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With the Journal Entry Quota I refer to the response given by finders of BookCrossing books. It's a fact that the books we release are found. Sometimes, they disappear only minutes later, and it rarely happens that a book remains at the release site for longer than a day – unless the release site happens to be in the middle of a forest or in an equally deserted spot.
But even though all those books are picked up, we'll get a response for merely 10 to 20 percent of all releases. This number is a rough estimate, based on the long-standing experience of active BookCrossers. Since about a year, though, this rate is extremely regressive [german], following the upgrade of BookCrossing.com in June 2010. We'll get back to this in a moment.
Therefore, we need to ask the following question: What happens with the books when they are found?But wait, there's more!


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Palit GT 220 Sonic Edition Review
Not every card in the world is a barn burner or meant to be used in a high end gaming computer. In fact, there are probably more mainstream cards sold than high performance cards any day of the week. I know it sounds like blasphemy but you know that's where the money is made. How many desktop PCs go out the door each and every day to a home where they do the things most people do with their computers, such as look at and alter their photos and all those home movies, watch a bunch of Youtube videos, transcode video so it can be made portable for use on an iPod, Zune or even a cellphone? What about watching Blu-Ray content on their big screen? Many of these computers are delivered with a graphics chipset that has a hard time playing all of the HD content we love so much so the end user is left a little less than happy with the results. Well, you say something of this caliber can't be for gaming, can it? Not for the high end graphics quality we like but for some lower resolution gaming it should hold its own.
The Palit GT 220 is a new card that is being released with a focus on the mainstream user in mind with features such as Direct Compute and drag and drop video conversion make it ready for prime time when Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, is released to the public. Power consumption has been reduced to where the card only uses seven watts at idle. Seven watts! The Palit GT 220 is is supposed to perform right between the capable 9500 and 9600GT models with a price point that even the most miserly will have a hard time passing up. Let's see what the Palit GT 220 has to offer!
Closer Look:
The Palit GT 220 Sonic Edition is a smaller video card and the packaging reflects this reduction in stature. The front panel mentions that the GT220 is built using a 40nm process and is fully CUDA capable. This card is the "Sonic Edition," which signifies that this card has a little special something. The bottom right has a list of the specifications while the rear of the packaging goes into greater detail on the merits of its specifications. As with all of Palit's video cards, the Frobot make its presence known on the package.
There really isn't much to be seen once you pull the GT 220 out of the package. The Palit GT 220 is protected in a bubble wrap cocoon, and comes with a driver disc and a "Quick Install Guide." Not known for large bundles, Palit has included just what you need to get started.
Let's see what the GT 220 has to offer! Just looking at the specifications tells us this card will not be a gaming behemoth. But that's A-OK because this little beauty can do other things.

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Google Maps Mania readers from around the world are noting updates to Google Maps in several countries worldwide today! Here is the rundown of countries that are seeing updates:
In some cases there are enhancements to the road/street maps that were there previously (Greece for example) and for some countries streets and roads are completely new (Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey) This update of streets, roads and other points of interest will have a huge impact on users of Google Maps in these areas. It means that satellite imagery is now more relevant and easier to identify when "sightseeing" using the hybrid map view toggle. In addition, Google's new My Maps map creation tool is now instantly available for millions of people to begin creating and sharing interesting maps for these countries!
Know of other countries seeing updates or want to leave some feedback? Post a comment! :)
[Thanks to Scott Dexter for the tip!]
For other recent feature and functionality updates to Google Maps, click on the "Google Maps" label below:


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CHAPEL HILL � A walk-on football player at North Carolina has been suspended after he was arrested and charged with assault.
Chapel Hill police arrested 18-year-old Nicholas Apostolos Weiler early Sunday after an officer reported that he saw Weiler hit a person in the face.
Weiler is a freshman punter. He has not played this season.
Weiler is charged with felony assault afflicting injury and four misdemeanors: simple assault, resisting arrest, underage possession of alcohol and possession of a fake ID.
An arrest report accuses him walking away after police approached him.
North Carolina athletics spokesman Kevin Best says Weiler has been suspended indefinitely from all team-related activities. It was not clear if he has a lawyer.


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'Two Old Timers,' Western bronze by Frank Polk, one of eight bronzes in the sale. Mosby & Co. image.
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Nescafé Dolce Gusto machines deliver professional 15-bar pressure, perfect for making espresso.
Nestlé will double production of Nescafé Dolce Gusto coffee capsules with a CHF 64 million investment in a new international production line in Spain, creating 150 new jobs.
The new line will form part of the Nescafé Dolce Gusto site at the Company's Nescafé factory in Girona, near Barcelona – the largest Nescafé factory in Europe.
It will increase production to more than 2.5 billion coffee capsules a year by 2012 for export to more than 20 European countries, as well as the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
Nestlé made the announcement at the official inauguration of the Nescafé Dolce Gusto site, which already produces around three million coffee capsules a day.
Crown Prince Felipe of Spain attended the opening ceremony, which was led by José Lopez, Nestlé Executive Vice President of Operations and GLOBE, and Bernard Meunier, Head of Nestlé Spain.
Mr Lopez said: "I am delighted to officially open the Nescafé Dolce Gusto site at our Nescafé factory in Girona; an investment which reflects our long-term commitment to Spain.
"We have chosen the site as the location for the new Nescafé Dolce Gusto international production line, as over time it has demonstrated its capabilities as one of our most competitive factories in the world, thanks to its highly qualified and committed staff."
The CHF 192 million Nescafé Dolce Gusto site, built in 2008 at Nestlé's existing Nescafé factory in Girona, has achieved record levels of production since operations began last year.
It will employ a total of 400 staff by 2012 as production expands to meet growing consumer demand for the Nescafé Dolce Gusto 'coffee-shop-at-home' system around the world.
It is the first factory in Spain to meet environmental sustainability requirements for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification.
COFFEE - HOWEVER YOU LIKE IT: The Nescafé Dolce Gusto system is a fun, convenient way to make great tasting coffee at home. No mess, no fuss—just great coffee.
A second Nescafé Dolce Gusto coffee capsule factory, located in Tutbury in the United Kingdom, is already running at full capacity.
Nescafé Dolce Gusto
The Nescafé Dolce Gusto machine system, which can make both hot and cold drinks, offers 16 varieties of coffee capsules including Cappuccino, Macchiato, Chococino, Cappuccino Ice, Espresso, Lungo and Classico Decaffeinato. Nesquik and Nestea capsules are also compatible with the machines.
First launched in Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom in 2006, Nescafé Dolce Gusto was introduced to Spain in 2007. It is now available in 39 countries, with an annual turnover of CHF 450 million.


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NASCAR has fined driver Denny Hamlin $25,000 for making critical comments about the new Sprint Cup car and the race last week at Phoenix International Raceway.
Hamlin criticized the racing at Phoenix, where he rallied from the rear of the field to finish third but he said after the race that the new Gen-6 car was difficult to pass with.
MORE: Defiant Denny 'not paying' | NASCAR overreacted | Burton weighs in | Odds for Sunday
NASCAR has been heavily promoting the new Gen-6 car, which debuted this year and has new body styles that correlate more closely with their respective passenger cars.
NASCAR officials wouldn't specifically say which comments Hamlin was fined for, but he said several times that it was difficult to pass at Phoenix with the new car.
"I don't want to be the pessimist, but it did not race as good as our generation five cars," Hamlin said in a postrace interview on pit road. "This is more like what the generation five was at the beginning. The teams hadn't figured out how to get the aero balance right.
"Right now, you just run single-file and you cannot get around the guy in front of you. You would have placed me in 20th-place with 30 (laps) to go, I would have stayed there."
Hamlin has been fined for disparaging comments (on Twitter) in the past about NASCAR's decision to throw a caution.
NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said the incidents are not related.
"Denny Hamlin made some disparaging remarks about the on-track racing that had taken place that afternoon," the sanctioning body said in a statement.
"While NASCAR gives its competitors ample leeway in voicing their opinions when it comes to a wide range of aspects about the sport, the sanctioning body will not tolerate publicly made comments by its drivers that denigrate the racing product."
Tharp said that NASCAR gives drivers leeway as far as criticizing its officiating of an event but that when it comes to the quality of racing, NASCAR will take action.
"That's our brand," Tharp said. "That's the drivers' brands. That's the sport's brand. And that's an area that we feel very strongly about."
Tharp said that while other drivers did make comments about the quality of racing, the sanctioning body thought Hamlin's comments crossed the line.
"Denigrating the racing is an area that we're going to have a reaction to," Tharp said. "If you go back and look at the specific comments that were made that focused in on that, we deemed that this was disparaging to the sport and disparaging to the product on track."
NASCAR met with drivers a few years ago to tell them that they would be fined for disparaging comments and appears to be cracking down on such criticism. Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski had to meet with NASCAR Chairman Brian France at Daytona after criticizing the sport's business model in an interview with USA Today.
Tharp said the drivers know they can come into the NASCAR hauler and voice their opinion without penalty.
"When we had these discussions three years ago with the drivers, the drivers were supportive of if somebody crosses the line and bashes the sport, particularly when it comes to racing, (they) have no problem with the fine.
"The drivers know that this is an area that we take exception to."


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Bironas kicks game-winning FG for Titans
Nashville, TN – Rob Bironas buried four field goals on Thursday, including a game-winning 40-yarder as time expired to send the Tennessee Titans to a 26-23 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers at LP Field.
After Matt Hasselbeck led the Titans on an 11-play, 80-yard scoring drive to tie the game late in the fourth, Ben Roethlisberger moved the Steelers into Tennessee territory, but Shaun Suisham came up short on a 54-yard field goal attempt with less than a minute left to give the ball back to the Titans.
Hasselbeck then hit Chris Johnson for five yards up to midfield and after an incompletion, found Jared Cook across the middle for 25 yards down to the Pittsburgh 25.
After Johnson's 3-yard rush, Tennessee let the clock run down and called its final timeout with four seconds remaining to set the stage for Bironas' game- winning field goal.
"It's only one win, we know that," Titans head coach Mike Munchak said. "But it's a great win for us at this point in the season when we needed a win to show people what we're all about."
Hasselbeck finished 25-of-44 passing for 290 yards, one touchdown and one interception, while Johnson added 19 carries for 91 yards and also caught four passes for 23 yards as the Titans (2-4) snapped a three-game losing streak against the Steelers.
Roethlisberger threw for 363 yards, one touchdown and one interception on 24- of-40 efficiency for the Steelers (2-3), who were coming off a 16-14 victory over in-state rival Philadelphia on Sunday.
"We're not doing enough things to finish games in hostile environments," Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin said. "We didn't do the job tonight. We defeated ourselves in some areas. We'll go back to work. Needless to say it's disappointing."
Roethlisberger made Steelers' history in the setback, passing Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw (27,989) for the most passing yards in franchise history with 28,066.
Tennessee led 16-10 at halftime, but Roethlisberger opened the second half with an 11-play, 65-yard scoring march. Isaac Redman, who finished with four catches for 105 yards, hauled in a 13-yard pass to move the visitors to the Tennessee 24, but the drive stalled at the 10-yard line and Pittsburgh settled for a 28-yard field goal from Suisham.
After a Tennessee punt, Roethlisberger found Heath Miller to convert a pair of third downs early in the drive and then hit Emmanuel Sanders for 10 yards on 3rd-and-8 to move the Steelers to the Tennessee 23.
A defensive pass interference call in the end zone gave the Steelers a 1st- and-goal from the 1-yard line and Baron Batch capped the 15-play, 80-yard trek three plays later with a 1-yard plunge to give Pittsburgh a 20-16 edge.
Hasselbeck was intercepted by Lawrence Timmons on the Titans' next drive and Pittsburgh used the short field to get a 52-yard field goal from Suisham and grab a seven-point advantage.
The Titans' signal-caller then led his squad on a game-tying scoring drive, as he hit Kenny Britt in the front of the end zone for a 5-yard touchdown. Britt bobbled the ball, but was able to secure it to knot the game at 23-23.
The teams exchanged field goals early in the game, as Bironas connected on a 22-yard field goal on Tennessee's opening drive before Suisham answered with a 29-yarder to tie the game.
Pittsburgh then forced a three-and-out and Roethlisberger uncorked a deep ball intended for Mike Wallace on the first play of the drive. Wallace outran his defender, hauled in the pass and outraced everyone to the end zone for an 82-yard touchdown reception to give the Steelers a 10-3 lead.
Tennessee answered with an 8-play, 52-yard drive that resulted in a 38-yard field goal from Bironas late in the first quarter before the Titans forced a three-and-out from the Steelers.
The Titans' special team unit came up with a big play, as Tim Shaw broke through the middle of the line and blocked the punt and Tennessee pounced on the loose ball at the Pittsburgh 1.
Two plays later, Jamie Harper punched it in from a yard out to give the Titans a 13-10 lead and their first rushing touchdown of the season.
Neither offense managed much from there until Pittsburgh made its way into Tennessee territory late in the second when Roethlisberger hit Redman for 55 yards down the left sideline.
Jason McCourty then picked off Roethlisberger's next pass and Hasselbeck moved the Titans into Pittsburgh territory when he shook off a defender and underhanded a pass to Johnson, who took it down to the Pittsburgh 44.
After back-to-back incompletions, Hasselbeck hit Kendall Wright for 15 yards, setting up Bironas' 47-yard field as time expired to send the Titans into the locker room with a 16-10 advantage.
Game Notes
Pittsburgh offensive lineman Maurkice Pouncey injured his right leg in the first quarter and did not return ... Pittsburgh safety Troy Polamalu (calf) and linebacker LaMarr Woodley (hamstring) did not play ... Titans wide receiver Nate Washington caught three passes for 57 yards. He now was a catch in 68 straight games ... Redman is the first Steelers running back with a 100- yard receiving game since John "Frenchy" Fuqua in 1970.


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Back In Stock - The Korg microSampler
It may be micro but demand has been HUGE for this great new keyboard sampler from Korg
Don't miss out - we've got limited stock and they'll soon sell out. The Korg microSampler is back in stock.
The Korg microSAMPLER is designed for performance. In addition to triggering samples as on a conventional pad-type sampler, you can also play the samples at different pitches in a musical fashion, and even resample the result.
The controllers you need for an exciting performance are laid out on the panel of the Korg microSampler for intuitive operation. The status of the samples assigned to each key (and the item being edited) is indicated by the lit state of the LEDs running along the top of the keyboard, ensuring excellent visibility even on stage.


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Nicole Kidman Wears Bob for 'Paddington', Films with Hanging Man!
Nicole Kidman wears a short blonde bob wig as she films scenes for her upcoming movie Paddington on Sunday evening (November 3) at the Waterloo Bridge in London, England.
The 46-year-old was joined on set by her co-star Matt Lucas, who was hanging upside down for the scene!
Here's a synopsis of the Paddington Bear movie: A young English boy befriends a talking bear he finds at a London train station. A live-action feature based on the series of popular children's books by Michael Bond.
The film also stars Colin Firth as the voice of Paddington, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, and many more.
20+ pictures inside of Nicole Kidman wearing a wig for Paddington…


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Happy 100th Birthday, National Park Service!
One hundred years ago on this date (Aug. 25), President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act that created the National Park Service. more >>
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Fastest, Farthest, Deepest: Olympic Champ Animals at Golden Gate
In honor of the upcoming Rio Olympics, we asked: Which animals are the best swimmers, divers, and fliers in these parklands and waters? They're competing tooth-and-nail (and claw-and-tail) to claim the "gold" at Golden Gate! Find out which species stand atop the podium. more >>
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De-mist-ifying the Fog: Five Fun Facts
August (aka "Fog-ust") is descending upon us like a slick and clammy shroud. As you huddle together to preserve body heat, amaze your friends with five fun facts about the fog. Better yet, bring them to FOGG Fest at Baker Beach on August 20! more >>
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Mission (Blue) Impossible: A Rescue Plan for Endangered Butterflies
In April, a team of scientists hatched a daring plan to save some endangered mission blue butterflies from a Milagra Ridge site ravaged by a plant pathogen. See how—and why—they relocated a couple of endangered butterflies to another spot on Milagra. more >>
Baleen In: Record Number of Whales Spotted This Spring
In May, just outside the Golden Gate (and off the coast of our Golden Gate National Parks), humpback whales were gathering in record numbers—and blue whales were making extremely rare spring appearances. What explains this massing of these mammoth mammals? more >>
Q&A: Mt. Tam Secrets with Barry Spitz
Mount Tamalpais Trails is your one-stop, must-have resource for exploring Mt. Tam. In this exclusive interview, author Barry Spitz—one of the preeminent authorities on Tam—shares his favorite spot, his recommended hikes, and his greatest challenge in walking every single trail on the mountain. more >>
Explore New Worlds this Summer, From Tales to Trails
It's time for an adventure—in the pages of a book or on a path through our parks! Learn about free and fun activities from the San Francisco Public Library, National Park Service, and Parks Conservancy—including reading programs, ranger talks, park shuttles, and more. more >>
Tennessee Valley Nursery Closes; Its Legacy Grows On
Established in 1987, the Tennessee Valley Nursery closed its nearly 30-year run in May. Thanks to dedicated volunteers, the facility produced thousands of plants for habitat restoration sites all across the parks. In this video, hear from some of the amazing people who made it all possible. more >>
National Trails Day: Pitch In and Get Out to Explore!
Get a sneak preview of National Trails Day, coming up on June 4. Sign up for action-packed projects (including a key segment of the Bay Area Ridge Trail on Milagra Ridge) and learn about some easy trails you can explore with your whole family. more >>
Tip of the CAP: Program Has Served Nearly 25,000 Youth
Entering its milestone 10th year, Camping at the Presidio—a program based at the only campground in San Francisco—has been an unqualified success. Its legacy, which continues to grow, is powerful and enduring: giving thousands and thousands of children their very first camping experience. more >>
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The Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) is an application programming interface (API) for accessing different kinds of naming and directory services. Java EE components locate objects by invoking the JNDI lookup method.
JNDI is the acronym for the Java Naming and Directory Interface API. By making calls to this API, applications locate resources and other program objects. A resource is a program object that provides connections to systems, such as database servers and messaging systems. (A JDBC resource is sometimes referred to as a data source.) Each resource object is identified by a unique, people-friendly name, called the JNDI name. A resource object and its JNDI name are bound together by the naming and directory service, which is included with the Application Server. To create a new resource, a new name-object binding is entered into the JNDI.
This section covers the following topics:
A JNDI name is a people-friendly name for an object. These names are bound to their objects by the naming and directory service that is provided by a Java EE server. Because Java EE components access this service through the JNDI API, the object usually uses its JNDI name. For example, the JNDI name of the PointBase database is jdbc/Pointbase. When it starts up, the Application Server reads information from the configuration file and automatically adds JNDI database names to the name space.
Java EE application clients, enterprise beans, and web components are required to have access to a JNDI naming environment.
The application component's naming environment is a mechanism that allows customization of the application component's business logic during deployment or assembly. Use of the application component's environment allows the application component to be customized without the need to access or change the application component's source code.
A Java EE container implements the application component's environment, and provides it to the application component instance as a JNDI naming context. The application component's environment is used as follows:
The application component's business methods access the environment using the JNDI interfaces. The application component provider declares in the deployment descriptor all the environment entries that the application component expects to be provided in its environment at runtime.
The container provides an implementation of the JNDI naming context that stores the application component environment. The container also provides the tools that allow the deployer to create and manage the environment of each application component.
A deployer uses the tools provided by the container to initialize the environment entries that are declared in the application component's deployment descriptor. The deployer sets and modifies the values of the environment entries.
The container makes the environment naming context available to the application component instances at runtime. The application component's instances use the JNDI interfaces to obtain the values of the environment entries.
Each application component defines its own set of environment entries. All instances of an application component within the same container share the same environment entries. Application component instances are not allowed to modify the environment at runtime.
A resource reference is an element in a deployment descriptor that identifies the component's coded name for the resource. More specifically, the coded name references a connection factory for the resource. In the example given in the following section, the resource reference name is jdbc/SavingsAccountDB.
The JNDI name of a resource and the name of the resource reference are not the same. This approach to naming requires that you map the two names before deployment, but it also decouples components from resources. Because of this de-coupling, if at a later time the component needs to access a different resource, the name does not need to change. This flexibility also makes it easier for you to assemble Java EE applications from preexisting components.
The following table lists JNDI lookups and their associated references for the Java EE resources used by the Application Server.Table 6–1 JNDI Lookups and Their Associated References
JNDI Lookup Name
Associated Reference
Application environment entries
JDBC DataSource resource manager connection factories
EJB References
UserTransaction references
JavaMail Session Connection Factories
URL Connection Factories
JMS Connection Factories and Destinations
ORB instance shared across application components
A custom resource accesses a local JNDI repository and an external resource accesses an external JNDI repository. Both types of resources need user-specified factory class elements, JNDI name attributes, etc. In this section, we will discuss how to configure JNDI connection factory resources, for Java EE resources, and how to access these resources.
Within the Application Server, you can create, delete, and list resources, as well as list-jndi-entities.
Often applications running on the Application Server require access to resources stored in an external JNDI repository. For example, generic Java objects could be stored in an LDAP server as per the Java schema. External JNDI resource elements let users configure such external resource repositories. The external JNDI factory must implement javax.naming.spi.InitialContextFactory interface.
An example of the use of an external JNDI resource is:
<resources> <!-- external-jndi-resource element specifies how to access J2EE resources -- stored in an external JNDI repository. The following example -- illustrates how to access a java object stored in LDAP. -- factory-class element specifies the JNDI InitialContext factory that -- needs to be used to access the resource factory. property element -- corresponds to the environment applicable to the external JNDI context -- and jndi-lookup-name refers to the JNDI name to lookup to fetch the -- designated (in this case the java) object. --> <external-jndi-resource jndi-name="test/myBean" jndi-lookup-name="cn=myBean" res-type="test.myBean" factory-class="com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory"> <property name="PROVIDER-URL" value="ldap://ldapserver:389/o=myObjects" /> <property name="SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION" value="simple" /> <property name="SECURITY_PRINCIPAL", value="cn=joeSmith, o=Engineering" /> <property name="SECURITY_CREDENTIALS" value="changeit" /> </external-jndi-resource> </resources>


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Peanut Butter Honey and Banana Muffins
4 Servings
5 Prep Time
1 Cook Time
If you like quick and easy, you'll love this too.
2 Thomas'® Honey Wheat Bagels, split and toasted
1/2 cup chunky or smooth style peanut butter
1 (6 oz) firm-ripe banana, chopped
4 tablespoons honey
Spread peanut butter evenly (2 tablespoons each) and place on a sheet pan. Top each with 1/4 of bananas and drizzle each with 1 tablespoon honey and broil 6 inches from heat, until honey is bubbling and bananas are golden brown, for 1 to 2 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes and serve.


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What does it mean when you say 21st century learning? This post lists nine characteristics of 21st century learning and provides a rationale. What makes this notable is "the absence of technology. There is very little about iPads, social media, 1:10 laptops, or other tech-implementation. In that way, it is closer to the 'classic' approach to 'good learning' than it is the full-on digital fare we often explore."
The nine characteristics are in the diagram above and listed below:
Learner-centered, Media-driven, Personalized, Tranfer-by-Design, Visibly Relevant, Data-Rich, Adaptable, Interdependent and Diverse.
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Smartphones and tablets are today's hot products, and technology companies all over the world are producing, or planning to produce, their own hardware in the hope of capturing some of the lucrative market. Those that aren't, run the risk of missing out and being left behind.
It's not just the big names getting in on the act either, as Digitimes is reporting that Foxconn wants to break into the game too, and that it's already producing own-branded hardware to be distributed to "telecom carriers and channel operators."
Now, Digitimes.com has a checkered history with its rumor reports, so it's advisable not to look at anything they print as 100-percent accurate without independent verification. As wild as Foxconn producing its own phone sounds though, this could be one of Digitimes' better calls.
As the report notes, Foxconn is looking to repeat HTC's success. The Taiwanese company started out by making hardware that was badged by networks and other manufacturers — the Palm Treo and several of O2's Xda series in the UK for example — and has obviously grown into a major force in the industry. It's hardly a surprise, given Foxconn's current remit of producing hardware for everyone from Apple to Sony, that it feels it could do the same.
Foxconn is either already working with, or in negotiations with (the report is a little unclear) Commtiva Technology, a company currently tasked with selling Sharp's smartphones to networks. Commtiva has strong ties with Japanese and Taiwanese networks, where it also promotes the Musn range of smartphones too.
Foxconn's other businesses
While we may know Foxconn best as the company that makes Apple products, this wouldn't be the first time it has diversified from its manufacturing role. It has a chain of retail stores in China — some of which are operated by Foxconn employees, after receiving a grant from the company — and plans to open more in Brazil; plus it produces its own-brand computer hardware too, including motherboards and a range of bare-bones PCs.
The computer range provides a glimpse at Foxconn's possible smartphone plans. They're stripped down, basic models — the don't come with any memory or internal storage options — but are fairly cheap at an estimated $280. Most importantly, they don't wear the Foxconn name, but go by Nano PC instead. Foxconn, often justifiably, has a bad reputation in the West, so anyone buying a Foxconn-branded phone would be ostracized for supporting poor working conditions and child labor. Without a trace of irony, of course.
But Foxconn isn't likely to be targeting the U.S., Europe, or the UK with its smartphone straight away, starting instead with networks closer to home. While HTC may be its role-model, it'll be Huawei that could suffer the most, as it too supplies hardware to networks for re-branding, as well as producing its own gradually improving range of phones that wear its name.
Last time, it didn't end well
Foxconn's last attempt to get into the phone market didn't end well. When ex-Texas Instruments Asia CEO Terry Cheng came in as Foxconn CEO in 2011, he clashed with the chairman of Foxconn's parent company, Terry Gou, over the proposed development of an own-brand phone range, as he had concerns that the move would affect the company's core business. Cheng resigned just six months into a three-year contract, citing health reasons, but some reports suggest he was forced to leave by Gou.
These concerns may be justified too. Though there doesn't seem to be any public information on restrictions regarding manufacturing placed on Foxconn by the companies that use its services, we'd imagine they would keep very close eye on any smartphone that did emerge from Foxconn, given the access it has had to cutting-edge devices for all these years.
Digitimes' report closes by saying Foxconn is watching Commtiva's performance for Sharp, before making a decision whether to entrust them with its own devices. For now, it's all speculation, but there's a whiff of plausibility to this one.


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I'm getting concerned about Mario's health. As a wildly successful Italian stereotype, he obviously eats a tremendous amount of pasta and therefore is ingesting far too many carbs, even for a fictional character. A steady diet of giant mushrooms and raw turtles can't be good for the mid-section, either.
So it's nice to see he's taken up a more active sport than plumbing and golf. His latest endeavor is tennis, and despite Mario's ever-increasing girth, it turns out he's pretty handy with a racket. Mario
Power Tennis is a solid Gamecube game that manages to squeeze in just enough of that intangible Nintendo magic to keep things lively and interesting for gamers both young and old.
Unlike many other Mario games, no one tries to explain why the Mario gang has suddenly decided to start playing tennis, or who exactly built all these enormous tennis stadiums and courts. There is, however, a strange, lengthy intro movie featuring Wario and Waluigi teaming up with Bowser in attempt to improve their tennis skills and blow up the world or something. Huh? Looks like someone's been eating the wrong kind of mushrooms.
Once you get past the insane premise, you'll find a fairly standard game of console
tennis. You can choose from an array of Mario-land talent to take to the court
in a bevy of modes, some more interesting than others.
Familiar faces like the chubby star and his brother, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Donkey
Kong and Diddy Kong (whom I prefer to call 'Puffy Kong') are here next to random
pals like Koopa Troopa, Bowser, Jr. and Shy Guy. The stars fall into six categories:
Power, Speed, Technical, Defensive, All-Around and Tricky. This last group
is the hardest to play against as their shots tend to curve and spin a lot,
so hitting them becomes something of a guessing game.
For the most part, the characters all play similarly as you whack the ball back and forth at one another following the classic rules of tennis. You can apply topspin and backspin or perform lob and drop shots by double-tapping the two shot buttons, a system that works well enough. Those familiar with any tennis game released over the past five years will quickly pick up the gameplay.
The differences between the characters are mainly expressed through their
super shot types. Each character has two super shots, one offensive and one
defensive, that become available after a few volleys. Offensive super shots
are burly and will often stun an opponent, leading to an easy point, while
defensive shots allow you to nail missed balls from anywhere on the court.
There's a nice amount of creativity in the design of these super shots. Mario smacks the hell out of the ball with his giant 'Iron Hammer' move, while Luigi's 'Poltergust Return' lets him whip out a vacuum and suck the ball back into play. Some are a little less useful, such as Puffy Kong's 'Acrobatic Banana' shot and Daisy's lame 'Wonder Flower.' But in general, the various moves make sense and give each character a unique flavor.
In typical Nintendo fashion, there are a ton of ways to play. Exhibition and Tournament modes include no-frills, straightforward tennis matches alongside the much better Gimmick Courts. These wacky, themed variants throw interesting kinks in the normal equation with moving or disappearing ground sections, objects obscuring the path of the ball or other fun, weird obstacles. Item Battles can be played as well, which function just like normal matches but with boxes sprouting up every so often that toss out classic Mario-themed items like shells and mushrooms to screw with the players. Ring Shot is less exciting, simply requiring you to hit the ball through more giant rings than the other guy. These interesting options are buffed out by a bunch of Special games, which let you do weird things like smash balls to paint a giant Mario face or piss off oversized Chain Chomps.
The odd courts and strange game types really give Mario
Power Tennis its legs, so to speak, and toss a nice amount of arcade flair into what is otherwise a pretty simple game. It works especially well as a multiplayer game, although things can get confusing quickly on the Gimmick Courts with four players at once. Hope you're not prone to seizures.
While there's depth to be found exploring the many modes and stuff to unlock
by beating the Tournaments, it all feels a bit light since you can't customize
the players at all. You can get a slightly stronger Star version of each, but
the game would have greatly benefited from the ability to gain new shots or tweak
stats a little. As it is, you'll discover the ins and outs of the characters
within the first couple hours.
Over that time, you'll also notice that the default difficulty setting is way too easy. You'll breeze through the first batch of tournaments rarely losing a point. The difficulty spikes pretty sharply as you near the final match of the final tournament; I got served (hahaha!) by Boo for about two solid hours until I finally beat the bastard. Eventually you'll unlock harder settings, which are essential if you want to maximize the game's somewhat limited shelf life.
Nintendo is synonymous with quality releases, and Mario
Power Tennis is no exception. The graphics are colorful, the action is fast and the framerate is silky smooth, although none of it is very complex. Typical voices pop up from time to time to add some character. Mario sounds more Italian than ever, a fact that surely pleases the National
Italian American Foundation. That's-a spicy organization!
You have to hand it to Mario and Co. – they do what they do very well, even if they don't exactly take big risks. Mario
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The chief executives of three of New Jersey's leading health care systems spoke today of their goals for AllSpire Health Partners, the giant health care alliance they are forming with four Pennsylvania systems to create the nation's largest health consortium.
Robert Garrett, of Hackensack University Health Network; John Lloyd, of Meridian Health; and Joseph Trunfio, of Atlantic Health System; are joining forces with more than a dozen Keystone State hospitals to create an alliance with $10.5 billion in revenue and about 6 million customers.
The executives said the alliance resulted from discussions that have been ongoing for the past 18 months.
While health care experts caution that bigger hospital systems can result in higher medical bills, AllSpire said in a statement its mission is not bigger reimbursements, but "quality, population health management, best practices and medical research in the Northeast."
The alliance is not a formal legal merger of the hospital systems, which will continue to negotiate independently with insurers and other medical plan payers.
And it shouldn't be seen as the first step in the merger, according to Trunfio.
"The intention was not to seek a merger, but to bring together the systems to benefit from the scale and scope and the clinical excellence that the three of us could bring and share together," he said. "As of this moment, (merging) is not the intention of the parties."
"When we looked at this opportunity, we looked at it as something very different than a merger," Lloyd said. "I'm sure all seven of our systems have had, and will continue to have, discussions with individual hospitals and systems about what they might do on their own. But clearly that is not the intent of this alliance."
Garrett noted the recognition each of the health systems has in the territories served in New Jersey.
"We wanted to find partners that have similar reputations and similar clinical strengths," Garrett said. "There could be areas that we could collaborate on services, such as support service like laboratory services. We can share best practices in terms of what we have learned in areas like cancer and heart and vascular."
That was also key to Meridian, Lloyd said.
"If you look at our three health systems, we all have open heart programs that are among the best in the region, if not the country … there are so many synergies here it really enables us to hopefully accelerate some of the things we can do to better integrate care, and to learn from each other."
For instance, Lloyd said, all participants have accountable-care organizations, which partner with Medicare and other payers with the aim of improving quality and lowering excess spending, with hospitals and doctors sharing in the financial savings.
"We are all in the beginning stages of developing those ACOs, and we can learn pretty quickly from what others have done," he said.
ACOs are one component of the national effort to reform the health care system, and drivers such as the Affordable Care Act are partly what's driving this alliance, Trunfio said.
"Part of what we are looking at is how do we improve the patient experience — how do we provide better outcomes, and to do that in a manner that is cost accessible for our patients and their families?" The alliance, he said, is "a natural evolution to where we have been moving."
Garrett agreed, also bringing up the systems' ACO offerings.
"This really is very consistent with the goals of the ACA," he said. "Certainly, the implementation of the ACA gave us an opportunity to establish these ACOs — and now, with this alliance, we have an opportunity to really share best practices on population health management among the seven systems. So I do believe it is a nice tie with the implementation of the ACA and what we're doing here with this partnership."


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- Public selects 100 winners from 250 finalists
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For the third consecutive year, Toyota is giving away 100 new vehicles as part of its 100 Cars for Good program to benefit nonprofit community service organizations. Registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits can apply beginning on July 22. The automaker will select 250 finalists and the public will choose 100 winners over 50 days through a social media competition.
Previous winners have been diverse in both function and location. Golden Ears Hearing Dogs in University Place, Wash., helps the hearing impaired by providing service dogs that alert deaf and hearing-impaired individuals to smoke or even a ringing doorbell. On the other side of the continent, the West Alabama Food Bank serves a population of 315,000 people in nine counties, 15 percent of whom live in poverty. Other past winners have served the elderly or those affected by natural disaster.
The 150 finalists who are not selected by the public as winners don't go empty-handed. Each receives a $1,000 donation from Toyota to assist in their important work. Michael Rouse, vice president of diversity, philanthropy and community affairs for Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., says 100 Cars for Good not only helps nonprofits by providing them with a donation but also helps the groups to build awareness in their communities.
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Winners can choose a new Toyota Highlander, Prius, Sienna, Sienna Mobility or Tundra. Each vehicle comes with a 6-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty.
Up to 2,500 nonprofits can register to participate. Toyota will announce the 250 finalists on August 19, and voting on Toyota's Facebook page will begin October 1. Two winners will be announced each day over a 50-day period.
To apply, visit www.100carsforgood.com and explain how a new Toyota would help your organization. Or if you know of a worthy group that would benefit from having a vehicle to perform its service, refer a representative to the website. Even if your organization doesn't win, joining the 100 Cars for Good program could help build awareness of the group's mission.
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Law enforcement have yet to identify a 35-40 year old African American female found Wednesday morning on Crab Orchard Road. Cooper County Sheriff Jerry Wolfe said they are ruling the incident a homicide.
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Remember the case of Jessica Beagley, the Alaska mom who used "hot saucing" on her child as a form of punishment? Today, a jury found her guilty on a misdemeanor child abuse count for her actions.
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Beagley's lawyer argued that she had her 10-year-old daughter tape the hot saucing incident to demonstrate that traditional discipline methods didn't work for the severity of her son's behavioral problems, so she could seek help from Dr. Phil. The prosecution argued that she used these overly harsh punishments—including forcing the child to stand in a cold shower—as one of her repeated attempts to get on Dr. Phil's TV show. She contacted the show after viewing a segement called "Angry Moms," and submitted a video of her yelling at her child—but the show reportedly said they needed to see her actually punishing her child to be on TV.
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Arrest of Man with Mosque Bomb Tattoo
Yesterday, our art historian and good friend Dr. Matt Lodder posted on the Needles & Sins FB group page a link to an article about the arrest of a man with a mosque bomb tattoo.As we can see from the photo captured at an EDL rally above, Reah not only has a hate tattoo, but is displaying it before the media.
Earlier in the week, I had seen the buzz over the "Boom" tattoo, but decided not to post it because I didn't want to give anyone more press to Shaun Reah -- a pathetic man with an idiotic racist tattoo. Sadly, there are too many of those. And I'm guessing that, especially within the Islamophobic English Defence League (EDL), Reah is not alone.
However, what Matt posted yesterday sparked the tattoo law nerdiness in me because it was the first time that I've heard about a man who was actually arrested solely on the basis of the content of his tattoo. Sky.com wrote:
A spokesman for Northumbria Police said: "A 39-year-old man has been arrested in South Tyneside on behalf of West Midlands Police on suspicion of using words or behavior, or displaying written material with intent to stir up racial hatred."
The only US case involving a tattoo arrest that I know of was in April 2011, in which another dumbass explicitly tattooed the murder scene of a crime he had committed -- with details that only the murderer would really know -- and it was used as evidence against him.
The end note to the story about the mosque bomb tattoo is that Reah got it removed, as noted in this video below (although it looks like it was just blacked out).
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#15 South Dakota State Loses at Missouri State 35-21
What started out as a season of promise for South Dakota State and now become a year of disappointment, as SDSU lost for the fourth time in five games, falling 35-21 at Missouri State Saturday.
Early on, the Bears made the most of their opportunities, the Jackrabbits did not.
After a SDSU punt on their first possession, MSU put it in the end zone on their sixth play, as Ashton Glaser hit Julian Burton for a 56 yards score to make it 7-0.
The Jacks did string together 14 plays on their next drive, but stalled out on the Bears 21. That's when the woes of the SDSU kicking game continued, as Justin Syrovatka hooked a 38-yard field goal attempt. It was Syrovatka's fifth miss in his last nine kicks after snapping a streak of 15 makes in-a-row.
Missouri State continued their big strike offensive attack on their third possession when Ryan Heaston ran for 83 yards on the second play from scrimmage setting up a Mikal Cooper-Falls 4 yard touchdown run. 14-0.
The Jacks offense put together another drive inside the Bears 35 on the next possession, but on 4th and three from the 31, Austin Sumner pass for Trevor Tiefenthaler was incomplete, and again SDSU was kept of the scoreboard.
When the Bears got it back , they were at it again when Cooper-Falls went 66 yards on the first play, and he later finished the drive with a two yard run into the end zone.
About the only thing that went right for SDSU in the first half came when Doug Peete blocked the extra point to keep it 20-0 Missouri State at the half.
Coming into the game, the Bears averaged 153 yards rushing per, in just the first half Saturday they picked up 222.
In the second half, the defense tried to right the ship, holding MSU to a 3-and-out on the first possession, and this time the SDSU offense found the end zone when Sumner hit Brandon Huber for a 9-yard score to move to within 20-7.
The Bears were unfazed on their next possession and, with the help of a SDSU 15 yard personal foul penalty, put together nine plays and 70 yards capped by Glaser to Gannon Sinclair 10 yards for a touchdown and a 27-7 lead after three quarters.
The Jackrabbit offense had an answer as the fourth quarter began - their best drive of the day - nine plays, 82 yards, capped by Zach Zenner's 15th touchdown on the season to cut the Bears lead to 27-14.
All season long, South Dakota State has been one of the best teams in the nation in forcing turnovers (+13 coming into the game), and they finally separated the Bears from the ball moments later when Jack Sherlock forced a Cooper-Falls fumble, recovered by RC Kilgore at midfield.
But it turned into another missed opportunity, when SDSU turned it over on downs at the MSU 11.
Moments later the defense got it back again when Glaser was sacked and fumbled right into the arms of Doug Peete at the Bears 15.
This time the Jacks offense converted the turnover into points, when Jason Schneider made a nifty one handed grab of a Sumner pass in the end zone for a 5-yard score, and the MSU lead was down to 27-21 with 6:04 left.
But Missouri State's offense wasn't out of big plays and on 3rd and 4 from their own 31, Glaser called his own number on the option and took it don the sideline for a 69-yard touchdown to push the lead to 35-21 after a two-point conversion.
With the loss, South Dakota State falls to 4-4 on the year, 1-3 in Missouri Valley play.
Sumner finished 18 of 43 for 232 yards, two touchdowns and an interception. Schneider had 5 catches, all in the second half, for 103 yards. Zenner ran for 138 yards.
Missouri State finished with 478 yards of total offense, 352 on the ground, as Heaston and Cooper-Falls both topped 100 yards for the day.
South Dakota State hosts Northern Iowa next Saturday at 2:00pm.


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After entering the fourth quarter leading by 14 and by as many as 17 in the game, the Sioux Falls Skyforce were overrun on the road by the Texas Legends 104-102 in the NBA Development League Friday night. The win for Texas pushes them to 7-4 and Sioux Falls drops to 6-3 on the year.
The crucial stretch was an 18 to 4 run that put the Legends in the lead for the first time since late in the first quarter. The run was backed by consecutive three pointers by the Legends' Christian Eyenga made the score 100-97. A putback by Sioux Falls' Mike Davis tied the game at 102, but Texas' Chris Douglas-Roberts drove the lane for the winning bucket with 3.9 seconds left.
The Skyforce had five players tally double digits, led by Demetris Nichols with 22 points and 7 rebounds, with Mike Davis adding 20 points and 8 rebounds and Jarvis Varnado collected a double-double with 16 points and 13 rebounds. For the Legends Darius Rice Chris Douglas Roberts and NBA Assignee Jared Cunningham each scored 21 points with Rice also posting 10 rebounds.
Sioux Falls will try to snap a two game losing streak tonight in Austin against the Toros. The Legends will be at home again to host the Iowa Energy.


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Syrian president casts doubt on peace conference
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's president cast doubt Monday on the chances of holding a long-delayed international peace conference to end the country's civil war, saying the factors that would help such talks succeed do not currently exist.
The United States and Russia have been trying for months to convene a conference in Geneva to negotiate a political solution to a conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people and forced some 2 million more to flee the country. The U.N. chief has set mid-November as a target for the proposed gathering, but both Damascus and the opposition are skeptical and no final date has been announced.
President Bashar Assad brushed aside the renewed efforts to coax the government and its opponents to the negotiating table, telling Lebanon's Al-Mayadeen TV in an interview that "the factors that would help in holding it (the conference) are not in place if we want it to succeed."
He said it's not clear who would represent the opposition, or what credibility the opposition's representatives would have inside Syria.
"Who are the groups that will participate? What is their relation with the Syrian people? Do they represent the Syrian people or they represent the country that made them?" Assad asked, alluding to his government's claim that the rebels are agents of Western and Arab powers. "There are many questions about the conference."
For its part, Syria's fractured opposition has yet to decide whether to attend the proposed Geneva conference.
The main Western-backed opposition umbrella group, the Syrian National Coalition, is scheduled to meet Nov. 1-2 in Istanbul to decide whether to take part in the talks. One prominent faction within the Coalition, the Syrian National Council, has said it has no faith in negotiations with Assad's regime and won't participate in any Geneva negotiations.
The ability of the Turkey-based Coalition to speak for the broader rebellion has long been in dispute, and fighters inside Syria — many of whom reject negotiations with the regime — have accused the opposition leaders in exile of being out of touch with reality on the ground. The Coalition's already strained credibility took a major hit last month when nearly a dozen prominent rebel groups publicly broke with the opposition umbrella group. More rebel brigades have since followed suit.
Assad, meanwhile, has managed in the past six months to restore a sense of stability to his government's hold on power, shaken by losing large chunks of the country to the rebels in 2012.
Dressed in a blue suit and exuding confidence, Assad used much of the interview to denounce Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey for supporting the rebellion against him. But he also addressed the issue of his future in the country and presidential elections planned for 2014.
"I don't see any reason that prevents me from running for the next elections," he said. "It is still early to talk about it. We can only discuss it at the time when the presidential elections date is announced."
Much of the opposition says no peaceful transition is possible unless Assad leaves power.
The president also said that he is willing to take part in peace talks, but reiterated his previously stated position that he will not negotiate with the armed opposition unless they give up their arms first.
International diplomatic efforts to broker a political resolution to Syria's civil war have stumbled repeatedly, while the violence inside the country has raged on, exacting a terrible toll on the civilian population.
Residents of one besieged rebel-held suburb of Damascus issued an urgent plea Monday for the international community to save them from starvation and constant bombardment after efforts to evacuate civilians from the area collapsed this week.
For months, government troops have blocked food and supplies from entering the suburb of Moadamiyeh west of the capital, activists say. Around 3,000 residents of the suburb were able to flee the area late last month during a rare, temporary cease-fire.
Aid agencies say Syrians across the country face difficulties getting food, but hunger in the rebel-held suburbs of Damascus, largely surrounded by government territory, is particularly acute.
In an open letter circulated by the opposition's Coalition, Moadamiyeh residents pleaded with the international community for help.
"Save us from death. Save us from the hell of Assad's killing machine," the letter said.
The Coalition called on international organizations to establish a humanitarian corridor to allow food into the area. On Saturday, the United Nation's humanitarian chief Valerie Amos called for an "immediate pause" in clashes to allow civilians to leave.
A spokesman for the Moadamiyeh council, Qusai Zakarya, confirmed that local residents had sent the letter to the Coalition asking for help.
"We are heading toward a definite destiny: starvation," he said via Skype, with the clap of shelling and the thumping of a helicopter audible in the background.
Activists from the Moadamiyeh Media Center reported that six people died of hunger in September.
Also Monday, Syrian opposition activists and state television said government forces killed a prominent army defector who became a rebel leader.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as well as the pro-government Al-Ikhbariya TV said Yasser al-Abboud was killed during fighting in the town of Tafas in the southern province of Daraa. Al-Abboud was among the first high-ranking Syrian army officials to defect and join the rebellion.
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We are a veterinary clinic that has 2 branches 4 hours apart, one a main clinic, and one a secondary clinic.
Previously, we had a vet at the second clinic one full day a week, on a Wednesday, with a nurse manning the clinic the other days of the week for 3 hours a day.
We are now extending our hours and upgrading our services at the second clinic. It will now be manned by a veterinarian 2 full days a week on Friday and Saturday, and by a nurse the other days (except Sunday) from 9am-5pm.
We are going to upgrade the services and provide xray facilities, orthopaedic (bone) surgery, hospitalisation services and intensive and emergency care facilities, none of which is provided elsewhere in town.
Clients that love their animals! Particularly young, beach going people with pets as their surrogate children.
People who do not like travelling 4 hours for the new services we will be providing.
A sophisticated, yet young modern, high quality, medical A4 flyer is needed to highlight the extended hours of Gascoyne Vet Clinic:
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The phone number is 9949 2499. These details should be included as key items on the flyer.
As well as highlighting the extended hours, the ad should also highlight the additional services that clients normally have to travel 4 hours to get otherwise: xrays, bone surgery, hospitalisation services and emergency and intensive care facilities.
I envision an edgey image rich flyer with pictures highlighting the different additional services, such as an image of xrays, surgeons, bones, drips and other medical paraphinalia without it being too congested. But I am open to the designers own creative ideas and would be interested to see a wide range of different designs.
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In the article "Out In The Cold: Build a snow cave for a night in an outdoor icy cage" by Justin Nyberg in the Santa Fe Reporter. Justin reports on making a snow cave and sleeping overnight. As he says: "But if you can keep the needle on the misery meter pointing more toward adventure than disaster, winter camping can be a blast!"
Out In The Cold – Build a snow cave for a night in an outdoor icy cage By Justin Nyberg
John Becker and I look ridiculous.
The chairlifts have stopped at Ski Santa Fe, and the last skiers of the day are all heading downhill, toward Totemoff's bar for a mid-mountain beer or to tailgate parties in the parking lot. We're moving in the opposite direction, up the slopes, aided by special friction skins on the bottom of our skis. We're wearing preposterously large backpacks, stuffed to the ripping point with gear—snow shovels, a heavy tent, down jackets, thick gloves, fuel, water bottles, sleeping mats, avalanche gear, cooking equipment, goggles and more. Sweating, huffing, bowed by the weight, we stop often to catch our breath. The red-faced après-ski crowd at Totemoff's gives us understandably puzzled looks, and a few mocking hoots of encouragement. We look like a sorry pair of astronauts who got drunk and wandered away from their lander, a duo of pathetic Sherpas who mistook Nambe for Namche and now find themselves schlepping past a Khumbu of drunk Texans.
But screw it. We're going camping.
Winter camping is not most people's idea of a good time. It's cold. There are no s'mores. You're lucky if you can dig up enough sticks and tinder out of the snow to start a fire, and you're luckier if you don't make any forehead-slapping bumbles like letting the stove frost over or forgetting your lighter and matches a few miles back at the car. Leave the sporks to be buried by snow after dinner and you'll be eating your oatmeal with your fingers. Lay down with a bottle of water, wake up thirsty with ice.
But if you can keep the needle on the misery meter pointing more toward adventure than disaster, winter camping can be a blast. Becker and I are headed to Deception Peak, near the edge of the precipitous Nambe chutes, 2,000 vertical feet above the ski area parking lot. It doesn't always require that sort of slog. There are great places to camp in winter all throughout the Santa Fe National Forest, some that have sites right next to your car (a good idea for first timers). We reach our spot, a 10-foot-deep drift on a wind-scoured shoulder of the peak, just as the sun sinks below the Jemez Mountains to the west.
The wind is blowing hard. Spindrift is snaking across the snow's icy crust and zipping past my headlamp, looking a little like the stars when a movie spaceship goes to light speed. The stinging flecks of snow dust quickly find their way through every seam, collar, pocket and pouch, where they congregate like cold colonies of lice. We decide to scrap the idea of pitching a tent and get out of the wind by digging a snow cave.
A snow cave is less shelter than bunker, more freezer than hearth. In architecture, it resembles a womb. The entrance is a body-length tunnel just wide enough for a person to slither through on their stomach. The tube climbs slightly into a cavity in the snow just large enough for a grown man to sit and two to lie down. Because the sleeping area is higher than the door, body heat collects inside, and soon the cave is perceptibly warmer than the outdoor air.
John starts digging, first on his knees, then on his stomach, burrowing like a worm into the white meat of an apple. Soon, all that's visible outside the hole are his orange ski boots, kicking occasionally as he scrapes at the crumbly, sugary snow at the heart of the drift. A few hundred pounds of snow must be excavated with a small avalanche shovel, passing the snow back through the hole his body is plugging. "How's it going in there?" I shout as the orange boots epileptically twitch.
We take turns and, after an hour or so, the cave is ready. I poke a small hole in the two-foot-thick ceiling with an avalanche probe, just enough to let a trickle of fresh air in from above but not wide enough to let out the heat. We unroll our foam sleeping mats and thick goose-down sleeping bags inside.
A snow cave is not for the claustrophobic. Zipped into a mummy-shaped sleeping bag, I can barely move. Brushing the walls, only a few inches away on either side, is not a good idea, since it will get the warm bag wet; knocking the ceiling, a foot above my face, knocks a spray of snow crystals onto my face. When Becker switches his headlamp off, the cave goes completely black, and my mind begins to mischievously amuse itself by playing out various nightmare scenarios in its sleeplessness. Is the ceiling dripping? Have the door and vent been plugged by drifts? How long would we last if the ceiling collapses and traps us here, squirming helplessly in straightjacket-tight bags under a ton of snow? Outside, it's 3 degrees above zero and howling. Inside, still air is over 30 degrees. The bags are almost toasty. I'm soon sleeping fitfully.
Becker and I awake to a faint blue light through the wall and ceiling of the cave. We crawl out, just as the top of Lake Peak catches the first orange of sunrise. Standing on the edge of the chutes in down slippers, with a warm mug of tea, I watch whirlwinds of spindrift twirl across the chutes as the sunlight pours down into the cirque.
We pack up, stuff our feet into frozen boots and ski toward home. Dropping through the trees, we pop out onto a groomer, our thighs burning with each heavy turn, while intermediate skiers go careering past us down the icy hardpack. We're again conspicuously out of our element, overloaded cargo planes amid a swarm of zippy little jets, but it doesn't bother me. My mind is back up on those whirlwinds on the ridge. A teenage snowboarder heckles, enthusiastically from a chairlift, an emphatic, monosyllabic screed lost in the muzzle of his scarf. I raise my pole and wave. Yeah buddy. Right on. What you said.
Winter Camping Tips
- Gear: A foam sleeping mat and a down or synthetically insulated sleeping bag, rated to approximately 15 degrees or lower, are essential. A sturdy, four-season tent is a good idea for beginners.
- Clothing: Waterproof pants and jacket are critical, and you'll want several layers of warm clothes (for example: a down jacket over a fleece midlayer on top of a wool base) as well as a wool hat and thick, waterproof ski gloves. Don't forget sun block, sun glasses and a brimmed hat. Never, ever wear cotton.
- Cooking: In general, liquid fuel stoves work better than canister stoves, which have trouble burning in cold weather. Melt snow for water and keep a warm bottle in your sleeping bag so it stays liquid through the night.
- Site: Stick close to roads or trails unless you're experienced in winter backcountry travel. Pick a flat spot far from any steep slopes (anything steeper than approximately 25 degrees or about the incline of a black diamond ski run).
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