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FRUITA, Colo. - The kick-off party for Fruita's cancer survivor awareness event Relay for Life was Saturday night.
Organizers said this was the initial get-together for everyone who wishes to participate in the event later this year.
"The big thing I think that's happening this year is the city's involvement," said local Relay for Life organizer. "The city of Fruita is taking a really active role in the event this year."
So far 27 people have signed up to race, but there's still plenty of time to join in. The actual relay doesn't start until June 27th.

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The military's chief information officer, Teri Takai, said after the Army completes its migration to DISA's email-as-a-service, the Air Force will be next. She said the Navy also is in discussions to move to the cloud. DoD soon will release a new cloud computing strategy and standards guide for industry.
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Adm. Robert Day, the service's CIO, said he wants to consolidate data centers, recompete their HR system and better utilize smartphone and tablet devices. The Coast Guard also will begin deploying long-awaited C4 capabilities in 2012.
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NASA upgrades IT for now with eye on future
The space agency's CIO Linda Cureton said the I3P contracts are helping NASA stay on pace as technology matures. The agency already is seeing benefits from the three awards made in 2011.
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Army systems giving clearer picture of force readiness
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The agency moved 25,000 employees to Google apps for email and collaboration in the cloud. CIO Joe Klimavicz said GSA's experience was crucial in making their transition go on time and on budget.
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Richard Spires said the Homeland Security Department has more than 130 human resources systems and that's too many. He said an intra agency group recently completed a segment architecture of HR technology to figure out where they can consolidate systems and find savings.
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CIOs must learn the soft skills
The University of Maryland's CIO Certificate program focuses on teaching its students to meet the challenges of management and leadership. The certificate program is one of several affiliated with GSA's CIO University.
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Carnegie Mellon University's CIO Institute helps train the next generation of senior technology managers.
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TIGTA upgrading network to handle new mobile requirements
George Jakabcin, the agency's CIO, said every employee will get a new laptop and be able to access the network through a WiFi VPN connection. More than 80 percent of all employees work outside the office at least one day a week.
January 5, 2012(Encore presentation March 1, 2012)
Cyber test gives Army Corps faith in system resilience
The DoD Cyber Command poked and prodded the Army Corps' Los Angeles district's network during a recent Command Cyber Readiness Inspection. Army Corps of Engineers CIO Bob Kazimer said the analysis will give the rest of the agency lessons learned to improve cybersecurity across the Corps.
December 15, 2011
HUD takes three-pronged approach to improve IT projects
The agency is using a new project management approach, TechStat sessions and new CIO authorities to fix long-standing oversight problems. HUD CIO Jerry Williams said all seven priority programs met their cost, schedule and performance goals this year.
Savannah River making up for lost IT time
Phil Cirrulli, the chief information officer for the managing and operations contractor for the site, is improving the national lab's infrastructure to support widespread wireless access. He also is shutting down legacy mainframe systems after implementing a new ERP system.
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Indian Health Service facing data deadline
Acting CIO Howard Hays said the agency is taking advantage of the work VA is doing to update its systems. Indian Health Services borrows heavily from VA's VistA electronic health records system.
November 17, 2011(Encore presentation December 29, 2011)
VA solves project management woes through competency models
The agency puts employees in pools based on their expertise, and then the employees move from project to project based on the needs of that program. VA now is working on 60 percent more projects than under the previous approach.
November 10, 2011(Encore presentation December 22, 2011)
With improved cybersecurity, Los Alamos moves to cloud, wireless
Tom Harper, the lab's CIO, said the national laboratory created an infrastructure-on-demand platform for easy provisioning of cloud services. He said Los Alamos also introduced WiFi earlier this year for access to its unclassified network.
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Alliance-side: My human paladin graduated out of Northshire and started down the road to Goldshire, and that little road just seemed sooooo long. And then I came around the big curve in the road and Goldshire came into sight, all lit up with Winter Veil lights (I'd had no idea there was a holiday going on).
Horde-side: After what felt like months of running around the Barrens and seeing nothing but brown, brown, and more brown, my tauren hunter eventually walked into Ashenvale. I was completely blown away by the color and beauty of that zone.
Tyler, I think I know the quest you're talking about - was it the one to deliver a new shield to Stormpike in Loch Modan? I remember having to finally ask on a message board about how to get from Stormwind to Ironforge. I didn't know about the tram, and I hadn't yet ventured out of Elwynn Forest so had no clue about land routes — zone maps were "hidden" if I hadn't visited them yet, so of course I couldn't see the route you took, and I didn't yet know about all the 3rd party sites where I could have gotten the info.
But that does remind me of one of my other favorite early memories: finally making my way to IF, and running out the front gate into this winter wonderland ... and seeing my toon's breath in the cold air.
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There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all
Mario Savio on civil disobedience. Savio was a free speech crusader, activist, and teacher of mathematics and physics. As the NYPD brutally abuses protesters on Wall Street, I implore those standing strong to remember Savio's words.
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Reposting this for Dan Siegel today. He's an inspiration.
This is a big deal. Dan Siegel, legal adviser to Oakland, Calif. Mayor Jean Quan, resigned over the brutalization of Occupy Oakland protesters and says he now supports the Occupy Wall Street movement. Approximately an hour ago, he wrote on Twitter, "No longer Mayor Quan's legal advisor. Resigned at 2 am. Support Occupy Oakland, not the 1% and its government facilitators."
This came after he encouraged people to mobilize to Occupy Oakland late last night, where another raid resulted in upwards of 32 arrests, according to Occupy Oakland leaders. Police declared the park a crime scene Monday and forced media to leave.
If more high-ranking municipal officials have an attack of conscience and do the right thing, what then? It appears city and state governments are already a titch frightened of the Occupy movement. If their own people refuse to obey or resign in protest, perhaps it will be time to take this a little more seriously. Change from the bottom on up, folks.
(Source: cognitivedissonance)
Also controversial was the collision between three Occupy protesters and a car outside the convention center. [Clare] O'Connor reports that the protesters set up makeshift blockades on streets surrounding the center. One driver, identified as Shawn Valentine, plowed through the blockade, injuring protester Heidi Sippel, her thirteen-year-old son, and her wife Brandy Sippel, who is three months pregnant. According to Occupy, he also hit a fourth victim who is still hospitalized.
Police did not charge the driver — Lt Christopher Micciche says the Sippels "either ran toward or jumped in front of the moving vehicle." He adds that "it was essentially an accident where three individuals were injured but they were in violation by being in the roadway." The Sippels, meanwhile, say they were charged with a traffic violation and fined.
Anna North, "Police Bravely Defend Man's Right To Hit Pregnant Protester With Car"
Jesus. This guy hits a kid and a pregnant woman, plus two other people and is NOT cited?! Adding insult to injury, the people he hit were cited. According to The Telegraph, they were cited for "for obstructing traffic and being in the road in contravention of a 'do-not-walk' sign, both of which carry fines."
Fuck everything about this - can you folks imagine the outrage if a doctor working at a Planned Parenthood got angry at the protesters blocking the exit to the parking lot and then plowed into a few? Operation Rescue used this very tactic of blocking streets and parking lots. From the Supreme Court of Florida:
As traffic slowed on Dixie Way and began its turn into the clinic's driveway, the vehicle would be approached by persons designated by the respondents as sidewalk counselors attempting to get the attention of the vehicles' occupants to give them anti-abortion literature and to urge them not to use the clinic's services. Such so-called sidewalk counselors were assisted in accomplishing their approach to the vehicle by the hesitation or momentary stopping caused by the time needed for the picket line to open up before the vehicle could enter the parking lot.
The outcry would be tremendous. Fox would be on the scene within minutes. Now, Operation Rescue was prevented from doing this later by federal injunction. Later, police would direct traffic if need be at Operation Rescue rallies in order to prevent protesters getting hit by cars or traffic snarls.
Why didn't that happen in DC? Where were police? I live in Laramie, Wyoming. When we have huge sporting events connected to the University of Wyoming, our city's population can effectively double for the day. Before and after football (or basketball) games, there's masses of people running across the road, walking on the road, sometimes slapping the hoods of cars that come close, and generally making the busiest road in town absolute hell. Guess what? Police direct traffic. When there's people in the road, you address the traffic situation in order to avoid people getting hit.
Or you can send the message that as long as you are driving a luxury car, like Mr. Shawn Valentine, you can hit all the people you want. As long as they're Occupy protesters. Or poor.
Ah, yes. The Chicago Board of Trade keeps it classy. Remember this? They posted the "We are the 1%" sign in their windows to mock Occupy Chicago. The sad truth is that they're probably not in the 1%.
The truly asshole move is not the dumping of applications themselves. It's that McDonald's most recent hiring day resulted in 938,000 applicants being turned away from even part-time employment at McDonald's. Plus, the traders appear to have violated state law in regards to the Illinois Litter Control Act.
It's cool, though. Because these hippies just need to get a job, amirite?! There's one job opening for every 4-5 people looking, but you just need to TRY HARDER! LULZ! </sarcasm>
Here's the guy who hit the Occupy DC protesters with their car.
Good find by Evan. We're about to post another video of the immediate aftermath of the incident. The car looks the same in both videos.
First a Mercedes mows people down in Oakland, and now a Lexus in DC. Symbolic much?
(Source: evanfleischer, via shortformblog)
Chase Bank in Oakland during today's general strike, just a few hours ago.
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You know, we have young people who are today occupying Wall Street, [saying] that there are some people out there that are making too much money. And if somebody were to ask me what's the best advice that I could give them? It would be that money is probably the most highly overrated thing in the world from a standpoint of being happy with your life. It's good to have some. Because I've been without and I've had some, and it's better to have some.
But the fact is, uh, go find that passion in your life… what I'm saying here is that the vast majority of people don't go do what they do in life with only the thought of 'I'm gonna make some money.'
Rick Perry, speaking in Iowa on teachers, making money, and why the Occupy Wall Street folks just don't have enough "passion."
*Sigh* Fucking hell.
Actually, you know what? That's not true. I don't hate the people freezing their asses off occupying Wall Street while Rick Perry sits in his ill-fitting suit of smug and remarks that money is overrated. It's not about people having too much money. It's about a significant amount of people not having any money in order to enrich a very small amount of those who already do.
Your pithy little admonishments to those at Occupy Wall Street to find their passion is completely and one hundred percent intellectually disingenuous. Many of those folks followed their passions, got a degree, and can't find a goddamn job. They're saddled with tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt after being told by snide little bastards like yourself to pursue that piece of paper representing their passion and employment prospects. My passion doesn't pay the rent, and the utility companies don't take passion as currency.
Money is only irrelevant when you make a living wage and aren't one missed paycheck away from homelessness.
Fuck you with all the fucks I have left to give today.
(Source: rawstory.com)
Just one week after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) saw his order to push an "Occupy" protest out of a public park at night rebuked by a local official, Tennessee's governor is experiencing a similar problem.
Gov. Bill Haslam (R) has twice given the order to crackdown on protesters at "Occupy Nashville," only to see it denied by judicial commissioner Tom Nelson. In Tennessee, a judicial commissioner has the authority to determine whether crimes have been committed.
"The magistrate's position is sort of a safety valve to prevent overzealous officers from putting people in jail for no reason," Nashville attorney Jim Todd said to the Associated Press.
Nelson ordered the release of 29 protesters arrested last Thursday because "the state had not given the protesters adequate notice that it was changing the rules."
Go Nashville! Let's see more of this here and less of what's happened in Denver and Oakland.
From PoliticusUSA:
Today's wealthy conservatives feel like they are entitled to suck the rest of us dry. The people who are Occupying Wall Street aren't parasites. They are regular Americans who have seen our political and economic systems used as a weapon against them. These people aren't leeching off the wealthy. They are the reason why the wealthy have been successful. Whether the 1% want to admit or not, they couldn't have gotten to where they are today without the rest of us. Our society enabled them to get rich.
The real parasites aren't the protesters. The true parasites are those people who crashed the economy, begged the American people for a handout, and promptly then resumed making a profit off the economic misfortune they caused. The parasites are people like Rush Limbaugh who refuse to pay their fair share… Someday we will have a government that shares the values of Occupy Wall Street. Maybe someday, the people will once again occupy Washington.
Attacking Occupy protesters for being parasites and not paying taxes (they do) is getting old. This article points the figure at the true parasites. It's not the protesters or unions. It's those who espouse personal responsibility until they need a bailout. The 99% are on the hook if the 1% fail. If the 99% continue to fall behind, who's going to bail the 1% out again?
From the same PoliticusUSA article:
Without realizing it, Rush Limbaugh also provided his listeners insight into the mindset of the one percent when he said that it is okay to be a parasite as long as you don't advertise it. I would also add that the wealthy believe that they have a right to engage in economically parasitic behavior because they are rich. This is the same mindset that glorifies the term job creator. It is the mindset that believes that tax cuts for the rich create jobs, and it also allows them to hold the beliefs the problem really is government regulation, and that everyone else isn't rich because they are lazy.
Well, we're more than motivated now.
I hope this guy parks himself in front of a few politician's offices. You know the ones - they invoke God until you get to the stuff about caring for the poor.
Just two weeks after denouncing economic-justice protesters as an angry "mob," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) seemed to be shifting gears. Last Sunday, Cantor acknowledged the "warranted" frustrations of the middle class, and this week, was even poised to deliver a speech on economic inequality.
As it turns out, Cantor changed his mind. Yesterday, the oft-confused Majority Leader abruptly canceled, saying the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School invited the public to attend the speech, which meant Cantor would refuse to appear. The Republican appears to have been fibbing - university officials explained that the event had always been billed as "open to the general public," and that Cantor's accusation of a last-minute change in attendance policy simply wasn't true.
That Cantor was afraid to talk about economic inequalities in front of the public is pretty ridiculous. That Cantor is making dishonest excuses makes matters slightly worse.
Emphasis mine. Why would Cantor not want to speak in front of the public? The school also notified him that protesters would be present. Either reason is not a good one for cancelling a speech. Citing the public being allowed to attend is just somewhat offensive. Looking at the text of his speech, it wasn't anything new. For example, Cantor's planned remarks included this gem:
It is this foundation — hard work, faith, family, and opportunity — that provides each of us with the prospects of unlimited potential in America. Each generation is able to get a little further ahead, climbing up the ladder of success in our society. How quickly you move up – or sometimes down – should be completely up to you. Much of the conversation in the current political debate today has been focused on fairness in our society. Republicans believe that what is fair is a hand up, not a hand out. We know that we all don't begin life's race from the same starting point. I was fortunate enough to be born into a stable family that provided me with the tools that I needed to get ahead. Not everyone is so lucky.
Read the full speech here. He includes nothing about how to give a "hand up" as he puts it, but who's shocked that he did not address income inequality in a speech about income inequality, eh? …Anyone?
These people down there, they're not the counter-culture. They're the culture. They don't want free love. They want paid employment. They don't hate capitalism. They hate what's been done to it.
And they resent the Republican mantra that the market perfectly rewards the hard-working and punishes the lazy, and the poor are just jealous moochers who want a handout. Yeah, because if there's one group of people who hate handouts, it's Wall Street.
Bill Maher's take on the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Well done.
(Source: dailykos.com)
An Ohio Democratic lawmaker is proposing to drug-test elected officials, in response to a Republican-backed bill calling for drug-testing of welfare recipients.
Rep. Robert Hagan's bill would require statewide officeholders, legislators, members of Gov. John Kasich's jobs board and recipients of federal bailout money to pay for their testing for un-prescribed pharmaceuticals, illegal drugs and alcohol. Officials testing positive would have to undergo treatment or be booted from office.
Hagan says it's hypocritical for lawmakers to say they're protecting taxpayer money by testing welfare recipients for drugs if they themselves won't submit to testing.
Well, well, well… isn't this just marvelous? Of course, I'd prefer not drug-testing welfare recipients, but let's make it more equitable, shall we? He suggested anyone who receives taxpayer dollars should be tested if welfare recipients are tested - simple as that. Let us not forget how drug-testing folks applying for welfare turned out for Florida…
Oh, and he supports the Occupy Movement. He spoke at Occupy Youngstown:
"Wall Street started the war, and we the people will finish it," Rep. Robert Hagan of Youngstown told a fired-up crowd.
BAMF credentials established, sir.
Here's the University of Arkansas Kappa Sigma fraternity house across the street from Occupy Fayetteville protesters with a banner reading "The 1%". Way to keep it classy, bros. Here's the thing: I'm 100% sure that the majority of you are not in the 1%. Those of you who might be in that 1%, I'd bet it's technically your parents who are in the 1%. ¿Comprende? You just made your frat look like it's full of asshole rich kids. Fabulous job, guys.
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What exactly is a 53%er? Pardon my ignorance.
Meg of Cognitive Dissonance:
These are supposedly the only people who pay taxes. Currently, 53% of Americans pay income tax. Sounds unfair, right? But this neat little point is wrong. The other 47% do pay taxes. They aren't all getting full federal refunds or are in such a low tax bracket they don't pay federal taxes, i.e. seniors on a fixed income.
This whole "53%-ers" thing started with Red State blogger and CNN commentator Erick Erickson whining about being in the 53%. He started a sad little tumblr, We are the 53%, to mock the We are the 99% site and Occupy Wall Street. He ignores that the 47% percent pay payroll taxes, gasoline taxes, sales tax, state tax etc. There's a short summary of that talking point, and its fallacies here.
However, here's how that breaks down:
Dark red and dark grey = State and local taxes
Light red and light grey = Federal taxes
An explanation by G. William Domhoff from the University of California, Santa Cruz:
But what matters in terms of a power analysis is what percentage of their income people at different income levels pay to all levels of government (federal, state, and local) in taxes. If the less-well-off majority is somehow able to wield power, we would expect that the high earners would pay a bigger percentage of their income in taxes, because the majority figures the well-to-do would still have plenty left after taxes to make new investments and lead the good life. If the high earners have the most power, we'd expect them to pay about the same as everybody else, or less.
Citizens for Tax Justice, a research group that's been studying tax issues from its offices in Washington since 1979, provides the information we need. When all taxes (not just income taxes) are taken into account, the lowest 20% of earners (who average about $12,400 per year), paid 16.0% of their income to taxes in 2009; and the next 20% (about $25,000/year), paid 20.5% in taxes. So if we only examine these first two steps, the tax system looks like it is going to be progressive.
And it keeps looking progressive as we move further up the ladder: the middle 20% (about $33,400/year) give 25.3% of their income to various forms of taxation, and the next 20% (about $66,000/year) pay 28.5%. So taxes are progressive for the bottom 80%. But if we break the top 20% down into smaller chunks, we find that progressivity starts to slow down, then it stops, and then it slips backwards for the top 1%.
Specifically, the next 10% (about $100,000/year) pay 30.2% of their income as taxes; the next 5% ($141,000/year) dole out 31.2% of their earnings for taxes; and the next 4% ($245,000/year) pay 31.6% to taxes. You'll note that the progressivity is slowing down. As for the top 1% — those who take in $1.3 million per year on average — they pay 30.8% of their income to taxes, which is a little less than what the 9% just below them pay, and only a tiny bit more than what the segment between the 80th and 90th percentile pays.
The entire article is extremely informative in regard to taxes, income, wealth, power, and the disparities between all of them in the U.S.
Erickson's site is truly sad in that these folks are completely enthralled with the ideas that they got everything they had themselves, and second, that this system of barely staying above water and working 3 jobs to do so is a-okay. Two excellent responses to this site can be found here and here.
Incidentally, Erickson's site has been nailed making up the 53% pics at least once by the internet's photoshop wizards.


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For Immediate Release:Louisville Metro CouncilContact: Tony Hyatt 574-4137/526-3622 Stephen Haag 574-1204/645-1752The Transportation and Public Works Committee will give the public a chance to comment on the proposed Cable Franchise Agreement with Insight Kentucky Partners on Wednesday, November 10th.
"Metro Government is required to hold a public hearing before any cable franchise agreement is approved," says Councilwoman Cheri Bryant Hamilton (D-5) who chairs the Committee. "We want the public to have an opportunity to express any thoughts or concerns they may have about Insight's operations in the Metro area."
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When I first began to experiment with sea life photography, I tried shooting small invertebrates for fun with an old camera, and without any professional lights or lenses. I found and collected the invertebrates underwater, and then shot them in the lab. After two or three months of failure after failure, I ended up with a few good pictures, which I showed to the crew. These inspired us to buy a semi-professional camera, complete with underwater housing and strobes. I then spent the next season trying to shoot the same creatures, but this time in their natural environment. It was much more difficult, and I went at it for another two months without many great results. But when you're working at something every day, you inevitably gain a lot of experience, and eventually, I began to get some interesting photos—one or two from each dive. Now, after 4 years of practice, I get several good shots almost each time I go and I still have a lot of things to study about underwater photography.
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Keeping your New Year's resolution to eat more salad just got easier! These Waldorf salad cupcakes have all the trappings of a Waldorf salad; there are no greens, of course, but the cupcakes contain apples, raisins, walnuts, lemon, and even mayonnaise. If you are a mayonnaise hater, don't worry - rather than making the cupcakes taste like a condiment, the mayonnaise simply adds moisture (after all, mayonnaise is made with eggs and oil – key cupcake ingredients). Enjoy these tart lemony cupcakes topped with whipped cream and swap the iconic cherry on top for a grape!
Note: If you like the look of cupcake liners, use silicone or grease-proof liners. The moisture of the apples will cause the cupcakes to pull away from standard paper liners.
Yield: 18 cupcakes
1 cup sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
¾ cup full-fat mayonnaise
2/3 cup lemon juice
¾ cup raisins
¾ cup roughly chopped walnuts
¾ cup finely chopped apples
Whipped cream, to taste
9 grapes
Preheat oven to 350 F.
In a medium-sized mixing bowl, mix together sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Add in the butter, and mix until well-combined. You should end up with a fine crumb texture.
Mix in mayonnaise until well-combined.
Mix in lemon juice until well-combined.
Fold in raisins, walnuts, and apples.
Fill cupcake liners ¾ full.
Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out dry.
Remove cupcakes from tins and set on a cooling rack to cool.
Once cool, top cupcakes with whipped cream and garnish with half of a grape.
Stefani Pollack is the author of the popular cupcake blog, Cupcake Project. While she loves simple chocolate cupcakes, Stefani prefers creative cupcakes inspired by her favorite flavor combinations. She encourages her readers to branch out and experiment in the kitchen. Why cupcakes? They bring out the kid in us! Visit Stefani at www.cupcakeproject.com.
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these cupcakes were terrible. maybe because there's no eggs in the recipe. just a ball of grease after removing from the oven. thumbs down
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Cute idea!
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These Sound to Tasty!--Yum!...How many calories per cupcake?
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Can u please put the nutritional values. So we can compute ww points
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MIAMI (AP) - Miami's top federal prosecutor says the Justice Department is closely monitoring the Gulf oil spill but currently there is no criminal investigation of BP or the other companies involved.
U.S. Attorney Willy Ferrer told reporters Tuesday that Justice Department lawyers from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are assigned to monitor events surrounding the spill.
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UN Resident Coordinator Renata Dessallien Addresses International Green Technology Forum in Guangzhou
On 21 November, UN Deputy Country Director Silvia Morimoto addressed an international gathering of government leaders and scientists who are in Beijing for a 21-day programme titled Seminar on Green Development and Climate Change. 100 participants attended the opening ceremony, including 70 from international organizations, embassies in Beijing, and the developing world (29 countries of from Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia and 26 small island states).
04 Nov 2011
China's Roadmap for the Phase-out of Incandescent Lamps launched in Beijing
On 4th November 2011, a press conference was held to formally launch a 'Roadmap' for the phasing out of incandescent lamps in China. As part of an ongoing initiative between UNDP and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) to replace every light bulb in China with more energy efficient alternatives, this event was attended by Mr. Xie Ji, Deputy Director-General of the NDRC and Mr. Christophe Bahuet, UNDP Country Director. The adoption of five steps to remove incandescent lamps around China represents a significant step in China's pursuit of a green economy and society.
29 Oct 2011
International Forum on Surmounting the Middle-Income Trap
A joint international forum entitled 'Surmounting the Middle-Income Trap – China in the Next Decade' was held by the China Institute of Reform and Development, Chinese International Centre for Economic and Technical Exchanges, German Agency for International Cooperation and UNDP, in Haikou, Hainan Province, on 29-30 October 2011.
25 Oct 2011
40th anniversary of the resumption of China's lawful rights at the UN
Ms. Renata Dessallien, UN Resident Coordinator in China, along with representatives from eight UN agencies and government officials, attended the 'Seminar to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Resumption of the Lawful Rights of China at the UN' to mark the four decades since the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recognising the People's Republic of China as a Member State.
24 Oct 2011
United Nations Celebrates 66th Anniversary, Outlines Vision for the Future
On the 66th Anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations, the UN System in China and UN Association (UNA) held a special commemorative ceremony in Beijing on 24 October 2011, focusing on some of the achievements and challenges facing the promotion of the UN mission of peace and security, human rights, and development, as well as the need for globally coordinated development.
17 Oct 2011
UN and China Mark International Poverty Eradication Day with Major Forum
A high-level forum was held in Beijing on 17 October 2011 to mark the 19th International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, bringing together government leaders, policy makers, development practitioners, and other members of the international community, to exchange ideas on how best to accelerate sustainable poverty reduction in China and globally. It is the fifth time that this global annual event has been held in China and this year's 2011 Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum was attended by more than 200 representatives from over 30 countries, including Chinese Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu, and UNDP Administrator, Ms. Helen Clark.
17 Oct 2011
UNDP Appoints Ms. Tian Wei as Partnership and Communications Special Advisor
UNDP Administrator, Ms. Helen Clark presented CCTV Anchor, Ms. Tian Wei, with a certificate of appointment as a UNDP Special Advisor on Partnership and Communications at an event held in Beijing on 17 October 2011.
21 Sep 2011
Message from Ban Ki-moon and Speech by Renata Lok-Dessallien at the 4th North-East Asia Forum on the Occasion of the International Day of Peace
On 21 September 2011, Ms. Renata Dessallien, United Nations Resident Coordinator in China, delivered a Peace message on behalf of the UN Secretary-General during the celebration of the International Day of Peace.
19 Sep 2011
Low Carbon Campaign Encourages Greater Environmental Awareness among Drivers
On 19 September, an event was held to mark the commencement of a one-year 'Green Drive Action' initiative, as part of the broader 'China Low-Carbon Actions' project organised by the All China Environment Federation (ACEF). In front of over 1,000 participants, representing government, environmental organisations, private sector companies and a large media presence, Secretary General of the ACEF, Mr. Zeng Xiaodong, officially launched this new programme alongside Mr Mao Rubai, ACEF Director, and Mr. Jia Feng, Director-General of the Publicity Department in the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
16 Sep 2011
Associate Administrator Discusses South-South Cooperation with Ministry of Civil Affairs
UN Under-Secretary General and UNDP Associate Administrator, Ms. Rebeca Grynspan, met with Vice Minister of Civil Affairs, Mr. Sun Shaocheng on 16 September 2011. During the meeting, Ms. Grynspan acknowledged the achievements of an existing 3-year trilateral partnership between UNDP, MOCA and the European Union. In addition, she also pointed to the role of UNDP-MOCA cooperation in assisting civil society organisations gain greater political and legal recognition. Mr. Shun commended UNDP for its longstanding commitment to disaster management, civil society organisations and the protection of vulnerable groups in China.
16 Sep 2011
Associate Administrator meets with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Assistant Minister
UN Under-Secretary General and UNDP Associate Administrator, Ms. Rebeca Grynspan, met with Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Zhang Kunsheng, on 16 September 2011, to discuss progress made since the signing of a strategic agreement on South-South Cooperation, entered into by UNDP and the Government of China in 2009.
16 Sep 2011
Associate Administrator Delivers UN Distinguished Lecture on Sustainable Development at Peking University
Recognising academia as an important contributor to China's ability to share its development experiences with the world, through South-South Cooperation, Under Secretary General and UNDP Associate Administrator, Ms. Rebeca Grynspan took part in a special guest lecture entitled 'Towards Sustainable Development: New Challenges and Opportunities'. Held at Peking University, on 16 September 2011, Ms. Grynspan was accompanied by a large UNDP delegation including UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Ms. Renata Dessallien. As President of Peking University, Professor Zhou Qifeng was also in attendance.
16 Sep 2011
UNDP Recognises Peace and Development Foundation at Award Ceremony
An award ceremony was held on the afternoon of 16 September 2011 in Beijing to recognise the tremendous support rendered to the work of UNDP in China by the Peace and Development Foundation (PDF). During this event, Ms. Rebeca Grynspan, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator, presented Honourary Awards to Mr. Daniel Fung, Chairman and Founding Member of the PDF, and Ms. Kathy Chiu, Chairperson Emeritus and Founding Member of the PDF. A separate Appreciation Award was also presented to Ms. Josie Jin Zhou, UNDP China Chief Advisor for Hong Kong and the Macao Special Administrative Regions.
14 Sep 2011
Launch Ceremony of the Partnership Between UNDP, MaryKay and All China Women's Federation
UN Under-Secretary General and UNDP Associate Administrator, Ms. Rebeca Grynspan, attended the Past and Future: China Women's Development Foundation Mary Kay Women's Small Business Fund 10 Year Anniversary, on 14 September 2011. The event which was hosted by CCTV Anchor and UNDP Special Advisor on Partnership and Communications, Ms. Tian Wei, was attended by more than 120 Fund beneficiaries, and senior dignitaries representing each of the three main partners, including Ms. Chen Zhili, President of the All-China Women's Federation, Mr. Paul Mak, President of Mary Kay (China), and Ms. Grynspan of UNDP. Ms. Grynspan delivered a powerful speech on the need to empower women.
13 Sep 2011
UNDP Associate Administrator, Ms. Rebeca Grynspan visited a Chinese Agricultural Technical Task Force (TTF) project site
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Associate Administrator meets with Ministry of Commerce Vice-Minister
16 Aug 2011
China-UNDP Trilateral Cooperation Tops the Agenda in Meeting with MOFCOM
UNDP Resident Representative in China, Ms. Renata Dessallien (photo) met with Mr. Yu Jianhua, Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing on 16 August 2011. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Director General, Mr. Zhu Hong, and Mr. Lu Feng, Director at the Chinese Foreign Aid Department.
10 Aug 2011
Resident Representative Meets State Council Director for Hong Kong and Macao
On 9 August 2011, UNDP Resident Representative in China, Ms. Renata Dessallien (photo) hosted Rwandan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, H.E. Mr. Francois Xavier Ngarambe in an international policy dialogue on the history, achievements and vision of the Rwandan people and government.
09 Aug 2011
'Zoom in on Poverty' Global Photo Contest Enters Second Phase
As part of the second phase of the 'Zoom-in On Poverty' Global Photo Contest, co-organised by UNDP and Xinhua News Agency, a launch ceremony was held in Beijing on 9 August 2011 to mark the second phase of this global campaign to combat poverty. This event was attended by UNDP Deputy Country Director, Mr. Napoleon Navarro, Xinhua News Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Mr. Wang Yao and Reuters North Asia Manager, Mr. Phil Smith.
09 Aug 2011
UNDP Hosts International Policy Dialogue with Rwandan Ambassador
On 9 August 2011, UNDP Resident Representative in China, Ms. Renata Dessallien (photo) hosted Rwandan Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, H.E. Mr. Francois Xavier Ngarambe in an international policy dialogue on the history, achievements and vision of the Rwandan people and government.
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(DETROIT)(WKZO) - A development in the much-followed search for the next coach of the Pistons, as one of the leading candidates interviews with another team. Mike Woodson is a former head coach of the Atlanta Hawks and was an assistant coach in Detroit under Larry Brown when the Pistons won the NBA title in 2004. Woodson will meet with the Minnesota Timberwolves today to discuss that team's head coaching vacancy following the firing of Kurt Rambis last week. Woodson, along with former Nets coach Lawrence Frank, is considered a finalist for the Pistons job as the team transitions into new ownership under Tom Gores.
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text: Once a respected Miami Police Detective, David Middleton is the only convicted serial killer in American history who is also an ex-police officer. Middleton now awaits execution on death row in Nevada. David Middleton preyed on women he met while working as a cable television installer in Reno, Nevada after having been fired from the Miami Police Department. While serving on the Miami Police Department, Middelton was arrested for sexual assault and kidnapping and subsequently fired. He brutally tortured his victims in a makeshift "chamber of horrors" before killing them, but the heinous crimes he was convicted of are just a part of this story. An eighteen-year-old murder victim in Colorado calls from her grave to tell us it was the ineptness of law enforcement that actually let David Middleton become the Cable Guy.


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Maybe it's worth to mention that some languages, such as German and the Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish,...) still use Y like the classical Greek upsilon, ie. pronunced like IPA [y]. Even though it is rarely used in German, this letter is still called "Ypsilon" in this language.
- Of course, Ypsilon is the correct spelling (and pronounciation); the same applies to My and Ny. 220.127.116.11 20:49, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Is this also the symbol for Mass_to_light_ratio? CSWarren (talk) 12:23, 15 October 2010 (UTC) yes it is see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f83AwpY9zhc — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monkey-hammer (talk • contribs) 14:39, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Searching the internet, any non-medical references I've come across define 'hyoid' as 'u'-shaped. In regard to the hyoid bone, medical dictionaries show the etymology of the word as meaning 'upsilon' shaped, deriving back to the Greek origin (i.e., the Greek name for what we call the hyoid bone). The hyoid bone is obviously 'U'-shaped (I'm using a capital 'U' to show its actual 'horseshoe'-like shape). I would say, going by the shape of the bone, that the Greeks themselves, and onward, were saying the hyoid bone is shaped like the lowercase upsilon, not the uppercase upsilon ~Y-shape. I would understand that the 'spelling' of the Greek lowercase upsilon via Latin, gets changed to 'hy', which I think the article here actually explains. Anyway, the reference to hyoid meaning " 'y'-shaped" is either just wrong, or is correct in some context that requires much more explanation.Jauntymcd (talk) 15:27, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
The article reads: "In some languages (most notably German), the name upsilon, (üppsilon) is used to refer to the Latin letter Y as well as the Greek letter." - This is not true. There is no word "upsilon" in German, only "Ypsilon", which indeed refers not only to the letter "Y/y" in Latin and Greek but in all alphabets where it occurs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 22.214.171.124 (talk) 07:45, 14 May 2012 (UTC)


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The Superintendent says the school board has ordered all staff to take ethics training. The board will review their mandatory reporting if they think there could be abuse.
Update: The West Branch Board of Education voted 4 to 2 in favor of keeping six teachers and school board secretary, Mike Eagan.
It all started last month when former Ogemaw Heights teacher Neal Erickson was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for sex crimes against a student.
School board members and fellow teachers supported Erickson throughout the trial, angering many in the community.
Tempers flared during the public comment part of the meeting, with screaming matches breaking out at times, as many want the teachers fired and Eagan to resign.
Following a public comment part of the meeting, the board then moved into a closed session for voting at 9:30 PM.
The final decision was made at 11:30 PM, as the board decided the teacher's actions were covered under First Amendment Rights.
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25 students have left the West Branch Rose City Area School District since the incident, some citing it as a reason for their departure.


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I didn't have tomatoes handy, but it was terrific without them. My husband and friends devoured it! Once I removed the corn from the skillet, I used the skillet to sear flour-dredged chicken breasts that I'd marinated with garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, red wine vinegar and salt. While the chicken baked in a baking dish, I deglazed the skillet with homemade chicken stock, to loosen up all of the crispy bits from the corn and the chicken - the resulting pan sauce was equally amazing.
Pan-Roasted Corn and Tomato Relish
Photo: Randy Mayor; Styling: Cindy Barr
Serve this smoky relish with steak, chicken, or grilled striped bass. Refrigerate for up to three days.
This recipe goes with Grilled Chicken Breast, Grilled Flank Steak
Yield: 10 servings (serving size: 1/4 cup)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 47
- Fat: 1.8g
- Saturated fat: 0.3g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.2g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.3g
- Protein: 1.4g
- Carbohydrate: 7.5g
- Fiber: 1.2g
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- Iron: 0.3mg
- Sodium: 123mg
- Calcium: 8mg
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/4 cup chopped shallots
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 cups fresh corn kernels (about 2 ears)
- 2 cups cherry tomatoes, quartered (about 1 pint)
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
- 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1. Heat oil in a large cast-iron skillet over high heat. Add shallots and garlic; sauté 1 minute. Add corn; sauté 5 minutes or until corn is lightly browned. Add tomatoes; sauté 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Place corn mixture in a medium bowl; cool to room temperature. Stir in basil, vinegar, and salt.
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I've been watching with great interest this silly little debate about integrity and journalism between Marco Arment, John Gruber, and Joshua Topolsky, and I couldn't resist the urge to comment.
First, a quick summary of the issue. A number of prominent tech sites, including The Verge and Engadget, wrote articles about the HP Spectre One all-in-one desktop computer, which looks suspiciously like an Apple product ripoff (think Thunderbolt Display bolted on top of a MacBook Air, with the same wireless keyboard and Magic Trackpad as an iMac). Each of these sites neglected to mention the similarities with said Apple products.
And so Marco noticed and alleged this was due to said tech sites being toothless and wanting to remain chummy with OEMs because their business model depends on it. Gruber chimed in and believes that this has more to do with these sites taking an editorial position that more closely aligns their views with those of certain readers who believe these manufacturers are not copying Apple, are entitled to do so, or one of many other similar positions. Topolsky responded with a pretty emotional and heated post. After that, a bunch of Internet ego dick wagging happened on Twitter.
Egos aside, I'm more interested in discussing what I believe to be the core issue with the business model of sites like The Verge that leave the door open for these types of omissions.
I haven't worked as a journalist, but I have worked on the other side of the fence, in PR. Tech news sites, like any other news sites, are faced with a few fundamental problems: a high volume of news stories, too few resources to adequately cover them in depth, and fighting the clock to get "breaking" news out the door and on the site. These sites primarily make their money through advertising, which either directly or indirectly pays higher returns for greater pageviews. This means there is an incentive to be the first to break a story, to have an exclusive scoop, or take a controversial position on an issue. With so much competition, if you're too slow in getting to a story, you're losing out on potential "eyeballs" from referrals and other sources.
On the flip side, companies like HP and their PR agencies spend a lot of time and money trying to craft compelling pitches and use other tactics to get the interest of journalists. The gold standard for PR is that your press release gets published verbatim in whole or in part. Runner up would be that your messaging and spin is intact, even if the words aren't. Providing the messaging isn't totally over-the-top, journalists are happy to do this because they are working on deadline, and need to post a high volume of stories in a timely manner. This means there's no time for editorializing straight news like a first-look piece. This is how the PR business stays alive and stays successful, and news sites keep costs down and revenue up.
What it comes down to, I think, is not a desire to suck up to OEMs, or to pander to Android and PC loving readers, or willful maliciousness by sites like The Verge, as Marco and Gruber seem to believe, but rather a sort of unintentional journalistic laziness that results from the pressures of the job and these publications' business models.
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Upon re-reading Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' blog post about splitting off their physical disc rental business into a separate company called Qwikster, I was struck by a sentence and how it applies to so many tech companies:
Most companies that are great at something –- like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores -– do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business. Eventually these companies realize their error of not focusing enough on the new thing, and then the company fights desperately and hopelessly to recover. Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
Two companies came to mind when reading this: Microsoft and RIM. The former is ironic given that Reed Hastings is on the board. The latter is the one I'm really interested in talking about given the company's growing list of disappointing news and announcements over the past year.
At the heart of RIM's problem is what Hastings is referring to in his post. It's the concept of disruptive innovation. The idea that markets aren't won or lost over slow iterations of existing products with the same value proposition. Apple, for instance, never could and likely won't ever be able to win the PC business as it stands. But they recognized this and understood they don't have to. The PC industry has been in accelerating decline for the past decade,1 and Apple smartly chose to position itself for dominance in the post-PC era.
They did this through a series of disruptive innovations that nobody has been able to match: iPod, iPhone, iPad. And they are no doubt already thinking about the next one, because the iPhone decade will eventually come to an end. As Horace Dediu pointed out on a recent episode of his outstanding podcast, The Critical Path, each of these products flowed from a new input mechanism (scroll wheel, touch) which in turn required a new ecosystem and market strategy.
This brings us back to RIM, the once-darling of Canadian tech innovation that I'm still hoping can return to its glory days. Looking back at the Blackberrys that existed in 2005, and comparing them with the Blackberrys of today, I find few substantial differences. Sure, the screens are better, they're faster, have nicer graphics, and have a few new bells and whistles. But, fundamentally, these are the same enterprise-focused devices that once attracted IT pros to the platform.
Since then, the iPhone emerged and dramatically disrupted the market, and the modern Android platform was born in response to it. The BlackBerry has continued to chart a conservative path with the same platform and same fundamental assumptions about market access, the required ecosystem, and its consumers. In the process, RIM's leadership seems to have been surprised to wake up one day and discover their devices were no longer inspiring the hearts and minds of those who once carried a BlackBerry on their hip.
That's not to mention the iPad, and RIM's subsequent distraction and failed attempt at responding to it. The PlayBook was dead in the water on launch and likely can't be saved with slow iteration. They only sold 200,000 devices this quarter, and are already trying to bolster demand by slashing prices. This is a race to the bottom that will do nothing but continue to hurt the company.
Shortly before the PlayBook was released, I speculated in conversations with friends that RIM needed to bank the company on this device. I think they did just that, but never realized they were doing it. Unfortunately, the device wasn't the right one to make such a gamble on.
Now it seems like QNX-powered BlackBerries may be their last ditch attempt. And it sounds like there will continue to be a concurrent lineup of existing BlackBerry OS devices and newer QNX-powered devices — no doubt creating confusion in the marketplace.
Just like Henry Ford didn't try to sell his customers a faster horse, Apple didn't become the most valuable company in the world by building faster Macs. They made minor gambles and released three key products over a decade that disrupted existing markets and paved the way for new ones they could own. RIM should take a lesson from Apple's playbook2 and focus on new product offerings, with entirely new value propositions that play to their strengths.
The path of playing catch-up with Apple's four-year-old innovations can only lead to failure. Reed Hastings is right. RIM is only just realizing the errors of its strategy, and can't move fast enough to save itself.
Netflix spins DVD rentals into a separate company →
I have to say I'm quite surprised to hear that Netflix is launching a new company called Qwikster.1 The new company will take over their entire physical disc mailing business, while Netflix will be streaming-only moving forward.
The stated goal is to better focus resources on each of these products, which have their own cost structures and so on. Fair enough. It's clear they have realized streaming is the future, but not quite yet. I wonder if this won't just kill their physical mailing business Qwiker (bad pun).
No word yet if the Nestle Quik rabbit will be a part of the logo. ;) ↩
HP may have killed webOS, but at least the Palm Pre still cuts a mean slice of cheese.
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There is no way that regulators can look at what Google makes from Android, the worldwide smartphone market and the juggernaut that Apple has become and say that Google's acquisition of Motorola is in any way anti-competitive. It is a necessary move by Google to keep pace with its biggest competitor in the mobile realm.
I'm not totally sure I buy this, although I don't think it will stop the deal from passing. Google has used its monopoly position in the search/advertising market to build an operating system at a huge expense and give it away for free, ostensibly in order to secure mobile search advertising revenue. This is the same kind of rationale that got Microsoft in trouble in the 90s when they bundled Internet Explorer with Windows.
No other company can afford to give away a mobile operating system for free. Apple, Microsoft, and HP all have to make money on the software itself (and hardware, in the case of Apple and HP). It will be interesting to see Google's next moves in the space. Will they begin to lock down Android, making it less "open"? Will they try to become a successful hardware manufacturer, creating best-in-class Android devices?
It occurred to me last night that, with the 140 character constraint and ubiquity of the service in many of our lives, Twitter could potentially impact our writing dramatically.
A few years ago, I recall people voicing concerns about text messaging and how teens were learning bad grammatical habits as a result of its constraints.
With Twitter, however, I feel like many of us are rising to the challenge and learning to be more creative and concise as a result of the constraints. To be honest, I'm not sure if Twitter has had an impact on my writing style or quality, but I'm interested to hear what other think.
So, do you think Twitter has made you a better writer?
Gizmodo Paid for iPhone 4G Prototype →
How do you feel about this? Is it ethical?
Microsoft employee:
So Tom, what part of your Mac do you hate the most?
Hmm, I don't know. Maybe Office?


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