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Amazon.com, the Internet retailer known for its massive book sales, started delivering groceries Wednesday directly to consumers' doorsteps on Mercer Island as part of a pilot program that's expected to include pickup service in Bellevue and Kirkland.
"It's just starting out, and it's very small. We are in the early-stage beta test, and it's a better way to serve our grocery customers," said Craig Berman, an Amazon.com spokesman. "We are offering a great selection and great prices at a really convenient experience."
Berman said Amazon Fresh is a continuation of the gourmet food business the company started in 2003 and the dry grocery service begun last summer.
Berman said Amazon Fresh would offer items found in a local grocery store, including organic and non-organic fruits and vegetables, dairy products, ice cream, meat, fish, health and personal care items, cereal, chips and soda.
The program lets customers order online and then have the products delivered the next day during a one-hour time slot of their choosing.
There is also a "sleep tight" service that delivers goods in a temperature-controlled tote by 6 a.m. Customers eventually will be able to make same-day orders and retrieve goods at pickup locations, with the first sites at yet-to-be announced locations in Kirkland and Bellevue.
Berman declined to speculate whether Amazon Fresh would someday deliver other Amazon.com products, such as "Harry Potter" books.
With a dozen Amazon Fresh refrigerated trucks, the company for the first time is delivering products directly to the doors of customers instead of relying on a third-party service such as UPS or the U.S. Postal Service.
Berman said a small number of Mercer Island residents were asked by e-mail to participate in the test and that deliveries could grow "once we feel we can provide every customer the experience they will demand of us." He said Mercer Island was chosen because of its compact geographical location.
"It's right in our backyard, and it's a market we know," Berman said. "This is a great location for starting small. Starting in our backyard affords us the opportunity to evaluate how it's going."
The latest venture for Amazon.com, which has 41 product categories that include DVDs, exercise equipment and toys, comes six years after the demise of grocery delivery services Webvan and Kozmo.
However, it's not entirely uncharted waters for the Seattle-based Internet giant.
Amazon.com in 1999 invested $42.5 million in HomeGrocer.com, the Kirkland online grocery business that was eventually sold to Webvan and imploded in July 2001 during the dot-com bust.
Amazon.com also reportedly pumped $60 million into Kozmo.com, an online delivery service whose bicycle messengers and scooter drivers buzzed soda pop, movies and other items to consumers in less than an hour. Kozmo.com abruptly shut down service in nine cities in April 2001 after burning through about $280 million.
Berman declined to compare Amazon Fresh with Webvan and Kozmo.com.
Amazon.com tried to recruit Terry Drayton, founder of HomeGrocer, to help run Amazon Fresh, but months of negotiations broke down last summer, Drayton said.
Drayton said he has a great deal of confidence in the Amazon.com brand, but he's concerned about the company's attempt to drop off groceries at central locations instead of only at homes.
"I can't believe they will do a local pickup. That's one of those things everyone thinks is a great idea except the customers," Drayton said. "People want you to deliver to their kitchen counters. ... What (customers) really want is the store to come to them."
If Amazon Fresh expands, it could compete with grocery chains Albertsons and Safeway, which also offer online shopping and delivery services.


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The Weekly Source Code 30 - Spark and NHaml - Crazy ASP.NET MVC ViewEngines July 21, '08 Comments [20] Posted in ASP.NET | ASP.NET MVC | Source Code Sponsored By I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you thirtieth in a infinite number of posts of "The Weekly Source Code." Spark I'm really enjoying the extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC, but not as much as some people. Spark is a really promising ViewEngine from Louis DeJardin. You can download Spark here and join the mailing list here. Not only is it promising, it's also freaky. Freaky in that good, makes-you-think way. Louis says "The idea is to allow the html to dominate the flow and the code to fit seamlessly." When he says HTML should dominate the flow, he's not kidding. Check this out:

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 and the each attribute are not controls, or parts of controls or runat=server or whatever. This is a complete ViewEngine. It's a templating language in and of itself. (As are most ViewEngines, although it's not an obvious point to a lot of folks getting started with ASP.NET MVC or any MVC Framework) That means that Louis has complete control of what the syntax is, and as you can see, it's somewhere in between HTML and Something Else. He's still changing the syntax based on feedback, so this is your chance to get involved. Here's Louis' Northwind "Listing By Category" page:<viewdata model="IList[[Product]]" CategoryName="string"/>${PageTitle(CategoryName)}<CategoryMenuItems category="ViewData.Model.Select(p=>p.Category).FirstOrDefault()"/>
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 on the next line. The "jump into code block" is usually ${ } rather than <% %> which I find nice visually. However, Spark is all about choice, so you can use EITHER ${ } or <% %>. Whatever makes you happy. Also, check out the <CategoryMenuItems> tag. What's that? That's a partial view-file that gives you clean partial rendering. If you have a partial view file that are starts with an underscore, then you can call that from a regular view using its name as a tag. You can see two partial view files in the screenshot at right. It's really just a really pretty syntactic sugar over include files. Neat though! Go check out Spark and hear more at Louis' Blog. NHaml The deeply awesome Andrew Peters created NHaml (part of MVCContrib), an ASP.NET View Engine using the Haml syntax from Ruby. I've been showing Andrew's stuff as an extreme example of what a ViewEngine could look like. For example, here's a standard "Listing by Category" page using the built-in WebForms ViewEngine, written using NHaml. Notice the lack of angle brackets. Notice that the UL tag never ends...it just leaves scope. The whitespace is significant. Haml users feel strongly about not repeating themselves, even in markup. They want "Markup Haiku."#foo - foreach (var product in ViewData) - if (product.Category.CategoryName != null) %h2=product.Category.CategoryName - break %ul.productlist - foreach (var product in ViewData) %li = Html.Image("/Content/Images/" + product.ProductID + ".jpg", product.ProductName) .productdetail =Html.ActionLink(product.ProductName, "Detail", new { ID=product.ProductID }) %br Price: =String.Format("{0:C2}", product.UnitPrice) %span.editlink ( =Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { ID=product.ProductID }) ) Other cool View Engines include Castle's Fork of NVelocity and Brail (in MVCContrib). Related Links ASP.NET MVC - WebForms Unplugged The Weekly Source Code 20 - A Web Framework for Every Language MVCContrib and NHaml Spark MVC ViewEngine Technorati Tags: MVC,ASP.NET,NHaml,Spark About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By Comments [20] Share on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or use the Permalink

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Regular-season standings have been finalized for the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Racquetball Conference and Liberty University's racquetball team finished first in the combined standings with 4,346 points. The Flames held off second-place North Carolina State University (4,021) and ranked well ahead of third-place University of North Carolina (1,680) and fourth-place University of Virginia (1,624).
Liberty's women's team placed first in the conference standings with 1,866 points, ahead of runner-up N.C. State (1,210. Lady Flames senior Brooke Morley (450 points) ranked first among all the conference's players and freshman Abby Lindsey (280) finished in third place. The rest of the Lady Flames — freshman Monica Elder (fifth, 225), senior Courtney Sharp (sixth, 134), freshman Katherine Aylett (eighth, 97), and sophomore Meredith Blake (10th, 75) — all ranked among the top 10 women.
Meanwhile, Liberty's men placed second in the conference with 2,480 points, behind only the Wolfpack (2,811). The Flames' top three players — Ryan Evans (sixth, 327), Eric Piering (ninth, 275), and Joel Denney (10th, 250) — all finished ranked among the top 10 men's players in the conference.


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Over the last year the ISS has increased considerably in size. It is already starting to look much like it will in 2010 when assembly is complete.
The first task of the next International Space Station (ISS) phase is to attach the Italian-built Node 2 connector, to which the European Columbus laboratory will be mated.
This will be carried out by the STS-120 crew, including ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, who will fly with Node 2 onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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While I'm not sure others did, I totally got the joke.
I saw people responding to the Progressive Conservatives' White Paper on higher education and thought, "Boy, they're going to be embarrassed when they realize that this is a joke."
As the party panders to elitists, there are many clues dropped into the paper that can be hard to spot for your average Joe Blow journalist. Most Ontarians may think that Hudak's proposal should be taken seriously.
Luckily, I'm no Joe Blow. I spent a solid six minutes identifying these clues so that you don't have to sound like an idiot the next time you mention this plan to your local PC MPP at the Victoria Day Long-Weekend Fair. (In Georgetown, that event was called the Bang-o-rama. No one wants to look like a moron in front of Ted Chudleigh at the Bang-o-rama).
The paper, called Paths to Prosperity offers eleven paths that would drastically change how university and college education is delivered. Clue number 1 that this is a joke? One cannot take eleven paths at the same time.
Obviously penned by a staff writer at The Onion, Paths to Prosperity contains 10 other references that indicate that none of the document should be taken seriously. For example, it hilariously refers to private careers colleges as, "one of our most efficient paths to employment" (clue number 2: no they aren't, though they are a path to lots of student debt).
The 24-page document starts off with a letter from Hudak that says, "[PSE] gives us all a chance to reach higher…." This is clue number 3: Reaching Higher has been the name given to the Liberal's higher education policies since 2006. Had this not been written in jest, surely the pale and awkward fellow writing on Hudak's behalf at PC HQ would have been caned by now.
Clue number 4 is that the Globe and Mail quoted the CEO of Colleges Ontario as having "lauded" the recommendation. Despite all other sectoral stakeholders agreeing that allowing colleges to slap the label "degree" on their diplomas is a stupid idea, CO's unfettered support for anything that leads them closer to the rank of "real" administrator (like the president of Algoma University), is a clue that this document cannot be serious.
The PCs also include a graph that they cite from the Drummond Report, which Drummond cites as being from the Ontario Undergrad Student Alliance (OUSA). It represents the percentage change of several university costs over five years, in a pie graph. This is clue 5. Remember when you were young and you learned about graphs and you wanted to make everything into a pie graph even if there was no 100% total for the pie to be whole? Well, OUSA got all Grade 3 on us and made a graph that expresses several years of inflationary changes as 100% of something, then divides the pie to demonstrate that (shockingly!) professors' salaries have been the largest point of growth. Maybe its because there has been more professors hired to handle the tens of thousands of new students in the system. Maybe its because professors get wages that have been agreed to by administrators through collective bargaining. Either way, a pie isn't the way for an adult to represent this data. The authors must have snuck it in because it would be hilarious. Which it is.
Clue 6 is that they entirely neglected to talk about research, the core of the academic mission of all universities and, increasingly, colleges. That would be like presenting six streams to improve dairy farming in Ontario and forgetting to mention cattle feed or pasteurization. Or like analyzing this paper and pretending that it's real.
Crazier than that, clue 7, is that they actually argue that many universities should stop doing research. You know, become more like colleges. Which makes sense in the context of clue 8, the promise to allow high school students to earn college credits from their high school credits.
With high school the new college and college the new university, we're left to assume that in Hudak's world, marriage is the new dating and retirement home flings are the new marriage. And then we die at 130 years old.
You probably didn't read that far into the document, as it's really hard to get through, but by this point, the joke is obvious.
For the few who are still reading, and who may still take this piece of satire for reality, the PCs envelop our critical faculties in the end with a black hole devoid of intellectual matter.
Their big idea is to tie student loans to the academic success of students. So, if you get As, you get more loans. If you fail, you're out of loans. This would create a world-class system where the dumbest rich kids and the smartest poor kids could hopefully study together, breed together and cancel out the politically worst elements of society for the Progressive Conservative Party. Actually, while this is clue 9, it's the only point that actually makes sense. A possible Freudian slip from the PC satirist author.
The penultimate clue, 10, is that they argue for elite education to cost more and regulated by out-of-touch, non-elected, unaccountable university Boards of Governors rather than government. This will mean a whole lot more rich kids will become lawyers, regardless of their thinking capacities, and a whole lot more poor kids will go to college, study online or not go to school at all.
If you were looking for the ultimate social experiment when income segmentation is intensified, the PCs got you.
Unlike Shakespeare, who littered his plays comic relief to save us from the depressing worlds of Macbeth and King Lear, the PCs have pulled a full-on SNL with Pathways to Prosperity, even down to the fact that the document runs a little long and the joke becomes tired before the end of the sketch.
Unfortunately, there will be people who don't think this is farce. There will be people who claim to believe that these proposals would improve higher education, like Linda Franklin at Colleges Ontario, whose job is to parrot the megalomaniacal intentions of the Senecas of the world to become the Yorks of the world, at all costs to the quality they deliver.
If these recommendations were serious, they would not only not improve any aspect of the higher education system. Like Glen Murray's hair-brained scheme "three cubed," this White Paper would effectively block middle-income youth from universities, low-income youth from anything and give rich kids more of a free pass than they currently have.
But, it has to be satire. No one in their right mind would call a policy paper with implications such as these, a "White" paper in a non-ironic way (clue 11).


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I work on a number of open source projects, and many of them use the Subversion version control system to manage their code. Before my switch from Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux (which I am still ecstatically happy with btw), I became a big fan of TortoiseSVN, an extremely useful Subversion client that integrates itself directly into Windows Explorer.
TortoiseSVN is simple to use, very intuitive, and does everything I need from it. You simply right click on a folder you want to store your checked out files in, give it the URL of the Subversion server, and it checks out the code, updates it, checks it back in (if you have permission), performs file diffs ….. basically everything you need to do is integrated right in with your file browser.
So, I miss this in Ubuntu, as TortoiseSVN is Windows only. However, I recently found a replacement, which integrates nicely with Nautilus, the Ubuntu file browser. While it is not as slick as TortoiseSVN, it works in a very similar way. You right click on a folder, and have a selection of SVN operations you can perform.
See http://marius.scurtescu.com/2005/08/24/nautilus_scripts_for_subversion for details.
One thing that is missing from this is the display of icons in the file browser (Nautilus) to inform you of the state of a file – checked out, modified, not added to source control etc. Another person has developed a solution to this, which unfortunately I have not, yet, been able to get working, but perhaps you will have more luck.
See http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2006/09/12/extremely-noddy-tortoisesvn-for-the-gnome-desktop for details on this.
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Many instances of compaction develop around older trees through pedestrian or vehicular traffic. While the source of compaction may not be very close to the trees, continued use of sidewalks and driveways radiate the effects of compaction to the surrounding area. When the tree has been in place 10 to 30 years and compaction is beginning to take its toll, options for help are limited. One technique that has proven to provide some relief is known as "vertical mulching" or "vertical trenching." This technique operates under the assumption that increased air penetration into the soil creates a microclimate of oxygen for the roots.
Have utilities marked in the area surrounding the tree(s) to be trenched. To make the process as beneficial as possible, make sure the trencher penetrates fairly deeply, avoiding any power, gas or water lines.
Determine what you will backfill the trench with. There is some debate about the best material, but one study shows that using pulverized backfill vs. sand vs. highly organic topsoil can produce the same results because all create more air spaces than were present before.
The trenches should begin 10 feet away from the trunk and radiate out from the trunk. There is no set recipe for length or depth of the trench. Some projects call for trenches to be dug 10-feet long × 2-feet deep × 4-inches wide; others call for trenches anywhere from 4 to 24 inches wide and 12 to 18 inches deep.
Work slowly to avoid cutting roots larger than 1 inch in diameter.
Backfill the trenches with the material of your choice, then mulch and water around the area. As with all tree fertilization, there is some disagreement on whether to fertilize or not. If you chose to fertilize, use a balanced fertilizer.
The process does not remove large quantities of soil compared to the root zone itself. For instance, the area under a tree that is 20-feet wide, 20-feet long and 2-feet deep would have a soil volume equal to 800 cubic feet. Trenching 10-feet long by 4-inches wide by 2-feet deep would remove/loosen/treat 6.7 cubic feet of soil. If you dug five trenches around the tree, the volume would equal 33 cubic feet or 4 percent of the total volume. Could this save the tree? Chances are that the increased, localized oxygen and optimum microenvironment for root development may be the boost your compaction-damaged tree needs to survive.
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The Samsung Galaxy S11 will have some similarities with the Galaxy Note 10 as far as the design is concerned. Thanks to the famous leakster Ice Universe, aka Universelle, which has shared the screen protector images of Samsung Galaxy S11. Bear in mind, these leaked images of Galaxy S11 are only samples, not original pictures.
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According to the leaked images of Galaxy S11's screen protector, the Samsung Galaxy S11 expected to have a centered punch-hole and slim bezels. The Galaxy S11 will offer a power button and volume rockers on the right side, and it will not have a headphone jack like Galaxy Note 10. As a reminder, the Galaxy S11 is expected to have a 6.7 inches curved edge-to-edge Super AMOLED display that could support QHD+ resolution with a 120Hz refresh rate. Under the hood, the phone will power by Exynos 9830 SoC as well as up to 12GB of RAM. The photography lovers will get the quad-camera setup with an improved primary sensor. It will pack a 4,500 mAh battery that could support up to 25W for quick charging.
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Raymond and his exuberant garden designs have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, House & Garden, Metropolitan Home, and Design New England. His broad plant palette ensures that his gardens go from peak to peak Spring through Fall, while his acute sense of space combines with a keen interest in foliage and form, bark and berry, to ensure that his landscapes maintain their interest right through the Winter.
A flower lover at the core, he's nonetheless unafraid to speak plainly about the impracticality of relying on flowers alone for garden interest. "In New England, it's a triumph to have even one thing in bloom in any given week, month after month after month. So it's best to think of flowers as the icing on the cake. Delicious indeed, but the heart of your garden's appeal must be in its plants' form and foliage, as well as overall layout."
Raymond served for six years as the design manager of the New England Spring Flower Show, which draws more than 100,000 people a year, and his portfolio includes work from Montreal and Manhattan to the Caribbean. Favorite projects include New York's legendary Turtle Bay Gardens, the eye-popping gardens for owners of a rare Gustav Stickley house in Wellesley, MA, and a massive waterfront estate in Narragansett, RI. For other projects, visit his website, www.RGardening.com.
Raymond is not shy about expressing his beliefs: "Naturalism is for wusses. People use it as an excuse to plant things willy-nilly." While he has always had a fondness for plants and gardening, Raymond, who is 56, took the scenic route to his current vocation. By the time he was 25 he had already earned baccalaureate degrees in chemistry, piano, and voice—and still found time for a couple of years of medical school along the way— before launching successful careers as an opera singer and a freelance writer. By 30 he had retired from both to take up the trowel as a garden designer.
One reviewer described the riotously-expansive gardens at Raymond's country home in Rhode Island as "pyrotechnic." Many hundreds of varieties of indigenous, exotic, and tropical plants cavort within its strictly-formal layout. It's where Raymond celebrates both his successes and failures, learning from each. "To have a garden of this intensity is freakishly rare," he said. "I can only do it because it's my business, so I don't have to hire myself. My gardens are a big lab to figure out every possibility for what we can grow here in New England."
The Centerbrook Architecture Series is sponsored by Centerbrook Architects (www.centerbrook.com).


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Thursday, April 29, 2010
Thingy Thursday
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I admit freely, easily, even, to anyone who asks: I'm a collector slash hoarder slash "if-you-don't-want-it-I'll-take-it" kinda chick. If someone put it in a garage sale, I bought. If someone trashed it, I dumpster dived it. There is not a minimalist bone in my body. I come by this green-recycler-obsessive-compulsive behavior, not because I abhor overflowing landfills (which I do,) but because I'm neurotic - and I'm only sorta kidding here.
So, to make myself feel better about all that, I've decided to add a new weekly post to the blog beginning in May. It will be called "Thingy Thursday" and as the name suggests, it will serve as a vehicle to showcase collectors and the "thingies" they collect. The plan is to begin with my own personal collections next Thursday, followed by Lynn Goldfinger-Abram of Paris Boutique Hotel, Stan Williams, author of The Find (aka The Elegant Thrifter) on the following Thursdays. Others that have agreed to share their "thingys" are Victoria Smith of sfgirlbybay, Diana Durkes of Fine Diving Chicago and Jessica Enig of Such Pretty Things.
If you would like to play and show off your "thingies", just email me and I can send you the profile questions.
See you next Thursday!
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Want It Wednesdays: Citizen Cane
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Photos courtesy 1stdibs, The Antique and Artisan Center, vandm.com, L.A. Goods, WorthPoint
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Olivia's Mad Hatter Half Birthday Tea Party
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I'd like to begin this post with a story about my aunt, my mom and my daughter, Olivia. Olivia has many fans, her great aunt and grandmother being two with the title of "The Biggest." One is her NanNan, a 68-year-old connoisseur of all things luxurious with whom she shares a passion for haute couture, poetry and Rod Stewart. The other is her Grandmommy, a 78-year-old giver of hugs and kisses with whom she shares the love of baking, good family stories and Gone With the Wind . . . . other than her brother, Liv would rather be with NanNan and Grandmommy more than pretty much any two people in the world, including me.
The result of this bond results in lots of wonderful gifts and experiences being given to both of my babies - the most recent of these being a "Mad Hatter Half Birthday Party" at the Tea Embassy here in Austin thrown by Olivia's NanNan and Grandmommy. Along with our marvelous teas, we had delicious morsels to nosh on from Austin Catering. And as you might expect, since I'm the Mommy, I reaped the benefits of their generosity and I would like to share some photos of our time - I hope you enjoy and get all inspired and junk!
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Monday, April 26, 2010
The Laundry List
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Want It Wednesdays: Gilt (y) As Charged
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Friday, April 16, 2010
Our Man Stan Is At It Again
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My house does not have an official mudroom.
You could, however, call the space just inside and to the left of my front door a muddy mess. I am not sure when or why we appointed this little 3' x 3' space as the designated place to remove shoes, drop all belongings, and act as if we have a mudroom, but we did, and it is. This area, our "muddy mess," is the bane of my existence. But, as fate would have it, our man Stan, author of The Find, has come to save the day with a great piece he has produced about none other than, you guessed it, mudrooms for This Old House. For more marvelous info and photos check it out here.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Want It Wednesdays: Just My Type
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Monday, April 12, 2010
86,400 Seconds Times Two
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There is this song by Kris Allen that has lyrics that suggest that since there are only 86,400 seconds in a day we should make every second count and live like we're dying. Nobody is dying, I just have some family business that needs my attention.
I'll be back with a Want It Wednesdays in 172,800 seconds.
See ya Wednesday!
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World Cup Tourists Treating Local Women With Disrespect
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of raucous male soccer fans in Brazil is sparking complaints from residents that tourists are treating host cities like a playground and local women with disrespect.
For the past two weeks in Rio de Janeiro and other host cities, women say they have faced an onslaught of aggressive catcalls and other inappropriate behavior on the streets in various languages.
"They're so rude, they don't respect the women here," said Gabriela Steenbuch, a 20-year-old Rio resident. She said the crude behavior is sapping the joy of the World Cup for her and her female friends who have come to dread encounters with boorish foreign men.


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Hmmm... A new DAC would be nice. Sign me up!
HRT MicroStreamer USB DAC Sweepstakes
According to the company:
microStreamer is a USB-connected and powered ultra high-performance dedicated amplifier/sound card designed to seamlessly interface with computers, tablets, smart-phones and directly decode the digital audio data stream from the host's hard drive into analog music for headphone or speaker listening. Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and light enough to carry in a shirt pocket, the microStreamer is the newest and sexiest product in HRT's line of award winning DACs.
When music is digitized, it is 'compressed' into a digital format of ones and zeros – the job of decompressing the music and turning the ones and zeros back into sound is usually done by a computer but because computers are built to do a lot of things, sound is not their top priority. Cheap sound cards are used to keep prices down so the music you hear coming out of your computer is not complete – there is a loss of sound. microStreamer was developed to reverse this loss of sound. It takes over the job of processing and decoding the music from your computer – so you end up with sound as it was meant to be heard – clean, clear, loud and present.
The microStreamer was made for anyone who wants better sound coming out of their computer. It can be used for music, movies or games. The microStreamer will bring the listener a more full, present and inside experience.
To enter the sweepstakes, all you need is an account on this website. If you don't already have one, click on the link labeled "register" at the bottom of this announcement or "Create new account" in the right column (under the ads). Then, enter a username and a valid e-mail address, and click on the "Create new account" button. A message will be automatically sent to the e-mail address you specified, which will include a link to activate the account.
The final step (and only step for those who already have an account) is to log in and leave a comment right here on this announcementany comment will do, as long as it's not profane or spam. Then, when the sweepstakes closes, a lucky commenter will be chosen at random to receive the prize. So post a comment, and good luck!
For complete sweepstakes rules, click here.
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I've been thinking about getting a DAC for a while now. Perhaps this will be it (not that I'll win...)?
This is really nice! Hope I get picked!
ive been eyeballin this thing since it came out!i want real bad
It would be nice to win this so I can upgrade my current DAC, a Fiio E10, which has a noisy headphone jack
This is the exact DAC I want, so this contest is awesome!
I've never had a DAC before, it could be interesting.
Thanks for putting these sweepstales out guys, just had my alpine dac stolen out of my car along with my shure 425s. Would be awesome to restart with this DAC.
Hi Tyle,
it's great that you present these great opportunities to the community!
Thanks and best regards
This is the DAC I have been looking for. Please pick me.
Thanks for running these contests (and for running a great site).
Would love to try a new DAC on my Lenovo @ work (which has a sh*** DAC)....
i'm loving these sweepstakes! now if only i could win one...
Well let's give it a go...
Just one question,
how will you prevent people from creating a lot of accounts to have more chances of winning?
And BTW, a DAC would be great for my future HP... :)
Would be curious about how the MicroStreamer compares to the ESS based budget devices coming out these days...
I'm not too proud to accept a freebie.
I've always wanted one of these microstreamers!
sounds fun.
im in.
And if fortune should shine upon me and i do indeed win, i promise that i shall only use this device for good...not evil....for with great power(ed streaming devices) comes great responsibility.
Peace .n. Winning (some day)
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
It would be nice,
To get the Headstreamer from you.
looks like a fine little gadget, and you sure can't beat the price!
Another tool to use on the hunt for audio nirvana...
Would love to see how it compares to the Dacport
A portable dac for my surface pro would be awesome!
Very interested to see what kind of improvement this device gives me in playing back digital audio files from my laptop
Let see, I have the HRT MS2, the MS2+, I was going to get the HDMI streamer but the product got canceled so yes, I definitely need a microstreamer to enjoy more HRT goodness when I am out of the house.
This would be great for travel
That would be a great device to play with!
Been looking at this model for a while, would be delighted if I won...
LOVE this website! Most review sites assume we consumers are idiots......not Inner Fidelity. I just won bid on ebay for a pair of V-Moda M-80's; Chose them after reading your in-depth review/report. Thanks!
Now, Pu-Lease let me win this to complete my package! thanks
Hope I win. This would be excellent for sitting in the library.
Would like to do the comparison...
count me in.
Where btw are winners of past sweepstakes announced?
Would love to see how much better this is than the DAC on my Fiio E10.
As always, thanks for the contests.
always wanted one... But Im really unlucky :(
Would be nice to have a sweepstakes, that people from outside of the United States would be able to enter into.
Okay, sure, I would like to win one of those. Sign me up!
Here's hoping for an upgrade to my current DAC...
Been eyeing the HRT offerings for a while now, would be super to win this!
I need a new HRT device (this would be my third)....
If ill win this that would be absolutly superb
One of the best companies making portable d/a converters and amps today.
I would love to see how this compares to my AQ D-fly.
This looks like a great portable DAC/amp solution.
The ad for this on the side get my attention.
Here's hoping....
I read great things about this product; good bang for the buck.
Sweet! Would love to win. I have a pair of HD600s that would love this little guy.
Would love to win one of these!
It would be cool to have something this small for my laptop!
Sweet... Would be great for my TDY coming up
If it's anything like my headstreamer then I want one!
Love these giveaways. Would not mind a new DAC. Thanks for all the articles Tyll!
A dac would go nicely with my new Sennheiser Momentums
won't make a difference next to the ODAC but sure why not?
I will use daily please sign me up.
A portable DAC for the ipad might be interesting.
Looks great! Would love one
Just uh, give it to me....please
1.4 V rms output for headphones, yet it uses their usual 2.25 V rms line output level?
I wonder what they're doing inside.
Definitely interested in a new portable entry in the USB DAC sector ... shootout with the DragonFly: GO!
I've been looking for a dac, it would be nice to win one. Good luck all.
I could use a better one than my current one.
The listed specs of this tiny unit are so convincing, that I can't help but to imagine that in 5 years from now, they'll be offering a neural implant version with digital crossover wirelessly communicating to a 1TB storage hidden in a false tooth or a piercing. It will run on synaptic activity and send a wireless signal to a pair IEMs without crossover. It will include an intuitive volume control that works by raising your eyebrows, and of course customizable DSP settings that you create with your spatial imagination of the musical venue, and that are stored as neural patterns.
I have always been curious about HRT's stuff, I have heard great things but they underwhelm me at the price with so many other great dac's they compete against.
Been listening, all day to musical noise from my built-in soundcard - while reading Tyll reviews ([^_^])
these guys continue to make great stuff that looks great too!
Thanks for the opportunity Tyll to win such a cool little device.


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SAN ANTONIO — Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis and two top lieutenants met recently with several San Antonio officials to discuss the potential of moving his NFL team from the Bay Area to the Alamo City, local leaders involved in the talks confirmed Tuesday.
On the weekend of July 18, Davis met with the officials, including Henry Cisneros, then-Mayor Julián Castro, City Manager Sheryl Sculley, Mario Hernandez of the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, and both Richard Perez and David McGee, the president and chairman of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, respectively.
Late Tuesday, after the Express-News published a version of this story on its websites, Sculley issued a memo to the City Council.
"I was asked to meet two weeks ago with the owner of the Oakland Raiders, Mark Davis, and members of his staff. Mr. Davis has expressed interest in a possible relocation of his NFL team to San Antonio and we are engaged in preliminary due diligence," she wrote. "The agenda for this visit included a tour of the Alamodome and meetings with local business leaders."
Sculley wrote that those discussions were preliminary and confidential and that she would update the council as things progressed.
San Antonio has often been used as a bargaining chip for pro sports franchises trying to negotiate better deals in their own respective cities, but sources have characterized Davis' interest in San Antonio to be at least somewhat more serious. He is clearly perturbed with his current situation in Oakland, where the team's lease expires after the 2014-15 season.
Cisneros, who led the charge to build the Alamodome when he was mayor, has been described by sources as the architect of the meeting. His son-in-law, Brad Badger, is in corporate sponsorship sales for the Raiders.
When reached by the San Antonio Express-News, he tempered the significance of the meetings. Cisneros said that over the years, he'd become friends with Davis, who was already coming to San Antonio for an event. Cisneros said he wanted to take the opportunity to make a pitch to Davis in case he decides to relocate the team.
"So we spent the weekend and took advantage of the opportunity to show him San Antonio in the event if it ever became necessary to consider a site other than Oakland," Cisneros said. "We know they have lease issues with Alameda County, so it was a good opportunity to show him facilities in San Antonio as well as have him meet key leaders in San Antonio."
Davis and his associates spent two or three days here, visiting the Alamodome and other places, sources familiar with the talks said. They also took an aerial tour of the city in a helicopter, arranged by developer Marty Wender.
With some upgrades, the Alamodome could be ready for a 2015-16 NFL season, though it would be a temporary home at best. NFL teams likely would need 100 suites, and the Alamodome currently has 52. It physically could facilitate the addition of 48 more, but funding has yet to be earmarked by the city for such upgrades.
If the Raiders moved here, though, Davis is expected to seek a new stadium within a few years, after the team had proved itself in the Alamo City.
Davis told San Antonio civic and business leaders he isn't seeking a "Jerry Jones-type facility" and prefers "a small, intimate" stadium that he can place "a statue of his father in front of," a source said. But even if San Antonio ponies up an enticing deal and Davis ultimately decides to relocate here, the two sides would still face an uphill battle. San Antonio only ranks in the mid-30s in the nation's top television markets and NFL owners — including the Dallas Cowboys and the Houston Texans — would have to vote on the deal. And whether the NFL would allow the team to leave the sixth largest media market for the 36th remains unclear.
Any team desiring to relocate would need the blessing of 24 of the league's 32 owners. Greg Aiello, the NFL's senior vice president of communications, had little to say on a potential Raiders relocation.
"We don't have any information about (Davis' meeting in San Antonio), so there is no reason for us to comment," he said Tuesday. "We have received no applications from any of our teams to relocate at this point, so there is nothing for us to respond to."
Though San Antonio ranks 36th in the country's top television markets, the Raiders have a significant Hispanic fan base and Davis apparently believes his team would do well in South Texas.
Cisneros said the Alamodome is one of the few buildings of its "quality and size" that an NFL team might inhabit if it needed to relocate.
He said he offered insight to Davis about "the market, the scale of the market, the relationship to Austin, the Mexico connection, which should obviously be something he should have in his mind."
It appears that his meeting here has been in the works for at least a couple months. A source familiar with the talks said he had heard a couple months ago that the Raiders were interested in San Antonio. But the details of Davis' visit indicate that he could be interested in San Antonio more than just as a bargaining chip in Oakland.
While here, the Raiders owner had separate discussions with Spurs owner Peter Holt and Red McCombs, who both showed interest in having a stake in the team if it were to move here. A source indicated that the beleaguered Wheatley Heights sports complex on the East Side could serve as a potential training facility, and Davis also looked at open land during his visit.
Though Holt is apparently interested in NFL in San Antonio, others in the Spurs organization are not. There are concerns, a source said, that the Raiders, whose colors are also black and silver, could pull away from the Spurs' fan base — and their pocketbooks.
Through the years, NFL and Major League Baseball teams seeking new stadiums have flirted with San Antonio but none of those talks ever came to fruition. In the NFL, the New Orleans Saints, the Minnesota Vikings, the Arizona Cardinals, the San Diego Chargers and others reached out to San Antonio either directly or through the media. The MLB's Florida Marlins even sent representatives to San Antonio to meet with County Judge Nelson Wolff and other county officials in 2006.
In 2005, Saints owner Tom Benson had serious talks with then-Mayor Phil Hardberger about relocating his team to San Antonio in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The Saints made the city their headquarters after the storm damaged New Orleans' Superdome and even played three regular season games at the Alamodome, but then-NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue convinced Benson to return the club to the Crescent City.
Finally, tired of being used as leverage for teams to gain better deals in their markets, Wolff and other leaders decided after the Marlins left that they would only negotiate with teams that had the relocation blessing of their respective leagues.
In 2011, the city and county commissioned California-based Premier Partnerships, sales and marketing firm focused on "revenue optimization" of sports initiatives, to conduct a feasibility study. The consultant determined that San Antonio could support the Arena Football League and lower-division soccer but not teams in the MLB or NFL.
The report said, among other things, that San Antonio fell short on the number of Fortune 500 companies and median household income. Its authors recommended that San Antonio "should continue to build its sports landscape and take a 'wait and see' approach with larger professional leagues."
Go to the ExpressNews.com for the full version of the story.


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The line between success and failure is a fine one – something the freediver Will Trubridge knows only too well. He has notched up 15 world records during his career. But yesterday, he did not manage to add another to his tally.
His attempt to reach 102 m in the completely unassisted discipline of CNF – where divers descend and ascend without fins or any other aids – was not successful. He reached his target depth but got into trouble near the surface and signalled for help to make the last few meters and was helped to the top by the safety divers.
Watch the epic video of his performance here:
Speaking afterwards Will said: "There's definitely disappointment about not reaching the goal I set myself. I prepared a lot for this dive and I feel like everything went well. In the freefall I was feeling good but just today, I just wasn't quite capable.
Though I'm disappointed not to achieve the goal, there is some content in the fact that I gave it my utmost best shot. And so much of my motivation to pull out all the stops in this attempt today came from the numerous messages of support that I have been receiving in the lead up.
I'm definitely going to attempt this again. This was just a plot twist. I will probably have another crack in the Spring."


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CommScope's COVID-19 Customer & Partner Hub Visit
His enduring contributions to ARRIS and to the industry recognized by Cablefax.
Each year, Cablefax selects the most influential cable executives for recognition in its "Cablefax 100." This year, that list features Bob Stanzione.
The Cablefax 100 celebrates executives whose "leadership continues to take the industry to new heights," and Bob's work over the past year has certainly exemplified this. His vision and ongoing legacy of investing in the right opportunities have exponentially grown our business.
Be sure to check out the latest issue of Cablefax for Bob's spotlight in the magazine's coverage of the Cablefax 100.


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Commission suggests ways to keep closer eye on lavish ministries
(RNS) A special commission created by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability has called for clearer IRS guidance and greater involvement among donors to address "outliers" among congregations and other nonprofits that are not being financially accountable.
Its 91-page report was a response to a request for recommendations from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, after he concluded a three-year investigation into alleged lavish spending by six prominent broadcast ministries in 2011.
Among the dozens of suggestions of the interfaith commission:
-- compensation for leaders of nonprofits should be "reasonable," and nonprofits should make such information available to donors who request it.
-- the Internal Revenue Service should clarify forms related to the income tax exclusion for clergy housing – which is being challenged in court by atheists who consider it unconstitutional.
-- the IRS should not create a specific advisory committee for religious organizations, but should allow the religious community to give input as it creates more guidance on tax law.
-- the tax agency should give more advice about "love offerings" -- monetary gifts sometimes given to clergy outside of regular congregational offerings -- to avoid the "mistaken impression that there is 100 percent correlation between deductibility by the giver and taxability to the receiver."
-- The IRS should modify forms to permit organizations, such as operators of shelters from domestic violence, to redact sensitive information from public disclosure if it would put people at risk.
In an introduction to the report, commission president Michael Batts said a comparatively small number of organizations are involved in "egregious financial misconduct" and "excessive legislation" is not necessary to address them.
"We cannot allow the behavior of a few outliers in the religious and nonprofit sector to threaten the freedoms of those who are not the problem -- those who are doing the good work,'' said Batts, a former ECFA chairman, in an introduction to the report.
Grassley's three-year probe concluded that evangelists Benny Hinn of Texas and Joyce Meyer of Missouri had made "significant reforms" to their operations. Grassley's final report said Texas-based Kenneth Copeland Ministries, Georgia pastors Creflo Dollar and Eddie Long and Florida megachurch pastor Paula White had provided incomplete or no responses.
Grassley, in a statement, said the new report demonstrates the challenge of trying to prevent abuse without harming "above-board organizations." He encouraged both donors and the IRS to heed the commission's recommendations, but noted that Congress could extend the review if it addresses comprehensive tax reform.
"The report gives less attention to resolving some of the thornier questions, such as how to build accountability from entities that exploit vagueness in current laws and regulations for individual benefit rather than the greater good," he said.
The commission plans to release a report in 2013 with recommendations about political expression of churches and other charities.


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New and Notable NYC Pizzerias
Pizza reviews in NYC.
With National Pizza Month drawing to a close, I'm in a reflective mood. Let's take a look at some of the new in NYC pizzerias that have opened this year. You can find new and notables—including Barboncino, Wild Rise, Zero Otto Nove, and more—in the slideshow above. After the jump, we pour some olive oil out on the curb for our home slices who closed this year.
Motorino Brooklyn
Noooooo! The location that started it all. Motorino was one of my favorite pizzerias in the city—not to mention the U.S. An unstable building—some wags called it "the leaning tower of pizza"—led to the demise of this Williamsburg joint. Thank the pizza lords that Motorino still has a Manhattan location. (Though I preferred the larger interior of this one.) Word was that owner Mathieu Palombino was going to try to reopen somewhere else in Brooklyn, but I haven't heard any official word yet on where that might be. In the meantime:
Ray's Pizza on Prince
What's New On Serious Eats
The original Ray's, the Ray's that started it all. It's set to close on Sunday. Get there while you can! Read Scott Wiener's history of Ray's Pizza here.
900 Degrees
The victim of a classic doomed location and what many described as indifferent service, 900 Degrees was the East Coast outpost of San Francisco pizza man Tony Gemignani's mini empire until it closed in September. It served Neapolitan-style pizza, Roman-style, and tomato pies. And those tomato pies were great. Nothing else like 'em in the city. It's a shame this place came and went so fast.
Totonno's Manhattan Locations
Totonno's owner Lawrence Ciminieri cited a rent increase at the 81st Street shop for the shuttering when both this one and the 26th and Second location closed in April. "You know how it is in New York," he said when we reached him for comment this evening. "You gotta be corporate anymore—you gotta be a Papa John's&mdsah;to afford it."
Pizza 8 at New World Mall, Flushing
With pizza as ai yah–inducing as the "China Town" slice, it's no wonder this take-out stand in the New World Mall food court went under. That, and it was just insanely out of place among all the Asian-food stands there. That's not to say it couldn't have worked, just that you never rode the escalators down there thinking, "You know, with all the other great stuff in here, I really want a slice of mediocre pizza."
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Assistant Research Professor
Jana Schaich Borg, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford University. She develops new methods for inferring network properties of high-dimensional multi-modal neural data, and is a prominent researcher in the areas of social behavior and social cognition. Dr. Schaich Borg is a leading member of many interdisciplinary teams that combine cutting edge technologies with innovative approaches to overcome what seem like intractable challenges. She is also an active advocate for training programs that teach scientists how to apply their research to world issues, and education programs that teach entrepreneurs and philanthropists how to support structures that foster disruptive innovation in biomedical science. Her career is dedicated to making sure Big Data helps solve social problems.


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I have to be honest . . . the holidays are SO crazy around my house that the last thing I want to do at the end of a busy day is cook dinner. Between class parties, work parties, family gatherings, and holiday programs (and my husband's brother is getting married the weekend before Christmas!), it is a super busy time! And that is why I am such a fan of freezer meals. At the end of a long day, all I have to do is pull one out of the freezer, pop it in the oven, and dinner is done! So much better for my family (and less stress on my wallet!) than fast food . . .
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From: CA, United States
Genre: Rock, Active Rock, Modern Rock
A heavy modern rock/ metal band based out of Los Angeles, Earshot was formed in 1999.
The band released two albums: LETTING GO (2002), and TWO (2004) with Warner Bros. Records.
Their first mega hit single, "Get Away" reached #4 on the U.S. Active Rock Charts and stayed in the top 100 for over 64 weeks.
"Headstrong," the debut track on 'LETTING GO', was featured on The Queen of The Damned soundtrack alongside other artists such as Disturbed, Deftones and Marilyn Manson.
Their second hit singl…


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Lower Merion Township, PAHome Menu
Planning Commission
The purpose of the Planning Commission is to guide and direct land use and development at the municipal level. This is primarily achieved through the following two ways: (1) development and implementation of the municipal comprehensive plan and (2) through the reviews of land development proposals and municipal projects. The Planning Commission is an independent advisory body. It makes recommendations concerning land use and development directly to the municipal governing body, which is then charged with making the final land development decisions. The Pennsylvania MPC is the enabling legislation that grants municipal governing bodies the ability to create a planning commission and planning department.
The Township's Planning Commission is composed of seven members. The members are resident volunteers and are appointed by the Township Commissioners for a four-year term. The Planning Commission generally meets once a month.
The Township Planning Commission is supported by staff from the Planning Division of the Township's Building and Planning Department. One of the Department's three divisions (the other two being Building and Economic Development), the Planning Division responsibilities include the processing of land development and subdivision applications and overseeing the development of subdivision and zoning code amendments, in addition to preparing long-term planning projects.
- Past Planning Commission Meeting Minutes
- Lower Merion Township's Subdivision & Land Development Process
- A comprehensive inventory and detailed analysis of land development between 2003 and 2008 is contained in the Comprehensive Plan's Issues Report (Planning Commission Section, Page 72).


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So without further adieu, here's your weekly dose of randomness...
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