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French artist Gilles Cenazandotti constructs life-size animals out of litter he's combed from beaches, recycling a variety of plastics and other detritus. Titled, "Future Bestiary," this series of sculptures directly addresses problems related to throw-away culture and the waste that results from conspicuous consumption. When the creatures are inserted into natural landscapes, they almost appear digitally rendered because the contrast between natural and man-made elements is so pronounced. Of his work, Cenazandotti says,
"Impressed by everything that the Sea, in turn, rejects and transforms, on the beaches I harvest the products derived from petroleum and its industry. The choice of animals that are part of the endangered species completes this process. In covering these animals with a new skin harvested from the banks of the Sea, I hope to draw attention to this possible metamorphosis – to create a trompe l'oeil of a modified reality." (via laughing squid and junk culture)


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Rule 437. No Affirmance, Reversal or Dismissal for Want of Form or Substance (1978)
A judgment shall not be affirmed or reversed or an appeal dismissed for defects or irregularities in appellate procedure, either of form or substance, without allowing a reasonable time to correct or amend such defects or irregularities, provided the court may make no enlargement of time prohibited by Rule 5 nor any enlargement of the time for filing transcript and statement of facts pursuant to Rule 21c.
Amended by order of July 11, 1977, eff. Jan. 1, 1978: Corrective only. Rule 21c is substituted for the reference to Rule 386.
|Prior Amendments
|Future Amendments
|Oct. 29, 1940, eff. Sept. 1, 1941
|June 10, 1980, eff. Jan. 1, 1981
|Sept. 20, 1941, eff. Dec. 31, 1941
|Repealed by order of April 10, 1986, eff. Sept. 1, 1986
(No. 42) Question: Where there is not a complete statement of facts on appeal will all reasonable presumptions be indulged in favor of the judgment of the lower court as was the rule under the former practice?
Answer: Our correspondent, in support of his view of the law under the former practice cites inter alia: O'Brien v. Hart, 80 S.W.2d 464 (Tex. Civ. App.-Beaumont, 1935); Sawyer v. First Nat'l Bank of Hico, 41 Tex.Civ.App. 486, 498, 93 S.W. 151, 158 (1906); Newnom v. Williamson, 46 Tex.Civ.App. 615, 103 S.W. 656 (1907).
The subcommittee is of the opinion that the presumption referred to would not apply under the new rules.
Our correspondent observes that: "If this same presumption should be indulged under the new rules, we would defeat the very purpose intended to be accomplished by authorizing the filing of only a partial statement of facts."
This observation seems to the subcommittee to be correct in the light of wording in the rules which is now recited.
A main purpose of the rules concerning appeal is announced by Rule 370 in this way:
"In view of the crowded condition of the dockets of the appellate courts, the record and briefs on appeal should be limited as far as possible to the questions relied on for reversal. The primary purpose of the courts is to administer justice between the parties with as little expense and delay as possible. Liberal provisions are therefore made in these rules for amendments' on appeal to bring forward any material matter which may have been omitted. With this protection the bar is expected to cooperate in shortening the records in furtherance of the provisions of these rules."
Pursuant to this purpose, Rule 377, respecting the statement of facts, requires that: "All matters not essential to the decision of the questions presented on appeal shall be omitted."
At a later point the same rule, carrying out this policy, reads that: " ... the appellant shall deliver or mail to the appellee or his counsel and file with the clerk of the court a designation in writing of the portions of the evidence desired, and shall specify the portions desired in narrative form, if any, and the portions desired in question and answer form, if any, and the portions that are desired to be omitted. Within ten days thereafter any other party to the appeal may file a designation in writing of any additional portions of the evidence to be included, specifying the portion desired in narrative form, if any, and the portions desired in question and answer form, if any."
Then there is this further alternative practice looking to the same end:
"Rule 377-a. Statement of the Points to Be Relied On. - For the purpose of inducing the opposing party to accept an abbreviated transcript or statement of facts, the appellant, or the appellee to the extent that he complains of the judgment or any part thereof, may file with the clerk of the trial court a statement of the points on which he intends to rely on appeal; and he shall thereafter be limited to such points."
It will be seen from these rules that the appellee may readily get into the statement of facts anything that the appellant omits. For this reason and in order to encourage curtailment of the statement of facts, it seems to be within the purpose of the' rules to depart from the old presumption.
If it should be that either of the parties omits something that should be in the statement of facts, there are liberal provisions in the rules for amendment even after the statement of facts gets into the appellate court. One of the rules to this end is 428. It reads:
"If anything material to either party is omitted from the transcript or statement of facts, the parties by stipulation, or the trial court, either before or after the record has been transmitted to the appellate court, or the appellate court, on a proper suggestion or on its own initiative, may direct a supplemental record to be certified and transmitted by the clerk of the trial court supplying such omitted matter."
Another of the rules to the same end is 437. It applies to the Courts of Civil Appeals, and reads:
"A judgment shall not be affirmed or reversed or an appeal dismissed for defects or irregularities in appellate procedure, either of form or substance, without allowing a reasonable time to correct or amend such defects or irregularities, provided the court may make no enlargement of time prohibited by Rule 5 nor any enlargement of the time for filing transcript and statement of facts except as contemplated by Rule 386." (The exceptions have nothing to do with the present situation.)
Rule 504 applies to the Supreme Court and is to the same effect.
So that, the subcommittee agrees with its correspondent's views when he says in concluding his letter:
"In view of the abundant provisions contained in the new rules authorizing the appellee to designate any additional matter which he desires to have brought up on the statement of facts, and further provisions allowing him to supplement the statement of facts later, if necessary, the old presumption should not prevail."
5 Tex. B.J. 236 (1942) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 17 (1945).
(No. 62) Question: Where a transcript, containing findings of fact and conclusions of law, has been filed in the Court of Civil Appeals within the sixty days' time prescribed by Rule 386, but no statement of facts has been filed within such time, if, pursuant to a stipulation, a statement of facts is afterward tendered to the Clerk of the Court of Civil Appeals for filing which shows the evidence upon which the judge made his findings, is it the duty of the clerk to file such statement of facts?
Answer: We consider that the correct answer is in the negative. While a stipulation without order of court will of itself justify the filing of a supplemental statement of facts, on authority of Rule 428, the tardy filing of an entire statement of facts can only be had upon order of the court, which in such respect, as a relaxation of the applicable period of limitation that was imposed for the purpose of expediting appellate business, has a discretion to grant or refuse the motion. See Rules 437 and 386, Vernon's Ann. Civ. St.,
Art. 1839, 2 Tex. Jud. C. Rep. 4-5, and 18 Tex. Law Rev. 8 and Plate III. That the filing in the present instance was stipulated would doubtless be a cogent reason for granting the motion if timely made. That findings of fact were in the instant transcript might formerly have indicated some sort of an election to go up in that way, but under the present Rules that fact would not weigh against the filing of the statement of facts since the policy of the Rules is not to punish missteps and changes of plan but to reach the merits of Appeals. Rules 1, 370, 386, 428. In our opinion, however, none of these considerations is for the clerk. He has no authority to file a tardy statement of facts, of which no part has been filed in time, unless his Court so orders.
5 Tex. B.J. 427 (1942) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 26 (1945).
(No. 69) Question: Does the answer in No. 42 on Page 236 of 5 Tex. B.J. undertake hold that all presumptions in favor of the judgment of a lower court are to be done away with?
Answer: No. The intention was to say that there will be no presumption that matter omitted from the statement of facts sustains the judgment.
5 Tex. B.J. 428 (1942) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 27 (1945).
(No. 55) Question: 1. Where an application for writ of error was filed and granted before the rules became effective, may the Supreme Court after such rules have become effective properly dismiss such an application without allowing an amendment, upon the ground that jurisdiction because of conflict of decisions is not correctly shown, and properly overrule a motion to amend in such respect?
2. How and under what circumstances may an application for writ of error in the Supreme Court be amended?
Answer: Rule 814 insofar as it is applicable reads: "These rules shall take effect on September 1, 1941. They shall govern all proceedings in actions brought after they take effect and also further proceedings in actions then pending.... "
We are of the opinion that motion to amend, as well as the overruling of such a motion and the dismissal of a writ of error, would be "further proceedings" as contemplated by the above rule.
Rule 1 requires that the rules be given a liberal construction "to obtain a just, fair, equitable and impartial adjudication of the rights of litigants under established principles of substantive law." It is the clear intent of Rules 481 and 504 that the appellate courts should allow reasonable amendments at any time to correct or amend defects or irregularities in want of form. Rule 437, which is applicable to the Courts of Civil Appeals, provides, in substance, that a judgment should not be affirmed or reversed or an appeal dismissed for defects or irregularities in appellate procedure, "either of form or substance, without allowing a reasonable time to correct or amend such defects or irregularities provided the court may make no enlargement of time prohibited by Rule 5 nor any enlargement of time for filing transcript or statement of facts except as contemplated by Rule 387." Rule 504, which specifically applies to the Supreme Court, is to the same effect as Rule 437, which, as stated, applies to actions pending in the Courts of Civil Appeals.
The committee strongly believes that Rules 437, 481, and 504 mark an advanced step in procedure, and that compliance with them will enable the courts in the future to dispose of cases on their merits and reduce to a minimum dismissals for technical procedural defects.
No purpose stands out in the rules with greater prominence than this, viz.; that the attainment of justice, according to the principles of substantive law, is the desideratum in every case; that the rules of procedure should expedite, and not frustrate, the trial of cases on their merit and that irregularities either in matters of form or substance should be, disregarded unless such indulgence and liberality will result in injustice.
Cochran v. Wool Growers Central Storage Co., 140 Tex. 904, 166 S.W.2d 904 (1943), which passes upon a motion to amend an application for writ of error is, we think, in accordance with the above views.
Where the question is raised as to whether the court should dismiss a granted writ of error because of fault in the wording or showing of the application we think that Rule 504, already cited; mandatorily conditions such an order upon the allowance of amendment, for such rule, insofar as here applicable, reads:
"The Supreme Court will not affirm or reverse a judgment or dismiss a writ of error for defects or irregularities in appellate procedure either of form or substance, without allowing a reasonable time to correct or amend such defects or irregularities... "
This mandatory provision for amendment only applies, however, where, the court bases its action upon some such fault.
For a feasible practice in this connection see Hodo v. Mexican Nat'l R.R. Co., 88 Tex. 523, 524, 32 S.W. 511 (1895), and Hilliard v. White, 88 Tex. 591, 593, 32 S.W. 525, 526 (1895).
6 Tex. B.J. 20 (1943) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 30 (1945).
(No. 91) Question: Do the rules which authorize an abbreviation of the record on appeal allow the omission from the transcript of documents showing the jurisdiction of the trial or appellate court? Does Opinion No. 42 of the subcommittee militate against such procedure?
Answer: Opinion No. 42 was only intended to relate to that presumption which had been indulged in by appellate courts to the effect that where the statement of facts was incomplete it would be presumed that the omitted matter was sufficient to sustain the judgment of the trial court. Our Opinion No. 42 related to matters omitted from the statement of facts, and it did not relate to the transcript, nor did it undertake to suggest a rule showing what papers should be contained in the transcript to establish the jurisdiction of the trial or appellate court.
We call attention to Opinion No. 69, 5 Tex. B.J. 428, which construes Opinion No. 42 and states that it was not the intention of Opinion No. 42 to say that all presumptions in favor of the judgment of a lower court are to be done away with, the intention merely being to say that there will be no presumption that matter which is omitted from the statement of facts sustained the judgment of the trial court.
The rules provide that when matter is omitted from the transcript the parties shall be given an opportunity to complete the transcript and bring up any omitted document should such document be deemed material. In other words, if the appellate court feels that the petition and bond from the justice's court or any other document should appear in the record in order to give the Court of Civil Appeals jurisdiction, then the rules provide that the parties should be given an opportunity to bring up the omitted documents, and the appeal should not be dismissed without first affording this opportunity. Rules 437, 504.
6 Tex. B.J. 500 (1943) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 36 (1945).
(No. 109) Question: Under amended Rule 414, effective December 31, 1943, if a cause is pending on appeal when the rule takes effect must appellant's brief be filed in thirty days after the record is filed OR is there an enlargement of time for filing such brief?
Answer: We are of the opinion that there is an enlargement of time. As now worded, Rule 414 requires the brief to be filed within thirty days after notice of the date of submission in the Court of Civil Appeals. The amendment, on the other hand, requires it to be filed within thirty days after the date upon which the record is filed in the Court of Civil Appeals. Copies are to be filed in either instance. It should be added that the purpose of the amendment is to prevent delay and any retarding of the supply of business upon which the Courts of Civil Appeals may work. A number of situations could present themselves in an appealed case at the end of the year of 1943 when the amendment becomes effective. If as of that time notice of date of submission has not been given under the old rule and the record has not been filed there is, of course, no difficulty: the time for the brief runs from the date upon which the record shall be filed. If such notice has been given and the record had been filed, under the formula given in Odum v. Garner, 86 Tex. 374, 25 S.W. 18 (1894), whatever proportion of the old period has elapsed at the effective date of amendment is to be deducted from the new period and the rest of the new period is still open. Thus, for example, if two-thirds of the old period has elapsed, one-third of the new period, or, in this case, ten days is still open. If such notice of date of submission has not been given but the record has been filed, by the same principle (since under the old law the full thirty days are still open) full thirty days from the effective date of the amendment are available. If the record has not as yet been filed, under the express words of the amendment full thirty days will lie after the record shall be filed.
In his letter correspondent suggests that aside from any consideration of time as a matter of right, the appellate court may grant time in the exercise of discretion. In this connection we call attention to Rule 437 as amended in 1941, and express the opinion that in determining a "reasonable time" thereunder important factors would be the consideration of actual prejudice to opponent and of the convenience and business load of the court. San Antonio & Aransas Pass Ry. Co. v. Holden, 93 Tex. 211, 54 S. W. 751 (1900), and Rule 414 as amended.
7 Tex. B.J. 15 (1944) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 40 (1945).
(No. 114) Question: Does the opinion of the Supreme Court in Jones v. Ross, 141 Tex. 415, 173 S.W.2d 1022 (1943), adversely affect the abolition of the general demurrer and the provisions for ready amendment of defects of appellate procedure under the Rules of Civil Procedure?
Answer: We think that it does not. In the case referred to, plaintiff's petition in the trial court averred an untenable basis of recovery, defendant's general demurrer was sustained, plaintiff refused to amend, and the suit was consequently dismissed. On appeal the Court of. Civil Appeals reversed, because in its opinion the petition stated a cause of action. The Supreme Court held that the sustaining of a general demurrer was error, under Rule 90, but that it could not reverse the judgment of the district court for such error "because the appellant presented this case to the Court of Civil Appeals on assignments that confined that court to law questions which test the sufficiency of the petition in the district court as against a general demurrer" and because the petition showed that there was no cause of action; and it accordingly reversed judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals and affirmed that of the district court. Motion for rehearing was overruled.
Rule 90 requires that general demurrers shall not be used but that in contested litigation all faults of pleading are waived unless specifically pointed out. A want of cause of action or the failure to state one may be raised but if so, it must be raised specifically in order that the court and also the pleader may proceed with notice of the fault and that amendment may be effected. Rules 90 and 66.
If a general demurrer is urged, the court at the instance of the opposite party or on its own motion should not sustain it but should strike or overrule it or require it to be reworded. Rules 68, 90. By sustaining the general demurrer the trial court therefore commits error. The question then arises whether the error is reversible.
The court in the present decision answers in the negative, apparently because the appellant did not, on appeal, assign error or, complain as to the improper act of the trial court in considering and sustaining a general demurrer. But the opinion impliedly shows that the court was still more persuaded by the conviction that the case was considered in the manner in which the parties desired and that a correct result was reached.
In the state of the record it would seem that by a general demurrer defendant obtained all of the advantage that he would have got from a special one; his demurrer was sustained; and it would seem that the plaintiff waived any objection to the generality of the demurrer by failing to point out that a general demurrer should not be used and by standing on his petition when the general demurrer was sustained. Rule 90.
The defect in appellate procedure above referred to lay in appellant's failure to assign as error the action of the trial court in considering a general demurrer when a special demurrer should have been used. In most judge-tried cases, including any case tried solely on demurrer, the assignment of error is the "point" in the brief. Rules 374, 418. If there was no such point or no sufficient point in the present case and the appellant had asked leave in the Court of Civil Appeals to supply one, or if the appellate disposition had been based upon his omission or fault in briefing, leave to amend in that respect should have been granted before final disposition in such court. Rules 431, 437. But as the Supreme Court says, " ... an examination of plaintiff's brief in the Court of Civil Appeals discloses that he plants himself squarely on the proposition that as a matter of law" the case he alleged was recoverable, when it was not. So that amendment of the brief would have done the plaintiff no more good than amendment of his petition in the first instance. That is, none.
And finally, the ruling of the trial court, for that reason, was not one that was calculated to cause an improper judgment, and for that reason there should have been no reversal on account of it. Rules 434 and 503.
The case, from a procedural standpoint, may be summarized by an illustration. Suppose plaintiff should represent to the trial court and again to the Court of Civil Appeals that his petition showed all he could allege or prove and that he desired to stake his recovery upon it, and suppose those courts should be of the opinion that no recovery could be had in a case of that character whether amendment was had or not. The duty of the courts in such a situation would seem to be no plainer than was the duty of the Supreme Court in the present instance.
The decision, we believe, enforces two underlying principles of the rules: that the trial court should reach the merits of the case before it and that the appellate court should reach the merits of the appeal.
7 Tex. B.J. 44 (1944) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 41 (1945).
(No. 131) Question: In San Antonio Joint Stock Bank v. Malcher, 164 S.W.2d 197, 199 (Tex. Civ. App.-San Antonio 1942), the Court of Civil Appeals held that points presented by appellant, but not briefed were waived. The decision was followed by Piedmont Fire Ins. Co. v. Ladin, 174 S.W.2d 991 (Tex. Civ. App.-Galveston 1943) and, during the present year, by Broussard v. L. Cartwright Realty Co., 179 S.W.2d 777 (Tex. Civ. App.-Amarillo 1944), and Orange Laundry Co. v. Stark, 179 S.W.2d 841 (Tex. Civ. App.-Amarillo 1944). Has appellant any remedy in a Case of this sort?
Answer: Yes. His most obvious remedy is, of course, to comply with the briefing rules when he prepares his brief.
We are of the opinion that he has another remedy; that is, a motion to amend. We beg to quote from a number of rules and cases in support of this answer.
Rule 422. The purpose of briefs being to acquaint the court with the points relied upon, the manner in which they arose, together with such argument of facts and law as will enable the court to decide the same, a substantial compliance with these rules will suffice in the interest of justice; but for a flagrant violation of the rules the court may require the case to be rebriefed.
Rule 429. Should it be apparent during the submission or afterwards that the case has not been properly prepared, as shown in the transcript, or properly presented in the brief or briefs, or that 'the law and authorities have not been properly cited, which will enable the court to decide the case, it may decline to receive the submission; or, if received, may set it aside and make such orders as may be necessary to secure a more satisfactory submission of the case; ...
Rule 431. Briefs may be amended or supplemented at any time when justice requires upon such reasonable terms as the court may prescribe, and if the court shall strike or refuse to consider any part of a brief, the court shall on reasonable terms allow the same to be amended or supplemented.
Rule 437. A judgment shall not be affirmed or reversed or an appeal dismissed for defects or irregularities in appellate procedure, either of form or substance, without allowing a reasonable time to correct or amend such defects or irregularities, ... "
In Gillette Motor Transp. Co. v. Wichita Falls & S. Ry. Co., 170 S.W.2d 629 (Tex. Civ. App.-Fort Worth 1943), the Court decided that under the rules above quoted it could, as it did, "after submission of the cause, allow amendment of 'appellant's brief' in order to present points of error not presented in the original brief."
There are similar rules as to applications for writ of error and briefs in the Supreme Court, viz. Rules 469 subd. (f), 481, 491, and 504.
In Cochran v. Wool Growers Central Storage Co., 162 S.W.2d 941 (Tex. 1942), the Supreme Court, having previously granted a writ of error, dismissed it because the application in its Grounds of Jurisdiction on the subject of conflicts of decisions was not in accordance with the rules. Subsequently, on motion far rehearing, it observed that the application had been filed before the rules went into effect but granted a motion to amend which was filed after their effective date, saying in support of its action: "An examination of Rule 481, supra, will disclose that it provides: 'The application, ... may be amended at any time when justice requires and upon such reasonable terms as the Court may prescribe...' Rule 504, supra, provides: 'The Supreme Court will not ... dismiss a writ of error for defects or irregularities in appellate procedure, either of form or substance, without allowing a reasonable time to correct or amend such defects or irregularities,...' Clearly these two rules authorize this court to grant one who prosecutes a writ of error to this court the right to amend his application, where it is defective either as to form or substance. Such being the case, an application which is defective, in that it fails to properly state grounds of jurisdiction under Section 1 of Article 1821, R.C.S., or Subdivision (b) of Rule 469, can be amended in this court at any time when, in the opinion of the court, justice so requires. Furthermore, we think the right to amend maybe granted even though the original application for writ of error was filed before the effective date of Rules 481 and 504, supra. This holding in no way violates Rule 814, supra, defining the effective date of our present Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. We will therefore order that the amended application for writ of error be filed, and will now consider this case on such amended application."
See also Moore v. Dilworth, 142 Tex. 538, 179 S.W.2d 940 (1944), in which the same court refused to consider a point of error which was contained in neither the motion for rehearing nor the application. The court, however, took care to add: "It would serve no purpose in this instance to permit the application for writ of error to be amended under Rule 504 because the point was not assigned in the motion for rehearing in the Court of Civil Appeals."
These decisions, and the rules upon which they are based very clearly indicate, we think, that a proper practice on behalf of a party whose appellate contentions have not been considered an account of fault in briefing may and, when he actually has a meritorious contention, should be motion to amend.
7 Tex. B.J. 282 (1944) reprinted in 8 Tex. B.J. 49 (1945).

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A long-anticipated federal report on the viability of two pilot ExpressLanes projects on the 110 and 10 freeways will come before the Metropolitan Transportation Authority governing board April 24, according to Metro spokesman Rick Jager.
The report by the Federal Highway Administration, the agency that helped fund the experimental pay lanes on the two freeways, was originally supposed to go before the Metro Adhoc Congestion Pricing Committee at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, but was pulled from the committee agenda because the transportation agency received the report too late to meet public meeting law requirements.
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Although socializing and going out with friends is part of the college experience, students have different budget sizes and everyone needs to know their financial limits.
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Getting involved on campus is a great way to meet people but can be a huge drain on a bank account if students don't budget accordingly.
The experts suggest that students find out about fees and dues before committing to any kind of activity.
"You have to think where this money could be diverted to if you didn't join the [group] – maybe to paying the interest on your student loans while you're in school, paying for textbooks for next semester or into a savings account," says Gamm.
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Spring and summer vacations are the perfect times to get away, but students need to budget accordingly for these trips or risk running out of funds.
Out-of-state students also need to carefully budget for the trips home for breaks.
"Set in advance a budget for these items and alternatives for connecting with friends and family such as Facebook, Skyping, and chatting," says Hanson.
Although tropical destinations are ideal for Spring breakers, students should be realistic and may want to consider coming home to see their friends and family instead, says Palmer.
"You might just not be able to fit the $2,000 trip to the Caribbean into your budget, even if it's for a good cause- plus, a trip home might give you the break that you really need!"


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The high tech industry has an image that's hard to live up to: brash, bold, disruptive, innovative. The reality: today's disrupters are often tomorrow's disrupted. What sets next-generation high tech companies apart?
Successful companies excel across three interconnected components or systems:
An operating system that empowers people to support the vision and strategy
An innovation system to drive future growth
An underpinning system of culture and values that ensures employees can continuously adapt to, and find advantage from, rapid change


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Based on a state Commonwealth Court decision, the Northampton Area School District could now proceed to have a four-acre, 7,000-panel solar array on the grounds of Lehigh Elementary School.
Last week, the court ruled that Lehigh Township's zoning officer overstepped her authority by considering whether solar panels are an a common accessory to a school building.
The decision overturns a Northampton County Court ruling and orders the zoning officer to grant the school district approval for the panels previously planned in coordination with MetroTek of Kunkletown.
Judge Bernard McGinley said the question was already in the zoning ordinance as a permitted accessory use.
Atty. Blake Marles for the school district believes that the township and the zoning hearing board are unlikely to appeal the state court decision.
Zoning board solicitor Thomas Caffrey said a similar dispute between NASD and Moore Township was settled to allow the district to build a solar energy array at Moore Elementary School. No action toward installing such a field of solar energy has followed there. That project was also to be installed by MetroTek. The Moore Twsp. Board of Supervisors has enacted an ordinance defining the limits for both residential and commercial solar energy.


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Samira Yamin: We Will Not Fail
Contemporary artist Samira Yamin debuts her solo exhibition, We Will Not Fail, in SMMoA's Project Room 2. The multi-dimensional body of work contemplates the October 1, 2001 issue of Time magazine through the juxtaposition of ornamental beauty and Middle Eastern subjects. By interweaving meticulously hand-cut Islamic geometric patterns into media photographs of the War on Terror, Yamin encourages a multi-faceted conversation about the validity of journalistic images and the relationship between the sacred and profane. The opening reception on January 18 is open to the public from 7pm to 9pm.


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Accessories - paintings and antiques - have been carefully co-ordinated with each of the furniture groupings and help give a distinct identity to each group. For example, the core grouping in the living area is distinctively oriental in flavour. Elsewhere, African tribal artifacts form a coffee-table grouping adjacent to a tribal wall-hanging. In another group it is a shell collection which forms the focal point.
From this layout, the homeowner and Tonita Moffat-White of cotton tree, took on the challenge of mixing and matching fabric. Pink, peach, and grey with splashes of rust for effect, were chosen as the principal colours. The colour scheme is also primarily responsible for knitting all the seating groups together.
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you could introduce that you have to attack monsters with a double click.
Sometimes verklickt you look and the whole level is gone, if you like me just as to Level up on an opponent with Manaburn clicks, you play Elf Sorcerer no opponents who you can beat so and then when you use your mana potions, you'll make the endgegner no more. Would be a really great thing, was already at X-Com getting annoying
And when you click ones on the enemy the picture stay and you can look with the mouse over the stats from the enemy
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An estimated $1.6 million in grants, including funds from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, will be used to help communities in North Carolina clean up brownfields, which may be contaminated by hazardous chemicals or pollutants.
The grants, which include $1 million from the Recovery Act and $600,000 from the EPA brownfields general program funding, will help revitalize former industrial and commercial sites.
Applicants selected to receive Recovery Act funds are Concord - $200,000, Durham - $400,000, and Greensboro - $400,000, all of which will be applied to community-wide assessment.
Applicants selected to receive brownfields general program funds are Greenville - $200,000 and New Bern - $400,000, both for community-wide assessment.


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Interop: Zynga Infrastructure CTO Says Hybrid Clouds Are "the New Black"
At the Interop conference yesterday morning, Allan Leinwand, Zynga's chief technology officer for infrastructure, explained how the gaming company moved to a "hybrid cloud" infrastructure, combining elements of both public and private cloud solutions.
Above: Zynga CTO Allan Leinwand
Zynga—known for games such as FarmVille, CityVille, Words with Friends, and Draw Something—now has "the world's largest hybrid cloud," Leinwand said. The company has grown tremendously over the last few years and is now "bigger than Santa Claus" in that it delivered 36 billion virtual "gifts" during the holiday season last year.
In the past two years, the number of servers the company has needed has increased 100 times. It now has a database with 24.5 trillion rows of data. This is a 1.4 petabyte database, which Leinwand said was large enough to store every movie on Netflix in HD, 10 times over.
"Infrastructure matters," Leinwand said. When Zynga designers think about how it creates new moments for a game, it's important to think about how the infrastructure needs to change to allow it.
The goal was to use the cloud to "power the moments of player delight." For instance, there was a spike in demand following the publicity over Alec Baldwin's plane incident with Words with Friends.
All of this is now delivered via the company's hybrid cloud solution, which includes an internal system called zCloud, as well as public cloud services.
Later, Leinwand told me about the platform in a bit more detail. In general, games are delivered to various devices via content distribution networks (CDNs). Individuals actually play on their local systems, but when they make changes—such as playing a word in Words with Friends—those changes are sent to Zynga's infrastructure. Initially, the changes are sent to load balancers, which then distribute them to Web servers running Apache PHP. Once those changes are updated, they are sent to servers running Membase, which has a DRAM-based key-value store for the "gameboard." That is shortly copied to a physical disk to minimize the chances that any data would be lost in case of a failure.
All of this runs on x86 servers, running CentOS Linux, though the company doesn't disclose how many servers it is currently running.
But it wasn't always this way. The company launched with Zynga Poker in the summer of 2007, running in a traditional co-location data center. However, the growth of FarmVille from zero to six million daily active players in six weeks and to 25 million in five months changed that because the company couldn't scale its infrastructure fast enough. As a result, it moved to the "public" cloud to scale for FarmVille and then for CityVille.
Then Leinwand realized, "we were renting where we should own," so now, Zynga wants to own the base, and "rent the spikes." The result was a new private cloud called zCloud, which launched in January 2011 and initially launched CityVille Hometown as a proof of concept. This was really launched in June 2011 with CastleVille, which grew to five million daily active players in six days.
In the beginning of 2011, 20 percent of the company's users were using the private cloud and 80 percent were using the public cloud. By the end of the year, those numbers had flipped. For every three servers it used in the public cloud, it used only one server in the private cloud. There was no "magic upgrade"—no change in silicon—just lots of engineering work to tune the servers for social games, Leinwand said.
Leinwand learned an important lesson: infrastructure is cool again. He urged IT organizations to be flexible, matching the workloads of the business to the infrastructure. He suggested organizations use the public cloud for generic offerings and private clouds that are tuned for applications for their more specific needs.
"Love thy app," he said, meaning really understand how your application works at very specific levels, and how exactly it drives network traffic. Doing this lets the company tune its infrastructure for the specific apps.
Applications need to be creative, keeping mobile devices and the cloud in mind. "Hybrid is the new black," Leinwand said, stressing that every organization should use hybrid cloud concepts.
Along the way, Zynga has developed an infrastructure for features such as analytics, feeds, leader boards, and payments, and these are now delivered as services to particular games and game studios across the country. The company uses those APIs to make a Zynga platform for third-party developers who want to add social features to their games.
Leinwand told me that Zynga has physical connections to the public cloud (Amazon Web Services) via fiber, with a single management tool that manages both. This lets him view the public and private as a single piece of infrastructure.
It takes a lot of work to help Zynga's vendors see where it is going and tweak their products to enable this to work, Leinwand said. In particular, he cited work done by RightScale and the Citrix CloudStack team for monitoring and managing.
Zynga will never go completely internal with its network, Leinwand said, but will instead continue to combine private and public clouds and think about how to use both pieces as a fully integrated system.
"I love knowing the public cloud is there," he said.
Overall, Leinwand believes cloud computing doesn't outsource IT; instead, IT becomes the way infrastructure works for the business.


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The eHealth Competence Center Regensburg (eHCC) has brought, and will further bring, world-wide recognised eHealth expertise to our University of Regensburg Medical Center. The eHealth Competence Center aggregates and co-ordinates existing and emerging eHealth projects to analyse requirements and problems, to harmonise processes, to develop principles and specifications as well as to disseminate best practice results. It integrates the different approaches towards a comprehensive eHealth platform.
Uniquely in Europe, the eHealth Competence Center combines scientific, commercial and administrative responsibilities/activities under one roof. It thus uniquely connects health telematics, telemedicine and biomedical engineering enabling a comprehensive eHealth view.
The eHealth Competence Center defines interfaces for integrating the aforementioned projects in regional, national and international environments. It enforces standard conformance and specifies requirements for new standardisation work items. In that context, the eHCC performs gaps analysis for closing them through new initiatives.
The eHealth Competence Center supports and promotes the inclusion of stakeholders, educates and trains developers and users. It is supported by, and will co-ordinate, a number of institutions. The selection of these institutions is linked to eHealth projects regionally as well as internationally.


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I love fashion. I love checking out new styles, I love shopping and I'm pretty sure there is going to be an enormous TJ Maxx in heaven. But I think a false misconception is that you have to dress like a frumpy, old woman in order to be modest.
I disagree. Now. I am not trying to open the can of worms that is the modesty issue. There are 2 different soap boxes that come with that.
1. A girl's body is a girl's body. It's not her fault men are pigs and can't control their thoughts.
2. A girl needs to wear a turtleneck and long baggy pants every day of every year and it is completely her responsibility to keep men from having dirty thoughts.
I'm gonna get all up on all ya'll's soapboxes for a minute.
Both of those attitudes are wrong.
Thinking that my actions only affect me is the problem with so many aspects of the world today. No one wants to take responsibility for any of their actions or any of their decisions. Your actions can affect other people. You can be (partially) responsible for the actions of the people around you.
Thinking that I am completely responsible for other people's actions is another problem. Regardless of what a girl is wearing, guys still have a choice with what they will do with their eyes, and they still have a choice with what they do with their thoughts.
When you have an attitude that is thinking of others as better than yourself, or that is wanting to be above board and above reproach, when you have a heart's desire to please God with what you do? You will have no problem changing your clothing or changing your attitude.
The reason I hate both sides of this argument is because in both cases, people are putting themselves higher than they should.
What kind of a person blames every girl out there for every poor decision a man has ever made, attack the girls dressing that way, and any other person in their way? A prideful person. A person who wants what they want regardless of how it affects other people. (sometimes, even convincing themselves that they are attacking for good reason because they are just trying to help their husband or other men!)
On the other hand, what kind of a person hears someone say that the reason their husband is struggling with lust is because of the way they are dressing and instantly start going on a rampage agains men, the person suggesting a change, and any other person in their way? A prideful person. A person who wants what they want regardless of how it affects other people.
Only by pride comes contention. Period.
Try thinking about what the opposite reaction might look like. What if every girl stopped themselves before they left the house, took 2 extra minutes to examine what they were wearing, and maybe even asked their dad or husband if what they were wearing was ok? What if every girl stopped themselves before they started judging every other girl out there and instead prayed that their husbands, or sons would remain pure in their thoughts and actions?
A little different, huh?
In light of my love for style, here are a few tips that will show you how you can still dress in style without being inappropriate.
1. If you wear leggings, always have something covering your butt. There's really no need for the world to see London and France. If you want to wear a shorter skirt that is hard to stay modest in? Wear leggings underneath.
You can still be stylish and be modest.
You can still be stylish and be modest.
2. Never wear nude colored leggings. Ever. I mean for real now. Ain't nobody got the stomach for that.
(don't worry, there is no picture demonstrating this one!)
(don't worry, there is no picture demonstrating this one!)
3. Wear a tank top under your shirts.
I wear a tank top under every single shirt I ever wear. It helps when your shirt is low cut, and it also helps when your shirt comes up in the back. We have all had the unfortunate experience of having someone bend over in front of us only to find out…ahem…they weren't wearing a tank top. And unfortunately, London and France weren't even around! I think you get my drift. Do everyone around you a favor and wear a tank.
Don't forget. You can still be stylish and modest.
I just saw this quote that I liked…Instead of thinking if ya got it, flaunt it. Think: if ya got it, protect it.


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Pete van Payne started DJing in 1980 at the age of 11. Electronic musik was his obsession since the very first beginning of the style. in 1983 he began working with 3 turntables and was influenced mostly by the style of Carl Cox. The basic techniques of 3 decks mixing were quikly adapted and he began to develop his own style of spinning. Years of touring through the clubs in germany passed by. In January 2009 he met Alex Flemming, the founder of the sound of Techno community and finally became the second head of soundoftechno community. In February 2010 he finally foundet the record label Sound of Techno Record and began producing his own tracks. In early 2011 he foundet the new Lable Techno Emporium Records followed by the Techno Emporium Community. Another big step in developement was to become CEO of the Thunders Club House Radiostation and beginning of international cooperations with other stations. Meanwhile he is also the editor for Germany at Zone Magazine Ireland.
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June 07, 2002
Los Angeles — UCLA Anderson climbed to 17th overall worldwide, up three spots from 2001, in the Financial Times 2002 Rankings of Executive Education Programs. For business schools based in the United States, Anderson was 12th overall. UCLA Anderson ranked ahead of such schools as University of Chicago and Berkeley's Haas School.
Even more impressive is UCLA Anderson's tie for 9th in the area of Open Enrollment Programs, up 11 spots from 20th last year. In this area, Anderson ranked ahead of such schools as University of Michigan, Northwestern's Kellogg School, Haas and Chicago.
"We're proud of the high caliber of our open enrollment executive education programs," said Bruce Willison, dean of UCLA Anderson. "Our objective is to deliver to program participants a global management perspective, leadership acumen, and strategic thinking skills that will help them guide their organizations to the next level of success."
The Financial Times survey of international non-degree executive education ranks both "open" and "custom" programs and produces a combined rank position for schools that appear in both rankings. Open programs are courses open to all executives and custom programs are tailor-made for companies that wish to put their executives through specific training or development. Each ranking is compiled from the responses of executive education course participants or corporate purchasers and a survey of business schools.
Most programs are between three days and three months in length. Schools must have more than US $2 million worth of business in each of the two categories to participate in one or both sections of this year's ranking.
Feedback from the Financial Times survey shows that executive education participants gave Anderson high marks and are pleased with the substance and quality of Anderson's executive education programs.
UCLA Anderson ranked first in faculty diversity and achieved high marks in other areas including innovative course design, excellence of faculty, quality of teaching materials, and new skills and learning. Its executive education courses are based on the cutting edge research of its core faculty-research that is often ahead of the curve. Program participants are able to learn new concepts and models that help them broaden their management capabilities, increase their business acumen and often immediately implement new solutions to improve their organizations.
"We're able to move quickly and make enhancements to executive education programs to tailor them to the needs of our participants in an ever-changing business world," said Laurie Dowling, director of Anderson's executive education programs. "One significant thing that distinguishes our programs from others is that we rely on our core faculty to design and teach courses, and it's clear that participants like it that way."
UCLA Anderson's open enrollment Executive Education Programs include the following offerings:
Strategic Leadership Institute
Executive Program
Creativity and Innovation in the Organization Program
Advanced Program in Human Resource Management
African American Leadership Institute
Latino Leadership Institute
Women's Leadership Institute
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Leadership Institute
Mergers and Acquisitions Program
Managing the Information Resource Program
Medical Marketing Program
The Anderson School also offers custom programs for organizations that have unique or proprietary educational objectives and executive development requirements. The school works with organizations around the world to deliver a fully integrated, cost-effective and time-efficient management education option for that has far reaching benefits and lasting impact. Most custom programs feature a business improvement project in which small groups of participants work to resolve a management challenge during and after the program. Using program faculty as advisors, participants present their solutions to the senior leadership of the organization, furthering program impact, visibility and return on investment.
For more information on The Anderson School's Executive Education Programs, call (310) 825-2001 or visit www.execed.anderson.ucla.edu.


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William2010 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 29 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
Calyx Capital Advisors, LLC
Calyx Capital Advisors, LLC is a boutique wealth management firm in Manhattan that provides comprehensive financial planning and objective investment advice on a fee-only basis. Independent from Wall Street and in-tune with the values of Main Street, we bring our best thinking and ideas to each client and work to make their financial goals a reality.
The Calyx is the separate supporting petals (sepals) of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer enclosing, holding, and protecting the developing flower bud (see attached for pictures at the end of the pdf file; there should be three non-wire frame pages to scroll through).
Wealthy Americans with $1 - $10 million investable who are facing retirement and need comprehensive financial planning and investment advice that is personalized and professional. Audience is highly educated and sophisticated, conservative with their money, and puts a large premium on trust.
Preference for Copperplate Gothic Light for the company name font.
Preference for the blue in the attached document (RGB 52-92-156) with complementary blues and grays, but open to other color schemes if you feel strongly otherwise.
Some sites I like include the following:
I envision a site that is clean, uncluttered, easy to navigate, is somehow reassuring to potential clients, and inspires trust and confidence. The attached document includes wireframes for the whole site so you have a more complete understanding of the firm, but I am not asking for the whole site, just a logo and the homepage.
Forget my initial request for a logo; instead, simply focus on the site design.


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TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION Opens Tomorrow! $100M Opening Forecast!!
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Looks like Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION will be the first movie of the year to break the $100M opening barrier. Tracking is through the roof for the $165M budgeted movie and we all know Mark Wahlberg is solid in bringing in the numbers.
Note that the run time of the movie is nearly 3 hours which will limit screenings somewhat though AVATAR was also in the same ball park and that didn't seem to be affected ;-) Further, no other movies are opening this weekend.
We will definitely see the impact of the Chinese market with this release as it was a joint production, marketing will be strong, and Chinese actors and skylines are involved. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers from China rival or even surpass domestic. We'll have a better idea tomorrow night.
Speaking of domestic box office, TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION opens in 4200 theaters (353 in IMAX 3D) and is tracking on par or above CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER ($95M opening).
I'm leaving you with some images of 3ality Technica's native 3D camera rigs in action on the production - it doesn't get any better than this! Get ready for some Michael Bay explosions and Mark Walhberg expletives! :-)
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION opens tomorrow!!
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hey, i downloaded your slide system for roc/tft on your website.
and copied the triggers n stuff and made new terrain etc..
but it doesnt work to die or slide anymore?
would you take a look at the map for me please?
i havent changed anything, and the heroes is demon hunters.. hmm


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(CNN) -- Residents of Newtown, Connecticut, took to social media Friday to share their fear, shock and horror over the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Several people on Twitter expressed concerns about relatives who attend or work at the school, where a law-enforcement official said at least 18 children were slain after gunfire erupted Friday morning.
Others posted images from the scene and from a nearby fire station, where survivors were taken. A hospital in nearby Danbury posted a Facebook update late Friday morning saying that three victims were being treated there.
In what now seems like a much more innocent time, the school hosted a winter concert Thursday. Principal Dawn Hochsprung, who was killed in the shootings, had posted a photo on Twitter Wednesday of a rehearsal for the concert.
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Do you live in the Newtown area or know people at Sandy Hook Elementary? Share your views in the comments area below or post your thoughts on CNN iReport.
CNN's Brandon Griggs contributed to this report.


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The social-networking giant today said there are now more than 350 apps on its Web site, with more than 1 million monthly active users each.
On the mobile side, nearly 200,000 iPhone and Android apps are integrated with Facebook, including 9 of the top 10 grossing iPhone apps. Additionally, more than 45 percent of the top 400 grossing iOS apps use the Facebook SDK, the company said.
Facebook, which is at the LeWeb conference this week in Paris, also revealed that Paris has become one of the top locations for Timeline app development. The City of Light falls behind only San Francisco in terms of Open Graph submissions.
Facebook introduced a new version of Open Graph last year at its f8 conference, seeking to give users "frictionless experiences." It provides developers the ability to deeply integrate their apps into the core Facebook interface. Open Graph stories appear in the news feed and ticker of friends and on the person's timeline.
As Justin Osofsky, Facebook's director of platform partnerships and operators, noted today, the introduction of Open Graph last year has allowed Facebook to "become the social building block for some of the biggest mobile and Web apps across a variety of categories."
Some of the notable apps he listed include Pinterest, TripAdvisor, Fab, and Shazam, as well as Deezer, Endomondo, Kobo, Gogobot, and Foodspotting.
Facebook has been highlighting Open Graph quite a bit lately. The company yesterday put up a blog post patting itself on the backfor Open Graph's role in the success of Playdom's Avengers Alliance game.
Facebook said "shared stories" that linked to the game on people's news feeds and timelines were clicked on 7 million times -- the third-largest source of clicks to the Marvel game -- and users who installed the game after clicking through Open Graph stories made an in-game purchase twice as often as those who joined the game through an invite.
The post also included comments from the game developer about how easy it was to develop on Facebook.
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Google Play: We've cracked down on bad apps: Google says it rejected at least 55 percent more app submissions in 2018.
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David Correy Wins Judges Hearts With 'Just the Way You Are' on 'X Factor'
The infinitely stylish David Correy auditioned on tonight's (Sept. 26) episode of 'X Factor,' and he was quite the Travie McCoy lookalike, with his beard and tattoos. Before he sang Bruno Mars' 'Just the Way You Are,' he shared his heartwarming reason for coming on the show, which was easily one of the most inspiring tales we've ever heard on a reality singing competition.
His Brazilian mother got pregnant with him when she was just 14 and gave him up for adoption. He hopes that by appearing on the 'X Factor,' his voice will somehow reconnect him with the woman who gave him up. Correy's dream is that she will get to hear his voice by watching the show. We know -- we welled up, too.
He lives in Maryland and loves his adoptive family, but he is curious about his biological mother, and wants to know if she sings. Perhaps he got the gift of music from her. We predict the producers of the show have already installed a digital research team to help locate her so they can reunite, live on 'X Factor,' during sweeps.
As for his singing? He had a lovely, high croon, and of course, he looked the part of the rock star. Plus, he has the backstory that the voters and viewing audience loves and roots for.
Brit Brit loved his stage presence, while L.A. Reid celebrated the fact that his "upper register is powerful" and that "he can really sing."
Correy was awarded a "yes" from every judge, and rightfully so!
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Groupon Inc. today launched the Groupon Partner Network, a self-service e-commerce affiliate marketing platform that aims to broaden the daily deal operator's reach by enabling online publishers to earn commissions when shoppers click on and buy from links to Groupon offers.
The daily deal operator is offering its affiliate partners promotional commissions through September of 12% for voucher offers, 8% for its Groupon Getaways travel deals and Groupon Goods discounts on physical goods. Starting in October, it will pay commissions of 10% for its voucher offers, 6% for Groupon Getaways deals and 5% for Groupon Goods discounts.
The Groupon Partner Network, or GPN, is available in more than 30 countries.
"GPN is the latest example of Groupon's dedication to provide a comprehensive, effective and large-scale marketing platform for local and national merchants to help grow their business," says Sean Smyth, Groupon's vice president of global partner marketing and business development.
GPN provides affiliates with tools to track data, such as daily sales volume, impressions and click-through rates. It also offers features to help affiliates create trackable links and widgets. A widget is a stand-alone application that affiliates can embed on their sites.
Groupon is in the midst of trying to diversify the way shoppers find and purchase its offers. The daily deal operator says that direct e-mail marketing accounted for less than 40% of its North American transactions in the second quarter, down from 45% in the first quarter.
Rather than focus too heavily on e-mail marketing, the daily deal operator has encouraged more shoppers to search for offers on its mobile app and it aims for shoppers to discover discounts while browsing the web via the Groupon Partner Network, says a spokesman.
Groupon said earlier this month that in June nearly half of North American transactions were completed on mobile devices, compared with about 30% a year earlier. More than 50 million people have downloaded Groupon mobile apps worldwide with more than 7.5 million people downloading them in the second quarter alone.


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The Wii is dead, long live the Wii. The Monday rumor that Nintendo is planning to release a brand new model of its six year old console has turned out to be entirely true. Nintendo officially announced the Wii Mini on Tuesday morning. As expected its smaller than current models of Wii and sports a very different look to boot. Rather than the glossy black plastic of the last Wii redesign, the Wii Mini has matte finish with a bright red border for a color scheme similar to models of the Nintendo 3DS XL. Like the first Wii redesign, Wii Mini doesn't support Gamecube games or have ports for Gamecube controllers. Strangely it also doesn't support Internet connectivity, meaning no Virtual Console or WiiWare games.
That's not the only thing strange about Wii Mini, though. The budget priced console is only releasing in Canada on December 7. Digital Trends contacted Nintendo representatives in both the US and Canada to try and find out whether Wii Mini would be releasing in other territories.
"The Wii Mini is available exclusively in Canada during the holiday season," said Nintendo of America's representative, "We currently have no information about its potential availability in other territories (such as the U.S.) in the future."
The question then is: Why Canada? Is that market in particular open to an ultra cheap Wii? Nintendo's representatives in Canada said that they have no comment at this time as to why the console is exclusive to the region.
As mentioned in our Monday report, what makes the release of this new Wii model so strange is that Nintendo has officially stated that it's no longer making new Wii games. When Nintendo released hardware revisions at the tail end of a console's lifecycle in the past, it was always supported with new games. The top-loading NES for example was released in 1993, two years after the Super Nintendo, but it was supported with new games published by Nintendo through 1994. The Super Nintendo and Game Boy Advance followed similar patterns.
Wii Mini is part of what seems to be a trend in the game industry. Sony also released a cheap model of PlayStation 3 with only 12GB of flash memory outside the US that doesn't focus on downloadable content.
The Wii Mini will be released in Canada on Dec. 7 and retail for $100.


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So most of you probably are aware that Jalopnik has launched a new sub-blog called Carbuying! It will be run by myself and Tavarish (APiDAOnline). We would not have gotten this far without the help of the Oppositelock community. So thank you!
Here is where we need your help, because we come from Oppo (and we will still be around, maybe just not as much), we want to highlight the knowledge base that is here. So please visit CarBuying often and keep the conversation going. Tavarish and I have our specialties, but our knowledge and experience is nothing compared to the Oppo community.
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Thousands rally to protest Keystone
Tens of thousands of people converged on the National Mall on Sunday to urge President Barack Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, a project they say will cause irreparable damage to the climate.
The rally, which was organized by the Sierra Club, 350.org and the Hip Hop Caucus, was billed as the largest climate rally in American history. Organizers estimated that about 35,000 people participated in the rally. The U.S. Park Police does not give crowd estimates.
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"All I ever wanted to see was a movement of people to stop climate change and now I've seen it," Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, said to the crowd of protesters, who traveled to Washington from dozens of states. "I cannot promise you we're going to win, but I've waited a quarter century to find out if we were gonna fight. And today, at the biggest climate rally by far, by far, by far, in U.S. history — today, I know we're going to fight."
Temperatures dropped to the low 30s Sunday afternoon as participants danced and cheered and waved signs protesting the Keystone XL pipeline, which will carry oil from Alberta's oil sands down through Cushing, Okla., and on to refineries along the Gulf Coast.
The State Department, which will make a recommendation to the president on whether to approve the pipeline, has said that its evaluation process will not be complete until after March.
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Banners and speakers whipped in the 26-mile-per-hour winds around the stage near the Washington Monument as protesters donned hoods and gloves to shield themselves from the chilly weather.
Climate activists have said constructing the pipeline would enable oil companies to expand production from western Canada's massive oil sands fields, and that the thick tar-like material requires processing that leads to far higher greenhouse gas emissions than from typical oil production.
Van Jones, founder of Rebuild the Dream and former Obama special adviser for green jobs, said Obama's recent comments on climate change in his inaugural address and the State of the Union were welcome, but climate activists must hold the president accountable to ensure he follows through.
"I don't have any reason to believe at this point that the pipeline won't go through," Jones said. "I think if you look at the status quo, the big polluters tend to win these fights. They've got the big money. They've got the big lobbyists and they tend to win these fights. And that's why the people have to come out."
In a statement, TransCanada, the company that is hoping to build the pipeline, said it agreed that a transition to more sustainable energy source was needed, but that shift would take decades, and its project was being unfairly demonized.
"The oil sands and their greenhouse gas emissions' impact have been overstated. As the respected Nature science journal stated the other week, Keystone XL will not determine whether or not the oil sands will be developed. Nor is oil from the oil sands as 'dirty' as many believe," a company spokesman said in an email Sunday.
Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who helped launch the Safe Climate Caucus — a group of legislators who plan to speak on the floor routinely about climate change — said that events like the one Sunday are necessary to move the conversation forward on climate change, loosen the effect of industry lobbying dollars and get a strong regulatory agenda out of the executive branch.
"It sends a message to Congress that we're here, we care and this is an issue that matters. And it sends a message to the president to be strong and we'll have your back," he said.


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Local communities in Kigoma demonstrated their readiness for full scale REDD during a recent field visit by technical experts in Kigoma districts, Tanzania. The field visit was facilitated by IUCN project on Strengthening REDD+ Lesson Learning Networks and Information Management funded by the Institute of Resource Assessment (IRA) of the University of Dar es Salaam. Visited pilot project is being implemented by the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in Kigoma district. Site visit was organized in Ilagala village in Kigoma.
The objective of the field visit was to document key lessons from these projects that will augment lessons learnt and best practices from other projects collected during field dialogues held in March this year. Conducted on April 11-12, 2013, the event was attended by representatives from IUCN, National REDD Task Force, National REDD Secretariat and hosts – project staff and local communities.
Illagala villagers demonstrated readiness for fullscale REDD+ during focused group discussions on REDD+ principles that included drawing a number of lessons from their experiences. Firstly, the understanding of REDD concept was high amongst communities (village government, members of the Village Natural Resource Committee, forest monitors and members of a community based organisation – JUWAMMA (Jumuia ya Watunza Misitu wa Masito). There are proving to be qualified trainers in issues related to REDD pilot projects.
Secondly, there is effective and gender-balanced community participation in project implementation that ensures sustainability of REDD+ activities. In addition, communities' capacity to implement REDD+ activities has been strengthened by workshops, and the training opportunities from the JGI focussing on forest conservation, forest protection and first aid. Scout training were conducted to 35 forest monitors at Pasiansi Wildlife College. In addition, the projects provided forest gears and equipment to forest monitors which includes 35 bicyles, fire extinguishers, solar panels, field boots and first aid kits.
Communities are also competent in Monitoring Reporting Verification (MRVs) and they demonstrated understanding of the whole process of data collection and recording even though have not yet grasped the computation of carbon stock. Forest monitors provide reports every month to the JGI. These reports include number of visits to the forest per month, report on encroachment signs and problem encountered during visitation.
Furthermore, financing of the JUWAMMA to fulfill its activities including REDD has been assured through revenues collected from illegal exploitation of forest products as agreed with Kigoma District Council. The experience of REDD+ pilot project in Kigoma shows that local communities can own REDD+ activities after strengthing their capacity in forest management and empowering the local institutions.
For more information, contact Mr. Abdalla Said Shah, Head of Office/Senior Program Officer – IUCN Tanzania on [email protected]


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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - The women's swimming and diving unit traveled to Wesleyan University this weekend to participate in the Cardinal Invitational. Despite opting out of the last session, the Engineers made the most of their trip across the Connecticut border, taking first place in eight events and supplying three 1-2 finishes.
Julianna Edwards factored into four of Tech's wins, including three individual event victories. Securing top honors in the 100 back, 100 fly and 200 medley relay, Edwards also grabbed first in the 200 IM with a time of 2:14.07. Her winning clip in the individual medley was just .05 seconds off her own school records set last season.
Edwards' win in the 200 IM also served as one of Tech's 1-2 sweeps, as freshman Nicole O'Keefe closed in second at 2:14.07. MIT also finished 1-2 in the 50 free and the 500 free. Rookie Kristen Felch (25.87) out-touched sophomore Sasha Brophy (25.91) to win the shortest race of the meet, while Kate Thornton (5:14.37) and O'Keefe (5:19.97) powered their way to a 1-2 finish behind a pair of season-best swims.
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ROTTERDAM, N.Y. – State police say bad parking led to the apprehension of an upstate New York man wanted on a probation violation.
Troopers say a state police investigator spotted 23-year-old Matthew Bergeron of Richmondville on Thursday afternoon as he tried to back a vehicle into a parking space at a truck stop in Rotterdam in Schenectady (skeh-NEHK'-ta-dee) County.
Police say Bergeron parked crookedly, straddling two spaces, then walked away from the vehicle.
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