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Sixth Of Seven Ridge Trail Parcels Now Secured – February 29, 2012
Kevin L. Hoover
Eye Editor
FICKLE HILL – When the public effort in support of the Arcata Ridge Trail was launched just two years ago, the City of Arcata owned just two of the seven puzzle pieces required for the four-mile trail linking Sunny Brae with West End Road.
Now it has an easement through, or outright ownership of, six of the seven parcels of land through which the trail passes.
Building on the core assets of the Arcata Community Forest and Sunny Brae Forest, the City has added Ridge Trail segments via the Morris Property, Schmidbauer Property, Samuels Conservation Easement and Green Diamond Acquisition.
The Schmidbauer Property acquisition was made possible by a $630,000 grant from the state Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) approved Friday, Feb. 23. Environmental Services Director Mark Andre and Third District Supervisor Mark Lovelace attended the board hearing in Sacramento.
Acquiring the oddly-shaped, 22-acre Schmidbauer Property not only adds a Ridge Trail link, but protects the City-owned forestlands from problematic upslope development of the residentially-zoned parcel.
During heavy rains on New Year's Eve 1995/1996, a massive slip-out or landslide on the heavily logged Schmidbauer Property, located outside city limits, sent tons of soggy soil down into the north fork of Grotzman Creek, plugging a culvert and resulting in a $300,000-plus replacement of Beverly Drive's storm drain.
"It's really a strange, U-shaped thing we have here, but without it, the Ridge Trail wouldn't be able to keep on going" said Andre. "This [acquisition] protects the core of the Sunny Brae Forest from urban encroachment."
The Schmidbauer Property boasts excellent views of Humboldt Bay, which could have made it lucrative to develop for housing.
Andre called the new tract "a really nice forest" with large trees and potential for two new trail routes. Like the rest of the City-owned forestlands, the new addition will be sustainably managed.
Some maintenance will be required, with some trail grooming and possibly installation of a new bridge. "There's not a lot of work," Andre said. "We just have to treat it carefully."
Lovelace, who led the citizen effort to acquire the Sunny Brae Forest 10 years ago, said it was "real exciting to see it all come together." He was in Sacramento last week on other business, and dropped in on the WCB meeting in which the grant was approved.
His opponent in the Third District race, Karen Brooks, said she appreciated the acquisition, but had concerns.
"The forest is a tremendous community asset but, as we go forward we cannot afford to lose our tax base," she said. "If I can have the best of both worlds, it would be that we keep as much land privately held with conservation or recreation easements. This helps to maintain our tax base and provide trail access for public enjoyment."
Continued Brooks, "The City has demonstrated that the park can be sustainably managed in timber production while affording valuable public access. This is a great model for other communities. Now, let's take this same model for private property owners and work in cooperation to maintain our tax base so the City and the county can continue to provide services. Going back to Sierra Pacific and the Sunny Brae Forest, had we sat down with them and negotiated a recreational or conservation easement they could still keep and manage their land, government could still use the taxes from it and the public has a trail from Sunny Brae into the park."
Lovelace pointed out that the forest remains in the county tax base until the City annexes it, and that it will continue to provide income from sustainable logging. "The whole idea is to keep it a working forest," Lovelace said. "Without this, we could see it lost to residential development."
"Going forward, it may not be so easy to find grants for outright acquisitions so new strategies will need to be forged," Brooks said.
Andre confirmed that the City does pay property taxes on the county-area forest parcels it owns, and will continue to do so with Schmidbauer. It also pays timber yield taxes on any harvests.
"There are no plans to annex [Schmidbauer]," he said. "That's too much of a jump up the hill."
He said that forest access issues are settled on an individual basis, with the City working with landowners and honoring their wishes for their property. This has resulted in the mix of easements and purchases that compose the Ridge Trail.
"It's all case by case," Andre said. "You try to work out a deal and get easements when appropriate."
If the current situation was unforeseeable 10 years ago, what might we be attempting 10 years from now, forest-wise?
"Once we get these two connected, should we be providing a pedestrian-bicycle-equestrian trail that connects to other pieces?" Lovelace wondered.
On the south end of the Ridge Trail, he said, a trail might extend through the Baylands restoration Project. On the north end, a link might be forged to the Hammond Trail.
"It just becomes a larger trail link that we can build upon," Lovelace said.
For now, he and Andre are focused on acquiring the Humphry Property. Andre said the City is seeking state and federal grants to augment other contributions for that purpose. He said the non-profit Trust for Public Lands was instrumental in the new parcel's acquisition, just as it had been in securing the Sunny Brae Forest 10 years ago.
"We're looking forward to getting that last piece done," Lovelace said.
You can help by making a tax-deductible donation to the Arcata Forest Fund, c/o the Humboldt Area Foundation, 373 Indianola Road, Bayside, CA 95524.


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April 25, 2008
Google Annoyances
1. Every time you go to www.google.com/analytics/, Google Analytics asks you to enter your password, even if you are already logged in. One workaround is to bookmark https://www.google.com/analytics/home/.
2. "New features!". Google's products are updated pretty frequently, but sometimes they show this message for months, even if the features are no longer new. Some pathological examples: Google Calendar and Picasa Web Albums.
3. The inconsistent navigation bar. There's no consistency here: some of the links send you to search results, other links send you to homepages. Some of the pages open in a new tab/window, other pages open in the same tab/window. The list of links is different, depending on the current service, and the ordering is not predictable.
4. Search results with tracking code. Because Google needs to track the search results you click on in order to add them to Web History, it replaces their addresses with redirects like: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=... That means you can no longer right click on the link and copy the location. Some workarounds: disable Web History, log out or use this Greasemonkey script.
5. Google Updater. An annoying and intrusive way to install Google software, without providing an alternative for people who like the classic installer.
6. Set Google as my default search and notify me of changes. Every Google software has the mission to make Google your default search option in Internet Explorer (it's already the default option in other browsers), but also to install a notifier that warns you when other software tries to change the default search engine. Usually, the option can be disabled, but Google's wording is vague.
7. Blogger comments. It's hard to create something worse than Blogger's comments: they open in a new page with a different layout, the first option is to log in with a Google account, there's no spam filtering etc.
8. Posting a message at Google Groups. It usually takes one minute for your post to appear on the site, but Google should show it instantly.
9. When you translate a web page, Google Translate shows the original text in a bubble. Google's JavaScript code interferes with other web pages' code and the result is usually terrible. Another downside is that you can't copy the text from a translated web page. One workaround would be to block the JavaScript file, but it keeps changing its address.
10. Google Video has the worst advanced search page. If you search for something and click on "advanced search", your query is lost. The page doesn't put the focus on the first input box and pressing Enter has no effect.
11. Click on a broken link for a Blogger blog and Google is glad to inform you that "the blog you were looking for was not found". Pretty bad for an error message that should've been helpful.
Did you find other Google annoyances?
86 comments:
12. Google's official blog posts have titles that make it hard to understand what the post is about. Sometimes, the introductory sentence is also beating around the bush... you'll often have a hard time understanding at a glance what the post is roughly about. While this is perfectly OK on paper (like in a magazine) this is bad style online, in particular for titles (which travel into search results, feed readers and so on in the form of microcontent).ReplyDelete
13. Google sometimes doesn't openly communicate their goals. Their communication is not very transparent, e.g. they will not divulge the real reasons why they cancel products (think SOAP API, Google Answers). Also, Google employees talk very little to the outside world likely due to contracts and so on.
14. The Google translator always asks you to tell it from which to which language you want to translate something to. Instead of always forcing users to make a pick in the giant combo box, it would be better if they would try to find something meaningful by default (e.g. if you're using English Google, the target language English would be a good default, and the source language can be found out automatically depending on what you enter; in those cases where it's still ambiguous, they could *still* ask you to make a combo box decision). The Google toolbar already offers something similar where you just hit a button without defining source or target language.
15. Google often only carries a message (we don't do portals, we don't do Chinese censorship, we don't do horoscopes, we use the same AdWords tools as everyone else, we want to send people away as fast as possible etc. etc.) only as long as it benefits them, but then later on forgets that message. Right now, a message you quoted in a previous post was we don't do ads in Google Images, telling people how it benefits users; I'm curious how long they will keep to that message.
16. That Gmail AJAX "still updating dialog".
All in all, I wouldn't say the annoyances balance out the pros. Google is better than that still, IMO. Try using a product like Hotmail; now that's something were there's so many annoyances they cancel out all pros, making the tool have nearly zero usefulness. (Or take a look at the big banner ads which reload constantly in Yahoo Mail.) A tool like e.g. Gmail, even when sometimes slow, is still much more useful than annoying. Also, Google's product all in all still have a very high usability compared to the market average; though with certain Google employees leaving, let's wait and see how long they can keep that up.
I HATE Blogger's comment system.ReplyDelete
Several times, I have almost switched to Wordpress just for better comments (I have it installed and synced on my "Just in case" server)
And don't even talk to me about Disqus or Haloscan...
- AnonymousApril 25, 2008 at 3:08 PM
And here are my comments from earlier today, about Google Reader annoyances:ReplyDelete
16. When Blogger comment eats my comment and forces me to reenter it. (Admittedly, Google isn't the only culprit on this one).ReplyDelete
17. iGoogle doesn't have a default Tab. The iGoogle NavBar navigates me away from iGoogle rather than opening a new tab (like in Gmail).
18. Google buys/builds cool technology, and then ... nothing, often for years. Google Talk Desktop, Orkut, Google Bookmarks, GrandCentral, etc.
- AnonymousApril 25, 2008 at 3:46 PM
My biggest complaint with Google is the inconsistent addresses for all of their products. For example: Google Reader is reader.google.com, type in analytics.google.com it redirects you to www.google.com/analytics, but then go to google history: history.google.com, you get a page not found - when the actual address is www.google.com/history. What about IGoogle? www.igoogle.com works - redirecting you to www.google.com/ig, but i.google.com or ig.google.com lead to page not found. Google Transit? www.google.com/transit - transit.google.com gives page not found. I could go on and on and on about this.. It's so fusterating that google is all about organizing the worlds information - but they still have not mastered the ability to organize their website with a standardized, simple to remember, simple to access web addresses for most of their different components!ReplyDelete
Google Alerts? www.google.com/alerts - alerts.google.com page not found - Google BlogSearch? http://blogsearch.google.com works perfectly (doesnt even redirect to www.google.com/blogsearch) - but type in www.google.com/blogsearch - that works just as well!!
Cmon google!! Lets be a little more consistent with your website. Its not like you dont know how to do it!
opera is at present still not supported. are they trying to say that they aren't able enough to produce web code that can work with opera? or are they trying to convince us they have not enough money to hire a programmer to fix the compatibility?ReplyDelete
i'm a fan of google services but this behaviour is really silly.
I'm still upset that there's not a true address book when you've already began composing a gmail. Instead, you have to save the message, go to the Contacts area, create a group, and then go back to the saved message. And, yes, you would have to do this EVERY TIME if you don't want to forget somebody.ReplyDelete
This gets old when you don't send the same things to the same exact people all the time.
Surely, it's not that difficult to incorporate this into Gmail. One would think Google could figure that out.
Gmail autocompletes the names/email addresses of your contacts when you start typing in the To: field. You can add as many contacts as you want.
- AnonymousApril 25, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Originally the design here was to make the products for users of different services more convenient for them to access other services that they would frequently use.
I just clicked through to see all the different services on the drop down menu, there's two designs for the drop down menu, and it's entirely absent on google scholar. You have one order or design for the websearch products, news, images, blog search, etc. The other order is for services that allow you to interact with your own information on the web, like photos, gmail, calendar, etc.
That design for the product order actually seems well thought out to me. Except for the obvious omission of google scholar.
"You can add as many contacts as you want."ReplyDelete
The problem really isn't not being able to add contacts - the problem is that Google has Contact Diarrhoea - they add every single person you email, even when it's a one off reply to a weird person.
You have to regularly go thru the contact list deleting total strangers.
Is it really too much to ask that we can control our own contact list - Microsoft has let us do that since 1996.
C'mon Google - give us control of our own address book!
- AnonymousApril 25, 2008 at 4:54 PM
The thing that probably annoys me the most is that when you're logged in with a Google Account and when you accidentally visit orkut.com (thinking you're logged in with a different account) then Orkut creates automatically a new profile of you (using your Google account information).ReplyDelete
Although it shows you the screen where you have to create the profile, the profile itself is already create (and therefor searchable inside Orkut). This creates duplicate names profiles to Orkut for those who have multiple Google Accounts.
- AnonymousApril 25, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Regarding #7 bad blogger comments.ReplyDelete
I agree, but my guess is that way it helps combat spambots. Google probably has a good reason to do so.
I get frustrated with the inability to tell them about simple fixable problems they have without going through potentially unmoderated Google Groups. They've had security certificate issues for their regional sites (google.com.au, google.co.uk etc.) for two weeks now without it being fixed, and I have no idea if they are even aware of the problem, let alone working to fix it. I realise such a big company could have millions of requests/questions a day, but the fact there is no legitimate way to inform them of problems is very frustrating.ReplyDelete
And I particularly concur with Philipp's No. 13 - Google just don't tell their users what they plan to do in the next few years. Do I wait around for Google to bring GrandCentral to Australia, or do I find my own solution? Will they ever fix problem X,Y or Z, or should I move to a competitor?
It amazes me that Gmail still places the signature where no one in their right mind would want it. I miss the old Better Gmail fix called Signature Float and wonder why that isn't around anymore.ReplyDelete
Why, why, why won't Google fix this?
- AnonymousApril 25, 2008 at 5:13 PM
GTalk installer does not prompt the user for an install location, it decides for you! This is behavior normal in evil applications, not Google.ReplyDelete
If you move the program files to another directory later on it will move itself to the location it wants to with no warning whatsoever.
Evil =(
"1. Every time you go to www.google.com/analytics/, Google Analytics asks you to enter your password, even if you are already logged in. One workaround is to bookmark https://www.google.com/analytics/home/."ReplyDelete
Isn't that just a little sad?
It's obvious Google do't read this blog (or any other feedback), because the same old crits come up month after month, and all they need is a little common sense.
Getting around a password by using a different URL suggest that either Google thinks security is a bad joke - or they haven't worked out why analytics needs a 'fresh' login (no money at stake) while Adsense doesn't (serious money at stake).
Sorry, chaps, I remain a Google fan ... but this is simply pathetic.
To all of you who did not understand my comment earlier...please visit my blog. It might better explain what I'm talking about when I refer to a "true address book".ReplyDelete
Then again, it might just make my point more confusing. Either way, I'm not very good at explaining what I'm talking about. I just know that there's something not quite right with the way it's presently setup.
See my blog entry here.
It's now a year out of date, but I bet most of the things on my wish-list are still not done. And I think they're some pretty good ideas...ReplyDelete
of course, I'm also still waiting for them to admit that iGoogle was an April Fools Joke name.
- AnonymousApril 25, 2008 at 6:10 PM
the inconsistencies of all the google logos between different countriesReplyDelete
* Google Talk has FIVE different edition (Google Talk Client, Google Talk Gadget, Gmail Chat, Gmail 2.0 Chat and Google Talk, Labs Edition) and each edition have DIFFERENT features.ReplyDelete
*Blogger Comments, no Gmail Address Book (which you can visit while composing mail), inconsistent addresses for all of their products are also big problems too.
- AnonymousApril 25, 2008 at 8:25 PM
I have one problem with Google Search when working bilingually. If I search in English through google.co.jp, I am often looking for incidences of the English term as they occur on Japanese language sites.ReplyDelete
When searching English search terms on Google Japan, English language sites located in Japan seem to get priority. The problem with this is that they are often not the best search results for someone who can read both languages.
Yahoo Japan on the otherhand seems to give me the highest overall ranked sites registered with Yahoo Japan regardless of the language of the site itself.
I imagine that other people using other languages may have the same kind of searching needs that people working bilingually in Japanese and English (using a Japanese operating system) do.
- AnonymousApril 25, 2008 at 9:06 PM
1. Signature. If you add one, use it, then decide to stop using it, the signature is not saved.
2. Multiple email addresses for a contact: If I have email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, and I open a new browser window, login to Gmail, and email firstname.lastname@example.com, then a short time later decide to email Dave again, when I start typing dave_... in the TO: field, the auto-complete shows two entries for email@example.com (the email address I DID NOT compose an earlier email to). This seems to only be happening with the newer version of Gmail.
- AnonymousApril 25, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Even worse than the way Blogger handles comments, is the complete lack of a trackback link. To respond to a blog post with any kind of a trackback link, you need to do it with a blogger account. I have a blog, it's not blogger, and it never will be blogger. Now allow me to use a trackback for things I respond to!ReplyDelete
That is incorrect. Blogger chose to use backlinks from blogs instead of trackbacks. It simply performs a search at Google Blog Search for link:POST_URL and displays the results. Obviously, you don't need to have a blog powered by Blogger to link to a post. You probably noticed the "blog this" feature that lets you quote a post in Blogger, but this is just one of the ways you can add your link there.
I need to mention the AJAX search in my blog. It just doesn't work..ReplyDelete
My search box is useless...
in http://www.techtola.com
Also the inability to mark single item as read without reading it in list view in google reader.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2008 at 4:14 AM
I just cannot understand, why can't they use unobtrusive JS and clean up the links adding onclick handler.
Of course there are people, who would Tab-tab-tab-tab-tab-tab-tab-enter a link, but get real, 99% of users click with a mouse.
1). There is no way to change my default address in Google Maps, it still shows my previous address, with no option to change it now that I've moved.ReplyDelete
2). They won't remove a previous domain of mine from their index (which points to my name!), so now any searches for me go to a bogus domain that I no longer own (because I took out the dashed spacer). The closest I've gotten to is this URL which only applies to deleting existing domains: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35302
Firsly, I'd like to start by repeating something that I was taught as a kid, "Don't look the gift horse in the mouth", when I receive something for free I generally accept with gratitude, although I suppose the blog post is Google Annoyances so I'll input.ReplyDelete
#BillyG - you can change your Default Google Maps address. Just search for an address and it appears as an option. And secondly you stop Google from indexing your site with a simple robot.txt file
In support of the company that I admire and have a lot of time for you have to remember that a large proportion of their products are in Beta or Labs and therefore are being updated and improved, even though sometimes with a long delay, the changes they make I feel are very representative of what the customers want and need. Most recently referring to Google Docs as a good example.
My main annoyance that I'd love to see changed is the inability to contact someone. As an educator and new technologist I daily recommend their suite of products to an array of different people. Sometimes when something goes wrong you really need to be able to talk to someone. The Google Groups can be quite succesful although I love to see a live online contact feature for supporting their products.
1) No universal tags - see this blog post about that.ReplyDelete
2) No universal search across all my Google pieces - Gmail, Docs, Notebook, Picasa, Blogger, Reader, etc. Combine this with #1 and they'd really have something powerful.
@Sam Lyons - as a software developer I think the "beta" excuse is pure BS. Some of their products have been in permanent beta status (I believe Gmail has been in "beta" for something over four years). Which means that word doesn't mean anything any more, and that Google doesn't want to step up to the plate and actually take responsibility for anything. "Gmail's busted? Oh, well, it IS beta, you know". It's a cop out, IMNSHO.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
- Inago Montoya
Having IMAP access turned on results in delivery delays of anywhere from 1 to 10 hours, even on the web interface!!!
Besides the ones I just commented, here's another annoyance I am dealing with today. Google Groups has no way to integrate a Google Calendar or for that matter Google Docs into it. What I really want is one feed aggregator where anything that happens to a related group of items (posts to the group, calendar events, doc updates) gets posted through one RSS feed and/or sent via email. In other words, I want to be able to have email updates from Calendar and Docs "post" to Groups so that those show up in their inbox/reader to anyone subscribing to the group.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2008 at 8:32 AM
Login accounts with the same username have different passwords. I use my email address for my email and for other google products. The result is that I have two accounts with the same username (eg: email@example.com). And as it turns out, I have two passwords as well. One that works for Reader, Blogger, Analytics, etc and one that works for gmail, docs, calendar, etc. They need to unify the Google Apps accounts with google logins.ReplyDelete
In response to number 4, I'm pretty sure it's always been that way. Or at least since before Web History existed.ReplyDelete
19. Do these things:ReplyDelete
1) Search for a location on Google Maps.
2) Move the map - recenter it, find something else, drag it, whatever.
3) Use the 'Link to this page' link and copy the URL.
4) Paste the URL into a new tab and hit Enter.
Where did you end up? Exactly where you began - _not_ where you moved the map to.
The 'Link to this page' URL apparently never gets updated after you search for something.
11 annoyances... :DReplyDelete
When I click email notification from gtalk, I can read this mail, but can NOT delete this mail. I have to sign in Inbox and then delete it. Damn annoying, especially when i subscribe some forum post notifications.ReplyDelete
You can delete the message if use a shortcut: just type #.
The reliance on FAQs and Google Groups for customer support. Sometimes, you just need to talk to someone at Google, and you can't find any way to do so. The Google Groups thing, though, makes it feel like Google just doesn't care and would rather have the users figure it out amongst themselves.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2008 at 1:20 PM
When I search inurl:view/view.shtml I get search results for Axis Brand IP Cameras. But Google won't let me go past page 12 in the search results. I get an error message that says my action looks like a virus and until I fix it I won't be allowed to go any further. Why was it ok to see the first 12 pages but not the rest?ReplyDelete
I was getting around that using Googlonymous.com. But they seem to be gone now.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2008 at 1:54 PM
1)A major annoyance is this checker for automated bot that keeps coming on as it says your queries look similar, that's the most annoying, just when your in the mood for some serious surfing this message comes up, sometimes it gets so annoying you switch to other search engines.ReplyDelete
I don't know whether its because we are behind a proxy so all our searches appear from one ip. But it really starts getting on your nerves. Just when your thought flow is in one direction to get boogged down by that "Your Queries look similar"
2) Youtube when you want to add a video to a playlist suddenly you are logged off, even though you are logged in your id, Sometimes even though you just logged you in your id, it shows you are in someone else's channel, and their playlists, not yours.
3) Nowadays gmail when you forward the email the images dont appear, it used to keep the images as such in the forwarded emails, but nowadays the images don't appear they get truncated or left with just their alternate text.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but I block the Google update notifications using AdBlock Plus and AdBlock Plus Element Hider (something like that). Anyway, you can select elements to hide. Sometimes it doesn't work, but I haven't seen an update on GMail for a long time. It kept popping up on Calendar, but eventually went away again. Try it out!ReplyDelete
The inability to delete attachments in GMail without having to delete the whole message. Serious PITA, and one that's been complained about over and over for ages.ReplyDelete
My #1 annoyance is the lack of integration between Google Analytics and AdSense. Why can I see reports such as eCPM by referrer or income by content?ReplyDelete
My #2 the lack of integration between Blogger, Feedburner, and Analytics. Why don't Blogger and Feedburner cooperate to show which medium (in other words, RSS) my visitors come from? Instead, most of my visitors are referred from "unset." There is a way to do this with special URLs, and I explained it on the Feedburner forum. You can see sites such as Slashdot do something like this,
Some workarounds: disable/pause Web History, log out or use a Greasemonkey script.
How to disable the web history? I only found how to clear it. I never use it, and you are right: it is annoying.
How to disable Google Web History? A simple search would have revealed this link:ReplyDelete
1. When viewing my Blogger blog, sometimes after the page starts to load I get a full-page error message like "Google error. Please try again in 30 seconds." If it happens to me 3 times in one day, I wonder how often it happens to my visitors. However, I don't know: there is no log. Why is Google not more transparent? Also, this page should have a refresh button. Finally, 30 seconds is longer than many visitors' attention spans.ReplyDelete
2. I want to mask a keyword from AdSense. It picks up from my subdomain name, but it has nothing to do with my site and leads to poorly targeted ads. I want to tell AdSense always ignore keyword X.
3. I've given GMail labels a chance for years, but I rather have folders. Otherwise, provide better integration into Thunderbird via IMAP. When I hit delete, I want it to delete. When I move to a local, off-line folder, I want to delete to delete it from GMail. I've read articles on how to set up GMail IMAP, but there is always some catch.
4. Why is Google Analytics delayed X hours? Can't it be real time? If not, please show "updated X.Y hours ago."
5. Why can't Blogger do a server side include ? I want to include sophisticated, dynamic widgets without cliet-side programming (i.e., JavaScript). It's OK if Blogger itself is limited, so I can just include a X-minute cached copy of a widget from my other site. This point is emphasized by the introduction of Google AppEngine which allows robust, server-side programming.
When editing an old Blogger blog article to update something minor such as change a label or to fix a typo, Blogger republishes the post. Then, people are wondering why the old post is marked as new in their news aggregators. I would prefer this to be an option.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 27, 2008 at 7:55 AM
Three minor things that annoy me:ReplyDelete
- Google Calendar's "You have no events today." messages. I haven't found a way to turn these "empty warnings" off. GMail even started to treat these messages as SPAM :)
- Gmail signature's placement. Why place the signature at the end of the message, and not after your own text? When replying to messages the signature is placed after the sender's text.
- Being unable do set the format of dates in Gmail, unless through the general language setting.
Two major thing that worries me:
- The lack of openness of Google. The invisible wall that exists between this large corporation and the individual user.
- Google is becoming a monopoly.
- AnonymousApril 27, 2008 at 7:57 AM
Being a World company with a USA agenda.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 27, 2008 at 10:22 AM
- No comments in Blogger polls.ReplyDelete
- Difficulty of reaching a real person when you want to post a feedback. And when you finally find an email, it is always ignored.
Google is slow to react when processing a complaint of someone stealing my original content and profiting from it using Google AdSense. If the tables were turned, would Google act faster?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 27, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Gmail annoyance: I do not receive e-mails I send to Google groups.ReplyDelete
I would like at least simulate the arrival of the e-mail I send by tagging the e-mail with "Inbox".
As a consequence, e-mail threads via an IMAP do not start properly (the sent mail is not in Inbox, it is only in Sent Items).
- This comment box! (separate window, have to re-read 51 comments?)ReplyDelete
-blogger has no static pages (ala Wordpress)
-No way to combine inbox/cal/todo (ala Outlook)
- Can I go from igoogle to gmail and back again, without using bookmarks?
-Why can't youtube have the CC option that Google Video has?
-YouTube has no CC capability at all!
@ sam lyons - IRT your "you can change your Default Google Maps address. Just search for an address and it appears as an option. And secondly you stop Google from indexing your site with a simple robot.txt file", I hate to bust your bubble, but there is a reason I posted my 2 quirks: they are not fixed by your obvious sounding answers.ReplyDelete
1.) I already have a default address for where I used to live, and yes, every time I open the map page, it defaults to that location already (even though it still asks me if I want it to be my default location anyway for some reason), but the point is, if I pull up my new home address, it doesn't ask me this same question - therefore, no I cannot change my address
2.) the robot.txt remedy would work if I still owned the domain, but I don't anymore
I hate blogger comments too.ReplyDelete
Most of all, I hate that there isn't a birthday field for my Gmail contacts and no integration with Google Calendar to remind me when a friend's birthday is near.
Also, they're missing integration between YouTube and Google History. Integration is there with Google Video and Google History.
Can't upload OpenXML files to Google Docs, either.
- AnonymousApril 28, 2008 at 5:39 PM
There has got to be a better way to jump between Google Accounts.ReplyDelete
As a consultant, this is a bit of a pain.
For some Blogger blog accounts that require captcha input, you're required to input the code immediately. Otherwise an error would say that the code you entered is incorrect.ReplyDelete
It's impossible to get Blogger sites to produce valid HTML/XHTML.ReplyDelete
Andrew Z has the most important one, and I totally agree!ReplyDelete
On the new Blogger, it *IS* impossible to get the code to validate!!!
YouTube/Google account integration is cumbersome. Logging in with a Google account requires an extra step, and external tools (like ShoZu) don't understand it at all.ReplyDelete
Google Pages has too many bugs; fix it or replace it with Sites.
Google Sites can't be used from non-Apps accounts.
Google has about half a dozen different Wiki engines (Sites, Pages, Code, Groups, Blogger, ...); they need to be unified and integrated (able to share pages, etc.).
There should be a simple, consistent way of backing up data in Google services; under Settings, there should always be "download all my data in zipped XML format".
Google Calendar has "private RSS feeds" that don't reveal my password and can be disabled and changed, why doesn't Google Mail?
Multi-account management is a difficult. I have three Apps accounts and one regular account. The all redirect to the same TLD for login, confusing password managers. Give me a single login for all my Google accounts, apps or not.
GMail forces me to put valid E-mail addresses just to save a draft that I'm composing; why does a draft need a valid E-mail address? I don't want to put valid E-mail addresses in drafts to avoid sending them accidentally.
Perhaps the most important one: I can't find any obvious place to report bugs or annoyances for many Google services. You'd think that user feedback would be extremely valuable to Google. Every Google service should have a link somewhere that says "How can we improve this page?" that pops up a simple text box and a submit button, and that submits a report with full context.
Google Pages and Google CSE don't work with Firefox 3.0 beta.ReplyDelete
Picasa don't have a good way to include some comment like "Visit my site" or "Licensed under Creative Commons" or "don't steal my pictures" for all pictures at once.
Hey everyone, it's safe to assume that Adam and I and a few other people are parsing out these replies and trying to send them to the right people at Google.ReplyDelete
In some cases I think that the "annoyance" was a deliberate choice (e.g. to get access to your analytics or web history data requires you to enter your password again, just to be safer), but I definitely agree that there's many things here that could be better.
Thanks for taking the time to post the feedback, and we'll try to get it to the right people at Google.
Blogspot names do not expire: http://canhasname.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 29, 2008 at 1:52 PM
I'm using the annoying Comment Posting page now ;)ReplyDelete
Thanks Alex. You pulled me out of Google Analytics annoying login page by providing a workaround.
- AnonymousApril 30, 2008 at 8:15 AM
I've had my search history paused for a long time now, and I still see those redirect links from Google Web Search. I'd love to get rid of them.ReplyDelete
@Last Anonymous:ReplyDelete
That's really strange and I can confirm that pausing Web History doesn't remove the tracking redirects. I wonder if this is a bug or a design decision.
1. In Google Blogger, I often see error messages such as "Could not contact Blogger.com. Saving and publishing may fail. Retrying..." or "Autosave failed."ReplyDelete
2. Feedburner keeps it a secret on how many subscribers before can publish ads on the a feed.
3. I wish Google Blogger gave a preview of the permalink before it is created.
4. While editing, Google Blogger doesn't show post previews using the site CSS stylesheet
- AnonymousMay 4, 2008 at 4:56 PM
The worst: Google Groups do not accept two different email accounts, so if I want to manage two different emails, I have to log off my google account. Yahoo handles it in a much better way.ReplyDelete
Lack of integration between Blogger and Picasa. Why can't I pick which album to put to from Blogger? Blogger tells me I have much less disk capacity (100MB?) than Picasa (1GB?), but Blogger uploads to Picasa.ReplyDelete
@(Andrew's last comment):ReplyDelete
That's not true. Images uploaded from Blogger's interface are hosted in one or more Picasa Web albums. Obviously, you can use up to 1 GB if you add images only from Blogger.
Ionut Alex Chitu: You are right. I thought the last time I checked Blogger told me I had 100MB, but either I made it up or something changed. :) Now I have 1GB according to Blogger.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 9, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Googles translation program does not read my AJAX include files.... can anyone explain why?? I have 4 files getting called and they are menus. This is what it is suppose to look like... http://www.ranchcardoso.biz/Events/ReplyDelete
but when you click on any of the flags, you will see that it will translate everything but the AJAX files.
@Pink Diva:ReplyDelete
How is Google supposed to translate content displayed using JavaScript? Google receives as an input your webpage's URL, reads the HTML code and translates it.
- AnonymousMay 10, 2008 at 7:00 AM
"How is Google supposed to translate content displayed using JavaScript? Google receives as an input your webpage's URL, reads the HTML code and translates it."ReplyDelete
In principle, Google could first run all the Javascript on the page, and then translate the resulting DOM tree.
Expensive? Sure. Some potential for DDoS? Sure. But it may ultimately be unavoidable, not just for translation, but also indexing, as Javascript is being used more and more to generate content.
The Javascript interpreter used could be restricted, use an aggressively caching proxy when accessing the web, and/or be time limited.
- AnonymousMay 20, 2008 at 10:47 AM
Reader needs to have threaded notes, so my friends and I can have a discussion about what every story we're sharing. And as another poster mentioned that should be searchable from the same search as my E-Mail.ReplyDelete
Geotagged photos in Picasa Web don't show up in Google Maps but Panoramio photos do. However, Panoramio doesn't support Google account authentication.ReplyDelete
When you press save preferences in Google's "search preferences" a pop up appears that only has an OK button... It says "your preferences has been saved".ReplyDelete
Is this information so critical that I have to press the OK button acknowledge I received this information?
I highly doubt it.
I suggest putting this information as a header on the Google page or put it as some information in the status bar... not as a model mode pop up.
There is no way to adjust the width of the sidebar in Google Maps. You can open it or close it, but not resize it.ReplyDelete
Also, you can't control the sidebar content. I never want the Photos, Popular Searches, etc, or the Featured Content in My Maps, but there's no way to remove them.
- AnonymousNovember 2, 2008 at 5:45 AM
How can I disable Google Suggest, AND enable a "non-country-specific" (ncr) Google entry page at the same time?ReplyDelete
I have been using:
but this doesn't work any more.
I don't want to do this by 'saving Google preferences', because I block Google from saving cookies on my computer and because I haven't got, and don't want, a Google Account.
Would be grateful for any help with this!
David A
The URL is, obviously:
- AnonymousNovember 2, 2008 at 6:01 AM
Thanks. I'm sure that URL always used to redirect to the country-specific page. Curiously, when I use it now, it works!ReplyDelete
My biggest peeve is Google always using the client's IP address to set the UI language regardless of your personal settings in your Google Account, your browser language settings or other language hints available.ReplyDelete
The language setting is also quite dumb in translating every name of every language into the current UI language as it means there's a good chance you won't know what the name of your language is. Even the word for English can be heavily disguised.
Many's the time I've watched people trying to use a public internet terminal in a hotel or airport and being frustrated by not being even able to keep the UI set to English as a lingua-franca.
It's also very US-centric in that if you are using a Google service such as calendaring and you look up a map link, it ignores your location and timezone settings and goes chugging off to locate your event somewhere in the US.
- AnonymousMarch 9, 2009 at 4:15 PM
Since when does google care about UI consistency, or screen real-estate? They are the worst. They change around a long-time familiar UI for no F@$#% reason multiple times. Most of their (re)-'inventions' cannot be PERMANENTLY turned off. I've been writing mission-critical software for 20+ years and that's my opinion. Google image search is still only 20 thumbnail results per page max. This is 2009 what century are they living in at that place.ReplyDelete
Every now and again on Bookmarks you ask me to log in...no rhyme or reason...I go on for ages and then...suddenly...no Bookmarks...can you log in please...WHY?????ReplyDelete
How do I know my comments above were sent and how do I know you'll let me know what you're doing to resolve it???ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 21, 2011 at 10:16 AM
How come when I go to Google, I see an email address that's mine, but I don't remember using it for IGoogle and apparently I am "Signed-In"?ReplyDelete
How do I turn off auto-search when I search at google? The reason is, I have a slow, bottom-line laptop designed for travel, not for show and it slows me down to do a search at Google.
From time to time google search inserts "Ads not by google." Just as Im about to click the search item I wanted, the ads are inserted, delaying my navigation. This was cured for a long time but itz started again. Consequently, Ive switched to Bing. Can you believe it? Microsoft over google. What a deterioration. Why cant they just put it in the preview area--I never used that anyway. Better yet, give me the choice. One of hundreds of annoyances in most of google products that happened recently.ReplyDelete
1. Double scroll bar on the right.
2. Too much space used by labels; should be able to toggle labels space on/off.
3. Replies hide text enrichment options (text, color, etc).
4. Action options (send, etc) not visible except at top of reply and bottom.
5. Does not automatically change color of quoted text (or resize it).
1. Loads in Chrome, then disappears. (had to reinstall windows to correct)
2. Cannot edit and copy to another calendar in one operation.
3. Forums loaded with false correctives.
Fails to automatically name doc based on heading.

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Measuring wheel encoders
Tactile measurement of linear movements directly on the measurement surface
Measuring wheel systems use a wheel to record linear movements, which they then convert to speed or position values. These systems do not require a reference point on the surface to be measured, making them well-suited to measuring a wide range of surfaces. The integrated spring ensures that the wheel exerts a consistent pressure on the surface, thereby guaranteeing slip-free measurement.
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Precise measurement of linear movements with adjustable contact pressure
- Contact pressure can be adjusted manually from 0-24 N in 6 steps
- Compact axle spacing (120 mm) for flexible installation options
- Maintenance position can be reached manually
- Selection of various measuring wheel surfaces and diameters
- Incremental or absolute encoder interfaces can be combined
Compact measuring wheel system that is highly flexible and easy to mount
- Axis distance: 63.5 mm
- Measuring wheel circumference: 200 mm
- Resolution: 0.08 mm per pulse, 12.5 pulses per mm
- Max. spring travel: 14 mm, mechanically limited, max. spring force: 21 N
- Encoder rotation in 30° increments
- The encoder can be mounted on both spring arm sides, wheel support from top and bottom
- Adjustable spring pretension
Quickly configurable and versatile measuring wheel incremental encoder
- Single or dual wheel measuring wheel encoder
- DIP switches for programming resolution, signal output,
- And counting direction
- Universal 4.5 V ... 30 V supply
- LEDs that indicate encoder status and output signal.
- M12 male connector, 4- or 8-pin, or universal cable outlet
- Optional fault output directly from encoder
Rugged, high-performance measuring wheel incremental encoder
- Complete pre-assembled measurement system
- Measuring wheel with knurl or O-ring for adjusting to the measuring surface
- Mounting bracket made of stainless spring steel
- High resolution up to 0.1 mm (1 … 2,000 pulses/revolution)
- Electrical interfaces: Open Collector NPN, TTL/RS-422 or HTL/push pull.
- Connection via cable connection, can be used radially or axially with free cable ends or assembled with M12 male connector
High-resolution, programmable measuring wheel incremental encoder
- Universal use, rotatable spring arm
- Wheel circumference 300 mm with O-ring made from NBR70
- Mounting arm and measuring wheels made from aluminum
- Programmable output voltage, zero pulse position, zero impulse width and pulse count.
- Connection: M12 radial plug-in connection or radial or axial cable connection
- Electrical interfaces: 5V & 24V TTL/RS-422, 24 VHTL/push pull
- Remote zero set possible
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Sprint and its no-contract brand Boost Mobile receive the highest rankings in J.D. Power and Associa
Sprint and its no-contract brand Boost Mobile receive the highest rankings in J.D. Power and Associates Wireless Purchase Experience
Sprint ranks highest for fourth consecutive period among full-service carriers
Boost Mobile ranks highest among non-contract carriers
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sprint (NYS: S) and its no-contract brand Boost Mobile continue to solidify their positions as leaders in customer satisfaction by receiving the highest honors from J.D. Power and Associates, most recently in the 2013 U.S. Full-Service and Non-Contract Wireless Purchase Experience StudySM, Volume 1.
Sprint today received its fourth consecutive highest ranking among Full-Service Wireless Providers, while Boost Mobile received the highest ranking for Non-Contract Providers for the third time in the last four study releases, making it Boost's fifth J.D. Power and Associates award overall. The Wireless Purchase Experience Study evaluates the wireless purchase experience of customers using any one of three contact channels: phone calls with sales representatives; visits to a retail wireless store; and transactions on the Web.
Overall customer satisfaction with both full-service and non-contract branded carriers is based on six factors (in order of importance): store sales representative; website; phone sales representative; store facility; offerings and promotions; and cost of service.
Sprint ranked highest in Overall Purchase Experience Satisfaction with an index score of 778 - significantly higher than the full service average of 764.
Sprint ranked highest in five of six factors including Store Sales Representative, Website, Facility, Offerings and Promotions, and Cost of Service.
Sprint ranked significantly above the full service average in three of six factors - Facility, Offerings and Promotions, and Cost of Service.
Boost Mobile is the highest ranked non-contract carrier with an overall Purchase Experience Satisfaction index score of 773, significantly above the non-contract average of 755.
Boost Mobile is the highest ranked in three of the six factors, including the Website, Phone Sales Representatives, and Offerings and Promotions factors.
Wireless Purchase Experience Study Results demonstrate Sprint's sharpened focus on retail experience improvements -- from improved service and repair care to better merchandising and more accessory availability. Improvements to the Ready Now program, for example, represent one way that Sprint is concentrating on making the in-store wireless purchase process simpler for customers. With Ready Now, Sprint retail associates work one-on-one with customers to personalize their phones, set up all of its features, and demonstrate how it works before they leave the store.
Among other purchase experience improvements, Sprint has:
Improved integration of sales channels, giving customers a simpler path from selecting their phones online to picking them up in store.
Increased the number of in-store accessories and device add-ons to extend the possibilities of Sprint devices for customers.
Added more tools that better enable Sprint retail store employees to ensure new customers understand the features of their device and how they will be billed right at the point-of-sale.
Improved in-store, full-service triage and repair to reduce the need to send phones out for repair.
Added solutions kiosks in stores to help customers - especially businesses - find and develop customized solutions alongside expertly trained consultants from Sprint.
"We are honored to be recognized by our postpaid and no-contract customers in the J.D. Power and Associates study," said Jaime Jones, Sprint senior vice president-Consumer Sales. "This is the culmination of a lot of hard work by our retail employees, Web sales teams, telesales group and many others in Sprint's Sales and Distribution organization. Our commitment all along has been to deliver the best customer experience, the most complete portfolio of products and merchandise, and Ready Now-type customer service from the most talented, best-trained people in the business."
Boost Mobile continues to grow as an industry leader, combining the reliability of the Nationwide Sprint Network with a robust device portfolio, all on unlimited service plans that reward customers with no contracts and payments that shrink over time. Unique from the competition, for every six on-time payments, the cost of Boost Mobile's Monthly Unlimited plans shrink by $5, up to $15 per month in total. Payments do not need to be consecutive to qualify for the next saving milestone.
Among other purchase experience improvements, Boost Mobile has:
Launched 10 new devices including the Samsung Galaxy S® II 4G and the Kyocera Hydro, becoming the first no-contract waterproof smartphone
Enhanced customers' data experience with the launch of 4G (WiMAX) data and Wi-Fi hotspot capabilities, delivering a data experience that keeps pace with the continued growth in how customers are leveraging smartphones to increase productivity
Improved handset insurance by extending the sign up period to 30 days after the point of purchase and provided customers with an open enrollment period in 2012 for any Boost customer that may have missed the opportunity to protect their investment
Enhanced international service plans with reduced per minutes rates to more than 200 destinations
Provided a handset buyback program to offer service credits to new customers for turning in their older handset, regardless of device type or carrier.
This industry customer survey confirms the overall customer satisfaction with the Boost Mobile retail experience, device selection and service plans when compared to other no contract carriers. Boost Mobile has ranked highest in J.D. Power studies including Non-Contract Wireless Purchase Experience Study (2012 Volume 1), Customer Care Performance and Purchase Experience (2011 Volume 2) among non-contract customers, and Non-Contract Customer Satisfaction (2011).
About J.D. Power and Associates
With headquarters in Westlake Village, Calif., J.D. Power and Associates is a global marketing information services company providing performance improvement, social media and customer satisfaction insights and solutions. The company's quality and satisfaction measurements are based on responses from millions of consumers annually. For more information on car reviews and ratings, car insurance, health insurance, cell phone ratings, and more, please visit JDPower.com. J.D. Power and Associates is a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies.
About Sprint Nextel
Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel served more than 55 million customers at the end of 2012 and is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United States; offering industry-leading mobile data services, leading prepaid brands including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. The American Customer Satisfaction Index rated Sprint No. 1 among all national carriers in customer satisfaction and most improved, across all 47 industries, during the last four years. Newsweek ranked Sprint No. 3 in both its 2011 and 2012 Green Rankings, listing it as one of the nation's greenest companies, the highest of any telecommunications company. You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.
About Boost Mobile
Boost Mobile, recently recognized by J.D. Power and Associates as "Highest Satisfaction with the Purchase Experience among Non-Contract Wireless Providers," offers wireless phones and services with no long-term contracts and. Boost Mobile redefines value for wireless consumers with its Monthly Unlimited with Shrinking Payments no-contract service, where the longer you stay the less you pay with on-time payments for unlimited voice, text messaging, Web, email and calls to 411. Boost Mobile offers nationwide service on the Nationwide Sprint Network, reaching more than 282 million people, with no activation or long-distance fees. Boost Mobile offers a selection of quality handsets from HTC, LG, Motorola, BlackBerry, Samsung, Kyocera and ZTE, ranging from entry-level to Android™ smartphone devices available nationwide at nearly 20,000 major retail stores, including Best Buy, RadioShack, Target, Family Dollar, Walgreens and Walmart, Sprint retail stores, independent wireless dealer locations, and on HSN, a leading TV home shopping network. Re-Boost® Cards are available at approximately 100,000 locations throughout the United States. Experience Boost Mobile on the Web at Facebook and Twitter; and purchase products at www.boostmobile.com.
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This reviewer falls into the latter category, despite having seen Riverdance an unhealthy number of times. For a game that's mainly about stepping on arrows at the right time, DDR can be surprisingly difficult.
Now, with the release of Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA, the grandmaster of all rhythm titles asks yet again, "So you think you can dance?"
By now, fans of the long-running series already know the answer to that question. So what's to keep hardcore fans and herky-jerky dweebs like me coming back to DDR's dance floor? Though DDR: SN is an undeniably solid entry, the answer is "Not a whole lot."
DDR: SN offers several new extras -- like the hyperbolic "Stellar Master Mode" -- but it's all frosting on the same cake. And for you calorie-burners, "Workout Mode" is back again, along with more head-to-head action and online play. (Though thanks to PS2's sparse population of broadband subscribers, you may find yourself humming "Dancing With Myself.")
In this game's notion of additional challenge, the EyeToy has you waving your hands at the screen in rhythm with the dance steps. This novelty is like patting your head and rubbing your belly at the same time. Unless you thrill to the sight of watching yourself flail around on TV, skip it.
For the 0.00001 percent of players who are so good at this game that they're actually bored by the simplicity of previous editions, the new "edit mode" will let you choreograph your own dance steps to any DDR song, save it to a memory card, and test it out in public at your local arcade. Wait till the boys at Chuck E. Cheese get a load of my "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" remix!
This leaves SuperNOVA's 70 new songs as its key selling point. So are they worth lifting a sock-foot for? Rock fare like Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" and Fall Out Boy's "Dance Dance" (natch) are the chart-topping draws, but they're an awkward fit with the beat-thumping raver fare typical of the series. Pairing Franz Ferdinand and neon glow sticks makes for one awkward elevator ride.
There's also an all-new selection of generic J-Pop and techno spaz-outs at 155 BPM's. Some established artists -- such as the Chemical Brothers, the Buggles, and David Bowie -- even come with onscreen music videos. I found them to be a pleasant departure from staring at animated robots.
The new dance steps never manage to look graceful. Instead, it's like someone dumped ants all over the floor and you're trying to kill them as fast as possible. Seriously, my hips don't lie.
Played with friends, DDR can be a riot if you both suck or you're both good, but there's not a lot in between. My brother, for instance, who's just as white as I am, rules at this game. Believe me, it's especially shameful to be beaten at something that looks this ridiculous.
In the end, though novices like me will dance without dignity, dedicated DDR fans will snatch up this new disc. And they will continue to stomp around on the DDR floor-pad, which feels very much like marching on a giant diaper. They just shouldn't save the last "Dance, Dance" for me.


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Wines & Vineyards
Dana Estates produces three single vineyards wines, from sites that are dramatically different from one another. Each vineyard is farmed organically at low yields to allow the unique qualities of each site to be expressed in the bottle. Multiple passes through the vineyards are made during harvest, and only the purest expressions of fruit and most balanced lots make it into Dana wines. Depending on the character of each lot, blocks are fermented in either concrete tanks, oak uprights or small barrels to enhance vineyard characteristics and help produce wines of distinction and sophistication.


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Open Age Women's Football
Step 1: Select the pin of the club you are interested in joining
Step 2: The details of the club will pop up, click on the "Contact Us" link for further details including full contact information
Purple Pin: VFL Women's Clubs (State League) - Managed by AFL Victoria
Orange Pin: Senior Women's Clubs (Community Leagues) - Managed by Country and Metro Leagues
Yellow Pin: 2017 New Senior Women's Clubs (Community Leagues) - Check back regularly over Feb - May. We will update this as new clubs enter their local competitions.
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Welcome to Elite Travel!
Elite Travel has been serving North Alabama for over 20 years. Here at Elite, we don't just sell travel: we live it! Every employee is required to travel so we are always up to date on destinations. That's why we're your Destination Specialist!
No photos on this site are stock photos. They are all from our employees' travels!
1. Elite Travel Company is an agency comprised of professional travel consultants. We have a vast knowledge of destinations as well as the technical skills and know-how to make your vacation the best it can be.
2. Elite Travel Company exists to offer service to our clients. We don't abandon you once the booking is made: we make sure that when you leave for your vacation you're the savviest traveler out there!
3. A big part of service is accountability. If you run into a problem with an internet travel agency, who do you turn to? The fact that we're a local company means we are very sensitive to our customers' happiness and safety.
4. Another reason to use a local agency is that we are competitive. Why not sit and speak with our professionals when the price is right?
5. One of the favorite benefits our customers enjoy is the fact that they can plan ahead and make a deposit on a trip and pay over weeks or months in order to make their dream vacation affordable.


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'The Full Monty" star Robert Carlyle gives a quietly engaging performance as a Golden State farmworker with a secret in the likable indie "California Solo."
Carlyle plays a slightly beaten-down Scotsman with an ex-wife, a teen daughter he hasn't seen in years and a past he'd rather forget: He was once the second- most-important member of an Oasis-like Brit-pop band. A flirtatious customer (Alexia Rasmussen) at the farm stand where he works tries to nudge him back toward his former life, but he isn't interested in doing anything like that anymore. Anything like what? "Anything interesting," he says.
Around the time Marshall Lewy's finely etched film reveals what happened to the leader of the band, it begins to sputter a little, and the story trickles to a disappointing close. But Carlyle, who first gained attention here for his unforgettable work in "Trainspotting," remains an essential character actor.


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Michelle Lab Muffin, Alanna Pretty Purple Polish, Holly Hooked, Tif Polished Genious, Lyndsey Nails by Ms. Lizard, Sofie Swååfie, Catrine Unnakednails, Melanie Nail & Polish, Jessica Beauty Gnome
Nail art and polish blog - freehand nail art and swatches! Neglelak blog, frihånds neglekunst og neglelak swatches!
onsdag den 30. maj 2012
Hiding in Skittles - Artsy Wednesday
Michelle Lab Muffin, Alanna Pretty Purple Polish, Holly Hooked, Tif Polished Genious, Lyndsey Nails by Ms. Lizard, Sofie Swååfie, Catrine Unnakednails, Melanie Nail & Polish, Jessica Beauty Gnome
64 kommentarer:
This looks yummy haha...I like how you did a literal presentation, very clever!SvarSletSvar
Thank you hollysagemini, it was very fun to wear :)Slet
Det minder mig om stained glass, meget fint :DSvarSletSvar
Tusind tak, Sosa07ac, det var også en af mine tanker, da jeg havde det på neglene :)Slet
Very Skittle-y! I agree, you need more polishes :PSvarSletSvar
Great, I'll buy some more and tell my husband that you told me to LOL - nah, honestly he is OK with my addiction! Thank you so much, LabMuffin!Slet
yay! you done lots of polka dots too! :) love this design! v pretty xxSvarSletSvar
Thank you Catrine, I'm so happy you like it!Slet
- Louise30. maj 2012 kl. 14.50
Det ser rigtig festligt og sommerligt ud. Tror jeg skal kaste mig ud i dette look en dag.SvarSlet
Hvordan dækker OPI Alpine Snow? Jeg mangler nemlig en rigtig god, hvid neglelak, uden noget shimmer eller andet. Kunne Alpine Snow efter din meing være et bud på dette?Svar
Tusind tak Louise :) Alpine Snow er en utroligt dejlig HVID hvid, der er dækker superfint - her brugte jeg kun et lag, men hvis den bliver mere synlig bruger jeg som regel to - det er helt klart "min" HVIDE hvide farve!Slet
- louise30. maj 2012 kl. 20.11
Mange tak for svar. Så er jeg jo nødt til at købe Alpine snow. Har luret på den længe :)Slet
Haha, I love the twist on the Skittles theme! Very cute :)SvarSletSvar
Thank you Cathy, I'm so glad you like it :)Slet
Old? No, just not exposed to so much U.S. candy as I am. :) Very cheerful mani!SvarSletSvar
LOL, thank you Karen, now I feel so much better (read younger LOL)Slet
Amazing,fun,and yummy looking mani:)Well done my friend:)SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much, Mimi, it really was fun to wear :)Slet
Oh my gosh I loveeee this!!!!SvarSletSvar
Thank you aimeeus :) - I'm happy to hear it!Slet
What a fun mani! Love it!SvarSletSvar
LOL, thank you Cee :)Slet
I love this! So pretty!SvarSletSvar
I'm so happy to hear it, thank you so much Ashley @ Passion for Polish!Slet
i love this! great jobSvarSletSvar
Thank you so much, esmeheredia!Slet
you think you're old!? don't make me come there for some spanking ;-)SvarSlet
your skittles looks so yummy, make me want something sweet -.-Svar
Nah, I don't think so, but my birth certificate is of another opinion :) - thank you nail crazy :)Slet
Tusind tak Christina - det er jeg glad for at høre :)SvarSlet
- Anonym30. maj 2012 kl. 22.23
This mani can raise a mood! :)SvarSletSvar
Aww, I'm happy to hear it zebra-nails, thank you!Slet
Love this! So fun and colorful!SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much, Polish and Charms :)Slet
This looks so fun! :)SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much, PrettyPurplePolish :)Slet
this is so cool Maria! Love it!!!SvarSletSvar
Aww, I'm happy to hear it, mgiandzi, thank you!Slet
Awesome! love it. I can taste the rainbow! lol!SvarSletSvar
LOL, thank you Paulina, I don't even know what they taste like LOLSlet
Looks awesome!SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much, FrugallyMe :)Slet
I love this is so bright and cheery, its almost as if it's smiling at me lol x :-)SvarSletSvar
Aww so sweet, thank you CharlieDBeauty :)Slet
I like all the different dots. So colorful!SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much, Ms. Lizard, I'm happy to hear it!Slet
I love your little skittles :)SvarSletSvar
Thank you, I'm happy to hear it POLiSHED*GENiUS :)Slet
I adore this! It's such a happy manicure, and it looks like a lot of fun to wear! I think I might have to try something like this.SvarSletSvar
Aww, thank you The Lacquer Tracker, you should it's really easy and fun :)Slet
This one is straight up awesome-sauce!SvarSletSvar
LOL, thank you GoingtotheShowing, what a great expression, I'm happy you like it!!Slet
Very pretty design I like it a lot :)SvarSletSvar
Thank you so much, Beautyshades, I'm happy to hear it!Slet
- Anonym31. maj 2012 kl. 16.12
So nice! i feel summer days!SvarSlet
I love your mani;)Svar
LOL, I wish it's cold and windy here today - but thank you so very much marynail01 :)Slet
This manicure is so cheerful and surely looks yummy! :-)SvarSlet
The thing that you wrote to Nail Crazy made me smile...You know, something like 10 years ago when I lived with my parents, once my father made some sound like he feels the pain, so I asked "Where do you feel the pain, what is the problem?" and he answered "My birth certificate is the problem!"
Well, our birth certificates tell the truth about our age, but I think there are many many ways and many many things to do to continue feeling young in our heads, in this way we are happier and we appear happier and younger also to the others! :-)
Playing with nail polishes and nail art is one of these ways that makes us feel better, happier and younger! :-)
And, yes, I think you need some more nail polishes! Well, what answer did you expect from the "nail-polish-holic" like me? I can only tell you that you need more and more... I think I also dreamed about nail polishes the other night... Does it mean my illness is getting worse? :-)))Svar
LOL, thank you for telling me this lovely story, Raggio di Luna, your father is wise LOLSlet
Nail polish has for sure helped me through the last surgeries in neck and shoulders - have brought so much joy and happiness - especially after I started the blog and got so many virtual friends - I appreciate so much, that it's hard to describe!
Yes I'm afraid your illness is getting worse, much worse - you need to send all your polishes to me, never open any blog or google nail art or polish ever again ;)
Nahh, just kidding, I would miss you too much LOL
This is really awesome! Love the colors and the dots are perfect!SvarSletSvar
Aww, thank you so much Fingers, I'm happy you like it!Slet
these is absolutely amazing Maria! I love the colors, i just love it!! :) i cant wait to try this...beautiful!SvarSlet
It was very fun to do and wear, so do try it LOL - thank you so much Lydz :)SvarSlet
I love this one! The dots are so fun! :DSvarSlet
~ YunSvar
Thank you so much Yun, I agree, they aways are fun - both to do and to wear LOLSlet
Dots everywhere. :D Nice job! (:SvarSletSvar
Everywhere indeed - thank you so much IsaBella :)Slet
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More than half of data stolen from companies in 2011 was a result of hacktivist actions, even though the majority of data breaches were still caused by financially motivated cybercriminals, Verizon said in its 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report released on Thursday.
The report spans 855 data breach incidents investigated by the company and several law enforcement agencies -- the U.S. Secret Service, the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit, the Australian Federal Police, the Irish Reporting & Information Security Service and the Police Central e-Crime Unit of the London Metropolitan Police. These incidents resulted in a total of 174 million compromised records, the second-highest volume of compromised records since Verizon began compiling data breach statistics in 2004.
Up to 98 percent of data breach incidents covered by the new report were caused by external agents and the vast majority of them, 83 percent, were organized criminal groups.
Hacktivists were responsible for only 3 percent of data breaches. However, they had the biggest impact in terms of compromised records, over 100 million of the total of 174 million.
One explanation is that financially motivated cybercriminals tend to target small and medium-size organizations and are looking for particular types of data, while hacktivists primarily target large organizations and grab anything they can get their hands on, from customer records to internal emails, said Bryan Sartin, vice president of the Verizon Research Investigations Solutions Knowledge (RISK) team.
A decrease in the sophistication of attacks launched by financially motivated cybercriminals has also been observed, most of them becoming repetitive in nature, Sartin said.
Meanwhile, hacktivists are more unpredictable. They employ more-sophisticated techniques like DNS tunneling and use diversionary tactics, such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. "There's a different landscape for hacktivism, that's for sure," Sartin said.
The data breach expert is "cautiously pessimistic" about hacktivist attacks decreasing in number or impact in 2012, despite the multiple hacktivism-related arrests made by law enforcement agencies worldwide in recent months.
The origin of external attacks is different depending on the size of the targeted organizations. In 67 percent of cases for the entire set of data breaches, the origin was Eastern Europe.
However, when looking only at large organizations with over 1,000 employees, the percentage was much lower -- 27 percent. In 47 percent of cases, external attacks against such organizations originated from North America.
Out of the 885 incidents included in the report, 81 percent included some form of hacking and 69 percent included malware activity; 61 percent included a combination of both.
In the vast majority of cases that involved malware the remote attackers installed it after they obtained unauthorized access to the organization's network or systems. The most prevalent type of malware used in these attacks falls into the spyware category and includes keyloggers and Web form grabbers.
However, even though the use of spyware was predominant, this type of malware resulted in a lower number of compromised records than backdoors, which were seen only in 20 percent of incidents. Over 90 percent of known record loss is associated with attacks that use backdoors, the report said.
As far as hacking methods go, the exploitation of default, guessable, or stolen login credentials is by far the most common one. SQL injection, which is generally considered a popular hacking technique, was only seen in 3 percent of data breach incidents.
Login credentials for remote access services like Microsoft's RDP or VNC were exploited in 88 percent of data breach incidents that involved hacking. This suggests that such services are widely used in corporate environments and are often easy to access by attackers, which makes the recent disclosure of details about a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft's RDP service even more worrying.
In terms of compromised assets, 64 percent of data breach incidents involved compromised servers and 60 percent involved compromised user devices. However, the majority of stolen records were stored on compromised servers, particularly Web/application and database ones.
In light of the growing trend to move corporate infrastructure into the cloud, it's worth mentioning that cloud-related data breaches are still almost non-existent. "We're seeing very little evidence of data breaches in the cloud," Sartin said. "There's a compelling lack of statistics for that."
Verizon's recommendation for small and medium-sized organizations is to deploy firewalls on Internet-facing services and to change the default credentials of point-of-sale (POS) and other systems to prevent unauthorized access. Organizations that outsource their technical support to other vendors, should ensure that those vendors follow these recommendations too.
Large enterprises should eliminate unnecessary data, monitor and mine event logs for suspicious activity and establish essential security controls, Verizon said.


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Although it may seem fairly straightforward and simple, I'm finding that heat is a relative term. At home, lounging in my comfortable air-conditioned bedroom, I thought it was terribly hot out- Sweltering, even! God forbid I actually venture outside and subject myself to the full force of that brutal, heartless sun! Now, enclosed in a dorm where my only "air conditioning" comes from a tiny, desk top fan that only moves hot air around, those "hot" summer days before were truly more like a temperate summer dream. With few options to aid the situation, I've been tempted more than once to squeeze myself into the mini-fridge at night to sleep. Opening a window at night lets in more sounds of drunken partying than cool air, and when morning comes it seems as though I must have gone sleep-swimming, judging by the pools of sweat surrounding me.
Truly, it's inconceivable that anyone would actually be able to suffer through this sort of heat on a regular basis, and even more impossible that it might be an ideal habitat for some. Even ice cubes frozen solid don't last long in temperatures such as this, but unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of sitting in front of the freezer all day; Eventually, it becomes evident that I might actually have to attend classes.
Marching outside to find the correct building, the bag slung over my shoulder becoming heavier by the minute, I can feel every follicle screaming under the sun. Eyes glazing over, it's hard to know where I'm going, even if I had known the campus well in the first place. It must have been some strange mirage or the result of sun-stroke, but glancing over from the paved path, I could have sworn that a sandy desert stretched out before me, and it truly seemed appropriate to find in this sort of heat. Now, while the sudden change of landscape didn't alarm me in the least, sitting serenely on a rock was the strangest creature I had ever seen.
Not only was it strange to find any sort of wildlife on campus, brave enough to walk alongside rowdy students, that dodos were completely extinct in the first place! If only I had any wits about me I might have been able to make more sense of this, but simply writing this odd sight off as a mirage or figment of my imagination, I gathered up what strength remained in my over-heated and tired mind and pushed on towards class, mopping the sweat of my brow and squinting just to see through the sun's glare.
At this point, I could have seen a dirty puddle and imagined it to be a clear, cool oasis of drinking water and tried to slurp it up, so perhaps this dodo had been no more than common pigeon in real life.
A real dodo in Massachusetts, back from extinction? I guess we'll never know…