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First production-representative AN/APG-83 SABR scheduled for 2014 delivery
BALTIMORE â Sept. 24, 2014 â Demonstrating the maturity of its active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar technologies, Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has successfully concluded all engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) design reviews for the AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) in just 12 months.
Northrop Grumman's AN/APG-83 SABR is a direct replacement for legacy F-16 radars and includes fifth-generation radar capabilities, the largest synthetic aperture radar map available for the F-16 and robust electronic protection. SABR was competitively selected by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. and Taiwan Air Force F-16 upgrade programs. Northrop Grumman's unique design allows for ease of retrofit, without aircraft structural modifications or changes to the existing power and cooling provisions in the F-16.
The software critical design review, the final review in the series, validated the radar's common software block for the U.S. and Taiwanese Air Forces, as well as radar modes exclusive to Taiwan. The completion of this review marks the acceptance of the company's software design in support of the Taiwanese Air Force F-16 AESA upgrade program. Northrop Grumman has successfully completed all required system, hardware and software design reviews, which will enable a revolutionary air-to-air and air-to-ground radar capability that is directly transferable to the worldwide F-16 fleet.
"Northrop Grumman is on track to deliver the first EMD radar hardware and software by year's end, which will be identical to the production radars," said Jeff Leavitt, vice president, Combat Avionics Systems business unit, Northrop Grumman. "Achieving this milestone on cost, on time and at performance is indicative of the SABR AESA maturity. In addition, it is a reflection of the long-standing working relationship we have with Lockheed Martin and demonstrates our strong commitment to meet and exceed customer requirements."
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Honolulu named the third best city for trick-or-treating
Once again, Honolulu ranks third in the nation for trick-or-treating, according to national real-estate site Zillow.com. Want to get the best candy haul? Try neighborhoods like Makiki,Manoa, Kapahulu, and Kuliouou-Kalani Iki.
Most people tend to think wealthy neighborhoods put out the most Halloween candy, making them the best. However, Zillow's study shows cities that not only potentially provide the most candy, but have the least walking and safety risks.
The Zillow Trick-or-Treat Index was calculated using four equally weighted data variables: Zillow Home Value Index, population density, Walk Score and local crime data from Relocation Essentials.
Like last year, Honolulu was beaten out by San Francisco and Boston. Here's a chart to show how we fared against other cities:
Have a safe and fun trick-or-treating adventure!

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Saturday, July 02, 2005
Fresh Fruit Pizza with Citrus Glaze
Cookie Base
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup powdered sugar
4 tablespoons butter, softened
1/4 cup canola oil
1 large egg
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1-1/2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
Cream Cheese "sauce"
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 tablespoons granulated sugar
Fresh Fruit Topping
Sliced Bananas, Strawberries, Kiwi and Blueberries
Citrus Glaze
6 tablespoons water
4 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
1/2 cup granulated sugar
Preheat oven to 350
For the cookie base -
In a large mixing bowl, cream sugars, butter and oil. Add egg and vanilla beating well.
In a medium bowl, sift together the dry ingredients. Add to the wet mixture and mix just until combined.
Press dough into round pizza pan lined with parchment paper. Bake for 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely.
Cream cheese "sauce" -
Mix ingredients together with an electric mixer and spread on cooled sugar cookie.
Arrange freshly cut fruit on top of cream cheese mixture.
Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan. Cook over medium heat until it starts to thicken. Remove from the heat and cool slightly. Using a pastry brush, gently brush the fruit with the glaze.
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- Anonymous1/25/2006 10:51:00 PM
I love your blog. All your food looks great. Can I move in? Would love to eat those meals everyday. The fruit pizza looks great (and with your recommendation) .. how can I not try it. I was wondering, what is the crust like. Is it hard to cut into?ReplyDelete
The crust was crisp on the outside, but still kind of soft on the inside so it was pretty easy to cut through!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5/16/2008 07:42:00 PM
Absolutely delish!ReplyDelete
Kelley - I'm glad you tried it! It is such a refreshing dessert.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/16/2008 02:00:00 PM
I just wanted you to know that this has become a favorite in my extended family over the past year or so. The bride's mother has asked me specifically to bring this dessert to a shower next weekend. It is such a fresh and summery treat! Thanks for the recipe and I look forward to trying more!ReplyDelete
Lori - Thank you for the feedback!ReplyDelete
With so many fruit pizzas out there...this one is by far the best. My kids are crazy about this recipe and its always fun to provide a desert with fresh fruit. Thanks for sharing!!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5/15/2012 12:12:00 AM
Great dessert! Loved by adults and children. Will definitely make it again.ReplyDelete


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The Week in Tyrion
[There was a video here]
The dialogue Peter Dinklage is given in Game of Thrones is so disproportionately rich and witty that I wonder if his castmates are jealous. It almost seems karmic to make someone from an underrepresented minority a show's star and most likable character. It's kind of like Disney World, where the disabled get a chance to have their day of priority (they zip to the front of lines with the speed that not even a Fastpass affords). But Tyrion's position isn't a matter of affirmative action: the brilliant thing about the character is that there's logic behind his sharpness, both in terms of physical survival and the assertion of his own existence. You can see in the reel above that his increasingly campy sister, Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey), blames him for killing their mother (she died in his childbirth). She obviously always has, and a man can even crumble under that stigma or use it to be great. For Tyrion, it's the latter.
I find myself drawn to the fringes more than those characters asserting and vying for the patriarchy of the show. The female characters typically have more nuanced struggles and regularly outsmart the dopey, power-hungry males who yammer relentlessly and pass notes like schoolgirls. The exception here is Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen) to whom I am now extremely drawn after seeing him in that multi-position sex scene. I didn't even know he was hot until I saw him naked. It's like when you dream about having sex with someone that you weren't attracted to before, and then it becomes a thing in your head where you're like, "I guess we have to have sex?" So what I'm saying is that I guess I have to have sex with Theon Greyjoy, bye.


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AETC declares Eglin ready for F-35 training
by Maj. Karen Roganov
Team Eglin Public Affairs
12/17/2012 - EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) -- Following an independent evaluation of Eglin's capability to conduct F-35A Lightning II pilot training, Air Education and Training Command announced Dec. 17 that the 33rd Fighter Wing can do so starting January 2013.
'The preliminary results provided by the Joint Operational Test Team show the F-35A aircraft and its pilot training and sustainment systems, are robust enough to conduct the planned pilot transition and instructor upgrade courses,' said Air Education and Training Command commander, Gen. Edward A. Rice Jr.
AETC will initiate syllabus training in order to meet Air Force-defined requirements. A deliberate process will be used that continues to validate the training system's effectiveness through advancing training blocks as they are made available by the military's F-35 Program Office and Lockheed Martin.
The Operational Utility Evaluation, which started Sept. 10 and was slated to last 65 days, encompassed intensive classroom and simulator training along with six flights, for four primary and two backup upgrading student pilots.
With favorable conditions to include 'good weather, an accomplished maintenance team and talented instructors to train the pilots, the OUE process lasted only 46 training days,' said Col. Andrew Toth, 33rd Fighter Wing commander, an F-35A instructor pilot who spearheads the joint and international F-35 efforts at Eglin.
'You are here making a lasting impression on how the team will execute F-35 both flying and maintenance training over the next 50 years,' he said during conversations to wing members following the successful OUE.
During the OUE, experienced pilots transitioned from the F-16 and A-10 aircraft, to the world's first multi-role stealth fighter. Two pilots, Maj. John Wilson and Maj. Matthew Johnston were from Eglin's 58th Fighter Squadron and two, Lt. Col. Brian O'Neill and Maj. Joseph Scholtz and were from operational test units at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
'Their performances were superb... that smile each student had after landing his first flight showed they were well prepared and the jet was easy to fly just as I had experienced with my first flight,' said Lt. Col. Lee Kloos, 58th Fighter Squadron commander, who is charged with overseeing the squadron's daily flying operations. He is also the first non-developmental test pilot to fly the F-35.
The OUE was initiated by the Joint Strike Fighter Program Executive Officer based in Wash. D.C. and was intended to best arm the AETC commander with comprehensive data from an independent source so Rice could decide how to proceed with future F-35A pilot training at Eglin.
'The OUE showed the men and women at Eglin are ready,' said Rice. 'I'm very proud of both those in uniform and the contracted support who put in years of hard work. The culmination of those labors was successfully demonstrating the Integrated Training Center can conduct safe and effective flying operations in addition to academic training.'
Training is slated to begin Jan. 7 with four 58th Fighter Squadron pilots and two operational test pilots.
The focus of the OUE evaluation team was on the ability to conduct pilot training but leadership agree they couldn't do it without their maintainers.
'The maintainers are the backbone of the flight operations. Had they not performed the way they did, we could not have finished the OUE about two weeks ahead of schedule,' said Toth pointing to his skilled team in the 58th Aircraft Maintenance Unit and Lockheed Martin contracted logistics support.
With RFT declared, the wing's integrated training center gets closer to running at full capacity of 100 military pilot students a year along with the 2,100 maintenance students.
'We look forward to 2013 as we integrate the Navy's 'Grim Reapers' and F-35C into our flying operations along with our international partners, the Dutch and UK. The pace of operations will not slow as we continue to grow and we are ready for the new challenges next year will bring to wing personnel and it's F-35 Integrated Training Center.'
Approximately 36 Air Force pilots are expected to go through the training program next year.
'The team at Eglin went through a rigorous process to lead the way for F-35A training. We look forward to starting off the new year with more history in the making as they put the JSF Integrated Training Center to task to provide a world class training program,' said Rice.
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Jean-Joseph Thonissen
Jean-Joseph Thonissen
Professor of law at the University of Louvain, minister in the Belgian Government, b. at Hassett, Limbourg, 21 Jan., 1817; d. at Louvain, 17 Aug., 1891.
After a brilliant career as a student he first performed duties in the magistracy and the administration of the province, but even then was occupied with juridical works on penal law. When dismissed by the Liberal (anti-clerical) ministry, the University of Louvain appointed him in 1848 to the chair of criminal law. In 1863 he was elected to Parliament.
It is difficult to summarize briefly Thonissen's activity. Although he achieved his fame in his chosen field of penal law, his writings covered the most varied points of history and social science, as was evidenced by the fact that in 1886 the national jury of social sciences awarded him the prize. In penal matters he began with commentaries on the penal code and devoted himself especially to the reform of the penal procedure which he advocated while he was minister, and for the history of which he wrote important works. He had conceived the vast plan of a history of criminal law, but realized only a part of it. The first part, which met with considerable success, dealt with Brahminical India, Egypt, and Judea, and contained a "Penal Code of the Pentateuch". He published a work on the penal law of the Athenian Republic. Considering the Roman period as sufficiently well-known, he took up the Frankish period, which he was unable to finish. These works are his chief title to fame from the scientific standpoint as are his reports on penal procedure from the practical standpoint. He aroused lively controversy by advocating the suppression of the death penalty, which his influence brought about in Belgium. While not rejecting it as absolutely unlawful, Thonissen considered it useless in the social condition of the time. In fact, although the death sentence is still legal, capital punishment is no longer inflicted in Belgium.
Detailed lists of Thonissen's numerous publications are given in the Bibliography of the Académie Royale and in that of the Catholic University of Louvain, to which the reader is referred. He showed a marked preference for national political history, his principal work on the subject being the "History of the Reign of Leopold I". He also published biographies of prominent Belgians such as Félix de Mérode. He had been impressed by the events of 1848 which determined his career and he devoted himself to a laborious study of innovating systems, especially of those men who are sometimes called the romanticists of Socialism, St. Simon, Fourier, Cabet, Owen, Louis Blanc, and others, being led eventually to write a history of Socialism from ancient times to 1852. These works and many others secured his admission to the Royal Academy of Belgium and the Institute of France; he was commissioned by the former institution to write the volume devoted to its centenary (1872).
Thonissen's political life began in 1863 and was never interrupted by his constituents. In the Chamber his value as a jurisconsult was much appreciated and he drafted many of the parliamentary reports. He occupied a unique position owing to his characteristic independence which made him disagree with the Right on certain points, for instance, on military matters. He was deeply attached to the Belgian Constitution of 1831, which contained articles proclaiming liberty of worship, of the press, etc. Although profoundly religious he was inbued like many men of his generation with the errors of Liberalism, and he wrongly regarded these liberties as of natural right, and defended this opinion in his commentary on the Constitution (1844). After the papal decisions on these matters, he corrected his ideas, but always had a leaning towards solutions favouring broad tolerance. Although tempered by great geniality Thonissen's independence of character was such that even the Right feared him and did not desire his participation in affairs. Thus when the king during a period of stress entrusted him with the formation of a ministry (1872), he was not supported by his party, which dreaded concessions to the Left or to the Crown. When he finally entered the ministry (1884), age had rendered him unfit for laborious work, though he was able to enforce the new school law which the victorious Right had substituted for the lay regime of 1879; this task consumed the last of his strength and left him unable to resume his scientific pursuits in his retirement (1887); his faculties soon became clouded. Thonissen was an intrepid worker, a firm Christian, an upright and simple man, with just a touch of artless vanity, though sometimes brusque in manner and given to occasional outbursts. He was one of the most important members of the faculty of law at Louvain and he will be chiefly remembered in the sphere of penal law, where his name is destined to survive.
Numerous articles have been devoted to Thonissen and to his works. The list of the latter will be found in the bibliography mentioned above. See also LAMY in Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique (1892); NYSSENS in Annuaire de l'universite catholique de Louvain (1892).
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Yesterday, faced with stiff congressional opposition to its plan to close over 3,600 post offices, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) blinked.
It was hardly a profile in courage on either side, with Members of Congress unable to resist the reverse NIMBYist urge to protect their local post offices at all costs and the USPS not wanting to pick a fight with Congress and put other reforms at risk.
By any objective standard, the Postal Service's plan to close some 3,600 retail branches was a sound one. According to USPS figures, the bottom 4,500 post offices take in, on average, a grand total of $52 per day and serve fewer than five customers. And, despite the rhetoric, the proposed closings were not exclusively in rural areas. New York City, for instance, had 34 post offices on the list. Washington, D.C., had 19, including several in government buildings such as the Capitol and the State Department.
Despite the controversy surrounding these closures, the money involved wasn't large, with savings pegged at some $200 million per year. As a result, the Postal Service had to quickly come up with a Plan B, under which business hours at some 13,000 post offices would be significantly cut—to a little as two hours a day. This plan is expected to save $500 million annually.
Which plan is better? Frankly, it doesn't really matter. With losses projected at as much as $20 billion annually, both plans—and more—should be adopted. When your ship is heading into an iceberg, you don't debate whether to turn away or try to stop. You do both.
The USPS management does seem to get this. Despite dropping the post office closure plan, it is still holding firm on other proposed reforms. Significantly, this includes plans to close several hundred mail processing centers. This alone is expected to save $2 billion.
But it is not at all clear that Congress understands the gravity of the situation. Rather than recognizing that USPS is a failing enterprise that needs a radical overhaul in order to survive, legislators still are treating it as a source of federal largesse to be doled out. It's a dangerous game, one that endangers both the USPS and the taxpayers, who doubtless will be asked to pick up the pieces. Congress should stop playing this game and allow the Postal Service to change.


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Muslin wedding dress
Bathurst District Historical Society
This is an extremely elegant muslin wedding gown that dates back to 1800. It is of great significance and a highly valued object within the Bathurst District Historical Society's collection because of the excellent condition it is in and its distinctive style. It is a classic empire line gown but unusual in style as it does not have a front. There are not many dresses of that period that have been found similar to this. A delicate lace shawl ... more
Wedding dress, brown silk and green brocade
Port Macquarie Historical Society
This well worn and altered wedding dress is a good example of a woman's best dress worn as a wedding dress. It was worn by Maria Harper (nee Mulligan) [1856-1894] at her marriage to Samuel Harper [1855-1916] on 29 August, 1883 at Armidale, New South Wales. The dress is well worn, evidencing its wear on many subsequent occasions. This dress is also a fine representative example of a late 19th Century dress, with its well fitted front buttoning bodice ... more
Christening gown and petticoat
1875 - 1890
Australian History Museum Macquarie University
The christening gown and petticoat are of historical, social and spiritual significance. They provide accounts of what people believed to be important in their daily lives and how they lived them. Barbara's christening was an important part of the family's religious beliefs, her father was the Minister for the township. Socially they would have been an important and respected family in the township. The dress was brought from England and given to the family. As a garment it ... more
Prince Charming costume worn by Frederick Boyton Smith
1928 - 1934
Museum of the Riverina
The Prince Charming costume worn by Frederick Boyton Smith is of Historic significance, being a good example of a Depression era children's costume. Surviving from a time when children's parents handmade costumes from oddments found around the home - for example, cardboard, crepe paper, cotton wool and scraps of fabric, it is rare to find children's costumes in this worn condition with all pieces intact, in this case, the hat, jacket, breeches, tights and shoes. The accompanying photograph ... more
Uniform of Honorary Major George Bagot Stack (V.D.)
1890 - 1900
The Cavalcade of History and Fashion Inc.
This uniform is in very good condition and complete with tunic, jacket and vest. It is the uniform of the Second Regiment New South Wales Volunteer Infantry. Captain George Bagot Stack retired from the Infantry on 16th January 1894 and was made an Honorary Major receiving a Volunteer Officer's Decoration. (V.D.) The uniform was made by David Jones and Co. Tailors and Habit Makers Sydney. A great deal of information is known about Captain George Bagot Stack and ... more
Kerr family wedding dress circa 1885
Manning Valley Historical Society
This dress is an important symbol of wedding ceremonies in the Manning Valley in the latter part of the 19th century. The quality of the dress is indicative of the importance placed on the ceremony and the social status of the families concerned. more
18th century waistcoat
1770 - 1780
Private collectors
Captain James Cook (1728-1779) was a brilliant British explorer, navigator, and cartographer who, among many other achievements, was the first European to document the east coast of Australia. He was sadly killed in Hawaii during a dispute with the locals. This embroidered silk waistcoat was reputedly worn by Captain James Cook and is of great interest to historians. It poses intriguing questions that we hope will, in time, be answered. If it truly belonged to this explorer then it is ... more
Wedding dress and accessories
Gilgandra Museum and Historical Society
This dress and accessories are important items pertaining to the Gilgandra Shire being made and worn by the daughter of one of the early settlers of the district. On her marriage she became a member of another longstanding family in the area and their offspring continue to farm, live and be active in many public and social groups in the Shire. more
Boy's outfit worn by William Nicholas Zell
1892 - 1893
Gilgandra Museum and Historical Society
This garmet is important as an example of clothing that has been passed down through the years since the early 1890's by the Zell Family. It was machine sewn on a Singer sewing machine purchased in 1890 by the Zell Family. This family have been innovative farmers in the Tooraweenah/Gilgandra district since the 1880's. more
Cooke wedding dress
Alstonville Plateau Historical Society Inc
While wedding gowns are not rare in museums, this gown has such good provenance that it is significant. There is much documentation associated with this gown and its maker, Isabella Cooke. The APHS has a very comprehensive collection of Isabella's handiwork illustrating her fine needlework, sewing, quilting, crochet, tatting and embroidery. Four years after her marriage she travelled to the north coast, first of all settling in Bexhill, then Corndale and finally retiring with her husband to Alstonville. Her ... more
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1880 - 1890
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A Pelisse worn during Victorian times by a male child of about three years of age. Boys of the 19th century wore dresses untill the age of four or five. This style is an outer garment worn outdoors and would have been worn with white hose for legs and feet, black shoes and a brimmed straw hat with black velvet ribbon headband. This garment made in the early 1880's is in excellent condition and is a very good example ... more
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According to some Puranas, Lord Shiva took the form of Sharabha to pacify and control the Narasimha Avatar of Lord Vishnu. If Lord Vishnu as Narasimha was half-man half-lion; Lord Shiva as Sharaba was part human, part animal and part bird with numerous claws and legs – some writers equate the form to a dragon. Sharabha manifestation of Lord Shiva is not very popular and there is popular notion that this incarnation of Shiva was created to position Shiva as greater than Vishnu by some Shaivites.
Shiva Purana describes the Sharabha for like this:
He had a thousand hands and wore matted locks. His head was adorned by the crested moon. He appeared like a bird with wings and beak. His body was fierce and fully developed.His fangs were very sharp. Adamantine claws were His weapons. His neck was black in colour. He had huge arms and four legs. He was blazing like fire.His voice was resonant and terrible like the rumbling sound of the clouds that gather at the end of the yuga. His three eyes were wide and blazing as the fire of the evil spirit of great fury.His fangs and lips were clearly visible. He was producing a hissing sound of humkara. Shiva of such a form appeared in sight.
This fierce form of Shiva is also known as Sarabheswara. The image of two Sharabhas guarding the entrance of Shiva temples is common in many South Indian temples.


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Asus announced two new tablets will join its U.S. arsenal: One is a higher-resolution variant on the recently released Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, while the other is Asus' long-awaited take on a 7-inch tablet.
The original Transformer Prime TF201 is barely a month old, and it received solid reviews for its strong performance and sleek design. Hot on its heels is the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF700T. This model is due out in the second quarter of 2012, and will complement the existing model; pricing starts at $599 for the 32GB version, and $699 for the 64GB version.
Shoppers will be paying a $100 premium on each of those models to gain the TF700T's high-resolution, 1920-by-1200 resolution Super IPS+ display. That resolution makes it only the second tablet announced that's capable of playing back 1080p video. To be precise, it can handle 1080p MPEG-4/H.264 High Profile, High Bit Rate video decoding and playback . The first tablet announced to support 1080p is Acer's Iconia Tab A700, is expected to market in Q1.
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Like the original Transformer Prime, the high-res version has a quad-core 1.3-GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, 8-megapixel rear-facing camera, and 2-megapixel front-facing camera. Everything else remains the same, right down to the dimensions and weight.
Eee Pad MeMo Debuts
Asus also unveiled its long-rumored, oft-hinted-at 7-inch tablet. The Asus Eee Pad MeMo ME370T is the latest in a line of WXGA 1280 by 800 resolution 7-inch tablets. Already, we have the T-Mobile SpringBoard and the Toshiba Thrive 7" shipping with a high-res display; and on those models, I've found the extra pixels can make a tablet's text and graphics look sharper and more detailed.
Inside, the ME370T runs a 1.2-GHz quad-core Tegra 3 processor, has 1GB of memory, and offers 16GB and 32GB storage options. Originally announced with a Qualcomm 8260 inside, it is the first 7-inch tablet to feature the Tegra 3. On paper, this model more than passes muster: It has a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera, and 5-megapixel rear-facing camera; micro-USB, micro-SDHC card, and micro-HDMI ports; plus there's a SIM card slot for a mobile broadband version. The tablet measures 7.8 by 4.6 by 0.50; and it weighs 0.89 pounds; its dimensions and weight put this tablet right in line with the 7-inch models.
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Amy Stein- Domesticated
Every so often , during the six or eleven o'clock local and national news, we hear and see a fox being spotted in Central Park, NYC., or Bears going through the trash in the near Westchester County , even opening doors into houses looking for food, Alligators swimming , sunning in a pool in a Miami , Fla home, and even boa constrictor coming out of a toilet in Brooklyn, NYC . All these out of the blue scenarios happening randomly here and nationwide come to mind, while looking at Amy Stein's Domesticated series.
The real question is who is invading who? Who is the one doing the trespassing? Who is the real perpetrator? Who is the menacing creature? Who is crossing the environmental boundaries established by humans or by the animals? The animals ? or it can maybe the humans?
Is the suburbanization and the constant invasion by humans into nature, to create, more housing and industrialization in areas populated and dominated by all these animal species, creating a social conflict between humans and animals? Are they now retaliating and invading us because we had been destroying their ecosystems?
All these questions come to mind as, I leave NYC in a train ride to Boston and see the city landscape disappear and go though a lot of wooded areas along the road where, most of these critters call home for the time being. It is not kind of hard to tell that,with all the construction and the constant chopping of vegetation and trees how they might have to migrate and the animals looking for food and new living environment will end up in someones backyard or just right in front of you, staring right into your eyes.
All these facts and questions , conflict created are present in the Domesticated series.
Amy Stein Domesticated series are based on real stories of human and animal encounters or interactions in and around the thew small town of Matamoras, Pennsylvania.The stories is based and created on Amy 's conversations told by its residents.
Amy has mastered recreating the photographic scenarios with a subtle and quite disturbing brilliance. The photos regardless the subject are created with great printing quality.In most cases the photographs from far away look like great and rather painterly landscapes, next door looking homes and urban looking settings and they are in so many was but, then there is the encounter or challenge between humans and animals.One of my favorites of the show is Roman Candle (shown above), where two adolescents get ready to attack a cornered raccoon. The taxidermy raccoon eyes almost come alive and stare right at you. The staging of it, it is just brilliant.


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Even though most endurance athletes have one big race each season, that doesn't preclude them from doing a number of other events. After all, if you can do an Ironman or a 70.3, then you should be able to just jump into a marathon for fun?right? The answer would be yes if it weren't for two specific issues.
The first problem is performance related—even though this might be a "training race" or "just for fun," most Type A endurance athletes will do their best to set a personal best regardless.
The second issue has to do with athletic bandwidth—these athletes have already been training for a long time for their existing race schedule?one more event is often one event too many.
More: How to Pick Offseason Races
But don't worry, you can still work towards a personal best on both fronts with some refocusing of your training. Here's how you can do it.
Ignore Conventional Wisdom
The traditional training model that includes base, build and peak training suggests that the final push to your race should include speedwork to build on the aerobic foundation you developed earlier in the season. However, very few individuals can handle peak volume and additional intensity at the same time.
Most endurance athletes will build to some of their biggest training weeks and most challenging individual sessions over the final weeks before starting to taper.
Instead of getting faster, these athletes usually succumb to fatigue, burnout or injury.
More: Offseason Principles for the Self-Coached Athlete
Move Your Speed Work to the Offseason
Race preparation training is, by nature, race-specific. If you are training for a mile relay effort, your final training push will look a great deal different from what a marathon runner might do.
Once you move out of that final training window, however, the endurance athlete has a much greater opportunity to gain fitness through speed.
So, what does that mean? Go fast before going far. With the volume requirement removed, an athlete can do multiple hard workouts each week leaving ample time for recovery.
More: 8 Ways to Stay Focused This Offseason
Added Bonus: Variable Training Stimuli
Aside from getting faster on fewer hours of training, most endurance athletes benefit from the radical change in their training focus. After months of long steady training, your fitness has acclimated to the demands of the regular training schedule.
This adaptation means that improvement is much harder to come by; an annual shift to a focus on speed will allow you to balance out your endurance training and enable you to see improvements year-round.
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The beautiful yard haunt of Haunt Style.
More photos at the Haunt Style blog.
Friday, November 7, 2008
The beautiful yard haunt of Haunt Style.
Posted by Rot at 8:00 AM
Labels: giant witch, haunt style, props, witch, yard haunt
3 comments:
- Unknown said...
Gorgeous. :)
- November 7, 2008 at 9:18 AM
- Nev said...
I love good use of color. I wonder if that witch above the door is blow up or not...
- November 7, 2008 at 10:44 AM
- "Bones" said...
No, she's definitely not blow up. In fact, she weighs over 300 lbs. and requires a crane to lift her into place each year. Check out this link for more info --> http://hauntstyle.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-witch_02.html
- November 7, 2008 at 11:29 PM
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Before the 99 percent captured the world's attention, another number helped energize an often overlooked part America's electorate: 58 percent. That's the percentage of black voters between the ages of 18 and 29 who showed up at the polls in 2008 to elect the country's first African American president. It was an extraordinarily promising number; in an election that drew its strength from the eagerness of young voters, black youth led the charge. Nearly two million more black voters between the ages of 18 and 24 cast ballots in 2008 than they did in 2004. While white voter turnout stayed relatively the same as it had been when George W. Bush won a second turn, the 2008 election showed that young voters of color–including records numbers of young Latino and Asian voters–were now a statistically significant voice in America's democratic future.
Obama's brand of political change turned out to be a painstakingly gradual one–and, at times, frustrating. So it's no surprise that political skepticism and an eager conservative base helped lead to lower voter turnout numbers in 2010. But as the 2012 presidential election kicks into full gear, operatives from both parties will be looking to engage younger voters. And as they do, they'll have to pay attention to what drives young folks into the political process, and how they've managed to turn that process inside out.
Shortly before the 2010 congressional elections, I spent some time reporting from Milwaukee. Though Wisconsin's election of Gov. Scott "I-hate-public-workers" Walker that year turned out to be part of a conservative tide that washed over America, Milwaukee had already long been a symbol America's neglect. It's a poor, deindustrialized city with mostly black and brown residents and few jobs. But the young organizers I spoke to had used those facts to help galvanize their peers. While the 2008 election had been their coming-of-age of sorts, they embraced the opportunity to shape their own destinies precisely because they could see clearly what was at stake.
"If no one gets out to vote, it's gonna stay the same," Romero Jackson, a 25-year-old organizer told me. "Like a Twilight Zone."
Since then, young organizers from around the country have used political disappointments as a call-to-action, one that's not dependent on the political showmanship on Capitol Hill.
That's especially true for those who are still fighting for their right to participate in democracy. After the federal DREAM Act was defeated in the Senate last year, undocumented youth turned up the pressure in their own way. As Rinku Sen pointed out earlier this week, that shift among immigration rights advocates was a decidedly cultural one intended to show that people without papers are, in fact, people. Some took to making funny videos that poked fun at the awkwardness of trying to have a social life while undocumented. Jonathan Perez, 25, and Isaac Barrera, 20, engaged in some good, old-fashioned civil disobedience in protest of Alabama's draconian HB 56 and spent days in federal detention. The young folks of the Oakland, Calif.-based coalition 67 Sueños challenged the traditional immigrant narrative altogether and pointed out that the majority of undocumented people in the U.S. wouldn't quality for DREAM Act legislation even if it did become law. In April, the group painted a mural in downtown San Francisco that helped drive their message home.
Even for those of us who do have the privilege of legal citizenship, there's still no guarantee that we'll have a voice in the country's upcoming elections. The defining fight of 2012 will arguably be who's able to actually cast a ballot on election day. In 2011, conservatives pushed an aggressive legislative agenda to pass dozens of strict voter ID laws in several states. Across the country, there are 19 new voter ID laws, and more than 40 are still pending in state legislatures. The new laws claim to address the Republican-backed myth of "voter fraud" and require eligible voters to obtain select forms of identification at the polls — and endeavor that's proven to be costly and unnecessary. A new study released in October by the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU estimated that the new laws could affect five million voters, the majority of whom are poor, young, or color. Attorney General Eric Holder vowed this month to use his power to protect voters, and in 2012, he'll need plenty of on-the-ground help.
And then there's the basic fight for survival. To be young and of color in America is still an enormously dangerous thing. NYPD's stop-and-frisk program has been the subject of widespread criticism for targeting black and brown men; a New York Times investigation found that 93 out of every 100 were stopped by officers in Brownsville, a Brooklyn neighborhood that's predominantly African American. The New York Civil Liberties Union recently reported that a total of 4 million people have been stopped since the program began in 2004, and those stops increased 13 percent in 2011.
For some, police encounters turn deadly. This was also the year that former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle was released from prison after being convicted of manslaughter in the killing of Oscar Grant on New Year's Day in 2009. Earlier this month, prosecutors in New Orleans convicted NOPD officer Ronald Mitchell of attempting to cover up the shooting of a civilian in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, making him the 16th police officer to be convicted of crimes committed during the chaos of storm. Those convictions show that there's at least some movement to hold law enforcement accountable for the often young and mostly black lives they take.
If there were any one person who's come to embody the urgency with which young folks have taken up political action as a deeply personal fight, it may be DeJaun Davis-Correia. The 18-year-old has survived an almost unimaginably brutal year. His uncle, Troy Davis, was executed by the state of Georgia in September. A few months later his mother, Martina Davis-Correia, succumbed to her long battle with breast cancer. While the fight to save his uncle's life helped reignite the movement against the death penalty, DeJaun's fight for justice was shaped the everyday wars he's already learned to fight.
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Adventure Reference: Patagonia
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How, exactly, does one end up hurtling across the Atacama Desert in Chile in a land rover? Well, in our case, it happened almost by accident. We were invited to a meeting hosted by friends and fellow runners Robb and Jeanette Taylor. They told us about a tour that they really wanted to go on, the Andean Triangle Adventure. According to Robb the tour needed a certain number of people to go ahead and Robb was single handedly willing to round up enough people to ensure the tour happened. Robb had used Andes Adventures for previous trips and couldn't say enough good things about the company and its fearless leader Devy Reinstein. He and Jeanette were convinced that this would be an amazing adventure.
My partner Rick and I have travelled a bit but have never done anything that we would describe as "adventure travel". We were excited about the prospect of joining our friends on the Andes Triangle Adventure. Rick was pleased that he could join the running group for the races, but could also switch to the trekking group to enjoy the opportunity to take photographs and see the scenery at a more leisurely pace. The only problem was that both of us very much wanted to visit Machu Picchu which was not included on the Triangle itinerary. Not really a problem at all, we learned. Devy was willing to put together an extension for anyone that wanted to visit Machu Picchu. The price was great and the 5 extra days still kept us within our 3 week vacation "budget".
And so we joined 11 others from in and around Regina, Saskatchewan Canada and headed off to Los Angeles to begin our adventure. Along the way we joined others who were also on the tour. In total 38 of us had signed on to explore parts of Chile, Bolivia and Peru. One of the first things Rick and I noticed was that virtually everyone in the group had already taken one or more Andes Adventure trips and they were anxiously waiting for the next one to be announced. To me that spoke volumes about the company and the type of trip we could expect. We were not disappointed. The organization of the trip was exemplary (particularly in a part of the world where such organization must have its challenges), the food and accommodations were wonderful and the guides were knowledgeable, helpful and patient. Best of all there was literally a new adventure around every corner. Rick participated in the Atacama Desert Marathon and the Princess Juanita Half Marathon in the Colca Canyon. He loved both races while finding them challenging and unlike any races he has done in North America. For my part, I was excited to explore Incan ruins, race across the desert in land rovers and receive the blessing of a shaman in Bolivia.
This slide show represents only a sampling of the 2500 or so photos that Rick and I took along the way. They incorporate photos from both the Andes Triangle Adventure and the extension trip to Machu Picchu. Thank you to Devy, and his wonderful guides, particularly Abelardo who made it all possible.
Adventure Reference: Andean Triangle Hiking Adventure & Andean Triangle Running Adventure
About eight months after Patagonia, I began to suspect that Andes Adventures trips are like those drugs that we are warned are instantly addictive. I wouldn't know about the drugs, but I did know that I wanted to go back to the Andes, and that I would have to be crazy to even think about going with another outfitter. The only question was which trip to choose. A lot of my friends have been to Machu Picchu, so it wasn't high on my bucket list. But I don't know a soul who has hiked in the Atacama Desert, or crossed the Salar de Uyuni. The Andean Triangle it is!
About 3 minutes after I email my trip reservation, the phone rings. Hello, Devy! No, I don't know the twelve people from my city who are also going on the trip. (Nor am I sure how I feel about it, given that this is a small place with a maximum of 2 degrees of separation between any two residents – no way will what happens in the Andes, stay in the Andes!). A few weeks pass, another phone call: Some of the folks from Canada have requested an extension to Machu Picchu, Devy needs 11 people to make it viable, do I want to go? Pause . . . blink . . . I'm in! Ten months later, I stumble, dazed and exhausted, off the bus in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, with three dozen other hikers and runners from around the world. Abelardo and Devy are about to lead us into a world of wonders.
Adventure Reference: Andean Triangle Hiking Adventure
I had just turned 60, was adjusting nicely to a new life on my own, and wanted to do something to celebrate. I recalled the adventure travel vacations I used to dream about in my 20s, back when I had no time and less money. Why not do that now, when I have a bit more time, a lot more debt, and way more aches and pains? Closed my eyes, spin the globe, jab it with a pin, and the destination is . . . the middle of the south Pacific, about 14,000 miles from any land mass larger than about 57 acres. OK, that didn't work so well. But look, there's the coast of Chile over there to the east, and I've been fascinated by the Andes since I was about 8 years old. Surely there's some magical place down there that none of my friends (apart from the ones who actually come from Chile) have been to yet, way down in almost-Antarctica. And so, four months later, I found myself in southern Patagonia, with a couple dozen total strangers and a Peruvian mountain man running the show. It turned out to be the trip of a lifetime.
Adventure Reference: Patagonia Hiking Adventure
Adventure Reference: Patagonia Hiking Adventure
And also see...
When my friend, whom I met when hiking Mt.
Blanc a year ago, asked if I and some other friends would
like to join him hiking in Patagonia, my first thought was that doesn't
sound like much of an adventure since "Patagonia" is
located right here in southern Arizona, my home state.
Ah, but then the true picture evolved which included the Magellan
Penguins which are found around the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of
Chile and Argentina. Oh, that Patagonia. We all signed up immediately...
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Adventure Reference: Inca Trail Trekking Adventure
Ever since Robert announced that he was hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, he rekindled my long time longing to do the same. He returned with stories of awe and transformation, and I was hell bent on going.
Of course, having done a lot of traveling in my life, Machu Picchu has always been a dream destination for me, as it surely is for many people who enjoy traveling to exotic and distant places. But to do it under one's own steam seems to offer an extra-special appeal of personal accomplishment...
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To much of the world, Patagonia is a clothing company. For adventurers, it is the planet's "edge" destination - nature in its wildest form. Patagonia is a vast land of spectacular beauty. Southern Chile and Argentina share these loosely defined region of endless pampas, dense evergreen southern beech forests, turquoise lakes, abundant wildlife, immense glaciers and dramatic landscapes...."
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Adventure Reference: Inca Trail Running Adventure and Peruvian Andes Running Adventure
I looked up at the Milky Way the Southern Cross turned sideways above the 20,905' summit of Mount Ausangate Peru and listened to the words of Abelardo.
"Do you see the dark areas of the Milky Way?" he said.
We all looked again and, as if for the first time, noticed the large irregular areas inside the Milky Way that had fewer stars in them making them appear darker.
"It is amazing that there you will see the shape of a llama and Inca people following it," Abelardo continued.
It was the last night camping after four days of running and hiking a difficult trail around Mount Ausangate.
View and read about memorable scenes from our Peruvian Andes Running Adventure to Machu Picchu: "Day One: Our guide, Abelardo Vignati, a native Peruvian, displays a vast knowledge and passion for the Inca Culture, resulting in a most informative and fun day. We dine at a local restaurant. All of the hotels, eateries, and food suppliers have been preselected by our host, Devy Reinstein, a second generation Peruvian. All of us carry bottled water. Tomorrow is our first run and everyone is so anxious. Buenas noches..."
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Monday, March 18, 2013
Better, But Not All Better
Dealing with the health issues of this litter has been a long, stressful and challenging road with many ups, downs, bumps, and detours. I am anxious for Wylla to be completely better, but we're not there yet. We are treating all of her symptoms and trying everything we can to get to the root of her problems. She's back home with us now, her energy is good, but she's not all better. We're waiting for some test results, and hoping they will reveal some answers.
For many reasons, I'm choosing not to share every single detail of this saga - mainly because I just want to focus on getting her better.
I appreciate all of your concerns, and am thankful to have all of your good, healing thoughts heading in her direction. I know you all care a tremendous amount about this dear kitten, and that's why you ask for details and more updates, but I hope you can respect my decision not to reveal more about what we're going through.
We love you dearly and know you're out there with arms linked, giving us one giant hug. We can feel it and thank you for it.
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- AnonymousMarch 18, 2013 at 11:56 AM
Happy thoughts, all around. Thanks for looking after this baby girl.ReplyDelete
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Nothing more stressful then a feline who won't use their words to tell you what is going on inside their tummy. Best wishes and prayers...ReplyDelete
Thank you for the updates! I'm sure that the details are heartbreaking, and I can certainly understand not wanting to share them. Thank you for caring so much about this little girl. I'm sending thoughts and skritches her way!ReplyDelete
Thank you for letting us know about Wylla's health in your own time and using your own best judgment. I have the greatest respect for your decision not to share all the details with us, and I agree that our energy should be focused on getting this sweet girl better.ReplyDelete
Hugs to you and Wylla (and little monkey Audrey!).
thank you, Laurie. We all send our best healing hopes for the tiny ones every day.ReplyDelete
- Anne BoleynMarch 18, 2013 at 12:03 PM
I can certainly respect your decision not to go into detail. I'm going to take it as a good step in the right direction that she's back with you! We're praying that she gets totally better soon! Hugs and purrs!ReplyDelete
XOXO to you too! Continuing to send healing vibes to dear Wylla!ReplyDelete
Again thank you for both the picture and update. I fully understand and respect your decision. My thoughts and prayers are with you and WyllaReplyDelete
Your judgement is good enough for me, as it has been for dozens and dozens of kittens before this litter. Good luck and much love as you take care of Wylla and her super-active sibling. *hugs*ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 18, 2013 at 12:25 PM
Big hugs and prayers to you, and I hope you have an outlet for the stress of caring for her.ReplyDelete
Also hope you know that we would take some of the stress off your shoulders and carry it for you if we could!!
And, Laurie, we are sending YOU lots of love and support for being her angel. Sending gentle healing thoughts to the wee Wylla, and lots of warm thoughts to you and the vets working so hard to heal this precious baby.ReplyDelete
You always do what's best for these little ones - thank you Laurie!ReplyDelete
Get all better soon, Wylla!ReplyDelete
Prayers being sent to all of you and also for test results that can help sweet Wylla get better! You are awesome in every way for caring for and loving these kittens. I bet Audrey is happy to have her sister back home. Kitten fans here have arms linked with support :)ReplyDelete
Sending you and Wylla lots of pure love, lots of healing energy and offering prayers that she comes through all of this soon.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much, Laurie, for all you do for these precious little ones. Please make sure that through all of this stress, you take care of your own beautiful self, too.
- JasonInIllinoisMarch 18, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Thanks for the update. It hasn't been a good year for kitten health. Over at the 50K blog a momma lost her whole litter due to illness last month. (Momma is looking for a home and is very sweet.) It can be rough, but you are strong for her. I wish you the best and know that we're here for you.ReplyDelete
- RosemaryMarch 18, 2013 at 12:46 PM
Sending hugs and support, and deep respect for all your decisions. You are the best. Wylla, honey, may you be ok!ReplyDelete
I send many purrs and prayers for Sweet WyllaReplyDelete
Laurie, you know what's best for you, your family, the blog, and the kittens. You are so thoughtful to even explain your decision, which you needn't do. You are the boss (well ... you, and the Beanie). :)ReplyDelete
Now little Wylla, you are in the very best hands, and we need you to get well! We're all thinking, wishing, and cyber-hugging on it very hard! We love you and your monkeypants sister! xoxo
I just looked over at my little guy who very nearly didn't make it out of early kittenhood and asked if I could borrow some of his good mojo for Wylla, but he was busy doing a backflip off the cat tree and didn't answer. I took it as a yes anyway. Sending you and Wylla and Audrey lots of hugs and good wishes!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 18, 2013 at 1:01 PM
Hope Audrey's sister and playmate will heal quickly and have a stupendous life. Thanks for all you do for these wonderful creatures.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 18, 2013 at 1:25 PM
Much love, respect, and good mojo being sent your way.ReplyDelete
Having a sick kitty is so very stressful. Hang in there!ReplyDelete
- WebbthistleMarch 18, 2013 at 1:49 PM
Sending positive thoughts and purrs Wylla's way - and yours, Laurie. She's in the best of care with you!ReplyDelete
Love, healing thoughts, and much appreciation for all you do, Laurie.ReplyDelete
- David BishopMarch 18, 2013 at 2:07 PM
How could such a beautiful creature still be sick? Sending intense, positive energy your way, Wylla!ReplyDelete
I hope she improves.ReplyDelete
I can imagine what is wrong with her.
I am so sorry.
You have my utmost support Laurie. I completely trust your judgement with Wylla's health concerns, because there is no doubt your heart is in the right place. Wylla is a very lucky girl to have so much love and concern from you and all of us that care for her from afar. I will continue to send my very best thoughts for precious little Wylla, and continue to look forward to the day that you can happily give us the "all clear" on her. She is by far the cutest little kitten that I have seen in quite a while, only to be given a run for her money by her sweet little monkey sister Audrey! XOXOReplyDelete
I really appreciate your periodic updates, I love that you are focusing your attention on Wylla and Audrey.ReplyDelete
And now Audrey has Auntie Charlene to help burn off some of her pantalones de loco energy, I am sure that helps a wee bit.
Continued wishes for Wylla's wellness & healing...and strength & support for all you do for the itty bittys.
Dearest Wylla, please get better soon. XXXXOOOOOOOXXXXXOOOOOOOOOOOReplyDelete
But, if you don't give us every detail, how can crazy cat people like me inundate you with tips and suggestions? (that was a joke :p )ReplyDelete
Whatever you do, and whatever you share, is perfect and right.
(I would however, appreciate it if you were to give Wylla, Audrey, and Charlene lots of smoochie kisses for me)
Good vibes and strength to the entire Butterbean household as well as your young charges. Thank you so very much for caring for these little ones.ReplyDelete
Awww, Wylla, I do love your scraggly kitten floof!ReplyDelete
Hugs to Wylla, and to Charlene and Audrey. And to you, too, Laurie, for the great job you do.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 18, 2013 at 8:39 PM
Wylla stay strong! We love you :)ReplyDelete
- Doodle BeanMarch 18, 2013 at 10:21 PM
Best wishes to you and yours. Hang in there!ReplyDelete
Hugs, purrs & best wishes!ReplyDelete
belly rubs, nose taps, hugs and purrrrrs to all of you. thanks for taking such good care of Audrey and Wylla. positive thoughts!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2013 at 8:42 AM
Oh Wyllamuffin, do get better soon! Your adoring public wants to see you romp with the Bean and your crazy sister!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 19, 2013 at 8:53 AM
{{{{{{{{{{{{ Laurie and everyone at IBKC headquarters }}}}}}}}}}}}ReplyDelete
I understand completely -- may all the Gods of heaven and earth be with you (Craig, Ms. Bean, too) and itty bitty Wylla.ReplyDelete
Hey, there, sweet little fuzz, get better soon! Of course, all good thoughts to Laurie, Craig, the Bean, and Audrey, too.ReplyDelete
Thank you for the update. I know Wylla is in good hands. :)ReplyDelete
I hope Wylla gets better soon.ReplyDelete
I so hope she gets better soon. Thank you for looking after her so well--it has to be very stressful for you too.ReplyDelete


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I'M ON FACEBOOK. I want to see everything I supposedly "like" and prune the list of things I don't. There should be a page where I can do this—that's UX Design 101—but instead there's just a sidebar box on my profile page showing a rotating, random sampling of liked items. The box is fine as an outward-facing device: on my profile page, it gives visitors a teasing hint of some of the cool stuff a deep guy like me digs. But inward-facing-wise, as a tool for me to manage my likes, it's useless.
At the top of sidebar box, there's text stating that I currently have "372 likes." The text is a hyperlink. Here's what should happen when I click that link: I should be taken to a page listing my likes (or the first, say, 100 of my likes, with a pagination tool). Each liked item should link to its corresponding Facebook page in case I need to refresh my memory about it. (This is the one part Facebook actually gets right.) More importantly, each liked item should be preceded by a checkbox. I should be able to check off 50 items on the page that I no longer like, and press a button allowing me to delete them all at once.
A number of elegant variations will occur to even the least experienced interface designer at this point: Perhaps there's a drop-down allowing me to choose functions other than deletion; perhaps there's a link to "select all" or de-select all; and so on. Such variations could make Facebook's hypothetical best-practice "like management" page easier, faster, or more pleasant to use. But they are pretty much beside the point, as Facebook does not provide a like management page when I click that stupid link.
When I click that link, what I get instead of a useful, simple management page—the kind we've been building in hypertext for over 15 years—is a small, in-page pop-up window, with a scrolling sidebar … because, like the sidebar box, this window is also a tease instead of a tool.
Inside that scrolling box is every item I've liked. I have to scroll to see anything beyond the first handful of liked items. There are no checkboxes. There is no master switch to delete one or more items. There isn't even an in-place deletion button beside each listed item, like the primitive edit tool in the first iPhone 3G.
No, my friends. There's nothing.
If I want to delete a liked item, get this! I have to click the item's hyperlink, go to the individual item page, and then hunt around on that page in search of a tiny link that would let me "unlike" that item. If I manage to find that link and unlike that one item, there's no confirmation dialog, and I'm not returned to the floating box, because the item's like page doesn't know about the box.
All that JavaScript, and no connections. All those pages, and not even the most basic tools.
And nobody complains. Why? Because nobody really uses liked items. Indeed nobody really uses Facebook, except to post links and photos and comment on their friends' links and photos. Liked items are for advertisers, they're not for you. In Facebook's estimation, you don't need to remove a page you no longer like, because you are never going to visit it anyway.
Hey, they have the stats, they know what their users do and don't do.
Facebook is a charnel house of features that appeal to advertisers and businesses without actually being used, supported by tools that don't work, for people who don't care.
Now I, uh, like Facebook fine, for the same reasons you do (if you do), and I generally ignore its well-branded but otherwise abortive gestures toward key features that have made it famous without actually doing a damned thing—"like" being the people's Exhibit A. But as a designer, it bothers me, not only because badly designed things bother designers, but because badly designed things in a highly successful product spur a lust for imitation. I don't want our clients to think "like" works. I don't want them desiring similarly broken functionality on sites we design for them. I don't want them thinking users don't need tools that work, simply because millions of users don't complain about broken tools on Facebook. Tools like like and its sad little pop-up.
Me no like.


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Iran hopes for 'successful' talks with UN
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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Said Jalili gives a press conference on April 14, 2012 as Iran and six world powers open talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme in Istanbul. AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILICAn Iranian envoy voiced hope today that talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog in mid-May would help resolve "outstanding issues", but he again ruled out any halt to Tehran's controversial uranium enrichment programme.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Saturday it would resume discussions with Iran on May 14-15 - more than two months after the last meeting over concerns about Tehran's atomic activities ended in failure.
"We hope that this will be a very constructive and successful meeting," Iran's ambassador to the Vienna-based IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, told Reuters.
"The main purpose is to negotiate on a modality and framework to resolve outstanding issues and remove ambiguities," he added, echoing language he and other Iranian officials have used before previous meetings that yielded no notable progress.
He suggested that only after such a "framework" for future cooperation had been agreed could Iran consider an IAEA request for access to a military site where the U.N. agency believes nuclear-related weapons research may have taken place.
"Every action will be implemented based on this framework, afterward," Soltanieh said when asked whether the IAEA could visit Parchin southeast of the capital Tehran.
Western diplomats have said Tehran still appeared to be stonewalling over the body's most pressing demand to let its inspectors visit the site.
The IAEA last November issued a report detailing alleged Iranian research and development activities that were relevant to manufacturing nuclear weapons, lending independent weight to Western suspicions based on intelligence soundings.
Higher grade enrichment
The IAEA wants Iran to address the questions raised in the report. Iran has dismissed Western allegations as fabricated.
Iran has also restarted negotiations with six world powers over the broader dimensions of its nuclear programme and the sides have agreed to meet again in Baghdad on May 23. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said last week that he was optimistic that the talks with United States, Russia, China, Germany, France and Britain would make progress.
Washington and its allies believe Tehran is working on developing nuclear bombs. Tehran insists its activities have only civilian energy purposes and has refused to stop enriching uranium, despite a slew of sanctions.
"We (will) never stop enrichment activities in Iran," Soltanieh said, describing it as an inalienable right.
He declined to comment however on Western demands that Iran halt the higher-grade enrichment, to a fissile concentration of 20 percent, it began in 2010 and has since sharply expanded, shortening the time needed for any nuclear weapons breakout.
The U.N. Security Council has demanded that Iran suspend all enrichment activity but Western diplomats have indicated the immediate priority is to get it to halt the higher-grade work.
Many analysts say it will only be possible to find a negotiated solution to the long-running row if both sides compromise: Iran would be allowed to continue some lower-level enrichment if it accepts more intrusive U.N. inspections.
"There is a growing recognition that zero enrichment is not a feasible solution," said Mark Fitzpatrick, a director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies think-tank.


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The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo's finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time on November 1, 1512.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, was born in the small village of Caprese in 1475. The son of a government administrator, he grew up in Florence, a center of the early Renaissance movement, and became an artist's apprentice at age 13. Demonstrating obvious talent, he was taken under the wing of Lorenzo de' Medici, the ruler of the Florentine republic and a great patron of the arts. After demonstrating his mastery of sculpture in such works as the Pieta (1498) and David (1504), he was called to Rome in 1508 to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel—the chief consecrated space in the Vatican.
Michelangelo's epic ceiling frescoes, which took several years to complete, are among his most memorable works. Central in a complex system of decoration featuring numerous figures are nine panels devoted to biblical world history. The most famous of these is The Creation of Adam, a painting in which the arms of God and Adam are stretching toward each other. In 1512, Michelangelo completed the work.
After 15 years as an architect in Florence, Michelangelo returned to Rome in 1534, where he would work and live for the rest of his life. That year saw his painting of the The Last Judgment on the wall above the altar in the Sistine Chapel for Pope Paul III. The massive painting depicts Christ's damnation of sinners and blessing of the virtuous and is regarded as a masterpiece of early Mannerism.
Michelangelo worked until his death in 1564 at the age of 88. In addition to his major artistic works, he produced numerous other sculptures, frescoes, architectural designs, and drawings, many of which are unfinished and some of which are lost. In his lifetime, he was celebrated as Europe's greatest living artist, and today he is held up as one of the greatest artists of all time, as exalted in the visual arts as William Shakespeare is in literature or Ludwig van Beethoven is in music.
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The funding programme Partnerships in Learning aims to support UK-German school partnerships undertaking a variety of educational activities in both countries, including peer learning, with a flexible thematic and cross-year approach.
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- The project activities take place within the context of a UK-German school partnership where at least ten pupils from both schools are participating in trips to the other country involving a range of interesting activities relevant to the curriculum.
- The activities have one thematic focus or incorporate several thematic aspects - different year groups can have different themes or focus on different aspects of a theme.
- The bilateral activities include a strong element of involvement of pupils in the conception, implementation and dissemination of the activities with the travelling pupils taking on an active role as ambassadors and representatives of a wider group of young people.
- The project involves a broad range of young people across year and subject groups, with a focus on the active participation of younger year groups, e.g, lower secondary pupils. Where possible, structured peer-learning activities should be incorporated.
- All activities involve real collaboration and joint working between the UK and German pupils before, during and after the visits.
- Activities foster joint intercultural learning and offer a real opportunity for pupils to develop their skills and enhance their curriculum-relevant knowledge.
- Both sides undertake trips to the partner school. Each visit must include at least three full days of joint thematic activities. The two visits must be clearly related and the period of time between the visits must be no longer than 10 months. Visits should ideally take place within the same school year.
- The activities must have curricular relevance and be embedded in a relevant theme or themes.
For a full list of criteria, please refer to the guidelines (see Files to download list on this page).
How much funding can you get and what can it be used for?
- The maximum grant available is £5,000 and is to be shared between the participating schools.
- Grants provided through the Partnerships in Learning grant can support costs such as travel and accommodation for reciprocal partner visits, project resources and joint activities and will be a contribution to the overall costs.
- Applicants must contribute at least 25% of the overall eligible activity costs through participants' contributions and other sources of funding.
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There are three deadlines each year: 31 January, 31 May, and 31 October. See the box at the top of this page for the next deadline.
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- financial plan (if not included in the general funding application form)
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Please ensure that the forms you complete are the most up-to-date versions, which are available to download on this page.
Paper copies of parts 2.6 and 2.7 of the general funding application form, including original signatures from all participating groups, must be sent by post to:
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Please note that Partnerships in Learning applications can only be submitted by one participating institution on behalf of the whole project. This can be either the German or British institution. The corresponding information for your German partners is available under Partnerships in Learning on the German section of our website.
If you have any questions about the programme or would like to discuss your plans, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Vietnam and the U.K. have disbanded a ring that allegedly sold online credit card details since 2007.
The ring, which sold the credit card information through two websites, is said to have caused over $200 million in fraudulent charges on credit cards issued in the U.S. and Europe.
Charges have been brought in a federal court in New Jersey against Duy Hai Truong, 23, of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Truong, who was arrested on May 29 in Vietnam, is suspected to be one of the ring leaders. Law enforcement officials in the U.K. have arrested three men in London, while another eight persons including Truong were arrested in Vietnam.
The conspiracy, based in Vietnam, obtained personal identifying information provided to retailers who sold goods and services online and received online credit card payments, according to a statement Wednesday by the office of the U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey.
The data on over 1.1 million cards was obtained through hacking of commercial entities, the U.K.'s Serious Organized Crime Agency said. The persons charged are alleged to have obtained illegally a variety of personal information, including purchasers' names, addresses, credit card information, and Social Security numbers, including from victims in New Jersey, according to U.S. authorities.
People wanting to purchase victims' credit card information either accessed the fraud websites – www.mattfeuter.biz and www.mattfeuter.com – or sent the hackers an email, requesting data, according to the complaint of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in U.S. District Court for District of New Jersey.
Data was sold by the "dump" which included data on a single, identifiable victim, according to the FBI. The fee varied from about $1 to $300 per dump, depending on the victim's country of origin and information sought, according to the complaint.
If convicted, Truong, who is charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, faces a maximum of 30 years in prison and a fine of at least $1 million.
Enforcement agencies in the U.S. and other countries have been cracking down on online crime recently. Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice said it indicted online payment processor Liberty Reserve for allegedly laundering $6 billion in a series of global transactions. The agency said the indictment could be the largest international money laundering prosecution in history.


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Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some fantastic articles on non-traditional ways to cut your grocery bill, creative ways to save money, and money issues that sabotage your relationship.
Non-Traditional Ways to Cut Your Grocery Bill — To reduce your grocery bill, shop your pantry before you head to the grocery store. [Careful Cents]
7 Creative Ways to Save Money Every Month — Save money every month by stripping your cable to the bare minimum. [MoneyNing]
Are these Money Issues Sabotaging Your Relationship? — Do you have a lack of shared goals with your partner? A lack of shared goals may sabotage your relationship. [Moolanomy]
How A Second Income Stream Can Give You Some Financial Security — You can tap into your networks to develop a second stream of income. [The Digerati Life]
Get a New Job Every Two Years — It is a good idea to find a new job every couple years because you have very little job security if you are only good at doing one thing. [Thousandaire]
5 Best Money Move that You can Make — One of the best money moves you can make is to spend less than you earn. [Financial Management Blog]
3 Ways to Teach Your Kids Financial Responsibility — To teach your kids financial responsibility, tell them about why you choose certain products over others at the grocery store. [Steadfast Finances]
The Remnants of a Past Life — Don't let the stuff from your past overwhelm your present. You probably don't need the stuff from your past. [The Simple Dollar]
Drat! Dang! Darnit! Put a Curse on Cuss Words in 8 Easy Steps — If you want to make sure your child doesn't swear, start by taming your tongue. [Parenting Squad]
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