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Published: 2008/11/24
by Randy Ray
Stormcock – Roy Harper
Stormcock – Roy Harper
Flat Baroque and Berserk – Roy Harper
Whatever Happened to Jugula? – Roy Harper
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Three CD reissues from two distinctly different eras crafted by one truly eccentric minstrel. Roy Harper is an English singer/songwriter who began his career in the mid-1960s, playing clubs and free shows in Britain's Hyde Park. He would go on to modest success in the 1970s and '80s, before a full career renaissance would slowly begin in the 1990s. Today, he is a semi-retired artist who works at home on his writing and documentation of his career in books and DVDs. His early work was produced by Peter Jenner, who also managed and/or produced the early Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, and later, The Clash.
Flat Baroque and Berserk was Harper's fourth album, originally released in 1970, and it features 12 songs of humorous and melancholy societal tales of the downtrodden, the love-smitten, and wistfully English. The work is filled with adrenalized folk blues ("Don't You Grieve"), an epic dirge-like poem/rant/classic enraged hippie' masterpiece ("I Hate the White Man"), a heady social diatribe with bite ("How Does It Feel"), nods to a fellow musician ("Davey"), a stab at prog rock with Keith Emerson and The Nice on a seven-minute nut rocker ("Hell's Angels"), and timeless spatial teacup nods to an era that is both now, and very much long gone ("Goodbye," "East of the Sun," and "Tom Tiddler's Ground"). Harper is equally inventive on acoustic guitar, playing the wooden axe as a resourceful craftsman, inspired instrumentalist, and a gifted creature filled with the heady spice of a muse resting on rhythmic and percussive bedrock.
Stormcock followed as his fifth release in 1971, and very much like the career of Pink Floyd, Harper took all of his disparate and experimental strands and unified them into one powerful statement of artistic purpose. Unlike the Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Harper continued to mine material with a nod to the wandering minstrel who had neither need nor want for the current electronic and trippy studio sounds available to a musician. Instead, Harper wrote four long lyric-laden and texturally-adventurous songs that consolidated his strengths into one fine pointsocially-relevant, controversial, and wickedly weird lyrical poems wedded to an angelic-sounding acoustic.
On Stormcock, Harper found his immortal niche, and the four tunes are so potent, definitive, and comprehensive that one is either hesitant or hard-pressed to single out individual highlights (very much like the aforementioned DSOTM by his future Floydian collaborators). "Hors d'Oeuvres" features a revolving kaleidoscope of imagery attached to a beautiful acoustic and organ motif while Harper recites his litany of magical wit. "The Same Old Rock" follows and continues the slow, gradual journey through the sonic heavens. Clocking in at 12+ minutes, Harper created a multi-sectioned piece that is both enchanting and unpredictable, and features S. Flavius Mercurius on a transcendent lead guitar. Oh. Mercurius. Yes. Who dat? Any relation to Freddy? No. Mercurius is none other than Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, and Page would continue to support Harper in numerous fashions through his career in various equally eccentric ways. On "The Same Old Rock," Page compliments Harper's 12-string acoustic in an inspired cameo.
"One Man Rock and Roll" follows, and features Harper on more passages of exquisitely distinctive guitar playingtaut, loose, refined, clever and smart. The closing "Me and My Woman" clocks in at 13 minutes, and features a rather fine and brilliant string arrangement by David Bedford, finishing Harper's masterpiece on a note of dense grandeur which neither resolves nor summarizes the imagery contained within. Harper wandered far into the artistic fields and returned a changed man.
The rest of the '70s were hit and miss for the solo Harper as he also appeared as the subject of a tribute at the end of Led Zeppelin III ("Hats Off (to Roy Harper)"), and as a lead vocalist on Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here ("Have A Cigar"). The early '80s was a catastrophic wastelandartistically and commerciallyfor Roy Harper, but he finally got back on his feet with the help of the unlikeliest of alliesa recently recovered heroin addict that needed to work again and desperately needed a friend to help him. In walked Jimmy Page, who cleaned up in late 1983 to play the A.R.M.S. benefit gigs for Ronnie Lane with Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Paul Rodgers, and a legion of British musicians.
By 1984, Page was ready to rock in any way possible, and with Harper, the duo created Whatever Happened to Jugula?. The album served as a much-needed ass-kicker for Page who would form the Firm with Paul Rodgers later in the year, and Harper who would finally release another successful album, and gain renewed interest in his back catalogue. The overall album features some beautiful playing, melodic gems, and ruthlessly brutal and poignant Harper lyrics on an Orwellian apocalyptic tone poem ("Nineteen Forty-Eightyish'), an '80s liquid-trance ditty ("Hope"), an old school dirge-and-rant ("Hangman"), and a dreamy waltz detoured by Page's tortured ride through his bluest of blues jamssad, wrecked, depressed, and filled with poignant remorse ("Elizabeth").
Whatever Happened to Jugula? is not essential Harper, or Page for that matter, but it captures two important artists at a key transition point where neither chose to give in to either defeat or lazy 1980s pop posturing like so many of their other colleagues. In the end, Harper stands as an artistic cat that got away, running down the back streets that are dark, deserted, and dangerous. He knew where he was going, but his audience didn't always get the map ahead of time to follow his intriguing footsteps. These re-issues serve notice that Harper is still out there, still on the prowl, and waiting for rediscovery.


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DENVER (AP) — He makes just $10,000 a year as a clinical professional counselor, so Morgan Kinney decided to spend what little extra money he had this year paying down student debt rather than buying health insurance.
The 31-year-old Denver man figured he would have no choice but to buy insurance next year to comply with the new federal health insurance mandate, so last month he entered his personal information into the online calculator of the Colorado insurance exchange.
Yet instead of a cost estimate, he received a rejection notice saying he was not eligible to shop on the exchange.
"I was telling my girlfriend, 'This thing is broken, it won't let me in,' and she looked and said, 'I think it's because you're supposed to be on Medicaid.' I said, 'No, that's for poor people.' Well, sure enough, that was me."
Colorado is one of at least 24 states expanding Medicaid access for adults under the Affordable Care Act. In Colorado, that means single adults who earned less than $15,400 last year will have access to Medicaid. Childless adults in the state currently qualify for Medicaid only if they make less than $95 a month. Colorado estimates about 160,000 people will be added to state Medicaid rolls under the new guidelines.
Medicaid expansion is a major plank of the administration's plan to get every American covered by health insurance. But the U.S. Supreme Court last year limited the federal government's ability to penalize states that decide against the expansion, leading to a patchwork of Medicaid eligibility standards. The Congressional Budget Office has projected 11 million Americans will get coverage through the Medicaid expansion by 2022.
Kinney said he feels incredibly fortunate to live in a state where he will receive basic coverage through the government program. He has seen firsthand just how expense medical expenses can be.
He broke his leg last April in a car accident heading home from a cross-country skiing trip. But the other driver was at fault, sparing Kinney from having to pay the hefty medical bills for his treatment.
Kinney said he is thankful every time he sees the tab for his care: $500 for the ambulance ride; $150 just to consult with a doctor by telephone; $100 for a pill.
"Even though I know I'm going to get my bills paid, it's incredibly scary watching the number of zeros on the letters that roll in saying these are the bills we owe," said Kinney, who is working part-time while his girlfriend finishes medical school.
He is just beginning his career with a startup counseling company and expects to increase his earnings significantly in the years ahead.
For now, though, Kinney said he is happy to be caught in the Medicaid safety net because Colorado opted for the expansion. The cost will be covered entirely by the federal government for the first few years, with that share eventually falling to 90 percent.
He wants a checkup and maybe a trip to the dentist.
"Until now, I've used delusion and denial to pretend something wouldn't actually happen to my health," Kinney said. "So now it's nice to think about actually having coverage. It didn't click when I saw all the 'Obamacare' stuff on the news; it was just people yelling at each other. ... It was just politics. Now it feels real."
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by Michele S. Byers, Executive Director, New Jersey Conservation Foundation
After more than three centuries of repeated cutting for timber, firewood, charcoal and conversion to rocky pastures, the forests in New Jersey's Highlands might get more interesting after the triple-whammy of Hurricane Irene, the 2011 Halloween snowstorm and Superstorm Sandy.
Healthy, large trees have fallen at unprecedented rates in the last two years, each time from a different cause.
Irene turned wetland and floodplain soils to pudding, toppling trees with rampaging floodwaters. The Halloween snowstorm caused huge branches and trunks to split and crack high above ground, creating broken-off "snags." Sandy pulverized exposed eastern slopes and hilltops with fierce gusts, uprooting trees.
You may think that messy-looking forests need to be cleaned up. But, according to New Jersey Conservation Foundation ecologist Dr. Emile DeVito, this type of devastation has happened a thousand times before in the eastern deciduous forest and can actually be beneficial.
For millennia, Dr. DeVito tells us, natural calamities trigger an ecological process known as "gap-phase succession," causing an explosion of biodiversity as plants seedlings and saplings compete for light and space.
Today's forests, which re-grew after being flattened by colonial saws, plows, and oxen, have a chance to regain their natural, undulating micro-topography.
Huge logs and root masses in tangled heaps can support a multitude of animals, plants and fungi. Yellow birch seedlings, wood-boring beetles, pileated woodpeckers, slimy salamanders and many more species will thrive in the newly-disturbed forests.
Light streaming through new gaps in the forest canopy will allow young saplings to rocket skyward and forest shrubs to flower and set seed. Amphibians and invertebrates will breed in temporary ponds created under massive, tipped-up root systems.
Understory bird species will increase if the new forest gaps fill with native leafy plants, insects, flowers, pollinators, and berries. Wood thrushes will lead their fledglings to these sunny gaps, where caterpillars and beetles are abundant. Whip-poor-wills will hunt moths in the moonlight, as the unsuspecting moths fly along chemical trails toward their mates. A Ruffed Grouse may drum on a log, proclaiming a nesting territory within thickets of succulent new growth.
But this picture of a thriving, renewed forest isn't guaranteed.
The triple threats of over-abundant deer that eat native shrubs and seedlings, "seed banks" of alien invasive plants, and pH-raising invasive earthworms that have depleted the carbon-rich forest humus could foil the natural process that has renewed our native biodiversity since the Ice Age.
If too many deer accumulate in the new gaps and eat emerging native plants, invasive species like stiltgrass, wineberry, bittersweet, barberry and knotweed will win the race for sunlight, water, and nutrients. Invasive plants don't support a food chain; native insects ignore them as if they were made of nylon. If the gaps in the forest canopy fill with invasives, native biodiversity and the forest itself will likely dissolve into a pile of weeds.
But there are things we can do to tip the balance to favor our native species. One would be to judiciously apply controlled fires – difficult when natural areas are in proximity to suburbia.
Leaving the tangles of fallen logs, tip-up mounds and branches in place will protect some native saplings from being munched by deer. Hopefully, large crops of native plant seeds were dispersed by wind or animals into incipient gaps, to spark a new generation of native forest understory.
Another critically-important action would be for Governor Christie to re-convene the Invasive Species Council and direct them to implement our state's Invasive Species Plan.
The most critical action would be to seriously reduce deer density in our Highlands forests. Several challenges currently are preventing this from happening. The state has set hunting rules to keep deer density constant in heavily forested zones. In addition, for over 100 years laws have barred deer from having a commodity value, for fear of a black market. Reversing outdated regulations could make the hunting and butchering of deer affordable, and encourage more hunters.
The recent storms have created an opportunity for forest regeneration and an explosion of native biodiversity; the time is now to take actions to foster forest resiliency.
For more information about preserving New Jersey's land and natural resources, visit the New Jersey Conservation Foundation website at www.njconservation.org or contact me at email@example.com.
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Geoff Hazard
Professor Geoff Hazard added a dose of realism to the heated debate of whether fabulist former journalist Stephen Glass should be admitted as an attorney to the California bar.
"You're asking a kind of a hyper-Christian redemption out of him, and I just don't think that's proper for a court to set a standard that high," Hazard told NPR. "The question is, was his integrity bad before? Of course. Can integrity be restored? I think it can. And if it can, I think this is a case where it was," Hazard said. Read more here.
David Levine
David Levine weighed in on homework and high-speed rail. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny denied the rail authority's request to sell $8 billion of the $10 billion in bonds voters approved back in 2008 to pay for the project. In his ruling, Kenny said the rail authority didn't provide enough evidence to explain why the it needed to issue bonds.
"Imagine this was a high school kid's homework and the teacher says you didn't show your work, I can't give you credit. Essentially that's what this is," Levine told KTVU News. Read more here.
Robin Feldman
Professor Robin Feldman is among a group of 60 of the most prominent intellectual property law professors to sign a letter in support of patent reform. Read more from PatentlyO.
Feldman's research was also hailed recently by the National Venture Capital Association. "For a significant number of NVCA members, abusive patent assertions and litigation have become a serious concern, as indicated in a recent study by UC Hastings law professor Robin Feldman, with participation from NVCA members and portfolio companies." Read the full post here.
Lainey Feingold '81
Catching flies with honey is not the default strategy most attorneys use to resolve disputes. But Lainey Feingold '81and Linda Dardarian, both longtime California advocacy lawyers, have worked out a method that avoids conflict, costly litigation and protracted time in court—while still yielding beneficial results for their clients. Read more from the ABA Journal here.
Randy Shaw '82
Randy Shaw '82, on whether the Tenderloin is turning a corner, and how UC Hastings is a part of the positive transformation. In Beyond Chron.
Anjali I. Jaiswal '99
Anjali I. Jaiswal '99 of the NRDC penned on opinion piece on climate change for Common Dreams. Read more here.
Azadeh Zohrabi '12
Azadeh Zohrabi '12 spoke in San Francisco Nov. 8 alongside Robert H. King of the Angola 3, who was released in 2001 after 29 years in solitary confinement. Zohrabi has worked for nearly 10 years advocating for those inside California's prison. She was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship to work with Legal Services for Prisoners with Children on minimizing the use of long term solitary confinement in California. See a video of the Q&A with Zohrabi on Daily Kos here.
Kevin Dowling
Kevin Dowling, Director of Development from the UC Hastings Alumni Center, won a field goal kicking contest at the Big Game (Cal vs Stanford football) on Saturday, November 23. He won a $500 Whole Foods gift certificate and a year supply of Popchips. Keith Belling '82 is the CEO of PopChips, a San Francisco based company.
1L Jeanette Acosta, 1L Julie Alarcon, 1L Chris Ballard and 1L Alyssa Villanueva
UC Hastings 1L students had the opportunity on behalf of the White House and United Farm Workers (UFW) Foundation to attend a comprehensive immigration reform-focused event with President Obama at the Betty Ong Recreation Center in San Francisco on Monday, November 25.
Students who attended included 1Ls Jeanette Acosta (@jmacosta), Julie Alarcon, Chris Ballard and Alyssa Villanueva. Pictured, from second left, 1L Jeanette Acosta, Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA17), San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, 1L Julie Alarcon, and 1L Chris Ballard.
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After forecast miss, Dell CFO looks to enterprise
With Dell Inc.'s missed first-quarter sales forecast this week, a development that knocked its share price down as much as 5% the next day, Dell CFO Brian Gladden has emerged with CEO Michael Dell as a second spokesman for the personal-computer company's future.
The company has said that sales are being hurt by lackluster demand from consumers and government agencies. Revenue for the period ending in April now is being forecast by the Round Rock, Tex.-based company to fall 7%, to $14.9 billion. The average, calculated by Bloomberg from analyst estimates, had been $15.1 billion.
Bloomberg also has reported that the sluggish sales -- coupled with shrinking profit last quarter --- are raising analyst concerns about Dell's comeback plans, which involve a streamlining of operations to boost profit. Dell recorded almost a 25% gain last year in share price, but some investors may have been overly optimistic about the company's ability to turn around its operations, Brian Marshall, an analyst at ISI Group Inc. in San Francisco, told the news service.."
But listen to CFO Gladden: "Our full-year results are a strong reflection of the significant progress we made this year on our strategic priorities." He added: "The expanding mix of revenue and earnings from enterprise solutions and services is critical to our future." Dell noted that it is now is selling more of its own data-storage and networking gear, instead of relying on products made by such companies as EMC Corp.
Business computing demand is "pretty strong," Gladden told Bloomberg this week in an interview. Sales to large corporations rose 5% last quarter, while the unit that sells to small and midsize businesses got a 6% boost, the company said.
Customers Seeing Dell 'in Broader Terms'
CEO Dell, who retook the reins of the company in 2007, is making deals and adding new products in a bid to revive growth and focus on more profitable areas.
"Our customers think of Dell in much broader terms now, trusting us with their comprehensive IT needs, from the datacenter to the device," he said in the news release. "We are more committed than ever to both developing and investing in innovative solutions that deliver greater value and better outcomes for our customers."
He added in the conference call that Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 8 operating system, due later this year, could provide a lift to consumer PC sales. The company also will entice business customers wanting to buy tablets running Windows, he said. Until now, most tablets have run software from Apple or Google Inc. "With Windows 8, there's great excitement in the corporate space for us," the CEO said. "There's pretty strong appetite for Windows 8 tablets in the enterprise."
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If they randomize at the individual level, they would put all the eligible children's names into a bowl, or a list on a computer, and run a lottery. Some children would get an iPad. Some would not. If they randomize at the school level, they would do this for the school names and some schools would receive iPads. In a phase-in/pipeline design, the individuals or schools who did not receive an iPad initially would be placed in a queue to receive it if the study found them to be effective and funds were available.
Beyond this simplified example, the RCT methodology can be adapted to a wide variety of contexts.
As with all human subjects research, RCTs are subject to rigorous ethical reviews to ensure that no human subjects are harmed during the research process.
The RCT approach is flexible enough to accommodate a variety of contexts and sectors. It can be used in education, health, environment, and so on. With a little imagination, randomization can be adapted to a number of different circumstances. Constraints and what RCTs cannot do will be discussed below. For now, here is a short gallery of examples of what RCTs can do.
In a microfinancestudyby the AbdulLatifJameelPoverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a large Indianmicrofinanceinstitution,Spandana, identified 104 low-income neighborhoods in Hyderabad, India, which were potential locations to open a branch office. Prior to opening the branch offices, 52 neighborhoods were randomly selected to have an office open in 2005 – this became the treatment group. The remaining 52 neighborhoods remained "control" (receiving an office in the following years). Households were then interviewed 15-18 months after the introduction ofmicrofinancein the treatment areas.
RCTs may investigate multiple treatments against each other – or multiple treatments against each other and a control group.
A study inBiharandRajasthan, India,examined several treatments to address low literacy levels of children. One intervention focused on offering mothers literacy classes, assuming that more educated mothers would be more effective at helping children at home. A second intervention provided a guide to mothers on at-home activities which could enrich the learning environment for their children at home. A third intervention combined these two: mothers received both the mother literacy classes and the at-home activities guide. A comparison group received none of these services.
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A remedialtutoring program in Indiaused rotation design. Rotation design refers to a situation where, for two groups, one group is treatment and one is control – and then, those roles switch, with the previously-treated becoming control and the previously control becoming treated. In practice, the NGO Pratham identified 77 schools in Mumbai and 124 in Vadodara. Pratham's intervention was a remedial tutor (called a "balsakhi", or "child's friend") who would meet with 15-20 students who were falling behind in their grades.
Randomization was "rotated" in that, in 2001, half of the schools received a tutor for grade 3, and the other half received one for grade 4. In 2002, the schools received a tutor for the previously untreated grade. In this way, the impact of treatment could be determined by comparing grade 3 students in schools who received a grade 3 tutor to grade 3 students in schools who received a grade 4 tutor.
Often, budget constraints prohibit a full-scale roll-out of a program. These staggered roll-outs can thus be leveraged for randomized impact evaluations by simply selecting, by lottery, the areas which will receive the service first.
J-PAL'sdewormingstudyused random phase-in. For three years, between 1998 and 2001, massdewormingwas rolled out in 75 schools in western Kenya by the NGO International Child Support Africa. The 75 schools were placed in a lottery, with 25 schools receivingdewormingin 1998, 25 in 1999, and the remaining 25 in 2001. In this way, in 1998, the 50non-dewormedschools served as a control group for the 25dewormedschools.
In many situations, it is politically, ethically or administratively untenable to deny services to a control group. In some of these cases, an encouragement design can be used – randomly-selected individuals will receive a promotional script or advertisement alerting them to this already-available service. In these cases, control group individuals still have access to the same service, however they will not receive the same reminders to use it. By the same token, treatment individuals can still refuse service (as in most interventions).
AJ-PAL study in Tangiers, Morocco, worked with a local utility company –Amendis– which was already distributing drinking water (though take-up was less than 100%). The program was providing a subsidized interest-free loan to install a water connection.Amendismade this loan available to all eligible households; however, for the evaluation, a random subset of those households received a door-to-door awareness campaign and offered assistance with filling out the application. This promotion was the "encouragement" which pushed selected households (treatment) to sign up for the loan more often than those households which did not receive the promotion (control). In this way, the researchers were able to determine the impact of newAmendiswater connections on households.
In the end, because take-up of water connections was higher in the "encouraged" (i.e. treatment) group than the non-encouraged (i.e. control) group, these two groups could be compared. And since encouragement was randomly assigned, any difference in outcomes could be attributed to the difference in the take-up rates of water connections.
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Sometimes randomization can occur within a "bubble" of eligibility. For example, aJ-PAL study in South Africaworked with an anonymousmicrofinancelender to identify 787 rejected loan applicants who had been deemed "potentiallycreditworthy"by the institution. (Applicants had been either automatically approved or rejected under the bank's normal application process.) Within this sample of 787, this "bubble", a randomly-selected subset of rejected applicants were assigned to be given a "second look" by one of the lending institution's financial officers. These officers were not required to approve these individuals for loans, but they were encouraged to. (Thus, we can see that "take-up" in this case related to the financial officers approving applicants for loans.)
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RCTs share, with other impact evaluation methodologies, a number of the same tasks and options. For example, by definition, they must specify key evaluation questions . These questions could be things like: will deworming pills lead to increased school attendance? Will they lead to improved educational outcomes as well? Does access to microfinance lead to greater business investments? Is iron-fortified salt an effective way of decreasing anemia rates in the rural population?
Whether you're looking for an adventure or you simply love to visit new places, Osaka is one city that should be at the top of your list. While most people would pick Europe as their destination of choice, Japan is just as beautiful and lovely . Plus, you'll have no issue finding a comfortable place to rest your head each night, with all of the easily accessible Osaka hotels that are available.
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Dubbed as the Times Square of Japan, Dotonbori has a string of restaurants that you will love having the opportunity to try. Being a stranger in a foreign land is not easy, so it would be best to plan out where you'd like to eat ahead of time. This is one stop you'll want to put at the top of your list.2. Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan
This aquarium houses many species of ocean life from the Pacific Ocean. The site is extensive, taking a circular path that provides stunning, up-close views of whale sharks and other magnificent creatures of the deep.3. Tempozan Ferris Wheel
See all of Osaka at the top of the Tempozan Ferris Wheel. Riding this will really take your appreciation of Japan to new heights. From 112 meters up, the Tempozan has an amazing view of the suspension bridge and the Osaka Bay. The best time to try ride the ferris wheel is at dusk so you can experience the sunset while waiting for the city lights to come on. There is also an option to ride in a glass bottom carriage that will make you feel like you're floating on air, but the line for this can run pretty long. You should opt for the traditional carriage if you want to avoid a wait.4. Osaka Full-Day Tour with River Cruise
This tour is a six-hour guided experience that includes lunch and a river cruise. You'll see Osaka's most Instagram-worthy landmarks, including the Floating Garden Observatory and the Osaka Castle. You'll also get a chance to visit the Twin Towers City Hall. Luckily, the package includes entrance fees for all of the stops on the tour.5. National Bunraku Theater
To get a real feel for Japan's culture, check out the Bunraku Theater . It traces its roots back to the 18th to 19th centuries, and it's amazing how Osaka has been able to maintain the art. It also houses surprisingly large puppets that are half the size of an average human. If you chooseto stay for an elaborate puppetry performance, you may want to make some room in your schedule, as the show can last for up to about four hours.


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BLM Campgrounds in Eastern Sierras Reopen
Some campgrounds in the Eastern Sierras managed by the Bureau of Land Management's Bishop Field Office are open to the public with major upgrades completed.
The project – to renovate five campgrounds managed by the BLM – began in the spring of 2011. The upgrades were long overdue said Jeff Yanez, BLM project manager. "These campgrounds, with the exception of Pleasant Valley Pit Campground, were constructed in the late 1960's and have long exceeded their expected lifetime. Our goal has been to upgrade the sites in order to lower maintenance costs, provide universal access and protect wildlife habitat in the area. Where feasible, we have provided potable water and RV dump stations to better serve the needs of the public."
The camping fee will remain $5 per night and campsites are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Tuttle Creek Campground is now open with a new state-of-the-art solar-powered potable water system and recreational vehicle dump station. It also has a new group site that is available for reservation, two walk-in tent sites and several new pull-through sites for larger RV's. It has been upgraded with new vault toilets, fire rings and picnic tables. Future plans include the installation of horse corrals.
Horton Creek Campground is open and should have potable water online by the middle of July. It also has a new RV dump station and pull-through sites for larger RV's. Horton has been remodeled with new vault toilets, fire rings and picnic tables. The final planned upgrade will be to pave the site road which will occur in the late fall or early spring.
Crowley Lake campground is currently open, but will close July 8 to finish the installation of a potable water distribution system. When reopened in mid-September, it will have a RV dump station in addition to potable water. It will also have new vault toilets, fire rings and picnic tables.
Goodale Creek Campground should open by early August, with some pull-through sites for larger RV's and new restrooms, fire rings and picnic tables. The BLM also is in the process of constructing an interpretive nature trail for the public to enjoy which will highlight various natural features found in the area including local flora and fauna.
"Despite our best efforts, Goodale Creek Campground will remain a dry campground as attempts to drill a well have been unsuccessful due to the unstable and unpredictable nature of the local geology. We will still be able to irrigate the trees and clean the restrooms with untreated surface water but we will not be able provide potable water to the public," he said.
Further information can be found on the BLM Bishop Field Office website at http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/


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To say this iPhone speaker is likely to give you the horn is an understatement (sorry we couldn't resist), especially when the company that makes it is called Idwanc. No, really.
Childish nob gags aside, the Trumstand is a truly unique product in that it's an iPhone dock that weighs in at a massive 4.3kg and is crafted out of aluminium and brass.
Clearly aiming to appeal to those who are looking for the Halcion days of their gramophone to return, it has a solid metal horn speaker fitted to the base and it looks somewhat like a traditional wind-up record player.
Apparently, the company is also making a big deal out of the fact that it sounds like a gramophone, for better or worse. It wasn't exactly easy to judge the audio quality on the noisy show floor, but what we heard didn't sound bad.
The actual horn measures a mere 0.5mm thick, is hand crafted and then coated either with a silver or gold plating.
If this isn't up to your standards, then there's an option to get the entire horn made out of pure silver. The base is made from a CNC machined block of aluminium and it has a rear connector for the standard Apple sync and charge cable – nice.
If you'd like to get your hands on a Trumstand, expect to pay a minimum of £924 for the base model, which sports a clear coated brass horn, while £1,104 gets you the silver-plated version .
Those looking to push the boat out can opt for the pure silver horn, which will set you back a whopping £2,184 plus delivery.
Still, there's a few months to go until Christmas.
And, to think, we managed to get through this piece without even mentioning "blowing your own trumpet".


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8O Damn serves me right for not checking this thread sooner! So it looks like I have a choice between red...and red!? heheIf there are any white/silver/blacks left lmk. Thanks!
Color/Quantity Remaining Total/49 Black/16 White/4 Silver/7 Red/22
that looks great there Ian...can I have your rims and tires
Sweet! I am bumming that I can't get down to the GTG tomorrow to pick mine up. Anyone want to drive up north to drop them off? :?
I bet that set up makes the car fun!!!
Quote from: "gragravar";p="42852"Sweet! I am bumming that I can't get down to the GTG tomorrow to pick mine up. Anyone want to drive up north to drop them off? :?Andrew, I might be meeting Kalgra from Audiworld next week for lunch, I can grab yours early in the week, and maybe you can join us...he works near Flatirons mall, maybe you can bust away for a bit for lunch or something, or i can swing them by with your tie down straps that I still have.
Hi, a little late :oops: but can I get two silver stickers? And if someone wants to come skiing and bring them I can certanly make it worth their while with two $30 ticket coupons for any Vail resorts.Thanks!


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We signed a land/home deal in July of 2005 that quickly became a troubling situation. In October of 2005, we were notified that the lot we purchased from the home builder would not hold the plan we had closed on, that they designed for the property they sold us. It was a strange situation as the home builder sold us the lot as well as the plan, but they were off by such a large margin that we were unable to even attain the model of home that we signed the contract for. We were told we had to accept a lesser model.
Since then, they have continually delayed in returning phone calls (or not returned them altogether) and took 17 months to offer a plan that was not less than the quality and square footage of the original deal. They had offered us a house of considerably less square footage and quality but for the price we were locked in on.
Now, we are in our 23rd month of construction. Many of the people who work for them have left. The owner refuses to return our phone calls, and draws have been made on the loan but sub-contractors have not been paid. Work is now halted on our property, with what appears to be a couple of weeks worth of work left on it. I showed up at their offices on Friday and asked for a copy of our file with them, and their financial manager told me, "you'll get it when we're good and ready to give it to you." She then ran to her office and locked the door, refusing to speak to us.
The plumber who worked on the property has placed a lien on the building. The electrician claims that the owner owes him $70,000 for work done on multiple properties, including some from ours. Work is completely shut down now, and we can't get any answers. The foreman at our home site said that he's been given the owner's attorney's phone number and told to contact him. The company is Turn Key Home Builders Inc.
To help keep me as a potential future customer, I would like the following: Having taken so long from what was stated it would take, it's at a point that ideally, we'd just like out with our money back. I understand that it's a scenario that may not happen. In the event that we can not just find a way out and be done with them, and get our money back, I'd like to find a way to guarantee that the house is completed and that it is done as soon as possible. With the slowdown in overall construction, I cannot see any reason why this house is not yet completed.
I would also like to know what my rights are and what the laws are regarding an owner who makes draws from an account, which in turn does not get to the contractors that were working on it. Any help that could be provided would be very helpful. At the very least I would like a response from your company regarding this incident. Thank you for your time.
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA -- On February 8, 2007 I traveled with my husband and infant son on American Airlines flight number 2214, traveling from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Fort Lauderdale Florida. My husband was traveling to Puerto Rico at the behest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and American Airlines is their carrier of choice. I decided to accompany him because I am a frequent flier on American Airlines and have always been very satisfied with the respect and attention the airline gives to its customers. All things being equal, such as the cost of a plane ticket, the only reason to select one airline over another is customer service.
I travel extensively, and take the quality of customer service, or the lack thereof, very seriously. This most recent travel experience has made me reconsider my decision to fly exclusively with American Airlines. On the afternoon of the flight, we arrived at the airport two hours early and were greeted by a staff that was courteous and polite and represented the type of customer service I have come to expect from American Airlines. That was the last positive experience I had that day. We arrived at the gate to learn that the flight was delayed an hour and a half.
No announcement was made, and no customer service representative was present at the gate, so the only way we learned this was by looking at the board. No explanation was given for the delay. The flight was scheduled to depart at 4:20, but did not begin boarding until six o'clock. At no time were we offered any kind of food voucher or offered any assurance that the flight would be boarding shortly. So, not knowing the exact status of the flight, we were unable to leave the gate area to have lunch.
We were placed in the last row of the plane, where the stench from the toilet was overwhelming. There were two flight attendants assigned to the rear of the aircraft, and when we inquired as to the reason for the delay, we were told that the pilot was, "late for work." When we inquired as to whether there was anything that could be done about the extremely foul odor emanating form the bathroom, we were told that there was not, and the flight attendant's response was, "I have to be back here too." We remained on the ground for approximately thirty minutes, with still no official explanation for the delay or any apology for it.
Once the plane began to prepare for takeoff, it became apparent that the instructional safety video was malfunctioning. Instead of the flight attendants beginning a manual instruction of the appropriate use of the seatbelts, flotation devices, and oxygen masks, they sat mute in the back of the plane. Shortly thereafter, the co-pilot came on over the intercom and stated that the video was malfunctioning and all we really needed to know was, "don't inflate the vests inside the aircraft." Not only was this extremely unprofessional, but I'm fairly certain it violated FAA safety regulations.
After take-off, the flight attendants began to sell snacks. Because most of the people on the plane had been waiting for several hours in the airport, not knowing when the plane would be departing, the snacks were gone by the time the cart reached the back of the plane. My husband asked the flight attendant if there was anything else available to eat, and inquired as to why he was not permitted to purchase something prior to the snacks being sold out. He also asked to be moved because the stench from the toilet was still overpowering. My infant son was asleep in his arms, so when my husband made this inquiry, his voice was subdued and he was extremely polite.
The appropriate response to this would have been, "I'm so sorry you're not having a pleasant experience with American Airlines today. We work very hard to make sure our customers are satisfied and pleased with our service. I don't know that I can find you something to eat, but I'll try and if there's anything I can do to make you more comfortable, please let me know." Instead, she said, "It's not my fault. This is the way it is now; you just have to roll with the punches." He responded that he was a paying customer and had, in fact, paid $650.00 for his ticket, so he really didn't think he had to "roll with the punches."
She responded again that it wasn't her fault and they (meaning American Airlines), didn't feed her either. The obvious difference is that she was working and we had paid a significant amount of money for our tickets. Regardless, the response was completely unprofessional, inappropriate, and rude. Her cavalier attitude was not reserved solely for us; the gentleman seated across from us was a business traveler who had paid over a thousand dollars for his ticket. He inquired about a bottle of water and was told it would cost $2.50. The same flight attendant gestured to the galley and told him that he could get a cup of tap water if he wanted.
When the flight attendant returned with the beverage cart, I asked her if she could please tell me her name. All of the flight attendants on board were wearing name tags, and hers was noticeably absent. She informed me that she did not have to give me her name. My husband, who is a deputy sheriff for Palm Beach County, Florida, told her that he had to wear a name tag and would be very surprised if the same were not true for her. He then asked to speak with her supervisor.
She replied that she was the supervisor and she would not be giving us her name. She then said, "You know what, this is harassment, I am going to have the police meet the plane." My husband, knowing he did nothing wrong, invited her to do so.
Clearly, asking for an employees name in order to register a complaint is not harassment and even if it is perceived as such, is not illegal. We did not raise our voices and did not so much as unbuckle our seatbelts. Even in the light most favorable to the flight attendant, we did not assault, threaten, intimidate, or interfere with this flight attendant in the performance of her duty. As the police did not meet the plane, it is clear that she intended only to make an empty threat. Threatening to have someone arrested is not only unprofessional its offensive and an abuse of power. Her behavior was inexcusable, and caused us both a great deal of stress.
I can only assume that the flight attendant did not want to give her name because she did not want her deplorable behavior reported. I would very much like to provide American Airlines with her name so that appropriate action can be taken. Unfortunately, I can only say that she was an African-American female and her uniform was a high-necked style that differed from the white shirt and jacket style that the other flight attendant was wearing.
I am forced to take her at her word that she was in fact a supervisor, but if that is the case, American Airlines has very serious problems with its promotion process as she seemed to have absolutely no training in appropriate customer service. At the very least I would like a response from your company regarding this incident. Thank you for your time.
DUNNELLON, FLORIDA -- This letter is concerning a company by the name of Simply Satisfying Soaps located on 7719 W. Hunterhill Street, Dunnellon, FL 34433. The owner is **. I am writing you this letter as I'm very disturbed. A few weeks ago I went to her website to sign up as a rep. There was a little agreement online but I did not sign anything. She told me to order the kit and she'll send me the agreement. So I did that. When I got the kit the agreement inside was very different than the one I saw online! The information found in the manual was different than what I saw online. I did not sign the agreement as I did not agree with it.
The main thing that disturbed me on the agreement was when it said, ' Simply Satisfying Soaps is not responsible for its products'. I did not think this was right so I emailed her requesting a refund and I told her why. She told me she would not give me a cash refund and that I would have to take store credit. I told her about the two different agreements and that it was her liability for not putting it online. And I told her that if I had known that I would not have signed up. She agreed to give me back my money provided that I made sure the kit was sent back in good shape.
So I made sure the tops were screwed on properly, the packaging peanuts was put in properly and the every package was sealed. I spent about $10.85 to send it back. She sent me an email (telling a fib I believe) and said the box was leaking when she got it and that I would not get a refund! I was boiling mad! I told her it was impossible! I must admit this, she did take pictures of the kit and emailed it to me but I feel it was set up! It may sound strange but it happens all the time. The post office would not have sent it to her if the box was leaking. They would have sent it back to me.
I know this from when a friend tried to send me something, the box leaked, and the post office sent it back to her. So I know this from experience. I spent $25 for the kit plus $10 for the shipping. Then I spent about another $10.85 to send it back to her. I could understand that the ten dollars she used to send to me be not refunded. I understand that. But I want $35 dollars back because it cost $25 for the kit and it cost me over $10 to ship it back and I feel she should pay that because she is lying! She also lied to Paypal too. I went to Paypal and they said they could not help me because the cannot guarantee the condition of the contents before it was shipped to me.
To help keep me as a potential future customer, I would like the following: So not I'm coming to you. I want $35 back because it cost $25 for the kit and it cost me about $10 to ship it back. I want to be paid for my shipping because she is lying! She only took a few pictures. But she did not take pictures of everything. If she wants to play game with the post office I can get a statement from them and see if the box was leaking-which I highly doubt it was. Thank you. At the very least I would like a response from your company regarding this incident. Thank you for your time.
BOCA RATON, FLORIDA -- I subscribed to VoIP telephone (Acct # **) from VOIP.com on 12/14/07 as unlimited calling plan that includes US, CANADA and Mexico unlimited calls. I was an MCI local subscriber for last 3 years. I transferred my home number to VOIP service. I also paid them yearly since yearly payment reduced monthly charges. Last week, I received an email saying that I exceeded residential average users minutes and they suspect that I use it as a business. I sent an reply that it is my primary home number and I use exclusively for home use. My wife uses it to study with her partner which she did with MCI plan too.
Last week, the company changed my plan to business plan without my permission and sent an email to me that now I have to pay $19 for 1000 minutes and additional minutes will be charged extra. I called the company on 2/28/07. Their Rep ** stated that the Federal govt enacted a law that allows home users of VOIP to use 2500 minutes per month. Anything more will be considered business. I asked why then advertise as unlimited and also the terms does not say anything about minutes limitation. She said that Fed allows them advertise UNLIMITED plan but would not allow more tha 2500 minutes calls. That seems to me FISHY and misleading.
I asked to cancel and refund. She said that they will charge me $39 to cancel my service. That $39 cancellation fee also not in the terms of service. The terms of service does not say any thing about Fed law and minutes. They have 30 day refund period and did not tell me anything in 30 days but telling me this after 30 days. Its like they trapped me.
I am asking help. If residential lines are not allowed to make more than 2500 minutes, why scam people with UNLIMITED calls. I used Optimum online VOIP for last 3 years but never got this. I am asking full refund of my money except usage according to residential plan not biz plan. I already subscribed to another voip and requested to transfer my number. I found 2 other similar complaint in my3cents.com regarding Voip.com. Please help. Thank you.
To help keep me as a potential future customer, I would like the following: I like to get a full refund except for usage since their advertising is misleading and did not disclose their policy of usage limit but advertised as UNLIMITED. They need to stop this kind UNLIMITED advertising or disclose their minutes usage policy. At the very least I would like a response from your company regarding this incident. Thank you for your time.
ST AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA -- In June of '05 I bought two 32 inch RCA tv's at Wal-Mart in St Augustine FL for $250.00 each. One for me and one for my son. First mine broke down on the 4th month I owned it. It started turning on and off all by itself (even in the middle of the night), doing autosearch over and over. Turning the power off or using the remote won't stop it, I have to pull the plug out of the wall. I contacted Thomson and after many phone calls they agreed to in addition to the parts pay $80.00 toward the labor. I finally found someone to fix it, they had it for about two weeks brought it back with a bill for $300.00.
I knew I shouldn't have paid it and told them to keep it but I was sick of having no tv. Right after they brought the tv back and I went to use it, it started doing the same exact thing. I don't know what they did but they didn't fix it. So back they come and get the tv again. They told me there would be no charge. I finally called them today because they have had it now over a month and say they are waiting on parts and that I am responable for the labor again. I then called RCA and they will allow me another $80.00 toward the labor which is nice but I can't afford the rest of the balance. Fixing the tv is not cost effective.
I could have gone out and bought a brand new one (different brand though) cheaper than what it is going to cost me. Now just yesterday the second tv started the same thing. This is ridiculous. These two tv's that I paid 250.00 each for are going to end up costing me over 1000.00. I am not a rich person, I live on a fixed income and can not afford all these repair bills. Not to say I have been without a tv for about 2 months time total.
This model should have been recalled, from what the repair man told me it is very common in this model. Maybe this is why Wal-Mart is selling them so cheap. What am I supposed to do now? The second one needs to be fixed now. All I get from RCA/Thomson is a run around.
To help keep me as a potential future customer, I would like the following: I would like a full refund for both tv's and a refund for the repair work that didn't fix it so far, and they can keep their tv's. Marvin's TV Repair in Jacksoville Florida is supposed to be the authorized dealer in the area. They are the ones who have my tv. At the very least I would like a response from your company regarding this incident. Thank you for your time.
OCALA, FLORIDA -- I purchased two Soyo barebone computers from Tiger Direct in 2004. There was a total of $140 in rebates due to me. The rebate requirements were met and acknowledged, yet whenever I checked with the company who issues the rebates, they said the checks would be mailed within 2 weeks. This went on for over a year. Neither Soyo nor Tiger Direct would respond in any manner. I have kept copies of all the documentation.
To help keep me as a potential future customer, I would like the following: I want my rebates and I believe Tiger and Soyo should be punished in some manner for their misleading advertising. Two other individuals who work at the college with me are suffering the same fate. They should pay a stiff fine and be prohibited from any further falsehoods in their advertising. At the very least I would like a response from your company regarding this incident. Thank you for your time.
TEMPE, ARIZONA -- Global Net Warehouse promised me I would see results in 30 days, not to worry, I could get my money back. I was told I did not have to advertise, just pay $199 for a website and $19.99 a month to maintain the site. Then I was told I would have to advertise and for just $500, would get 150 brochures that would guaranty my income. I spent another $55.50 for postage, printed letters and advertised. After 4 months, nothing worked. I reported them to the BBB and they also got no satisfaction from this company.
To help keep me as a potential future customer, I would like the following: I would like my money back for the brochures and the website in the amount of $699.00. I actually spent about $900 but would be happy with $699. At the very least I would like a response from your company regarding this incident. Thank you for your time.


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LOS ANGELES, CA --Los Angeles County sheriff's officials say they're looking for a man accused of raping a mentally disabled woman on a city bus.
Sgt. Dan Scott says the suspect boarded the bus with the woman in Culver City, followed her to the back of the bus and forced himself on her late Wednesday afternoon.
A lone witness tried to alert the bus driver that the rape was happening, but it continued for about 10 minutes until the suspect stopped and exited the bus.
Scott says the 18-year-old woman has the mental capacity of a 10-year-old. He says that after the attack, she reported it to the driver.


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WinHEC was a busy, wonderful zoo. By this, I mean it's always great running into friends I don't see that often, whether they're from Microsoft or the press. It's kind of like a high school reunion. On the flip side, I still need to get real work done, and WinHEC is so busy it's next to impossible to do so. So I spent most of the week in "impending doom" mode and I jumped from place to place. Quite an experience.
I should have the second parts of my Windows Vista Beta 2 and Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 review up by early next week, along with Part 1 of a Longhorn Server Beta 2 review I've been working on and some more Vista Feature Focus articles. I'm thinking about turning the Feature Focus articles into an eBook or something when they're all done; it should be a handy reference to all the new and improved stuff in Microsoft's next desktop OS, plus it could look great if it were done correctly.
Speaking of WinHEC, the surprise star of the show was Windows Server Virtualization, which will ship as a free add-on for Longhorn Server sometime in early 2008. This feature adds machine virtualization services to the OS and will be available free with all Longhorn Server editions. Think of it as a much higher-performing version of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, but with low-level system hooks and a tiny footprint. Windows Server Virtualization will support hardware hot-swapping and 64-bit guest OSs as well. Very cool.
So I observed a guy in front of me on the plane watch an entire movie on his cell phone. It looked uncomfortable, but he did it. What's odd is this was an Alaska Airlines flight and he got one of those Digi-Player movie player things too. What's even odder is that his phone battery lasted as long as it did.
Last week, I asked if there were readers in four particular US states who wouldn't mind sending a postcard to my son's second-grade class. It would be criminal of me not to thank everyone who offered to help out: The response was overwhelming, and you guys are just the best. It's funny: I write this stuff in isolation and sometimes forget there are real people out there reading it. But someone always shows up when I ask for something, and I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. On a fun note, several people from outside the United States also wrote in and said they'd be happy to send postcards from their countries as well. So now Mark and his class will be getting a surprise bonus: Several postcards from around the world. They're going to be thrilled. Honestly, this kind of thing makes it all worthwhile.
SKU-o-Rama: Microsoft Adds Ultimate Edition to Office 2007
Excited by the response that the Ultimate edition of Vista is getting, Microsoft has decided to pursue a similar product edition, or SKU, for Office 2007. Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Edition will include virtually every single Office 2007 client application in a single package for the bargain price of $679. It was created "in response to customer feedback," Microsoft says. If that's the case, then why can't you get Office Professional for $200? I'm pretty sure we've been asking for lower Office prices for some time as well.
Ballmer: Relax, Vista is Still On Schedule
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said this week that Vista was still on track for its January 2007 release to consumers after news reports suggested that he was hedging his bet on the release. "I said yesterday that Vista was on track to ship in ... January as we had said," Ballmer said. "But I also emphasized that the most important thing is getting quality right. I was asked an unusual question and I think my answer was fine, but I don't think it was interpreted correctly." In separate discussions at WinHEC this week, including one with Microsoft Co-President Jim Allchin, various Microsoft executives reiterated to me that the plan hasn't changed: Microsoft will finalize Vista by October and ship it to consumers in January. However, these executives also feel that quality is more important than hitting an arbitrary date. If problems arise, they're willing to slip again to get it right. Clearly, this is the right decision.
Actually, Vista Will Support New BIOS ... Eventually
At WinHEC 2006 this week, Microsoft revealed that it will indeed support the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS replacement in Vista. It's just that the hardware won't be supported in the initial Vista release. "UEFI support should be present in a subsequent Windows Vista release," said Microsoft development manager Andrew Ritz. "Think Service Pack 1, something that coincides with, or will be very close to, the launch of Windows Server Longhorn." Indeed, Microsoft is planning to ship Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) concurrently with Longhorn Server, so that the two releases will then be on the same code base. Longhorn Server (and SP1) are both due in the second half of 2007.
Google Takes Microsoft's Spot on Dell PCs
Google has struck a lucrative deal with PC giant Dell that will see Google's desktop, toolbar, search engine, and home page added to all consumer and medium-sized business PCs shipped by Dell. "Windows lacks certain features, and Dell figured out a way to add them," says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "Dell is the pioneer in this. They've figured out a way to work with other partners to essentially fill out the Windows platform." The Google-enhanced PCs will start shipping any day now, Dell says, and will actually include Microsoft's MSN Search tools as well. However, Google's will be enabled by default.
Microsoft Pushes Its Own Format for Photos
We need this like we need a PDF replacement. Oh, wait. Microsoft this week revealed a new photo file format that the software giant would like to see replace the venerable JPEG format. Dubbed Windows Media Photo (naturally), the new format offers much smaller file sizes than JPEG but much better image quality. The problem, of course, is support. Will anyone use this? Will anyone care? Or will Apple simply come along with its own format and blow Microsoft out of the water? Stay tuned.
Microsoft Claims its Open XML Format is Faster than OpenDocument
And speaking of Microsoft formats no one was asking for, the software giant this week claimed that its Open XML formats, used in the next version of Microsoft Office, offer better performance than the open-source OpenDocument format. Take that, Linux fanboys! "The Open XML format is designed for performance," said Microsoft General Manager Alan Yates. "XML is fundamentally slower than binary formats, so we have made sure that customers won't notice a big difference in performance. OpenDocument documents \[are\] slower to the point of not really being satisfactory." Naturally, the OpenDocument community is taking this accusation in stride. "There's simply no Open XML product on the market yet, to compare performance,' says Marino Marcich, the managing director of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance. I love the smell of a format war in the morning.
Live OneCare Gets Seal of Approval
Windows Live OneCare, which should begin shipping to the public in the weeks ahead, has received two important certifications this week. First, the ICSA Labs certification asserts that the subscription service is "an effective solution to combat viruses and other forms of malicious code." Second, the West Coast Labs' Checkmark certification means that OneCare has met the lab's "criteria for protection against viruses and Trojans." One might think of these certifications as the tech equivalent of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, and if my own experience with OneCare is any indication, it's a great service (albeit with an annoying number of pop-ups that alert you to it being up-to-date).
Microsoft Ships Major Windows Live Local Update
This week, Microsoft shipped a major update to its Windows Live Local service (previously called Virtual Earth) that enhances the occasionally creepy bird's-eye view with new features such as live traffic flow and accident data, Windows Live Messenger and Outlook integration, and a new concept called Collections, whereby you can save a map view that includes a number of in-map shortcuts to favorite locations. This last feature will eventually be the center of a cool community push where users can share maps to favorite area attractions, restaurants, and other destinations around the world. And that is something, I think, that will help seriously differentiate Windows Live Local from competing services from Google and Yahoo.
Nintendo Wii to Cost Less than $250
Although Nintendo is still being coy about the price of its upcoming Wii video game console, the company is finally getting close to announcing something. As expected, the Nintendo Wii will cost significantly less than the Xbox 360 ($300 and up) or PlayStation 3 ($500 and up). But how much less? Nintendo says the Wii "will not exceed $250 in the United States." That's actually pretty amazing, and it could go a long way toward establishing Nintendo as a major player again. Good for Nintendo. It seems like people get too wrapped up in tech specs, while Nintendo is just focused on good games and innovative game play. Lowball prices can only help.
See, I Told You Apple Copies Microsoft
And finally, Microsoft had a surprise visitor at its WinHEC 2006 trade show this week in Seattle. Several representatives from Apple Computer were on hand to blatantly copy, er, see what Microsoft is up to. "I am attending WinHEC to keep tabs on what is happening in the industry and what Microsoft is looking to do over the next year," David Harrington, the manager of Apple's hardware technology group admitted when asked. He declined to make any further comment. I will say this: I do know that Microsoft employees also attend Apple's shows, including the World Wide Developer events. So clearly there's some cross-pollination going on here.


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I don't know about you, but I rely on the Locus links portal when wandering around the web, and I've relied on it for years now. Of course, all of Locus Online is great, and Mark Kelly does a phenomenal job keeping it updated and interesting, but the links portal is the page that gets the most consistent use from me.
I noticed today, and quite happily, that the list of weblogs on the portal nearly takes up an entire column now. It's an eclectic and ecumenical group, and impressive no matter how you slice and dice it. Within the last year, the list has seemed to grow with marvelous speed and fecundity. This made me wonder what it looked like in the good ol' days (which, in internet time, is a couple years ago).
Thanks to the ever-handy Internet Wayback Machine, we can see. On February 26, 2000, the earliest date for the portal page in the Wayback Machine, there were eight weblogs listed. I couldn't get Honeyguide to load, but all of the other original weblogs did, with only one, Windowseat, proclaimed to be on hiatus. Arts & Letters Daily, Romenesko's Media News, Memepool, Peterme.com, Robot Wisdom, and SciTech Daily are all going strong. (Hint: Click on the links at the archived portal page for some nostalgic fun.)
By February of 2001, the portal's design had changed, but the same weblogs were listed. By January 2002, there's one addition: Boing Boing. January 2003 shows some growth, with the title of the section now "Weblogs -- skiffish" and some contents shuffled to other categories. By October the category is called "SF Blogs & Journals", which is what it remains. By February 2004 the list is quite long, and civilization is imperiled by the inclusion of The Mumpsimus.
The range and diversity of weblogs has grown tremendously even in the short time since I started, and it's exciting to see so many different sorts of people adding their interests and ideas to the conversation.
By the way, does anybody have a weblog -- any category or subject welcome -- that you have discovered recently and find yourself returning to?


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Congratulations to cookinginvictoria, whose Sunday Pork Ragu won this week's contest for The Recipe You Want to be Remembered For, earning her a handsome set of Le Creuset Enameled Stoneware Canisters from Williams-Sonoma, plus big prizes from Viking, OXO and Tiny Prints, and a spot in the next food52 cookbook!
Q&A with cookinginvictoria
- Describe an early food experience that has influenced the way you think about food and/or cooking.
- As a child, I realized that my family loved to cook and eat. I saw my Italian great-grandmother, my Mexican grandmother, and my Irish grandmother prepare the most elaborate, delicious meals in their kitchens and serve their food to loved ones with abundant grace and generosity. At their tables there was much love, laughter, and noisy camaraderie. For my grandmothers, and my mother as well, making food and serving it to the people they cared about was nothing less than a celebration -- a deeply, satisfying emotional experience -- and I think this is what I really responded to. From a young age, I loved being in the kitchen with these women, trying to learn their culinary secrets. They always welcomed my presence. My paternal grandma entrusted me with making her "secret" salad dressing, my maternal grandma let me help her roll out homemade tortillas, and my mom has given me many a lesson in making the perfect pie crust.
- What's your least favorite food?
- I will eat pretty much anything, but these days I have a deep aversion to heavily processed, fast food. Although I haven't eaten at McDonald's in years, I will readily admit to liking a really good burger and fries. When I lived in New York City, my husband and I loved dining alfresco at the Shake Shack. That is where my daughter first learned to love French fries!
- What is the best thing you've made so far this year?
- I took a pasta-making class a few months ago, and I was amazed at how easy and fun it is to make fresh pasta. I made a pear, ricotta, and mascarpone cheese ravioli with a sauteed pear and butter sauce that was really wonderful. I have also loved many of the food52 recipes that I have cooked. Standouts that my family requests again and again include rivka's Mujaddara with Spiced Yogurt, melissav's Caramelized Hazelnut Squash Wedges with Hazelnut Sage Pesto, and Oui, Chef's Herbed Beef Skewers with Horseradish Cream.
- Describe your most spectacular kitchen disaster.
- I've definitely had my share of kitchen mishaps. The one I remember best happened last year when I was making multiple batches of cupcakes for my daughter's fifth birthday party. I was sure that I had memorized the recipe, and so, as I began the last batch, I didn't bother to consult the ingredients list. Of course, I forgot to add the baking powder. The cupcakes emerged from the oven pretty flat, but it was after midnight, and I didn't have the energy to make another batch. Most of the kids at the birthday party only wanted to eat the icing off the cupcakes anyway, so I added lots and lots of extra layers of frosting and hoped that the cupcakes wouldn't be scrutinized too closely!
- What is your idea of comfort food?
- The foods that I grew up eating always make me feel comforted and cherished, especially pasta in any way, shape or form, my maternal grandmother's green chile, and my mother's homemade cinnamon rolls and fruit pies.
- cookinginvictoria's daughter, Lucy, picking strawberries; her great-grandmother who passed down the winning Sunday Pork Ragu recipe
- Apron or no apron?
- No apron, unless I am doing something really messy, such as deep frying or making fresh marinara sauce with vine-ripened tomatoes that need peeling and seeding.
- What's your favorite food-related scene in a movie?
- The scene in Julie & Julia when Julia Child has just arrived in Paris, and her husband takes her out for lunch, and she tastes Sole Meuniere for the first time. The look of rapture on Meryl Streep's face is unforgettable. After that meal, she is determined to learn and master French cooking. I love that scene because it shows how food can transport us and change our lives and it illustrates how powerful and suffused with emotion a perfect meal can be.
- If you could make a show-stopping dinner for one person, living or dead, who would it be?
- There are so many chefs and food writers that I admire, but I don't think that I would feel comfortable cooking for them -- too much pressure! I would love to cook for my great-grandma. She passed away when I was a teenager, and she never really knew how much she influenced me with her food and cooking prowess. I would love to listen to her stories about growing up in Italy and learn how her recipes came to be. It would also be fun to cook for Michelle Obama and talk about school lunches, community gardens, and teaching kids healthy food habits -- all big passions of mine now.
- You prefer to cook: a. alone, b. with others, c. it depends on your mood
- In theory I like the idea of cooking with others, but in practice my kitchen is on the small side, so if there is more than one person cooking, we are constantly bumping into each other and getting into one another's way. So I tend to shoo people out of the kitchen and do the actual cooking on my own. However, my husband says that regardless of the size of our kitchen, I can be very territorial when it comes to cooking. I think there's probably some truth to that, too.
- When it comes to tidying up, you usually: a. clean as you cook, b. do all the dishes once you've finished cooking, c. leave the kitchen a shambles for your spouse/roommate/kids to clean.
- I find it a real challenge to clean as I cook. I admire cooks who are organized enough to do this! On occasion, I will do the dishes after I finish cooking. But more often than not my husband gets saddled with most of them and cheerfully does them without complaining. (He just read that and laughed!) Sadly, our kitchen does not have a dishwasher -- a situation we hope to remedy soon.
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I recently returned from Brazil, and while observing the hustle and bustle of Rio's international airport, busier than ever, it dawned on me that Brazil has much to be proud of. I am Brazilian, and therefore, admit to being a tad biased, but a decade of accelerated growth and progressive social policies has brought the country prosperity that is ever more widely shared. Unemployment in December was 4.9 percent, a little higher than the lowest on record. Credit is flourishing, particularly to the swelling numbers who have moved out of poverty into the middle class. Income inequality, though still high, has fallen sharply.
For most Brazilians life has never been as hopeful. Women's salaries are growing twice as fast as those of men, even though they only occupy a mere 21.4 percent of executive positions, despite the fact they hold most of the doctoral degrees in the country (51.5 percent) and dominate the area of research (58.6 percent). They also own more companies in the Latin American region (11 percent) than any other emerging country. The new shifts in the Brazilian economy also benefit the black communities, which have seen increases four times faster than their white counterparts, bringing the population of the middle class blacks from 39.3 percent to 50.9 percent. According to research conducted by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, of 20.6 million people who entered the workplace, only 7.7 million were white. Overall, the country is enjoying the boom brought by commodities, in particular oil and gas, despite the global economic slowdown.
Are American entrepreneurs taking advantage of this?
If not, they should, but with a caveat. What worked for the Brazilian economy 10 or 20 years ago — a focus on commodities, low labor costs, excessive focus on exports — won't work moving forward. Brazil is a new country, with new habits and customs, and a population that possesses an extremely elevated self-esteem. The rapidly growing Brazilian middle class, 52 percent of the population since 2008, is in love with itself and ready to spend.
Brazil is home to 31 percent of all Latin American millionaires, about 5,000 people with a net worth superior of $30 million. In 2003, there were 49 million Brazilians living in poverty. Six years later that number plummeted to 29 million as a result of government-sponsored social programs.
Brazil's primary challenge is education. The global economy has essentially become a knowledge economy, but Brazil has not adequately invested in education, despite the commodities boon. Recently, the federal government launched several promising educational programs, such as "science without barriers," sending and financing several thousand higher education students to be educated abroad in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) disciplines. Sadly though, the reality today is that approximately 80 percent of all corporate professionals in Brazil do not have a college degree — one of the lowest rates in the world.
According to a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report, only 35 percent of Brazilians between 25 and 34 have high school diplomas, which is three times higher than those between 55 and 64 years of age (11 percent). The new generation of professionals is not being educated quickly enough.
Still, in the past five years, there have never been as many Brazilians studying. In the past 10 years, 435 vocational schools were opened, and the number of universities jumped from 1.800 to almost 3,000, while the number of college students jumped 46 percent, reaching 6.5 million (the U.S. has about 20.3 million).
As we look toward the future, despite all its shortcomings, we are looking at a much more educated workforce in Brazil.
Hitherto, Brazilians did not believe in their country's potential and suffered from a certain inferiority complex. Now, they have several reasons to take pride in being Brazilian: the impressive economic boom of late, greater access to education and to information — Brazil is fifth in the world in Internet access, behind only China, U.S., India, and Japan — a democratization of the culture, and the recognition abroad of Brazil as an emerging country.
While there are a variety of different methodologies being used to study the relatively new field of Happiness Economics, or the efficiency with which countries convert the Earth's finite resources into wellbeing experienced by their citizens, the think tank company Global Finance has ranked 151 countries across the globe.
Brazil ranks 21st. Costa Rica leads the way and Vietnam is second, while the U.S. is 105th. Need I say more?
Dr. Marcus Goncalves is assistant professor of Management, chair of the International Business Program and director of Academic Programs at Graduate and Professional Studies, Nichols College, Dudley.


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A 5-year-old boy whose family's home was destroyed by the May 20 tornado in Moore was bit and killed by a Bull Mastiff.
CBS affiliate KTHV in Little Rock, Ark., reports the boy and his family were staying with friends in Jessieville.
According to the police report, the boy became upset Saturday afternoon over putting on a pair of shoes and threw a tantrum. The dog came from another room and attacked the boy while a family friend was trying to calm him down.
The woman said she tried to pry the two apart, but could not, according to the report. She then called her husband for help and was able to separate them by the time he arrived.
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Secrets behind T. rex's bone crushing bites
The giant Tyrannosaurus rex pulverized bones by biting down with forces equaling the weight of three small cars while simultaneously generating world record tooth pressures, according to a new study by a Florida State University-Oklahoma State University research team.
|Jaw muscles in Tyrannosaurus rex that helped it generate 8,000-pound bite forces and an astounding 431,000 pounds
per square inch of bone-failing tooth pressures [Credit: Florida State University]
Erickson and Gignac found that this prehistoric reptile could chow down with nearly 8,000 pounds of force, which is more than two times greater than the bite force of the largest living crocodiles -- today's bite force champions. At the same time, their long, conical teeth generated an astounding 431,000 pounds per square inch of bone-failing tooth pressures.
This allowed T. rex to drive open cracks in bone during repetitive, mammal-like biting and produce high-pressure fracture arcades, leading to a catastrophic explosion of some bones.
|Triceratops pelvis bearing nearly 80 T. rex bite marks. Bracket shows region where the carnivore repetitively removed
sections of bone without the benefit of occluding teeth [Credit: Florida State University]
The researchers built on their extensive experience testing and modeling how the musculature of living crocodilians, which are close relatives of dinosaurs, contribute to bite forces. They then compared the results with birds, which are modern-day dinosaurs, and generated a model for T. rex.
From their work on crocodilians, they realized that high bite forces were only part of the story. To understand how the giant dinosaur consumed bone, Erickson and Gignac also needed to understand how those forces were transmitted through the teeth, a measurement they call tooth pressure.
"Having high bite force doesn't necessarily mean an animal can puncture hide or pulverize bone, tooth pressure is the biomechanically more relevant parameter," Erickson said. "It is like assuming a 600 horsepower engine guarantees speed. In a Ferrari, sure, but not for a dump truck."
In current day, well-known bone crunchers like spotted hyenas and gray wolves have occluding teeth that are used to finely fragment long bones for access to the marrow inside -- a hallmark feature of mammalian osteophagy. Tyrannosaurus rex appears to be unique among reptiles for achieving this mammal-like ability but without specialized, occluding dentition.
The new study is one of several by the authors and their colleagues that now show how sophisticated feeding abilities, most like those of modern mammals and their immediate ancestors, actually first appeared in reptiles during the Age of the Dinosaurs.
Author: Kathleen Haughney | Source: Florida State University [May 17, 2017]
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KALAMAZOO—Multi-platinum rock band Matchbox Twenty brings its North American tour to Western Michigan University with a concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at Miller Auditorium. Phillip Phillips, guitarist and 2012 American Idol winner will open the show. Tickets range from $38 to $78 and are now available at millerauditorium.com or ticketsforcharity.com, by calling (269) 387-2300 or (800) 228-9858 or by visiting the Miller Auditorium Box Office.
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In addition to more than 30 million records sold worldwide, Matchbox Twenty—featuring Rob Thomas, Paul Doucette, Kyle Cook and Brian Yale—has also earned countless accolades, including five Grammy nominations, four American Music Award nods and the 2004 People's Choice Award for "Favorite Musical Group."
"North," the band's fourth full-length studio recording and first all-new album in a decade, furthers their pop-rock sound, magnifying the indelible melodies, crafty lyricism, and catchy hooks that have defined their multi-platinum body of work.
The album reached the No. 1 position on the SoundScan/Billboard 200 after its first week in release earlier this year. Fueled by critical acclaim—as well as the hit singles "She's So Mean" and "Overjoyed"—the album's success marked the band's first-ever chart-topper and No. 1 debut.
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When Phillip Phillips won the American Idol competition in 2012 he had been playing guitar for fewer than 10 years, having picked up the instrument from his sister's then-boyfriend as a teen. He soon traded working at a pawn shop and playing in an acoustic band with family members to performing for millions on the Idol stage and signing with a major record label.
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