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Best accommodation in Bolivia
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Accommodation in Bolivia is generally very good value, though standards in all price brackets are variable. In the larger cities you'll find a broad range of places to stay, including top-end hotels charging well over Bs700 ($100) a night. In smaller towns, however, there's not much choice, particularly in the mid- and upper price ranges, though there are usually plenty of decent budget places.
Room rates generally represent excellent value for money. In areas popular with tourists, rates rise slightly during the high season (July-August) and prices in any town can double or treble during a major fiesta. In addition, room rates in resort towns popular with Bolivians increase at the weekend. These are also the only circumstances in which reserving a room in advance is necessary. Prices also vary by region: accommodation in big cities tends to cost more (notably in Santa Cruz), whereas smaller towns that see a lot of budget travellers – Coroico, Copacabana, Rurrenabaque – tend to have a good range of inexpensive places to stay.
Accommodation names – hotel, hostal, residencial and alojamiento – mean relatively little in Bolivia. Virtually all high-end accommodation will call itself a hotel, but then many basic places do so as well. Smaller and cheaper hotels – also known as hostales, alojamientos or residenciales – tend to offer basic rooms with shared bathrooms only, but they still vary widely in price, cleanliness and comfort. Cabañas are self-contained cabins or bungalows, sometimes with their own kitchenettes, usually found away from big cities. Note that a motel is not an inexpensive roadside hotel, but a place where unmarried couples go to have sex, while a pension is a cheap place to eat, rather than somewhere to stay.
There's no standard or widely used rating system for hotels, so other than the information given in this book, the only way to tell whether a place is suitable or not is to have a look around. It's usually worth asking to see a few different rooms and choosing one you like rather than just accepting the first you're offered. There's usually some flexibility in all price ranges, so a little haggling is always worth a try, especially when the hotel seems fairly empty, or if you're in a group: the phrase "Tiene un cuarto más barato?" ("Do you have a cheaper room?") is useful. The cheapest places often charge per person, but otherwise single rooms tend to cost as much as or only slightly less than double rooms. Rooms with double beds (cama matrimonial) usually cost less than those with two beds.
Even in the coldest highland cities heating is generally only found in the more expensive hotels. In the lowlands, heat rather than cold is often a problem. All but the cheapest rooms are equipped with a fan, and many places offer the option of air-conditioning. In the lowlands, you should also check whether the windows of your room are screened against mosquitoes or if the bed is equipped with a net.
All but the cheapest places have hot water, but the reliability and effectiveness of water-heating systems varies considerably. Many hotels have a strong box where you can lock up your valuables – though you should count cash carefully before handing it in, and ask for a receipt. Many places will also store luggage for you, often free of charge.
The number of hostels in Bolivia is slowly increasing, and many of them are affiliated with Hostelling International (whihostels.com). Relatively few have dorms or traditional hostel facilities like communal kitchens, offering instead simple and inexpensive rooms, normally with a choice of either shared or private bathroom.
Few travellers bother camping in Bolivia, unless they're exploring the country's wilderness areas. Outside cities and towns, however, you can camp almost everywhere, usually for free. Be aware, though, that in the highlands it gets extremely cold at night, while in the lowlands, mosquitoes can be a real problem if your tent isn't screened. In the rainforest, a hammock combined with a fitted mosquito net and a tarpaulin to keep off the rain allows you to camp out pretty much anywhere.
When looking for a place to camp, it's usually okay to set up your tent in fields beyond the outskirts of settlements, but you should ask permission from the nearest house first. In wilderness areas where there's no one around to ask, you can camp freely. On the more popular trekking routes you may be asked for a small fee of a dollar or two by local villagers. Though attacks on trekkers are rare, you're obviously vulnerable if camping out alone: it's best to camp with at least one other person, and women shouldn't camp unless accompanied by men.
In some national parks and other protected wilderness areas you'll find rustic shelters – albergues or refugios – where you can stay for a small fee, often in the campamentos used by the park guards. Rudimentary cooking facilities and running water are usually available.
Specialist camping equipment is expensive and difficult to come by in Bolivia, being sold only in a few shops in La Paz and Santa Cruz, so you should bring all you need from home. If you do need to buy stuff, it's often best to look for travellers wanting to get rid of equipment they no longer need – check out the notice boards in popular budget hotels in La Paz.
Addresses are usually written with just the street name (and often only the surname if the street is named after a person), followed by the number – for example, "Paredes 704" rather than "Calle Max Paredes 704". Often, however, numbers are not used, and the nearest intersection is given instead – for example, "Illampu con Comercio". Note also that street numbers in Bolivia do not always run consecutively: number 6 could easily be between numbers 2 and 4.


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AUDIO: Keith Richards (1985)
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- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 19:48:32 +0100
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On 9 Sep 2011, at 19:21, Tom Baker wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 06:08:21PM +0100, Jodi Schneider wrote: >> This complicates the section on Linked Data -- one of the key places I think >> we need to simplify. So I would propose reverting that change, so that this >> paragraph focuses only on Linked Data -- the concept it is defining. > > I take your point that squeezing a reference to IRIs into a definition of > "Linked Data" interrupts the flow of that brief definition. > >> Then, if we do feel the need to cover URIs in the Scope section, I'd rather >> that we gave it its own line (similar to how we define "libraries"). > > That sounds like a good solution. I think the section should end with > "Library Linked Data", so my preference would be to insert a new item > between "Linked Data" and "Open Data" -- i.e., right after "Linked Data". > Maybe it could be called "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)", define > URIs, and refer also to IRIs. +1 -- particularly your location proposal makes sense. > >> Alternately we might want to put it in the "Available Technologies" Appendix >> section of the report: We have considerably simplified a number of issues in >> the main report. > > I think IRIs are important enough to emphasize up-front -- in the Appendix, > the point would be much less prominent. > >> While I'm not sure that the *term* "IRI" is that much harder to understand >> than "URI" (which is different from the "URL" which is in common practice), >> you make a good point that URIs, rather than IRIs, are currently emphasized >> in Linked Data. It would be helpful to know whether, for instance, the >> National Diet Library is currently using IRIs for Linked Data. > > ...or indeed, whether the advocates of IRIs advocate their use in libraries > regardless of scripts used -- i.e., even for Latin-script URIs? Bottom line: > since this report is about Linked Data, and the Linked Data message always > talks about URIs (or even URLs), I think we need to stick with URIs. But we > can and should draw attention to IRIs up-front. Inserting a separate item > into Scope would do that even better than the solution I proposed. > > Would you like to propose a text? Here's an attempt: A URI--or Uniform Resource Identifier--is a string of characters used as an identifier. ISBNs and Web URLs are both examples of URIs. While this report follows common practice in emphasizing URIs, readers should note the increasing role of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) as multilingual Web addresses that support non-Latin scripts. Jeff? Others? Thoughts/improvements? -Jodi > > Tom > > -- > Tom Baker <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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Jeremiah 4:1-31
Jeremiah 4:1-31 NKJV
"If you will return, O Israel," says the LORD, "Return to Me; And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, Then you shall not be moved. And you shall swear, 'The LORD lives,' In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; The nations shall bless themselves in Him, And in Him they shall glory." For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: "Break up your fallow ground, And do not sow among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, And take away the foreskins of your hearts, You men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury come forth like fire, And burn so that no one can quench it, Because of the evil of your doings." Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: "Blow the trumpet in the land; Cry, 'Gather together,' And say, 'Assemble yourselves, And let us go into the fortified cities.' Set up the standard toward Zion. Take refuge! Do not delay! For I will bring disaster from the north, And great destruction." The lion has come up from his thicket, And the destroyer of nations is on his way. He has gone forth from his place To make your land desolate. Your cities will be laid waste, Without inhabitant. For this, clothe yourself with sackcloth, Lament and wail. For the fierce anger of the LORD Has not turned back from us. "And it shall come to pass in that day," says the LORD, "That the heart of the king shall perish, And the heart of the princes; The priests shall be astonished, And the prophets shall wonder." Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Surely You have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, Saying, 'You shall have peace,' Whereas the sword reaches to the heart." At that time it will be said To this people and to Jerusalem, "A dry wind of the desolate heights blows in the wilderness Toward the daughter of My people— Not to fan or to cleanse— A wind too strong for these will come for Me; Now I will also speak judgment against them." "Behold, he shall come up like clouds, And his chariots like a whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are plundered!" O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, That you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you? For a voice declares from Dan And proclaims affliction from Mount Ephraim: "Make mention to the nations, Yes, proclaim against Jerusalem, That watchers come from a far country And raise their voice against the cities of Judah. Like keepers of a field they are against her all around, Because she has been rebellious against Me," says the LORD. "Your ways and your doings Have procured these things for you. This is your wickedness, Because it is bitter, Because it reaches to your heart." O my soul, my soul! I am pained in my very heart! My heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, Because you have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war. Destruction upon destruction is cried, For the whole land is plundered. Suddenly my tents are plundered, And my curtains in a moment. How long will I see the standard, And hear the sound of the trumpet? "For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly children, And they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge." I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; And the heavens, they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled, And all the hills moved back and forth. I beheld, and indeed there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled. I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were broken down At the presence of the LORD, By His fierce anger. For thus says the LORD: "The whole land shall be desolate; Yet I will not make a full end. For this shall the earth mourn, And the heavens above be black, Because I have spoken. I have purposed and will not relent, Nor will I turn back from it. The whole city shall flee from the noise of the horsemen and bowmen. They shall go into thickets and climb up on the rocks. Every city shall be forsaken, And not a man shall dwell in it. "And when you are plundered, What will you do? Though you clothe yourself with crimson, Though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, Though you enlarge your eyes with paint, In vain you will make yourself fair; Your lovers will despise you; They will seek your life. "For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, The anguish as of her who brings forth her first child, The voice of the daughter of Zion bewailing herself; She spreads her hands, saying, 'Woe is me now, for my soul is weary Because of murderers!'


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Four Kids Dead as Israel Strike Hits Gaza Apartment
At least 11 Palestinian civilians, including four children, were killed on Sunday in what Hamas said was an Israeli air strike on a Gaza apartment building, the highest death toll in a single incident in five days of fighting.
Israel gave off signs of a possible ground invasion of the Hamas-run enclave as the next stage in its air and sea offensive billed as a bid to stop Palestinian rocket fire into the Jewish state, while also spelling out its conditions for a truce.
U.S. President Barack Obama said that while Israel had a right to defend itself against rocket salvoes, it would be "preferable" to avoid a military thrust into the Gaza Strip, a narrow, densely populated coastal territory. Such an assault would risk high casualties and an international outcry.
A spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said an Israeli missile wrecked the three-storey residential building, killing 11 people, all of them civilians. Medics said four women and four children were among the dead.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier that he had assured world leaders that Israel was doing its utmost to avoid causing civilian casualties in the military showdown with Hamas.
"The massacre of the Dalu family will not pass without punishment," Hamas's armed wing said in a statement.
For their part, Gaza militants launched dozens of rockets into Israel and targeted its commercial capital, Tel Aviv, for a fourth day. The Jewish state's "Iron Dome" missile shield shot down two of the rockets fired toward Tel Aviv, Israel's biggest city, but falling debris from the interception hit a car, which caught fire. Its driver was not hurt.
In scenes recalling Israel's 2008-2009 winter incursion into Gaza, tanks, artillery and infantry massed in field encampments along the sandy, fenced-off border. Military convoys moved on roads in the area newly closed to civilian traffic.
Netanyahu said Israel was ready to widen its offensive.
"We are exacting a heavy price from Hamas and the terrorist organisations and the Israel Defence Forces are prepared for a significant expansion of the operation," he said at a cabinet meeting, giving no further details.
Gaza health official Mufid al-Miklalati said 65 Palestinians – around half of them women and children – have been killed in small, densely populated Gaza began, with hundreds wounded.
More than 500 rockets fired from Gaza have hit Israel since Wednesday, killing three civilians and wounding dozens.
Israel's declared goal is to deplete Gaza arsenals and force the Islamist Hamas to stop rocket fire that has bedevilled Israeli border towns for years and is now displaying greater range, putting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in the crosshairs.
Israel withdrew settlers from Gaza in 2005 and two years later Hamas took control of the impoverished enclave, which the Israelis have kept under blockade.
At a news conference during a visit to Bangkok, Obama said Israel has "every right to expect that it does not have missiles fired into its territory".
He added: "If this can be accomplished without a ramping up of military activity in Gaza that is preferable. That's not just preferable for the people of Gaza, it's also preferable for Israelis because if Israeli troops are in Gaza they're much more at risk of incurring fatalities or being wounded," he said.
Obama said he had been in regular contact with Egyptian and Turkish leaders – to secure their mediation in bring about a halt to rocket barrages by Hamas and other Islamist militants.
"We're going to have to see what kind of progress we can make in the next 24, 36, 48 hours," he added.
In other air raids on Sunday, two Gaza City media buildings were hit, witnesses said. Eight journalists were wounded and facilities belonging to Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV as well as Britain's Sky News were damaged.
An employee of the Beirut-based al Quds television station lost his leg in the attack, local medics said.
The Israeli military said the strike targeted a rooftop "transmission antenna used by Hamas to carry out terror activity", and that journalists in the building had effectively been used as human shields by Gaza's rulers.
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said in Cairo, as his security deputies sought to broker a truce with Hamas leaders, that "there are some indications that there is a possibility of a ceasefire soon, but we do not yet have firm guarantees".
Egypt has mediated previous ceasefire deals between Israel and Hamas, the latest of which unravelled with recent violence.
A Palestinian official told Reuters the truce discussions would continue in Cairo on Sunday, saying "there is hope", but that it was too early to say whether the efforts would succeed.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be in Egypt on Monday for talks with Mursi, the foreign ministry in Cairo said. U.N. diplomats earlier said Ban was expected in Israel and Egypt this week to push for an end to the fighting.
The head of the Arab League and a group of Arab foreign ministers will visit Gaza on Tuesday to show solidarity with the Palestinians, officials said in Cairo.
Asked on Israel Radio about progress in the Cairo talks, Silvan Shalom, one of Netanyahu's deputies, said: "There are contacts, but they are currently far from being concluded."
Listing Israel's terms for ceasing fire, Moshe Yaalon, another deputy to the prime minister, wrote on Twitter: "If there is quiet in the south and no rockets and missiles are fired at Israel's citizens, nor terrorist attacks engineered from the Gaza Strip, we will not attack."
Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip has so far drawn Western support for what U.S. and European leaders have called its right to self-defence, but there was also a growing number of appeals from them to seek an end to the hostilities.
British Foreign Minister William Hague said on Sky News that he and Prime Minister David Cameron "stressed to our Israeli counterparts that a ground invasion of Gaza would lose Israel a lot of the international support and sympathy that they have in this situation".
Israel's cabinet decided on Friday to double the current reserve troop quota set for the Gaza campaign to 75,000. Some 31,000 soldiers have already been called up, the military said.
A possible sweep into the Gaza Strip and the risk of heavy casualties it brings would be a significant gamble for Netanyahu, favoured to win a January election.
The last Gaza war, a three-week Israeli blitz and invasion four years ago, killed 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians. Thirteen Israelis died in the conflict.
The current flare-up around Gaza has fanned the fires of a Middle East ignited by a series of Arab uprisings and a civil war in Syria that threatens to spread beyond its borders.
One significant change has been the election of an Islamist government in Cairo that is allied with Hamas, which may narrow Israel's manoeuvring room in confronting the Palestinian group. Israel and Egypt made peace in 1979.
Israel's Iron Dome missile interceptor system has destroyed more than 200 incoming rockets from Gaza in mid-air since Wednesday, saving Israeli towns and cities from potentially significant damage.
However, one rocket salvo unleashed on Sunday evaded Iron Dome and wounded two people when it struck a house in the Mediterranean coastal city of Ashkelon, police said.


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In case you missed the last post, tonight's the night of the Well Fed Blog Warming Party!
This is a chance to get together and meet other Seattle area food bloggers and food blog readers. Everyone is welcome. We'll be celebrating at Barca (on Capitol Hill) tonight at 7pm.
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How to Feed Yourself for $50 a Week or Less
For the average single person, housing and food are the biggest expenses. Once you've signed a lease, your housing costs are pretty much fixed. But each month you'll make hundreds of choices that affect your food costs — making it a budget category ripe with savings potential and overspending pitfalls. (See also: Create Your First Budget in 5 Easy Steps)
If you've been accustomed to eating on a dormitory meal plan or living on Cap'n Crunch, developing proficiency at making real meals on a budget will take planning and practice. Here are some strategies that veteran bargain shoppers use to save on groceries.
1. Set a Weekly Budget…and Stick to It
You may think you'll just go to the store and spend as little as possible, but having a hard number in mind will help you save much more. Many bargain shoppers — not just students but experienced shoppers with big families to feed — find it useful to go to the grocery store with only the amount of cash they intend to spend (no credit or debit cards) to make sure they stick to the budget without being tempted to go over.
How do you come up with your first budget? If you are already grocery shopping for all your meals, save two weeks worth of receipts. Calculate how much you spent per week, and then evaluate that. Did you have enough food with enough variety to make a week's worth of good meals? Can you afford to continue buying that much, or do you need to reduce your spending?
Based on this evaluation, set a budget goal. If you're OK with the groceries you've been buying but feel you want to cut your spending, start by setting your budget at 10% below what you were already spending. With a goal in place, you'll find ways of meeting it. You may even find after a few weeks that you're ready to reduce your budget by another 10%.
If you haven't already been shopping for yourself and don't know where to begin, try a weekly budget of $50. This is half of what many frugal families with children spend, so it should be high enough for a single person to eat nutritiously even if you don't make every single meal from scratch.
Since there are 21 meals in a week, $50 may seem awfully low — just $2.31 per meal! But keep in mind that some meals, especially breakfasts, can be made very cheaply. For example, a canister of oatmeal containing 30 servings may be purchased on sale for $3, providing an entire month's worth of breakfasts for just a dime apiece. Throw in a sliced banana or small diced apple for an extra quarter per day if you want it "deluxe." If your breakfast only costs 35 cents, that frees up money so that your dinner can cost more than $2.31, and you'll still stay within budget.
Also keep in mind that $50 is just an example. You may find that in your area, or with your dietary needs, a week's worth of groceries costs more or less. The point is that you should figure out a budget goal and stick to it.
2. Pick Your Store
Prices vary surprisingly widely among different types of grocery stores. In fact, Consumers' Checkbook magazine found that in the Chicago area, the difference between the most expensive and least expensive stores was as much as 21% — when buying the same items!
Any investment that could guarantee a 21% return would be a no-brainer — and yet some people who spend hours poring over investment strategies think that grocery savings are not worth spending time on. The best thing about saving money, compared to earning it with investments? Savings are tax free.
If you have been shopping at a high-end store or a corner convenience store, you'll be able to save a large chunk of change by switching to a bargain store such as an Aldi or Save-a-Lot, a warehouse store, or a big-box store such as Target or Walmart, which are increasingly including grocery sections. If you want to shop at a warehouse store like Costco but you live alone, you may want to team up with a friend to split up large packages — if your food goes bad before you can eat it all, you haven't saved anything by buying in bulk!
Another great strategy (especially if you live in an urban area) is to look for ethnic grocery stores and produce markets. For example, in San Francisco produce shops in the Mexican Mission District and Chinatown sell very fresh produce at low prices.
While discount grocery stores are great for busy people who don't want to worry about sale prices and coupons, it's also possible to save money at a traditional grocery store such as a Safeway — if you pay attention to what is on sale.
3. Learn How Grocery Sales Work
Traditional grocery stores are also called "high-low" operators because they can sell the same item for a high price one week and a much lower price the next. At these stores, buying on sale can make a huge difference in your food prices. Each store typically advertises several "loss leaders" — items that they may lose money on — to get people into the store.
"Stores count on us going in for sale items and loss leaders, then doing the rest of our shopping at everyday high prices," said Rachel Singer Gordon, author of the blog MashupMom.com. "Shop more strategically and stock up on sale items so you never have to pay full price."
When a non-perishable item you use regularly goes on sale, definitely buy more than one. This will free up money in next week's budget to stock up on things that go on sale next week. But don't buy too much extra until you have been watching sale prices for a few months, because some discounts are much bigger than others. You don't want to buy six months worth of laundry detergent only to see it go on an even better sale next month. Buy one, get one free sales often feature the best prices you will see on an item.
Make sure to find out if the store requires you to have a loyalty card to get the sale prices — there's nothing worse than thinking you just saved a bunch of money only to get home and realize you paid full price.
The best way to save money with sales is to be flexible with your purchases. People often advise sticking to a shopping list, but if you make a list without looking at what's on sale, you could actually spend even more than you would buying on impulse. Check out your store's sale flyer — pick one up at the store or look online — and make your list based on what's on cheap that particular week. That may involve trying new foods or brands.
4. Look for Store Brands
House brands are often made in the same factories as the name brands, but they sell for less. If you have a name brand in your cart, even if it's on sale, take the time to check to see if the store brand is cheaper before you check out. And when store-brand items go on sale, their prices are tough to beat.
5. Give Coupons a Try
You may associate coupons with older people — or with those crazy shoppers on shows like TLC's "Extreme Couponing" who spend 40 hours a week clipping. But in reality, you can save money even if you only spend a few minutes a week on coupons.
You'll find a lot of coupons in Sunday newspapers, but that's not the only place to get them these days. You can print out coupons at home or download coupons directly to your phone, using tools such as Safeway's JustforU app.
Try a coupon database such as the one at Hot Coupon World, where you can search for the product you want to buy and find out if there's a coupon available and where to find it.
6. Do a Little Prep Work
Sometimes you can save a lot of money with just a little work. Look at the difference in price between pre-chopped vegetables and whole fresh ones. Try buying the whole veggies and time yourself while chopping them. If it took you an extra five minutes to chop but cost $2 less, that's the equivalent of earning $24 per hour, tax free. Is that worthwhile for you? It all depends on how much you typically earn, how much spare time you have, and how much you like to cook.
7. Cut Waste
Forty percent of food produced in the United States is thrown away, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. In fact, most of the garbage in municipal dumps is food. These are distressing facts, but they also point to a huge opportunity — if you stop throwing away food, you can actually get more and better food for the same amount of money.
The main reason food gets thrown away, of course, is because it goes bad, so don't let that happen. One way to avoid throwing away food is to sketch out a meal plan before you shop to make sure you'll use all the fresh produce or meat you're buying. Another way is to have a plan for using leftovers promptly. If you're not going to be able to use leftovers within a day or so, put them in your freezer, and you'll have a quick meal ready on a future busy day.
If you have odds and ends left over after cooking, save even small amounts of ingredients — you can always throw them into spaghetti sauce or a can of prepared soup to avoid letting them go to waste.
Another easy way to avoid wasting food is to keep the refrigerator uncluttered. If you lose sight of yesterday's leftovers behind a crowd of almost-empty ketchup bottles, you're likely to forget about it until it's too late.
Sticking to that weekly budget can really help you cut waste — if you know you can't buy more groceries until the end of the week, you're more motivated to make good use of every ingredient you buy.
8. Avoid Eating Out
Fifty dollars can buy several bags of groceries — or it can disappear in just one or two restaurant meals. Then again, it's no fun to say you'll never eat out, unless you're truly on a subsistence budget.
Budget for your restaurant meals just as you do for your grocery meals. You may be able to fit restaurants into a $50 weekly budget if you keep your grocery list down to $35 and allow $15 for your share of a weekly meal out with friends. Or if you can afford it, set an additional restaurant allowance — but just remember that using your new bargain shopping skills, you could probably feed a lot of friends at home and even buy a bottle of wine for the price of just your own entree and a drink out.


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I have been thinking about UI design lately. With some help from my
friend Rob Landley, I've come up with a classification schema for the
levels at which users are willing to invest effort to build
The base assumption is that for any given user there is a maximum
cognitive load any given user is willing to accept to use an
interface. I think that there are levels, analogous to Piagetian
developmental thresholds and possibly related to them, in the
trajectory of learning to use software interfaces.
Level 0: I'll only push one button.
Level 1: I'll push a sequence of buttons, as long as they're all visible
and I don't have to remember anything between presses. These people
can do checklists.
Level 2: I'm willing to push as sequence of buttons in which later ones may
not be visible until earlier ones have been pressed. These people
will follow pull-down menus; it's OK for the display to change as long
as they can memorize the steps.
Level 3: I'm willing to use folders if they never change while I'm not looking.
There can be hidden unchanging state, but nothing must ever
happen out of sight. These people can handle an incremental replace
with confirmation. They can use macros, but have no capability to
cope with surprises other than by yelling for help.
Level 4: I'm willing to use metaphors to describe magic actions. A folder
can be described by "These are all my local machines" or "these
are all my print jobs" and is allowed to change out of sight in an
unsurprising way. These people can handle global replace, but must
examine the result to maintain confidence. These people will begin
customizing their environment.
Level 5: I'm willing to use categories (generalize about nouns). I'm
to recognize that all .doc files are alike, or all .jpg files are
alike, and I have confidence there are sets of actions I can apply
to a file I have never seen that will work because I know its type.
(Late in this level knowledge begins to become articulate; these
people are willing to give simple instructions over the phone or
by email.)
Level 6: I'm willing to unpack metaphors into procedural steps. People at
this level begin to be able to cope with surprises when the
metaphor breaks, because they have a representation of process.
People at this level are ready to cope with the fact that HTML
documents are made up of tags, and more generally with
simple document markup.
Level 7: I'm willing to move between different representations of
a document or piece of data. People at this level know that
any one view of the data is not the same as the data, and lossless
transformations no longer scare them. Multiple representations
become more useful than confusing. At this level the idea of
structural rather than presentation markup begins to make sense.
Level 8: I'm willing to package simple procedures I already understand.
These people are willing to record a sequence of actions which
they understand into a macro, as long as no decisions (conditionals)
are involved. They begin to get comfortable with report generators.
At advanced level 8 they may start to be willing to deal with
simple SQL.
Level 9: I am willing to package procedures that make decisions, as long
as I already understand them. At his level, people begin to cope
with conditionals and loops, and also to deal with the idea of
programming languages.
Level 10: I am willing to problem-solve at the procedural level, writing
programs for tasks I don't completely understand before
developing them.
I'm thinking this scale might be useful in classifying interfaces and
developing guidelines for not exceeding the pain threshold of an
audience if we have some model of what their notion of acceptable
cognitive load is.
(This is a spinoff from my book-in-progress, "The Art of Unix
Programming", but I don't plan to put it in the book.)
Comments, reactions, and refinements welcome.


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Health and Safety
Never drink tap water in the D.R. (look for a hotel or restaurant that has earned an H for food-service hygiene or that has a Crystal America certification). Don't buy food or even juice from the street vendors.
Dengue, chikungunya, and zika have all been reported in Martinique. We recommend that you protect yourself from these mosquito-borne illnesses by keeping your skin covered and/or wearing mosquito repellant. The mosquitoes that transmit these viruses are as active by day as they are at night.
Although crime rates in the D.R. can be high, violent crime is rare against tourists. Nevertheless, poverty is everywhere in the D.R., and petty theft, pickpocketing, and purse snatching are an increasing concern, particularly in Santo Domingo. Pay attention, especially when leaving a bank or casino. Take hotel-recommended taxis at night.


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DALLAS and BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ —
Key Facts
- Available exclusively from AT&T* in the coming months, the HTC One™ X will be the first new smartphone from AT&T to feature the latest version of the Android operating system (4.0) paired with the power of AT&T's 4G LTE network.
- HTC One X will be one of the first phones in the U.S. to feature HTC Sense™4, the new version of HTC's branded user experience that introduces ImageSense, a suite of camera and imaging features with improvements to every part of the camera.
- HTC One X will also be AT&T's first smartphone with Beats By Dr. Dre™ Audio built-in to the hardware and software. Beats Audio on the HTC One X is enabled across the entire multimedia audio experience including apps, offering richer, more authentic sound on music, games, videos and movies. AT&T stores will soon carry Beats By Dr. Dre accessories for the first time.
- For more information, visit http://www.att.com/aboutus.
- AT&T customers will immediately recognize HTC One X as the latest in smartphone superiority. The combination of 4G LTE, the nation's largest 4G network and an unsurpassed user experience in audio and imaging, HTC's leading design and plenty of power under the hood, will make this superphone a hit with customers of all types. Customers interested in learning more can visit http://www.att.com/htconex.
HD Entertainment
Customers who enjoy watching TV shows or movies on their smartphone will be amazed by the 4.7-inch 720p HD screen on the HTC One X which provides sharp screen images that appear detailed and visible from every angle – even angled up to 80 degrees – or connect the device to any TV using HTC's wireless HDMI Media Link HD adapter** to enjoy content on a larger screen.
The laminated cover glass and touch layer eliminates light reflection for superior sharpness and clarity, and is protected with Corning® Gorilla® Glass. HTC One X also features a beautifully crafted
polycarbonate unibody design that showcases its clean lines and seamless construction.
Authentic Sound
HTC One X is the first device from AT&T with Beats Audio integration built into the hardware and software, offering rich, full sounds with professional-grade sound engineering to play the music how the artist
intended. Beats Audio By Dr. Dre provides a distortion-free sound at higher volume and rich bass at all levels for video, gaming and music. HTC One X is custom tuned for the best audio performance when used with Beats By Dr. Dre accessories**.
With built-in software on the HTC One X, customers can connect it to a computer and HTC's Sync Manager software that automatically installs to your computer and once connected, makes it easy to transfer songs, artists and playlists from a music library. The new HTC Music Hub is also customizable to include customers' favorite streaming radio services and music apps, making them easily accessible all in one location.
Additionally, an enhanced audio experience will soon be available to HTC Vivid™ customers in the coming weeks. Sound engineers at Beats Dr. Dre and software engineers at HTC have teamed up to bring an improved audio experience to the HTC Vivid through an upcoming software update that will provide Android 4.0, an updated HTC Sense experience and Beats By Dr. Dre audio profiles.
AT&T will begin carrying exclusive Beats By Dr. Dre accessories this spring.
Amazing Camera
With ImageSense, HTC One X's 8MP HD camera rivals traditional digital cameras with improvements to every part of the camera including the lens, sensor and software, while integrating the new HTC ImageChip.
The combination reduces noise, removes color bias and enhances picture quality in photos and videos. More than just megapixels, its best-in-class f-2.0 lens with a backside illuminated sensor takes amazing pictures in low light and its quick launch feature makes sure you never miss an important moment.
It takes less than one second to launch the camera from the lock screen and the camera's autofocus locks in on your subject in under a second, to take nearly unlimited continuous shots simply by holding the shutter button. To ensure the best shot is captured, HTC ImageSense also introduces autoburst which will automatically take a burst of shots if the subject moves while you press the shutter button.
For those torn between whether a moment would be better captured via video or in photos, HTC One X includes Video Pic so you never have to choose again – the device can capture pictures while recording video in HD and has the ability to capture a still image from previously recorded video.
A high dynamic range (HDR) feature presents more contrast in captured photos and enables the camera to capture multiple photos from one instance, each with a different exposure level, layering the images
together to create a single photo that combines the best parts of each for a more accurate range of light across the image.
The 1080p HD video camera automatically removes jitters and lets you lock the focus on a moving object. Slow motion video recording is also possible at a maximum of 108 frames per second.
The HTC One X smartphone's next-generation 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4 dual-core processor allows customers to run heavy duty tasks such as creating and editing homemade videos smoothly without any lag, while the 1,800 mAh embedded battery offers hours of uninterrupted entertainment time.
HTC Sense 4
HTC One X will be one of the first devices in the U.S. with the simple and intuitive HTC Sense 4 user experience. It helps make the Beats Audio experience possible while listening to any audio component and
features camera enhancements including a quick launch feature for the camera on the HTC One X – dramatically cutting down the time needed to move from the lock screen to snapping a picture.
"Of course HTC One X is an outstanding device with the hottest specs," said David Christopher, chief marketing officer, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. "This device takes the power of those parts and creates a customer experience like no other, bringing superior hardware and sights and sounds to life."
"HTC One X is a true showcase for HTC's heritage of innovation providing our fastest camera, our best images even in the worst conditions and the ability to take video and photos at the same time," said Jason Mackenzie, president, global sales and marketing, HTC Corporation. "I'm proud to bring these remarkable new experiences to AT&T customers with the HTC One X."
Limited 4G LTE availability in select markets. 4G speeds delivered by LTE, or HSPA+ with enhanced backhaul, where available. Deployment ongoing. Compatible device and data plan required. LTE is a trademark of ETSI. Learn more at att.com/network.


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There are lots of children's publishers out there, but few who offer a multi-channel approach to print and digital work. We publish in eBook formats such as ePub and Fixed Layout Format as well as in physical print, and we're also creating titles that come alive with multimedia enhancements such as audio and video. Kids these days are quite savvy about screen content, so why not deliver the content to where the kids increasingly live?
IP Kidz has several established authors and illustrators on our list, including Libby Hathorn, Hazel Edwards, David P Reiter, Goldie Alexander, Edel Wignell, and Mark Carthew. But we're also on the lookout for emerging talent – illustrators as well as authors.
We'll update this list as new titles are added to the Challenges, so please check back.
IP Kidz is open to collaborations between Australian and overseas creators. Our very first picture book, Real Guns, by our Publisher, David Reiter, was illustrated by a well-known Irish artist, Patrick J Murphy. More recently, Anne Morgan's The Sky Dreamer was illustrated by Swiss artist Celine Eimann, who also published Lyli Meets the Stone-Muncher with us. Several of our titles have been translated into languages such as Spanish, German, French and Portuguese. We're excited by the prospect of bringing together artists from across the globe.
We do want the work to be relevant to Australian children, but we will be marketing titles internationally as appropriate. Our content is being distributed internationally through partners such as Lightning Source, Gazelle Books, Overdrive, Amazon and Apple, so we pay much more than lip service to electronic rights. As well as in print, our picture books are also published in "fixed layout" eBook formats to preserve the layout we originally intended. Making the most of our content makes sense to us and also benefits our artists.
We're open from March – December to proposals from authors, illustrators, digital artists and animators — or collaborative teams. After reviewing our guidelines, please query us by email with your creative bio, a synopsis of the work and a representative sample. For picture books, you should send the complete work in storyboard layout (where the text is divided by page or spread). The work can be in a Word, Pages, InDesign, or Acrobat pdf attachment, with any images optimised for screen viewing.
Picture book authors don't have to include illustrations. If we like your work, we'll find an illustrator for it. However, if you're one of those rare creative geniuses who can illustrate as well as write, or if you've teamed up with a visual artist pro, we're happy to consider the whole package.
If we think your work is exceptional and has a ready market, we'll offer you a royalty contract. Then the fun begins!
Need any more info? Click here.
IP Kidz titles are on State Premier's Reading Challenges throughout Australia. Here's a selection of those on currently by State:
A Penny in Time (VIC)
Christina's Matilda (NSW, VIC)
Duckstar (Qld)
Global Cooling (NSW, VIC, SA)
Hedgeburners: An A~Z PI Mystery (VIC)
I Love You Book (NSW, VIC)
Lame Duck Protest (NSW)
Long Live Us! (NSW)
Lyli Meets the Stone-Muncher (NSW)
Newts, Lutes & Bandicoots (VIC)
Plato the Platypus Plumber (part-time) (VIC, NSW)
The Greenhouse Effect (NSW, VIC, SA)
The Handkerchief Map (VIC)
The Sky Dreamer (NSW)
Tiger Takes the Big Apple (VIC, SA)
Tiger Tames the Min Min (VIC, SA)


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After being called in to rewrite the prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing from scratch, screenwriter Eric Heisserer had a huge task ahead of him. Find out what's getting fleshed out about Carpenter's snowy science lab, and what's left out.
While doing press for Nightmare on Elm Street, in theaters this Friday, Heisserer gave us a quick Thing update — and we're pretty impressed at how far out he's gone on a limb to justify every little Carpenter detail presented on screen...and how ready he is to throw down for more practical creature feature effects.
I've read two conflicting reports on the plot of the film, one might be just be from very early on in the planning stages of your rewrite, I'm a little confused and hopefully you can solve this for me. I read one plot synopsis that said the film was completely from the Norwegians' point of view, on their base, pre-burn down. Then I read another synopsis that said the audience sees the aftermath of the film's events, including the axe in the door, and they're figuring it out after it happened — almost like a crime scene. If the latter synopsis is accurate, will you be utilizing flashbacks to tell The Thing's prequel story?
No it's not flashbacks. You're actually in the Norwegian camp, before all that stuff happens. You get to see how it happens — that's the reverse engineering there. The way we approached it was by autopsy, where the director, producers and I pored over Carpenter's film. We must have screened it two or three dozen times. And we'd freeze frames and have lengthy discussions about what evidence is there, that would lead to so much blood. It was a forensic discussion of Carpenter's films. That's probably where the whole "fire axe in the door" probably came from. Because we said, we have to justify that, we have to have a moment in our movie where you see that happen.
If we do this right — I just spoke on the phone today with [Producer] Eric Newman on the phone today, he's on set up in Toronto [and] he said things are going well. But if we can pull this off, this movie will work perfectly [as] the first half of a double feature. So that the last shot of this film will be two Norwegians and a chopper chasing after a dog. And you can plug in Carpenter's film and they will both feel and look as they have been made around the same time.
What were some of the moments you noticed in John Carpenter's version that you never noticed before, after analyzing it?
Well there are things that definitely called attention, [such as] dealing with the body in the chair. What we didn't notice before was that it looked like both his throat and his wrists were slit. And there are a lot of papers scattered on the floor that Copper picks up. And the stuff that we looked at closely were the holes in the walls and on the ceiling, in various parts of the base. And this is how anal retentive we were, we wanted to justify what happened to cause all those holes, pieces and incidental damage. You just know some set guy that day [during the original filming] was like, "well it burned down, let's put a hole here." [Laughs].
But the one thing we're not going to pull off well, because we realized it was just unrealistic and just one of those goofs, I guess, from Carpenter's films, is when they get into that giant block of ice that's been carved out. The way it's been carved where it looks like they just dug into it like a chicken pot pie — it's impossible to get something out of the ice like that. There are so many better ways to do it. So we deviated just a little bit from there, we tried to cover our tracks a little and justified it and showed that it can still work. But yes there are a couple of things where because we were logic cops all the way through this movie there are a handful of, "Wait a minute — how come... that doesn't work at all?!"
Good then — the logic cops can explain to me how someone can get a slashed throat and slashed wrists. Don't you lose dexterity, but I guess that's the mystery as to how that happened?
Yeah we had a problem with that as well, but hopefully we answer that and if not you can bust me on it next year.
I hear that you made a point of encouraging the director to use real practical effects, not CGI — was that important to you?
When I came on board — like a writer has any authority to do so — but I went in like I did and I stomped my feet and banged my fist on the table and I said. I'm not going to write this if it's going to be a CGI-fest. This has to be practical, this has to be an old school creature, as real as possible. Whatever CGI stuff it's going to have, has to be as good as or better than that, we can't get away with computer generated FX in this type of film.
Good for you — and thank you, from all of us. Thank you for asking for more real creature effects.
I think that may be why I got hired, of course I don't know. But it helps me to defend that and make sure that it happens. There was a moment of "You got moxie, kid."
What happened to Kurt Russell's brother, who we heard was a character in this film? Was that in the earlier version of Ronald D. Moore's script, did he make the cut?
We had to jettison that entire draft, including his brother. Because what we found happened with that was there was this constant reference to the Carpenter film. And it was kind of bringing a friend who was like, "oh hey remember this other thing we went to that was so much cooler?" You just didn't want to have that around. It felt weird.


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Monday Morning Mentions is an opportunity to reflect on the events of the week at the Armchair Genealogist and in the blogging and book community. Over my morning cappuccino, I will take the opportunity to share with you some of my favourite blogs posts this week and give a nod to my peers.
You can also find me on Facebook. Stop by and leave a message. I often will link some great finds there as well. You can also follow me on twitter at @LynnPal or my twitter paper The Armchair Genealogist Journal.
At the Armchair Genealogist this week, posts included the following:
This week's mention:
The (Not So) Private Lives of Our Ancestors by Thomas MacEntee at Archives. Thomas explores the records that provide a window into the private lives of our ancestors.
Last week I introduced you to a new genealogy blog and this week here's a post from Freud's Butcher, that I think you'll agree shares some valuable lessons. Be sure to read, Five Genealogy Lessons I Learned from B'Nai B'rith (Once I Stopped Sulking) by Edie Jarolim.
Writing Family History - great advice or information on writing your family history.
This week's mention:
How to Become an Exceptional Writer by Demian Farnworth at Copyblogger. Damian expands on four aspects of writing; strategy, technique, knowledge and flair.
As genealogist we are dear friends to the librarian and want to help and support them during this transition period in the book industry. If you're following the problems that libraries are experiencing with ebook lending and the Big 6 Publishers you'll be particularly interested in this post from a very upset librarian. If you're not up to speed, please read for an education. E-books in Libraries: They Still Don't Get It posted at A Newbie's Guide to Publishing by J.A. Konrath.(warning this librarian uses some strong language)
Social Media for the Genealogist - this will include social media advice and learning opportunities from experts both inside and outside of the genealogy industry.
This post outlines a great routine for editing your blog before clicking publish. Read 7 Editing Tips to Improve Your Blog Writing Skills from Social Media Today by Natalie Contreras
New Genealogy Blog – we will tip our hat to a newcomer who impresses us right out of the box
This week's mention:
Be sure to offer your support to the new blog Georgia Archives Matters. Run entirely by advocates to keep the Georgia Archives open to the public and staffed. It will contain updates and information on the campaign to save the archive as well as announcements and commentary.
Books that Move and Matter - each week we will feature an ebook or print book with the family historian in mind. It may come as a great source of information, for research or writing or playing to our historical interests, or may just be a great read I think genealogists will love.
This week Stephanie at Corn and Cotton and the bookstore at Moultrie Creek brought this book to my attention.
Past-Forward, A three-decade and three-thousand mile journey home by Maureen K. Wlodarczyk.
Available in print for $24.67 or on Kindle for $2.99. Downloaded mine this week. Be sure to grab yours.
Here's the book description from Amazon:
Available in print for $24.67 or on Kindle for $2.99. Downloaded mine this week. Be sure to grab yours.
Here's the book description from Amazon:
The Webinar Watch - Each week we will list upcoming webinars mostly in genealogy, but occasionally I come across one for writing or social media I think is beneficial, I'll be sure to share it here.
This week's webinars:
Is Social Media a Genealogist's Tool presented by Dear Myrtle on Monday Oct 8th. FREE.
Jumping Over Hurdles in German Research presented by Leslie Albrecht Huber, hosted by IIlnois State Genealogical Society. Tuesday Oct 9th. FREE.
You can find more new genealogy bloggers at Thomas' list of New Genealogy Blogs at Geneabloggers.
For other great reads, Randy at Genea-Musings offers the Best of the Genea-Blogs
Read Friday Finds by Julie Cahill at GenBlog
For other great reads, Randy at Genea-Musings offers the Best of the Genea-Blogs
Read Friday Finds by Julie Cahill at GenBlog
Dan Curtis, Professional Personal Historian always puts together some interesting selections in Monday's Link Round-Up.
British and Irish Genealogy blog offers lots of goodies, This week brings Genealogy News for Oct 5th.And Jana Last lists some favorites on Follow Friday -- Fab Finds for Oct 5th, 2012 by Jana Last on Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog.
Michael Leclerc writes From the Blogs, on the Mocavo Genealogy Blog.
Have a great genealogy week, keep researching and writing!


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WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Superlative reporting on leaked data, prison reform and undue police force led coverage that garnered top honors for 29 media organizations Saturday night at the 2017 Online Journalism Awards, which closed the Online News Association Conference.
At the 17th annual awards dinner, emceed by host of WAMU and NPR's 1A Joshua Johnson, Nexo Jornal, Le Temps and The Globe and Mail each took home a $3,000 General Excellence in Online Journalism award, courtesy of the Gannett Foundation. The $15,000 University of Florida Awards for Investigative Data Journalism were won by The Intercept and First Look Media's "Trial and Terror" and The Globe and Mail for "Unfounded."
The Knight Award for Public Service, with a $5,000 prize from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, went to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for "Doctors and Sex Abuse." The Guardian US Mobile Innovation Lab won the $5,000 Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism for its app, "Live Notifications." The Knoxville News Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK – TENNESSEE and The New York Times were recognized in the Breaking News categories.
Two new categories were added this year to honor evolving forms of journalism: Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, which recognizes exceptional efforts in telling stories through digitally-focused audio, including podcasts, audio-centric online works and other emerging media; and Excellence in Immersive Storytelling, which honors exceptional efforts in telling stories through digital, immersive media: virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, 360 video and other emerging media. FRONTLINE and The Emblematic Group shared the Excellence in Immersive Storytelling category for their bold, compelling presentation in "After Solitary." Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, KNBA and AIR received the inaugural Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling awards.
ONA also named documentary photographer and freelance photojournalist Tara Todras-Whitehill the recipient of the 2017 James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting for her unflinching coverage of vulnerable populations, particularly women and refugees, in the Middle East. Jim Brady was honored with the 2017 Rich Jaroslovsky Founder Award for his longtime work in digital media, including innovations in social and community engagement.
Here are the winners in each category:
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Small Newsroom
Nexo Jornal, nexojornal.com.br
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Medium Newsroom
Le Temps, letemps.ch
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Large Newsroom
The Globe and Mail, theglobeandmail.com
Knight Award for Public Service
Doctors & Sex Abuse, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Breaking News, Medium Newsroom
Gatlinburg Fire, The Knoxville News Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK – TENNESSEE
Breaking News, Large Newsroom
Orlando, The New York Times
Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism
Live Notifications, The Guardian US Mobile Innovation Lab
Planned News / Events, Small Newsroom
CrossCheck France, First Draft
Planned News /Events, Medium Newsroom
Election 2016, WBUR
Planned News / Events, Large Newsroom
Electionland, ProPublica and the Electionland Coalition
Explanatory Reporting, Small Newsroom (tie)
Middle East Lobbying: The Influence Game, Al-Monitor
Game of Genomes, STAT
Explanatory Reporting, Medium Newsroom
Under Our Skin, The Seattle Times
Explanatory Reporting, Large Newsroom
Weigh Anchor, The Globe and Mail
Topical Reporting, Small Newsroom
Truckbeat, AIR:Finding America and WUOT
Topical Reporting, Medium Newsroom
Standing Rock and Beyond, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and Inside Energy
Topical Reporting, Large Newsroom
Trump Charities, The Washington Post
Online Commentary
Race/Related, The New York Times
Feature, Small Newsroom (tie)
Dope Sick, STAT
AMERICA RELOADED: The Bizarre Story Behind the FBI's Fake Documentary About the Bundy Family, The Intercept | First Look Media
Feature, Medium Newsroom
My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard, Mother Jones
Feature, Large Newsroom
The Fine Line, The New York Times
Sports, Small/Medium Newsroom
Berlin Marathon 2016 – How Fast Your City Runs, Berliner Morgenpost
Sports, Large Newsroom
Francesco Totti King of Rome, La Repubblica
The David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award, Small
City of Smoke: Air Pollution in the Land of the Eternal Blue Sky, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
The David Teeuwen Student Journalism Award, Large
Cuba's New Wave, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Media and Journalism
Pro-Am Student Award
Turning Tides: The Story of the Salton Sea, USC/JOVRNALISM and The Desert Sun
The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Small Newsroom
Drinks, Dinners, Junkets and Jobs: How the Insurance Industry Courts State Commissioners, The Center for Public Integrity
The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Medium Newsroom
Toxic Armories, The Oregonian / OregonLive
The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Large Newsroom
Unfounded, The Globe and Mail
Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, Small Newsroom
Future Cities, Future Cities
Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, Medium Newsroom
Titletown, TX, McClatchy Video Lab
Excellence and Innovation in Visual Digital Storytelling, Large Newsroom
Fragments of a Life: A Curbside Mystery, The New York Times
The University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism, Small/Medium Newsroom
Trial and Terror, The Intercept | First Look Media
The University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism, Large Newsroom
Unfounded, The Globe and Mail
Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Small Newsroom
Frontier of Change, Independent | Producing Station: KNBA
Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Large Newsroom
The Wall, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
Excellence in Immersive Storytelling
After Solitary, FRONTLINE and Emblematic Group
2017 Rich Jaroslovsky Founder Award
Jim Brady, CEO, Spirited Media
2017 James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting
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One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is not understanding the relationship they have with their investors. At times they confuse VC's with their friends.
Lets Go to Lunch
At Rocket Science our video game company was struggling. Hubris, bad CEO decisions (mine) and a fundamental lack of understanding that we were in a "hits-based" entertainment business not in a Silicon Valley technology company were slowly killing us.
One day I got a call from my two investors, "Hey Steve, we're both going to be up in San Francisco, lets grab lunch." I liked my two investors. I'd known them for years, they were smart, trying to figure out the video game market with me, (in hindsight a business that none of us knew anything about and shouldn't have been in,) coached me when needed, etc. Our board meetings were collegial and often fun.
We were just about to have a board meeting in another week to talk about raising another round of financing to keep our struggling disaster afloat. I had assumed that my VC's were behind me. Thinking we were having a social call, I was completely unprepared for the discussion. (Lesson – never take a VC meeting without knowing the agenda.)
"Steve, we thought we'd tell you this before the board meeting, but both our firms are going to pass on leading your next round." I was speechless. I felt like I had just been kicked in the gut and stabbed in the back These were my lead investors. It was the ultimate vote of no confidence. If they passed the odds of anyone in the entire country funding us was zero. I knew they had been questioning our ability to stay afloat as a company in the board meetings so this wasn't a complete surprise but I would have expected some offer a bridge loan or some sign of support. (I finally got them to agree if I could find someone else to lead the round they would put in a token amount to say they were still supportive.)
"Is this about me as the CEO?" I asked. "I'll resign if you guys think you can hire someone else you want to back." They looked a bit sheepish and replied, "No it's not you. You should stay and run the company. However, we realized that we've backed a business we don't know much about, the company is a money sink and both our firms have no stomach for this industry."
"But I thought you guys were my friends?!" You're supposed to support me!! I said out of utter frustration.
VC's Are Not Your Friends
I had just gotten a very expensive reminder. I liked my board members. They liked me. But while I was just seeing a single board member, I was just one of twenty companies in their current fund portfolio. Their fiduciary responsibility was to manage a portfolio of investments for their limited partners. And what they promised their own investors was that they would invest money in deals that would grow in value and achieve liquidity. As much as they liked me as the entrepreneur, they couldn't throw good money after bad when they thought the deal went south.
I wish I could tell you I understood this all at the time. I didn't. I was angry, took it personally for a long time (past the demise of Rocket Science) until I realized they were right.
While the best VC's treat entrepreneurs like you are their most important customer, and they add tremendous value to your startup (recruiting, strategy, coaching, connections, etc.) they are not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. Entrepreneurs need to understand that VC's are simply a sophisticated form of financial investors who in turn need to satisfy their own investors. At the end of the day VC's have to provide their limited partners with great returns or they aren't going to be able to raise another fund.
If you succeed so do they. Great VC's do everything they can to make you successful. But just like your bank, credit card company, mortgage holder, etc. they are not confused where their long term loyalty lies.
It's not with you.
The irony is 15 years later, no longer doing startups, these two VC's truly have become my friends. We have lunch often, teach together and swap war stories of the day they pulled my funding.
It wasn't an easy lesson.
Lessons Learned
- You see one VC, they see 20 CEO's
- Don't confuse your business with your VC's business
- Your interests are aligned if you both see the same path to liquidity
- Don't confuse being friendly with your VC's with VC's as your friend
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text: Is there really a problem with the iPhone 4 antenna? Apple is about to answer this question Friday, at a hastily announced press conference at its Cupertino campus. Meanwhile, millions of iPhone 4 customers (and tech pundits) are playing the guessing game running up to Friday's event. What does Apple have to say about the antenna issue and what will it do - if anything?First off, a quick recap: evidence to date is not helping Apple. From users, to tech media, and the independent Consumer Reports said that something is wrong. Some iPhone 4 owners have complained of being stuck in iPhone 4 hell saddled with multiple iPhone 4 problems. Steve Jobs is now being directly implicated in iPhone 4 antenna-gate and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) has penned a letter asking Jobs to personally solve the problem. Schumer is calling Apple's current software fix "insufficient."So what could Apple do to solve the problem? Here are some educated guesses tech pundits have put forward ahead of tomorrow's event:The iPhone Is Selling Very WellThe first thing we are going to hear tomorrow is probably how well the iPhone 4 is selling. 1.7 million devices in the first three days, so expect at least two million iPhone 4s sold to date.Acknowledge The Problem"Apple will undoubtedly acknowledge that holding the iPhone 4 does affect the signal. But they'll note once again that this is true of all cellphones," predicts TechCrunch's MG Siegler. Apple said all smartphones experience signal drops when held in a certain way (some call it the 'death grip'), and reports say that many now have better reception with the iPhone 4 than they did with previous iterations of the device.Bumper Cases Won't Make The CutIf Apple's solution to the iPhone 4 antenna woes will be to give away $29-worth bumper cases to all customers, it would cost the company over $51 million just to cover the initial batch of 1.7 million iPhone 4's sold in the first three days of availability (figure at market value, as Bumper Cases are said to cost Apple $1).The iPhone 4, when used with one of Apple's bumper cases (which surround the sides of the phone) fixes the antenna issue, Consumer Reports confirmed. However, MacObserver notes that the bumper cases would be incompatible with the iPhone 4 dock, and also won't fit in third-party cases, thus not an ideal solution.iOS 4.1 Is Just Software FixAnother road Apple could take is to flaunt the iOS 4.0.1, which addresses the way signal bars are displayed in the top-left corner of all iPhones. Those pinning their hopes that the OS update would fix the antenna issue will be disappointed to hear that the first reports indicate iOS 4.0.1 does not fix the 'death grip'.A Recall Would Be Too CostlyApple would lose even more money if it will have to recall all iPhone 4s sold to date. One analyst estimated that this would cost the company around $1.5 billion, a sum that would increase by $200 million per each ongoing week of sales. Another analyst quoted by Reuters said she expects Apple to quickly move past this issue, as a recall is not on the table.Non-conductive Coating Over AntennaOne of the most probable scenarios is that Apple is already rolling off the assembly lines in China a new iPhone 4 batch that has a special non-conductive coating over the metal band around the phone, which in theory would solve the 'death grip' issues.Steve Cheneyis over at TechCrunch argues that Apple and its suppliers have the skills to make quick modification to apply the extra coating layer. MacObserver also notes that Apple could set up a free exchange program for those who wish to swap their device with an iPhone 4 with the new coating.Boom! One More Thing"Sounds crazy, I know, but I think something big, or at least biggish, is going down tomorrow," writes Darin Fireball's John Gruber. He has a hunch that Apple will come up with something special in addition to a resolution to the iPhone 4 antenna problem.


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WASHINGTON -- As the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta delivered strong warnings about the risks of cyberattacks on the country. His conviction that a possible " cyber Pearl Harbor" may be looming has not tempered since leaving the post last year.
In fact, Panetta today said that the risk of a major cyberattack against the nation's infrastructure is "the most serious threat in the 21st century."
Speaking at the Symantec Government Symposium here Tuesday, Panetta said such an attack could "devastate our critical infrastructure and paralyze our nation." He compared the potential disruption nationally to what hurricane Sandy accomplished on the East Coast in 2012.
"We have to take steps to better defend ourselves against this threat," Panetta told an audience of government IT managers and security specialists, as well as federal contractors.
Panetta was director of the CIA from 2009 to 2011, and then became the U.S. Secretary of Defense. He left the latter post last year and is now chairman of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy, which he co-founded in 1997.
Panetta was warmly received by the audience today, especially when he spoke briefly about the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May 2011. He was the CIA chief at the time.
The message sent by the raid on bin Laden's hideout was that "nobody attacks the United States of America and gets away with it," said Panetta, sparking applause.
But what was true for bin Laden is not true for foreign cyberattackers hitting the U.S.
Security professionals here told of the difficulty in finding and arresting cybercriminals who live in a borderless world.
Richard Downing, principal deputy chief of the computer crime and intellectual property section at the U.S. Justice Dept., said international cybercriminals are becoming more involved with organized crime, making their efforts "very resilient," or harder to stop.
Downing, speaking on a panel here, said other problems include extradition difficulties and evidence gathering, particularly in countries that have few technical capabilities and trained personnel.
The cost of cybercrime is already very high.
Catherine Lotrionte, director of the Institute for Law, Science and Global Security at Georgetown University, estimated that losses from international intellectual property theft are about $300 billion a year, or about 1% of GDP. Other nations have measured their GDP losses in the 1% to 2% range as well, she added.
Panetta spoke of a need to educate the public about the risks.
"The American people need to understand that that this is not about hacking and identity theft, it has the potential for a major attack on the United States," he said.
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Discovering the Path to Compete, Win, and Grow in ExportsSeptember 19, 2013
Greg Sizemore is the Director of the International Trade Administration's U.S. Commercial Service in North Carolina.
I just met 400 new contributors to the nation's economic recovery.
After wrapping up this year's Discover Forum, a premier event for businesses looking to increase exports, I've never been more confident about American companies and their desire and ability to compete in the global marketplace. Our ITA team worked with more than 300 business attendees from Raleigh, N.C., to San Antonio, Texas, to St. Paul, Minn., focusing on export strategies.
We had presentations about doing business all around the world, featuring speakers from the public and private sector who know how to compete and win overseas. Commercial diplomats from embassies across the world shared insights about doing business in their respective markets.
Representatives from companies like Western Union, Research Triangle Institute International, and Accenture shared their lessons learned and the strategies that have led to export successes for their businesses.
On top of that, U.S. commercial diplomats from 20 countries conducted more than 700 one-on-one counseling sessions with individual companies looking to develop export strategies for markets like Kuwait, Australia, and Chile. A special buying delegation from Nigeria met with several companies about doing business in Africa.
Add that in with the networking that always occurs at events like this, and what you have is a top-notch forum to assist any U.S. company interested in doing business overseas.
Discover Forum provided the knowledge and the connections that can give any business an advantage in the global marketplace.
Even better, the learning opportunities don't end now that the forum is complete. Our trade specialists will continue to work with clients who attended so we can further develop export strategies. We'll continue to share the information from this forum with other clients who request assistance from ITA. Upcoming annual events like Trade Winds, ACCESS, and next year's Discover Forum will provide further learning opportunities for U.S. businesses. You can learn about all of our export promotion events and services at www.export.gov.
I can't stress enough how helpful an event like this can be for a globally focused American business. I'm certain that anyone that attended Discover can vouch for how much they learned.
Wherever your business is, our ITA team is standing by to help any company that is ready to start exporting. I encourage you to contact your nearest Export Assistance Center, and I hope I will see you next year at Discover.


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Another Phone-in for Martin in Pink Panther 2
- Jeffrey Huston Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2009 6 Feb
DVD Release Date: June 23, 2009
Theatrical Release Date: February 6, 2009
Rating: PG (for some sexually suggestive humor, brief mild language and action)
Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 92 min.
Director: Harald Zwart
Cast: Steve Martin, Andy Garcia, John Cleese, Emily Mortimer, Jean Reno, Alfred Molina, Jeremy Irons, Yuki Matsuzaki, Lily Tomlin
Hollywood can really be lazy sometimes. To see a quintessential example, one need look no further than the second incarnation of MGM's contemporary reboot of the Peter Sellers/Blake Edwards Pink Panther series.
Rather than striving to emulate the inventive slapstick and droll cleverness of the originals, one senses the only goal here was to throw a bunch of goofiness together as quickly as possible. This limp sequel exists for no other reason than to turn a quick buck during a lean cinematic season. That the studio expects you to plop down upwards of ten dollars a ticket for this dull live-action cartoon is pretty insulting.
The Pink Panther 2 slogs along with rare sparks of amusement (and even the few that pop—the juggling aftermath of a tipped wine rack, or a "deduction face-off" between Inspector Clouseau and Alfred Molina's super detective—only do so faintly). Legendary comics like Steve Martin and John Cleese—as well as respected talents such as Andy Garcia, Jeremy Irons and Lily Tomlin—don't do this because the material is so good; it's because the paycheck is. It's hard to blame actors for taking such undemanding, lucrative paydays, but you don't have to subsidize it.
The plot, such as it is, is fairly straightforward. A mysterious super-villain known only as "Les Tornado" has successfully stolen the most rarified historical artifacts—the Shroud of Turin, the Magna Carta, among others—but it's not until the coveted Pink Panther diamond is absconded (the care of which has been passed from Clouseau to Cleese's Chief Inspector Dreyfus) that the world has had enough. Major intelligence agencies jointly assemble a super-detective "Dream Team", Clouseau among them.
It's all a basic setup with predictable narrative arc (a member of the Dream Team is the real thief, and it's easy to guess who early on), laboriously drawn out for the simple purpose of serving as framework for broad physical comedy, silly butchering of the French accent, and recurring sexually suggestive humor (not overly explicit, but certainly flirting to the edge of what's acceptable to many Christian parents). That sounds like the blueprint followed by the classic Panther films—and it is—but the key distinction between the two is that the originals were fueled by comic inspiration, invention and wit, whereas these rip-offs are barely even trying.
The difference is best exemplified by comparing Peter Sellers' Clouseau and Steve Martin's pale imitation. Sellers' genius is that he anchored his whole approach with conviction. As absurd as Clouseau and the chaos he created was, as an actor Sellers truly believed it. He invested himself into it. With Martin, it's just shtick.
What's funny, actually, is to read producer Robert Simonds wax eloquent with pretentious flair about what Martin "brings to the role." From the press notes: "Steve completely embodies this character, bringing so much more to it than is even on the page. He understands Clouseau. He writes for Clouseau. He creates the world. Steve brings Clouseau a really interesting combination of vulnerability and self-assurance, but he is also incredibly erudite. He possesses an incredibly sophisticated sense of humor." Robert—he's phoning it in! Come on, man. I mean, I know as producer you have to sell the soap, but there's a problem when I'm laughing more at your quotes than at anything in the actual movie.
Worse yet (and especially telling), the directorial seat has been degraded from Blake Edwards to Harald Zwart. It's hard to believe the studio really cares about this franchise when they're handing the reins over to a guy whose most notable cinematic accomplishment is Agent Cody Banks. The boy behind me at my screening sure wasn't fooled. After laughing hysterically at an opening stunt that literally sent Clouseau flying halfway across Paris he gleefully exclaimed, "Mommy, this is so funny!". About twenty laughless minutes later he squirmed, "Mommy, this is boooooring." That pretty much says it all.
Look, if easy sight gags, obvious wordplay and overall dull humor still serve as enjoyable comfort food then far be it from me to keep you from this towering achievement of those virtues. But please, don't drop first-run theater dollars on this (albeit good-natured) nonsense. Save it for the soon-to-be discount dollar-theater run, or a cheap rental on a lazy mid-summer night (I've little doubt it'll be available by Memorial Day weekend). You've waited this long for The Pink Panther 2; a little longer won't kill you.
- Drugs/Alcohol: None. Clouseau orders wine but none is consumed.
- Language/Profanity: Very mild. One "a" word is the only direct profanity. "God" is used in a general exclamation of surprise.
- Sex/Nudity: No direct sexuality or provocative imagery, but sexually suggestive jokes and wordplay occur on occasion. Clouseau refers to a woman as "sexy" in a very sensual way. The descriptor "sexy" is used several times. Clouseau attends several "sensitivity training" sessions to learn what's considered offensive, and in those meetings sexually suggestive conversations (for comic effect) occur, such as Lily Tomlin's counselor describing a sexy woman in a tight blouse moving seductively. Clouseau and another man discuss pursuing women where the intent is clearly meant for sex. These moments aren't verbally explicit, but overall they are very suggestive. Other innuendos are mild and would be lost on young children.
- Violence/Other: Little violence, and of what there is (including gunplay) it's all for broad comic effect.
Jeffrey Huston is a film director, writer and producer at Steelehouse Productions in Tulsa, Okla. He is also cohost of the "Steelehouse Podcast," along with Steelehouse Executive Creative Mark Steele, where each week they discuss God in pop culture.
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