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Meet the New Jersey pol who got the Bridgegate scandal rolling.
This being a story about New Jersey, it begins, of course, in a diner. Assemblyman John Wisniewski is just finishing up breakfast at the Sunnyside on Main Street in his hometown of Sayreville. Sitting with him this late January morning are a member of his staff and the mayor of another town in his legislative district. Wisniewski appears patient and thoughtful as he talks with the mayor about a possible development deal—but his fingers, nervously tapping on the table, give him away. The assemblyman clearly has something bigger on his mind.
Wisniewski is the reason the world knows about the political disaster that is Bridgegate. As chair of the state assembly's transportation committee, he was the one who unearthed the smoking gun email from Governor Chris Christie's fired Deputy Chief of Staff, Bridget Kelly—"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee"—to Christie's Port Authority appointee David Wildstein. It was a discovery that would turn lives upside down, Wisniewski's among them. The formerly obscure state lawmaker has made Christie seem scattered and frantic, and as the scandal continues to unfold, it threatens to knock the once seemingly invincible governor out of contention in the 2016 presidential race, or worse.
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To hear Wisniewski tell it, no one was more surprised by the revelations in those documents than Wisniewski himself. When he first started looking into the lane closures, he tells me, he figured this was just another example of disorganization at the Port Authority, which manages the George Washington Bridge. "But then, when you start digging into it," he says, "that's when you start asking questions, because it made no sense."
Chief among the things that continue to make no sense to Wisniewski is Governor Christie's version of events—particularly Christie's claim that he didn't learn about his staff's involvement in the lane closures until Jan. 8, the day before his now-famous press conference.
Wisniewski points to the fact that key Christie staff members had been forwarded emails from Wildstein and Bill Baroni, another Port Authority appointee, as early as Sept. 12. One of those emails was from Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye, an appointee of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, indirectly accusing Wildstein and Baroni of breaking state and federal laws. Are we supposed to believe, Wisniewski asks, that Christie's staff left him in the dark about all this? In the middle of a re-election campaign?
"Part of their job is to make sure the governor knows what's going on," Wisniewski says. "I find it hard to believe his senior staff was told 'Two of your key appointees are being accused of breaking laws' and nobody went to him and said, at least, 'We've got a big problem in Fort Lee. Somebody closed lanes on the bridge and they're accusing people of breaking the law. You ought to be aware of it in case you get asked.' It seems like that at a minimum had to have happened."
"I'm not saying that he ordered the lane closures—we don't have any proof of that," Wisniewski says. "I'm not saying he knew of the effort to cover it up. But I do believe that he knew something about this before January 8th."
After breakfast, Wisniewski, tall and thin with gray hair and large blue eyes, drives his black Infiniti a short distance to the offices of his law firm, which is located in a typical suburban house. "I just want to make sure everyone is working," he says as we arrived at Wisniewski and Associates, the practice he continues to run while serving in the Assembly.
The wall outside his office is lined with pictures of Wisniewski posing with other Democrats, including one photo with Hillary Clinton that, judging by her hairstyle, must have been taken sometime in the '90s. His communications director, Tim O'Donovan, tells me that Wisniewski now sometimes does remote TV interviews from the conference room down the hall, with a shiny, oak table and standing flags—both the American and New Jersey's. "It's been crazy," O'Donovan tells me, referring to Wisniewski's sudden surge in popularity with the media. He widens his eyes and shakes his head. "Crazy."
It's been crazy for nearly a month. Since the release of the Wildstein documents, Wisniewski has been an almost daily fixture on TV. He's been in D.C. for Meet the Press and Face the Nation, and in New York for MSNBC. National reporters refer to him by his nickname, "Wiz," and tweet his choice quotes like he's a political celebrity. Which, for now, he pretty much is. It's a far cry from the days when he was lucky to get on the fuzzy-pictured NJTV every now and then.
After a quick visit at the law firm, Wisniewski gets back behind the wheel for the hour-long trip to Trenton, where voting is to take place to create a joint Assembly and Senate committee to investigate the lane closures. (Separate committees already exist; the vote today will join them.) As Wisniewski snakes through the streets of his hometown, he tells me about his political beginnings, managing his father's campaigns for mayor and town council in Sayreville. He recalls attending the 1976 Democratic Convention, where Warren Beatty saved Wisniewski's mother from being kicked off the convention floor for not having proper credentials. "He put his arm around her and said [to the guards], 'You're not going to kick my mother out, are you?'" Wisniewski says. "And so she got to stay."


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The Make A Difference Tour 2010 hits Colorado Springs on Thursday, Oct. 21 and features three Grammy Award winning artists — Michael W. Smith, Third Day and TobyMac — along with author Max Lucado.
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How a coastal farming region became an internationally renowned tourist destination
A relatively young city, Myrtle Beach has earned an international reputation as a tourism mecca on the South Carolina coast. Barbara F. Stokes provides the first comprehensive history of the community's quick rise to prominence as she maps the development of the Grand Strand's centerpiece in this account of the historical, economic, climatic, and cultural forces that shaped Myrtle Beach.
The arrival of the railroad in 1902 began the transformation of Myrtle Beach from an isolated agricultural community into a summer beach resort. While the Great Depression brought economic distress to much of the nation, it presented wealthy industrialist John T. Woodside with the opportunity to expand Myrtle Beach's borders with the purchase of some sixty-five thousand acres. His construction of a golf course and the magnificent Ocean Forest Hotel inaugurated Myrtle Beach's resort culture. Likewise Horry County officials made full use of New Deal programs to develop infrastructure and service institutions supporting the region. But, as Stokes explains, it was the war effort that had the greatest impact on the development of Myrtle Beach. The region's population and economy both swelled with the creation there of what was called the Myrtle Beach Army Air Force Base during World War II. The base brought new jobs, new faces, and a growing national and international awareness.
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Barbara F. Stokes earned her B.A. in journalism from the University of Houston and her M.A. in public history from the University of South Carolina. She is the curator of archives and collections for the Museum of South Texas History in Edinburg.
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Noisy tables and empty seats
A Proms premiere on a Monday night failed to bring in the punters. A shame, says Nick Shave…
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales has covered considerable ground these past few days. Last Thursday they entered a war zone with a heavy-weight line-up of the Sinfonia da Requiem, Britten's fearful response to WWII, and the Leningrad Symphony, Shostakovich's depiction of Leningrad under Nazi siege. (The military onslaught was lightened only briefly by Prokofiev's single-movement Piano Concerto No. 1 from Alexander Toradze.)
After some Dalek music at the Dr Who Proms over the weekend, the orchestra settled into a Monday-night program of Cherubini's Médée Overture, Schumann's First Symphony, a table of noises by Simon Holt (its associate composer) and Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel.
So far the Albert Hall has been packed to the Gods every night – even the Welsh Orchestra's heavy duty military displays were a sell-out. But Monday's programme was the first in which the attendance figures significantly dropped – the hall was three quarters empty. One could lay blame on Schumann's Spring Symphony which hardly exerts the same kind of pull as his songs and pieces for piano – the Dichterliebe, piano concerto, and the early piano masterpieces. But no doubt the real fallout had been caused by the presence of a London premiere on the program: namely, Simon Holt's percussion concerto, a table of noises.
A shame, because there was much to admire about Holt's half-hour concerto, performed by soloist Colin Currie for whom it was written. The title refers the table on which Holt's severely crippled great-uncle, Ashworth Hutton, a taxidermist, would spread out the tools of his trade, and to the Peruvian mesa de ruidos, a type of drum (better known as a cajon) that is used in the flamenco music of southern Spain where Holt lives. Avoiding the sprawling layout of most percussion concertos, Holt restricts the soloist's instruments to those that will fit like tools on a table: Currie sat on the Cajon within reach of whistle, block, glockenspiel, bongo, cowbell and klaxon. A xylophone was placed alongside.
Currie, who first premiered the Concerto with the CBSO three years ago, brought a breezy enthusiasm to the score. Divided between six main movements, it opens with an arrestingly raucous dialogue between percussionist and piccolos that skitter like frenzied birds into their highest registers. Indeed, it's a work that explores registral extremes. Holt had stripped his orchestra back to nine woodwinds – without standard-size flutes, clarinets and bassoons – and strings without violins. Added to this unusual combination, its 10 brass produced at times the most deliciously dense chords, and percussionists interrupted with disorientating dialogues. Haunting instrumental combinations filled the five instrumental interludes – called ghosts – that were placed between each movement.
While the darkness of a table of noises is typical of Holt, the autobiographical content that draws from his Lancashire childhood is less so. The titles of the main movements all relate to his Uncle Ash: the first movement is 'jute', the stuffing for the animal skins; the second – effectively combining solo xylophone with two more xylophones in the orchestra – is 'fly', the name of his dog. This xylophone combination returned in 'skennin' Mary' – about his neighbour with a glass eye – between which the third, a Scherzo entitled 'a drawer full of eyes' refers to the occasion when Holt's mother 'opened a drawer in Ash's bedroom tallboy and discovered thousands of false eyes for foxes, kingfishers, stoats, etc staring back at her.' 'Table top' – an instrumental cadenza – is rounded off by 'under glass' where the stuffed animals would end up.
Conductor Thierry Fischer coped admirably with the fluctuating time signatures of Holt's score. So why did this nostalgic shop of horrors – with its drawful of eyes – scare so many punters away? I can only think that death on a Monday is just not de rigueur...
Nick Shave is a freelance music writer, critic, and contributing editor to BBC Music Magazine. He has spent many happy summers reviewing the Proms, but is still prone to a loss of bearings when choosing the quickest way round the Royal Albert Hall.
Related links:
Proms Diary 2010: Pianistic wonders
Proms Diary: Symphony of a Thousand
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aKademy 2007 Press Brochure Released
With aKademy 2007 now here, we'd like to announce the immediate availability of the 2007 aKademy KDE Conference Press Brochure available at http://akademy2007.kde.org/press/ (direct link). The Press Brochure is available for any news organizations covering our annual contributors conference. Read on for more details.
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Additional coverage from the conference will appear on KDE Dot News at regular intervals throughout the week.
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By Gerry at Sun, 2007/07/01 - 5:00am
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There is an unprofessional typo on page 12. Under "Recent KDE Press Coverage" the first entry lies in the future. It should be "11th June 2007 - HIG Hunting Season: Icons" (instead of 11th July 2007 - HIG Hunting Season: Icons).
Apart from that: good work so far :)
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Konqueror: Advanced web browsing suite. This where Apple got the
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About one in eight American children and adolescents will experience maltreatment by adulthood, according to a new study.
The estimate is higher than the average 0.8 percent of children who are found to be victims of maltreatment during any given year, according to the study's lead author.
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Wildeman and his colleagues write in JAMA Pediatrics that black children are about as likely to be victims of confirmed child maltreatment as they are to complete college.
Children were most at risk of maltreatment during their first few years of life, with about 6 percent experiencing some kind of abuse or neglect by the time they were five years old, the researchers found.
Additional research on child maltreatment and abuse-prevention programs should be the next step, Wildeman said.
"Anybody who does work on child health and inequalities should incorporate child maltreatment in a more substantial way," he said.
Last year, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a U.S. government-backed panel, found additional research is needed to conclude whether office- or home-based child maltreatment programs are effective at preventing abuse (see Reuters Health story of June 10, 2013 here: reut.rs/1mK1dos.)
"I think people sweep it under the rug because it's so rare, but these data show we can't do that anymore," Wildeman said.
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Kristoffer Broberg announced his arrival on the Challenge Tour stage with an emphatic victory in the Finnish Challenge.
In just his second Challenge Tour appearance, the 26 year old blew away the rest of the field at Kytäjä Golf, a three under par final round 68 giving him a 15 under par total and a six shot victory from Dutchman Wil Besseling.
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"I've had some great results on the Nordic League this year so I'm just happy I was able to play the same way on the Challenge Tour," added Broberg. "This win means I can play the rest of the season on the Challenge Tour, as before my category only got me into one event so far."
Besseling was happy to secure his best finish of the season, but was disappointed not to have put more pressure on his rival in the last round.
"Kristoffer played very solidly today and I didn't play well enough to win," he said. "It was always going to be tough being five shots behind at the start of the round, but I started off well and was three under after five holes. But Kristoffer was also three under, so I hadn't made up any ground on him.
"My driver broke on the seventh, so when we had the short break for lightning, I was able to borrow one. It worked okay, but it wasn't my own.
"I chipped in for birdie on the 16th to go three shots behind, but overall I wasn't able to put enough pressure on Kristoffer and that's a bit disappointing."
Swede Bjorn Åkesson closed with a 68 to take third place on eight under, one shot ahead of American Peter Uihlein.


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Discussion: The Register, BBC NEWS, All about Microsoft, Epicenter, Digital Daily, Search Engine Land, Software as Services, Know It All, Official Google Blog, Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect, BetaNews, Irregular Enterprise, Between the Lines, MacMegasite, Adnans Sysadmin/Scripting Blog, Google Operating System, Texas Startup Blog, CyberNet, Contentinople, Bungee Connect Developer …, I4U News, CNET News.com, ReveNews, Search Engine Watch Blog, WebProNews, InformationWeek and open
Cade Metz / The Register: Google opens private cloud to coders
Darren Waters / BBC NEWS | dot.life: Google - the genial web host?
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: xRM: Microsoft's other platform-as-a-service play
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter: Google Guns for Amazon With App-Hosting Service
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: New From Google: Google Acquisition Engine
Phil Wainewright / Software as Services: Let the PaaS wars begin
Dana Gardner / Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect: Gangsta cloud wars could pivot on the traffic-driving power …
Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise: Secure coding: the invisible elephant
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: If Google's App Engine ever met an app appliance...
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: Google App Engine: Write Your Own Google Apps
Alexander Muse / Texas Startup Blog: Prediction: Python to overtake Rails at startups
Frank Smith / Contentinople: News Bits: Google Revs Up App Engine
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: Google App Engine Preview released
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com: Amazon computing Web service suffers glitch
Heather Paulson / ReveNews: Google Launches Google App Engine Beta!
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Google Revs Up App Engine
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek: Google Launches Google App Engine Beta
Glyn Moody / open: Wrestling with Google's Python in the Cloud
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine — Our live coverage of the Google App Engine launch event is here (Update: we've built and launched a test application here). — Google isn't just talking about hosting applications in the cloud any more.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, SmugBlog, PC World, SmoothSpan Blog, innonate, Computerworld, Netcraft, OStatic blogs, Mashable!, O'Reilly Radar, Googlified, Zoho Blogs, Blogspotting, The Gong Show, Google Blogoscoped, Searchviews, Ajaxian, RIApedia, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, PSFK, CNET News.com, MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer, Profy.Com, 901am, p2pnet, Jarrett House North, Googling Google, Joshua Blankenship, Scobleizer, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Tech Beat, SlipperyBrick and Brij's One More Idea
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Google, Amazon Lead Disruptive Cloud Computing Wave, Microsoft Again Behind Curve
Don MacAskill / SmugBlog: Thoughts on Google App Engine
Erik Larkin / PC World: Google Previews App Engine Platform for Web Applications
Nate Westheimer / innonate: AppEngine is GOOG's Web 3.0, Takes Aim at Facebook, not Amazon
Heather Havenstein / Computerworld: Google's new App Engine aims for the cloud
Paul Mutton / Netcraft: Google Offers Free Web Application Hosting
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: The Daily Poll: Battle in the Clouds
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar: App Engine: Host Your Apps with Google
Haochi / Googlified: Google App Engine
Sridhar / Zoho Blogs: Ning (1.0) Was Too Early
Stephen Baker / Blogspotting: Google opens up its cloud: an early step
Andrew Parker / The Gong Show: AppEngine Limitations? — Google announced a game-changing …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google App Engine Preview Release
Sepideh Saremi / Searchviews: Google Launches App Engine
Dion Almaer / Ajaxian: What does Google App Engine mean for Ajax developers?
Mikepotter / RIApedia: Google Launches Web App Hosting Service
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim: Sitting Around a Campfire Google Announces Kool-Aid App Engine
Piers Fawkes / PSFK: Google App Engine
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com: Google hopes to house Web software on App Engine
Shelly Palmer / MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer: 2008 04-08 MediaBytes: Yahoo - Microsoft - Chrysler - ATAS - Imeem - Snocap - Google
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira / Profy.Com: Is Google App Engine a Sign that Google's Jumped the Shark?
Dennis Bouchand / 901am: Google launches App Engine
Jon / p2pnet: Google App Engine launch
Garett Rogers / Googling Google: Google announces App Engine: Should Amazon worry?
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: Google jumps on Big Table of Web Services
MG Siegler / VentureBeat: Google App Engine readies for brawl with Amazon
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: Google Cloud Now on Tap for Web Developers
Darrin Olson / SlipperyBrick: Google launches App Engine web application host
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Early notes on GoogleApps — The last few years when something new hits the tech blogosphere, I usually kick back and think while so many others scramble for position on Techmeme. I find that by doing this I can usually find the nugget that they're all missing, assuming it's an area I'm interested in …
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
HuddleChat: Did Google Just Rip Off 37Signals? — Blogs are abuzz this morning about HuddleChat, a real-time chat application that a team of three Google developers created to show off Google's new App Engine platform. The chat software bears a striking resemblance to the popular Campfire app from 37Signals.
Discussion: Download Squad, Geek News Central, Web Worker Daily and Silicon Alley Insider
Brad Linder / Download Squad: HuddleChat: It's like Campfire, but free
Todd Cochrane / Geek News Central: Campfire Team Crying over HuddleChat
Mike Gunderloy / Web Worker Daily: HuddleChat: Like Campfire, but Free
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Google App Engine: Cloud Control to Major Tom — Google has just launched Google App Engine, "a developer tool that enables you to run your web applications on Google's infrastructure." This will allow startups to use Google's web servers, APIs, and other developer tools to build a web app on top of.
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited, Rough Type, Outside the Lines, Matt Cutts, SmoothSpan Blog and STARTUP CHATTER
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: Google follows Amazon into Web-apps business
Donna Bogatin / STARTUP CHATTER: How Google App Engine Kills Startups, Tricks Consumers
Jackson West / Valleywag:
GOOGLE APP ENGINE CAN'T HANDLE DEMAND FOR GOOGLE APP ENGINE The sign-in page for Google's new App Engine platform apparently runs on App Engine — and ran out of it's server allocation this morning, triggering the error message above when a tipster tried to sign up.
Discussion: Download Squad
Christina Warren / Download Squad: Googleholic for April 8, 2008
Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Is Google App Engine HuddleChat a Campfire Rip-Off?
Is Google App Engine HuddleChat a Campfire Rip-Off?
Discussion: The Last Podcast
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google App Engine: History's Next Step or Monopolistic Boondoggle?
Google App Engine: History's Next Step or Monopolistic Boondoggle?
Discussion: TechCrunch, Mashable! and ProgrammableWeb
Henry Work / TechCrunch: TechCrunch Labs: Our Experience Building And Launching An App On Google App Engine
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!: Google App Engine: An Early Look
John Musser / ProgrammableWeb: Google App Engine: Your Apps in the Cloud
Bret Taylor / Bret Taylor's blog: Experimenting with Google App Engine
Fred / A VC:
Can The Y Combinator Idea Turn Into A Movement?
Can The Y Combinator Idea Turn Into A Movement?
Discussion: michael parekh on IT and broadstuff
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: GOOGLE, GRIDS AND GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Find new people to follow on Twitter with Twubble — Twitter's really no fun unless you have a few interesting people to follow. But what's the best way to find new Twitter users? You could look at the friend lists for the people you already follow, but that could take forever.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
5 Ways to Find More Friends on Twitter
5 Ways to Find More Friends on Twitter
Discussion: Mark Evans
Rodney Rumford / FaceReviews:
Want to Expand Your Twitter Friends? Try Twubble
Want to Expand Your Twitter Friends? Try Twubble
Discussion: Webware.com and SheGeeks
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com: Get Twitter friends out of Twubble
James Sherwood / The Register:
Nokia confirms 'iPhone killer' handset in pipeline — Nokia has confirmed that it's developing a touchscreen-equipped handset to take on the Apple iPhone, and has shown off pictures of the upcoming phone to drooling onlookers. — The Finnish giant's handset is codenamed 'Tube' …
Discussion: last100, Engadget and MacDailyNews
Steve O'Hear / last100: Nokia, start your photocopiers (iPhone-envy)
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget: Nokia readies iPhone-ish "Tube," disses Apple's sales
Therese Poletti / MarketWatch:
Yahoo seems headed the way of PeopleSoft — Commentary: Yang's fight against Microsoft seems futile at this point — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang has not resorted to boorish tactics like calling Steve Ballmer a sociopath or comparing him to Genghis Khan …
Discussion: HipMojo.com, Webomatica, Forbes, Digital Daily, Silicon Alley Insider and Valleywag
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Would You Give up the Month to Blow up the Quarter?
Jason Kaneshiro / Webomatica: Microsoft And Yahoo! It's Coming Down To Price
Brian Caulfield / Forbes: Ballmer's Secret Weapon
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Mr. Yang? 18 of Yahoo's Top Shareholders, Line 1 ...
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Wall Street Losing Patience With Yahoo
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: Analyst calls Yang, Yahoo management "unrealistic and self-interested"
Jon Fortt / Big Tech:
HP's mini laptop packs a punch — The HP Mini laptop is aimed at the education market, but it could appeal to road warriors as well. Image: HP — Pick up HP's new $500 mini-laptop, and the first thing you notice is the aluminum casing. Though the thing weighs only about 2.5 pounds …
Discussion: eWeek, Computerworld, Ars Technica and VentureBeat
Daniel Dern / eWeek: HP Unveils $499 Mini-Notebook
David Haskin / Computerworld: Review: HP's 2133 Mini-Note takes on the Eee PC
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: Flood of revelations in Vista-capable suit paused for appeal
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: HP launches its smallest laptop for college students: the HP Mini
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone Developer Lockdown reportedly iPinkBricks all dev units — Reports are streaming into TUAW that official iPhone developers have been hit this morning by the Pink Screen of Expired Release. Their beta licenses for the current 1.2/2.0 firmware distribution have expired as of 12:01am April 8th.
Discussion: Infinite Loop, iPhone Dev Help, iPhone Atlas, iLounge and Insanely Great Mac
Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop: iPhone devs hit with unexpected "Pink Screen of Death"
Benwilson / iPhone Atlas: Apple disables development phones
Charles Starrett / iLounge: News: iPhone developers deal with expired beta firmware
Dennis O'Reilly / CNET News.com:
Put a finer point on your Gmail searches — The first application I open and the last one I close each workday is Gmail. — Even though I use the service's labels and filters to sort my mail, I often found myself scrolling through the 600-plus messages in my Gmail in-box to find the one I need.
Discussion: Webware.com and PC World
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com: Speed up Gmail searches the old fashioned way
Google Android News Android Forums:
Nokia N810 Running Google Android — First it was the Sharp Zaurus and the Armadillo 500, now it's the turn of the Nokia N810. Yup, Google Android has been successfully installed on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet and it works too. — The Wiki page at elinux.org details the install guide …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget, Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Weblog and Tech Blog
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo: Android Running on a Nokia N810
Paul Miller / Engadget: Android lands on the N810, blows our minds
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Mossberg: I Have No Idea When 3G iPhone Is Coming, And I Don't Care — That Walt Mossberg prediction about a 3G iPhone in June? Hold off on that, says Walt Mossberg. The Wall Street Journal's personal tech guru tells us he has no idea when Apple (AAPL) is releasing its next phone.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: Mossberg Takes Back 3G iPhone in 60 Days Quote
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage: They Got To Walt — Lots of excitement over a dull past weekend …
Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: SAI: Walt Mossberg has no clue when the iPhone 3G will ship
Cuill is banned on 10,000 sites — Be careful while you debug your crawler... Webmasters these days get very touchy about letting new spiders walk all over their sites. There are so many scraper bots, email harvesters, exploit probers, students running Nutch on gigabit university pipes …


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Heater Treater replaces the cheap, plastic connector with steel. Replacing the connector with the same plastic part from the manufacturer WILL result in continued problems — the same system design problem that caused the failure in the first place WILL happen again.
Heater Treater attacks the root cause of the failure by constructing hardware that is designed to meet the rigors of normal operation of the HVAC system, and last for the life of the Jeep. Note that some early vehicles used a mechanical cable control for the blend door. Check that you have an actuator motor on the bottom of the box at the intersection of the transmission tunnel and firewall to make sure that the control is electronic. The cable system will be on top of the box and will be a mechanical issue with the cable.
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The blend door hangs on a vertical axis, so turning a sharp corner, or fiddling with the fan speed can swing the door into the hot or cold position randomly. While the symptoms are fairly conclusive for blend door failure, the only way to really check it out is to remove the blend door actuator motor and look at the axle.
Chrysler two different HVAC systems on the early Grand Cherokees. You need to check the application information below carefully to make sure you know which one you have.
There were two main systems used for the GC:
- The earlier system has the blend door actuator motor on the bottom of the heater box. The motor is located under the passenger side dash, above the transmission tunnel. Open the passenger door and kneel to look under the dash. You will most likely have to pull back the carpeting on the left side to see the motor. It will be attached to the bottom of the box. A picture from a box that was removed from a GC is shown for reference.
- Some early GC's have mechanical control over the blend door and there will be a slide cable on top of the box. Our kit only works for the electronic version with an actuator motor on the bottom of the box. It's easy to check before ordering.
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Wanted: Students in the smart grid pipeline
- Mar 4, 2012 7:00 am GMT
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By 2020 about half the utility workforce could retire, taking with them vital experience, skills and knowledge. These retirees include engineers and technicians. Faculty in related, higher education are retiring, too.
Who is going to step in and take on the challenges involved in making Smart Grid a reality?
In a survey of electricity providers and integrated utilities, the Center for Energy Workforce Development found that, despite the projection for massive retirements, many workers may stay on for awhile due to the uncertain financial climate. This in turn has caused employers to refrain from hiring many new employees. Yet it is reasonable to expect accelerating attrition over the coming years.
This dire portrait must focus the industry on supporting increased educational opportunties in the power and energy fields. Smart Grid can be used as a draw to attract new talent to these industries. New engineers are really jazzed about renewables, automation, and high-tech solutions. This explains why more than half of the papers and seminars given at industry meetings these days are about Smart Grid.
The timing of new engineers' entry into the industry is critical because we have an existing workforce that knows the legacy systems. Their knowledge needs to be transferred to the people just coming in the door. Fortunately, the people who know legacy systems inside and out may remain in the workforce for several years to come. They, too, need to be brought up to speed on all the the new technologies.
Help Wanted
The power and energy industry's success over the next decade depends on our ability to retain existing knowledge holders and attract new talent. Historically, that has been a challenge. Yet I see a sea change taking place. Both the public and students are beginning to see power and energy as a new and exciting field, one that can provide challenging careers that enable them to contribute to society and implement exciting new technologies.
Can this new interest be constructively channeled? The lackluster hiring of the 1990s and 2000s left many university power engineering programs with declining enrollment. This situation, coupled with weak university research support, left many traditionally strong power engineering programs in such a weakened state that university administrators closed them.
In April 2009 the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) wrote a report that established six objectives designed to proactively respond to the need for innovative research and increase the number of promising engineering students who are committed to power and energy careers. Three of those objectives revolved around creating scholarships and internships to rapidly fill the pipeline with more undergraduate power engineering sudents and help ensure their career development. The other three objectives focused on rebuilding the ranks of universities' power and energy faculty through centers for excellence and other resources.
The report helped drive the Department of Energy's (DOEs) decision to use $100 million in stimulus funding for Smart Grid education. The DOE granted a total of 52 awards, which are being used to help rebuild programs targeted towards Smart Grid education. The awards have been given to support craft workers, engineers, community colleges, universities and other aspects of academia and industry. This diverse mix of stakeholders are helping to rebuild all of the elements of the educational portfolio that are of critical importance to smart grid's success. Today, rising student interest and recent short-term infusions of research support are helping to rebuild universities' power and energy educational programs.
As a result of these myriad efforts, we are seeing more students enter the power and energy field. The IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative is helping to attract undergraduate electrical engineering students to the Smart Grid pipeline by providing three, one-year scholarships of $2,000, $2,000 and $3,000 in students' sophomore, junior and senior years as long as they meet academic and student career experience requirements in the power and energy field. They must attend an accredited school and keep a 3.0 grade point average. The scholarships initially were targeted towards students in the U.S., but PES intends to offer them globally, as well.
Internships further aid success in getting students to commit to power and energy careers. Students are encouraged to use the IEEE PES-Careers web site to find internships in electric power and energy engineering that fit their needs and career objectives. One way to get students and others interested in Smart Grid is to attract students who are studying engineering, but remain uncertain about their specific career direction. The PES offers them a "home" and the means to connect with the industry and its professionals through actual hands-on experience and guidance.
Persuading students to commit to careers that will benefit Smart Grid and its contribution to a vibrant U.S. economy requires continuous commitment from the power and energy industry. That means industry help is needed in providing financial support, offering meaningful career experiences and encouraging professionalism through networking and lifelong education. All of these ingredients are required to create the workforce that will make Smart Grid a successful reality.
Wanda Reder is chair of IEEE Smart Grid, immediate past-president for IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES), and served on the IEEE PES Governing Board from 2002- 2012. Ms. Reder is a member of U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu's Electricity Advisory Committee and vice president of Power Systems Services at S&C Electric Company.
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In 1974, the State Postsecondary Education Commission (SPEC) was established by the legislature to provide a framework to preserve Hawaii's continued eligibility to receive and disburse federal student aid funding under Title IV of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965.
Membership of SPEC includes the UH Board of Regents, plus four other members representing the general public, as well as public and private nonprofit and proprietary postsecondary education institutions. The 1974 law placed SPEC within the University of Hawaii for administrative purposes with the UH President serving as its administrative officer and administratively operated by the UH System Office of Student Affairs.
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If you thought technology was already disruptive enough, here's the news. We're just getting started.
The Roman Rallying sequence in the Top Gear Middle East Special is an exhilarating example of the old world rubbing up against the new. As Jeremy Clarkson and Co charge around the sacred Jordan hippodrome in their battered sports cars, they inevitably start to kick up a lot of ancient dust. Clarkson starts to worry: "someone's gonna see this dust, and then they're gonna come, and then there'll be anger and rage".
There was a time when Bitcoin was able to rub up against the old financial world without anyone noticing. Now that time has gone. They're simply kicking up too much dust to go unnoticed any more. Take the recent seminar at Stockholm's School of Economics as a case in point. A simple two hour session featuring the current figurehead of the Bitcoin movement, Jon Matonis, turned out to be their quickest selling and most oversubscribed event in their 100 year history. But for those who know even a small amount about Bitcoin, this comes as no surprise. How could anyone resist a story involving giant stone money, gold, aliens, and the possibility of displacing some of the most significant polices of modern governments with an algorithm?
International Man of Mystery
Let's start with a little background check. It's a given nowadays that the most innovative internet technologies no longer emerge from the R&D labs, but from the world's student dorms. The case of Bitcoin is no different. Well, not entirely different anyway. The twist in this particular story is that the originator – who goes by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto - is closer in style to the techno duo Daft Punk than Mark Zuckerberg. According to modern folklore, Nakamoto could be a combination of any of the following: a gifted Japanese student (or even group of students); a graduate of Trinity College Dublin called Michael Clear; and/or a group of international entrepreneurs who filed a patent for something very similar to Bitcoin only 72 hours before the domain was registered. However all attempts so far to arrive at a real person have ended in either denials or dead ends. Perhaps this is as it should be. All this anonymity is entirely fitting for a distributed P2P network that champions the (somewhat contradictory) dual principles of open source and cryptography. The simple fact that no one seems to own Bitcoin means everyone does.
So What's Different This Time Around?
The world has seen innovation in ICT and Finance before. In fact, Sweden itself can even claim to be a bit of a world leader in the field. While things like iZettle's iPhone dongle, and services such as Tink, Flattr and Klarna may seem (and indeed are) groundbreaking, they are still little more than a smart interface into the traditional banking world. As such they're not creating a new game so much as simply making it more efficient to play the old one – and taking their cut to do so too. What's cool about Bitcoin is that it's inventing a totally new ball game altogether.
Here's the rub. In the world as we know it, each institution, credit card, bank or financial service has it's own ledger (or set of ledgers), and every time we ask them to transfer some money in or out of our accounts they do so by adjusting their ledgers. And when they adjust those ledgers, they charge a (not insignificant) transaction fee. Not only that, increasingly these transactions are electronic, and that means they're tagged with our identity too. Depending on your point of view, this could be either good for tracking criminals and/or a convenient tool for governments to snoop on what their citizens are up to.
Bitcoin does two significant things which drive this traditional paradigm into the sand.
First, it makes the transactions anonymous, much like cash transactions. Any transactions you make on Bitcoin are not coupled to your identity. That's bad news for nosey governments.
Second, it has only one giant ledger in the cloud, so the transaction costs of transfers are as close to zero as you can get, and (because of Moore's Law) they will keep falling. Essentially, in the Bitcoin universe, there is no difference in the transaction costs between a) buying a loaf of bread at your local store, or b) sending millions of Bitcoins through the ether from one side of the planet to the other. The cost for both is more or less zero.
The Go-Betweens
But before we get all excited about hopping up and down on the graves of clearing houses, banks and other financial middleman, it's worth mentioning that there's actually a really sound reason why these kind of institutions exist in the first place. Convenience.
Convenience is the reason we buy our chewing gum and cigarettes from the local store and not from the out of town cash and carry. Even though we know the local store charges a premium, that's still better than hopping in the car and driving across town for a small purchase. The same logic applies to the world of traditional banking. However unreasonable a transaction cost may be, it'll still be cheaper than hopping on a plane with a sack full of cash. What makes the Bitcoin solution unique here is that it sidesteps this issue by making all financial transactions equally convenient. From the perspective of both the buyer and the seller that's a very attractive proposition – from the perspective of the (possibly soon defunct) middlemen, it's a nightmare. The emergence of Bitcoin is going to make a lot of very powerful, influential and traditional middlemen-style institutions very nervous.
Stark Contrast
Jon Matonis tells a great story to demonstrate just how different Bitcoin is to the traditional money world. When he gave a talk on Bitcoin at the monumental premises of Swift HQ in Brussels – one of the world's largest central clearing houses – he asked if he could see the "live transactions" that roll through their computers every nano-second of every day. He was told that the ledger (the bank of computers doing the work) was private and kept in a locked room. By contrast not only is the Bitcoin clearing system totally decentralised, it is also public. Very public. In fact it's so public you can even watch the transactions as they happen in realtime on the web, and, because the entire enterprise is driven by open source and thereby open to the creative talents of the dorm world, you can even listen to it.
One other big paradigm shift in the Bitcoin world is around credit. In the Bitcoin world, there simply is no fictional money. This would make fractional banking (the method by which banks lend out more money than they actually have in reserves) almost impossible. In the Bitcoin world, banks would only be able to lend the money they actually have. Perhaps loans would be spread across Bitcoin's distributed network, much like crowdfunding. However it works in practice, the impact of reduced credit on a world currently addicted to the stuff is anybody's guess.
Area 52
The key point about Bitcoin's decentralised nature vs the centralised nature of the traditional money world is worth exploring in more detail. It's also where our story takes a slight off-road detour into Area 52 territory.
Until recently, SETI (the project who's aim is to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) has been the number one global distributed computing network. However now that Bitcoin is on the rise, it's been bumped down to second place. In fact the surge in Bitcoin's distributed computing power is like nothing we've ever seen before. As Bill Gates said, "Bitcoin is a technological tour de force".
This distributed nature also makes it incredibly resilient. Imagine if the SWIFT was somehow taken out, either physically or by attacks on it's network. That would more or less cripple the money exchange markets that depend on it. Compare that to Bitcoin. The loss of a few computers in any given country on the network makes no difference – the system simply adjusts and life carries on as before. In this regard Jon Matonis likes to draw a comparison between Bitcoin and the ancient Rai Stones that were used on the island of Yap, Micronesia. These huge stone wheels were used to demonstrate the wealth on the owner and serve as a public record of significant transactions. Even though the ownership of any given stone would change over time, as long as people knew where it was, the physical location of the Rai Stone did not matter. In fact one Rai Stone even sank to the bottom of the sea during a voyage, but as the villagers could all agree it still existed, the stone was still able to be used.
A Dismal Science No More?
Despite the fact that we've already covered the mysterious origins of Bitcoin, its power to reduce transaction costs to zero, and its distributed, anonymous nature, we've still only scraped the surface of its disruptive powers. What it can potentially do to governments is mind blowing.
While some progressive governments (such as Germany) have already embraced the power of Bitcoin, the majority remain sceptical. Some – such as the government of Thailand – have even opted to ban it (and good luck with that…)
So why all the worry and hoo-hah?
Here's the punchline. Bitcoin would not only effectively sidestep a government's monetary policy, it would severally restrict its fiscal policy too. But what does this mean in practice?
For those of us who are not economists, we can explain it this way. First, on the monetary side of the equation, governments often like to reserve the option of setting the base lending rate (or discount rate) themselves through a central bank. They're also keen on printing more money if needed to help pay for stuff, and they like to control the markets by buying and selling their own bonds (known as open market operations). In the Bitcoin world, it is the Bitcoin algorithm which controls the flow of new Bitcoins, not a central bank. This would make it much harder (if not impossible) for governments to rely on the fictional money they've grown so used to. That's goodbye to quantitative easing for starters.
Second, on the fiscal side, as income gets harder and harder to trace back to individuals, governments would have to switch taxation to the consumption side of the equation. In turn this would rather limit the governments supply of tax revenues, and may even force them to get real about balancing their books.
As Al Gore has wryly noted, "I think the fact that within the Bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of [the government] … is actually pretty cool."
System D
So now we've looked at the potential impacts on governments, we're done, right? No.
Some of the most exciting implementations of all this kind of new technology isn't happening in the old world, but the new. While the EU and the States are mired in government bureaucracy, restricted by powerful lobbying bodies, and stunted by military units run with half an eye on health and safety regulations, Africa and Asia are leapfrogging a lot of these issues to implement some truly original solutions.
At the Stockholm seminar, we also got to hear from the amazing Pelle Braendgaard who runs Kipochi. He told us about the everyday use of digital currencies like M-PESA in Kenya, and how people there who have been let down by the traditional banking sector have found an exchange lifeline with digital currencies that run on old cellphone technology and sim cards. M-PESA in effect gives a banking-like infrastructure to those people who would otherwise be "off the grid" and operating in the System D economy. Imagine the possibilities for anyone in Africa or Asia to either wire money in our out of the country for free (or as good as), while at the same time sell their goods without having access to a bank account. They could also shop around for a loan on a global scale, and even pay for their groceries at the local store in the same currency.
So What Happens Next?
The exponential rise of Bitcoin will no doubt start to generate some heat from here on in. It's only a matter of time before we see the traditional gatekeepers start to cry foul. No doubt we'll see a lot of anger and rage in the courtrooms. At least in the west. In Africa and Asia we'll probably see things take off a little quicker. I predict it will only be a few years from now before we see Bitcoin (or other similar digital currencies) emerge as the exchange of choice for the majority of people otherwise denied access to the established money structures. And when that happens, prepare for the world to shake.


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Insiders Guide to Optimization at Interop
This weekend my little sis and I re-watched Best in Show. This 2000 gem from Christopher Guest is a gentle mocumentary of the personalities you'd find at a dog show. We got some laughs as we watched the dialog between the commentators – one who was supposed to be quite knowledgeable on dogs, and one who was clueless and said things like:
Now tell me, which one of these dogs would you want to have as your wide receiver on your football team?
I especially liked the above because it is pretty random and the response from the other commentator was great. I thought about it this morning since the NFL draft is tonight (go Niners!) and was thinking about Best In Show overall since we have our own competition coming up in a few weeks.
If you heard the buzz from Cisco Partner Central last week you know that in the next few weeks we're launching [REDACTED]. Part of that launch will be Cisco AppNav, a cool feature that I'm excited to say is a finalist for the Best of Interop: Performance Optimization award.
While I can't tell you too much about it here, we can say that Cisco AppNav is a virtualization technology that enables customers to deliver high performance applications at scale from the cloud or enterprise data center. IT can use AppNav to address performance challenges created by BYOD, Cloud, and Virtual Desktops. In the next several weeks, Cisco will announce additional details about AppNav.
Going to Interop? Here Is Your Guide!
If you plan to attend Interop, visit the Cisco booth #1127 and ask about AppNav for a sneak preview! You'll also want to check out the panel session "Breakthroughs in Network and Application Optimization" hosted by Dr. Jim Metzler with Cisco's own Kumar Ramachandran, Director of Product Management. If you've seen Jim give talks before, you'll know you're in for a treat. He is quite smart, funny, and engaging. And luckily, Kumar is equally smart, funny, and engaging, with the added bonus that he might preview AppNav during the session. The session is near the beginning of Interop on Tuesday, May 8 at 3:45pm in Lagoon J.
If you're planning your schedule for Interop, may I suggest you attend the following highlights of Interop:
May 8
|Keynote with Padmasree Warrior, Cisco CTO: In It To Win It!
|The Guide to Holistic BYOD Avoid turning "Bring Your Own Device" into "Bring Your Own Disaster." Learn about the critical steps for planning a successful BYOD design and implementation
|Three Ways to Make Your Enterprise Branch-WAN Network Cloud Intelligent Join Cisco to hear how a Cloud Intelligent Network can extend your Data Center to deliver optimized, reliable, and secure cloud solutions
|Get Your Network Cloud-Ready (One of two) A new approach is needed. Join Cisco to hear how a Cloud Intelligent Network can extend your Data Center to deliver optimized, reliable, and secure cloud solutions. [Short Session]
|Breakthroughs in Network and Application Optimization Discusses some of the most promising new developments relative to optimizing network & application performance.
May 9
|Carrier Cloud Forum ½ day workshop will provide high-quality education and peer-to-peer interaction on building a cloud infrastructure that is manageable and billable, ensuring high-performance security and service quality to meet SLA demands, recognizing best practices for packaging and monetizing XaaS services and applications, and learning what works and what does not for vertical industry customization.
|Get Your Network Cloud-Ready
|What Does it Take in the Network to Support the Creation and Migration of VMs? It can take days to manually configure parameters such as QoS settings and ACLs in order to support the dynamic movement of VMs. The panelists in this session will identify the techniques such as VXLAN that you can implement to seamlessly move VMs between servers.
May 10
|How BYOD is Driving Change in the Campus Network The drivers of change in the campus network include the requirement to support a significant increase in video traffic, the need to support the movement of virtual machines within the campus data center and the burgeoning movement to bring your own device (BYOD). The panelists in this session will discuss technologies and design options that you can use to redesign your campus LANs.
Not Going?
Of course, if you aren't attending Interop you can still hear Jim's engaging style by watching a recording of a webinar he did with us recently, All Systems Optimized: Preparing Your Network for Virtualization and BYOD or register for his next webinar on May 15, All Systems Optimized II: How IT Can Respond To Rapidly Changing Application Needs.
Finally, given the quote at the top, I've been thinking of the Networks / Football analogy. Of course, the ISR G2 routers would be the star Quarterback. For our WAN Optimization solution, WAAS, we have a choice between three of the traditionally fastest positions on the team who support the QB:
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ZSL London Zoo has had an Aquarium since 1853, and has a fascinating history. Separated into three different halls, which are home to different types of fish, the Aquarium is involved in many different conservation projects and breeding programmes.
There are many exotic, beautiful and even weird fish in the Aquarium, some of which you can learn more about on these pages!
Find out more about some of the residents of the Aquarium.
Hall 1 - Freshwater Fish
Take a tour of freshwater fish in unique, specially-created freshwater environments based on rivers and lakes from around the world.
Hall One recreates different fascinating freshwater environments based on rivers and lakes with the fish that inhabit them. Hall One includes a flooded bamboo forest, Mexican springs, the Mekong river, and a Madagascar river as well as British rock pools featuring pink sea fans
Freshwater represents the most threatened of all aquatic ecosystems and many freshwater species have a very high livelihood value for local human communities. Many of the fish housed in the Aquarium's Hall One are involved in our breeding and conservation programmes, with some of the species of fish featured classified as extinct in the wild.
Fish Net
Fish Net is one of ZSL's conservation projects created as a measure to save many freshwater fishes from extinction.
The project currently focuses on killifish and livebearers which are small freshwater fish with localised distributions and are considered important bio-indicators of ecosystem health. Many of these highly threatened species are very popular within the private aquarium trade. Some of these species are on show in Hall One of ZSL London Zoo's Aquarium.
ZSL has already developed internationally recognised expertise with the breeding and management of a wide variety of endangered freshwater fish. We have have a strong track record of utilising the zoological, research and field conservation skills across ZSL to measurably improve the status of species in the wild. The Fish Net would build on our experiences to develop a dedicated programme for freshwater fish conservation within ZSL.
Hall 2: Coral Reef
Our stunning, living coral reefs are beautiful as well as fascinating. They are also home to the most colourful fish in the Aquarium!
Hall Two's tanks contain coral reef fish - such as copperband butterflyfish - which can be spotted in the Indian and Pacific oceans. Reefs are vital for the environment and they protect the land from big waves by breaking them before they reach the shore.
Tropical coral reefs have the highest species diversity of all marine ecosystems. They are also a critical source of food for over a billion people and provide other important services to mankind especially through coastal protection. Thousands of fish make their homes in coral reefs, which are under threat from pollution, global warming and fishing with dynamite.
Three-quarters of the world's reefs are at risk. ZSL's coral reef conservation efforts involve supporting and implementing effective marine protected areas through Project Seahorse , building conservation and management capacity in coral reef nations , supporting the most vulnerable countries, and influencing policy.
Reef fish
Just one of the many colourful fish you can find swimming among the coral reef is the Regal tang. If they become alarmed, they take refuge in the coral branches.
You may recognise the regal tang as the character Dory in the animated film Finding Nemo.
As the reef tanks come to an end, our Big Fish Tank features the largest fish in the Aquarium!
Hall 3: Amazonian Fish
The Amazon hall presents the 'flooded rainforest', which is the biggest tank in the aquarium and keeps several stingray.
On display at ZSL London Zoo Aquarium we have an example of the Amazon rainforest...when the river has flooded its banks.
This exhibit provides an insight into the weird and wonderful creatures that leave the river and move into the forest that is transformed into an underwater jungle.
During the rainy season the Amazon river bursts it banks and its inhabitants take the chance to go swimming through the trees. Freshwater stingrays scour the forest floors looking for small fish to eat, hiding in the undergrowth to ambush their prey!
One of the most famous species in our Amazonian collection is, of course, the red-bellied piranha.
Well known for its razor-sharp teeth and appetite for meat, the piranha has actually been revealed as a shy and timid creature that does not swim in shoals to hunt, but for its own protection.
Red-bellied piranhas are found in the rivers of the Amazon basin. At ZSL London Zoo's Aquarium, we have been successful in breeding red-bellied piranhas for many years.
ZSL London Zoo holds a very important position in aquatic history, as it was the very first place to establish and open a public aquarium.
On the 18th February 1852 the Council of the Zoological Society agreed that work should start immediately on the building of an Aquatic Vivarium (the original term for a fish tank or fish enclosure) and in 1853 the "Fish House" was opened to the public.
However soon after, Philip Henry Gosse started calling the 'Aquatic Vivariums' 'Aquariums', and this world-recognised term we use today for describing any display of marine life was taken up and popularised by London Zoo.
This didn't please everybody as the word 'aquarium' in classical Latin actually means a watering place for cattle but it soon caught on!
Inside the original 'Fish House' were over 300 different breeds of marine life, not just fish, but also many other species of invertebrates. This was the first time aquatic animals had been kept and cared for, on such a large scale, in enclosed tanks.
The Aquarium as we know it now was not built until 1921, as the public demand to see the fish at London Zoo was ever increasing. It was built on a different site in London Zoo to the original aquarium and is now housed under the Mappin Terraces. The Aquarium was opened by King George V and his wife Queen Mary in April 1924.


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The new Nintendo Switch is an exciting combination of home and handheld consoles. That's right, it's the first truly hybrid console that you can play anywhere. Play at home, play on the go, play with friends or play alone with the all-in-one Nintendo Switch console.
Hook the Nintendo Switch up to your TV and play from the comfort of your couch, or you can take the Switch with you to make the most of mobile gaming. You can even connect multiple Switch systems together for some fun, multiplayer face-to-face action.
New Nintendo Switch games include 1-2-Switch, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Smash Bros. Ultimate, Super Mario Party, Splatoon 2, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and more.
The unit will also feature a number of handy, interchangeable Nintendo Switch accessories including the Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Charging Power Grip, Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Charging Dock, Nintendo Switch Game Traveler Deluxe System Travel Case and more.
Experience a new era of gaming greatness with the new Nintendo console.


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IUCN accompanies and drives integration processes in Mexico-Guatemala transboundary watersheds.
Organizations from Guatemala and Mexico met to share experiences in watersheds associated with the Tacaná Volcano. With IUCN's support as articulating entity and organizer in both Mexico and Guatemala, the work of local integration carried out by Red Ambiental Cahoacán, in Mexico, and Coordinadora de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente de San Marcos (CORNASAM), in Guatemala, was joined with the efforts of the watershed committees of the Cahoacán and Coatán rivers.
Activities during the three days included talks, lectures, tours, discussions and visits to projects located in watersheds associated with the Tacaná Volcano on both the Mexican and Guatemalan side, with an eye toward genuinely integrated management of water resources and the promotion of a transborder approach from the local level.
Common problems, such as contamination, disaster, solid waste and other socio-environmental problems were discussed at a forum with representatives of the communities, government institutions, NGOs and the environmental networks and committees. The concept of the watershed and the natural, close relation among these hydrological units- irrespective of political and administrative limits- was strengthened during the course of the event. This is a concept that must be recognized and incorporated in the approach to natural resource management and administration.
At the initiative of the IUCN and with its preparation, supported by students from the Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, information was collected throughout the event using surveys and semi-structured interviews to obtain inputs enriching discussion. The preliminary results of these surveys were presented at the event itself and then developed with actors present at the closing session.
Finally, agreements were reached on follow-up for the integration process, as well as the formation of a technical committee and interest in identifying a transboundary microwatershed that can serve as pilot experience and site for joint work in the future.
For further information:
Project coordinator Cahoacán
Chiapas, México
Project Coordinator Tacaná II
San Marcos, Guatemala


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Titans quarterback Matt Hasselbeck has spent much more of his NFL career under the radar than under the microscope.
In many ways he has enjoyed that, going from Seattle to Nashville, Tenn., and joking that he sometimes feels he has enrolled in the witness protection program. But the way Hasselbeck is playing, he can't hide much longer.
Through four games, he has looked like the smartest free-agent acquisition of the season. His Titans are 3-1 heading into Sunday's game in Pittsburgh, and he's second in the AFC to the Patriots' Tom Brady with a 104.7 passer rating. Hasselbeck has eight touchdowns and three interceptions and has been sacked just four times.
"I'm not trying to do anything crazy, I'm just being myself," he said in a phone interview. "When coach (Mike) Munchak brought me here, he was like, 'Listen, we don't need you to try to do anything you've never done. We need you to be what you've been in Seattle the last 10 years. We have all the other pieces.'
"There are signs around the building that just say, 'Be a pro.' That's all they're looking for. I'm down with that."
And the Titans are decidedly up. They are coming off consecutive victories over the Ravens, Broncos and Browns and now look to be getting star running back Chris Johnson going — he had his first 100-yard game of the season last Sunday. On the downside, they have lost top receiver Kenny Britt to a knee injury.
From the perspective of the 36-year-old Hasselbeck, everything starts with the offensive line, which Hall of Fame lineman Munchak coached for 16 years. Bruce Matthews, also among the elite linemen in Canton, and assistant Al Valero, who was with Hasselbeck in Seattle last season, coach the line.
Over the last four seasons with the Seahawks, Hasselbeck was sacked 113 times and missed 13 games because of injuries. The Seahawks made a lot of changes along their offensive line during that span, including using first-round picks on tackles the last two years. This is one quarterback who understands the value of a cohesive unit up front, and he knows his head coach feels the same way.
"This guy gets it," Hasselbeck said of Munchak. "He gets that you can have whoever you want at wide receiver, but if you don't have a good offensive line that has been together, if you don't start there, then so what?"
It doesn't hurt that the Titans' defense has allowed a league-low 14.0 points per game.
"Coming to Tennessee was a fantastic move for him," NBC's Cris Collinsworth said of Hasselbeck. "In the middle of that Ravens game, I started seeing some of the flair and the fun and the sidearm throws that always have been his trademark, and I was like, 'Uh oh.' If you have this guy and he's healthy and he's getting protected, and Chris Johnson when he gets back up to speed … they're going to be something."
Hasselbeck concedes it wasn't easy to leave the Seahawks — he liked playing for coach Pete Carroll — but said they made it clear they planned to move on without him.
"They were super honest with me when the lockout ended," Hasselbeck said. "They called and said, 'Hey, listen, there's no easy way to say this: We're going to go in a different direction.' … I appreciated the honesty. I didn't have to read it on the ticker."
His assumption was he would stay in the NFC West, landing with either the Cardinals or 49ers. Instead, it was the Titans who pursued him most aggressively, saying he would be more than a short-term bridge to rookie quarterback Jake Locker.
"We thought he had a lot left in the tank from watching him in the playoffs last year," Munchak said. "We didn't bring him in here to retire quietly."
Experienced as Hasselbeck is, it was still very challenging for him to learn a new offensive system so quickly. The lockout led to a compressed offseason, and veteran free agents had to sit out the start of training camp with their new teams.
That's when Hasselbeck got a lot of help from his brother, Tim, a former NFL quarterback who had played for Titans offensive coordinator Chris Palmer when they were both with the Giants.
"Matthew had been in Tennessee maybe two days, and I sent him a text message saying, 'Hey, did you guys install 62-Read?'" said Tim, now an ESPN analyst. "And he texted me back (sounding very surprised), 'Do you know this offense?'"
That proved to be a eureka moment for the Hasselbecks, who had many conversations about the nuances of that offense and which plays best fit Matt's style. Tim became like a human highlighter pen for his big brother.
"One play we talked about, he asked me if I liked 'Kitchen' or I liked 'Read,'" Matt said. "He's like, 'Dude, Kitchen? No.' Then he told me a story about Kitchen. But then he's like, 'Now, Read, that's going to be your play. You need to own that play. And here's why …' It's like having a veteran quarterback in your room."
That was similar to the friendship Hasselbeck had with fellow quarterback Trent Dilfer in Seattle for four years, with Hasselbeck eventually taking over and Dilfer — who had a Super Bowl ring from his Baltimore days — acting as a second set of eyes.
"He's very tough to stop when he's being protected and he feels comfortable," said Dilfer, now an ESPN analyst. "He sees it, he's highly accurate and he's decisive.
"When he's hot — and he's on fire now — he's as good as anybody."


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Still Fighting Against Animal Testing
At Lush, we believe in buying ingredients only from companies that do not commission tests on animals and in testing our products on humans.
Fighting animal testing should be more than a slogan; it needs to be a genuine practice. Unfortunately, it's become commonplace in the North American cosmetics industry to test products and their ingredients on animals in labs. Laboratory testing is done to substances that make up these cosmetic products, to see whether they are likely to harm people, or damage the environment when they are disposed of.
A History on the Fight Against Animal Testing
We've been against animal testing for over 30 years and will continue to inform, encourage and participate in the fight for animal rights. We're proud to say that the founders of LUSH have been passionately fighting against animal testing during all of this time, long before LUSH was even an idea. Since the movement to stop animal testing started, policies have been created to work with cosmetics companies and raw materials suppliers to end animal cruelty.
See the History here.
Not Legally Required
As a cosmetics company we care deeply about both the quality of our products and the safety of our customers, and we happily comply with federal safety standards. Cosmetic companies are responsible for providing safety assurances in whatever manner they deem appropriate. This can be done without any new animal testing by relying on the roughly 20,000 established cosmetic ingredients that have already been evaluated for their safety, and through the use of a growing number of proven, non-animal test methods.
Learn about different testing policies here.
The science of cosmetics safety testing has progressed greatly in recent years, and there are now dozens of proven non-animal test methods accepted by government regulators of cosmetics. Examples include 3-dimensional human skin models, which can fully replace the use of rabbits for skin irritation testing, and cell culture tests for sunlight-induced "photo"-toxicity, genetic mutations, and other harmful effects. Non-animal methods have been shown to be scientifically superior – and usually take less time to complete, at a fraction of the cost of animal experiments.
Our Policy
Our policy is the result of a personal effort to reduce animal testing, for companies who supply raw materials to change the way they test for safety and to stop money from going to companies who we believe are morally unsound.
We operate our own unique Supplier Specific Boycott, which states we will not buy any ingredient from any manufacturer or supplier that tests anything they produce on any animals for any reason. We ensure the safety of their products by only using ingredients with a long history of safe use, and by testing the finished products on a panel of human volunteers. We support the development and validation of non-animal tests, and campaign against legislation that requires animals to be experimented on. Not only is LUSH passionate about the animal testing policy, our passion also extends to the commitment we have to sourcing ingredients from suppliers that are congruent with our ethics and standards.
Our extremely strict policy against animal testing is unique, and we want our peers in the cosmetics industry to adopt the same stance. We encourage you to boycott cosmetics companies that engage in animal testing.
Find out more about our policy here,
The LUSH Prize
While we have spoken out against animal testing for years, most of our efforts have been focused on our own strict policy and avoiding animal testing. But it is no longer enough for us to passively wait for animal testing to end. We decided to put our money where our mouth is and now offer the LUSH Prize, awarded annually. The £250,000 prize fund, the biggest prize in the alternative testing sector, focuses pressure on safety testing for consumer products in a way which complements projects which already address alternatives to the animal testing of medicines and awards prizes for Science, Training, Lobbying, Public Awareness, and Young Researchers. It is a way that everyone at LUSH, our customers, and the wider public can become involved in the fight to end animal testing.
Join the Fight: fightinganimaltesting.com


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