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Appearing beneath the title of Said Sayrafiezadeh's first collection of stories, "Brief Encounters with the Enemy," is the subtitle "fiction" — not "stories." It's a move by Sayrafiezadeh and his publishing team that recalls a time when authors could publish story collections under titles such as "Bech: A Book" (John Updike) or "Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition" (Bernard Malamud). Although "Brief Encounters" shouldn't be confused for a novel, Sayrafiezadeh's eight interlinked stories are just as fulfilling as any novel you're likely to read this summer. Each story delivers the satisfaction of the short form (beginning, middle, epiphany) while disguising itself as a chapter in a larger, thematically inclined arena.
Sayrafiezadeh's previous book, "When Skateboards Will Be Free," was a touching memoir about growing up under the roof of the communist Worker's Party. But more recently he's been publishing short stories in the New Yorker, where three of these previously appeared.
Set against the backdrop of a foreign war, these eight stories document contemporary American life during wartime in a dying industrial city, where the barren streets and closed factories recall a recently bankrupt Detroit, and where upper middle-class suburbs orbit just out of everyone's reach. Each tale is narrated by a young man either in or recently out of a blue-collar job, with a few characters rising to middle management and stagnantly unhappy.
Sayrafiezadeh's narrators speak in familiar voices — introspective, cynical, perhaps emotionally stunted. They fall in and out of love with troubled women. Their co-workers and friends enlist or are drafted into the military and disappear abroad as the nameless war evolves from rumor, to dread, and finally into actuality.
In "Appetite," a short-order cook named Ike develops a fascination with an anorexic waitress. Ike is determined to ask for a raise but is stunted due to badly timed moments with his manager. Like many of Sayrafiezadeh's characters, Ike is stuck in a job he's had since graduating high school years prior. In one memorable scene, Ike mourns his graduation day during a valedictorian's "tedious and patronizing" speech. "Sitting in the audience with five hundred other students, I had the unsettling awareness that I had already been consigned to a life of mediocrity . . . I would forever be indistinguishable from all the others who had not been chosen. . . . I am the addressee, I kept thinking as the valedictorian droned on. I will always be the addressee."
Ike is closely related to the other narrators in the collection — young men during wartime, some participating in the war, most of them not. Each story is told from the voice of the addressee. Their voices bleed into each other, providing a continuity that gives the collection its novel-like satisfaction. As one story ends, the state of the war and the temperature of the country is seamlessly updated in the next.
The title story, "Brief Encounters with the Enemy" (Sayrafiezadeh's only actual "war" story), recounts a man's final days in deployment. It's a simple tale about soldiers building a bridge to get into enemy-occupied territory and the danger they are determined to avoid. But Sayrafiezadeh tells his modern war story with carefully placed despair and plenty of humor, like when planes fly overhead and the narrator, Luke, along with the rest of his platoon, jumps up and down, waving "as if we were on a desert island, hoping the pilots would give a signal." The signal never comes as the platoon finds out they've been waving at drones all along. On his last day, Luke, alone on post, comes face to face with the enemy, an unarmed man. With his rifle on target, Luke arrives at a crossroads — to act or not to act — what he finds is that neither choice resembles heroism of any kind.
But most of the battle in Sayrafiezadeh's carefully constructed collection is fought by his cast of "addressees" in restaurant kitchens, grim office spaces, Walmarts, and supermarkets. The enemy, mostly middle management despots, comes at you with reprimands and demotions, not guns or bombs. The fear of getting caught dead in some erroneous act is forever present in these narrators' lives. And by some miraculous act of self-will, when faced with the enemy, they prevail.Alex Gilvarry is the author of the novel "From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant," recently out in paperback. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Expression of good luck for classical singers.
Saying "toi toi" to a singer is the equivalent of saying "break a leg" to an actor.
by redheaded wonder February 05, 2009
When a group of people, sometimes even hundreds or thousands, do a combination of singing, dancing and chanting to express unhappiness about something. In the southern part of africa, when the people are unhappy about something, usually something regarding the government, a group of people feeling strongly about the cause will organize a toi toi and take to the street. It usually gets alot of media attention. Most commonly performed by black people although in recent years white and coloured people have started joining in. A toi toi is often used as part as a protest
The people were unhappy with their salaries, so they refused to go to work and had a toi toi in front of the union building
by Graatjie January 01, 2009
something so explicit it should not ever ever never be uttered anywhere near a mother's ears.
Repeat: do not ask your mother for definition.
Repeat: do not ask your mother for definition.
"I bet half the people at this place don't know what toi toi means..."
by Bertha Barshnitzle January 14, 2009

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"It's been a very enlightening diagnosis, as well as one that, at first, was a very discouraging one," says Bernard Jackson. He's come a long way since 1999, when his wife passed away in the hospital mere weeks after testing HIV positive. "Because of the medical reports, the blood work: All those things tell me that because of her being in an AIDS diagnosis so early on, that she had been living with her virus before we met," Bernard remembers. He was also diagnosed HIV positive at this time, but he was so consumed with shock, loss and the need to stay healthy for his young daughter, that years went by before he was able to process his own diagnosis. Educating and supporting others through telling his own story was what finally helped him begin to move on -- and led him onto a new path in his career. "That's how I started kind of building myself back up ... and seeing that what I thought was the end for me was actually a beginning."
Bernard, welcome to This Positive Life.
Thank you so much for having me.
Can you start by describing how you found out you were HIV positive?
Bernard Jackson
I found out I was HIV positive after my wife tested positive, and had actually progressed to an AIDS diagnosis. She became very ill and we took her to the hospital, and she was diagnosed with AIDS. So I found out through getting tested at the recommendation of her doctor.
Did they have a sense at that point of how long she had been HIV positive before she was tested?
I don't know exactly how long. I really don't remember if they even told me, just because of the mere shock of it. I wasn't really too aware of all the details. But she had obviously been sick for quite some time, because she passed away from those complications not long after -- approximately three to four weeks after her diagnosis.
What did you think, and how did you feel, when you first heard that you and your wife were both HIV positive?
She was in the hospital when the doctor suggested that I go get tested. My first thought was to be there as a support system for her. In the next day or so, I did go and get tested. I think that test was first done on a Monday. I had to make the decision to remove my wife from her life support that following Thursday. I found out the following Monday that my test had also come back positive for HIV.
The one thing I do remember is that because of my T-cell count and viral load, the time frame appeared to be that I had actually contracted HIV from my wife during our four-year relationship.
It was a feeling of shock. I was so involved in grieving for my wife that I didn't really know how to feel. I just knew that I had to deal with the process of grieving her loss, raising my daughter. Then approximately two weeks later my mother passed away suddenly. And so there were a lot of things that didn't allow me to focus on my diagnosis. It was just: "Give me my medicine; let me take the pills; let me make regular appointments; let me try to stay healthy." There was just so much other stuff going on that I just did what the doctor told me.
How old was your daughter at this point?
At the time that my wife passed, my daughter was 8. I did not tell her exactly what she died from, although she knew that my wife was sick because she had diabetes. Her diabetes stayed out of control a lot -- now we know it was because of her HIV status. But my daughter only knew at that time that her mother had problems with her diabetes. She believed, at that point, that that was what caused her mother's death.
She handled it very well, because we've always been a very strong people, with our faith. My wife had talked to her about death and dying, and how to handle that. I still didn't reveal to her that I, too, was positive, because she was so young. I just wanted to try and let her have as normal a life as possible, hoping that when she was ready to talk about those things that we would.
One night we were having our father-and-daughter monthly discussion. She said, "Daddy, I want to have our talk tonight." And we started the conversation off with, "Well, Daddy, first of all, I want to let you know that I know that you're HIV positive."
And I said, "Oh, really?"
She said, "Yeah. I heard my cousin talking, and he told me what happened to Mommy."
She wasn't our biological child. We actually had legal custody of her, and were in the process of adopting her. So she was not affected physically by the virus. But she had overheard her relative speak about it. I asked her how did she know about me. She said, "Well, we learned some things in school, and I went in the drawer and found your prescriptions. I went online and found out what they were for."
So she pretty much was educated through the school system -- and some family members -- as to what my status was. Since then it's been wonderful, because it was such a burden lifted. She's handled it very well since then.
She was 8 when you were diagnosed; how old was she by the time she found out you were positive?
At that time I think she was probably about 13, maybe 14. Ever since then it's been an open book about my HIV status with her. I must say that it's been a big support, early on, in my life.
At first, one of my biggest concerns was: How would I tell my mother? Unfortunately, my mother passed away before I got an opportunity to tell her. So then there was my daughter. I was really concerned about how it would affect her life and her going to school, and being worried about me. But it's been a wonderful blessing, to be able to have that openness with her. It's something that I encourage a lot of people to do: to find that one person in your life that you can talk about this virus with. Because it can be a very lonely experience for someone, without having that support.
Your daughter must be in her mid-20s by now. Did you talk with her about safer sex, and protecting herself, and HIV risk, when she was growing up?
All the time! One of my family members came to my home one day and they were a little bit offended, because I had a beautiful hand-woven basket in my bathroom. And it was full of condoms.
They said, "Don't you think that's a little bit much to have around your daughter?"
And I said, "My daughter is well aware of the proper use of them. I think it's important that she has them available for her, if she ever needs them." I am a strong advocate for abstinence. That's one of the things that I have encouraged for her. But she did, in fact, have a baby a few years ago. She has a son.
One of the things that I always laugh about is I tell youth to make coming and getting tested a part of dating. If you want to date someone, why don't you all come in and get tested, so you know where you are?
My daughter didn't come to where I work, but she went to another location in Virginia, and she and her boyfriend got tested, and she made the decision that they were going to engage in sex. So she's had a lot of knowledge about it. And she has, in turn, shared her knowledge with some of her friends. Fortunately she is using protection now, but she had that opportunity to get as much knowledge as I could share with her. And through the work that I do, she has read a lot, and knows a lot about it. So I'm hoping that she continues to do the best that she can and be safe.
What was the first thing that you did that you feel really helped you come to terms with your HIV diagnosis?
The first thing that I did when I was informed of my wife's diagnosis is, when I did leave the hospital, I went directly to my spiritual advisor, and I informed them of what the situation was. Like I said, I relied, and still rely very heavily, on my faith to deal with this virus. And that was the one thing that we did. We prayed for each other. We prayed that our faith would continue to give me strength to deal with what I was dealing with.
The grieving process, and finding out my HIV status, just kind of made me a little withdrawn from family and some friends. But the main thing was I was focused on trying to keep healthy. I wanted to be healthy for my daughter. So the medication was the first thing I started with, educating myself about what the medications were, what the side effects to them were; and the benefits of them outweighed all of the side effects. So that was the first thing I did, was start immediately on medication. But relying on my faith a lot to help me deal with it.
My first regimen was Combivir (AZT/3TC) and Sustiva (efavirenz, Stocrin). One of the side effects that I know I dealt with a lot was the crazy, vivid dreams, and anxiety. It eventually passed.
That's one of the things that I try to share with people, as well. Some people think that the side effects are so overwhelming that they get discouraged. And I know that each individual is different. But the side effects lasted for probably two to three months, and it kind of made the depression a little bit more enhanced. But according to my doctors the medication was doing what it needed to do. And as long as the HIV was staying under control then I felt like I could deal with some of the side effects. It helped to understand why I was having the anxiety attacks -- what I thought at that time because of the experience that I'd had was that, if I can keep my life, then I can deal with some of these side effects. But it was a little tough.
I've moved on from that regimen to Atripla (efavirenz/tenofovir/FTC). So it's still the vivid dreams, it's still some of the anxiety. But the virus is being controlled, so I'm thankful for that.
I took a "drug holiday," as they call it, in between going from Combivir and Sustiva to Atripla. I took about a month. Understanding the toxicity of the medication, and that there are long-term side effects that we still may not be aware of with those medications, I felt like I wanted to just see where my body was. What was my body capable of doing on its own? Because I got started on the medication so quickly. I just wanted to take a break from it.
When I did that, my viral load had kind of changed a little bit. That's when we talked about the Atripla. I've been on the Atripla, now, for several years. I have not discussed with my doctor about changing medications, because I felt I could handle the side effects, to a point. I found out with the Atripla that it does make depression a little bit more difficult to keep controlled, so I've gotten on some antidepressant medication. But since it's controlling the virus at the rate that it is right now, I haven't really discussed changing it at this point.


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|System: PS3, Xbox 360
|Dev: KOEI
|Pub: KOEI
|Release: March 15, 2011
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by Josh Wirtanen
The Trojan War seems like the perfect fit for a video game. It's extremely violent, the lack of modern weaponry requires a much different type of strategy than today's wars, and people back then actually believed enough in crazy mythological creatures to legitimize the appearance of such monstrosities. The Warriors series decides to capitalize on all this with its newest title, Warriors: Legends of Troy.
Players are plopped into the shoes of various Greek and Trojan heroes and must complete various missions to help give their side the edge in battle. These missions have players do things like ransack granaries, dismantle clifftop defenses, protect civilians, and capture enemy strongholds. The gameplay involves a lot of hacking and slashing with swords and axes, with a little bit of shield action thrown in for good measure.
To make it easier to hit targets on the 3D landscape, there is a lock-on feature that allows players to focus on a single target. Sadly, this feature is so poorly implemented that it's pretty much only useful during one-on-one combat. In large battles, the target that gets locked-onto feels completely random. I've had instances where I've had a fair amount of enemy soldiers directly in front of me, yet hitting the lock-on button sent my focus to a soldier who was off in the distance somewhere. And if you pan the camera in front of the character to lock onto an enemy behind you, your character will still throw items straight ahead rather than at the locked target. This can be extremely frustrating for players comfortable with the much superior lock-on systems found in games like Red Dead Redemption.
While swinging your weapon wildly is generally effective, there are a few strategic elements that must be used in order to survive these battles. For example, the opening scene has you hold your shield up over your head every time a volley of arrows is launched. Yet this mechanic is drastically overused within the first fifteen minutes of the game as it becomes painfully awkward to watch an entire battlefield of soldiers simultaneously stop fighting to hold up their shields.
Groups of soldiers will often include a captain or commander of some sort with a lot more health than the average fighter. Killing this commander will cause nearby soldiers to lose their cool and often make really dumb mistakes like dropping their shields. Sometimes these freaked-out warriors will even flee the battle completely.
Legends of Troy also allows players to pick up the weapons of fallen enemies and either use them in combat or throw them. This is especially fun when you've already taken down an enormous pile of enemies and get to hurl projectiles at those who are trying to flee. This concept, by far, provides for the most entertaining moments of the game. Yet even this great feature has a major flaw: whenever a cutscene loads, any weapons a player has picked up will disappear. Getting your hands on a really great weapon (like a spear) is so much less rewarding when you know that the item will disappear as soon as you hit the next plot point.
At various points in the story, players will swap between characters, all of which are powerful heroes of either Greece or Troy. Each has his or her own playstyle and default weapon loadout. My favorite of these is Penthesilea, the Amazonian queen with a gigantic axe that will slice through anyone who comes even remotely close to her, while my least favorite character is definitely Ajax, whose strength is offset by his lack of weapons.


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Move your counters through this snake of cards and see how far you can go. Are you surprised by where you end up?
Engage in a little mathematical detective work to see if you can spot the fakes.
Can you work out the probability of winning the Mathsland National Lottery? Try our simulator to test out your ideas.
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If everyone in your class picked a number from 1 to 225, do you think any two people would pick the same number?
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Etowah County's per capita personal income was down in 2009, but not as much as the state and national averages, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Etowah County's per capita personal income was down in 2009, but not as much as the state and national averages, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The county's per capita personal income, which is income based on all sources divided by population, was down 0.6 percent in 2009 to $29,984.
That drop was less than the state's decline of 1.5 percent from 2008 to 2009 and also less than the decline nationally. Across the U.S., per capita personal income fell 1.7 percent in 2009 after growing 4.0 percent in 2008, BEA said.
Alabama's per capita personal income in 2009 was $33,411 and the national average in 2009 was $39,635.
Personal income is a comprehensive measure of the income of all persons from all sources. In addition to wages and salaries, it includes employer-provided health insurance, dividends and interest income, Social Security benefits and other types of income.
Over the last 10 years, Etowah County's per capita personal income increased 3.8 percent. The state had growth of 4.5 percent during that period, and the national average was a 4.4 percent increase.
Etowah County's per capita personal income in 2009 ranked 24th in the state and is 90 percent of the state average and 76 percent of the national average, according to BEA.
Carolyn Trend, a socioeconomic analyst with the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama, said Etowah County's smaller decline in per capita personal income compared to the state average in part could be linked to an increase in average monthly earnings during that period.�The Census Bureau's Local Employment Dynamics data series showed the average monthly earnings for jobs in Etowah County rose at a higher rate than the state increase.
Trend said per capita income also reflects population changes and according to Census Bureau estimates, Etowah County grew at a lower rate than the rest of the state.
According to the BEA, Etowah County in 2009 saw declines in income in a number of sectors, including farm earnings, manufacturing, construction and retail and wholesale trade.
Increases were reported in nondurable good manufacturing, heath care and social assistance, local government, educational services, professional, scientific and technical services and telecommunications.
Marshall County was one of 18 counties in the state that saw an increase in per capital personal income in 2009, with a 0.2 percent rise. Other counties in Northeast Alabama saw their income levels drop in 2009, including Blount County at 2.6 percent and DeKalb County at 1.9 percent.
Trent said both the state and counties adjoining Etowah experienced job losses as the recession worsened from 2008 to 2009.�
Shelby County had the highest per capita personal income in Alabama for 2009 at $42,118, followed by Jefferson County at $41,745.
The counties with the lowest per capita personal income were Bullock at $21,971 and Wilcox at $22,509, although each showed increases in 2009.


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Monday, March 1, 2010
Where in the West: March 2010
9 comments:
- Cannibal Panda said...
Portage Glacier, Alaska. (Not positive about glacier- as it has been ages, but definitely positive it is Alaska:)
- Monday, March 1, 2010 at 9:43:00 AM PST
- Garry Hayes said...
Outside my area of known travels, but a beautiful picture!
- Monday, March 1, 2010 at 10:45:00 AM PST
- Silver Fox said...
Nope (re: Portage) and Thanks!
- Monday, March 1, 2010 at 11:06:00 AM PST
- Cannibal Panda said...
Ugh- I should have paid attention to the topography in front of it!! DOH! That said, I can only think it would be the Matanuska Glacier.
- Monday, March 1, 2010 at 12:43:00 PM PST
- Silver Fox said...
Well, you got it right this time! That's the first view of the glacier that you can see when driving in from the west. I hope you weren't just going thru all AK glaciers. ;)
- Monday, March 1, 2010 at 2:00:00 PM PST
- Cannibal Panda said...
Nope- I was looking at the mountain tops the first time, not paying attention to the aspect that Portage is fronted by ocean. (hence my DUH! moment:) Matanuska was the only one I knew of (or been to) that wasn't. I recall the last time I went -gosh it was wayyyyy too long ago- it was a very muddy/rocky trek. It's a very slippery mud too, as I skidded and landed on my butt in the middle of it -never been one for being graceful. :)
- Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 10:25:00 AM PST
- Silver Fox said...
I was being a bit facetious! :) Technically speaking, Turnagain Arm doesn't reach all the way to the Portage Glacier. Instead, there is a small lake in front of the glacier, which has grown larger since the first time I saw it.
- Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 6:11:00 PM PST
- Alaska Al said...
The special aspect of Mat Glacier is that you can drive to within a couple of hundred yards of the toe, then walk up to and onto the glacier.
- Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 11:28:00 PM PST
- Silver Fox said...
Alaska Al, I measured it at a quarter mile, but the measurement is approximate because maybe they've moved the parking lot since the photo was taken, or maybe the glacier has retreated since I was last there.
Measurement and more in the next post!
Hope it's not too cold up there.
- Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 3:55:00 AM PST


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I plan to get some months off from work next year to travel and kitesurf some nice waves.
I'm looking for a spot with some nice long waves (2-4m) which is windy enough to go kiting with a small or medium size kite.
Carribean clear water and temperatures between 20*C and 30°C would be great
I thought about these:
- Peru, Pacasmayo - really long quality waves, but wind maybe not strong enough
- Mauritius, Le Morne - good wind statistics but expensive
- Indonesia, Bali or Sulawesi - good waves but maybe not enough wind
- Sri Lanka maybe - good wind statistic but
Do you have any ideas for the perfect spot or some experience with ethe spots listed above?
Does somebody want to join me on the travel for the best waves?
Hang Loose


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Amazon UK has announced a new trade-in program offering customers the chance to upgrade to the Xbox One or PlayStation 4 versions of Battlefield 4, FIFA 14 or Need For Speed: Rivals for as little as £10.
Amazon's promotion offers £37 trade-in credit for the current-gen versions when purchasing the next-gen copy. The discount will be applied at checkout provided you've completed the trade-in by December 21, 2013.
Because the credit is applied at checkout, it isn't yet known whether existing pre-order customers will be able to take advantage of the offer.
To receive the promotion, Amazon customers must follow these steps:
- Initiate a qualifying current-generation video game trade-in between September 18, 2013 and December 31, 2013.
- If the trade-in is accepted, you will receive a confirmation email, and your account will be credited with a Gift Certificate for a minimum of £15 if it is in 'Like new' condition.
- Add a qualifying item described in the offer from the list of next-generation titles to your Shopping Cart.
- The £22 promotional Gift Certificate will be applied automatically to your purchase of the qualifying item.
The promotion is similar to that announced by GAME, which guarantees a minimum £40 trade-in for current-gen titles when trading towards a next-gen copy.
Unlike GAME's offer, however, the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions do not need to have been purchased from Amazon.
Battlefield 4, FIFA 14 and Need For Speed: Rivals are all due to launch alongside Xbox One on November 22 and PlayStation 4 on November 29.


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It's just before noon on a Tuesday, and despite the rain, a few dozen schoolgirls in white uniforms and navy cardigans are milling about the 7-Eleven on Tong Chong Gai, a bustling Hong Kong side street of restaurants and cafés. A few of the teenagers grab chocolate milk and sushi rolls from the open chiller. The others queue up to order a hot lunch at the brand-new food counter that is manned by half a dozen employees in bright orange uniforms.
Welcome to Hong Kong's first 7 Café, part of the U.S. convenience-store chain's global foray into fast food. Part convenience store, part fast-food restaurant, the café opened its doors last month with a rotating menu featuring dishes you're more likely to see in a college cafeteria than a corner store: chicken fillet with onion and black-pepper sauce, Japanese udon noodles with curry, penne Bolognese. "We've been a snack destination," says Tim Chalk, commercial director of Dairy Farm, which holds the 7-Eleven area franchise for Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Guangdong. "We want to be a food destination."
Convenience stores have long been in the business of selling smokes, cold drinks and candy bars, but as consumers spend more and more on meals away from the home, ramping up food services is now seen as key to the industry's future. In Thailand, 7-Eleven sells burgers. In Japan, they fry their own chicken. In the U.S., a quarter of the chain's stores have rolled out oven-cooked pizzas. 7-Eleven's rival in Hong Kong, Circle K, serves toast and pasta dishes. "Convenience stores as an industry are heavily reliant on product categories such as cigarettes, which are under extreme pressure from a health and regulatory perspective," says Dennis Phelps, vice president for fresh food at 7-Eleven's corporate headquarters in Dallas. "People may choose to quit smoking, but they will not quit eating."
The convenience store already occupies a special place in the heart of Hong Kong. Although most of the stores are no bigger than a New York studio apartment, they're as ubiquitous as Starbucks in Seattle: there are nearly 1,000 7-Elevens in this city of 7 million almost as many as in the whole state of California. (Circle K has a third of that number.) An estimated 85% of Hongkongers visit a 7-Eleven every month, according to the company, where they can do everything from withdraw money and replenish their subway passes to pay their electricity bill and send money overseas.
But in this food-obsessed city where the collision of Western and Chinese cuisines has created finely attuned tastes, trying to enter the fast-food market can be risky. Long before corporate chains began setting up shop, Hongkongers could find a quick meal at local cha chaan teng, or tea cafés, serving soup with noodles and meat, or storefront street vendors selling shao mai, or dumplings, and fish balls spongy fried balls the size of jawbreakers that are made from minced fish and dough.
For years, 7-Eleven Hong Kong has shown deference to Hong Kong's love of food by offering ready-to-eat local fare like pork buns, shao mai and fish balls. (The more familiar roller-grill hot dogs and Slurpees are also available at some of the stores.) In fact, Casey Lum, who researches extensively on Hong Kong food culture and is the director of graduate studies in communication at William Paterson University, says part of the company's success in Hong Kong is due to the fact that it has become a "glocal" chain a global brand adapted to local tastes and habits. For taxi drivers working the overnight shift, for instance, 7-Eleven is often the only place they can stop for a quick Cantonese snack.
But when it comes to a full meal, wooing customers away from their favorite haunts could be a challenge. Many of the street vendors, as well as the cha chaan teng and noodle shops, have deep roots in the community, and customers go to them intentionally to eat. Corporate global chains may be fine for a snack but "are not perceived to be authentic" when it comes to a meal, says Stephen Wong, program director of HKU/SPACE and a former food columnist for the Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao. "People know they're from the States. People expect an authentic American flavor," he says. While U.S. brands are well-trusted in a city with widespread concerns about hygiene and food safety, Shaun Rein, managing director of the China Market Research Group, isn't convinced this will translate into a successful restaurant business. "7-Eleven is going to have a hard time," Rein says.
Others think the model could take off. "I don't think 7-Eleven is competing with street vendors per se because the crowd is different," says Lum. "The younger generation may go to 7-Eleven a lot more easily than those people who are older." Back at the café on Tong Chong Gai, he appears to be correct. Loretta, 16, orders her lunch of laksa, a curry noodle soup. She says she likes the variety here. Plus, she says, "it's new." Vivian, 17, picks a temaki roll off the shelf and says she comes here because it's cheap. "They don't want to spend much money on lunch because they want to save it for entertainment," she says, referring to the friends around her.
For now, 7 Café seems to have captured young Hong Kong's attention. Whether the chain can keep it remains to be seen. Says another girl, as she opens a container holding a chicken fillet with mushroom gravy: "Today I go here, but maybe tomorrow I'll go to another store."


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text: Mixing two encoded streams is different than editing a single one. -----Original Message----- From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception [mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt Flax Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 3:05 PM To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 1. MP3 or AAC mixing in compressed/coded domain (2) There are applications which work in the compressed domain ... this is not a new concept. The reason is that each time you uncompress edit and re-compress, you loose audio quality. For that reason people have long been doing it. Here is an example application : http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html Further, video editors (such as Sony Vegas) tend to be rather limited in their audio resolution. In other words, they don't let the editor go down to the sample for cuts ... normally, the video editors are broken into blocks of samples which are of a video frame's length in time. The majority of audio editors do allow to the sample editing. Now, that said, there may be limitations in editing MPEG encoded audio down to the sample, as they tend to be block based algorithms. Matt On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 09:29 -0800, Crockett, Brett wrote: > Sony Vegas is a DAW as well as video. > > If I understand the question, he's asking about mixing in THE CODED > DOMAIN and not doing a decode, mix and re-encode. > You can't do that easily and there are no commercial mixing solutions > available. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception > [mailto:AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Picinali > Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 2:47 AM > To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: 1. MP3 or AAC mixing in compressed/coded domain (2) > > Dear All, > I'm not sure I've understood properly, but it seems to me that Sony > Vegas is not a DAW, but a video editing software... > It is plenty of audio editing and mixing software that can open MP3 or > AAC (AC3) files, but what they do is they all convert the compressed > files in an uncompressed PCM format, and then perform all the mixing > and editing operation, and convert them back to the compressed format > after the processing. This is fore sure a good method with short > files, but having for example a ten ours MP3 stereo recording, on a > normal PCM format would be nearly 10 Gb of data, therefore for mixing > and editing directly in MP3, in this case, could be a very good idea. > I'm not aware of any available software that directly mixes compressed > files, but for the editing you could use http://mpesch3.de1.cc/ , > which allows you to cut MP3 files and change the volume... > A friend of mine has been working on a software for the mixing > directly in compressed format (Dr. Giancarlo Vercellesi, you can find > online some of his publications), and there are some software > prototypes for this, but nothing available yet... > Yours > Lorenzo Picinali > > Lorenzo Picinali > Faculty of Technology > De Montfort University, The Gateway > Leicester, LE1 9BH > lpicinali@xxxxxxxxx > Tel 0116 207 8051 > > ----------------------------------------- > This message (including any attachments) may contain confidential > information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you > are not the intended recipient, delete this message. If you are not > the intended recipient, disclosing, copying, distributing, or taking > any action based on this message is strictly prohibited.


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By Rob Glidden
Staff Writer
A hit and run accident on Queen Street has led to an outpouring of support from residents and local businesses, including fundraisers heldshortly after the incident.
The Southington Police Department is currently investigating the incident, which left one victim dead and sent two more to the hospital.
At about 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 12, officers were called to a hit and run motor vehicle accident in the area of the Outback Steakhouse.
Upon arrival, officers located three injured female pedestrians along the shoulder of the northbound lane.
According to police, the pedestrians had just left work at Gobi Grill and were walking south in the roadway in the northbound lane when they were struck by a vehicle. After striking the pedestrians, the vehicle fled the scene.
The injured were Huai "Emily" Liu , 23, Yang "Rita" Hong, 23 and Yan qiao "Joanne" Chen, 23, all of Southington.
Two of the injured persons were transported to Hartford Hospital while the third was transported to St. Mary's Hospital. After days in critical condition, Chen's injuries led to her death.
The injuries sustained by Liu and Hong were described by police as "serious [but] not life-threatening."
Police said that the evading vehicle may have been an SUV, possibly white or red, which was last seen traveling north on Queen Street.
"We're still getting leads and we're still looking for witnesses who may have seen something," said Police Spokesman Sergeant Jeff Dobratz.
The incident is currently under investigation by the Southington Police Department Accident Investigation Team.
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The recall drive actually preceded Filner's sexual-harassment charges by two weeks, said Pallamary, who's spearheading the drive and has practical experience, having initiated the successful political recall in 1991 of San Diego City Councilwoman Linda Bernhardt.
Pallamary said he foresaw Filner's political meltdown.
"I've watched Filner's relationships deteriorate over the years," he said, noting Filner has "fought with the city attorney, fought with the press, fought with the city, fought with virtually everyone he's interfaced with."
Filner's eroding political situation was "incredibly predictable," claims Pallamary, who said he set up a Facebook page in full anticipation of Filner's political reverses.
"Very bizarre," is how Pallamary described the political recall process he's launching to unseat the mayor.
The first step, he said, is to publish in a newspaper of general circulation the intent to recall the mayor and lay out the rationale. Then the mayor would have 14 days to rebut the recall arguments.
Following that, the recall could be launched with petitioners having 69 days (39 originally) to gather 101,000 signatures (more like 130,000 or 140,000 to be safe) from 15 percent of eligible registered voters citywide.
Asked about a recall's chance of qualifying for an election ballot, Pallamary said, "We expect it to be a challenge," but added, "If you have motivated and angry people, you'll qualify. If you look at the pulse of the city, I think there are a lot of angry people right now."
If a recall petition drive is successful, Pallamary said the City Council "must call an election."
And on that election ballot, Pallamary said there would be just two questions: Should Mayor Filner be recalled, yes or no. If the answer is yes, voters would then be asked to select from a list of candidates to replace Filner.
Since there could be multiple candidates — and because to win outright a candidate would have to get a 50 percent-plus-one majority — the likelihood is that an election would have to be called between the top two vote-getters.
The situation could be even more complicated if Filner should voluntarily resign. Then, said Pallamary, a special election, as opposed to a recall election, would have to be held. If no candidate in a special election gets a majority of the vote then, again, there would be runoff election between the top two candidates.
"Now you have two elections versus just one at an extraordinary cost," said Pallamary. "My worst fear, if he does resign and we run into that runoff, is that it will be an extremely expensive, extremely hostile and extremely partisan campaign."
On July 22, following a news conference during which Irene McCormack Jackson, Filner's former communications director, stepped forward with formal accusations of sexual harassment against the mayor, City Attorney Jan Goldsmith spelled out the city's role regarding Filner's defense.
Noting his office "would defend the city well," and that Filner had retained attorney Harvey Berger as his own personal legal counsel, Goldsmith, who has frequently been at odds with Filner, said the mayor has been instructed "not to meet with women alone at city facilities."
Filner asked the City Council to reimburse his personal legal expenses, but the council unanimously rejected the request July 30. Instead, the council filed a cross-complaint seeking reimbursement from Filner should city government be required to pay damages when the lawsuit is resolved.
UPDATE: Filner to take leave of absence to seek therapy
At a July 26 press conference, Mayor Bob Filner apologized to all San Diegans, in particular the women he has offended, and said he would be taking a two-week leave of absence beginning Aug. 5.
Filner said he will undergo intensive professional therapy to work through his "issues" with women to change his behavior in light of sexual-harassment allegations.
Filner's statement, however, was not satisfactory to some at City Hall.
"Two weeks of therapy will not end decades of bad behavior," said District 2 City Councilman Kevin Faulconer. "Bob Filner should leave to receive the help he obviously needs, but he shouldn't take the office of the mayor and San Diego city government with him. He needs to resign and seek long-term treatment as a private citizen."
District 6 Councilwoman Lorie Zapf agreed.
"At the end of the day, Mayor Filner continues to put his needs in front of the needs of his victims and the needs of citizens of San Diego. He is the mayor of the eighth-largest city in the country and he must be held to a higher standard. By not stepping down, it is an insult to the victims, and an insult to women everywhere."
Last month, former City Councilwoman Donna Frye and two high-profile attorneys urged Filner to resign immediately, alleging sexual-harassment accusations from women who did not immediately come forward.
The first woman to do so, former Filner communications director Irene McCormack Jackson, 57, represented by renowned civil-rights attorney Gloria Allred, announced July 22 that a sexual-harassment lawsuit was being filed against the mayor and the city of San Diego.
As of July 31, a total of eight women had emerged to allege Filner had acted inappropriately toward them, making physical contact and/or unwanted sexual advances.


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NEARLY all the discussions of criticism that I am acquainted with start off with a false assumption, to wit, that the primary motive of the critic, the impulse which makes a critic of him instead of, say, a politician, or a stockbroker, is pedagogical—that he writes because he is possessed by a passion to advance the enlightenment, to put down error and wrong, to disseminate some specific doctrine: psychological, epistemological, historical, or aesthetic. This is true, it seems to me, only of bad critics, and its degree of truth increases in direct ratio to their badness.
Mere reviewing, however conscientiously and competently it is done, is plainly a much inferior business. Like writing poetry, it is chiefly a function of intellectual immaturity. The young literatus just out of the university, having as yet no capacity for grappling with the fundamental mysteries of existence, is put to writing reviews of books, or plays, or music, or painting. Very often he does it extremely well; it is, in fact, not hard to do well, for even decayed pedagogues often do it, as such graves of the intellect as the New York Times bear witness. But if he continues to do it, whether well or ill, it is a sign to all the world that his growth ceased when they made him Artium Baccalawreus. Gradually he becomes, whether in or out of the academic grove, a professor, which is to say, a man devoted to diluting and retailing the ideas of his superiors—not an artist, not even a bad artist, but almost the antithesis of an artist...
Nothing is in him save the ghostly echoes of other men's thoughts and feelings. If he were a genuine artist he would have thoughts and feelings of his own, and the impulse to give them objective form would be irresistible. An artist can no more withstand that impulse than a politician can withstand the temptations of a job. There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.
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Baking problems with home ground flour
I'm new here - Veronica Shelford, living in the Gulf Islands off the west coast of Canada. I'm hoping someone will have had experience that can help me out. I've just bought a grain mill (WonderMill) and starting grinding my own whole wheat flour for bread recipes I've been using for years, but the results are very poor. The bread keeps collapsing in the middle. The flavour is fine and the texture not bad apart from the collapsed area. The gluten content of the flour appears to be fine.
Are there ways that one should alter standard bread recipes when using fresh ground flour? Usually collapsing means too much water or too much yeast, in my experience. But I've read here that fresh ground flour needs more moisture, not less. Should one let the flour soak awhile before working it?
If anyone else has had any similar experience, and found their way through it, I'd be very grateful for any help. Or even if not, suggestions will be very welcome.
Thank you! This looks like a useful forum - glad I found it!
- Veronica


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
A shocking video uploaded to YouTube at the weekend shows a mob of young Palestinian Arab men enthusiastically trying to lynch a lone Jewish man somewhere in Samaria (the so-called "West Bank").
The video is filmed by someone in the Arab mob. In it, at least a dozen men can be seen running toward an unarmed religious Jew with sticks and stones. At least two young Arabs are seen hurling stones at the Jewish man from close range, while another three or four Arabs kick and beat the victim, who by this time is on the ground.
The victim is saved by a handful of fellow Jews who rush to the scene and begin throwing stones at the attackers.
The video, which can be seen below, was not reported on by the mainstream media, the same media that has in the past made headline news out of similar videos purporting to show Jewish violence against Palestinian Arabs.
In other violence, an Arab man stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli security guard at the entrance to the Jewish town of Ma'aleh Adumim on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem on Saturday.
The attacker managed to escape into one of the nearby Arab villages.
Hundreds of local Arab men enter Ma'aleh Adumim every day for work, so it is not uncommon for them to congregate at the entrance to the Jewish town.
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CURITIBA, Brazil >> Nigeria and Iran delivered the first draw of the World Cup on Monday as they ground out a scrappy 0-0 stalemate in their opening match in Group F.
The draw at the Arena da Baixada followed 12 mostly high-scoring and attacking games.
After a first half in which Nigeria failed to capitalize on its dominance, the chances were few and far between in the second.
Nigeria came closest to breaking the deadlock in the seventh minute when an Ahmed Musa goal was disallowed after John Obi Mikel was adjudged to have fouled Iran goalkeeper Alireza Haghighi at a corner.
Iran pressed more as the game wore on and nearly scored in the 34th when a Reza Ghoochannejhad header required a sharp save from Nigeria goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.


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Michael Buble Tops Billboard 200 With 'Christmas' Album
In a week full of strong new entries that included Rihanna's 'Talk That Talk,' a month-old holiday record from Michael Buble tops the Billboard 200. The pop crooner's 'Christmas' album inches up to No. 1, becoming his third chart-topper.
Buble edges out Nickelback's 'Here and Now' by the slimmest of margins. Both albums moved approximately 227,000 copies, with 'Christmas' selling slightly over that number and the Canadian rock group falling just short of that total.
Buble's album primarily features Christmas standards, like 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,' 'White Christmas,' and a remake of Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas is You.' Billboard notes that with Justin Bieber's 'Under the Mistletoe' also having topped the chart a few weeks back, this is the first year since 1957 that two different No. 1 holiday albums made it to No. 1.
Rihanna's 'Talk That Talk' takes the No. 3 spot on the chart with sales of 197,000, a figure that would be enough to reach No. 1 in most weeks. Shockingly, RiRi has yet to earn a No. 1 album. 'Good Girl Gone Bad' peaked at No. 2, while 'Loud' hit No. 3 and 'Rated R' stopped at No. 4.
Also worth noting: Adele's '21′ drops to No. 7, falling out of the Top 5 for the first time since it entered the chart 40 weeks ago.


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The concept of the
NULL value is a common
source of confusion for newcomers to SQL, who often think that
NULL is the same thing as an empty string
''. This is not the case. For example, the
following statements are completely different:
mysql> INSERT INTO my_table (phone) VALUES (NULL);
mysql> INSERT INTO my_table (phone) VALUES ('');
Both statements insert a value into the
phone column, but the first inserts a
NULL value and the second inserts an empty
string. The meaning of the first can be regarded as
"phone number is not known" and the meaning of
the second can be regarded as "the person is known to
have no phone, and thus no phone number."
To help with
NULL handling, you can use the
IS NULL and
NOT NULL operators and the
IFNULL() function.
In SQL, the
NULL value is never true in
comparison to any other value, even
An expression that contains
NULL always
produces a
NULL value unless otherwise
indicated in the documentation for the operators and functions
involved in the expression. All columns in the following
example return
mysql> SELECT NULL, 1+NULL, CONCAT('Invisible',NULL);
To search for column values that are
you cannot use an
expr = NULL test. The
following statement returns no rows, because
expr =
NULL is never true for any expression:
mysql> SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE phone = NULL;
To look for
NULL values, you must use the
IS NULL test. The following
statements show how to find the
NULL phone
number and the empty phone number:
mysql> SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE phone IS NULL;
mysql> SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE phone = '';
See Section 220.127.116.11, "Working with NULL Values", for additional information and examples.
You can add an index on a column that can have
NULL values if you are using the
InnoDB, or
MEMORY storage engine. Otherwise, you must
declare an indexed column
NOT NULL, and you
cannot insert
NULL into the column.
When reading data with
DATA, empty or missing columns are updated with
''. To load a
NULL value
into a column, use
\N in the data file. The
literal word
NULL may also be used under
some circumstances. See Section 13.2.6, "LOAD DATA Syntax".
When using
BY, or
ORDER BY, all
NULL values are regarded as equal.
When using
NULL values are presented first, or last if
you specify
DESC to sort in descending
Aggregate (summary) functions such as
MIN(), and
SUM() ignore
NULL values. The exception to this is
COUNT(*), which counts rows and
not individual column values. For example, the following
statement produces two counts. The first is a count of the
number of rows in the table, and the second is a count of the
number of non-
NULL values in the
age column:
mysql> SELECT COUNT(*), COUNT(age) FROM person;
For some data types, MySQL handles
values specially. If you insert
NULL into a
TIMESTAMP column, the current
date and time is inserted. If you insert
NULL into an integer or floating-point
column that has the
attribute, the next number in the sequence is inserted.
select 111+222+null as `how much?`; -- returns: NULL (logical evaluation?? should ignore it)
select sum(111+222+null) as `how much?`; -- returns: NULL (logical evaluation?? should ignore it)
select sum(a) as `how much?`
from (select 111 as a union select 222 union select null ) as b; -- returns: 333 (as SUM() on columns is ignoring NULL values)
select sum(a) as `how much?`
from (select 111 as a,'nume1' as nume
union select 222,'nume2'
union select null,'nume1' ) as b
group by nume; -- returns: 111 for nume='nume1' (testing GROUP BY for SUM)
select sum(a) as `how much?`
from (select 111 as a,'name1' as name
union select 222,'name2'
union select null,'name1' ) as b
where name='name1'; -- returns: 111 (testing filter for SUM)
As seen, when used in arithmetic operations NULL turns anything to NULL:
BUT, when it comes to working on columns, NULL is ignored in most cases, EXCEPT when the NULL value is used in calculations between columns or columns and other type of values!
select sum(@myconst+t.col1) from t [...]
will return NULL for fields with NULL values, not the fixed @myconst value!
Hope that helps the coding.


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Press Release
BeWelcome switches to OpenStreetMap
20 December 2012, Rennes, France - On Friday, 14 December, worldwide hospitality exchange network BeWelcome released a major update to their website www.bewelcome.org, dropping Google Maps as default map provider in favor of free and open source OpenStreetMap.
BeWelcome decided to make the switch because thanks to thousands of individual contributors OpenStreetMap mapping material has greatly improved over the last years, and because implementation through third party services has become painless.
With this step volunteer-run BeWelcome also underlines its strong non-profit values - in a time where internet-based "peer-to-peer hospitality" communities are subject to increasing commercialization by venture capitalists.
Why OpenStreetMap?
When BeWelcome was launched in 2007 all mapping features were implemented using Google Maps, the only free up-to-date maps with search and embedding capabilities available back then. Over time, and also with contributions by BeWelcome members themselves, the free alternative OpenStreetMap (OSM) matured and other websites switched over from proprietary services. In some parts of Russia or Bosnia for example OSM even offers more detailed maps than commercial alternatives.
So when BeWelcome was approached by an OSM spokesperson in Germany earlier this year, the topic was discussed in the community and the switch was made a priority, additionally fueled by the fact that Google introduced a pricing model and ads for its maps service.
A few weeks later one BeWelcome software developer presented an almost complete integration of OSM based on the free Cloudmade/Leaflet API. His work was then extended by a team, recently included in the main development environment and finally launched to the live website.
"With the switch we are getting closer to becoming completely independent from using commercial services. I am convinced that our users will appreciate our commitment to privacy and non-profit projects." says founding member and active volunteer Matthias Hess.
Meinhard Benn, technical coordinator and programmer at BeWelcome notes: "OpenStreetMap is all about people and their passion for sharing, just like us. So it's a perfect match." He adds: "Google Maps will remain an optional layer for the time being, but depending on user feedback we will either ditch it completely or at least allow users to choose alternative commercial map providers to have less of a mono-culture."
Frank Van Den Block, chairman of BeWelcome's legal body BeVolunteer confirms: "The switch to OSM is a logical next step in the evolution of BeWelcome. Nothing beats a map created by thousands of individuals and constantly updated by dedicated volunteers. Open Source means freedom, and that is something we can never have enough of."
Links and contact
BeWelcome website: www.bewelcome.org
Map example: www.bewelcome.org/searchmembers
Screenshot: downloads.bewelcome.org/media/osm-screenshot.png
BeWelcome media inquiries: firstname.lastname@example.com
About BeWelcome
BeWelcome is a hospitality exchange network - a worldwide community that lets you share your home or a place to stay for a few nights, make new friends from different cultures and help others on their way. In contrast to similar commercial networks, BeWelcome is a registered non-profit that places value on open source and contributions made by their members. BeWelcome has created a legal and organizational framework which ensures that it will always remain non-profit, open and free. Every member is encouraged to help guide the community, participate in core decision-making and contribute to the development of the website.
Thanks to the hard work of an expanding team of contributors, BeWelcome has grown from a small project with a handful of members in 2007 into a vibrant and enthusiastic community. Its membership base has more than doubled in 2012, now comprising 30,000 registered hosts and travelers. It is an organic self-managed organization without the need for investors, stockholders or venture capital. Everyone passionate about alternative travel, cultural exchange, making new friends, and sharing experiences with like-minded people in every corner of the world will feel right at home in the BeWelcome community. BeWelcome plans to continuously improve its service and innovate new ways of serving its cause.
About OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Two major driving forces behind the establishment and growth of OSM have been restrictions on use or availability of map information across much of the world and the advent of inexpensive portable satellite navigation devices.
Founded by Steve Coast in 2004, it was inspired by the success of Wikipedia and preponderance of proprietary map data in the UK and elsewhere. Since then, it has grown to over 900,000 contributors, who collect data with GPS devices, aerial photography, and other free sources. This crowdsourced data is then made available under the Open Database License. The site is supported by the OpenStreetMap Foundation, a non-profit organization registered in England. (Source: Wikipedia)
Switch to OpenStreetMap and bug fixes released
Hello everyone,
it has long been in the making, a bit more than two months, but we hope this was worth the wait:
- Complete overhaul of all maps - we are now using free and open source OpenStreetMap as our default map, with the option to switch back to a Google Maps view
- Many, many bug fixes in map and city searches along the way
- Group membership management improvements
There are a few more smaller changes and improvements. Read more details in the complete changelog, if you are interested.
With this release we are taking another step towards supporting the non-profit world by including work from other volunteer-run projects into our site. We feel this is worth a press release, which will be sent out shortly. Stay tuned.
Thanks fly out to abyssin, beatnickgr, crumbking, lantti, James_Oder_Dave, jsfan, mahoun200000, matthias, midsch, pablobd, sanderr, shevek and toub for making this release possible by testing, commenting and contributing code. We would also like to thank Cloudmade for supplying their fantastic free API service to embed OpenStreetMap material into any website.
Let us know what you think about these changes in the comments below!
May non-profit hospitality exchange prevail! :)
Simplified sign up, and other fixes released
Hello hosts and travellers,
after just 3 months since the last software release ;) we are proud to present the following improvements:
- Sign up now without residence address and without volunteer approval
- Sign up with names containing special characters now possible (i.e. Chinese, Turkish or Cyrillic)
- Result list of map search now displaying more active users first
- Fixed gallery picture upload
- Improved database performance
- Banned profiles not accessible any longer
- Fixed translation and CSS for quick search button on personal start page
There are a few more changes and plenty of technical details in the complete changelog.
The simplified sign up is a pretty big change for improving our new user's privacy. Existing users can now remove their address data as well of course. The location (city) set via the map however remains mandatory. How else could travelling members find you otherwise? :)
Thanks to crumbking, jsfan, mahouni200000, matthias, sitarane, tobixen and toub for helping with this release by contributing code, bug reporting, commenting and testing.
Enjoy the summer, or winter if you are down-under somewhere.. May non-profit hospitality exchange prevail! :)
Fixes and improvements released
Fellow travellers and hosts,
the summer is about to start and the big BeWelcome event in Toulouse is about to happen this weekend, so our motivation is high to improve this site. Here is what we've done:
- Made profile updates more intuitive by adding "Edit" links when viewing own profile
- Improved map search to return more relevant results
- Fixed a couple of errors when editing profile data
- Showed the "Family and close friends" feature some love
Read all the background and discussion in the 10 tickets mentioned in the detailed changelog.
Also, we'd like to know your opinion on two smaller changes we've made to the profile pages:
- Firstly, when viewing your own profile, you also see "Edit" links on the groups, comments and pictures boxes although you can't directly edit things on the following pages. Should we rename the link to "Manage" there, or is this clear as it is?
- Secondly, the "Family and close friends" list had no limit anyway, that's why we removed the "Show more" link. This means the box currently always shows all friends, which is already a very long list for some members (bonjour du Sud de la France). Should we limit this box to 3, 5, 10 or more friends, or even let you set this in your preferences?
Please write your opinion in the comments below!
I'd like to thank crumbking and mahouni200000 for testing and contributing code to this release. Also toub is currently working on liberating us from using commercial mapping technology, more details on this once it's there.. ;)
Happy travels from Dracula land, and may non-profit hospitality exchange prevail! :)
Post-Easter fixes released
Dear members,
We kept pushing more and more things into this release, changed the date a few times, but finally it is here! The most important changes:
- Fixed reporting of profile comments, note the new flag button on comment pages
- Added group name and link to recent forum posts list on personal start page
- Changed (increased) message sending limits for new users and always allow replies to messages
See the detailed changelog for some technical background and 10 more smaller changes and developer related improvements.
Regarding reporting of comments please note that if you have reported problematic comments in the past and have not heard back from us, please report them again by clicking on the flag symbol. This time you can be sure that we receive your feedback. ;)
For the next release we have not set tasks or a focus yet, so please tell us in the comments below what you think is most important to be fixed next!
May non-profit hospitality exchange prevail! :)


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In 1986, Friedman was approached by Jason Becker, a young guitar prodigy in search of a new teacher. Together, they formed the band Cacophony, renowned for its technically challenging, complexly harmonized guitar solos (duets) and ridiculous lyrics. Cacophony put out two albums, Speed Metal Symphony and Go Off!, and toured the United States and Japan, before Friedman and Becker went their separate ways in 1989[9].
After the 1989 release of So Far, So Good... So What!, Megadeth band leader Dave Mustaine once again fired half his lineup and set about rebuilding the band. As per tradition, he replaced drummer Chuck Behler with his own drum tech, Nick Menza[10]; The search for a new lead guitarist was not as easy, with many auditions held over the course of over seven months[11]. Friedman was eventually selected for being exactly unlike his predecessor, Jeff Young, who had extensive music theory training and was known for wearing his guitar high and concentrating intently on his playing.
In 1990, Megadeth released its first album with the new lineup. Rust In Peace was hailed as "awesome" and "heavy" and "really difficult to play" by fans and citics alike, and to this day is acclaimed as a definitive thrash metal album. The album went on to sell over a million copies in the US, and was nominated twice for the Best Metal Performance Grammy; it lost both times to Metallica[12].
Countdown to Extinction, Megadeth's 1992 album, was a stylistic departure from the band's previous releases. While still driven by fast technical riffs, the songs were shorter and more radio-friendly. The change was motivated by trends in thrash metal at the time, Mustaine's desire to reach a wider audience, and Friedman's love of popular rock music. The move paid off and the album was Megadeth's most successful release. The trend continuted with Youthanasia, the band's 1994 album.
The late 90s saw Megadeth complete its transformation from thrash metal to mainstream radio rock. Cryptic Writings (1996) and Risk (1999) together produced six top 20 singles, inclusing Megadeth's first #1 hit song, Trust. However, Mustaine began to feel pressure from long-time fans to return to the band's former thrash sound. He informed the band of his decision during the Risk tour, and Friedman, who preferred the Hard Rock sound, left the band[13].
While Friedman was in Megadeth, the band sold a total of over ten million albums worldwide[14].
After the split, Friedman spent a few years traveling, hosting clinics and master classes in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. During this time, he got an apartment in Shinjuku, a district of Tokyo. By 2003, he had set up permanent residence there. That same year, he released his first post-Megadeth solo album, Music for Speeding. The followup, Loudspeaker, was released in 2006. The latter featured a number of guest musicians, including Billy Sheehan, Steve Vai, and Dream Theater's John Petrucci[15].
Friedman joined the backing band for j-pop idol Nanase Aikawa in 2005. He plays on her album R.U.O.K?! and continues to tour with her. He also regularly tours with other Japanese musicians, including Ami Suzuki and Nana Kitade.
Career on Japanese television[edit]
In 2005, Friedman co-hosted the show "Mr. Heavy Metal" alongside model Yoko Kumada. The show, which showcased metal musicians visiting Japan, was cancelled after six months. In response to fan outcry, the show was re-envisioned in 2006 as Rock Fujiyama[16] (Lit. Mt. Fuji Rock, Fig. A Lot of Rock), which extended the scope of music represented on the show. Friedman also hosts a show called Jukebox English, in which he explains the lyrics of English songs in Japanese.
In addition to his own shows, Marty makes regular guest appearances on Japanese television. He's built up a TV personality where he acts as a "crazy gaijin" who thinks he's Japanese, while the country humors him because he is so good at guitar. According to Friedman, "In Japan, so many more people know [him] from [his] television appearances than from [his] music career that it's not even funny. It's all good, though, because the exposure is getting [his] music into the mainstream."[17] Friedman also recently landed a role in a major Japanese film titled Guuguudatte Neko Dearu.
- ↑ For those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about Marty "Maati" Friedman.
- ↑ His name is Marty Friedman. That sounds like a reliable source to me.
- ↑ "Visit Japan in the fourth year. Broadly active in Tokyo." -Marty's official website.
- ↑ I am scales and so can you!
- ↑ Energetic and passionate
- ↑ "The misconception about me is that I know technical stuff." -Marty
- ↑ Yes, SCORPIONS
- ↑ From the bastions, in the deepest fathoms of the sea, came spewing forth in a cloud of volcanic ash and raining fire, a structure of molten rock forming ONE NATION UNDERGROUND
- ↑ There were fears that this talented virtuoso would land in a pop rock band wasting his talent.
- ↑ "I'm not saying that we will have another guitar tech there who is going to take over Marty's gig..." -Dave Mustaine
- ↑ http://www.myspace.com/fallen_hero_dimebag
- ↑ It's an honor just to be nominated seven times
- ↑ "Remember the reason that Marty is not in Megadeth anymore: he wanted to be in a pop band with a female singer in Japan. He quit." - Dave Mustaine
- ↑ But would you trust a source that lists his fifth solo album as his debut?
- ↑ ビリー・シーン, スティーヴ・ヴァイ, と ジョン・ペトルーシ
- ↑ In the same interview, he calls the Ibanez MFM-1 (the shiny blue one with the stars) a "manly guitar".


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Davide Iodice was born in Naples in 1968. In 1991 he graduated in direction at the 'National Academy of Dramatic Arts "Silvio d'Amico" in Rome with the Master Andrea Camilleri. He has worked with some of the leading exponents of the Italian theater, such as Leo de Berardinis, Carmelo Bene, Carlo Cecchi, Roberto De Simone.
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