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EU revives emissions charging plan
Non-European nations and airline groups angered by move to impose carbon fee
The European Union on Wednesday revived a proposal to charge foreign airlines for emissions over European airspace, drawing the ire of airline groups which say it goes against the spirit of a recent global aviation deal and could reignite trade tensions.
The proposal from the European Commission to cover the 2014-20 period represents a retreat from an existing, though frozen, EU law that would require all planes using EU airports to pay for emissions for the full duration of their flights through an emissions trading scheme.
But airline groups said it threatened to unravel a fragile agreement cobbled together during two weeks of tough negotiations at the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organisation in Montreal, which ended this month.
EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard said the bloc was within its rights to regulate aircraft emissions within its own airspace.
"It is a sovereign right to regulate aviation in and around our own EU airspace," Hedegaard said. "I very much hope our partners will see this in the spirit in which it is being presented."
The International Air Transport Association, which represents about 240 global airlines, issued a statement expressing "concern and surprise" at the proposal from the EU executive.
"The commission is now recommending a course of action that has the potential to undermine the goodwill that has brought us to this point," said IATA director general and chief executive Tony Tyler.
US airline lobby group Airlines for America said requiring foreign carriers to participate in the EU trading scheme without the agreement of the airlines' country of registry "flies in the face" of the ICAO agreement.
"As this proposal is only an initial draft, we urge the European Council and Parliament to use their deliberative process to revise the proposal in line with the global agreement," said spokeswoman Katie Connell.
Speaking in Brussels last week, one of the ICAO negotiators warned that any charges on non-EU airlines would be a problem.
"If the EU decides, and I hope they do not, they will nevertheless want to capture emissions of non-European airlines, then we will be back to trade wars," said Abdul Wahab Teffaha, the secretary general of the Arab Air Carriers Organisation.
The latest EU proposal marks a retreat from earlier legislation imposing a levy on the full length of flights in and out of the EU.
The European Commission decided to review its law after the ICAO agreement reached in Montreal.
Non-EU nations, led by India, China and the US complained that the EU legislation was breaching national sovereignty and forced the bloc to freeze it for a year to give the ICAO the chance to deliver a global alternative.
India, together with China, had refused to comply with the EU law and haggled in Montreal for a further dilution of the accord. China blocked delivery of European Airbus jets in protest against the EU law.
For their part, members of the European Parliament, which together with the EU's 28 member states would have to approve the commission's proposal, have raised objections to the Montreal agreement, describing it as empty.
Unless the European Parliament approves the EC's proposal quickly - ahead of parliamentary elections and a changeover of commissioners in 2014 - the existing EU aviation law will resume effect.
Countries at the ICAO assembly agreed to work to design a global market-based mechanism to help neutralise the aviation industry's emissions after 2020. But it would only vote to approve it at the next general assembly of the ICAO in 2016.
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SVB Financial Group recently hosted a panel discussion titled How Venture Capital Works. The panelists discussed the relationships, decisions, and economics that drive venture capital.
The panel included participants representing the three key roles in VC industry dynamics:
Bryan Roberts, Ph.D. — Partner with Venrock, a leading venture capital firm
Judith Elsea — Co-Founder and Managing Director of Weathergage Capital, a fund-of-funds and limited partner in venture capital investing
John Mendlein, Ph.D. — Chairman of Fate Therapeutics, an emerging company backed by venture funding.
Michael Hanewich moderator and Head of Silicon Valley Banks Life Sciences East practice.

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The location of Hotel Degli Imperatori in Rome is ideal also for sports fans and outdoors exercise. Even if you are in Rome for a business trip, you can run or work out in the green area in front of the hotel.
Near Hotel Degli Imperatori in Rome you can find the Marco Simone Golf Club, a cycling lane at a few minutes from the hotel and the Marcigliana Natural Reserve, located between Fonte Nuova, Mentana and Monterotondo, at about 10/15 km from the hotel. Marcigliana is a nature sanctuary, home to several endangered species such as the fox, the badger, the porcupine and where you can admire ancient farms and mansions, some of the built on pre-existing Roman and Medieval ruins.


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College Capsule for Winter
The Capsule Concept
By now, you should be pretty "educated" on the concept of the college capsule wardrobe. If you are not, go back and read the posts on the Summer College and Fall College capsule wardrobes.
Quickly, the idea is to have just a few interchangeable pieces in your closet at one time – pieces that all work together to create a cohesive wardrobe. Pieces that you can mix and match to put together many outfits.
Adding to the Fall Capsule
For your winter college capsule wardrobe, keep many of your pieces from the fall and add a few more additional, warmer items.
For example, for winter, added items are the snow boots, mittens, warmer winter coat, warmer, thicker sweaters, etc.
In addition to the items above in the collection, it is assumed that you have tights, tanks and tees that can be layered under the sweaters, college sweatshirts and sorority wear.
Bellow let's look at the combinations we can create with these pieces:


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Disorienting Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Reappraisals of Sexual IdentitiesThomas Domenici, Ronnie C. Lesser, Adrienne Harris
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UPDATE: The Black Lips Are Safe!
Turns out they didn't actually get run out of India by the police
Photo by Arjun S Ravi
Unsurprisingly, the real story of what happened to the Black Lips in India is way less fun than previously thought. There were no high-speed chases, no gunfights, no arrests. And there wasn't even full-frontal nudity! Just mooning. Boo.
Vice has just posted an interview with drummer Joe Bradley , in which he explains the whole thing. Despite having previously claimed that they "had to flee the country of India due to having our whole tour canceled and having to escape being held by police for indecent exposure," it looks like the Black Lips were just being careful, and trying to get away from a shady promoter, when they beat the hell out of the country. (A wise move, perhaps.) Nobody seems to have pressed charges, and the police weren't even involved. But their tour manager sure sounds like an asshole.
The Black Lips are currently in Germany, hanging out with King Khan.
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Fizzy is short tempered, violent and power hungry. He took full advantage of the lack of adults and made a train-based casino in Series One and even took over most of Britain in Series Two. He rules his empire with an iron fist, often twisting the rules in his favor. Fizzy is fully aware that his empire would go down in moments should the adults return and he isn't willing to take risks in that regard, even ordering the destruction of the sword. He often loses his temper with his accurately named Dims, his personal henchman. He is arrogant and selfish and always tries to make himself look important. He is very spoiled and thinks only of himself, and also lacks physical ability.
In series one Fizzy has blond hair cut close to his head. He wears a black leather jacket and jeans but in series two his hair has grown longer and he now wears a crown.
Series oneEdit
The Hot ZoneEdit
Fizzy appears in the episode the Hot Zone, running a club on a train. He steals the dictaphone from the Ranchers. They manage to get the Dictaphone back and steal a portion of his train. He runs after the train before falling off the platform.
Series TwoEdit
The Stone HeadEdit
Around a year after the events of The Sparticle Project happened, it appears Fizzy is practically running a large part of Britian, demonstrated by the fact he has a currency named after himself. Fizzy is also revealed to be running a stadium with another enemy of the Sparticles, Flora where he has a number of stolen items such as the World Cup trophy and the crown jewels. He hosts games in the stadium and always makes the opposing team loose. He paid Holly to lead the Sparticles to the stadium where he imprisons them and makes them do chores. Later he fights Sadiq until Sadiq bargins with him to play a match, Sparticles against Fizzys team. Fizzy watches and commentates on the game, along with Flora. Its revealed he rigged the game and that the lion that he had threatened to sacrafice Reese to was fake as well.
The Peace CityEdit
Fizzy joins a conference of people of whom he gave cities to, he attended to address the rising problems he's been having with Ernesto when he learns of the sparticles presence in the city and demands his weapons back,when passivist pam refuses he simply takes the city back. Fury then recieves a call saying that the Sparticles have been sighted entering the city and interrupts te conference and tells Fizzy. Fizzy wants to round them up, he is then shown to treat people he made starving as if they are trash.He then upped the bounty of the sparticles to 100,000 fizzies each, when he finds the Sparticles he then theatens to kill Frankie unless they tell him what the sword does, when he finds no use for it he throws it in an acid bath, when the sparticles escape he tries to pursue them but is slowed down by Callum and a group of other kids, ultimately tripping over and landing face first in chocolate cake after tripping over onto of a eggs basket.
The TradersEdit
Fizzy is starting to lose control of the dims without their regular supply of chocolate, so he uses up his back up supply and leads a raid against the shippers, when he arrived though the dims instantly rebelled when promised chocolate, infuriating Fizzy greatly.
The Stone Of ArtosEdit
Fizzy and the dims meet up with Holly and Serena at the lake, it is then revealed that he hadn't paid the Dims in weeks and once he learnt that the Sparticles were so close he began to lose his temper, when he learnt Serena was a traitor he ordered the Dims to attack, however his constant mistreating of the Dims cause them to rebel against him and tie him to a tree.
Series Three
In the first episode of the series, Fizzy and his Dad, Byran, are giving the job of Bounty Hunters and up until "The Fisher Girls" try to catch The Sparticles. We find out in "The Circle of Perpetual Thyme" that Fizzy's real name is Eustace.
Fizzies Edit
'Fizzies' are a currency created by Fizzy. Great Britain no longer uses British Pound Sterling, but instead use Fizzies to trade with. The Sparticles have on several occasions been called Britain's Most Wanted, and have had a price of Fizzies on their head.


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First recording for The Imitation Archive
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Award-winning sound artist and composer Matt Parker is at TNMOC recording the sounds of 70 years of computing as part of a new Arts Council funded project, The Imitation Archive. As his work progresses, we'll give you little soundbytes. Here is the first.
Matt says: "I've spent some time working through the process used to decrypt the cipher made by the Lorenz SZ40/42 cipher machine used by German High Command during World War II.
"It's a fascinating story of incredibly high level skill in logical analysis and something I couldn't do justice describing myself. I recommend a visit to TNMOC to find out more. I've started off at the point of entry… The Radio Frequency transmission of wireless telegraphy.
"I've recorded many sounds from the RCA AR-88LF at the museum, covering as many sonic aspects that I can. Here is a little teaser of a recording taken from the rear of the unit, picking up super low electromagnetic frequencies."
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Attorney General Eric Holder's views that the Second Amendment only allows for organized militia ownership of firearms is sure to raise a great deal of controversy among gun owners over the next four years. In fact, since the election, the number of Americans seeking federal permits to own a gun has skyrocketed to the highest levels ever recorded, as many fear that the private ownership of guns might be severely limited by new legal efforts of this new attorney general. Holder might attempt to place a higher value or what he views as public safety vs. upholding a strict reading of Second Amendment rights. Certainly this could set up some serious Supreme Court fights and cases.
Gun owners who prefer handguns or assault type rifles are the most fearful of new legal attempts by Holder to limit or ban the sale of such weapons. The fear is that Holder will not try to strike the careful balance between the ownership of guns by law abiding citizens and attempts to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill or children. Holder also is worrisome to many who support the First Amendment as well.
What makes Holder such a controversial choice for attorney general is that he holds such restrictive views of many portions of the bill of rights, and may feel that his own views or some misguided sense of public safety could guide his legal views on issues like Second Amendment rights or First Amendment press freedoms.
The current conservative leaning makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court as well as some possible defections of those like Justice John Paul Stevens who seems to champion the Bill Of Rights should probably be more than enough to strike down any overreaching attempts by Holder to go too far. However, Holder might clearly attempt some new law enforcement tactics to weaken the Second Amendment as well as First Amendment freedoms. His legal philosophy is very disturbing to strong upholders of Bill Of Rights freedoms in all areas.
There are also some disturbing federal cases that Holder might attempt to champion. In one case, a gun owner loaned a legal assault weapon to a friend that misfired at a shooting range, and the federal government then brought illegal machine gun charges against the gun owner who has faced huge legal bills as well as serious criminal charges. It is pretty obvious that this was a fully legal weapon, and that the illegal machine gun charges are simply overreaching and unfair. However, Holder might choose for the Justice Department to champion such outrageous cases in an effort to mount up a number of legal challenges to weaken the Second Amendment.
My own personal feelings are that guns might cause a great deal of problems in society, however the Second Amendment does very clearly allow for the ownership of private firearms. And my personal fears are that Eric Holder might hold views where he believes far less in upholding the Bill Of Rights, than what he believes best suits his own legal philosophy of law or what he thinks is in the best interests of society. That can be very dangerous to the Bill Of Rights, and should be a subject of great concern to any civil libertarian.
I think this issue might raise a pretty lively discussion here.
Note: Wizbang Blue is now closed and our authors have moved on. Paul Hooson can now be found at Wizbang Pop!. Please come see him there!


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Read this teacher's approach – it's a pretty good strategy.
In school, I was both a bully and a victim of bullying – I think this happens a lot. I would do anything to take back my bullying. And I suspect it would be the same with those who picked on me.
Wouldn't it be great if we found a way to speed this process up. It *is* a process – so theoretically, it can be affected.
We need a focus on this in our Board.


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Training a string of racehorses was Luke Dace's boyhood dream. With commendable courage, patience and perseverence, he has turned that dream into reality, travelling from strength to strength.
Now with new world-class facilities, Luke invites you to join a most capable team that is going places with the promise of many more exciting times ahead.


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Tech Roundup: Growing storage infrastructures require provisioning tools
Allocating storage requires thoughtful consideration and careful management to ensure that each enterprise application receives an adequate amount of space, while maintaining (or improving) SAN performance. Storage provisioning allows administrators to parcel out available storage to meet the needs of key applications or enterprise activities. Provisioning tools play an essential role in this process, simplifying and often automating the management, monitoring and reporting of enterprise storage resources. As enterprise storage grows, provisioning and the use of provisioning tools will become more and more essential to businesses of all sizes.
Storage administrators must provide network users with access to hundreds of gigabytes (even terabytes) of data, while making the most efficient use of available storage infrastructure. But efficiency demands planning -- allocating storage requires thoughtful consideration and careful management to ensure that each enterprise application receives an adequate amount of space, while maintaining (or improving) SAN performance. Storage provisioning allows administrators to parcel out available storage to meet the needs of key applications or enterprise activities. Provisioning tools play an essential role in this process, simplifying and often automating the management, monitoring and reporting of enterprise storage resources. "Think of storage as inventory," says Greg Schulz, senior analyst at the Evaluator Group. "Provisioning tools allow you to get that inventory out of the warehouse and into use with the consumer [storage users]." As enterprise storage grows, provisioning and the use of tools will become more and more essential to businesses of all sizes.
The importance of provisioning
There's far more to expanding SAN storage than just adding drives. SAN space must be prepared for use and configured for access through established (usually redundant) storage network pathways. Storage must also include security and access control to prevent unexpected storage sharing and prevent users from moving or deleting each another's 'data. Until recently, the process of preparing and allocating SAN storage has required administrators to deal with multiple components through a series of separate steps. This process often involves individual tools (dubbed "element managers") and results in errors and frustration. "It can be done (and it is being done) with separate element managers to handle the host, switch and storage." says Brian Garrett, analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, "But provisioning tools are coming along to help automate and simplify that process."
Analysts agree that provisioning tools offer a wealth of significant benefits. Unified tools reduce mistakes, ease complexity and save considerable time, which can then be devoted to other pressing IT issues. But provisioning tools go far beyond direct storage allocation to include monitoring and reporting tasks. "You now have an audit trail," Garrett says. "You can start using a provisioning tool and you've got a centralized place where all of your changes are being logged." Reporting not only highlights the current state of network storage, but can also help IT management to plan proactive upgrades and expansions.
Although provisioning is important to all SAN-enabled businesses, provisioning tools offer more value to a large enterprise, where economies of scale can better justify the tools' cost and IT labor expense. "If a small environment only has 1 terabyte (TB) to provision across 10 servers, where a large enterprise might have 100 TB across 200 servers, the benefits [of provisioning tools] are much larger in that enterprise environment," Schulz says. One place where provisioning tools have gained favorable attention is in merger/acquisition environments. The difficulties of merging various storage environments can often be eased by using provisioning tools to help automate the consolidation process.
Large vendors are taking control
The most exciting and interesting provisioning tools come from smaller startups such as [in no particular order] AppIQ Inc., Crosswalk, WysDM Software Inc., 3Par Data Inc., and CreekPath Systems, though analysts have observed startups quickly disappearing as large players move in. Perhaps the most notable example of this is the recent acquisition of AppIQ by Hewlett-Packard StorageWorks Software. Partnerships are also a major factor to consider. A quick look at CreekPath's homepage offers a lengthy list of major partnerships. As startups are acquired, commit to OEM agreements or embrace other strategic partnerships, only the giants such as EMC Corp., Hitachi Data Systems Inc. (HDS), Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Tivoli, Symantec Corp. (Veritas), Network Appliance Inc., Engenio Information Technologies Inc., and Sun Microsystems Inc. will be left standing. Given the rapid consolidation taking place with provisioning vendors, it's important to consider your vendor carefully when evaluating any provisioning tool.
Selecting a provisioning tool
The real goal for provisioning tools is to support a heterogeneous environment that spans a wide variety of storage systems. Vendors often work toward such interoperability, though that goal is not always achieved. "There are times when they [vendors] compete, and there are times when they find opportunistic reasons to collaborate -- the idea is 'coopetition,' " Schulz says. As a result, it's vital to ensure that any provisioning tool will adequately support your storage infrastructure. But it's equally important to gauge the vendor's ability to support future storage products and protocols. "Suppose a new technology comes out in the next few months," says Richard Ackerman, senior consultant at GlassHouse Technologies Inc. "It may take that [vendor] company 60 days to six months before they support the new version of a storage device." The same consideration holds true for software elements such as agents, so be sure to identify the work involved with patches and agent upgrades. Ultimately, provisioning vendors with comprehensive lab facilities and strong ties to storage manufacturers can generally provide a superior response to emerging technologies.
There are additional details to consider. Provisioning tools should offer analytical features that can gather information about your storage environment and help a company make more informed business decisions. Storage infrastructures are sometimes distributed across multiple business areas. So, tools should provide workflow automation and integrate with CRM applications to ensure that provisioning tasks are implemented uniformly under each department. "I think the workflow automation piece is important," Ackerman says. "It also helps you (from a process and procedures standpoint) with change management and troubleshooting. You can see who did what." Look for economies of scale where the enhanced intelligence and automation of a provisioning tool can be used to automate common or repetitive tasks.
With so much attention paid to storage growth and allocation, storage administrators often fail to recognize the importance of storage removal (deallocation of resources), though this is quickly changing. . "A big thing in the limelight right now is the appropriate way to remove resources," Ackerman says. Factors like server consolidation, application consolidation, and server and storage reclamation are forcing users to pay close attention to the way resources are recovered and reused. For example, reclaimed storage is often kept idle for some period before it is reallocated, allowing former users to recover important data inadvertently left on the recovered storage space.
Vendor training is another issue that plays into any major technology decision. Analysts say that implementation and adoption should not be terribly difficult, but recommend in-house lab testing of any new provisioning tool (if possible) prior to purchase. This allows IT staff to become familiar with the tool before vendor training sessions. A staff that is already familiar with the basics can focus on more complex and comprehensive questions, such as tuning and optimization and glean the maximum benefit from training expenditures.
The future of provisioning
Provisioning tools are not new, but their importance to the enterprise is only just being recognized. "While they're needed, they may not be high on the overall IT priority list because they may be seen as discretionary rather than essential," Schulz says. "While they might save us some money, what's the real payback or the real effective improvement?" The onus is on vendors to better articulate the benefits and business improvements offered by provisioning tools. It's not just a matter of improving the GUI -- better hardware and software integration will be essential for future provisioning products.
Looking forward, analysts predict several important developments. At a high level, provisioning tools should become easier and quicker to use through wizards and improved product intelligence that will likely feature SMI-S compatibility. Such developments are already being deployed in low-end small and midsized business products. Enterprise provisioning will also provide additional automation and superior workflow features to support difficult end-to-end enterprise provisioning tasks. "The toughest place to get people over is the provisioning within the switch," Ackerman says. He also foresees provisioning tools with more diagnostic capabilities and able to discern when system operation fails to match configuration preferences.
Schulz expects tighter integration with Windows. "When a storage device is added, Windows will have more integrated tools to facilitate the deployment of that storage device." He also sees more specific features gaining acceptance, such as thin provisioning, overprovisioning, dynamic optimization, Quality of Service attributes and "just-in-time" allocation for faster provisioning operations. Garrett sees a future for open source, citing IBM's recent support for open source in storage management. However, it's far too early to tell how the storage industry will embrace open source initiatives.


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Author: Brighton Walsh
Series: Caged In Winter #1
Publisher by: Penguin
Published on: November 4, 2014
Genres: Contemporary Romance, New Adult Romance, Romance
Page Count: 304
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In this emotional and sexy New Adult debut from Brighton Walsh, the only thing more frightening than commitment is hope...
Aspiring chef Cade Maxwell is immediately, viscerally attracted to Winter Jacobson. But it's not her mouthwatering curves he's drawn to--it's the strange emptiness in her eyes. When Cade saves her from a drunken customer with grabby hands, he's shocked at her response...
Winter doesn't need Cade's help. After a lifetime of getting by on her own, she's happy to rely on herself. She's exactly seventy-six days away from graduating college, and if she can hold it together that long, she'll finally be able to rise above the crappy hand she was dealt.
But now, every time she turns around, Cade is there, ready to push her, smile at her, distract her from her plans. Winter knows she can't afford to open up--especially to a man she's terrified to actually want...
::insert fan girl squeal:: I LOVED Caged In Winter!! Better yet I loved Cade. He is the epitome of the perfect book boyfriend. From the first few chapters, I just knew there was something special about this book. These were exactly the kind of characters and story that I love. It was heartfelt, sweet, and engaging. Brighton Walsh wrote this story flawlessly. Her writing not only drew me into the book but it made me fall in love with her characters.
Cade and Winter, meet when he steps in to help her with a rowdy bar patron. He assumed she would be thankful for the help but she has the complete opposite reaction. Winter is fiercely independent and with her upbringing, she isn't used to anyone helping her and she doesn't appreciate it. Even though their first interaction didn't go well, there is something about Winter that Cade is immediately drawn to. He makes in his mission to get to know her better.
"He is intensity and want and desire. He's happiness and frustration and comfort and hope and fear. He is my rollercoaster."
I'm seriously in love with Cade's character. He was a contradiction of looks and personality. On the outside he seemed intimidating with his size and his tattoos and piercing, but he was a truly sweet. He lived to protect those that he loved and cared for. Since his parents passed away he's helped take care of his sister and niece. It was a responsibility that he took seriously. Cade was studying to be a chef and he always hoped he could live out his dream of traveling and opening his own restaurant. Yet, he allowed his sense of responsibility to hold him back.
"Winter's a closed book. A journal with a thousand entries, shut tight and padlocked. And I can't wait to crack open her pages."
Winter was the opposite of her name. She was fiery and fierce and she only trusted herself. She was counting down the days until her college graduation. She hoped after she graduated that she could start a new life, one where she didn't have to struggle and could do all the things she dreamed of. Winter was used to keeping people away, but Cade was persistent. He saw something in Winter and he felt he had to try. Little by little, bit by bit, he slowly begins to break down the walls she built around herself and for the first time in a long time, Winter starts to let someone in.
There was an emotional push and pull to build and gain Winter's trust. She had to decide if allowing herself to be vulnerable with someone was truly worth the risk. Cade also had his own issues to grapple and decisions he had to make. As the story unfolds, you gradually see how their relationship develops and you can see them grow as characters. I was absolutely cheering this couple on and I truly hoped they could work through the obstacles life dealt to them. This story was emotional, sexy, and sensual. It was also surprisingly different in many ways. This is one of my favorite stories of this year. Brighton writing was amazing and I cannot wait to read more from her. I highly recommend giving this story a try.
Caged In Winter – Book Excerpt
I bend my knees so we're eye level and tug on her hand until she meets my gaze. "I don't know what we could have. It might be nothing. But I'll be honest . . . I haven't felt like this in a long time, and that's enough for me to know I want to see where it goes. Can't we just see where it goes?"
With a deep sigh, she says, "I'm not right for you, Cade."
"How about you worry about if I'm right for you. Let me decide the other."
And then before she can stop me, before she can utter another word of opposition, I slide my hand up her arm, over her shoulder, until it's wrapped around her neck. With my other hand, I swipe a piece of hair back with my fingers, and then lean in, brushing my lips against hers. After only a moment, I pull back just enough for her to be able to tell me to stop. When nothing comes, I close the distance between us once again, taking her bottom lip in between mine. I brush my tongue against it, coaxing her mouth open, and she breathes this sexy little gasp as I slip inside. She tastes like cookies and wine, and I want to fucking devour her.
She grips my shirt with both hands, clutching me to her, and I stop holding back and press every inch of my body against hers, groaning as my cock presses fully against her. The moment a whimper comes from her, I know she feels it. And I can't muster up any embarrassment, because I want her to feel it. Even with all her brass balls and fuck-everything attitude, something tells me she needs reassurance, so I give it to her. In every stroke of my tongue against hers, every brush of my thumb along her jaw, I show her how much I want her.
When her chest is heaving, her lips parted and swollen and so fucking hot, I trail kisses down her neck, seeking out every inch of skin that's uncovered. Her head thumps back against the wall, one of her hands gone from gripping fistfuls of my shirt. Instead, she's holding my head to her, and I don't want to stop. I want to kiss and lick every inch of her, slip my hands under the material of her sweater, unbutton her jeans, and not stop until I feel her soft wetness against my fingertips.
But the knowledge that she'll regret it if I don't stop forces me to slow down.
I pull back, loosening my grip on her and putting an inch of space between us. I kiss the corner of her mouth, her cheek, and then her ear. Against it, I whisper, "Don't say no."
There's a beat of silence. Two. Three. And then she says the sweetest word I've ever heard.
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Q. What inspires you to write and who are some of your favorite writers?
A. Everything inspires me to write. I've been inspired by a song, a movie, a picture. And eavesdropping…that's always good inspiration too. LOL My all-time favorite romance writer is Jill Shalvis. She is my go-to author when I need a palette cleanser or a pick me up.
Q. Cade and Winter are complete opposites in many ways but the their chemistry was undeniable. How did you come up with their relationship dynamic?
A. Whenever I'm thinking of characters in a book, one always comes to me first. In this case, it was Winter. When I created her character, I thought of the absolute worst, most difficult match for her, and Cade was born. While reading a love story, you have to have that opposition to make it interesting. And as one half in an opposites-attract-marriage, I'd say it's pretty good in real life, too. 🙂
Q. We fell madly in love Cade. The thing we love most was the fact he was the sexy tattooed chef. Why did you choose that career, instead of tattoo artist, mechanic, or something seen as more "masculine"?
A. You know, I don't even remember why I picked that career, and when I texted my Plot Whisperer if she remembered why I chose it, her response was, "I think it was just because we said it'd be hot." LOL Truer words. So, yes, because it'd be hot. Plus, I don't really go for the overly masculine careers. If that works, great. (In fact, I have several traditionally masculine careered heroes on the horizon.) But I'm a fan of a Gamma hero and that means a nice mix of Alpha and Beta, and Cade is that mix.
Q. Winter sometimes comes across a little harsh (but that doesn't mean we don't' love her!), what made you want to write her that way?
A. She does come across harsh, and I knew some readers would have a hard time loving her because of it. But writing her that way wasn't a conscious choice I made. Living the life she has, going through the things she's gone through, it made sense that she'd react the way she did to certain situations. Lessening some of that wouldn't have been true to her character, and above all, I wanted the growth in the story to be authentic, even if that meant Winter sabotaging her and Cade's relationship (several times).
Q. What are you working on next?
A. Currently, I'm finishing up the sequel to next year's Captive (March), which is titled Exposed. Both are in an entirely different world from Caged in Winter, but I also have the edits to CiW's follow-up, Tessa Ever After (May), to dive into as soon as my deadline passes. The next year will be a busy one.


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NEW YORK (CNN) -- The FBI has begun interviewing clients of deceased Garden City, New York, lawyer William Parente as part of an investigation into his financial dealings, according to FBI spokesman James Margolin.
Stephanie Parente, 19, was found dead along with her sister and parents in a Baltimore hotel Monday.
Margolin said the investigation was launched at the request of police in Baltimore County, Maryland, where Parente, his wife and their two daughters were found dead in a hotel room earlier this week.
"We're looking into Parente's business interests and whether there's any impropriety there and any crime was committed," Margolin said.
Baltimore County police say Parente, 59, killed his family before committing suicide. There have been allegations of financial impropriety in the course of the investigation, said police spokesman Cpl. Mike Hill at a news conference Wednesday.
A law enforcement source told CNN a cell phone belonging to Parente was recovered in the hotel room where the bodies were found. In an attempt to locate surviving family members, investigators contacted people in the phone's directory, and some of those people said they were Parente's investment clients.
The New York attorney general's office confirmed it received a complaint alleging financial wrongdoing from attorney Bruce Montague of Queens, New York.
CNN spoke with Montague's law partner, Steve Drelich, who said he was speaking on Montague's behalf because Montague is distraught over the death of Parente, whom he considered a personal friend as well as a financial adviser. Drelich confirmed Montague was a client of Parente's, and said the two had known each other about six years and that Montague had been investing with Parente for about that long.
Drelich said Montague's estimated losses in investments with Parente total about $450,000.
Drelich said recently Montague "got nervous and asked [Parente] for his money back," in light of highly publicized scandals involving other investors and financial advisers.
Drelich said when Montague kept asking Parente about the money, he was told "it was in a Canadian bank and [Parente] was having trouble getting the money back."
Montague finally received six checks late last week, Drelich said.
"Four of the six checks bounced. We were told there was no money in the account. ... We were told by the bank that the checks were bouncing," Drelich told CNN. Drelich said he doesn't know the amounts of the two checks that did clear for Montague.
It was not until news broke about the Parente family deaths and apparent murder-suicide investigation that Montague contacted authorities, Drelich said.
But Drelich emphasized that Montague was more upset with the deaths than any financial loss.
"You can always make more money," Drelich said. "But Bruce is devastated about the family. He considered [Parente] a friend, but he's especially concerned about the family."
Drelich said his office received calls from at least five other people who said they invested money with Parente, with callers claiming more than $4 million in total investments with Parente. Drelich said his office referred those callers to the state attorney general's office.
Baltimore County police said Parente killed his wife, Betty, 58, on Sunday, April 19, using "blunt force trauma" and asphyxiation.
Police said he killed his daughter Catherine, 11, around the same time, using the same method.
Later that day, his daughter Stephanie, 19, a Loyola College sophomore, was killed also by blunt force trauma and asphyxiation, according to police. Citing hotel records, police said the room was accessed by its electronic key at around 4 p.m. on Sunday, making it plausible that Stephanie entered the room.
Later that evening, police said, Stephanie's college roommate, worried that she had an exam the next morning and hadn't come home, called the room and spoke to William Parente. Parente told the roommate Stephanie would be spending the night. Police believe she was dead at the time.
Parente died some time later by cutting himself, police said, but would not elaborate further on his death.
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Unspeakable B.S. of the Year (So Far)
About the Portland Convention Center Hotel scam:
[T]he financing model under consideration for a headquarters hotel will require the hotel to pay for itself. A hotel industry consultant has projected the hotel will generate $11 million per year in net operating income, starting in the hotel's first stabilized year of 2014.Now there's the pure, unadulterated version of bovine manure. It is unsullied with any filler of truth. And it was part of a larger pile. Our friend Mr. Stanford, to whom it was addressed, calls it like it is here.


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I love gardening. I really do. I long for the time when the weather allows me and Andre to get out in the yard, and clean winter off of it! I have grand, well, maybe not grand plans, but do-able plans for this spring and summer.
Anyway, I am getting off of the subject. I love to plant, and I want to pass that on to my kids. At Target the other day I found these cute little planting kits in the dollar bins. (Love those dollar bins!) I thought this would be a cute way to get Cash active in plant life.
I forgot to take pic's while we were planting, but here are some from this morning. Cash loves to check his sunflower's progress every morning. You can tell he has some serious bed head.
The blue is the sunflower. The yellow is the daisy. Aren't they the cutest, little pots? I will post them again to show the how they grow.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Planting, Planting, Planting
Posted by Tracy Crosby at 2:34 PM
Labels: crafty kids stuff, loves
2 comments:
- erin said...
adorable - crap - now I have to go to Target to get those adorable egg pots. And of course I will not be able to leave with just two 1 dollar pots - Target will suck me in and I will be forced to spend 100 (on things I can't live without).
- March 12, 2010 at 3:52 PM
- Tracy said...
yeah, I always think, "It's only a dollar." Then that one dollar becomes 10 when the products start piling up in my cart.
- March 12, 2010 at 5:02 PM
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"The Spirit of St. Louis" (1957) is one of Billy Wilder's lesser known films. Based on the 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir by Charles Lindbergh --the famous aviator who flew non-stop from New York to Paris in 1927-- the film is often seen as atypical Wilder, lacking what is present in most of Wilder's films: his characteristic humour, cynicism, exploration of the darker side of human nature (mind you, I haven't seen "The Spirit of St. Louis" so this is based on what I've read). The film was a box-office failure, mainly due to its $6 million budget, and it was also one of the biggest financial failures in the history of Warner Brothers.In the end, Wilder wasn't too happy with "The Spirit of St. Louis"— he would later say that it was the least favourite of his films. It was Charles Lindbergh who had kept him from making the film he wanted to make. In "Conversations with Wilder" (1999), a book by Cameron Crowe, Wilder talked about this and how he had envisioned his film:
Still, it was a film Billy Wilder had wanted to make. As a freelance reporter in Berlin in 1927, Wilder had covered Lindbergh's flight, and he had never forgotten the thrill of this exciting event. Besides, feeling that in Hollywood he was still thought of as a European, Wilder wanted to make a film about a truly American subject.
Still, it was a film Billy Wilder had wanted to make. As a freelance reporter in Berlin in 1927, Wilder had covered Lindbergh's flight, and he had never forgotten the thrill of this exciting event. Besides, feeling that in Hollywood he was still thought of as a European, Wilder wanted to make a film about a truly American subject.
I heard a story from newspapermen who were there in Long Island waiting for him to take off. And the newspapermen told me a little episode that happened there, and that would have been enough to make this a real picture.
The episode was that Lindbergh was waiting for the clouds to disappear — the rain and the weather had to be perfect before he took off. There was a waitress in a little restaurant there. She was young, and she was very pretty. And they came to her and said, "Look, this young guy there, Lindbergh, sweet, you know, handsome. He is going to–" "Yes, I know, he is going to fly over the water." And they said, "It's going to be a flying coffin, full of gas, and he's not going to make it. But we come to you for the following reason. The guy has never been laid. Would you do us a favor, please. Just knock on the door, because the guy cannot sleep…"
So she does it. And then, at the very end of the picture, when there's the parade down Fifth Avenue, millions of people, and there is that girl standing there in the crowd. She's waving at him. And he doesn't see her. She waves her hand at him, during the ticker-tape parade, the confetti raining down. He never sees her. He's God now.
This would be, this alone would be, enough to make the picture. Would have been a good scene. That's right — would have been a good scene. But I could not even suggest it to him. " [via]
Perhaps not surprisingly, Charles Lindbergh himself was pleased with the final result. On 9 April 1957, he wrote a letter to Billy Wilder thanking and praising him for his picture. Wilder responded two weeks later, stating: "As far as I'm concerned, the best that came out of it was getting to know you".
Scotts Cove
Darien, Conn.
April 9, 1957
Dear Billy:
I have just received an invitation from Jack Warner to attend the Premiere of "The Spirit of St. Louis" at Hollywood, Thursday. I have had to wire back that I could not be on the West Coast at that time, and my greatest regret lies in losing the opportunity to see you and other friends who worked on the film so long, hard, and ably.
When I returned from my trip abroad (Central America, Asia, and Europe-- over the three Pan American divisions), I took my family to the Radio City Music Hall to see the picture. It was the first time I had seen it myself, after the final cutting and dubbing. We all think you have done a grand job. There has been a big improvement since I saw the film, in early February. Audience reaction was excellent as far as I could judge, and the theater was pretty well filled when we were there. I now know what you mean by being able to cut a film by audience reaction. I had never paid much attention to this before.
Even though this was more or less the second time I had seen "The Spirit of St. Louis", I was still unable to look at it objectively. I find myself too close to the events, to the people, the plane, and the cockpit. At one moment I would be carried along by the story as though I were on the flight itself, thirty years ago; and at another, I would be jerked back into my theater seat saying, almost out loud, "my God that isn't Harold Bixby", or "It wasn't a Harley Davidson motorcycle, it was an Excelsior".
Of course I fully agree that to put a story on the stage actors can only approximate original characters, and that major changes must and should be made. All this is right and proper, and I feel you have handled the directing with great ability and skill-- a very difficult task extremely well done. But let me tell you it is quite a sensation to see one's life portraid [sic] on the screen-- enjoying, startling, humorous, serious, fascinating, stirring mind and emotion in quite an extraordinary way.
I was extremely interested to watch the interplay of fact and fiction-- detailed accuracy juxtaposed with fictional abandon-- and how accurate impression was obtained by the use of inaccurate events (the suspender salesman, the fly, the frying fish in San Diego). And I noted with admiration how the fictional events you brought into the story invariably obtained the audience reaction you were striving for.
And the reviews-- the enthusiasm of the mass publications; the tongue clucking of the intellectuals-- on the whole, I thought they were excellent. Almost all of our friends were enthusiastic about the film. Judged from the reaction I have seen, it should meet with great success.
My thanks and best wishes accompany this letter. I wish I could accompany to the coast, and be with you to express them.
Sincerely, Charles (signed)
April 23, 1957
Dear Charles,
Thank you for your very generous letter. I am fully aware of the shortcomings of my effort. In all honesty, I don't think that any picture-maker, no matter how rich or talented, could have done justice to your superb account.
As far as I'm concerned, the best that came out of it was getting to know you. I shall treasure this for the rest of my life.
Most sincerely,
Billy Wilder
General Charles A. Lindbergh
23 Tokeneke Trail
Darien, Connecticut
P.S. - Please note my new home address and phone number:
10372 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles 24, Calif.
BRadshaw 2-1317
Images of the letters courtesy of Heritage Auctions
This is my contribution to the Billy Wilder Blogathon hosted by Once upon a Screen and Outspoken & Freckled. Check out the other entries here.


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1979 Pontiac
Firebird Trans Am
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Some people wanted to play Smokey and the Bandit when buying a black Pontiac in the late 1970s. But this is your chance to own something more than the movie star car in this 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with ultra low mileage on the numbers-matching 400 V8, four-on-the-floor, and of course, T-tops.
We could continue to make movie references about a black Trans Am with gold trim, but the simple fact is that these were so cool looking that they were destined to be legendary even without Hollywood. Never designed to be a subtle machine, the deep Starlight Black is the perfect outlaw color, especially with the professional respray of this car's factory-correct color. It gives the dark paint the kind of luster that makes it look like a black mirror. The chin spoiler and Endura front bumper doesn't show any evidence of run-ins with steep driveways or parking curbs, allowing this T/A to hold its head high at car shows. But what really makes this one really grab attention is all the gold trim that is on everything from over the flared fenders, to under the rear spoiler, to the iconic snowflake wheels. And because everyone expects the legendary "screaming chicken" to be the bold centerpiece, a new one was recently applied.
Inside is a selection of the perfect features. The black leather buckets are in excellent condition. This is particularly nice, because we know you've noticed the T-tops. They're perfect for everything from displaying your T/A at car shows to just letting everyone else notice the grin on your face when driving through town. It's always a pleasure to see that pervious caretakers understood the importance of enjoying this feature without going to the excess that would have caused sun damage. That's why not only do the seats still look great, but so do the dash, door panels, and center console. The carpet even feels fresh! The driver gets to face iconic components like the Trans Am's special three-spoke steering wheel, cool machined aluminum dash, and even the tach/clock combo in the optional Rally gauge package is still working. The original AM/FM stereo is still in place for period-correct fun, and there are provisions for factory air conditioning. But your favorite part will be the option that's missing, the popular automatic transmission option. That's right...even the Bandit didn't get the kind of powerband control that you have with the four-speed manual.
The numbers-matching 400 cubic-inch V8 has an authentic appearance right down to the factory hood shaker that everybody remembers so well. The block is still covered in factory-correct Pontiac Blue paint, and it looks like this powerplant has been treated to good regular maintenance, instead of many that were overly modified. This motor makes such great muscle car sounds, and thanks to the four-speed, it moves the coupe with authority. The Trans Am has a reputation for not only being quick, but also it could handle the corners like a movie star. It was specifically chosen to be Bandit's "Trigger" because it was one of the best all-around sportscars of its day, and the optional four-wheel disc brakes only enhances this reputation. Plus, the power steering and grip of BF Goodrich T/A radials makes this a great anytime driver.
Barely averaging 1,000 miles per year, you can really tell this Firebird Trans Am has been cherished throughout its life. The current Florida title shows actual mileage. We all love the look of these black with gold T/As but very few of us will every have the opportunity at one this nice. Call today!!!
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A cold never bothered me anyway? Nope.
Disney announced its plan to release a sequel to Frozen on Thursday, sending children and winter enthusiasts alike into a tailspin. Coincidentally (just kidding, not at all, it was masterfully planned), Disney is releasing a Frozen short, titledFrozen Fever, to play before Cinderella, which hits theaters on Friday.
In conjunction, Disney dropped a new song from the short on iTunes. In the song, called "Making Today a Perfect Day," a sick Elsa attempts to plan a birthday party for sister Anna, despite being sick (totally relatable).
The song is written by husband-and-wife songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, the same team responsible for the smash hit "Let It Go." But it falls flat and boring; so sorry, parents, you'll have to hit repeat on the original soundtrack. Again.
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Its been awhile since I last posted and logged in (sorry for late comment replies!), I had to concentrate on completing my dissertation, which FINALLY has been handed in!
My topic was "Exploring the Pedagogical Possibilities of Applying Gaming Theory and Technologies to Historic Architectural Visualisation". My main case study was my St Mary's Abbey model which I've been blogging about on here for a while now. In my first part of my dissertation I looked at the theory of place, authenticity, "edutainment", narrative and gamification with regards to pedagogical methods and how this is utilised by museums, Serious Games and commercial games with an architectural history focus. In the second part I used all of the theory I discussed in part one to propose an educational game (planned as a first-person RPG) based on my model of St Mary's Abbey. I may decide to upload this paper once I've officially graduated (July)…if you're into computer games and heritage you may enjoy it!
Now I've finished my MSc I've been thinking about where to head next… I've been working on my own website, built from scratch (thanks to my web dev module at uni, and my partner Si Stamp for helping me with the PHP! ). The address is www.hannahbethrice.com and on here I'll upload my 3D work. Now university is over I will be looking out for projects to work on and promote on my website. I'll also be transferring this blog across at some point, and possibly adding a shop section. I will also start doing more game reviews- particularly on the topics of environments, architecture and history, and how they are portrayed in games.
I really enjoyed my time at the University of York. My thanks in particular go out to Sara Perry for her informative lectures on Cultural Heritage Management and support, and Anthony Masinton for his knowledge on gaming and historic visualisation, and also introducing me to Blender!
From my MSc I've learned how to create a website from scratch (that fully validates with W3C!), developed my database design skills, discovered new 3D modelling software that I am now obsessed with, learned how to survey historic buildings and also increased my knowledge in the management of cultural heritage. I would really recommend studying at York (I was there for 5 years!) if you're wanting to study anything historical. Having experienced studying both in the History of Art and Archaeology departments, the staff really are the specialists in their fields, and the campus is also a nice, green space (full of ducks!).


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August 23, 2012
August 20, 2012
Absolutely BRILLIANT!
This is stunning. Genius.
The Invisible Bicycle Helmet | Fredrik Gertten from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.VIA the Dice Blog
August 15, 2012
August 13, 2012
Train in Vain
The Rock and Roll Public Library, Portobello Green, London - 22/08/09
August 10, 2012
Stormtroopers. Cool. Stormtroopers on motorcycles. Freaking Awesome!
Found @ DSC
Found @ DSC
August 7, 2012
6 Over East Coast Premier
By now I'm sure you know about, or are at least aware of the existence of, the finest motorcycle movie ever made by a man. 6 Over. We thought it needed to be seen in all it's cinematic glory so we got together with Dean, Matt, Mike and Chris and planned a proper showing for the East Coast. On Friday, September 21 at 7 PM prepare yourself for the movie event of the season. We ill be giving away the 100 tickets available for the only theatrical showing of 6 Over on the east coast! Save the date. Stay tuned for details. ~Walter
Trailer from Wild Honey Productions on Vimeo.
August 3, 2012
You don't have to go to Japan...
We got together with Rico Fodrey of Hi Bond Modified to produce the NEW version of his iconic kick pedal. Each pedal is finished by hand to ensure Rico's "Imperfect perfection" aesthetic. Proudly made in the USA. AVAILABLE NOW.
Video from Moon Eyes Music by The Black Tibetans
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EasyTunnel 2.1: Create and Manage SSH Tunnels Easily
If you have heard about SSH tunnel, you should have known that PUTTY is the most popular SSH tunnel client. In this post I will recommend a less known SSH client – EasyTunnel. The latest EasyTunnel version is 2.1.
EasyTunnel is an application that helps you Create and manage multiple SSH tunnels. Either you want a SOCKS over proxy via SSH, or a more secure Remote Desktop Connection that passes by a tunnel, EasyTunnel is the right application for you.
Features of EasyTunnel 2.1:
- Create any kind of SSH tunnels
- Create SOCKS over Proxy on SSH
- Choose the port you want to use
- Save these tunnels under encrypted data
- Minimize To Tray
- Edit/Copy saved tunnels
License of EasyTunnel: Freeware
Operating System: Windows XP or Higher
Requirements: .NET Framework 2.0 or higher installed
Download link of EasyTunnel 2.1:
Link 1
Link 2
Use EasyTunnel 2.1:
1. Download and launch the application. You must have .NET Framework 2.0 or higher installed on your computer.
2. Below is the screenshot after you add a SSH Tunnel.
3. Double click the SSH tunnel in the tunnel list to connect or disconnect that SSH tunnel.
4. You need to configure Firefox browser to use socks 5 proxy as "127.0.0.1:8080″ after the SSH tunnel connected.
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Traum-mercial Break: ROM: Spaceknight!
March 21st, 2012 by unkle lancifer · 2 Comments
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I think that I'm one of about ten people that read the ROM:SpaceKnight comic.
God knows, I miss my childhood.
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The Riders Discount Vesrah Suzuki team returned to action this weekend on the team's Dunlop equipped Suzuki GSX-R 600s at the Big Kahuna Atlanta at Road Atlanta in Braselton, GA with the first practice sessions and Provisional Qualifying being held Friday and Final Qualifying and the first of the doubleheader races being held on Saturday.
In the SuperSport class Jake Lewis ran at the front during their first practice session staying within the top 6 and ending up 3rd. During Provisional Qualifying later at the end of Friday afternoon Jake was again up front in the top 3 and pulled out a last lap effort using a new Dunlop D211GPA rear tire of 1:30.681 which was good for 2nd place. With nobody able to go faster during Final Qualifying on Saturday morning Jake has a starting position on the front row in P2 for the SuperSport races.
In SuperSport race 1 Jake got away at the start and ran at the front for the entire race dicing for the lead and crossing the stripe in front for the majority of the 16-lap event. On the last lap Jake was held up just slightly by a lapped rider, losing touch and the draft, bringing home a podium finish with a strong 2nd place finish over 20 seconds clear from 3rd place. Jake now sits tied for 2nd place in the SuperSport East standings with the help of the bonus point for leading the most laps today and is only 2 points out of the championship lead.
Jake Lewis – Riders Discount Vesrah Suzuki #85
"Today's race was really good for me and the whole Riders Discount Vesrah Suzuki team! Finishing second is not where I would have liked, but I'll take a podium anyway. I felt like I ran a strong race and didn't make any mistakes, which was good. The crew and I will make changes tonight and try for the win tomorrow"
In the Daytona SportBike class during the first practice session Cory West ran up front and stayed in the top 5 for the entire session while teammate Benny Solis was just outside of the top 10. In Provisional Qualifying later in the afternoon Cory was 6th with Benny 12th. In Saturday mornings Final Qualifying both Benny and Cory were able to improve upon their times using fresh Dunlop D211GPA tires with Benny jumping to 6th place while Cory slid one spot to 7th despite his quicker lap time. The teammates will line up alongside each other in the middle of the second row for both GoPro Daytona SportBike races this weekend.
In the first Daytona SportBike race of the weekend both Benny and Cory started in the top 5 with Benny running second for the first half of the race. Both riders were able to stay near the front until the next to last lap when Benny suffered misfortune with a crash. Cory finished the race with a top 5 result in 5th place. Cory is now 7th in the Daytona SportBike season point standings.
Cory West – Riders Discount Vesrah Suzuki #57
"I got a good start and found myself in fourth early in the race. The pace wasn't too bad at the beginning but I could feel that I was bottoming the forks out under hard braking. I fell back some positions but was gifted them back after a few riders crashed and brought it home in 5th. I'm happy about scoring a top five but I know we can run the pace if we get the bike working a little better tomorrow. Big thanks to my crew chief Tony, mechanic Sean, and an awesome engine built by Mark Junge"
Benny Solis – Riders Discount Vesrah Suzuki #35
""After having a tough 1st qualifying, we found a new and better setting for 2nd qualifying which put us in P6. Second row was great for me, I started out doing well in the race but unfortunately when we dropped the pace to some faster laps, and the front suspension wasn't working like I needed it to. So I was struggling with the bike and I felt a little out of control trying to run a fast pace with so much chatter. I was trying everything I could to make it work but it was quite difficult for me. I ended up crashing out of 3rd but we now know we can run up front. Now we need to get the front end handling like we need it and we should do much better tomorrow"
Riders Discount Vesrah Suzuki would like to thank their sponsors for the 2012 season: Vesrah, Riders Discount, MCJ Motorsports, American Suzuki, Nielsen Enterprises Suzuki, Parts Unlimited, Penske Racing Shocks, Traxxion Dynamics Fork Components, Yoshimura, Catalyst Racing Composites, Shoei, Cortech, Sidi, Held, Motion Pro, Sudco Int., Bazzaz, Factory Pro, Maxima Racing Oils, Adjustable-levers, Vicci, Vortex, DID Chain, Zero Gravity, GPR Stabilizers, Trek Bicycles, Suzuka Tire Warmers, K&N Filters, Full Spectrum Batteries, Redbull (Benny), Oakley (Benny & Jake), Roclun (Jake), Progressive Trail Design (Cory), 509 sunglasses (Cory and team), Andrew Swenson Designs and Drippinwet.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Lulu Coupons All Holiday Long
Lulu.com is offering 12 separate coupons through the holiday season. Some may be useful, others maybe not, but if you'd like to check them out each day and see if there's an offer that appeals to you, you can point your browser to
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. Today is Free Ground Shipping (in the US, I believe) with the code
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As a result of the current argument between Apple and the FBI, Apple is reportedly developing new ways to make hacking the iPhone even more difficult in the future. According to the New York Times, the company wants to prevent passcode-free recovery mode in future iPhones. Apple also intends to encrypt backups stored on the iCloud
Apple is planning to find a way into disabling DFU mode (Device Firmware Update), or limit it. This mode is used by Jailbreakers to install a special version of iOS to bypass some of Apple's features.
Apple has created the device firmware update (DFU) mode for trouble shooting purposes in case the device's operating system, iOS crashes. If say your iPhone iOS crashes, Apple lets you boot your iPhone into DFU mode so that you can reinstall a fresh version of iOS without having to enter a passcode.
DFU mode stands as the center of the dispute because its current design makes the FBI requests possible. If Apple requires a user to enter his/her passcode within the DFU mode, Apple wouldn't be able to create a special firmware that would let the FBI attempts as many passcodes in as little time as possible.
The DFU settings can only be changed for next-generation models, Apple has reportedly started working on the solution. For now Apple has to resist the authorities in the court before the company is compelled to write the special version of firmware for the FBI's request. If Apple is ultimately ordered to conform with the Bureau, it won't have to do so in the future.
When it comes to iCloud security, Apple encrypts its servers' data but still owns the decryption key, which it can use to decrypt an iPhone backup and hand them to the FBI.
According to the FT, Apple is thinking of giving the private key to its customers so that so that it can't decrypt their backup data. However, if a customer looses the password or key, he wouldn't be able to access his iCloud data ever again; In this case, Apple wouldn't be able to help them.
Ever since Edward Snowden revealed how the US government conducts mass surveillance programs based on data provided by companies, Apple has made its devices and services more secure to make it harder to hack iPhones. Though lots of individuals argue that this case is related to an alleged terrorist's iPhone, Tim Cook argued in an interview with ABC News that this is about all iPhones.
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Topic: Police (10/12/06)
TITLE: State of the Art Protection
By Donna Haug
"Joe? Joe! Can you hear me?"
"Hank? Is that you? Why are you whispering?" Joe pressed the receiver tightly to his ear. "Speak up, man!"
"Joe, I've got trouble here. Someone is breaking into my store. Get over here fast!" The urgency in Hank's voice was unmistakable. "Don't worry, Hank. We'll get there as soon as we can. Any idea how many guys?"
"I can't tell. I just heard breaking glass and a lot of shuffling. Hurry!"
"Hang in there! We're coming."
Frustration welled up inside as Joe slammed the telephone down so hard the table shook. His partner came in from the other room. Leaning on the door jam, coffee in hand, Pete looked at him with his bushy eyebrow raised questioningly. "Pete, we've got a problem. Hank needs us out at his store. A break and enter in progress. Where can we borrow a car?"
Pete now understood completely Joe's frustration. "Ach! This is no way to run a police department! How can they think we can go two weeks without wheels? They could have at least given us a loaner car!"
"Pete! There is no time for that now, man. Try to find a car. I need to get that old pistol put back together. I have a hunch we'll need it before the night is over!"
A few minutes later, Pete was back. Hearing the car drive up, Joe ran outside. A neon-pink Beetle with a bright yellow sunflower emblazoned on the hood seemed to prance before him like some strange creature heading to a rainbow ball. Joe cringed and rolled his eyes heavenward. "Come on!" Pete called. "It's the best I could do!"
Fifteen minutes later, with the Beetle trying valiantly to find camouflage in a nearby flowering bush, Joe and Pete crept around as close as they could to the jewelry shop. The front door stood wide open and broken glass sparkled on the front step. Giving Pete the nod, Joe peeked around the corner swinging his ancient pistol ahead of him and yelled, "Police!"
Joe could not immediately take in what greeted his eyes.
"Oh. Hi, Joe." Hank was standing behind his counter as if everything was completely normal. In a chair pulled up close to the counter, sat Grandpa Wilson, a teacup in hand. He looked a little annoyed at the interruption.
Hank came around the counter and placed his hand affectionately on the old man's floral printed shoulder. "There's been a little misunderstanding. I was out back in my office when Grandpa Dub came in. He tripped on the step and his cane broke the window. Everything's all fine now though. Sorry to alarm you fellas!"
Joe and Pete looked at each other and shook their heads, as though trying to decide whether to laugh or cry. Pete's quivering eyebrows and mustache gave every indication that a good old belly laugh was about to win the day.
"By the way, there is one thing you could do, since you're here." Hank said. "Could you please give Grandpa Dub a ride home?"
The guffaw echoed through the county. "Come on Grandpa. We would be glad to give you a ride. You don't happen to have a pair of sunglasses with you, do you?"
As strange as it may seem, there are places in the world where the police are so under-equipped that they really do ask you to come and get them if you have a problem requiring their attention. Weapons are often so old as to be completely unreliable, and communication is next to impossible once the police officer is on the road without radio equipment. Further complications arise when underpaid officers have the power to demand bribes in exchange for services. Honest, hardworking officers with the necessary tools and training to do the job are a truly a blessing from the Lord. Thank God for our police force!
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Irish TV star Dermot O'Leary is set to join Simon Cowell in Los Angeles to launch "X Factor" on the Fox network in the U.S.
O'Leary shot to fame as the presenter of "Big Brother's Little Brother" and the "X Factor" in Britain.
The X Factor has become a world famous show with syndication in Australia, China, Russia, the Netherlands to name but a few.
Now Fox network will take on the show which made mega stars out of people like Leona Lewis.
Simon Cowell has already signed on to bring the show to US screens by 2011 and it seems that O'Leary will fit in well in LA.
"They really seemed to like him. He doesn't have a strong accent, which helps. Signs are good but the final decision rests with Simon Cowell," said a friend.
O'Leary has been working in front of the camera since 2001 and he says he's ready to move to a new challenge.
"I've been out here looking at work options and having a few meetings. Nothing's come up yet that would mean moving out here. But I'd love to work Stateside."
Other rumors surrounding this big money deal include a position for Irish music mogul Louis Walsh on the US X Factor judging panel. However, some have said that too many foreign celebrities might "be a turn-off" to US viewers.


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Unbinding the Gospel -- Informational Video
Mainline Protestant Churches struggle with evangelism. It's not that they don't have people with strong faith. It's not that they don't have a story to tell. The reasons for this reluctance are complex. Some are theological -- most of us don't believe that God consigns people to hell if they don't believe in Jesus. Some are concerned about imposing their beliefs on others. Still others equate evangelism with TV evangelists, sidewalk preachers, or those groups that knock on doors. You know, the people many find annoying. So, it's better to keep one's faith to one's self!
My congregation has tried to come to grips with this by exploring together a series of books written by Martha Grace Reese. Martha Grace is a Disciples pastor and a researcher who has provided an excellent set of resources. These are not a self-contained program that by themselves will change your church over night. It is simply a process that gets congregations doing two things -- praying and sharing their faith stories.
There are four books in the series, all published by Chalice Press: Unbinding the Gospel, Unbinding Your Heart, Unbinding Your Church, and most recently Unbinding Your Soul.
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With friendly staff and easy charm, Spice Garden restaurant is the latest addition to Phnom Penh's sizeable subcontinent dining scene
It's not often one is able to get a private meal at a brand new restaurant on the off chance. But just by walking through the front door, I sat down to lunch at Spice Garden, a new addition to Phnom Penh's Indian dining scene, before it had officially opened.
The small but charming eatery opened its doors to the public last Monday and first impressions went down well. The menu boasts a broad range of treats from northern India, with more than 30 signature dishes, and a large vegetarian section you would expect from any subcontinent establishment worth its salt.
The section "From the Tandoor" was unavailable at the time of our visit – as were many other dishes, due to a barely set-up kitchen – but it looked promising, as did the Chinese-Indian fusion section. The vegetable pakoras and onion bhaji were fresh, crispy and well spiced, and came with a ketchup accompaniment which raised a few eyebrows around the table.
The meat in the chicken tikka masala was tender and swam in a rich sauce, and the only fault in the aloo matar (potato and peas curry) was the slightly undercooked potatoes.
But the dal makhani was a clear favourite, surprising for such a simple dish. It was a moreish balance of a creamy base and an array of fresh spices, complemented by the earthy taste of lentils. All this served on a bed of fluffy basmati rice and mopped up with smoky, chewy chapatti resulted in several happy, satisfied stomachs.
The generous portion sizes and reasonable prices make Spice Garden a go-to for group dining. Five of us ate our fill of starters, curries, rice, bread and soft drinks for only $34 with a decent amount left over, which the staff happily packed into takeaway containers for us.
This place was still ironing out the kinks when we visited. The main one was the waiters' grasp of the menu – my lemon iced tea somehow turned into a hot Lipton with lime slices in it. A friend's salted lassi was awfully sweet, and rather tasteless.
Errors aside, the staff were charming and eager to help. While the décor at Spice Garden may border on garish – be sure to visit the bathroom to check out its golden-tiled floor – the restaurant holds a certain charm that can only be improved upon as management find their feet.
My recommendation is to grab a spot at the large low table with ornately cushioned bench seats in the front window. The location on Sihanouk Boulevard makes it a great spot to relax, watching traffic crawl around Independence Monument, mango lassi in hand.


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In the previous post, we discussed ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed. We had just taken a photo with a fast shutter speed and everything was perfect!
Well not so fast. Remember when I mentioned that the key to a perfect photo was getting the correct Exposure Level or the correct amount of light into the camera Sensor? Well just because you set the Shutter Speed to 1/150 sec, doesn't mean you allowed enough light into the camera Sensor. It is actually possible that the photo may be to dark, especially if the photo was taken late in the afternoon, when the sun wasn't at it's brightest. So the real question is, "How do I allow enough light into the lens to the Camera Sensor to make that perfectly sharp photo?".
You have to ensure that when you set the Shutter speed to 1/150 of a seconds that the aperture is open (big) enough (small number) to allow enough light into the camera sensor can take the picture with out it being to dark. Now it is possible that you set the shutter to 1/150 and the Aperture to 2.8 and the photo is still to dark. So the next step could be setting the ISO from 100 to 200 or even 400, to allow enough light into the camera sensor to talk that perfect photo. Now Remember, I mentioned that little thing called "Depth of Field". If you make your depth of Field to shallow because of a setting of 2.8, then only a very small section of the photo may be in focused.
Lets imagine that you are on a Football field at the Goal Line and we setup a three football players on the field. The 1st at the 10 yard line, the 2nd at the 20 yard line and the 3rd at the 30 yd line. If we focused at the 2nd player, and our camera settings were at ISO 100, Aperture 2.8, and Speed was at 1/150 sec, then the 2nd player will be in focused and the 1st and 3rd players will be out of focused. This is because I have a very shallow depth of field. Now if I set the ISO to 800 and Aperture to 11 and Speed stays at 1/150 sec, and I focused at the 15 yard line, I would probably have the 1st and 2nd players in focus and the 3rd player out of focus. The reason that both the 1st and 2nd player are in focus, is because I split the difference between them and because my depth of field was deeper, I was able to bring both of them into focused. If I wanted to bring all three players into focus, I would probably need to increase my Aperture to 22. Unfortunately, if I leave my ISO to 800 and Shutter to 1/150 sec, everyone might be in focus, but it will probably be dark. so i'm going to have to increase my ISO to 1600 and have noise in my photo or I'm going to have to lower my shutter speed. This now can possibly cause motion to occur in my photo. The other thing I can possibly do, is increase the amount of light by using a Flash to ensure that I let all three players have enough light to still make a sharp photo.
Now I used the football player example on purpose for a couple of reasons. One there was a football field and I had some known distances, but also because you probably know that football players are never still. They are in motion either running with the football or running to tackle the person with the football. To capture motion, we are going to have to increase the speed of the shutter to probably 1/250, 1/500, or even 1/1000 of a second. this will make the photo even darker unless we use one of the techniques to adjust Aperture or ISO, or add additional light. It is important to make sure you have enough light coming into your camera to take a photo no matter what the subject matter is. In a later section I'll talk about buying faster glass (lens) or better camera bodies to help improve these things.
The first techniques you have to master is to determine if enough light is coming into the camera to capture that perfect shot. The picture to the right is the Exposure Level you will see in in your view finder on the camera as you look through it. There is a scale that has a minus (-) sign on the left and a positive (+) sign on the right with a 0 in the middle. By changing the Shutter Speed and and Aperture, you want the little lines on the bottom to move toward the center spot or near the 0. When you get the Exposure Level set to '0' the photo will be set correctly to take the photo. Now, once you see these settings, you are going to have to make some decisions.


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Welcome to our website! Here you will find out all about:
- -the plants we grow and sell
- our garden that's open to the public
- our design and advice service
- the courses we are running
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Read more on our latest article about plastic rattan garden furniture here.
We are a family affair run by Joy, Maurice and Paul Parkinson. We have a lot of pride in what we do and hope that shows. Take a look at our gallery here.
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They are both highly rated and very professional, with a range of products that are categorised as weatherproof, meaning that you don't have to cover it up or store it inside during bad weather (such as the recent snow!). Easily the best UK garden furniture retailer around, rated 5/5.
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There have been many influences on our 'Philosophy' from Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst to Christoper Lloyd's Great Dixter. However the largest influence by far was by Irish born William Robinson, author of 'The Wild Garden' and thought by many to be the father figure of the Cottage Garden Style.
We like to think that that what he called "A garden designed to fit the place," has been executed here to perfection – please come and find out for yourself!
But there is much more than just our Garden. We also sell plants. A retail plant nursery run by Joy is open to the public and has been designed in sympathy with the garden. We stock a wealth of cottage garden type plants all of which have been trialled in our own garden. We only sell what we have grown ourselves!
A garden design & advice service is run by Maurice Parkinson who is one of the province's leading horticulturalists and the former Director of Parks with Belfast City Council. Paul assists his father in this part of the business.
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The Eggman
Egg separator
The Egg Man is a new and exciting way to take the yolk of an egg away from its white.
Let's face it - this has always been a problem. Anything you try to use - the shell itself, a slotted egg separator or even a grid usually takes a little skill and is always messy. If you add children into the mix, then it just gets worse.
We wanted to make a playful character that will add to the joy of cooking. Provide a little fun and frivolity into the art of cooking and with luck provide a hook for children to become more involved with cooking.
Available in either Red or Blue
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- Can suck upto 4 yolks in one go
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The electrical design of standard machines based on magnetically equivalent circuits, know-how and measured values is fast and easy to perform. After a rough first dimensioning, the optimization can be carried out with the calculation of different geometry variants and operation points. Developers of large generators prefer to use their in-house program mostly written in Fortran or programmed with Simulink; these have been tuned with measurements results.
The magnetic field of new electrical machines should be calculated with the Finite-Elements Analysis. For the concept of a long motor, these calculations can be made in 2D. For a more complex and detailed analysis, the calculations should be made in 3D using a commercial software.
Magnetic field of an asynchronous motor
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Losses in electric machines are ohmic losses (winding copper losses), re-magnetization (iron losses) and mechanical losses (ventilation losses and bearing losses); the copper losses are for most designs the largest. The allocation of the electrical losses to the places of production is not a subject of focus during the concept phase; the project members are mostly interested in the values of the total losses and the corresponding efficiency. A good knowledge of the locations of production is however required for temperature calculation.
The copper losses of the stator winding and pole winding can be directly calculated based on the current and the voltage waveforms including skin effect. The magnetic field and iron losses can be analytically calculated based on the Steinmetz equation.
In order to localize the distribution of iron loss densities precisely. It is recommended that 2D calculations of the magnetic field be performed prior to a thermal calculation. If this is not possible then the supplementary losses can be located using formulas from freely-available literature.
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Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Besides Christmas, its my absolute favorite to decorate. And as much as I love Halloween, I love the treats even more. Honestly, this is the real reason I had kids, so they can do the dirty work for me and go door to door to collect treats for Mamma! Haha
The hubs and I really love the videos of people telling their kids that they ate all their candy, cuz Jimmy Kimmel told them too!
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A fitness center just north of Downtown Sacramento is planning to build a new addition that might seem out-of-place. The Sacramento Business Journal's Managing Editor for Digital News — Christopher Arns — says the owners of Sacramento Pipeworks are envisioning a micro-brewery and brew pub.
"They've already submitted development plans to the city," Arns says. "And what it appears that they're going to do is remodel two storage buildings on the same property as Pipeworks, although the gym itself isn't getting any changes. The brew pub would serve primarily pizza along with the beer."
Pipeworks' 11,000 square foot facility includes the typical gym offerings like weights and indoor cycling, as well as climbing walls.