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March 2nd, 2011
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Stayed at Villa Oceano (check www.vrbo.com, #91480). Great place! Private and beautiful. Incredible view! Will definitely go back!
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January 9th, 2010
8:59 pm
Stay at the HILTON, yeah it is the best I have ever visted and it is in the corridor between Cabo and San Jose which is perfect. It has won many awards vs it peers and highly ranked consistently on other sites. Great value and great service poolside. I prefer it over any visit to Hawaii and the beach walks can be amazing and the pools are perfect! Rooms always seem brand new. Love this spot!
— Anonymous
December 29th, 2009
11:05 am
Playa Grande Resort at the very southern tip of the Baja in Cabo San Lucas is the most exquisite resort. Beautiful rooms, views, food, service and a walk away from town. No need to rent a car as you can walk or take a short cab ride to town. Just walk to the end of the resort and your at the marina and can take a boat ride to the beach. In Jan/Feb you can lay by the pool and watch the whales.
— Anonymous
August 11th, 2009
3:25 pm
I agree with Isaac, Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach and Pacifica are 2 of the most stunning hotels I have ever been to, I can not endorse these enough. Also, I have never stayed at Westin Regina, but it looks stunning.
— Anonymous
August 7th, 2009
4:19 pm
Just got back from Cabo and stayed at the Riu Santa Fe. Impeccable service, GREAT food, greats views. Can't ask for more. So relaxing and so much fun.
— Anonymous
November 28th, 2008
6:26 pm
I stayed at Villa Stela Maris last summer - If you have a group of people, it is comparable to staying at a resort (but much more private!) We rented through Earth, Sea and Sky Vacations.
— Anonymous
May 25th, 2008
11:19 pm
If you are looking for privacy and service, staying in a villa is the way to go. We stayed in Villa Serena, Blue Sea which is an architectural masterpiece villa right on the beach. It's managed by a company called Lifestyle Management Services and it is in their new villa portfolio, Lifestyle Villas. They run a tight ship. I promised them I would rave to the world, because it has by far been the best vacation we have ever had. Their staff is attentive, know when to show up and when to disappear. The villa is fully staffed and they manage every aspect of it. If you have stayed in all the luxury hotels in Cabo, you will be surprised to know that you can find it in a villa.
— Anonymous
May 22nd, 2008
1:07 am
My husband and I stayed at the RIU Santa Fe when we there in April and we absolutely loved it. The restaurants were wonderful as well as the shows and the band. This was one of the most relaxing vactions we have had.
— Anonymous
January 24th, 2008
3:05 pm
The One and Only Palmilla..great rooms, impecable service!!!
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January 23rd, 2008
2:38 pm
For pure serenity (for quiet reflection and rest) here's to Casa del Mar in Los Cabos.
— jharve, Chicago
January 17th, 2008
7:49 pm
Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach and Pueblo Bonito Pacifica. 5 Star diamond recipients aside from Las Ventanas and One and Only Plamilla.
— Anonymous
February 16th, 2007
12:07 am
the grand baja! a great, luxurious spa retreat! located in San Jose, away from the noisy Cabo San Lucas!
— Anonymous
January 21st, 2007
1:15 pm
Casa Del Mar - the most charming hotel in Los Cabos!
— Anonymous
January 20th, 2007
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That interest could have taken him in many directions, but fortunately for woodworkers, it led to Simon's lifelong involvement in woodworking. Over the years, he's emerged as a leading authority on the subject, both as a builder and teacher of furniture making and boatbuilding and as an author and editor of numerous articles and books on the vast subject.
If you're lucky you may have come across his book "Building a Houseful of Furniture: 43 Plans With Comments on Design and Construction" (currently out-of-print, available used); seen his numerous articles for woodworking magazines and web sites (including the print and online versions of Woodworker's Journal); or had the chance to attend one of his boatbuilding classes at the San Francisco Maritime Museum or at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Nova Scotia.
Simon was born to an upper middle-class family in England in 1935. His father was a well-known illustrator for magazines like the British humor magazine Punch. Growing up in London (and living through the German Blitz of World War II), Simon was steered by his family in the direction of engineering. And upon completing a degree at Cambridge in 1953, he set out for Canada to work on the St Lawrence Seaway. Upon arrival, however, he discovered that only Canadian citizens were being hired, so he headed out to Vancouver and snagged a job designing roads and bridges for the forest service in British Columbia. He knocked around Canada for a while, and finally ended up at MIT studying architecture in the early sixties.
"It was a wonderful three years," Simon recalled, "very interesting with good teachers. But while I was there I became more and more involved in their hobby shops, which were group of shops -- print, machine, electrical, and woodworking -- professionally maintained for the use of the students. I found myself spending more and more time in the woodworking shop designing and building stools, tables and other furniture. I was newly married, and we needed things for our house in Boston."
After three years, however, his money ran out, and Simon was spending most of his time in the woodworking shop anyway. Though he didn't stay long enough for a degree, he feels that his studies in architecture provided him with a good training in the aesthetics of design.
"My interest was finally focused on woodworking," Simon recalled, "and I found it was what I should have been doing in the first place. But when I began making furniture, I knew about structure, but had no training in woodworking -- especially joints -- and consequently I made many ghastly mistakes."
One of Simon's boats and students.
To make up for this deficit, Simon began to study furniture, Shaker furniture in particular, and its structure. He and his wife eventually ended up in Putney, Vermont, living on an old tobacco farm. Simon turned the old drying shed with its large louvered doors into his shop and began acquiring more equipment. But he still felt hampered by not having any training. That changed when he teamed up with David Powell.
"I was spending my summers in Nova Scotia," Simon recalled "I was interested in finding someone who could run the shop while I was away. I met a man named David Powell, who'd been a pupil of the late Edward Barnsley, a well-known English furniture maker with a direct link to the Arts and Crafts movement. David had a very thorough training, and I invited him to run the shop while I was away. When I returned he stayed on. David was my education. He was a good designer and a superb craftsman.
Over time, though, the two men's style diverged, and they eventually had an amicable parting.
During the early 1970s, Simon noticed a growing demand for apprenticeship training. To give them real pieces to work on and to offset his expenses, he charged apprentices $1,000 for nine months of training. The Labor Department, however, decided the apprentices were actual employees and ordered him to provide back pay to his students. Thanks to his lawyer, the fine was rescinded, but Simon had to stop taking apprentices. Simon was ready for a change.
"I'd been spending summers in Nova Scotia and owned a house up there. While there, I'd hired an elderly gentleman to build a boat and asked him if I could work with him. He agreed, and I worked with him building several boats. Then I went to work with a younger man, and we built a 26 ft. sailboat in six weeks. It was an education for me to work with craftsmen who never had to stop and think what they were doing & they just knew it."
According to Simon, the locals used the lapstrake technique [using overlapping planks] to build their boats - a technique considered too difficult by many craftsmen. Simon, however, found it a very forgiving method, since it didn't matter if the planks overlapped a bit.
Around the same time, he met John Kelsey, then the editor of Fine Woodworking magazine who asked him to write a series of articles on woodworking techniques and design. In 1984, the articles were the basis for Simon's book "Building A House Full of Furniture" which sold about 60,000 copies. In the meantime -- tired of the Vermont winters -- Simon had packed up his family and moved to San Francisco. Becoming a specialist in lapstrake boatbuilding, he began to teach in the Bay area.
When an article about his classes came out in Wooden Boat magazine, he started to get teaching requests from individuals, institutions, and woodworking organizations all over the country. Six to eight people would build a boat together over six days. The students drew lots for who got to keep the boat. The biggest challenge came when he decided to lead a class in building a 19-1/2" recreational rowing shell.
"It was enormously difficult to build because it was so big, so long, and so narrow. I think we took eight days to build it, but it was a magnificent boat."
Thus was launched Simon's career and passion as a boatbuilder and teacher. And in 1996, he became co-director of the Arques School for traditional boatbuilding in Sausalito, California. Today, he divides his time between California, Nova Scotia, and working vacations studying woodworking in Portugal. Just last year he led a class in building a Norwegian sailing pram.
But as a writer, he's continued to share his insight in numerous magazine articles on woodworking techniques, furniture making, and of course, boats. To understand the range of his interests, here's a sampler of his online articles.
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Panera Cares Lets Customers Set The Price
Panera Bread, the nationwide restaurant chain, has opened a new "pay-what-you-can" cafe in downtown Boston, called Panera Cares.
The concept is simple: diners pay what they can afford. So if a meal normally costs $5.00, the customer can pay that price, a little more, or a little less.
Store ambassadors greet customers when they come in to explain how things work, but it can be a little confusing.
"I don't even know what's going on. I'm just hungry," a befuddled customer named Javier said.
Here's how it works: customers order their food, just like at a regular Panera, but then the cashier tells them the suggested price. Customers can decide how much to pay, and either put their money in a donation box, or tell the cashier how much to charge their credit card.
The Panera Bread Foundation has four other Panera Cares locations in St. Louis, Detroit, Portland, Oregon and Chicago, and the founder Ron Shaich says the system works because the people who can afford to pay more, often do.
"All they have is a responsibility to do the right thing. And you know what's amazing? So many people do," Shaich said.
The breakdown of what people pay is about 60-20-20: 60 percent of people pay the suggested price, 20 percent pay less, 20 percent pay more.
Since opening in January, the Panera Cares in Boston has been taking in slightly more than that national average.
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Panera officials say the chain already donates about $100 million in food and cash a year. But Shaich wanted to become more involved in the issue of food insecurity – the 50 million Americans and one in four children who don't know where their next meal is coming from.
"This isn't an issue of simply of homelessness," Shaich said. "Twenty-five percent of people with food insecurity actually own their own homes, 24 percent are college grads. It's endemic when you have a country that is 8 to 9 percent unemployment."
It's a job requirement that all of the employees at the Boston Panera Cares location understand the issue.
"We've all experienced food insecurity one way or another, either personally or we know someone is experiencing it," said cashier Yetunde Bankole.
Panera Cares workers are also trained to deal with a population that is in need.
Why is it when you google "meal planning poverty" or "weekly meals for low income families" all that I get are ~food challenges for your welathy family~
Like, thats cool or whatever but what about actual poor people who need actual meal ideas?
Also, your challenge doesnt work if you have time…
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- Store salad greens and fresh herbs in bags filled with a little air and sealed tightly.
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- Buy only what you need. Go to the market more frequently, or if that's not possible, plan out your meals ahead of time so you only buy what you know you'll use.
- If you notice any rotten produce, compost it immediately before it starts to spoil the rest of the produce.
Fox News host mocks food stamps: 'Do you know how fabulous I'd look? I'd be so skinny'
By David Edwards
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:47 EST
Fox News host Andrea Tantaros on Wednesday seemed to be mocking the millions of hungry Americans who are forced to used food stamps when she suggested that the program would make for a great diet plan.
During a Thanksgiving-eve segment on Fox Business, host Stuart Varney noted that Newark Mayor Cory Booker had accepted a challenge to live on food stamps for a week.
"Could you live on 133 bucks a month for food?" Varney asked Tantaros, who co-hosts Fox News' The Five.
"I should try it because, do you know how fabulous I'd look?" she replied. "I mean, the camera adds ten pounds. It really does. I would be looking great."
According to the USDA, 50.1 million Americans lived with food insecurity in 2011. Over 57 percent of those households participated in federal food assistance programs.
Watch this video from Fox Business via Media Matters, broadcast Nov. 21, 2012.
Not only is it offensive to those of us that live with food insecurity and rely on the little bit of assistance that is made available to us, but it is COMPLETELY offensive in oh so many other ways….Andrea Tantaros who glorifies and promotes super skinny as a "fabulous" way to look, cites the camera as adding 10 lbs. to her already thin (but presumably/hopefully healthy) frame, implies that skinny is the best way to look, etc… etc… oh and the absolute irresponsibility of suggesting that in order to lose weight and "look fabulous" is achieved by minimizing your food intake to dangerous levels…..the list of dangerous and irresponsible messages just keep coming!
And then the man that chimes in and actually gives his wife's height and weight on national TV!!!! and then Stuart Varney "Hubba Hubba-ing" over her "stats" and saying "well you've already won, game, set, match"…..SERIOUSLY FOX????!!! What the FUCK????!!! Just when I thought you could not get more disgusting, you find a way EVERY FUCKING TIME!!!!!
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There's an issue with ItemRack and Blizz's manager (on the PTR) for JCs: If you have 3 prismatic gems equipped in each set, the switchover will fail with the "you can only have 3 of those gems equipped" message. If you select the set a second time, it will complete the switch. It appears the gear is being switched in the background one piece at a time, and at some point, one prismatic-equipped piece has still not been removed, so the new one can't be swapped in. My question for anyone who knows—is Outfitter, or any other mod, written to deal with this issue and correctly swap gear sets without hitting the block?
Wouldn't this issue be solved if changing clothes was a 2-stage process:
1. Remove all current clothes.
2. Equip alternate clothes.
It would seem to me to be a simple solution for Blizzard and also any mods having this issue as you wouldn't exceed the gem count at any time.
Issue extends past JC and into unique-equipped items as well.
Interesting dilemma as the question is: Should you be able to switch gear if you have no bag space available?
If the answer is: Yes ... then the solution is for Blizzard to give you a "hidden bag" ... then move any pieces that conflict into the hidden bag, then swap your stuff, then move the hidden bag stuff into your normal inventory.
Problem? what if you DC in the middle of the switch? What happens to the stuff in your hidden bag?
I am guessing that is what is holding this up. Not necessarily how to get your equipment onto you char ... but what happens if you DC in the middle of the process.


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The Seattle Sea Kayak Club is the place where novices and experts swap stories, share kayaking info, and have fun doing it. The club has an informal social atmosphere which fosters opportunities to meet other paddlers. The club offers a regular monthly newsletter, monthly meetings, and trips.
We are not a large club. We don't even have business meetings or elections. We seek to maintain a friendly, personal type of atmosphere where club members can get acquainted easily.
Meetings at REI
Meetings cover a variety of topics and frequently include slides, videos, guest speakers, and story exchanges. Meetings are typically at the REI Flagship store in Seattle on the last Tuesday of each month at 7 pm. There's no meeting in December. January is our annual trip-planning party on a Saturday evening, June is an outdoor potluck, and July and August we're all gone paddling. Please feel free to bring guests.
June 24, 2014 - OUR ANNUAL PICNIC
The Social Event of the season is on Tuesday, June 24. We gather between 5:00 and 6:00 P.M. and the pizza arrives at 6:30 P.M. (Hint: don't be too late or it will be all gone). Come to Magnuson Park on Lake Washington and look for shelter #1. Some of us will be coming early to hold the table.
Dues for joining the Seattle Sea Kayak Club and becoming part of this enthusiastic and creative organization of kayakers are only $15 per year - single, couple, or family. You may join at the club meeting or by mailing in an application form.
If you join between October 1 and December 31, pay $18 for a 15-month membership (that is, through the end of the following year).
The newsletter contains a broad variety of information related to sea kayaking, from updates on gear and environmental issues to events around Puget Sound, and reports from club members on trips and kayaking experiences. The newsletter also prints requests for people seeking paddling partners, ads for used boats, etc. We welcome (ok, beg for) contributions from members.
The kayak club offers trips which range from short evening paddles to long weekends and week-long trips. The 2014 trip schedule has just over 60 trips and events. The trips are open to SSKC members and their guests. The club also assists members in getting paddlers together who want to do longer expeditions.
We have an annual Trip Planning Party for all members; this year's was January 25, 2014. You need not be an expert kayaker to offer a trip, but you should select a trip that is comfortable for your skill level. You may come prepared with ideas for trips or get advice at the planning party from other, more experienced members. Trip schedules usually come out in late February. We mail them with the newsletter, or upon joining the club, and keep the schedule up to date on the website (for members only) with additions and corrections.


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Philadelphia Flyers (GP=26, 12-14-1, 25 points, 5th Atlantic Division, 11th Eastern Conference)
How the mighty have fallen! This team is getting outscored, they're putrid away from Wells Fargo Center, and when Voracek is your leading scorer you know you have a problem. This team is going to rue the day they traded James Van Riemsdyk to the Leafs. They're out of a playoff spot, and last in the Atlantic Division...yes, behind the Isles. This team is vastly worse than last year's squad who battled the Pens for the most goals in the league. Also not in their favor is the fact that they've played 27 games already, more than any other team, so the teams they need to jump over have games in hand and more chances to pull away. What a disappointment...FEH!
Phoenix Coyotes (GP=25, 12-10-3, 27 points, 4th Pacific Division, 9th Western Conference)
We still don't know if this team is staying in the desert or not. However, they are still in the playoff hunt despite a record of mediocrity and being the other team with Dallas to have the same number of goals for and against. They're not the same team they were last year, but they're also not completely terrible either. I don't think this team is going to make the playoffs, but I've been wrong before. They need to be a little more consistent though in order to get over the hump, and I'm not sure they have the makeup to do it...EHH.
Pittsburgh Penguins (GP=26, 18-8, 36 points, 1st Atlantic Division, 2nd Eastern Conference)
No I didn't miss a number, they're the only team left without an overtime loss. They have the most goals in the league, leading that category by a full dozen. Sidney Crosby leads the league in scoring, Kris Letang leads all defensemen in scoring, and Chris Kunitz leads the league in +/-. Their lackluster penalty killing is a concern, but when you're outscoring teams every night like they are and have the most wins in the East, leading the division by 7 points, that tends to get swept under the rug. Defense is still questionable sometimes, but overall this team is going to be tough to beat...MM-HAH!
San Jose Sharks (GP=24, 11-7-6, 28 points, 3rd Pacific Division, 7th Western Conference)
Remember that great start they had? Yeah, since that 7-0 start they've only won 4 games. They have completely stopped scoring, 19 straight games where they've scored 3 goals or less. For a team with this much firepower, to have the second fewest goals in the entire league is almost beyond comprehension. Somehow they're still in the playoffs if the season ended today, but they're also only 2 points out of 11th in the West. This team needs to find themselves, and fast...FEH!
St. Louis Blues (GP=25, 13-10-2, 28 points, 3rd Central Division, 8th Western Conference)
Right now the Blues are kind of treading water. They're hanging on for dear life to the 8th and final playoff spot in the West. We know they don't have a ton of scorers, and when your goalies are pitching one shutout after another like they were last year, it looks worse. They have a pretty darn good power play, and a defense that can still shut teams down, but they need to wake up a little bit or they'll find themselves as a one-year wonder...EHH.
Tampa Bay Lightning (GP=25, 10-14-1, 21 points, 4th Southeast Division, 13th Eastern Conference)
Remember that electrifying start on home ice? Yeah, so much for that. This team has hit rock bottom, and if not for Stamkos leading the league in goals again and being among the scoring leaders, they'd be in some big time trouble! They have goaltending issues, they stink something awful on the road, and yet they're in a 3-way tie for 2nd in the league in goals scored with 85. Guy Boucher is a firecracker, and he's having to light the stick of dynamite under his players' rear ends almost on a nightly basis. This team needs help, quickly, or it'll be a repeat of last year...FEH!
Toronto Maple Leafs (GP=26, 15-10-1, 31 points, 3rd Northeast Division, 5th Eastern Conference)
Look at the Leafs! Randy Carlisle is doing one hell of a job, and this team looks like it may finally be returning to the postseason. They're much improved and they're fun to watch. They have scorers and they're finally starting to string some wins together on home ice as of late. They still have a little less than half the season to play, but I firmly believe this team is going to make the playoffs. They don't give up, they're never completely out of a game, and that's something we haven't seen from Toronto in quite some time...MM-HAH!
Vancouver Canucks (GP=24, 11-7-6, 28 points, 2nd Northwest Division, 6th Western Conference)
The Canucks are part of that gaggle in the West and they should certainly be sweating bullets right now. Luongo and Schneider aren't a shut down goalie tandem this year, Kesler's absence is clearly hurting them, and they're mid-pack in goals scored. This is not like Vancouver. Someone has to win that Northwest division, and it doesn't seem like anyone really wants to step up and take control. There's no clear-cut favorite, and I can see the struggles continuing for the Canucks. Like the Wings, they're just not the same team we're used to seeing the last few years...EHH.
Washington Capitals (GP=24, 10-13-1, 21 points, 3rd Southeast Division, 12th Eastern Conference)
Where do I start? As our own Eric (gearhead) has pointed out, this team is a dumpster fire. They have a MINUS goal differential, and despite their power play coming back to life, had one good stretch and started struggling again. Sunday's loss to the Rangers hurt as it put them 7 points out of a playoff spot. That's a good chunk to make up. Ovechkin still isn't the same player, and to me just does not look like a leader to me. This team has been a huge disappointment. There's nothing more to say except FEH!
Winnipeg Jets (GP=25, 12-11-2, 26 points 2nd Southeast Division, 9th Eastern Conference)
They're the wild card in the Southeast Division. I still don't know what to make of them. They've been outscored, have a losing record on home ice, and yet they're somehow still treading water and just 2 points out of the final playoff spot in the East. I'm still not sold on them, but they're not a complete pushover. I'm torn. I don't know what else to say about this team, so EHH.
There you have it, all 30 teams and a short and sweet analysis. What grade would you give your team? Did I miss something significant about your team that would change their grade? If so tell me in the comments below
Until next time, I'm Bryan Kramer for The Blitzburgh Pit Stop saying that it's always a great day for hockey, and in the immortal words of Mike Lange, "Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building!"
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- Description:
- Broadcom develops semiconductors for wired and wireless communications equipment manufacturers.
- Founders:
- Leo Joseph
- Categories:
- Semiconductors, Mobile
- Website:
- http://www.broadcom.com
Company DetailsUpdate
Broadcom Corporation engages in the design, development, and supply of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications equipment manufacturers. The company's products enable the delivery of voice, video, data, and multimedia to and throughout the home, office, and mobile environment. It provides a portfolio of system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices.
Broadcom Corporation was founded in 1991.
Current Team (6)Update
John A. Swainson
Independent Director
Ed Doe
Director, Product Management
Thomas F. Lagatta
Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Jun, 2006
Ron Jankov
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Feb, 2012
John Major
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Bindiya Vakil
Corporate Account Manager - EMS
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Shekhar Ambe
Enterprise Switching Product Development
Tim April
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Aug, 2000 - Feb, 2001
Joseph Balardeta
Senior Director, Engineering
2005 - Jan, 2007
Tomer Ben-David
Engineering and Management Positions
Cary Berger
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Christopher Bergey
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2002 - Jan, 2011
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Director, Marketing
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nCrypted Cloud
nCrypted Cloud develops technology to protect the privacy of personal and corporate data residing...
$3M / Seed with 3 other investorsFeb 3, 2014 - Seed Round Details
Tilera is a semiconductor company developing processors for networking, digital multimedia, and...
$25M / Series C with 2 other investorsMar 8, 2010 - Series C Details
Broadcom provides semiconductor and system-on-a-chip solutions for wired and wireless...
$12M / Series E with 8 other investorsSep 11, 2007 - Series E Details
Broadcom provides semiconductor and system-on-a-chip solutions for wired and wireless...
$10M / Series D with 7 other investorsNov 17, 2005 - Series D Details
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Maria M. Klawe
Board Member
Robert Finocchio
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Broadcom provides semiconductor and system-on-a-chip solutions for wired and wireless...Mar 21, 2012 -$230M in Cash
Aeluros focuses on developing a portfolio of high-speed PHY products in price and...Feb 17, 2012 -$3.7B (terms undisclosed)
NetLogic Microsystems
NetLogic Microsystems is a high-performance intelligent semiconductor solution that is powering...Sep 12, 2011 -$3.7B in Cash & Stock
SC² is a subsidiary of Nisko Projects & Communications Ltd, established in 1999. SC² is a...May 9, 2011 -price and terms unknown
Provigent is a fabless semiconductor company providing SoC solutions for the broadband wireless...Mar 21, 2011 -$314M in Cash
Gigle Networks
Gigle Semiconductor develops system-on-chip integrated circuits for home networking applications.Nov 22, 2010 -$75M (terms undisclosed)
Percello is a fabless semiconductor company providing energy-efficient Femtocell architecture...Oct 26, 2010 -price and terms unknown
Beceem Communications
Beceem Communications is a semiconductor company specializing in the WiMAX marketplace.Oct 13, 2010 -$316M (terms undisclosed)
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5300 California Avenue Buildings 1-8
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Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Winnie one day come upon a man drinking from a spring. The man, Jesse, and his family take Winnie to tell her the story of how they drank from it and now will live eternally. A man in yellow comes to find this spring and wants to sell it to the highest bidder. He witnesses the kidnapping and decides to use it to buy Winnie's family's land which the spring it on. When the man goes to Jesse's family to confront them with his plan. Mae, the mother shoots him and he dies. She is arrested and is to be hanged but the night before, Winnie and the rest of the family help Mae escape. When Jesse and his family come home years later, they find that Winnie has died and the spring has been destroyed. This is one of my favorite books of all time. I have read it many times and I never get sick of it. It's a very touching story about immortality.
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Both I, and most people engaged in this hobby with a reasonably popular website or any kind of media presence, have been the subject of numerous requests from journalists. The majority (I would even say vast majority) of which every one of us eventually rejects, if not outright ignores.
If you want to be one of those people who are not ignored, there is really only one secret: approach people as collaborators, not as subjects.
2) What you want to report on us doing is illegal.
As such, what you think of as the value you are offering us – exposure – is not always of value to us. In fact, it's often of negative value. Not everybody likes or wants to see themselves in print or on TV in general, and this is exponentially true if the things they are seen doing in the papers or on TV can have negative consequences on their reputations, employment, or personal liberty.
If you want to be one of those people who are not ignored, there is really only one secret: approach people as collaborators, not as subjects.
Most media requests I, and most Urban Explorers get, read somewhat like this:
"Hi, I'm a writer/videographer/photographer/reporter for xyz publication. I think what you do is really cool. I'd love to do a story on you where I tag-along/video/photograph you "in action" on your adventures. Want to meet for coffee to discuss more?"
This is a pitch for story subjects. Now, I know from your perspective, Mr. or Ms. Journalist, this is a perfectly reasonable thing. And it generally would be reasonable if you were to use this pitch to, for instance, do a story on an airline mechanic, or gourmet chef, or long-distance runner training for the Olympics. Your thoughts are "this person does this cool thing. I'm just asking to following along, which doesn't cost them anything. And everyone likes to see themselves in the papers or on TV – it's good exposure."
But this is not how it works with Urban Explorers for several different reasons. Specifically:
1) What we do is much riskier, both for us and for you.
I, personally, hate being anyone but the dumbest and least capable person on any particular excursion – my theory is that I know my limits and what I can do, so as such I'm the limiting factor and don't have to worry about anyone else (it's a very selfish thing, I know). If you're along, there's about a 99% chance that you're the limiting factor. This is maybe fine if it's that aforementioned profile on Olympic long-distance runners, where what eventually ends up happening is that you tire out and get left in the dust while the subject completes her run. It's less fine if involves you getting your left arm torn off by the subway because you don't know how to clear up properly.
2) What you want to report on us doing is illegal.
As such, what you think of as the value you are offering us – exposure – is not always of value to us. In fact, it's often of negative value. Not everybody likes or wants to see themselves in print or on TV in general, and this is exponentially true if the things they are seen doing in the papers or on TV can have negative consequences on their reputations, employment, or personal liberty.
3) We are all, to a person, writers, photographers, and/or videographers ourselves.
This isn't necessarily bad news – it means that you have a great and valuable potential collaborator in the story you want to do.
However, instead of a potential collaborator, journalists set up paradigms in which we're instead direct competitors to them – and direct competitors in a vastly better position than they are. This is a very dumb position to put yourself in. Since most Urban Explorers (not me though) are photographers, let's use that example.
Let's say you're a photographer whose main gig is rock shows. Maybe you're good, maybe you're not-so-good, maybe you've got tons of experience, maybe you're just starting out. It doesn't really matter.
Think of how you would respond if somebody pitched you a story about following you around to rock shows - not as you the rock show photographer, but just as someone who happened to like rock shows and generally had a good seat. And then, instead of offering to run your photos in the story, wanted to bring a different photographer with no experience or investment in shooting rock shows whatsoever, who would be the one to sell their photos for the story. Now think of how you would respond if additionally, instead of offering to set up access to different shows you didn't have access to - shows where you might be able to work out a future arrangement with the bands or, heck, to at least relax and enjoy the show - you were supposed to be the one to handle all access and logistics to your shows that you had worked to get access to. And not just for the reporter, but also for the other photographer: who is selling their photos in direct competition to yours. Anytime you ask to follow an Urban Explorer around with a different photographer, this is what you are asking them to do.
4) What you are asking us to tag along on is not our everyday experience (by the way, you're all welcome to tag along on my career as an urban planner and affordable housing advocate all you want).
What you're asking is for us to manufacture a specific experience for you that is very difficult to manufacture. I assume you aren't interested in doing a story on waiting at a subway station for two hours for workers to leave and then eventually going home to bed. This is a much more likely scenario than an amazing urban adventure. Perhaps one out of five (at most) excursions I go on is even worthy of a blog post, much less an actual story.
5) What you are asking from us has a lot of value.
We all get a lot of people (not just journalists) constantly asking us to "take them on an adventure." We've all spent a lot of time and energy making our own adventures, and, more importantly, learning how to make our own adventures. This knowledge and expertise has a certain amount of value to us, value that you're asking for.
But even beyond this personal value, these excursion are also very easily monetized: there is a potential financial value to taking people to interesting and non-easily accessible locations, that there is not for most "let me follow you around" journalism stories. Be conscious of that value. You're de facto asking for at least a location scout or tour guide (and this is not even getting into the times you ask for photos or video footage). The places that I can take journalists for a quick & easy "Urban Exploration" story are the same place I can charge a $500 day rate to people looking to do documentaries on "Mole People," or "the Decaying Beauty of our Industrial Heritage." Even interesting and noteworthy urban places that don't even involve trespassing I can easily make $50/hour-and-up as a tour guiding for.
Now, I'm not saying that we're all looking for top dollar in every scenario for these things (although some of us are) – any smart tour guide will let a journalist tag along for free on their tours, for instance. But that's because they're hoping the coverage will lead to more business. If you want the same paradigm with Urban Explorers, then you're going to have to offer them exposure for something they are trying to sell. This might be a book (me), photos (most other people), even legal tours or location scouting services (see above) but it is rarely, if ever, illegal nocturnal adventures.
And some people, (me again) are going to want to try and leverage your journalistic credentials to get to an interesting place legally. My response to almost all of these requests is to give a list of interesting, generally off-limits places that I want to see in New York, and offer to work with the journalist on a story if they can secure legal, or otherwise not-too-stressful, access to some of these places (which could end up as part of the story or not, I don't really care), which I feel like is a pretty fair tradeoff.
But again: the bottom line is that people are interested in being collaborators, not subjects. And this is doubly true if you are asking things of them that you would ask of collaborators (location scouting, video footage, story ideas), not subjects. Which means you're going to have to start thinking about:
a) potentially sharing money.
b) potentially sharing credit and creative control of the story.
c) potentially compromising on the vision of your story.
d) thinking of what you can offer, not just what you want.
I know this isn't fun or standard for journalists. But every major story done on Urban Exploration for at least the last 7 years has followed this blueprint, and they followed it for a reason: it's the only way to get a story done.
I also know there are ethical consideration in paying subjects, or allowing them to dictate the story direction beyond what they say on or off the record. Some of these ethical considerations can be worked around (one of the most common is to have the main subject refer other photographers they know to work the story), and some maybe can't. But still – if you want to get anywhere, you need to be trying to creatively find that ground where you feel comfortable ethically, but are still working in a collaborative manner.
So my suggestion is simple. Instead of the pitch outlined at the beginning of this post, write something like this:
"Hi, I'm a writer/videographer/photographer/reporter for xyz publication. I think what you do is really cool. I'd love to collaborate with you or have you consult on a story about Urban Exploration. As part of this, I am looking for some "in action" photos/videos/reportage on Urban Exploration. What would you be looking for in this kind of collaboration? Want to meet for coffee to discuss more?"
Now, I'm not saying it'll work. But your chances of not getting ignored are much, much better. And hey, look on the bright side – you could be trying to pitch graffiti writers.


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s awards show. Bullock took home the coveted Favorite Movie Actress Award in an ultra competitive field defeating Scarlett Johansson , Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston and co-star Melissa McCarthy. The actress also won Favorite Comedic Movie
People's Choice Awards 2014: FULL LIST of Winners
Jennifer Aniston Melissa McCarthy Sandra Bullock Scarlett Johansson Favorite Movie Duo Chris Pine & Zachary Quinto ..... Jennifer Aniston Melissa McCarthy Sandra Bullock Scarlett Johansson Favorite Dramatic Movie Captain Phillips Gravity


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100 days, 100 blogs, 100 photos. Day 19
100 days, 100 blogs, 100 photos. Day 18
no, i will not bore you with a picture of what i *really* did today. No one wants to see a picture of me laying around on the couch with no pants on, watching Joe Dirt for the 897613289634 time
Instead? Heres an animated glitter gif of a kitten in a teacup. you can thank me later.
100 days, 100 blogs, 100 photos. Day 17
so turbotax, what you are trying to tell me is that i owe the state monies back? even though they cut me a kicker check 2 months ago for $400? wait, AND your gonna charge me $30 to tell me this?


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I really want my dash to be a mixture of everyone's personalities, their issues, their motivation, their bad days and opinions etc
I'm kinda sick of seeing fancy and cute bowls of fancy oatmeal that I don't even eat and just a "general" fitblr with no personalities and stuff.
p.s. I'll check ALL blogs that do reblog this.
I think my blog fits this description. :)
I need to follow more blogs like that too!!!


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Sunday Morning Shows Ignore Report Showing Obama Admin. 'Warned of Brewing Border Crisis'
The front-page of the Washington Post on Sunday, July 20 had a damning headline accusing the Obama administration of "being warned of brewing border crisis" but only Fox and Friends Sunday covered the report. NBC's Today, CBS Sunday Morning, and ABC'sGood Morning America, failed to cover how in a 2013 report prepared for the Obama administration "the team from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) raised alarms about the federal government's capacity to manage a situation that was expected to grow worse." On NBC's Meet the Press, Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report was the only person on the Sunday talk shows to reference the Washington Post report.
LA Times Reporter: 'We Will Have Blood On Our Hands' If We Deport Illegal Immigrant Children
Talking to MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart on Friday, Los Angeles Times reporter Sonia Nazario demanded that tens of thousands of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children from Central America be allowed to stay in the U.S. and condemned anyone opposed to the idea: "Because if you put this decision of sending these children back in the hands of the Border Patrol, many of these children who really should be protected by our government will instead be hurtled back to these countries where they will die. And we will have blood on our hands."
Charlie Rose Starts Interview With 'Friend' Hillary Clinton With a Gooey Maya Angelou Poem
On Thursday night's episode of his PBS show, CBS This Morning co-host Charlie Rose began by showering guest and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with praises from the likes of Henry Kissinger, the late Maya Angelous and, naturally, Charlie Rose himself! From reading a glowing quote from Henry Kissinger to reading a Maya Angelou poem all about her to Rose announcing "I consider Hillary Clinton a friend," it was a slobbering start to a softball interview. After summarizing the premise of her book about her time as Secretary of State, Rose gushed that "few people have spent the past 20 years as she has" with all the positions of power she's held. It was then that read the following quote from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger: "[W]hen I call Mrs. Clinton Hillary, I do that not so much to indicate familiarity, but to use a name that the whole world uses. It shows to what extend she has succeeded in her people-to-people work."
Katrina Vanden Heuvel Bashes Ukrainian President; Says 'Demonization of Putin' By U.S. 'is Not a Policy'
On Friday's Now With Alex Wagner, the editor of the far-left magazine The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel, declared to viewers that they keep in mind that the President of Ukraine has waged war "against his own people in southeastern Ukraine" and even though Russian President Vladimir Putin "is an authoritarian leader," demonizing him "is not a policy" that the United States should continue. Vanden Heuvel's comments came during a discussion with Wagner and Politico Magazine editor Susan Glasser about Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine Thursday, apparently by Russian-backed separatists in the region.
Networks Ignore: Joe Biden Goes Left at Netroots Convention, Gets Heckled By Far-Left
Joe Biden's appeal on Thursday to the left at the liberal Netroots Nation conference went unmentioned by the networks. The fact that the Vice President got heckled by the far-left was also ignored. While talking to the assembled progressives, Biden was interrupted by chants of "Stop deporting our families! Stop deporting our families!" Biden applauded the outburst and immediately responded, "I respect your view and I share your view." Speaking of illegal immigrants, he lectured, "We should clap for those young people…Can you imagine the pain, the anxiety of coming home every day, wondering if your mother or father will still be there?"


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Time and Attendance Plus
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