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In 1529 he was appointed bishop of Rodez, and he was soon joined by his secretary and life companion, the humanist Guillaume Philandrier (1505–1565), the commentator on Vitruvius , who provided, under Armagnac's patronage, the design for the new cathedral façade at Rodez and catalogued the Bishop's increasing library.
He was sent as ambassador to Venice, 1536–39, where he took the opportunity to sit to Titian for a highly personal and evocative double portrait with the attentive Philandrier, whose commentary on Vituvius, the first in French, was completed in 1544. Armgnac's brief was to secure Venetian neutrality in the north Italian military conflicts between Francis I and Charles V, an episode of the Italian Wars. The emperor's failure to take Avignon led him to retreat from the south of France (1538). With the temporary truce of 1539 the king sent him as ambassador to the Holy See, where he was made a Cardinal in December 1544, remaining as ever the agent of French policy. He participated in the conclave (November 1550) that elected his friend, the worldly humanist and patron Pope Julius III,
Armagnac's library was constantly growing. In 1543 he commissioned an illuminated book of meditations in the best italic humanistic hand from Franc. Wydon (Musée de Condé, Chantilly) and was pleased enough with it to commission a pontifical from Wydon in 1557 (B.N.) Wherever he was, the Cardinal sought out the company of men of learning and experience, and often befriended them. When his former tutor, his countryman from Albi the adventurous philologist and investigator of the antiquities of Constantinople Pierre Gilles died penniless in Rome in 1555, Cardinal d'Aramagnac arranged from Toulouse to pay the funeral expenses and erect a wall tomb Gilles' posthumous Antiquities of Constantinople were dedicated to the Cardinal.
In 1552 he was appointed lieutenant-general of the king at Toulouse, together with the bishop of Cahors. On January 6, 1554, in the chapel of the château of Pau, he baptized Henri of Navarre, future king of France. In 1560 he was raised to the Archbishopric of Toulouse, the cultural capital of the Languedoc, the occasion for another visit to Rome.
In 1565, Pope Pius IV appointed him vice-legate at Avignon, together with the Cardinal de Bourbon. The papal city of Avignon remained faithful in the bloody Wars of Religion that had broken out in earnest in 1562, but in the surrounding Venaissin the Huguenots were solidly implanted in Orange and the neighboring Dauphiné, and fierce fighting ensued. Charles IX appointed his cousin Charles of Burgundy legate, but the man on the site was Armagnac, solidly of the Catholic party.
In this position the Cardinal d'Armagnac vigorously defended Catholic interests against the Huguenots; when his cousin Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre and mother of the future Henri IV, declared for the reformed church, he sent her a stiff letter of reproof, which, with her skillful and courageous reply conjoined, was printed and circulated throughout the south. The pope showed his approval of d'Armagnac's administration by promoting him to the Archbishopric of Avignon (1576).
Georges d'Armagnac's position among the first nobility of Languedoc, his intelligence and judgment of men and events, and the protection which he granted to the arts and sciences placed him in the first rank of the faithful servants of the 16th-century Church. He was a friend and correspondent of the leading literary figures of his time in France and Italy.


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>> Vote for the changes that would make the most difference to your world
Big gains have been made in child survival, but efforts must be redoubled to meet the global target. The target is to reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under five years old mortality rate, from 93 children of every 1,000 dying to 31 of every 1,000.
In Central Asia, this goal is almost reached since the under fiver years old mortality rate has diminished from 76 children of every 1,000 dying in 1990 to 42 children of every 1,000 in 2011.
(See: The Millennium Development Goals Report 2012)


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Muscle Mustangs & Fast FordsHow To Engine
Ford Capri AFR Cylinder Head - King Capri
In this final installment, we try AFR's new 165 Competition cylinder heads on this '85 Capri.
To A 5-liter owner, getting a set of aluminum heads is like hitting the lottery. The factory chunks of cast iron don't flow diddly, and that's a big problem if you're trying to make horsepower. Thankfully, aluminum heads are plentiful and affordable. Unlike the modular powerplants, which have pretty good heads in stock form, the 302 engines from 1979-95 weren't big breathers, so one of the keys to unlocking power comes from swapping the heads.
Knowing this, 5.0 owners will normally go for a set of aftermarket heads, of which dozens are available. Aftermarket aluminum casts prove beneficial because they save weight and increase airflow to the engine. For around $1,200, anyone can increase performance of an otherwise stock 5.0, and with a few extra bolt-ons, the increase can be doubled. That's the point we're trying to prove in this article.
Often, owners subscribe to the "bigger-is-better" theory, but this just doesn't work when trying to select the most efficient set of heads for a mostly stock 302. It's far more important to select heads that have intake and exhaust ports (and valves) sized for your intake, cam, exhaust, and gearing, or the combination won't be efficient. In many applications, smaller ports create better airflow velocity in the low and mid-lift range. This helps fill the cylinders, which translates into great torque and excellent throttle response. Some will still want the big flow numbers up high, at 0.600-inch lift, but for most street/strip applications, you'll see better results when you focus on average power.
To that end, we decided to swap heads on the '85 Capri we've been fooling with. In the past two issues, we've taken the mildly modded 302 and added a Weiand Stealth intake and Demon 575-cfm carb, an S&B free-flowing air filter, and a Holley fuel pump. We also added a Lunati cam (PN 510A2LUN) with 0.525-inch lift and Comp's 1.6 Magnum rockers. For our effort, we were rewarded with gains of almost 50 rwhp, from 207 to 255. Now it's time to swing for the fences.
We originally selected Air Flow Research's popular 165cc heads for this article, but the folks at AFR turned us on to their latest 165 Competition Package heads with 1.90- and 1.60-inch valves. The Comp Package uses the standard 165 casts, albeit with a different porting profile.
"We run a different porting program with a different shape in order to flow more air," says Rick Sperling of AFR. "[The program] takes a few more hours to run, but it picks up 7-10 cfm across the board, from 0.200- to 0.600-inch lift on the intake and exhaust.
"The Comp heads are for the guy who can't use a 185cc head with the larger 2.02-inch valves because they would hit the pistons in a stock short-block. For the size, these heads offer excellent flow with small valves and ports, and we've seen them make 10-12 hp over our standard 165s."
Swapping heads on a 302 is not difficult, but there are things you should know. First and foremost, you'll need a set of gaskets. We used Fel-Pro 8548 head gaskets, as well as new head bolts from ARP in our 130,000-mile engine. While AFR offers the heads with pedestal rocker mounts, we ordered ours with stud mounts because of the the Magnum rockers we're using. The stud-mount heads come with pushrod guideplates, and this requires hardened pushrods, which we got from Manley (PN 25627-16). We also slipped in a new set of hydraulic roller lifters from Comp Cams because the stock lifters looked beat up
If we hit it right, the package would produce awesome power from idle to redline. While we didn't want to make any predictions, we were secretly hoping the 302 would eclipse the 300-rwhp mark.
With parts in hand, Glen Knell of Crazy Horse Racing worked with us on the 302 from morning to evening. In that time, we had the heads and most of the components bolted to the 302. At this time, we also realized the 302 was not equipped with stock '85 heads, but a set of E7TE heads that had the emission bumps removed from the exhaust ports. The following day, we buttoned up the engine, added the coolant, fired the engine, and checked for leaks. All seemed well, so we strapped the Mercury to the Dynojet to get the results.


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I borrowed of a copy of Hive Management by Richard E. Bonney recently, and I like it. It's a practical instruction book that seems geared towards second year beekeepers, but it should give beginners something to think about too. If it had the kind of detailed photos like those in The Backyard Beekeeper or The Buzz About Bees, I might consider it essential. Either way, I just ordered a copy for myself. (I also ordered Honeybee Democracy and The Queen Must Die.) I think it's worth the $15 I paid for it because it's full of sensible tips that got me thinking more about the nature of honey bee behaviour in relation to how I manage the hives, and it covers the basics of beekeeping but doesn't overwhelm.
Bonney is wise to mention that he lives the USA, in New England, and that much of the advice he gives should be adjusted to one's local climate. New England is not the same as Newfoundland, but it's not too far off, and at least he's not writing from the perspective of a beekeeper in Arizona or California. Most of what he talks about — beekeeping with double deep Langstroth hives in a climate where it snows — is applicable to beekeeping in Newfoundland.
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I noticed our bees drinking dirty water last May. They seem to love the minerals from the dark composted soil in our raised garden beds. They've been at it again for the past few days.
Another book I read while stricken with the flu is Increase Essentials by Lawrence John Connor, a short and easy read that's probably the definitive book on nucs — it's comprehensive. It's mainly about increasing hives by creating splits and nucleus colonies from established hives. Beginner beekeepers or backyard beekeepers who are happy with two or three hives don't need to concern themselves with it. Laidback beekeepers who want to create nucs for themselves but don't feel the need to earn a PhD while they're at it can simply read Why every beekeeper should have a nuc at Honey Bee Suite. I didn't read every single word of the book (I did some skimming), because I don't need to know everything it covers just yet. But I do plan to expand our four hives to eight this summer, and continually expand every summer after that as I secure more land for our hives. That means I eventually need to learn the basics of creating nucs and rearing mated queens for the nucs. I'll take on queen rearing next year. This year I'll start with making my own nucs.
Most of the following notes (and there aren't too many) address swarming and queen mating issues. To delve into the main details of the book would take too long. Suffice it to say there is a huge amount of information in this small book, and it all seems sound. I know I will constantly reference Increase Essentials when I decide to create mating nucs and expand our hives further next year.
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I recently read Beekeeping For All (8mb PDF), by Abbé Warré. He's the guy who designed the "People's Hive," also known as the Warré hive. To condense what I said in a previous post, it's a top bar and therefore foundationless hive with small, square shaped hive boxes, no top entrance and a quilt box on top to absorb moisture. Boxes are added to the bottom of the hive, not the top — the bees build comb downwards as they would in nature. Honey is harvested from back-filled brood comb at the top of the hive. Warré called it the People's Hive because it's cheap and easy to build and maintain. The beekeeper need only add boxes to the bottom to prevent swarming, which is done without opening the hive or disturbing the brood nest. The Warré hive, perhaps more than any other hive, emulates the conditions of a natural honey bee hive.
From what I can tell, the hive is designed to minimize interference from the beekeeper. The only time it's opened is when honey boxes are removed from the top (at most, twice a year). That fact, along with the absence of a top entrance, helps concentrate the queen's pheromones throughout the hive, which supposedly results in calmer bees. The regular rotating out of old comb from the top also means the brood are more likely to be healthy because they're always raised in new, clean, natural sized comb.
Another key feature is the small square sided hive boxes. The height of each box is slightly less than a typical Langstroth, but the sides are each 30cm long (about 12 inches). The square shape allows for more even heat distribution and requires less work from the bees. Warré also claims that bees in a smaller, more natural sized brood chamber consume less honey over winter and are therefore less likely to starve before spring.
I'm not yet convinced that any kind of foundationless hive will do well in the exceptionally wet climate of St. John's, Newfoundland. I've only been at this for, what, 611 days, so I still have more than a lot to learn. But some aspects of the Warré design, such as the small brood nest area, seem to make more sense than the conventional Langstroth design, and I'm tempted to integrate them into some of my own hives.
I don't agree with all of Warré's claims. In some cases that's because I don't have the experience to know what's what either way. In other cases I can confidently disagree because I know his observations are based on his local climate in France that has no correlation to my local climate where the bees do different things at different times of the year. Nevertheless, I think he came up with a thoughtful design and method that might appeal to beekeepers who aren't so intent on the consistent hive manipulation that's synonymous with many beekeeping practices today.
Note: This is an unusually long post, probably not much interest to general readers. I promise I won't do this kind of thing on a regular basis. But I've been out of commission with a weird, rotten flu and I don't have anything better to do. So without further adieu, here are some notes I wrote while I read the book on my Kindle:
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My beekeeping ambitions are tamed mainly by the fact that I don't have convenient access to land. If I had access to more land, even just a little bit of land, I'd be tempted to expand from four hives to twenty this year instead of eight, and then build them up even further the year after that. I'd study up more on honey bee behaviour, queen rearing, hive management and honey production and I'd construct other types of hives besides Langstroths. I'd invest considerably more time and money into beekeeping and understanding honey bees. I love hanging with the bees.
I even have a business plan worked out. But I can't entertain anything like that at the moment because it would be an exercise in frustration. I don't want to think about it until I know I can make it happen. It's bad enough that we have a huge field on our property behind our shed…
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Ummm, can't you just smell the pollen in the air?
I keep hearing from beekeepers online about their bees bringing in pollen. None of those beekeepers live in Newfoundland. We didn't see our bees bring in any pollen until April 13th last year, so we probably have a while to wait yet. The most exciting thing I can report is that our bees were flying around the yard today like gang busters. At 12°C (possibly the warmest day we've had this year), how could they resist?
At least we don't have varroa mites in Newfoundland.
We gave our four hives some dry sugar 62 days ago. Here's some riveting footage that shows how that's working out for us (so far so good).
The only thing we'll do differently next year is lay sugar over either the front or back half of the frames. That way the bees can access the sugar without any trouble and there's still plenty of room to add a full-sized pollen patty. As seen in the video, adding pollen patties is tricky with all that sugar in the way. And we won't spray the newspaper next time either.
Previous posts in this continuing saga: Dry Sugar Feeding, Dry Sugar Feeding Update and Dry Sugar Check Up and Pollen Patties.


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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Offsiren song of the fucking counter culture!
theres endgame
because a lot of people are silly :V
How is it silly to like Hero of War? It's a nice song. I don't understand why everybody hates the
lyrics so much...
Album Rating: 2.5wow, I don't get why people like this album. First of all, Savior was not that good. It's one of RA's worse songs. There is far too much filler on this album, and the clue is that it's the mid-paced stuff. Punk and mid-paced do not mix well in high amounts like this. Zach Blair is easily the worst thing to happen to this band.
The bored vocals are another reason this album is a poor effort from Rise Against. Tim used to be incredibly energetic. I don't mind the lack of screams, but the fucking bored vocals are the second worst thing to happen to Rise Against.
Album Rating: 3.5Savior might be my favorite song by them.
It's fan-fucking-tastic.
Album Rating: 4.0Album has some really awesome songs and some which are filler feeling.
Album Rating: 2.5OMFG. Savior rant rant rant
I spared you a few paragraphs, I don't like Savior.
Album Rating: 3.5oh ok.
Album Rating: 3.5I don't understand why they choose to become softer on each album. I enjoy this but it's nothing like Revolutions Per Minute or Siren Songs of the counter culture
Album Rating: 3.5band making more mainstream music to appeal to masses. surprise.
Album Rating: 2.5but then i joined in
Album Rating: 3.5"I don't understand why they choose to become softer on each album. I enjoy this but it's nothing like Revolutions Per Minute or Siren Songs of the counter culture"
you're kidding right
idk why does Nickelback release the same album over and over
world's unsolved mysteries, right alongside the pre-Big Bang universe
Good review! Just asking (I'm a real dumbass) none of Hero of Wars lyrics are accurate, are they?
Album Rating: 4.0Why does everyone hate "Hero of War" so much? Just because you don't agree with the lyrics doesn't mean they're bad. It's the truth of what happened in Iraq, and if you have a problem with this song, you have a problem with the truth, and if you have a problem with the truth, you're gonna have a lot of problems with RA.
Album Rating: 2.5The lyrics are okay for the most part, but the pissing takes it too far.
Album Rating: 3.0this has some great songs and some really dull ones.
Digging: Between the Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic
Album Rating: 3.0The dirt whispered riff sounds pretty similar to dynamite shovel by TWY
thought that was pretty cool
Album Rating: 3.5>siren song
Digging: Radiohead - Kid A
Album Rating: 3.0nooo
Album Rating: 3.5yes
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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At McArthurGlen, we place a special emphasis on style - we don't
just build shopping centres, we build architecturally designed
retail environments that elevate the shopping experience, making
art accessible to all our visitors.
We commission internationally renowned artists to create eye-catching pieces for our centres and have installed a number of original artworks in the outlet villages across our portfolio.
From Mark Coreth's powerful, bronze Charging Elephant at McArthurGlen Castel Romano to the life-size gondola at McArthurGlen Noventa di Piave, crafted by Lorenzo Della Toffola, or a series of bronze horses heads by Nic Fiddian-Green, the art installations in our centres are designed to enrich the shopping experience and inspire visitors of all ages.


text: Ultra slim LCD monitor with Ergo-fit adjustment and award-winning design It is more than just an LCD monitor—it is craftsmanship at its finest. From the mirror finish of its seamless ultra-slim display, to the sculpted lines of its glacier-cut rear bezel and silver ring stand, it is impossible to resist the allure of the ASUS Designo LS246H LCD Monitor. Shop Modal header Feast Your Eyes on this Visual Masterpiece Ultra-slim Profile An enchanting precious jewel with an ultra-slim profile. Seamless Front Bezel with a Mirror-finish A seamless front bezel with a mirror-finish captures hues of indigo, silver, and gold. Crystalline Base Its transparent crystalline base creates the optical illusion of it floating in mid-air. Touch-sensitive Revolving Dial The amber halo of its intuitive touch-sensitive dial conveys an air of refinement Silver Ring Stand A metallic silver ring stand features Ergo-Fit Technology for easy tilt adjustments with one finger. Glacier-Cut Rear Bezel A delicate glacier-cut rear bezel further accentuates its beauty and elegance. Dazzle Your Visual Senses Full HD with HDMI Enter a spectacular world of colors with Full HD 1080p (1920x1080) support and HDMI port. ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio Be captivated by stunning images with ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio (ASCR) technology that boosts the display´s contrast ratio to an astonishing 50,000:1. 2ms Response Time Quick response time of 2ms (GTG) eliminates ghosting and tracers for more fluid video playback. Splendid™ Video Intelligence Technology The exclusive Splendid Video Intelligence Technology optimizes video performance and image fidelity by enhancing color, brightness, contrast, and sharpness. 5 preset video modes (Scenery, Theater, Game, Night View, and Standard) can be selected via a hotkey. Care for the Earth The eco-friendly design reduces power consumption by 30% and is manufactured with 50% less hazardous materials.


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When Hillary Clinton opened her Washington townhouse for a political fundraiser last fall, the highlight for a select few came after the movers and shakers wrote their checks and left.
Despite her fame and power, Clinton keeps in regular touch with the circle of close high school girlfriends she made growing up in Park Ridge back when the Beatles were a new act.
Led by the junior senator from New York and soon-to-be presidential candidate, the Maine South alumnae adjourned to the kitchen, raided the fridge, gushed over a friend's jewelry and mugged in yoga poses. All that was missing were the hair curlers and the stack of 45 r.p.m. hits.
"We just kicked our shoes off, and Hillary was just one of the girls," said Betsy Ebeling, who has known Clinton since the 6th grade.
If Clinton has a problem as she seeks the Democratic presidential nod -- and problem is a relative term for a tightly disciplined campaign powered by a fiercely loyal political army -- it's that many voters consider her nothing like the down-to-earth woman in that kitchen scene.
A Clinton campaign mantra is that she is the most famous but least known candidate in the presidential race, an odd conceit given that hers is one of the best known faces in the world. Perhaps no one in American public life has had her life subjected to such intense and personal examination -- the dozens of books, the many investigations, the tabloid obsessions.
Her hairdos, her cleavage, even her laugh have been picked apart for hidden meaning. Few names are as likely to start an argument.
Her qualities are also enmeshed in the profound question that her presidential candidacy presents: whether America is ready for a woman as commander in chief.
Rivals see her as slick Willie in a pantsuit, with shifting stands on everything from Iraq to free trade agreements, guided more by polls than principles. They were quick to pounce in a recent debate when Clinton, in a rare stumble, resorted to semantic gymnastics worthy of her husband as she strained to avoid a clear stand on a controversial plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
That same issue, in the next debate, also underscored her strength. She pivoted quickly, changed position and managed to come out looking like the winner.
No potential opponent animates the GOP base like Clinton. They still think of her as a conniving, imperious first lady who tried to impose sweeping government controls on health care.
Republican Dick Armey, the former House majority leader, summed up the GOP anxiety over a new Clinton White House this way: She is more disciplined than her husband and may at times sound downright moderate, but that only masks her big government agenda. "We all know what she wants," said Armey. "She wants the government to run your life."
Disdain hasn't been confined to the right. Some liberals accuse her of finger-to-the-wind Iraq stands, and feminists complain that ambition led her to become a doormat for her philandering husband.
Hillary Clinton's many admirers see a very different person, earnest, focused and pragmatic, a symbol of accomplishment.
To all of that, Clinton's Maine South pals would add another quality: resilience. In school, she was the quintessential striver, the National Merit Scholar with an armful of community service awards. She might stumble, but she never gave up.
It is that tenacity that undergirds her presidential bid. Clinton's tenure as first lady was marred by turmoil and melodrama, yet in just a few short years she has come into her own as a political force with a genuine shot at shattering the nation's ultimate glass ceiling.
A suburban childhood
At the corner of Elm and Wisner Streets in Park Ridge were four manhole covers that doubled as bases in the neighborhood pickup softball games. One regular was Hillary Diane Rodham, at 10 the ball-playing equal of any boy at Eugene Field Elementary School.
"We always wanted her on our team," recalled Ernest Ricketts. "She absolutely loved the game and could give you the stats of players in the American League, the National League."
Clinton: Most famous. Least known?
Former first lady seeks to meld many images into one winning bid
U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-NY) greets supporters at Festhalle Barn at the Amana Colonies November 6, 2007 in Amana, Iowa. (Getty Images photo by Eric Thayer / November 6, 2007)


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This patchset introduce extent buffer cache to btrfs. The basic idea is to reduce the search time and the contentions of the extent buffer lock by re-using the last search result.
I ran stress.sh, xfstests and some other tools to test it, all of them worked well.
As a performance improvement patchset, of course we did performance test. Because this patchset is to improve the b+ tree search, in other words, it improves the performance of the metadata operations, we use file creation test to measure it. So we ran 10 tasks, and all of them created 100000 files in their own directories at the same time. As the result, we found this patchset makes btrfs ~20% faster(98s -> 77s).


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Did you get your Apple TV (2010) yet?
Looks like Apple TV (2010) is starting to be delivered and several readers now claim to have them in their hot little hands. If you've gotten yours, let us know and tell us what it's like.
And if you need help setting it up, using the new features, testing it with iOS 4.2 beta, or just want to kick the discussion up a notch, check out our brand new Apple TV Forum.
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Did you get your Apple TV (2010) yet?
As this is essentially a media extender, if I had no desire in my Xbox or PS3 I'd buy the Apple TV. If they market it right, it will sell REALLY well to non-gamers, considering it's priced fairly decently. However considering the devices past I don't think it will hold up too well against the other devices on the market. In my opinion this will serve more as a Netflix/Hulu(maybe?) device, not so much for TV rentals. Also at this point a VGA/DVI cable from my Macbook to my TV is a more cost effective method, controlled via my iPhone 4.
Ordered mine right after Steve's keynote and received it today at about 12:45pm. Hookup was a snap. My fiance is watching hoarders via Netflix on it right now. Trying to type using the onscreen keyboard and remote is TORTURE. Luckily, I remembered the Remote app for my iPhone. Feel sorry for the rest of my non-iphone owning family though =(.
@Joseph thank you for providing some insight into how it is working for you instead taking the route others have. Please follow up after you've tested a few days. It does no good to sit and complain about a device you do not own and have no intention of doing so. Please email each other your complaints. I care not to hear them.
I like the idea but someone tell me please why apple makes products that get so hot my friend had a first gen returned it because it was extremely hot and i notice his mac book pro charger was also and i notice my ip4 gets hot when using pandora while on my dock charging is this an apple thing or what cause i got alot of tvs pcs and none put off the heat apple products and iam not bashin i just wanna know why
I have an original apple tv and want to upgrade. However, I use it a lot for pictures and music and the appletv connects to my amp. Unfortuantely I don't have a pc on as I just use my work laptops so no internal storage is a massive massive downer for me :(. Damn I was so looking forward to airplay !!
Nope, and probably won't either. Since the Roku XDS can do about everything Apple TV can but do it in 1080p I'd go with that instead.
I just checked. Mine is in Anchorage. Preordered on 9/2 at 10 am. I have a ps3, roku HD, and an internet enabled big screen for ppv. I purchesed this because I like the integration of iTunes and my iPhone. Plus I am not that crazy about roku ui. Ps3 is awesome but I think if the ATV is going with apps or jailbreakable for apps then I got my moneys worth. Worst case I have a another great media streamer. Darn!
In New Zealand. My first impressions are very positive. Setup was a piece of cake although it would be handy if they put the MAC address on the case for those of us who have network filtering on. Streaming of HD movies (looked at trailers) showed no glitches. You Tube also perfect streaming, even for higher res ones. Which is interesting because while my ISP gives me 10Mbps they have an "issue" with YouTube which means it is often not possible to stream. Remote app works well with my library, but so far I prefer the little remote for moving around the main screen. Screens are attractive and navigation is good. Worth the money.
Got mine yesterday. Great little product for a second TV as i have my ps3/360 hooked up to my main TV. Nice surprise was that it can be used as remote speakers for itunes. Iphone control is awesome as well.
Like OdysseyDFX I am badly disappointed by the new AppleTV having no internal storage. The new one means your mac/pc has to be on when using it. A massive downer for my family that use it for music, photos etc when I am not around. I have been a huge fan of the original one and encouraged many friends to get one as well. I'm really pissed off about this now and looking for another device...
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Feb 2, 2012 After close to a decade in graduate school, a post-doc, 24 job interviews, and almost as many rejections, I am elated to have started my first bone-fide adult job. Which in this day and age is not only a blessing, but a miracle, for which I am truly grateful for. While I have mastered the manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular level, I am pretty clueless about how to manipulate my finances. My question: what should my financial priorities be? repayment of school loans? saving for retirement? putting money into an emergency fund?... Romas, Berkeley, CA
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November 10, 2014
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Amazon has begun testing package delivery in San Francisco and Los Angeles using taxi-hailing mobile app Flywheel, according to Yahoo Finance.
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January 1, 2014
Omnichannel Retailers Stand to Win or Lose at Every Touch Point
The cardinal rule of retailing never changes: Customers punish poor performance. This has been true for as long as we've been buying and selling things – maybe 12,000 years or more. In one sense, nothing's changed since that Sardinian farmer …More...
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Jewelry and accessories retailer Alex and Ani saw a 73% lift in monthly email revenue and 36% lift in monthly revenue through using abandoned cart emails, according to a case study.
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December 18, 2013
IBM Predicts an Omnichannel Shopping World
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December 10, 2013
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LISA SPIEGEL: Growing up in American society and watching all those dizzy old movies, we all sort of got the idea that once you have a new baby, you finally get to live happily ever after. And there certainly are those moments of supreme joy. But there are also harder parts to parenting that can make you feel isolated and insecure.
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Ray, what so many folk in other countries don't realize is just how many loooooong straight roads we have in the USA. Cruiser type bikes work well on these super slabs, especially our Interstate systems. It's not much fun traveling 4-600 miles on a hiway all bent up on a super sport. Besides it's tough to look bad azz with leather vest and chaps, head band/doorags, and tats, on a crotch rocket. Just sayin'...tp
I understand that, really. Topography has a lot to do with bike choice (the UK and Japan share a love of sportbikes, perhaps because we are both rocky islands with undulating terrain).
But I also rode the PCH last September, San Diego to Oregon and back. 3000 miles, on a 650GS. If you want the twisties, you can find them
Fwiw, I don't think the USA has felt the economic shit-storm that has hit Europe and places farther afield. God willing, you won't. But I'm not the only one that has made some hard choices. Bikes here aren't toys, or life-style statements, at least not in the same way.
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Sydney has its fair share of Mormans and there is nothing more exciting than making in through Chatswood Morman free. But you have to wonder about all those guys away from family and friends and the fact it'd be pretty boring in a Morman dorm. Mabye the fact they seem so uptight is the fact they have been following this piece of literature on Morman masturbation (two words you don't wanna see together)
Mabye we should all pitch in and buy them some porno's and a packet of wet-ones and mabye they'll loosen up??
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By Annette Hinkle
Say the name Tennessee Williams, and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" are the plays that most audiences call to mind. For good reason. Williams was a master of tapping into the human psyche and the heartache of dreams unfulfilled and all these plays strike that chord effectively.
But Williams wrote other works that never found the mass appeal of his biggest hits. These are plays that delve into the deepest corner of human misery and, though they may tread on difficult terrain, bring a spark of understanding in the end.
"In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel" is one such Williams play. Written in 1969, the title is faithful to its setting, and the play offers a voyeuristic look at the waning days of the complex and volatile relationship between a renown — but psychotic — painter and his long suffering wife. The play is being offered through April 29, 2012 by HITFest. An outgrowth of the Naked Stage play reading series at Guild Hall, HITFest producers Josh Perl and Peter Zablotsky have, for a third season, transformed the stage of the Bridgehampton Community House into The Bridge, a self-contained intimate black box theater which Perl feels suits 'Tokyo Hotel" to a tee.
"I really appreciate the little space we have and the economic realities of it," explains Perl. "We're not expecting to do the greatest hits and have 300 people show up. That's not going to happen nor is it what we're looking to do."
"This is a terrific little chamber piece by one of America's greatest playwrights," he adds. "It wasn't that Williams couldn't have written another block buster, but that's not what he was about. It's much more interior. An actor heard an audience member say 'I feel like I'm a voyeur watching the interior of something I shouldn't have seen.' It's that kind of piece and that kind of space."
This production of "In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel" is directed by Perl with a set by Peter-Tolin Baker and features Seth Hendricks in the role of Mark, the tortured painter, and Licia James-Zegar as Miriam, his embittered wife. The couple has traveled to Tokyo and checked into a hotel where they keep separate rooms. Mark is there to develop a new style of work and rarely emerges from his room where he spends countless hours painting with a spray gun on canvas tacked to the floor, frequently using his own body as a brush.
As the play opens, Miriam is alone in the hotel bar where she orders a stiff drink and makes a none too subtle pass at the barman (Glenn L. Cruz). A callous and calculating "ugly American" with a lack of cultural understanding and a penchant for getting what she wants (men and alcohol seemingly at the top of her list), she makes plans for a side trip to Kyoto and works to convince the barman, who is happily engaged, to accompany her on her jaunt.
One glimpse of her husband explains why. Disheveled, covered in paint, unable to stand and rambling incoherently, Mark enters the bar in the full throes of a physical and mental breakdown — perhaps due to paint fumes. He's convinced he's the first artist to have discovered color and is fearful of his realization. He can't hold a drink properly and Miriam is forced to pour the liquor down his throat. She obviously hopes it will have a curative effect on him.
Meanwhile, Miriam is developing an exit strategy. She has secured many of her husband's most valuable works back home to ensure her financial future. She has also contacted Mark's longtime agent, Leonard (Terrence Fiore) and summoned him to Tokyo. When he arrives, she announces she is turning Mark's care over to him. She expects Leonard to take Mark back to the States where she imagines he'll be institutionalized. For her part, Miriam has no intention of accompanying him and shares details of how she plans to enjoy her life free from the burden of her husband.
Audiences may find Miriam's callousness toward her obviously ill husband difficult to fathom. But Williams, who is said to have loosely based Mark and Miriam on Jackson Pollock (whom he knew personally) and Lee Krasner, leaves us with little doubt about her love for the man. This is a couple who, with time and madness, have grown tragically distant. After supporting and nurturing Mark in his career, Miriam finds in his delirium, he has a new mistress — his work.
"In the bar of a Tokyo Hotel" is, at its heart, a love story. But this is love at the end of life when illness conspires to break it in two. The truth is, Mark is killing himself and Miriam can't bear to watch. We know relief will come with the inevitable, but the façade remains intact as long as it's needed. And in the end, we find that the best-laid plans don't, in fact, exist at all.
"In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel" runs Thursday to Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 at tokyo-hitfest.eventbrite.com or 525-2995.
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What do you get for the baby who has everything? A million-dollar nursery in Barclay's Center. Jay-Z and Beyoncé have rented out the nursery suite at the Brooklyn arena for their daughter, Blue Ivy.
According to the Daily Mail, Blue Ivy stays in the nursery that costs $1 million dollars a year to rent when her famous father is in town performing or catching a Brooklyn Nets game.
Jay-Z performed eight shows at the arena in 2012, including one in October, where Beyoncé also performed as a surprise guest, according to US Weekly.
A source told the magazine that Blue's playroom not only caters to the baby, but also serves as a VIP space for Jay-Z's adult friends.
"Jay rents a luxurious basement suite for $1 million a year. It has an area for Blue filled with toys," the source told Us.
"It's all glass with a champagne bar and TV screen," the source added. "Jay lets friends use his digs when he's not there."
Blue Ivy will turn one-years-old today, and will probably continue to be spoiled rotten on her special day, if previous gifts are any indication.
Among the many gifts her parents have bestowed on her include a $21,000 "fantasy crib" made of solid cedar and birch and a $16,000 high-chair lined with Swarovski crystals designed by Carla Monchen, bought just days after her birth, according to the Daily Mail.
Her parent's famous friends also dote on Blue, including Sean Combs, Kanye West, Rihanna, Mary J. Blige and Mariah Carey.
Beyoncé's former Destiny's Child band mate, Kelly Rowland, reportedly gave Blue a $4,700 Swarovski crystal-studded baby bath, for which interior designer Lori Gardner spent two months applying 44,928 crystals by hand.
There is no word on what festivities are planned for Blue Ivy's birthday, or what gifts she will get; however, her parents were spotted at a casino in Barbados on Sunday.
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Culinary school wrapped up a few weeks ago and I began working at a family-owned cafe and bakery. We're allowed to sip caffeinated beverages and nibble sweets as we please and so I find each day an exercise in self-control. After bringing home pie two days in a row, my husband pleaded with me to stop bringing it home so frequently. We compromised on "Pie Saturdays."
Life has moved faster than normal and I find myself cooking less, ordering in more, and increasing my caffeine intake. Our favorite local pizza joint Pizza Nico probably knows us by name and when I do feel like cooking, I turn to our favorite, reliable comfort foods. The weather's been more reminiscent of fall than early summer, but this hasn't prevented Fargoans from throwing grand picnics. We gladly trade our traditional date nights for evenings grilling and drinking cocktails with old and new friends.
Now that I'm more secure with my footing this summer, I've got a laundry list of road trips to take on sunny days I have off from work. Plus, there's an Alley Fair in downtown Fargo this weekend and the North Dakota Blogger and Writer next week which includes an evening out with our own Marilyn Hagerty. I'll return to Fargo in time to catch a whiff of Ribfest before heading to the Twin Cities. At the end of the month, my husband and I are both taking some time off to head to Southern Minnesota for a big, family wedding.
One day at a time. In the meantime, enjoy a few tastes and recipes from the past few weeks:
Sunday Supper Pizza
No matter how busy our week is, I enjoy preparing a Sunday supper. If Jake has a special request, it's usually for one of our favorite comfort foods like Beef Stroganoff, pasta tossed with roasted vegetables, or homemade pizza. Most of the time, I spread the dough with olive oil muddled with fresh garlic, salt, pepper, and herbs. This time, I made homemade pizza sauce.
We like this recipe for a thinner, flat bread dough. It reminds me of Broders' Cucina Italiana flat bread. The Pioneer Woman's recipe produced a crust that was fluffier and more substantial. I added about a tablespoon of sugar to the warm water and yeast mixture and allowed the dough to rise twice. Just as my culinary teacher said, allow the dough to rise once for flavor and twice for structure.
As far as toppings go, I splurge on high quality mozzarella. I've found it half as expensive at large retailers. Most any vegetable will do, however, you may need to roast or blanch some vegetables (like shaved potatoes) before adding them to the pizza. Our favorites include onions, shaved thinly or caramelized beforehand, roasted eggplant, hot pickled cherry peppers, thinly sliced raw radishes, and jalapenos.
Alice Waters' 1-2-3-4 Lemon Cake
With my bakery stint, we don't need any more access to sweets but since I had some extra time over Memorial Day weekend, I baked a cake. Earlier, I had enjoyed a dense slice of glazed lemon bundt cake from Nichole's Fine Pastry and wanted to make my own version to enjoy at home with coffee. After scouring the Internet for lemon cake recipes, I chose Alice Waters' 1-2-3-4 cake recipe and made a boozy brandy lemon glaze. You can find an adaptation of Waters' recipe on the blog Sweet Talk Sweets.
The final cake is very simple and the tart lemon glaze sets it apart. It's not a "Look at me, look at me!" cake, but satisfying, nonetheless. Our litmus test for a recipe's success is measured by the amount of leftovers that remain in our fridge. If this is any indication, there's a mostly empty cake pan in our fridge.
I essentially followed the recipe, but used sifted all-purpose flour instead of cake flour. I made the lemon variation and added the zest and juice from two lemons to the batter. This author of this recipe recommends using two tablespoons less of all-purpose flour in lieu of cake flour, but I added extra lemon juice instead. You could poke holes in the cake with toothpick to help it absorb extra glaze, but I was happy with slowly spooning it over the warm cake. For a really decadent treat, spread the glazed cake with a smear of Nutella.
Brandy-Lemon Glaze (Adapted from ChefJune's recipe on Chowhound):
In a small saucepan, gently heat 1/2 cup of brandy, 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice, the zest from one lemon, 2/3 cup powdered sugar and a pinch of salt until dissolved. Set aside to cool.
Worst Beer Ever: Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale
My husband enjoys trying different craft beers. He's especially got a palate for the hoppy and the bitter. One evening, he brought this variety home from Happy Harry's, for kicks and giggles.
Now, this didn't sound particularly great to me to begin with and I guessed it would be overly sweet or mapley at the worst, but boy, was I wrong. The smell, alone, was heinous. I like the aroma of snuffed-out candles and campfires, but feel Rogue took this note too far. Who wants to smell a burning forest in their beer?
The flavor was equally harsh and I literally spit out my first and only sip. I'm no Andrew Zimmern and couldn't push its singed mulch flavor down the hatch. Even my husband couldn't drink more than a couple sips and he's basically morally opposed to leaving glasses of beer, unfinished. I'm all for culinary experimentation and whimsy, but it's beyond me how anyone could have tasted this beer and green-lit it for purchase in good conscience. How do you sleep at night?
Smiling Moose Deli
On Memorial Day, we were in search of a casual lunch outing and settled on Smiling Moose Deli, one of the few places open in downtown Fargo. Plus, my husband insisted we dine somewhere were he could wear his matching track suit. Unfortunately, this ruled out the Beefsteak Club. The Smiling Moose is a fast-casual style chain that originated in Colorado and expanded its franchise to 19 locations. Two, alone, have opened in Fargo since we moved here a year and a half ago.
Smiling Moose is like Panera or a sandwich version of Noodles and Company. You order soup, sandwiches, and salad at the counter and a server delivers it to your table. Breakfast sandwiches are served all day, a fact I wish I had known the previous morning when I settled on a gas station biscuit at noon.
We ordered two sandwiches from the options marked as low-calorie: The Green Thumb, a warm sandwich with sauteed mushrooms, spinach, artichokes, roasted red peppers, black olives, swiss cheese and pesto mayonnaise and The Sidecar, a cold sandwich with turkey, roasted red pepper, lettuce, swiss and pesto mayonnaise. The large sandwiches were more like two large sandwich and came with dill pickle spears. They cost a little over $20 along with a hot tea.
How these were low-anything is beyond me, considering the density of the bread and addition of cheese and mayo. All in all, they were decent sandwiches made with fresh ingredients. My hot veggie sandwich was certainly better than The Sidecar which was filled with standard deli meat. I liked that the restaurant's service was friendly, it serves loose leaf teas, and sidewalk seating. However, our sandwiches were nothing we got too excited about, or go out of our way to eat. Considering the restaurant options we don't have in Fargo-Moorhead, I'm not sure we need two Smiling Moose's, but it's an acceptable option for those who want a casual, sit-down experience that's a step above fast food and more casual than full table service.


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Democrats seize control of House, Senate
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But control of the U.S. Senate remained a tossup as of Wednesday morning, with the results hanging on a pair of races in Virginia and Montana that showed the major party contenders within a hair's breadth of one another.
In Virginia, Democrat Jim Webb claimed 49.55 percent of the vote, just 7,304 more votes than Republican George Allen, according to the state's unofficial results. At 10 a.m. PST, the Associated Press reported that its survey of Montana counties showed there was no way Sen. Conrad Burns, the Republican incumbent, could surpass Democratic challenger Jon Tester's lead of about 3,000 votes.
Later on Wednesday, the Associated Press called both races--and therefore control of the Senate--for the Democratic challengers. In Virginia, Democrat Jim Webb was leading with about 7,300 more votes than Republican George Allen, and Jon Tester was leading in Montana by about 3,000 votes.
But with the important question of House leadership finally answered, Democrats were jubilant. "From every corner of the country, the American people have sent a resounding, unmistakable message of change and a new direction for America," Rep. Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said Tuesday evening.
More so than in the 2004 presidential campaign, politicians turned to the Internet to stay competitive through tactics like publishing their own blogs, hiring bloggers and soliciting online donations. Not all campaign blogs succeeded, of course: plenty were abandoned soon after their creation, or remained permanently "under construction."
The Net also played a less clear but still influential role by permitting Rep. Mark Foley's lurid conversations about masturbation to be recorded--in transcripts that Democrats were able to invoke or reference in campaign advertisements designed to unseat Republican incumbents by painting them as Washington insiders or as corrupt.
Political bloggers also were some of the first to report election irregularities, especially those involving electronic voting machines.
About 39 percent of voters were expected to cast their ballots on Tuesday using electronic voting machines. Another 49 percent of voters are expected to use optical-scan voting equipment, which uses computers to tabulate paper ballots in a manner similar to standardized tests.
Sites like liberal MyDD.com and conservative RedState.com tracked reports of voter intimidation and e-voting machine malfunctioning, linking to unverifiable firsthand reports of troubles and summarizing local news reports.
Video clips took on an important role, with a YouTube-distributed recording appearing to show that a certified poll observer was threatened and barred from entering a polling station in heavily Democratic Philadelphia.
It was also the year that saw candidates--like the Libertarian Party's "Donna4Freedom"--using MySpace pages as campaign sites. In Washington, D.C., CNN hosted an election night blogfest at a trendy coffee shop in the Adams Morgan neighborhood.
One big question was whether bloggers would gain access to the results of exit polls, which are based on interviews performed at polling places and leaked before polls closed in previous elections. This year, though, the networks kept those results strictly confidential and seem to have largely succeeded in keeping a lid on them.
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New York Times has Pulse RSS reader pulled from App Store
The Pulse RSS reader for iPad, featured just yesterday during Steve Jobs' WWDC 2010 keynote, is reportedly being removed from the iTunes App Store following a copyright complaint from the New York Times/The Boston Globe.
The gist of their demand letter is that Pulse comes pre-loaded with the NYTimes.com RSS feed and features it in screen shots, is a paid app, and thus commercially using their RSS feeds, and that it reframes the NYTimes.com and Boston.com websites, both of which the New York Times Company says is in violation of their copyright.
Pulse was written by two Stanford grad students, whom we're guessing have far fewer legal resources than the New York Times Company, but are now in a position where they have to answer the copyright violation charge and/or modify their app to no longer violate the copyright.
Now, Pulse wasn't scraping or stealing RSS content in the traditionally frowned-upon way -- they're an RSS reader like many, many others both on the desktop and on mobile devices. Was the only difference it's high profile thanks to WWDC and a previous feature in the New York Times itself? If so, what does this mean for other RSS readers?
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New York Times has Pulse RSS reader pulled from App Store
Once NYT goes pay the app will be removed. I'd think they would want to be included in a popular reader app. Morons.
It would have been smarter to do the reverse: encourage Pulse to show the NYT and lead to a paid solution. OR, why not just buy and support pulse as an enhancement for Times readers.
In general for all their whining the Times seems to be moving slowly to actually get users to Pay for their content. The NYT iPad app is the ultimate example. Many users would like to see the whole times in there (and are willing to pay). Yet while the WSJ has already gotten the entire paper onto the iPad the times seems to be moving slowly or not at all to do the same. All this while customers are banging down the door to give them money for digital solutions.
They NYT needs to start making gutsy moves to build digital revenue rather than just trying to stall the inevitable and not satisfy their user base.
"If so, what does this mean for other RSS readers?"
It means do not pre-load publications on paid applications. Let the user select their own choice of publications and there is no copyright hassle.
Pulse: "Look how easy it is to access content on the New York Times."
NY Times: "Stop looking at me. In fact, screw you Pulse for looking at me and making other people look at me. Apple, please pull down this app for making us look relevant. We have a reputation to uphold."
People are focusing on the wrong issue here. Yes, this is a stupid position for the NYT to take, but why did Apple have to go along with it, mere hours after Jobs himself was singing Pulse's praises? Kara Swisher excuses Apple as having no choice in the matter, but they certainly did; there is literally no way the NYT would have even gotten an injunction, even on the off chance they had the guts to file for one. Moreover, if the issue is of creative control - if one takes a moral position that the NYT has the right to distribut and format their content as they see fit, - one has to wonder why Pulse cannot point readers to the NYat site, while Apple itself can trumpet a Safari feature that strips ads (and revenue) from every publication on the web. It seems again that Apple, this time at the behest of impotent NYT saber-rattling, is again enforcing rules that are not documented in their dev agreement, and which they have no intention of following themselves.
Apple's arbitrary exercise of power, not the thrashings of an adrift media dinosaur, is the story here.
Screw you 'big media'. Adapt or go the way of the dinosaur! Compete, don't litigate!
Right on, Art!
With all this discussion, I'm reminded of the challenges with RSS: information overload, limited discovery of new sources, etc. If you've tried RSS readers and are still looking for a great way to get personalized news without having to manage a list of RSS subscriptions, I suggest checking out my company, YourVersion http://www.YourVersion.com.
You just tell YourVersion the topics you care about and it finds the latest, relevant news, blogs, tweets, etc. tailored to your interests. We have a free iPhone app at http://bit.ly/yv-app. Our free iPad app should be available soon as well. We'd love for you to give our product a try and provide us with some feedback!
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As a philosopher with a background in biological science, I applaud your recent special issue on reality (29 September, p 34) as a valuable marker of where we are, and aren't, on this important topic.
The take-home message is that those parts of "reality" that are simply our human constructions - "objects" such that "if everyone stopped believing in them, they would cease to exist" - serve as obstacles preventing us from dealing with the actual realities of climate change, biodiversity loss, and other human-generated threats to our continued existence.
We linguistic primates create these "objects" and therefore we can change them, or even abolish them.
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What else do you do to a guy? First, Dana White takes away his ability to make money by cutting him from the UFC for having, as Dana describes it, a bad attitude, and now Alistair Overeem manages to put a stop to what at one point seemed a promising MMA career.
That is the case of MMA heavyweight Todd Duffee.
After being cut abruptly from UFC after suffering his first career loss (a loss that came by way of devastating knockout from the right hand of Mike Russow in a come-back fashion), Duffee went silent.
In recent weeks it was confirmed to us by Strikeforce personnel that Alistair was facing Duffee at K-1 DREAM Dynamite at New Year's Eve in Japan.
Long story short, Overeem disposed quickly of Duffee, knocking him out cold in 19 seconds, first round.
Now, what will the repercussion of this devastating loss be for Todd Duffee?
After a second loss in a row and by way of demolishing knockout, will Duffee remain as a credible threat in MMA?
Who will offer him a spot now?
We all know Dana White is the kind of guy who will cut a fighter but will let him back in if he puts together a good string of wins and performances, but will this loss to Overeem shut the door on all hopes for a UFC comeback for Duffee?
Is it a safe investment for a MMA promotion to pick him up now?
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Admission: $97, $91 ages 3-9, 2 and younger free.
Walt Disney's original plan for Epcot was based on his idea to build a Utopian city: the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. They kept the acronym, but the vision was never fully realized. Today, EPCOT incorporates that innovative spirit with things like the kid-friendly Innoventions pavilions and the Living with the Land ride — you can't spend much time at this park without learning a thing or two. The park's signature giant silver sphere? There's a ride in there, Spaceship Earth, that takes you on an informative journey through civilization. Make time for it, it's a classic.
The other half of the park is the World Showcase, home to the culture and cuisine of 11 countries from Mexico to Norway. If you're up for it (and have cash to spare), some parkgoers \"drink around the world,\' stopping to get drinks (usually alcoholic) at each of the countries. For something more family-friendly, seek out the Kidcot Fun Stops at any of the World Showcase stations, where kids can collect stamps on a Duffy the Disney Bear. Free souvenir alert! Bonus: Get the cast members at each station to say \"hello\' in their native languages.
Epcot is also home to the popular Food and Wine festival (where you can try exotic cuisine) each fall, and the Flower and Garden festival (where you can see pretty flowers!) in the spring, plus the Candlelight Processional during the holiday season, when you can hear the story of Christmas accompanied by a 50-piece orchestra and mass choir!