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Based on the 75ft M1 the early H-series cars improved on the design, notably by enlarging the operator's cab and using a single-handle controller. Over the programme revisions were made to the designs and each production model in the H-series improved on the last. The H5's were the first to use "chopper controls" . The H5's also added regenerative braking and air-conditioning which was also incorporated into all future designs. The completion of the H6's allowed the retirement of the G class cars and no further H-Series orders were made. A prototype new car T-series was built by UTDC in 1990-91, and evaluated by the TTC. By the time the TTC was ready to order new cars in 1992, UTDC had been sold to Bombardier. Bombardier then constructed the new car order – which would add new technology such as AC propulsion to a similar platform based on the predecessor H-cars.


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In 2006, architect Nathan Lee Colkitt, whose firm has designed affordable, modern housing, a challenged athletes foundation and a conceptual Cuban immigrant museum, was in search of a live/work space in San Diego he could make his own, so he consulted architect Ted Smith, who Colkitt calls "the grandfather of San Diego design/build." Smith had a space in his multi-unit building in the city's Little Italy neighborhood that housed tenants ranging from architects and designers to video-game creators, musicians and a hair salon. via
Especially appealing was the fact that the available unit was a 750-square-foot concrete tabula rasa that Colkitt could rework to accommodate both his private living space and his firm's office. "Like every designer, I tried to find the one with the most problems, because that brings out your creativity," says Colkitt. "This unit is oddly shaped, with every wall at an angle, and I wanted to do something more interesting than just putting up a wall in the middle." His solution was to create two small lofts, one for reading and one for sleeping, anchored among several existing concrete columns running along one wall.

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Sinead O'Connor doesn't go missing.
When it doesn't work the first two times, I mean, it's obviously going to work the third time, right?
Take me out to the brrraaawl-game.
Sinead O'Connor doesn't go missing.
When it doesn't work the first two times, I mean, it's obviously going to work the third time, right?
Take me out to the brrraaawl-game.
Rail Runner raising fares in 45 days.
No lunch in Texas prisons on weekends.
New video of a bloody Gaddafi being dragged about challenges preliminary reports as to the nature of his death.
Two minor quakes hit the Bay Area same day as earthquake preparedness drills take place.
Travolta denied reservation at KFC while in UK for a Scientology conference.
Somebody was making fake checks in the Northeast Heights.
Rangers rally to tie World Series in dramatic fashion.
Lindsay Lohan show's up for community service at the L.A. County morgue, which, by the way, sells some awesome merch.
Seattle Hertz branch axes 25 Somali Muslims for length of prayer breaks.
Breaking down the ownership laws for exotic pets in lieu of the Ohio fiasco.
Cain makes changes to 9-9-9.
Ralph Montoya gets 25 years for murder of UNM professor and his girlfriend.
Murdoch ponies up $3.2 million for phone hack of murdered 13-year-old.
N.M. senators propose expansion of area in which Mexican nationals can visit in the state for a 30-day period.
Shaq cleared in kidnapping lawsuit.
APD SWAT needed to break up domestic dispute.
Thousands of Egyptians demand faster reform, fill Tahrir square again.
Also, thousands of Syrians protest president, fill Hama.
South Sudan becomes an independent country tomorrow. Happy birthday, South Sudan!
Man falls from stands to death, trying to catch ball at Rangers game.
Twins born 50 hours apart, in two different counties.
California prison inmates on hunger strike over isolating conditions.
Texas is all "I do what I want," and executes Humberto Leal.
Dude, the unemployment rate is high.
Roger Ebert's appropriately scathing review of a dumbed-down Great Gatsby. With winch-inducing excerpts!
Doghouse Diaries on camera technology.
Man, I never would have thought I would be here. I was certain they were going to roll. I was afraid for my friend's long-term well-being and then, magically, a week ago it all came together. The Texas Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Rays in a best of 5 series—without winning a single game at home. (This, oddly, made them still without a home playoff win in their entire existence until their current series.)
Now, they've embarked on the journey that all Davids must undergo if they want to take down baseball's ultimate crown: that perpetual Goliath, the New York Yankees.
As a baseball hater, when October inevitably arrives each year, I usually turn my rooting interests the way of the Yankees. They're usually pretty good, they win a good percentage of the time, and they're at least somewhat entertaining, especially given their links to Jay-Z.
Now, however, I'll have to root against my pseudo-team. And I'll be happy to do so. Despite any troll comments online, the Texas Rangers' story only gets better and better to me. Turns out, when they clinched the American League Division Series in game five, the team celebrated with ginger ale before breaking out the champagne. Why? Slugger Josh Hamilton is a recovering alcoholic. Plenty of smart-mouthed sports fans made negative cracks about that in the last week, but imagine being him and seeing your teammates holding back on their celebration out of respect for you. My fandom of the Rangers begins at that noble point.
Count Cliff Lee, their pitcher extraordinaire, as reason No. 2. With an ERA of 3.18, through the regular season, he ranked sixth in the American League this year. He's been in the league a mere eight years, and made it to the World Series in 2009 with the Philadelphia Phillies, only to fall to the New York Yankees. Added intrigue to an already interesting storyline? Count me in. Through the fourth game of the American League Championship Series, Lee's pitching at an insane 1.26 ERA and hasn't lost a single game he's started.
Last but not least, I default to the somewhat bizarre case of the Rangers' sad luck. Having made it to the playoffs only three times before this year, they've always been eliminated by, you guessed it, the New York Yankees. Now, with a chance to get back at the bully in the ALCS, there's a lot to root for. Game 4 was played in New York yesterday, with the Rangers walking all over the Yankees, for the second night in a row. The Rangers lost their first home game last Friday, but proceeded to win (their first postseason home victory in the history of their franchise!) on Saturday. Things stayed cheerful for the Texas boys in New York, and with the win last night they're only one away from their first ever trip to the World Series.
Tune in today at 2:07 p.m. on TBS as the Rangers try to wrap things up in New York.
Who would have thought in a week when Gilbert Arenas banished his sense of humor and an 7-time Pro Bowl-er gets traded to a now-Super Bowl bound team that I'd end up writing about baseball? And yet, forces have aligned.
Last week, I wrote about my friend's lifelong love for the Texas Rangers, and today they began their playoff battle. A team that, as I noted, had previously won only one playoff game in their entire existence, started the journey on the road. The Rangers played the Tampa Bay Rays and were firmly in command the whole time. Listening on the radio while at work had an old-school effect not only on my buddy at work, but on the rest of us as well, constantly checking in with him for updates, despite the fact the the ever-present Internet was (as always) a mere click away.
Seeing my buddy after work was like seeing a kid after their team wins its first game. I'm not sure I can stand much more of his happiness, but I'm definitely rooting for it.
All that joy was, if not erased or negated, kind of deflated a mere five hours later, though. As I stopped by Marble Brewery to pick up a growler after work, I eased up to the bar to see another baseball game on. The Philadelphia Phillies were playing the Cincinnati Reds, but the game was pretty much over. It was the top of the ninth, and the Phillies were up 4-0, pitching. There wasn't much chance of a Reds comeback and yet, to my right was a guy in a Phillies jersey, watching the TV in rapture.
I hope I won't be mischaracterizing this man to say that, as the game wrapped up, he looked like he was liable to cry in joy. There seemed to be an inordinate amount of cheering happening on the TV as well, so I couldn't help but ask my fellow drinker: "Did the Phillies do something more special than winning the first game of the playoffs?"
He replied that Roy Halladay, the pitcher for the Phillies, had just proceeded to pitch only the second no-hitter in MLB playoff history. Only accomplished once, 54 years ago this Friday, a no-hitter in the playoffs is better than almost anyone would have predicted for Halladay's first experience in the playoffs. He'd never made it there before, despite playing in the big leagues for 15 years.
And with that, the Texas Rangers' moment in the sun was eclipsed suddenly, unexpectedly and totally, by a pitcher on a tear. Here's to both the Rangers and Halladay's continued success. Follow along on the radio. You'll be glad you did.


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Flights to Algeria with Qatar Airways
Algeria is Africa's largest country and offers a wealth of natural and cultural attractions to the adventurous tourist. Located within the stunning Maghreb region in Africa's northwest, the country boasts a magnificent Mediterranean coastline and sub-Saharan desert. Travel to Algeria with Qatar Airways and experience a mix of untamed landscapes and vibrant modern cities.
The colonial and modernist façades in the capital Algiers are amongst the country's finest attractions. The city has a magnificent coastline too, made up of sandy beaches and rugged bays, with a lush and verdant hinterland. Many excellently preserved Roman towns and settlements in and around Algiers lie testament to the city's rich history, with the remains of Djemila, Timgad and Tipasa all considered UNESCO World Heritage sites.
The Saharan region in the interior of Algeria makes up most of the country, and the beautiful landscapes of shifting dunes around Tamanrasset and Timimoun –untouched by humans—in the south are genuinely stunning, redolent of myth and legend. If you prefer the buzz of the city, however, then there is still plenty of see in Algeria's more northerly towns and cities, not least in Algiers itself.
Algiers stands on the coast with a Mediterranean backdrop. The mosques, citadel, 'Casbah,' and meandering alleyways are all you would expect of such a city, and the colourful façades of the old French colonial houses add their own glamour and charm. The result is a city that merges two strong cultures together – Algerian and French – to create a unique and vibrant character unlike any other part of North Africa.
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Robotics Industry News
Tregaskiss Introduces TOUGH GARD Spatter Cleaner to Extend MIG Consumable Life
Tregaskiss Posted 03/31/2010To minimize spatter build-up and help extend the life of robotic MIG welding consumables, Tregaskiss introduces its new TOUGH GARD™ Spatter Cleaner. This compact, all-in-one spatter cleaning station runs on as little as 60 psi, is hard wired to integrate easily with existing robotic or PLC automation controls (runs on 24 VDC), and has been designed to effectively remove spatter build-up from MIG welding consumables. With all of these features, the TOUGH GARD Spatter Cleaner lessens the frequency of MIG consumable changeover, resulting in greater arc-on time plus lower overall consumable and operating costs.
The TOUGH GARD Spatter Cleaner features a factory-installed sprayer and wire cutter that minimizes the need and cost for separate peripherals, and also maximizes space within the robotic weld cell (footprint: L = 9.75 x W = 9.75 x H = 17.5 inches). The wire cutter re-dresses the welding wire to a clean and consistent length to ensure accurate arc starting, while the sprayer applies a thin layer of TOUGH GARD Anti-Spatter Liquid to protect the front-end consumables. When exposed to heat, the anti-spatter liquid creates a protective barrier that resists spatter accumulation, keeping the consumables clean and extending their life.
"We designed the TOUGH GARD Spatter Cleaner to be an all-in-one cleaning solution—one that minimizes the need and cost for purchasing a separate wire cutter and/or anti-spatter sprayer," says Rob Ryan, product manager, automation group, Tregaskiss. "It's a great fit for customers' welding cells and their budgets."
For more information on Tregaskiss Products, call 1-877-737-3111 or fax 1-877-737-2111 in Canada & USA, write Tregaskiss, 2570 North Talbot Road, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, N0R 1L0. Internationally, call +1-519-737-3000 or fax +1-519-737-2111.
Tregaskiss is an industry leader in the development and manufacturing of MIG welding guns and peripherals, and offers its products worldwide. Its brands include TOUGH GUN™ Manual, Robotic MIG Guns and Peripherals, TGX™ MIG Guns and TOUGH GARD™ Anti-Spatter. Tregaskiss is a wholly owned subsidiary of Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW), Glenview, Ill. ITW is a diversified multinational manufacturer of highly engineered components, assemblies and systems.


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Influence of Drug Transporter Expression on the Pharmacokinetics of the HIV Protease Inhibitor Kaletra
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00176033
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First Posted : September 15, 2005
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Measurement of AUC, Cmax, tmax, t1/2 and clearance (Cl) of the protease inhibitor Kaletra™ (lopinavir and ritonavir) each in the plasma of healthy individuals
- establish free and total plasma - blood cell concentration-relationship
- establish free and total plasma - saliva concentration-relationship
- establish blood cell concentration - drug transporter expression-relationship
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|Influence of Drug Transporter Expression on the Pharmacokinetics of the HIV Protease Inhibitor Kaletra (Lopinavir/Ritonavir) and on the Concentration Relations Between Plasma, Blood Cells, Saliva and Urine
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|Gerd Mikus, MD, BSc
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[International: Africa News Update]
Before looking into the bizarre relationship between President Bush and President Museveni of Uganda.
At this time when Africa is struggling to retain its dignity and shunning foreign influence, we have to note today's announcement that the American General William E. Ward and his 1,300 military and civilian personnel, nominated by Bush to overlord Africa in the name of Africom, is to have his command post structured in Europe and in, of all places, the German city of Stuttgart.
General William E. Ward, Africa's New U.S. Overlord?
Then we have to ask why Uganda today has been converted into a virtual large aircraft carrier from which all types of military and "humanitarian" missions are launched into central and eastern Africa. In addition to Entebbe air base, which is now one of the best equipped and supplied on the African continent, several other military installations exist in Uganda that house Special Forces units and other US Army personnel.
The answer, of course, is that we have to accept for better or worse that the USA has nominated itself as the world's policeman and needs other military activists as partners. President Museveni of Uganda fills that role. No others, except Liberia, have shown interest in playing host to the Africom HQ. All other major countries in Africa, including South Africa, Nigeria and Algeria, have refused either to host Africom or provide permanent military bases for US troops. The Museveni government, however, is a military dictatorship that has been at war in adjoining states and engaged in internal fighting from the day it took power: a jewel in the US Pentagon planning with a well established CIA structure existing amongst the seven hills of Uganda's city of Kampala. This was made clear last year with the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, meeting the leaders of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to discuss the present conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa and the Sudan.
She made it clear that Uganda's president was the real power in the region This we have seen with his entire army secretly invading Rwanda, years of battle operations in the Southern Sudan, invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo and fighting against his own people within the North and East Uganda. Year after year, month in month out, we have been receiving reports such as the one in the London 'Times' of the 14th November 2007 that more than 1.5 million people were herded into camps by the Ugandan Army. Some were beaten, raped and killed; many more fell ill and died from unsanitary conditions. In the worst period, fatalities peaked at 1,000 a week.
Jendayi E. Frazer Ignores The Mountains of Corpses
Yet this week Bushrefers to President Yoweri Museveni as a leader of strength who has helped to solve conflicts in Africa giving as an example the present murderous battles being inflicted on the suffering Somalis by Uganda troops whose invasion was without a just cause and was made at the very time Somalia had found its own democratic peace. We saw the uniformed President of Uganda in a state of rapture as he waved to his troops bound for the Somali killing grounds. It mattered little to him that the rest of Africa except Ethiopia had scorned the hyped and ill-informed analysis by Jendayi E. Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and that Resolution 1725 on Somalia has all the markings of US strong arm tactics, double standards, domination and manipulation, something all good leaders of today's Africa resist. Frazer admits she has a good friend in the Uganda President: the Pentagon is untroubled by the consequent suffering of the Uganda masses.
We have over the last two weeks been watching an event "Out of Somalia." It reminds me of the old Hollywood Keystone Cops when one looks at the mighty American fleet unable to dislodge a handful of Somali pirates who have seized the Ukraine MV, commanded by Captain Viktor Nikolsky, loaded with thirty million dollars worth of killing weapons which included thirty Russian T.72 tanks, grenade launchers, anti air craft guns and tons of ammunition, all destined to add to the misery of Africa and no doubt to enforce killings over the modern conquest for oil within the Sudan, supported by Museveni of Uganda.
So we have to ask ourselves why Bush defends Museveni despite his terrible record of violence while even international aid donors, who for years hailed him as part of a "new breed" of African leaders, have become increasingly impatient with his handling of corruption and the slow progress of political transition in the country. These failures are continually being emphasized by the United Nations where the looting of DR Congo's natural resources has been squarely placed on the shoulders of the Uganda military. To prove their case against him the U.N. referred to the discrepancy between the two countries' mining resources and their exports.
For example, Uganda exported six tonnes of gold in the past few years whereas its national production is always negligible. Then the World Court ruled that the Museveni regime violated human rights. Bush has paid no attention to this ruling which read: "The United Nations' highest court, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, holds Uganda responsible for the killing, torture and cruel treatment of civilians in Congo and ordered reparations. It dismissed Uganda's claims of self-defense and called its actions an "unlawful military intervention" and interference in Congo's internal affairs. For Bush to be blind to the real problems of Uganda and the misery in which its people are now living can only be that he needs such a dictator because of the oil in Uganda's northern neighbour, the Sudan, and Museveni has certainly been consistent in his support of U.S. policy and designs.
Since his rise to political power in Uganda in 1986, the country has served as a principle staging area for logistical and humanitarian support for the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement and Operation Lifeline Sudan, the UN's humanitarian relief efforts to the people of southern Sudan. In a revealing statement made during a banquet in Uganda's capital, Kampala, President Museveni admitted his government had actively supported the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, a longtime U.S. client organization, in its fight against the Sudan government where millions have died as the result of internal war. Furthermore he has visited and met with members of the autonomous Southern Sudan government in Juba without notifying the national government in Khartoum. Sudanese national leaders denounced this act as a deliberate provocation, saying: "We are still one country."
Violence Yesterday, Violence Today, Violence Forever
Looking back over Museveni's career it is fair to say that as a young man, when I knew him, he was a warrior against corruption but he and his close "comrades" were never friends of liberty. He scorns the rule of law, shuns due process and is always willing to run roughshod over people's rights.
He believes in violence as a legitimate means to bring about "revolutionary" political change and in using the army as an important pillar of political power. At the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania, Museveni wrote a bachelor's thesis, of which I have a copy, defending Frantz Fanon's calls for the use of violence.
Both before and since becoming president the themes of violence and military action have played central roles in his speeches and writings. His people have been degraded to a peasant society and have lost the dignity that was the envy of the continent. He is the "lap dog" of America and nothing is going to change except Ugandans will become poorer and have their hopes blocked by the continuing self-serving praise of his presidency by a few powerful people in that country.
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I was a little confused this morning when I read Ed Sherman's interview with Tom Ricketts. In it, Ricketts said that the Cubs' meagre attendance numbers had more to do with the soggy weather than the crappy baseball.
When you play most of your home games in 45 degrees and it's wet, I'm sorry, I can understand why some people don't want to come out. That's been the driver here. Once we get some spring weather, people will want to be at the park.
This struck me as either incredibly naive or intentionally evasive, but I wanted to give Ricketts the chance to clear up that and some of his other more confusing statements (such as "I can't stand it when I hear someone say they can't afford to go to a game. It might be hard to get tickets for a Yankees or Sox game, but there's no reason why they can't afford to go another game." Really, Tom? No reason anyone can't afford to go to a game where the average ticket price is $FU?). Unfortunately, the terms of a certain restraining order don't allow me to conduct one-on-one conversations with Cubs ownership, whoever that may be. So I did the next best thing:
I got a hold of @NotTomRicketts. I can usually count on him to be pretty straightforward, honest, and direct, especially when it comes to the subject of buying Cubs tickets. Here's my Q&A with him that should help set the record straight.
April 2011 was the least sunniest April in Chicago history. How much do you think that has impacted ticket sales in the early going this season?
Tremendously. As you know, some of the finest meteorologists work here in Chicago and they were all predicting back in February that this would be a dreary April. I'm certain Tom Skilling and his cohorts scared a few people off from buying tickets in advance. Then when it turned out the weather predictions were correct, few people came out on the day of game. I mean, remember that Mother's Day game against the Reds where we drew 31,000 or so? Can you really expect people to show up to a weekend sunny game with temperatures in the 60s against a division rival? What can you do about that? You can't beat science.
Which do you think is more directly to blame for the Cubs poor performance thus far: bad weather or poor attendance?
The weather. Definitely the weather. Because, as I mentioned, the weather is primarily responsible for keeping the people away from the ballpark and that creates a dead atmosphere that the players don't like. They need to feel that energy from the crowd to get clutch hits. Ari Kaplan tells me that the Cubs are batting .456 in clutch situations at home during sunny days when the crowd noise is "electric." I know the games aren't played on Ari's statsheets, but he makes a compelling argument.
Who owns the Cubs?
This again. You bloggers never quit with this question do you? Can't you just take our word like the mainstream media does? I'll tell you what . . . I'm going to tell you a little secret . . . nobody fucking knows. If you look at the paperwork that completed the transfer from the Tribune, it is a mess of legalese that none of us understand. "Wherein the party of the first part agrees forthwith to the party of the second part on Article VI, subsection D, blah blah blah . . . " Even Pete can't figure out what the hell is going on and he is way smarter than me at this business stuff. I just tell everyone I'm the Executive Chairman and hope nobody fact checks it. But that information probably shouldn't leave your mother's basement.
Some people have accused this front office of putting too much pressure on Starlin Castro. To prove them wrong, list five players in the history of the game who had more potential than he does to save a floundering franchise.
(At this point, NotTomRicketts mumbled something about Babe Ruth and then trailed off. Read into that what you will.)
Did you miscalculate fan interest when you set the prices for Cubs tickets this offseason?
Not at all. We kept the overall average ticket price flat. We cannot stress that enough. On average, it costs the same amount to go to a Cubs game this year as it did last year. Last year was a shitty team. Let's not pretend that last year wasn't a complete joke that was all Lou's fault. Now we have made a few solid moves and brought in a new staff ace in Matt Garza, good clubhouse guy Carlos Pena, and some old fan favorites back into the fold to make the team better. So fans are getting a better, more likable team that should be able to contend for the same amount as last year's crap team. So, once again, if the ticket sales are down, it must be the weather.
What do you say to people who can't afford to pay $60 a ticket or who think the ballpark concessions are too expensive?
We can't have everything we want in life. For instance, I wanted the state to fork over $250 million to us to renovate Wrigley Field and build a bunch of revenue-driving shops and stuff out on Clark Street, but it didn't happen. Did I whine and complain that the state wouldn't give me the money? Well sure I did, we're talking about $250 million being taken away from me and these people are complaining about $60 seats? Cry me a river. We went and provided plenty of cheap seats for people on budgets to come out to the ballpark, and did they show up for that Monday, April 4th game against the craptastic Diamondbacks? No. The 500 section up in the pigeon poop and spiderwebs was practically empty that day. And that was a pretty decent 47 degree day. That ain't bad for April in Chicago, so I'm not sure what else people want.
Tickets are being priced on the secondary market for what some people would call reasonable market prices, substantially below face value. Is that fair to the fans who paid full price, and do you plan to offer a discount to make it up to your best customers?
It is probably not fair to our best customers since they paid full price way back in January before all this weather nonsense got started, but let's face it, our best customers regularly bring their own baloney sandwiches with them to munch on while sitting in their crappy seat and cost us concession revenue. So I'm not all that inclined to bend over backwards for those people. Life isn't always fair, or so I've been told from people who don't have a billionaire father.
If ticket sales fail to rebound, who in this organization will take the fall for the disappointment?
Is Tom Skilling part of the organization? I think we may still have enough influence on the Tribune to get his ass fired. Otherwise, Todd says he knows a guy who fixes problems. That has nothing to do with anything, really. Todd just likes to brag.
Which is more likely to improve on a sustained basis: the Chicago weather or the Chicago Cubs?
I really think we are on the right course here. Ken Rosenthal also agrees with me, so I don't think there is any rational argument otherwise at this point. Our plan of trading away valuable members of the minor leagues while simultaneously relying on prospects taken way above their consensus draft slot to perform at the major league level can't possibly fail. I believe that. It's what gets me through the nights. Say, you wouldn't want to buy any Cubs tickets for the next homestand, would you? The weather should be much better. I've got bleachers, I've got Club Box, I've got all the good seats. Make me an offer. Please?


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I love Halloween. Can't believe it is over already. The kids had fun this year. Cache had a preschool Halloween party. He had to try on his costume every day and could not stop talking about how cool it was to be Mike Wazowski. Logan was the girl version of Sully and got to dress up and have a parade at school. They got to go around to the classrooms and sing them a Halloween song. The cutest thing to watch was how she wanted to include Cache in everything they were doing. She held his hand walking to the classrooms and danced with him at their dance party. She was sad when we had to leave because she wanted him to go to lunch with her. (With as much fighting as they have been doing lately it made me think they really do love each other lol) It was cute. Anyway, they both loved it.
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If you're looking for "perfect" muslims who never make any mistakes in their Jihad, then you will be looking in vain! If the Zionists and the Crusaders had never invaded and colonized the Islamic lands after WW1, then there would be no need for Jihad! Which is better, to sit around and do nothing, or to Jihad fisabeelallah!"
If it is true, is the Universe now calling for Allahu Akbar Days when people of color go out to attempt to preach messages of peace to Western racial terrorists on days when other messengers of peace have become martyrs?
"Because of their continued atrocities against us, the Racially Terroristic White American Regime and her allies have all the world's people of color gripped in fear," says New Collective Consciousness minister Hallowed Yclept.
"It is only through strength given by the Universe whereby any one would dare to even attempt to speak the righteousness of peace to them. Yet, in these sermons, who knows the miracles of God?"
Yclept says the West has defiled the "Allahu Akbar" presentation to suit its own terroristic agenda and that (in most cases) the West is responsible for planting evidence of explosive devises on the remains of preachers chosen by the Universe whom "He" the Universe might only glorify – unless mislead by The Devil. "No man would ever strap bombs to his person and claim to be of God or Allah."
SEE: Must Native Americans, Africans, African Amer-icans (Jews), Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Hatians, Koreans, Vietnamese, Arabs & Others Embrace Palin "Don't Retreat Re-load" & Bush "Preemptive Strike" Ideologies To Defeat White American Regime's Ongoing Race Based Economic Global Terrorism?


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|548-1, Cheongun-dong, Gyeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do
The Cheongunrisa Temple Site is in the middle of the rice field next to the Gyeongju World in Bomun Complex, and has two 3-storey stone pagodas. Nothing is known about the name of the temple or the exact year of its completion, but it is presumed that the temple was built during the era of Unified Silla, for the two pagodas bear the typical style of Silla stupas. The two pagoda have same style and dimension, but the West pagoda is in better condition than the East pagoda.
Three-storey Stone Pagodas in Cheongun-dong (천군동삼층석탑)Gyeongju | Cultural assets
Gyeongju World California Beach (경주월드 캘리포니아비치)Gyeongju | Leports
Skyworld Balloon Experience (스카이월드 열기구체험)Gyeongju | Leports
Gyeongju World Amusement Park (경주월드 어뮤즈먼트)Gyeongju | Tourist attractions
Sleigh Slope of Gyeongju World (경주월드 눈썰매장)Gyeongju | Tourist attractions
Tobot Junk Art Museum (또봇정크아트뮤지엄)Gyeongju | Tourist attractions
Silla Millenium Park (신라밀레니엄파크)Gyeongju | Tourist attractions
Wooyang Art Museum(우양미술관)Gyeongju | Cultural facilities
Culinary School of Korea History and Culture (한국역사문화음식학교)Gyeongju | Hands-on experience programs
Oksan Sesim Village (옥산 세심마을)Gyeongju | Hands-on experience programs
Bomun Tourist Complex (보문관광단지)Gyeongju | Tourist attractions
Gyeongju Bomun Shooting Range (경주보문관광실탄사격장)Gyeongju | Leports
Gyeongju Aquaworld in Daemyung Resort (대명리조트 경주아쿠아월드)Gyeongju | Leports
Gyeongju Healing Theme Park (경주힐링테마파크)Gyeongju | Tourist attractions
Jungang Market (중앙시장)Gyeongju | Traditional market
Geumgwanchong Tomb (금관총)Gyeongju | Cultural assets
Gyeongju Teddy Bear Museum(경주테디베어박물관)Gyeongju | Cultural facilities
Tomb of Seol Chong, the Lord of Jeonhongyu. (전홍유후설총묘)Gyeongju | Cultural assets
Flagpole Support with Lotus Design (연화문당간지주)Gyeongju | Tourist attractions
Gyeongju World Automobile Museum (경주세계자동차박물관)Gyeongju | Cultural facilities
Gyeongju Bird Park (경주 버드 파크)Gyeongju | Tourist attractions
Mangwolsa Temple (망월사)Gyeongju | Temples
Gyeongju Historic Area (경주역사유적지구)Gyeongju | Cultural assets
Gyeongju Folk Craft Village (경주민속공예촌)Gyeongju | Traditional market
Hanwha Resort HotSprings (경주한화리조트)Gyeongju | Resorts
Spring Dom of Hanwha Resort (한화리조트 스프링돔)Gyeongju | Resorts
Bomun Golf Club (보문골프클럽)Gyeongju | Leports
Royal Tomb of Queen Seondeok (선덕여왕릉)Gyeongju | Cultural assets
Gyeongju Buckwheat Flower Field ( 경주 메밀꽃 밭)Gyeongju |
Mangdeoksa Temple Site (망덕사지)Gyeongju | Temples
Hilton Gyeongju (힐튼 경주 호텔)Gyeongju | Hotels
The-K Hotel Gyeongju(더케이경주호텔)Gyeongju | Hotels
Ragung(라궁)Gyeongju | Hotels
Grand Youth Town (그랜드유스타운)Gyeongju | Training centers
Esageum Youth Hostel(이사금호스텔)Gyeongju | Training centers
BENIKEA Swiss Rosen Hotel(베니키아스위스로젠호텔)Gyeongju | Hotels
Book Home (북홈 경주)Gyeongju | Guesthouses
Gyeongju Tourist Hotel (경주관광호텔)Gyeongju | Hotels
Ilsung Gyeongju Bomun Condominium (일성경주콘도)Gyeongju | Resorts
Corea Condominium Gyeongju (한국콘도 경주)Gyeongju | Resorts
Hyundai Hotel Gyeongju (호텔현대 경주)Gyeongju | Hotels
Gyeongju Suite Hotel (경주스위트호텔)Gyeongju | Hotels
KB Pension (KB펜션)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Hanhwa Resort Gyeongju(경주한화리조트)Gyeongju | Resorts
Sil-La Hotel(신라가족모텔)Gyeongju | Motels
Kensington Resort (캔싱턴리조트)Gyeongju | Stay
Kensington Resort Gyeongju(켄싱턴리조트)Gyeongju | Resorts
Pension 4 Seasons (펜션 포시즌)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Bellus Rose Pension(벨루스로즈펜션)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Olive House Pension(올리브하우스)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Green Pension (그린펜션)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Byulbaragi Pension(별바라기펜션)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Pulbitgoun Pension (풀빛고운펜션)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Smile of Millenium (천년의미소)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Bomun Palace Pension(보문팰리스펜션)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Nangman Hong's Guesthouse (낭만홍게스트 하우스)Gyeongju | Guesthouses
Bulguksa Beautiful Pension(불국사아름다운펜션)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Pension Lohas (펜션 로하스)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Cabin House (캐빈하우스)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Jijunghae Pension(지중해펜션)Gyeongju | Pension (lodging)
Hyangrim Spicy Fish Stew (향림 매운탕)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Samson Black Soybean Noodles (삼손짜장)Gyeongju | Chinese food
Cafe on Cloud (구름위에카페)Gyeongju | Dessert
Fukuoka Hamburg Express (후쿠오카 함바그 엑스프레스)Gyeongju | Western food
Seomin Sikdang (서민식당)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Daeho Korean Table d'hote (대호한정식)Gyeongju | Full-course Korean meal
Hanuri Garden (한우리 가든)Gyeongju | Korean meat
Myeonghwalsan Garden (명활산가든)Gyeongju | Korean meat
Bob's Barbie (밥스 바비)Gyeongju | Western food
Coffee wa Chumeul Chuneun Namja (커피와 춤을 추는 남자)Gyeongju | Dessert
Metdol Soft Tofu(맷돌순두부)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Nakji Masil (낙지마실)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Hamyangjip (함양집)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Toham Folk Restaurant(토함 민속식당)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Tobaki (토박이)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Silla Traditional Leaf Wraps and Rice (신라전통쌈밥)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Plat 246 (프라 246)Gyeongju | Western food
Jeontong Millstone Soft Tofu (전통맷돌순두부)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Arirang Restaurant(아리랑)Gyeongju | Korean meat
Sehando (세한도)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Suseokjjeong (수석정)Gyeongju | Full-course Korean meal
Suseokjeong (수석정)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Gyejeong Korean Table d'hôte (계정한정식)Gyeongju | Full-course Korean meal
Cafe Maju (카페마주Gyeongju | Dessert
Suite Cream Hill (스위트크림힐)Gyeongju | Western food
Dareun Dal Cafe (카페 다른달)Gyeongju | Dessert
Geumseonggwan (금성관)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Sothebay Coffee (소더비)Gyeongju | Dessert
Tohamsan Restaurant (토함산식당)Gyeongju | General Korean food
Ssukbujaengi (쑥부쟁이)Gyeongju | Vegetarian diet


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I've recently picked a (???) 40% finished fal receiver and want to try and finish it! I'm having trouble finding prints that I trust! There are a couple on gunbroker but they will only accept money orders or certified checks and well, what a pita! Does anyone have a good print to share??? I would appreciate it very much!


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ISB Application 2009-10 Essay Analysis
The Admissions for the One Year PGP for the class of 2011 is now open. The application portal is also LIVE. Here is the link for the same. http://pgpapp.isb.edu/user/default.aspx
The application deadlines are:
Cycle 1 Application Deadline September 15, 2009
Cycle 2 Application Deadline December 1, 2009
I had written a note on previous years' Essays:
* Essay Analysis for Class of 2009
* Essay Analysis for Class of 2010
I did a simple analysis of this year' essays and provided a personal opinion on the same. Take this just as my personal opinion and ISB has no official connection with the same.
Essay 1: Give 3 reasons as to why you should be selected to the class of 2011. These reasons should ideally differentiate you from the applicant pool and should be backed with some data. (300 words max)
According to me, this is the most simple and at the same time, the most important question of all. You simply have to differentiate yourself but remember: You do not have to be an overachiever to differentiate yourself. You do not have to do something away from the normal to achieve differentiation. Just sit back, reflect on what you have done and you will find the answers. Here are some tips to find the answer:
1. Just imagine that all people from your industry or company are put in a room together. ISB has to pick one person of them. What selling points do you have?
2. Jot down everything that you have done since graduation, be it extra-curriculars, achievements at work, involvement in social clubs, etc.
3. Use post-its: Write one bullet point about yourself on one post-it each. This point need not be an achievement, but can be rather normal (to you). Spread them out. Now make three boxes marked "Personal", "Professional" and "Community". You can make different boxes, according to your needs. Now classify each post-it to a box so that you have 3 clusters in front of you. In each box, start removing the least important post-it. Repeat this activity for each box until you are left with only one post-it in each box. Here is your answer.
Some general pointer on the purpose behind this question
The batch strength of ISB is 560 and every B-school wants each student to bring something worthwhile to the community that he/she can contribute. Consider the fact that learning in an MBA environment is not limited to classroom. Peer learning forms an important part of education here. To achieve this, a B-school must ensure that its batch is diverse enough that each person contributes as much to in-class discussions as to outside classroom interactions. These diversity factors can be in terms of international work experience, excellent academics, good leadership initiatives, start-up experience, and so on.
Structure of the essay
In my opinion, do not give any introduction or ending summary. Just come straight to the point, considering 300 word limit. If you really want, just give a one-liner introduction mentioning the three factors that you are going to talk about. This introduction is important if you are blending the three points in the essay and not separately listing them out under different headings. There is no one right approach. Just write it with your heart and make it either a story like essay or 3 points under 3 headings. Both are fine. The important thing to remember here is to be precise.
Essay 2: Describe a challenging assignment you have handled (at work or outside) to date. What were the challenges and how did you handle them. What were the personal learnings you derived from this assignment. (300 words max)
Challenges contribute significantly in developing professional and personal maturity. Answer this essay with a story to describe a challenge that helped you gain a mature approach towards life and work. Just pick one story, keep it simple and short and focus more on the learning part. This is a great opportunity to highlight your resilience and ability to learn from even the most difficult circumstances. Basically, you have to highlight how you grew either because of the experience or in spite of it.
A suggested structure to this response can be
* Story – Describe the initial challenge
* Comment on your thoughts and actions in response. If applicable, comment in internal thoughts as well as external reactions to display the nature of the challenge
It is not necessary to have overcome the challenge. You may still be in the process or have failed to overcome it completely. But the positive change did that bring in you is more important. Remember that your thoughts and response to the challenge should display maturity, and a common theme of sincerity towards improvement should come out.
Essay 3: Briefly assess your career progression till date along with your assessment of your future career goals. Discuss how your career goals will be met by the ISB's one year program. (300 words max)
This is a very simple factual question. But the challenge here is put your story and future plans in 300 words. This exercise will take a lot of time and effort. In my opinion, the steps to structure this essay are:
* Jot down everything you have done till now in your professional life
* Answer a why to every decision that you took
* This should result in a chronological story with reasons for every step
* You have to tailor some things to show not that your decision was a consequence BUT because of your original plan, you took a decision. Basically, your decisions should be a consequence of your master plan
* Finally justify how an MBA fits into the overall plan regarding the next steps
* Now when everything is in place, put everything together. Make an attempt to bring out an interesting story that answers the reason of all your decisions and brings certain qualities evidently. Make sure that those qualities are coming out clearly and the user should not have to struggle to find those out.
* If space allows, you may also add a line or two about how an MBA from ISB specifically will help you. This answer will require some amount of research from your side regarding what ISB offers and how it fits into your expectations from an MBA program.
All the best for your application.


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Alan and Kat have provided the inspiration this week by posting a group photo of a wedding on the Sepia Saturday blog, so I had a rummage in my archives and came up with another photo of Granny from Great Granny's Album.
This one is particularly poignant as it shows Granny (on the right, being more sensible than usual) and her younger sister, Chrissie, (on the left) in their roles as bridesmaids to their older sister, Margaret. Margaret married George Thom in Perth on 26 October 1935. Granny would have been 26 and Chrissie would have been 22. They both look a lot younger than that to me. There has always been a striking resemblance between Granny and Auntie Chrissie – they both had the same eyes, cheekbones and red hair, but seeing this photo is quite a revelation. Back then it seems, Granny and Auntie Margaret had almost identical facial features – their eyebrows and smiles are very similar in the photo. We called Chrissie and Margaret "Auntie" because they were Dad's aunties, but they were actually our Great Aunties.
Granny died when I was only 3, but I can remember visiting her a few times, and I remember Auntie Chrissie and Auntie Margaret well. Auntie Chrissie never married, and was a sociable lady who attended the usual family functions with gusto until she was quite elderly. She was also a great letter-writer and kept in touch with many members of the family via the Royal Mail. Auntie Margaret was a typical Perthshire farmer's wife and lived in a cold stone farmhouse which we visited a few times a year on the way to see other Perthshire farming relatives – usually Dad's cousins. One year, on the way to the annual raspberry-picking fest (eat your own weight in raspberries, which we did), I was invited to stay overnight at Auntie Margaret's house while the rest of my family went off to the final destination. I'm guessing that I was about 5 or 6, and it seemed like a great idea at the time (they had a PIANO and a DOG – items which were on my Wish List) so it was agreed that I would stay the night with them. When it came to bedtime, despite the hot water bottle, I was inconsolable – I bawled my eyes out for my Mum and Dad, and must have been a real pain in the butt to my hosts. The dog tried to bite me every time I went into the kitchen, so I hung around in a corridor by the back door until Mum and Dad came to get me. I never got to play the piano, either. At that stage, I hadn't had any lessons, but I wanted to tinker with it – I thought it couldn't be that difficult. I found out otherwise a few years later 🙂


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Apple's newest mobile operating system, iOS 5, debuts Wednesday with an exhausting list of 200-plus new features. That's enough new stuff to keep you busy nerding out for weeks.
Apple iOS 5
iCloud is the bomb. Notifications Center is the best thing Apple's ripped off from Android yet. iMessage will save you coin, and piss off your carrier all at once. Upgrade is seamless.
Most of the improvements are only a big deal to people with multiple Apple devices. Reminders needs to hook up with Calender. Photostream and iCloud-powered device backup only work over Wi-Fi.
How We Rate
- 1/10A complete failure in every way
- 2/10Sad, really
- 3/10Serious flaws; proceed with caution
- 4/10Downsides outweigh upsides
- 5/10Recommended with reservations
- 6/10Solid with some issues
- 7/10Very good, but not quite great
- 8/10Excellent, with room to kvetch
- 9/10Nearly flawless
- 10/10Metaphysical perfection
And despite that, the software's focus is to cut the cord between your iOS device and your computer, so you can spend less time managing your digital content. With several interface improvements, new apps and new services, iOS 5's goal is to get us in and out of our iDevices more quickly.
Of the many new items, iCloud, Notifications Center, Reminders and iMessage are the most noteworthy. They all work together to streamline the way you access and share data between multiple devices, like your computer and your iPhone, to make your digital life tidier and easier to manage.
But one thing in particular makes iOS 5 feel like Apple's most ambitious mobile software update yet: iCloud. This is not Apple's first try at an online storage and synchronization service. MobileMe, iCloud's most recent predecessor, had a buggy launch that eventually resulted in an e-mail outage affecting thousands of customers. Critics dubbed the episode "MobileMess."
In his keynote speech introducing iOS 5, Steve Jobs promised that iCloud would "just work" — but not without owning up to the embarrassing failure of MobileMe.
"You might ask, why should we believe them?" Jobs said. "These are the people who brought us MobileMe."
The good news is that unlike MobileMe, iCloud does work fine with the key features in iOS 5, which suggests Apple may finally have a solid "cloud" solution on its hands.
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The iCloud service is integrated into some key aspects of iOS 5: photos, e-books, device backups, document storage and, of course, iTunes music.
I imagine that the most popular iCloud-powered feature among customers will be PhotoStream, an option you can toggle on to automatically synchronize photos across multiple devices. This was my favorite feature of iCloud. (Yes, Microsoft did this first with Windows Phone 7 and SkyDrive, and it worked about the same.)
On your iPhone, you toggle on PhotoStream and log in with your Apple ID, and then whenever you snap a picture, that same photo appears on your Mac or Windows PC through the PhotoStream channel. If you have an iPad running iOS 5, you can turn on PhotoStream and access your iPhone-taken photos there right away, too.
You no longer have to plug your iOS device into a computer with a USB cord (unless you really want to). Backups and synchronization can all happen on the device itself, as long as you've stored your data in iCloud.
It's kind of like having a camera with a magic photo roll — you snap your photo once, and you can access it immediately on multiple devices. That spares you the trouble of having to import photos manually just to see them on another screen. This also works as an automatic backup system: It's unlikely you'll lose photos in the future, because they'll be kept safe inside your PhotoStream.
My main complaint is that PhotoStream only kicks in when Wi-Fi is turned on, so if you're outdoors without access to a router, you'll have to wait till you get back home to transfer the photos over Wi-Fi to your PhotoStream. That's a lame limitation, and I suspect the carriers have something to do with it.
The other most useful iCloud feature is over-the-air backups for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Just by switching on "iCloud Backup," you can automatically back up device data over the internet.
Then if you lose your iPad, for example, and you take a brand-new one out of the box, you can log in to iCloud and tap "Restore from backup," and you'll have your apps, notes, calendar and everything back. I tested this on an iPad 2 running iOS 5, and it took only about 5 minutes to restore from a backup. It worked great. (Yes, this requires Wi-Fi, too.)
The big picture of iCloud's over-the-air device backup and restoration is that the days of "Connect to iTunes" are over. You no longer have to plug your iOS device into a computer with a USB cord (unless you really want to). Backups and synchronization can all happen on the device itself, as long as you've stored your data in iCloud.
The other aspects of iCloud are a little less interesting, though certainly welcome. If you're reading an e-book through iBooks on your iPhone, and you create a note, you can later pop open the same book on your iPad and see the same note.
Same goes for documents. Edit a Keynote presentation in the Keynote app on your iPhone, for example, and that edit will appear in Keynote app when you open the same presentation on your Mac. I was already doing this with Dropbox long before this feature's debut, so it's not very impressive to me, but it works fine.
iCloud also synchronizes your purchased content across devices. With iTunes music, if you buy a song through iTunes on your Mac, you can automatically download the same song onto your iPhone as well, without having to pay for it again. That's convenient, but I wish we could just store all our music on iCloud and stream the songs wirelessly instead, rather than have to download the files locally.
Same goes for apps — apps purchased on one device in the App Store can be downloaded on another iOS device through iCloud.
iCloud is also integrated into the Apple calendar apps now, so when you create a calendar event, it shows up in the calendar app on your other Apple devices, too.
Overall, in its current state, iCloud is mostly beneficial for people who own an Apple family of products: a Mac and at least one iOS device. I doubt Windows users will get much out of iCloud, because the only easily usable feature available to them is PhotoStream.
And that's really Apple's goal: to reel you into its ecosystem with the convenience of iCloud. If you own an iPhone, now it makes more sense than ever to have a Mac and an iPad, versus a Windows PC and an Android tablet, just to take advantage of iCloud.
You get 5 GB of free space for iCloud. Your PhotoStream, music, apps, e-books and TV shows don't count against your free storage.
Better usability
The other parts of iOS 5 focus on improving user interface, namely with the Notifications Center and Reminders apps.
Notifications Center is designed to make iOS less of a naggy experience, by putting all your alerts in one quiet place.
The Notifications Center is the best new feature in iOS 5. Indeed, it looks a lot like Android's notifications center, though with a little more polish. It's designed to make iOS less of a naggy experience, by putting all your alerts in one quiet place.
The way iOS used to work was, if you were in the middle of something such as playing a game and you received a text message, an annoying blue box with the message popped up in the middle of the screen, stopping the action and interrupting you.
With the new Notifications Center, the message will instead appear in a less obtrusive strip at the top of the screen, and you can tap on it to reply to the message.
That's how all notifications work now in iOS 5. If you get a new Facebook message, the alert appears in the Notifications Center. If someone Likes your photo on Instagram, that appears in your Notifications Center. You can look at all the notifications in a neat list if you just swipe your finger down from the top of the screen.
The other major new app is Reminders, which acts like a to-do list with an alarm system. You can create a reminder to call your wife at 3 p.m. when you leave work, and as you step out of the office, that reminder will pop up. Or you can just create a reminder to do something at a certain time, like sending an e-mail to your coworker tomorrow at 9 a.m. The reminders are displayed in a check list.
To be frank, I didn't really get what the point of Reminders was until Apple showed off the iPhone 4S with Siri. It's insanely easy to create a reminder just by talking to Siri: "Remind me to write review on iOS 5 on Monday," for example. Therefore, I believe that iPhone 4S customers will really enjoy Reminders the most. Everyone else though will probably view it as a ho-hum to-do list.
I generally don't like that Reminders is basically a separate events organizer from Calendar. The two apps do not work together, so you have to launch Reminders just to look at your to-do list for the day, and then launch Calendar to look at your meetings for the day. I'd prefer if Reminders were integrated into the Calendar app to get an all-in-one view of what I have to do all month.
iPhone customers are going to love iMessage, and carriers are going to hate it.
Another nifty addition is iMessage. Now you can set your text-messages to send from your iTunes ID e-mail address instead of your phone number. So when you send a text to another friend with iMessage turned on, it shows up as a blue chat bubble, and it doesn't count as a text message in your cellphone plan. If you send a text to someone who doesn't have an iPhone or iMessage, the chat bubble is green, meaning it counts as an SMS from your cellular plan.
iPhone customers are going to love iMessage, and carriers are going to hate it.
What else is new? Subtle differences, mainly.
The iPad's Safari browser now has tabs to easily switch between different webpages, just like most desktop browsers do today.
There's also a new option to split the iPad keyboard in half and lift it to the middle of the screen, so you can type with your thumbs. I still prefer typing in landscape mode with all my fingers, but I think people who have to stand while typing on the iPad, such as doctors, will use this feature most.
On the iPhone, you can now launch the camera from the lock screen, as opposed to having to unlock the phone and open the Camera app. To get to the shortcut, you just press the Home button twice, and a small camera icon appears in the bottom-right corner. You can also snap the photo using the Volume button.
Additionally, the Photos album app now includes editing tools for quick touch-ups like red-eye removal, to spare you the need to launch a separate app just to apply minor edits. These are tiny improvements to make taking pictures a faster experience.
Stable, painless, and free
Upgrading from iOS 4 to iOS 5 was a smooth experience for me, and I didn't notice any major bugs. The biggest reason everyone should download this software update is iCloud. Just start setting up your iOS device(s) and Mac to use iCloud, and at some point you'll never have to manually sync with iTunes again.
The second biggest reason you should get this software update is that it's free. I mean, what's stopping you? Plus, the Notifications Center and iMessage are must-haves.
The new iOS 5 software and iCloud are impressive version-one products. However, only time will tell whether Apple's new online service remains stable when millions of customers plug in to iCloud in the coming weeks. That will be the next big test.
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Parker, Neal score 22 in Spurs' win over Bucks
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Tony Parker and Gary Neal each scored 22 points, and the San Antonio Spurs had a season-high 53 rebounds in a 110-99 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night.
Tim Duncan added 17 points and 10 rebounds for San Antonio (15-4). Tiago Splitter had 15 points, Manu Ginobili scored 11 and Matt Bonner had a season-high 12 rebounds.
Monta Ellis had 21 points and 11 assists for Milwaukee (8-9). Brandon Jennings added 14 points and Ersan Ilyasova scored all of his 17 points in the first half.
San Antonio outrebounded Milwaukee 53-36, including a 28-17 advantage in the second half.
The Spurs went on a 36-15 run bridging the final two quarters to pull away from the Bucks.
San Antonio closed the third on a 12-6 spurt fueled by 3-pointers from Bonner, Ginobili and Nando De Colo. A defensive goaltending call against Larry Sanders on a layup by De Colo gave the Spurs a 78-76 lead, their first since late in the first half.
The Spurs opened the game by missing their first 11 attempts before Parker banked in a runner with eight minutes left in the opening quarter. The Spurs offset that poor shooting with 11 rebounds.
Ilyasova scored eight straight points for the Bucks in a two-minute span late in the first quarter, besting his season average of 6.9.
Every active Spurs player with the exception of James Anderson scored for San Antonio, which needed the balanced scoring with Danny Green, Stephen Jackson, Kawhi Leonard and Patty Mills all sitting out with injuries.
Notes: San Antonio recalled G Cory Joseph and G De Colo after assigning both to the team's NBDL team in Austin to get some playing time. De Colo was assigned to the Toros on Sunday, scored 14 points in 39 minutes that night and was recalled Monday. . San Antonio hosts Houston on Friday before opening a four-game road trip Saturday in Charlotte. The Spurs have three road trips of at least four games in the first 45 days of their season. Their nine road wins are the most by any team in the NBA this season. Oklahoma City is second with six.


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December 13: International That Guy Day, Speak with a British Accent Day (UK)
- 10000 BC - Ug Nug Fug Nug is born, the famous musician responsible for the creation of the violin and other various sexually orentated musical instruments (ie the sexualin).
- 1067 - William the Conqueror invades the previously uninvaded British Aisles.
- 1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London. Screaming bitches heard from miles around, causes widespread riots.
- 1808 - Count Henrich von Flammenweffer invents Lava as a way of preventing skiers from taking over his favourite mountains in the winter.
- 1939 - Adolf Hitler invents oral sex and asks his enemies to blow him.
- 1940 - The French blow Adolf Hitler.
- 1942 - No people born on December the 13th, due to National No-Birthdays day. Experts attribute this phenomenon as having to do with a worldwide feeling of "I don't feel like getting any ass today" in mid March.
- 1992 - Bob like pie
- 1992 - Someone actually ate my shorts.
- 2002 - Fraidai the 13th, Satan renamed Hell to "Bloody Hell"
- 2003 - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein found hiding in a camel hole during Operation Bomb-The-Towel-Headed-Sand-Brigand, and captured.
- 2003 - SARS becomes the new iPod.
- 2005 - On the twelfth day of Christmas, My true love gave to me, A summons from the local JP...
- 2008 - Uncyclopedia was teleported into an alternate universe where this sentence did not exist. It was returned to normal just now.
- 2012 - Dyslexic people celebrate that the world didn't end with the Mayan calendar yesterday. Everyone else still nervous.
- Today - That guy realizes that this is the only one about him even though it's his day and gets really really mad.


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The photograph shows what appears to be some sort of viewing platform, occupied by a number of people, mounted on a tower standing in water, apparently in a bay, as a shoreline with buildings is vaguely visible in the background. However, ripples in the water suggest some movement, either of the water, or of the contraption itself, and this appears to be supported by the inscriptions handwritten in purple ink. On the front, it states, "Passes between St Malo(?) & ...(?)" - unfortunately the last part of the inscription has vanished along with torn corner of the cdv.
On the reverse, also in purple handwriting, "It goes by Machinery - I passed over it last year & again this year twice Aug 1882 It takes about 3 minutes to cross its only 1 sous." I believe the handwriting is that of my gg-grandfather Henry Payne (1842-1907). This suggests that it is the contraption which moves, rather than the ripples being produced by a water current.
I knew that he travelled to the United States in February-March 1880 and had returned to England with his family by November, as described in this article. However, I wasn't aware of any trips to the continent, as suggested by the reference to St Malo. A quick look at maps for northern France suggest that the destination of the contraption could have been Dinard, situated on the other side of the bay from St Malo. I used Google Maps' very handy Street View facility to check out the geography of the bay, and it seems quite possible that contraption was travelling from St Malo to Dinard.
I wonder if any other readers have come across anything like this extraordinary contraption, and can enlighten us further. I assume it was a tourist attraction of some sort.


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More than 1,000 people — Sikhs and non-Sikhs alike — flocked to Surrey's Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Tuesday evening for a vigil honouring those slain in Sunday's Wisconsin temple shooting.
Amid broadcast chants of "there is one God," priests, politicians and families began gathering before 6 p.m. to denounce hate crimes and express their appreciation for Canada's multicultural society.
"Anytime something like this happens anywhere in the world in our community, it doesn't matter where it is, we just get together in solace," said Surrey resident Sanmukh Sidhu, 22, who came to the gurdwara with his family to remember the six victims of Sunday's attack.
He said he hasn't experienced much discrimination as a Sikh growing up in Canada, but friends in San Jose, Calif. often face discrimination based on their appearance.
"Absolutely it's more normal for them [to be discriminated against], especially if you have a turban and a beard and everything," Sidhu said. "It's easy [for discrimination to prosper] because people don't educate themselves."
Bus driver Kamalbir Singh Randhawa said he brought his family to the vigil hoping to pray for all of humanity.
Though he remembers racist slurs being hurled at him during his highschool days in Burnaby and a couple minor run-ins on his Vancouver bus routes Randhawa said discrimination in Canada is a much smaller problem in Canada.
Margaret Byrne, 70, a self-described "very fallen away Catholic" said she felt it important to come to show her support for the Sikh community at the vigil.
"If I can go to their wonderful [Vaisakhi] parade every year, I can come to this and say I'm sorry," the retired EEG technologist said. "We all live together in this world, our religion shouldn't matter and our Indian community has given a lot to our province and our country.
"I don't care what anyone's religion is but you don't go into a house of prayer [and commit violence.]"
After a short ceremony, participants moved to the langar hall, or communal kitchen, for food and to write messages of support and condolence on large paper message boards ringing the room. The messages will be sent to the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, where Sunday's shootings took place. Donations were collected, which will be sent to Wisconsin along with a gift of $5,000 from the Surrey temple to help with various costs.
Five men and one woman, all Sikhs, were killed in the shooting, as well as the alleged gunman, 40-year-old Wade Michael Page. Page was discharged from the armed forces more than a decade ago and more recently was a member of two white power bands whose songs included lyrics glorifying racial domination
The FBI is examining what prompted the shooting and its investigation is a "national priority" said Vancouver's American Consul-General Anne Callaghan, who attended the vigil.
"When we see one group targeted like this, we're appalled at this kind of senseless violence," she said.
The temple shooting, less than three weeks after a gunman opened fire in a Colorado movie theatre, killing 12 people, has forced Americans to reflect on their culture of gun ownership and violence, Callaghan said.
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered flags to be flown at half-mast until Friday to honour the victims.


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Native Americans Are Being Killed by Police at a Higher Rate Than Any Other Group
These deaths are rarely covered in the media, but now, Native groups are organizing for justice in a growing Native Lives Matter movement. MORE
Welcome To The Next Incarnation of the Bernie Sanders Campaign
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Pramila Jayapal was one of the first down-ballot candidates to receive Bernie Sanders' endorsement—and now she's advancing to the November election, where she's expected to easily win the heavily Democratic… MORE
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Troy Davis' death on Sept. 21, 2011, transformed Occupy and kindled Black Lives Matter. MORE
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Filmed entirely in Kaqchikel, Jayro Bustamante's new movie explores a clash between reproductive rights and tradition. MORE
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The Stories We Live By: Why the White Working Class Votes Conservative
In Strangers in Their Own Land, sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild travels south to study what gives conservative ideology its power. MORE
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A sociologist's new book reveals how the ultra-rich starve public coffers and undermine democracy. MORE
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From Collection to Community: The Transformation of Detroit's Iconic, 30-Year Public Art Project
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The Hairdresser of Plaistow
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Should Silicon Valley Really Be Allowed To Decide What Is and Isn't Hate Speech?
The internet is a bastion of free speech—but that's not always a good thing. MORE
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Stein's Green Party run doesn't offer a plan to win, or to build power. The Left is capable of so much more. MORE
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