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My Options: Parenting
Am I ready to parent?
Here are some questions you may want to ask yourself and the father of your baby, if possible, if you are considering parenting.
- Am I mature and responsible?
- Am I willing to learn about child development and parenting?
- How do I handle situations when I am angry or upset?
- Am I willing to put my child's needs before my own?
My Goals & Priorities
- What are my goals in life?
- How would a child fit into those goals?
- Am I willing to give up my goals for my child?
- Would I have the time & energy to parent and still pursue my goals?
- How would having a child impact my social life?
My Partner
- Does my partner want to have a child and parent with me?
- Is our relationship strong?
- Is my partner ready to give time, energy, and money to raise our child?
- Do we know each other's feelings about parenting-discipline, religion, family, child-raising, work, and his/her future goals?
- If my partner is unwilling/unable to partner, am I capable of raising a child alone?
My Environment
- Do I live in an environment suitable for raising a child?
- Do I get along well with my parents and family? Will I have their support?
My Financial Resources & Expenses
- Can I afford child support?
- Do I know how much money it requires to provide for a child?
- Do I know the estimated expenses of newborns? (see average below)
|Birth medical expenses
|Baby equipment
|$1,000 -$1,500
|Baby formula/week
|Clothing/ season
|$200 +
|Doctor's Visits
|Day Care/week
Parenting Options
Shared Parenting
This is when you and the father of your baby both agree to parent the child without the commitment of marriage. You might be considering alternating parenting roles for your child. If you choose this option it is important that you both come to an agreement on many things including:
- Who will be paying for what expenses? (Food, clothing, insurance, activities, etc. for the child)
- Which days of the week each parent will spend time with the child? How will holidays be spent?
- How will you handle schedule conflicts when it is your turn to take care of the child? Can you make other arrangements?
- Who will legally claim the child on their income tax return?
- What will happen when one of you gets married and starts another family?
- How will shared parenting affect the child as he or she gets older?
- Again, consider if shared parenting is best for your child. Our staff members are here to help you sort through your decision to determine what is best for your baby.
Single Parenting
If only one of you chooses to parent, there may be several legal steps involving the child's custody. Single parenting is a challenge. It requires making daily decisions that will not only affect your child in the present but also the future of your child. Consider these few questions that focus in on you and your future plans:
- Are you financially, physically and spiritually prepared to raise this child?
- Can you take care of this child's health, safety, and wellbeing for the next 18 years and beyond?
- Do you have family member who would be willing to help you with the child?
- Will your job or education allow you to properly care for your child?
- Are your living situations appropriate for a child?
If you are ready to commit yourself for life to your child's father then marriage may be the best option for you. A child needs a stable, loving, committed family. If marriage is becoming an option because of the pregnancy, you may need to take some time to consider how this commitment will affect the future. Here are some questions to ask consider:
- Are you ready to share everything about yourself with another person?
- Are you able to share your space with another person?
- Will you be able to financially support yourself and this person?
- Are you ready to care for your family (cook, clean the house, and do the laundry for yourself and another person)?
- Are you ready to live 24-hours a day with this person?
- Do you still imagine yourself 20 to 30 years down the road with this person?
Are you ready to the mother of your child and parent at the same time? Before you make a decision about marriage you need to examine all of your options. Our staff members are here to help you sort through your decision to determine what is best for you and your baby.
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to have divided the circle into 365 degrees. To learn the length of the year needed only patient observation — a characteristic of the Chinese; but many younger nations got into a terrible mess with their calender from ignorance of the year's length. It is stated that in 2159 B.C. the royal astronomers Hi and Ho failed to predict an eclipse. It probably created great terror, for they were executed in punishment for their neglect. If this account be true, it means that in the twentysecond century B.c. some rule for calculating eclipses was in use. Here, again, patient observation would easily lead to the detection of the eighteen-year cycle known to the Chaldaeans as the Saros. It consists of 235 lunations, and in that time the pole of the moon's orbit revolves just once round the pole of the ecliptic, and for this reason the eclipses in one cycle are repeated with very slight modification in the next cycle, and so on for many centuries. It may be that the neglect of their duties by Hi and Ho, and their punishment, influenced Chinese astronomy; or that the succeeding records have not been available to later scholars; but the fact remains that — although at long intervals observations were made of eclipses, comets, and falling stars, and of the position of the solstices, and of the obliquity of the ecliptic — records become rare, until 776 B.C., when eclipses began to be recorded once more with some approach to continuity. Shortly afterwards notices of comets were added. Biot gave a list of these, and Mr. John Williams, in 1871, published Observations of Comets from 61 I B.c. to 1640 A.D., Extracted from the Chinese Annals. With regard to those centuries concerning which we have no astronomical Chinese records it is fair to state that it is recorded that some centuries before the Christian era, in the reign of Tsin-Chi-Hoang, all the classical and scientific books that could be found were ordered to be destroyed. If true, our loss therefrom is as great as from the burning of the Alexandrian library by the Caliph Omar. He burnt all the books because he held that they must be either consistent or inconsistent with the Koran, and in the one case they were superfluous, in the other case objectionable. Chaldaeans. – Until the last half century historians were accustomed to look back upon the Greeks, who led the world from the fifth to the third century B.C., as the pioneers of art, literature, and science. But the excavations and researches of later years make us more ready to grant that in science as in art the Greeks only developed what they derived from the Egyptians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. The Greek historians said as much, in fact; and modern commentators used to attribute the assertion to undue modesty. Since, however, the records of the libraries have been unearthed it has been recognised that the Babylonians were in no way inferior in the matter of original scientific investigation to other races of the Same era. The Chaldaeans, being the most ancient Babylonians, held the same station and dignity in the State as did the priests in Egypt, and spent all their time in the study of philosophy and astronomy, and the arts of divination and astrology. They held that the world of which we have a conception is an eternal world without any beginning or ending, in which all things are ordered by rules supported by a divine providence, and that the heavenly bodies do not move by chance, nor by their own will, but by the determinate will and appointment of the gods. They recorded these movements, but mainly in the hope of tracing the will of the gods in mundane affairs. Ptolemy (about 130 A.D.) made use of Babylonian eclipses in the eighth century B.c. for improving his solar and lunar tables. Fragments of a library at Agade have been preserved at Nineveh, from which we learn that. the star-charts were even then divided into constellations, which were known by the names which they bear to this day, and that the signs of the zodiac were used for determining the
courses of the sun, moon, and of the five planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
We have records of observations carried on under Asshurbanapal, who sent astronomers to different parts to study celestial phenomena. Here is one: —
To the Director of Observations, – My Lord, his humble servant Nabushum-iddin, Great Astronomer of Nineveh, writes thus: "May Nabu and Marduk be propitious to the Director of these Observations, my Lord. The fifteenth day we observed the Node of the moon, and the moon was eclipsed."
The Phoenicians are supposed to have used the stars for navigation, but there are no records. The Egyptian priests tried to keep such astronomical knowledge as they possessed to themselves. It is probable that they had arbitrary rules for predicting eclipses. All that was known to the Greeks about Egyptian science is to be found in the writings of Diodorus Siculus. But confirmatory and more authentic facts have been derived from late explorations. Thus we learn from E. B. Knobel" about the Jewish calendar dates, on records of land sales in Aramaic papyri at Assuan, translated by Professor A. H. Sayce and A. E. Cowley, (1) that the lunar cycle of nineteen years was used by the Jews in the
* R. A. S. Monthly Notices, vol. 1xviii., No. 5, March, 1908.
fifth century B.c. [the present reformed Jewish calendar dating from the fourth century A.D.], a date a "little more than a century after the grandfathers and great-grandfathers of those whose business is recorded had fled into Egypt with Jeremiah '' (Sayce); and (2) that the order of intercalation at that time was not dissimilar to that in use at the present day. Then again, Knobel reminds us of "the most interesting discovery a few years ago by Father Strassmeier of a Babylonian tablet recording a partial lunar eclipse at Babylon in the seventh year of Cambyses, on the fourteenth day of the Jewish month Tammuz." Ptolemy, in the Almagest (Suntaxis), says it occurred in the seventh year of Cambyses, on the night of the seventeenth and eighteenth of the Egyptian month Phamenoth. Pingré and Oppolzer fix the date July 16th, 533 B.C. Thus are the relations of the chronologies of Jews and Egyptians established by these explorations.
3. ANCIENT GREEK Ast RoNOMY.
We have our information about the earliest Greek astronomy from Herodotus (born 480 B.C.). He put the traditions into writing. Thales (639–546 B.C.) is said to have predicted an eclipse which caused much alarm, and ended the battle between the Medes and Lydians. Airy fixed the

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Interaction with the people, they prefer it staying on the top of the bottle and take a photo of the funny scenerie.
Illusionary Car.
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The illusion of the Portable Computer was drawn on The Strand, London.
This picture is part of a series used by White's Electronics of Inverness in Treasure magazine.
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Spiderman to the rescue above and below this London street.
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ALBANY — A day after sharp criticism by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration, a state senator on Friday retracted his opposition to the selection of the highest bidder to produce new, more secure driver's licenses that can carry only black-and-white photos.
ALBANY — A day after sharp criticism by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration, a state senator on Friday retracted his opposition to the selection of the highest bidder to produce new, more secure driver's licenses that can carry only black-and-white photos.
Republican State Sen. Mark Grisanti of Erie County said Friday that he understands the administration's goal for security in choosing the pricier Canadian company after meeting with Cuomo officials. On Thursday, he called the decision "unacceptable" in the face of losses and devastation by Superstorm Sandy.
The state Association of Convenience Stores also withdrew its opposition Friday, saying it now understands the security that the new cards will provide. The group had said black-and-white photos would hinder their fight against underage drinking and smoking.
Meanwhile, Democratic Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi has urged the state comptroller to put a hold on the contract award until it's more carefully analyzed, and the Utica Observer-Dispatch editorialized for a delay. It said the public "deserves a thorough explanation of how something like this is possible."
The contract award and protests were first reported by The Associated Press.
The high bidder is the only one of three that offered a black-and-white photo instead of the current color photos used on state driver's licenses. The DMV chose the high bidder who proposes to charge $88 million, or $38 million more than the second place bidder.
Grisanti's reversal to The Buffalo News came after state Director of Operations Howard Glaser issued an unusually sharp retort to Grisanti and another senator who opposed the tentative contract award, now being analyzed by the state comptroller.
Glaser had said the senators would apparently prefer a low bidder who would "produce a license that can easily be altered by a terrorist, ID thief or, for that matter, any 18-year-old with an X-Acto knife who wants to go to a bar."
Grisanti said he still wants to work with the Cuomo administration to encourage New York companies to land state contracts. Grisanti had also questioned the bidding process.
The DMV has chosen CBN Secure Technologies of Ottawa over De La Rue North America, a British company with employees in New York, Virginia and Texas and which has had the state contract for 16 years.
A third bidder, Massachusetts-based MorphoTrustUSA, also protested the DMV's decision, calling it unfair and seeking a new bidding process for the contract.
The losing bidders complained that they weren't told the state was interested in the more expensive polycarbonate material for cards and said the state had warned the current vendor months earlier of its fiscal crunch as the company planned to bid for a contract extension.
De La Rue and MorphoTrustUSA said they could have offered a bid on that type that could save taxpayers' money.
A lawsuit by one of the vendors also claims the state had required a color image ID, a requirement they claim CBN violated.
The driver's license contract is rebid under the federal "Real ID" measure from the Department of Homeland Security to make licenses more secure.


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If you are a member of the American Society for Legal History, it's time to vote!
Balloting is open from now through September 30. Bruce Mann, Harvard Law School, is nominated for the uncontested position of President-elect.
The slate for Board of Directors (you can vote for five):
Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School
Holly Brewer, NC State University
Risa L. Goluboff, University of Virginia Law School
Sarah Hanley, University of Iowa
Ron Harris, Tel-Aviv University
Randy McGowen, University of Oregon
Kunal Parker, University of Miami Law School
Dylan C. Penningroth, Northwestern University
Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin Law School
Victoria Saker Woeste, American Bar Foundation
The slate for Nominating Committee (vote for two):
Sally Gordon, University of Pennsylvania Law School
David T. Konig, Washington University,St. Louis
Kenneth F. Ledford, Case Western Reserve University
Claire Priest, Yale Law School
Candidate bios and information about how to vote is here.


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You don't understand. I never get sick.
I mean, ever.
Which translates to, when I am sick. I'ts not pretty. I am whiny.
So, although I had all these grand things I wanted to blog about today, I am way too tired to even think about it. Maybe tomorrow I'll post about what I had planned. Since I won't be at school. Gasp! This third grade teacher is never out.
Since I can't get my creative juices flowing, I wanted to thank two ladies that tagged me! You can read that post here. Thanks to Kaleigh at Kaleigh's Klassroom for tagging me! I am her newest follower and it looks like she just started in the blogging word, so check her out! Kelli from Pray Teach Love tagged me too! I'm her newest follower too!
I wish I could stop using exclamation marks, but I love them way too much!
Oh, and Ms. Smith (too bad I don't know your first name) at Adventures of Ms. Smith gave me the Favorite Follower Award! Thanks girl and thanks for your sweet comments!
I love all my followers, and they are all soooooooooooo wonderful! It was hard for me to decide, but I have to give it to my best partner in this blogging journey, Elisabeth.
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"After the deluge of the terrible storms, there will always be a rainbow, a grander scheme to rebuild new lives."
The Typhoon Ondoy as you may have seen over the news, destroyed thousands of homes in the very city we live in. That day, I got a phonecall from my sister to ring up emergency numbers to call in Marikina. A friend of hers reported the big Marikina river had swollen and fiercely pushing out to the banks at 10am. Our country has no consolidated 911 emergency response teams, needless to say, there was nothing on the web to call except for the mayor's office.
As the day unfolded, I recieved text messages from friends, people stranded on top of their roofs, asking to report it online. There were countless stories of being stranded for 18 hours up on rooftops as the floodwaters rushed in their homes in as little as 3 hours. People, cars and trees swimming precariously in side by side, washed out into the metro's streets. It was mayhem as the rains continued nonstop for 6-or so hours.
The internet being the only form of communications for some areas (phonelines, mobile was cut off) was a huge aid. Facebook, plurk, twitter updates had helped Filipinos tremendously for calling out volunteers, troops to send out, rubber boats to deploy, updates on victims stranded, missing persons listings. In about 24 hours, private citizens and teams were dispatched to help out those in need. Its such an remarkable feat of unity amidst catastrophe.
Luckily spared from the rains and flooding, albeit the flickering electricity and internet connections, we decided to produce an in-world fundraiser to help out the Philippine Red Cross efforts. Casa del Shai and Straylight Botanical will be contributing 50% of our earnings this two weeks to the cause. Last night the Typhoon Ondoy music event was a huge success. Thanks to my partner and RL husband, Kriss Lehmann, our friends Miabella Foxley and Bethany Heart, we will be donating a total of over $L500,00 to Red Cross this week. Your efforts make you all our internet heroes. We salute you. Thank you all for extending a hand.
If you had missed out on any of our fundraising activities, please take the time to post your personal donations to Red Cross Philippines via bank transfers or Paypal.


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The animal, named Zottel, and fellow dwarf goat Mimo were found in the Zurich-Witikon area, said the party.
They had been tied to a tree and smeared with black paint by "extremist delinquents", they said.
Members of a group called Anti-Fascist Action claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
Provocative campaignThe animals have now been returned to their owner, SVP parliamentarian Ernst Schibli.
"At the moment he (Zottel) and his friend Mimo are a bit in shock, but mostly exhausted and probably happy that they're home," Mr Schibli told Reuters news agency.
The 10-year-old Zottel has been the SVP's mascot since the 2007 elections, when the party ran a poster campaign across Switzerland depicting three white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag.
The party then secured nearly 30% of the vote after the provocative campaign.
According to the SVP's website, "Zottel saves Switzerland" and is "against mass immigration".
For next week's legislative elections, the SVP has centred its campaign around the issue of immigration which it believes is out of control.
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This cool video, showing the anatomy of a small aquatic beetle called Dryops from the inside, won the Best Film of the Year Award at the SkyScan Micro CT Meeting in Brussels.
These images were created via microtomography, which uses x-rays to generate micron-resolution cross-section images of a 3D object to recreate a virtual model of that item, without destroying the original model.
More videos from Javier Alba Tercedor at the University of Granada can be seen at his Youtube page.


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Think Before You Tweet, If You're Sitting in Class
Too much texting in the classroom could jeopardize your academic future, says R.I.T. Assoc. Professor Evan Selinger. So before you post that status update, keep in mind these tips.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Update: This story was updated to reflect that students from Academy High School of Science and Technology participated in the competition.
More than 40 high school students from across the Denver metro area on Saturday got a taste of life as a constitutional lawyer when they participated the University of Colorado Law School's second annual Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition.
The competition, held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Wolf Law Building, challenged students to step into the shoes of some of the top attorneys in the country and present an oral argument regarding constitutional law before a mock appeals court.
This year's event, which drew 41 competitors from six high schools, asked participants to argue whether or not the First Amendment protected comments made by a high school student on a school-sponsored website that were critical of the principal and discussed drug use.
"It was pretty fun. A little nerve racking, but still fun," said Aldo Rodriguez, 18, a senior at Denver's Abraham Lincoln High School who participated.
Rodriguez, who began preparing legal arguments as part of his civics class at Lincoln, said he valued the opportunity to practice speaking in front of people and gain a better understanding of the U.S. legal system.
Following morning rounds during which all students presented three arguments to volunteer panels of volunteer judges and lawyers from the Denver-Boulder legal community, the field was narrowed to six finalists. More than 200 fellow students, teachers, team coaches and parents filed into the Wolf building's Wittemeyer Courtroom for the awards ceremony, during which all participants were given medals.
The six finalists, and four alternates if sufficient money can be raised, will participate April 5-7 in the national Marshall-Brennan competition in Washington D.C. CU Law's Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law will fund the trip.
The finalists were Crystal Perez, Bryan Ruiz and Haley Candelario of the York International School, Kassandra Yanez and Lessly Chavez of the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts and Marlene Talamantes of the North Valley School for Young Adults. The program is geared toward minority communities underrepresented in the ranks of the legal profession, and included participants from Denver-area schools Lincoln, Bruce Randolph School, Global Leadership Academy and Martin Luther King Jr. Early College, and three students from Thornton's Academy High School of Science and Technology.
After being recognized as finalists, the Washington-bound group was asked to present arguments once more; this time in front of Judge Neil Gorsuch of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, Colorado Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Bender and Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Terry Fox.
During brief, but tough presentations, the imposing panel asked students legal questions about their arguments and challenged them to use prior case law to defend their positions.
"I look forward to seeing you in my courtroom in about 15 years and I'll be tough on you then," Gorsuch told the participants following their presentations, referencing their bright legal futures. "It was a great pleasure to be here, have a wonderful time in D.C. Make sure you stop by the Supreme Court Building and watch a real argument while you are there."
The panel recognized Marlene Talamantes, 19, a senior at the North Valley School as the competition's top orator.
"It felt like I was home," Talamantes said of her experience in the competition. "Every time I spoke up there, I felt like I was meant to do it."
Talamantes, who graduate in May, said she is considering attending CU for college and hopes to pursue a career in law.
Melissa Hart is the director of the Byron R. White Center, and the organizer of the moot court program at CU. She said that over the past two years more than 500 students have taken part in the program, which also involves classroom level instruction delivered by a select group of CU law students.
Hart said the program has the dual benefit of helping CU law students who coach the competitors to gain a better grasp of constitutional law, and providing a public service to the high school students and hopefully encouraging them to pursue higher education. Now, Hart will set out to raise the money to bring the six finalists and their four alternates to Washington.
"Anyone who wants to support taking these amazing kids to D.C. can donate on the Colorado Law website under the Byron White Center page," said Hart.
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Christmascats.tv was gone almost as soon as it came. For three days, people passed around the link to ChristmasCats.tv that gave them a glimpse into a holiday idyll: a grandmother and an elf, surrounded by cats fluffy and sleek, who teased the sweater-swaddled animals with toys as an old-timey Christmas soundtrack played in the background. On December 6 at 5pm, it was reduced to a loop of past footage.
It looked for all the world like a public access channel holding pattern, with only a couple more accoutrements than the looping video of a fireplace set to holiday carols. It combined that comforting, if artificial, display with one of the Internet's greatest gifts: animal cams. Not only was the set replete with cats, but with people to play with them. They were also available for adoption (the cats, not the people).
The entire setup was actually in service of selling the old Christmas music playing as the background to the cats' antics. Sony's digital marketing department created the setup as a vector for the company's classic Christmas album catalog. This motivation wasn't even betrayed by the "buy now" link, which linked only an online search for "classic christmas albums."
The marketing team was tasked with "[imagining] a holiday campaign for legacy recordings," said Jason Cohen, senior director of digital marketing. Cohen described himself as an owner of four cats and said he happened to note that cats are somewhat of interest to the Internet. "It's kind of a challenge to work with an Internet meme," he admitted.
Typical animal cams just involve the animals, which leads to them sleeping a lot of the time. Cohen told Ars he introduced people because he wanted the viewers to be able to interact with the scene; for instance, requesting the elf to answer a question. But the people also ended up proving a good catalyst for stirring the felines to action by petting them or taunting them with toys.
Cohen and his team hired the two actors (the grandmother is actually a grandmother, Cohen said) and penned them in on a stage in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with a handful of cats from the North Shore Animal League (NSAL). All of the cats were available for adoption.
Cohen told Ars that the stage only operated from 9-5 for the three days ChristmasCats.tv was live. The area fenced in with plywood for the cats to roam was actually twice as large as what the camera showed, with room for the cats' litter boxes, food, and water at the foot of the camera.
The NSAL received many requests for their cats and "loved" the campaign, Cohen said.
The ChristmasCats.tv Twitter account started with no followers just before launch, and the Facebook fan page started with no likes. They ended with 1,180 followers and 2,869 likes—a modest success, but enough that Sony would consider a similar campaign again, Cohen said. "It was about the music and helping the cats," Cohen said. "I think we did a good job." The original live footage is now playing on a loop, which Cohen says will likely stay up through Christmas.


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My father-in-law, Mr. Really Bad, and I went junking this morning and
it was a day of interesting finds. We came upon some of the most unusual things! I'm going to show you my favorites.
Can you believe this? A corset! Original box and everything! A short Google search leads me to think it's from about 1917. Never worn.
I added to my collection of old bottles. I look for ones with lids and reluctantly took two with damage.
As I was inspecting some tools Mr. Really Bad bought a sword-shaped letter opener.
Well, it's the prettiest letter opener I've ever seen.
Cute handle.
One man's trash is indeed another man's treasure. Mr. Really Bad was just thrilled with his little sword.
Because it isn't a letter opener.
No. It's a Midshipman's Dirk from the late 1700's to early 1800's.
Horatio Hornblower would have carried one of these.
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Mr. Really Bad paid $1 for his "letter opener." It's worth from $350 to $700 dollars.
The handle is ivory and the brass is gold-plated, although worn.
Amazing, right? An ancient British naval weapon on a rural farm in Oregon. How much history is in the landfills because we simply don't know what we have? Just sayin.'
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"Zombieland" came out of nowhere to be the sleeper hit of 2009. raking in more than $100 million globally, and helping to launch the careers of director Ruben Fleischer and Emma Stone. Since then, there's been on-and-off chatter about a sequel, but that now seems unlikely.
Fox and Sony Pictures Television are in talks with original "Zombieland" scribes, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, to develop to the zombie sitcom for the 2012 TV season, repored Vulture. This makes a certain kind of sense in as much as "Zombieland" was originally developed as a TV series
"We always thought [it should be a TV series]," Reese told MTV in 2010. "If you watch the movie with that in mind, you will see some remnants of the television show. We have the 'Zombie Kill of the Week,' which was always intended to happen every week. The movie ends on a cliffhanger; it doesn't have a real resolution."
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This move to TV is really for the best, as Fleischer and the cast never really seemed excited about the idea of going back to "Zombieland." Earlier this year Fleischer was as diplomatic as could be in discussing the possibility.
"[Rhett and Paul] wrote something and it was really great," Fleischer told The Playlist. "A script exists. We all are excited of the prospect of making the movie, but I guess we all haven't found the perfect story to tell yet."
It's not as though any of the principals involved are hurting for work, as Fleischer is currently shooting "Gangster Squad" with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson can next be seen in Oren Moverman's "Rampart," Abigail Breslin will be flashing her bra Dec. 9 in "New Year's Eve," Amber Heard can be seen mackin' with Johnny Depp Oct. 28 in "The Rum Diary" and Jesse Eisenberg this summer filmed the upcoming Woody Allen film "Bop Decameron."


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Stuffed Stocking Cake Pops (and a giveaway)
I'm sharing these sweet stuffed stockings from my book, Cake Pops Holidays with you guys today. (Plus, there's a holiday giveaway at the end, too!)
These stockings are one of my favorite designs in the book and they're actually easier to decorate than the look.
You start out by shaping the crumbled cake and frosting into thick socks – the stockings – and then you dip them in melted candy coating.
You can coat the stockings with any color candy wafers that you like, but I went with dark pink, green, and light blue. Still fun and festive without being straight up red and green. After they dry, dip them in melted white coating for the cuffs and then you can start bringing them to life with random sprinkles and decorations.
Or you could leave them toyless, but they'll be way happier stuffed with toys inside.
Plus, that's the most fun for me. Playing and finding fun candies to decorate with.
These are a few of the shapes I used. Candy canes, gingerbread men, candy snaps … plus, my can't live without sprinkle – white sugar crystals.
But there are tons of sprinkles that would work. You just need to find simple shapes since the stockings are so small.
Here's the full how-to from my book.
Stuffed Stockings Cake Pops
- 9 X 13 cake, cooled (makes up to 48 cake pops)
- Frosting
- Wax paper
- Baking sheet
- 48 oz colored candy coating
- Deep, microwave-safe plastic bowl
- 48 lollipop sticks
- Styrofoam block
- 16 oz white candy coating
- Small, microwave-safe plastic bowl
- Assorted sprinkles for toys, such as candy canes, gingerbread men, and flowers
- Toothpicks
- Sanding sugar
- 96 snowflake sprinkles
- Crumble cake and mix with 2/3 - 3/4 container of ready made frosting or about 1 cup equivalent homemade until completely combined. Roll into 48 balls and place on a wax paper covered baking sheet.
- Shape them, one at a time, into stockings. You can use wax paper to aid in shaping the sides. After starting the shape, take one side of your stocking shape and slide it on a wax paper covered baking sheet. Flip and repeat for each side to help create a flat surface while continuing to shape by hand.
- After shaping, put the shaped cakes in the freezer for about 15 minutes to firm up for dipping. Once they are firm, transfer them to the refrigerator.
- Melt the candy coating in the deep microwave-safe bowl, following the instructions on the package. The coating should be about 3 in deep for easier dipping. When you are ready to dip, remove a few shaped stockings at a time from the refrigerator, keeping the rest chilled.
- One at a time, dip about 1/2 in of the tip of a lollipop stick into the melted candy coating and insert the dipped end straight into the bottom of the stocking shape, pushing it no more than halfway through. Dip the cake pop into the melted coating. Gently lift the pop out of the coating and tap off any excess. Let dry completely in the Styrofoam block.
- Melt white candy coating in the small microwave-safe bowl. Dip the tops into the white coating to make the cuffs. While the coating is still wet, place several of the "toy" sprinkles on top. Return to the Styrofoam block and let dry completely.
- When dry, use a toothpick to apply more white candy coating on the surface of the cuffs. Sprinkle with sanding sugar over a large bowl so you can reuse it. Use the edge of a clean toothpick to straighten any rough edges by gently pressing it along the bottoms of the cuffs.
- To decorate the front of the stockings, attach 2 snowflake sprinkles on each using melted candy coating as glue and dot on more coating for extra detail. Let dry completely in the Styrofoam block.
And today, because the holidays are fast approaching, I'm giving away a copy of my book along with the Frosty Friends Mini Kit.
I'm also giving away my Cake Pops Toy to the lucky winner!
Here's a few pics of the toy since I haven't posted them in a while.
It would totally make a sweet present for someone that loves baking and decorating. It's still available at Toys R Us in the US and Wal-Mart in Canada if you need a gift idea.
The molds that come with the toy could also help make many of the pops in the book, like the presents, Christmas trees, holly, jingle bells, nutcrackers, elves and much more.
Enter for a chance to win a copy of Cake Pops Holidays plus the Cake Pops Toy and Frosty Friends Mini Kit.
- To enter, just leave a comment on this post and tell me what you're looking forward to baking or tasting this holiday season. What's your favorite festive treat?
- Deadline to enter is
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 7:00 pm ET.Sorry, time's up. Winner announced below.
- One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Wednesday evening.
Good luck!
P.S. – I'm having a book signing Tuesday, December 10 at Chef Central in Paramus, NJ. If you're in the area, come say hi… I'd love to meet you!
I just picked the winner and it's comment #301!
I think Debra is going to be pretty excited. Congratulations! Hope you enjoy the book and toy!


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For years, people have used cranberry juice to prevent and
help cure
urinary tract infections (UTIs). There is limited
proof that this is worth trying.
Pure cranberry juice, cranberry extract, or cranberry supplements may help prevent repeated UTIs in women.1 Using cranberry products to prevent UTIs may be expensive and some women complain of the taste. No one concentration of cranberry juice, extract, or supplements has been studied, so it's hard to know which product to choose.
If you do want to try cranberry juice to prevent UTIs, it's better to drink pure, unsweetened cranberry juice (rather than cranberry juice cocktail). Drinking cranberry juice cocktail doesn't seem to prevent UTIs better than drinking any other fruit juice.2
There is no proof that cranberry can cure a UTI. Cranberry
is not well tested as a UTI treatment.
may affect how warfarin works, which can be dangerous. If you are taking the
anticoagulant medicine warfarin (such as Coumadin), talk to your doctor before
using cranberry to prevent a UTI.
CitationsJepson RG, Craig JC (2008). Cranberries for preventing
urinary tract infections. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1).Barbosa-Cesnik C, et al. (2011). Cranberry juice fails to prevent recurrent urinary tract infection: Results from a randomized placebo-controlled trial. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 52(1): 23–30.
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Three hundred sixty six days (3 hundred 66 days) is a year of my life I am devoting to month-long social experiments. Check out "About threehundredsixtysixdays" above for more details.
Thank you for joining me on this journey!
Update: I have finished my year of month-long social experiments (read my 366th post here for a recap of what I went through and what I learned), but I am still blogging every Wednesday about the process of writing the book, my life and other fun facts about the topics I covered.


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Friday, March 29, 2013
Earth From Space: NASA's Blue Marble East
Posted by Jay at 9:58 AM
NASA has had a long history of great images, and this one is no different (although it's a little dated). This picture shows the Earth as seen from space, prominently displaying the blue hues of the oceans and brown tints of land. This is NASA's Blue Marble East.
Labels: Earth, NASA, Outer Space
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Margaret Bourke-White: Depression Era Food Line
Posted by Jay at 9:24 PM
A good photojournalist might count himself lucky if he gets only one of his images published in a leading newspaper. A good photo should be able to convey an entire story on its own, but sometimes the image itself might be misleading because of the time and place it was made. In this famous example, Margaret Bourke-White's picture of a depression era food line has actually more to tell than its face value.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Robin Hammond: Condemned Mental Patients of Africa
Posted by Jay at 10:12 PM
Images of war and conflict have helped sway the opinion of people towards acting for the benefit of the victimized groups. In today's world however, the prevalence of war photographs has become so commonplace that most viewers have become desensitized to these images. This is saddening since a lot suffering still happens even years after armed conflict has passed. In his series entitled "Condemned", Robin Hammond gives a different perspective as a he exposes the cruel treatment of mental patients of Africa.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Tamara Staples: The Chicken Fancy and Pretty Birds
Posted by Jay at 10:07 PM
Portrait photographers such as Yousuf Karsh and Annie Leibovitz are famed for bringing out that extra spark out of an otherwise ordinary subject. Many aspiring portraitists today follow their example in trying to coax out a little bit more out of their subjects. Fortunately for Tamara Staples, her subjects already look glamorous The only thing need in her portrait series was the patience and passion to get all participants in one book. These pretty birds are the subjects of the chicken fancy in her book, The Magnificent Chicken.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Self Portraits of Mars Rovers
Posted by Jay at 3:31 PM
A few days ago, NASA released this beautiful panoramic image of the Martian Landscape. While majestic by itself, the view is enhanced by the presence of the newest Mars Rover, Curiosity, in the middle of the picture, on top of the hill overlooking the whole planet. The photograph shows just how far NASA has reached in terms of being able to beam back images of robots on other planets, but this picture isn't the first self picture of a robot on Mars. These are some of the self-portraits of all Mars rovers to date.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Climate: the 9/11 moment has arrived?
Image from "The Atlantic" Magazine
A few weeks ago, I published a post titled "Climate, a 9/11 moment? on Cassandra's legacy. In it, I said that we could experience a "9/11 moment" when:
"Something will happen; something so big, so horrible, so terrifying that people will watch the news in TV while telling themselves: "it is happening now, it is happening to us!"
Does Hurricane Sandy fit the description? For sure it has caused the return of climate change in the mainstream news. Enough to qualify as a "9/11 moment?" Perhaps not, but surely we'll have more of these moments in the future. It is going to happen.
h/t Fausto
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- alsarago58October 31, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Are you joking? Five minute after the landfall of Irene the usual "climate change deniers" bandwagon started to play the old song "Always there are been hurricanes hitting New York, this is not unusual at all..."ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 31, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Until you are alive, you can always deny everything you want. Unfortunately, unlike science, stupidity has no limits. There is no disaster that can open the eyes of those who want keep their eyes closed.ReplyDelete
don't think it will hinder US denialism in any way. most will just think its quite a cold storm, like any other, so therefore wont associate the storm with global warming, however big it is.ReplyDelete
we are not talking about sophisticated people here
I think you are a bit optimistic here... denialist machine is stronger than ever... :-)
Well, not so overly optimistic. After all I put a question mark in the title!ReplyDelete
Nevertheless, even the US, most adults at some point cease to believe that they were born in a cabbage patch. Don't they?
On the other hand, if you read what Obama recently said about climate change, hereReplyDelete
....now a record storm affecting the nation's most populous cities, neither candidate found the issue to be worthy of discussion. Pressed about this finally the other day on MTV, President Obama called climate change a "critical issue" that he was "surprised" hadn't come up during any of the debates, a response that was at once completely accurate and totally disingenuous. (As one commentator pointed out, he might have brought up this "critical" issue on his own since "he is the friggin' POTUS.")
No... I mean, did he really say that??? And he kept a serious face while saying that? Or he kept any kind of face while saying that? I think only a Borg could have shown such a friggin' despise of the intelligence of Earthlings.
Ugo, even if people knew with 100% certainty that humans were impacting climate, and if they then knew with 100% certainty that climate change caused Sandy, and even if they knew that there would be more/worse such weather into the future, the vast vast majority would just move their houses inland and keep consuming.ReplyDeleteReplies
This is not Nate Hagens, right? :-)Delete
"and keep consuming" - so you assume indefinite supply of resources? :)
P.S. - Otherwise I agree...
- Lewis CleverdonNovember 1, 2012 at 10:58 PM
Nate - which culture are you referring to as 'people' ? It sounds like a common American delusion that American culture is human nature, when in fact it is merely the most heavily programmed society on the planet as regards consumerism and a bizarre nationalist supremacy complex. (Childhood indoctrination to flags should have been outlawed internationally after WW2).Delete
Personally I doubt your projection does Americans justice, not only because the vast majority couldn't afford to move their houses inland but also because, as soon as it's seen as a matter of national self-respect, the discipline of avoiding carbon emissions will be rigorously respected.
At least that's my take on the many Americans I've come to know since the sixties.
- Lewis CleverdonNovember 1, 2012 at 10:33 PM
Hugo - the last I heard they'd recovered over 1800 bodies from Katrina, over 6,600 were still reported missing, and miles of wrecked houses were just being left to rot.ReplyDelete
We failed to build a viable movement on that disaster to protest the bipartisan US climate policy of a 'brinkmanship of inaction' with its Chinese rival. We could fail again on Sandy, for which there is far stronger evidence of AGW as the critical factor (both in the SST allowing the hurricane to thrive so far north, and in the disrupted Jetstream providing conditions that steered it onto the Jersey Shore, without which 99.9% of the damages would not have occurred).
Some of the media are shifting - for instance Bloomberg Businessweek has a cover headline over a NYC flood scene saying:
but most are doing a Revkin of prevarication by attribution studies (which would be just great if, in say 5 years time, science had got anywhere near modelling even the dynamics of the feedbacks driving the observed acceleration of arctic sea ice loss).
Personally I doubt we'll see anything in the way of widespread popular demand for commensurate action on climate before there is a change in activists' approach
- from slamming industry for pursuing profits (aka: keeping ahead of competitors) to slamming the US politicians for running the bipartisan climate policy,
- and from vaguely demanding 'action' - or maybe even just a bit more lip-service - to promoting a clear, specific and credible charter of demands that are globally applicable.
Without that charter of demands there is nothing remotely tangible around which even the core of the requisite mass movement can coalesce, let alone the general public. (350.org is a nonsense in this regard - due to the timelag, we'll not see what the warming off 350ppmv of CO2 looks like until about 2020, and it is entirely silent on how that concentration should be achieved internationally).
If we are ready to make that change in campaigning, then Sandy offers an excellent platform on which to do so - tens of millions affected, a major city damaged, strong AGW components, clear probability of repeat impacts, etc. If we are not ready, then whose to say whether some future disaster would give a sufficient platform, for depressed defeatism is gaining ground even as more people start to understand the threat. - I.e., we'd better bloody try as it's not likely to get easier in future at either popular or diplomatic levels.
Your input (and anyone else interested too) on just what those demands should comprise would be appreciated.
You know, Nate, there is an old joke in Italy about a boxer who takes a terrible beating from his opponent in the first round. His coach tries to console him telling him "it was OK, he always missed you!" So, the second round starts and the boxer again takes a tremendous beating. His coach consoles him saying "unbelievable, he missed you all the time!" There comes the third round, and the boxer again takes a horrible beating. He goes back to his corner and his coach tells him again "very good, he keeps missing you!" At this point the boxer says, "you know, you should keep an eye on the referee, because, up there, somebody is beating the hell out of me!"Delete
All that to mean that if people are punched enough, eventually they will learn. It also means that learning is not necessarily a painless process. Unfortunately.
The above was meant as a reply for Nate, but I think it works also for Lewis' message. I think that, unfortunately, it is appearing more and more clear that people will learn only if they are beaten hard enough by nature. Unfortunately that is exactly what's going to happen and it will not be a pleasant experience. In the meantime, we are bound to do all what we can do to try to soften the blow. Not that we can do much, but we should tryDelete
- Lewis CleverdonNovember 1, 2012 at 11:45 PM
Hugo - apologies, I've misquoted the Bloomberg headline. It should read:ReplyDelete
Changing minds one at a time won't work.ReplyDelete
We humans, travel in herds and think as herds.
I recall a study about 2-3 years back on how herd thinking flips virally when a tipping point is reached in a population.
Remember when most Americans believed smoking tobacco was good for you, or not wearing your seat belt was a sign of "personal freedom" (denial of the laws of physics)?
Then. One day. It flips. As if it never was the other way around.
Not sure if Hurricane Sandy will trigger that flip.
Maybe it will happen after Washington DC floods over and a couple of US Senators drown?
(Not being in Europe, I'm not clear on how Italians or others see the Climate Change debate. Is it the same there or do they think America is full of Taliban-style lunatics?)
You said it very well, Step Back. I see the flipping point arriving. Sandy will not be enough, but it is a big push in the right direction. Then, something will give to the system the final push and well be rolling down on the other side. Most likely, much too late but, who knows?ReplyDelete
About Italy, it is not very different than in the US - indifference kills more than hate.
- Alsarago58November 10, 2012 at 8:36 AM
Ugo, now don't exaggerate with self flagging...ReplyDelete
In Italy, as in most Europe, differently than in USA, practically all mainstream politicians support the scientific consensus about climate change, with just some fringe and extremist media that are doubters (Luckily we lack Creationists, too...).
May be they don't understand the urgency of the situation, also because, following European politics, we already do, on the side of energy efficiency and mitigation of CO2 emission, a lot more than USA or China, even at the cost to damage our economic competitiveness.
Just consider that EU average citizen emit now the same CO2 than the average Chinese (but they are almost three times than us... ), and half the average American.
Obviously the current economic crisis doesn't help, promoting the theme of "growth" over the environmental issues.
Fortunately a growing part of society, and politic, began to understand that environmental issues ARE the way out from the crisis...


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Basic features like table of contents, footnotes or thesaurus are still missing from Google Docs. Some of the features are already implemented and they're ready to be added to the interface.
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For example, to generate a table of contents from the headings of a document, just paste this code in the address bar:
You should see a dialog that lets you choose the numbering style.
There's also an option to insert a HTML snippet without editing the HTML code. The dialog can be invoked by pasting in the address bar:
A word processor is more useful if you can easily access a dictionary, an encyclopedia and other sources of information. Select some text from a document and paste the following lines to show information from:
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Thursday 6th April 2006 - 11:30 to 12:30
INI Seminar Room 1
There are many biological functions that involve movement of motors along a filament or polymeric molecule. The motors use chemical energy to propel themselves along the track. The description of these systems is in many cases done using models of driven systems. The lectures will give an introduction to molecular motors discussing their use in biological systems and the experiments which study them. Then several application of models of driven systems in the interpretation of experiments will be reviewed.


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I have a question which I am shy to ask but another sister who has come to Islam recently wants an answer to and I do not have an answer (with dilals from the Qur'an and Sunnah). I hope you can help and I hope Allah will for give me if it is inappropriate but as Muslims we should never be shy in seeking knowledge. Her question was "Is it permissible in Islam to masturbate?".
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Snooki has put Anderson Cooper up to the ultimate challenge.
The former Jersey Shore star and new mommy appeared on Anderson Live with her costar JWoww, and after discussing the OMG-moment when Jenni, Roger and Jionni actually took shots of Snooks' breast milk on their show Snooki &JWoww (yeah, that really happened), the pint-size reality star pulled out a couple of glasses.
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"I love you so much that I brought some for you," she told Anderson.
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Was he going to take it?!
"Oh, you gotta be kidding. Sorry, there's no way. I'm sorry...I can't, I really can't...I'm lactose intolerant," he said. But just because Cooper wasn't down to pound some of Snooki's milk to the head, doesn't mean his staff wouldn't.
One of the show's employees ran to the stage and took the shot of milk with Snooki! And then she revealed something...
"It was almond milk," she yelled. "I don't breastfeed anymore."


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Get onboard a cruise that visits Hobart and set sail for adventure. The attractive and interesting Tasmanian city at the mouth of the River Derwent sees passengers arriving and departing all throughout the cruise season and beyond. More than 300,000 passengers pass through Hobart's cruise terminal each year, and the numbers are only growing. Cruise ships in Hobart are an increasingly common sight, bringing travellers from all over the world.
All the information you'll need about cruising to and from Hobart is here - along with a range of cruise deals. Look no further to compare and choose great Hobart cruises including last minute deals, sales and discounted sailings.
You'll see a range of cruise lines offering cruises in and out of Hobart, and a variety of ships gracing Macquarie Wharf with their presence. Find a Hobart cruise deal with one of the following major brands:
P&O Australia - You'll find cheap cruises and great family fun on a P&O cruise. As the only line solely dedicated to Australasia, their itineraries and ships are tailor-made for cruisers Down Under.
Royal Caribbean - This fun-loving, exuberant cruise line is a common sight when it comes to cruises to and from Hobart. Their North American style of cruising is quite extravagant, with opulent decor, plentiful food and an activity schedule to keep even the most active cruisers busy.
Princess - This refined line offers fantastic itineraries on their elegant ships, including many voyages around the green isles of New Zealand. You will see many Princess vessels cruising into and out of Hobart's terminal.
Holland America Line - For a fantastic and traditional Hobart cruise experience, give HAL a go. This line has less on the way of splashy entertainment and more in the way of nautical decor, sophisticated spaces, educational opportunities and top-notch cuisine.
Celebrity Cruises - You'll see a stunning Celebrity vessel departing Hobart occasionally. These beautiful ships offer a touch of luxury above and beyond the mainstream cruise experience, with fabulous restaurants and inclusive packages.
The above is far from an exhaustive list of the lines cruising to and from Hobart. There are smaller luxury lines and other boutique brands offering Hobart cruises - so take a look around, compare what's available and find the cruise deal to suit you.
Ship spotters, there's plenty to keep you happy in Hobart, particularly during peak cruise season. Below are a few of the ships commonly spotted in the Tasmanian capital's harbour.
Majestic Princess - This new, modern ship spends part of the year in Australian waters and is a frequent visitor to Hobart - you'll know it by the big blue Princess logo painted on the bow.
Pacific Jewel - A beloved favourite of P&O, the mid-sized Jewel includes Hobart on her itineraries on a regular basis.
Noordam - The ms Noordam in her distinguished dark livery often calls in to Hobart. Onboard, passengers enjoy a refined and elegant sea voyage.
Celebrity Solstice - This beautiful, light and airy ship sails in and out of the harbour regularly, often departing Hobart to head across the Tasman to New Zealand.
Popular destinations for cruises leaving from Hobart after a visit include a range of ports around Tasmania and Australia, as well as the many wonderful cities, towns and scenic waterways of New Zealand just across the Tasman.
All passengers arriving in or leaving from Hobart will pass through the Macquarie Wharf Number 2 Terminal, located just a few kilometres from central Hobart. Ships dock at different spots along the wharf, but all passengers are processed in the recently renovated, modern terminal which offers all the amenities necessary for a comfortable transition from ship to shore.
There is a taxi rank and a meeting point for tour operators and shuttles outside the terminal, and it's easy to get into city centre by foot should you desire a stroll. There, the delights of Hobart await:
If you have the time while your cruise ship is in Hobart, you could head farther afield to visit the city's microbreweries, stroll the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens or even make your way to the top of Mount Wellington for amazing views.
From central Hobart, head down Argyle Street (or Elizabeth Street if you are on foot) towards the A6 which runs along the waterfront. Follow it until you can turn right onto Evans Street, veer right following signs for the terminal and then turn onto Hunter Street to arrive at the facility. It is a drive of around 5-10 minutes depending on traffic or a 20-30 minute walk.
There are many taxis around Hobart which can take you to the cruise terminal; from central Hobart, this will cost less than AUD $10.
Tasmania's cool temperate climate means that the warmth of summer is the best time to visit - unless you are a lover of cold weather, of course! The island state has four very distinct seasons, with a lot of rain (and some snow) in the winter and warm sunshine for much of the summer months.


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Heh. Electric bikes? News? Competition.
I just last weekend went to exhibition that had all kinds of bicycles (and hiking gear and fitness and ...) and quite a lot of those bikes were electric assisted. As such you need to pedal to get the benefit. In here if you are not required to do that the classification changes from bicycle to motorcycle (or moped). Basically you need a license to drive such a vehicle.
Anyway, quite a few of those had ranges 100+ miles (and obviously a lot more if you just keep pedaling) before they run out of juice. Prices were between 1500EUR to 5000EUR (and "normal" bicycles ranged from ~500EUR to 6000+EUR. I'm not sure how to define "normal" anymore when topic is bicycles).
No news in that front, only thing that I noticed that there were now a lot more manufacturers with electric assisted bicycles than last year, and prices have gone down a bit. No electric scooters this time, but I'm guessing those were not appropriate to topic of the exhibition, which was mainly outdoor fitness sports and hiking and all things related.
There were even those fold in bicycles with electric motors. Quite expensive though (for a bicycle).
For those with terminal range anxiety, carrying a folding one in the frunk would be an option! ;)
The truly fit and obsessive could maybe rig a stand, and use it as a generator to recharge the Model S/X battery. Or not.
Some of those bikes were really alien. What do you think of a bicycle that weights only two kilograms? Entire bike, not just frame: tires, chain, gears, brakes, everything. Materials used are incredibly light. If you could build a small car using same materials without it costing helicopters you could easily make a BEV with ranges over 500 miles without having enormous battery pack.
I wonder if you could make small car-like VTOL plane using those materials. Maybe Elon could focus to make electric flying car reality next. "Tesla flying car". No more roads needed.
With "flying car" I mean something like this:
Nothing fancy, just two ducted rotors instead of one large free one for safety and noise reduction (so not a helicopter), fly-by-wire and computer helping pilot to maintain speeds and directions so that no difficult to pass and expensive pilot licenses are required and some sort of GPS/hive mind 3D road system (which altitude, where to go, where everybody else is at any given time etc.).
A superlight car would have trouble holding the road, and would roll sideways in stiff cross-winds. And if it was hit, would either crumple or bounce 50' through the air!
Thanks, but no thanks.
Motorcycles do not roll sideways in cross-winds and they are two-wheelers. Size of the car doesn't matter much, except side profile size. Big cars have big side profiles, your common heavy SUV probably behaves worse in side wind than light and low sport car.
Crumple is good, bounce would not be. Safety is relative concept, if that would really matter that much, then all motorcycles, bikes and scooters would have been banned ages ago. You can make small car that is fun to drive and safer than motorcycle. If everybody drives a tank it doesn't protect you any more than normal car in head-on collision. This current tendency to build bigger cars "for safety" is stupid IMO.
Heh. "Crumple" is only good when it's incomplete.
Ever ridden a bike or 'cycle in strong, gusty cross-winds? It's quite thrilling! However brief.
@Timo - I'm not sure why you are classifying the "safety size" issue as "stupid". I think of it more as "selfish, and not universally helpful".
Vehicle vs. sturdy brick wall, the weight of the vehicle won't matter to the occupants as much as the crumple distance. It certainly won't be any worse unless heavier means less crumpling in which case more of the impact will be transmitted to the occupants. But, equal crumpling will mean the weight will be irrelevant in that case.
But, vehicle vs. vehicle - then the heavier vehicle has the advantage in that the combined body will end up with momentum in the direction of the larger vehicle and so the occupants of the larger vehicle will have less delta-V to deal with. Think of an aircraft carrier running into a Yaris - the people on the bridge wouldn't even notice, but the driver of the Yaris would have much greater injuries than if he had run into a brick wall instead (or a parked aircraft carrier). In that case, heavy means "safer for the occupants of the heavier vehicle", but at the expense of any one they hit unless those other occupants also "bought big".
I suppose "heavier" might mean "more like a brick wall if you aren't moving". Sure, it might be nice to take on more delta V from someone hitting you while stopped, but at least then it was likely entirely their fault so its less a question of "knocking them back selfishly" and more of "not buying into being their cushy break-away crash barrier".
I see "heavy to be safe" as more selfish than stupid. If you look at it from a global perspective of respecting human life, then I guess the selfishness takes on an element of "stupid", though... ;)
Also, motorcycles are affected by cross winds. They may not roll over, but you definitely have to consciously deal with cross winds and it is "more, or less, thrilling" depending on the weight of the bike, its side shape, and sometimes tires and road surface.
But, weight does help there - it's more that their light weight is offset by enough maneuverability that they can easily swap lean angle for lateral stability without a lot of externally visible drama...
I'm not sure why you are classifying the "safety size" issue as "stupid". I think of it more as "selfish, and not universally helpful".
Well, I define "selfish, and not universally helpful" as stupid. I grand scheme selfish behavior is stupid, because it contributes in general well being of everyone around you, and ultimately even you.
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I'm not sure why you are classifying the "safety size" issue as "stupid". I think of it more as "selfish, and not universally helpful".
Well, I define "selfish, and not universally helpful" as stupid. I grand scheme selfish behavior is stupid, because it contributes in general well being of everyone around you, and ultimately even you."
Very noble. Some people stupidly prefer to survive to observe and enjoy the consequences of their choices, however. In an evolutionary sense, suicidal nobility has a serious disadvantage. Which makes noble non-stupidity stupid! Oh, what to do, what to do???
It's stupid because in the end everybody has a heaver car which results in approximately zero net gain in safety but has a lot of penalty attached, e.g., in terms of efficiency (driving efficiency as well as manufacturing efficiency).
It's an observed phenomenon, tho': the purchase of "on-road SUVs" by city dwellers, etc., who like the mass and elevation. And capacity, and "lane authority".
Since there is no "one size fits all" for passengers/cargo, some largish range is inevitable.
It's related to a prisoner's dilemma. For now, I believe that larger cars are still in the minority (though that may change soon) so buying large still has a safety advantage for the one making that decision. If we ever reach critical mass of SUVs, it will be more of a defensive decision and we would be reaching the far end of the overall net vicious circle. But it would still be a step towards relative safety for that individual making the buying decision even if the playing field was pounded down below sea level by the action on it.
Now, "stupid" would come into it if they buy a less crumply large car thinking it is safer (it would be more dangerous for the ones making the decision). And, I'm agreeing that it does come into play if you consider environmental impact - they're trading health safety for physical collision safety, though the tradeoff is fairly weak on the environmental impact and fairly dramatic on the collision side of the equation.
Elon's "compromise" of a mid-weight large capacity ultra-safe vehicle is about as good as it gets at this time. Now if only it can tow and come up with a miracle roof rack solution ....
Speaking of all which-all, given a choice of roof rack or falcon doors, which would you choose?
I can imagine a technical compromise: when the roof rack is on, one side won't open, and all rear passengers have to exit on the other side.
Unless the roof rack attaches to the door itself and moves with it.
Hey Brian, I wonder which one of us thought of that compromise first? I posted the same idea April 3 in the Model X forum "Ski/Bike Rack". I would have posted it 2 or 3 weeks earlier, but there were website difficulties with my account. Let's hope Tesla monitors these forums, because your or Beaker's solution would make me happy. You gotta be able to put toys on the roof, just gotta.
Is March 16 earlier than April 3?
Of course it is. But it took me 2-3 weeks to post -- I kept getting "Website under construction" messages and the like. I finally had to email Tesla website support, and they promptly fixed a problem with my account. I don't know when I first tried to post, may of been before or after Mar 16, and though I obviously care a little bit about the date (or I wouldn't be posting this), mostly I care that a good idea doesn't go to waste! Can't wait to get my X, preferably with a roof rack option!


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OTTAWA - The Conservative government that rushed to pass a massive crime bill by curtailing debate in the House of Commons and Senate now says it will take its time making the new measures a reality on the street.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's majority easily passed Bill C-10 on Monday evening by a vote of 154-129, sweeping aside a procedural delay by the NDP that stalled the bill's curtain call for five days.
The legislation, which includes nine separate bills, goes briefly back to the Senate and could get royal assent as early as Tuesday — meeting Harper's campaign promise last spring to pass the bill within 100 sitting days of a new parliament.
Working the changes through the justice system will take considerably longer.
"We're going to space out a number of them out," Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said outside the Commons before the final vote Monday.
"I indicated to my provincial colleagues when I met with them about a month ago now that, you know, we'll proclaim them into effect in consultation with them."
Nicholson didn't provide an order of precedence.
The bill increases sentences for drug and sex offences, reduces the use of conditional sentences such as house arrest, provides harsher penalties on young offenders, makes it more difficult to get a pardon, gives crime victims more say in parole hearings and allows victims of terrorism to sue.
Supporters, including victims rights groups and some police organizations, say the bill helps correct a justice system that has swung too far toward the rights of criminals.
Critics have said the changes will do nothing for public safety but will cost literally hundreds of millions of dollars from increased jail populations, much of it bourne by provinces and territories. The changes are also expected to clog the courts as many offenders will opt for trials rather than agreeing to a plea deal for a crime that carries a mandatory minimum sentence.
The government has never even attempted to answer what exactly the justice changes will achieve in terms of the overall crime rate, number of victims, the cost of crime to the community or the incidence of violent crime.
"This sends the message out to people if you get involved with this kind of activity, there will be serious consequences," Nicholson reiterated Monday.
Nor has the government ever provided a credible, detailed costing of the legislation.
Parliament's independent budget office spent six months researching one small aspect of the bill — curtailing the use of conditional sentences — and found it will cost the provinces about $750 million over the next five years, mostly for increased jail time.
New mandatory minimum jail terms for growing as few as six pot plants were internationally panned in an open letter to Harper that pointed out the war on drugs has been a repeated, dismal failure across the globe — fuelling the very violence and organized crime it is supposed to combat.
None of it has slowed the bill's inexorable progress.
This coming weekend marks the deadline Harper set last April when he made his catchy 100-day campaign promise on the crime agenda.
New Democrats used procedural tactics last week to momentarily delay the final vote, spoiling a Conservative communications exercise in Woodbridge, Ont., where several top Tories had flown at taxpayer expense to tout the legislation's expected passage.
Bill C-10 initially cleared the House of Commons in December, but in the government's haste — including time allocation to limit debate — it overlooked some important gaps that had been raised by Liberal MP Irwin Cotler, a former justice minister.
The Senate had to fix the victims of terrorism provisions, and sent the legislation back to the House last week for final approval.
"We're at the end of the road," said NDP justice critics Jack Harris, "but this government has persisted in pursuing a course of action that we heard much evidence is not actually going to reduce crime and not going to make our streets safer and is going in the wrong direction."
Harris noted the NDP supports tougher laws for child predators and the government could have had those new laws on the books months ago if it had agreed to split them off from more contentious elements.
Bob Rae, the interim Liberal leader, called the legislation "a very expensive adventure, a very expensive and frankly unnecessary experiment."
"It's not a real crime prevention strategy," said Rae. "It's a prison promotion strategy, it's an incarceration strategy, that I think will prove to be a very costly mistake for Canada."
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I've been getting my head around wayland for the past few weeks as I am trying to understand its architecture and what can be done with it. After reading a bit about it I grabbed the source code and compile it, coming up with a moduleset and a jhbuildrc for wayland that you can find in jhbuild.
Wayland seems very interesting, specially from the perspective of having a clean codebase and architecture to work with unlike X.org. The main advantage is that the compositor acts as the display server, allowing it to be aware of the input events and avoiding round trips between processes.
The hardest thing to understand is that wayland itself is just a protocol to implement basic clients and compositors it has zero dependencies apart from FFI. It does not specify what rendering mechanism to use. Most people seem to believe that Wayland requires OpenGL/EGL and that is actually not true, that requirement is only true if you target the only wayland compositor available at the moment which is living in the wayland-demos repository.
This means that the even though Gtk+ and Qt both have experimental wayland backends, they will not necessarily work with every single wayland compositor out there, and more backends may be needed for different compositors.
The other interesting bit about wayland is that the protocol is extensible, you may write your own protocol extension for specific use cases. Again, this means that the client side code has to be specific to the compositor. (I need to figure out if it's possible to negotiate which protocols are available in a given display server).
To start my journey I had to read a bit about EGL and GL, coming from a high level/clutter/cairo/mostly 2D wonderland it was an interesting read and I'm starting to pick the basic concepts around it.
After some concepts were able to land in my head I went ahead and wrote a simple client using cairo-gl that I am proposing for inclusion in wayland-demos. It is probably one of the simplest wayland clients available, I hope you find it useful.
I'm planning to learn a bit more about compositors in the coming weeks, will share my learnings as I move forward. Stay tuned.
P.S. I'd like to thank Kristian Høgsberg for answering all my stupid questions. I wish there were more FOSS maintainers like him 🙂


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