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Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Commerce's U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today released record breaking year-end numbers that reveal historic improvement in the quality of patent and trademark reviews and subsequently the quality of issued patents and registered trademarks. The quality numbers are part of the agency's FY 2007 Performance and Accountability Report, also released today.
"The sustained trend of quality improvements are a tribute to the internal quality initiatives of our managers and employees," said USPTO Director Jon Dudas. "Of course, the quality of patent and trademark examination is a shared responsibility that begins with the application."
Patents - Quality and Productivity at Historic Highs: Sustained Focus on Quality Garners Results
In FY 2007, USPTO's patent examiners
- Examined 362,227 applications - the highest number in history.
- Quality compliance was 96.5 percent - equaling last year's results, the best in a quarter century.
- Patent examiner decisions were upheld by the USPTO's patent appeals board 69 percent of the time, up from 51 percent in 2005.
Trademarks - Exceeding Expectations for a 2nd Record-Breaking Year
For the second year in a row, the USPTO has exceeded all of its trademark-related performance goals.
- USPTO's trademark examining attorneys examined a record 323,527 applications.
- Quality was 97.4 percent.
- The quality results exceeded fiscal year 2007 targets.
- The average time from filing an initial trademark application to a preliminary decision from an examining attorney (first action) was below three months.
"American businesses depend heavily on trademark protection for their brand names and service identities," noted Director Dudas." A trademark is often a company's most valuable asset. Consumers also rely on trademarks to help them decide among competing products and services. Thus, I am pleased we are contributing to American commerce by ensuring high quality timely trademark protection."
Patent Initiatives - Poised to Make the Process Even Better
Director Dudas noted that "The USPTO will work tirelessly to ensure high quality agency actions, but we must make progress to ensure examiners are presented with applications that clearly depict the claimed invention and relevant prior art is presented to the examiner in a timely manner."
Consistent with Director Dudas' direction, to encourage focused and complete information that allows examiners to make the best decisions when examining applications, the USPTO has initiated a number of improvements to better focus the examination process. These include:
- Accelerated Examination - Available since August 2006, Accelerated Examination provide applicants with a final determination on their patent application within 12 months. Applicants provide focused and detailed information about their inventions, an explanation as to why their inventions are patentable over the prior art, and the most relevant prior art upon filing their application. Applicants are encouraged to engage in live interviews with the patent examiner.
- Peer Review - Begun in June 2007 as a joint initiative with the New York Law School's Institute for Information and Policy, peer review is a pilot project that allows technical experts in computer technology, for the first time, the opportunity to submit annotated technical references relevant to the claims of a published patent application before an examiner reviews it. Studies have shown that when patent examiners have the best data in front of them, they make the correct decisions. However, examiners have a limited amount of time to find and properly consider the most relevant information. This is particularly true in the software-related technologies where code is not easily accessible and is often not dated or well documented.
Of particular note is the relationship among USPTO's quality initiatives, fewer granted patents, and higher affirmance rates on appeal.
- In 2000, a record high of 72 percent of all patent applications became patents. In contrast, 51 percent of patent applications were granted in FY 2007.
- The allowance rate is a function of many aspects, including the quality of the applications received.
- The USPTO's focus on internal quality controls is primarily responsible for the lowered grant rate over the past several years.
- Looking forward, the USPTO expects that its various applicant-centered initiatives to focus examination will result in clearer applications and thus an increased grant rate-while maintaining a high affirmance rate from the patent appeals board.
Efficiency Via E-Business
To further assist businesses of all sizes in protecting their assets, the USPTO continues to enhance its electronic systems, especially in the area of on-line transactions.
- Twenty six user-friendly patent and trademark electronic forms are currently available for filing.
- Slightly more than 95 percent of initial trademark applications were filed electronically in 2007, including international filings.
- About 50 percent of patent applications were filed electronically, via USPTO's "EFSWeb" filing program, launched in March 2006. This is up from less than two percent two years ago.
Full results of the agency's progress can be found in USPTO's FY 2007 Performance and Accountability Report at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/annual/2007/2007annualreport.pdf.


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First Look: 2010 Lincoln MKT
Lincolnizing the Flex: Starting to Believe Ford's Commitment to the Lincoln Brand
With the introduction of the Ford-Flex based 2010 Lincoln MKT, we're starting to believe all that stuff about FoMoCo's commitment to the Lincoln brand. There isn't a single significant visible part shared with its platformmate, though most of what you don't see is the same. Overall dimensions are within a whisker, except for height, which is 1.7 in. lower. That lower roof and stylishly raked bustle-back hatch limit third-row headroom to kid-size and give the MKT slightly more station-wagon proportioning.
The waterfall grille cements the family resemblance with the MKS and restyled 2010 MKZ in front, and we're told to expect the cross-car taillamp design (with distinctive light pipes like those on the MKX) to become a new Lincoln trademark. A fixed panoramic glass roof will be standard, with a sliding one optional. Power comes from a 3.7L V-6 producing 267 hp and 268 lb-ft of torque (down slightly from the 273/270 it produces in Mazda's CX-9, thanks partly to Lincolnizing of the exhaust note). An EcoBoost turbo V-6 making 350 hp and 350 lb-ft of torque will follow driving all four wheels (base MKTs get front drive). Both engines mate to a six-speed automatic with paddle shifters.
The ride-tuning design brief was "rolling plushness," so expect softer-than-Flex spring and damper rates. Standard wheels are 19-inchers, with 20s optional (standard unique 20s will come with the EcoBoost option). Leadfoots will want to wait for the EcoBoost engine, because even with weight-saving measures like using cast magnesium for the radiator support and tailgate inner panel, a loaded MKT is expected to weigh 2.5 tons.
Upscale features include adaptive cruise control with collision mitigation (warns driver of impending accident, primes brakes, delivers full brake-assist power when driver brakes), blind-spot indication with cross-traffic alert, "neural THX surround sound" that upconverts compressed media like MP3s for improved sound quality, adaptive headlamps, and active park assist. This system locates a parallel parking spot and then handles the steering and shifting while coaching the driver on brake/throttle use. We're promised it's way easier and faster to use than the Lexus system, and it will only be available with the EcoBoost option, as that model gets electric power steering.
Sybaritic interior touches include real wood trim on all four doors and across the dash, luxurious stitched leather-look material on the dash and door uppers (it's more durable and sun-resistant than real leather), one-touch fold-and-flip middle-row seats for easy third-row access, optional heated and cooled second-row bucket seats with electric lumbar adjustment, and a rear-seat entertainment system option with monitors in the front-seat headrests. And we're told the MKT is even quieter riding than the already impressive Flex, thanks to additional aero tuning of the side mirrors and sound deadening in the ductwork to quiet blower noise.

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Well, he kinda does, depending on how you choose to interpret what he said about the future of The Amazing Spider-Man franchise during a recent interview promoting White House Down. (Obviously, possible SPOILERS after this point!)
They actually talked about doing the Sinister Six, so, fingers crossed. Because electricity never dies, it just goes to a different place.
It's probably pretty obvious that Spider-Man isn't going to lose to Electro, and even though Foxx never outright says that's the case, I think we can all agree Spidey is going to come out on top and somehow stop his supercharged foe. What's even more interesting about this, though, is the mention of the Sinister Six. If the group of super villains were to form we would, most likely, see the return of Jamie Foxx as Electro, whether he's defeated at the end of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 or not. If this does happen, it would be the first time the Sinister Six showed up on the big screen as a group, so that could be a major selling point for the third Amazing Spider-Man film.
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The SQL Community is about to get stronger. Why? There is a great new initiative that was recently launched. Steve Jones and Andy Warren are teaming up to conduct this initiative. As they aptly named it, the new initiative is called "The Mentoring Experiment."
How many times have you wished you had somebody to show you the ropes? Have you ever started a new job and been thrown to the wolves to try and figure things out on your own? Many of us wish we had a mentor at some stage or another in our career – even if it is somebody more experienced with the current systems or applications in your current environment.
What is a mentor?
A mentor is defined as 1) a wise and trusted counselor or teacher, or 2) an influential senior sponsor or supporter. A mentor might also be referred to as a guide, counselor, master, or adviser.
A mentor is a person, in other words, that can be trusted to give you good advice and information. This is a person to whom you should be able to bounce questions off of in order to learn more. This person is somebody with more experience and/or knowledge, in the given domain, than you currently have. And a mentor is a person who is willing to give a little service or volunteers to give of him/herself for the betterment of another individual.
What is the Goal?
Much the same as a mentor should have a Goal in regards to the padawan to help that person get better, Andy and Steve have a goal of improving mentoring in the SQL Server community. There is a plan in place for this experiment. Furthermore, there are multiple stages to this experiment. The first stage is focused on a smaller group of mentors/mentees and the relationship that evolves between the two.
From the information gathered, they hope to be able to provide better information to mentors to determine if maybe there is something that a mentor is missing and needs to learn as well.
You can become involved in this project by submitting a short application. Not everybody will be selected, but you can't be selected if you don't try. I hope there will be plenty of community support for this experiment. I look to provide support where I can.


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Paul to son: You could get elected
Former Rep. Ron Paul has some advice for his son, Sen. Rand Paul, if he decides to run for president: Be careful.
But it might not be why you'd think.
"I would say be very cautious, you could get elected," the elder Paul, a Texas Republican, joked on "The Tonight Show" on Thursday night.
( QUIZ: Do you know Rand Paul?)
Paul told an incredulous Leno he and his son haven't discussed whether the Kentucky senator will run in 2016, and he said his son's Senate campaign was itself a surprise. Paul said he didn't expect his son to do well in that race, but he did thanks to grassroots tea party support.
But the proud father didn't seem to have doubts now. Leno asked him who he thinks will get the Republican nomination in 2016.
"Probably somebody who lives in Texas — I mean used to live in Texas, lives in Kentucky now. He'll probably end up getting it," Paul said.
Leno also asked if Rand Paul is moving in a moderate direction, especially with comments he made recently praising some of President Barack Obama's decisions.
"If I call him a moderate, I'll destroy his political career," Ron Paul said, but he also noted that he, too, agrees with the president in some cases, including his recent openness to possibly engaging Iran in direct talks.


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October 6, 2012
The first shows of the season for the Albion College Stock Seat team proved to be a long - but successful - day of competition at the Midland County Fairgrounds in Midland, Mich. on October 6. The doubleheader was hosted by Saginaw Valley State University.
Amidst many first and second place finishes by Briton riders, the Albion College team wound up in fourth place out of nine teams in the morning show. Senior Chelsea Utt (Harbor Springs/Petoskey) stuck it out in a three person ride-off to win Reserve Champion High Point Rider for her Open/Reining division in the morning.
With the nerves of their first show out of the way, the Albion riders stepped up their game to win the Champion High Point Team in the afternoon show. Contributing to the team's win was senior Amanda Douglas (Cheboygan/Cheboygan Area), who qualified for the Regional Championships in the Advanced division. Another qualifier was Chelsea Weiss (Manchester/Chelsea) who will compete in the Intermediate division at Regionals this season.


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Colorado authorities confirm that a set of human remains recently discovered are those of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway.
Updated at 6:58 p.m. ET: Police in Colorado confirmed Friday that a dismembered body they discovered earlier in the week in a suburban Denver park is that of 10-year-old schoolgirl Jessica Ridgeway, who went missing from her Westminster home a week ago.
"Our focus has changed from the search for Jessica to a mission of justice for Jessica," Westminster Police Chief Lee Birk said. "We realize there is a predator at large in our community."
Ridgeway began a short walk from her home to Witt Elementary School on the morning of Oct. 5 but never arrived. A massive search by hundreds of law enforcement officers was launched hours later because Jessica's mother, Sarah Ridgeway, works nights and slept through a call from school officials saying the fifth-grader wasn't there.
Ridgeway's case made national headlines in the days following her disappearance as hundreds of police officers, bloodhounds and scores of volunteers scoured the child's neighborhood looking for clues to her whereabouts. Her father, Jeremiah Bryant, who lives in Missouri, traveled to Colorado when he learned of his daughter's disappearance, police said.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out with them," Birk said, adding, "They've been in our hearts from the beginning."
Ridgeway's body was found about 7 miles southwest of her home, police said.
The FBI had warned residents that Ridgeway may have been abducted by someone they know and asked them to be alert for people they know who might have suddenly changed their appearance or uncharacteristically missed work.
"We need the community to be vigilant and alert, to continue to call in tips, to report suspicious incidents, and behavior," Birk said.
Earlier Friday authorities shifted their focus in the case to appealing for help in tracking down her apparent kidnapper by releasing a behavior profile for the suspected kidnapper.
"We suspect that someone in the community knows this individual," FBI spokesman Dave Joly said at a press conference Thursday.
In their search for Jessica, the FBI in Denver said it's important to focus not on how this person looks but on any kind of unusual behavior.
That behavior could include missing work and appointments, leaving town, changes in alcohol and drug use, or changes in appearance, according to an FBI Denver press release.
"Somebody who's maybe very engaged in the media coverage of this particular investigation, and maybe they're a little annoyed by all the coverage.
This image provided by the Westminster Colorado Police Department shows Jessica Ridgeway.
Former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt said the condition of the body police found Wednesday could indicate an experienced killer.
"It's someone who's fully capable of doing something like this again," Van Zandt said.
"It could be your boss, it could be your friend, and, ultimately, it could be your family member," Joly said.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Dan Harris Gretchen Rubin Gretchin Rubin interviews Dan Harris about 10% Happier ------------------------------------------------------ I met Dan Harris when a mutual friend suggested that we'd enjoy talking about habits, happiness, and meditation. We had a great discussion, and in fact, Dan was one of several people who inspired me to try meditating. 10% Happier is his hilarious, thought-provoking book about his experiences with meditation. I knew Dan had done a lot of thinking about the relationship of habits and happiness, and how to use habits to foster happiness, so I was eager to hear what he had to say. Gretchen: What's a simple habit that consistently makes you happier? Dan: I never in a million years thought I'd be the type of person who'd say this, but my answer is … meditation.I had always assumed that meditation was for robed gurus, acid-droppers, and people who keep yurts in their backyard. But then I heard about the explosion of scientific research that shows the practice has an almost laughably long list of health benefits, from lowering your blood pressure to boosting your immune system to essentially rewiring your brain for happiness. I started with five minutes a day, and very quickly noticed three benefits: 1. Increased focus, 2. A greater sense of calm, and 3. A vastly improved ability to jolt myself out of rumination and fantasies about the past or the future, and back to whatever was happening right in front of my face.Over time (I've now been at it for about four years and do 35 minutes a day), an even more substantial benefit kicked in: I created a different relationship to the voice in my head. You know the voice I'm talking about. It's what has us reaching into the fridge when we're not hungry, checking our e-mail while we're in conversation with other people, and losing our temper only to regret it later. The ability to see what's going on in your head at any given moment without reacting to it blindly—often called "mindfulness"—is a superpower.I'm certainly not arguing that meditation is a panacea. I still do tons of stupid stuff – as my wife will attest. But the practice has definitely made me happier, calmer, and nicer. Gretchen: What's something you know now about forming healthy habits that you didn't know when you were 18 years old? Dan: A neuroscientist friend of mine once told me, "The brain is a pleasure-seeking machine. " Usually, we do what makes us feel good. What I know now about habit formation that I didn't know then is that I generally cannot create or break habits unless there is compelling self-interest involved.So, for example, with meditation, I was motivated to start the habit by the science that says it's good for you—and I've been able to maintain it because, while the act of meditating is often quite tough, the "off-the-cushion" benefits are so readily apparent to me. Gretchen: Do you have any habits that continually get in the way of your happiness? Dan: Two biggies:1. Multitasking: I've seen all the studies that say our brains are not capable of concentrating on more than one thing at a time and that multitasking is a huge drag on efficiency and productivity. And yet, I still frequently find myself flitting between email, Twitter, phone calls, and whatever work I'm actually supposed to be doing.2. Mindless eating: I try very hard to eat healthfully, but I am a huge sucker for pasta, cheeseburgers, and cookies—and when I get into a feeding frenzy, it's hard for me to stop. These episodes are almost always followed by a shame spiral.In theory, meditation should help with the above, since it teaches you to pay careful attention to whatever you're doing right now. Alas, I still struggle. Hence the title of my book. Gretchen: Have you ever managed to break an unhealthy habit? If so, how? Dan: In my early thirties, as a young reporter for ABC News, I spent many years covering wars. When I got back from one particularly long and hairy run in Baghdad, I became depressed. In an act of towering stupidity, I began to self-medicate, dabbling with cocaine and ecstasy. In hindsight, it was an attempt, at least partly, to recreate some of the thrill of the war zone.A side-effect of all of this, as my doctor later explained to me, was that the drugs increased the level of adrenaline in my brain, which is what, in all likelihood, produced a panic attack I had on live television in 2004 on Good Morning America. The shrink I consulted about this decreed in no uncertain terms that I needed to stop doing drugs—immediately. Faced with the potential demise of my career, breaking this habit was a pretty obvious call. Gretchen: Have you ever made a flash change, where you changed a major habit very suddenly? Dan: In the summer after I graduated from high school, I did experience a "flash change. " I was in my car, driving to go see some friends, and I decided—seemingly out of nowhere—that after years of being a mediocre high school student, I was going to truly apply myself in the next phase of my life. The next year, when my father saw my first college report card, he nearly cried.Interestingly, the fact that I did well in college has had zero practical impact on my career in television news. I don't think any of my employers has ever asked about my grades. But that flash change established a long-lasting habit of hard work and ambition. Which, it must be said, has sometimes been to my detriment. It was, I now believe, my fervent desire to excel at my job that led me to plunge headlong into war zones without considering the psychological consequences—which, in turn, led to the drugs and the panic attack. I've found that meditation has really helped me strike a better balance between striving and stress.
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Rockins launched in November 2014, blending exquisitely crafted silk skinny scarves with edgy and beautiful design, at an early stage the brand amassed a loyal following, garnering attention in the press, high-end editorials and on the necks of today's style icons.
The Rockins story began when partners Jess Morris and Tim Rockins produced a small run of bespoke silk scarves as Christmas presents for friends. After being spotted draped around the necks of Kate Moss, Keith Richards and Harry Styles, media interest peaked and Rockins was born!
Morris, a highly esteemed Marketing Director and Tim Rockins, a vastly experienced Graphic Designer, Animator & Illustrator, both share a love of collecting vintage fashion and music, and through scouring second hand boutiques and markets the duo pinpointed a need for a new and contemporary take on the skinny style scarf.
That was the entry point for what is now a brand boasting not only a wide collection of accessories sold in most of the top tier stores around the world, but also a seasonal mainline collection of ready to wear, a wide range of denim jeans and a luxurious range of homeware.
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I'd like to offer everyone free digital elements {usually 1 or 2x weekly, if life doesn't interrupt} from Pixelberrypie.com
The License or Terms of Use for each download are included in the .zip or .tar file for that particular artwork. This will signify whether the artwork can be used for personal or commercial use.
Because there are both PU and CU items on my site, please refer to each individual TOU or Terms of Use document included inside every download. If you still have questions about the use of a particular download, don't hesitate to contact me through my contact page. I will be happy to clarify anything for you.
All artwork is created with printing in mind, so all digital elements print out at 300 dpi. I have many brushes and other elements for you to use in your layouts. Everything is created in Photoshop, Illustrator, or scanned at 300 dpi. There are .abr Brushes, PNGs and jpegs. I add new things often so check here or on my website for the latest-or you can sign up for an e-mail notice! I hope you enjoy these resources. Make something marvelous!
May 2015 Blog Train Freebbie:
March 2015 Blog Train Freebbie:
February 2015 Blog Train "Rustic"
February sentiments on cute metallic plaques[/url] for you
(the ABBREVIATION List for the texting on the plates are on the download page)
November's Blog Train Offering- OUR HOUSE picket fence papers
September 2014 Pixel Scrapper Blog Train Vintage "AT THE FAIR" Flair Buttons
Pixelberrypie.com-FIREWORKS-FINALE- PNG for July-2014-Pixel Scrapper Blog Train
Chroma-Crazy Paper Coordinates to MAY blog train FLAIR buttons
June Blog Train
April Blog Train:
First Day of Spring! March 20, 2014--Here are some Vintage "chicky" stamps you can use for Spring or Easter. Hope you enjoy them!
Hi Everyone! My last Starbucks-inspired Holiday brush. These are "edgers" you can use to stamp and decorate your photos, papers, anything you may layer with--or whatever you can imagine! There's two sizes--a large 3600 px and a smaller 2500 px so that everyone can load them into thier own versions of Photoshop or Gimp. Have fun!!!
Here's my part of the Pixelscrapper December Blog Train.
There's a green paper that I forgot to add to the preview and some linen texture on the papers that may not be evident in the pic. Have fun!
Holiday Brush (Photoshop & Gimp) and PNG (Starbucks-inspired )
A Big brush at 3500px and a PNG that fits a 12 x 12 page (and can be down-sized as needed,) for your holiday pages, cards, and projects. Hope you can use it!
Neutral Paper Pack for November Blog Hop "Vintage"
Photoshop or Gimp Autumn Brush in French and English:
Pretty Fall Leaves for you...re-color them in your editing program...
October 15, 2013 {These papers are for Personal Use, please}
Pretty Papers! Can we ever have enough? These are watercolor-ish in soft pastels---looks like I inadvertently touched on the palette for the November Blog Hop too!
For your Travel pages: Vintage-y TRAVEL Words License Plates!
Just For Fun! Vector Speech Bubbles...
Stars and Stripes:Layered, Torn and Textured!
Summer Colors: "Ocean" Textured Paper:
Photoshop and GIMP Arrow Brushes! Funky, and lots of fun! Happy Stamping!
Clipping Mask fun! This is a .png so it can be used in any image-editing program. Have fun!
Ahhhhh-Choo! Spring is in the air, and so are some pretty things we can use as brushes! Here are several, and a couple are HUGE so sorry about that, but just resize and STAMP those allergies away!
COLOR! Sometimes you just need some in your projects! So here's some funky, retro, fun paper for you to build on...and a bug's in there too!
Spring is in the air and as a result I'm stuck on color lately, so here's a "word art" (a nice "someone" corrected me from using a graphic design term,) for your layouts. I've got a "Flower Power!" banner I'll post here in a bit that would coordinate with this, and I'm working on some paper and other "word art" as well.
Here's a BRUSH for you to color yourself:
Hi everyone!
Spring is in the air and as a result I'm stuck on color lately, so here's a "word art" (a nice "someone" corrected me from using a graphic design term,) for your layouts. I've got a "Flower Power!" banner I'll post here in a bit that would coordinate with this, and I'm working on some paper and other "word art" as well.
Hi everybody!
I was working on something for myself and would like to share a clipping mask with you. If you've never used one before, I believe Marisa has a video that will help you. There are also simple instructions on the download page at Pixelberrypie.com. Have fun with this!
Hello Everyone!
I have a Photoshop Text Frame Brush and PNGs for you! The brush is easy to use or you can take a PNG and drag it above your photo on a layer of it's own, then use the polygon lasso tool to bring it all together.
Happy Easter Everyone! To Celebrate this special time, I made some (postal-type) stamps and a Brush for us to use to decorate our digital and paper projects. There are 6 stamps and one .abr brush. Three stamps have text, and three do not so that you can apply your own sentiments. I hope you like them and will share them with your friends!
Hi All,
I have a nice Fan Freebie for you today--something I could never find when I started into digital art--It's a 12 pack of White, Curled-Edged Paper Photo Frames. There are all kinds of sizes in tall and wide and they are PNG files at 300 ppi, so hi-res and printable. Hope you like them and if you know of anyone who is just starting to scrap, send them over to the site for these. The frames are a foundational element for any kind of digital art dealing with photos--and they're free. I'll be making different kinds of frames in the future so that we have a good selection to create with. Hope you like them!
Hello Everyone! Here's a banner you can stream across your paper projects and add a little cheer! Hope you like it! I'll be posting another in pinks and peaches soon too!
Hi Everyone! I have a new item-a QUICK PAGE that you can download and drop a picture into. It is a PNG file, with a Spring-themed layout. It's about 8x8, so you can place it in front of some pretty paper. I hope you like it! Please share the link with friends
Burlap and Lace Stacked Journaling Frames in a .PNG file to use anyway you choose. Make something special!
Photoshop Journaling Brushes and Stamps + PNG files: Recolorable and Rotatable
These photoshop journal brushes can be used to create a special writing area on your digital projects. There is one .abr stamping brush and 6 .png files for you to work with. The brushes are recolorable, rotatable and resizeable to give you many ways in which to use these. The style of the photoshop journal brushes looks like handwriting so that coupled with your own, will add a personal touch to your journaled memories.
Hope you like them. There are more journaling freebies here:http://pixelberrypie.com/free-vintage-airmail-stamped-worn-distressed-journaling-tag-manila-shipping-tag-pocket-card/ and here: http://pixelberrypie.com/vintage-airmail-postal-stamp-journaling-tag-pocket-card/
We can't have enough Vintage Postcards and Stamps, so here's a couple more! If you need more stamps, I've got some here: Vintage Postage Stamps Set 1
Layered Fun...
Individual PNG files. Another "sandbox" item (just playin' around…) I saw some similar chat bubbles and decided to try making some myself. Inject thoughts or emotions in a fun and funky retro-vintage-looking way. Have fun with these and say something "out loud!"
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Four-Finger Technique
Certainly the fisticuffs stopping is no longer used by ambitious double bass players, but nevertheless this does resemble the Simandl system to the extent that there, too, the mobility of the individual fingers is restricted. This restriction is, however – in spite of better knowledge – raised to the dignity of a basic requirement, and often described as "economy of movement". Almost every double bass player has at some time learnt not to lift the fingers more than is absolutely necessary. For this reason, it is difficult to imagine today how it could be possible to master the usage of all four fingers of the left hand when playing the double bass. It is in fact assumed that each finger must be able at any time to reach the neighbouring note of the position adopted. This turns up again and again in discussions in which reference is made in connection with the four-finger technique to the "enormous hands" or to an "enormous stretching of the fingers" said to be necessary for this. Of course neither Simandl nor Caffi, who had also spoken of Dragonetti´s "mano mostro" (monstrous hand), was aware of the physiological contexts and the discoveries of sports medicine which have been won in recent times.
For this reason, someone who intends to take up the four-finger system must first give up the "position span". Because of course it is impossible, at least in the lower positions, to place all four stopping fingers at semitone intervals at the same time. The approach with the four-finger technique, however, is completely different from this:
1. each finger takes up the optimal position at each time
2. the fingers that are not stopping should always be as relaxed as possible
3. the intonation is controlled by the idea of the note in the mind, and the "orders" sent to the fingers are based on this, and not by a fixed position span
4. a prerequisite for this is the greatest possible flexibility of the fingers including the thumb, and of all the joints involved ("fluent mobility")
5. the thumb plays a special role because it serves as a pivot around which wide reaches of the fingers are possible without changing position ("pivoting").
When these basic techniques have been mastered, the four-finger method of playing becomes possible without restriction, even for players who have small hands, The advantages of the system can be easily enumerated:
- contrary to a widely held assumption, it is easier to obtain clean harmonic intonation
- the sound is improved, because each playing finger has more contact with the fingerboard
- significantly fewer changes of position are necessary, because more notes are available in each position
- changes of position are themselves simplified, because the fingers, and not the hand or the arm, move towards the required note, and because a "position span" is completely unnecessary.
- there are real musical alternatives in the choice of the fingering (previously it was not unusual to have to resort to the only "workable" fingering)
- the musical demands of the phrasing can be met to a very high degree
- double stops such as seconds and sixths that are not playable with the Simandl technique become possible.
- the whole experience of playing is much freer.
Irrespective of this, double bass players who choose to retain the three-finger technique can benefit from the more recent physiological understanding, because this benefits any approach to fingering.


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Porites corals form some of the largest of all coral colonies, with some reaching an incredible eight metres in height (2). The growth rate of Porites coral is very slow, perhaps only nine millimetres a year, therefore these giant colonies may be up to 1,000 years old, putting them among the oldest life forms on earth (2). Coral colonies are composed of many individual coral polyps, which are basically anemone-like animals that secrete a skeleton. The many polyps of a colony are joined together at the base of their skeletons (3). The colonies of Porites corals may form flat, branching, spherical or hemispherical structures; some hemispherical colonies may be over five meters across (3). The coral polyps possess tentacles which, in most species, are extended only at night, when they give the coral a furry appearance (2).
Like other reef-building corals, the polyps of Porites corals have microscopic algae (zooxanthellae) living within their tissues. Through photosynthesis, these symbiotic algae produce energy-rich molecules that the coral polyps can use as nutrition. In return, the coral provides the zooxanthellae with protection and access to sunlight (3). Porites colonies also commonly house a wide variety of other fauna (3).
The majority of corals are hermaphrodite, and thus colonies possess both male and female reproductive organs. However, Porites corals have separate male and female colonies. With a few exceptions, fertilization is internal and therefore depends on free-swimming sperm from male colonies reaching the polyps of female colonies. The fertilised eggs then develop into larvae within the female polyp's body cavity (2). When released, the larvae settle quickly close to the parent colony. Whilst this means that, unlike spawning corals, the coral is not easily dispersed, brooding corals have the advantage of their young settling in an environment that has already proved suitable for successful reproduction (3). Most of the spherical and hemispherical Porites species are tolerant of sedimentary environments, partly because they protect themselves with a thick film of mucous (3).
Occurs in tropical waters around the world (3).
Porites corals can be found in a wide range of coral reef environments. Many Porites species are very common in shallow water, and most species are tolerant of areas where sediment accumulates (3).
Listed on Appendix II of CITES (1).
Porites corals face the many threats that are impacting coral reefs globally. It is estimated that 20 percent of the world's coral reefs have already been effectively destroyed and show no immediate prospects of recovery, and 24 percent of the world's reefs are under imminent risk of collapse due to human pressures. These human impacts include poor land management practices that are releasing more sediment, nutrients and pollutants into the oceans and stressing the fragile reef ecosystem. Over fishing has 'knock-on' effects that results in the increase of macro-algae that can out-compete and smother corals, and fishing using destructive methods physically devastates the reef. A further potential threat is the increase of coral bleaching events, as a result of global climate change (4). The predatory starfish, Acanthaster planci, or 'crown-of-thorns starfish', feeds on a wide range of coral species. For little understood reasons, outbreaks of this starfish occur at regular intervals, and large numbers of starfish can have devastating effects on the reef. They can eat so much that they can kill most of the living coral in a region, which may take the reef up to fifteen years to fully recover (5). Due to the exceptionally slow growth rate of Porites corals, these species may not be able to fully recover in the time before the next starfish outbreak, and thus may be sent into a period of prolonged decline (6).
An additional potential threat arises from collection for the coral trade. Porites is one of four genera that constitute the majority of the dead coral trade, for ornaments and jewellery. Live Porites are also collected at a lower level for the aquarium industry, and has previously been traded for biomedical purposes. This trade, which probably supplied a specialised market for the use of coral in bone grafts, peaked in 1992 but has since declined to extremely low levels (7).
Porites corals are listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which means that trade in this species should be carefully regulated (1). Indonesia and Fiji have export quotas for Porites corals (1). Porites corals will form part of the marine community in many marine protected areas (MPAs), which offer coral reefs a degree of protection, and there are many calls from non-governmental organisations for larger MPAs to ensure the persistence of these unique and fascinating ecosystems (4).
For further information on stony corals see Veron, J.E.N. (2000) Corals of the World. Vol. 3. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia.
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The Lions travel to Pittsburgh and face one of the best real-life defenses, but will that dampen players such as Matthew Stafford, Calvin Johnson, and Reggie Bush? Maybe slightly, but I will have no hesitation putting my Lions in the starting lineup. (And watch for Joseph Fauria to be an active red zone target, which is always good for fantasy owners!) Fortunately for Stafford and company, this is a Steelers defense that has been struggling to get after the quarterback and totaled only five takeaways in their first seven games this season.
San Francisco journeys to New Orleans for the second straight season – recall that last year, Colin Kaepernick (making his second start after replacing Alex Smith) led the 49ers to a 31-21 victory in the Superdome and finished as the #7 QB for the week. Both teams are playoff contenders this season, and while both defenses are stout, expect the offenses to rule the day this week. After eight weeks of play, the Saints ranked fifth and the Niners sixth in the league in points per game.
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PARIS: French No. 1 Marion Bartoli (pic) celebrated her recall to the country's Fed Cup team on Wednesday with a battling 7-5, 6-1 second-round win over American Christina McHale at the Paris Open.
Earlier in the day, captain Amelie Mauresmo ended Bartoli's nine-year exile from the international stage by naming her in a five-player squad to face Germany in next month's World Group II first-round tie in Limoges.
The world No.10 will be joined in the French team by Alize Cornet, Kristina Mladenovic, Virginie Razzano and Pauline Parmentier.
"I'm very happy to return to Fed Cup," Bartoli said in her post-match news conference, citing her relationship with two-time Grand Slam champion Mauresmo as a factor in her return.
"The communication was always there with Amelie, it happened bit by bit.
"I talked a lot with my dad. He supported me in my project and in my decision because he only wants me to be happy," added Bartoli, whose long-term absence from the team stemmed from her insistence on having her father and coach, Walter, by her side during the competition, a demand that contravened team rules.
Bartoli, runner-up to Angelique Kerber in last year's final, was forced to call upon her fighting spirit in the first set in the French capital, fending off four set points on McHale's serve at 4-5 before eventually breaking to level.
The third seed then made further inroads in her opponent's subsequent service game as a fortuituous bounce off the tape ultimately handed Bartoli the opening set.
With the momentum fully in Bartoli's favour, she broke McHale twice more in the second set to earn a quarter-final showdown with Germany's Mona Barthel, who came from a set behind to knock out Italian fifth seed Roberta Vinci.
Meanwhile, second seed Petra Kvitova overcame bouts of inconsistency as she edged past Swiss qualifier Stefanie Voegele in straight sets.
Seeking to put her early-season blues behind her after poor displays in Brisbane and Sydney were compounded by a second-round exit at the Australian Open, world No. 8 Kvitova experienced little resistence early on from Voegele, racing 4-0 ahead.
But the Czech then began to misfire as Voegele, ranked 100, forced a tie-break before Kvitova restored order to close out the first set.
The 2011 Wimbledon champion was again far from convincing in the second but she eventually prevailed 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 to set up a last-eight match with either French teenager Mladenovic or Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium, who ousted Russia's Anastastia Pavlyuchenkova 7-6 (9-7), 4-6, 6-3.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jenny McCarthy had big news to share Wednesday on "The View": She's engaged to Donnie Wahlberg.
McCarthy raised her hidden left hand from behind the desk, revealing an engagement ring.
"It's a yellow sapphire," she said. "The View" co-host told how Wahlberg, star of CBS' "Blue Bloods" and a member of New Kids on the Block, proposed to her last weekend. She said her son, Evan, helped with the proposal.
Wahlberg, 44, then came on the set of the ABC show and hugged and kissed his fiancee.
"I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. He's so wonderful," McCarthy, 41, said.
This will be the second marriage for both.
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At times during that difficult campaign eight years ago, it seemed United were headed for oblivion.
Within the space of three weeks Roy Keane was booted out by Sir Alex Ferguson, sponsors Vodafone quit their shirt sponsorship deal two years early and United crashed out of the Champions League at the group stage.
Against the backdrop of a fans revolt in the aftermath of the Glazer family's controversial takeover that had been completed just a few months before, it seemed United's time at the top of the English game was over.
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With Patrice Evra and Nemanja Vidic settling in and the Carling Cup secured too, the Red Devils had built enough momentum to ride over the storm created by Ruud van Nistelrooy's exit and went on to enjoy one of the best three-year spells of their entire history.
Fletcher was part of the squad that won a hat-trick of titles, lifted the Champions League, played in another final and a semi-final, and also collected the League Cup and figured in the new Wembley's first FA Cup final.
And that is what he is reminding United's current youngsters of now.
"It is like 2006," he said.
"Seasons can be turned on one result, one cup win, one massive performance
This can be the catalyst for future success.
"We have got to reflect on that and realise it has been done before.
"In 2006 we finished the season on a high
That carried onto the next season because that is the standard that we have set, that is what we know we are capable of.
"There is no doubt about it, we need to get back to that
The goal is always to respond and be successful.
"If we can finish the season on a high, get as high as possible in the league and go far in the Champions League then who knows what can happen."
Given United have lost to Stoke, been dumped out of the Capital One Cup by Sunderland and were beaten by Swansea at Old Trafford in the FA Cup already in 2014, lifting the biggest trophy of all seems somewhat fanciful.
Yet Chelsea and Liverpool have all managed it from outside the top four.
Liverpool lost an incredible 14 times in 2004-05, finishing level on points with Bolton and ending the campaign 37 points adrift of champions Chelsea.
The Stamford Bridge outfit were not quite as bad seven years later, however, they could do no better than sixth in the Premier League following a dismal season that included Andre Villas Boas' dismissal.
So, if they can do it, why not United?
"We have got a tough tie against Olympiacos but if you get through that then we would be in the quarter final," Fletcher said.
"Then there would be only eight teams left.
"Our form has been good in the Champions League, so if we can carry that on and achieve a bit of success, it will set us up for next season."
The return of Ferguson's former assistant Rene Meulensteen to Old Trafford on Sunday offers United an obvious chance to claim three precious points.
Fulham have shown no improvement during the Dutchman's short tenure and were knocked out of the FA Cup on home soil by League One strugglers Sheffield United on Tuesday.
"There aren't many games left this season and we have got to finish in the top four, that is the real challenge for us now," said Fletcher.
Fletcher was speaking alongside Lewis Moody at Manchester United's Aon Training Centre at the launch of 'United for Colitis'.
The brainchild of Alex McLeish's son Jon, United for Colitis is a new fundraising initiative in aid of parent charity - Crohn's and Colitis UK.
The first United for Colitis event will be a Charity Dinner held at Old Trafford on March 27, which will be supported by Sir Alex Ferguson and many of Fletcher's first-team colleagues.
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The Central Connecticut men's track and field team wrapped up day one of the 2014 NEC Indoor Track and Field Championships tied for second place with 22 team points on Saturday in Landover, MD. In addition to the five Blue Devils who scored for CCSU, Central also posted 11 performances that qualify for tomorrow's finals.
The Blue Devils dominated the 3,000m run on Saturday, earning 17 of CCSU's 22 team points in the event. CCSU was led by senior Craig Hunt who earned the silver medal with his time of 8:31.47.
Hunt, who was last year's individual champion in the event with his time of 8:31.83, crossed the finish line faster than last season and was followed by junior Andrew Hill in fourth (8.38.96) and sophomore Matt Walker in fifth (8:40.30).
The 3,000m trio was joined in the scoring by freshman Kendall Walker and junior Jamie Tobias. Walker finished sixth in the long jump with a career-best leap of 6.58 meters while Tobias cleared 1.92 meters in the high jump, good for seventh.
In the one mile run prelims, CCSU claimed three of the top four spots. Freshman Derek French led in the event, finishing first overall with his time of 4:31.50. He was followed by junior Patrick Hubbell in second (4:43.27) and junior Brian Biekert in fourth (4:43.87). All three have qualified for tomorrow's finals.
Biekert, who broke the CCSU record in the mile earlier this season (4:06.05), also qualified for the finals in the 800m, finishing fourth with his time of 1:55.40. Freshman Thomas Lupoli finished just before Biekert with his time of 1:56.52, claiming second overall and a spot in tomorrow's finals.
Junior Jordan Watkins, who has consistently broken his own CCSU record in the 60m hurdles this season, finished second in Saturday's prelims with his time of 8.29 seconds. Though his time is short of his record, he has earned the opportunity to compete in tomorrow's finals. He will be joined by freshman Dan Baum who finished eighth, crossing the finish line in 8.59 seconds.
In the 400m dash prelims, junior Jamal Fruster raced a qualifying time of 49.84 seconds, landing him in second place. He was followed by freshman Zach Andrews in ninth (51.33) who will be joining him in tomorrow's finals.
The final two Blue Devil qualifiers came in the 500m dash. Junior Ryan Budd and sophomore Brian Beckwith finished seventh and eighth, respectively with times of 1:07.74 and 1:08.66.
In addition to tomorrow's returning finalists, CCSU will also look to score in the 5,000m run as Hunt looks to defend his 2013 title.
Sacred Heart currently leads the scoring with 46 points, followed by CCSU and LIU Brooklyn tied for second with 22. Robert Morris and Wagner are tied for fourth with 17 points while Mount St. Mary's (15), Saint Francis U (10) and Bryant (7) currently rank sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively.
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== Hardware Needed ==
== Hardware Needed ==
[[LeapFrog_Pollux_Platform:_Cartridge| Cartridge]] to break out the UART pins on the connector. Or [[LeapFrog_Pollux_Platform:_Console_Access
[[LeapFrog_Pollux_Platform:_Cartridge| Cartridge]] to break out the UART pins on the connector. Or [[LeapFrog_Pollux_Platform:_Console_Access#Connecting_w.2Fo_Cartridge | hardwire to internal connections]]
[[RS232_Level_Shifter]] or FTDI type USB to TTL serial adapter. 3.3v versions are preferred.
[[RS232_Level_Shifter]] or FTDI type USB to TTL serial adapter. 3.3v versions are preferred.
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Console access is a fundamental building block when working with the LeapFrog Pollux Platform family of devices. It gives you the ability to list files, run scripts and programs, and generally look around inside the Linux operating system running on the device. A few items are needed, most notably an RS232 to TTL level shifter (MAX232) if you want to use the serial port on your PC to connect to the device, or, since those are getting scarce these days, a USB to Serial converter, something like an FTDI cable.
Software Needed
Terminal - TeraTerm, Minicom, Hyperterminal, Cutecom, etc will do.
Hardware Needed
Cartridge to break out the UART pins on the connector. Or hardwire to internal connections
RS232_Level_Shifter or FTDI type USB to TTL serial adapter. 3.3v versions are preferred.
How To
1. You'll need to hook up the hardware, which includes connecting your adapter to your cartridge. Connect adapter Rx to cartridge Tx and adapter Tx to cartridge Rx along with Ground to Ground. Put the cartridge in the device and connect the adapter to your PC.
The +3.3V isn't needed for all Uart connections, however some of the USB->RS-232 breakout boards may require a +3.3V reference voltage.
2. Open your terminal program, and go to the connection configuration section.
- Baudrate: 115200
- Parity: None
- Stop Bits: 1
- Flow Control: None
- Com Port/Serial Device:
- Linux its going to be something like /dev/ttyUSB0 check dmesg after plugging it in to find it.
- Windows it will be something like Com0 look in Device Manager after plugging it in to find it.
3. With everything connected, and your terminal program connected on the right port. Start up your device, you should start seeing quite a bit of text coming on to the screen. This is the boot up messages, after 20 seconds or so, you should end up at a familiar command prompt, if not, trying hitting return to show it. Once you get the command line, type in ls, you should see a list of folders displayed. If you are not familiar with Linux, this is a good time to familiarize yourself, as you will need to be comfortable on a Linux command line.
Connecting w/o Cartridge
If you don't have a cartridge that breaks out the necessary connections, and you're good with a soldering iron, you carefully solder on the necessary wires to the internal connections. Then bring the wires out to your serial adapter of choice.
The serial console (115200 8N1) comes out to the cartridge connector.
- Green UART-TX
- Grey UART-RX
- Black GROUND
- Red +3.3V


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Joined: 29 Sep 2004
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Location: buried under a pile of books somewhere in Adelaide, South Australia
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:21 pm
Post subject: Worst Airline - share your stories
I would have to say that the worst airline I've flown with was Air Canada. Fortunately it was only about a 10 hour flight from HNL to Sydney, but the plane was so old (or just not maintained I guess) that nothing worked - rickety seats that wouldn't go all the way forward or back, clapped-out audiovisual system that showed more static than movie, and the sound system was even worse, non-functioning hot water facilities so we couldn't even get a cup of coffee for the whole flight, and the new 'no liquids in hand luggage' rule on Nth American flights is just all-round terrible as they never give out enough drinks during any flight. I wonder how parents with bottle-fed babies manage when they travel.
They ran out of customs forms so there weren't enough for all the passengers on the plane and I had to hunt high and low when we were going through customs, and then when plane landed we were just about to disembark and they announced that they had forgotten to spray the plane with whatever chemical they use in aerosol cans, so we all had to go back to our seats, put all our luggage back where it had been during the flight and wait while they sprayed the plane.
It was horrible and I won't fly Air Canada again. Ever. And this has reminded me that I should contact the airline and have a whinge to them too.
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Posts: 368
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:36 am
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Grrr. I was on a very late night Continental flight - only a few passengers - even though it was no smoking, two flight attendants sat near me at the front of the plane, smoking like chimneys. I asked (and I swear I was polite) about it - if smoking was allowed, I wanted to move. What slayed me was that they looked right at me and denied they were smoking! DENIED!! All the while they cupped their burning cigarettes in their hand, smoke curling up like you can only imagine.
They then walked down the full aisle of the plane, cigarettes still burning, and finished their smokes at the back of the plane. I've puzzled over that for years.
It was the bizarre lie that stunned me the most.
But at least the plane landed safely!
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Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:37 am
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It's not my story, thank god! But I doubt anyone's going to be able to beat those flights on which people were, basically, prisoners on the runway for 8-11 hours. And, even after all that time, they never even got to take off.
It happened when those awful snowstorms crippled the north half and east 2/3 of the country but I still can't figure out why they couldn't let people get out and walk back to the terminals.
Even on a plane equipped for a transcontinental 3 hour flight I doubt the heads are equipped to hold what would go on in a full plane for 8-11 hours. And I worked with kids so a crying baby or antsy toddler doesn't push my buttons like a lot of folks. But all that time? Who could say it wasn't a modern miracle that someone didn't strangle a child or parent?! Or flight attendant!
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:16 pm
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My worst experience was with British Air Tours, a company (I later found out) that was so underserviced it wasn't allowed to land in Australia. After a pleasant flight from Melbourne to Perth, a few lovely days in that sundrenched city and a peaceful cruise to Singapore (On the good ship Turkmenia!) we really weren't prepared for the flight. First it was a fully packed airbus back in the days when smoking was allowed. My seat broke when I sat on it and the attendant fixed it by taking the tray off the back of the seat in front of me and putting that under the cushion. We then spent 4 hours sitting on the runway while the fuel cooled down to the right level. The flight to Bahrain for refuelling was tedious and hot, the air conditioners weren't functioning--and a few of the toilets plugged up so their were line ups for those which did function. So many people were smoking (myself included) that when we landed for refuelling the moisture from the air condensed on the walls and tiny rivulets of yellow/brown sweat ran down the walls. 17 hours of hell actually and then when we landed in London it was pouring!
Best flight? Miami to Rio bumped up to 1st class. We are talking real caviar, champagne, silver service mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:10 pm
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keeps losing my luggage (well, it's happened twice in the last 6 months). The last time, they didn't even have an answer as to what happened to it. It was a bottle of wine by itself in a box, so I figure that the baggage handlers decided they wanted to have some wine with their dinner that night. Very irksome because it came from a winery in Australia, so it's not exactly easy to get back there.
Oh- and my worst WORST flight ever was with a company that doesn't exist anymore: Canada 3000. When the 'meal' came, I swear I couldn't tell what the hell it was. Meatloaf... maybe?? Needless to say, I didn't eat it, but was amazed that my seat partners did. Made me wonder just how much worse the food would have to be in order for them to also not eat it.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:25 am
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[When the 'meal' came, I swear I couldn't tell what the hell it was. Meatloaf... maybe?? Needless to say, I didn't eat it, but was amazed that my seat partners did.
I once had a 'vegetarian' breakfast on Delta and it was indescribable- there were definitely sultanas in there but I have no idea what the rest of it was. Strange really when they could have just given us cereal and I would have been happy. I had a long conversation with the lady next to me about what on earth it could be. She took a bite and was still baffled- I wasn't so brave and decided to stay hungry.
Worst flight ever was a near crash-landing in Jaipur on Indian Airways. Very scary.
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Location: North of Auckland, New Zealand
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:56 pm
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Granted I haven't done a lot of flying, but I have been forever put off Garuda Indonesia and Qantas.
The very old plane flown by Garuda Indonesia kept making weird noises throughout the entire flight, things were broekn, and the safety videos and information was at least 20 years old. Service was very poor, and I can't actually think of anything nice about the two flights we flew with them. My step-sisters and I spent the entire plane flights glancing at each other at every bump/shudder/groan of the aircraft and willing the time to pass quickly.
Qantas was all about the service. It was plain horrible. We were going to Mauritius, and had 2 flights with Qantas, and one with another airline, there and back. The flight from Auckland to Sydney was fine, it was every flight after that, that was awful. We had an hour between the time our international flight landed, to the time we were due to board a domestic flight. We got through customs as quickly as we possibly could considering it was 7pm and a number of other flights had just landed as well, was brusqely questioned about chocolate I had declared, then sprinted through the maze of an airport, with all out luggage, to the domesstic check-in, only to be snapped at by the Qantas check-in woman for taking forever to get through, and that our plane was boarding RIGHT NOW. Fast forward through the bus ride to the domestic terminal, sprinting through to the other end of the terminal, only to find that we weren't due to board for another half hour. Spent the next 6 hours with very grumpy airline attendents, and horrible rubber type stuff masquarading as food.
Same type of service etc. on the way home. Fantastic...
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Posts: 10
Location: I'm a Kiwi currently living in Japan
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:44 am
Post subject: bad airline, good airline
I've got so many for this post, unfortunately, but two that stick out are the following.
Bangladesh Biman- I flew Bangkok to Calcutta with them. It was the service more than the actual aircraft. The two flight attendants spent more time straightening their saris, putting on makeup, and gossiping than anything else. They were right in front of us but we couldn't get their attention for anything. So, when we rang the buzzer, they shot us looks of disgust for interrupting their gossip so rudely.
Our "meals" consisted of an old piece of processed American cheese between two pieces of over-processed white bread that was both dried out and mouldy at the same time. We were told promptly that "There was nothing else".
Northwest (Northworst around here)- Another food incident. We got strwberries for dessert with our veggie meals which turned out to be mouldy (I'm not joking...two mould episodes!). We asked if we could have one of the nice icecreams that they were handing out instead, and were told abruptly, "Those are for the meat-eaters. You ordered vegetarian!".
We always order the veggie meals as we've found that you get served first, and the quality is often better. These two cases aside, obviously.
However, my best experience was with Emirates (London to Hong Kong) which had amazing service and the meals were more than we could eat. Although it was economy class, we were served as if we were in Business class. Oh, and I almost forgot, Air New Zealand always pours out award winning wines, straight from the bottle. Then they walk around saying things like, "C'mon, who's gonna help finish off these bottles?" Makes me proud to be a Kiwi!
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Posts: 11
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:31 pm
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Iceland Air -- hands down.
Four flights in one month and all of them were late. On one flight, we were 37 hours late arriving in Paris from the States. Not only were they late but also terribly disorganized, uncommunicative, and generally rubbish. No matter how much money you save, it's not worth it if you don't actually reach your destination!!!
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Location: Paris
Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:43 am
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my vote goes to a recent flight from NY to Paris with American Airlines. The flight was late, and when we got on board we thought we'd stepped into a time machine, back to 1985. The plane was very old and tatty-looking, we got on board and five hours after what was supposed to be a 'routine maintenance check', we finally headed off, 15 hours after scheduled take off time.
The service was the worst Ive ever encountered, the hosties were abominable (as was their attitude to work: not deigning to answer buzzers and someone had spilt their salad and i slipped on the lettuce leaves still on the floor an hour later
) The in-flight movie (on a communal screen, which i hadnt seen in a plane for years) was GREASE
And i think the food dated from the same era, it was mushy, tasteless and utterly unrecognisable.
We unfortunately got stuck in a violent summer storm just out of Paris, so we touched down at CDG pleased to have survived our trip back to the 80s
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Posts: 77
Location: London, UK
Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:11 pm
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Japan Air Lines - flight from London to Sydney - my ass couldn't fit in the seat - and seriously, I'm not fat - just normal (34"waist) - the most uncomfortable 20-something hours of my life
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Joined: 02 Aug 2005
Posts: 63
Location: Northfield, MN
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 7:49 pm
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Most recently, American Airlines from Chicago to Shanghai. On the way there, they lost our vegetarian meal request, so we had to pick our way around the meat (meaning, in 14+ hours in the air, we had very little to eat. And they wouldn't give us any extra rolls or anything to compensate). On the way back, we got stuck in Chicago when our domestic connection got cancelled (boarded the plane, sat on the runway for an hour, de-planed, hung out for some hours at the gate, and finally learned it was cancelled late at night). We got put up and free meal vouchers...but it was so late, we couldn't find any place open to use our vouchers. The next day, proceeded from Chicago to our final destination via Houston (which added an unnecessary 4 hours of flying time to the direction we were traveling) - and then had two separate airplanes have mechanical issues in Houston and got stuck when they (again) cancelled the flight. It took us twice as long to get from Chicago to upstate NY (normally a 2 hour flight) as it did to fly from Shanghai to Chicago. And they lost our luggage on top of all of that. I will never fly American again.
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Posts: 32
Location: UK
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:00 am
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The only Airline I've ever had problems with is British Airways. Leaving via Heathrow is a nightmare because their flights never leave on time no matter where you are flying (except once when we flew to New York) and mostly the onboard services aren't great.
I was in Business class and due to industrial action they weren't even allowed to offer refreshments like a can of drink, a bottle of water etc. I only had a 2 hour flight to Oslo, Norway but still I've paid for a better service than economy (coach) so why couldn't they have just bought some bottled water for onboard passengers? They say when you are flying to stop DVT you should regularly have refreshments etc. I pity the poor longhaul passengers who would've had to buy everything they needed at the expensive departure lounges.
The Best (short-haul) airline in my opinion is Norwegian.no a low cost carrier from the UK to Norway (they fly from Stansted Airport) so no lengthy delays through Heathrow and they are cheap and very attentive (ok so you have to pay for your refreshments) but you get to sit wherever you like and the seating is comfortable.
The Best (long-haul) airline in my opinion is Virgin Atlantic, not only can you check in about 6 hours before your flight (or more) they really do have a great team on the ground as well as onboard and they are very accommodating if you want to change seats (as long as you give them plenty of notice) and once when we were asked to give up our seats at Newark (New York) because the flight was overbooked they gave us generous vouchers for food and a hotel for the day (so we can rest etc) and they even took our luggage and kept it at the airport for us for the night flight (even after September 11). They even upgraded our seating as well as giving us a free economy pass each for a return flight anywhere on the Virgin Atlantic network in the future which could be taken within 18 months. So whenever I can fly Virgin Atlantic I use them they may be a bit more expensive than BA sometimes but the good outweighs the bad and needless to say we booked another trip to New York City.
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