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A new study finds that bicycling is on the rise in Montreal. In 2010, the city experienced a 35-40% growth in ridership over its 2008 bicycle ridership counts.
This is an encouraging sign that the city's significant infrastructure investments and bike sharing scheme have contributed to an increase in utilitarian bicycling.
Montreal is one of North America's top destinations for urban bicycling, with more than 500km of recreational and on-street paths. In May 2009, Montreal's bike sharing system "BIXI" launched – setting the stage for BIXI to spread all around the globe.
The Montreal ridership numbers come from a study by Professor Luis F. Miranda-Moreno – from the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University. The purpose of Professor Miranda-Moreno's study was to find correlations between the weather and ridership in Montreal.
The hourly counts were taken using 5 bicycle counters situated along 4 on-street, physically separated bike facilities in the City of Montreal from April 2008 to July 2010:
All figures courtesy of Professor Luis F. Miranda-Moreno's study
Interestingly, the study found that when temperature doubles, a 43-50% increase in ridership can be expected. However, when temperature reaches 28 degrees Celsius, and humidity is more than 60%, the bicycling numbers start to drop.
This type of study is rather unique in North America. The relationship between weather and travel has been studied intensively for most other modes of transportation other than cycling – including motor-vehicle traffic volumes, transit ridership, and pedestrian volumes.
It's refreshing to see this data being captured for bicycles because it can help traffic engineers understand trends that encourage or discourage citizens from using a bicycle for every day transportation.
The following diagram illustrates the increase in ridership levels from 2008 to 2010:
Here is an interesting diagram that illustrates the hourly patterns of bicyclists throughout the day, with the morning peak at 8AM, and an afternoon peak at about 5:00PM:
The data in the study shows that ridership was comprised primarily of utilitarian bicycle commuters – as evidenced by weekend daily ridership being 65 to 89% lower than the slowest week day (Monday).
Montreal's investment in bicycles as a mode of transportation is paying off as we can see from the ridership numbers – while citizens get to enjoy healthier active lifestyles, and less pollution in the air.
If Montreal continues to invest in its citizen bicyclists, we should expect the ridership to continue to rise going forward. If a cold-climate city like Montreal can do it, then so can any other city in North America.
Here are some other interesting observations found by the study:
- Ridership normally peaks mid-week and declines slightly towards Friday
- Ridership in July was consistently double from ridership in April
- Having a combination of moderate or severe rainy weather with fog, drizzle and/or freezing rain during the same hour will cause a ridership reduction of 19%
- The presence of precipitation in the morning reduces total daily ridership by 13-15% (when there is no rain in the afternoon)
To obtain a copy of the full study, feel free to contact me directly. Special thanks to distinguished author & (former) journalist Daniel Sanger – who graciously provided the study.
James D. Schwartz is the editor of The Urban Country. You can contact James at email@example.com.
Related Articles:
- BIXI: Montreal's Bicycle Sharing System (July 2009)
- Vancouver Approves Hornby Street Dedicated Bike Lanes (Oct 2010)
- New York Bike Lanes Explained (Nov 2010)
- Biking the Big Apple (March 2010)


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The new kitchen has been up and running for a few months now and it occurred to me that I never posted a product list nor talked about how it functions as a working kitchen. The design challenge for the renovation was to create a space that would fit seamlessly into the mid-century house while utilizing 21st century technology, that would give us as much storage as the original but not feel as cramped. I spent six years researching and compiling wishlists. Remember the inspiration kitchens? The process was fluid, the layout changing right up to the moment the cabinets went in.
Moving the island has enabled me to both cook and wash dishes while
We both love the induction cooktop-it's a geek's dream come true-and the Cree LED downlights that have made a huge difference to the lighting in the room. These eco-friendly products were something I insisted on and they've more than lived up to expectations. The double convection wall ovens heat evenly but they take longer to reach temperature, even with the rapid preheat, than the old GE model and when I use the timer I can't read the oven clock. The cabinets are fabulous, the soft-close full-extension drawers mean less bending and stretching and yes, there are still a couple of empty drawers. Maybe though, the best part of the kitchen was something I didn't appreciate until I visited a friend who has beautiful Saulsalito tiles on her floor. After standing on them for only an hour I came home with an aching back. That's something that hasn't happened to me since we layed the hardwood floors!
Quick reminder of how it used to look. It was a great kitchen, although the design was not as specified on the original blueprints-in fact it had twice as many cabinets as Andrew Geller had planned. That made for four really tight corners, one of which, 2' between the island and the desk (just seen behind the island in the photo), we had to remove to install the new fridge the week we moved in!
The renovation layout has meant that more people can fit in there without pinch points, the smallest passage is a roomy 39" and my hips are thankful for fewer bruises. We had twenty-five friends in the kitchen one evening, the sink full of beer and white wine in a bath of ice, the table groaning with desserts and I could still get round to refill drinks and pass hors d'oeuvres. That's when I knew we had a fully functioning space.
Ikea Nexus Brown cabinets, Atlas Homewares Linea Skinny rail pulls, Caesarstone Misty Carrera countertops, Cree LED lighting, Electrolux ICON wall ovens + induction hob, SubZero refrigerator/freezer, Marvel wine fridge, Bosch dishwasher, Blanco SuperPrecision sink, Grohe Ladylux3 faucet, Benjamin Moore Silver Satin paint, Miniwax American Chestnut stain.

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Not everyone has a Back 40. Many urban gardeners are working with aggressive space constraints ("Patio 4?" anyone?) but still want the joy of planting, harvesting and cooking homegrown veg. For these gardeners, container growing is sometimes the best or only option.
Nearly every crop that can be grown in ground can also be grown in containers. I grow a container demo garden every year at the front of my house to show passers-by what can be done and have successfully harvested broccoli, kale, summer squash, beans, herbs, strawberries and greens of all kinds from a few pots at the front of the driveway.
In my cool-summer, maritime climate I find that real heat lovers like eggplant often do better – a lot better – in containers than in-ground, and so even though I have a large (by urban standards) garden, I still choose to grow some crops in containers.
The trick to container gardening is in knowing which varieties of each crop are going to thrive in that environment, and setting up your containers well. This means using appropriate size pots and potting mixes, and providing the right water and nutrition for your plants. Container growing also means taking responsibility for more of the plants needs as compared to in-ground growing – that little seedling is counting on you for food and water because it can't seek out deeper, moisture-retentive soil.
With those considerations in mind, growing a whole garden worth of food from containers isn't hard – it just requires a little know-how.
High Mowing Organic Seeds (my favorite seed house and a sponsor of this blog) is offering one NW Edible reader the book The Bountiful Container plus the High Mowing Organic Seeds Container Garden Collection.
The Bountiful Container is a real classic in the How To category of garden books. It covers soil and potting mixes, sizes of pots needed for various edibles, best varieties, how to combine edibles in containers and talks about the full range of fruit and veg you can grow in a pot and a lot more. It's an information rich book.
High Mowing's Container Garden Collection combines ten of the best varieties of vegetables for container culture into one pack. It includes one packet each of:
- Nasturtium Mix
- Genovese Basil
- Santo Cilantro
- Matt's Wild Cherry Tomato
- Ring-o-Fire Pepper
- Sugar Ann Snap Pea
- High Mowing Mesclun Mix
- Dinosaur Lacinato Kale
- H-19 Little Leaf Cucumber
- Yaya Carrot
And because these are High Mowing Seeds, everything is certified organic. These varieties make a nice collection for a warm-weather container garden, but several (the cilantro, peas, mesclun, kale and carrots) will continue to thrive deep into fall or even overwinter in mild climates like the Pacific Northwest.
Together, these two items have a retail value of $45 and will give you the knowledge and varieties you need to grow hundreds of dollars worth of organic vegetables in a small space. High Mowing will be giving both of them to one lucky container-gardening winner.
To enter to win, sign up for the monthly High Mowing Newsletter, The Seed Bin, then come back here and leave a comment below letting me know what fruit or veggies you grow in containers.
About the High Mowing Newsletter: this is not some schlocky spam email thing, guys, I promise. Every month High Mowing sends out one newsletter with great, truly useful garden information. I learn a ton from the newsletter.
In the past they've sent along tips for doing at-home seed germination tests, information and great stories on specific varieties of vegetables, how to care for garden tools, how to jump-start the potato growing season and even tips for container gardening. They also run periodic giveaways for stuff you'd actually want – like gardening books and gift certificates for organic seeds.
High Mowing follows best practices for emailing, so you don't need to worry about them selling or trading your info, and of course you can unsubscribe at any time. But honestly, I don't think you'll want to. I look forward to the helpful tips in The Seed Bin every month and I bet you'll feel the same.
This contest is sponsored by High Mowing Organic Seeds and is open to U.S. and Canadian residents only. Contest open until Wednesday, April 16th, 8 PM PST. Winner will be notified by email. If the winner fails to respond within 24 hours, a new winner shall be drawn. Good luck everyone!


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Biographies Erika Giovanna Klien
Born 12 April 1900 in Borgo/Valsugana in Trentino
Died 19 July 1957 in New York
Visual artist and art educator; leading exponent of the Vienna school of Kinetismus (Kinetism)
For Erika Giovanna Klien art and life were one. A sheltered child from the petit-bourgeois family of a civil servant, she learned early to blur the distinction between everyday life and artistic work. In her youth she was unable to persuade her father to let her realize her dream of joining the theater and becoming an actress – probably because of her poor grades in school. Since she was equally attracted to drawing, she was allowed to attend the applied arts school in Vienna in 1919. At this school, later known as the School of Decorative Art, a tremendous spirit of reform prevailed during the early postwar years with their optimistic sense of a new beginning. Distinguished artists taught there who concerned themselves with the European avant-garde – Futurism and Cubism, Constructivism and the teachings of the Bauhaus – and attempted to erase the distinction between fine art and the decorative arts.
The charismatic, reform-minded educator Franz Cizek was to be of particular importance for Erika Giovanna Klien. With his invitation to "turn your soul outward today," he endeavored, beyond the conventions of style, to liberate the creative potential of his students. Under this teacher the disappointed actress could give free rein to her need for self-expression. Cizek's holistic understanding of visual art, literature, music, theater, dance and architecture as equally valid artistic means of expression appealed to the versatile Erika Giovanna Klien. She wrote poems and reworked them as typographical pictures and comic-book style drawings; she formed her handwriting into an artistic gesture and consistently replaced the punctuation marks she found annoying with dashes in her personal correspondence. In her own way she remained true to the theater. She loved theatrical scenes and entrances, dressed eccentrically, dramatized her personal life, had numerous love affairs, and in 1922/23 attended the Vienna drama school, which was located near the School of Decorative Arts. She created a still completely extant marionette theater with a novel stage, backdrop and figures and wrote a play for it. The innovative theatrical vision in which humans are replaced by objects bears the stamp of the 1920's: fascination with the metropolis, abstraction, the mechanical, and Tempo (speed).
But Erika Giovanna Klien's marionette theater is influenced most of all by the Vienna school of Kinetismus (Kinetism), an art form attributed to Franz Cizek featuring movement in space; it sought to achieve nothing less than a rhythmic training of sensibility. Klien, Cizek's most talented pupil, was alone in independently continuing to develop his ideas until the end of her life; she created sequences of actions: dance, bird-flight, abstract rhythms of motion recur throughout her entire œuvre as characteristic thematic imagery. Cizek began early (and not without self-interest) to include Klien in significant exhibitions, for example the Paris Decorative Arts Exhibition of 1925, the Internationalen Ausstellung moderner künstlerischer Schrift (International Exhibition of Modern Typographical Art) of 1926 in the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, and Katherine Dreier's International Exhibition of Modern Art 1926/27 in New York in 1927. In the New York exhibition Klien appeared along with such greats as Arp, Duchamp, Kandinsky, Klee, O'Keeffe; the only representative of modern Austrian art, she was also the only artist not presented in the catalog as an artist in her own right, but listed under the heading "Cizek Method."
The proportion of women at the School of Decorative Arts was high. Their artistic success was made difficult by economic and social factors. They worked as teachers or artisans/craftswomen. This was true for Erika Giovanna Klien as well. After graduating from the School of Decorative Arts she was unable, despite her successful participation in exhibitions, to establish herself as an independent creative artist. But like Cizek, she understood pedagogical activity as creative artistry and committed herself intensively to it in theory and practice. Besides her work as a commercial graphic artist Klien taught from 1926 to 1928 at the Elizabeth-Duncan-Schule in Klessheim near Salzburg, a school which adhered to dancer Isadora Duncan's ideal of a concept of femininity that stressed intellectual and physical freedom. She continued her pedagogical activity successfully at New York's Stuyvesant School as well as at least seven other schools in America, including such respected art institutions as the Spence School, the Dalton School and the Walt Whitman School. Between 1930 and 1940 she taught at three institutions simultaneously in order to earn enough to live on. Some of her most important works date from this period. In 1938 Klien became a U.S. citizen.
Several factors may have influenced Erika Giovanna Klien to leave Austria in 1929 and move to New York: the magnetism and pulsing rhythm of the metropolis, the hope of establishing herself as an artist, the birth of a son to the single mother, which she kept secret from her own mother her life long and which increased the necessity of financial independence. Her first enthusiasm was soon worn away by the struggle to survive. After the mid-1940's Klien's health deteriorated significantly; she was exhausted by the ongoing necessity to teach and maintain herself socially and financially as a single woman in the U.S.A. in a time of economic depression. In America too, she achieved only rudimentary success as a recognized artist.
Erika Giovanna Klien died in New York at age 57 from a heart attack. She left a voluminous œuvre, which, beginning in 1975, has been increasingly researched, recognized in its artistic significance, and made accessible to the public.
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Dear WAI Interest Group Participants: The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (ATAG 2.0) has reached Last Call Working Draft status. It will be under review until 18 January 2005. Information on the document and how to comment follows. The document is available at: <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-ATAG20-20041122/>http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-ATAG20-20041122/ WHAT IS ATAG 2.0? Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (ATAG 2.0) is part of a series of accessibility guidelines published by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The other guidelines in this series include the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG). ATAG 2.0 provides guidelines for designing authoring tools that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities. An authoring tool that conforms to these guidelines will promote accessibility by providing an accessible authoring interface to authors with disabilities, as well as enabling, supporting, and promoting the production of accessible Web content by all authors. WHAT DOES "LAST CALL" MEAN? A Last Call Working Draft announcement means that the Working Group believes that it has satisfied its technical requirements and dependencies with other W3C Working Groups. The Working Group believes that the Working Draft has stabilized. It seeks a broad review of ATAG 2.0 during this period, and expects to request advancement to Candidate Recommendation (where the focus of review will be on implementation testing) after this Last Call review is completed. More information on the W3C Process is available at: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ HOW CAN I COMMENT? Please send comments to the following address by 18 January 2004. 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Guests will be Joyce Rice and Kat Leyh of Symbolia Magazine.
Symbolia is a tablet magazine of illustrated journalism that pairs incendiary reporting with thoughtful illustration and comics, the first digital journal solely dedicated to the form. Symbolia was founded by Erin Polgreen Joyce Rice. Deanna Zandt wrote for Forbes that, "Symbolia has accomplished two major feats: elevated the status of illustrated, sequential art as a form in a neglected space, and created a new space for us to reimagine what journalism can look – and feel – like."
Laydeez do Comics is a unique salon with a focus on graphic works based on life narrative, the drama of the domestic, and the everyday. Invited guest speakers have 10-20 minute slots to present works/ideas followed by a Q&A. Launched in London in July 2009, the group has now expanded to other cities, including Chicago. Quimby's hosts the Chicago chapter and it is usually the last Thursday of every month. For August the meeting is on Thurs, Aug 29th at 7pm.


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Glaucoma is a disease that damages your eye's optic nerve. It usually happens when fluid builds up in the front part of your eye. That extra fluid increases the pressure in your eye, damaging the optic nerve.
Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness for people over 60 years old. But blindness from glaucoma can often be prevented with early treatment.
Types of glaucoma
There are two major types of glaucoma.
Primary open-angle glaucoma
This is the most common type of glaucoma. It happens gradually, where the eye does not drain fluid as well as it should (like a clogged drain). As a result, eye pressure builds and starts to damage the optic nerve. This type of glaucoma is painless and causes no vision changes at first.
Some people can have optic nerves that are sensitive to normal eye pressure. This means their risk of getting glaucoma is higher than normal. Regular eye exams are important to find early signs of damage to their optic nerve.
Angle-closure glaucoma (also called "closed-angle glaucoma" or "narrow-angle glaucoma")
This type happens when someone's iris is very close to the drainage angle in their eye. The iris can end up blocking the drainage angle. You can think of it like a piece of paper sliding over a sink drain. When the drainage angle gets completely blocked, eye pressure rises very quickly. This is called an acute attack. It is a true eye emergency, and you should call your ophthalmologist right away or you might go blind.
Here are the signs of an acute angle-closure glaucoma attack:
- Your vision is suddenly blurry
- You have severe eye pain
- You have a headache
- You feel sick to your stomach (nausea)
- You throw up (vomit)
- You see rainbow-colored rings or halos around lights
Many people with angle-closure glaucoma develop it slowly. This is called chronic angle-closure glaucoma. There are no symptoms at first, so they don't know they have it until the damage is severe or they have an attack.
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Junkets: "The King of Staten Island" with Steve Buscemi
The King of Staten Island Over his storied career, Judd Apatow has elevated a series of promising young comedy talents to their first major big-screen performance, including Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer and Kumail Nanjiani. This summer, Apatow directs Saturday Night Live breakout Pete Davidson in a bracing comedy about love, loss and laughter on Staten Island. Scott (Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister (Maude Apatow, HBO's Euphoria) heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother (Oscar® winner Marisa Tomei) and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys—Oscar (Ricky Velez, Master of None), Igor (Moises Arias, Five Feet Apart) and Richie (Lou Wilson, TV's The Guest Book)—and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey (Bel Powley, Apple TV+'s The Morning Show). But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray (Bill Burr, Netflix's F Is for Family), it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life. The film also stars Steve Buscemi as Papa, a veteran firefighter who takes Scott under his wing, and Pamela Adlon (FX's Better Things) as Ray's ex-wife, Gina. The King of Staten Island is directed by Apatow (Trainwreck, Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) from a script by Apatow, Davidson and former SNL writer Dave Sirus. It is produced by Apatow for his Apatow Productions alongside Barry Mendel. Together, the duo shared producing credits on the Academy Award®-nominated films The Big Sick and Bridesmaids, as well as This Is 40, Trainwreck and Funny People. The film's executive producers are Pete Davidson, Michael Bederman and Judah Miller. Genres Comedy Starring Pete Davidson, Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr, Bel Powley, Maude Apatow and Steve Buscemi Directed By Judd Apatow Produced By Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel Executive Produced By Pete Davidson, Michael Bederman, Judah Miller


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Serial Number T1JA47765
Location Edmonton - Michener Allen
Frame Measurement Approx. 20 Inches
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Thank you for visiting maauctions.com and the Michener Allen Auctioneering Ltd Internet Online Market Place. We are excited to have you join us for this TIMED Auction that features approximately 250+ auction lots from the City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Police Services. We are please to present to you our new web portal for the City of Edmonton TIMED Auctions. We hope you find the new site useful and improved for your internet bidding experience.
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The hunt to find the UK's Pet Hero is almost over. Mugly, the hairless hound from Peterborough, could be crowned champ after being announced as the Midland's regional winner earlier this month.
Celebrating pet heroes from all walks of life, the campaign - run by PetSafe® pet product expert - has been inundated with heart-warming stories from all over the Midlands, proving that the UK's pets really are the unsung heroes of the nation.
Mugly, previously crowned the World's Ugliest Dog, was taken to a rescue centre at just three days old. With heaps of personality, Mugly soon found a home despite his quirky appearance and went on to become a trained 'Pets as Therapy' dog. This one eye-browed pooch spends his days being a comfort to others and has helped raise thousands of pounds for charities including Guide Dogs for the Blind.
Commenting on Mugly's win, his owner Bev Nicholson says: "I am so proud of him for being in the Pet Hero running, he is so sensitive for a little dog that is up against it in the looks department - he really makes up for it in personality and sensitivity. People fall in love with him as soon as they meet him."
PetSafe spokesperson Angela Critchley adds: "It is great to raise awareness about the amazing things our pets do for us on a daily basis. It was extremely hard to choose from all the heart warming stories we had in, but in the end Mugly's tale truly touched us. Choosing a national winner from the four shortlisted will be a very difficult decision indeed, we wish Mugly the best of luck."
The national winner will be announced on the 1st December and will win a year's worth of PetSafe pet products and pet-friendly holiday.
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From dinosaurs and Egyptian mummies, to a recreated gem mine as well as space exhibits, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science offers a compelling view of history, nature and science. Established in 1900 and housed in a 66,528-square-meter building, the museum contains over a million objects in its collection, and over 1.6 million people visit it every year in order to be amazed and fascinated.
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Misty May-Treanor stands with her hands on her hips in a bikini with also her game-face on in a poster ad created to help the Newport Harbor High girls' volleyball program.
In the background, April Ross stands in the same pose, also wearing a bikini. They are on what appears to be a catwalk covered in sand. The image also has a gold medal and a silver medal from the 2012 Olympics.
The poster was made for the upcoming, "Style In Sports," a fundraiser fashion show for the Newport Harbor High girls' volleyball program.
May-Treanor, a three-time Olympic gold medalist in beach volleyball, and Ross, a silver medalist, are among Newport Harbor alumni giving back and volunteering as part of the event that takes place Sept. 22 at the OC Mart Mix in Costa Mesa.
It should be a fun event.
Evelyn Yardley, the community chair for the fundraiser, is excited the program's most popular players are returning to be in the fashion show.
They held the fashion show last year, but it didn't fit into the duo's schedule, Yardley said.
Last year around 100 people showed up to the event. This year 400 are expected to attend, Yardley said.
Tickets are $100 per person and can be purchased through the Newport Harbor High team's website athttp://www.newportharborvolleyball.com/girlsHomeCourt.php.
"This is another way for the program to raise funds, other than our ad program," Yardley said. "And, it's something fun for the girls to participate in. Our senior and junior players will be a part of it."
Yardley is glad to help. Her daughter, Kierstyn, will be a junior on the team. Kierstyn is the daughter of Bill Yardley, a former Newport Harbor star who went on to be an All-American at USC and a U.S. national team member in volleyball. His uncle is the famous George Yardley, the Basketball Hall of Famer who played at Newport Harbor.
Yardley said Kirby Burnham, Cinnamon Sary and Mackenzi Campbell are among the alumni returning to be a part of the fashion show and wear items presented by Surfside among other designers.
Burnham and Sary play sand volleyball at USC, and Campbell plays indoor at UC Irvine. Burnham won the American Volleyball Coaches Assn. national title this past year.
The event will also have a red-carpet entry and a local dealership will have convertible Bentleys for May-Treanor and Ross to enter in style.
Newport Beach Mayor Keith Curry is also expected to attend to deliver a proclamation for the beach volleyball stars, who were both coached by Dan Glenn, who remains as coach of the team.
Glenn has been proud of both, watching them grow and become outstanding volleyball players on the beach. May-Treanor's legendary career came to an end after the Olympics.
Ross' career continues. In fact, she's expected to team up with May-Treanor's former teammate Kerri Walsh Jennings with the intention of qualifying for the 2016 Olympics.
Pretty incredible to have them both coming back to give back to the program at their alma mater.
Both players remain role models at Newport Harbor. May-Treanor graduated from there in 1995 and led the Sailors to two CIF State championships in her time, and then went on to win a national title at Long Beach State.
Ross won a CIF state championship at Newport Harbor in 1998 and then went on to star at USC, leading the Trojans to back-to-back national titles in 2002 and 2003.
"Playing at Newport taught me how to work hard," Ross told me back then. "I learned that you can't breeze through games, you always have to work hard, that's what Dan Glenn hammered to me. I definitely still have that with me today."
May-Treanor and Ross usually don't hold back to help out the program. Ross is known for practicing with the team in the past and motivating Newport Harbor players to perform at their best.
Next month they'll be helping in a different way, modeling in bikinis and other outfits to support the Sailors.


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The Former President of the Inkatha Freedom Party, Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelezi full speech on xenophobia attacks in the country on Sunday being September 8, 2019.
"I come here today not as a politician, but as an elder. There is a terrible quarrel in our nation with foreign nationals who are living amongst us. Lives have been lost and property damaged. There has been looting and burning and violence. While all this is happening, the world is watching, and we are being judged.
I must speak very bluntly to my fellow South Africans, not to take sides, but to quell the tensions with the voice of truth.
What we have seen in the past few days is unacceptable. The attacks on foreign nationals and their businesses are purely xenophobic. It is a violation of human rights and a violation of our Constitution. Our Constitution enshrines the right to freedom from all forms of violence. That right applies to everyone in South Africa, whether citizens or not.
We cannot allow this to move in cycles. It is not the first spate of attacks; but it must be the last
I understand the tensions, the complaints and the anger. I understand that there is validity to the complaints, on both sides. I also understand that wrongs have been committed by both sides. This has not come out of nowhere.
But there is a saying in Zulu that you cannot slaughter all the sheep because one sheep has transgressed. In a situation of conflict, it is dangerous to tar everyone with the same brush. Even where there are valid complaints against an individual, we cannot take the law into our own hands. Looting and destruction of property is a crime, full stop. Assault is always wrong.
Don't think these things have no consequences. This violence has diplomatic and economic ramifications. We have hundreds of thousands of South Africans living in countries throughout Africa. We have businesses and companies operating across this continent. We have vital trade relations within the African Union and within SADC, the Southern African Development Community. South Africa is not an island.
There will be sanctions against us for what we are doing. It started with the Zambian Football Association cancelling a soccer match against Bafana Bafana. Then Nigeria announced a boycott of the World Economic Forum on Africa being held in Cape Town. But as I feared they would, sanctions quickly turned to retaliation.
Already South African-owned companies in Nigeria have been targeted for looting and vandalism. MTN has had to close all its stores to protect staff, while the police stand guard at Shoprite stores. On Thursday our diplomatic missions in Abuja and Lagos were forced to close after threats were received. President Buhari has announced a visit to South Africa to speak to President Ramaphosa
We need to stop this thing in its tracks before serious action is taken against us. Do we really want to escalate into international conflict?
I feel ashamed. As Africans we are making ourselves a laughing stock in the rest of the world. Because the world knows what we seem so quick to forget: Africans are brothers and sisters.
In every family there are quarrels and squabbles. But the way we are behaving is shooting ourselves in the foot. We are making the name of South Africa a swear word on the continent.
This is not the first time we have had a spike of xenophobic attacks is our country. In 2008 and in 2015 lives were lost and livelihoods destroyed as communities went on the rampage against foreign nationals. I went then, too, to the communities and townships, and I spoke as I am speaking now.
But now my words are somehow different. The sentiments have not changed, but there is a sense of urgency because I fear what will happen if we fail to extinguish this fire.
The IFP has formally asked the Speaker of the National Assembly to call an urgent debate in parliament, not just to condemn xenophobia, but to hear what the state intends to do to swiftly end the violence.
We cannot allow this to move in cycles. It is not the first spate of attacks; but it must be the last.
We have been facing the rising problem of undocumented migration ever since 1994. I served as the first Minister of Home Affairs in a democratic era. For ten years my department grappled with this, trying to find a way to balance human rights with the good of the country.
I was struck even then by the number of undocumented Africans within our borders, especially from Zimbabwe, and the implications this had for our ability to create social and economic justice for South Africans. But when I pointed out our porous borders and said they need to be guarded, some people actually accused me of xenophobia, saying it was because I didn't go into exile.
If anyone knows what our African brothers sacrificed for the sake of our struggle, it is I.
Many of the countries whose citizens were coming to South Africa had given sanctuary to our political exiles during the struggle for freedom. Being an Anglican myself, I received a letter from the Anglican Bishop of Mozambique, Bishop Dinis Sengulane, lamenting that I was not helping his people who were flocking to South Africa.
These accusations were painful, and quite misplaced. Because if anyone knows what our African brothers sacrificed for the sake of our struggle, it is I. I went myself to Zambia and Tanzania in 1974, to thank President Kaunda and President Nyerere for giving sanctuary to all our exiles. Earlier this year, I again visited His Excellency Dr Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia, and he spoke touchingly about the risks they took on our behalf. Let me quote him directly.
"Prince Buthelezi, we first met in 1974 here in Lusaka when I was a leader of a young independent nation of Zambia and was honoured to be leader of the frontline states which were all newly independent states. We hosted South African political exiles and freedom fighters. (It) was a huge risk to our own freedom as a nation. Financially we could not afford this task, since Ian Smith had closed the borders for us to transport goods through Rhodesia. The security risk was enormous on our people as the apartheid regime in South Africa was becoming more and more vicious. But we had to do that historic duty for the freedom of black people. I am a very proud man that we did this and all God's children in South Africa… are free today."
Friends, this is our own history. African countries like Lesotho, Swaziland, Nigeria, Zambia and Tanzania took huge risks on our behalf. Is this how we repay them?
I am not saying that anyone should be able to live in South Africa if they come here illegally, or if they are illegally running a business. If they are committing crime, they are criminals like any South African would be a criminal for doing the same thing. But we cannot adopt the attitude that Africans have no right to come here, and no right to be here, if they come through legitimate channels.
I know that even this is controversial. I remember visiting Geneva for a meeting called by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. As South Africa's Minister of Home Affairs, I discovered that many people who claim to be refugees are not refugees in the legal sense of the word. Yet due to various and very real problems in their countries, they are forced to try their luck in South Africa.
Through immigration legislation, I sought to protect South Africa, closing the door to undocumented migration while opening it to the skills our country so desperately needs. There is, for instance a shortage of doctors in South Africa, and with our failing health care system we need to welcome professional doctors from Nigeria and other countries.
I still regret the irrational hostility towards my Immigration Act when I brought it to the Cabinet of President Mbeki. We moved in the wrong direction as a country and we never resolved the rising tensions. It's time to do that now, before it is too late.
We dare not forget or disregard all that was done for us by African leaders like His Excellency President Olusegun Obasanjo. As a member of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, General Obasanjo revealed to the world the real conditions of our people under apartheid. He supported us in our stand against the regime's plan to deprive us of our citizenship.
In fact, on the very day that Transkei took so-called independence, President Obasanjo arranged for me and my wife to be in Nigeria so that I could avoid attending Transkei's independence ceremony. General Obasanjo invited me to Nigeria again this year, where I delivered a lecture in celebration of his 82nd birthday.
This is one of the giants of Africa. What are we doing to his people?
I have been a guest of President Hastings Banda in Malawi. I was received by His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia. In Addis Ababa I was received by the Under-Secretary of the OAU, Dr Peter Onu. In Liberia, President Tolbert bestowed upon me a National Order, The Knight Commander of the Star of Africa. And when the OAU bestowed a posthumous award on my mentor Inkosi Albert Luthuli, I accompanied MaNokhukanya Luthuli to Maseru to receive the award from His Majesty King Moshoeshoe II.
If we turn our despair, our anger and frustration against our brothers, we will start a feud that can only end in tragedy
Our struggle is tied to the struggle of these countries throughout Africa. They fought colonialism just as we did. And they sacrificed to see us liberated. So when I say that we are one family, I am speaking the truth. Just recently, when my wife passed away, His Majesty the King of Lesotho paid a visit to my home to comfort me.
We are brothers in Africa.
Yes, South Africa is struggling economic hardship. Our country is in crisis. The cry of our people has not fallen on deaf ears. But if we turn our despair, our anger and frustration against our brothers, we will start a feud that can only end in tragedy. We are fighting our own family.
Friends, I am a Christian. I believe what the Bible says. It says, quite clearly:
"When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt…" (Leviticus 19 v 33 and 34)
"Let them live among you wherever they like and in whatever town they choose. Do not oppress them." (Deuteronomy 23 v 16)
"Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow (citizen) or a foreigner residing in one of your towns… Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice." (Deuteronomy 24 v 14 – 17)
"Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner." (Deuteronomy 27 v 19)
"Do not oppress… the foreigner… Do not plot evil against each other." (Zechariah 7 v 10)
I cannot put it more clearly. This is not my instruction, but God's. Let us be led by our moral conscience."


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Monarch Monday – Week 4
If you missed Weeks 1, 2 and 3, you can catch up here:
For the first few weeks of his life, Mr. Monarch Caterpillar has done little but eat, eat, and eat. But sometime Thursday afternoon, he decided to move on to the next phase of his life. So he crawled away from his milkweed leaves, up the side of his pet carrier, and onto the underside of the lid. He formed a little silk pad there and Thursday night, he gripped the pad with his toes and hung head downward.
When I got home from work Friday evening, he was still hanging there. He was complaining about his blood rushing to his head and having a headache. But when I checked on him a half hour later, he had shed his caterpillar skin and in its place was a beautiful pale green chrysalis with delicate golden spots.
Mr. Monarch's old caterpillar body parts will transform into an adult butterfly within his chrysalis in the next 10 days.
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The following issues have been discussed
1. Ex-gratia Payment to SRPF / CPF beneficiaries who had voluntarily retired or medically invalidated. It has been decided to implement the Kerala High Court judgment in general and extend the benefit of exgratia payment to the meagre number of pre 1986 optees who retired voluntarily or on medical invalidation after rendering 20 years of service. The enabling orders are to be issued shortly.
2. Raising quantum of ex-gratia to CPF retirees on lines of SRPF.
In respect of SRPF retirees of the Railways, the rate of ex-gratia was raised from Rs. 600/- pm to Rs. 750/- pm to Rs. 3000pm with effect from 1.11.2006. The Govt. have now decided to revise the rate of exgratia in respect of CPF retirees at the above rates I. e. Rs. 750/- to Rs. 3000/- pm w.e.f. 1.11.2006.
3. Issue of Revised PPOs in favour of Pre 2006 retirees and others.
In the case Civilian departments about 4 lakhs of cases reported pending on 1.8.2012, now only 1.30 lakhs are pending and these would also be cleared by 30.6.2013. In the case of Railways total pendency in August 2012 was 10.8 lakhs which has been brought down to 5.54 lakhs. Now when it has been decided that revised PPOs may be issued suo mottu by the Railway authorities, the entire pending is targeted to be cleared by 30th September 2013.In the case of Defence civilians, action is being taken to issue all pending PPOs by 30.9.2013.
4. Fixation of revised pension by multiplying pre-revised 1/3rd pension (in respect of PSU absorbees) by a factor of 2.26.In the case the speaking order issued by the Govt. on 26.11.2012 that no further increase in pension of absorbee pensioners would be allowed has been challenged in CAT Hyderabad and the Tribunal has passed orders on 24.4. 2013. This order is under examination.
5. Commutation of Pension.
The Govt. have not agreed to reduce the period of 15 years to 11 years for restoration even in the cases where commutation has been paid at the rates prescribed in the New Table. The Govt. wanted that the matter may be raised before 7th pay commission.
6. Family pension to divorced / widowed / unmarried daughters –nomination for life time arrears by the family pension in respect of his / her daughter. This has not been agreed to.
7. Non payment of arrears of pension on account of Revision of pension w.e.f. 1.1.2006 in case of pensioner of Chandrapur. Now these arrears have been disbursed by all Banks.
New Items.
I. Equitable Gratuity under Rule 50 of Pension Rules, 1972.
As recommended by IV CPC the following rates of Death Gratuity had been provided for:-
Sl. No. Length of Service Rate of Death Gratuity
1. Less than one year 2 times emoluments
2. One year or more but less Then 5 years 6 times of emoluments
3. 5 Years or more but less than 20 years 12 times emoluments
4. 20 years or more half of emoluments for every
completed six monthly period
of qualifying service subject
to maximum of 33
times of
Staff Side suggested the following amendment in Sl. No. 3 above which
may be split as under:-
a). Five years or more 12 times the emoluments
Staff Side suggested the following amendment in Sl. No. 3 above which
may be split as under:-
a). Five years or more 12 times the emoluments
but less than 11 years.
b). 11 years or more but less than 20 years 20 times of emoluments
The Govt. has not agreed and have suggested that the matter may be raised before the next Pay Commission.
II.Extension of CS (MA) Rules, 1944 to Central Government Pensioners.
The Health Ministry has agreed to extend CS (MA) Rules, 1944 to Pensioners. In many cases which had gone to Court, it has been ruled that pensioners are entitled to full reimbursement of medical expenses incurred by them as per CS (MA) Rules 1944 which are applicable in the case of serving employees. The Department of Expenditure has not agreed to implement the above decision. The pensioners have to wait till the Medical Insurance Scheme is introduced.
III. Grant of modified parity with reference to the Revised Pay Scale corresponding to pre revised Pay Scale of the post from which an employee had retired. The Govt. cited the decision of Supreme Court in K.S. Krishna Swamy Vs UOI (C.A. no.3173-3174/2006 and 3188-3190/2006). According to this the benefit of up-gradation of post subsequent to their retirement would not be admissible to pre 1996 / pre 2006 retirees.
The Staff Side pointed out that the result of this clarification is that a retiree is now being compared with the pay scale of an employee two stages lower and subordinate to the post from which an employee has retired. If V IV CPCs have consciously upgraded certain posts it is established that pay scales granted for these posts were in adequate and only therefore the up-gradation has been recommended by them. On what ground the benefit of up-gradation even in determining the modified parity be denied to them when it is established that they retired from a pay scale which were inadequate.
However Govt. did not agree to reconsider this matter.
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks.
With greetings,
Yours fraternally,
Secretary General


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Yongye International, Inc. Sets Record Date for Special Meeting of Stockholders to Approve Amended Merger Agreement
BEIJING, April 30, 2014 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Yongye International, Inc. (NASDAQ: YONG) ("Yongye" or the "Company"), a leading developer, manufacturer, and distributor of crop nutrient products in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), today announced that it has established the close of business on May 5, 2014 as the record date for its special meeting of stockholders to consider and vote on, among other things, the proposal to approve the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of September 23, 2013, as amended on April 9, 2014 (the "Amended Merger Agreement"), among the Company, Full Alliance International Limited, Yongye International Limited ("Parent") and Yongye International Merger Sub Limited ("Merger Sub").
Under the terms of the Amended Merger Agreement, Merger Sub will be merged with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving company after the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (the "Merger"). If the Merger is completed, Yongye stockholders will be entitled to receive US$7.10 in cash, without interest, less any applicable withholding taxes, for each share of the Company's common stock owned immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger as described in the Amended Merger Agreement.
The Company's Board of Directors, acting upon the unanimous recommendation of a special committee of the Board of Directors comprised solely of independent and disinterested directors (the "Special Committee"), approved and adopted the Amended Merger Agreement and has recommended that the Company's stockholders vote to approve the Amended Merger Agreement. The Special Committee negotiated the terms of the Amended Merger Agreement with the assistance of its financial and legal advisors.
Any stockholders with questions should contact the Company's proxy solicitor, MacKenzie Partners at (800) 322-2885 (toll-free in North America) or collect at +1 (212) 929-5500.
Additional Information and Where to Find it
This communication is neither a solicitation of a proxy nor an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell any securities. This communication is also not a substitute for any proxy statement or other filings that may be made with the SEC with respect to the Merger.
In connection with the special meeting of stockholders to be held to approve the Amended Merger Agreement, the Company filed a preliminary proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on April 28, 2014, and will file with the SEC and mail a definitive proxy statement to its stockholders. In addition, certain participants in the proposed transaction will prepare and mail to the Company's stockholders a Schedule 13E-3 transaction statement. These documents have been or will be filed with the SEC. INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY THESE MATERIALS AND OTHER MATERIALS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, AS THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PARENT, THE COMPANY, THE MERGER, THE PERSONS SOLICITING PROXIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE MERGER ON BEHALF OF THE COMPANY AND THE INTERESTS OF THOSE PERSONS IN THE MERGER AND RELATED MATTERS. In addition to receiving the proxy statement and Schedule 13E-3 transaction statement by mail, stockholders also will be able to obtain these documents, as well as other filings containing information about the Company, the proposed merger and related matters, without charge, from the SEC's website (http://www.sec.gov) or at the SEC's public reference room at 100 F Street, NE, Room 1580, Washington, D.C. 20549. In addition, these documents can be obtained, without charge, by contacting the Company at Yongye International, Inc., 6th Floor, Suite 608, Xue Yuan International Tower, No. 1 Zhichun Road, Haidian District, Beijing, PRC, telephone: +86 10 8231 8866. E-mail: [email protected].
Participants in the Solicitation
The Company and certain of its directors, executive officers and other members of management and employees may, under SEC rules, be deemed to be "participants" in the solicitation of proxies from the Company's stockholders with respect to the proposed merger. Information regarding the persons who may be considered "participants" in the solicitation of proxies will be set forth in the proxy statement and Schedule 13E-3 transaction statement relating to the proposed merger when it is filed with the SEC. Additional information regarding the interests of such potential participants will be included in the proxy statement and Schedule 13E-3 transaction statement and the other relevant documents filed with the SEC when they become available.
About Yongye International, Inc.
Yongye International, Inc. is a leading crop nutrient company headquartered in Beijing, with its production facilities located in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China. Yongye's principal product is a liquid crop nutrient, from which the Company derived substantially all of the sales in 2013. The Company also produces powder animal nutrient product which is mainly used for dairy cows. Both products are sold under the trade name "Shengmingsu," which means "life essential" in Chinese. The Company's patented formula utilizes fulvic acid as the primary compound base and is combined with various micro and macro nutrients that are essential for the health of the crops. The Company sells its products primarily to provincial level distributors, who sell to the end-users either directly or indirectly through county-level and village-level distributors. For more information, please visit the Company's website at www.yongyeintl.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains certain statements that may include "forward-looking statements." All statements other than statements of historical fact included herein are "forward-looking statements." These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects" or similar expressions, involving known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including the risk factors discussed in the Company's periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on the SEC's website (http://www.sec.gov). All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these risk factors. Other than as required under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.
Yongye International, Inc.
Ms. Rain Xia
Phone: +86-10-8231-9608
E-mail: [email protected]
Mr. John Capodanno (U.S. Contact)
Phone: +1-212-850-5705
E-mail: [email protected]
Ms. May Shen (China Contact)
Phone: +86-10-8591-1951
E-mail: [email protected]
SOURCE Yongye International, Inc.


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The folks at SC-3000 survivors have been working on a cartridge capable of storing dozens of games for the ancient Sega SC-3000 computer. The PCB works beautifully, but making a case for their cartridge left them with few options. They could use a 3D printer or simply collect a whole bunch of used cartridge cases, but making their own mold for a cartridge case was the best solution.
To create the mold for their multicart enclosure, the SC-3000 survivors first took an old, used case and made a silicone mold. While the first attempt at mold making was encouraging, several problems began to crop up due to the lack of vent holes and wiggling the mold before the resin had set. Before long, a proper technique to make resin casts was developed: use lots of resin, and don't apply pressure or rubber bands to a curing mold.
We're always impressed by what can be done with a few sheets of plastic, some Bondo, and the inordinate amounts of patience and sandpaper we see with other case mods and enclosure builds. the SC-3000 survivors put together an enclosure that rivals any Bondo build, and we're happy they put out this tutorial.


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Apple Releases OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" Preview
by Andrew Cunningham on February 16, 2012 9:30 AM EST- Posted in
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Using several media outlets, Apple has just announced major details about Mac OS X 10.8, the next version of the company's desktop operatng system. The new release, codenamed "Mountain Lion," will be available to people with Mac developer accounts soon in the form of a preview, and a release to the public is expected late this summer. This short development cycle, unheard of since the early days of Mac OS X over a decade ago, reflects a desire at Apple to mirror the roughly yearly release cycle of iOS.
Despite the name, which suggests a version relatively light in feature changes over the previous version (like the transition from Leopard to Snow Leopard), Mountain Lion is intended to be a major new feature release that continues the work of bringing iOS features to the Mac: many of its major features are iOS transplants, including the Notification Center (which will bring unified notifications to OS X, replacing third-party apps like Growl), Game Center, iMessage support (in the form of an app called Messages, which replaces iChat - there's a free beta available for Lion users now), AirPlay Mirroring, a Notes app, Reminders, Twitter integration, tighter iCloud integration, and others. Frankly, this list of iOS imports actually seems to make more sense for the Mac as a platform than did some of the features (like Launchpad) that were brought over in Lion.
Mountain Lion will also include some new features all its own: Gatekeeper, which is aimed straight at system administrators, will allow admins to lock down the type of apps allowed to run on Macs. You can choose to allow apps only from the Mac App Store, apps from the Mac App store as well as those from developers you approve, or apps from anywhere (which is the default behavior in OS X currently). This can be seen as another step toward disallowing non-Mac App Store programs from running in OS X, but taken at face value it appears to be a solid compromise between the security of iOS-like behavior and the flexibility to install code from anywhere that users have always been accustomed to in OS X.
We don't have any information about system requirements yet, so we don't know whether Mountain Lion will run on any Lion-compatible Mac (which seems technically possible) or whether it will drop support for some older machines (which has historically happened with new OS X releases - see this page of our Lion review for in-depth information on what got dropped from the support list and why). The Apple developer site is currently down, but as soon as it comes back up those with developer accounts should be able to download and play with the next version of OS X. We'll continue to cover the new OS as details are made public.
Update: As we suggested might happen in our Lion review, Mountain Lion's developer preview appears to do away with support for any Mac that cannot boot into OS X's 64-bit kernel. I'll link you to that page of our Lion review again if you'd like deep technical information about what that means, but the short version is that a wide range of Apple's products from 2007 and 2008 are being dropped regardless of whether they include a Core 2 Duo processor. The list of supported Macs includes:
• iMac (mid 2007 or later)
• MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
• MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
• MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
• Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
• Xserve (Early 2009)
The cutoff happens in different places for different products, but here are some rules of thumb: if your Mac uses the ATI Radeon X1600 graphics chip or the Intel GMA 950/X3100 integrated graphics chips, you're out of luck. If you've got a white iMac or one of the very first Mac Pros, you're out of luck. There are a few easy ways to check whether your Mac can run the 64-bit kernel, and Apple outlines all of them in this support document.
It should be noted that this information comes from the developer preview's release notes and may not be indicative of the final support list, but Lion's dropping of Core Duo Macs (and Snow Leopard's dropping of PPC Macs) were known quantities pretty early in the development of those operating systems - support for these older Macs may be added before the final release, but history suggests otherwise.
Source: The Verge
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overseer - Thursday, February 16, 2012 - link
Allow me if I look ignorant, but does Mountian Lion have genuine TRIM support? -
MySchizoBuddy - Thursday, February 16, 2012 - link
Lion already comes with TRIM support. Albeit it is only enabled for Apple certified SSDs. There was an article on how to enable TRIM for all SSDs -
dagamer34 - Thursday, February 16, 2012 - link
Problem is that it can cause beach balling on some SSDs (it did on my OCZ Vertex 3), which is why it isn't enabled for all drives. I don't think Apple tested it on 3rd party SSDs that well. -
djc208 - Thursday, February 16, 2012 - link
Umm, it's Apple, since when did they ever support 3rd party anything if they offered their own version. If it doesn't work with your SSD that's because you should have been using an Apple SSD. -
ckryan - Thursday, February 16, 2012 - link
I think the beachballing with 2281s is from the the way SF's do TRIM. -
Henk Poley - Thursday, February 16, 2012 - link
Someone (apparently) copied the requirements: http://pastebin.com/Q5yishhi -
Andrew.a.cunningham - Thursday, February 16, 2012 - link
Just updated the article before I saw this. Thanks for the heads-up! -
MonkeyPaw - Thursday, February 16, 2012 - link
Don't you just love how Apple just cuts off old products? Those first-run Macpros (with that terrible FB-DIMM tech) were expensive, and are now obsolete according to Apple. Sure, you can stick to 10.6 or 10.7, but pretty much any PC from 2007 will be able to run Win8, so long as you give it enough RAM. Apple just gets away with doing whatever they want, all while making billions. I just don't get it. -
Andrew.a.cunningham - Thursday, February 16, 2012 - link
I see WHY they do it (cutting out old hardware both to force upgrades and to lessen their headaches from supporting older stuff), but they're definitely not doing it because they have to. Any machine booting the 32-bit kernel now could be made to boot the 64-bit kernel via driver and EFI updates (we saw it in Lion, where some of the early aluminum iMacs and some other machines couldn't boot EFI64 in Snow Leopard but became supported by Lion), but the benefit to users apparently isn't enough to justify the effort on Apple's part.
The worst thing about this is how unclear and arbitrary the whole 64-bit kernel thing has always been. At least dropping PPC/Core Duo support was a clear line in the sand with a clear technological justification. This cutoff is going to be a weird one to explain to the layperson (though I submit that the number of people running Macs this old who are ALSO fastidious about updating to the latest OS X is probably a small subsection of the user base).
I also worry that we'll see more Macs left behind more quickly by this new rapid update process - traditional CPU/GPU development has slowed enough that computers can easily be useful for 4-5 years even for more demanding users (as opposed to the much more rapid improvements in performance that we see on the ARM/SoC side of the fence), and I'd hate to see expensive Mac hardware treated as if it were as disposable as iOS devices that cost half as much (or less). -
KPOM - Friday, February 17, 2012 - link
Perhaps this is another reason why they are pushing the App Store model. I can see a future where the App Store knows exactly which apps are compatible with your device and shows only those devices that operate.


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In these days it is sixty years since the end of the Second World War. What happened during that time, our mothers and fathers lived to pass through and suffer. Their experiences and memories have become part of our own history. Their texts and documents are not only stored up in our archives; they have become part of our knowledge and our memory.
Conscious of the responsibility for our thoughts and deeds, today as well as for the past and the future, we feel called upon to take a stand to the past events in an open and humble manner.
I. We deeply regret…
…that this terrible war which brought unmeasurable suffering over mankind originated in our countries – and that Seventh-day Adventists also took part in it.
…that the character of the National Socialist dictatorship had not been realized in time and distinctly enough, and the ungodly nature of NS ideology had not clearly been identified.
…that in some of our publications or papers published by us there were found articles glorifying Adolf Hitler and agreeing with the ideology of anti-Semitism in a way that is unbelievable from today's point of view.
…that our peoples became associated with racial fanaticism destroying the lives and freedom of six million Jews and representatives of all the minorities in all of Europe within a few years – and that many Seventh-day Adventists did not share the distress and suffering of their Jewish fellow-citizens.
…that we excluded, separated and left fellow-citizens of Jewish origin to themselves so that they were delivered to imprisonment, exile or death.
II. We honestly confess…
…that by our failure we became guilty towards the Jewish people, towards all persons persecuted and all suffering of war and also towards Adventists in other countries. For this we humbly ask God and the survivors concerned to forgive us.
…that in those days of distress we as Seventh-day Adventists did not act more courageously and consequently, in spite of our knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and the Prophetic Word, and thus failed to follow our Lord. We did not follow decidedly enough the ones among our ranks who boldly offered resistance and did not bow to the Nazi dictatorship nor cooperate with it.
…that neither the passing of time nor the great distress and need of those days could justify or repair the wrong committed; only God in His Grace is able to grant remission of failure and sin.
III. We want to take a firm stand…
…that never any war against other nations will originate from Germany or Austria, and that no one will be limited or discriminated against because of race, religion, nationality or gender.
…that the past events will not be left forgotten but remain in our sight even today as a continuing memorial.
…that the obedience we owe to the state authorities does not allow giving up Biblical convictions and values.
…that we will be able to 'discern the spirits' and to confess our faith and live consequently, even if we will come into the 'hour of temptation'.
Final Remark
With this declaration we do not want to express contempt over those who lived and believed in those times. We have no right to condemn our fathers and mothers, God alone is the judge. Nor are we entitled to free others from their guilt, God alone makes us free.
In our days however, we want to take a decided stand for right and justice – towards all peoples. We earnestly pray to God that we will succeed. By His Grace He alone is able to give us the intention and the power to fulfill that task.
In the name of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Germany
Klaus van Treeck Günther Machel
In the name of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Germany
Herbert Brugger


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It was one of those usual mornings in Hong Kong ( where we used to live earlier ) , my hubby had left to the ferry point to catch a ferry to the office while I decided to go out for a quick morning walk. I took a longer than usual stroll as I spent sometime near the beach as the morning breeze and the soft rush of the waves was quite welcoming. While walking back home I bumped into an Indian aunt and those days it used to feel great to talk to someone from your place. After the usual greetings I got to know that she stays near our house.We chatted for a long while and then she invited me to come to her house for a quick cup of coffee.That one cup of coffee turned into a proper breakfast where I got to taste this moong adai for the first time. I liked the taste so I took the recipe immediately and experimented it that weekend. From that day this has joined my breakfast menu.
I am sharing you some snaps which we have taken from our house in Hongkong.Guys,Disney Land wass just on the other side of the sea and we got to see the fireworks of Disney Land directly from our Living room window and from the bed room window overlooked the HongKong Skyline.On the weekends lots of boating,surfing activities will be going on which we could see from our house...Oh..!! I miss that place now badly..:)
2 Cups Raw rice
1 Cup Whole green moong(Pesalu)
5-6 Green chillies
Salt to taste
- Soak rice and green moong separately for 4-5 hrs.
- Grind rice to a very fine mixture,then add the green moong and green chillies and grind it a coarse mixture.You should really feel the moong dal when we touch it.
- Add salt to the ground mixture and mix well.Ferment it overnight or for 8-9 hrs.
- Prepare Adai's as thin as possible with some drops of oil on Tawa.They come out really crisp.
I am sending this to Nag's 'Ravishing Rice' Event Which was originally started by Meeta.


text: Truth be told, I picked up Origin only because I saw the cover of Vitro, which I thought was gorgeous. I loved it the moment I laid my eyes on it and when I learnt that it's the second book in the series, I decided I had to read the first, so I would have a reason to hold the pretty white cover with the test-tube that contains clear blue seawater and and island. Shallow, maybe. But what does it matter if a cover makes me pick up a book?