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"Failing that, the latest news item on the Gentoo Linux home page — announcing the October 15 weekly newsletter — could be the project's very last news release." – DistroWatch
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Yes, Gentoo has some issues concerning the Gentoo foundation. Yes, we are actively working on straightening out these issues. No, Gentoo is not dying. Developers are still coding, servers are still humming and moral among developers that I work with is high. This is not a full time job where the miserable guy in the cube next to you keeps chugging on because he has a mortgage and 4 kids. When a developers of this distribution lose faith they leave. This leaves more happy and highly motivated people in Gentoo then you probably see at your day job.
The state of the foundation is not something that will stop the kernel team from releasing kernels, the KDE team from working their butts off so KDE 4 compiles on everyone's machine, or the release team from creating and testing the forthcoming release. The same people are hard at work doing the same job they were doing two weeks ago.
Users: don't think for an instance that the developer base disregards your feelings concerning the distribution. I spend a great amount of time in bugzilla for our users benefit. I enjoy it, and I plan on to keep doing it. Try to remember why you chose to use Gentoo in the first place. Did anyone actually pick Gentoo because of the foundation set up after Daniel Robbins left? I kinda doubt it.
We've have identified the issue and now some dedicated members are working to a solution that will probably not satisfy everyone, but will be a well thought out solution for the continued health of the project. Mark my words, we have some really smart folks and Gentoo will come out of this stronger then ever.


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Fab turned 1 today with a bang.
The young startup has 5 million users and it acquired is 3rd startup, two-month-old Llustre.
It also boasted 1.8 million items sold to date, ranging in cost from $1 to $20,000.
Of those 1.8 million items, one in particular has produced stand-out sales.
Fab's cofounder Bradford Shellhammer revealed his site's best-selling item to date at Le Web London:
A vibrator.
We're not sure why. The high vibrator sales could be part of Fab's former self shining through? Before it pivoted to a flash sale site for design, Fab was a Groupon-like startup with deals for the gay community.
Crunchfund's Michael Arrington tweeted the news:
Best selling item ever on Fab? Vibrators, cofounder @youngbradford tells me on stage at Le Web London.— Michael Arrington (@arrington) June 19, 2012

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Three-time All-American and three-time CCAA champion in the javelin ... Ranks No. 2 (229'3") in program history in the javelin behind older brother Nick Howe (231'3").
USTFCCCA All-America Second Team (javelin) ... USTFCCCA All-Region (javelin) ... CCAA champion (javelin) ... Team captain ... Grabbed an automatic qualifying mark with a throw of 222'2" in the javelin at the San Diego Collegiate Challenge (3/14) ... Won five individual javelin competitions during the season with first place finishes at the All-UC Championships (210'4"), San Diego Collegiate Challenge (222'2"), California Collegiate Invitational (210'8"), Bryan Clay Invitational (220') and CCAA Championships (208').
All-American ... USTFCCCA All-Region (javelin) ... All-CCAA ... Team captain ... San Diego Hall of Champions Star of the Month for May ... CCAA Athlete of the Week (3/17) ... UCSDtritons.com Athlete of the Week (5/26) ... Placed sixth in the javelin (211'0") at the NCAA Championships (5/24) ... Defended his conference title in the event at home (5/3) with a mark of 225'4" ... Won the javelin event in his first two meets of the season, each with automatic NCAA qualifying marks, at home in All-Cal Championships (3/8) and San Diego Collegiate Challenge (3/15) ... In latter meet, broke his own meet record with a personal-record toss of 229'3", which at the time, was the longest javelin throw at any level of collegiate track and field for 2014.
All-American ... USTFCCCA All-Region ... San Diego Hall of Champions Star of the Month for May ... Placed seventh in the javelin (214'11") at his first NCAA Championships (5/25) ... CCAA champion (221'4") in the javelin, a personal-best length that also netted him UCSD's lone automatic qualifier for the season (5/4) ... Earned the CCAA Athlete of the Week after shattering the meet record to finish first at the San Diego Collegiate Challenge with a throw of 212'4" (3/9) while moving to second on UCSD's all-time top 10 list for that concentration (Week of 3/4-3/10) ... Two-time UCSDtritons.com Athlete of the Week (5/6 and 5/27).
Competed in the javelin at the CCAA Championships, where he threw a then-personal-best distance of 199'1" to place second ... Tossed the javelin 192'10" at the Cal State L.A. Last Chance Qualifier, placing fifth overall to end his season ... Won the javelin at the Soka Peace Invitational upon throwing a top distance of 192'10" ... Matched his personal-best mark of 5'10" in the high jump at the Rossi Relays, finishing in a tie for eighth place.
A 2011 graduate of Aptos High School ... Took third in the high jump at the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League (SCCAL) Championships after clearing a personal-best height of 5'10" during his senior year (2011) ... Finished fourth in the triple jump at the same meet, leaping a personal-record distance of 40'11.5" ... Named all-league in basketball ... SCCAL champions ... Scholar Athlete ... Averaged 14 points, five rebounds and two blocks per game with the Mariners ... Also played baseball at AHS.
Born June 23, 1993 in Redwood City ... Parents are Ralph and Cynthia Howe ... Father played basketball at UC Riverside and qualified for the Olympic Trials in the javelin in Atlanta ... Has three brothers named Nick, Nolan and Nemo, as well as one older sister named Sunny ... Nick was a two-time national champion, three-time All-American and four-time conference champion in the javelin at UCSD ... Interdisciplinary computing and the arts (ICAM) major at Marshall College ... Thinking about going into athletic training after graduation ... Considers standing on the podium next to his brother Nick at the 2012 CCAA Championships as his most memorable track and field moment ... Favorite UCSD moment was competing at his first NCAA Championships in Pueblo, Colo., in 2013 ... Enjoys composing and producing music ... Roots for the Golden State Warriors ... Norwegian javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen is his favorite athlete ... Top movie is Napoleon Dynamite ... Loves Greek yogurt.
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Rudyard Kipling was fascinated by all things military in his beloved England. While this imperialist was known for his admiration for Her Majesty's land forces, he paid less attention to naval affairs—until his brief stint on board a third-class light cruiser.
Daily issues of The Pittsburg [Pennsylvania] Dispatch had proved profitable reading for those interested in U.S. Navy topics during 1898, so the boldface title for 13 November was not surprising: "FROM ENGINE ROOM TO FIGHTING TOP." But a subtitle quickly indicated it was a false lead: "Rudyard Kipling Graphically Describes Life on Board Great Britain's Crack Cruisers." Of course I knew Kipling (1865-1936) as a fine storyteller and robust poet, but mainly about the British imperial army and its glory days in India. What could this English imperialist possibly have to say about naval matters of interest to a U.S. Navy veteran?
In this issue of the Dispatch, Kipling began:
Some twenty of Her Majesty's men-of-war were involved in this matter; say a dozen battleships of the most recent, and seventeen or eighteen cruisers; but my concern was limited to one of a new type commanded by an old friend. I had some dim knowledge of the interior of a warship but none of the new world into which I stepped from a Portsmouth wherry [lighter] one wonderful summer evening in '97.An instant hostage, I went aboard this unnamed 20-knot, third-class light cruiser (likely of the Pelorus class) with my unique guide. Where else in the vast literature of the sea was there an instructor who would become a Nobel laureate in literature (1907)? It was to be a superb postgraduate education in naval history offering masterful lessons in the marvels of Shakespeare's mother tongue.1
"We were strung out in a six-mile line, 30 ships all heading westward. As soon as we found room the flagships began to signal, and there followed a most fascinating game of general post." The results impressed this old India hand:
The admiral wreathed himself with flags, strings of them; the signalman on our high, little, narrow bridge, telescope jammed to his eye, read out the letters of that order; the quartermaster spun the infantine wheel; the officer of the bridge rumbled requests down the speaking tube to the engine room, and away we fled, to take up station at such and such a distance from our neighbors, ahead and astern, at such and such an angle on the admiral, his bow or beam. The end of it was a miracle to lay eyes. The long line became four parallel lines of strength and beauty, a mile and a quarter from flank to flank, and thus we abode till evening.It all seemed so beautiful and so effortless to Kipling from the cruiser's bridge. He soon would understand the many hazards to achieving such impressive results—especially for the critically important, and often maligned, signalmen.
"One thing more than all the rest impresses the passenger on a Queen's ship," Kipling noted. "She is seldom for a single hour at the same speed. The liner, clear of her dock, strikes her pace and holds it to her journey's end; but the man-of-war must always have two or three knots up her sleeve in case the Admiral demands a spurt; she must also be ready to drop three or four knots at the wave of a flag, and on occasion she must lie still and meditate."
At night he beheld another spectacle, with the fleet spread out and blazing "like a lot of chemists' shops [pharmacies] adrift," with the six lights on each ship "astonishing the tramps." Then Kipling came off the bridge and wandered about among the crew, mixing with seamen, artificers, cooks, ship's boys, signalmen, marines (there were 20 and a sergeant), "and the general democracy." He found their speech soft, their gestures few, their steps noiseless ("coming and going about their business like shadows").2
When daylight returned, "both fleets were exercised at steam tactics, which is a noble game," but Kipling found life aboard his cruiser, "unfolding hour by hour," to be more interesting. "The battleships danced stately quadrilles by themselves in another part of the deep. We of the light horse did barn dances about the windy floors, and precisely as partners in the ballroom fling a word over their shoulders so we and our friends, whirling past to take up fresh stations, snapped out an unofficial sentence or two by means of our bridge-semaphores." He reasonably concluded, "Cruisers are wondrous human."
Off Land's End, the fleet was split in two and went in search of places with beautiful Gaelic names, half to go "outside Ireland . . . to Blacksod Bay," while Kipling's half transited the Irish Channel to Lough Swilly, there to "coal and wait for simulated war." The Lough Swilly ships were "to catch the Blacksod fleet . . . before it could return to the shelter of the bay."
Irritated that these ships had to be powered by such dirty stuff as coal, Kipling noted that when they reached Lough Swilly, it was "in full possession of a sou'west gale and an assortment of dingy colliers lying where they could most annoy the anchoring fleet." One of these "dingy colliers" approached Kipling's cruiser and the inevitable dirty work began in earnest: "A collier came alongside with donkey engines [small auxiliary engines] that would not lift more than half their proper load; she had no bags, no shovels and her crazy derrick boom could not be topped up enough to let the load clear over the bulwarks." So this abused light cruiser supplied her own "bags and shovels, rearranged the boom, put two of our own men on the rickety donkey engines, and fell to work in that howling wind and wet."
"As a preparation for war next day it seemed a little hard on the crew, who worked like sailors—there is no stronger term," Kipling opined. "From time to time a red-eyed, black demon with flashing teeth shot into the wardroom for a bite and a drink, cried out the number of tons aboard, added a few pious words on the collier's appliances and our bunkers . . . and tore back to where the donkey engines had wheezed, the bags crashed, the shovels rasped and scraped, the boom whined and creaked, and the First Lieutenant [seemed] carved in pure jet. . . ."
With the coaling mess cleaned up, "the First Lieutenant's face relaxed a little, and someone called for the instruments of music. Out came two violins, a mandolin and bagpipes—and the wardroom disported itself among tunes of three nations, till war should be declared." Unfortunately, their recreation was brief: "In the middle of a scientific experiment as to how the ship's kitten might be affected by bagpipes—that hour struck, and, even more swiftly than pussy fled under the sofa, the trim mess-jackets melted away, the chaff ceased, the hull shivered to the power of the steam capstan, the slapping of the water on our sides grew clearer and we glided through the moored fleet to the mouth of Lough Swilly." Unfortunately theirs was to be a failed scouting mission through the "vile" weather of a "cold and lumpy" North Atlantic.
"All that penitential day the little cruiser was disgustingly lively; but all we took aboard was spray, whereas the low-bowed battleships slugged their bluff noses into the surge and rose dripping like half-tide rocks." Even though their admiral "might have maneuvered like half a dozen Nelsons all that penitential day," a prostrate Kipling cared little for such maritime displays as he "lay immediately above the twin screws and thought of the quartermaster on the reeling bridge, who was not allowed to lie down." Yet this master reporter did not allow even the horrors of seasickness to blunt his skills.3 Through a cabin door he "could see the decks dim with spray, hear the bugles calling to quarters, and catch glimpses of the uninterrupted life of the ship—a dripping face under a sou-wester; a pair of sea-legs cloaked with oilskins; a hurrying signalman with a rolling and an anxious eye—a warrant officer concerned for the proper housing of his quick-firers as they disappeared in squirts of spray; or a Lieutenant serenely reporting men and things 'present' or 'correct.'" Far more painful to his section of the fleet than the vile weather was their having missed the "enemy," because, as the "foc'sle experts" assured Kipling, an "unhappy signalman . . . [had] misplaced a flag of a signal." Not even improved weather could counter the nautical thunder "when the Admiral announced that he was not at all pleased with the signaling throughout the fleet," which "was no more than everyone expected."
This imminent search for a scapegoat signalman roused Kipling's sympathy:
Now, the Admiral had some 50 or 60 signalmen, and a bridge as broad as a houseboat and as clear as a ballroom. Our bridge was perhaps four feet broad; the rear of a stoke-hold ventilating fan, placed apparently for that purpose, carefully sucked up two-thirds of every shouted order; and between the bridge and the poop the luckless signalman, for want of an overhead passage, had to run an obstacle race along the crowded decks. We had six signalmen. After watching them for a week I was prepared to swear that each had six arms and eight cinder-proof eyes; but the Admiral thought otherwise.
Together with "three second-class friends," Kipling's third-class cruiser was ordered out to patrol a six-mile area. Kipling's light cruiser "jogged southward behind the Powerful" (which "dwarfed" the second and third-class cruisers "to mean little tramps"), seeking the battleships at Bantry Bay; but they had gone off to target practice, and soon the cruisers "dispersed among the headlands for the same business." "No description will make you realize the almost infernal mobility of a fleet at sea," Kipling maintained. Nevertheless, he tried:
I had seen ours called to all appearance out of the deep; split in twain at a word, and, at a word, sent skimming beyond the horizon; strung out as vultures string out patiently in the hot sky above a dying beast; flung like a lasso; gathered anew as a riata is coiled at the saddle-bow; dealt out cash-fashion over 50 miles of green table; picked up, shuffled and re-dealt as the game changed. I had seen cruisers flown like hawks, ridden like horses at a close finish, and maneuvered like bicycles, but the wonder of their appearance and disappearance never failed.Although modestly declaring that "we were merely a third-class cruiser, capable, perhaps, of slaying destroyers in a heavy sea, but meant for the most part to scout and run away," Kipling carefully listed her diverse armament: "eight four-inch quick-fire guns, the newest type . . . alternating with as many three-pounder Hotchkiss quick-firers," plus three Maxims with their water-jackets to be "filled up from an innocent tin pot before the game began" ("like slacking the thirst of devils"). Then he gave a masterful description of target practice by Her Majesty's cruisers:
We found an eligible rock, the tip of a grayish headland peopled by a few gulls . . . and a specified portion of this we made our target that we might see the effect of the shots and practice the men at firing on a water-line. Up came the beautiful solid brass cordite cartridges, and the four-inch shells that weigh 25 pounds apiece. . . . The filled belts of the Maxims were adjusted, and all these man-slaying deviltries waked to life and peered over the side at the unsuspecting gulls. It was "still" throughout the ship—still as it will be when the Real Thing arrives. From the upper bridge I could hear the click of the Lieutenant's scabbard (why should men who need every freedom in action be hampered by an utterly useless sword?); the faint click of a four-inch breech swung open; the crisper snick of the little Hotchkiss' falling-block, and an impatient sewing-machine noise from a Maxim making sure of its lock-action. On his platform, over my head, the navigating officer was giving the ranges to the rock."The smack of cordite is keener and catches one more about the heart than the slow-burning old powder," Kipling noted when a three-pounder tried a "sighting shot." "There was a shrillish, gasping wail—almost exactly like the preliminary whoop of an hysterical woman—as the little shell hurried to the target, and a puff of dirty smoke on the rock-face sent the gulls flying." The "song" of the four-inch quick-firer was "not a shriek . . . but a most utterly mournful wail" which made the ship shiver "as though someone had pinched her."
"'Two thousand three hundred,' cried the reader of that day's lesson, and we fell seriously to work; high shriek and low wail following in an infernal tune through which, with no regard for decency, the Maxims quacked and jabbered insanely." The toll on the inoffensive rock was serious: it was "splintered and ripped and gashed in every direction, and great pieces of it bounded into the sea."
"And so we went on," Kipling concluded, "till the big guns had fired their quota and the Maxims ran out in one last fiends' flurry, and target practice for the month was over." The visitor, at least, was impressed and satisfied: "Almost every shot would have found its mark in a 150-foot gunboat."
"Then the horror of the thing began to soak into me," he confessed. "What I had seen was a slow peddling-out of Admiralty allowance for the month, and it seemed to me more like squirting death through a hose than any ordinary gun practice." His final observation was a stark question: "What will it be when the real thing is upon us, and we flee for the dear life with news that may mean life or death?" From the crews' "smiling, careless faces" came the answer "with one merry accord: 'Hell! Every kind of hell!'"
By the time his 1897 cruise with Her Imperial Majesty's Channel Fleet ended, Rudyard Kipling had been moved to the depths of his great poetic soul as he realized that what he had experienced in this vast new world was a marvelous heritage that was all his birthright. His exultant words look like o ordinary prose; but they could readily have been transformed into moving poetic form:
And the whole thing was my very own. . . . Mine were the speed and power of the hulls, not here only but the world over; the hearts and brains and lives of the trained men; such strength and such power as we and the world hardly guess at. And holding this power in the hollow of my hand; able at the word to exploit the earth to my own advantage. . . . Thus I stood, astounded at my own moderation, and counted up my possessions with most sinful pride.4When his fortnight aboard this light cruiser was nearing an end, Kipling was graciously bidden good-bye by many, from seamen to officers, but in a strangely apologetic manner. "'Hope you've enjoyed your trip, sir,'" a petty officer said. "'You see (I knew what was coming) we haven't quite shaken down yet. In another three months we shall be something like.'" "The entire wardroom explained carefully that their commodious coffee-grinder must not be taken as a sample of the navy at its best," but their gracious unanimous invitation belied their words: "Come and see us next year when we've shaken down a bit and you'll like it better."
Kipling himself, however, termed it "that blissful fortnight when I was privileged to watch their labors." "Fire and collision drill, general quarters and the like take on new meanings when they are translated for you once by the head who orders them, and again by the tail who carry them out," he explained. "When you have been shown lovingly over a torpedo by an artificer skilled in the working of the tricky bowels, torpedoes have a meaning and a reality for you to the end of your days." And the First Lieutenant provided enlightenment "on his duties as an upper housemaid, and the juniors have guided you through the giddy whirl of gunnery, small-arm drill, getting up an anchor, and taking kinks out of a cable."
Thus Rudyard Kipling's outlook on the world had been critically changed: "So it comes that next time you see, even far off, one of Her Majesty's cruisers, all your heart goes out to her. Men live there."
Dr. Hoyt is an emeritus professor at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, where he has taught history since 1956. He was a Fulbright Scholar to the Philippines and is a U.S. Naval Reserve veteran of World War II.
1. These articles were published by The Pittsburg Dispatch for six consecutive Sundays in 1898: 13, 20, 27 November and 4, 11, 18 December. They have been collated with Kipling's complete works, which were published after his death. Obvious errors by the Dispatch have been corrected and ships' names have been italicized. See volume 20, "The War. A Fleet in Being. Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron. 1897 and 1898," pp. 339-408. The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1941). The distinguished British historian G. M. Young has judged "A Fleet in Being" to be "the masterpiece of his craft as journalist and special correspondent." "Kipling," The Dictionary of National Biography, 1931-1940 (London: Oxford University Press, 1949), pp. 512-16. back to article
2. Even the casual reader will note that, with the British Army in India Kipling was fascinated by the ordinary soldiers (his beloved "Tommies"), whereas in his writing on the Royal Navy none of the ratings or petty officers is developed as real persons. This is explainable at least partly by his being an honored guest aboard ships of high-ranking officers and by the rigid caste and class conditions and strict segregation in the Royal Navy. The enlisted types naturally would have been extremely reluctant to socialize at any level with such a distinguished guest coming down from "officers' country" to observe them. In support of this intuitive reaction of a former U.S. Navy enlisted man, see also Marghanita Laski, From Palm to Pine, Rudyard Kipling Abroad and at Home (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987), p. 149, and Angus Wilson, The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Works (London: Secker & Warburg, 1977), pp. 208-10. back to article
3. Unfortunately, "if the sea was at all rough, he was usually seasick," so he was seasick often. Laski, From Palm to Pine, pp. 115, 142. See also C. E. Carrington, The Life of Rudyard Kipling (New York: Doubleday, 1956), pp. 33, 94. back to article
4. This paragraph unfortunately did not appear in the Dispatch; it was printed in "A Fleet in Being," p. 365. back to article
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1. "By the time..." something happens [ie James retires] must relate to an event that will have already happened or will be in place at the specified time, ie "I will be fifty-nine".
3. "By the time I leave here, I will do..." means that the demonstration will not yet have been done, so the phrase is incorrect. However, if it was expressed as "....I will have done a demonstration in the office", that would be correct.
"When", on the other hand, can mean things what have already happened and things that will happen in the future, so 2. and 4. are both correct.
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After several lean years of cutting budgets to the bone, states hit hard by the deep recession finally have good fiscal news: Many states are now projecting budget surpluses.
But in an election year for three dozen governors, these surpluses are setting up potential political battles over what to do with the extra cash.
The first salvos are coming from governors themselves, in their annual State of the State addresses, as many of them take credit for bringing budgetary warmth to states that suffered through long, bitterly cold economic winters.
"We've stopped the bleeding. We turned the corner, and Illinois is making a comeback," said Democrat Pat Quinn in his State of the State address last month.
Michigan Republican Rick Snyder struck a similar chord in his address, declaring, "Michigan is the comeback state."
"We've come further and faster than most any other state in the economic recovery since the beginning of the Great Recession," said Snyder.
Not to be outdone, on the West Coast Democrat Jerry Brown cheered California in his State of the State: "What a comeback it is!"
Are you catching that theme? These aren't the only governors touting comebacks. Republican Jan Brewer highlights the "Arizona comeback," and Republican John Kasich has been talking up the "Ohio comeback."
This refrain resonates as states swing from deficits to surpluses.
Virtually every state should close out the year with a modest surplus, says Scott Pattison, executive director of the nonpartisan National Association of State Budget Officers.
NASBO projects surpluses ranging from a few tens of millions of dollars in some states to more than $800 million in both Hawaii and Michigan, $2 billion in New York, and more than $3 billion in California. Pattison says 43 states can anticipate increased revenue this fiscal year.
States have cautiously forecast tax revenue, and because the economy and stock market have performed better than expected, those tax revenues are exceeding predictions, he says.
"But it doesn't necessarily mean that states are awash in money," cautions Pattison.
'Give It Back To The People Who Earned It'
Nonetheless, many governors are already looking to use their surpluses in somewhat controversial ways, such as on more programs and on tax cuts.
"What do you do with a surplus?" asked Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who has close to a $1 billion surplus, in his State of the State address. "You give it back to the people who earned it."
Among the governors with similar ideas are Nebraska Republican Dave Heineman, New York Democrat Andrew Cuomo, and Michigan's Snyder.
Other governors are proposing to use surpluses to replenish rainy-day funds, including California's Brown.
Still other governors want to restore funding to programs that were slashed during lean times. But will this fiscal booster shot heal partisan rancor in state capitols? It's unlikely.
This is also an election year for thousands of state lawmakers, and there are some sharp differences over what to do with extra revenue.
In Missouri, Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon wants to increase spending on education by nearly half a billion dollars. But his proposal is meeting stiff resistance from the Republicans who control the Missouri Legislature.
"Our governor mistakenly believes that more, bigger government is the answer," says Republican House Speaker Tim Jones.
In other state capitols, similar partisan battles and even intraparty clashes loom. But before anyone spends surpluses, experts in state budgeting offer a bit of caution:
"Things look better than they are," says NASBO's Pattison. In most states revenues still have not returned to pre-recession levels, he says.
Other experts agree, such as Don Boyd, a senior fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government in New York.
If he picked a song to sum it all up, Boyd says it wouldn't be "Happy Days Are Here Again" — nor a blues song, necessarily.
"It would be more 'Steady as She Goes,' " he says. "If they're lucky."
There's extra cash in the coffers of some state governments these days. After a deep recession and years of cutting budgets to the bone, now there are budget surpluses and that means political battles about what to do with the money. Here's NPR's David Schaper.
DAVID SCHAPER, BYLINE: After a long bitterly cold economic winter, state budgets all across the country are starting to thaw. In their State of the State addresses, governors in both parties are quick to take credit. Here's Illinois Democrat Pat Quinn.
GOVERNOR PAT QUINN: We stopped the bleeding. We turned the corner and Illinois is making a comeback.
SCHAPER: And then there's Michigan Republican Rick Snyder.
GOVERNOR RICK SNYDER: We are reinventing Michigan. Michigan is the comeback state.
SCHAPER: And let's not forget about Democrat Jerry Brown in California.
GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN: And what a comeback it is.
SCHAPER: Are you catching that theme? These aren't the only governors touting comebacks. Republican Jan Brewer highlights the Arizona comeback and Republican John Kasich talks up the Ohio comeback. This comeback theme resonates as states swing from deficit to surplus.
SCOTT PATTERSON: Virtually every state this year should end the year with not only a balanced budget, but at least a modest surplus.
SCHAPER: Scott Patterson heads up the nonpartisan National Association of State Budget Officers. He said the slow economic recovery is picking up steam. That, plus last year's roaring stock market is producing much more tax revenue than the modest uptick that forecasters predicted and that's lead to a $2 billion surplus in New York, a more than $3 billion surplus in California, and big surpluses in Florida, Minnesota, Connecticut, Iowa and other states, including Wisconsin where Republican Governor Scott Walker has close to a billion dollar surplus.
GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER: What do you do with a surplus? You give it back to the people who earned it. It's your money.
SCHAPER: Walker isn't the only governor calling for tax cuts. Other governors want to shore up rainy day funds and still others want to restore funding to programs that were slashed during lean times. But will this fiscal booster shot heal partisan rancor in state capitals? Unlikely. This is an election year for three dozen governors and thousands of state lawmakers and there are some sharp differences over how to spend the extra revenue.
In Missouri, Democratic Governor Jay Nixon wants to significantly boost spending on education.
GOVERNOR JAY NIXON: Let's resolve to give our children and grandchildren more opportunities, better opportunities than we had and build the future they deserve.
SCHAPER: The response from Republican House Speaker Tim Jones?
REPRESENTATIVE TIM JONES: Our governor mistakenly believes that more, bigger government is the answer.
SCHAPER: Similar partisan battles and even intra-party clashes are looming in other state capitals. But before anyone spends their surpluses, experts in state budgeting offer a bit of caution.
PATTERSON: I probably sound like the person throwing cold water on the party, but...
SCHAPER: Again, Scott Patterson of the National Association of State Budget Officers.
PATTERSON: ...it is one of those situations where things look better than they are.
SCHAPER: Patterson says in most states, revenues still have not come back up to pre-recession levels. And other experts agree. Don Boyd of the Rockefeller Institute at the state University of New York gauges states' fiscal health this way.
DON BOYD: Yeah, moderately improving with some pretty big risks ahead and some very unfulfilled promises that need to be funded.
SCHAPER: So if you're picking a song, it would not be "Happy Days Are Here Again?"
BOYD: It would not be "Happy Days Are Here Again." That's right. It wouldn't be singing the blues, necessarily, but it would be more steady as she goes, if they're lucky.
SCHAPER: In this election year, we'll have to see if any governors adopt that as a campaign slogan. David Schaper, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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It finally happened! After mulling it over and considering it for months, I've started a podcast with my good friend Riley!
It's a biweekly podcast about pop culture – video games, tv, movies, books. The plan is to have the first half of the podcast be a discussion of all the media we've been consuming recently, and then have the second half be a more in-depth discussion and analysis of a particular piece of media or media topic.
The first episode is just Riley and I, and it's more about introductions than analysis, but in the future we plan to have guests on to talk with us.
You can find the podcast at https://mediamavens.simplecast.fm/ or on iTunes or Stitcher.
I hope you give it a listen!


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Cruising the Bahamas on my J/34c- Part II
Four parts-
By Pam and Glenn Cooper
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Now, why did we pass him twice? Well, after passing him once we had to throttle back (roll up the jib and luff the main to slow down from 7 to 2 kts) so we could get a mahi mahi (dorado, dolphin fish) on deck that we picked up on the trolling rod! Once the fish was onboard, filleted, and everything cleaned up and put away, we got the jib up, powered up the main, and quickly passed him again.
Your dinghy: When you are down here you depend on two boats. There's your "main" boat and then there's your dinghy. We have a terrific main boat but our dinghy is woefully lacking. Puny. We have a small soft bottomed Zodiac with a 3 hp engine. To operate safely here you need power and speed. The currents rip all through the Bahamas; distances you want to travel in a dinghy can sometimes be miles, and if you want to stay dry you have to be able to plane and ... oh yes, learn to operate your dinghy while standing. You read correctly: standing!
In George Town harbor, for instance, it's not unusual to see 4 people standing in a dinghy while banging into choppy water. When we fist saw people doing this our jaws dropped! Now, in mild conditions, we stand while underway in our dink and steer by shifting our weight. Two old fools with wide brimmed hats standing up in an 8' dinghy ... and writing about boating safety. Do you need a better definition of hypocrite?
For a couple in Bahama waters we think a hard-bottomed inflatable with 9.9 - 15 hp is de rigeur. This assures planing capability for two adults and gear. Next year we'll upgrade our dink for sure. We give up a light weight dink that's easy to manhandle but we get it all back in stability, speed and, ultimately, safety. Our task will be to find a way to manage the larger, heavier craft on "Colette's" decks and cabin. If you like to troll and spear fish a lot of it will be in the "cuts" that run between islands. While you try to do it during slack water you inevitably spend some time out there when the water is "running". A dinghy rig the size of ours barely can make headway in these conditions.
Something else, "real" safety out here requires you to have a hand-held VHF and serious ground tackle on your dinghy anytime you are traveling distances or exposing yourself to high current areas. We cannot stress enough how important it is to have a powerful tender that is well equipped for what it will have to do in the Bahamas. Cruising in the Bahamas means being on your own. Once off the beaten path here there are few boats and no rescue services to immediately access. Be prepared at all times!
Oil burning diesel: We like our Volvo diesel. We also think J-Boats made a wise move in changing to Yanmars. Volvos are rugged pure diesels, but dealing with Volvo, or their current surrogates, for an owner, is like starting each day with a root canal. No thanks. Ours was burning oil when we left last October. By chance we met a mechanic in Beaufort, N.C. who gave us the straight "skinny" on Volvos burning oil. He said at each oil change only use single viscosity oils and "always" put in one bottle of STP. It works. After 2 oil changes under the new regime no more buring oil. Also the oil pressure runs at about 5-10% higher level. Knock on fiberglass, our diesel really hums nicely.
Electrical corrosion: A bigger problem - a year long brain teaser for us - has been electrical corrosion. In Stuart we were determined to solve "what was causing it". The symptoms, we thought, were clear: zincs corroding in 1-2 months and paint not staying on the keel. In Stuart we had a complete continuity check done of the bonding system and found out the toe-rails and lifelines were not bonded ... or were no longer bonded. Moreover we discovered a wire bonding many elements from the stern of "Colette" to the keel was impossible to follow. This wire terminated into the keel but was "potted" in epoxy, was rusty, and may or may not have corroded through beyond our ability to see. In otherwords it was possible, if not probable, that nothing in the stern was grounded onto the keel? We'd never know.
Immediately we completed the bonding then simply cut the "mystery" wire. In its place we ran a new wire from the bonded elements aft onto a keel bolt where it would always be visible. This keel bolt had a smaller bolt tapped into it last summer for the beefed up ground wire from the mast.
In late January, while in Nassau, we noticed our stern light wasn't working. The culprit was a corroded positive lead. And, would you believe it, the corroded part of the wire was resting on a bolt (off the stern pulpit) that was part of the bonding system. Now we felt for sure we' d gotten to the bottom of the corrosion enigma. As things now stand, all zincs (two on the shaft, one on the Max Prop and one low on the keel) continue serving us well, and remember these were put on just before Christmas.
Food: One big argument you used to hear for having a deep keel water waddler for cruising is you can carry enough stores to be self-sufficient. Maybe that was important some time ago but it's no longer valid. No doubt, any boat we have in the future will have a freezer, but cruising these waters is not overly disrupted by making provisioning stops. Even with our current set-up we feel we can extensively cruise in places like the San Blas and Cuba with our storage capacity.
We have a pressure cooker. It saves energy and permits us to cook some "strange" looking cuts of meat. Meat? Most settlements (communities of 35-100 people) in the Bahamas have places where you can buy fresh produce, although the selections are limited. Fresh produce in the Bahamas is reasonably priced, grown without chemicals, and delicious. We love the pink grapefruits, tomatoes, peppers, bananas and onions we get here. Have you ever tried a sappodilla? Fresh meat is another story: it pays to be a good hunter.
Grocery stores here, except for the largest "cities" (Nassau, Marsh Harbor, Spanish Wells, George Town) have nothing like the food variety we are used to. You want to have anything special you better bring it with you. Also, anything that is imported will cost twice as much as it costs in Florida. The Bahamians are wonderfully kind hosts and they really like having you visit their settlements. We always make it a point of buying something when we go into stores in these small communities.
Cosmetic condition of "Colette": The boat looks good. The "New Glass" co-polymer we put on continues to have some shine (I don't know if it beads water), the Cetol is like new except where we're stepping all over it on the swim ladder treads, and the ACP-50 bottom paint is holding up except for some slime areas. All too often we hear conversations between boaters about external maintenance. The biggest complaint is stainless ... stainless? ... and external teak. We like the J-Boats/TPI approach: use highest quality materials and keep teak where it belongs ... below. No question, however, this area is more corrosive then what we've been used to, and it's compounded by the lack of opportunities to wash-down.
We have had less then 1/2 " of rain since we crossed the Gulf Stream. We only had a chance to wash our boat twice since mid-January, and then only in cursory fashion, with brackish water! I don't even know if I can find our hose. If you cruise here you want a good quality boat that minimizes external maintenance. It's money in the bank.
Keel depth: We have heard lots about keel depth for the Bahamas and also for the ICW. My own opinion is "no more then 6' ... Pam may argue, "less." Once on the ICW we kept seeing 1' to 1/2' under or keel. Certain muscles getting tight!! When will we ease onto deeper water? Suddenly, from behind comes this much bigger boat and he's trucking. He goes by and we immediately fall in line. It is a J-130! He draws over 7'. What kind of engines does J-Boats put into those things? The guy at the helm was grinning and we were bowing in joy and respect as we tried to keep up.
Our furthest point South: The Tropic of Cancer.
Here in the Bahamas there are lots of shoal water but unlike New England you can see the bottom and the water color reveals the actual depth (takes practice, though). There are few places that require less then 6' to get into ... at high tide. High tide is the catch. With a 5 to 6 foot keel you have to be very vigilant about tides.
Over a week ago we were traveling up Exuma Sound with plans to enter the Banks through Little Farmers Cut (Central Exumas) at about low slack water. Then our plan was to take the shallow route north which would save us about 2 nm. We grounded out! As it was dead low tide, noontime, and we were standing on firm sand we decided to drop the anchor and have lunch. An hour later we were able to move. We draw about 5' or a little more. We could have taken the longer route with no delay ... but in any case our depth, or a 6' depth, would not have kept us out of Little Farmers Cut. It's much the same all over here.
It is now April 8th and we are back at Highborne Cay where we started our Exuma part of the cruise. We plan to leave here later in the day to an anchorage in the lee of Ship Channel Cay (only a 3-4 mile motor from here) where we'll leave for Royal Island. The harbor at Royal will place us half way from where we are and the southern Abacos. From where we are the Abacos are 100 miles directly north. It's time to shut the computer down and prepare the boat for "sea duty".
We plan on sending another article to the J-Boats web site soon after we reach American waters once again. At that time we'll talk about cruising in the Abacos and returning to the States, what has worked and what has not worked on the boat, and what additional modifications we plan on making to "Colette" prior to leaving again in early September.
Many thanks to all of you who correspond with us. Your comments and thoughts are deeply appreciated, and hearing from you has added to our wonderful adventure. Since most of the correspondence has come from people who are contemplating having a J-Boat as their next boat, I'm sure "J" and TPI have much to be pleased about as well. Dreams do come true.


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The Arab League has set up a support plan for the Palestinians in the economic, political and media sectors, League Secretary General Esmat Abdel Meguid said Sunday. Meguid and the seven Arab foreign ministers — from Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Bahrain, Jordan, Tunisia and the Palestinian territories — are in Damascus for the second meeting of the Cairo summit follow-up committee. This committee was created after the October 21-22 Arab summit in the Egyptian capital convened to support the Palestinian uprising against Israel, or intifada.
The head of the political section of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Faruq Kaddumi, Palestinian cooperation minister Nabil Shaath, as well as the Saudi vice minister of foreign affairs Nizar Madani and his Moroccan counterpart Taieb Fassi, will also attend the meeting. The meeting is due to start Sunday night and is scheduled to close on Monday. Meguid said the committee will next meet in Tunisia in January. The first meeting took place during the Organization of the Islamic Conference summit in Doha last month.
After the Cairo summit, Arab countries had threatened to freeze their relations with Israel. Tunisia, Morocco, Qatar and Oman broke their ties with the Jewish state and Egypt called back its ambassador in Tel Aviv. On Sunday, the Syrian daily Ath-Thawra published an editorial saying it was time the Cairo summit follow-up committee issued "firm recommendations against Israel."
"Never has the Arab nation needed to be more united than today," the editorial said
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) said Sunday it only received $31.5 million for the Palestinians out of the one billion decided at the Arab summit in Cairo. "The IDB has only received $30 million representing part of Saudi Arabia's contribution to the al-Qods (Jerusalem) fund and Egypt's $1.5 million donation to the intifada fund", IDB President Ahmed Mohammed Ali said. The IDB is the fund-collecting body of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
During the October 21-22 Cairo summit, Arab countries had decided to create two funds totaling one billion dollars: an $800 million fund for Jerusalem and $200 million to help the families of the victims of the intifada, or uprising, and pay for their children's education.
One of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's advisors, Nabil Abu Rudeina, denounced Tuesday the tardiness of this aid. "All the Palestinian people, who daily sacrifice their blood, have seen so far are promises of Arab financial aid", he said. The only sum actually paid from the IDB to the Palestinians comes from a Saudi donation, he said.
With a $250 million pledge, Saudi Arabia is the biggest contributor in a total commitment of $653 million from Arab countries. — (AFP, Damascus, Riyadh)
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text: How will you choose your Queen mother? I am curious about this, as I also do not treat (well, I have been known to do a powdered sugar dump). I had intended to use my mite drop count as one of my indicators of a good queen mother (or genes that I wanted to pass along). What indicators do you plan to use?


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Optical Transceiver, Transmitter, Receiver, and Transponder Components: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019
01 Aug, 2013, 17:07 BST
DUBLIN, August 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/s7snhx/optical) have announced the addition of a new report, "Optical Transceiver, Transmitter, Receiver, and Transponder Components: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013 to 2019", to their offering.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130307/600769 )
Worldwide optical transceiver markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the data in networks expands exponentially. As cloud systems proliferate and wireless data takes hold the efficiencies brought by high speed end-to-end optical networks are needed by carriers and in the data center.
According to Susan Eustis, lead author of the study, Optical transceivers are used to update the communications networks to manage broadband, to update the data center networks to make them manage traffic with higher speeds, to implement the backbone network for mobile communications. Everything is going mobile. This evolution is driven by mobile smart phones and tablets that provide universal connectivity. With 6 million cell phones in use and one million smart phones, soon to be 6 million smart phones, a lot of people have access to mobile communication. Video, cloud-based services, the internet, and machine-to-machine (M2M) provide mobile connectivity. All these devices are networked and drive significant traffic to the broadband network, stimulating the need for optical transceivers.
The Optical Transport Network (OTN) is a set of optical network elements connected by optical fiber links. Optical network elements provide transport, multiplexing, switching, management, supervision and survivability of communication channels. Carrier Ethernet is emerging. Optical transceiver, transmitter, receiver, and transponders support the implementation of the new network capacity.
Optical transceivers are evolving that are compliant with the 10Gbps Small Form Factor Pluggable (XFP) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) specification for next generation optical transceiver devices. The 10Gbps optical transceiver can be used in telecom and datacom (SONET/SDH/DWDM/Gigabit Ethernet) applications to change an electrical signal into an optical signal and vice versa.
The 10Gbps optical transceiver is generally compliant with XENPAK Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) specification for next generation optical transceivers. A typical 1550nm chirp managed directly modulated laser is in a butterfly package and is used for 10G/200km. A solution for upgrading metro networks to 10Gbps is enabled by the transceivers. New components are more tolerant of dispersion. They provide a smaller footprint, lower power consumption, and cost savings for equipment vendors.
Optical transceiver market driving forces relate to the increased traffic coming from the Internet. The optical transceiver signal market is intensely competitive. There is increasing demand optical transceivers as communications markets grow in response to more use of smart phones and more Internet transmission of data. The market for network infrastructure equipment and for communications semiconductors offers attractive long-term growth.
There is expected to be tremendous investment in wireless cell tower base stations as the quantity of network traffic grows exponentially. Carriers worldwide are responding to the challenges brought by the massive increase in wireless data traffic. The advent of big data and exponential growth of data managed by the enterprise data centers is a significant market factor.
The global optical transceiver market will grow to $6.7 billion by 2019 driven by the availability of 100 Gbps devices and the vast increases in Internet data traffic.
Internet traffic growth comes from a variety of sources, not the least of which 1.6 billion new smart phones sold per year. Smartphone market growth is causing the need for investment in backhaul and cell tower technology.
Worldwide optical transport market revenues are forecast to grow through 2019. This is in the context of a world communications infrastructure that is changing. Technology is enabling interaction, innovation, and sharing of knowledge in new ways.
Companies Mentioned
- Finisar
- Avago Technologies
- Furukawa Electric
- JDS Uniphase
- Oclaro / Opnext
- Oplink
- Source Photonics
- Sumitomo
- Advanced Photonix
- Accelink
- Agilent Technologies
- Analog Devices
- Broadcom
- Emcore
- Foxconn
- GigOptix
- Huawei
- Ikanos
- Luxtera
- Menara Networks
- NeoPhotonix
- Reflex Photonics
- Rohm Semiconductor
- Santec
- Transmode
- Triquint
- Vitesse
- Zhone Technologies
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/s7snhx/optical
Research and Markets
Laura Wood, Senior Manager.
U.S. Fax: +1-646-607-1907
Fax (outside U.S.): +353-1-481-1716
Sector: Advanced Technology
SOURCE Research and Markets


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by Jennifer Katz
The 26th Annual Philadelphia International Art Expo was held in the 7100-7200 blocks of Germantown Avenue over the weekend, drawing dozens of vendors and thousands of visitors, but the 72-hour closure of the Avenue drew the ire of the local business community.
"For someone to come in and close our street without talking to us is ridiculous," said P.J. McMenamin, owner of McMenamin's Tavern.
The event, organized by October Gallery, an African American art gallery at 6353 Greene St. and tenants of the former North by Northwest, was advertised far and wide. The logistical deatails however details were not clear until a week before the event.
Business owners said the gallery's owner Mercer Redcross approached them several months ago about holding the expo at 7165 Germantown Avenue and the Sedgwick Theater at 7137 Germantown Ave., but after the success of the Night Market in August, the plan changed.
FitLife owner Joe Zeleznock said there were "blatant lies" told to obtain the permits necessary for the event.
"In nine years running this business I've never seen anything like this," Zeleznock, said. "We were all told an absolutely different story."
Historically, the art expo had been held at Temple University's Liacouras Center, and crowd estimates were said to be approximately 15,000. Last weekend's event drew far less with crowd estimates closer to several thousand for the three-day event. The rain on Friday could have contributed, but the rest of the weekend was preferable fall weather.
On the Friday before the event was to begin, organizers sent out notice of a meeting to be held the next day.
"It was already planned before anyone knew about it," said Amy Lydon, owner of One Salon at 7119 Germantown Ave. "I'm not unhappy about the expo, I feel uninformed."
Zeleznock said he had arranged for his physical therapy patients to be allowed to drive down the Avenue to the parking lot adjacent to his gym. However, when patients arrived on Friday, they were turned away by private security patrolling the street blockades.
"We had to call and call and have police here to force them to let the patients in," Zeleznock said.
Several business owners expressed their consternation that Redcross was able to obtain a street closure permit for three days without their knowledge.
"He lied that he had community support," McMenamin said.
On Friday, Jaselle Jones, deputy director of special events from the city's Managing Director's Office met with concerned business owners at Earth Bread Brewery.
According to several who attended the meeting, Jones was apologetic, but refused to alter the permit or force organizers to change course. The local community wanted to have the street reopened at night when the expo was not taking place. Jones did not return calls by press time.
"This was one of the last nice weekends of the year," said Elizabeth Moselle, director of commercial corridor revitalization for Mt. Airy USA.
Moselle said she was extremely disconcerted by the planning of the event.
"No one ever sat down and talked with the business community or us (MAUSA)," she said. "We would never, ever, ever have been supportive of shutting down the street for three days. We would have stopped it dead in its tracks."
Moselle said she expects that many businesses in the two-block radius lost thousands of dollars in revenue.
"The needs and desires of one business person took precedence over the entire business community," she said. "And at a time when people are struggling to keep their doors open."


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ELMHURST, Ill. – The Summit League named South Dakota State men's basketball star Nate Wolters its male athlete of the month on Wednesday for the second straight month.
"He obviously had a great month, and it's kind of unusual for an athlete to get it two months in a row like that, particularly when you're looking at all the athletes in the league," head coach Scott Nagy said. "Kudos to The Summit League for giving it to him, because it was probably well-deserved in terms of what he did in January and what he did in February.
Wolters collects his second-straight Athlete of the Month honor and the second of his career after posting 53 points, the highest scoring mark in NCAA Division I this season, and after leading South Dakota State to 30-straight home victories, currently the longest in the nation.
The St. Cloud, Minn., native scored 53 points in the win at Fort Wayne on Feb. 7, marking new league and school single-game records. For his 53-point performance, Wolters was earned four national Player of the Week awards, including the ESPN Player of the Week, the Lute Olson Award National Player of the Week, and the ESPN Capital One Impact Performer of the Week.
On Feb. 9 at Oakland, the senior guard scored 36 points with six rebounds and seven assists, which included a perfect 9-for-9 from the stripe to help SDSU set a school record for free throw percentage going 17-for-17 from the line.
On Feb. 16, Wolters tallied a game-high 18 points with six assists and three rebounds, completing a season sweep of Western Illinois and marking the Jackrabbits' 30th consecutive home victory.
During the month he also posted two double-doubles, the first against CSU Bakersfield with a 32-point, 10-rebound performance, with the second coming in a win at Omaha as he posted 18 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds, to help SDSU clinch the No. 1 seed in The Summit League Tournament.
For the month, the three-time Summit League Player of the Week, averaged 27.6 points, 6.0 assists, 5.1 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game. He shot 58 percent from the field and 77 percent at the line as the Jacks went 5-3. Wolters was also named a finalist for the Lou Henson Award, is a Naismith Player of the Year candidate and a Breitbart Sports College All-American.Tweet


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A popular package showcasing three distinctly different areas of Fiji's islands. Enjoy the great activities on offer or just swim, sunbathe and soak up the relaxing atmosphere!This package suits any budget as Awesome Adventures use the 1, 2 and 3 coconut rating system - 1 being more basic, and 3 being more luxurious. See below for available accommodation.
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This is only available for 1 or 2 coconut level packages.
• Eat, sleep, eat, drink, swim, and sunbathe...
• Fantastic diving and snorkeling spots
• Visit the famous Blue Lagoon region
• See the best of the Mamanuca Islands
· Sawailau Caves Trip
· Blue Lagoon snorkel trip
· Island massage
· Swim with manta rays (seasonal)
· Reef snorkelling
· Fijian cooking lesson
· Seaspray Day Sailing Adventure
· Mai Yasawa souvenir photo book
· Awesome Adventures sulu or cap
Note: some Full Monty activities are available only at certain resorts. Where you stay determines the activities that you can select.
Specific itinerary information is available on the Awesome Adventures Fiji website.
Departs from Denarau Marina 8:30am
Returns Denarau Marina 12:00pm, 3:00pm, 5:45pm (Full Monty, 5:45pm only)
ACCOMMODATION1 Coconut: Nabua Lodge, Long Beach Resort, White Sandy Beach
2 Coconut: Oarsmans Bay Lodge, Otto & Fanny's, Korovou Eco-Tour Resort, South Sea Island (dorm) or Bounty Island Resort (double/twin)
3 Coconut: Nanuya Island Resort, Blue Lagoon Beach Resort, Botaira Beach Resort, Treasure Island Resort, Beachcomber Island Resort
GENERAL NOTESGroup travel:
Awesome Adventures Fiji packages are not organised group trave. Booking a package simply means that you can book your accommodation, transfers and activities in one easy itinerary.
Sundays are a day of rest and church going in the Yasawas. This means that conducted activities are not on offer however; you are free to do activities on your own. In most villages you will be welcome to join the church service and we recommend you do – it's an amazing experience! When travelling on a Full Monty package, your activities will be arranged around this.
Free coach pick-ups:
We are more than happy to pick you up from your accommodation on the day of departure for the transfer to Denarau Marina. All you need to do is advise reservations on where you are staying.
GENERAL NOTESMeals:
Meals are included for most 1 and 2 coconut packages. Where an additional price is shown under 'Meals' these rates are per person, per night and include 3 meals per night stayed. The meal package must be taken, as there is no alternative dining places. The cost should be paid directly to the resort in Fijian dollars on check-in. If you are traveling on a 3 coconut package, your meals are not included and will need to be purchased from the resort.
Where you stay/right to substitute properties:
When you book any multi-island stay package in the 1 and 2 coconut categories, Awesome Adventures Fiji reserves the right to substitute the property for a resort of a similar standard to the original booked. Most the resorts in the Yasawa and Mamanuca Islands are quite small and capacity is limited. Where we specify particular resorts, chances are, you will stay at that resort but on occasions they may be at full capacity on the dates that you want to stay there.


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Barclays PLC plans to cut as many as 2,000 jobs in its investment bank as part of a broad restructuring of the company, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the British bank's plans.
The paper said senior Barclays executives are planning to recommend that the bank cut between 1,000 and 2,000 jobs, likely to be concentrated in Asia and continental Europe.
The job cuts are expected to be announced early next year, the paper said, adding that Barclays executives are aiming to protect the bank's strong U.S. and U.K. franchises.
Goldman Sachs analysts have suggested that Barclays could cut 15 percent of investment bank staff, or 3,500 of its 23,300 employees, as part of a broader strategic review by Chief Executive Antony Jenkins, who took over in August.
Barclays declined to comment on the details of the plan.
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Pharmaguys necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 112 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
We got tired of being gouged by the big Telco's for using our iPhones on their data network we decided to fix it. The concept is to allow users to connect you our hotspots for free. In itself this is not a new concept but we have a key twist- More details to follow.
This network will not be city or region specific. Users and hotspot providers can set it up anywhere in the world.
The <<Freebee>> is abviously a play on words which creates a big branding opportunity.
Our audience is mostly individuals from 15 to 35, but design has to also be acceptable to 40-45. It has to appeal to individuals who have iPhones, iPod Touches, Personal BlackBerries, as well as laptops. These people use those devices via existing telco's data network and are sick of paying too much.
We like hip, crisp simple designs which can be branded. It should not have more than 2-3 colors as it will have to be used not only in a web 2.0 website (contest to come following the logo) but will also appear in our mobile theme (when users access our hotspots via a PDA.
We expect the web site to be simple, with lots of white in the background. Your choice of colors will be a key component to the website design, so make sure it is versatile and that these colors will do the trick.
The branded logo will also be used in a store signage to promote the free wifi service in public spaces.
Obviously the bee or freebee should be portrayed, as well as <<WIFI>>
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Firebird International, co-founded by Russia and C.I.S. media and sales expert, Matthew Goldstein, announced today that its research indicated nearly 30 billion dollars will be invested in Russian technology markets by US and international firms investing and doing business in Russia. Firebird, however, feels that small and medium-sized technology, new media and investment companies are being left out of the action and aims to change this by providing them affordable, hands-on, turnkey corporate solutions.
Somerville, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/31/2013 -- In Russia, start-ups and business incubators are seeing massive expansion, drawing the attention of many international investment firms, including Tiger Global Management, a New York-based international investment management firm, which has mainly invested over 30 million dollars of its capital in Russia-based on-line commerce and travel sites, as well as retaining a stake in the Russian search engine giant, Yandex, which began trading on the Nasdaq in May, 2011. Bessemer Capital Ventures, along with other international partners, last year invested a startling 55 million dollars into on-line an on-line VIP shopping network KupiVip.ru. Likewise, angel investors like Zynga's Mark Pincus and Skype and Facebook's Peter Thiele, along with US Internet icons like Mark Zuckerburg and Sean Parker, have made major investments over the last year. Firebird's mission is to take a broader approach to the investment boom, helping to connect US private investors both with US and European companies seeking capital to expand into the region and as well as Russian and C.I.S. companies based in the region looking to expand both locally and internationally, with a focus on start-up and mid-sized businesses. For these businesses, Firebird is offering its full suite of services dedicated to market entry, including facilitation of the subsidies and tax cuts being offered via the Russian government, so as to allow technology growth and expansion on a global level.
Currently, according to Comscore research, nearly sixty percent of Russians use the Internet. More surprisingly, Russian Internet users spend 100 percent more time on-line than any other nation. The country has long since taken over Germany as Europe's largest Internet market. Likewise, smartphone penetration, according to Comscore, nears one hundred percent. "We see a lot of examples, as was the case in China, of Russian companies implementing successful business models from the West, improving on them, and innovating new and improved technologies from them. They are now ready and willing to expand not only regionally, but have produced new and improved technologies that can and will be competitive in US and European technology markets, so long as they are properly localized. We are helping them do just this and packaging them, for investment, in a way that international investors of all sizes are accustomed to."
Firebird believes that there is still enormous room for regional growth, as well, both for Russian and C.I.S. technology companies and foreign companies entering the region, so long as they know how to operate efficiently and take advantage of, instead of being stunted by, the country's complicated bureaucratic processes. With an annual GDP-per-capita growth of around 13 percent from1999 through 2010 Russian consumers have money to spend.
Firebird points to many additional advantages to doing business in Russia and the C.I.S., among them the region's reputation as being a leader in the science and technology industries, which explains the very appealing businesses that have been and are being developed locally. According to the company, this is an added-value value incentive for international companies seeking to grow in Russia and the C.I.S., where they can find qualified staff that can easily comprehend and even improve upon their existing technologies. In addition, labor costs are extremely low. Outside of Moscow, especially in emerging "tech" cities like Novosibirsk, Perm', Kazan', Nizhnii Novgorod, Kiev, and even Tblisi (where Internet security R&D is highly advanced), Baku, and Almaty, technical geniuses, as well as brilliant designers and content producers, are available for a fraction of the cost that they would otherwise demand in the US and Europe.
The Russian government has invested tens of billions of dollars in innovation and has no plans to stop investing at present time. Likewise, regional governments, such as that of Tomsk, offer special economic zones that have attracted companies like Nokia Siemens.
Moscow's Skolkovo mega-tech park, since its very recent launch in 2012, has in and of itself partnered with an enormous number of major US corporations, including Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Apple, IBM, Honeywell and GE, to only name a few. "Obviously, these companies know what they are doing by so boldly rushing to enter the Russian technology market and agreeing to all the ambiguities that they are facing by acting so quickly. They are already seeing immense returns, which I think they themselves are somewhat astonished by."
According to Firebird consultant Sergey Yakovlev, Firebird retains the belief that, despite all this growth and development, many small and mid-sized Russian and regional companies, international companies that could use revenues from the Russian market to revive their businesses, and international investors still do not have the capacity or comfort to enter the market. For this reason, its team of seasoned experts across applicable fields are offering a very hands-on approach to the consulting business.
Currently, according to Expert-RA, 44 per cent of start-ups' costs when launching are spent on surveys and research. Although Firebird does perform traditional market research and risk analysis, it strives to be much more full service, accessible, and, most importantly for many companies, charge a small fraction of the costs for traditional consulting operations, by reducing margins on services performed by roughly 60 percent from what established brands offer and compensating for the profit loss through equity and profit sharing agreements. It feels that this model also reassures its clients that it will do its utmost to facilitate their rapid success.
Among a host of services traditional and non-traditional to consulting and market entry firms, Firebird performs direct sales, creates and develops partner networks for companies entering the region, and provides turnkey solutions that include registration, licensing, patenting, securing of intellectual property rights, facilitation of subsidies and tax cuts, local and Internet banking implementation, marketing and PR services, HR and corporate training, technology adaptation and integration, translation services (including dubbing and closed-captioning for companies offering audio and visual media-related products), legal services and much more, in addition to direct investment and investment facilitation. "We understand," says Goldstein, "that to want to invest and expand in these markets is one thing and to have the budget and comfort level to do so quite another. Firebird will not simply hand you a report and a road map. Our experts will become your dedicated companions. We will share your risk and be with you every step of the way, whatever your objectives may be."
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Firebird employees a host of ambitious, energetic specialists, with experience across fields and most notable for their expertise in on-line banking systems, Internet security systems and anti-virus software, NFC and navigation and location-based technologies, telecommunications, WiMax, IP, broadcast and satellite communications systems, digital content provisioning, aggregation, and distribution systems, VoIP, energy, nano, and bio technologies, consumer electronics, design and publishing software, social networking platforms, iOS and Android applications, localized brand development, marketing, and PR services, governmental relationship building, and HR and corporate training. Due to the extensive work of co-founder Matthew Goldstein in opening and selling content for entertainment and media outlets in the region Firebird caters to many clients in the entertainment industry in terms of adaptation and sales of digital content as well as acquisition of regionally produced content.
The following represents the full list of services provided by the firm, targeted at startup and mid-sized level technology and media companies, or hybrids thereof, in the US and Europe seeking to expand to Russia and the C.I.S., Russia and regional companies seeking to grow locally and internationally, and investors seeking to gain footing in the region:
Political and Risk Analysis, Qualitative and quantitative market analysis, patenting, trademark and intellectual property registration, customs' registration and facilitation, marketing adaptation, localized PR and marketing services, localized HR and corporate training, technology conversion, implementation, support, and development, digital and traditional translation services, dubbing and closed-captioning services, relationship building with local governments, facilitation of government subsidies and tax cuts in the US and Russia, creation of local partner networks, implantation of traditional and electronic banking systems, real estate location and evaluation, development of company branding, business plans, and financials for investment procurement, direct investment and investment facilitation, direct traditional and digital content licensing sales, direct technology licensing and sales, and added-value localized co-branding, event planning, and merchandising via licensing agreements.
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Greg Griffin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 67 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
We are a distribution company in Ireland selling products to retail Pharmacy and Nursery stores. We are in business since 2002, and very successful with a number of major brands in our folio. We target the Baby market, with unique products and excellent customer service. We are always on the look out for something different to offer our customers.Please visit our web site for further details, http://www.optipharm.ie. and to see the image we give to our retailers and future suppliers
Mums to be, age 20 - 45 looking for a unique, quality baby product. In terms of price, we reach the middle income earners.
We are launching a new brand to the market, and we will be exporting this brand worldwide. The logo will be trademarked worldwide. The brand is "FUNKYBABY" and this will be the overall product name, with a retail store to follow in the near future. We will have bibs, clothing, blankets, so for example, FUNKYBABY- BIBZ, FUNKYBABY - BLANKET. The design for FUNKYBABY will stay the same but the products (bibz etc) will be in different font/style. I am looking to create a brand which will be EYECATCHING, appeal to a mum looking through the store for various products, and will STAND OUT, shout out LOOK AT ME when advertised through various media. Mums need to remember Funkybaby as a PREMIUM quality brand offering something different, a bit quirky, but exceptional quality. Use the word to generate the brand but Please feel free to generate an icon form this word also.
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For a country that banned full-strength beer until 1989, Iceland sure knows how to party.
"Walking down the main drag of Reykjavik at 3 a.m. on a Friday or Saturday night — even in the middle of winter — it's still standing room only on the sidewalk," says Anna Andersen, editor of the local English newspaper Reykjavik Grapevine.
Beyond the traditional beer halls with pounding music, the 11 nightspots below let you sip craft cocktails in style or dance until dawn.
At the end of the list, you'll find some Reykjavik bar-hopping tips to help you fit in.
Kex Hostel — the bar in a biscuit factory
Kex — takes the biscuit.One of the happier stories borne out of Iceland's 2008 economic crisis, Kex is housed in an abandoned biscuit factory that escaped demolition when plans to build skyscrapers in its place ran out of cash.
The owners transformed the building into a chic hostel, bar and eatery, naming it after the Icelandic word for biscuit.
Travelers and Reykjavikers come here to drink beer and catch impromptu gigs.
Johannes Agustsson, founder of local indie record label 12 Tónar, says keep your eye out for up-and-coming female artist Mr Silla and three-piece band Samaris playing at Kex.
Kex Hostel, Skúlagata 28, +354 561 6060
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Kaffibarinn — the institution
The origin of Kaffibarinn's Tube logo has become the stuff of legend.Established for so long that the current staff can't remember the full story behind its London Underground-styled logo, Kaffibarinn remains one of Reykjavik's most popular nightspots.
"We put a lot of energy into hiring good DJs and our staff are very close knit, which helps our customers feel engaged," says a manager, Katherina Hauptmann.
By day it's a cool coffee shop, but Kaffibarinn gets fiendishly busy at night, when it turns into a bar.
Worth trying are Topas or Ópal (local liquorice liqueurs) and Reyka, Icelandic vodka.
Kaffibarinn, Bergstaðastræti 1, +354 551 1588
Gallery Bar — part art gallery, part gentleman's club
Bartenders here know how to mix drinks, not just pour beer.An example of a hotel bar you'd actually want to visit, the Hotel Holt's Gallery Bar is one of the smartest spots in town to quaff a quality beverage in peace.
"The bartenders here really know how to make drinks — not a given elsewhere in Reykjavík, where most people just drink beer," Andersen says.
There are red leather club chairs to sink into and tempting cocktails of the day.
"You might have the place to yourself, but you'll be in good company with paintings by some of Iceland's most renowned artists on the walls."
Gallery Bar, Bergstadastraeti 37; +354 552 5700
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Snaps — comes with 'best goddamn restaurant'
Snaps: It gets steamy in the greenhouseWinner of the Reykjavik Grapevine's "best goddamn restaurant" award for the past two years, Snaps is a top spot for a social drink and a good-value meal.
With its glass walls and hanging plants, the venue feels like a giant, cozy greenhouse — people drop by for a quick beer and then find they have no reason to leave.
There's a piano in the corner if you feel like banging out a tune.
Snaps, Þórsgata 1, +354 511 6677
Le Chateau des Dix Gouttes — retro French with Icelandic wine
Retro cafe by day, French lounge bar by night — and sells rhubarb wine. Known as Tiu Dropar (Ten Drops) by day, this intimate, grandma-chic basement cafe gets a mini-makeover from owner David Bensow every evening before he reopens the venue as a French-themed lounge bar.
One of a few dedicated wine bars emerging in Reykjavik, Le Chateau sells Iceland's only wine brand, Kvöldsól, made from crowberries, rhubarb, blueberries and Icelandic herbs.
Le Chateau also serves cheese, waffles and charcuterie to the strains of Edith Piaf.
Le Chateau des Dix Gouttes, Laugarvegur 27; +354 551 9380
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Micro Bar — for beer nerds
"A Tactical Nuclear Penguin, please." Iceland's newest microbrewery bar, this funky city bolthole supports small brewers from all over Iceland and beyond.
With mountainous wall murals by the native cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson, it's a sweet space to pull up a stool and try anything from a local Kaldi draft to a Tactical Nuclear Penguin from Scotland.
Micro Bar is located in, but not affiliated to, the Center Hotel if you can't be bothered walking home.
Micro Bar, Austurstræti 6; +354 847 9084
Slippbarinn — Reykjavik's first cocktail bar
From the hand of master mixologist Ásgeir Má.It opened only a year ago, but this vintage-styled watering hole tucked into the foyer of the Scandi-chic Reykjavik Hotel Marina was the city's first proper cocktail bar.
"Cocktail culture in Iceland is very young but catching up quickly," explains Slippbarinn's master mixologist, Ásgeir Má.
On any given night you'll find as many Reykjavik residents as hotel guests sampling Má's ever-changing creations, all mixed with house-made syrups and freshly squeezed juices.
Located right on the harbor, it's possible to see the Northern Lights from your bar stool in the right conditions.
Slippbarinn, Mýragata 2; +354 560 8080
Loftið — the place with a dress code
One of the few places where a Gore-Tex jacket won't cut it.One of Reykjavik's newer bars making a concerted move beyond beer, Loftið draws a mix of expats and mature, moneyed locals with its quality cocktails.
Being one of the only establishments in town to enforce a strict dress code helps Loftið maintain an added element of class — but while you won't find anyone dancing on tables here, the mood is far from stuffy.
Loftið, Austurstræti 9, +354 551 9400
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Harlem — the (street) arty place
Some visitors are pleasantly surprised by Reykjavik's blossoming street art scene — it can certainly lift the mood amid the city's rather somber colors.
Sixteen street artists were commissioned to put their mark on the interior of Harlem, a gritty downtown bar that attracts an appropriately arty crowd along with some of the city's best DJs.
"Come early, before the crowds arrive, to check out the amazing artwork and stay on to make shapes on the dance floor," Agustsson suggests.
Harlem, Tryggvagötu 22
Kaldi — has Icelandic beer on tap
Icelandic beer — made to a Czech recipe.Designed as a healthier alternative to the additive-heavy international beers widely consumed in Iceland since the end of prohibition, the country's own Kaldi beer (brewed to a special Czech recipe) went down well with Icelanders on its 2005 launch and has sold well since.
Fortunately, you don't have to head to its northern Icelandic brewery to drink it fresh — this industrial-styled Reykjavik brew bar offers four varieties on tap, including the brand's unfiltered crowd favorite.
Kaldi, Laugarvegur 20b
Ölstofa Kormáks og Skjaldar — the low-key jewel
Ölstofan: too cool to show off.Known simply as Ölstofan, this nondescript city bar is frequented by artists, writers, musos and cool kids over 30 who like to keep things simple.
With no dance floor and a soundtrack you can hear yourself chat over, Reykjavik residents come here to cozy up in wooden booths and unwind with a cold pint of award-winning house brand Brió (it beat more than 4,000 other beers to top the World Beer Cup competition in 2012).
Ölstofan, Vegamótastig 4; +354 552 4687
Reykjavik bar rules — there aren't many
Icelandic bars rarely impose a cover charge, unless it's a special event.
Most Reykjavik bars don't impose a dress code — you can stumble into just about any bar wearing your Gore-Tex jacket and hiking boots, if you want to.
Most bars close by 1 a.m. from Sunday-Thursday and stay open until as late as 4.30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.
The legal drinking age in Iceland is 20, but many bars impose their own age limit of 21 or 22.
Most city bars offer happy hour deals – download the Reykjavik Grapevine's Appy Hour app to keep track.
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