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Another failed comic book movie that's less than 10 years old, another knee-jerk "reboot."
Following on the heels of The Hulk (made in 2003, remade in 2008), The Punisher (which has been attempted, unsuccessfully, three times already) and Spider-Man (all it took was one bad installment and they pulled the "reboot" ripcord) comes word that 20th Century Fox is going to give "Daredevil" another shot.
And, according to Collider, "30 Days of Night" and "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" director David Slade will be at the helm.
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"Daredevil" is the story of Matt Murdock who, as a young boy, was struck blind by a vat of radioactive waste. Although the accident took his sight, it gave him bat-like radar senses which he uses to fight crime under the guise of horned hero Daredevil by night, while crusading as a lawyer by day.
Fox produced a "Daredevil" movie in 2003 starring Ben Affleck as Murdock, Jennifer Garner as mysterious enemy/ally Elektra (who got her own movie in 2005), and Colin Farell as the villainous Bullseye.
Directed by Mark Steven Johnson (who also made the excretable "Ghost Rider"), the original "Daredevil" was a step back for a genre that had started to gain respect after Bryan Singer's "X-Men" and Sam Raimi's original "Spider-Man." "Daredevil" was, frankly, a silly, self-serious mess.
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From producer-writer Luc Besson comes this film that essentially plays out like a sequel to "The Professional," with Zoe Saldana stepping in for Natalie Portman. Saldana's character watches her parents get murdered by drug dealers and dedicates her life to getting revenge. In theaters everywhere, read our review and watch the trailer
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Guillermo del Toro wrote and produced this remake of the 1973 made-for-TV movie, this time starring Guy Pearce as a man who moves with his girlfriend, played by Katie Holmes, and daughter into a haunted house. In theaters everywhere, watch the trailer
Our Idiot Brother
Paul Rudd stars as a stoner fresh out of prison who spends time crashing with each of his sisters--Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer and Elizabeth Banks--accidentally throwing their lives into turmoil with his total lack of guile. In theaters everywhere, read our coverage from its premiere at Sundance
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene's thriller about a sociopath gangster is updated to '60s England with a cast that includes Helen Mirren, Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, John Hurt and Andy Serkis. In limited release, watch the trailer
Higher Ground
Star Vera Farmiga makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of Carolyn Briggs' memoir about her struggle to conform to a rigid religious community in upstate New York during the 1970s. In limited release, read our review and watch the trailer
A struggling scriptwriter gets lucky when a serial killer steals his car and screenplay. Stars Daniel Raymont, Krysten Ritter and Darrell Hammond. In limited release, watch the trailer
Chasing Madoff
For those of you haven't read a newspaper in the last two years, here's a documentary about Harry Markopolos, a man who claims to have uncovered Bernie Madoff's fraud back in 1999. In limited release, watch the trailer
Audience Award winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival, tells the story of two Iranian teenage girls coming of age in a city where a repressive culture. In limited release, watch the trailer
Redemption Road
Director Mario Van Peebles' new film stars Michael Clark Duncan and Morgan Simpson as two men brought together for a road trip during which they forge an unlikely friendship, before a betrayal changes both their lives. In limited release, watch the trailer
Suing the Devil
Malcolm McDowell stars as Satan, who actually shows up to defend himself against a suit brought by a janitor/law student. In limited release, watch the 4-minute 24-second trailer
Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen's best film in 20 years stars Owen Wilson as a struggling novelist who is magically transported back to the Paris of the 20s, where he rubs elbows with the Lost Generation. Expanding into new cities, read our review and watch the trailer


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Brooklyn: Blue Collar Burgers Are A Simple Success
Burger reviews in the New York City area.
Blue Collar
160 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 (map); 347-725-3837; facebook.com/bluecollargoodjob
Cooking method: Flattop
Short Order: Simple, fresh, classic fast food-style burgers are some of the best in Williamsburg
Want Fries With That? Sure, the extra-crispy, thin fries are worth adding on
Price: Single burger, $4; w/cheese, +75¢; double burger, $5.75; w/cheese, 50¢; fries (sm/lg), $2.25/$3.25; shakes, $4.75-$5.50
With a name like Blue Collar, this tiny Williamsburg burger joint makes it clear from the get-go that they're not attempting to reinvent the burger. Instead, the cheery shop focuses on perfecting a small selection of Americana-style classics. And for the most part, they succeed.
This is a strictly counter-order operation, with a menu consisting of a burger, a hot dog, fries, and some milkshakes. That's about it (unless jalapeño poppers are on the specials board). It's not the kind of place that brags about its burger pedigree—although the chef is in the process of perfecting a custom sirloin/chuck/loin blend, right now, they use a standard Angus 81/19 blend of indiscriminate origin. But for these prices—$4 for a single, $5.75 for a double, with cheese for 75¢ more (50¢ on the double)—premium sourcing likely isn't their top priority.
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That might sound like a knock, but in context, it isn't. The beef is fresh, and the burgers that Blue Collar turns out with great efficiency are compulsively edible and highly crave-able, so long as you're not expecting a gourmet experience. Parallels have been drawn between Blue Collar and those two high priests of thin patties, In-N-Out and Shake Shack. It's not an entirely off-base comparison, though one noteworthy difference is that there's rarely a line at Blue Collar.
Thin 3.5-ounce patties are pressed down with a weight on a flattop grill, and cooked to medium by default. While I prefer a medium-rare with a thicker burger, thin patties like these really benefit from that extra time on the griddle, developing a solid sear that plays nicely off of the soft potato roll they're swaddled in. The single is petite enough to almost be considered a snack, a boon to those looking for a lighter bite (or a late-night treat—the griddles stay hot until 2 a.m. on weekends), while the double obviously packs a beefier punch.
My cheeseburger ($4.75)—with American, the only option, and really, the only cheese that belongs on a burger like this—still maintained a thin layer of pink within, and was so juicy I went through about five napkins. Then again, that might have had something to do with the smear of secret sauce oozing out, which mingled nicely with the melting cheese and juicy patty. Toppings were simple—crinkle-cut pickle rounds, beefsteak tomato, raw onion, a sheaf of crisp lettuce—but fresh and portioned in a way that didn't overwhelm the patty.
Fries ($2.25/$3.25) are thin and extra-crispy, with a dusting of housemade seasoned salt. The milkshakes are very thick and creamy, though the chocolate version ($4.75) is sickly-sweet, thanks to a heavy-handed squirt of Hershey's syrup.
The décor is retro-roadside chic: ketchup-and-mustard squirt bottles on the table, kitschy burger-themed posters on the walls, cherry-red plastic chairs. Service is ambivalent at best, but your interactions with staff are relatively limited—there's even a soda fountain for DIY drink-filling.
I feared in a snark-ridden neighborhood like Williamsburg that a place named Blue Collar would get mired in its own irony. But I was pleasantly wrong—it's a simple roadside-style joint, serving simple food at affordable prices. It's not destination dining. But it's not trying to be, and that's what makes Blue Collar succeed.
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Facebook stories on Delhi Murdered Woman are not all they seem
A lot has been put on line already about the horrendous gang rape, and murder of an Indian student in Delhi.
Many of you will have come across variations of this post which is pretty much "viral" on Facebook :
The post shows what appears to be, pictures of the Indian student – on the left lying in bed seriously ill after her assault, and on the right, wearing modern indian style clothing, and looking very attractive.
The accompanying text includes a graphic account of the most violent rape imaginable – it's all over the internet if you want to read it – I'm not going to repeat it again here.
Naturally many thousands – if not millions – of Facebook users, have shared this, and shared their disgust at violence against women in general, and this despicable crime in particular. It's hard really to think of a reason why you wouldn't want to share that.
Except … this is a woman who's name has not been released. Which does make me wonder whether they would release a picture of her – which would make it pretty pointless concealing her name.
After a bit of scouting around on Google – I discovered very quickly that the picture on the left, really is a picture of the victim of a serious assault. It's one Christo van Eeden a South African MAN – who was beaten by his mother's ex partner in August 2010 Woman's ex attacks her son
The picture on the right is interesting too. Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor has been relatively quick to point out that it's not the girl in question. He claims that it's a picture of an Engineering Student from Kerala Delhi gang-rape: Victim's purported photo is of Kerala student, claims Tharoor .
This may well be true – but what he doesn't flag up is where the originators of the Facebook picture are likely to have found this picture. Well they could have found it in any one of hundreds of websites such as this one Desi Indian Aunties which feature the picture. (Scroll down to the bottom it's the last picture in the October section)
The terms "Desi" and "Auntie" – appear to be a name for a particular brand of mildly pornographic pictures of Asian women, dressed in indian dress. This particular web site cites its purpose as follows :
"This Blog is specially for aunty lovers and contains hot indian actress, celebrity, models, sexy babe, Real Life Photos of Desi Indian Girls and Aunties downloaded from internet posted by some one else. We are just helping to save your time and avoid searching everywhere."
It is by western standards very mild pornography. Some of the sites which contain the picture are a little more explicit.
But let's remember the Facebook posting says :
"And oh yeah
But don't worry
She wasn't your sister
She wasn't your daughter
But she could be. The brutality has to stop right here guys
Is this how we treat our women?"
And yet – the people who have faked this picture have gone to the trouble of downloading a picture from a website which promises "Hot Masala navel" and carries links to user submitted pictures like this one :
It carries with it the following caption
It struck me having discovered this about the photographs that the graphic account of the rape was quite possibly ripped off from somewhere else too. I couldn't find any evidence of that – but if it is accurate it begs the issue of where has it come from. Has it been made up ? Or is it based on police accounts of the incident.
If it's based on police accounts then immediately it makes me wonder what on earth the police are playing at releasing such graphic descriptions in to the public domain before the alleged perpetrators are brought to trial. One Indian newspaper, the Daily Bhaskar is already attributing to the police, stories relating to the youngest of the six accused who is reported to be a juvenile :Delhi gang-rape: Juvenile raped victim twice; was most brutal among 6 men
"He might walk free in three months but he was the most brutal among six men who gang-raped the 23-year-old medical student in South Delhi on December 16."
"According to the Delhi Police, the juvenile raped the student twice. Once she was unconscious, he extracted her intestine with his hands and suggested she be thrown off the moving bus sans her clothes, says the chargesheet that the police are supposed to file in court today."
The police have released this information ? Really ? I do wonder – because extracting her intestine with his hands – even by the callous extremes of this crime – seems to a little far fetched.
All of which leads me to believe that chances of the people accused of this hideous crime getting a fair trial must be pretty close to zero. The world has already judged them guilty using trial by Facebook, after consideration of not very well fabricated evidence. If they were to be released in Delhi tonight there is every likelihood that they would be lynched.
And how would that kind of justice serve the dead woman, or those close to her ?
Even assuming that they really are guilty ?
The world is being found wanting over this case.
< Would you believe the first pingback i had on this was from a site which just lifted the text quoted from the 'Aunty Lovers' site. I despair sometimes >
< And several days later I find that today – 7th Jan – More than 9 people came to this site by searching for 'Hot Indian Aunties lying naked on bed pics' – sheesh ! >


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My history with VW. Long, long time ago, my father had a 1976 Mk1 Rabbit,
bright yellow 4 door automatic. We had it until the late 80's when it totally
crapped out on us.
It looked just like this!
me and said car
I may still have a polished hub cap at my folks place Then in hs, I
dreamed of owning a bug. But, it never came into fruition... Anyways, I've
always had a soft spot for vw's, especially older ones. Long story short, since
I sold my previous stickshift car, I've been driving a auto slushbox for the
past year or so. I've been dying to get a "fun" car. Wanting to get something
different (ie. not a Honda), I picked up 16vU4EA's 1989 Gti 16V couple
weeks ago.
I've been thoroughly enjoying driving it to work each day. It's got some
issues, mostly cosmetic (it ain't no beauty queen), but who doesn't. hahaha.
We'll work through them =D This site has been an invaluable resource and
I'm looking forward to picking your brains and hopefully meeting some of you.
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Sugar Rush: Populence Organic Sauvignon Blanc Kettle Corn
Your daily dose of something sweet.
Wine and popcorn are not two things commonly eaten together, unless you like to smuggle a bottle of Pinot under your coat on trips to the local cineplex. Populence, the one-year old, New York-based organic popcorn company, is hoping to change that fact very soon. They have teamed with New Zealand winemaker, Kim Crawford, to create a Sauvignon Blanc kettle corn.
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The bright yellow colored Sauvignon Blanc Kettle Corn ($2.50) has a flavor that's new to me: slightly less sweet than a typical caramel- or sugar-coated popcorn but with a bitter aftertaste from the wine. But I'm not sure I could detect the type of wine used in the coating if I didn't already know what it was.
In addition to the wine flavor, Populence sells seven other varieties at their retail store on 8th Street, and also have a website where you can order gift tins and other items. The standard kettle corn flavor (without the wine infusion) is also very good with an effective sweet-saltiness, but it's also less sweet than you'd expect.
Though I enjoyed the sweet variations, my favorite flavor was the 100% savory jalapeño cheddar ($2.50). The jalapeños bring some real heat and the cheddar coating tastes like real cheese. The garlic rosemary ($2.50) coating was also interesting, and the taste reminded me—in a good way—of the flavors of a good roast chicken.
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Angry Birds at Adobe MAX: Preview of New Flash-Based Version of Popular Game
Casual gamers and game aficionados alike have come to love playing Angry Birds by Rovio on their mobile devices. Coming off yesterday's highly anticipated launch of Flash Player 11 and AIR 3, we're excited to take gaming to a whole new level with its hardware accelerated 2D and 3D graphics rendering. Today at Adobe MAX, I was joined onstage by Rovio's general manager of North America, Andrew Stalbow, who previewed a new version of Angry Birds preparing to take flight – built on Flash Player 11 using the Starling framework, an ActionScript 3 2D framework developed on top of GPU hardware accelerated 2D/3D APIs. While Rovio has worked with several technologies from native development on mobile devices to HTML, this new Flash Player version of Angry Birds will further broaden the game's reach and help Rovio gain a wider audience for its content.
Like Adobe, Rovio is committed to providing an immersive and innovative user experience. During the keynote, Andrew said, "We loved developing with Flash and Adobe because of the consistent and rich user experience it provides. […] We have an amazing brand in Angry Birds and we want to deliver an incredible experience to our fans. With Flash Player 11, we are able to deliver new and unique experiences that consumers haven't seen before."
Andrew provided a sneak peek of this new Flash-based version of Angry Birds and we're thrilled to be helping Rovio usher in a new era for its blockbuster game on the web. Check out the image below for a taste of what's to come. Andrew commented that Rovio plans to bring the full Angry Birds game experience to the Flash Platform in the next few months. Check out the Angry Birds demo below.
Epic Games Takes the Stage at MAX with Unreal Engine 3 (UE3)
And the gaming momentum didn't stop with Angry Birds! We also provided a glimpse into what the new Stage 3D API in Flash Player and AIR will bring to the web and what the future of 3D on the web will look like. I was also joined onstage by Epic Games CEO, Founder and Technical Director Tim Sweeney – who unveiled the company's award-winning Unreal Engine 3 (UE3) technology running fully inside a Flash-based environment. Epic has always been known for raising the bar in the gaming industry, and now we're working together to raise the bar on the web through Flash.
"Flash Player upgrades the web to a AAA game engine," Tim commented during the keynote. The live technical demonstration of "Unreal Tournament 3," Epic's blockbuster first-person shooter for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PCs, was visually enhanced for an unprecedented real-time experience inside Flash Player 11. "With UE3 and Flash, games built for high-end consoles can now run on the Web or as Facebook apps, reaching an enormous user base," Tim said in their press release. "This totally changes the playing field for game developers who want to widely deploy and monetize their games." Watch Tim's Flash-based 3D game demo:
Adobe continues pushing the boundaries of technology and digital experiences – and we can't wait to see how our community will continue to change the face of the web!
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The link between fragrance, art, film and music is clearly stated in your "manifesto". What makes it so important for you?
I'm inspired by anything moody and deep. I'm drawn toward rich, dark, textural art and find that it affects my approach not only to creating fragrances but to living my life in general. Personally speaking, it's important that I recognize the subtle things in life that have a notable influence on how I think. Being in the appropriate mindset is crucial to the act of creation and it extends beyond what most people would consider traditional art. Decay is a theme I've always been inspired by, castles that crumble or the end of youth. Anything that symbolizes something outside of human control and reminds me of the temporal nature of existence I find mesmerizing, and it is there where my thoughts are most colorful.
Your range of fragrances seems to be continually morphing. Different batches/formulas, fragrances discontinued and other fragrances re-introduced not to talk about different bottles. What's behind that?
I don't have much interest in functioning as an assembly line. My creative process behind each fragrance is perpetually incubating. With each passing minute, hour, and day my abilities and awareness as a perfumer become further refined, and what I may have once perceived as a portrait of perfection will almost certainly, with time and familiarity, reveal itself to have cracks, unfinished corners and blank spots. The more intimate you become with something the more likely you are to observe those little imperfections and when I see an imperfection I instinctually aim to correct it as I have no interest in adhering to a formula I know I could improve upon. I've always loved the idea of art being an evolving work, even if the concept is foreign to the perfume industry. Each time I create a new cask of an existing perfume I give it much though. I pause, I audit myself, I get a sense of where I'm at. I remind myself of what I was feeling when I was inspired to first make the scent, I look at old notes and I go over earlier formulas and allow whats inside to manifest as accurately as possible in the perfume, regardless of what it takes to do so. Anything less is a waste of my time and I'd quickly become bored.
As for the constant changing of bottles and packaging, I've never really been too focused on the physical element. You hold the bottle for 5 seconds but you wear the fragrance all day, so I focus on the things I find truly substantive. One of the realities of being an independent perfumer is you are at the whim of your suppliers, and if your supplier stops carrying your bottle then you accept it and move on. Fortunately my primary investment is on the fragrances and not the physical appearance so while many expect some semblance of uniformity from perfume companies, it's a concept I lack interest in. I hold an annual sale the weekend of Thanksgiving and that time will also see the introduction of new and permanent bottles, all etched the way Pear + Olive are done. This will be the bottle and style that will be around for many years so perhaps the revolving door of bottles has come to an end for now.
Slumberhouse "Strange and Unique perfumes". Your brand is very "different". What makes it so special and so distant from most of other niche lines?
I don't know really. It's not a concerted effort to be different, I just do what feels right. I tend to ignore fads, trade shows and all the usual things that suck companies in and get them to play the game. I've never seen the appeal in allowing opportunism and conformity to impose on my creativity. I'm confident in my ideas and find a bit of solace in things that people might deem strange or unorthodox.
What's your blockbuster release?
Pear + Olive has outsold everything else. I'm very proud of that one, not only how it turned out but the process of creating it, the isolation, where my mind was at during the process. It opened my eyes to how I should approach making fragrances. The level of focus you need to make a good perfume is impossible to explain, and the process of making Pear + Olive involved a very intense kind of immersion into my head, nothing but myself and my thoughts and a total disregard for anything outside of what was happening inside my mind.
When it comes to perfumery, what's your background? Why and when you decided to start your own line?
I had zero background, and in retrospect I think that was the biggest advantage of all. I never wore fragrances in my life, I actually couldn't stand them. Things started out as a relatively unserious foray into creating unusual scents just to keep in jars, almost like a form of aromatherapy, but because the scents I wanted weren't readily available -- or so I thought -- I figured I'd try to make them myself. I wanted really moody and mysterious scents like smoke, forests, leather, seashells, things like that. Many of these themes are realized in fragrances I've since made.
Because I had a lack of knowledge or interest in perfume proper, my initial few years of learning fragrance weren't impeded or polluted with aspirations to compete with a list of fragrances I already loved. I didn't have any comparisons to beat myself up over. As far as I knew I was the only person on the planet who ever tried to make a scent that smelled like autumn smoke, and with that came an inspired sense of liberation. In a way, my ignorance facilitated my inspiration.
If memory serves me well, you have a love affair with clove. What are the notes/ingredients that you use the most?
Naturals have a lot more personality than synthetics so it's wise for me to be mindful of refraining from overusing particular ones across a variety of scents. I use things like eugenyl, cedryl, guaiyl, vetiveryl and amber acetates quite a bit as well as Iso E Super, Amberwood Forte, Kephalis and natural fixatives like amyris and muhuhu. Anything dark is going to work with my palette. On the other hand, I can't stand citrus notes and for the most part I tend to avoid musks.
Your fragrances smell incredibly novel and are rapidly gaining a spot among the most discussed compositions in the fragrancesphere. Where do you take your inspirations and what's the concept behind your brand?
There is zero concept at all. I really want that to be understood. I'm offering no pretty backstory, no promise of luxury, no guarantee of appeal. My job, for lack of better term, is to be honest with myself through the act of creation. Once the bottle is shipped out, the concept of discovery is entirely in the hands of the person receiving it so that their own memories and understanding can be imparted from the fragrance. Everyone, especially those who appreciate the more eclectic realm of scent, is fully aware of their own nostalgia and their attachments with fragrance. They are intelligent and aware humans and I hope they would be insulted were I to begin telling them how they should perceive art. If they are ordering from a house like Slumberhouse they don't need to be spoonfed some silly adcopy about my travels to Bulgaria or my inspirations from some cliche eastern spice route, and they certainly don't need me to tell them how a scent should make them feel. I am best served when I respect the intelligence of my audience.
Do you smell other perfumer's compositions? If so, what do you like?
Absolutely. I spend so much time on my own fragrances that I take any opportunity I can to wear other people's fragrances when I head out the door. As Slumberhouse has grown the number of people who get in touch and start conversations with me has led to many recommendations of other scents people think I'd like and people sending me samples. It's great now to finally be able to peek into the world of other perfume houses. M by Puredistance is probably my favorite fragrance to wear. I really like El Attarine by Serge Lutens and summertime is Christopher Brosius season, I find his water perfumes addictive. Mona di Orio and O'driu both appeal to the aesthete in me.
Your approach to perfumery is very similar to the DIY attitude of most of the early/mid 90s indie record labels. What do you share with that scene?
Complete freedom and independence. I navigate the process from the moment an ingredient inspires me or a thought compels me until the perfume is complete. I don't have to get anyone's approval other than my own. Lots of perfumers have to answer to some moneyed up company with zero creative vision, which isn't much different than when a major label signs an indie artist then brings in a team of producers to change their sound. When profit is the prize, art will always suffer - and niche is the new mainstream for sure.
If you were supposed to do a bespoke fragrance for a musician, who would it be and how the fragrance would smell like?
I'd love to do either a palm, coconut, Tahitian vanilla and tobacco flower perfume for Lauryn Hill or a buckshot, blunt and Dom Perignon perfume for Die Antwoord.
What we should never expect from Slumberhouse?
Anything less than my all. I'm a firm believer in the idea that if you're not gonna come correct, don't even bother.
What's next?
I'm curious to know myself. I tend to live in the moment and rarely look ahead. This has served me well and hopefully continues to do so. Sometimes I'll tackle four fragrances in a single month, and sometimes I'll go half a year with complete 'perfumer's block'. It's precisely why I don't adhere to any kind of release schedule. I'm at the mercy of my neuroticism.
What are your plans regarding the distribution of your fragrances? Will they will be available in outside of US?
I'm hopeful that after the new year I'll spend some time and attention on the logistics of arrangements with international stockists. In the meantime, anyone who wants to order should feel free to send an email or contact Sundhaft in Germany.
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That Mysterious, Possibly Mafia-Connected Safe Has Been Opened But Only Oprah Knows What's Inside
Do you remember that mysterious safe hidden behind a wall inside Bill's Casino in Reno? Well, it's been opened. Cool! Not really, since it was opened and filmed by Oprah's people for a TV special. So no one knows what's inside still. TV drama!


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A Simple Public Debt Dynamic Model for Assessing Fiscal Vulnerability: Empirical Evidence for EU Countries
There is a large body of research showing that fiscal policy confronted growing challenges over the last decades. The increasing public debt along with population ageing made fiscal policy more vulnerable, in the sense of having some exposure to liquidity and/or solvency risks. In this context, the question arises on how to assess fiscal vulnerability as to signal government to adjust the policy and to restore it to the 'good' path. The aim of this paper is to introduce a new methodology of assessing fiscal vulnerability based on a simple dynamic model of public debt. Using annual data ranged on 1970-2012 for all European Union countries, the results show the moments when fiscal policy was vulnerable.
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Let's get Christmas week off to an all-inclusive start with some advice from our regular guest blogger the lovely Rachel of Mosaic Brides about how you can get your other half involved in the wedding planning process. And this isn't just about getting the boys in order either, as this advice can apply to any wayward fiancé on either side of the partnership. Get 'em involved, people! Using images from my own wedding (a groom who did as he was told FYI!) by David Lawson Studios.
Rachel says: For most of us girls an engagement ring isn't necessary to start planning our big day, it simply signals a time to put our thoughts into action. Long before we meet Mr or Mrs Right we spend time swooning over wedding dresses, deciding who our bridesmaids will be and how we will dress them – we even think about the flavour of the sponge and filling for our three-tier wedding cake (mine's a simple iced white cake with vanilla, lemon and chocolate layers, decorated with fresh vintage style flowers)!
By contrast our significant other may not have given any consideration to their wedding day, and for some even getting down on one knee does not prompt such thoughts. As a result it's sometimes the case that a bride can feel alone during the planning process when her partner takes a back seat and utters those three frustrating words "I don't mind". But with many couples ditching traditional weddings in favour of more personal affairs, it's never been more important that input comes from both sides to achieve a day that's a reflection of both of you.
So, if your husband or wife-to-be is under the impression that their duties end at the proposal, suit hire and picking a best man or woman who will plan them a send off to rival The Hangover, I suggest the following…
In the beginning
Sit down and talk. From the very start make clear to your fiancé that you want them involved with planning the wedding and the ways in which they can help.
Next, discuss your opinions on the main areas like destinations, venues, styling, size of the wedding, food, entertainment and, of course, the budget. To encourage your partner to come up with their own ideas, or to prevent them just going along with what you say, try writing down your ideas separately and then coming back together to discuss your thoughts. While you might have the same ideas on some things other areas might need compromise – it's no good asking for their opinion and then ignoring it.
Work as a team
Part of being in a relationship is working as a team, a quality that can be incredibly useful when planning a wedding.
Discuss which elements you can do together such as attending wedding fairs and venue visits then look at your strengths and divide some of the other jobs between you. For example, if one of you is particularly creative then take the lead in styling the venue or designing invitations, if the other is good at research they can spend time looking up venues, entertainment, transport and so on.
It also makes sense to let the person who is good with numbers handle the budget while the more ballsy of the two can take charge when it comes to haggling.
Talent spotting
Don't be offended if your partner doesn't take an interest in every little thing. It may well be the case that they don't mind (or even care) which flowers, favours or bridesmaid dresses you have in mind but this provides the perfect opportunity to involve other relatives and friends. Meanwhile your fiancé can take some time out with their side of the bridal party to pick their wedding attire.
Also allocate your other half jobs that you know will spike their interest. So if they love music leave them to look for a band or to plan the play list, if they fancy themself as the next Jamie Oliver ask them to consider food options or if they usually organise your annual holiday let them arrange a dream honeymoon.
Keep calm and carry on
If despite your best efforts you feel that your husband or wife-to-be is still not taking an interest talk to them – communication is key in a relationship and is absolutely essential when it comes to planning a wedding.
Let your other half know that you want them to be involved and explain the ways in which you can inject elements of your personalities into the day as this might help to engage them. Equally don't get carried away and leave your partner out – the day belongs to both of you.
There is no doubt that planning a wedding is a stressful and demanding task that can lead to arguments but it should also be a time you enjoy together. To avoid fall outs don't talk wedding all the time. Try to have a night or two where discussing weddings is strictly off limits, giving you both a break and a chance to spend quality time with one another.
Finally and most importantly don't lose sight of the reasons why you are actually getting married, beyond the paper pompoms and that three tired cake there should be a whole lot of love.
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Firefighters have been struggling since last weekend to prevent a fire from spreading into Garajonay National Park, situated in the middle of the island of La Gomera in the Canary Islands archipelago. The blaze, which may have been started accidentally by a farmer clearing his land, had already destroyed 700 hectares (1,750 acres) of farmland and woods.
On Monday night the fire had reached the buffer zone of the Park but had not spread to the Park itself. The situation has stabilized but firefighters are still working to get all fires in the vicinity under control.
Laurel forest covers some 70% of this park. The presence of springs and numerous streams assures lush vegetation resembling that of the Tertiary, which, due to climatic changes, has largely disappeared from southern Europe. The Park was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1986.


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A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns and villages. They usually have loading docks to load and unload goods from trucks. Sometimes warehouses are designed for the loading and unloading of goods directly from railways, airports, or seaports. They often have cranes and forklifts for moving goods, which are usually placed on ISO standard pallets loaded into pallet racks. Stored goods can include any raw materials, packing materials, spare parts, components, or finished goods associated with agriculture, manufacturing and production.
- 1 Warehouse function
- 2 Storage and shipping systems
- 3 Automation and optimization
- 4 Modern trends
- 5 Cool warehouses and cold storage
- 6 Internet impact
- 7 Warehousing Education
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 Further reading
- 11 External links
Warehouse function
Historically warehouses were a dominant part of the urban landscape from the start of the Industrial Revolution through the 19th century and into the twentieth century. The buildings remained when their original usage had changed. There are four identifiable types of warehouses.[clarification needed][1] The cotton industry rose with the development of the warehouse, and all five types were represented in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Warehouses of that period in Manchester were often lavishly decorated, but modern warehouses are more functional.[2]
Warehouse allow transport optimization along the supply chain, and allow companies to work with an optimal inventory (economic order quantity) regarding service quality. For example, at the terminal point of a transport system it is necessary to stockpile produce until a full load can be transported. Warehouses can also be used to store the unloaded goods from the vessel.
In industries whose goods require a period of maturation between production and retail, such as viniculture and cheesemaking, warehouses can be used to store the goods in large quantities.
Display of goods for sale
These displayed goods for the home trade. This would be finished goods- such as the latest cotton blouses or fashion items. Their street frontage was impressive, so they took the styles of Italianate Palazzos.
Richard Cobden's construction in Mosley Street was the first palazzo warehouse. There were already seven warehouses on Portland Street when they commenced building the elaborate Watts Warehouse of 1855,[1][3] but four more were opened before it was finished. It was this type of warehouse that inspired the Germans in Düsseldorf and Munich to name their prestigious department stores Warenhäuser.[dubious ]
Overseas warehouses
These catered for the overseas trade. They became the meeting places for overseas wholesale buyers where printed and plain could be discussed and ordered.[1] Trade in cloth in Manchester was conducted by many nationalities.
Behrens Warehouse is on the corner of Oxford Street and Portland Street. It was built for Louis Behrens & Son by P Nunn in 1860. It is a four storey predominantly red brick build with 23 bays along Portland Street and 9 along Oxford Street.[3] The Behrens family were prominent in banking and in the social life of the German Community in Manchester.[4] [5]
Packing warehouses
The main purpose of packing warehouses was the picking, checking, labelling and packing of goods for export.[1] The packing warehouses: Asia House, India House and Velvet House along Whitworth Street were some of the tallest buildings of their time.
Railway warehouses
Warehouses were built close to the major stations in railway hubs. The first railway warehouse to be built was opposite the passenger platform at the terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. There was an important group of warehouses around London Road station (now Piccadilly station).In the 1890s the Great Northern Railway Company's warehouse was completed on Deansgate: this was the last major railway warehouse to be built.[1]
The London Warehouse Picadilly was one of four warehouses built by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in about 1865 to service the new London Road Station. It had its own branch to the Ashton Canal. This warehouse was built of brick with stone detailing. It had cast iron columns with wrought iron beams.[6]
Canal warehouses
All these warehouse types can trace their origins back to the canal warehouses which were used for trans-shipment and storage. Castlefield warehouses are of this type- and important as they were built at the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal in 1761.
Storage and shipping systems
Some of the most common warehouse storage systems are:
- Pallet racking including selective, drive-in, drive-thru, double-deep, pushback, and gravity flow
- Mezzanine including structural, roll formed, racks
- Vertical Lift Modules are packed systems with vertically arranged trays stored on both sides of the unit.
- Horizontal Carousels consist of a frame and a rotating carriage of bins.
- Vertical Carousels consisting of a series of carriers mounted on a vertical closed-loop track, inside a metal enclosure.
A "piece pick" is a type of order selection process where product is picked and handled in individual units and placed in an outer carton, tote or other container before shipping. Catalog companies and internet retailers are examples of predominantly piece-pick operations. Their customers rarely order in pallet or case quantities; instead, they typically order just one or two pieces of one or two items. Several elements make up the piece-pick system. They include the order, the picker, the pick module, the pick area, handling equipment, the container, the pick method used and the information technology used.[7] Every movement inside a warehouse must be accompanied by a work order. Warehouse operation can fail when workers move goods without work orders, or when a storage position is left unregistered in the system.
Material direction and tracking in a warehouse can be coordinated by a Warehouse Management System (WMS), a database driven computer program. Logistics personnel use the WMS to improve warehouse efficiency by directing pathways and to maintain accurate inventory by recording warehouse transactions.
Automation and optimization
Some warehouses are completely automated, and require only operators to work and handle all the task. Pallets and product move on a system of automated conveyors, cranes and automated storage and retrieval systems coordinated by programmable logic controllers and computers running logistics automation software. These systems are often installed in refrigerated warehouses where temperatures are kept very cold to keep product from spoiling, especially in electronics warehouse where they require specific temperature to avoid damaging the parts, and also where land is expensive, as automated storage systems can use vertical space efficiently. These high-bay storage areas are often more than 10 meters (33 feet) high, with some over 20 meters (65 feet) high. Automated storage systems can be built up to 40m high.
For a warehouse to function efficiently, the facility must be properly slotted. Slotting addresses which storage medium a product is picked from (pallet rack or carton flow), and how they are picked (pick-to-light, pick-to-voice, or pick-to-paper). With a proper slotting plan, a warehouse can improve its inventory rotation requirements—such as first in, first out (FIFO) and last in, first out (LIFO)—control labor costs and increase productivity.[8]
Pallet racks are commonly used to organize a warehouse. It is important to know the dimensions of racking and the number of bays needed as well as the dimensions of the product to be stored.[9] Clearance should be accounted for if using a forklift or pallet mover to move inventory.
Modern trends
Traditional warehousing has declined since the last decades of the 20th century, with the gradual introduction of Just In Time techniques. The JIT system promotes product delivery directly from suppliers to consumer without the use of warehouses. However, with the gradual implementation of offshore outsourcing and offshoring in about the same time period, the distance between the manufacturer and the retailer (or the parts manufacturer and the industrial plant) grew considerably in many domains, necessitating at least one warehouse per country or per region in any typical supply chain for a given range of products.
Recent retailing trends have led to the development of warehouse-style retail stores. These high-ceiling buildings display retail goods on tall, heavy duty industrial racks rather than conventional retail shelving. Typically, items ready for sale are on the bottom of the racks, and crated or palletized inventory is in the upper rack. Essentially, the same building serves as both warehouse and retail store.
Another trend relates to Vendor-managed inventory (VMI). This gives the vendor the control to maintain the level of stock in the store. This method has its own issue that the vendor gains access to the warehouse.
Large exporters and manufacturers use warehouses as distribution points for developing retail outlets in a particular region or country. This concept reduces end cost to the consumer and enhances the production sale ratio.
Cross docking is a specialised type of distribution center (DC) in that little or no inventory is stored and product is received, processed (if needed) and shipped within a short timeframe. As in warehousing, there are different types of cross docks.
Reverse logistics is another type of warehousing that has become popular for environmental reasons. The term refers to items that are going from the end user back to the distributor or manufacturer.[citation needed]
Another modern trend is for warehouses is raving.
Cool warehouses and cold storage
Cold storage preserves agricultural products. Refrigerated storage helps in eliminating sprouting, rotting and insect damage. Edible products are generally not stored for more than one year. Several perishable products require a storage temperature as low as -25 °C.
Cold storage helps stabilize market prices and evenly distribute goods both on demand basis and time basis. The farmers get the opportunity of producing cash crops to get remunerative prices. The consumers get the supply of perishable commodities with lower fluctuation of prices.
Ammonia and Freon compressors are commonly used in cold storage warehouses to maintain the temperature. Ammonia refrigerant is cheaper, easily available and has a high latent heat of evaporation but it is also highly toxic and can form an explosive mixture when mixed with oil containing high percentage of carbon. Insulation is also important, to reduce loss of cold and to keep different sections of the warehouse at different temperatures.
There are two main types of refrigeration system used in cold storage warehouses, a Vapour absorption system (VAS) and Vapour compression system (VCS). VAS, although comparatively costlier, is quite economical in operation and adequately compensates the higher initial investment.
The temperature necessary for preservation depends on the storage time required and the type of product. In general, there are three groups of products, foods that are alive (e.g. fruits and vegetables), foods that are no longer alive and have been processed in some form (e.g. meat and fish products), and commodities that benefit from storage at controlled temperature (e.g. beer, tobacco).
Location is a very critical aspect for the success of cold storage. It should be in close proximity of a growing area as well as a market, be easily accessible for heavy vehicles, and have uninterrupted power supply.
Cold storage and the law
There are state and local laws that regulate the cold storage industry, requiring safe working conditions for employees, and operational procedures must be in accordance with these laws. Companies that are aware of and comply with applicable regulations are more likely to pass inspection, avoid notices of violation, and will be able to continue operating at full capacity, ensuring greater customer service and uninterrupted product flow.
Refrigerated warehouse industry
Refrigerated warehousing industries make up approximately one fifth of the market size of general warehousing.[10] Most of the market is concentrated in the Midwest, but California has the largest market share of the states. In 2006, the average market size of the industry was slightly over $3 billion, and the market continued growing in the following half decade.
The capacity of Refrigerated Warehouses in the United States: October 1, 2011 was reported as being:
|Refrigerated Warehouses TYPE
|Volume in Cubic Feet
|Cooler Space, Usable
|Freezer Space, Usable
by the United States Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, ISSN: 1949-1638.[11]
Internet impact
Internet-based stores do not require physical retail space, but still require warehouses to store goods. This kind of warehouse fills many small orders directly from customers rather than fewer large orders from stores.
Having a large and complex supply chain containing many warehouse can be costly. It may be beneficial for a company to have one large warehouse per continent, typically located centrally to transportation. At these continental hubs, goods may be customized for different countries. For example, goods get a price ticket in the language of the destination country. Small, in-warehouse adjustments to goods are called value added services.
Warehousing Education
There are few non-profit organizations which are focused on imparting knowledge, education and research in the field of warehouse management and its role in the supply chain industry. The Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC)[12] and International Warehouse Logistics Association (IWLA)[13] in Illinois, United States. They provide professional certification and continuing education programs for the industry in the country. The Australian College of Training have government funded programs to provide personal development and continuation training in warehousing certs II - V (Diploma), they operate in Western Australia online and face to face, or Australia wide for online only courses.
See also
- Automated storage and retrieval system
- Document automation
- Data warehouse
- Inventory
- Inventory management software
- Kiva Systems—a manufacturer of robots for warehouse automation
- Pick and pack
- Shipping list
- Shipwire— an outsourced warehousing and order fulfillment provider
- Voice Directed Warehousing
- Warehouse management system
- ^ a b c d e Wyke, Terry (2007/2008). "Manchester warehouses". Revealing Histories: Remembering Slavery. Manchester City Galleries. Retrieved 24 January 2012. Check date values in:
- ^ Kidd, Alan (2006). Manchester: A History. Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing. ISBN 1-85936-128-5.
• Frangopulo, Nicholas (1977). Tradition in Action. The historical evolution of the Greater Manchester County. Wakefield: EP Publishing. ISBN 0-7158-1203-3.
• "Manchester - the first industrial city". Entry on Sciencemuseum website. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
- ^ a b Parkinson-Bailey 2000, p. 81
- ^ Parkinson-Bailey 2000, p. 84
- ^ Coates, Su (1991–92). "German Gentlemen: Immigrant Institutions in a Provincial City 1840-1920" (PDF). Manchester Region History Review 5 (2).
- ^ Moss, John (15/11/20111). "Victorian Manchester: Textile Industries & Warehouses". Manchester 2000 Vitual Encyclopedia. Manchester: Papillon Graphics. Retrieved 26 January 2012. Check date values in:
- ^ OPSdesign Consulting (September 1, 2009). "PICK THIS! A Compendium of Piece-Picking Process Alternatives". Warehousing Education & Research Council (WERC). ISBN 9781892663467.
- ^ Effectively Slotting a Warehouse or Distribution Center by Paul Hansen and Kelvin Gibson. Cygnus Supply and Demand Chain Executive. Accessed 2010-08-06.
- ^ "Installation Guide for Warehouse Rack Systems"
- ^ [1] Pell Research Statistics on Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage - cited with permission
- ^ http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1424 UDSA The Capacity of Refrigerated Warehouses
- ^ WERC Illinois
- ^ IWLA Illinois
- Kumar (2014). warehouse - Layout Planning and Part Feeding Methods. Yes Dee Publishing Pvt Ltd. ISBN 9789380381381.
Further reading
- The Story of the Bale. Manchester: Lloyd's Packing Warehouses Ltd, Princess Street, 1926
- "Warehouse Analytics for Astute Logisticians" - Smart Conference 2011
External links
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Back in December I wrote a blog post highlighting the cavalier approach the Scottish Government had taken towards oil & gas forecasting (Oil & Gas: will we ever learn?) and at the time I suggested:
- This [...] is surely a compelling illustration of the need for an OBR equivalent independent fiscal watchdog in Scotland. Maybe we could call it the Scottish Office for Budget and Economic responsibility and task it with providing SOBER assessments to inform policy makers and voters?
It will therefore come as no surprise to readers of this blog that I support the idea of a Scottish OBR - even if I think including the word "Economic" so we could call it "SOBER" would be slightly funnier.
There have been numerous examples during recent political debate in Scotland where politicians have appeared to purposely mislead voters: use of outdated and dubiously interpreted GERS figures on the economy, White Paper promises that simply didn't add up and the use of forecasts on oil & gas revenues that chose to ignore the OBR figures that existed at the time are just three obvious examples.
Respected think tanks (the IFS and NIESR deserve special mention), enthusiastic bloggers like me and (all too infrequently) the Main Stream Media have attempted to highlight some of these issues - but are routinely dismissed with accusations of bias or drowned out by the noise of campaign rhetoric.
I whole-heartedly supporting this call for an impartial, respected and trusted body to hold our politicians to account - in fact I would suggest it's remit should include fact-checking of assertions made during political speeches and debates, thereby helping voters make informed choices confident in the knowledge that they haven't been misled on points of fact. It would also save me a lot of work.
Maybe then we wouldn't have had some people voting based on economic forecasts in the White Paper that were based on scenarios of oil & gas revenue that could be generously described at the time as "optimistic" and "hopelessly optimistic" (A point I hope I illustrate simply and clearly here).
Maybe then a large proportion of the electorate would not still believe Alex Salmond's oft repeated and frankly ridiculous assertion that "we'd have been £8bn better off" over the last 5 years if we'd have been independent (I explain why that's simply untrue here).
Maybe then we wouldn't have elected MSP's such as Stewart Stevenson Tweeting such nonsense as this as recently as last night:
@Haitch7 NO - a smaller deficit per capita than UK. Unless you can show evidence different from GERS (UK statisticians' official figures).
— Stewart Stevenson (@zsstevens) January 17, 2015
As I patiently point out to him in that thread
- The most recent GERS figures (published almost a year ago) cover 2012-13 and show Scotland running a worse per capita deficit than the rest of the UK - £512 per person worse to be precise (and yes that's assuming we get to keep "our oil").
- Given these published figures are for the period before the oil slump, the deficit gap between Scotland and the rest of the UK is likely to have widened in 2013-14
- It's hard to imagine 2014-15 showing anything other than further deterioration.
If we had a SOBER (oh alright then SOBR) in place, hopefully elected representatives would be a little less fast and loose with simple facts.
Surely - whatever political party you favour - that can only be seen as a good thing?
Apparently not. According to STV News John Swinney has responded by claiming the Scottish Fiscal Commission (SFC) will fulfill this role. The SFC was established in July 2014 and their first report was published in October - just too late to cover any indyref promises. Their website states they are meant to provide "impartial and expert public scrutiny of the Scottish Government's tax forecasts" - but limited to cover only existing devolved taxes. As demonstrated during the indyref, that leaves politicians free to make incredible claims about the value to our economy of further tax devolution without scrutiny. That's not good enough.
He also defends the oil & gas forecasts used by the Scottish Government in their White Paper by saying their predictions "were indeed lower than those predicted by UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)"
- As I never tire of pointing out: the lowest scenario they used assumed oil tax receipts 60% higher than the OBR forecast that existed at the time. If you show two scenarios they should surely show a realistic range of possible outcomes - ignoring the OBR forecasts that existed at the time is simply indefensible.
- When he says their predictions were lower than DECC I presume he is referring to the price projections. As I covered in detail here it's true that the Scottish Government's price projections were consistent with the DECC price forecast range (and indeed the futures market) at the time of publication - but you need to predict volumes and taxation levels to get to actual tax take and DECC don't (as far as I've seen) do that. The OBR do of course, but the Scottish Government ignored them. Its disingenuous to suggest that the only assumption required to forecast North Sea oil tax revenues is the future oil price.
- By the end of the indyref debate - in the months before votes were cast - it was clear that the White Paper forecasts were hopelessly optimistic. Independent scrutiny of campaign rhetoric used during that period would have surely highlighted this fact.
With the SNP apparently hell-bent on pushing for full fiscal autonomy, the need for a wide ranging SOBR body is clear. It would make a refreshing change if we could eliminate the political game-playing around known numbers and actually have a well-informed debate about the issues.


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Creeping Sharia cites a juicy BizzyBlog post.
The July 22, 2007 Trinity United Church of Christ bulletin reprinted an article written by Mousa Abu Marzook, deputy of the political bureau of Hamas. Originally printed in the LA Times as "Hamas' stand", Pastor Wright added a new title, "A Fresh View of the Palestinian Struggle". The Times was criticized for giving a "Platform To Genocidal Terrorist." Where does that leave Obama's church? Marzook is a known terrorist and created an extensive Hamas network in the United States.
The smoking gun is here in Obama's church bulletin. Was Obama there? Does he support Hamas? Expect Obama and his supporters to simply ignore this tacit if not direct support of a terrorist organizaton.
Visit Creeping Sharia for the photo scan of the bulletin. Maybe Wright really did mean it when he said "God damn America." After all, Hamas has called for attacks on the US.


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Miller time: Baliles to head Miller Center
The scores of politically savvy septuagenarians expected to hear a speech by a D.C.-based Chicago Tribune journalist at a typical Miller Center forum, but overnight ice quashed her trip. So the bonus portion of the December 16 event became the main event: the announcement that Gerald Baliles is coming to Charlottesville to head that prestigious center for public affairs.
"You are the guy," Bill Wood exclaimed to the former governor after Baliles was introduced as the new head of UVA's think tank on presidents and policies.
"He's the right person for this job," said Wood, a former director of UVA's Sorenson Institute–"everything from fundraising to the way he's regarded by everyone in the state, Democrat and Republican."
Indeed, it was a bipartisan morning, as UVA president John Casteen, who served under Democrat Chuck Robb as the state's education secretary, placed Baliles among Virginia's top three modern-day governors with the "most profound impact," along with Mills Godwin and John Dalton.
Casteen also noted that Baliles becomes the second governor to take a leadership role at the University. (The first was Colgate Darden, who was president from 1947 to 1958.)
Baliles succeeds Philip Zelikow, who resigned in February after helming the 9/11 Commission to take the position of senior advisor to Condoleezza Rice.
Casteen noted that Baliles' governorship was known for trade missions and transportation improvements, and that in his post-gubernatorial years he helped pave the way for the "charter" legislation that may soon emancipate the University from pesky state regulations.
"I'm bullish on what will happen as a result of his coming," said Casteen.
Baliles might want to get bullish on the stock market, as he told a reporter that he plans to move to Charlottesville from Richmond, where houses are less expensive per square foot.
UVA officials say Baliles will retire from the Richmond-based law firm of Hunton & Williams at the end of March and join the University on April 1.
Baliles, hoping to bridge the worlds of academia and public policy, calls the Miller Center a place of "ambitious initiatives and patient scholarship."
He'll soon be working with the likes of Timothy Naftali, who attended the press conference. Ostensibly the head of the Miller Center's acclaimed presidential recordings project, Naftali is also a terrorism expert whose essays are well-written enough to appear on Salon, a pre-eminent online magazine. He's working on a book about the Cold War as seen through Nikita Khrushchev's eyes.
"My favorite governor was Linwood Holton," says Naftali, "until I met Governor Baliles."
The late '80s governor is back in style.


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While doing more reading and searching for articles to mention/link to here, I came across the following statistics from Campus Pride:Q Research Institute for Higher Education's 2010 Campus Climate study.(1) *Stats listed below taken from the CNN.comm article, "Why did Tyler Clementi Die?"
— Twenty-three percent of staff, faculty, and students who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or questioning (LGBQ) were more likely to experience harassment (defined as any conduct that interfered with the ability to work or learn) compared to heterosexuals. Eighty-three percent identified sexual identity as the basis of the harassment.
— Thirty-nine percent of transgender students, faculty and staff experienced harassment, with 87 percent identifying their gender identity/expression as the basis for the harassment. The form of the harassment experienced by transgender people was more overt and blatant, according to the report.
— Thirty-three percent of LGBQ and 38 percent of transgender students, faculty and staff have seriously considered leaving their institution due to the challenging climate.
— Forty-three percent of LGBQ and 63 percent of transgender faculty, students and staff hide their sexual identity.
— Forty-three percent of all transgender students, faculty and staff and 13 percent of LGBQ respondents feared for their physical safety. This finding was more pronounced for LGBQ students and for LGBQ and/or transgender people of color.
I bolded the last part above because I think that there is still a lack of understanding of LGBTQ issues amongst and regarding people of color. That is one of the reasons we started this project, so that everyone can be heard, and no one will feel as if their story isn't welcome or will be lost amongst the masses.
Please, take note of these disturbing statistics and make your voice heard, be it in word or by video, we need your stories to make this project a success.
(1) – You can purchase a copy of the study from QIRHE, at their site.


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Panasonic has unveiled two hi-tech in-car systems that close the gap between operating your car and running your home.
The CN-HX1000D and CN-HW1000D both use Bluetooth to connect through your mobile phone to remotely do everything from turning on light to recording something on TV. Both units are both part of Panasonic's Strada vehicle technology range, which was first unveiled in 2003.
Although full technical details are still sketchy, users will probably need some sort of home automation kit in addition to either Panasonic unit in order for commands from your unit to be picked up at home and acted upon.
For example, you can opt to have security cameras at home that allow you to check your home's security remotely through either Strada unit. Although a remote monitoring service comes with additional fees.
The manufacturer's also developed the two in-car devices to be mobile entertainers. Both have built-in 7in screens to display video from the integrated DVD player or 40GB hard drive. The only main difference between the two models appears to be the available dashboard configuration options.
Panasonic will release both units in Japan next month, with a starting price of around ¥355,000 (£1738/€2182/$3374).
If just getting home is more important to you though, then Nokia will soon be casting an even larger shadow over mobile-based navigation because it plans to add GPS chips to 50 per cent of handsets by 2012.
The Finnish phone giant told Reuters it plans to ship 35m GPS-enabled handsets in 2008 and that most of its E and N Series phone will feature GPS, adding to some existing models that already do - such as the N82.


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Just wondering if what I'm thinking is correct or if I'm over reacting.
My Green Star Polyp coral is attached to a piece of rock about the size of a softball. It started to get some green algae growing on it in spots. I moved the rock lower in my tank (it was 6 inches from the surface, now it's 10 inches from the surface) and the GSP are really loving it.
Should I remove the algae growth on this rock or leave it be? My Turbo's due graze over this rock but are not putting a dent in the algae, same as my blue legged hermits. The rock looks neat with both the green star polyps and the algae but I'm afraid the algae may continue to spread over the coral.
Will the coral hold it's own ground or will the algae take over? I don't know the type of algae this is but in a few words it's, dark green, dense, about 1/2" long and grows in patches where the coral is not.
My thinking is to remove the rock and pick off the algae.


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The Planck mission has produced the most detailed all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background radiation.
The European-led team behind the Planck cosmology probe on Thursday released the mission's first all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background — a post-big-bang "baby picture" that suggests our universe is about 100 million years older than scientists thought.
The map traces subtle fluctuations in temperature that were imprinted on the deep sky when the cosmos was just 370,000 years old. Scientists say the imprint reflects ripples that arose as early as the first nonillionth of a second of the universe's existence. These ripples are thought to have given rise to today's vast cosmic web of galaxy clusters and dark matter.
"To a cosmologist, this map is a gold mine of information," University of Cambridge astrophysicist George Efstathiou, a member of the Planck science team, said during a European Space Agency news conference in Paris. He joked that not long ago, cosmologists might have "given up their children" to have such a map in their hands.
The $900 million (€700 million) Planck probe was launched on a European Ariane 5 rocket in 2009, along with the infrared-sensitive Herschel space telescope. Planck produced its first all-sky radiation map in 2010. Since then, scientists have fine-tuned the image to remove the bright emissions from the Milky Way and other foreground sources, leaving only the background radiation.
Two NASA satellites — the Cosmic Background Explorer and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, also known as COBE and WMAP — produced earlier versions of the baby picture. Those findings determined that the universe is made up of 4.5 percent ordinary matter, 22.7 percent dark matter, and 72.8 percent dark energy. The results also showed that the universe is geometrically "flat" to a margin of error of 0.4 percent, and helped scientists estimate the universe's age at 13.7 billion years.
Scientists who are investigating radiation from the Big Bang made the finding that our universe is about 100 million years older than we had thought.
Planck's map of the cosmic microwave background has significantly higher resolution than the readings that were made during previous missions such as COBE and WMAP, as shown in this graphic.
Planck can produce cosmological maps with three times the resolution of WMAP, and at least 10 times the temperature sensitivity. As a result, the estimates of the universe's age and composition have undergone some additional fine tuning. Planck's readings indicate that the universe's expansion rate is slower than previously thought — which means the universe is older.
Planck's estimate for the age of the universe is 13.82 billion years.
Martin White, a member of the Planck team from the University of California at Berkeley, told NBC News that Planck's estimate narrowed down the error bars on previous estimates. "In that sense, it's very consistent, but much more precise," he said.
The Planck team's breakdown of the universe's constituents is 4.9 percent ordinary matter, 26.8 percent dark matter and 68.3 percent dark energy, he said. "There's less stuff that we don't understand, by a tiny amount," Efstathiou said. As a result of the shift toward more matter and less dark energy, "an awful lot of people are going to be revising their calculations," White said.
Efstathiou said the Planck data also pointed to some "strange features" in the cosmic microwave background that may point to new frontiers in physics, including an unexplained dip at one point of the power spectrum, and an unusual distribution of large-scale fluctuations that roughly followed the plane of the solar system.
"Why characteristics of the CMB should relate to our solar system is not understood. ... I was explicitly told not to say anything about God in this talk — which I've just violated," Efstathiou said half-jokingly.
This graphic highlights anomalies seen in the Planck data. One anomaly is an asymmetry in the average temperatures on opposite hemispheres of the sky (indicated by the curved line), with slightly higher average temperatures in the southern ecliptic hemisphere and slightly lower average temperatures in the northern ecliptic hemisphere. This runs counter to the mainstream view that the universe should be broadly similar in any direction we look. There is also a cold spot that extends over a patch of sky that is much larger than expected (circled). The anomalous regions have been enhanced here to make them more clearly visible.
Planck's data set should help scientists do a reality check on many of the hypotheses proposed by cosmologists, including the view that the universe underwent rapid and far-reaching inflation in the first moments of its existence, as well as the claim that there are six or seven spatial dimensions in addition to the three we perceive.
An initial reading of the data appears to favor the simple models for the inflationary big bang, and rule out a lot of the complex models. "We think that they will be facing a dead end," said Krzysztof Gorski, a member of the Planck team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain noted that so far, the mission has delivered just half of the data it's expected to produce. The rest of the data is scheduled to come out in 2014 and 2015. "Today is not the end of the story," he told reporters. Efstathiou put it another way, paraphrasing one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's best-known catchphrases: "We'll be back."
More about cosmology:
- WMAP scientists unveil their best 'baby picture'
- Japanese string theorists simulate big bang
- Scrunched-up dimensions untangled
Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered to your email in-box every weekday. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.
This story was originally published on Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:49 AM EDT


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About this Cruise
18 October 2020
Caribbean - Southern
Freedom of the Seas is a stunning floating resort and one of the largest cruise ships afloat. It has 2 lobbies up to 11 decks high, a surf-rider, an ice-skating rink, rock-climbing wall and Royal Promenade 4 decks high. Freedom of the Seas passengers tend to be All ages and Mostly American but more Brits/Europeans in Europe. When all cabins have double occupancy, the ship provides a space ratio of 44 tons per passenger and a crew to passenger ratio of one for every 2.6 passengers. At full capacity the space ratio is 32.7 tons per passenger and the crew ratio is one to 3.5 passengers.
For informal dining and snacks, you can enjoy authentic pizza at Sorrentos, burger and fries at 1950s diner Johnny Rockets, or indulge in a sweet treat at Ben & Jerry's. If you fancy something more upmarket, try the fresh salmon or filet mignon at Chops Grille, or savour the intimacy of the Italian speciality restaurant, Portofino and sample the fine wines on offer at California Vineyards.
The Main Dining Room delivers attentive service and flexible dining options included in the price of your cruise. The Speciality Restaurants offer a range of different culinary experiences for a small extra charge.
From dazzling theatre productions are thrilling ice shows, to live comedy and glitzy champagne bars, there's plenty to keep passengers entertained. Whether you want to enjoy the unbelievable views of The Viking Crown Lounge or try your luck in the exciting casino, there will never be a dull day onboard.
The ship features a fantastic array of health and fitness facilities including a spa, a fitness centre, an ice rink and much more.
Loads of laughter and unforgettable experiences go hand-in-hand when cruising with Royal Caribbean. Games, events and activities are going on all over the ship throughout the day and into the evening hours, making family time a great time. And thanks to their Adventure Ocean youth program and the all-new DreamWorks Experience, children love their Royal Caribbean cruise vacation just as much as their parents.


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Commentary: Common Core is too rigid
There has been much controversy about the Common Core curriculum and its hurried implementation in New York. Clearly, it has some good points — most importantly, clear and consistent standards that can be helpful in evaluating student learning.
However, Common Core has placed an overemphasis on testing and severely limited teachers' ability to deliver individualized lessons to students. This particularly hurts those with special needs.
Common Core was created by governors in an attempt to make our educational system more robust and relevant. To qualify for "Race to the Top" funding, states needed to adopt Common Core, with a goal of better preparing high school graduates to compete in a global economy. But it has wound up spotlighting some major flaws in of our educational system, namely an overreliance on standardized testing and assessments at the expense of meeting the needs of the whole child.
The standards and curriculum cannot be one-size-fits-all. The adoption of these curricula means teachers are no longer able to deliver lessons tailored to each child. This is especially problematic for children with disabilities.
Common Core seems to be inconsistent with federal law that requires special needs students to have an Individualized Education Plan. Common Core, as implemented, makes no distinction for children with special needs or those who are disabled. IEP's were designed to guarantee a quality education to those with disabilities, and Common Core's standards that all children must learn the same thing, at the same time, in the same way seem to be wholly in conflict with federal mandate of IEPs.
One area that must be addressed is the notion that we can test all children at their chronological grade level as opposed to their abilities based on their IEP. How, for example, does requiring a fifth-grade student who has the ability to read at a second-grade level to test at the fifth- grade level help us evaluate that child?
In forcing teachers to deliver a prescribed curriculum rather than teach children as individuals, Common Core has removed the flexibility teachers need to reach children of all backgrounds, abilities, and learning styles. It has also taken creativity out of the educational equation and has left children to fend for themselves. This will have a particularly devastating impact on children with special needs who, according to the Department of Education, now number over 410,000 statewide. Worse yet, there was a 27 percent increase in the identification of students with special needs between 1990 and 2010.
Common Core further fails to address widespread and growing child poverty. This isn't factored into testing, yet has a significant impact on how prepared children are to learn and how well they compare to their peers. Today, 22.4 percent of school-age children in the United States are living in poverty as opposed to 16 percent in 1990. This is among the highest rates in the industrialized world.
Although we need to create higher expectations for student learning through rigorous assessments, the form these assessments take can be more flexible to better reflect the student's learning style. One way to do this is to take the emphasis off standardized testing and to create more opportunities for open-ended and performance-based assessments. This would allow students to express different ways of demonstrating mastery of knowledge and skills. By customizing the educational experience, the student will be better served and the teacher can provide an individual and holistic approach to education.
It's time to slow down the implementation of Common Core and take some time to re-evaluate the impact this will have on our children before it's too late. If we don't get this right now, our children will pay the price with their future.
Published The Times Union on Thursday, January 30th, 2014