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Hot Property
By Sam Bayoumi
PrivatAir Magazine
July 2012
Raised in Puerto Rico, America and England, married in Hawaii and Lamu, Gillian Anderson now finds herself irresistibly drawn to Sri Lanka. Sam Bayoumi speaks to the sci-fi starlet turned property developer.
Gillian Anderson falls in love easily. We're not talking past husbands (of which there have been two) but houses. She bought her first, in Vancouver, at the age of 24 or 25, flush from her success in The X-Files, the alien-chasing TV series in which she made her name. In the 18 years since, she's worked her way through 12 or 13 more residences. These are not the temporary rentals made to accommodate a life spent dashing around the world on film shoots. These are houses bought, done up and then sold on at a profit. Some become, for a while, the family home, some are weekend country retreats or holiday homes - but mostly they are projects.
Anderson is passionate about her real estate. She was recently shooting in an abandoned building in Belfast and the only thing she could think about, she says, was how great it would be to convert the place into apartments. So, is the woman who was the glacially cool Agent Dana Scully and who was voted FHM magazine's Sexiest Woman in the World in 1996 at heart a fanatical property developer? 'It's what I do,' she says. 'It's the way I get to be creative when I'm not working. I love buildings. I love houses.'
The passion for property dates back to her teens. She was born in Chicago, but when she was two her parents relocated to London where Anderson spent the next nine years; the family returned to the US to settle in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but Anderson would revisit London every summer. 'We had some neighbours in Crouch End [north London] and they had this flat that was exposed brick, and wood floors with seagrass carpeting, and odd curious objects of art that they had collected from around the world. They'd done the place themselves and I always felt like that's what I wanted my house to be like when I was a grown-up. When I was 16 I asked them if they ever sold their flat to call me. They did, eight years later, and said: "We know that you're famous now so you can afford it."'
Success in The X-Files, however, kept Anderson anchored first in Vancouver and later Los Angeles, where the TV series filmed for nine months out of every 12 for nine straight years. It was only when the show finished in 2002 (there have since been two big-screen sequels) that she headed for London. For an in-demand actress who could have walked into the cast of almost any Hollywood blockbuster it was not a move designed to further a career in the movies.
'I knew that when the show ended what I wanted to do was theatre, and for whatever reason I wanted to be in theatre in London rather than New York. So I came here, looked for a play and found one.' Her West End debut in What the Night Is For drew a warmer response from X-Files fans than theatre critics, who were hardly any more enthusiastic about her next play, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball. Her performance in Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Donmar theatre in 2009 was far better received - the Telegraph hailed her performance as Nora as 'superb... by turns sexy, neurotic, manipulative, terrified, and in the great last act absolutely merciless'.
She has also appeared in films The Last King of Scotland, A Cock and Bull Story and Johnny English Reborn, and later this year appears alongside Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough in Northern Ireland thriller Shadow Dancer, and with Michael Caine in Mr Morgan's Last Love. On TV she was a startling Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, and was Bafta- and Emmy-nominated for her Lady Dedlock in Bleak House. She's also had two sons, Oscar, born 2006, and Felix, born 2008, with her current partner, an English businessman (there's also a daughter, Piper, from her first marriage).
Her first London home, acquired in 2002 (joining homes in Vancouver and Malibu), was on Portobello Road in Notting Hill, an area she chose because lots of her friends lived there. She turned a grimy old townhouse into a boho retreat - 'I changed the dining room into a Moroccan room with a banquette and lots and lots of colours, 18 layers of paint, that kind of stuff' - then moved on. She bought, made over and sold three more Notting Hill houses in quick succession. She then relocated to Bloomsbury, which she says was 'heaven' because the paparazzi never tracked her down there. She's since moved again and is in the process of renovating a new home in east London. It's a part of the city that in recent years has been colonised by artists, designers, architects and new-media agencies, but that is not why she's chosen it. 'I'm a bit of a hermit and it's easy to disappear over here. It's quite anonymous.'
As well as the east London house, Anderson has another project of a more international nature. Five and a half years ago while en route to India she stopped over in Colombo, did a little travelling and liked what she saw. 'Sri Lanka is a paradise. There are different climates on each side of the island - on one side it's winter, while on the other it's summer. The vegetation and wildlife are extraordinary, and you drive around and see 300ft white Buddhas all over the place - which is really cool.'
Back in London she started trawling property websites until she found something of interest: 'It was this house that was so beautiful and ridiculously huge, and the price tag on it was so low. I showed it to my daughter and she said: "Oh Mum, you can't not buy it," so when I was eight months pregnant with Felix, we flew out to take a look and I fell in love with it.'
Set in seven acres of lush grounds an hour's drive inland of Colombo, the house once belonged to a well-known aristocratic Sri Lankan family, one of whom was Justin Deraniyagala. One of the pioneers of Sri Lankan art, he studied at the Slade in London and then worked in Paris, a contemporary of painters such as Picasso, Matisse and Georges Braque; he painted Josephine Baker in the 1920s. When Anderson bought it, the house had been empty for over 30 years, and looked more like a haunted mansion than a liveable home.
Since then she has been flying out to Sri Lanka between six and eight times a year for two weeks at a time to oversee the renovation work being carried out by a local project manager and his team. The main house was reroofed, verandas and balconies were variously opened up and expanded, new bathrooms and kitchens were created, and several outbuildings were converted into additional accommodation.
An internal courtyard was reflagged using antique street stones, light fixtures and decorative glass came from India, the marble in the bathrooms came from Italy, a Spanish artist was employed to do decorative painted ceilings, and special eco-friendly air-con units were shipped over from China.
Anderson has filled the house with an extraordinary global assembly of furniture. The dining table used to be in her house in Malibu and has an Indian base of hammered silver (bought in an antique shop in California) with a top made from jarrah wood railway sleepers. A headboard in one of the bedrooms originates in a circus and was found at Portobello Road market. There's also a screening room, his and hers offices, and a meditation loft.
There are plans for an infinity swimming pool on a piece of high ground with 180 degree views of the neighbouring valleys but she's not sure if she is going to undertake this herself. 'I've been working on it for four years - I don't think I've ever worked on a house project that long before. So there's a part of me that feels like it's time for me to pass the project on.'
Her original idea had been to create an exclusive guesthouse retreat - the house has 13 bedrooms, plus multiple living areas, kitchens and bathrooms - but she's since had a change of heart. 'I'm not the person to have a boutique hotel or a house that is rented out on a regular basis. I thought I could do that but then I realised it's not me. I like to know that we're the only people using the place.' She's decided to put the property up for sale instead.
Besides which there's a possible intriguing new project on the horizon - her partner has just bought a Sri Lankan tea plantation.
For more information on Gillian Anderson's Sri Lankan house, contact email@example.com


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ILP Newsletter #001 | May 2014
A note from the Director
Dear ILP friends and colleagues,
This first newsletter is a symbol of a new departure for the Lagrange Institute, Paris. Created in 2011 for 9 years, the ILP aims to bring together scientists working in theory and experimentation in the fields of Cosmology and Particule Physics.
Upcoming events
Calls for applications
The next calls for applications for
Lagrange Postdoctoral Fellowships
Thesis Fellowships
will be launched in the Fall 2014 with starting dates in 2015. Applications requirements and deadlines will be online in September 2014.
Stay tuned!
Upcoming summer school
September 15-17, 2014
Upcoming international colloquia
May 26-30, 2014
"From the Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale"
November 17-19, 2014
"Magnetic fields from the sun to blackholes"
December 15-19, 2014
"The Primordial Universe after Planck"
News / Activities
© Jean Mouette / IAP
First ILP Day
The first ILP day took place on March 13, 2014 at the UPMC. This day was mainly dedicated to present research highlights, scientific achievements driven by Lagrange Fellows, and to discuss new directions and research priorities of the ILP within the next few months.
Scientific Highlight: Planck project
The Planck team released this image of the first all-sky observations of polarized light emitted by interstellar dust in the Milky Way. Planck member
Paul Sutter
helped create this visualisation of galactic magnetic field lines at the Lagrange Institute.
Milky Way's magnetic fingerprint
© ESA and the Planck Collaboration
Lagrange Awards
After the 3 month-stay of
Tom Abel
from the KIPAC and Stanford University at the IAP in 2013, the Lagrange Institute is honoured to welcome the
Professor Tsvi Piran
from the Racah Institute of Physics. Prof. Tsvi Piran will spend 3 months in Paris, from August 2014, to collaborate with ILP's teams.
He will pursue his research projects in relativistic astrophysics and develop natural collaborations on Gamma-Ray Bursts with members of the group "Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics" at the IAP but also with the group "Theoretical Physics: Gravitation and Cosmology" and with the LPNHE and LPTHE on topics such as gravitational radiation, Lorentz invariance or Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays.
Focus on ILP's Fellows
Yi Mao, Postdoctoral Fellow at IAP
After completing my Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 2008 and 4 years in a postdoctoral position in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin, I joined the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris in 2012 as a Lagrange Fellow.
My research aims to understand the cosmological evolution of the intergalactic medium during the so-called epoch of reionization, a period of time when the intergalactic hydrogen atoms were ionized by ultraviolet and X-ray photons emitted from the first generation of galaxies at the cosmic age between a hundred million to a billion years old.
I am a theoretical astrophysicist, with a focus on developing new radiative transfer algorithms to numerically simulate the cosmic reionization using large-scale supercomputers. A major application of my research is to predict the signature of reionization on the redshifted 21-cm radiation signal that will be measured by a number of ongoing and upcoming radio telescopes. This will shed light on the physical condition of our young Universe during the epoch of reionization.
Yi Mao
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Mariangela Settimo, Postdoctoral Fellow at LPNHE
My research activity is focused on the study of ultra high energy cosmic rays, hitting the Earth with huge energies, up to about 30 Joules. Their origin and nature is still unknown, although they are most probably produced in extragalactic astrophysical sources. During my PhD, I started to work in the context of the Pierre Auger Observatory, the largest ground-based observatory of cosmic rays in the world.
I obtained my PhD in 2010 at University of Salento (Lecce, Italy) with a thesis about the measurement of the energy spectrum of such particles. I continued my studies as a postdoc at the University of Siegen (Germany) and in May 2013 I joint the astro-particle group at the Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et des Haute Energies (LPNHE) in Paris.
Currently I am a Lagrange fellow and I am mainly involved in the search for ultra-high energy photons, that carry informations about the sources and propagation of cosmic rays, and in the development of new detectors with the goal of measuring the chemical composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays.
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Pasadena Institute For Relationships
A Center for Imago Therapy & Training
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Sessions and Workshops
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Couples, would you like help with your relationship?
The Pasadena Institute For Relationships offers assistance to couples who would like to have coaching in order to improve their relationship. Often in our society this is referred to as "therapy" or "counseling." But we have a philosophy that Intimate Relationships themselves are therapy! Therefore, we become only facilitators that assist you in developing a thriving relationship. We understand intimate relationships to be the place for deepest healing and growth. We feel this is the unconscious reason why people get into intimate relationships in the first place. If you would like help with your relationship Contact us. We will be happy to set up an appointment for you on site in Paris or via Skype.
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The Pasadena Institute For Relationships offers assistance to singles who have been frustrated by not being able to sustain a satisfying intimate relationship. Since we believe that you were originally wounded in relationship in your home of origin, we believe the best place for healing and growth will also be in relationship. You unconsciously already know this, which is why you have been seeking to get into a committed, intimate relationship. You already sense that this would be the right place to find deep healing and growth. Both Francine and Bruce are willing to consult with you individually about understanding all these concepts. Contact us to make an appointment on site in Paris or via Skype.
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A step-by-step guide for conscious parenting designed by Francine Beauvoir based on her book by the same name. This one-day workshop provides a comprehensive program, clearly laid out and easily implemented. It has the potential to transform your relationship with your children, step-children, or pupils. Harville Hendrix calls Francine's book, "The best guide for working with parents that I have seen." Learn how to use the family round table to set boundaries without using rewards or punishments while keeping the parent-child bond intact. This is the key to stopping the violence in our society.
Now that we live in Paris, Francine and Bruce are prepared to put on this workshop anywhere in the world by invitation only. We have put on this workshop over 30 times in several countries.


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Demi Lovato has spoken of the "anxiety" they felt performing in their first sex scene but said they feel "proud" to be comfortable in their own skin.
The Confident singer, who came out as non-binary in May, has spoken openly about their battle with disordered eating.
Lovato will soon be seen starring opposite Valerie Bertinelli in the NBC sitcom Hungry, about a group of friends in a food issues group.
Sharing a photo of herself in underwear on Instagram, she wrote: "Had to film a sex scene today. My first one!
"I had a little anxiety going into it but the cast and crew were so professional and easy to work with, it calmed me down immediately.
"Then, I thought about how proud I am for being able to feel comfortable enough in my skin to do that.
"I rarely ever showed my arms before.. now I'm in this!! (Granted, it barely shows anything BUT STILL)
"I don't always feel good in my skin, so when I do, AND I feel sexy enough to post – I do just that!
"It's important to celebrate the little wins. Yay for this random burst of body confidence and yay for awkward hilarious sex."
Lovato, 28, first found fame as an actress in the children's show Barney & Friends and went on to star opposite the Jonas Brothers in Camp Rock.
They have also made appearances in Grey's Anatomy, Glee and Will & Grace and lend their voice to Smurfette in the Smurf animated movies.


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President Donald Trump entered an extraordinary row Wednesday with the chief justice of the Supreme Court, claiming "shocking" bias against his policies in parts of the judiciary.
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He singled out the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, whose jurisdiction includes left-leaning California, tweeting that its rulings "are making our country unsafe! Very dangerous and unwise!"
Earlier, Chief Justice John Roberts, who rarely makes political statements, rebuked criticism of the courts by Trump, insisting that the judiciary is "independent."
Responding to complaints by Trump that judges appointed by Democratic presidents act against the current White House, Roberts told the Associated Press: "We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges."
"What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them," Roberts said.
"That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for," the chief justice added in a brief statement.
Trump, who is on holiday in Florida, fired back on Twitter.
"Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have 'Obama judges,' and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country," he wrote.
He said that "a vast number" of cases concerning his controversial priorities, like a harsh crackdown on illegal immigration, had been overturned. "Please study the numbers, they are shocking," Trump wrote.
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The row came one day after Trump criticized a federal judge who temporarily blocked the administration from its decision to deny the right to political asylum applications for people who enter the country illegally.
US District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order against the Trump move, which comes as a large group of Central American migrants, frequently described by Trump as dangerous, is heading on foot for the US southern border.
On Tuesday, Trump lashed out at the judge's ruling, calling it a "disgrace."
"This was an Obama judge, and I'll tell you what, this is not going to happen anymore," Trump said. "People should not be allowed to immediately run to this very friendly circuit and file their case."
"We will win that case in the Supreme Court of the United States," Trump said.
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Trump has repeatedly attacked the judiciary when cases have gone against him in the past but this was the first time that Roberts, a conservative jurist who was appointed to the nation's highest court by Republican president George W. Bush, has responded publicly.
During the 2016 presidential election campaign, Trump attacked the Mexican-American heritage of a judge who ruled against him in a case involving Trump University.
The US federal government consists of three branches -- the executive headed by the president, the legislative comprising the House of Representatives and Senate and the judicial made up of the courts. The judiciary, especially the Supreme Court, is meant to be above the political fray.
Critics of the Trump immigration crackdown say that by restricting asylum seekers to border crossing points the government is effectively shutting the door on people who may truly be fleeing for their lives.
Trump's administration has argued that he has the executive power to curb immigration in the name of national security -- a power he invoked after taking office last year with a controversial ban on travelers from several mostly Muslim countries.
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text: Issue 01 Preview – Zombie Proof Home John Jarasa 17 Comments, Join the Conversation Racking your shotgun becomes much less of a concern when intruders can't even get into your house. We recently took a look at what just might be the world's ultimate home defense system. It's an architectural masterpiece that'll leave potential intruders and zombies in awe. Nowadays, the business of personal security is booming, and the money being spent on panic rooms, weapons, surveillance systems and personal protection is at an all-time high. From high-powered diplomats to paranoid business moguls, safety has become an issue that's taken dead seriously (no pun intended). The "Safehouse" is the ultimate man cave that addresses just about every issue from personal safety and comfort to minimalistic design and functional architecture. Located in a small village at the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland, this minimalistic compound designed by Robert Konieczny and constructed by KWK Promes sits amid a legion of "Polish Cubes" from the 1960s and a sprinkling of old wooden barns. Surrounded by plenty of barren land and sprawling acres, the house resides on a backdrop that looks almost computer generated, but don't let its minimalistic demeanor fool you. The owner, who opted to remain anonymous (understandably), wanted a retreat that would double as a fortress, and that is exactly what architect Konieczny delivered from conception to execution. Of course, a safe house wouldn't be secure if its builder gave away all of the specs, so understand if we're slightly vague in detail. For the rest of this article, subscribe digitally here: RECOIL Issue 1 Explore RECOILweb:FN Flaunts New FDE and Black SeriesA look at fighting stance, Part I: Samurai, Hoplites and Johannes LiechtenauerIn-car Security for TravelFiling a Personal Protection Order NEXT STEP: Download Your Free Target Pack from RECOILFor years, RECOIL magazine has treated its readers to a full-size (sometimes full color!) shooting target tucked into each big issue. Now we've compiled over 50 of our most popular targets into this one digital PDF download. From handgun drills to AR-15 practice, these 50+ targets have you covered. Print off as many as you like (ammo not included). Get your pack of 50 Print-at-Home targets when you subscribe to the RECOIL email newsletter. We'll send you weekly updates on guns, gear, industry news, and special offers from leading manufacturers - your guide to the firearms lifestyle.You want this. Trust Us.


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A plan and elevation view of the Tardis. A free AutoCAD DWG block download.
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These simple details will be useful in any DWG compatible CAD software package. While we have created these drawings in AutoCAD, they are compatible for use in other 2D software. For example: BricsCAD, Chief Architect, DesignCAD 3D Max, DraftSight, LibreCAD, Microstation PowerDraft, nanoCAD, ProgeCAD, Sketchup, Solidworks, TurboCAD, Vectorworks, GstarCAD, IntelliCAD and ZWCAD,


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Knitter's Pride Interchangeable needle cord
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MAKE reader Ken Miller wrote in to tell us about the magical staff prop he built this Halloween to complement a very lucky lad's wizard costume:
We built this Dragon Head Wizard Staff for my girlfriend's 9 year old son, mostly out of parts we had lying around. It uses an accelerometer to "cast spells" based on the direction you shake the staff, or by stomping it down. It uses an ATMega 328 with the Arduino bootloader, and an Adafruit WaveShield for the sound output. The dragon head was hand carved out of lodgepole pine, and the staff was a piece of aspen. The plasma globe came from a kid's toy "Thunder Globe" we picked up at the county fair. There are 8 runes along the length of the staff that light up when the wizard is about to cast a spell, and flash when the spell is being cast.
[Thanks, Ken!]
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Nano 24 Backpack One Size Techno Black
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About the collectionBreathable, and comfortable, the Nano 24 makes gear storage easy with the U-zip opening access, front mesh pouch, and top zippered stash pocket. A separate hydration compartment, comfortable zipper pulls, and reflective materials make this bag stand out.
Reflective webbing loops for visibility
Die-Cut foam breathable backpanel
Comfort grip custom molded loop zipper pullers
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Breathable Backpanel
Die-Cut backpanel provides space for air to flow for a cooler back.
Front Stuff Pocket
Front stretch mesh pocket for gear overflow and organization.
Zippered hydration / Tablet sleeve
Independent zippered pocket for hydration reservoir with routing to harness, or space for your tablet.
- Front stretch mesh pocket for gear overflow and organization with secure buckle closure
- Padded airmesh shoulder harnesses with one-handed sternum strap buckle and hydration routing loops
- Breathable die-cut backpanel and removable webbing hipbelt
- Externally accessed, separated hydration compartment with universal hydration hanger
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- Adjustable attachment loop and upper shock lock for trekking poles or an ice axe
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I have been selling life insurance since January 22, 1973, and this is truly is the greatest time to sell cash value life insurance. It provides amazing value for these uncertain times.
This is because cash value life insurance uses the financial miracle of leveraging. Pennies can purchase dollars. More importantly, one dollar can do the work of many dollars.
Please look at this list of things cash value life insurance can do for individuals, families and businesses. Do not assume that your prospects and clients already know these fabulous benefits are available.
- It will take care of your family or business if you die too soon. If your prospect says that she cannot afford the premium, ask how her family or business will afford her not being there.
- It will take care of you if you live too long. It can provide guaranteed lifetime income that cannot be outlived by using the accumulated cash values. Even better, this income can be paid income-tax free. Taxable income would require 20 percent to 40 percent higher payouts to provide the same "net" income.
- When waiver of premium is added, these plans are self-completing if you become disabled.
- Many plans provide catastrophic illness benefits. That means if you have a catastrophic illness like a heart attack, stroke or cancer, you can access some of the benefits while you are alive. Some plans are designed to provide long-term care benefits in addition to death benefits.
- Many plans provide terminal illness benefits. That allows for financial plans to be put in place before the primary breadwinner dies, and helps to relieve some of the stress that loved ones endure during those terrible times.
- The benefit is paid to the named beneficiary income-tax free and does not have to go through probate. This allows for quick access to funds, and it also provides privacy.
- It is a great savings vehicle. Many cash value policies have provided 4 percent to 5 percent tax-free long-term growth.
- Substantial access to the money is available via loans or withdrawals.
I used to hate selling life insurance; it was a great product, but whenever I did reviews it was hard to explain why the policy did not do as well as the original illustration. That was because interest rates declined for the last 30 years. Now the cycle is going in the other direction. Every initial illustration I present will probably provide the worst performance and as interest rates rise, many in-force ledgers will look better and better. I can tell my clients if they like what I am recommending now, they will adore it in the future.


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iPhone 6 Plus vs. Samsung Galaxy Note 3: Aesthetics and design
Living with the iPhone 6 Plus, part 3: In our latest post-review check-in, Tim compares the look and feel of his two favorite phablets.
Much has been said about Samsung's unwavering love for plastic -- even though the company has never really admitted it as such. Where Apple's iPhone 5c launched with Jony Ive waxing about its "unapologetically plastic" construction, Samsung has simply stuck by its guns, iterating and improving the look and feel of its devices without straying from their polycarbonate construction.
That changed with the Galaxy Alpha , of course, but at this point that phone seems like something of an experiment. And, while the Note 4 takes yet another step toward a more luxe feeling, it isn't head and shoulders above the phone I've been using daily for about six months now: the Galaxy Note 3.
Compared to my previous phone, the Note 2, the 3 was a revelation. The ridged, chromed plastic edges give it a reasonably premium look and feel for something made from a material that itself offers no such pretenses. To try and upgrade the back, Samsung went so far as to install faux stitching in a faux-leather print.
It's hardly a convincing fake, and fake materials are almost necessarily tacky, but for whatever reason I like it. The texture and material feel legitimately good in the hand. Also, the stitches and shape mean you can hold it very securely: round shapes may be more comfortable, but they're also easier to drop.
That's the polar opposite of the iPhone 6 Plus. The overall dimensions are roughly the same -- a bit skinnier, a bit taller -- but you'd almost never know it. The thinness is the most noticeable aspect, the iPhone being 2.5mm thinner, a difference that feels even greater thanks to those rounded edges. On its own, the Note 3 feels surprisingly slender. Put an iPhone 6 Plus in your other hand and everything changes.
Conversely, Apple's lug of a phone seems heavier than the Note 3, despite the two being virtually the same weight. Just four grams separate the pair (172 for the iPhone, 168 for the Note), but the difference feels much greater. It must simply be the greater density of the iPhone throwing off my distinctly human perceptions.
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And then there are the details. The discrete volume buttons on the iPhone are far more pleasing to the touch than the single slab on the Note, and the great tactility of the lock/silent switch just above it isn't found on the Samsung. So, too, the solid, responsive "click" feeling of pushing in the buttons, vs. the softer, less positive button feel on the Note. That said, I rarely hear of someone dealing with a broken power switch on a Note or Galaxy S, and I know plenty of folks who've had button failures on past iPhones. Hopefully the 6 and 6 Plus prove more reliable.
Plugging in the 6 Plus is also far more enjoyable. The Lightning cable has the obvious advantage of working in any orientation, but it's also thinner and coils easier, so is better for packing. That said, the wider cable of the Note 3 means faster USB 3.0 data transfers -- if your desktop or laptop is suitably equipped.
Then there's headphone positioning, with the Note 3 featuring the 3.5mm jack up top and the iPhone putting it at the bottom. This one definitely boils down to personal preference, though I must say in general I prefer the bottom. This makes you less likely to stab someone with your headphone plug when standing on a crowded train or bus, and when you're charging your phone while listening to music, all the cables are neatly coming out of one side.
Big things missing on the iPhone? I've already gushed about my love for the stylus in the first installment of this series, so I'll refrain from mentioning that again. Another thing is the notification LED. This is something that I never think of when deciding which phone to buy, but I find myself missing it when living with a phone that lacks it.
And then, of course, there's the big thing, the single biggest thing in the phone: the battery. It comes out. And, once it's come out, you can put in a different one. The removable battery is a dying breed in modern smartphone design, declining in use thanks to the need to extract every fraction of a millimeter and fill every internal cavity.
The Note 3's battery life is already great, but still I've lost count of the number of times I've been two-thirds of the way through a 14- or 16- or 18-hour workday and was saved by swapping in a second battery. Meanwhile, the iPhone 6 Plus has battery life that seems even more promising -- but not having that extra tank on reserve makes me nervous about truly relying on it as a business tool.
Just one of the many reasons I'm still on the fence between these two. Next time, we'll delve a little deeper on the software, and we'll look at the relative camera performance of the two as well.
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Canadian aerospace profits expected to drop: Conference Board
by The Canadian Press
Think-tank expects industry profits will decline 30 per cent by end of 2013
MONTREAL—The Conference Board of Canada says a slowdown in new aircraft orders and global economic uncertainty will depress Canadian aerospace manufacturing profits this year and next.
The think-tank expects industry profits will decline 30 per cent by the end of 2013 from the recent high of $710-million set in 2010.
Conference Board's senior economist Maxim Armstrong says the industry is still coping with the lingering effects of the 2008 recession.
While recent new orders indicate signs of recovery, financial turmoil in Europe is creating uncertainty and making the comeback difficult, he said in the board's latest edition of its Industrial Outlook.
Armstrong says modest growth in global demand for air transportation is delaying the need to expand capacity or to replace existing aircraft.
Conditions are expected to progressively improve towards the end of its five-year forecast.
U.S. economic growth remains slow but an improvement in the financial position of American companies should lead to increased demand for business jet, says the Conference Board.
The improved outlook in 2015 and beyond coincides with the impact of Bombardier's CSeries commercial jet.
The smaller version of the plane is slated to enter into service in June 2014, followed by the more popular larger model by the end of that year.
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With microbrews and brick-oven pizzas, Hillcrest Brewing Co. in San Diego might sound like every other brewpub in America. But the new venture, which officially opens next Tuesday, is claiming the unique distinction of being the world's first gay brewery.
We'll drink to that!
Hillcrest, located in the San Diego gayborhood of the same name, is the latest venture from Stefan Chicote and Chris Shaw, owners of the local Mo's Universe restaurant chain, and gay brewer David White. All of the Mo's Universe eateries are aimed at the gay demographic—Shaw and Chicote are even sponsors of Saturday's High Heel Race—but Hillcrest represents something new for them.
"We had been looking at different concepts to complement our other locations," Chicote told UT San Diego, "We looked at a breakfast club, a supper club, and then David White came knocking on the door, gave us a six-pack of his beer, and Chris said, 'What do you think of a brewing company?' I said, 'stop the bus, that's it."
In the spirit of Pride, the venue's brewing processes will be exposed to all instead of walled off or behind glass. Visitors can order from several cheekily named craft beers, including Perle Necklace, Crotch Rocket Red, Banana Hammock and Brain Lubricant.
Now if only they'd come out with a low-cal microbrew, we'd be all over it.


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Friday 15 January 2016
Forget Me Not challenge over at Double 'D'
I knew what I wanted to make, and thankfully the die I'd ordered arrived in time - but what a scrabble I had to find some forget me not blue card. Thankfully there was a little snippet hiding in the snippets folder - but of course, hindsight being 20/20 vision, I later remembered that I could have just coloured a snippet of white card with an appropriate blue Pro marker.
This is my very simple offering - do hop over to see the DT cards, as well as the entries to date, there are some real beauties there!
I used:
- slightly smaller than 5" x 7" white card blank
- a snippet of white card, embossed using a Couture Creations 'Compassionate' embossing folder, trimmed to just slightly smaller than the card front and glued in place
- a white snippet, die cut using Spellbinders 'Labels Eighteen' and then a medium ball ended embossing tool run round the edge of the die whilst it was still in place to form a sharpened outer frame. Quicker than digging out the tan mat and then embossing the piece through the Cuttlebug
- snippets of green and blue card, plus a Joanna Sheen Signature 'Forget Me Not' die
- I'd backed the coloured card with Stick-It adhesive sheet prior to die cutting which made it really easy to pop the blue flowers on top of the green layer and also to add the teeny little blue buds
- added the spray of forget me nots to the large die cut panel
- stamped a sentiment from SU's (sadly discontinued) set called 'Sincere Salutations' using Memento 'London Fog' ink
- die cut the sentiment with a smaller Labels Eighteen die and did the edging same as the larger piece
- the die set comes with a little extra sprig of flowers (plus some little flower heads which I didn't use) - so I added that below the sentiment
- used a yellow sparkly gelly pen for the flower centres and then glued the two panels onto the embossed front of the card
If you like the forget me not die, make sure you check out the Snippets Playground on Sunday :)
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You nailed the forget me not challenge. I love the flower die and the color is perfect. That is such a pretty embossing folder for the background. Hope you are feeling much better.ReplyDelete
Yep, I really like the forget-me-not die, and especially how you used it on this card! The labels 18 die cut panels look perfect for the image and sentiment, and that background embossing is stunning! Very pretty card!ReplyDelete
It's a very pretty card Di. The label dies look good on that lovely embossing folder and I'll be back on Sunday to see that super die again. That's a good tip for embossing the labels. BarbxxReplyDelete
Wow, I like this flower. Wonderful card.ReplyDelete
Really beautiful card, Di! Love the embossed background & how you used the labels dies--perfect!ReplyDelete
Love this xReplyDelete
Clean, crisp and elegant DI. Off to mail yo know, forgot the other day when I had promised.ReplyDelete
B x
A lovely card and a super die - I'll see you in the playground on Sunday!ReplyDelete
Kath x
Very beautiful! I absolutely love those blue flower bits (looks like it is sort of textured cardstock you have used)ReplyDelete
Did I mention how beautiful this card is :)
Lovely card Di that's a beautiful shade of blue, great die loads of possibilities there, love the clean elegance of the card.ReplyDelete
That is divine - such a beauty :-D xxxxxxxxxxxReplyDelete
You may think simple, Di... but this is really quite beautiful.ReplyDelete
Hope things are continuing to improve for you.
Donna. X
Like this very much Di - am having a bit of a CAS streak at the mo so it suits me perfectly!! xReplyDelete
Perfect card for our challenge and so pretty! Thanks so much for playing along at Double D!!ReplyDelete
Aaaah what a delightful flower and i'm so loving that gorgeous background, Luv Sam xReplyDelete
Beautiful card, Di. So pretty!ReplyDelete
Em xxx
Thank you thank you for entering your beautiful card in our new challenge and for the shout out, too, I appreciate it so much!! That die you have used is absolutely perfect for the challenge...our new challenge is next Wed and we hope you will come back...the challenge will be Brrrrr!ReplyDelete
Oh, how beautiful! Love your embossed background, and those flowers couldn't be more perfect. Just a pretty, pretty card! So glad to see it in our first Double D Challenge!ReplyDelete
Wonderful card Di. Love the white embossed background and the super dies xxReplyDelete
This is beautiful Miss. Forget me nots are one of my favourite flowers and in the package from the funeral directors was a packet which we will share between gardens in memory of Mum.ReplyDelete
PS thank you so much for your card. xxx
A beauty of a card Di. Love the delicate blue flowers against the white background. xReplyDelete
Oh, love it so much!!! Such a delicate and very elegant CAS!! The embossing matches amazing with the two shapes and the forget me not are just stunning!! I think this is a perfect card!ReplyDelete
I love forget-me-nots. This card is simply beautiful!ReplyDelete
I love these beautiful diecut Forget me nots Di and the colour of the card is perfect, also such a pretty embossed background and the label dies as mats for the flowers and sentiment. xReplyDelete
So pretty Di! Love your sweet blue blooms. Just reminded me that I used a snippet in my last card, so I'm going to update my post and link up. I keep forgetting! At some point I hope it will become a habit! :) xxReplyDelete
Perfect card for the challenge Di, I've not seen that die before, nor the embossing folder. They are both lovely!ReplyDelete
Janice x
Love that background embossing DiReplyDelete
Dr Sonia
Hello Di, with the elegant embossing and that pretty flower, your card is just perfect.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your comment on my kitchen blog. Things have been hard for me recently so I haven't crafted in forever, but I'm starting to feel the urge again, so watch this space :-)
PERFECTLY fabulous! We are SO GLAD you've come to join in our fun new challenge and thanks so much for the wonderful shout out! Greatly appreciated! LOVE your design ... just might have to 'steal' that idea ... looks quick, easy and FABULOUS!! Thanks again for joining in the fun at Double D Challenges! We hope you'll come back often.ReplyDelete
This is very delicate and pretty. I like that the greeting isn't in black. That would have been too stark.ReplyDelete
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What Is the Best Type of Drain Cleaner to Use?
Many of our clients ask us what the best kind of drain cleaner is. This is a great question to ask, as keeping the water flowing through your drain freely without obstruction is very important and will help you to avoid problems such as clogs and bursts in the future.
However, the answer as to what drain cleaner you should use might surprise you. For professional help with drain maintenance, get in touch with Clark Drainage today.
Which Type of Drain Cleaner Is Best?
The short answer is that drain cleaning chemicals should be avoided at all costs. Although they might have some effect on the debris sticking to the side of your pipes, they are also incredibly corrosive and will reduce the lifespan of your metal or PVC pipes significantly.
The nature of drain cleaning chemicals requires them to be intensely corrosive and destructive. However, they do not discriminate; whether they are in contact with the clog in question, the walls of your pipes, or, in many unfortunate cases, human skin, they will start to cause damage.
Repeated use over the course of months or years will cause several weaknesses to appear. These weaknesses will eventually wear through until there are cracks, leaks, and total collapses in the pipes which will cause water damage and flooding.
It is also worth noting that certain chemicals should be avoided due to being utterly environmentally-unfriendly. These chemicals are best used very sparingly and in specific situations, they should not be poured down your drain.
In short, there might be a drain cleaner that is most effective at clearing a clog, but this same chemical will be the most effective at eating through your drainage system itself!
Enzyme Cleaners: A Middle-Ground?
Enzyme cleaners provide a suitable and less damaging alternative which can work in a lot of situations. This chemical works effectively, but only on organic materials. Although it won't break down the toy car blocking your pipe, it won't ruin your metal or plastic pipes either.
When the enzyme cleaner comes across things like food, human hair, greasy 'fatbergs', and many other 'usual suspects' when it comes to drain blockages, it will start to break it down very quickly and encourage it to move on through the pipes.
Again, because your pipes are inorganic, the enzyme cleaner will have no effect. They are biological compounds which break down organic materials while being perfectly safe to use and entirely harmless for the environment.
What About Professional Cleaning?
The surest way of ensuring that your pipes run freely without obstruction and clogs is to leave it to the professionals. With the right equipment and training, we are able to quickly make sure that your pipes are kept in peak condition.
The process involves using a high-pressure water jet to flush water through your system at incredibly high pressures. This will break down anything in its path that shouldn't be there and force it to move onwards into the public sewer system.
Although this sound very disruptive, the process is very straightforward and streamlined. Although many people are put off by images of our team in muddle overalls and big boots wrecking your home, this is far from the case (not least because our personnel are very presentable!).
In fact, we are able to carry out the process without direct access to the property very often. So long as there is a manhole or some other form of access outside the property, we can just use this, and from arrival to departure the entire process can take as little as one to two hours.
This is by far the best method of ensuring that your drainage system remains as healthy as possible which means you will give yourself the best chance of avoiding any form of blocked pipe or burst, and scheduled cleaning is much more affordable than you might anticipate.
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Congratulations! are in order for Patrick Obado and his wife Billye Cashman. Both retired at the same time in October. Patrick retired from Mid Pacific Steel, Inc. and Billye retired from Kamehameha Schools. I asked my brother if he will be traveling now… he said he does his traveling via The Discovery Channel. Sorry, Lance Nobui… although retired, still not going to be easy to get him to even attend LACA. Patrick thanks three teachers that laid the foundation toward his successful career: Mrs. Helen Fujii (Math), Mr. Stanley Oshima (Science), and Mrs. Molly Sakamoto.
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The well, which was completed in a 2,900 feet horizontal section at a vertical depth of 7,400 feet, is currently producing on a restricted choke at a rate of 750 barrels of oil equivalent per day, of which 90% is oil.
The Stallings 1H production rate is on the high side of those recorded in this sector of the Delaware Basin and it represents a promising start of the activity that Eni is undertaking in the unconventional oil plays in the US. Production start up from the well is expected at the beginning of September.
The Eni-Quicksilver joint venture is currently drilling their second exploration well (Mitchell 1H), located 4.5 miles north of Stallings 1H targeting the same reservoir.
The exploration agreement between Eni and Quicksilver covers an area of approximately 52,500 acres situated in Pecos County in West Texas, in the southern part of the prolific Delaware Basin. Quicksilver (operator) and Eni own 50% each of working interest in the project.
Eni is playing a very active role in the project providing highly qualified expertise and state of the art and proprietary technological support to the operator.
In the US, Eni owns interests in 200 leases in the Gulf of Mexico and 530 leases in unconventional plays (shale gas and shale oil) onshore Texas. In addition, Eni owns interests in 100 leases in the North Slope of Alaska, which include 100% of Nikaitchuq and 30% of the Oooguruk oil fields.
Eni's current production in the US is in excess of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, 75% of which is operated
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A second major cancer study in the US has been discredited after data had been falsified. The news follows the revelation just a month earlier that the biggest survey on breast cancer in North America contained false data.
The latest discovery has resulted in the resignation of the research project chairman Bernard Fisher and the suspension of new patient recruitment to the study groups. The survey, into the breast cancer drug tamoxifen, has also been stopped temporarily.
The National Women's Health Network in the US wants to see the research programme abandoned, having lost faith in the American National Cancer Institute.
The NCI has admitted that its handling of falsified data has been lax. Its admission follows the revelation that part of the data in the 1985 study had been falsified. The conclusions of the survey changed the way American doctors treated breast cancer, shifting from mastectomy to lumpectomy plus radiotherapy for early-stage cancer.
Hurried research after this discovery which excluded the fraudulent data, came to a similar conclusion.
In the latest controversy, Dr Fisher has been accused of withholding data about tamoxifen and its association with the development of endometrial cancer. Informed consent forms, which women have to read and sign before agreeing to join the trials, apparently did not include the latest data showing that four women died after taking tamoxifen.


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J.P. Thieriot is the CEO of Uphold, a cryptocurrency platform offering a multitude of services, which was launched in 2015. A graduate of Yale University, before going crypto, J.P. Thieriot managed a number of companies in the tech sector, as well as real-estate and agriculture, including Estancia Beef, one of the largest grass-fed beef companies in the United States. Today he agreed to sit down with us to discuss where the crypto business is at, as we're approaching the New Year.
Why Crypto?
U.Today: Mr Thieriot, tell us a bit about yourself please. You have a substantial amount of experience in many business sectors. How did you find yourself doing what you do today?
J.P. Thieriot: My first exposure to Bitcoin came as a result of having investors' funds trapped in Argentina in 2013. Despite statements from PWC stating that a given LP's account was worth $X, attempting to take the money out of the country meant the LP would receive $.5X. It was a perfect example of how a third world country can use monetary games in pursuit of short-term gains, while ultimately thwarting real value creation and holding a populace hostage to incompetence. We tried every conceivable (US legal) way of getting the funds out. That's when I came across Bitcoin. Unfortunately, we didn't take the plunge. Seemed too precarious. BTC was at around $15 at the time!
U.Today: Tell us about the company you are currently heading. What services does it offer exactly?
J.P. Thieriot: Uphold is a global digital money platform. We have about 1m users. In some respects, this side of our business could be compared with Coinbase, i.e. not exactly an 'exchange', with direct links to legacy money networks like US and EU banking through rails like ACH and SEPA. Where we're very differentiated is in having a big lead over everyone in the context of our open APIs for third party digital money applications. We do not just 'list' tokens like an exchange, we are deeply integrated into some of the ecosystems of the companies behind the tokens, like Brave-BAT, DASH and Cred-LBA. 2019 will be the year that some amazing utility tokens emerge from the rubble of hundreds of silly ICOs. I'd like to think Uphold will be an integral part of those likely to be the most successful.
U.Today: Uphold recently received close to 60 million USD from Greg Kidd, a former Ripple executive. Are you now partners with XRP?
J.P. Thieriot: We have a large XRP community on Uphold. They are passionate and active. We try to make them happy. Certainly, there are a number of possibilities with Ripple down the road.
The DLT Business Today
U.Today: In addition to yours, there are many companies based in San Francisco, among them Kraken, Coinbase, and Blockchain Capital. Has Silicon Valley now conquered the crypto world as well?
J.P. Thieriot: Digital money is an Internet phenomenon. It stands to reason that 'Internet' geographies would concentrate Blockchain companies in the early going. Ultimately, I imagine regulatory regimes will skew the array. Hopefully, the US will be able to maintain a light hand and perpetuate its early advantage over other regimes.
U.Today: What do you think it takes to "make it" in the DLT world as an entrepreneur? Is it about the savviness, i.e. the know-how, or simply the right attitude, i.e. being the go-getter type?
J.P. Thieriot:
Perseverance first. Execution second. Blazing insights a distant third. Building the right team is also critical... I have a pretty dim view of humanity :), specifically in that I'd choose to work again with perhaps 10% of the people I've worked with.
After four years at Uphold and many purges and reorganizations, we've arrived where that number is, for the first time in my work experience, inverted. 90% of the people working at Uphold today are rock stars. Work hours don't exist; the creativity, initiative, and energy thrown at every problem is unbelievable. It feels more like (an ideal) family than a workplace. We all believe we are doing something important and exciting, and we're unlikely to come across a similar opportunity in our lifetimes.
U.Today: Are you a believer in decentralization? It seems that this is how the Blockchain got started in the first instance. Yet, according to some, this domain has now become very centralized, from pegging to market dominance by a select few. What are your thoughts?
J.P. Thieriot: 'Decentralization' has become the buzzword du jour. Yesterday it was 'Blockchain'. Obviously, these are novel and important facets of our burgeoning ecosystem, but it's funny to me how people can get religious and sanctimonious around these banners. The idea here is that an Internet of Money has become possible… ne inevitable.
Decentralized and Blockchain technologies, methods and protocols will likely have a lot to do with the evolution and outcome; however, being theologically absolute, really about anything, strikes me as ridiculous. The Internet is decentralized; Amazon, Google and Apple are not. For this industry to jump the rails into the mainstream, particularly given how money is regulated, is going to require clusterings of human beings doing things like support and marketing for quite some time.
I'm not sure a pure peer-to-peer network, serviced by a distributed automaton is either possible or desirable. In the meantime, the more distributed, less concentrated, more collaborative things become, the better, i.e. less risk, higher output.
U.Today: While some networks openly attack one another, Ethereum and EOS being the prime example, others prefer to unite instead. Uphold is part of Universal Protocol which attempts to do just that. Is it a union created simply in order to increase profits, or is it more than that?
J.P. Thieriot: The UPP is an industry utility, the purpose of which is to mitigate a number of the current restraints on the growth of our ecosystem. We've identified those restraints as: 1) the lack of a common language, 2) the lack of conventional user safeguards, and 3) the lack of products built for mass adoption.
The question about Ethereum and EOS goes to the first of the above factors. It does nothing for the benefit of the ecosystem when competing protocols throw mud at each other. It debases outside opinion, puts a grin on the faces of the ossified naysayers—the Dimons and Buffetts of the world—and perpetuates confusion and uncertainty among potential new entrants.
UPP's purpose is to usher in the next 100 million users of crypto. We can do this by disrupting a hidebound legacy financial system that has been a festering backwater in terms of innovation, soundness, fairness, equal access, and transparency. Bickering amongst ourselves is a destructive waste of time.
Ongoing Crisis and Predictions
U.Today: We simply cannot not ask about the current Bitcoin crisis. Does it complicate business, or can this low tide be treated as an opportunity to dig out whatever gold was left buried in the sand?
J.P. Thieriot: Speculative bubbles always form around the advent of revolutionary technologies. This technology happens to relate directly to money, and it has benefitted from significant Asian participation on the trading front; ergo, the ups and downs are likely to be super-charged.
We've been expecting a shakeout. There'll be a lot less noise in the market. Meanwhile, nothing will deter the inexorable march of the coming Internet of Money.
U.Today: With so much on the market today, what is it that the customers are after exactly?
J.P. Thieriot: Quite simply, quantumly wider and more convenient access to better financial products and services.
U.Today: Can you make any predictions for the future? How is the market going to be different in, say, five or ten years from now?
J.P. Thieriot: 2019 will be the year of "The ICO is dead, long live the STO". The first real utility tokens will start to show their stuff, foremost Brave's BAT token. The general market will remain below the $200b mark as the weaker offerings perish and very few strong projects accumulate value. In five years, we will be well into the process of tokenizing/digitizing every single traditional asset class in existence.
In ten years, the use of banknote cash will at least have diminished by 50% from today's levels… And my guess is―because one way to look at BTC is as a shorting of the monetary system's status quo―BTC will be above $25k.


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Mid-Atlantic States Lapbook Part 2
I bet your students already have the Mid-Atlantic States capitals memorized. Do they? Have a quick quiz before adding these fun features. Make your students get all the correct capitals and abbreviations before letting them cut out these fun features!
Print the Mid-Atlantic state features flip pages 2 sided (flip along the LONG side of the paper).
Mid-Atlantic State Features – Week 10 Printable
Cut out along the outside of each flip book, and fold on the solid lines. The mountain range is a tri-fold, so fold on the two solid lines making sure the mountain range name is on the outside. The Finger Lakes flip-feature was made to look like a hand (so you can remember the fingers part of the Finger Lakes!) Cut in between each finger. Fold the 'thumb' down and then the four fingers over the thumb (sort of a paper fist now).
Glue these into the lapbook middle section around your Mid-atlantic states map. They can go in any place or order you want. You can see below how I did it.
Have fun reading the fun facts about each feature and looking at the pictures!
Print the cover for your lapbook:
Mid-Atlantic States Lapbook Cover
Glue it to the front of the two side flaps. (I glue the page to one side, then use the edge of the file folder as a guide to cut on).
(Ok so I cheated and copied the directions and some pictures from the Southeast states lapbook post for this part. If you've been with me all year, you may already know how to make your lapbook 3-ring binder ready though)
Then to make it fit into your Geography 3 ring binder, use some packing tape. Run the packing tape down the outside of the left side of the Lapbook. Fold it over onto itself, so that about 1/2 of tape is sticking to itself, and the rest to the lapbook. Hole punch through the tape and store in your binder!
Alternatively, Walmart and Target are selling fun duct tape. If you want to give it a little more personality you can use whatever crazy duct tape you like. We went with some alien duct tape- which has nothing to do with Geography, but still adds some fun to the project.
Yay! Lapbook 2 in our US Geography Lapbook series is complete! Use your laminated map to label the states, capitals, and draw where the features are! Test yourself and your students by folding the sides backwards and labeling your map. Have fun learning about the Finger Lakes on a hand shaped flip page! Keep it safe in your 3-ring Geography Binder!
Be sure to come back next week when we will start our third, yes THIRD, geography lapbook! (Is it just me or do these become cooler the more of them there are?)


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The picture is still bright for Television
Philadelphia Inquirer (21 March 2003)
by Tom Moon
For the last decade or so, the enormously influential '70s band Television has mounted small, irregular little tours seemingly according to whim. The band, revered for the twin lead guitar attack of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, hasn't had new records (or even major reissues) to hawk since the eponymous Television came out in 1992, and its principals have been busy producing records and doing other music projects. "We are," Lloyd says proudly, "completely out of the capitalist marketing thing. Lots of bands say they don't care, but Television is the only one I know that truly doesn't care."
Still, the faithful continue to turn out to see Television, the band with a tiny output by today's standards - just three full-length studio efforts - that has been credited with shaping the sensibilities of several generations of rockers, from U2 to the Strokes to current New York faves the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Lloyd, reached as the band was gearing up for a tour that will bring Television to the TLA Sunday, has a hunch about the enduring appeal.
"When we play together, nobody knows who's going to do what," he said last week from his home in New York City. "It's like seeing a Maserati on city streets. Everybody turns and looks, you can't take your eyes off the car. You know it's capable of doing 220 [m.p.h.], and it's not. But you're looking at it because it could. With us, you've got two guitars, and don't know which side is going to go off, what might happen. That's worth looking at."
That two-guitar attack, which Lloyd describes as "seamless, like passing sand from one hand to the other," has grown more intricate over the years, as the four musicians (including Billy Ficca on drums and Fred Smith on bass) have matured. But it was the driving force behind the band's transcendent 1977 debut Marquee Moon, one of the few unassailable classics of New York punk. Lloyd says that though the musicians weren't thinking in terms of creating a classic when they recorded it, they did have a clear idea about the sound.
"One of the things we talked about then," he recalls, "was resisting production. Almost de-producing. We didn't want anyone to muck up. It was a time when people were adding everything. Without knowing it at the time, we were insisting on capturing the band as it actually was. You listen to the very first Doors record, it was done in a couple of days and it's very simple. It has its own integrity. I think Marquee Moon has that thing, too. We were clinging to honesty."
Asked what's changed about the live show over the decades, Lloyd says the band does more new material "to please ourselves" than it used to. And, he adds, the current Television is much steadier than it was in the early days, when its shows were plagued by the usual rock vices (drink, drugs, etc.), and as a result tended to be erratic. "The roller coaster is not so evident anymore. We're relaxed. The intuitive sense of musical interplay is better. We're not one of those bands they trot out now and again and nobody's been playing - all four of us are deeply into music and really busy..... That makes it nice to fall back into the band. There's less train wrecks, more competency."


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Where is Monroe County, Missouri?
Monroe County is a county equivalent area found in Missouri, USA. The county government of Monroe is found in the county seat of Paris.
With a total 1,735.72 sq. km of land and water area, Monroe County, Missouri is the 1518th largest county equivalent area in the United States. Home to 8,707 people, Monroe County has a total 4782 households earning 40657 on average per year.
Monroe County, Missouri - Quick Facts
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|Area Codes
|Time Zone
|Major Cities
|Monroe City (population: 4,239), Paris (population: 2,495), Madison (population: 1,918), Holliday (population: 492), Stoutsville (population: 381), Santa Fe (population: 175)
|Land Area
|3,362 sq miles
|Water Area
|647 sq miles
|Household Income
|Housing Units
|Median Home Value
|High School Grads
|88% of population
|Holders of Bachelors Degrees
|13% of population
|Retail Spending
|$5,219 per capita
|Food & Accomodation Sales
|$4,383 per capita
This page was last updated on June 30, 2016.


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In this article, we'll explore Calico's denial-of-service (DoS) mitigation features, including XDP-optimisation support introduced in Calico v3.7.
Using Calico Policy for DoS Mitigation
During a DoS attack, a cluster can receive massive numbers of connection requests from attackers. The faster these connection requests are dropped, the less flooding and overloading to your hosts. You can fend off these attacks with DoS mitigation rules in normal Calico network policy applied directly to your host network interfaces.
But there's a less well known Calico network policy feature, doNotTrack, that will apply such policies as early as possible in the Linux packet processing pipeline. Prior to Calico 3.7, this meant in the iptables "raw" table, before Linux conntrack and other network processing. As discussed in one of our previous blogs, you can use doNotTrack policy to significantly increase scale for niche very high connection workloads. It's also a useful feature in your arsenal for defending against DoS attacks as efficiently as possible.
Calico 3.7 enhances this approach further with the introduction of automatic XDP-optimization of DoS mitigation rules.
What is XDP?
XDP (eXpress Data Path) is a Linux kernel capability that allows BPF programs to be inserted very early in the Linux's packet processing pipeline. Depending on specific network hardware and kernel version, there are three places in the pipeline where an XDP program can be attached:
- offloaded all the way to the NIC (blazing fast, processed in hardware)
- in the NIC driver (very fast, before it reaches the main Linux kernel network stack)
- after the NIC driver, in the kernel's "generic" processing (early in the main Linux kernel network stack, but not significantly faster than iptables "raw" table)
Calico will use the fastest available hook that is enabled in its configuration.
XDP is a relatively new kernel feature. Calico will only enable it on Linux kernel v4.16 and above due to bugs and missing features in earlier versions. On earlier kernels, Calico will continue to use the iptables "raw" table to implement all "doNotTrack" rules.
About the new feature
The denial-of-service protection feature allows Calico to automatically optimise certain kinds of host protection policy rules by converting them to XDP programs. In this first iteration, we've optimised a certain sort of policy rule that is useful for very early dropping of traffic from a global network set. This makes it suitable for dropping traffic quickly from a configurable blacklist of CIDRs, exactly what you might need to block a DoS attack. (See the how-to guide for all the details.)
OK, so how much difference does it make?
Most people don't have access to NICs that can offload XDP to hardware, so in this test we use NICs that supported offload to the NIC driver as a more realistic scenario for most readers.
We set up an NGINX pod on a fairly modest two core test host and generated 300 requests/s from another host acting as normal "legitimate" service load. We then simulated a DoS attack using a third host to generate attack packets targeting the NGINX server. We increased the rate of the attack packets until it had an impact on the legitimate traffic.
The first thing to note is that even on this modest host (only 2 cores), using Calico doNotTrack policy enforced with iptables, the DoS attack has very little impact at 3.0 million attack packets/s. The real impact comes beyond that when the host started to become CPU constrained – at which point the legitimate service traffic really starts to suffer with around 80% of legitimate connection attempts failing.
In contrast, with XDP driver enforcement, we were able to push up to 4.4 million packets/s with this test set-up and it only showed early signs of a reduction in legitimate service throughput.
In most normal circumstances, the performance of the Linux networking stack represents an insignificant proportion of your overall application load. Under DoS attack it is a different story. Calico's doNotTrack policy can help mitigate a DoS attack by dropping traffic early in the Linux packet processing pipeline. With the introduction of XDP-optimization in Calico 3.7, if your kernel and NIC support it, then the attack traffic will be dropped by the NIC driver (or in the NIC itself). By policing traffic earlier in the pipeline it reduces the work done per packet and gives a substantial increase in performance for the DoS attack mitigation use-case.
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Gena Truitt, a 2013 SDLA alumna, was recently appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to serve on the State Veterans Board. Here Gena shares her experience--from seeking a position to being appointed.Read more
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By Allison Don
Charlie Gillig and Jessica Nare of the San Diego Leadership Alliance (SDLA) 2013 Class have been appointed to the City of San Diego's Human Relation's Commission, which, among other activities, works to ensure that all city residents have equal access to economic, political and educational opportunities and equal access to service protection and accommodation in all businesses and public agencies.Read more
2013 NLC Fellow: Charles Gillig
Charles Gillig
Skadden Fellow/Staff Attorney, Casa Cornelia Law Center
Charlie Gillig is a Skadden Fellow at Casa Cornelia Law Center, a legal non-profit that provides free representation to immigrant victims of abuse. At Casa Cornelia, Charlie founded and serves as director of Casa Cornelia's satellite office in the low income, high immigrant neighborhood of City Heights. In this capacity Charlie has a caseload of asylum seekers, victims of domestic violence and unaccompanied children. He also provides community education on legal rights and serves as the Asylum Task Force Chair at the San Diego Refugee Forum.
Before moving to San Diego, Charlie lived in Washington, D.C., graduating with a dual degree in law from Georgetown University Law Center and in international relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Upon graduation at Georgetown, Charlie received the Jeffrey Crandall Award, given to the graduating student that most exemplifies a commitment to public interest law.
Charlie is a native of Los Angeles and a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont. After college, Charlie worked as a journalist in Hong Kong and as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo, West Africa.
2013 NLC Fellow: Rebekah Hook
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Public Policy Assistant,Collaborative Services, Inc.
Rebekah Hook has Midwest roots, grew up in Tucson, Arizona and attended Western Washington University.
While at Western, she majored in Political Science with an emphasis in American politics, environmental studies and environmental policy. Highly active in student and local politics, Rebekah founded and was President of Students For Hillary, a grassroots organization focused on gaining support on Western's campus for Hillary R. Clinton to secure the presidential nomination. She also held leadership positions at the Queer Resource Center (formerly the LGBTA) and in the Office of Sustainability, supporting and furthering the diversity and sustainability goals of the university. Rebekah had the privilege to work as a District Intern for Congressman Rick Larsen (WA-2). An lifelong athlete, she also competed in varsity NCAA Division II Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field ⎯ Go Vikings!
After earning her Bachelor's Degree, Rebekah obtained her Master's Degree in Political Science and Environmental Studies, with a focus on public policy, stakeholder engagement and environmental land use. While in graduate school, Rebekah worked as the Deputy Campaign Director on the Jean Melious for County Council campaign and was a member of The National Political Science Honor Society.
Currently, Rebekah Hook is a Public Policy Assistant at Collaborative Services, Inc., a public outreach firm in San Diego. Through her role, she contributes to the firm's success as it works with, and for, public agencies and local and regional political figures on projects ranging from transportation, to urban planning, to natural resource management. Rebekah works to ensure that the public's communication, outreach and community involvement needs are consistently met. She continues to cultivate new partnerships with aligning organizations, companies and political leaders to enhance existing and future programs. Whether she is researching policy information or interacting with stakeholders, her support helps ensure that projects run smoothly and finish successfully.
Rebekah is an active member of the San Diego LGBT Community Center's Young Professionals Council (YPC), continues to volunteer on various political campaigns and enjoys a mildly competitive round of golf.
2013 NLC Fellow: Cody Hooven
Cody Hooven
Senior Environmental Specialist, Port of San Diego
Cody Hooven is a Senior Environmental Specialist with the Port of San Diego. She manages the Green Port Program, the Port's comprehensive environmental sustainability effort. She is also leading the development of a Climate Plan for the entire Port jurisdiction, an exciting project addressing both the carbon footprint of the Port and well as adaptation to future climate impacts, such as sea level rise. She also works with other environmentally progressive leaders on various collaborative sustainability efforts in the San Diego region and statewide.
Prior to moving to San Diego in 2007, Cody worked for NOAA Fisheries in Honolulu, Hawaii. She began as a student employee. Proving herself dedicated to science, and willing to get dirty in the field, she quickly worked her way up coordinating the marine turtle stranding research program for the entire state. While enjoying the Hawaiian lifestyle and marine research, she decided to return to her home state of California and shift her focus to the intersection of science and policy.
In addition to her passion for bringing people together on sustainability issues, Cody finds inspiration and motivation in helping her community progress. While in grad school, she worked for Ocean Discovery Institute, a San Diego region non-profit, teaching underserved City Heights students about marine research and applied science. She continues to volunteer with them, and travels to Baja each year to support their impressive efforts.
2013 NLC Fellow: Jessica Lawrence
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Associate, LeSar Development Consultants
Jessica Lawrence joined LeSar Development Consultants as an Associate in February of 2011, having previously worked as an administrator for the New York City Mayor's Office in the Department of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting. Her experience also includes an internship with the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the NYC Housing Development Corporation (HCD).
In her current role, Jessica primarily focuses on supporting LDC's provision of consulting services related to affordable housing policy and planning, community development and homelessness, with an emphasis on grant writing, research and reports, and analysis of local, State and Federal funding sources. Her work with LDC has also included a variety of business development and communications activities.
Jessica graduated Magna Cum Laude from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a BA in Urban Studies and Public Policy. In addition, she holds a Certificate in Real Estate Finance, Investments and Development as well as a Certificate in Real Estate Entitlement, Development and Design from the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate. She is also a member of the Urban Land Institute San Diego/Tijuana Chapter Young Leader's Group.
2013 NLC Fellow: Mark Leo
Mark Leo
Community Worksite Organizer, SEIU Local 221
Mark Leo was born in Baguio City, Philippines in 1984. He immigrated to the United States at the age of one, after his father had joined the Navy. After a brief stint in Oregon, his father was stationed in San Diego, California, which Mark would call home. As a "native" San Diegan, Mark grew up in the Paradise Hills and attended Morse High School. After graduating high school, Mark attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and got his undergraduate degrees in both History and Asian American Studies, making sure his concentration would be on social and economic justice issues.
Mark would return to San Diego and work for two years with the San Diego County Office of Education, working in the Juvenile Court and Community Schools. He would then return to academia and attend San Francisco State University getting his MA in Asian American Studies, a program that pushed students toward community work. After graduation Mark returned back to San Diego and worked for the Center on Policy Initiatives, and more recently as political/community organizer for SEIU Local 221.
2013 NLC Fellow: Carolina Martinez
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Policy Advocate, Environmental Health Coalition
Carolina Martínez is a Policy Advocate at Environmental Health Coalition (EHC), a social and environmental justice non-profit based in the San Diego/Tijuana border region. Martínez' work with EHC's Toxic Free Neighborhoods Campaign focuses on National City. She is responsible for supporting residents in this low-income majority Latino community advocate for land use policies that respect their priorities, improve health, and are consistent with environmental justice principles.
Currently, she is working on the implementation of a comprehensive community plan that includes phasing polluting industries out of a residential neighborhood and creating an affordable housing project. Carolina has an M.A. in Urban Planning and an M.A. in Latin American Studies. Her work experience includes environmental justice policy advocacy in Oxnard, California, collaborating with community groups in Orange County on cultural and social justice campaigns, and researching international labor rights.
Carolina enjoys working at the intersection of race, culture, gender, civic engagement, environmental issues, health, and city planning in the struggle for environmental justice. She spends her free time playing Son Jarocho and learning to play Bomba.
2013 NLC Fellow: Barbara Moreno
Barbara Moreno
Web Content Specialist, Port of San Diego
Barbara Moreno is the Web Content Specialist for the Port of San Diego, the fourth largest port in the state of California. In her current role, she is a key member of the Port's web and social media team. She also is a co-producer for the agency's in-house video production unit. In her four years at the Port, her videos have earned several awards including a 2010 Webby Award Honor for online video (News & Politics Category), three national Telly Awards and first-, second- and third-place awards from the San Diego Press Club.
Prior to this, Barbara worked as a television news producer in cities including Las Vegas, Sacramento, Phoenix and Los Angeles. Her newscasts were nominated for several Emmy awards and she earned a Radio Television and News Directors Association award for "Best Breaking Newscast." She also worked as an online news editor at the San Diego NBC web site, NBCSanDiego.com.
Barbara is a member of the San Diego LGBT Community Center's Young Professionals Council (YPC), and was part of the inaugural class of the YPC Academy in 2012. She is an active volunteer with the Center and participated in the "Equality Voters Vote" effort this past election, registering first-time voters and participating in GOTV (get-out-the-vote) phone banks.
Barbara is passionate about volunteering. She is a board member of the San Diego chapter of Gay for Good, the only national all-LGBT volunteer group. Each month, the group volunteers with a different non-profit or community organization within San Diego County.
Barbara grew up in Burbank, California and earned her B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from California State University, Los Angeles.
2013 NLC Fellow: Sandy Naranjo
Sandy Naranjo
Organizer, United Food and Commercial Workers – Local 135
Sandy Naranjo is currently an Organizer at the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 135, a union that represents workers in retail, food, meat, drug stores, packinghouses, pharmacies and laboratories in both San Diego and Imperial Counties. Sandy is responsible for improving the lives of working women and men by developing the workers into effective leaders and organizing them into the union.
Prior to her job with UFCW, she previously worked as a field organizer for the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO where she worked to enhance the labor movement by connecting organized labor with the broader community through campaigns and activities such as We Deserve Better, A Better San Diego breakfast series, May Day, Occupy Labor Solidarity and Anti-Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement forums. Her experience in union organizing developed through her internship as an organizer with Service Employees International Union Local 99, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1167, and with the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OURWALMART).
Sandy earned three bachelor degrees in Political Science, Economics, and Political Economy with a minor certificate in Women's Studies at California State University San Bernardino. Sandy was an active student heavily involved with Feminist causes by raising awareness on reproductive rights, equal pay, and domestic violence. She was also an active member on the Coyote Debate team where she competed in British Parliamentary debate tournaments in Bangkok, Thailand, Antalya, Turkey, Melbourne, Australia, Denver, Colorado, Ithaca, New York, and Portland, Oregon. She was also on the Model United Nations team where she and her team competed and won the Outstanding Delegation for two consecutive years.
One of Sandy's defining activist moments was organizing a mock-same-sex wedding at her high school. Along with her colleagues from the Gay Straight Alliance, they wanted to highlight the need to legalize same-sex marriage. Despite much criticism, and protest from the local elected officials, churches, and the community, Sandy and her allies were able to garner support from LGBT national organizations and they successfully changed history in their town.
Sandy's passion for social justice was ingrained in her since birth. She was raised by parents who immigrated to the United States and like many other immigrants faced harsh racism and classism. Her father Joseph A. Naranjo was an Ironworker who taught Sandy into believing that the wedge between poverty and a good life for working people are unions. She owes her union activism and passion to her father.


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During an address in Turin, Italy last week, Pope Francis issued a harsh condemnation about the weapons industry, reported Reuters.
"If you trust only men you have lost," said the pope. "It makes me think of . . . people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit of distrust, doesn't it?"
Hypocrisy, he added, also runs deep among investors of the industry. "Duplicity is the currency of today . . . they say one thing and do another," he said.
To bolster his point, Pope Francis commented on the second World War.
"The great powers had the pictures of the railway lines that brought the trains to concentration camp like Auschwitz to kill Jews, Christians, homosexuals, everybody," he said. "Why didn't they bomb (the railway lines)?"


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