt Clement was struggling and the Jays had the bases loaded. Terry Francona, late yet again with his call to the pen, had just told Mike Myers and Chad Bradford to start warming. The Yankees were leading Baltimore 6-0 and Cleveland was up 6-0 on Tampa.
A base hit from Gabe Gross would likely score two runs, put Boston down by five on a night when every single Sock looked like his mind were elsewhere. ... Clement threw a strike to Gross, then missed with his next three. His 3-1 pitch was up and away -- probably ball four, forcing in a run -- but Gross swung at it anyway, and missed. He fouled off the next pitch, then grounded out to Kevin Millar at first.
The escape didn't guarantee a Sox comeback, of course, but a possible season-ending bullet had been dodged.
In the bottom of the sixth, David Ortiz (0-for-2, 2 strikeouts) grounded a ball to second base. Aaron Hill was about to field it when shortstop Russ Adams, playing over that way because of the shift, cut in front of him, gloved the ball, and tumbled onto the Fenway grass. No throw was made.
Scott Downs was taken out of the game and Justin Frasor was brought in. For whatever reason, Downs had mystified the Sox. A new pitcher meant possibilities. ... Manny Ramirez looked at a strike, then drilled his 42nd home run, into the Jays bullpen. Now Boston trailed by only one, 4-3, with 12 outs to go, but it felt like we had taken the lead.
Mike Myers faced five batters in relief of Clement, wriggling out of trouble in the sixth; after walking Vernon Wells intentionally (with Adams at second), he got Corey Koskie to fly to center.
With one out in the seventh, Jonathan Papelbon took the hill. He allowed a two-out double to Alex Rios, on a ball dropped down the right field line that Trot Nixon failed to hustle after. Once he saw Rios stretching the hit, he tried to fire the ball in quickly, but it was way too late.
Papelbon then struck out Gross, and retired the Jays in the eighth. Edgar Renteria, who had ended the previous inning by grounding hard to first (somehow Eric Hinske speared the ball; if not, a run would have scored), recorded two assists and a putout in that inning. (How many hits has Renteria been robbed of in the past week? Five? Six?)
David Ortiz led off the bottom of the eighth against Vinnie Chulk. On a 2-0 pitch, he continued his seasons-long debate with the statheads -- does clutch hitting really exist? -- by putting his 47th home run into the Monster Seats in left-center. I think Ortiz is winning that argument. ... The crowd above the Wall was so busy cheering, no one went for the ball until it landed at their feet.
With the game tied, Manny walked and Jason Varitek singled. Seeing Wells fielding the ball in deep center, Ramirez sprinted around second and raced to third, bringing the go-ahead run 90 feet from home with a Pete Rose-esque head-first slide. ... However, Chulk retired the next three Sox: John Olerud on a short fly to center, Bill Mueller on strikes, and Nixon on a diving catch by Wells in right-center.
Francona stayed with Papelbon in the ninth. (This was the right move, but would he have pulled him if the Sox had gone ahead?) Hinske hit a two-out double, but did not score.
In the ninth, facing Miguel Batista, our confidence was high. Johnny Damon singled with one out, then stole second. Renteria walked on four pitches. Ortiz fouled off a couple of pitches, worked the count full, and grounded his single past shortstop into left field.
The Legend continues.
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- Jere said...
I still say a win wasn't crucial last night. If we'd lost, we'd go in 2 back , knowing that we have to sweep, and that a playoff wouldn't be possible. As it is now, we still have to sweep, but if we only take 2, we DO have to play an extra must-win game, on the road, meaning an extra flight, and no rest day.
That said, I wouldn't trade the momentum we have, thanks to last night, for anything. I think the momentum from the WAY we won last night is more important than the actual win.
- September 30, 2005 at 10:10 AM
There isn't much left to be said about David Ortiz that hasn't already been said. Can we just build the statue of him now, or do we have to wait until he retires first?
Entering the bottom of the 8th, I turned to my father and said, "He can tie this with one swing of his bat" about thirty seconds before it happened. It's almost comical, really...we know Ortiz is still human and isn't going to come through every time. But there's no one else I'd rather see at the plate when the game's on the line, because more often than not, it seems he delivers. Amazing. I don't know how he keeps doing it, but I hope he never, ever stops.
Lots of guys stepped up last night when it was needed; Clement pulled quite the Houdini when he got in trouble, Myers did his LOOGY duty perfectly, and Papelbon continued to show a fierceness and ability on the mound well beyond his years. (I'm really starting to adore that kid--he's going to fun to watch in coming years.) It all adds up to a great win, and I hope I see a lot more of it this weekend!
- September 30, 2005 at 12:29 PM


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Everything I said in the intro post to Lagaan Week 2008 applies. Around this time last year, we discussed several features of the film, among them its cast, setting, soundtrack, lessons learned, and cricket game. There was a DVD set review, and a dedication to a villain turned hero. Then there was this discussion on probably why Lagaan worked for the masses, which doubled as a background score review.
This year, the hope is to share more about Lagaan that is external to the film (but not exclusively). As always, there will be an effort to strike a balance between fact and opinion. I'm also looking forward to sharing some fantastic guest posts. So, each day this week, please stop by for a treat related to the film to which I owe my love of Hindi cinema, and the only one I can recommend unconditionally. And while you're at it, you can always stop by here for some cake :) For now, enjoy the spellbinding music to the opening credits:
Chale Chalo.
Addendum 6/22/2009
Here are the posts from Lagaan Week 2009:
Lagaan XI and their challenge
Guest post: You had me at Ghanan Ghanan
What makes Lagaan special?
Guest post: The sound feast that is the Lagaan soundtrack
On location and more on Project Extraordinaire


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Valparaiso University director of athletics Mark LaBarbera announced today that men's soccer head coach Mike Avery and baseball head coach Tracy Woodson have both agreed to extensions after leading their respective teams to Horizon League championships during the 2011-2012 school year.
"We are excited that we have been able to agree with both Mike and Tracy on extensions to keep them at Valparaiso for the foreseeable future," said LaBarbera. "Both coaches have done a tremendous job in their time at Valpo building their programs into league champions while maintaining our athletic department's core values. We look forward to having Mike and Tracy lead their programs to even greater heights in the future."
Avery was named Horizon League Coach of the Year after guiding the men's soccer program to the Horizon League regular season championship in 2011. Entering his sixth season at the helm of the Crusaders, Avery has led Valpo to three of the four winningest seasons in program history over the last three years. Under his watch, 21 players have earned All-League accolades, including three Goalkeeper of the Year honorees and one Defensive Player of the Year.
Woodson also earned Horizon League Coach of the Year accolades after guiding the Crusaders to the Horizon League regular season and tournament titles in 2012. The league title was the first by a Crusader baseball team since 1977, and Valpo made an NCAA Division I Tournament appearance for the first time since 1968. Woodson, who led Valpo to a program record-tying 35 wins, has coached 32 All-League performers in his six seasons as head coach of the Crusaders, including two Pitchers of the Year and one Newcomer of the Year.
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In just 5 days, British Columbians will head to the polls and elect a new government.
Between now and then, you'll hear a lot from us about what a BC NDP government led by John Horgan would mean for you — starting with the new video we launched today.
We've called it 'Commitments' after the three main three promises we're making to British Columbians.
Watch it right now:
The job of a Premier is to make life better. Here's what you can count on from John Horgan and the BC NDP:
Making Your Life More Affordable
There'll be more money in your pocket at the end of each month because we'll take immediate action to make your life more affordable.
Improving the Services You Count On
You and your family can count on improved services, especially in health care and education. Young people will have every opportunity to succeed in life and seniors can age with dignity.
Good Jobs and a Sustainable Economy
There will be thousands of good jobs with better wages in every corner of BC as we build a sustainable economy.
Government should be about a Premier and MLAs who work for you, not just their wealthy donors.
As John says in the video: "People aren't asking a lot from government, but Christy Clark's BC Liberals are making things harder for them. I want to make life a little easier, and a lot better. Today I'm making three commitments to British Columbians: I will make life more affordable, fix public services, and create sustainable jobs for the future."
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There's nothing like a couple of legislative ethics scandals to focus the minds of state lawmakers and bring out the proposals for reform. That's great. Bring 'em on.
Clearly embarrassed and wanting to regain public trust in the wake of the conviction of state Sen. Roderick Wright and the federal indictment of Sen. Ron Calderon, their fellow Democrats have proposed a number of changes to political laws.
Wright, D-Inglewood, convicted of perjury and voter fraud, and Calderon, D-Montebello, indicted on charges of accepting nearly $100,000 in bribes, are both on paid leave from the Senate. Both deny any wrongdoing, and Wright is appealing his felony conviction for not living in the district he ran to represent.
As a result, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, created a special Senate ethics committee headed by Sen. Richardo Lara, D-Long Beach. The Fair Political Practices Commission, the state's main political ethics watchdog, helped write the legislation the committee has produced.
We're not ready to recommend individual bills yet, pending further study and the evolution of the bills as they move through the Legislature. But we're pleased that such bills have been produced quickly, because potential remedies are most likely advanced when the pain of scandal is fresh.
The proposals would ban legislators and other state officials from accepting so-called entertainment gifts — such as golf games, tickets to sports events, concerts and theme parks, and hunting and fishing trips.
The package of bills would ban lobbyists from hosting political fundraisers at their homes. That is in response to another recent scandal in which the FPPC sent letters to 37 public officials — including Gov. Jerry Brown, Steinberg and Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, a co-author of the reform proposals — notifying them that their campaigns had received improper contributions from lobbyist Kevin Sloat at fundraisers he held at his home.
Sloat agreed to pay the FPPC a record $133,500 fine for exceeding the $500 total-expenditure limit at his fundraisers by providing fine wine, liquor and cigars, and for giving sports tickets to legislators in violation of state law.
Another bill would require legislators' political fundraising and spending to be reported quarterly in non-election years, rather than twice a year as required now.
In general, these are welcome steps. This editorial board will review them and likely would fail to support them only if we deem that they do too little to correct the problems.
One thing missing from the package is any reform of legislators' travel paid for by special interests. Lara, for one example, spent 26 days abroad last year on "educational" trips paid for by groups like the Environmental Defense Fund and the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy. He and other lawmakers spent 10 days in Sweden and Norway to see how those countries handle energy policy. Lara said the trips inspired at least four bills dealing with clean energy, but he understands how the costly trips could raise eyebrows among the public.
Most taxpayers don't want to pay for such trips, Lara said, even though they serve an important purpose. Still, he said he is working with the FPPC to put some kind of cap on such trips.
Separately, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Van Nuys, a candidate for secretary of state, has bills that would put a blackout on campaign contributions for the final three months of the legislative session — when most bills pass or fail — require more timely reporting of contributions and ban candidates from raising money for more than one office at a time, which is legal now.
Those too are sound ideas. We will examine those bills more closely in coming days.


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Using a skin roller offers a natural helping hand by encouraging collagen production
Microneedle Roller can increase serum absorption
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Step 1: Use medical alcohol to disinfect parts need cared and the microneedle
Step 2: Apply suitable functional nutrition on skin need cared
Step 3: Roll back and forth for 4-5 times orderly and keep equably in speed and pressure to create more micro vessels
Step 4: Move the roller four times at least in four directions (where need cared), horizontally, vertically, and diagonally right and left
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>The Medical Form
>Many nationally known physicians, including many DAN physicians, have developed a medical form that assists doctors unfamiliar with diving medicine in the evaluation medical fi tness for scuba diving. Divers who do not reveal current medications or medical conditions defeats its purpose, which is to protect their health and well-being.
>In our collective experience at DAN, this omission of medical information by divers occurs for a couple of reasons: some simply don't understand the significance an illness may have during a dive; or, some older divers advise beginners they don't need to put down everything. One individual may tell a new diver: "I dive with migraines, and I don't have any problems." The uninitiated diver is likely to believe a "more experienced" voice at the expense of the instructor's directions.
>Honesty on the medical form begins with trust. If you're an instructor or retailer who trains students, a good way to start out with new students is to hand out The DAN Guide to Health and Fitness in Scuba Diving brochure. This brochure explains why a student should complete the medical form thoroughly.
>Some divers may simply not want to divulge a personal medical condition. Instructors should let students know that their information is confidential and make themselves available to speak in private with divers about medical issues. And remember, the DAN medical team is always available to speak with the student, the instructor or the student's physician.
>Migraine Headaches
>Migraine headaches can pose problems similar to the one the instructor discusses here. They can be triggered by certain foods or smells, alcohol, stress, immersion in water or exertion. Sometimes they can produce neurological symptoms such as visual loss and numbness, which may be indistinguishable from neurological decompression illness. Severity can range from mild head pain to disabling discomfort with nausea and vomiting.
>Some of the medicines used for migraine treatment and prevention can cause drowsiness, and could exacerbate nitrogen narcosis. Individual evaluation is required: while some migraine sufferers can dive safely, others may be advised against it.


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Walton County Tax Collector Rhonda Skipper was presented with the Excellence in Finance Operations Legacy Award by the Florida Tax Collector�s Association at the Fall Education Forum recently. The award recognizes offices that have achieved innovation, customer focus, a well-managed budget and clean audit in the finance operations of the office, and that previously were recognized with the Excellence in Finance Operations Award. Approximately 12 of the 67 tax collectors in Florida received this honor.
�We have a fantastic finance team that works diligently to ensure we are innovating in our daily work processes to reduce redundancy and ensure accuracy,� said Tax Collector Rhonda Skipper. �In our office everyone contributes to the financial accountability and stewardship of our office, which are two of our strategic priorities. However, Finance Director Jim Morrison and Finance Officer Nathan Thomas ensure every penny is accounted for and accounts are balanced daily. Over the past few months this team has streamlined work processes to significantly reduce processing and manual entry time all the while reducing the opportunity for errors. We�re very proud of them and they are very deserving of this recognition.�
A Certificate of Merit, clean audits with no management letter comments, was also presented to Walton County.
The Walton County Tax Collector�s office focuses on four strategic priorities: Customer Focus, Accountability and Accuracy, Relentless Pursuit of Improvement, and Empowered and Engaged Workforce.
More information on the strategic plan of the office can be obtained at waltoncountytaxcollector.blogspot.com.


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Recently, we thought that many people out there battling through the business school application process might benefit from some thoughts and insights from others who went through the experience. To that end, we started On the Record: Q&A with BC Alums. Last time around we spoke with Radina Russell. This time around, we got insights from the funny and talented Rhomaro Powell.
Rhomaro graduated from the S.C. Johnson School of Management at Cornell University, and currently works in the financial services sector.
Why did you go to business school?
Business School was the next logical step for my career progression. My ultimate goal is to operate my own private equity firm; however I felt I was lacking some core skills, i.e. finance and accounting. Additionally, I felt I needed the proper brand and network that would provide me access to enter the private equity universe. Johnson at Cornell University gave me the brand, network, and knowledge I needed.
How has business school impacted your career?
Business school as accelerated my career tremendously, mainly because it has helped me grow as an individual, expanded my network, and provided opportunities that I would not have had otherwise. For example, I went into business school with the main goal of improving my technical skills, but learned that the softer skills were at least as important – and perhaps even more important – to my career. I learned that knowledge only gets you so far, but being able to lead, influence, and build relationships with individuals will get you farther. In regards to expanding my network and opportunities, I was able to do so through organizations such as Management Leadership for Tomorrow and The Robert Toigo Foundation. These organizations have expanded my network from outside the business school I attended. Additionally, I studied in Madrid, Spain for 5 months. My network now spans all the top business schools and companies around the world.


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And I don't know about ungrateful children - he pretty much did say "they did it differently than I would have, so it sucks." It's hard to just shrug that off and say "well, clearly he knows best." After all, as the devs mention on that Facebook post, the dude has not covered himself in unremitting glory since leaving the company.
To me, it's kind of like the difference between random moviegoers saying your movie sucked and having M. Night Shyamalan saying your movie sucked, and it would have been better if he had made it. If I were a moviemaker, I'd certainly be more pissed about the latter than I would about the former.


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The last time Pittsburgh Steelers leading tackler Ryan Clark played a game in Denver, he ended up in a hospital having his spleen and gallbladder removed.
Since then Clark, who suffers from the sickle cell trait, hasn't played when the team travels to the high-altitude, midwestern state. He will miss his team's playoff game there Sunday as well.
The sickle cell trait causes some of the body's red blood cells to change shape and harden, making it hard to carry oxygen throughout the body, said Sophie Lanzkron, a Johns Hopkins associate professor and director of the Sickle Cell Center for Adults at Hopkins. It affects the spleen most prominently, she said.
Although rare, high altitudes can worsen complications of the trait because there is less oxygen, Lanzkron said. She said nobody knows why altitude cause complications in some people and not others.
In Ryan's case, it lead to severe pain in his left side after a game in Denver on Oct. 21, 2007. After some tests his spleen and gallbladder were removed and his weight dropped from 205 pounds to about 170. He missed thr rest of the season.
He also did not play in Denver during a regular season game in 2009 and a preseason game in 2010.
Most people with sickle celltrait lead a normal life because only 40 percent of their cells are affected by the disease. Those with sickle cell disease have shorter lifespans because the disease attacks more cells.
There is some evidence that those with the trait could suffer sudden death if they work out too hard, Lanzkron said. But she wouldn't go as far as to tell someone with the trait not to play sports.
She said many people probably don't know they have the sicke cell trait and it is hard to tell how many NFL players also have the disease.
Sickle cell disease affects 8 to 10 percent of the African American population.
The last time Pittsburgh Steelers leading tackler Ryan Clark played a game in Denver, he ended up in a hospital having his spleen and gallbladder removed.


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The launch of Sony's upcoming PlayStation portable, the NGP, is to be pushed back, in the wake of last month's catastrophic tsunami in Japan.
The NGP was originally scheduled to ship in November 2011, but Jack Tretton, president of SCEE in America, now says the handheld may not arrive in time for the Christmas shopping season. It could still see release in one region though, but Sony declined to say which area that would be.
The Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami has forced Sony to close several factories for repair, delaying the manufacture of many components.
This will may allow competitors to gain more of a foothold in the market. Nintendo recently set record sales figures for its handheld device. Although numbers fall short of Sony's first PSP sales, many customers may have jumped ship already by the time the next-gen PSP launches.
Sony has not had much luck recently in getting its tech to consumers. Last week saw freight problems affect delivery of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. ®


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Patt Morrison Asks: Carl Guardino, Silicon Valley's big wheel
As head of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, it's about policy, not politics.
By Patt Morrison
March 10, 2012
The last time I saw Carl Guardino, the head of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, he was in a wheelchair after a biking accident encounter with some skateboarders. The wheelchair is probably the only form of transportation Guardino doesn't like. He was appointed to the state transportation commission by a Republican governor and reappointed by a Democratic one. That pretty much sums up the way SVLG works: It's about policy, not politics, and the issues are broad: from math education to affordable housing to opening a patent office in Santa Clara County. He commutes 32 miles a day by bike — good training for the marathon work of making life more livable for everyone, from waiters to millionaires, in what was once called "the Valley of Heart's Delight."
What is the Silicon Valley Leadership Group?
We represent 365 CEOs [from] high tech, bio-tech, green tech and financial services. The group was founded 35 years ago by David Packard. In a speech before a large contingent of CEOs, [he] said our responsibility is as much to our employees, our customers and communities as it is to our shareholders. They almost laughed him out of the room. But that became the essential element of what was called "the HP way." That set the tone for Silicon Valley. My job is just not to mess up his legacy.
You worked at HP; did you meet Packard?
Yes, yes. He was a wonderful visionary and hard-driving, caring man. The press asked him: Why do you need a group; everyone returns your calls? Why are you engaged in government and policy? His quote was: "Our job, as CEOs, is not to sit on the sidelines, to cheer or boo. Our job is to get into the game and move the ball forward."
Is that a hard sell in Silicon Valley?
We're no longer infants when it comes to being engaged in public policy, but we are at best in early adulthood. The entrepreneurial mind-set doesn't always initially understand the importance of government, in the positive sense but also the negative: If you're not at the table, you're often the menu. With some companies it's still that way. There are a lot of free riders who are not engaged.
Now, [if] you're a start-up struggling for that next dollar of investment, we understand you need your head down. We've just launched Startup Silicon Valley. For almost nothing they can [join]. We want instilled in their DNA to do what David Packard did. Most of these companies won't survive, but the founders and CEOs will, and we want them invested.
You're a transportation guy, and the leadership group backed two local ballot measures to raise sales taxes to bring BART into Silicon Valley. The groundbreaking is next month.
It shows how visionary [voters] are, and our CEOs, who not only supported a tax but led and funded that [campaign].
Some SVLG efforts — like lowering corporate taxes — are in line with most business groups, but creating a county housing trust and supporting transportation taxes?
Silicon Valley companies invest 15%, 20%, 25% of their profits in research and development. That spills over into investing in the future of your workforce. We don't look at government revenue as taxes as much as we do investment, as long as it's transparent, accountable and broad-based.
The SVLG defies ideological description. We're pragmatists and problem-solvers. It makes our positions on policies probably frustrating to some who are partisan but liberating for those who just want to make a difference. We don't have a PAC. We don't endorse candidates. We don't make political contributions. We do get deeply involved in policies that impact our employees and our ability to innovate. One day we are leading initiatives that make our Republican friends scratch their heads. Another day we are working for [policies] that make our Democratic friends scratch their heads.
We hear about newly minted Silicon Valley millionaires, but what about everyone else there? You were a construction worker for a while; you know what it takes to make that kind of living.
Our CEOs get that we can't just act on policies that are good for our own workers and their families. It's enlightened but not enlightened enough.
Silicon Valley has a reputation for being notoriously tight about charity. Why is that?
There's certainly a lot of room for growth. Facebook will soon be an example of hardworking folks who are going to find themselves with very thick wallets. It matters what we do in life with our wealth. We're hoping to steer people toward remembering that with great riches also comes thoughtful responsibility.
What does the SVLG think of the state of the California economy?
Before Gov. Brown was sworn in, his team asked us to put together a white paper. They wanted us to answer this question: What would it take from Sacramento for innovation-economy employers to start creating technological and manufacturing jobs? It was absolutely the right question. Six weeks later we gave them 32 game-changers. Six of the 32 were enacted in total or in part. We have our eyes on three or four key ones, including governance reform.
Did the SVLG weigh in on the recent Internet anti-piracy legislation battle on Capitol Hill?
The leadership group is a regional association, and we know our place. We certainly opposed SOPA and PIPA, [but] I won't overstate our work. It is not fair that innovative content makers in television movies and music are ripped off by pirates around the world. It's equally unfair that innovation-economy entrepreneurs and companies are held accountable for the actions of others, namely offshore, [on] which they can have almost no impact. We hope everyone will calm down and find a solution.
You ran for office once, for the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, and lost, against Mike Honda, now a Democratic congressman.
Talk about learning by making mistakes. Mike Honda and I met on the campaign trail. We became friends, and he walloped me and deservedly so. The main lesson I learned was that you can effect change without being in elected office, and I prefer it this way. I still get my weekends off.
Your family includes an adopted daughter, Siena, now almost 3. Her birth circumstances gave you a new mission.
We adopted Siena at 1 day old out of a small town in Utah. She's 100% Latina. The 17-year-old birth mom, no high school diploma, not married, no job — smart, sweet, caring — already had a 2-year-old. As we [later] looked into the Latina population in Silicon Valley, what we found troubled us. The high school graduation rate is incredibly low, let alone college. And that led us through the SVLG to launch leadership summits in disadvantaged middle schools. We bring in high-powered women leaders so the young ladies can see and hear people who look like them who have different outcomes than perhaps they expect from their own lives. It ties into [the SVLG's] tutoring initiative to help students in disadvantaged schools with reading, science and math.
You trained for the ministry; why did you switch to public policy?
For me, more important than making money is making change. I was in Bible college; I had done an internship for a state Assembly member. I was at a crossroads. I called my pastor and said I want to serve but I'm not sure whether it's from the pulpit or from public policy. He walked me through that, [and] I went into public policy. We're very active in our church, which is focused greatly on helping other people.
What didn't I ask you about?
You didn't ask me about my wife, Leslee! After seven years of constant badgering asking her out, she finally said yes with a three-line email: How about sushi? She's the entrepreneur of the family. She was one of three women executives at a Fortune 500 company. After we had [our older daughter] Jessica, she called me from the airport on another trip to China. The TSA officer had broken her breast pump. She couldn't do [it] anymore. She started her own business. It does environmental compliance, social and corporate responsibility.
It just occurred to me — if all your transit plans succeed, then there may be no need for those famous Silicon Valley garages where people invent genius ideas!
That's classic. I'm going to steal that.
This interview was edited and excerpted from a longer taped transcript.
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Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu, Uganda, has spent much of his public ministry over the last 13 years saving the lives of thousands of children at risk of war and violence.
He has advocated for the kids to world leaders, acted as a human shield in war-torn areas of northern Uganda, called for negotiations with rebels and reached across religious and ethnic lines to organize peace initiatives to teach the way of nonviolence in the face of atrocities.
His work has not gone unnoticed.
World Vision presented Archbishop Odama with its 2012 International Peace Prize in Gulu Sept. 21, the International Day of Peace.
The award recognizes peace-builders who work without much fanfare in forgotten areas of the world.
Archbishop Odama promised to work for peace, especially on behalf of children, during his installation in 1999 as leader of the Gulu Archdiocese.
I have had the opportunity to interview Archbishop Odama twice during my career: once during a visit to St. Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology in the Cleveland Diocese several years ago and in 2009 at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington.
During both interviews it was readily apparent that Archbishop Odama's desire for peace consumed his spirit. It was the children who were his utmost concern because they were the most at risk in the face of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army led by John Kony.
Since forming in 1987 the LRA has forced as many as 100,000 children to join their ranks and participate in vicious raids on villages across central Africa. Girls often were taken as sex slaves for Kony and his lieutenants.
Archbishop Odama has placed his life at risk by venturing into remote regions of Uganda and Congo to meet with the LRA. In doing so he secured agreements to stop the attacks on innocent victims.
His most impassioned plea, though, was made to the U.S. and other governments: End the flow of arms into the region. Without armaments, he said, the region's violence would diminish and people could once again live in peace and without fear.
For the time being Kony's forces are out of Uganda, but have not disappeared altogether. Archbishop Odama continues to organize people, on faith-based grounds, to resist the violence through nonviolent means.
At last week's award ceremony he repeated his desire "to always be consumed in the struggle for promoting peace."
"My wish for peace is not only for this area, it is for the whole country of Uganda and also for the continent," he said, according to information received from World Vision. "I consistently refer to other areas which are affected by war, to my people. Let us be in solidarity with them. We pray for them, we keep asking that God inspires people who will bring peace in those areas."
May peace be with you, archbishop.


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LEAGUE CITY, TX (KLTV/Gray News) - Police have finally been able to identify two unknown women whose remains were found years ago in the Calder Road area League City, off of I-45 in Galveston County.
Assisted by DNA technology that was not available when the women were killed and dumped in the so-called "Texas Killing Fields," police have discovered who the women were, and now they want the public's help learning more about them as they investigate their deaths.
The area where the women were found has been dubbed "Texas Killing Fields" by members of the public and the media over the years, police said. The crimes have also been dubbed "The Calder Road Murders."
Thirty bodies have been found there over the years, beginning in the 1970s. Some cases have been solved and linked to serial killers. Others remain open, police said.
On Feb. 2, 1986, police say two boys were riding their bikes in a field off Calder Road when they found the remains of two female victims. The women's bodies were in close proximity to each other.
One of the women was identified, but the other has remained unidentified for 33 years. She is now known to be Audrey Lee Cook of Alabama. She was 30 years old at the time of her death. Cook lived in Houston/Channelview between 1976 and 1985, working for a Houston golf cart company in 1979, Harrison Equipment Company in 1980, and Balloon Affair in Houston in 1981. At some point she worked as a mechanic for National Rent-a-Car in Houston, as well.
Her last contact was with family in December 1985. Her body was found two months later. Her associates from that time indicated she was believed to buy and sell cocaine, according to police.
Five years later, on Sept. 8, 1991, the skeletal remains of another woman were found in the same area by two people riding horses. When medical examiners could not identify her, she was dubbed "Janet Doe." She was the fourth female body found in the area in a span of seven years, police say. Janet Doe is now known to be Donna Prudhomme, age 34 at the time of her death. She had moved from Beaumont to Austin in 1986, police said, to escape an abusive relationship. In 1988 she moved to Seabrook where she lived in several different apartment complexes. She then moved to Nassau Bay in 1991.
Police do not know where Prudhomme worked, and ask for the public's help learning that and other details of her life. They say that she was believed to frequent several local bars in the Nasa Road 1 area of Seabrook, Texas. She was last seen in July 1991.
The women who were identified soon after they were located in the "killing fields" were Heidi Fye in 1984 and Laura Miller in 1986.
Police say that on April 6, 1984, a family dog brought human skeletal remains to its home on Ervin Street. A wooded area was searched behind the home, and the rest of the remains of a woman were found. The woman was identified as Heidi Fye, 25.
The woman whose body was found near Cook's body in 1986 was identified using dental records. Detectives worked to identify both women, but could only identify one, Laura Miller.
League City Police are asking that anybody who knew or had personal knowledge of either Audrey Cook or Donna Prudhomme around the time of their deaths or has information that will help further the investigation of these cases to please contact the League City Police Department Cold Case tip line at 281-338-8220.
If you would like to arrange for an interview with Lt. Buffington, please contact Public Information Officer Kelly Williamson at 281-554-1844 or email him.
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We woke up to a cooler morning this Good Friday, so it was a perfect time to bake a fresh batch of Hot Cross Buns. I followed this recipe almost to a T, with a few adaptations as marked below. They're a little time consuming to make, but well worth the effort. Hot Cross Buns are best eaten fresh and my husband likes to slather them with butter.
Wish you all a nice Easter long weekend!
Hot Cross Buns
(recipe from taste.com.au)
(makes 12)
1 tablespoon dried yeast
1 teaspoon raw caster sugar
185ml warm milk (organic, full cream)
125ml cold milk (organic, full cream)
50g butter, melted (organic, unsalted)
1 egg, lightly whisked (large, free-range, organic)
525g plain flour
200g sultanas
70g raw caster sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/4 teaspoon ground clove
tiny pinch of salt
75g plain flour
5-6 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons raw caster sugar
1. Whisk dried yeast, sugar and warm milk in bowl. Leave for 10 minutes or until frothy. Whisk in cold milk, butter and egg.
2. Combine flour, sultanas, sugar, spices and salt in a large bowl. Make a well in the middle and add yeast mixture. Stir with a wooden spoon, then knead with hand for about ten minutes until you get a smooth and elastic dough.
3. Place the dough in a bowl, cover with tea towel and leave to double in size.
4. Shape the dough into buns. Punch down the dough, then knead for a couple of minutes and divide into 12 portions. Roll each portion into a smooth bun. Grease a 16cm x 26cm tin with butter and place the buns, side by side, into the tin. Cover the tin with a tea towel and leave for about half an hour.
5. Preheat oven to 200C. Combine flour and water in a bowl and whisk into a smooth paste. Spoon the paste into a piping bag and decorate the buns with a cross pattern. Bake for 10 minutes in 200C oven, then lower the heat to 160C and continue to bake for about 20 minutes or until golden.
6. Heat water and sugar in a small saucepan and let simmer for a few minutes until the syrup thickens. Brush the hot buns with the syrup and leave to cool on a wire rack for a few minutes before serving.


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On Tuesday's episode of "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart paid homage to the Republican National Convention, currently underway in Tampa, by taking a few jabs at the Republican's choice of venue.
Stewart's news team fanned out across Tampa to show how the host city has slowly started to deteriorate under the helm of President Obama.
"This is the land that time forgot," said RNC correspondent John Oliver, who likened Tampa to a cross between a subway platform in Haiti and the Friar's Club steam room.
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"So why do you think the Republicans would choose to have their convention here in Tampa then in the end of August?"
The answer, according to Oliver, was simple: Tampa symbolizes what Obama has done to America.
"In just three-and-a-half years, this once bustling metropolis is now a wind and rain-soaked foreclosed shell of itself," Oliver lamented.
But the Obama blame game didn't stop there.
Reporting from Tampa's "famous strip club district," correspondent Jason Jones described how the town has become a den of moral depravity due to the "anything goes liberalism of the Obama administration."
Jones proceeded to launch into a litany of the different strip clubs, which compelled Stewart to question whether Obama could be blamed for the widespread presence of strip clubs.
"Oh, blame it on Bush," Jones replied.
"No, I'm not blaming it on Bush, I'm just saying … " Stewart began.
"No, sorry Jon," Jones interrupted. "Blame it on Bush is just another strip club."
Stewart closed out the Tampa coverage by throwing to correspondent Samantha Bee, who was reporting midair, grasped by a juvenile palmetto bug that would soon grow into an adult palmetto bug "since a certain socialist tree-hugging president banned DDT."
Stewart, seeing Bee's plight, wished her luck, which she was quick to brush off.
"Don't wish me luck," Bee quipped. "I'm the one getting flown out of this s---hole."
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The Zinzino Skin Serum is not the first inside-outside skin care strategy or anti-ageing solution. But it may very well be the first to approach aging systematically, and thus represents an evolutionary step above old-school, brand-name products.
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