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CLEMSON, S.C. -- Wanted: big play guys. Must remind coaches of longtime stars like quarterback Nealon Greene, tailback Raymond Priester, linebacker Anthony Simmons and receiver Tony Horne.
Candidates began to line up Monday as Clemson's spring football drills got underway.
"This is a really exciting time because we don't know who those (big-play) guys are," Clemson coach Tommy West.
For the first time in West's four years at Clemson, his foundation of record-setting players is gone. While stars Greene, Priester and Horne finished their eligibility, Simmons, a junior, jumped to the NFL.
And don't forget about all-Atlantic Coast Conference offensive lineman Jim Bundren and Glenn Rountree.
So why is West smiling?
"It creates an enthusiasm because we as coaches have to find a way for those big-play guys to get the ball," he said.
The Tigers continue workouts through the spring game on April 4 at Death Valley.
For 15 practices, a new group -- who West expects to take over for familiar names -- will begin to emerge.
Quarterback will be a fight between Brandon Streeter, Woodrow Dantzler, Jason Flanders and Slade Nagle.
Travis Zachery, Javis Austin and Dymon Adams are competing at tailback.
Horne's spot could be filled by Rod Gardner or Mal Lawyer, both who saw action last year.
Offensive lineman Matt Butler and Brent Banasiewicz could take over the left side for Bundren and Rountree.
And Chris Jones or Harold Means could break out as Simmons' replacement.
"I don't think we'll see a dropoff from a talent standpoint," West said. "From an experience standpoint, you will."
West, like every other football coach in the spring, is giddy about his team. The seven-week conditioning program, begun shortly after Clemson's 21-17 Peach Bowl loss to Auburn, made his players faster and stronger.
Priester, of Allendale, S.C., may be Clemson's all-time leading rusher with almost 4,000 yards, but Zachery, Austin and Adams are swifter, sweep runners whose speed should snap opponents' ankles, West said.
Greene holds 30 passing records, but West thinks Clemson can refine its throwing game since all candidates at that spot have spent a year learning under offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger.
West says it's not essential he has starters come out of spring drills. "Although if one does it means he stepped up to win the job and that's not bad," he said.
The offensive line worries West the most. The Tigers gained only 152.7 yards a game last year -- one of its lowest totals in years -- and far from the grind-it-out days of West's Clemson mentor, Danny Ford.
West will start with veterans Corey Hulsey, Holland Postell and Jason Gamble, then look to Banasiewicz, Butler and Kyle Young to add depth.
West had no immediate position changes at the start. Receiver Marcus Martin has withdrawn from school, the coach said, to deal with personal problems.
Martin is expected to attend summer school to maintain his eligibility, West said.
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Stolen ultralight could be dangerous
An ultralight in flight. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic
Whoever stole an ultralight and equipment worth nearly $100,000 from the Peterborough airport needs to know that flying the plane would be dangerous.
Thieves took the plane, a trailer used to transport it, two sets of airplane wings and other aviation gear from a hangar at Aerotrike Aviation Ultraflight School some time Tuesday night, Peterborough OPP report.
The plane is a red and black 2004 Airborne Aerotrike, model – 912XT. It did not have a set of wings attached and the two stolen sets don't match the plane, police are warning.
If they are attached the wings could come off during flight, police said.
The stolen items are worth approximately $92,000.Anyone with information is asked to call Peterborough County OPP at 705-742-0401 or Peterborough Northumberland Crime Stoppers at 1-800 222-TIPS (8477).

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Draft California Rail Plan Released
The State of California has released its draft California State Rail Plan, an in-depth document that looks at the present and future of both passenger and freight rail. The plan is built around the following vision statement: "California has a premier, customer-focused rail system that successfully moves people and products while enhancing economic growth and quality of life."
Specifically, the plan's objective for passenger rail is:
California is committed to developing a world-class, sustainable passenger rail system that accomplishes the following objectives:
• Integrates high-speed, intercity, and commuter rail services into a coordinated statewide network.
• Is state-of-the-art and customer-focused.
• Provides an accessible mobility option that connects to other modes.
• Reduces highway congestion, improves air quality, reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, promotes local and regional economic development, fosters livable and vibrant communities, and supports social equity.
The draft plan itself runs to 380 pages and is a gold mine of information about the current state of passenger rail in California as well as the history of intercity rail, with detailed ridership and financial data for routes like the Pacific Surfliners (known until 2000 as the San Diegans) going back to 1973. The data shows steady ridership growth over several decades, including significant jumps in the early 1980s and again in the early 1990s as new capacity was brought online, as well as the huge leaps in ridership over the last dozen or so years that most readers are more familiar with.
Looking forward, the plan takes a look at ways to integrate passenger and freight rail, addressing common bottlenecks such as tracks in the East Bay and handling future passenger rail service on freight tracks such as a Capitol Corridor extension to Salinas or Reno, a San Joaquin extension to Redding, and the X Train proposal for weekend service to Las Vegas (separate from the XpressWest plan for HSR service on dedicated tracks). The corridors with "the most pressing challenges" were identified as follows:
• Downtown Burbank to Ventura, Central Coast (SCRRA member agencies, UPRR). Modest freight train counts, high numbers of commuter trains.
• Stockton to Martinez, San Joaquin Valley (BNSF, UPRR). Northern California Unified Rail Service (NCURS) effects, modest freight train counts.
• Sacramento to Stockton (UPRR) to Bakersfield, San Joaquin Valley (BNSF). Heavier freight train traffic in a critical freight corridor, NCURS effects.
• Oakland to Sacramento to Roseville, Northern California (UPRR). Modest freight rail traffic, high Capitol Corridor train frequencies.
• Los Angeles to Downtown Burbank, Southern California (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority). Modest freight traffic, very heavy commuter traffic.
• Los Angeles to Colton, Southern California (UPRR): High freight and passenger train counts, including commuter rail.
• Los Angeles to Riverside, Southern California (UPPR, BNSF). Substantial freight train counts in critical cross country traffic lanes matched with high commuter rail frequencies.
• Los Angeles to Irvine, Southern California (BNSF, Orange County Transportation Authority). Modest freight traffic, heavy intercity and commuter traffic.
• Oceanside to San Diego, Southern California (NCTD and San Diego Metropolitan Transit System). Heavy intercity and commuter traffic.
The plan also notes that major increases in ridership are expected on the Peninsula rail corridor between San Francisco and San José, which to me is further argument for pushing back hard against any move by Peninsula cities to prevent capacity expansion on that route.
In Chapter 8 the plan gets into precise details regarding possible investments for passenger rail service, from the Northern California Unified Rail Service proposal (aligning the passenger rail needs of multiple agencies) to high speed rail's Initial Operating Segment to improvements for existing intercity rail corridors.
Proposed new rail service includes the long-discussed Coast Daylight (and a detailed list of track improvements is given) as well as regular service to the Coachella Valley, where new Amtrak Thruway bus service has demonstrated demand for intercity rail service. Commuter rail improvements are also discussed, including everything from Metrolink to COASTER to a long-overdue Ventura to Santa Barbara commuter rail service.
The map on page 268 of the draft plan is worth a look, though the image is too large to effectively post here. In fact, you should just set aside an evening, or a day, or a week, to read closely through the entire document.
Once you've read it closely, you can submit your comments on the draft plan. An online webinar will be held next Tuesday, February 26, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. The event password is RailPlan1.
I am still wading through the details of the plan and will have some more thoughts over the weekend. But feel free to post your impressions, whether shallow or deep, in the comments.


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Julio Cesar admits "the pressure would've been enormous" had Brazil failed to beat Croatia in the World Cup opener.
There was an early scare when Marcelo scored an own goal to put the Europeans in front, but Neymar's brace and a late Oscar counter-attack turned the game around for a 3-1 result.
"The first match is always very important, as if you win then it gives you confidence going into the second," the ex-Inter goalkeeper told Sky Sport Italia.
"If we had lost, the pressure would've been enormous and it all would have become much more difficult.
"Scolari was satisfied after the game. He is experienced and knows the atmosphere of the World Cup very well. He manages to transmit many positive things to the younger players."
Julio Cesar spent last season at QPR, but is cheering on Italy when they face England on Saturday.
"It's a difficult game, but I wish Italy all the best because it is a country that gave me a wonderful welcome, especially the Inter supporters. I take this opportunity to salute them."
See the latest Serie A predictions and betting tips with Eurotips.co.uk


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Web Developer Or Designer Growing Pains
Feeling Different
If you asked me about a year ago what my favorite blogs were, I would give you the same answers that most of you would give. Lately, and by that I mean about 6 months or so, maybe a little longer, I've been feeling like none of them are writing about anything that I need anymore. I'm not going to mention any names because I respect what they gave me. What do I mean by 'need' though? That feeling of "Holy CRAP that is awesome." I don't know if the caliber of writing has gone down on those blogs, or if I've just grown beyond what they are doing. Only one major blog has kept up with where I am at and what I want to see, and that is net.tutsplus.com. Everyone else seems to be posting the same fluff pieces about things plumbers can teach us. I want tutorials about some bad-ass CSS3 techniques that no one has thought of. Or the video tutorial series I'm watching on net.tuts about starting Ruby.
I started to actually wonder if this is typical? Do other web developers go through this stage? I get a lot of respect at work from certain colleagues because they know the amount of outside work I put into learning stuff. There are times though where I want to show people something that either they don't care about or aren't ready for. Sass has been one of them. I can't convince anyone to try it out, either because they are learning their own things or they don't see the point.
I want to do more!
I think I am at an in between moment in my career. One where I know how to do more that what my job lets me do yet I still love what I do and where I am at. To make this more clear though, I'm working on our corporate redesign, and for once I am given the straight psd files and told to build. That happens all the time on custom built websites and templates, but NOT on corporate. I don't know if my manager trusts what I can do more or what, but this time he didn't start the build at all. Pure heaven for me. One, because I am very particular (like most of us are) on how I build things, and two it is hard to build on top of what someone else has down when their style is very different. That is the back story and it sounds great right? Yes…and no.
I was about an hour into what I was doing today on this build when I realized a feeling that kept creeping up on me. Writing plain CSS/3 was tedious. I'm talking irritating the crap out of me. How can that be when I actually love it so much? Because I f'ing love Sass. I could have written the same styles with about half the amount of Sass, and about a third faster. You know that saying ignorance is bliss? I felt almost like I was in the Matrix. I almost laughed at myself, too. For just the time I was working on this build I thought "Please just let me not know what I know." If that happened, everything would have been 100% awesome. I was building a nice design from the ground up…my way. But typing out CSS like the commoner was like watching a mile long turtle race. I kept thinking to myself "Dammit, if I could write a mixin for this or just have a few variables…I'll settle for four of them…this would be so much better!"
Now you know what my problem is. I'm not a pro at Sass or jQuery or anything else I have learned in the past year, but I am far enough ahead that doing things the same old way is starting to bother me. Which brings me back to my question. Is this a normal thing in a web developer's career? Have you gone through it? Because it really is a growing pain. I feel that there is so much more I could do to make things better or easier, but can't for several reasons. One of which is, no one else is really ready for the type of things I would bring to the table.
I'm not tooting my own horn
Don't think I am bragging either. Trust me when I say there are times where I feel like a COMPLETE idiot. I hate reading articles thinking there must be thousands of developers sooooo beyond me. If it were not for a couple of guys I work with giving me the verbal pat on the back once in a while, I would almost be depressed with my knowledge. Of course this is the same feeling that keeps me inspired to learn.
I am also sad that the same blogs I loved a year ago are being almost ignored. I am reading more articles written by unknown bloggers lately. I miss going to the top popular blogs and going "Crap that is awesome. Hey guys did you read that?" I get that still, but not from those same blogs, which means not a lot of people are reading the same things I am. I keep watch just in case, but it is rare when I get that same awesome feeling from them. I look forward to getting out of this middle stage and into the next, but part of me looks back to about a year (maybe a year and a half) ago as a golden age that has passed. I guess I just have to look ahead and make a new one.
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"I think I am at an in between moment in my career. One where I know how to do more that what my job lets me do yet I still love what I do and where I am at."
I like that. I agree with the first part a lot. I'm looking forward to what you do with the corporate site and consider you a very good teacher/resource at work. I hope you keep pushing yourself because it's been awesome following your posts and progress.


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Brian Wong Won is a Trinidadian born artist known for his bright colors, expressionistic compressions of space and distortions of architectural space. His subjects tend to be Trinidad Carnival and the local vintage architecture; he works primarily in the water-based medium of Gouache.
He has been noted by both collectors and critics to be the only one to fully capture the spirit and feeling of the Carnival festivities via his vivid palette and expressive playful use of perspective. His Carnival paintings tend to be satirical, expressively tongue and cheek and very detailed, which also carries into his architectural subjects, of which he is also well know for.
Brian was born in Trinidad in 1970, educated at St. Mary's College in Port-of-Spain, until 1987 where he left to study art in the USA. He obtained both an AA in Graphic Design and a BFA in Painting & Art History. Brian was also a graphic designer and art teacher and now lives in Florida,


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- Artist: Metaliano
- Genre: Heavy Metal
- Release Date: 3/9/2004
Metaliano is a studio outfit with music based on long guitar solos with some incredible sound engineering the compromiseless guitar hero style leaves little space for other instruments but the drums are as imaginative and inventive as in 70s metal Metaliano is meant to be a spoof spoofing itself, creating crafty songs that clearly point to where it comes from, while being joyous, boisterous even, with no consideration whatsoever for corporate radio indeed, Metaliano is open defiance against corporate radio and delves deep into the 70s, with production techniques straight out of Led Zeppelin albums the ultimate track, dark angel libido, is a 12' opus combining the best of Black Sabbath while creating a new genre: dark angst metal the whole thing is neatly produced by Gino Ferrara who has such an individual style as a producer that, though it does sound like Satriani, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix etc, it sounds mostly like Gino Ferrara producing Metaliano another most important feature is the guitars and their preparation; they are old guitars from the 80s, customized by Gino Ferrara to produce sounds no-one can by in a shop, and they are the only photos of the booklet! Hey, why not sell music by it's instruments? the dark and raw power of the 70s and 80s, combined with sound possiblities of the new millenium gives Metaliano the means to create a style that is possibly unique in it's arrogant, supermacho guitar work, it's incredible melodic metal and the underlying electro and trance elements just how different Metaliano is can be deduced from one single fact: when did you last buy a metal album with 7 tracks only comprising 54'? right? that's the difference... during 2004, a second Metaliano will be coming forth.
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Some additional thoughts about context and experience... If you set out to build a better mousetrap, you probably have a mouse, or some passing experience with mice. As analyst/designers (and researchers), we are often called on to build products in unfamiliar domains. The processes we undertake - which in this discussion are labeled "UCD" - is the way we gain an understanding of the domain, conditions, and context to inform design. That design may be evolutionary or revolutionary, but it begins with understanding. UCD techniques help you in four ways: 1. Systematically explore and understand the environment, context, goals, prior experiences, and constraints of a domain and the people that are within it. 2. Expose, question, and clarify your own assumptions about the domain, the people, and the intervention/artifact that you are imagining for that domain. 3. Confirm your understanding over time by contact with the people in that domain, to evaluate that your proposed intervention - and expected change in the environment - has value and relevance. 4. Communicate your understanding, approach and assumptions in common formats that other people can understand and learn from, whether in academic papers, requirements/design documents, prototypes, etc. Now, from the designer's perspective, it is vital to apply imagination and your experience to designs, in order to achieve valuable break-throughs and improvements. Saying that, how the design process is informed by context is important. Say you were asked to design emergency controls for a nuclear power station - if you had never been in one or even knew someone who worked in one, would your first action be to sit at a whiteboard and design the innovative solution in isolation? The same can be said in the multimedia domain - if you have never stepped into a video editing environment, or more extreme had never watched television, could you envision the types of tools and facilities that would be required to overcome practical challenges in the work? I suspect the people who developed the iPod had some prior experience using MP3 players or a cassette Walkman or at least a boombox - some sort of portable music device. They probably also had some experience with a large number of CDs or records in their collection, thus with the cognitive process of finding and selecting something they were personally interested in. The widget designs are clever, but probably started from a contextual foundation and then refined via experience and feedback. Let us make explicit the implicit assumption in a lot of software design - that because designers/developers use computers and software they can perceive themselves as users, and thus "know" what is required from users. It is not surprising to me that a lot of experimental projects I see relate to creation of development tools, searching databases (e.g. conference/abstracts), sharing/collaborating with professional project colleagues, researching... all tasks that are common within the domain of researchers and developers. For example, the web browser began in that context... To relate this to SWUI - what problems are you trying to solve? What areas do the particular techniques of the Semantic Web relate? What affordances can be applied? What efficiencies can be gained... and in comparison to what pre-existing challenge or interaction? What can we imagine, now that certain enabling technologies are becoming available... and once imagined, how can we communicate our understanding and the products of our imagination? It is not either-or... Innovative design and UCD are extremely complementary, in service of vision and improvement. Duane > -----Original Message----- > From: firstname.lastname@example.com > [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Hyowon Lee > Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 11:07 AM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com; Eric Miller > Subject: Re: UCD Description for SWUIWiki "How To" section > > > Hi all, > > I'm a UI researcher for newly-emerging multimedia > techniques... this makes my job a little different from > conventional HCI approach that emphasises UCD. > > For example, I start with plenty of brainstorming and focused > (but un-precedented) interface sketches, mostly only with the > promises of the technologies that my group offers me. > > I try to involve users, but mostly ONLY after the initial > prototype is done and working - so that I can bring in people > and get them use the system, collect opinions, etc. > > Eric mentioned examples of Apple's successful designs, where > it's not the result of UCD but the creative or novel thinking > of the designer or visionary. I guess for a completely new > technology where there is no conventional practice or user > base, it works fine when somebody (who knows technology) can > come up with some new design and then follows that up with > exposing it to people in near-by domain or approximate > discipline, in order to get their feedback and refine > afterwards - combine Eric's 'X factor' with UCD follow-up. > > I guess now that Apple's new products are used by large > number of people, Apple can get user feedback and survey etc. > to refine it to make it better. I'm sure there were many > small and large elements that the initial design didn't get > right, even if the overall UI was a great invention. > > Anyway on the outset, I agree with the importance of > designer's novel and creative approach (especially at the > initial stage of development). Let me think about how I can > relate this to SWUI. > > Hyowon > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Dr Hyowon Lee > Post-doctoral researcher > Centre for Digital Video Processing > Dublin City University > Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland > Tel: +353 -1 -7005829 > http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~hlee/ > Email: email@example.com > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Miller" <firstname.lastname@example.com> > To: "Roberto Garc í a" <firstname.lastname@example.com>; <email@example.com> > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:54 PM > Subject: Re: UCD Description for SWUIWiki "How To" section > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > Just a quick observation here. I'm a practitioner, not a > researcher, so I > > can't really speak to the lit, but I use UCD on a daily > basis. And speaking > > as a designer I've found that user involvement provides an > invaluable > > starting point for the design process but shouldn't solely > govern evaluation > > processes. Users can be good at articulating their needs, > but aren't as > > good at articulating specific solutions to their needs; > often because their > > viewpoint is reflexively restricted to their personal > contexts and past > > experiences. Their involvement isn't as useful to the > practicing designer > > when the users don't have experience with that specific > class of application > > or task. Like, say, the Semantic Web. > > > > I saw that this issue was noted under "Methodology Issues" > on the SWUIWiki, > > incidentally. And the "Pathetic Fallacy of RDF" piece > touches on this too. > > > > So I'd suggest that processes like UCD (as formally articulated and > > implemented, and driven by actual people and/or personas) > are well-suited > > for evolutionary refinement of existing classes of > applications with a > > pre-existing critical mass of user awareness and > understanding. But to > > create effective user interfaces for new classes might > require a less > > structured and more creative approach. (My example here > would be Apple's > > successful new product design process that is decidedly not > UCD-driven in > > the traditional end-user sense; it's driven by Steve Jobs' > benevolent > > dictatorship of design.) Another interesting thread along > these lines would > > be the "genius design" v. UCD discussion a few months back on IxDA. > > Additionally, there might be a case made for adapting SW > technologies to fit > > a more coherent interaction metaphor, rather than > struggling to bolt a UI > > onto a fully-baked technical implementation. > > > > Again, this audience would certainly know more about the > HCI lit than I > > would, but I'd simply offer this thought. To paraphrase a > great one-liner, > > "Writing about design is like dancing about architecture." > There's a > > subjective X factor in design that defies quantitative processes and > > analysis. And I'm willing to speculate that breakthroughs > in SWUI design > > would be most likely to spring from creative processes > unencumbered by > > constraining mechanisms such as formal UCD processes and > methodologies. > > There will be more failures; but there's the chance for > something truly > > innovative and successful to emerge. > > > > Eric > > > > > > On 5/31/07 1:26 PM, "Roberto García" <email@example.com> wrote: > > > >> Dear all, > > > > Before adding the following text to the "How To" section of > >> the > > SWUIWiki, I would appreciate your comments about the following > > description > >> of User Centred Design (UCD). Do you think it > >> is > > appropriate? > > > > -- > > > > > > > >> User-Centred Design > > > > The methodology for developing > >> usable and accessible applications is > > called User-Centred Design (UCD). It is > >> based on an iterative > > development process based on a detailed study of the > >> users' needs, the > > tasks they carry on in order to meet them and the context in > >> which > > they are performed (Norman 1986). There are many UCD > >> development > > processes proposals, but all of them provide a mix of > >> software > > engineering plus usability and accessibility engineering tasks. > >> One > > particular proposal, which combines both disciplines in a neat way > > thus > >> facilitating its adoption, is the usability and accessibility > > > > > > > > > > > >Received on Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:14:23 UTC
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Today, in my local House of Fraser fragrance department (they really should name it after me by now), my eye was attracted to a bottle of coral pink juice. Thinking it was some sort of playful fruity floral for "The Youth", I almost didn't stop, but then I saw it was a bottle of Elie Saab Le Parfum Resort Collection. Well, I had to stop and drench myself in it, didn't I?
The intersteing thing about flankers is that some flankers do not resemble the original in the slightest ( Dior Poison -vs-Dior Poison Girl, anyone?) and some smell like the original, but with a different top note. This one falls into the latter category.
The opening notes are full of tropical fruit and flowers. It's playful and summery and rather lovely. There's mandarin, frangipani and fruity pink pomegranate. It would please the youngsters as well as the picky fortysomethings (who, me?). However, the top phase lasts about an hour, and then it's Elie Saab Le Parfum again. That is to say, the fruit disappears and it's all about the white flowers and the patchouli. Now, if you like Elie Saab Le Parfum, this won't be a problem for you, but if you don't, it might be.
I rather like it, but I wouldn't see a need a to own both, due to the similarities. I'll leave you to decide about that one. The juice is REALLY coral pink, though.- very cute!
How about you?
What's your take on flankers? Do you like it to resemble the original or be completely different? Or do you just follow your nose? Do let me know. I always love to hear from you.
Elie Saab Le Parfum Resort Collection 2017 is available from House of Fraser or Amazon UK to name but a few.


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Appartement Luxor Busteni – Busteni
The Apartment Luxor Busteni is a cosy 3 star holiday apartment located in the heart of Carpathian Mountains in Busteni mountain resort.
Set in a spectacular mountainous landscape at the base of Caraiman Massif and close to the Caraiman Monastery and Cantacuzino Castle, the apartment has 3 modern rooms fully furnished and equiped ,just 45km away from Dracula's Castle (Bran Castle)
The apartment has two bedrooms with queen size beds and wardrobes. There is an elegant bathroom with bathtub. The cosy living area of this accommodation apartment Luxor Busteni contains a sofa bed, armchairs, coffee table, dining table with chairs, DVD player and a TV with satellite and WIFI.
This property also benefits from street parking and heating.
During winter season tourists can enjoy of a lot of snow and can practice ski and snowboard.
Aslo in this area tourist can visit Peles Castle, Urlatoarea Waterfall, Sinaia Monastery, Rasnov Fortress and more.
NOTE: Tourists can see every evening bears in the wild life near Apartment Luxor Busteni. Romania has the largest bear population in Europe.
Further information
- Rooms
2 bed rooms with queen beds
1livingroom with sofa for 2
- Rates*
Minimum 2 nights
Apartment with 3 rooms for max 6 guests.
Prices starting from 60 EUR depending on season.
- Car park
Parking Tax 2EUR/day
- Internet / wireless access
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The move gives CCA the space and capabilities needed to continue to grow and expand as the nation's leading higher education marketing agency.
Troy, New York (PRWEB) May 14, 2014
Creative Communication Associates (CCA), a marketing communications firm specializing in strategic branding and communications for education, announced today that it will move to the historic Frear Building in Troy, NY.
CCA's move "supports our growth plans in response to the increased demand for both strategic and digital capabilities," said Ed Sirianno, President of CCA. The move gives CCA the space and capabilities needed to continue to grow and expand as the nation's leading higher education marketing agency.
"The revitalization of Troy mirrors CCA's culture and growth plans," Sirianno said. "Troy offers very affordable office space in a hip, Brooklyn-like city and is attracting young, creative, innovative companies. CCA will also benefit from the region's many colleges and universities that produce talented, smart and creative graduates that we hope will become future agency staff."
A Victorian Era classic, the Frear is an architectural masterpiece complete with a hand crafted wrought iron staircase, high ceilings and gothic columns. The new space will blend the original Victorian charm with CCA's state-of-the-art communications capabilities.
About Creative Communication Associates
Founded in 1983, CCA is the nation's leading marketing communications firm specializing in branding for education. Capabilities include research, positioning and branding, communication planning, digital marketing and media. CCA partners with public and private educational institutions to craft compelling and results-driven marketing and communications. Recent clients include Boston College, Bryn Mawr College, University of Pennsylvania, LIM College, Philadelphia University, Syracuse University College of Law, St. John's University, Siena College, and Union Graduate College. For more information, and a full list of clients and services, visit http://www.ccanewyork.com.


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- Artist: Posterwall
- Format: CD
- Release Date: 8/22/2006
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Posterwall is independent rock and likes it that way. Their latest record,Charged, was recorded right at home in their home studio and released on their very own record label. Influences include Matthew Sweet, Foo Fighters, and classic rock from Led Zeppelin to Rick Springfield. (Really!) Posterwall's sound is a back to basics approach with simple hook filled melodies and riffs. So they may not be the most technically flashy band around, but they deliver where it counts: The Song. Now here's the boring paragraph: They're a 4 piece rock/pop band from Mesa, AZ. Founding members Brian Stewart (lead vocals/guitar) and Greg Guthrie (drums) started the band somewhere around 2001- originally with Brian's brother-in-law as the lead singer. After many personnel and style changes, Brian took over the vocals and main songwriting duties in 2004 subsequently adding Chris Epperson on bass and, just last year, Jeff Valenta on guitar.


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Breast Cancer 101 + Q&A with Dr. Michael McFarlane
After last week's post about Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I realized that I'd assumed a lot. Not good. Yes, many of us know about Breast Cancer Awareness month or may have experienced the disease personally…but do we really know what we're dealing with? Do we know about treatment options? Costs? Where to get screened? What to ask your doctor? What can we do to at least reduce our risk of developing breast cancer? Cancer is a scary thing for many of us. Cancer definitely scares me especially after seeing my grandmothers die from it (Grandma first got cancer in her breast but it was in remission for years before coming back in her bone, Mama J died from skin cancer) and my Grandpa battled cancer too (in the prostate & larynx yet still going strong at 82!). But knowledge is power – both about the disease and my family history – and I hope that this post will help you help yourself and maybe even someone else. So today's post will be Breast Cancer 101 – with a concentration on the disease in Jamaica. The next two or three posts about breast cancer will be about supporting a loved one who's been diagnosed, how to prevent or reduce one's risk of developing breast cancer, and finally – my favourite – a breast cancer survivor speaks!
Dr. Michael McFarlane kindly answered some questions for me (and even answered my follow up questions). He's written before in The Jamaica Gleaner about breast cancer in Jamaica and he is a volunteer with the Jamaica Cancer Society. Thank you @therealnickmack for arranging this Q&A interview for me! But first, a working glossary and some pix (yes, pictures of boobs)…
Carcinoma – This is just a medical term for cancer. Cancer is the uncontrolled abnormal growth of cells within the body. The uncontrolled growth begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover the body's organs. The uncontrolled growth can be caused by heredity, environment, or food (e.g. MSG). Cancerous cells grow into clumps or groups called tumors. Tumors may be benign (not harmful) or malignant (harmful). Sometimes benign tumors don't even need to be removed, but malignant tumors are usually treated. A biopsy – a small surgical procedure to remove a piece of a tumor for study in a lab – will determine whether a tumor or benign or malignant.
Chemotherapy – A common cancer treatment (not just breast cancer). Chemotherapy is treatment with drugs that either kill cancer cells or stop them from growing or multiplying. The drugs are ingested. Chemotherapy can and does, however, harm healthy cells; it is not targeted. Healthy cells usually recover from chemotherapy. Side effects of chemotherapy include nausea, vomiting, tiredness, pain and hair loss. Not every one has side effects.
Radiation or Radiotherapy – Another common cancer treatment that uses the energy released from particles or waves. That energy is used to destroy tumors or to keep them from growing or multiplying. It is an external treatment so doctors try to protect healthy cells by "limiting the radiation dosage and spreading treatment out over time." They will also shield the unaffected parts of your body as much as possible when using the radiation machines to target the tumor (think the covering that you have to wear when you're getting an X-Ray).
Hormone Therapy – Treatment that uses specific hormones to shrink or stop the growth of tumors. Ironically, with breast cancer the female hormones estrogen and progesterone can promote the growth of some breast cancer cells. In those patients where this kind of promotion occurs, hormone therapy is used to block the body's naturally occurring estrogen and to fight the cancer's growth. Two types of hormone therapy are used to treat breast cancer: (1) drugs that inhibit estrogen and progesterone from promoting breast cancer cell growth, and (2) drugs or surgery to turn off the production of hormones from the ovaries. This is not the same kind of hormone replacement therapy used to treat postmenopausal women.
Targeted Therapy – Treatment that uses drugs to target cell-level processes in order to interfere with specific molecules involved in carcinogenesis (the process by which normal cells become cancer cells) and tumor growth. Most targeted cancer therapies are in preclinical testing (research with animals), but some are in clinical trials (research studies) or have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Targeted cancer therapies are being studied for use alone, in combination with each other, and in combination with other cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy.
Breast Cancer Stages – Breast cancer is usually diagnosed on a 5-stage system (Stage O, Stage I, Stage II, Stage III, Stage IV). Staging usually takes into account 3 factors: the tumor (the size of the tumor), nodes (the number & location of lymph nodes with cancer) and, metastases (whether the cancer has spread to other areas of the body = is it invasive or not). This is called the TNM system. The higher the number (e.g. Stage III or Stage IV) means that the cancer is more advanced and the lower the projected survival rate.
Palpable – Medically this means that an illness or disease is discovered through touch.
BRCA Genes – Genes determine how we look (our phenotype) and what our body does. They are encoded in our DNA. The BRCA Genes – BRCA1 and BRCA2 – are the class of genes known as tumor suppressors. A mutation (abnormality or change) of these genes has been linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. A woman's risk of developing breast (and/or ovarian cancer) is significantly increased if she has inherited this harmful BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation. (Men with these mutations also have an increased risk of breast cancer.) Genetic tests are available to check for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. A blood sample is required for these tests, and genetic counseling is recommended before and after the tests.
Mastectomy – A medical term for the surgical removal of a part or all of a breast. It is used to treat or prevent breast cancer. Preventative mastectomy is only done in high risk patients. There are four kinds: (1) a total mastectomy removes breast tissue and nipple; (2) a modified radical mastectomy removes the breast, most of the lymph nodes under the arm, and often the lining over the chest muscles; (3) a lumpectomy removes the tumor and a small amount of normal tissue around it; and (4) a radical mastectomy removes the breast, lymph nodes, and chest muscles but is no longer common.
Mammogram – A breast X-ray.
Finally, breast cancer may be too small to feel when it first develops. Eventually symptoms will occur and they include:
- New lump in the breast or underarm (armpit).
- Thickening or swelling of part of the breast.
- Irritation or dimpling of breast skin.
- Redness or flaky skin in the nipple area or the breast.
- Pulling in of the nipple or pain in the nipple area.
- Nipple discharge other than breast milk, including blood.
- Any change in the size or the shape of the breast.
- Pain in any area of the breast.
Now for Q&A with Dr. McFarlane…
What are the common kinds of breast cancer among Jamaican women? What trends are you noticing?
Breast cancer is regarded as having two main presentations in any population and the Jamaican population is no different. The most common type is invasive cancer referred to as invasive carcinoma and is seen in nearly 80% of cases. Noninvasive sometimes called insitu carcinoma is an earlier form of cancer that does not invade or grow into normal tissues in the breast. In a general way breast cancers can be considered to arise in the lobules of the breast, which are the milk producing glands or the ducts, that drain milk from the lobules to the nipple. Cancers that arise in the ducts are more common and are called ductal carcinomas and those that arise in the glands are called lobular carcinomas.
At what stage is breast cancer being diagnosed among Jamaican women?
Breast cancers are diagnosed in Jamaica usually when they are palpable. Because size is an important determinant in the stage of the cancer, most cancers are detected at a relatively late stage. A palpable cancer with or without lymph nodes may be staged higher that stage I. Breast cancers in Jamaica are usually diagnosed at stage II or stage III. Advanced cancers or stage IV are now much less frequent than in the past. In populations where screening is common breast cancers can be detected at a very early stage.
What do you think are the obstacles to early diagnosis among Jamaican women? Top 3.
The main obstacles to early diagnosis of breast cancer among Jamaican women include education, awareness, access to early medical care and the absence of a national breast cancer-screening program.
If you were responsible for crafting a national breast cancer-screening program for Jamaica, what 5 things would you include? What, if any, would be barriers to implementation of the program & how could they be addressed?
Setting up an effective breast cancer screening programme in Jamaica will have its challenges. The availability of mammography equipment will be paramount. The health system will also need appropriate information systems, quality assurance programmes, and training of specialist staff together with services to support the programme. The pace of implementation will also be important. An educational program to sensitize all women will be necessary and it may take several years before all eligible women have access to the breast cancer screening programme. This will depend on such facts as the availability of sufficient numbers of trained professionals. The Government will also have to decide on the adoption of screening guidelines based on best practice and also the interval of screening will be important so that the health system will be able to adequately meet the challenges of setting up the programme for women aged 50-69 years.
What is the most common treatment for breast cancer, generally? Among Jamaican women?
The most common treatment for breast cancer in Jamaica is surgical mastectomy, which involves removal of the breast. Newer surgical options such as lumpectomy, and cosmetic procedures are also being performed. Generally the treatment of breast cancer in Jamaica follows well-established international guidelines and includes, surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy and occasionally targeted therapy.
What's the average cost of treatment for breast cancer in Jamaica (broken down by treatment type)?
The cost of medical care for breast cancer in Jamaica varies depending on whether the care takes place in the public hospitals or private hospitals. In Jamaica user fees have been abolished in the public hospitals and health care is free of cost to patients being treated in these hospitals. Private care incurs a cost that varies among medical providers and the availability of insurance reimbursement. (Editor's note: A recent article in the Jamaica Observer contained a quote about treatment costs from Elite Sellars-Wright, who chairs the Reach for Recovery group. She said that private radiation treatment can cost up to JA$1.6 million.)
What kind of support and services does the Jamaica Cancer Society (JCS) provide? How, if at all, is Reach For Recovery different from the JCS?
The Jamaica Cancer Society plays a role as an advocacy group as well as performing the role of increasing public awareness of all cancers in Jamaica. The society also conducts a breast-screening clinic on site. Reach for Recovery is an affiliate group of the Jamaica Cancer Society. (Editor's note: While talking to my Mother she mentioned that Grandma got lots of support from the JCS and RFR when she was first diagnosed. I think that they also supported Grandpa when he was first diagnosed. The on-site clinic also provides very low cost mammograms.)
What's your involvement with the Society?
I am a volunteer with the Jamaica Cancer Society and am one of the specialists who work in the breast-screening clinic. I also give lectures on cancer related topics and take part in pubic awareness programs.
What's the rate of breast cancer among Jamaican men? What kind of support is available for them either from the JCS or otherwise?
The incidence of breast cancer in Jamaican men is similar to the incidence in other populations. This cancer is 100 times less likely to occur in men as it is in women. Men are seen at the Jamaica Cancer Society by self-referral or by referral by their physician with suspicious breast lumps.
Many women now do a double mastectomy after initial diagnosis, is this something you recommend?
Double mastectomy is rarely recommended by doctors for the treatment of breast cancer in Jamaica or in other medical facilities in other parts of the world. It is only recommended in patients with inherited BRCA genes who have a significant risk of bilateral breast cancer. The majority of patients with cancer in one breast will never develop cancer in the opposite breast.
Why did you choose to focus your career on cancer diagnosis and treatment? And why breast cancer?
My involvement with breast cancer or cancer as a whole arises out of my training as a general surgeon which necessitates the treatment of cancer. My involvement with the Jamaica Cancer Society has also increased this interest.
Dr. McFarlane is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of the West Indies (Mona). He's written extensively on cancer pathology and treatment.
The definitions above were compiled from research on the following websites: American Cancer Society, the U.S. National Library of Medicine, and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Pictures & captions are from the Mayo Clinic.
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Today I hear the pain in Tina's voice as she tells me all that's left of her house is a twisted piece of metal. Their 80 acres of trees used to be beautiful, she says, and full of wildlife. Now, you can see right through to the charred trunks and the ashes that fell like snow after the wildfire licked up the leaves and the underbrush.
This month was supposed to be one of celebration. She and Lee had planned to sneak away and elope in Eureka Springs, Ark., and then come back and start their new lives. In a year, they had hoped to move out of their trailer and build a new home right there on their land in Olive, Okla. — a little slice of secluded paradise for a country girl like Tina.
Now, she needs shoes for her wedding, and she doesn't have a place to come home to.
She has flip-flops that she wore out the door, some favorite pictures and her grandma's ring. But the other things, like a treasured Bible and a yearbook with scribbles and jokes from her high school friends, are all gone. Nothing is left and there's no insurance to replace them.
She's grateful to be alive, grateful for the hard-working firefighters and for friends who have already started dropping off donations at her parents' house. Grateful because this is a blessing in disguise, she says. She's sure of it, even now.
If you'd like to help, please pray for strength and wisdom for Tina. If you'd like to help by donating, her family's most urgent need is clothing, especially for Lee and his son. Lee and Eric both wear a size 13 in shoes. Lee wears a 2X in shirts and has a 36-38 waist. Eric wears a large or 1X in shirts and has a 34-inch waist. Donations have already started to come in for clothing for Tina, but I'm sure she could use something other than flip-flops, especially for her wedding. She wears a 9 or a 9.5 in shoes.
They are staying with family members now but would love to borrow a travel trailer to use as a temporary home.
I'd also welcome suggestions for getting Tina another copy of our senior yearbook — and maybe even pictures from lower grades. Does Sapulpa High School keep old copies of yearbooks? Could we organize a yearbook signing of sorts?
You can call Tina's niece Krystal at (404) 771-3515 for more info as well.


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Apple continues to ride high as a product company. Great design, especially around the UI, and marketing have allowed the iPhone and iPad to soar even as iTunes has lost its competitive edge. Herein lie the secrets of what Apple and other trusted brands should do next. Reinvent the service mix.
Before going into that, here's a little background.
A couple of years ago the Harvard Business Review asked me to analyze their archives. In doing that I found a marked transition point in and around 1990 - 1992 - suddenly, in an economy of goods, business writers were fixated on "services". Companies were failing to develop services around product.
We came to think of the service economy as burger flipping. But at the time we meant, product has to be supplemented with a service layer.
The reason was straightforward. All product could be commoditized. But a service layer helped to build stronger customer relationships. And created new opportunities for differentiation.
Against that background, Apple is a classic exponent of the product + service company.
However, iTunes and the Apps Store, which drew people to Apple's designs, now have worthy competitors in Amazon, Google and Android. Increasingly people will also draw content from Facebook just like they do now from YouTube. Differentiation at the service layer is becoming more difficult.
But there is a component of service that Apple and its competitors overlook. In the long term Apple's profitability from product will decline but even as it declines, one asset will remain strong, if Apple protects it. That is trust.
In a world where trust is on the brink of collapse, companies like Apple have a ton of it, even as they extract an excessive level of cash - excessive in the sense they have been unable to use it - from the economy they serve. Trust will be the new product and service.
Andre Durand, CEO of Ping believes trusted identity is the next frontier on the web. And I'm inclined to agree with him. Andre's company manages identity for enterprises, among other services. And it has taken me three long conversations now to begin to understand identity's implications.
If I "get it", then what I get is that the Internet is full of friction because our identities are scattered around different sites. Partial data about us is continuously sold to companies that want to sell or advertise to us products that often have no real value to us.
That loose form of marketing that we used to call "targeted" will soon be joined by a much-transformed labor market, where we will be recruited for shorter periods, far more often, as enterprises move to an on-demand labor model.
What we know, what we can do, and what we have achieved, will have to be verified parts of our online identity. Our income will depend on it. And will need to be absorbed into on-boarding and payroll automatically.
As an example of the disadvantages of incomplete information, I jut waited 10 days for a payment from a client that left out a crucial number on a wire transfer. It will now take 10 days to track that money. And then it all starts over. That is friction, and it causes more friction. Eliminating this friction, or more generally barriers to opportunity, is the next phase of economic acceleration.
That has already begun, in the sense that apps developer communities are very low friction forms of commerce, a topic Nick Vitalari and I addressed in The Elastic Enterprise.
In the long run I don't care which products I carry in my pockets. Samsung's are as good as Apple's. And no doubt Blackberry will produce a decent smartphone in the new year.
I'm not too fussed about the app or content as a service layer. In fact as a service layer they are quite weak. What I care about is simplicity in my life, giving more recognition and time to the people in my close networks, and being able to draw more value from my wider networks. The latter is increasingly important and under-served.
I don't see any smartphone maker helping with it. I see my economy changing but I see them serving my needs in the 2007-2010 time frame.
What I really care about now is how I am presented to the complex world and networks around me. And for that I need my service providers to get closer and help me build a trusted identity online, with information that belongs to me not to LinkedIn or Facebook.


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Walking back to Delirium Tremens, Radley asked Carlos how he felt. An emphatic "Great!" was his reply. "My arm doesn't hurt anymore." With wide eyed excitement, he turned to the other boy and grabbed his shoulders. "And I'm gonna get a bunch of comics! I'm getting Ultimate Warlock, and Condorito 2000, and Battlestar Galactica, and Nemesis, and Occam's Razor!"
"But wait, you only have eight dollars."
"No, you still owe me those five bucks, remember?"
Radley looked at Carlos as if he had just slapped him. Sure, he remembered. When they started, all Radley could think about was how many packages he could deliver. Now that he had eight dollars, now that he had worked all day to earn his money, he didn't want to give it up. "Hey, if I hadn't told you to come back we wouldn't have made any extra money."
"Well yeah, but the other comics are pretty much yours anyway. I mean, I don't really like ViperKid. I just wanted to get Ultimate Warlock and Occam's Razor."
"So, then, just get those. Besides, you bought the other comics, too, you know."
"Yeah, because you forced me –"
"I didn't force you!"
"– and I can't keep them because they have cuss words in them."
"So what, your mom will never find out –"
"It's not just about my mom…"
"–you stupid momma's boy."
In an instant, Carlos's face went from beige to bright red. Faster than he could realize, his hand balled into a fist and flew straight onto Radley's fat cheek. Within seconds, both boys were on the ground, and Carlos had Radley pinned between his legs, delivering punch after punch at his head. Then, in a moment of blind rage, Carlos picked up a nearby rock that must have been about the size of his hand, and was about to hit the bleeding boy under him with it. Radley put his arms up over his face and yelled, "I'm sorry! Please don't kill me!"
Carlos stopped, rock above his head, as if thinking whether or not he should continue the act. But then how would he explain to anyone what happened to Radley? What would he do with his body? Could he just leave him in the street and run back to Fat Daisy's? Wouldn't Fat Daisy ask about him? But if he told her that Radley went home, and that he would pick up the money for both, then he could hide him, get his money, and might not even get in trouble.
As a background to his thoughts, Carlos heard Radley crying, rambling away, saying anything he could to stop the beating. "I'm sorry I called you a momma's boy… I'm sorry I stung you with the cigarette…You can have all the money, I don't care! Just please don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
Carlos suddenly felt dizzy. He threw the rock behind Radley's head, got up, and again started walking towards Fat Daisy's.
Radley got up slowly, first on his elbows, then rolling over on to his hands and knees. Buttons had been torn from his shirt, and blood dripped from his mouth to the floor, his teeth having done most of the damage. He finally got up, opened his mouth to speak, and saw the other boy fall.
After a second of hesitation, he ran over to Carlos, but then stopped a few feet from him, not wanting to get too close.
"Hey, you OK?" he asked. "Carlos?"
No answer.
He looked around to see if anyone was near. No one was, so he tore a branch from a small, nearby tree and tried poking at the now unconscious boy. He wanted to make sure Carlos wasn't dead, but wanted to be able to run if he suddenly went crazy again.
Still no answer.
Radely dropped the stick, moved towards the boy, and shoved at him to wake him up.


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Billionaires Behind Push In North Carolina To Transfer $40 Million Of Taxpayer Money To Private Schools
North Carolina House Majority Leader Paul Stam (R) has an idea for fixing our country's education system — dump tens of millions of taxpayer dollars into private schools.
Stam is a sponsor of House Bill 1104, which would utilize the "North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship Program" to shift up to $40 million of taxpayer funds in 2013 to scholarships for students to attend private schools.
The Institute for Southern Studies's Facing South has dug into the push for the privatization bill and has found that a group called Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina (PEFNC) is being used for the cause. As the Institute notes, PEFNC "stands to benefit financially from the legislation by becoming one of the scholarship-granting organizations, enabling it to keep 9 percent of the money for administrative expenses — about $8.8 million over the first five years, according to the Associated Press."
In addition to PEFNC (which is largely funded by the founders of Wal-Mart), another group called NC Citizens for Freedom in Education (NCCFE) has been formed to do political accountability work to directly target politicians who opposed to the privatization scheme. Facing South notes that " all of NCCFE's funding in the current election cycle so far — $52,900 — came from the American Federation for Children [AFC], a national organization that promotes privatization of public schools and has played a key role in the creation of neovoucher programs in other states."
AFC is mostly funded by the DeVos family, who are the heirs to the Amway fortune. This family not only has funded school privatization efforts in North Carolina, but it has formed countless "school choice" groups all over the country, pouring millions of dollars of their fortune into the cause of school vouchers.
While the DeVos family and Wal-Mart heirs may be funding groups with friendly-sounding names to push their agenda, the public should know that the effect of this heavily-financed rush to privatization could eventually be the destruction of America's public education system. They should also be aware that numerous for-profit businesses stand to reap millions or billions from this shift, and are behind much of the lobbying efforts to make this happen.
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Road TripJuly 31st, 2013
Oh. Hello there.
Once again, apologies for the dearth of posting. I'd promise it'll never happen again, but it'll probably happen again…
Anyway, after a nine-day road trip through seven states in one car with a fiancée and a confused dog, I am happy to report:
1) I am still engaged
2) I've arrived in St. Louis
We took our move as an opportunity to explore some of the country's national parks, and it was grand. It was also impossible to escape chemistry along our journey. One of the early exits on Interstate 70 in western Colorado was labeled simply "Sulphur". Unfortunately, I was driving and could not snap a picture, but the sign looked almost exactly like this one in Oklahoma. The town made me think of Stuart Cantrill, the chief editor of Nature Chemistry, who penned a whole editorial about why the journal uses "sulfur" instead of (the typical British spelling of) "sulphur". I guess the reach of IUPAC's iron fist does not extend to the American West?
Despite dropping the ball on Sulphur, we did get a picture of the exit for Leadville and Copper Mountain:
Leadville is a mining town named after the lead-silver deposits that impeded extraction of gold in local mines. There was also an exit near the city for Silver Plume. The periodic table is quite popular in Colorado.
Finally, here are some non-chemical photos of our journey. I highly recommend visiting our national parks; they are amazing.
Joshua Tree National Park, California:
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona:
Canyonlands National Park, Utah:
Arches National Park, Utah:
Colorado (Along Interstate 25):
Dodge City, Kansas:


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Cloud River
The town in which I live is situated at the mouth of the river Asón, which begins way high up in the mountains and flows down into the tidal basin estuary you see in the current header image of this blog. Occasionally I have noticed a fog hanging over the river in the mornings. The fog yesterday, however, seemed more dynamic. I could see it churning with my naked eye. I've always been a big fan of churning and flowing clouds in timelapse videos, and the visibility above the clouds was fantastic, so I raced to set up my tripod, camera and intervalometer before leaving to walk my daughter to school.


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ARM boss Warren East is having fun pulling the tail of Chipzilla.
After a quarter's good results, East feels that he can start having a laugh at Intel's expense.
He pointed out to EE Times that Intel does not have the manufacturing advantage in SoCs.
East said that Intel is manufacturing using 32-nm high-k metal gate planar CMOS, while TSMC is manufacturing using 28-nm high-k metal gate.
This does not sound like a massive lead to him and that you could argue that TSMC is ahead.
Just to rub it in a little more East added that Intel would have a tough time to create 22-nm FinFET technology for SoC.
Intel's 22 nm FinFET for SOCs is scheduled to arrive in 2013, with the next shrink anticipated for 2014.
East knows that Chipzilla is pretty good at delivering on its road map and tends to do better when it is in the middle of a fight.
Intel has not got FinFET and ARM protypes are expected in late 2013 or early 2014. East admits that he has not got a clue when it will happen.
So in other words, East was bragging on behalf of his partners, all of which are ahead of Intel and have market superiority at this moment in time. He thinks.
Our guess is that East can see the winter coming, but just wants to make the most of the autumn while he can. It means that he can spend at least a year laughing at Intel before Chipzilla can turn around and bite him. Mind you, East plans to retire at the end of the year so he will not be around to see the terrible jaws and claws which will gnaw on his successor.


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|Need for Speed: Shift (2009)
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Man Avenue - Chris Banner
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Check out basketball jock, Chris Banner, as we coax him away from the local courts and get him naked to jerk off for us in the backseat. He's a bit pissed that we were filming him on the court, but after awhile, he seems to get turned on by the idea and starts rubbing his crotch between shots. After we get him naked in the car, he sits back and beats his meat while we watch. He knows what we like and soon lays back and shows us his asshole, too. It's not long and he's jerking to a frenzy and blowing his man jizz all over his basketball. We drive him to the end of the street, drop him and his nasty basketball off and drive away. In our attempt to continue converting some of our original clip-formatted episodes into one continuous video, sit back and enjoy "Backseat Basketball" with Chris Banner.
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French fires in triplicate 01-12-09
Published 6:00 pm, Wednesday, January 14, 2009
How 'bout one more holiday story to start off the new year? Or, more correctly, to cap off the old one?
It's a "feel good" piece about three young men who had put in their time at school one day just before dismissal for the holidays. En route home, they talked their mom into an ice cream stop at McDonald's, near Hulen Mall in Fort Worth.
Ron Hoffman, who owns several McDonald's restaurants in the city, saw them get out of the car. The 16-year-olds, sharply dressed in their uniforms worn to school at the Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts, caught his eye.
Thinking their neat appearance to be the very kind sought in prospective employees, he hoped that maybe, just maybe, the purpose of their visit might be to check out employment opportunities.
He overheard their conversations about ice cream, and his heart sank. Mom's mandate, however, was a quick cockle-warmer. In fact, her proviso could have been no more effective if he'd scripted it himself.
"We'll order the ice cream after you boys get applications for jobs," she announced.
Hoffman and two of his associates quickly introduced themselves, as if on cue. Applications were completed in short order, and the youngsters were hired before they could eat their ice cream. Matthew, Mark and Luke Wilborn - identical triplets born in Fort Worth to the Rev. and Mrs. James Wilborn - had landed their first jobs.
Their assignments? Manning the three drive-through windows.
The trio is having tons of fun noting double takes - then triple takes - as customers drive through.
"Are y'all twins?" is a typical question at window No. 2. At window No. 3, some customers are pretty sure that it's the same guy zipping quickly from window to window.TV folks jumped on the story first. Brett Johnson from NBC-5 in Fort Worth spent several hours with McDonald's "three disciples." (An early question, of course, was whether the triplets had a brother named "John." They have five siblings, including one "James," but no "John.")
In our world that is sometimes described as a "train wreck in progress," hope and goodwill - however faint - are wonderful nuggets in a slag field of "gloom and doom."
The clip was picked up by NBC affiliates throughout the nation. America is breaking into a smile as viewers learn of these youngsters serving folks in triplicate.
"Shelf life" of the story remains strong.
Queries have come from Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" in Los Angeles and from "Good Morning America" in New York City.
Who knows where these sons of a preacher-man will wind up? Right now, Matthew, Mark and Luke are taking it all in stride. These youngsters have a plan. All three are musicians. They play electric guitars and have goals to reach star status, say like the Jonas Brothers.
When they graduate from the Academy a couple of years from now, they hope to attend UCLA to learn more about the music industry.
I hope someone lets them know that my services are available to help them on the national scene. I just might be able to help them get a shot at "Good Morning America." After all, I'm experienced, having been a guest there last summer.
Oh, you didn't see it? I'm sorry. To refresh your memory, it was a Friday in Bryant Park. During Sam Champion's weathercast, I muscled my way through the mass of humanity until I was just one person away from the restraining rope. Alas, the "obstacle" was a big college guy waving a sign to his mom and dad back home in Nebraska. It read, of course, "SEND MONEY." OK, so I was a "face in the crowd." At least I'm not claiming to be an advisor to ABC. That would be a stretch, too. However, when I offered to advise the ABC moguls, they said if they ever needed my advice, they'd ask for it.
What nerve!
As to the triplets, maybe there'll be a talent scout posing as a customer. After the youngsters process the order, including the inevitable question about "wanting fries with that," they can "sing their 'thank-you's.' " Or at least strum guitar accompaniment. And one day, they can tell their kids and grandkids about working the drive-through windows at McDonald's, where they brightened the way for others on life's rocky roads.
(Dr. Don Newbury of Burleson, president of Howard Payne University from 1985-97, is a speaker and author. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com)


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Why responsive website design should be your first choice
As anyone operating online should know by now, mobile browsing isn't just the future, it's already the present. As many experts had predicted a decade ago, the way we browse the web has rapidly evolved thanks to the development of mobile and tablet technology so that today over half of all browsing happens via a mobile phone or tablet device. Knowing this, every business should by now be spending a larger budget on mobile ready website platforms than conventional desktop sites, however research shows this still isn't the case.
On the plus side, if you're still yet to develop a mobile platform for you website, you're not alone, and by starting the project of building a site now, you still have the opportunity to leave so much of your competition behind.
The mobile web
As we've explained, in terms of total user traffic, the mobile web now trumps the more traditional desktop based web. If a customer or Google crawler bot enters into your website and finds that it isn't mobile ready, your overall web rank will suffer. Therefore for the overall health of your website, however it is viewed, it is essential that you're competing on the mobile web.
"M dot" websites
Simply mirror the design of your existing site on a sub-domain with m. before the normal web address. The main benefit of this is that it maintains the current look and feel of your website but with a smaller format.
Mobile web apps
Mobile web apps mirror how a native app (one that you download and install) looks and feels, but without the need to download. Instead a mobile web app can be reached via the search engine like any other site, but keep in mind the app platform isn't fit for all purposes.
Responsive design
Responsive website design has become the web developers favourite when it comes to building a mobile platform and is the format that we would most recommend. A responsive site has a dynamic format which can adjust to any given screen size making it effective for desktop, mobile, or tablet browsing.


text: I know X100 is quiet these days compared to X-E1 and X-Pro1, but I ran an errand earlier today, so grabbed my X100. I was walking down the street at same time as another fellow who seemed to be hauling 50 pounds of gear. massive tripod, DSLR, big lens, two bags, etc. God knows what he was setting out to do. About 15 minutes later, now nearing dusk, the dude is finally setting up his shot on the street - in middle of road!?; I couldnt help but pull out my X100 and take a quick snap. He turned around after this shot and sheepishly smirked, acknowledging his burdensome gear and eyed my jealous simple rangefinder setup (though sometimes his would be justified depending on purpose, of course). I watched him, he took a few *basic* shots from this angle and then left... Anyway, still loving the X100... This shot @ f/2, ISO 400, 1/60 sec [image resized for web and forum viewing; link to original at bottom] {} Original: All sizes | X100, Street. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!