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Canny move by the new mag Fashion Almanac, signing up Bernadine Morris as its fashion director. Bernadine cut her fashion reporting teeth at Women's Wear Daily before moving on to a distinguished 31-year career at The New York Times. Launched by Amedeo Angiolillo (he published Taxi in the late '80s), this new book is due to go from quarterly to six times next year.
Does Terry McDonell's move from Sports Afield to editor of Wenner's Men's Journal mean more sports and less lifestyle or vice versa? Men's Journal circ is estimated at 553,000, and this year's ad pages are budgeted at 771.
Weather Channel named Craig A. Apatov its new senior VP-strategic marketing.
Following his sale of Spin for a few mil in walking-around money, will Bob Guccione Jr. still go ahead with plans to create a U.S. spinoff of Italian men's mag Max?
New publisher at Time Inc.'s Health is Mary Morgan, coming over from Ladies' Home Journal where she was associate pub.
New Woman (a K-III mag) named Jill Edelstein its Eastern ad manager.
At Glamour Mary Berner reports the biggest July issue in nine years, up 11% to 102 ad pages.
Major shake-up at Meredith Corp.'s Country Home where last week a new edit team took over, Carol Sheehan as editor, Mary Emmerling as creative director, and Jean Norman as exec editor. Considering the latest issue (May/June) was the largest in its history with 132 ad pages, you wonder what this is all about.
Ticketmaster's Live is about 18 months old now and Publisher Carole Ference tells me ever since the launch in February last year, they've averaged 25 ad pages per issue. Normally, says Carole, a newly born book can expect to average about 15 or 16 paid ads per issue.
A Homeric chiding to Thelma Adams of the New York Post for her reference (in a movie review) to Ulysses as "Latin." Greeks are demonstrating in the streets.
Speaking of classics, one of the world's great hotels, the Meurice in Paris, changed hands. Audley Group in London bought it. They already have the Dorchester there and the Beverly Hills in L.A. The Meurice, as you probably know, overlooks the Tuileries and at various times housed Dali, the Windsors, Baron de Rothschild and the Gestapo.
July's issue of Premiere is worth getting if only for John Brodie's piece on the rise & fall of Hollywood talent agent Jay Moloney.
At Parade, four promotions to senior VP: John Garvey, the manufacturing boffin, money guy Marcel Schloss, newspaper affiliate man Fred Johnson and marketing whiz Sandy Spaeth.
Fairchild will launch its new Jane magazine Aug. 19 (Coco Chanel's birthday, but you knew that). Turns out both editor and publisher (Jane Pratt and Lorin Litner) were born the same day, Nov. 11, 1962. What all this means, I haven't

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Set against a backdrop of rugged mountains (only 30 minutes from Cape Town) guests at Steenberg Hotel can admire sweeping vineyards from what once was the oldest farm in the Constantia Wine Valley. Buildings dating from 1682 have been restored with a dash of contemporary design. The fusion of the historic and trendy characterises the 'Steenberg Experience': luxury accommodation, fine dining, and award-winning wines.
Indulge in exquisite cuisine at Catharina's Restaurant or trendy bistro faire at Bistro Sixteen82. Enjoy a round of golf on the 18-hole championship course, a relaxing day at the Ginkgo Spa, a quiet stroll through the vineyards or wine tasting at the winery. A world in itself: from the swimming pool and sun loungers to the Champagne Bar, there is something for everyone. It's no wonder Steenberg Hotel has been voted one of the Top 100 Experiences in the World by readers of Condé Nast Traveller.
The 24 accommodation units come in varying categories from Luxury Rooms to opulent Heritage Suites. Contemporary decor and design with a country feel and African touches are the order of the day along with five-star in-room amenities and services.
- Located on private Steenberg Estate in Constantia Wine Valley
- Only 30 minutes from the city centre but far from the hustle and bustle of the city
- The 'Steenberg Experience' ensures fine-dining options and excellent wine tasting
- An 18-hole championship golf course for those who want to practice their swing
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Villas Playa Samara Beach Front Resort - All Inclusive, Samara
Samara-Guanacaste, Samara, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Great location
Beautiful beach
Service is adequate
Food is all right
From 1,028 reviews
Villas Playa Samara Beach Front Resort - All Inclusive, Samarafrom $299
- Garden View Junior Suite Kingbed
- Luxury Villa, 3 Bedrooms, Beachfront
- Garden View Deluxe Room Kingsize bed
- Beach Front Two Bedroom Villa
- Beachfront Junior Suite King
- Garden View Two Bedroom Villa
- Deluxe Double Room, 2 Queen Beds
- Beach Front Deluxe Room King Bed
- Beachfront Junior Suite 2 Double Beds
- Garden View Junior Suite 2 Double Beds
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At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 116 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 1 floor
- Check-in time 3 PM-11 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
- Express check-out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- One child (4 years old and younger) stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Free self parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
- All-inclusive (taxes included)
- Resort fee included
In the hotel
Taking the kids?
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
Food and drink
- Free buffet breakfast daily
- 3 restaurants
- 2 bars/lounges
- Snack bar/deli
- Swim-up bar
- Poolside bar
- Free reception
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Barbecue grills
Things to do
- Beach sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Fitness facilities
- Spa services on site
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Swim-up bar
- Free use of nearby fitness center
- Pool sun loungers
- Pool umbrellas
- Arcade/game room
- Billiards or pool table
Working away
- One meeting room
- Computer station
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Year Built 1992
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Rooftop terrace
- Garden
- Television in common areas
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
In the room
Home comforts
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Coffee/tea maker
Things to enjoy
- In-room massage available
Freshen up
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
Stay connected
- Free WiFi
Food and drink
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Access via exterior corridors
Also popular with travelers from the USA
Special features
All inclusive
This resort is all-inclusive. Onsite food and beverages are included in the room price (some restrictions may apply).
Gratuities and taxes
Taxes are included.
Food and beverages
- All buffet and à la carte meals, snacks, and local beverages included
- Number or type of beverages limited at one or more venues
Not included
- Premium food items
- Premium and/or non-domestic beverages
- Bottled wine
- Bottled liquor
- Airport transfers
- Childcare
- Laundry/dry cleaning services
- Spa/beauty facilities and services
- Transportation to offsite activities
- Gratuities
DiningArrecife - This poolside restaurant specializes in local and international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available. Open daily.
L ARDOISE - Overlooking the pool, this theme restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves dinner only. Reservations are required. Open daily.
ASIATICO - Overlooking the pool, this theme restaurant specializes in Asian cuisine and serves dinner only. Reservations are required. Open daily.
Villas Playa Samara Beach Front Resort - All Inclusive, Samara's small print
Also known as
- Hotel Playa Samara
- Villas Samara
- Hotel Villas Playa
- Hotel Villas Samara
- Playa Samara Hotel
- Playa Samara Villas
- Samara Villas
- Villas Playa
- Villas Playa Samara
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties.
Noise-free guestrooms cannot be guaranteed.
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
This property does not have elevators.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: CRC 60
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per child: CRC 25.00 (from 4 to 11 years old)
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: CRC 99
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per child: CRC 45.00 (from 4 to 11 years old)
The charges below are included in the total price displayed:
- Resort fee
Resort fee inclusions:
- Breakfast
- Pool access
- Beach access
- Beach loungers
- Beach towels
- Fitness center access
- Children's club/arcade access
- Partner property pool access
- Nearby fitness center access
- Bicycle storage
- Internet access (may be limited)
- In-room safe
- In-room coffee
- In-room bottled water
- Self parking
- Parking
- Housekeeping
Inclusions may be listed elsewhere on the page as free or for a surcharge.
Optional extras
Early check-in can be arranged for an extra charge of CRC 15000 (subject to availability)
Late check-in between 8 AM and 3 PM can be arranged for an extra charge of CRC 15000
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge of CRC 15000
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of CRC 90000 per person (one way)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
What's around Villas Playa Samara Beach Front Resort - All Inclusive, Samara
- On the beach
- Samara Beach - 11 min walk
- Carrillo Beach - 13 min walk
- Buena Vista Beach - 3.7 mi / 5.9 km
- Garza Beach - 14.1 mi / 22.7 km
- Safari Surf School - 18.8 mi / 30.2 km
- Nosara Beach - 19 mi / 30.5 km
- San Miguel Beach - 19.4 mi / 31.2 km
Getting around
- Liberia (LIR-Daniel Oduber Intl.) - 114 min drive
- Free self parking
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
Recent reviews
Good 7.2 From 40 reviews
Hotel resort under construction. Staff needs training in customer service and basic food service issues. Rooms are great, but after that, you are on your own.
it was great time. pool , beach are great locations aswell as nearby beach carrillo
Nice place, in my case it was perfect for a family vacation, we did not have any need to go outside of the place, we liked that the room has everything needed to cook and eat inside the village, so if you want to cook no need to pay for restaurant food, breakfast was included and beach is beautiful, ocean was quiet and easy
I had a great time very nice and friendly
Beautiful property on a beautiful beach. Nice villas, nice pool, nice grounds. No service, lousy restaurant. When I checked in I asked for help with luggage as it was approx 150 meters to the villa from the parking lot. No one available. No cart, no suggestion. Asked about room service. Said no, go ask restaurant. They took order and said they would deliver. An hour later I came back to find it sitting on the counter cold. No apology. This time they said they don't deliver, but asked if I wanted to reserve table for dinner. Yes, for a lousy buffet you have to reserve a place. And they wanted me to wear one of those wrist bands all weekend like they were an amusement park. Really a shame. Lots of potential. Obviously lousy management. All wasn't lost as I had a wonderful deep tissue massage from A_____. Believe the ratings not the pictures. Go to one of the many other hotels and some very good restaurants in Samara, but not here.


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Part I:
Land of the Free, Home of the Safe and Prudent
Wherein Barney goes to Montana, meets crazy people, and gets investigated by the FBI and military intelligence ...
Mr. Greinke is an ordinary citizen currently taking a few months' vacation to drive around the USA on a rather unordinary historical tour: a tour of the Cold War. His objective is to visit the many "Battlefields of World War III" that lie scattered across our great land. These "battlefields" include anything and everything related to the Cold War and the long-promised nuclear Armageddon that never happened.
[Sept. 15, 1998] -- There is a speed limit sign when you enter Montana. They only show it to you once, right at the border. It reads: "Daytime -- Safe and Prudent."
"What does it mean, this, 'Safe and Prudent?'" I asked the waitress at the pizza joint in West Yellowstone.
"Whatever you want it to mean," she replied pleasantly. Thinking on that for another second, she added, "Whatever you think you can get away with."
"Whatever I think I can get away with?"
"Honey, this," she explained, "is Montana."
Land of the Free
If you're like me, almost everything you know about Montana comes from television. And as far as I know, television has never used the words "Montana," "Safe," and "Prudent" in the same sentence. To me, Montana is that place where every home comes equipped with a machine gun and a rocket launcher, a bunker in the basement, and an FBI sniper out in the yard. Montana is the wacky land where Ted "UNABOMBER" Kaczynski lives just down the road from the gun nut who decided to practice his marksmanship up on Capitol Hill a few months back. Montana is that rugged northern state packed full of grizzly bears and rattlesnakes, Aryan Nation wackos and heavily armed IRS agents, tar-paper manifesto factories and nuclear missile silos.
And, lemme tell you, television is not entirely wrong.
I arrived in Great Falls on Friday looking for a cheap place to stay. I'd been sleeping in the back of my Isuzu Trooper for the last week, mostly out in the Idaho desert, and things were getting a little bit ... ripe. Dirt roads and 90-degree days had combined to form a layer of dust, sweat and grime on the surface of my body that you could scoop off by the spoonful. I wanted a shower and a shave. Desperately.
It wasn't just some personal hygiene barrier I'd crossed, either. It was also absolutely crucial to my mission here that I get clean-shaven and smelling respectable. If you're gonna be driving around the Minuteman missile fields trying to take a picture or two of a nuclear missile silo, it's best to look somewhat presentable.
First I cruised to the Holiday Inn. I don't know why. I knew it wouldn't be cheap. But sometimes, compared to California, everything seems cheap. Not this time. Seventy-one dollars for the night. Ouch. No way. Do I look that desperate? Do I smell that desperate? Probably. I was sure I could do better, though. I drove around a bit more and found a place for $24, but it wasn't in what one might call the "kindler, gentler" part of town. Finally, I found a nice, clean, centrally located motel for cheap. The manager seemed to like me the moment I walked in.
He even cut me a deal:
"You're commercial, right? You want the Commercial Rate (wink wink), right?"
"Uh, yeah. I'm, uh, here on business." And I was. In a way.
"I can give you a room for $34.95, tax included. Fill this out. Non Smoking? Room 101. It's not quiet, but we're right next to the road, none of the rooms are quiet. Credit card? We like credit cards. Cal-if-ornia, huh? On your way to Glacier? It's beautiful up there. Lotta grizzlies, though."
The manager was a short, old white guy. Wiry and weathered, with slicked-back silver hair and an untrusting look in his eye. Exactly the kind of guy who should be running a small motel, or a dive bar, or maybe a dirty book store. He looked like the kind of guy who kept a shotgun under the counter and looked forward to the day he'd get an opportunity to use it. He was a Safe and Prudent kinda guy, I could tell.
"I only got three hours of sleep last night," he told me as I continued to sign in.
"That's rough. I know what that's like."
"I only got three hours every night this week."
"Ouch. That is rough. You running this place by yourself or something?"
"Yup. I only got about three hours for about the last 6 years. You try doing that," he said.
I began to say something, but his mouth had picked up momentum now, and he talked right on through me. He could talk for a long time without taking a breath.
"Usually, on about 2 a.m., I go lie down for a couple of hours. But then, by five, I can't sleep anymore. I just can't do it. I'll tell ya'. But don't you even think of bothering me during my three hours, though. I might hav'ta kill ya. There's only two things I might hav'ta kill ya for: messing with my woman, and trying to wake me up from my three hours."
"I like to sleep. I sleep recreationally," I managed to interject, sliding him the finished motel slip.
"Rrrrrrrng! Rrrrrrrnng!" I nearly jumped at the sound. "Jeezus fuck!" I almost blurted out. My Safe and Prudent motel manager had the loudest telephone ringer on planet fucking earth.
"Hold on, lemme get that," he said in between rings.
"Hello? Yeah. Yes, ABC Motel. Yes, we can do that. Yeah. Let's see. No. No. I told you. $49 a night plus tax. OK. The 23rd. OK, I got it. Goodbye."
Not exactly Mr. Friendly when taking reservations on the phone, I noticed. But from what I could tell, it sounded like he really had given me a deal on the room, especially considering that it was Labor Day weekend.
"Here's your key," he said. He was ready to start talking again, I could tell.
"Thanks," I said, and turned to leave. It was a little rude, but I really wanted to shower.
I took the key and turned to walk out. I reached the open doorway and was just about to exit when I realized that this was a perfect opportunity to ask a local about visiting missile silos. I'd been doing the math on the drive into Great Falls. There were hundreds of missile silos around here, but being spaced at roughly 5-mile intervals, I could potentially drive around all day and not happen to find one.
I stopped in the doorway and turned back around.
"Oh, one more thing," I said. "I wanna go look at some missile silos." I explained my Cold War Tour. "You wouldn't happen to know if they have any tours or anything, would you? Over at the base, maybe? I really want to visit one."
This must have been the funniest thing he'd heard in a long time. And by the look on his face I could tell that I was about to get an earful.
"Hey Theo," he called to his friend, who was hanging out on the porch, "You know what this guy wants to do? This guy wants to go visit the missile silos! He wants to call Malmstrom and ask for a tour!"
His friend -- a fit, slightly younger man with a drink in his hand -- hopped up and came into the office.
"He wants to call and ask for a tour?!"
"Yup, a tour!"
The two of them laughed at this for several seconds while I tried to figure out what was so amusing.
"Buddy," the motel manager said, "You know what'll happen if you call up and ask to see some missile silos? Why, those OSI boys will be down here bangin' on your door in about three minutes. And you know what? They won't be polite, either. I hope you got insurance, 'cuz you can just about write that room off when they're done with it."
"Uh, really," I said, not believing him a bit.
"The minute you call that base, your phone number will be up on their screens. They'll know where you're calling from, too. They'll even know who you are. Then they'll come down here and ... and that's it for you. They're gonna take you away. Maybe for a few hours. Maybe for a few days. Maybe ... maybe you ain't coming back. Hey Theo, you know someone up in Leavenworth, right?"
"Yup. Makin' big ones into little ones, then takin' the little ones and gluing 'em back together into big ones," replied Theo.
"Uh, huh," I said sarcastically. "I don't believe it."
"You think you're living in a free country, son? You think you have freedom?"
Oh yeah. I was in Montana now.
"Sure," I said, "This is pretty much a free country."
"Hah! This ain't no free country. You think you're free? You think you can say anything you want?"
"Sure. Basically. You know, First Amendment. What can't I say?"
"First Amendment! Hah! Did you know that it's illegal to criticize the President of the United States? Illegal! It's considered a threat on his life."
"That's right," Theo chimed in.
Uh-oh, I thought. These two have been listening to a bit too much talk radio. Who's that radio conspiracy guy my Mom listens to every night? Art Bell?
"Nah. I don't believe it," I said.
"It's true. You ever been harassed by the government, son?"
"No. Not really."
"Well I have. Goddamn IRS been after me for years. Bastards! I don't even use my real name anymore. Now when I go somewhere and someone asks me my name, I tell 'em 'None of your goddamn business.' That's what I tell 'em."
"Uh, I see," I said.
"You listen to me, this ain't no free country. There ain't no damn Constitution anymore. We haven't had a Constitution since 1960-something ... for at least 30 years now."
OK. Was it time to hear about JFK now? We had moved out onto the porch and into the 90-degree heat, and I was afraid that rivers of black sweaty dirt would start flowing down my arms, legs and forehead. I decided I could humor these two just a little bit longer to see where this went.
"Some people would say it started with Roosevelt," I said.
"I was in Veee-et-nam," exclaimed the motel manager. "This ain't no free country. You know what we did over there if someone like you came around, wantin' to see things, askin' too many questions?"
I shook my head, not bothering to ask him why he was talking about Vietnam all of a sudden.
"Schhhhrrrrk," he said, drawing his finger across his neck. "We killed 'em. No trial. Nothin'. We killed 'em. Took 'em out on patrol and didn't bring 'em back. No trial. No con-sti-tooo-shun.
"There was this reporter once, 'started askin' me how many men I killed. I just took my M16, pointed it into his mouth like this, and told him 'I can always add one more to my list.'"
The motel manager moved in close, pointing a phantom M16 at me. He looked me dead in the eye and grinned a big shit-eating grin; the kind of grin that you only see when vets start telling their war stories and they can tell that you're not quite sure whether to believe them or not. The look in his eyes told me I should probably believe him.
"I can always add one more to my list," he repeated, with a slight melody in his voice. He must've told the story before and liked the sound of that part.
I knew we were playing a game now; a game I'd played before. It's called "Scare the Civilian."
"There was this general once," he started up again, "Playin' both sides. What you'd call a double agent. We didn't give him no trial. He just got in his jeep one day and, well, those things do have fuel line leaks sometimes. Haha. Let ... me ... tell ... you! The hole under that jeep was 20 feet deep, and you couldn't find enough of him to fill an aspirin bottle. Like I said to that reporter, 'I can always add one more to my list.'"
He paused for a moment, still grinning that strange grin, and brought his phantom M16 to bear once again. He was trying to scare me, provoke a reaction. But his story was good, and I like this game. I kept my pokerface, stood there, and waited for more.
"Once you've killed a man," said the motel manager, "one more don't mean nothin.' And I know how to kill a man."
How nice.
"You still think you're free, huh?" It was Theo's turn now. "Then tell me what's on the back of your drivers license."
I pulled out my license and looked down at the brown magnetic strip.
"They can track you with that. They're trackin' everybody with those. They know you're here right now." He paused. "Satellites."
"It's true," added the motel manager. "They know you're here right now." He looked me dead in the eyes once more, still trying to spook me, still playing the game. "And if they wanted to, there'd be a car here in 60 seconds. And it wouldn't be marked, either. And the guys getting out of it, they wouldn't be wearing uniforms. Or, if they were wearing uniforms, 'cuz they needed the Kevlar, they wouldn't have no insignia on 'em. They'd just tell you to get in the car. And you wouldn't have no choice. You'd be in that car. And when you got in that car, you don't know if you're gonna be gone for two hours, two days, or two years."
"No one might ever see you again," said Theo. "They could make you disappear." Theo was playing the game too.
"Go ahead. Call 'em. Call that missile base. I wanna see what happens," said the motel manager. "I wanna see how long it takes the car to get here. I wanna watch."
"I don't wanna be around if he's gonna call that base," said Theo. He was serious. "Don't call that base. You call that base, I'm leaving."
The game had gone on a bit too long, and now Theo had even freaked himself out just a little bit. I could see him looking around, evaluating his escape routes. And I knew then that these guys had believed every word they had said.
Game over.
"Well, I'm gonna go unload the Trooper now," I said. I walked off the porch, and this time I did not turn back.
I went over to the Trooper and started grabbing my bags. As I did this, I noticed Theo leaving the motel out the back way, through the alley, walking fast. Maybe he had somewhere to be. Or maybe he thought I was gonna make that call right away.
I started rummaging through my equipment, and the motel manager came over to talk a bit longer.
"So, how do you know we're not OSI?" he asked.
"I guess I really don't know," I answered, turning to look at him closely. All their talk had been a bit paranoid, but paranoia is contagious, and my brain began to spin this idea around. Did this guy look OSI? What did OSI look like?
"So, you aren't worried about going into the missile fields now?" he asked.
"No," I replied. "I have nothing to hide."
"They won't care if you have nothing to hide," he said. "How do you know they won't come get you?"
"Well," I thought for a second. "They won't come get me then, because I pose no threat."
He just looked at me.
"Watch out for those helicopters," he said, and turned away.
I watched him walk back to the motel office.
I took my things from the Trooper and dumped them on the floor of my room. I locked every lock on the door, stripped out of my sweaty clothes, grabbed a razor and started my shower. Thirty seconds later I got out of the shower, grabbed the only thing I had resembling a weapon, a pocket knife, and put it next to the shampoo where it'd be handy. Paranoia is contagious. It was best to be Safe and Prudent.
Next: Barney gets to see a missile silo ... and gets a special visit by the intelligence community. Write to the Nuke Tourist at:
|Also in this issue:
Stab Spree Killer Ends Bloody Night With Suicide by Truck!
BARNEY GREINKE: Cold War Tourist
Children's Fund Used for Kickbacks and Porn, Sez Attorney General
North Korea's New Complaint: Cow Sabotage!
Filthy Ira the Killer Hippie Is Arrested Again!
© 1998 Tabloid News Services, Inc. Portions © 1998 AFP.
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Geosoft brings its exploration solutions to the Mineral Exploration Roundup
Geosoft and Esri User Group meetings at the Roundup will update on new directions and improvements in ArcGIS and Geosoft solutions for mineral explorers
Geosoft will be attending the 29th Mineral Exploration Roundup conference running January 23-26 in Vancouver, Canada. This year's Roundup coincides with the 100 year anniversary of event organizer Association for Mineral Exploration BC (AME BC).
The Geosoft team will be available at booth B12 January 25-26 to engage with companies looking for technical advise and software solutions to optimize the use of data for exploration effectiveness and discovery success.
A Geosoft User Group meeting will be held January 24th. Geosoft and Esri Canada will be co-sponsoring the Esri Mining User Group (MUG) meeting hosted by Teck Resources Limited on January 25th. Information and registration details for the User Group meetings are available online at http://www.geosoft.com/events. Visit the LinkedIn event page to register for the Esri MUG meeting.
At the conference, Geosoft will be demonstrating the latest enhancements within their Oasis montaj and Target exploration mapping software, including new tools to assist with more effective exploration targeting, improved drillhole planning and reporting. There will also be a preview of what's coming in 2012 with a continued focus on enriched 3D visualization and analysis of subsurface structures. Included in the preview is a demonstration of Geosoft's VOXI Earth Modelling service, currently in pre-release, which enables geoscientists to create 3D models of the earth by applying inversion techniques to 2D magnetic or gravity data.
The Mineral Exploration Roundup conference is a world premier technical mineral exploration conference that brings together individuals and organizations representing all components of the global mineral exploration and mine development industries in Vancouver, Canada.


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My son will be entering the second grade and just got changed to doing a shot before lunch which he did not require last year. He cannot do his own shots yet and will need help, but the school nurse is only there one day a week and has a helper as other times. Last year, they said they could not give him glucagon because they could not inject the kids. Do they have to help him do his shots? Do I have to go to the school and give my son's shots until he learns to do them himself?
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Paladino creates Waynesburg University sustainability plan
Janet Paladino, Assistant Professor of Biology, along with student researcher Dorothy Rurak, is researching and creating a sustainability plan that will outline policies, programs, and practices that aim to conserve natural resources, reduce the impact on the environment and create a community who is actively engaged in caring for God's creation. Sustainable goals will be targeted toward the following functional areas: academics, energy, water, food, solid waste, transportation, procurement of funding, building for the future, community engagement and connectivity to God's creation. Paladino's research will benefit the University and community by providing a model of sustainability for other institutions, and the society at large.
A newly formed sustainability committee initiated the research. There are several sustainable outcomes that have resulted from this committee in conjunction with Paladino's research.
Sustainable Outcomes
- Reducing energy consumption through a Campus Climate Challenge
- Buildings were challenged to conserve energy through personal changes. The program was successful as many buildings saved a significant amount of energy. Some buildings saved 29% electricity or 20,622 kWh.
- Expanding the recycling program
- Student workers were hired to better tend to the campus recycling needs
- Switching to green cleaning products used in food services
- Monitoring mercury deposition on the Waynesburg University campus
- Replacing all academic and administrative lights with low energy solutions
- The switch will save 413,887 kWh or the equivalent of planting 9,793 trees
- Researching service learning based environmental outreach program with student researcher, Dorothy Rurak.
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What was the difference watching this match from here instead of on TV? From my pressroom monitor, errors appeared to have been produced by mental lapses or stupid risks. "How could Petkovic hit that into the net? She must be choking. Kuzzie, will you ever learn?" But when you get on the court, you can see that while there are pointless misses, the majority of them come because each player feels that she must live with a certain amount risk in her game—Petkovic aims for the baseline; Kuznetsova swings from the heels—because if they play it safe, they're going to get killed on the next ball. Women's tennis 2010: Don't call it a bash fest; call it an arms race. For better and worse, hitting the hell out of the ball is playing percentage tennis. Only seeing it up close, closing the distance between yourself and the players, will let you appreciate this. Stylistic variety? That's an aesthetic element of the sport which is emphasized by the colder, distanced view of the TV camera. Here you feel the sparks of the athletic combat that goes on beneath.
From an emotional standpoint, you might see Murray as a whiner, a guy who's always got some niggling complaint about something. Up close you can hear him mumble to himself, take deep breaths, get annoyed at an invisible person in the audience. Taken together, these little tics and gestures begin to seem like Murray's method of competing, of bracing himself, bit by bit, moment by moment, for the psychological strains of a match. It's the pep talk of a fundamentally pessimistic person, and it doesn't look like an easy act to pull off. When Murray tells the crowd to shut up a few inches from me, it isn't anger that I see in his face. It's embarrassment over his missed shot, over his small failure. Every tennis match is a performance where flubbed lines are a given. But that doesn't make flubbing a shot in public any easier.
Read the whole piece. It's fantastic. What I love about Steve's writing, aside from his eloquence, is the clear passion for the game. A lot of tennis writers, I won't name names, sound like writing about tennis is a chore, an annoyance, a thorn in their side. You finish reading their pieces and regardless of the quality of their analysis (to the extent there is *any* analysis at all) you don't feel like they even enjoy the sport they cover. I never get that sense with Tignor's writing, which is why I always look forward to reading whatever he posts.


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We offer market opportunities to market players in the field of electric mobility and make it even easier for every individual driver to cross borders. Our open platform connects the back offices of our partners, in order to turn Europe into one big charging network.
e-clearing.net is an open platform that enables the exchange of roaming authorization, charge transaction and charge point information data. We offer market players in electric mobility cross-border interoperability between networks. Our mission is to move e-mobility forward by enabling data exchange through one connection and one interface. The OCHP protocol (Open Clearinghouse Protocol) is designed to give parties the opportunity to use their own back-end to connect to e-clearing.net.
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• Here come the sunflowers!
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• Bee pollination
a "hands on" activity that explores how bees pollinate flowers from littlewarriors blog.
• Plant parts salad from the Captain Planet foundation.
• Learn all about Monarch butterflies with these classroom activities from the US forest service.
• Learn about pollinator gardens and pollinator species with these activities and lesson plans from the Co-evolution institute and pollinators.org
• Learning how to plant a pollinator garden with kidsgardening.org
• Learn the "butterfly dance". Watch a live stream from a real pollinator garden or brush up on your pollinator info (teachers) with a web seminar. All from pollinator live!
Grades 2-4
• Learn about a pollinator's journey with classroom activities and a play about migratory bats and butterflies from the National Wildlife Federation.
• Pollinators are the main focus here with this great activity book from the USDA that includes coloring pages, word searches, and mazes.
• Learn all about Monarch butterflies with these classroom activities from the US forest service.
•Flowers and pollination lesson plans and handouts for grades 2-4 from learn NC.
• Learn how to build a butterfly garden in your school from the National Environmental Education week site.
• Learn about the flow of energy in a garden with The Captain Planet Foundation.
• Explore and understand pollination and flowers with the San Antonio Botanical Garden.
• Watch video content on pollination, plants, and pollinators. All from pollinator live!
• Learn all about Monarch butterflies with these classroom activities from the US forest service.
• Butterflies, bees, and flowers; learn their important botanical and physiological components. An activity with worksheets from the butterfly project NYC.
• Bees, pollination, and fertilization; a lesson plan by k6edu.com.
• Learn about a bee's life and honey production from The honey files.
• Listen to some of these fascinating podcasts from a series focused on pollination by the US Fish and Wildlife Services. Subjects include monarch migration, building a pollination garden, native bees, and endangered butterflies and plants.
• Lesson plans such as "wildlife zone" and "Learn things:pollination" are provided by Tennessee curriculum.


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Best of European Portrait Photographers honoured by Hahnemühle
Hahnemühle is proud to be the sponsor of the FEP Portrait Awards 2011. This award is one out of eight categories in the most prestigious photo award in Europe. The competition is conducted annually by the Federation of European Professional Photographers (FEP) - a network of 24 National Professional Photographers Associations from 21 European countries.
All photographers in the FEP Hahnemühle Portrait category shot impressive portraits. They have the gift to capture the subjects' personality, profession or dream in only one image. "Hahnemühle provide genuine artist papers on which all these impressive portraits come to life. When these images go to print, they deserve the best archival papers with a surface range and quality matching the high standard required by the photographers" says Bettina Scheerbarth from Hahnemühle during the award ceremony at the end of November 2011 in Brussels.
Winner of the FEP Hahnemühle Portrait Golden Camera is Igor Sakharov from Russia with a series of very strong but intimate portraits of a musician and an actor.
Ingrid van Heteren (Netherlands), winner of the FEP Hahnemühle Portrait Silver Camera shot portraits of a girl like a magical fairy tale character.
Then you have FEP Hahnemühle Portrait Bronze Camera award winner Carl Tighe from Ireland, whose images of a classical beauty jump right out of a frame.
Chairman of the Jury, Master QEP, Jørgen Brandt, gives the following resumé: "The images from the competition illustrates that exceptionally high quality photographic excellence comes in many forms, from different cultural regions - and that we can all understand these European photographic language and find inspiration in this diversity."
Copyright for the images are obligatory:
Igor Sakharov (Russia) FEP Hahnemühle Portrait Golden Camera 2011
Ingrid van Heteren (Netherlands) FEP Hahnemühle Portrait Silver Camera 2011
Carl Tighe (Ireland) FEP Hahnemühle Portrait Bronze Camera 2011
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Sept 8 (Reuters) - Shenzhen Jufei Optoelectronics Co Ltd
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Janney Montgomery Scott lured away an advisor team from J.P. Morgan.
Advisors Dan Carney and Stuart Peterson moved over to Janney in South Kingstown, R.I., where they opened a new office for the firm. Also joining them is Beth Friedman, a branch operations assistant, and Paula Cummings, a registered private client assistant.
The team will report to Steve Pitassi, branch manager of Janney's Providence, R.I., office.
Carney, who has more than 30 years of industry experience, joined Janney as satellite branch manager and senior vice president of wealth management. Carney started his career with E.F. Hutton in 1977, and later worked at Bear Stearns and J.P. Morgan Securities, according to FINRA records.
Peterson had been with J.P. Morgan since 2010. Prior to that he worked at Morgan Stanley.
J.P. Morgan has recently lost talent to Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management and Morgan as well. An advisor team managing $175 million in assets and generating $2.1 million in production left J.P. Morgan for Morgan Stanley on October 14.
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Among the most vulnerable groups there are disabled people, pensioners, pregnant women and women on maternity leave.
According to Izvestia's preliminary information, such a situation comes from the ineffectiveness of benefits monetization program: it often proves to be not as beneficial as its predecessor.
According to a sociological study, every fifth citizen of the Russian Federation can not get necessary medications.
At least 20% of Russian citizens can not afford drugs they need because they are too expensive. The data comes from the research of the Institute for Social Analysis and Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. One of the reasons for this is a flaw of domestic medicines and the monetization of benefits.
Another 26% of respondents got into a similar situation once or twice in last 6 months.
"At the same time, even if the federal budget provides its part in full, insufficient funding from regional budgets leads to a shortage of medicines," Izvestia writes.
The situation is aggravated by the fact that federal and regional authorities are both involved in the provision of medical care.
Professor of the Institute of Biology and Chemistry Andrei Teleshev also told Izvestia that Russian drugs currently occupy only about 30% of the Russian pharmaceutical market.
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Not Quite What I Was Planning, famous and not-so-famous writers were asked to provide their life stories in six word sentences. They responded with funny, sad and often poignant quotes that are a short record or chronicle of their lives. I thought it would be fun to get to know some of you a bit better so...can you sum up your life in a six word sentence?
Here are four examples, just to get you thinking...
Aged pretty well, all things considered.
Oldest of three; boss of everyone.
The second mouse gets the cheese.
Read the map. Still got lost.
This task won't be easy for everyone, believe me I know! I wrote several before I finally chose one to post and I am not sure that it is great but at least it is a start! (You'll have to visit my page to see what I said about myself.)
Be the next to post your life sentence either here or on my page, Your Life Sentence in Six Words. That could make you first, if you don't count me!
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GOOD MORNING from Lake Como, Italy, and the Villa d'Este, where the fifth edition of "Viva Hollywood's" stars from both Hollywood and Italy have gathered for the Merit of Achievement Awards. This event is joining international celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America. The setting for the showbiz groups of both countries could not be more dramatic. This is a part of the world heralded through the centuries by artists of all of Europe. The towering mountains look down on the mirror-like lake along whose shores are villas of the extravagantly rich. The Villa d'Este, home to the Hollywood stars during this minifestival, is like a movie designer's dream. It is but one of the sites of the toasting to the visitors from Hollywood. Another location is the Casino Municipale of Campione, a half-hour's drive from the Villa d'Este and, believe it or not, through a sliver of Switzerland and then back into Italy along yet another gem-like lake, Lugano, where the steepest of mountains form triangular boundaries reaching skyward from the water. The air is clean, the blue, smogless skies painted with clouds in ever-changing designs. The whole lake area is like something from a giant movie, or two. This year's awardees (alphabetically) are Jacqueline Bisset, Ernest Borgnine, Bo Derek, Richard Harris, Janet Leigh, Karl Malden, Valerie Perrine, Rod Taylor and, from TV's "The Bold and the Beautiful" (a national pastime here!), Katherine Kelly Lang. This year, producer Pier Quinto Cariaggi, creator of the awards to be aired via RAI-2, also presented "Italian Contributions to American Cinema." And for a week preceding the awards presentations, their works were screened in the nearby city of Como for the press and public to once again applaud them. These included Rossano Brazzi, cinematographer Carlo di Palma (Woody Allen's cameraman), Pino Donaggio (sound, "Carrie"), Ruggero Mastroianni (editor, "Certain Smile"), Carlo Rimbaldi (special effects for "E.T." and "Alien"), Pietro Scalia (editor, "JFK"), Franco Zeffirelli, director. Said producer Cariaggi, "In 1992, we wanted to award certain personalities who have worked in conjunction with the American cinema."
MAXWELL M. RABB, WHO SERVED as the U.S. Ambassador to Italy for eight years from 1981, is here with his wife, Ruth, and he is serving as chairman of the honorees committee. He is a charming gentleman, now in the private sector, having served presidents dating back to Eisenhower. (During the long tenure, there was an assassination attempt on him by four of Gadhafi's Libyan hitmen.) He is no stranger to Hollywood and counts among his friends Jack Valenti. The Rabbs and the MPAA's Valenti installed a screening room in the U.S. Ambassador's residence (on 12 acres) in the heart of Rome. That way, the ambassador, his wife and dignitaries visiting and stationed in Rome could view the latest Hollywood movies. In those days, Rabb never set foot outside the residence or embassy without armed guards in front of, within and behind the car–some with machine guns. Rabb's own story during the era when he engineered the release of 11 CIA agents from East Germany in the '60s was once written as a possible movie to star–Rod Taylor, one of the honorees present here. … Karl Malden told me this is his final term as Academy president–even though Gil Cates said he would again produce the show only if Malden stayed on for another year. "I want to get back to acting," said Malden–pleased that his tenure leaves a legacy: During the Malden Acad-presidential days, the new library became a reality, the Oscar story on cassette was produced and the theater was updated.
ROSSANO BRAZZI SAID HE IS PLANNING to return to live in L.A. where he worked for many years. He has made 161 movies "as a main character," more than anyone else, he claims. He laughingly enumerated some of the many actresses he has kissed (onscreen)–from Michele Morgan to Katharine Hepburn–"But I'm no lover," he insisted. "I'm too lazy." He urged more American actors to come to Italy and vice versa–"It might help to make a common market." While here, Brazzi received offers to do two films–one in the Latvian city of Riga, the other in Paris. You know which one he accepted. … Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine said, "There are casting directors in Hollywood who think I died. So, I travel in my motor home and I have the time of my life." And he looks great! The Italians were happy to learn he lived in Italy several years when a small boy. "The reason I left, I came down with malaria–otherwise I'd still be here!" Borgnine told the Italians, "I made 137 movies and never said a swear word. I will not leave a legacy of bad words for children growing up watching the cinema." Janet Leigh echoed his remarks to the locals, decrying nudity and violence in films. Even in "Psycho," she claimed, "You could swear you saw a knife, and you could swear you saw a naked body, but you actually saw neither. It was all left to your imagination (by clever direction by Alfred Hitchcock). I'm afraid children of today will have their imagination atrophied." Leigh, who did one seg of "Okavango" in Africa, will return for another, she said.


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Monday, July 7, 2008
The manhunt that refused to go away
After hearing this, I have only one thing to say, "The Singapore government is in denial."
Simply as that, because I'm afraid there's no other explanation for it. I think I'm speaking for a lot of Singaporeans when I say that I will be very surprised if Mas Selamat is still in Singapore. The man has now evaded the manhunt for 5 months. 5 months after escaping and the man has not found a way out of Singapore yet? Yet Singaporeans are to believe that this is the same man who could slipped out of the Whitley Road Detention Centre in February this year in just 11 mins without any outside help?
I have yet to speak to any Singaporeans who believed that Mas Selamat is still in Singapore, if the Singapore government has some info we don't, please tell us. If not, they risked looking very, very stupid to the world.
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The one person who's looking bad and really upset would be the Home Affairs minister. Also the recent slip-up at the Changi airport customs over a Singaporean who clears security check with his son's passport must have caused an even greater ripple within the Home Security ministry, with all the high-positioned officers fearing and guessing who's head will be the next to roll.
One thing's for sure, nobody in the Home Affairs team is in any mood for Karaoke, whether he can sing or not...
- July 7, 2008 at 7:49 PM
And they still haven't found what they are looking for.....
5mth+ and counting.
- July 8, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Wishful thinking or some people should not stop taking their daily medicine cos they are beginning to hallucinate. LOL.
- July 8, 2008 at 1:58 PM
It seems loose-loose for MHA. If MSK is still in Singapore. Why can't they find him? If he is not, how he got away from the tight "security" checks? So the best is to shut up and hope some miracle to happened and claim credit. Read today's ST " Critical info from Singapore led to arrests in Indonesia." If nothing happens, people will forget and move on.
- July 8, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Agree with Anon 1:58pm :
WKS should take more "bitter " medication so that he wake up his idea.
- July 8, 2008 at 8:38 PM
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Exactly I think it's far better for the MHA if MSK has got away from Singapore. Far better than he being in Singapore for 5 months and no word from anyone
- July 8, 2008 at 10:06 PM
In the days the old media, everything can be forgotten once the press stop publishing the news. But in this digital age, nothing will be forgotten.
PAP better wake up their ideas.
- July 8, 2008 at 11:24 PM
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ghost - r u "dogeatsdog" in sammyboy forum? If u r not then this guy is pretending to be you.
- July 9, 2008 at 11:12 AM
- Ghost said...
No, I am not "dogeatsdog" in sammyboy forum. In fact I almost never go to sammyboy. I also don't understand why someone is trying to pretend to be me. If you have a comment to make, if you can't put it as anonymous, then at least put up your own alias right? If you are that worried about being track on the internet, keep quiet. That's the safest way not to get into trouble
- July 9, 2008 at 12:03 PM
I believe!! why bcos he has not use his passport to exit custom chkpt, so i'm sure he's STILL in singpura.. now where is my passport..
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The riot broke out Thursday morning in an exercise yard that serves the prison's newest arrivals.
A spokesperson said between 150 and 200 inmates were involved. Dozens were slashed and stabbed by fellow prisoners armed with homemade weapons.
Guards used pepper spray and fired off rifle rounds to restore order.
At least four prisoners were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No guards or staff members were hurt.
All 4,113 inmates at San Quentin, a maximum security prison that house's California's death row, have been confined to cells while officials investigate what led to the disturbance, an official said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Top Ten BlackBerry Business Applications
We have gone ahead and gathered a group of apps for you to utilize in your daily business routine. We have provided you with short descriptions as well as a link to the your desired app from the list. So here are some top rated BlackBerry business applications that further enhance BlackBerry for business capabilities.
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SalesNow is a BlackBerry application that allows users to organize contacts and manage deals with a handy and useful tool. It is perfect for mobile based sales for professional outfits who are on the go and do not have constant access to the Internet via a PC. With this BlackBerry for business application, users can manage their contacts, company information, activities, keep their eyes on ongoing deals and purchases and answer emails all from one useful app.
The application also has a graphical database that shows recent and old sales information, their history and business forecasts. SalesNow is free and can be downloaded here.
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Business Card ReaderRating
The Business Card Reader application can import contact information with just a click of the camera. This BlackBerry for business application requires no actual entry to be made by typing information . Users only need to take a picture of a business card and a new contact is made instantly.
It works by scanning and reading the picture using ABBY text recognition software and technology and enters the information within a form in its appropriate location. This application also reads and accepts information in various languages, including French, German and Spanish. This BlackBerry for business application costs $9.99 and can be downloaded here.
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VIP Access can be used on a computer and BlackBerry device and helps to protect data from theft and wrong usage. This and similar BlackBerry business applications are especially useful for businesses that have private data to protect. This BlackBerry for business application uses a special security code, coupled with a user name and password to ensure information remains safe.
VIP stands for VeriSign Indentity Program and it can be used to securely sign into multiple accounts online via the BlackBerry browser. This application is free and can be downloaded here.
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Exgis Mileage TrackerRating
For business individuals the Exgis Mileage Tracker is perfect for keeping a record of business excursions and travels. It records any vehicle's mileage information and displays it quickly and accurately.
This BlackBerry for business application also sorts mileage based on several categories such as an event, location or client. It can also be exported onto a PC into a spreadsheet or emailed directly from a BlackBerry device to a client or to the office. This BlackBerry application costs $4.99 here.
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Best BlackBerry Business Apps Within this article is a list of ten of the best BlackBerry Business apps that can be found in Blackberry App World. If you use your BlackBerry for business then these applications are worth checking out. The list includes HotSchedules, WebEx Meeting Center, Upvise, Data Backup, UPS Mobile and Direct Print.
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The HotSchedules business application is an intuitive app that manages work schedules efficiently from a BlackBerry phone. Users are able to check their schedules, delete them, swap them for others or skip them using the tools available within HotSchedules. It also includes the ability to track employee tasks and jobs, inserting their shift information and check off when a task has been completed. This BlackBerry for business application costs $2.99 and can be downloaded here.
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WebEx Meeting Center is an online meeting app which gives users the ability to view presentations on someone's PC, chat with clients or employees and start a meeting in one BlackBerry for business application. It is easy to join WebEx as sign up is done directly on the BlackBerry smartphone. WebEx Meeting Center is free for download here.
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Upvise allows users to combine their contacts, tasks, projects and sales all into one useful application. It integrates business information with events, meetings and projects for easy access. It can also be synced using a PC to the Upvise website.
This application offers 4 different categories: Business Contact Manager, Project viewer, Notebook and Idea pad. This application is free for download here.
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DataBackup is an easy and quick way to backup all business files and information to a secure and safe location. It moves all data to a microSD card. It sorts and categorizes files including tasks, calendar events and emails.
All data is loaded into an easy to understand interface and layout that users can access using the microSD card. It is a great addition to other BlackBerry business applications. It is completely free and can be downloaded here.
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UPS MobileRating
UPS Mobile is developed by UPS to enable users to manage their shipment information. This app keeps users updated on shipments, creates entries and labels. It also estimates cost and delivery dates and times.
Users do not have to log into UPS mobile in order to track their packages or find a nearby UPS store. Logging into the application allows users to view international shipments, access saved shipping information and payment records. UPS Mobile is free for download here.
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Remote PrintRating
Remote Print is the bestselling BlackBerry for business application available online now. It allows wireless connectivity from a BlackBerry mobile device to a printer nearby. Files that are applicable using Remote Print are PDFs, photos, emails, Excel and Word documents, contacts and memos.
Any printer connected through a Wi-Fi network can be used to remotely receive and print documents. Remote Print costs $4.99 and can be downloaded here.
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These are just some of the most popular BlackBerry business applications available to small and large business individuals nationwide. They allow for easy access to files and data for professional individuals.


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Parents of children struggling in elementary and middle school often wonder whether their child has dyslexia or an attention deficit. Psycho-educational testing is important for differential diagnosis of cognitive and academic difficulties, as well as for the development of a treatment plan to help a child succeed in school. Children who are performing poorly in […]Read More
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Executive function is a domain of cognitive ability that is comprised of a number of distinct yet related skills, including working memory, abstract planning, sustained attention, and mental flexibility. The executive function system allows for the regulation, control, and management of learning. As such, it is very important for strong academic performance and the development […]Read More
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Part 4 Aquifoliaceae - Araliaceae - Aristolochiaceae - Asclepiadaceae
Aquifoliaceae, the holly familalay, is represented on the islands by the genus Ilex with three species, two that have escaped from cultivation and one that is indigenous (although at one place in their discussion, the authors of the Manual say that it is endemic). The Hawaiian species, I. anomala, also occurs in Tahiti and the Marquesas. The Hawaiian name for this plant is kawa`u except on Kaua`i where it is called `aiea. It can be found on all of the main islands growing in mesic to wet forests; it does not occur on Ni`ihau or Kaho`olawe, both of which are too dry. Some of the best specimens that I have seen, and the one whose photograph appears here, are easily found in the vicinity of the Thurston Lava Tube (Nahuku in Hawaiian), Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park, along the trail that leads from the Lava Tube parking lot to the Kilauea Iki Overlook parking lot, and along the Pihea Trail on Kaua`i. Hawaiians used the wood for a variety of things including trimming for canoes and as an anvil for kapa (tapa cloth) beating.
The two naturalized species of Ilex on the islands, although not nearly as widely spread, are I. aquifolium, the English or European holly, which occurs in a ranching area on Mauna Kea; and I. paraguariensis, yerba maté, or Paraguay tea, which now grows on O`ahu. How widespread these two will become remains to be seen: English holly was first reported as a naturalized species in 1987, while yerba maté has been 'on its own' since 1934.
Estimates of the number of species in Ilex range from 400 to about 500 depending upon taxonomic opinion. Relationships among groups of species within this nearly cosmopolitan genus were studied by the Swiss botanist Philippe Cuénoud and colleagues (2000) using chloroplast gene sequences. Specimens of I. anomala from the Hawaiian Islands were included in their study of 115 species representing the entire range of the genus. The data indicated that the Hawaiian/Tahitian species is most closely related to North American species, but no candidate was named as the most likely ancestor.
Although it is not present on the Hawaiian Islands, the genus most likely known to most readers from Araliaceae would be Ginseng. Another would be Hedera helix, English ivy, which has been cultivated since the early 1900s and is naturalized on the islands. A third species that has been cultivated on the islands and is now naturalized in disturbed areas, mostly at lower elevations is the octopus tree, Schefflera actinophylla. This tree, which can attain heights of 15m (ca. 50 ft), is easily recognized by its palmately compound leaves (like a palm with fingers) and distinctive arrays of pink-red flowers (see image) . A particularly large specimen stands in a yard adjacent to Highway 270 in the North Kohala area of the Big Island. Immediately across the highway on the grounds of the Kohala Information Center in Kapa`au visitors can find the original statue of Kamehameha I (Kamehameha the Great), whose birthplace is nearby. For visitors on Kaua`i, octopus trees can be seen in bloom in early May in the vicinity of the Plantation Marketplace and nearby hotels in the Kapa`a area.
Our next visit is to the Polynesian genus Cheirodendron. Five of the six species in the genus are endemic on the Hawaiian Islands, with the sixth native to the Marquesas. One of the species, C. dominii, found only on the summit of Mt. Wai`ale`ale on Kaua`i, is the only Hawaiian species marked as rare; the rest are fairly easy to find in Nature. A convenient, and very attractive, place to see C. platyphyllum subsp. kauaiense (see photo) is along the Pihea Trail in the vicinity of the Kalalau Valley lookout. The trees line the forest side of the trail. The other subspecies, C. platyphyllum subsp. platyphyllum, occurs on O`ahu. This, and other, species of Cheirodendron are called `ölapa or lapalapa in Hawaiian, owing to the slapping sound the leaflets make in a breeze, a phenomenon much akin to the effect of wind blowing through a thicket of trembling aspen. Cheirodendron trigynum (see photo) occurs on all of the main islands in mesic to wet forests. The plant pictured in the plate was found growing along the power line access road that parallels the Saddle Road on the Big Island. This track is accessible via a turnoff from the Saddle Road near mile19 and provides a comfortable access to mid elevation scrub forest. Two subspecies are recognized, subsp. helleri which grows only on Kaua`i, and subsp. trigynum, which is the more common form and the one featured here.
A characteristic feature of these species, and others in the genus, is their compound leaves with, usually, three leaflets: in C. trigynum the central leaflet is the largest of the three, whereas In C. platyphyllum the leaflets tend to be broader than long. Cheirodendron fauriei (not shown), a Kaua`i endemic, has toothed leaves and is locally common in the Koke`e area and in places along the Power Line Trail. All tend to have quite shiny leaves.
The Hawaiian flora has recently experienced a loss of two endemic genera from the family, Munroidendron and Tetraplasandra, and a third, Reynoldsia, that was represented on the islands by an endemic species. Fortunately, the losses were the result of a comprehensive investigation of the related genus Polyscias and not extinction in the biological sense. Current plant systematic work requires that generic names of organisms reflect their evolutionary relationships, which are based to a very significant degree upon DNA sequence data. Family realignments may also be necessary. We see both of these outcomes in this examination of the Hawaiian flora. This continues to perplex some folks who see familiar plants being called something totally alien (in their view), and even more upsetting see them removed from their traditional family alignments. In the present instance we see the loss of three familiar names, but no change in family status.
The new home for Munroidendron, Reynoldsia and Tetraplasandra is the much larger genus Polyscias, which consists of at least 100 species (Mabberley, p. 691), with representatives in Madagascar, the Mascarene Archipelago (Mauritius, the Seychelles, Réunion, Rodrigues, and others), New Guinea, New Caledonia, and, as a result of recent studies, islands in the Pacific including the Hawaiian Islands. As pointed out by the authors of the relevant studies (Plunkett and Lowry II, 2010; Lowry II and Plunkett, 2010), the number of genera in the Araliaceae has been a matter of discussion for some years with the number ranging from about 40 to 85, and that Polyscias, the largest genus in the family, was not a natural group, that is to say that all members of the genus as formerly constituted did not share a common ancestor. In order to bring some order to this disparate arrangement, and to identify evolutionary relationships within this large group of organisms, these workers employed DNA sequence data on a large sampling of specimens representing the range of the genus, and potentially related groups.
One of the Hawaiian species involved in these studies is Polyscias racemosa (formerly Munroidendron racemosum), a strikingly attractive species of flowering tree endemic to the island of Kaua`i (see photos). Once thought to be extinct, this plant is known naturally from only a few locations on Kaua`i, none of which is easy to visit. it is maintained very successfully in cultivation in several gardens, however, including the Limahuli Garden and the NTBG. Plants were originally described as belonging to Tetraplasandra but subsequent analysis led to description of a new genus, Munroidendron, in 1952. Authors of the Manual suggested that this recognition may not be justified insofar as the features that distinguish the two genera are minimal (at the generic level, at least).
The next name change victim of the study was Reynoldsia, which was originally described to encompass six species, two in Samoa, two in the Marquesas, and one each in the Society Islands and in the Hawaiian Islands. Polyscias sandwicensis (Reynoldsia sandwicensis) occurs on Läna`i, Ni`ihau, Maui, Moloka`i, O`ahu, and the Big Island. The photograph of this species was taken on the island of Läna`i in a forest preserve dedicated to the preservation of a remnant hardwood forest, one of the rarest and most threatened forest types on the islands. A visit to Läna`i in January 2009 afforded an opportunity to meet a group of folks, `Ike `äina, the Native Hawaiian Land Trust, dedicated to preservation of areas of natural vegetation on the island. The photograph shows the tree almost totally surrounded by the aggressive weedy Schinus terebinthifolius (the Christmas berry, Anacardiaceae), which we met above. One of the objectives of `Ike `äina is to locate situations such as this and remove the offending alien plants so that seedlings of the native species have a chance to survive. Fencing is also necessary to keep feral animals from eating seedlings and having further negative impact on the plant's habitat. This species, as is the case with most native species, rebounds well once its native habitat has been cleared of invasive alien plants and protected from feral animals.
Hawaiians have several names for P. (Reynoldsia) sandwicensis including `ohe, `ohe makai, `oheokai, `ohe kukuluae`o, and, on Ni`ihau, `ohe`ohe. It is instructive to pause here for a moment to appreciate the meanings of these words, some of which take one into realms quite distant from the normal experience of field botanists (Pukui and Elbert, p. 178). First, and simplest, is `ohe, the general term for Reynoldsia. The second and third terms tell the reader something about where the tree lives, 'toward' the sea in the case of `ohe makai, and 'of the sea,' implying coast, in the case of `oheokai. Things get a little more complex, and intriguing, when the word kukuluae`o enters the scene. Kukuluae`o is the word for stilts, or to walk on stilts (some Hawaiian words can be a noun or a verb) referring to the use of its limbs to make stilts
It appears that things were a little different on Moloka`i, and specifically on Maunaloa (the older of the two main volcanoes on that island), where sinister things were brewing, or rather being carved. Wood of trees growing on that end of the island was thought to be poisonous, and from it were fashioned poison images. I have found no information regarding this property in plants from the other islands. It would be interesting to identify toxic compounds that might occur in the wood, and see if this feature is unique to plants from Moloka`i or whether it might be a more widespread phenomenon or simply a tale whose origin is lost in Hawaiian history. As a comparative plant biochemist–someone who looks at similarities and differences in the chemical components of supposedly related plant species–I was immediately drawn to the possibility that there may be chemical differences between the members of this genus from Moloka`i and those from the other islands; such variation is in no way unusual (Bohm, 2009). It is not unusual for local peoples to recognize these differences, and to make use of them.
The largest group of species to be affected by the name change constituted the genus Tetraplasandra. Polyscias (Tetraplasandra) gymnocarpa, endemic on O`ahu, is the only member of the genus that is listed as rare or endangered; its numbers have decreased to the point that it is presently restricted to the summit of the Ko`olau Mountains (the eastern range on O`ahu). The most common member of this genus on Kaua`i is P. kaviensis (see photo), known as `ohe`ohe. This specimen was photographed along the Nature Trail at the Koke`e Museum. It also occurs on the other main islands, except Moloka`i. Polyscias oahuense (see photo), here seen growing along the Waihe`e Ridge Trail on Maui (also called the Boy Scout Trail), occurs on all of the main islands except Ni`ihau and Kaho`olawe. Hawaiians obviously saw similarities between Tetraplasandra and Reynoldsia since the name `ohe, or `ohe`ohe, or some form of `ohe is common. The Hawaiian name for P. (T.) oahuense is `ohe mauka, which means an `ohe towards (or on) the mountains. In giving directions in the islands one frequently hears 'mauka' when referring to some location up a mountain. Conversely, makai means towards the sea.
A study of relationships within this group of three genera by Annemarie Costello, of the Ross School, and Timothy Motley of Old Dominion University, was described in 2007. These workers used a combination of morphological features and DNA sequence data to address two questions: (1) Do these three genera constitute a monophyletic group, that is to say, are they all derived from a common ancestor?; and (2) Are Tetraplasandra and Reynoldsia monophyletic? The first question was answered strongly in the affirmative supporting the view that they are indeed a closely related set which has resulted from a single colonization event, with subsequent diversification. The data also supported the view that the species of Tetraplasandra constitute a closely related group. An unsuspected outcome of the analysis, however, was the emergence of Reynoldsia sandwicensis as more closely related to Munroidendron than it is to the other species of Reynoldsia. In the language used above, this means that Reynoldsia, as currently constituted, is a polyphyletic group, i.e., the species are not all derived from a common ancestor. According to the rules of phylogenetic systematics, this outcome requires rethinking the naming of these species, a situation that will be addressed below.
Another issue that arose was the possible involvement of yet another genus of araliads (a term referring to members of Araliaceae) that could play a part in the study of relationships among members of the Hawaiian Tetraplasandra group. The genus in question is Gastonia, which consists of nine species distributed in East Africa, Madagascar, the Mascarene Archipelago, Malesia, and Papua New Guinea. Three species of Gastonia were included in the Costello-Motley study (technically, as the outgroup) with interesting results. Gastonia spectabilis, a native of Papua New Guinea was sister species to a group of Hawaiian araliads consisting of Reynoldsia sandwicensis, Munroidendron, and all species of Tetraplasandra; in other words, these results suggest that Gastonia spectabilis and the entire Hawaiian assemblage share a common ancestor.
The recent publications by Plunkett and Lowry, noted above, addressed all of these issues with the outcome being a thorough reassessment of relationships among this group of genera. Their data corroborated the findings of Costello and Motley, and allowed the much broader redefinition of Polyscias to include all of the species that once comprised Munroidendron, Reynoldsia, Tetramolopium, as well as Gastonia, which had been implicated in the Costello-Motley study, and other genera not relevant to the Hawaiian flora. In the final analysis these workers recognize 159 species of Polyscias which fall into 10 subgenera, one of which, subgenus Tetraplasandra, consists of all of the Hawaiian members of Munroidendron and Tetraplasandra, all members of Reynoldsia, several historically recognized species of Polyscias, and two species of Gastonia. This is one of the largest nomenclatural rearrangements to date involving Hawaiian species. It is unlikely to be the last.
As if the intrigue and mysterious goings on with poison images isn't enough to justify a word of its own, `ohe has a number of other definitions including a term for all kinds of bamboo, for a native species of the grass genus Isachne, for a native species of the bamboo-like plant Joinvillea, and for a variety of kalo (taro) that has the same coloration as a variety of bamboo. Although Hawaiian is a language capable of great subtleties, it does have a substantial number of words whose meanings differ significantly depending upon context.
Aristolochiaceae, the birthwort family, have a single naturalized member on the Hawaiian Islands: specimens of Aristolochia littoralis have been found in the vicinity of Pearl Harbor. Members of this family are insect trappers and are often sought after by collectors interested in exotic plants. Dutchman's pipes–species of Aristolochia–are popular in this regard. One wonders if the plant here might be a reject, accidental or otherwise, from such a collection.
Asclepiadaceae, the milkweed family, is represented on the Hawaiian Islands by three naturalized species, two in the type genus Asclepias, and one in Stapelia, the carrion flower. Asclepias physocarpus (see photo) was photographed in disturbed grassland near the beginning of the Boy Scout Trail (Waihe`e Ridge) on Maui. This species was originally introduced to the islands as a potential fiber crop, an enterprise that did not distinguish itself in the islands' economy. It can be found on most islands, except Ni`ihau or Moloka`i.
A visit to Oneloa (literally Long Sand) Beach in Makena State park on Maui revealed, in addition to the spectacular beach itself, and the rays with whom Lesley and daughter Liz swam, a milkweed that I had never seen before. This two-meter tall, woody shrub had masses of delicately colored flowers (see photo ) and a copious seed load (see photo). According to my reading of the identification key in the Manual, this species has not been reported on the islands.
The only member of Stapelia included in the Manual is S. gigantea (see photo) described by the authors as native to tropical and southern Africa and Mozambique. The genus consists of 47 species (Mabberley, p. 817). The plants are characterized by having photosynthetic stems either lacking or with very small leaves. Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of these plants is the lurid coloration and markings of the flower suggestive of rotting flesh with aroma to match. The combination of color and odor is attractive to carrion flies who are responsible for pollination. True to the common name Zulu-giant, S. gigantea can have flowers with diameters up to 12" (ca. 46 cm.). According to the Manual, S. gigantea has been recorded as "sparingly" naturalized at several locations on O`ahu. The specimen in the illustration was found growing among beach rocks at Kapukahelu Beach–known locally as Dixie Maru Beach–on the west coast of Moloka`i. I was informed by a local resident, who chanced by as I was photographing the plant, that she had at least one specimen in her garden. It is easy to see how this species could be dispersed through a combination of the large yield of typical milkweed seeds and wind. Authors of the Manual state that several species of Stapelia have been cultivated in the islands since the latter part of the 19th century.
DNA-based studies now place Asclepiadaceae within Apocynaceae (see Soltis et al., 2005). Newer floras will likely reflect this change.
Literature cited…
Bohm, B. A. 2009. The Geography of Phytochemical Races. Springer-Verlag and New York Botanical Garden. New York.
Costello, A. and T. J. Motley. 2007. Phylogenetics of the Tetraplasandra group (Araliaceae) inferred from ITS, 5S-NTS, and morphology. Systematic Botany 32: 464-477.
Cuénoud, P., M. A. Del Martinez, P.- A. Loizeau, R. Spichiger, S. Andrews, and J.- F. Manen. 2000. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Ilex L. (Aquifoliaceae). Annals of Botany. 85: 111-122.
Lowry, P. B. II and G. M. Plunkett. 2010. Recircumscription of Polyscias (Araliaceae) to include six related genera, with a new infrageneric classification And a synopsis of species. Plant Diversity and Evolution 128: 55-84.
Plunkett, G. M. and P. B. Lowry II. 2010. Paraphyly and polyphyly in Polyscias sensu lato: molecular evidence and the case for recircumscribing the "pinnate genera" of Araliaceae. Plant Diversity and Evolution 128: 23-54.
Soltis, D. E., P. S. Soltis, P. K. Endress, and M. W. Chase. 2005. Phylogeny and Evolution of Angiosperms. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, Sunderland, MA.
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As an industry colleague, Stephanie Trunzo, wrote in Mobile Marketer today, we are increasingly mired in noise instead of signal as our world becomes more context-rich and personalized.
As marketers seek opportunities to engage their customers, it is tempting to send push notifications for promotions, wish list price changes, retargeting pushes based on shopper preferences, or notifications when the customer is in close proximity to the store.
However, it is important to consider the customer's experience before you hit send on a notification.
Finding the balance
Notifications and badges have become the norm, but using them effectively takes a delicate balance.
Too many messages and the customer will simply shut off your notifications. Other users may not take the time to change their preferences, but instead ignore your content.
So what do we do?
How do we ensure a solid and responsible notification strategy that brings value in signal, not desensitization in noise?
Start by segmenting the notification categories and audience so that each message is relevant and useful to the person receiving it.
Some examples:
2. Alert
3. Push forward
NOT EVERY NOTIFICATION is appropriate for every customer. It is key that marketers determine the best audience for each message to avoid adding to the noise.
When making these decisions, think about the user journey and the next steps that the user will take when you deliver the notification. Ensure that the message is clear and the requested action is as simple as possible. Once a push notification is sent, you should track its value. Determine if users are viewing it and taking action or if it is just falling flat. You should be immediately aware if a notification results in low engagement so that you can restructure your strategy.
While it is tempting to blast your audience with notifications every chance you get, being selective with when and to whom you send these messages will create more value for your brand.


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Anna J. Ragni
Born and raised in Arkansas, I have always loved history and science. Anthropology was my calling, and after graduating from Hendrix College, I joined the Paleoanthropology lab at the University of Arkansas. My Master's work focused on the dental microwear textures of Brazilian monkeys and South African australopithecines. After graduating, I spent one year doing education and outreach for the Human Origins Program at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. I spent my year interacting with visitors, organizing teaching collections, and contributing to publicly accessible teaching resources. I am currently a comparative biology PhD student at the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History where I am focusing on postcranial functional morphology.


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VAN BUREN (KFSM) - New security measures are going into effect at Van Buren Public Schools ahead of the upcoming school year.
At Parkview Elementary School, one of those upgrades include new security cameras being installed throughout the building. Not only will the cameras keep an eye on what's going on throughout the day, but they are also part of a new buzzer system.
All visitors will now have to use the buzzer system to enter the building, according to Principal Stacie Wood.
She explained that to get in to the schools now, visitors must first ring a door bell. Secretaries will then talk with the visitor over an intercom system, asking them why they need to be let in to the building. Meanwhile, those secretaries are also looking at surveillance video. After the visitor enters the building, he or she must stop at the office and sign in, before being allowed in the hallways or near any classrooms.
"Schools were built to be open, friendly and welcoming," Wood said. "But, nowadays, you just never know what risk factors are out there. So knowing that the front door is locked and that we have to authorize everyone who comes in just makes everyone feel safer."
Administrators said the doors at Parkview will be locked every day at 8 a.m., after students arrive and are inside their classrooms. If teachers need back into the building after 8 a.m., they will have a specific key they can use to get inside.
Wood said the new security measures will be in effect for the first day of class on Aug. 18.