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Friday 31st October 1941
Feel awful this morning. Got my money & went home. Fred came home. Brought me some lovely flowers. We went to the Chelsea Palace.
Labels: Chelsea Palace, Freddie
Thursday 30th October 1941
Very cold. Don came over. Had to leave early. Weather getting very cold but dry. Don came over on his bike.
Wednesday 29th October 1941
Don came over early but had to leave soon after nine because of new bus times.
Tuesday 28th October 1941
Don came over early. Did not go out as it was so cold. Don went home late.
Monday 27th October 1941
Very cold. Went to the Dominion with Fred. Saw a very good film about Paratroops.
[the film could be Parachute Battalion]
[the film could be Parachute Battalion]
Labels: Entertainment, Freddie, Movies, Weather
Sunday 26th October 1941
Don came over in the afternoon. Stopped in for tea. Went to the Off Licence & played Monopoly rest of evening. Very cold.
Labels: Don, Drinking, Entertainment, Games, Weather
Saturday 25th October 1941
Got up at seven but very tired. Went home at 11.30 am. Stopped in during afternoon. Went to the Gaumont with Don. Saw Arthur Askey in "I Thank You". Not bad.
Friday 24th October 1941
Fire Watch. Very quiet. Just played T.T till midnight.
Thursday 23rd October 1941
Saw Fred & we went to Regal. Saw Barnacle Bill, not such good films. Lovely night but bit chilly.
Labels: Entertainment, Freddie, Movies, Weather
Wednesday 22nd October 1941
Saw "Ladies in Retirement" with Fred. Excellent play. Rushed home saw Don (Fred on Fire Watch). Made Don go home early.
Labels: Don, Entertainment, Freddie
Tuesday 21st October 1941
Played TT in pm. Won 4 games out of 5. Went to bed at ten pm. Quite a change to have early night.
Labels: Sport
Monday 20th October 1941
Don came over late so did not stay long. Caught early bus.
Sunday 19th October 1941
Don came over in morning. Went to Clapham Common for a drink. Don went on HG at 2pm. Went over his place in evening.
Labels: Don, Drinking, Home Guard
Friday 17th October 1941
Went to Sellhurst Pk for a football match with Fed. Went to the Sussex in pm, with Mum & Dad. Had a good laugh.
Labels: Drinking, Entertainment, Freddie, Sport
Thursday 16th October 1941
Don came over in evening. Did not go out. Mum & Dad went to the Palace.
Labels: Chelsea Palace, Don
Wednesday 15th October 1941
Fred brought me a dozen yellow roses. We went to the Chelsea Palace. Best show they've had there for weeks. Nellie Wallace, Dick Henderson, his son, & twin daughters & Rawitz & Landuer [sic] on two pianos. Enjoyable evening.
Labels: Chelsea Palace, Entertainment, Freddie
Tuesday 14th October 1941
Came to work in the car. Cold very chesty. Wynne away with cold. Don came over. Brought me 2prs of stockings.
Monday 13th October 1941
Work as usual. Don came over. But we did not go out. My cold not so good.
Sunday 12th October 1941
Don came over early. Went for a walk in Hyde Park then went to the Gaumont. Saw "Virginia City". Not bad.
Saturday 11th October 1941
Early day. Fred came over just after 5pm. Went to the Regal. Saw Bette Davis in "The Great Lie". Very good story. Collected Mum & Dad & all went to Knightsbridge for a drink.
Labels: Drinking, Entertainment, Freddie, Movies
Friday 10th October 1941
Dull morning. Got my sore throat back. In a very bad mood. Sulked with Don, so we went to the Windsor Castle for a drink.
Thursday 9th October 1941
Went back to work but not right yet. Watched Fred play Table Tennis till 9pm. Own side won.
Labels: Entertainment, Freddie, Sport
Wednesday 8th October 1941
Went to work but left at 9.30 am. Feeling rotten. Stopped in all day. Don came over but did not go out.
Tuesday 7th October 1941
Misty morning. Not feeling so good. Went to New Vic with Fred, saw Charles Boyer in "Hold Back the Dawn". Quite good.
Monday 6th October 1941
Work again. Don came over early as he was on H.G. Went over to Charlie's for a drink.
Sunday 5th October 1941
Got home early. Went over to Don's for dinner, then went for a ride to Belmont. Very nice & lovely evening.
Saturday 4th October 1941
Finished work at 11.30 am but got to be back at 6.30 pm. As on fire watch. Very quiet night.
Labels: Fire Duty
Friday 3rd October 1941
Cold morning. Saw Fred in the evening. Went & saw "Nothing But the Truth". Very funny. Went to Knightsbridge & had a drink.
Labels: Drinking, Entertainment, Freddie, Movies, Weather
Thursday 2nd October 1941
Misty morning. Don came through at 2.30pm. Cut his thumb, been to Hospital. Came over at 5pm. Went to New Vic. Saw Walt Disney's Reluctant Dragon. Very good.
Wednesday 1st October 1941
Very cold morning. Don came over early. Did not go out. Don caught early bus home.
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LAW304 Legal Aspects of Business I
Lead Faculty: Dr. Bryan Hance
Course Description
A survey of contracts, sales, agencies, personal property, commercial paper and associated topics. Emphasizes prevention of litigation and liability arising from business operations.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain the basic concepts and structure of the American legal system.
- Describe how law and regulations apply to business and the economy.
- Recognize business situations that require legal counsel.
- Interpret and form contractual relationships in business.
- Identify remedies for breach of contract.
- Describe how third parties may become involved in contracts, and what their rights may be under the contract.
- Identify the nature and form of sales.
- Distinguish personal property from other forms of property.
- Distinguish bailment's from contracts.
- Write analyses of legal issues that may arise in the business environment.
- Establish business practices that comply with relevant laws in an effort to maintain ethical business practices.
- Identify technological resources available to the business practitioner to aid in the analysis of legal issues arising in the business environment.
- Explain the need for awareness of and sensitivity to differences in business law in the international business environment.


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Bravado Manager
Bravado is at the forefront of one of the fastest-growing phenomenons in the fashion world - music merchandise. As a subsidiary of the world's leading music-based entertainment company, Universal Music Group, Bravado is the no. 1 provider of consumer, lifestyle and branding services to recording artists and entertainment brands globally. With access to the most iconic and influential music artists, Bravado connects brands and retailers with music to create special fashion collections, unique in store experiences and profitable brand partnerships.
We are currently looking for a Bravado Manager to join MCA Music Inc. (Universal Music Philippines). In this exciting role, the successful candidate will establish and execute new business strategy to drive growth of the Bravado footprint. Working with leading retailers and with access to some of the world's most iconic music artists, this is a truly unique chance for a fashion / retail sales professional.
About the role:
- Responsible for developing the Bravado business within the Philippines through the identification of new retail and licensing opportunities.
- Evaluate the retail landscape, target demographics and market trends to identify and achieve future growth plans.
- Work closely with internal departments to understand priorities/goals and align Bravado opportunities.
- Collaborate on the development of product ranges, pricing and production/manufacturing requirements.
- Work with Regional and Global Bravado teams to share knowledge and ensure all opportunities are maximized.
About you:
- Sales professional within fashion retail and/or licensing environment.
- Understanding of product development, trends, buying cycles and production/manufacturing.
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Founded in New York in 1997 and sold to Universal ten years later, Bravado boasts an impressive footprint in the USA and now operates in 40 countries worldwide. Currently in partnership with some of the world's largest retailers such as Zara, H&M and Urban Outfitters, Bravado's extensive global distribution network gives artists the opportunity to create even deeper connections with their fans around the world.
Bravado Australasia's success and rapidly expanding brand footprint within the Asian, Australian and New Zealand markets are testament that music branded merchandise resonate with both the fan and the style conscious consumer. Bravado brands are distributed throughout major fashion retailers, music stores and e-retailers. Bravado represents the hottest A-list rock, iconic and music legend brands such as; The Rolling Stones, Kanye West, 5 Seconds Of Summer, Guns N Roses and Run DMC.
Being a part of the Universal Music Group provides Bravado the scale, strength and marketing power of the world's no. 1 music company.


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Archive for the 'iPhone' Category
Google's Android Phone Marks New Assault on IPhone
December 14th, 2009 by admin in Google, iPhone
Google Inc.'s development of a mobile phone that uses its Android operating system marks a new push by the company to take on Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. in the smart-phone market, analysts said.
Google, the most popular Internet search engine, gave employees an Android handset for testing last week. The device has a touch screen like the iPhone, and users can search the Web on it by speaking query terms.
Google is focusing on the mobile market as growth in its search-advertising business on desktop computers slows. Phone makers such as Motorola Inc. and HTC Corp. already offer handsets that run on Android. Having its own device gives Google more control over how the hardware and software work together and intensifies competition for Apple, said Ben Schachter, an analyst at San Francisco-based Broadpoint AmTech Inc.
"If all of a sudden everyone is getting on the Internet via their mobile device, Google needs to make sure it has an influence on that," Schachter said yesterday in an interview. "They need to make sure they have influence on how the mobile Web will develop." He recommends buying Google stock and doesn't own it himself.
T-Mobile Deal?
Google is in talks to sell the new Android handset through wireless carrier T-Mobile USA Inc. as early as January, a person familiar with the discussions said. The phone's introduction may slip to later in the first quarter, said the person, who asked to be anonymous because the talks are still in progress.
Creating its own handset reflects Google's effort to expand advertising sales on mobile devices, a market that may grow to between $2 billion and $3 billion by 2013 in the U.S., up from less than $1 billion now, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. In November, Google announced plans to pay $750 million for AdMob Inc., a mobile-phone advertising startup backed by Google investor Sequoia Capital.
Google, based in Mountain View, California, first disclosed that it was working on a phone in a blog posting on Dec. 12, saying that employees were using the device to provide feedback.
"At Google, we are constantly experimenting with new products and technologies, and often ask employees to test these products for quick feedback and suggestions for improvements," Google said. "We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities."
Katie Watson, a spokeswoman for Google, declined to comment beyond the blog posting. HTC Chief Financial Officer Cheng Hui- ming, and public relations official Maggie Cheng didn't answer calls.
More Google Searches
If the handset sells well, it would push more people to use Google when searching from their phones, said Aaron Kessler, an analyst with Kaufman Brothers LP in San Francisco. The number of mobile searches grew 30 percent in the third quarter from the previous three months, Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said on a call for analysts in October.
Apple's iPhone models were the second and third most popular consumer smart phones last quarter, according to research firm NPD Group Inc. RIM's BlackBerry Curve 8300 lineup took first place. The newest iPhone, the 3GS, sold more than 1 million units in its opening weekend in June. Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Cupertino, California-based Apple, declined to comment. Marisa Conway, a spokeswoman for Waterloo, Ontario- based Research In Motion, didn't return a phone message seeking comment.
Google rose $5.22 to $595.73 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. The shares have gained 94 percent this year. Apple, which has more than doubled in 2009, climbed $2.31 to $196.98.
Users Lure Developers
Google needs to attract more consumers to Android phones to spur developers to create applications, said Jeffrey Lindsay, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein in New York. There are more than 100,000 applications available for the iPhone, while Android has more than 12,000.
"The guy who gets biggest fastest gets the most developers," Lindsay said. "It's a fight for scale."
Google may use the device as a way to show other manufacturers and wireless carriers the possibilities of mobile computing, Schachter said. The company could use its Google.com site to sell the Android phone, just as Amazon.com Inc. used its home page to help increase sales of the Kindle electronic book reader, he said.
'Seat at the Table'
"Let's say it's not a major success — then it shows what's possible," Schachter said. "They want to have a very powerful seat at the table."
Google and T-Mobile introduced the first Android phone in September 2008, a bid to lure consumers away from the iPhone and BlackBerry. Last month, Schaumburg, Illinois-based Motorola introduced the Droid phone, which can run multiple applications at once and features voice-driven Web searches.
Google's phone may be "unlocked," meaning that it wouldn't be tied to a specific phone network. Customers would then have to sign up for wireless service from a carrier.
T-Mobile and AT&T Inc., the wireless partner for the iPhone in the U.S., offer service plans for unlocked devices. Michael Coe, a spokesman for Dallas-based AT&T, and Peter Dobrow, a spokesman for T-Mobile, declined to comment, as did Michelle Leff Mermelstein, a spokeswoman for Sprint Nextel Corp., the third-largest mobile-phone carrier in the U.S.
Verizon's Plans
Jeffrey Nelson, a spokesman for Verizon Wireless, declined to say if the company would offer the device. Google could apply to have the device certified to run on Verizon's network without being part of the carrier's official device lineup, he said.
"We're always talking with our friends at Google and looking for new ways to bring consumers the kinds of products and services they want," Nelson said in an e-mail. Verizon began selling Motorola's Droid, which uses Android, in November. It announced an agreement in October to develop several devices based on the operating system.
Google has the opportunity to kick-start demand for Android phones, even if Apple's iPhone still dominates, Lindsay said.
"They've put all the conditions in place to succeed," said Lindsay, who rates Google "outperform" and doesn't own the stock. "Still, Apple's got the edge."
Vodafone would selling iPhone in 10 countries
May 6th, 2008 by admin in iPhone
Mobile phone group Vodafone said on Tuesday it had signed a agreement with Apple Inc to sell its iPhone in ten countries around the world.
"Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network," Britain-based Vodafone said in a statement.


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Self Storage Mastery Podcast, Free on iTunes
About This Show
Podcast of Proven Marketing Ideas to Lease Up your Self Storage facility Fast!Read more »
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Self Storage Mastery Podcast Episode 005 Show Notes Answer THESE questions and watch as your phone rings off the hook and your walk-ins turn into "run-ins"! In this episode of the podcast, I ask several questions about your self storage marketing activities. Answer these questions correctly, and your store will generate more phone and walk-in traffic then you can handle. Ignore these questions and you are bound to struggle much more then you should. I call this episode, "Questions that Ring". The title has a double meaning. These questions "ring" with truth, helping you discover if you are marketing your store to the best of your ability. Also, when you have solid answers to these questions, your phone will start ringing off the hook, and your door chime will drive you crazy with its ringing as your "walk-ins" start becoming "run-in's". Want a hint of what's inside Episode 005? I'll give you this little nugget. There is a very famous quote attributed to J. Paul Getty. He is credited with saying, "I would rather earn 1% off 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts." Getty, brilliant as he was, inherently knew that getting lots of other people to give just a little, resulted in much more 'work' getting done them if one person tried to do it all themselves. Listen right here to get the full story, or subscribe to Self Storage Mastery Podcast for free on iTunes. If you like the show, please leave a comment on iTunes. It is your free way to support the show!Read more »


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Question: Capturing a repeated patternby robmderrick (Initiate)
|on Apr 08, 2010 at 21:32 UTC ( #833636=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
robmderrick has asked for the
wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I think I need the big space of this over chatterbox to properly frame this question.
I have an input line that looks like:
somename 1000 0.24 280 2 2576.9 2731.9 12.0 4195.3
I am looking for a way to capture all nine elements with one pattern that allows me to use one subpattern to capture the the last 8 elements.
I.e, I tried this:
(@array) = $_ =~ /(^[a-z]\w*)/\s+([\.\d]+)/\s+([\.\d]+)/\s+([\.\d]+)/\s+([\.\d]+)/\s+([\.\d]+)/\s+([\.\d]+)/\s+([\.\d]+)/\s+([\.\d]+)\s*$/i
... but that is ungainly.
I lose a lot of it with the following:
... but I would sure like to know if there is a way to use that one pattern 8 times, like repeating a digit match 8 times with \d{8}
Does such an arcane method exist?
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Three businesses at Creekside Center on So. Shasta, are putting on a two-day fund raiser to benefit Ethan Jostad and St. Judes Hospital.
The businesses are The Butcher Shop, State Farm Insurance and Complete Care Chiropractic.
There will be a BBQ cooked by Cam of The Butcher Shop from 11-3 .m. Friday, July 29 and Saturday, July 30.
The Friday BBQ will be at The Butcher Shop, 1532 S. Shasta. On Saturday, the BBQ will be between State Farm, 1332 S. Shasta and Complete Care Chiropractic, 1296 S. Shasta.
Each day the BBQ will feature 1/3 lb. Kobe burger, chips and a side for $5. All proceeds go to St. Judes and to Ethan Jostad. Ethan returned from treatment in New York in the middle of last week and was expected to be in Portland at Doernbecher's this week.
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It really hit me for the first time that I have experienced miscarriage, infertility and adoption. I know that I have experienced all of them separately, but I hadn't ever really thought about the fact that I have dealt with all three in my life. I am not sure why I didn't realize before yesterday that all three of those experiences are a major part of me and my life story.
I also realized that none of those experiences are Option A. None are the ideal. None are the first choice of parents-to-be. I want to acknowledge that there are parents who choose to forego having their own biological children and opt to adopt and that is their first choice. God bless them.
But, for the most part, adoption, miscarriage and infertility are not one's initial choice.
How then have I walked the road of all three?
The ideal is to try to concieve, take a pregnancy test, see a positive response and nine months later have a healthy baby.
As I was pondering this all yesterday I thought about the
J U B I L A T I O N I experienced when I got a positive result on my pregnancy test in August of this year. I was in shock and overwhelmed with joy and gratitude and sheer delight. I was ecstacic.
Then I thought about the feelings that overcame me when I was told on October 4 that the sweet bundle I was looking at with my eyes was being given to me. A priceless gift. Once again, I felt absolute
J U B I L A T I O N. I didn't have to wait 9 months. I walked into the nursery and held my miracle within minutes.
To be fair, both the pregnancy and the adoption held a significant number of unknowns: would the baby be healthy? Would we miscarry? Would the birthmom change her mind? Would the birthfather claim his parental rights?
We couldn't have known what either road held for us. We couldn't have known that our first choice for parenthood would not come to be.
Miscarriage. Infertility. Adoption. Not our first choice. Not Option A. But ultimately the best choice because we can't imagine not having Samuel in our lives.


text: The show completely changed the way I dress. Best I've ever looked in my life. Rich white people knew about stuff like Manolo Blahniks but I didn't know about it 'til Sex and the City. Inside I feel like that hot, skinny blonde chick. Inside I'm Carrie, but the world doesn't see that. — Black women in New York talk about Sex and the City.


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Do you face Interface issues while exploring Vista?
There is no question that Windows Vista looks better than its predecessor Windows XP. Excellent new wallpaper images, high resolution icons, transparent and flipped windows, and a clever graphical interface help to create an appealing working environment for users.
However, many of us feel that Vista is lagging behind the competition - Linux and Mac OS - in several significant areas. For instance there is only one desktop in Vista. If you have a number of applications running, you may face a problem switching between them. Linux users can have several virtual desktops, with a full-screen browser running in one, a word processor in another, and some smaller applications in the third. Switching between them is very easy.
This limits Vista users to managing all their applications in a single desktop, which is a little difficult sometimes.
Don't worry, though. There are some utilities that can help you solve this problem. One of them is Dexpot that turns your monitor into 20 virtual desktops and enables you to work far more efficiently and comfortably with many simultaneously opened windows. Another one is Virtuawin which also lets you arrange your applications across anything up to 20 desktops.
Also Microsoft has released a similar tool of its own in the shape of its Desktops utility called Desktops 1.0 which does the similar function as the applications discussed before. Maybe Microsoft will add this feature in future version of Windows.
There is also an application called Flip 3D which I must talk about here. This is Vista's three-dimensional alternative to switching through open applications using the Alt and Tab shortcuts. This is a real cool application, but there is a drawback that application windows may overlay each other, which makes it hard to pick out the program you require.
But don't be depressed, as there is another application called Switcher that tiles the windows for better visibility, and also adds searching shortcuts and other productivity boosting tweaks to the interface.
Let us also mention the Start menu. Not every user likes the new Start menu as it is more complicated than the one which XP had, which was much more easy to use. So if you don't like the Vista Start menu, I will tell you a trick that may make you fall in love with it. Right click on the Start button, select Properties, and choose Classic start menu.
This Start menu doesn't have a search box, but you can get that by installing a tool called Launchy.
There is another option for those who prefer keyboard to the mouse, and this application is called Start++ that enables you to create easy keyboard shortcuts to quickly execute any task you want.
Taming Windows Vista
- Taming Windows Vista - Poor Performance Tweaks
- Taming Windows Vista - Optimize Your Windows Interface
- Taming Windows Vista - Security Options
- Taming Windows Vista - Backup & Recovery Solutions
- Taming Windows Vista - Bundled Applications & Add-ons
- Taming Windows Vista - User Access Control
- Taming Windows Vista - Installing the Latest Windows Updates
- Taming Windows Vista - Restore, Monitor Management & More
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One of the NFL's home-run threats could be hitting the free-agent market this offseason.
Titans running back Chris Johnson, a speedster known for his explosive breakaway speed, is due $8 million next year, and at an introductory press conference for new coach Ken Whisenhunt, general manager Ruston Webster was non-committal about having Johnson back, according to The Tennessean.
Johnson's production has tailed off in recent years. Last season, he ran for just 1,077 yards – his second-lowest total since entering the league in 2008 — and under four yards per carry while earning $10 million. The 28-year-old Johnson has said he won't take a pay cut, according to the report, and would prefer to move on unless he was used "better," meaning more carries.
The Titans signed former Jets running back Shonn Green to a three-year, $10 million deal last season. And if he had stayed healthy, odds are Greene would have gotten more than the 77 carries he received.
Webster also said he wants to change the "culture" on the team. An underperforming player who refuses to take a pay cut doesn't seem to part of that new culture.


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Our Mission is to provide accessible, affordable and appropriate
transport solutions for eligible groups and socially or economically
disadvantaged individuals in the Coalfield area.
Our minibuses are available to voluntary and community groups for a small charge; please look at the vehicles and fees page for details. To use the services you need to become a member of the CCT as the service is not available to the general public.
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By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues
Today, the Elon Musk biography by Ashlee Vance is finally available. It will "likely serve as the definitive account" of the most successful entrepreneur in the world, writes Jon Gertner in the New York Times. But it can also be read as a manual of how to succeed in business. Fresh Dialogues has put together six big lessons for business people and entrepreneurs, young and old:
1. Think big.
While Musk was at college, he decided the three things that would have the biggest positive impact on the human race were: sustainable energy, the Internet and making life multi-planetary.
Here's how Vance describes Musk's big thinking:
What Musk has developed that so many of the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley lack is a meaningful worldview. He's the possessed genius on the grandest quest anyone has ever concocted. He's less a CEO chasing riches than a general marshaling troops to secure victory.
Where Mark Zuckerberg wants to help you share baby photos, Musk wants to... well... save the human race from self-imposed or accidental annihilation.
This passage comes early in the book, and feels as though Vance has been drinking Musk's Kool Aid. By the last page, however, he's painted a vivid and balanced picture of a driven man, focused intently on changing the world in a big way, no matter the cost to himself or his family (see No.6 below). So, if you want to succeed like Elon Musk, don't waste time building a widget that'll be ten percent better than the competition:
Think big, really big, and go for it.
2. Learn to be a better boss.
Elon Musk was ousted as CEO from two early startups Zip2 and X.com (the precursor to PayPal) because he was a bad boss. In his early days, Musk was a controlling, micro-manager whose "one-upmanship" tactics were brutal.
Vance writes:
Musk's traits as a confrontational know-it-all and his abundant ego created deep, lasting fractures within his companies.
According to a colleague at Zip2, he'd rip into junior and senior executives alike, especially when employees told him that his demands were impossible.
You would see people come out of the meetings with this disgusted look on their face...You don't get to where Elon is now by always being a nice guy, and he was just so driven and sure of himself.
These days, he's still very demanding, but has got better at being a decent boss at Tesla and SpaceX; and his longtime employees are fiercely loyal.
Of course, part of being a good boss is inspiring your team with an awesome mission (see No.1 above) and articulating that clearly. Early employees of SpaceX were told that "the mission would be to emerge as the South-west Airlines* of Space." More recently, of course, the Mars mission dominates the company's focus. Who wouldn't be on board with the mind-blowing goal of making humans a multi-planetary species?
So don't fret if you're not getting "Boss of the Year" awards in your early days, but learn from your mistakes, and motivate your team with a grand vision.
3. Hire with care, fire fast.
Musk is renowned for hiring top talent and for several years, he even insisted on personally interviewing employees fairly low on the totem pole. For key technical hires, once he decides he wants someone, he'll go above and beyond to hire them. He even cold-calls them himself. A SpaceX employee recalls receiving a call from Musk in his college dorm room and thinking it was a prank call.
But on the flip side, if you're not a fit for the team, then you'll soon know about it, according to Steve Jurvetson, a Tesla, SpaceX board member and close ally to Musk.
Like (Steve) Jobs, Elon does not tolerate C or D players. He's like Jobs in that neither of them suffer fools. But I'd say he's nicer than Jobs and a bit more refined than Bill Gates.
The lesson: hire strategically with great care, and if an employee doesn't fit, don't wait.
4. Deal with critics, carefully.
Musk has a reputation for slamming critics, like the British car show, Top Gear and the damning Model S review in the New York Times. Even the book's author Ashlee Vance was berated for using what Musk insists are inaccurate quotes. Musk fired back on Twitter: "That's total BS and hurtful."
Some of his "bombastic counteroffensives" worked, others were arguably counter-productive and alienated potential allies and supporters.
Yet, Vance also offers a more sympathetic interpretation of his tirades as "a quest for truth" as opposed to pure vindictiveness. As Vance writes:
Musk is wired like a scientist and suffers mental anguish at the sight of a factual error. A mistake on a printed page would gnaw at his soul -- forever.
Although taking things personally and seeking war has generally worked for Musk, it's a risky strategy. Setting the record straight is one thing, but how many bridges can you burn? One key consideration is this: Going to war demands a lot of time and energy which might be better spent on getting your mission accomplished.
Choose your battles carefully.
5. Have a trusted assistant.
Vance describes Musk's long-time assistant Mary Beth Brown as:
A now-legendary character in the lore of both SpaceX and Tesla... establishing a real-life version of the relationship between Iron Man's Tony Stark and Pepper Potts. If Musk worked a twenty hour day, so too did Mary Beth... She would emerge as the only bridge between Musk and all of his interests and was an invaluable asset to the companies' employees.
Sadly for Musk, she's now moved on, but having worked with her briefly in 2012/13 (to arrange an in-depth interview with Musk), I can attest that she was very charming and an excellent surrogate for Musk. She represented him well in a professional and personal capacity.
Read more about her in the biography and try find someone as loyal, talented and hard-working to be your right-hand man or woman. Good luck!
6. Work hard, very hard.
Not only does Musk lead two hard-driving companies (which are 300 miles apart) -- SpaceX (L.A.) and Tesla (Silicon Valley) -- he's chairman of SolarCity and has five boys, two ex-wives and a tight circle of friends that includes Google's Larry Page. He claims to sleep an average of six hours a night, but almost every waking hour is devoted to his businesses. His ex-wife, Justine Musk, describes his work ethic like this:
I had friends who complained that their husbands came home at seven or eight. Elon would come home at eleven and work some more. People didn't always get the sacrifice he made in order to be where he was.
He does what he wants, and he is relentless about it. It's Elon's world, and the rest of us live in it.
The only regular downtime he allows is to indulge in long showers, but even then, it's really work. He says that's when he has most of his innovative ideas.
So, the lesson for you is the same as that espoused by pioneering giants like Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie:
There's nothing like good old fashioned hard work.
Note: Although Musk comes over as a hard-driving maniac in this biography, he does have a more sensitive side. You can see this for yourself in one of the most candid and in-depth interviews he's done. He comes close to tears several times.
Read more about Elon Musk in his own words.
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(1883–1952). Sculptor. The vigorous naturalism of his portraits suited his interest in individual personality. Adept at both carving and modeling, in either technique Davidson captured facial verisimilitude with great sensitivity to flesh as well as bone structure, while also suggesting individual character through facial expression. He portrayed world leaders of his time, including Woodrow Wilson (1916), Mahatma Gandhi (1931), and on several occasions, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ignace Paderewski (1920), Joseph Conrad (1916), and André Gide (1931) numbered among numerous creative luminaries who sat for him. He lived much of his adult life in France, although he frequently visited the United States and resided during World War II in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. A New York native, Joseph Davidson studied at the Art Students League and for a few months attended classes at Yale University. In 1903 he became a studio assistant for Hermon MacNeil. Four years later, he departed for Paris, where he pursued formal training only briefly, imbibed the spirit of Rodin's work, and socialized with the community of progressive American artists. Although his art remained relatively untouched by avant-garde movements, it was considered modern in its day because it deviated from academic practice. His early work includes allegorical figures, which later recurred occasionally. A lively early portrait of John Marin (1908) suggests why portraiture became his mainstay. Davidson exhibited in the Armory Show and by the end of World War I had acquired an international reputation. In his desire to leave a historical record of his time, he sought out many of his sitters. Between 1918 and 1920, he executed the fourteen likenesses of his Peace Conference series taken from major participants in the World War I treaty negotiations, including Georges Clemenceau (1920) and General John J. Pershing (1919). At the height of his fame, Davidson portrayed a vast range of celebrities, ranging from Will Rogers (1938) to Albert Einstein (1934) and Frank Sinatra (1946). Among his most famous works is a life-size, seated rendition of a Buddha like Gertrude Stein (1922). Because they could be editioned from rapidly produced clay models, most of his portraits are bronze casts. He also frequently made variants of a specific image, such as the Gertrude Stein, in more than one size. He died near Tours, at the estate that had been his primary residence since 1926. In 1951 he published a memoir, Between Sittings: An Informal Autobiography. His second wife, painter and sculptor Florence Gertrude Lucius (1887/88–1962), studied at the Art Students League and with Émile-Antoine Bourdelle in Paris. She married Davidson in 1941 and died in New York.
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The XP is a special receiver that is identical to the D8R-II Plus, but it has added the RSSI and CPPM outputs commonly used for FPV aircraft. CPPM can reduce wiring to some flight controllers, a single servo extension can carry all 8 channels to the flight computer. Furthermore, CPPM output can be used as a wireless trainer system (wireless trainer cable). The RSSI output is for use with On Screen Display (OSD) systems that are common in the First Person View (FPV) vehicles. (All FrSky telemetry receivers send RSSI levels back to the transmitter, but this receiver can output this data for use with an OSD.)
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Vera Dunn O'Connor, legit actress of the 1920s and '30s who made a splash on Broadway in Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," died July 11 of natural causes in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She was 89.
Raised in the proverbial show business trunk, she performed as a youngster with her vaudevillian parents, Jimmy Dunn and Helen Marlowe Dunn. At age 9, she appeared as a boy in George M. Cohan's "Zander the Great" with Alice Brady. Her big break came in 1923 when she appeared with Ann Harding in the play "Stolen Fruit."
Between 1923 and the early 1930s, she appeared in numerous vaudeville dance productions with Benny Davis and Georgie Jessel. Her parents sent her to the Children's Professional School for her studies and training.
In 1934 she was cast as the gangster gun moll Bonnie La Tour in Porter's hit Broadway show "Anything Goes." She became a favorite of journo Walter Winchell and was mentioned in his column numerous times during the run of the show.
She also appeared in Porter's "Leave It to Me."
She left show business soon after, married George O'Connor and began a new career in cosmetics, managing the Fifth Avenue Revlon Salon in Manhattan. She eventually occupied executive posts in the cosmetic field, continuing in the field after the family moved to Florida in the 1960s and after she returned to that profession following an early retirement.
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The source for career information for anyone serving, or interested in serving, in the United States Military, USMilitary.com, is working to assist job seekers in a difficult job market.
USMilitary.com has partnered with JobsCity.com to place their resources into a civilian job board, which will allow the young adult generation to find civilian jobs with employers that have already indicated an interest in hiring military interested prospects.
Searching online is the most common way for young men and women look for jobs in the today's market, and USMilitary.com is ranked #2 by Yahoo! for the "Best Website to find Military Jobs." USMilitary.com is a known and trusted site for military jobs & careers, so employers partnering with them will get targeted 'Military' job/career prospects, which will result in more qualified traffic to their online job registration forms.
According to USMilitary.com spokesperson, Larry Fowler, "The partnership of USMilitary.com and JobsCity.com creates a niche job board for talented young adults seeking civilian careers if military jobs are no longer available. It also gives the opportunity for civilian employers to receive thousands of military interested prospects each month. Civilian employers would love to hire these young adults who already have leanings toward discipline and are willing to pay the ultimate price by serving their country," (http://jobscity.com/).
Fowler goes on to say, "Almost all job boards require their visitors to sign up on their own registration page. Then, these unsuspecting prospects get hit with phone calls and emails from hosts of paying advertisers. JobsCity.com will serve their visitors by protecting them from receiving unwanted phone calls and emails. We want to protect their privacy, all-the-while providing them with the top resources to eliminate the confusion of what to do with their life, whether that be military, college or employment…we want to help!"
In this partnership with JobsCity.com, USMilitary.com, is offering not only job search assistance, but also information and best practices for those making the transition into the private sector, including interview tips, resume recommendations, and ongoing career advice. The goal in providing this education and search assistance is to help relieve the stress associated with job hunting in today's market for the dedicated service men and women of the US military.
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text: In 2014 and 2015 Odyssey and Coweta County 4-H partnered together for a fun event called the Southside STEAM Expo. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. It is held at the Coweta County fairgrounds and the purpose is to expose children to the various jobs and careers that require STEAM skills and knowledge. Odyssey chose to partner with Coweta County 4-H because many of their programs focus on science, technology and math, such as the Veterinary Science Club and the Robotics Club. They are also part of the Cooperative Extension division of the University of Georgia-College of Agricultural and Environmental Science. Through this partnership we have helped Coweta County 4-H raise over $2500 for their organization.


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Tuesday morning started out melancholy for Peytan and Tillman Caskey as they left their Apollo Beach home.
Both attend Saint Stephen's Episcopal School, which was celebrating "Dads Make A Difference Day" with an assembly for the lower and intermediate school students and their fathers.
But the siblings' dad wouldn't be there.
Lt. Col. Brian Caskey is in Afghanistan, where the 44-year-old U.S. Marine jet pilot is winding up a six-month combat tour.
"He's gone a lot and they're used to it, but not long ones like this," said their mom, Jennifer, a fifth-grade teacher at Saint Stephen's. "So they were sad coming to school. But when Peytan got a little emotional I said, 'Peytan, I can be your dad.'
Peytan said, 'That's fine, but dads don't wear high heels.'
I said, 'Well, they can.' We got a little laugh out of that."
The mood brightened considerably after the assembly began in Hoagland Arena. Head of School Jan Pullen acknowledged one particular dad's ab
sence and introduced a video to the expectant audience.
There was Brian Caskey, talking to his family from his barricaded base in Helmand Province.
Peytan, 7, buried her face in her hands. "I was crying and surprised," the second-grader said later. "It was really sweet to show us our Daddy."
Tillman, 5, wore a look of shock, then broke into a big smile. "He looked cool," the pre-kindergartener said afterward.
Their mom, seated between them, beamed as tears filled her eyes.
Her husband Skype-recorded the video last week and Sam Lindsay, associate director of school technology, edited it.
"It was neat to see their faces," Jennifer Caskey said. "They were so surprised and I loved that part of it. It made their day."
Brian Caskey, dressed in combat fatigues, told his children he loved them, thinks about them every minute and can't wait to get home to take them boating, fishing and playing ball. He also told his wife he loved her, thanked her for bearing the burden of being "Mrs. Dad." He also expressed gratitude for the school's support.
"See everybody in a month," said Caskey, who's ordinarily stationed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.
The three-minute video drew heartfelt applause.
It distinguished the Dad's Day event, which Pullen created more than 20 years ago.
"This one was so special -- and a nice surprise," said the administrator, now 26 years with Saint Stephen's.
"Very impressive, very touching," said Manuel Rodriguez, a Bradenton physician, with son, David. "It's a shame he wasn't able to be here, but we're lucky to have him over there. We so underappreciate the military."
Sam Lindsay can relate to that, so he did something extra for the Caskeys.
A U.S. Air Force veteran with a brother who has served five tours in Afghanistan, he took a video of the children to send to their dad.
"When you're away from home on deployment one of the things you crave is seeing your family," Lindsay said. "This is one of those surprise-from-the-heart, instantaneous reactions you can't see on Skype. It was pretty cool."
The Caskeys are counting the days until Dad comes home. The video brought him that much closer.
"The kids have tried to be strong and I've tried to be strong for them," Jennifer Caskey said. "They've had it harder than me and really miss their Dad. I wanted to do something special for them and so did he."
It was a hit, all right.
"He looks like a real Marine," Peytan said.
"He makes me proud," Tillman said.
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The COS photon-counting detectors can be harmed by exposure to bright light. Because all COS observations must be checked at STScI by a Contact Scientist to confirm that both the intended target and all nearby objects lie within safe-brightness limits, the total number of targets accepted for all COS and STIS MAMA SNAP programs will be limited to 150 per cycle.For similar reasons, when planning Target of Opportunity (TOO) observations COS observers must ensure that sufficient time is available to allow for STScI screening of targets for compliance with safety limits. Ultra-rapid TOOs, (< 2 days), are not allowed with COS. No COS observations will be performed until the bright object screening has been completed. This process can be greatly accelerated by preliminary discussions with the assigned Contact Scientist to clarify the information that the observer will need to provide to STScI and the criteria that will be used to determine if the target is safe to observe.In the case of irregular variables that are either known to undergo unpredictable outbursts, or belong to classes of objects that are subject to outbursts, the proposer must determine whether the target will violate the bright object limits during outburst. If a violation is possible, the proposer must outline a strategy that will ensure that the target is safe to observe with COS. The observing strategy might include additional observations, obtained over a timescale appropriate to the particular type of variable object, with either HST or ground-based telescopes. If HST data are to be used for this purpose, the required orbits must be requested in Phase I (see Section 4.1.3 of the Call for Proposals). STScI reserves the right to limit the number of visits requiring quiescence verification observations within 20 days or less of an HST observation to no more than 12 such visits per Cycle. Further details about these procedures are presented in ACS ISR 06-04. The general policies described there apply to the STIS/MAMA and COS detectors as well, with suitable scaling for the differences in the exact Bright Object Protection (BOP) limits for each detector and mode. These limits are described in the individual instrument handbooks.For more information on these and other policies pertaining to HST observing, please see the Call for Proposals.


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Olympic athletes are constantly trying to better themselves. Weightlifters want to be stronger, high jumpers want to get more elevation, and gymnasts want to improve their balance. Even Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world, is constantly looking to maximize his own speed – especially after his recent loss to Yohan Blake.
Luckily for the Jamaican with two world records, 3D Printing could prove to help Bolt – among other runners – to increase his own potential. Luc Fusaro, a French engineer and designer is working to develop a 3D Printed running shoe specifically designed for elite Olympic athletes.
The shoes, which are called "Designed To Win" feature spikes to improve traction, a flashy gold color, and most importantly a lightweight, custom-fit design. Fusaro begins his production process with a scan of the athlete's foot. He then uses that scan to build the shoe itself using an additive manufacturing process called Selective Laser Sintering (SLS). The final result is a shoe that not only gives its owner a competitive advantage on the track, but also a sprint shoe with a unique fit.
For all of us at Advanced Design Concepts, it's exciting to see how innovative 3D Printing technologies can be. Whether its something as simple as a model of a cupcake, or as ground-breaking as Fusaro's "Designed To Win" shoes, rapid prototyping consistently shows that it always has something new to bring to the table.
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The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 33.72 points at 12,854.64. The Canadian dollar was ahead 0.33 of a cent at 96.40 cents US.
Overnight, Chinese stocks rose after data showed that the country's exports accelerated while inflation edged lower last month, raising hopes that China is on the path to recovery from a recent slowdown.
Japanese shares also rallied thanks to a successful bid by Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic games.
On Wall Street, U.S. markets were positive as the Dow Jones industrials jumped 140.62 points to 15,063.12, the first close above 15,000 for the index since Aug. 23. The Nasdaq was up 46.17 points to 3,706.18 and the S&P 500 was ahead 16.54 points to 1,671.71.
Canadian market strategist Craig Fehr said the Chinese data showed that there may not only be stabilization in the world's second-largest economy, but also signs of a pickup.
"The market became so accustomed to very strong growth and very strong data out of China for the past decade that when China then entered into a slowdown phase in the last year or two, there was a sort of reconditioning period from investors on what to expect from China," said Fehr, of Edward Jones in St. Louis, Mo.
"Now that we're getting a little more positive data out of China, investors are seeing that there is some more stabilization in that economy and maybe even some acceleration."
Strong growth in China, which is a major buyer of commodities, would help lift the Canadian economy as well as boost U.S. and European markets, he added.
Meanwhile, the Toronto stock market got a boost from BlackBerry (TSX:BB) after its stock jumped more than six per cent following an unconfirmed report that Canadian investor Prem Watsa was close to buying the troubled smartphone maker. Its shares were up 67 cents to $11.96.
In corporate news, Ares Management and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board confirmed that they plan to buy luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group for US$6 billion.
Shares in Gabriel Resources Ltd. (TSX:GBU) plummeted more than 50 per cent, or 79 cents, after disclosing it has put in an urgent request for the Romanian government to clarify whether it plans to block debate on draft legislation affecting its Rosia Montana gold project. The company has struggled for several years to overcome opposition to the project, which opponents say poses too much of an environmental risk because it uses cyanide in the extraction process. Its shares closed down 79 cents at 68 cents.
Meanwhile, uranium producer Cameco Corp. (TSX:CCO) says it'll miss the 2013 production target for its Cigar Lake mining project in Saskatchewan due to delays in starting up ore production and mill processing. The major new mine has been delayed several times in past years due to flooding and other technical issues. Shares in Cameco fell 14 cents, or 0.68 per cent, to $20.39.
Most indexes on the TSX were positive, with metals and mining leading the charge with an increase of 2.6 per cent. Shares in Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) rose 4.17 per cent or $1.16 to $29. The gold index was the main decliner, down 1.23 per cent. Shares in Iamgold Corp. (TSX:IMG) were off 10 cents, or 1.61 per cent, to $6.10.
On the commodities front, December bullion climbed 20 cents to US$1,386.70 an ounce and copper was up two cents to $3.28 a pound, helped by the Chinese data. The October crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell $1.01 to US$109.52 a barrel.


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To Hell With 'Pray for Paris' – Arm Parisians Instead
The Failure of Gun Control in Europe
Since March 2012 there have been 7 terrorist attacks in France involving illegal guns plus 8 more attacks using knives and guns, killing a total of 162 people and injuring 414. As Adam Taylor writing for the Washington Post noted a day after the recent Paris massacres, France has some of the strictest gun laws in Europe, yet "(d)espite these strict laws, France is awash in guns." Taylor states currently the call for citizens to demand legal access to firearms for self-protection "doesn't have much support in France," but he doesn't provide evidence for this so I'm left wondering whether the French feel the same after replacing Israel as the destination of choice for every jihadi with an AK-47.
Every gun control advocate bears within him or her three competing yet irreconcilable facts: Government prohibition is no guarantee of elimination – as verified by the presence of prostitutes and heroin in society. All citizens do not follow the law. The police/military cannot be everywhere in a free society. As a result of these facts people who follow the law and are made defenseless by the Law end up shot point blank at a rock concert in Paris where the attackers know they won't face resistance.
It wasn't always this way. Europe's gun control frenzy only took hold after World War I, and has even been implicated as contributing to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany, a fact which the American Left vehemently denies. Prior to World War I even European men were expected to protect themselves and their families and to provide assistance to the State when threatened, a tradition that the Swiss maintain today.
Terrorism is at its core a very logical and rational process. Terrorists will always seek out "soft targets" that are undefended because terrorists are very poor at improvisation. They need predictability in order to achieve their aims of causing the most casualties with the manpower and materials at hand. An armed victim shooting back changes the calculus of the attack, as the unarmed victims of the Aug 2015 failed train massacre proved.
France, and Europe as a whole, has now reached a point where it must decide whether it is prepared to accept the deaths of its unarmed citizens – given that protecting every soft target from every Air France flight to every Jewish deli is impossible, or provide its citizens with the means of their own self-defense.
I am realistic. I fully expect there to be more attacks, many more dead before Europe awakens to the need to arm its citizenry and reverse decades of failed gun control ideology. I wish them luck in the meantime and hope that the French are the first to awaken from their self-imposed coma, stand up and fight back.


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Disney to exit from Bollywood
One of the biggest Hollywood production house Disney is set to exit from Bollywood after a debacle of actor Hrithik Roshan starred Mohenjo Daro.
The Hollywood production house suffered huge loss producing Bollywood films like Fitoor,Tamasha, and Mohenjo Daro. Thus, it has decided to exit from making films. Disney pinned lots of hopes on Mahenjo Daro, but the film gave it an embarrassing flop collecting just other 100 crores.
Disney India which owns UTV Motion Pictures is now going to focus on Hollywood films. Disney's last production will be Dangal staring Aamir Khan. Will the film give some glory to the prestigious production house ?
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How to get to RiffaFly in to Manama (BAH-Bahrain Intl.), 11.8 mi (19 km) from downtown Riffa. Dammam (DMS-Saptco Bus Station) is the next closest major airport, 23.5 mi (37.7 km) away.
What to see around RiffaOutdoorsy fun is on hand such as adventure tours, football, and golf, along with attractions such as:
- • Awali Golf Club
- • Bahrain National Stadium
- • Royal Golf Club
- • Bahrain Grand Prix
- • Lost Paradise of Dilmun Water Park
- • Riffa Fort
- • A'ali Burial Mounds
- • Dilmun Burial Mounds
- • Saar Burial Mounds
- • Khamis Mosque
- • University of Bahrain
- • King Fahd Causeway
- • Bahrain Mall
- • Seef Mall
- • Barbar Temple
When to visit RiffaWondering when's the best time to visit? Here are seasonal norms to help you plan your trip:
Seasonal temperature averages
- January-March: 81°F day, 57°F night
- April-June: 93°F day, 68°F night
- July-September: 100°F day, 81°F night
- October-December: 94°F day, 59°F night
- January-March: 1.85 inches
- April-June: 0 inches
- July-September: 0 inches
- October-December: 0 inches


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It's About The Constitution, Stupid! Benjamin Smith Benjamin Smith - Director of Strategic Affairs ObamacareThe Constitution SCOTUS Obamacare Constitution Congress Jul 03 2012 As people are looking for the reason of why the court decision came down in the way it did from the supreme court justice that seemed to have the most stringent constitutional sense look to the progressive play book. As we have seen the progressive scourge take on the mantra of "fundamentally changing the United States of America" it has not been the old adage of "One step back and two steps forward" it has been more of the Blitzkrieg strategy of Go Go Go! Turning the saying into "3-5 steps forward then take a step back if you have to". As there campaign slogan says itself "Vorwarts"…. Oh wait a second, that is the German Socialists party slogan from early 1940's under HITLER only now translated into English as FORWARD. Now we are told to think that this is a Good thing that we are to have a motivated base and win an election or two. We think that this is a blessing that Roberts bestowed upon us, a gift. We always want to find a silver lining. We want to believe that somewhere in him was the thought that he was going to energize the base and make everything ok. In reality this is equivalent to being FORCED TO EAT YOUR GUTS THEN BEING TOLD ITS STEAK. His Summary was political and Forward, (Vorwarts), leaning, I have heard people on the big news stations say that he did it because he wanted to stop the violence that could follow if he ruled otherwise and to save the integrity and reputation of the courts…. And they agreed with it! The thing that made my blood run cold was that the talking heads were ok with this. What have we become? I have a novel idea…… DO YOUR JOB! To paraphrase President Clinton, "IT'S ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION STUPID"! I think we can all understand that we have to do jobs or missions or anything in our lives that are not going to be popular with the people around you and you will be looked at with utter distain and dislike but at the end of the day you "did what you had to do" because those are the values of which you have chosen to live your life or the rules of your job and you had to be the grown up in the room and make the hard decision. These are some of the things that have kept America on its feet through some of the worst times in its history. We have made the right decision when everyone else wants the easy way out or the quick fix. A Supreme Court Justice has rules to abide by – uphold the Constitution and do not to fall prey to judicial activism…… simple right? Now we are looking to the election with renewed vigor in out hearts and a possible positive outcome for the Republican hopefuls, we see a little bit of the Arizona law on immigration (Roberts was the dissenting vote there as well) stand and we let that go as well and we have our marching orders for the next few months as we did in the 2010 elections. This is all well and good BUT….. Back in the early 1900's a Progressive President, Woodrow Wilson changed the Supreme Courts way of ruling from FOUNDING PRINCIPLE to precedence. With this is mind, lets look at what just happened here. It seems like the Mandate was a penalty which is now opined by Roberts as a tax. The President himself as well as the ObamaCare bill has a section in it saying its NOT a tax as well as the word "penalty" just became the word "Tax" and we will use the word tax now for penalty instead of mandate right? A mandate is something that compels or requires you by law to do something or buy something the government deems necessary for you. In essence it is saying "In order for you to be an American you have to do/buy this". This is pre-emptive inclusion or exclusion. A Penalty is a repercussion for not fulfilling an order or demand. A Tax is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a state or the functional equivalent of a state such that failure to pay is punishable by law. More formally it is defined as a "pecuniary burden laid upon individuals or property owners to support the government, a payment exacted by legislative authority." A tax "is not a voluntary payment or donation, but an enforced contribution, exacted pursuant to legislative authority" and is "any contribution imposed by government whether under the name of toll, tribute, tillage, gabel, impost, duty, custom, excise, subsidy, aid, supply, or other name." Start with a something that the government wants to compel you to do…. They can't make or tell you to do something but in the grand fashion of this Administration and the Progressive Ethos they will slow-roll and edge you toward what you want incrementally as the "Nudge" of Cass Sunstein would dictate. Now they can't tell you to do something but they can penalize you for doing something. We have long seen ObamaCare for what it is - government intrusion into your body. It may not be able to preemptively require you to get insurance but what happened with the shift of phrasing and redefining it is that it can now Tax you because you did not do something. This is a Mandate by other means, they are going to now Tax (penalize) a lifestyle that they deem unhealthy or unfit for an American and not give you health insurance which translates into not getting the care that you need. This has put ramparts between you and your doctor, they have stepped in to make the rules and to levy the taxes (penalties) on the things that they do not want. How long before they levy taxes (penalties) on being fat? Does anyone see Medically Legislated Equal Outcome here? I see not only a forced Equal Outcome with redistribution of monetary wealth, but now they are forcing the redistribution of health. And our government will now legislate you are to appear…their notion of health. What is next? Shall we be compelled to purchase and wear the Nehru jackets Mao and Stalin liked? Yes, to some it is not a choice but to most it is a lifestyle, a CHOICE…… Americans have a right to do as they please. Looking Forward (Vorwarts), SCOTUS' ObamaCare decision has opened a Pandora's Box of legal precedence that will flood the system with Taxes (Penalties). The Progressive Right and Progressive Left politicians will push laws and legislation to ultimately control you with something that resembles a "choose your own adventure" book of old,…. You can choose what you want to do but the repercussions for doing so is already written by the author and (the Taxes and PENALTIES) will be catastrophic…now turn to the page specified and see. Instead of a pre-emptive requirement as in "you will do this, it is a requirement" it will now be a LEGISLATIVE THREAT where the lawmakers dictate "You can legally make this choice BUT if you do you will pay dearly". This is the same Sunsteinian logic turned to legislation where you, the previously sovereign individual previously free to control his or her own body, will be forced to accept what the government determines to be the "smart choice" for your body. And this decision goes beyond ObamaCare, because the Supreme Court has now set a precedent that within a couple years or a couple administrations , (if our country survives that long), gives the government ability to tax (penalize) the Citizenry based on lifestyles and choices. And should you decline to abide by the government's view of what is the "correct" choice in your life, you will be penalized. How long before they turn it toward the rest of the economy and the rest of their wants and desires as progressive legislators further seek to dominate and destroy the American spirit? In this time of economic decline and uncertainty, will you be able to pay the arbitrary Taxes (Penalties)? How long till the Debtors Prisons are reinstated and the IRS becomes a huge enforcement arm because they answer to no-one? Do not be short sighted on this friends, look where this leads. We are programmed for short sighted remedies and this COLD CIVIL WAR has been going on close to a century now. We did not start it and will probably not see the end of it, unless something catastrophic happens within our lifetimes. Not only are we patriots charged with knowing what our history is, we are to know where we came from, what is against us and on what trajectory are we? We now have to lead whatever dreams may come from inspiring patriotism in a recently (hopefully) awakened Giant. Know that America is on the precipice and the WORLD IS HOLDING THEIR BREATH. About Benjamin Smith: Former Navy SEAL, Benjamin Smith took an oath to defend our Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic. That oath has no expiration date. As an author, speaker, political strategist and ardent Constitutionalist, Benjamin Smith continues to battle tyranny and defend the freedoms that enabled American exceptionalism. Benjamin is a regular contributor to multiple news outlets including Breitbart and Fox News.
Former Navy SEAL, Benjamin Smith took an oath to defend our Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic. That oath has no expiration date. As an author, speaker, political strategist and ardent Constitutionalist, Benjamin Smith continues to battle tyranny and defend the freedoms that enabled American exceptionalism. Benjamin is a regular contributor to multiple news outlets including Breitbart and Fox News.


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NMU Leaves All Busing to Checker
NMU is officially out of the bus business. Checker Transport LLC, which operates the campus shuttle, submitted the lowest bid for providing group transportation to university-sanctioned sporting or other events, along with local activities related to admissions and orientation. The new contract went into effect Jan. 1.
The university's signature 1997 and 2007 buses with the green-and-gold trim and Wildcat logos are still visible on the roads. Checker is leasing the vehicles for 18 months—a "grace period" to make sure the arrangement works for both parties—but has offered to buy them when the lease is up. They They are also using them to transport other groups outside of campus, but NMU has top priority.
"It's expensive for universities to maintain their own buses and many are contracting out for this service," said Steve Brown (Purchasing). "Departments will save money by using Checker because they have vehicles to accommodate any size group. With more options, they won't have to pay for a larger bus than they need. We estimate an annual savings of about $13,000. This also frees up our two bus drivers, who are full-time buildings and grounds employees, to help with snow plowing and other needs on campus."
Brown said this was a logical next step after NMU eliminated its transportation department, unloaded its fleet of cars and contracted with Enterprise to rent cars for university business, as needed. Departments who need bus services can call Checker directly at 226-7772.


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Bring the curriculum to life and inspire your students. Stand at the spot where Operation Dynamo was planned, or experience what life was like for a medieval king or servant.
We've spent a lot of time doing pre-work about castles in the classroom, but it makes such a difference for them to see for themselves what they've been learning about
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Support and your teaching in a fun and engaging way, with a visit to Dover Castle.
- KS1-3: Local history study
- KS1: Significant historical events, people and places
- KS2: The changing power of monarchs. Extending chronological knowledge beyond 1066. Breaking codes in WW2.
- KS2 & 3: Enriching mathematical understanding - breaking codes in WW2
- KS3: Development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain. Changes for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day
- KS4: OCR: History A; Study of the Historic Environment, History B; History Around Us. AQA: Section B; British depth studies including the historic environment, Norman and Medieval England
- KS5: OCR: Unit Y103/Y133; England 1199 - 1272, Unit Y113/Y143: Churchill 1930 - 1951. Edexcel: Paper 2, Option 2A.2: England and the Angevin Empire in the reign of Henry II, 1154 - 1189
Enjoy a free self-led visit to Dover Castle and and experience 2000 years of history. Start at our Roman lighthouse, then on to The Great Tower and learn more about Henry II. Delve into our Medieval tunnels on the way to our atmospheric Secret Wartime Tunnels. Find out more about WWI and the role of the WWI Fire Command Post by using our handling boxes, full of artefacts and activities. Book our education room and dress up in our costumes to get a feel for what it would have been like to have been a medieval lady or knight.
See below to download our learning resources specially designed to support your teaching, before, during and after your visit.
Bring Dover Castle to life and let us lead a Discovery Visit for you. Our sessions are interactive, hands-on and immersive and have been specifically designed to meet the needs of different groups across the key stages. Discover what life was like for the lords and ladies who lived at Dover Castle or step inside the Secret Wartime Tunnels and break secret codes and ciphers.
facilities for learning groups
- EDUCATION CENTRE: Available to pre-book, located in the Great Tower yard. Try on costumes, read about knights and princesses in our Story-telling room and get hands-on with our handling collection.
- PARKING: Free parking for cars and minibuses under 3m in height. Coach parking available off site at council-run Pay and Display car park on Castle Hill.
- TOILETS: Toilets, including accessible toilets, located at all main areas of the property.
- SHOP: Two well-stocked shops on site which both sell a range of books and gifts. Goody bags are available to pre-order.
- LUNCH: Two picnic rooms on site, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Also two café's located on site, available for use by all visitors.
- ACCESSIBILITY: Extensive grounds mainly accessible on tarmac paths, but some steep slopes. Wheelchair accessible route available on request. Land train stops at various parts of the site and can be used by students with limited mobility. Mobility scooters also available (to visitors over 18) if requested in advance.
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- February and March - Wednesday to Sunday 10.00 - 16.00
- April to September - 10.00 - 18.00
- October - 10.00 - 17.00
- November - Every Thursday 10.00 - 16.00
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5 Reuses for: Bowls, Back to School Thrift Finds and Chicago's Green City Guide
:: Get crafty with old, mis-matched kitchen bowls.
:: Avoid mall madness. Show the kids that cool, unique back-to-school clothes can be found at thrift stores.
:: Tour the Midwest mindfully. Eco-tour Chicago with help from our Green City Guide: Chicago.


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Seeking submissions – Australia 2020 Summit – Due by 5pm 9 April 2008
Posted in Movements, Policies, Seeking, Visions by Ferne Edwards on March 11th, 2008
The Rudd Government will convene an Australia 2020 Summit at Parliament House on 19-20 April 2008 to help shape a long term strategy for the nations future. The Summit will bring together some of the best and brightest brains from across the country to tackle the long term challenges confronting Australias future. Every Australian has the opportunity to make a submission to the Summit. You can make your submission by clicking on the link below:


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- Born: May 29, 1874
- Died: June 14, 1936
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War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs
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Published: June 19, 2011 The New York Times
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds.
The base's indoor flight lab is called the "microaviary," and for good reason. The drones in development here are designed to replicate the flight mechanics of moths, hawks and other inhabitants of the natural world. "We're looking at how you hide in plain sight," said Greg Parker, an aerospace engineer, as he held up a prototype of a mechanical hawk that in the future might carry out espionage or kill.
Half a world away in Afghanistan, Marines marvel at one of the new blimplike spy balloons that float from a tether 15,000 feet above one of the bloodiest outposts of the war, Sangin in Helmand Province. The balloon, called an aerostat, can transmit live video - from as far as 20 miles away - of insurgents planting homemade bombs. "It's been a game-changer for me," Capt. Nickoli Johnson said in Sangin this spring. "I want a bunch more put in."
From blimps to bugs, an explosion in aerial drones is transforming the way America fights and thinks about its wars. Predator drones, the Cessna-sized workhorses that have dominated unmanned flight since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, are by now a brand name, known and feared around the world. But far less known is the sheer size, variety and audaciousness of a rapidly expanding drone universe, along with the dilemmas that come with it.
The Pentagon now has some 7,000 aerial drones, compared with fewer than 50 a decade ago. Within the next decade the Air Force anticipates a decrease in manned aircraft but expects its number of "multirole" aerial drones like the Reaper - the ones that spy as well as strike - to nearly quadruple, to 536. Already the Air Force is training more remote pilots, 350 this year alone, than fighter and bomber pilots combined.
"It's a growth market," said Ashton B. Carter, the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer.
The Pentagon has asked Congress for nearly $5 billion for drones next year, and by 2030 envisions ever more stuff of science fiction: "spy flies" equipped with sensors and microcameras to detect enemies, nuclear weapons or victims in rubble. Peter W. Singer, a scholar at the Brookings Institution and the author of "Wired for War," a book about military robotics, calls them "bugs with bugs."
In recent months drones have been more crucial than ever in fighting wars and terrorism. The Central Intelligence Agency spied on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan by video transmitted from a new bat-winged stealth drone, the RQ-170 Sentinel, otherwise known as the "Beast of Kandahar," named after it was first spotted on a runway in Afghanistan. One of Pakistan's most wanted militants, Ilyas Kashmiri, was reported dead this month in a C.I.A. drone strike, part of an aggressive drone campaign that administration officials say has helped paralyze Al Qaeda in the region - and has become a possible rationale for an accelerated withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan. More than 1,900 insurgents in Pakistan's tribal areas have been killed by American drones since 2006, according to the Web site www.longwarjournal.com.
In April the United States began using armed Predator drones against Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces in Libya. Last month a C.I.A.-armed Predator aimed a missile at Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical American-born cleric believed to be hiding in Yemen. The Predator missed, but American drones continue to patrol Yemen's skies.
Large or small, drones raise questions about the growing disconnect between the American public and its wars. Military ethicists concede that drones can turn war into a videogame, inflict civilian casualties and, with no Americans directly at risk, more easily draw the United States into conflicts. Drones have also created a crisis of information for analysts on the end of a daily video deluge. Not least, the Federal Aviation Administration has qualms about expanding their test flights at home, as the Pentagon would like. Last summer, fighter jets were almost scrambled after a rogue Fire Scout drone, the size of a small helicopter, wandered into Washington's restricted airspace.
Within the military, no one disputes that drones save American lives. Many see them as advanced versions of "stand-off weapons systems," like tanks or bombs dropped from aircraft, that the United States has used for decades. "There's a kind of nostalgia for the way wars used to be," said Deane-Peter Baker, an ethics professor at the United States Naval Academy, referring to noble notions of knight-on-knight conflict. Drones are part of a post-heroic age, he said, and in his view it is not a always a problem if they lower the threshold for war. "It is a bad thing if we didn't have a just cause in the first place," Mr. Baker said. "But if we did have a just cause, we should celebrate anything that allows us to pursue that just cause."
To Mr. Singer of Brookings, the debate over drones is like debating the merits of computers in 1979: They are they here to stay, and the boom has barely begun. "We are at the Wright Brothers Flier stage of this," he said.
Mimicking Insect Flight
A tiny helicopter is buzzing menacingly as it prepares to lift off in the Wright-Patterson aviary, a warehouse-like room lined with 60 motion-capture cameras to track the little drone's every move. The helicopter, a footlong hobbyists' model, has been programmed by a computer to fly itself. Soon it is up in the air making purposeful figure eights.
"What it's doing out here is nothing special," said Dr. Parker, the aerospace engineer. The researchers are using the helicopter to test technology that would make it possible for a computer to fly, say, a drone that looks like a dragonfly. "To have a computer do it 100 per cent of the time, and to do it with winds, and to do it when it doesn't really know where the vehicle is, those are the kinds of technologies that we're trying to develop," Dr. Parker said.
The push right now is developing "flapping wing" technology, or recreating the physics of natural flight, but with a focus on insects rather than birds. Birds have complex muscles that move their wings, making it difficult to copy their aerodynamics. Designing a an insect is hard, too, but their wing motions are simpler. "It's a lot easier problem," Dr. Parker said."
In February, researchers unveiled a hummingbird drone, built by the firm AeroVironment for the secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which can fly at 11 miles per hour and perch on a windowsill. But it is still a prototype. One of the smallest drones in use on the battlefield is the three-foot-long Raven, which troops in Afghanistan toss by hand like a model airplane to peer over the next hill.
There are some 4,800 Ravens in operation in the Army, although plenty get lost. One American service member in Germany recalled how five soldiers and officers spent six hours tramping through a dark Bavarian forest - and then sent a helicopter - on a fruitless search for a Raven that failed to return home from a training exercise. The next month a Raven went AWOL again, this time because of a programming error that sent it south. "The initial call I got was that the Raven was going to Africa," said the service member, who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss drone glitches.
In the midsize range: The Predator, the larger Reaper and the smaller Shadow, all flown by remote pilots using joysticks and computer screens, many from military bases in the United States. A Navy entry is the X-47B, a prototype designed to take off and land from aircraft carriers automatically and, when commanded, drop bombs. The X-47B had a maiden 29-minute flight over land in February. A larger drone is the Global Hawk, which is used for keeping an eye on North Korea's nuclear weapons activities. In March, the Pentagon sent a Global Hawk over the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan to assess the damage.
A Tsunami of Data
The future world of drones is here inside the Air Force headquarters at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., where hundreds of flat-screen TVs hang from industrial metal skeletons in a cavernous room, a scene vaguely reminiscent of a rave club. In fact this is one of the most sensitive installations for processing, exploiting and disseminating a tsunami of information from a global network of flying sensors.
The numbers are overwhelming: Since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the hours the Air Force devotes to flying missions for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance have gone up 3,100 percent, most of that from increased operations of drones. Every day, the Air Force must process almost 1,500 hours of full-motion video and another 1,500 still images, much of it from Predators and Reapers on around-the-clock combat air patrols.
The pressures on humans will only increase as the military moves from the limited "soda straw" views of today's sensors to new "Gorgon Stare" technology that can capture live video of an entire city - but requires 2,000 analysts to process the data feeds from a single drone, compared with 19 analysts per drone today.
At Wright-Patterson, Maj. Michael L. Anderson, a doctoral student at the base's advanced navigation technology center, is focused on another part of the future: building wings for a drone that might replicate the flight of the hawk moth, known for its hovering skills. "It's impressive what they can do," Major Anderson said, "compared to what our clumsy aircraft can do."
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Serves 4
This Greek salad is traditional in late spring and early summer, when lettuce, scallions, and dill are at their peak.
• 1 head romaine, oak leaf, or other leaf lettuce
• 2 bunches scallions
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice or rice wine vinegar
• 2 tablespoons minced fresh dill weed
• Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1. Cut the lettuce into 1/2-inch slivers or tear it into small pieces. Place it in a large salad bowl.
2. Rinse the scallions, trim off the roots, and slice the rest 1/2 inch thick. Add to the lettuce and toss with the oil, lemon juice, dill weed, and salt and pepper. Adjust seasonings to taste.
Cornelia Carlson grows herbs in Valley Center, California, and is the author of The Practically Meatless Gourmet (Berkley Books, 1996).
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