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EA and Visceral Games are continuing to move forward with fixing up Battlefield: Hardline after receiving plenty of user feedback. A lot of the changes outside of the obvious fixes to things like vehicles getting jammed and stuck almost makes the game seem like it's heading ever-so-close to being a Call of Duty clone.
Blues News caught wind of the latest changelog update that rolls out some of the major issues that Visceral Games will be addressing throughout the beta phase of the game, leading up to the game's release this fall.
So the 10 things that were addressed included a lot of practical playability mechanics. Movement was made 10% faster and when a pistol is equipped players will move 20% faster. This was made after complaints of sluggishness were made prominent. So if you enjoyed moving at the speed of lightning in games like Call of Duty, be prepared for more of it in Battlefield: Hardline.
Suppression has been toned down so it's easier to shoot back while being suppressed. You know, just like in real-life.
The Survivalist gadget was believed to be too over-powered so it was toned down.
A bug with the stairs pulling players into the wall has been fixed, along with too much shaky cam during levolution.
Objectives are made easier to spot when they're above or below you; and players who are carrying an objective item such as a bag will be highlighted when they enter a vehicle with you.
The last three items deal with the game's use of vehicles. The first of the three is kind of cool, as the team will be adding more special vehicles to the maps such as the exploding fuel truck. The next thing on the list is being able to unstick vehicles that get jammed somewhere. The team is looking at doing things the Bungie way, which includes nudging vehicles with a melee attack. Very realistic.
The last item on the list is vehicle damage. For better or for worse, the game will have weak spots on the back of heavily armored vehicles to allow them to be taken down easier.
A lot of these changes feel like the sort of thing that makes Battlefield: Hardline more broadly appealing. We all remember how that turned out for Dead Space 3, right? I guess Peter Moore was right that gamers do hate change... they just hate crappy change.
The identity of the game seems like it's already heading in the direction of being lost amongst all the other fall titles. It would have been nice if the game used some form of separation in the gameplay so it wasn't just another fast-paced, modern first-person shooter where everything is easy enough so anyone can win.
Of course, the game isn't finished yet (although it's getting awfully close given the October release date is right around the corner) and Visceral Games could make enough changes to help the game not feel like a rehash, however the odds are really stacked against them.
The petition for the game to become DLC for Battlefield 4 making the round in the news only makes it worse for the team, along with some game journalists telling gamers not to buy the game. We'll just have to find out if Visceral Games can pull off an upset victory with the release of Battlefield: Hardline for the seventh and eighth gen consoles this fall.
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The online and digital age has completely changed the way jobseekers look for a job, with jobsboards like westjobs and wjobs (now jobfinder), coming into the market place. With its diversity and ease of use, the Internet is putting a lot of pressure on the traditional way job hunters have looked for jobs.
The employment pages of most major newspapers, such as The West Australian, have contracted radically over the past few years. The advent of the job email alert and online resume posting has made the connection of jobseeker and employer so much easier. Jobseekers no longer have to wait for a specialist newspaper section once a week, when they can instantly find the jobs they want online 24/7. Print media as a vehicle for jobseekers or employers is not dead, but there is a structural change taking place, which is why The West Australian has ventured into the online jobs market initially with wjobs and now with jobfinder in conjunction with CareerOne. There is room for multiple players, each with their own strengths to cater for the different demands of the market.
The national jobsboards like CareerOne, Jobsearch and MyCareer offer a daunting array of services, information and jobs, giving jobseekers a mass of information and search results, whereas specialist sites like WESTjobs.com.au and wjobs.com.au (jobfinder.com.au) are dedicated to specific sections of the market, making the jobseekers task much easier.
Google spends millions refining its search engine to give targeted, relevant results, and this philosophy is where WESTjobs and wjobs/jobfinder differ from their national competitors, providing jobseekers with targeted, local results that meet their needs. Over 90% of jobseekers look for jobs within a 10km radius of where they live, whilst employers too prefer to find locally-based candidates. WESTjobs and wjobs cater to those markets.
Most jobsboards offer extra services, such as job email alerts and online resume posting, but at WESTjobs we have listened carefully to our jobseekers and given them more of what they want... WA JOBS! WESTjobs has between 10,000 and 12,000 Perth and WA jobs at any one time, which is three times the number of WA jobs carried by wjobs and jobfinder.com.au combined. We hope you find WESTjobs easy to use and successful for you, whether you are a jobseeker or employer. We are always happy to hear from our clients, so please contact us to give us constructive feedback.

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Butler will have a winning season on the line when it close out the
2011 campaign at Morehead State on Saturday, Nov. 19. The
Pioneer Football League game at Morehead State's Jayne
Stadium is scheduled for a 1 p.m. (ET) kickoff. Butler (5-5,
3-4 PFL) is looking for its third winning season in the past four
years. The Bulldogs had a chance to wrap up that winning
campaign a week ago, but fell in the fourth quarter to high-powered
Jacksonville, 34-24. Butler had a 24-17 lead in the final
period of that game. Morehead State (2-8, 1-6 PFL) also
suffered a fourth quarter defeat in its last outing. The
Eagles had a 24-21 lead in the final minute at Davidson, but the
host Wildcats scored the go-ahead touchdown with just 0:44
left. Morehead State's Zach Lewis passed for 338 yards
in that game and became the first quarterback in the
program's history to throw for more than 3,000 yards in a
season. Butler has won six or more games just three times
since 1994. The Bulldogs had a school-record 11 victories in
2009 and won six games in both 1997 and 2008. Two of those
seasons have come under head coach Jeff
Butler has matched its third-highest win total in the past 14 years.
LATE SHOW: For the second straight year, Jacksonville used a late comeback to upend the Bulldogs. The host Dolphins, fighting for a share of the PFL title, scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to overcome a 24-17 Butler lead and post a 10-point victory. Quarterback Josh McGregor tossed scoring aerials to Josh Philpart and Adrian Riley early in the final period to give Jacksonville its first lead of the game, and placekicker Bladen Gudz closed the scoring with a 27-yard field goal in the final minute of the contest. A year ago, Jacksonville scored two fourth quarter touchdowns at the Butler Bowl to post a 24-16 come-from-behind victory over the Bulldogs. Butler had led, 13-10, in the final quarter.
RECORD KICK: Senior David Lang kicked a 23-yard field goal with 8:20 left in the third quarter to give Butler a 24-17 lead at Jacksonville. It was his 13th field goal this season and the 34th of his Butler career, giving him a share of Butler's all-time record for field goals. He tied the school mark first set by John Jenkins, 1985-88. The kick at Jacksonville also gave Lang sole possession of the No. 2 spot on the Pioneer Football League's all-time field goal list. The PFL's all-time record is 49 field goals by Drake's Billy Cundiff (1998-2001). Lang currently leads the PFL in field goals (13), and he's third in the league in field goal percentage (.867). The two players ahead of him have attempted fewer than seven field goals. Lang ranks second in the PFL in kick scoring (6.7 ppg) and fourth overall in scoring.
David Lang needs one field goal to tie his own Butler single season record (14), set last year.
PASSING GRADE: Sophomore Tom Judge was given his first collegiate start at quarterback at Jacksonville, and he responded a strong initial performance. Judge completed 17 of 25 passes for 163 yards in the game, and he led Butler to an early 14-0 lead with a pair of first quarter touchdown tosses. The second-year signal caller hit wide receiver Jordan Koopman with a five-yard scoring pass just over five minutes into the contest for the game's first score, and then he found senior Jeff Larsen with a six-yard touchdown pass nine minutes later. Judge also contributed 60 rushing yards on seven carries, including a career-long, 27-yard run that helped set up Butler's final touchdown.
QB HUNTER: Senior defensive end Grant Hunter has spent a considerable portion of his Butler career in the opposing team's backfield, and he has a shot at becoming the Bulldogs' all-time leader in quarterback sacks. He positioned himself for that shot by racking up three quarterback sacks in Butler's game at Jacksonville. That total tied the second-highest single game performance of his career and gave him 35.5 sacks for his career. Hunter had four quarterback sacks against Dayton in 2008, and he recorded three quarterback sacks at Morehead State in 2009. Butler's all-time record for quarterback sacks is 39, set by Tony Pence, 1978-81. Hunter finished with a team-high seven tackles at Jacksonville, including 3.5 tackles for loss (-23 yards).
Grant Hunter is the PFL's all-time leader in quarterback sacks.
FINAL SHOT: Butler's senior Zach Watkins (right), will close out his career as Butler's all-time leading pass receiver. The wide receiver from Chicago, Ill., begins his final game with 240 career pass receptions, 2,814 career receiving yards and 20 career touchdown receptions. His career catches and career yards both are school records, while his 20 career touchdown catches are just two shy of the all-time school mark (22), set by former teammate Dan Bohrer (2006-09).
Zach Watkins owns three of Butler's top five single season receptions totals.
•Butler rushed for a season-high
236 yards on 37 attempts at Jacksonville. Sophomore Trae
Heeter led the Bulldogs with 88 rushing yards on 17 carries, while
redshirt-freshman Brandon Grubbe added 79 yards on nine attempts.
•Linebacker Jordan Ridley continues to lead the PFL in tackles (12.5). He currently ranks sixth in the NCAA Division I FCS.
•Wide receiver Zach Watkins is ranked 11th in the NCAA Division I FCS in pass receptions per game (6.60), and he stands 19th in the nation in receiving yards per game (86.40). Watkins is second in the PFL in both receptions and receiving yards.
•Zach Watkins caught eight passes for a season-high 118 yards against Morehead State last year at the Butler Bowl.
•Running back Trae Heeter ranks third in the PFL in rushing (78.4). Heeter missed two games this season with injury.
•Trae Heeter is ranked third in the PFL in all-purpose yards (143.5).
•Senior Jordan Koopman, who led the Bulldogs with five receptions for 29 yards and a touchdown at Jacksonville, stands fifth on Butler's all-time list for pass receptions with 130. He needs seven receptions to catch Mike Chrobot (1975-78) in the No. 4 spot on Butler's all-time list.
•David Lang is tied for 19th in the NCAA Division I FCS in field goals (1.30). Lang booted two field goals against Morehead State last year, including a career-long, 45-yard kick.
•Defensive back Sean Grady came up with his third pass interception of the season in Butler's game at Jacksonville. He's tied with five other players, including teammate Andy Dauch, for fifth place in the PFL in interceptions (0.30).
•Redshirt-freshman Brandon Grubbe scored his first collegiate touchdown on a 36-yard run at Jacksonville. His scoring run helped Butler to a 21-10 lead.
•Senior offensive lineman Pete Mattingly has started 38 consecutive games for the Bulldogs.
•Senior linebacker Nick Caldicott, who suffered a season-ending knee injury against Marist, finished his career with 171 tackles.


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Bill Grueskin's career includes senior editing roles in print and online publications, as well as six years as academic dean at Columbia Journalism School and a new position as an executive editor at Bloomberg LP.
Grueskin began his journalism career in 1975 as a reporter and editor at the Daily American in Rome, Italy. From 1977 to 1979, he served as a VISTA volunteer and the founding editor of the weekly Dakota Sun on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
After completing graduate school, he worked as a reporter and editor at the Baltimore News American and The Tampa Tribune. In 1985, he moved to The Miami Herald and eventually became city editor, where he oversaw the paper's local coverage of Hurricane Andrew. The paper's overall coverage of the storm won the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for public service.
Grueskin joined The Wall Street Journal in 1995 as an editor on Page One. He was named deputy Page One editor in 1998, and in June 2001, he became managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online, the largest subscription news site on the Web. He oversaw the staff in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, across the street from The Journal's offices. During his tenure at WSJ.com, the number of subscribers doubled to more than one million, and the site introduced blogs, interactive graphics and a robust video platform.
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Set around a placid "bayou," this rustic re-created village offers a glimpse of life in Acadiana around the mid-19C. Most of the structures were moved here from other locations in the region; others were constructed on-site with period mate..
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501 Fisher Rd. USA - Lafayette, LA 70508
This well-conceived visitor center operated by the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve is an excellent place to begin forays into the Cajun Country. A series of displays focuses on various aspects of Cajun life in Louisiana, highlighti..
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Republican Connie Mack will vote Tuesday in his Fort Myers hometown before moving on to meet supporters in Polk County at a Republican headquarters as Florida's U.S. Senate race enters its final week.
Mack spent Saturday campaigning across the state with Mitt Romney and will do a similar tour again Wednesday when the Republican presidential candidate returns and is joined by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush.
Mack, a four-term congressman, is looking to join Rubio in the Senate – a move that would mark the first time Florida has had two Republican senators since 1875. But another number stands in Mack's way right now — and that's the average 6 percent in polls that he is trailing two-term incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson as the race hits the homestretch.
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Market concerns about the impact of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio's (RJio) entry into the fiercely competitive telecom sector are "overdone", foreign brokerage Morgan Stanley today said.
"Despite robust data and strong Ebitda growth, the market is concerned about the impact of new entrant RJio with newer and faster technology. However, our case studies suggest these fears are overdone," it said in a note.
The US-based financial services company said telecom stocks have underperformed over the last 12 months despite good operational revenue and robust growth on the data front.
However, anticipation of the entry of RJio with its faster 4G services has resulted in some concerns, it said.
The launch of RJio's 4G services has been getting delayed for long and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani had in June announced it will be launching the services in a phased manner starting 2015.
In the note, Morgan Stanley said RJio may be able to garner 11 per cent of the wireless market share, including 8 per cent on the voice front, and 20 per cent on the data side, by FY18, only if it is able to expand the market.
"In our eyes, the market share will only be possible if it (RJio) becomes a market expander."
Ambani re-entered the key sector with the June 2010 acquisition of a little-known firm Infotel Broadband Services Pvt Ltd (IBSPL), which successfully bid for a pan-India 4G licence. In May 2010, he had ended a non-compete pact with younger sibling Anil, who had got the telecom business during the 2005 split.
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Scientists at Merck & Co. have utilized siRNA screening to identify novel drug targets. "Recent advances have allowed our scientists to test the effects of knocking down not only each individual gene separately but also multiple genes simultaneously," noted Jeremy Caldwell, Ph.D., vp, RNA therapeutics.
Merck is applying siRNA-based screening across several disease states. In cancer, for example, its researchers have used siRNA screening to search for genes that enhance the activity of chemotherapy and eradicate tumor cells—but not normal cells—when they are knocked down.
Dr. Caldwell agrees that the two biggest challenges with developing siRNA-based therapeutics are delivery and establishing safety. "Delivery of siRNA is currently possible for some solid tumors and some accessible organs, such as the liver and the eyes. However, systemic delivery to other cells, tissues, and organs is more challenging and will likely require multiple approaches optimized for each target."
Merck is focusing on optimizing lipid nanoparticles (LNP) for systemic delivery of RNAi therapeutics to the liver. "The safety profile using the LNP delivery approach remains a key challenge. Chemically modifying siRNA can minimize off-target activity; however, as with conventional targeted therapies, inhibiting the properties of one particular target may have difficult-to-predict effects on the activity of other genes in a pathway or network.
"Another potential concern is that introducing siRNA into the bloodstream can trigger the body's innate immune response. This effect also can be minimized by chemical modifications to siRNA, but this may not be equally effective in every case."
Dr. Caldwell reports that Merck has made progress in optimizing lipid nanoparticles for systemic delivery of RNAi-based therapeutics to the liver. "We've demonstrated that optimization of cationic lipids in the lipid nanoparticles improves potency by greater than 10-fold. The extent of PEGylation affects particle size, efficacy, and inflammation. We've also found that the larger lipid nanoparticles are suboptimal relative to smaller-sized particles with respect to elevation of liver toxicity markers. Finally, the lipid nanoparticles are rapidly absorbed into the liver and maximally induce the silencing complex within six hours."
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Psssst, this place does whole lobster for £20 with a great view of the river! Don't tell anyone.
The Lobster House opened 10th of February 2014 in the newly developed Riverside area of Putney just east of Wandsworth Park. The Lobster House serves dishes that use freshly caught seafood from only sustainable suppliers. Steamed or grilled New England Live lobster is the focal point of the menu, which also includes signature dishes such as Lobster rolls, New England clam chowder, Ciopino – an Italian seafood casserole, Wagyu burgers and 24-hour slow cooked ribs of beef.
Antonia and I had a table booked for 19:30 on a Friday night and were really looking forward to some delicious seafood. It was also a good reason to make the trip south of the river. It's a trip we only do rarely and this reminded us why. It takes ages to get here from where we live in North London and it even took Antonia an hour from Tottenham Court Road area… "This place had better be good" we both said as we arrived.
On the walk to the restaurant from Putney Bridge station I noticed a huge amount development going on along Putney Bridge Road and eventually cut through one of the eerily quiet new estates to get down to the waterfront and find The Lobster House hidden in amongst the new blocks.
I arrived before Antonia (as per usual) and was greeted by the friendly staff and shown to a slightly wobbly table with equally wobbly chair. The place was completely empty but that made perfect sense. It's only a month old and surely the only people who know The Lobster House even exists live in the blocks of flats that seem to surround the restaurant. As the evening went on a few other couples came in but sadly it never got busy, especially for a Friday night. However, based on our experience at The Lobster House that will all change, soon.
Wines are very reasonable, ranging from £15.50 to £30. The champagne on offer is equally fairly priced, starting at £30. We opted for a bottle of Chardonnay – Giesen Marlborough 2012 for £19.95, which was nice and light.
The starter section of the menu is full of seafood – oysters, lobster bisque, clam chowder and smoked eel amongst others. I ordered the Cornish Crab Cake (£7.50), which was very nice and full of crab meat but maybe a little small for the price. I was pleased to see that Antonia's Grilled Squid (£9.50) came whole, including tenticles rather than in boring rings but it was a tad overcooked and again, a bit steeply priced.
On to the main course we both had to have a whole lobster – we rarely have it and usually share one if we do so decided this was the night to go big. I'd had a look at the menu online and seen that they offer New England Live Lobsters – steamed or grilled, served with skinny fries & dressed salad in three sizes;
1.25lb for £20.00
1.50lb for £25.00
2.00lb for £30.00
On the night the 1.25lb option was the only one on the menu. I was a bit disappointed as I was planning on taking on the 2lb beast but in retrospect, 1.25lb was plenty! The lobster comes cracked (as you'd expect) and with a small plate of tools, including a super cool lobster bib. None of the other diners got in to the spirit of things but we proudly donned our bibs and got ready for battle.
They were well cooked, the claws were full of meat and the tail yielded a huge chunk of delicious meat. Suddenly the £20 price tag was looking like an absolute steal. The skinny fries were superbly crisp and the pot they came seemed to be bottomless. The dressed salad was also a very tasty addition to the overall dish. On to dessert we shared a lovely Pineapple Tarte Tatin (£5) between us, topped with a generous scoop of sorbet which was a nice twist on the traditional.
We were both impressed with The Lobster House. The service was very good and the lobster itself is great value. There is USDA steak and other meat dishes on the menu but I don't know why you'd look past the great selection of fresh seafood on offer here. It's just a shame it's in such an awkward area – a 15 min walk to the nearest station and there's little to no footfall, especially in the evenings.
Having said that, being so seemingly isolated it would be a great restaurant to hire out as you'd get a good amount of privacy and one of the main features of the restaurant is its sole use of a pontoon on the waterfront, which has a built for purpose bar. The building itself has a large, glass covered curved frontage looking out on to the river, which will be lovely on a summer's evening or at the weekend.
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The Bill
|2 Diners
|Cornish Crab Cake
|Grilled Squid
|Steamed Lobster x 2
|£20.00 each
|Pineapple Tarte Tatin
|Chardonnay Giesen Marlborough 2012
|Per person
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April is National Grilled Cheese month! Last year there was a caramelized onion grilled cheese with mushrooms, and then I also made that one with the wilted field greens and avocado pesto. I'm not usually a fan of sandwiches, but when the mood strikes me, I need me a nice, hot grilled sandwich with some delicious fillings. None of this cold sandwich business. Hot, pan-grilled or panini-pressed sandwiches for me!
But let me tell you about the magic of this sandwich.
As a vegetarian, I often find it hard to make sandwiches that are delicious and filling without the meat. Yes, I know there are vegan/vegetarian "sandwich meats" and whatnot, but I just…bleh. I didn't become vegetarian to just substitute it with meat-like substances. Every now and then I'll crave some chicken nuggets and I'll have TVP nuggets, but usually, I just like some straight-up veggies.
I overheard someone saying that sweet potatoes could "replace" the meat role in a sandwich, it got me thinking. Sweet potatoes are delicious. They're filling, low on the glycemic index, and chock full of vitamins and fibre. They have a sweet, fork-tender consistency when roasted and the natural sugars in these spuds caramelize wonderfully when roasted.
Now a sweet potato sandwich on its own doesn't really sound that great, but paired with the earthy flavours of my favourite kale and walnut pesto mingling with the tang of some goat cheese and pressed between two pieces of rye bread, this sandwich is divine.
Add a little mozzarella cheese to act as "glue" to hold your grilled cheese together and you got yourself a winning sandwich!
So happy Grilled Cheese Month! And enjoy this sandwich =)
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- - 4 slices rye bread
- - 1 tbsp butter
- - 1 sweet potato, peeled and cut into long, flat pieces
- - 3 tbsp olive oil
- - 2 tbsp kale pesto or other pesto
- - 3 tbsp goat cheese
- - 1 heaping tbsp greek yogurt
- - ⅓ cup mozzarella cheese, grated
- Preheat oven to 350. Arrange flat, cut sweet potato on a baking sheet and generously coat in olive oil. Bake for 15 minutes on one side and then flip, bake for another 15 minutes. If you like it crispy, bake until crisp on both sides. I just wanted it to be soft and a little caramelized. Remove from oven and let cool.
- In a bowl, cream together the pesto, greek yogurt, and goat cheese.
- Butter the rye bread slices on one side, then on the un-buttered sides, spread half the pesto mixture on two slices of bread.
- Add the sweet potato slices on the two halves, sprinkle the mozzarella cheese on the sweet potato, then top with the remaining two slices of bread.
- Preheat a pan on medium low heat. Add one of the sandwiches to the preheated pan with the pesto mixture closest to the bottom.
- Cook until the edges are brown and the middle has become golden. Flip and cook on the other side until golden.
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USB Sniffing / Optus 3G and Linux
I'm living at my brother's new place while I'm in Australia. He doesn't have an internet connection (no home computer) and doesn't have a home phone (just uses mobile). To work around this obvious lack of connectivity I've borrowed an Optus branded GlobeTrotter 3G Quad PCMCIA card. The card is supplied as part of the Optus Wireless Connect package.
The Windows drivers and software worked immediately on my laptop but I rarely use Windows so was keen to get it working under my Linux distro.
I spent many hours trying the configurations described at the PHARscape site (and others). PPP negotiation would start but an IP address would never be allocated. I figured there was something different about the Optus 3G network but was using the Optus Access Point Name (APN) documented on the net ("internet").
I ended up sniffing the USB traffic to and from the card under Windows by using the excellent SnoopyPro USB sniffer. I captured the URBs the Windows drivers sent to first serial port endpoint on the card and then used
strings on the capture file under Linux. The AT commands used by the Windows drivers magically appeared.
It turns out that I was using the wrong APN; I should have been using "connect" instead of "internet". Once the pppd chat script was updated things started working. Fantastic!
More details on the specifics of the pppd configuration I'm using can be found on the freshfoo.com wiki.
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HTTP Auth and Selenium
I'm starting to look at Selenium-RC at work today. We're moving a lot of web based functional tests away from PBP.
I ran into a major problem straight away. Our web interface uses Basic HTTP Auth and Firefox insists on presenting a dialog to the (non-existent) user when you open a http://user:email@example.com/ style URL. The tests would hang waiting for the Ok button click.
After a lot of searching I finally found the network.http.phishy-userpass-length. option. When set to 255 the authentication warning dialog box isn't shown.
Selenium creates a fresh Firefox profile every time it starts Firefox so modifying the option in
about:config doesn't help. You need to edit firefox.js and add a line like
pref("network.http.phishy-userpass-length", 255);. This ensures that the option is set in any new profile. On Windows firefox.js can probably be found at
Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\prefs\firefox.js. It'll probably be at
/usr/lib/firefox-*/defaults/pref/firefox.js on a Linux machine.
I wonder if Selenium-RC could set this option in profiles it creates itself? It already seems to set a bunch of other options.
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You know that huge fanfare you heard when Sqeenix launched Final Fantasy 1 and 2 onto the app store last night? You didnt? Oh! Well I supposed that is because THERE WAS NONE! No worries though. That is what Gamer Syndrome is here for. The two classic titles crept into the store at $8.99 a piece. That may sound like a lot for an app, but for a good turned based RPG (which there are very little on on the iPhone) that is well worth the price tag.
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Grammy Awards
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Give Surprise Performance — On a Bus! (VIDEO)
So you're sitting on a bus, trying to mind your own business and get home as quickly as possible. The doors open at some random stop, two hooded young men get on, you check your phone. Then those new guys start playing some music really loud and you think, "Awesome." But turns out those two guys — they just happen to be Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
The current darlings of hip hop recently surprised New York City commuters with an impromptu concert on a bus. Watch the bus riders' expressions go from "stupid kids" to "those guys look kinda familiar" to "holy s—, that's Macklemore!" in the course of about five seconds in video captured of the performance. Even better are the older folks who probably think Mack and Ryan are just some music loving hooligans.
Performing their hit "Can't Hold Us," the Washington State natives make the most of the cramped quarters to get their fellow passengers clapping and dancing in their seats. At the end, Macklemore shouts "We on a bus!" before fist-bumping the driver and getting off, stunning a woman waiting at the stop.
The already much-lauded musical duo are up for seven Grammys at this year's show, set to air Sunday, January 26. If we're lucky, they'll take the bus.
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The best marketing insight I've received in the past 5 years
Apr 15th
Over the past few years I have had the great fortune to meet and talk to some of the greatest marketing and business minds in the world. I have learned so much from them, but there is one single marketing insight from Dr. Robert Cialdini that continues to hang in my mind every single day.
Although we had this discussion in 2012, his advice seems to grow more profound to me month by month.
Dr. Cialdini is arguably the foremost academic and writer on the subject of power and influence in the world. His books include the best-selling classic Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.
While doing research for my book Return On Influence, I asked him, "Dr. Cialdini, in this information-dense world, how does a leader stand out?"
His reply: "Be more human."
The more I have been immersed in this digital world, the more I am sure he is right.
Ultimately people will buy from who they know, who they trust. That isn't going to come from the best backlinks or the most optimized content. I think the most human content and the most human companies will win in this competitive world.
Connecting in a human way builds trust. Trust builds loyalty. And loyalty trumps everything.
As I work with diverse organizations ranging from Johnson & Johnson to the US Air Force, I keep hearing myself repeat those words over and over again. Be. More. Human.
- When you get down to it, isn't that what we cherish most of all?
- Is "being human" scalable across a large enterprise? How?
- Where is the line between being human and respecting privacy? Is this changing?
- Is "being human" a strategy? Should it be?
The idea raises a lot of questions. I am trying to discern what it means for me … for all of us in this community really.
Will the most human companies win? Will the most human blogs win? Will the most human humans win? I think so. I think that is really the killer app for an era of Content Shock.
Your thoughts?
Illustration courtesy Flickr CC and Thomas.
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Are you ready for Return On Influence?
Jan 3rd
We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it is being led by YOU.
Dozens of companies like Klout are slicing, dicing, and dissecting the billions of bits of information published on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook each day and grading your ability to create buzz. The most powerful of these new "Citizen Influencers" are rewarded by the world's biggest brands with trips, merchandise, and luxury cars. Today, anyone can get behind the velvet rope … if you know how!
And while this innovation is producing revolutionary opportunities for influence marketing, it has also resulted in the most divisive and controversial conversation on the web today. As I observed this intersection of business opportunity and personal loathing I thought that somebody should write a book about this.
So I did.
Return On Influence is the first book to explore the new world of Internet power and how brands are identifying and leveraging the most influential bloggers, tweeters, and YouTube celebrities to build product awareness, brand buzz, and new sales. This book is unlike any marketing book you have ever read and features:
- In-depth explanations of the surprising new sources of online influence — and how they can work for or against you!
- Interviews with more than 50 industry experts including tech blogger Robert Scoble, Influence at Work Author Robert Cialdini, Klout CEO Joe Fernandez and Azeem Azhar of PeerIndex.
- Practical, actionable tips to increase your own personal power and online influence.
- Exclusive insider access to Klout, PeerIndex … and their customers.
- A first-ever look at a brand's view of the Klout data that we can't access.
- A special foreword by Lee Rainie, Director of Pew Research
- Never-before-seen social influence marketing case studies.
Your Klout score is only the tip of the influence iceberg. Return on Influence blows open the Klout controversies, dives into the underworld of Internet cheating, helps you determine your own online power, and looks deeply into the future of this significant marketing trend.
Important brands like Disney, American Express and Nike are clamoring to master this new marketing channel and reward the new buzz-makers — the Citizen Influencers — with trips, merchandise and exclusive events. Everybody has a voice now and becoming influential no longer requires movie star looks, a degree from Harvard, or political power.
This is OUR time. This is YOUR time.
This is the time of Return on Influence.
My book launches at SXSW in March but is now in pre-sale through Amazon.com at a special introductory price that is 1/3 off the cover price. Anybody who buys the book before March will also receive a special edition 30-page eBook, The Insider's Guide to Klout, when emailing a proof of purchase to email@example.com.
Over the coming weeks I'll be passing along additional insights from the book and the story of writing it, which was an adventure all its own! Here's a new website with a glimpse of the book's content: www.ReturnOnInfluence.com
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Key to digital marketing success? Be less digital.
Nov 23rd
One of the things that distinguishes me in the world of social media blogging is that I am old … at least old enough to remember how things used to be before we were digitally tracked, sliced, diced, priced, immersed, consumed, and tethered to these social platforms.
I was working in sales and marketing before Facebook … before email … even before computers. And you know it wasn't THAT long ago that business relationships were built through a firm handshake, a trusting friendship, mutually-shared experiences, and trust.
And then, sometime in the late 1990s, your company probably took all its order forms, sales brochures, and customer service policies to a strange person called a web developer and said, "turn this into a website."
We could have hardly realized it at the time but we were creating a layer of digital distance between ourselves and our customers that would only become more tangled as layer upon layer of technology was wedged between us. And it was a one-way ticket.
Sure, it was efficient. Administrative costs went down and customers had the convenience of placing orders through our new machines at any time of day or night.
And yet, something was missing. The soul of business was reduced to computer keystrokes.
I thought a lot about this as I was writing my upcoming book. As I was working on it, I had a chance to ask Dr. Robert Cialdini, the celebrated author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (and one of my academic heroes!), what he thought it took to stand out in this increasingly bloodless, dense, and competitive digital world.
His reply was simple.
"Be more human."
Doesn't that seem ironic?
Being human, simply being ourselves, can create competitive advantage!
"One of the things I advise when I'm consulting in corporate environments is to accentuate certain features that may be deemed attractive and include them in personal bios — the about us categories and so on," Dr. Cialdini told me. "We should be including hobbies and how many kids we have, whether we're hockey fans or runners, and so on so people can register a connection that they wouldn't necessarily get online, but is typical of face-to-face contacts. Why not infuse those online contacts with the type of information that humanizes them more and leads to cooperation and rapport?"
Dr. Cialdini pointed to research at Stanford that revealed the importance of human connection:
"Participants were told they were going to negotiate through a problem as part of an exercise, but they were told that if no agreement could be reached, both sides would lose and neither side would receive credit for even in the exercise. When they had participants only negotiate via e-mail, 30 percent of the negotiations remained dead-locked and people walked away with nothing.
"However, in the instances where they had the participants exchange some personal information about themselves via e-mail prior to the negotiations the dead-locks dropped to 6 percent. So the general human tendency is to respond positively when we know something about them, when we see something similar to us, when we see humanizing features of that person's persona available to us. Those things still work – even over the Internet or e-mail — but we have to do something to infuse those technologies with the same sort of information we might get in face-to-face interactions."
Behind the Twitter avatars and Facebook updates, the text messages and the Skype conferences, people are the same. They still want to be acknowledged. They want to be heard. They want to cut through that digital distance and get to know you as a person.
Personally, I often struggle with infusing a whole lot of personal stuff into my content, but I do recognize the power of that. How are you doing it? Any ideas or best practices you would like to share?
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Bankruptcy Law
Bankruptcy Law Questions? Ask a Bankruptcy Lawyer Now.
Hello, and thank you for contacting Just Answer.
First, a student loan generally cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, so even if there is a co-signor, the person for whom the loan was made will more than likely still have liability for the loan post-bankruptcy.
Now there are exceptions to this general rule, and there are ways for a debtor to show that the student loan is producing an undue financial hardship, at which point the bankruptcy court may agree to discharge the debt, but this is under very limited circumstances.
In any event, during the course of the bankruptcy proceeding, there is an automatic stay placed on creditors and they cannot make any contact with or try to collect from the debtor until that stay is lifted. During that time, a creditor could pursue a co-signor for the debt, as the stay does not apply to the debt itself, only to collection from the debtor in bankruptcy.
So, during the course of the bankruptcy, because the stay is in place, the creditor is unable to collect from the bankruptcy debtor, allowing them to try and collect from the co-signor.
Now, depending on what happens in the bankruptcy, if the student loan is not discharged, then the debtor would still be responsible for it. If, however, in the off chance that it is discharged in the bankruptcy, the co-signor would be solely responsible.
So, in short, yes, as a result of the stay placed on collection of the debtor in a bankruptcy, the lender can try to collect from the co-signor, even if they were initially the secondary debtor, because the primary debtor has a stay on all collection.
I wish I had better news for you, but as a co-signor, once the other debtor becomes uncollectable, even temporarily, the co-signor is liable for the debt.
I hope this helps, and I appreciate the opportunity to answer your question. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask. Otherwise, please remember to click the ACCEPT button so that I can receive credit for my work.
Yes, chapter 7 is very different than, say, a chapter 13, during which the bankruptcy proceeding is a years long process where the debtor is actually paying back a portion of the loan, which may have been why they were not collecting, because she was still paying a portion of the loan.
Ultimately, the stay in a chapter 7 preventing collection only applies to the debtor in the bankruptcy.
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When you place some toilet paper in the toilet BEFORE taking a dump so that your shit will land on the TP and NOT splash toilet water on your ass or crotch.
Sheila always makes a splashguard before she shits.
by Kelly Shitrafter February 28, 2009
To put a sheet of toilet paper in the toilet before a power poop to eliminate sound and splashback
I just ate at white castle and the next day at work i used the bathroom and it was packed, so to protect my dignity i put down a splash guard.
by 12MATZIE December 05, 2009
A roll of fat on a female's stomach that prevents a male's sperm from splashing her in the face when he removes his penis from her vagina just prior to ejaculation.
That bitch is lucky she had a splash guard because if she didn't my load would've caused her to drown.
by RaiderJunky October 13, 2005
When you feel a big duece coming on, you would lay down a splashgaurd to avoid nasty toilet water splashing back onto or even worse into yourself
O my god, im so happy i laid down that Splashguard, i swear i would've drained the toilet otherwise.
by Ryan Loose December 13, 2007
when wearing glasses while performing oral sex to prevent crustaceous eyelids.
i bought your girlfriend some splash guards.
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I was getting my dick sucked by my woman with her splashguards on, they kept my jiz out of her eyes when I blew my load all over her face.
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How do we develop profiles of "ideal" employees for each job? Not the usual job descriptions, which don't give us the precision we're looking for?
—Only the Best Please, manufacturing, Buffalo
How could we carve out internal career paths for developing women in leadership?
—No Glass Ceiling Here, finance/insurance/real estate, New York City
I have a question regarding the 1,000-hour vesting/participation requirement related to disability: Employee A works 400 hours as an active (regular) employee. At that point, the employee gets a temporary disability (because of nonwork related activities) and no longer performs work, but is not terminated and remains an employee. In this case, does the 1,000-hour rule get waived since there is a disability? Or does it stay in place since there was no termination event? Thanks for any help/insight.
—Counting the Hours, assistant controller, construction trades, Rancho Dominguez
About one-third of our 650 employees work remotely from home offices. As a result, hiring people who are self-starters is important. What is the best way to assess whether a candidate has the initiative to work with minimal supervision? Are there any tools that could help us?
—Unmotivated Need Not Apply, quality control specialist, software/services, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
How do we use big data to inform our hiring decisions?
—Analyze This, talent management consultant, software/services/technology, San Jose, California
How should first-line supervisors deal with an agency head who continually encourages subordinates to bypass their supervisors in making reports about employee performance, work relations, and/or operations? Speaking to this agency head has already been tried and failed. This encouragement comes in the form of an "open door" policy, enabling behavior such a listening instead asking them to address with their supervisor first, and even sometimes via direct instructions to do so.
—Frustrated and Discouraged, government, Phoenix
Aside from restarting raises, how else could we reward employees whose pay has been relatively flat during the past several years?
—Money Isn't Everything, staff development, hospitality and travel, Washington, D.C.
We have some departments that are better equipped for succession than others. Ours is a Fortune 500 company in a dynamic, regulated industry. How do we pinpoint our weak spots and begin to make succession an integrated component of our strategic planning? We're stymied on first principles for getting started.
—The Future Is Passing Us By, pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia
What are the disadvantages of continuing to do performance evaluation?
—Pros and Cons, HR associate, light manufacturing/food production, Masaka, Uganda
Our executive team wants to create executive coaching model. Which ingredients should be included to ensure we build the best methodology? The goal is to start at the top and trickle mentoring downward to our front-line managers, supervisors, etc.
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I'm still in the process of finishing the regional map for my campaign, but thinking ahead a bit I'm wondering how BIG some of the cities should be. There are beautiful maps on here and a lot of discussion about mapping technique, but I haven't seen anything about population and city size with the exception of this post by terminal.
Assuming the 180 people/sq.mi. mentioned in there... That would mean that a 10,000 person city (which is really big by D&D standards) would span apx. an 8 mile diameter area. What does an 8 sq. mile city look like?
I'm posting a few examples from the Cartographer's Choice section as examples, not as my work... hope this is okay.
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Last week, Berchtesgaden, Germany played host to the euRathlon, an outdoor robotics competition where 14 teams tested the intelligence, autonomy and grit of their robots that competed in mock emergency-response scenarios.
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Like fashion accessories – jewelry, scarf, belt or shoes – decorative pillows are instant pick-me-ups.
They're "styling" for a sofa, chaise, chair, bed or even outdoor furniture. Square or rectangular and even round pillows or bolsters can add electricity to a sedate interior – a spark that can visually ignite by repeating an especially vibrant color on rugs, nearby artwork or flowers in a vase elsewhere in the room.
In recent years, as home furnishings have forged a formidable connection with fashion, pillows have become home front-runners for fashion cues. They signal color and decorating trends – classic, luxe, retro, ethnic or seaside.
At the biannual Maison et Objets, a home style exhibition in Paris, pillows have been exciting eye candy for the last few years. It was there that we first saw extraordinary dressmaker details – edging with beautiful passementerie, along with beads, buttons, feathers and appliques on linen, velvet, wool, felt, leather, cashmere and silk. Companies known for fine fabrics displayed couture-worthy pillows begging to be touched.
Two American companies have since distinguished themselves with confectionary pillow designs. New York-based Ankasa was launched by a husband-wife team who formerly designed embroidered textiles for Oscar de la Renta and Vera Wang. Their signature opulent pillows are described as "couture for the home." Bliss Studio, a Costa Mesa firm, creates designs in dozens of color palettes from contemporary to rococo.
Today, amazingly stylish pillows are available in retail stores from Pier 1 Imports to Anthropologie to Neiman Marcus in prices ranging from less than $20 to thousands of dollars. At the high end is the lavish shimmery gold metallic embroidery on silk by Jean-Francois Lesage in a tradition carried on since the days of Napoleon III in 1868. These pillows have been selling for $1,950 apiece at Bergdorf Goodman.
Interior designers long have appreciated the impact that a wonderful pillow can make, and often they custom-design pieces to reflect something special. Pillows, after all, are a most effective way to dress up an otherwise plain interior.
"Pillows create a focal point in a room," says Massachusetts-based designer Annie Selke, who recently launched her own home furnishings line, Annie Selke Home, with Vanguard Furniture. She designs for other companies as well and has a new fabric collection for Calico Corners.
"A white sofa with an incredible bold-patterned pillow has been a trick from time immemorial," Selke says. "Most upholstered pieces are solid colors. It's through patterned pillows – like artwork – that you add personality. They're small elements that pop."
Then, too, the economic climate is one that's perfect for the acquisition of a pillow to dress up an older piece of furniture. Compared to the cost of a new sofa, pillows are affordable. Plus, they can update a room's look seasonally, with darker tones in winter and brighter shades in summer.
"I think these times mean we are going back to a nesting period. We are spending more time in our homes," says Los Angeles interior designer Barclay Butera. His eponymous company, Barclay Butera Home, features pillow designs.
"We want to freshen up our homes without spending a bundle. So simple, inexpensive things like trading out a new lampshade or buying new pillows can always freshen up a home and add pops of color," Butera says. "I love to mix – patterns, textures, colors. Pillows change a room and they truly add comfort along with that decorative element."
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A 10-year-old boy is the sole survivor after his mother "intentionally" drove a van carrying her four children into the Hudson River.
LaShanda Armstrong drove the vehicle down a boat ramp and into the water in Newburgh, New York State, after an argument at her home on Tuesday.
But her eldest child, LaShaun Armstrong, was able to wind down a window and climb out of the minivan and swim to shore, where he was picked up by a passer-by.
He told fire officers what had happened but by the time rescuers reached the river it was too late to save his mother and siblings.
Five-year-old Landon Pierre, Lance Pierre, two, and 11-month-old Laianna Pierre died in the car which was submerged in three metres of water.
"The car was below surface and it took about an hour to get the car out of the water," said Newburgh police chief Michael Ferrara.
"We had one adult and three children in the car."
It is believed that shortly before the tragedy a relative had called the police to report a domestic incident at Ms Armstrong's apartment.
When the police arrived the family had gone.
"The boy reported that his mother had driven the car into the river," said police chief Ferrara.
LaShanda Armstrong's aunt Angela Gilliam told police she had spoken to her niece and she was "not too good".
Police have interviewed Jean Pierre, the father of the three younger children.
Mayor Nicholas Valentine said Newburgh, an impoverished and crime-ridden city located 60 miles north of New York City, was heartbroken by the deaths but vowed residents would pull together.


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Hardhats and shiny shovels notwithstanding, the recent groundbreaking at the Catalina Island campus of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies was not your typical university celebration.
The invite advised island attire. Guests arrived by boat and helicopter. And, perhaps most unusual, the majority of the construction of the George and MaryLou Boone Center for Science and Environmental Leadership will not take place at the bull-dozed site where USC College and Wrigley Institute leaders and supporters gathered to celebrate Oct. 12.
Instead, building is set to begin on six new cottages on a rented dock in L.A. Harbor, about 22 miles northeast of the island. Once built, the cottages will be transported by barge to Catalina, where they will be placed on foundations and finished.
The new accommodations, along with previous and subsequent building projects, will allow USC College to host more leadership and planning retreats, training programs, high-profile conferences, and environmental conflict resolution negotiations at the island campus, officially called the Philip K. Wrigley Marine Science Center. These are expected to explore not only scientific topics, but also environmental policy, education and other issues at the interface between science and society.
In the last year alone, the Wrigley Institute has hosted 13 high-level scientific meetings and retreats, plus programs for nine USC schools and four departments in USC College.
At the ceremony, an enthusiastic Delta Murphy, chair of the institute's advisory board, thanked George and MaryLou Boone for their efforts to bring the project to fruition.
"This is a glorious day for all of us," Murphy said. "And we could not have done it without you, George."
Peter Starr, dean of USC College, concurred. "The College is eternally grateful for the support of George and MaryLou Boone," he said. "[George's] personal dream has been to help transform the Wrigley Institute into a world-class facility and international destination for scientific scholarship.
"With the creation of the George and MaryLou Boone Center for Science and Environmental Leadership…we are well on our way to becoming the premier destination for scientists and policy makers coming together to resolve environmental and marine science concerns," Starr said.
A USC Life Trustee and member of the College Board of Councilors, George Boone has provided dedicated support to the Wrigley Institute and its mission, which has played a critical role in the growth of the island campus. Five years ago, a gift from the Boones enabled the Wrigley Institute to construct a cottage, called the Boone House. In 2004, George and MaryLou Boone made a lead gift to establish the Boone Center. Since then, a number of other benefactors have stepped forward.
"More than a decade ago," George Boone said, "I first thought that more should be done with the Wrigley Center. We made a commitment then…. With these new buildings, scientists will have a better place to work, students a better place to learn.
"But to think of this project solely in terms of bricks and mortar downplays the scope and meaning of what we are accomplishing," he said. "Conversations and ideas shared here have the potential to improve the habitat in which we live."
Starr also thanked the Wrigley Institute's director, Anthony Michaels, for "his ideas, knowledge and, yes, determination to make this happen."
"We're building not just better houses, but a vision for what we want to accomplish in the next phase of the Wrigley Institute and USC College," Michaels said. "Today, we're witnessing the next step, the beginning of the transformation of USC Wrigley into a pre-eminent center for research and for the development of solutions to environmental problems."
After lunch, attendees reviewed architectural plans for the cottages built around a courtyard. In addition to the new houses, further phases of the plan call for the renovation of the dining hall, dormitory rooms and select meeting rooms, among other infrastructure improvements.
Guests then toured the four existing houses and one renovated apartment built in recent years. In addition to the Boones, a number of supporters of previous construction projects and the new Boone Center were on-hand to celebrate the groundbreaking.
USC alumna Patsy Ziegler Dewey ('58) and her son Brock ('83), a member of the Wrigley Institute's advisory board, attended the event. Their family, which also includes Patsy's sons Scott and Chip, made a $1 million gift to establish the Dewey Family House as part of the Boone Center. "We saw the Wrigley Institute grow from the very beginning and we wanted to contribute in some way to help it become a world-class facility," Patsy Dewey, CEO of Dewey Services, Inc., said. "I think the Boone Center will allow the College to draw even more professors of high caliber."
Elizabeth ('84) and Robert ('50) Plumleigh were at the groundbreaking, but it was their first tour of the Wrigley Institute's research campus three years ago that made a lasting impression. "It became clear to me that not enough people are aware of what is going on at Catalina," Robert Plumleigh said. It motivated the couple, longtime members of the Trojan Family who have previously given to the Wrigley Institute, to pledge $1 million to support the Boone Center. Elizabeth Plumleigh is also a member of the institute's advisory board. "We're hoping [the Boone Center] will become a Camp David of the west," Robert said.
Another Boone Center supporter and member of the institute's advisory board, Andrew Littlefair, also was at the ceremony. A gift from him and his wife, Karen, enabled the renovation of apartment 101 into the professionally decorated, one-bedroom place now called the Littlefair Apartment.
During the ceremony, Dean Starr also recognized Alison Wrigley Rusack and Geoff Rusack. The Wrigley and Rusack families have been stalwart supporters of the Wrigley Institute and the Boone Center, and they too are showing their dedication through a naming gift for one of the cottages. Their gift builds on the vision and history of support by three generations of the Wrigley family.
In the afternoon, guests heard about some of the research and education projects carried out on the island and the exciting new cluster hire of faculty in the marine and environmental sciences. The day finished with a presentation and Q-and-A session by USC College marine scientists, including two of the new recruits, Karla Heidelberg and Sergio Sañudo-Wilhelmy, and their colleagues Jed Fuhrman and Dennis Hedgecock.


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WINNIPEG -- Get out your fuel-surcharge calculator.
And tell the consumers you meet that they should expect to pay more for their stuff.
That's the gist of the message expressed by the Manitoba Trucking Association (MTA) this week as diesel fuel jumped to its highest level in over two years.
Driven primarily by the ongoing unrest in the Middle East, particularly in Libya, the price of oil and diesel shot up in the last week.
And you don't have to look far to see the problem.
Around Winnipeg, diesel has been reported as high as $1.16 a liter – a 10 cent jump from last week.
"Fuel is one of the largest cost factors for trucking companies," says MTA Executive Director Bob Dolyniuk. "With the slim profit margins that exist under normal conditions; trucking companies are not able to absorb the increased cost of fuel. "
The increased costs, he says, will be passed along to consumers.
The MTA voiced its concern only days after the American Trucking Associations (ATA) vociferously encouraged the Obama administration to stop blocking domestic oil production, for largely the same reason: The ongoing shenanigans in the Middle East and North Africa.
With political turmoil in that part of the world threatening to send oil prices surging higher, energy independence has never been more important than it is now, the ATA said.
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Once all divers and snorkelers are accounted for, we head about about 30 minutes from the lodge. Here the boat drops us off and continues on with the divers.
The snorkel guide stays with some people who are just learning to snorkel while the rest of us head out on our own. I am fascinated by what we see. Parrot fish, angel fish, baracuda and more. We also manage to see a few jellyfish and which I later think maybe I got a little too close as my arm is red and sore.
When the guide joins us, he takes us to a couple more spots where we explore what lies beneath the water.
After a quick snack we head back out. Even given the amount of sunscreen we apply, we still manage to get fried. Oh well, tis the nature of vacation.
Today we eat lunch at the lodge and I am again impressed by the food. We have a salad and split a wrap. It is so refreshing and light.
This afternoon is spent trying to get in touch with people back home. I missed an urgent call from the office (I thought I was on vacation). I spend the next hour working (it happens to even people who help people plan vacations). And then get a chance to talk to my husband and son for the first time.
Okay now I miss them. I was doing really well but now hearing their voices, I miss them. But our son sounds like he is having a blast and learning so much in just the few short days I have been gone. It will be good to see them again!
Mom and I spend the rest of the afternoon hanging out on the beach and having a beer.
Tonight we go over to Hamanasi for Happy Hour and then play more games (bring a deck of cards) while we relax and enjoy the sound of the ocean.
Again we are awaken by the sound of lightening and thunder in the middle of the night.