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4-Day Boston to Montreal, Niagara Falls, Toronto and Thousand Islands Tour
Tour Code: GOL-BOS-245
Duration: 4 Day(s) / 3 Night(s)
Tour Guide: Chinese, English
Quality: Budget
Departure City
Return City
Experience: UNESCO, Family
Extra (Excluded): Wifi, Meal etc...
Tour Guide:Chinese, English
Explore Olympic Tower, Niagara Falls, Peace Tower, Olympic Stadium, Lake Ontario, St. Josephs Oratory, Biodome, Parliament Hill, Thousand Islands, City Hall, CN Tower, Casa Loma, and Skylon Tower on an exciting four-day bus tour starting from Boston and Quincy with special discounts and hotel accommodations.
- Only the guides and drivers who have COVID 19 negative can provide services from now onwards. Drivers and Guides will wear the mask. They will disinfect the bus daily. Travelers will have to wear the mask and their temperature will be monitored regularly. Travelers will be provided with hand sanitizer and wipes. We recommend travelers to bring their own hand sanitizer also. Bus sitting will be based on the standards set by the Government.
Hotel: Days Inn or Similar.
In the heart of Niagara Gorge, a thrilling boat tour takes travelers from Canada to Great Gorge. This exciting tour is known as Hornblower Niagara Cruise.
In the premises of Niagara Falls, there is film theatre known as IMAX Theatre. People visit this theatre to enjoy live shows and movies related to Niagara's History.
Niagara Falls is situated on the border of Canada and the United States, this is why there is an other City of Niagara Falls that is situated on the Western Bank of the river in Ontario Canada.
The Rainbow Bridge is also known as the Niagara Falls International Rainbow Bridge. It is an arch bridge over the Niagara River and is very famous tourists site. It connects New York and Ontario.
The Skylon Tower is located in the Niagara Falls at Ontario in Canada. It is headed towards the sky and gives a 360 degree of the Niagara Falls. The tower is 263 meters above the Niagara Falls.
Situated along the south northern coast of the Lake Ontario, Toronto is great and culturally diverse. The green trees and ravines, trails and parks and recreation are the things attracting visitors in a great number.
Hotel: Quality Inn or Similar.
The CN tower is a concrete communications tower and is 553 meters tall, it was built on old railway lands and was completed in 1976 and became the world's largest freestanding structure.
If you want to see and enjoy everything that the Toronto Harbor has to offer then you should probably seek help from Mariposa Cruises. This service will give you a detailed tour or cruise of the Toronto Harbor that you should enjoy.
Ripley's Aquarium of Canada is a public aquarium located in Toronto, Ontario. The aquarium is owned by Ripley Entertainment and is one of the three aquariums owned by the company.
Toronto City Hall represents the history of the city and the creation of itself. It has a volume of things for its visitors to learn about from Council Chambers to Podium Green Roof.
Situated along the south northern coast of the Lake Ontario, Toronto is great and culturally diverse. The green trees and ravines, trails and parks and recreation are the things attracting visitors in a great number.
Hotel: Comfort Inn or Similar.
Refers to the largest city of Quebec, the city has the population of 1.65 million; however this population is according to the census of 2011. The population predominantly speaks French.
Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica is located in Old Montréal, Quebec, Canada, with its marvelous architecture. It is a functional church presenting historical glimpse and much more to the visitors.
The oldest part of Montreal city is called Old Montreal. It has impressive views and amazing people to meet with for the tourists. Strolling down the city will make the tour unforgettable.
The city is situated on Ottawa River with its most marvelous tourist points like loveable large museums, Victorian style in buildings and its Centre Parliament Hill. A fantastic place for art lovers!
The area of Crown Land on Southern Banks of Ottawa River is said to be as Parliament Hill. It is located in the province of Ontario.
St. Joseph's Oratory is a beautiful catholic church I Montreal, Canada. It is also the largest church of Canada, structured above Mount Royal and also the third largest church of the world.
It is a cruise service which you can avail to tour the thousand islands. Through the boat you can see some of the best breath taking sites. During the tour information about each location is also provided. The tour is very famous hence is very crowded.
It is a group of islands located in Ontario Canada, the exact number of islands are 1864. The length of these islands is 50 miles and they straddle the US-Canada border.
Refers to a facility located in Montreal at the Olympic Park, The building consists of four ecosystems in Americas; the construction of the building took place in the year 1976.
Presenting the amazing rural scenery of Quebec, Canada, villages with close to nature atmosphere, Olympia Village is cool place to visit. It also grants easy approach to Niagara Falls.
The order of itinerary may change without any notice depending on weather situations or for some other unforeseen circumstances.
The order of activities held during the tour is planned by the tour guide. So, it may be different from what is mentioned on the tour page. On fewer occasions, Tour Guide has to skip an attraction or few during the tour depending on weather, traffic, group interest or some other reason.
Some attractions are seasonal. So, when they are closed they will be replaced with some other attraction.
You can skip some optional activities during the tour and plan something on your own. Make sure that you coordinate with Tour guide and stay with the group with next activity. Please note you cannot stay on the bus if you skip some optional activity.
Probable hotel names are mentioned in the itinerary. It can be similar or a different hotel of the similar rating. Exact Hotel details can only be provided one day before the departure.
Maximum 4 people of any age can stay in 1 Room in the hotel.
These tours are conducted in a group. A group can have people of several cultures. We expect each person to coordinate with Tour guide to make sure things are on track.
Though attractions are optional but you have to at least take 2 attractions.
What's Included
Passengers will be picked up and dropped off at their chosen locations. (Please take notice of locations and times of pick up)
All tours are carried out in air conditioned bus. We may also use a minivan depending on the number of people booking the tour.
A professional tour escort will be with you throughout the tour.
Tour package price includes all the taxes.
What's Excluded
It is possible for rates to change without notice.
Cash payments of admission fee for Optional Activities would be made to the guide. Optional activities price may change or can be different as displayed on the website.
Though meals and drinks are not a part of the package the guide will arrange them upon request.
Minimum service charges for the driver and the guide will be $10 per person per day.
Telephone services, laundry services, Alcoholic drinks and beverages are private room charges.
Travel insurance.
Additional personal expenditure.
Note:Customers are encouraged not to buy admission packages outside and use them in this discounted tour. In case they do, transport need to be arranged the same day.
Attraction Prices
Attractions | Adult | Child(2-11 yrs) | Senior(65+ yrs) |
CN Tower, ON | $43.00 | $32.00 | $39.00 |
Hornblower Niagara Cruises / Incline Railway, ON | $30.00 | $18.00 | $30.00 |
IMAX Theatre, Niagara Falls, ON | $15.00 | $11.00 | $15.00 |
Mariposa Toronto Harbour Cruise, ON | $28.00 | $18.00 | $28.00 |
Montreal Biodome, QC | $21.00 | $10.00 | $19.00 |
Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica, QC | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
Olympia Village, QC | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
Ripleys Aquarium of Canada, ON | $36.00 | $25.00 | $25.00 |
Skylon Tower, ON | $15.00 | $11.00 | $15.00 |
Thousand Island Cruise, ON | $30.00 | $17.00 | $25.00 |
All the prices are listed in USD.
Any Amount paid in cash to the Tour Guide is not refundable.
Tour display price is based on double occupancy. It is the price each person will pay if a group of two is traveling.
Prices may change without any notice.
Prices include hotel accommodation, transportation and taxes.
Admission Tickets to different places and meals are NOT included in the tour price.
Mandatory Tip for tour guide and driver are NOT included.
Only the tour guide can purchase entrance tickets for you. Pre-purchased tickets are NOT acceptable.
There must be at least one passenger of 18 years for every booking made with GoldenBusTours. For Children between the age group of 2 to 14 years, a different price will be charged. Please refer to Child price on our pricing calendar. Child Age may vary between different bus operators. Maximum 4 people of any age can stay in 1 Room in the hotel. If the 5th person is infant you will be charged normally then with the second room as an expense.
Activities are optional though, but each customer has to participate in 2 activities at least. No city pass allowed. Some attractions are mandatory. Each customer has to take part in them and have to pay for them in cash.
Departure Location
Departure Location
Return Location
Important Notes
Arrive at departure location 10 to 15 minutes before the mentioned time to make sure you catch the bus on time. If in case you are late, the bus will not wait for you at the location and ultimately you will miss the entire tour (no refund in this case).
Return time on the website is just an estimation. Expect some variation always. Time may change depending on traffic and weather situations
There is a possibility that tour operator may use a shuttle to drop you off at the return location. It usually happens in the case of multiple return locations.
You can leave the tour at any place only after signing a Tour Departure Form for leaving the tour early.
Please note that price will stay the same even if you leave the tour early.
If you have booked a pre-tour hotel stay, then you will have to arrange your own transport from hotel to departure location.
If you have booked extra night hotel after the tour, then you will arrange transport from drop off point to hotel.
On West Coast tours some bus operators have a lot of departure locations. A slow start is expected on these tours.
Cancellation and Refund Policy
No matter the reason for the cancellation, we are forced to carry costly charges from out travel and hotel providers in the form of penalties and fees that re-incurred when there is a cancellation of confirmed or pending bookings. As such, there are cancellation penalties or fees incurred. Determination of the time of cancellation will be done when the notice is received and confirmed by our office. You must make any notice of cancellation directly to GoldenBusTours by email or webmail at the Contact Us section.
We reserve the right to cancel or re-schedule any tour departure with respect to operating requirement or circumstances beyond control. In case a cancellation is made at any given moment in time before departure, our only liability as GoldenBusTours will be to refund you, the passenger with the amount we received for the booking of the tour. We will try our best to re-book the same or similar tour. We are not responsible for any cancellation penalties that may have been incurred on any other travel arrangements inclusive of separate purchase of air tickets.
We are not liable for any other travel arrangements that have been affected as a result of the cancellations.
Cancellation Charges
⇒ 14 days or more prior to departure, 35% of the tour fees will be charged as cancellation
⇒ 8 to 14 days prior to departure, 55% of the tour fees will be charged as cancellation
⇒ 4 to 7 days prior to departure, 80% of the tour fees will be charged as cancellation
⇒ Within 3 days prior to departure, 100% tour fees will be charged as cancellation
Any Amount paid in cash to the Tour Guide is not refundable.
There is no refund for unused features. You forfeit the entire payment when you are a no-show on the departure date and unable to join the tour for any reason including COVID.
Cancellation or Reschedule charges are applicable even if you are NOT able to take the tour because of visa rejection. If you reschedule tour and later decides to cancel it then cancellation charges will be applicable to the original departure date and not to the rescheduled one.
In order for there not to be a cancellation, a minimum number of participants are required. We reserve the right to cancel a scheduled trip although every effort is made by us to ensure that normal operations are maintained.
An add-on fee of 6% for handling fees is charged in addition to the above penalties. No matter what the reason of cancellation is this processing fee will be deducted on each refund.
For any refund case, we do include the discount offered already. This is where GoldenBusTours is playing its role to make sure its customers get the best available deal at an affordable price.
No refund request or complaint will be entertained after 30 days of tour departure. You have to send a formal complaint through email.
Buy 2 Get 3rd Free:
⇒ In the case of free passenger cancellation kindly update us 7 days before the departure.
⇒ In the case of late cancellation request or free passenger does not show up on tour day then $128 will be charged.
Reservation, Booking & Redemption
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Any travel service purchases indicate your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions set out herein.
You are advised to carefully read through and understand these Terms & Conditions before making your booking.
Tour Confirmation
You will get an email immediately once you place an order. Tour Confirmation usually takes 2, 3 days except for urgent order. Urgent orders can be confirmed in a day or even few hours, but we can't assure success in these cases. On fewer occasions, some of the others may require a longer period of time for confirmation. You are advised not to book airline tickets unless you have received the confirmation.
E-Ticket (Mandatory to be on bus)
Your e-ticket includes complete operator information such as local telephone numbers at your destination. You are required to print the e-tickets and bring them along with you on the trip. They will be needed as proof of purchase.
Changes in Booking
You may incur a fee for any revisions or alterations made to the reservation when the booking has already been confirmed. Cancellation fees may be applied to things such as name changes or corrections. They may also apply to tour date changes or tour itinerary changes. Please note that no departure changes are permitted 72 hours before departure.
Changes in Tour Itinerary
We are continuously striving to improve tour itineraries and features. In the event of unforeseen circumstances that are beyond the control, we do reserve the right to vary the itineraries and to substitute hotels. Duplicate departures may operate during certain peak periods, sometimes in reverse order. As such, hotels may vary from those included on the itinerary pages.
⇒ 14 or more days prior to departure - 35% of the tour fees will be charged as reschedule fees
⇒ 8-14 days prior to departure - 55% of the tour fees will be charged as reschedule fees
⇒ 4-7 days prior to departure - 80% of the tour fees will be charged as reschedule fees
⇒ 3 days prior to departure – 100% tour fees will be charged as reschedule fees
Cancellation or Reschedule charges are applicable even if you are NOT able to take the tour because of visa rejection.
1. One room can accommodate maximum 4 people. Even if you are 5 people including 1 month old baby you still need 2 rooms.
2. If you can carry your child up to 2 years of age then you do not need to book seats for him. It may vary from one tour to another.
3. Service providers hold the right to change the itinerary and hotel arrangements without any notice.
4. Child (0-9 years) and Single traveler going on the tour have special rates. These prices vary from one tour to another.
5. Meals and Attractions are not included. You can ask your tour guide to try to arrange the meal for you as per your requirements. For attractions, admission fees pay it to the tour guide on the tour.
6. Prices may change without any notice because of prices fluctuation in the market.
7. All prices mentioned on the website are in US dollars.
8. In Case of Bank Wire Transfer customer have to bear Wire transfer fee.
9. Tour package price is inclusive of taxes.
10. Tour Prices are every individual and in view of room inhabitance.
Child Rate:
Child rates are applicable for children between (0-12 years) of age. Parents are advised to bring car seats for the safety of their child.
Buy 2 Get 3rd discounted: Get 3rd Ticket on special discounted rates on the purchase of 2 tickets.
1.We highly recommend you to provide your flight details while booking tour with us or at least send us flight details via email 3 days before your tour departure. In case of non-compliance, you will be asked to join your hotel on the first day of tour at your own expense
2. Please check our return timings before booking your return flights at the end of the tour. During high season (National and Summer Holidays) book your flights at least 1 hour later than the suggested time.
3. Before booking any tour make sure to go through every detail like tour itinerary, tour price, cancellation policy, reschedule and refund policies.
4. You should either bring a printed copy of your E-Ticket or bring it in your smartphone on the day of tour departure. You should also bring a valid photo ID along with your E-Ticket. In the case of any issues for not carrying E-Ticket or Photo ID GoldenBusTour will not be responsible.
5.Make sure to provide a valid phone number so we can reach you in the case of any emergency.
6. Please read all important notes, inclusion, exclusion section, terms and conditions, policies and below notes.
6a. Tour Operator holds the right to cancel the tour at any time depending on poor weather condition or some other unforeseen circumstances. However, GoldenBusTour will update its customers about the cancellation and shall not be held accountable for charges other than tour fees.
6b. Change in tour price will not affect any confirmed booking.
6c. Tour Operator can change the order of itinerary at any time without any notice.
7.You will be responsible for your travel documents during the tour.
8.Reach Departure location about 20 to 30 minutes before departure time. Unfortunately, no one will wait for you in case you get in late. The bus mostly has Bus Operator name and logo on it. Even if you are five minutes late and miss the bus then GoldenBusTours or Tour Operator will not be responsible. There will be no refund in this case. You will be charged 100% tour fee.
Not going to say we have a complete luxury experience on the tour abroad. But the places like Skylon Tower and Niagara Falls deserves a massive appreciation. Our tour guide was an intelligent a friendly person, who'd been a great help. Thanks!!
it was good to see the famous places in northern America such as the Niagara Falls, parliament building of Canada, and Thousand Islands were the best. Our hotels were decent and we thoroughly enjoyed our trip.
The best thing we loved about that tour is the tour guide. Our tour guide was really a great guy. He was very helpful and very professional yet so friendly and funny at the same time. Our bus was clean and comfortable though there was no bathroom available so we had to stop for breaks, the hotels were really clean and comfortable. I really would like to thank Golden bus tours for organizing that tour , it was a great 4 day vacation for us.
The best thing in that tour was Lake Ontario Cruise and Ripleys Aquarium of Canada, it was our first time to participate in those activities and both of them were amazing. We also really loved the organization of the tour, and the tour guide was really very nice person. The next best thing was accommodation, hotels were very comfortable and clean. I think Golden Bus Tours really did an amazing job.
I am really thankful to one friend of mine who recommended Golden Bus Tours to me. It is really an amazing company, their services are wonderful and their customer service team are very helpful and patient. Also the organization of the tour was really great. we moved exactly on time according to the schedule that was given to us by the tour guide, who was a really nice and helpful guy. Great job Golden Bus Tours.
The best tour i had in many years. Great service and hospitality, tour guide is an amazing person, really helpful and friendly, yet very professional at the same time. both accommodation and transportation are really luxurious. We saw a lot of nice places for the first time like Niagara Falls, Peace Tower, Olympic Stadium, Lake Ontario, St. Josephs Oratory, Biodome, Parliament Hill, Thousand Islands, City Hall, CN Tower, Casa Loma, and Skylon Tower.
Yue Ying Hao
Ample amount of time at each place of visit. Cons: - Extra charges. (The tour fee covers just the stay and basic travel. For each place you visit, the entry fee, access fee needs to paid. For example, we had to pay an additional fee for Maid of Mist, Thousand Island Cruise, and IMAX movie; which in fact is more expensive than the initial trip price itself).
Nicephorus Biryukov
I traveled with much Chinese first time and so friendly and all are on time because of perfect time planning so I could visit all planned. Finally, They helped me to purchase a lot of things with much discounts. Simply nice package tour. Definitely, Would recommend this tour
Wei Hsiao
Overall, it\'s a very good value for the money paid. Most hotels were very good. Also, buses are good too. I recommend this tour for people who don\'t like planning things for themselves. Thanks GoldenBusTours
Tayla Carnarvon
It was my first time on a tour. It was pretty good. My guides were amazing and very friendly. All of them did a good job. My fav was Wesley (very personable and chilled out). The tour requires you to wake up early on most days, which I did not mind because that meant we had more time to do things.
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I don't think I'll be posting many pictures from it since that might be giving out more information than I'd like, but this is what I wore, INCLUDING OUTFIT COMMENTARY!! *crickets*The dress was bought 5 days before but finding it couldn't have been much easier-first store we went into, found within half an hour. It's from Loehmann's, which I'd never been to before/the name sounds like your neurotic Uncle Hershel's Bar Mitzvah suit store in the Bronx, but we figured whyyynot and I love the dress so much. My favorite part is that it looks like paper, but it did feel a leetle beet too flouncy-pretty so I added this Urban Outfitters necklace I'm borrowing from Weardrobe and my Obesity and Speed hair thing.
My new glasses weren't ready in time so these were taped/crooked but uh whatevs. I don't think I'll ever be 100% classy. Or 95. 50? Anyway.
The back! So pretty!Reminds me of Flinstones.Awesome, sad I can't keep it.
This is one part of my speech; the parts that actually deal with God and religion will stay off the net just because this..isn't that kind of blog? Yeah.
"..Take an article of clothing, for example. As I said earlier, the Nazirites wore just enough to keep them warm, believing that that was the wish of God. Over this past year I have become increasingly interested in clothing, and have developed a clearer understanding of the idea that clothing can be art. A girl in my gym class once asked me why designers put so much effort and money into putting out on runways clothes that no one would ever wear on the street, and for a second, I didn't know how to answer. Really, there are two responses. Every designer is putting tons of hours and money into their designs, but some design on a more commercial level, and those are the labels we often do see on the street. The designers that interest me the most work just as hard, if not harder, to create clothing that is meaningful to them, to create art. There will always be designers that continue to focus on just the look of a collection, but I hope there always remains a group that pays more attention to their emotions or concepts. I finally answered the girl, and told her that designing can be like writing a poem, or painting a picture, or playing guitar. When people are passionate about these things, they feel as if they have to create. Rei Kawakubo, who many regard as the first conceptual designer and whose clothes can often inspire uncomfortable thoughts or feelings in people, is my favorite designer in the world. She doesn't expect that many people will wear her tulle and lumps and masks for a day on the town, but clothing doesn't have to sell, and it's her way of expressing her inner values. Using fashion as self expression can go beyond wearing a shirt with a slogan, as clothing has the ability to evoke an entire feel, or atmosphere, or emotion, or world."
Howeverrrr, the awesome people at Blood is the New Black sent over a few tshirts recently and I love love love them. No exagerrations! I feel more comfortable in them than I did in the beanbag chair in the corner of the room in second grade. Reading Junie B. Jones.
brendan donnelly tee. childhood closet skirt. thrifted shirt. anonymous agent necklace. baggu bag.
Remember Brendan Donnelly? OF COURSE YOU DO. This one was designed by him for BITNB and um, do I really need to say much about it other than I love it? I plan on wearing it for the 45 minutes of school we have on Friday. TEENAGE REBELLION AT ITS CLASSIEST. Anyway, angstangstangst. Just be glad I'm breaking the dress code with.. uh offensiveness and not spaghetti straps. Ew.brian lichtenberg tee. topshop zipper skirt. i heart norwegian wood cage skirt.
I love you, Brian Lichtenberg tee, oh yes I doooo. Karl is on the left bum cheek. And the back matches his shower!
...not that I would know what his bathroom looks like *shifts stalker eyes*
Doo doo doo doo, moving on..
This summer I have day camp, cottage time, reading all the books on my list, and dancing to S Club 7 while riding bikes and eating Ice Pops with Sophie. Also, wearing everything here:

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Five Cardinals earn All-WCAC honors
Bishop Ireton placed five players on this springs list of all-league honorees in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference. Jake Guttman, Corey Phillips, Tommy Kiesner, Andrew Selby and Brian Lewis were all among the honorable mentions for the spring season. Ireton finished the season with a 4-22 record overall and a 2-16 resume in the WCAC.
Aces toss first pitch on June 4
Another electrifying summer of wood-bat baseball begins at Frank E. Mann field next Friday when the Alexandria Aces host the Herndon Braves for the opening night of the 2010 summer slate.
This years crop of Aces arrives in town this weekend for a marathon two-month season in the Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate Baseball League. The players descending on Alexandria for the summer are from colleges large and small from across the country as far away as California native Kyle Zimmer and as close as Burke resident Brian Derner.
Last summer, the Aces finished sixth in the eight-team league with a record of 17-25.


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Week 8 July 24th...................How to Finish a Quilt
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — If it isn't fermented in Tennessee from mash of at least 51 percent corn, aged in new charred oak barrels, filtered through maple charcoal, and bottled at a minimum of 80 proof, it isn't Tennessee whiskey. So says a year-old law that resembles almost to the letter the process used to make Jack Daniel's, the world's best-known Tennessee whiskey.
Now state lawmakers are considering dialing back some of those requirements that they say make it too difficult for craft distilleries to market their spirits as Tennessee whiskey, a distinctive and popular draw in the booming American liquor business.
But the people behind Jack Daniel's see the hand of a bigger competitor at work — Diageo PLC, the British conglomerate that owns George Dickel, another Tennessee whiskey made about 15 miles up the road.
"It's really more to weaken a title on a label that we've worked very hard for," said Jeff Arnett, the master distiller at the Jack Daniel's distillery in Lynchburg, Tenn. "As a state, I don't think Tennessee should be bashful about being protective of Tennessee whiskey over say bourbon or scotch or any of the other products that we compete with."
Republican state Rep. Bill Sanderson emphasized that his bill wouldn't do away with last year's law enacted largely on the behest of Jack Daniel's corporate parent, Louisville, Ky.,-based Brown-Forman Corp. The principal change would be to allow Tennessee whiskey makers to reuse barrels, which he said would present considerable savings over new ones that can cost $600 each.
"There are a lot of ways to make high-quality whiskey, even if it's not necessarily the way Jack Daniel's does it," Sanderson said. "What gives them the right to call theirs Tennessee whiskey, and not others?"
Sanderson acknowledged that he introduced the measure at Diageo's urging, but said it would also help micro distilleries opening across the state. Diageo picked up on the same theme.
"This isn't about Diageo, as all of our Tennessee whiskey is made with new oak," said Diageo executive vice president Guy L. Smith IV. "This is about Brown-Forman trying to stifle competition and the entrepreneurial spirit of micro distillers.
"We are not sure what they are afraid of, as we feel new innovative products from a new breed of distillers is healthy for the entire industry," he said.
The standards and special branding of Tennessee whiskey are an outgrowth of the special designation granted long ago to bourbon. A half-century ago, Congress declared bourbon a distinctive product of the United States. By law, bourbon must be made of a grain mix of at least 51 percent corn, distilled at less than 160 proof, have no additives except water to reduce the proof and be aged in new, charred white oak barrels.
Spirits that don't follow those guidelines can't be sold as bourbon. One example is Brown-Forman's own Early Times, which is marketed as a "Kentucky whisky" because it is made in reused barrels.
Billy Kaufman, the president Short Mountain Distillery in Woodbury, Tenn., said it is more difficult to distinguish spirits not meeting the Tennessee standard.
"If I made whiskey in Tennessee in a used barrel, what it would be called then?" he said. "Whiskey, made in Tennessee?"
David McMahan, a lobbyist representing Dickel and Popcorn Sutton Distilling, said the law passed last year would require all Tennessee whiskies to taste like Jack Daniel's.
"It's not unlike if the beer guys 25 years ago had said all American beer has to be made like Budweiser," McMahan said. "You never would have a Sam Adams or a Yazoo or any of those guys."
But Tennessee craft distillers are divided about the state law. Charles Nelson, the CEO of Nelson's Green Brier Distillery in Nashville, said he supports tighter regulation.
"Holding ourselves to a higher standard will ultimately be better for all the people in the category," he said. "If we lower the standards, it could lead to more products and brands that could lower the reputation of Tennessee whiskey."
Whiskey is clear when it goes into the barrel. It's during the aging process that the whiskey acquires color and flavors. Jack Daniel's Arnett said other distillers reusing barrels might resort to using artificial colorings and flavorings that wouldn't match the quality of the whiskey stored in new barrels.
"We've been making whiskey a long time, and we know that would not uphold the quality that people expect from Tennessee whiskey," he said. "So we wouldn't dare consider doing it, even though it would save us millions of dollars every year."
Jack Daniel's stores its whiskey in new barrels made at a Brown-Forman plant.
Sanderson argues that the flavor and color of the whiskey is determined more by the charring of the inside of the barrels, which he said is a process that can be repeated. Consumers would ultimately decide whether the end product matches up.
"If they're making an inferior product, the market will decide," he said.
Schreiner reported from Frankfort, Ky.


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A Dummies Guide to Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report: The Shorter Version
For those bunnies with neither the time or inclimatation to read Eli's Dummies Guide to Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report (pay attention, you know who you are) Rabett Labs offers the shorter version, together with a few notes on why this is not going away despite the furious spittle projection coming from the direction of Stephen McIntyre and Anthony Watts.
- Evidence of extensive plagiarism in at least two sections of the Wegman Report, that describing proxy methods (plagiarized from Ray Bradley's book, see point 1 below for confirmation) and that describing social network analysis.
(See Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report, the complete handbook, by John Mashey)
- Multiple use of references to support claims that the references contradict. In such cases, while one can disagree with the source, the disagreement must be noted to inform the reader
- The Wegman Panel restricted the social network of climate scientists to Michael Mann's coauthors forcing him to the center of the network. They then mislead the reader by claiming this as evidence of collusive and poor peer review. Incompetence or design?
- Use of a figure from the 1990 IPCC Report altered to support the conclusion of the Wegman Panel, coupled with an unwillingness to consult the original source, even though it was available in multiple places in the Washington area including GMU, as well as from Amazon.
1. We have from the Weg hisself, on his Facebook page, that he was effectively forbidden to supervise graduate students in late AUGUST. For the hard of learning, Wegman has been academically emasculated with a sharp knife.These three points alone are strong evidence, but the chickens fleeing the hen house behavior of Steve McIntyre and Anthony Watts are what clinches the case. McIntyre is following his usual mode of operation, throwing everything against the wall he can find in the hope that something sticks. For those into this stuff a useful watchword would be "Remember Yamal", McIntyre's attempt to smear Keith Briffa. There was nothing there, actually, it was McIntyre who behaved badly, loudly demanding in public records that he already had and claiming that his not getting them from Briffa was evidence of Briffa's misconduct. Oh yeah, his analysis was also dicey but it wasted everyone's time and penetrated much more deeply into the media than the refutation.
2. We have from Donald Rapp's letter that Elsevier is complaining to GMU that Wegman plagiarized Bradley's book. Elsevier has some pretty sharp intellectual property lawyers and would not expose itself to any counterclaim without believing the evidence is clear and convincing.
3. We know from Dan Vergano's report in USA Today and Deep Climate's follow up that George Mason University has concluded that the complaints it has received contain enough evidence to move from the less serious inquiry phase to a formal investigation of research misconduct against Edward Wegman and his group.
Watts, well, he was busy nailing Hal Lewis on Martin Luther's door. Look over there Lucia.


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The study, published in the May 3 online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, tested the genetic makeup of 100 individuals of Hispanic/Latino background in the New York tri-state area, including Dominicans, Columbians and Ecuadorians, as well as Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, the two largest Hispanic/Latino ethnic groups in the United States. Currently, Hispanic/Latino Americans comprise 15.4% of the total United States population, or 46.9 million people, and account for the largest ethnic minority in the United States.
"It is important to quantify the relative contributions of ancestry in relation to disease outcome in the Hispanic/Latino population," says study co-author Christopher Velez, a medical student at NYU School of Medicine. "This ethnically appropriate genetic research will be critical to the understanding of disease onset and severity in the United States and in Latin America. It will allow for the development of appropriate genetic tests for this population."
Through their analysis of the entire genome, the researchers found evidence of a significant sex bias consistent with the disproportionate contribution of European male and Native American female ancestry to present day populations. The scientists also found that the patterns of genes in the Hispanic/Latino populations were impacted by proximity to the African slave trade. In fact, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Columbians from the Caribbean coast had higher proportions of African ancestry, while Mexicans and Ecuadorians showed the lowest level of African ancestry and the highest Native American ancestry.
European migrant contributors were mostly from the Iberian Peninsula and Southern Europe. Evidence was also found for Middle Eastern and North African ancestry, reflecting the Moorish and Jewish (as well as European) origins of the Iberian populations at the time of colonization of the New World. The Native Americans that most influenced the Hispanic/Latino populations were primarily from local indigenous populations.
Genome-wide patterns of population structure and admixture among Hispanic/Latino populations
Katarzyna Bryc et al.
Hispanic/Latino populations possess a complex genetic structure that reflects recent admixture among and potentially ancient substructure within Native American, European, and West African source populations. Here, we quantify genome-wide patterns of SNP and haplotype variation among 100 individuals with ancestry from Ecuador, Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic genotyped on the Illumina 610-Quad arrays and 112 Mexicans genotyped on Affymetrix 500K platform. Intersecting these data with previously collected high-density SNP data from 4,305 individuals, we use principal component analysis and clustering methods FRAPPE and STRUCTURE to investigate genome-wide patterns of African, European, and Native American population structure within and among Hispanic/Latino populations. Comparing autosomal, X and Y chromosome, and mtDNA variation, we find evidence of a significant sex bias in admixture proportions consistent with disproportionate contribution of European male and Native American female ancestry to present-day populations. We also find that patterns of linkage-disequilibria in admixed Hispanic/Latino populations are largely affected by the admixture dynamics of the populations, with faster decay of LD in populations of higher African ancestry. Finally, using the locus-specific ancestry inference method LAMP, we reconstruct fine-scale chromosomal patterns of admixture. We document moderate power to differentiate among potential subcontinental source populations within the Native American, European, and African segments of the admixed Hispanic/Latino genomes. Our results suggest future genome-wide association scans in Hispanic/Latino populations may require correction for local genomic ancestry at a subcontinental scale when associating differences in the genome with disease risk, progression, and drug efficacy, as well as for admixture mapping.


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If you live in New York City, you will often see the Orthodox Jewish ambulance service known as Hatzolah on the street. Hatzolah has some 1,200 volunteers — all men — in New York City and is known for its quick response time.
Now, a group of Hasidic female EMTs wants to create a women's division within Hatzolah, to help deliver babies in emergencies.
Deeply religious Hasidic men and women do not touch each other, unless they are immediate family. They don't shake hands. They don't sit next to each other on buses or at weddings. But when it comes to emergency births, the babies are often are delivered by male volunteers with Hatzolah.
When Rachel Freier — a Hasidic woman, lawyer, and mother of six — was first asked to come to a meeting of women who wanted to be EMTs with Hatzolah, her first thought was, " 'Who are these women? Are they these, like, women libbers? Because if they are I am out of here, this is not for me.' But I was curious. I was intrigued."
One of the women she met at this meeting had been trained during a brief period when Hatzolah was a young organization, some 40 years ago. But the women's division was disbanded in less than a year.
Modesty, Not Feminism
Freier also learned that there were some places, including New Square, the tiny, insular, Hasidic community north of New York City, where female EMTs are part of the corps.
The women at the meeting told Freier they wanted to help women in emergency labor. And she asked them, "Does that really happen? Do Hatzolah men actually deliver babies?" Yes, they said; in Brooklyn, about 100 babies a year are delivered by Hatzolah members.
For Freier the issue isn't feminism; it's modesty. Also, she noted, women have been midwives and labor coaches for thousands of years. "It's in the Bible, after all," she says.
Freier goes to a male OB-GYN.
So what's the difference?
She says she sees her doctor in his office or in the hospital, but if Hatzolah is called for an emergency delivery, a close neighbor could come, someone you see in the grocery store, or at religious services. In the ambulance you could be in the presence of four or five men.
For a women who is modest, says Freier, "where her body is always covered, where she grew up not having any physical contact with men, other than her immediate family, this can be traumatizing."
Members of Hatzolah have been told not to comment on this issue. A call to the head of the organization was not returned.
Response From Men
Binyamin Jolkovsky, a deeply religious Jew, is the editor-in-chief of Jewish World Review, which takes a very traditional perspective on contemporary events.
He says Hatzolah has some financial concerns given the recession. "Like [with] every other nonprofit [organization] across America, now is not the time to experiment."
And Jolkovsky says this is a job where there is a lot of stress and emotion that inevitably could cause bonding between men and women. So he says the belief in the Hasidic community is "that we [would] rather not create a scenario which could lead people astray."
But the women say they want a separate unit where men and women will not mix.
Yocheved Lerner has worked as an EMT for 14 years. She grew up in the secular world and became Hasidic later. She says there are more than 100 Hasidic women in Brooklyn who have some EMT or medical training.
But change is always difficult.
Lerner says, "And when the status quo is working, then why change? And there are always those who will say men do this kind of work, women don't."
But from a modesty standpoint, says Lerner, a women's division makes sense.
Marc Shapiro, a professor of Judaic studies at the University of Scranton, says most women in labor make it to the hospital. Emergency births are not that common, and not that many religious women have complained. So Hatzolah is not taking the issue seriously.
"Had this come from the rabbis then it would be a completely different situation," he says, but the fact that this came from women makes people think it's a ploy of some kind.
But Freier is clear: The idea is a good one. The only question, she says, is, "How can it be implemented in an organization which is running so well under a particular system for so many years?"
Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn, who runs the blog Daas Torah, says that modesty is a good thing, but saving a life is more important.
New Square is small; there are more complexities in a huge borough like Brooklyn — which has the highest birth rate in New York City.
Freier says she doesn't have a magic answer, but if people want solutions they will find a way. So the women and the rabbis will keep talking.
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Centered in Orange County, California, Oakley headquarters looks like a space station. In the Oakley research labs, over 600 patents have been awarded which have increased comfort, style and use. Take a pair of Oakley sandals for example. Its product description has an unbelievable amount of technology: Compression molded footbed with foam and laser-etched graphics for traction, Unobtanium® rubber for durability and Microban® antibacterial material to kill bacteria. It sounds more like an astronaut's boot than an affordable Oakley sandal.
The surfing world needs surfing fashion that can withstand the rigorous waters without compromising style. And with Oakley's technical achievements, the science fiction world meets the sporting world. Now, Oakley is worn in over 110 countries by surfers, beach goers, pool people and anyone who loves water sports. Oakley's line of board shorts, bikinis, one-piece swimsuits and sandals have the best mix of technology and style.


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A Brother By Any Other Name
My brother, he has a name, a real name, a name that was given to him by the man and woman who became his true parents, a name that carried him through childhood and adolescence and high school and on into adulthood, a name that he probably learned to write by tracing its letters in pencil on lined scribblers, a name that he he probably scrawled on desktops and in the backs of math textbooks, a name that he has no doubt signed on countless cheques and contracts and letters. He has a name. It is not the name my mother gave him.
I know this name, now. Knowing this name makes feel both closer to him, and further away. Closer, because knowing his name will help me find him. Further away, because it is the name of a stranger, and sometimes I forget that it is a stranger I am looking for. A stranger who might have no idea that he has a birth sister (sisters), and a birth mother whose heart aches when she thinks of him. A stranger who might not care.
I have to remind myself that this story might not have a happy ending. I have to remind myself that, sometimes, an unhappy ending is better than no ending at all.
And so I press on.
I won't be sharing his name here. I had thought that I might, thinking that people publish classified ads all the time, looking for lost family, lost friends, lost strangers. But this space isn't a classified ad, and because he is a stranger - with name and a life that are all his own - I need to keep his name out of my story. If you have an opinion on this, either way, I'd love to hear it. The temptation to post his name was strong - someone, somewhere, knows him, and among the many visitors to this blog there must be some degree of connection to him - and although I believe that the decision to keep his name private is right, I'd love to hear what everybody else thinks. I want to do what is right. I also kinda want to talk it out.
Another question - because I am lost here, and your support and advice have done much to light my way so far - once one has narrowed down some possibilities - by name, and not just by the guesswork I was doing the other week - how does one approach a stranger with a story like this? How does one say, I found you by this name; were you once called by another name? Does one write? Does one call? Does one message via Facebook? Does one send word by carrier pigeon?
I'm lost.
(Note: if anyone is mean in the comments, like last time - and by mean I don't mean critical - you're allowed to give your honest opinion, even if you think I might not like it. I mean MEAN - I will close comments again. This topic is too sensitive for me. I want feedback, but don't tell me that you think I'm a selfish, insensitive attention-whore for telling this story.)
(Oh, and? My computer problems are soon to be rectified. HP thought that my circumstances represented a great opportunity - because they are interested in simplifying moms' lives, and I am a mom whose life became, with the death of her computer, very complicated - for me to roadtest, on a lending basis, one of their new notebooks. Which is kind of poetic, because it was an HP notebook that Jasper murdered. So it's kind of like getting a Labradoodle puppy to replace your old Labradoodle who died when the baby pushed him off the couch. Sort of. If that Labradoodle puppy were just on loan and was wireless compatible.)
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A probably fake, albeit hilarious new report has emerged that Harry Styles dumped Taylor Swift because she's "asexual" and "constantly talked about antiques." A rather Regina George-y sounding friend of Taylor's says that America's Unicorn Sweetheart doesn't realize that she's constantly being dumped because she's a "prude" who "doesn't put out."
"While it was clear she obviously had a thing for Harry, Taylor didn't want to put out as often as he would've liked. Harry is a young boy, with ladies throwing themselves at him and has had a string of relationships with older women. It's no secret he's sexually active and is enjoying his fame at the moment. But Taylor just wasn't up for it as much as he is. They were sexually incompatible."
I love your bracelet, where did you get it?!
The source adds that a clean and wholesome reputation is very important to Taylor, and Harry found her "a little sexually uninterested" for his taste: "Harry wants to go out to fancy bars and clubs and enjoy being young – but Taylor's more of a homebody and all she would talk about was antiques!"
Dude, hang out on the futon, watch a marathon of Antiques Roadshow and once those circa-1780 German silvered repousse candlesticks really get her going, make your move. Problem solved. [Radar Online]
But watch the hell out, Harry:
Last year, Kelly Osbourne was discussing being fat-shamed in an interview and, rather surprisingly, asserted that Lady Gaga's fans were "the worst" ("They've said I should kill myself, that they hope I get raped"). She added that Gaga had a responsibility to try to "stop" the Little Monsters' negative behavior.
Yesterday, Gaga responded to Osbourne's beef with an open letter on her Little Monsters website, which you can read in full here. An excerpt:
I have empathy for you Kelly, but I feel it culturally important to note that you have chosen a less compassionate path. Your work on E! with the Fashion Police is rooted in criticism, judgment, and rating people's beauty against one another. "Appearance" is the most used reason for bullying in the world. Your show breeds negativity, and over the years has even become comedic in nature. It glorifies you and Joan Rivers pointing in the camera, laughing, and making jokes about artists and celebrities as if we are zoo animals.
Mama bear Sharon Osbourne has joined the fracas by penning her own open letter in response to Gaga's open letter (don't these people have managers? cell phones? direct messaging?). Full text here:
You say her work on E! with the Fashion Police is "rooted in criticism, judgment, and rating people's beauty against one another." Welcome to the real world. Example, when I saw you wear a dress made out of raw meat, I was sickened. When I see you wearing fur, and using it as a fashion statement, the fact that defenseless animals have been killed so you can get your picture in the press is abhorrent to me. Shouldn't you be teaching your "little monster" fans to respect animals and life? I don't feel I have to justify Kelly's choices in life to you. By your actions to Kelly right now, you have shown me that you are nothing more than a publicly seeking hypocrite and an attention seeker.
She adds that Gaga's "love for humanity" obviously isn't translating well to her fans, as they've also been particularly nasty to Madonna, Adele and Rihanna. You're a bully! No, you're a bully! No, you're a bully! Just a nice little circle jerk there. You're welcome. [MTV News]
If you, like I, are a subscriber to Gwyneth Paltrow's newsletter/oeuvre GOOP, you snarfed yesterday when you read: "Happy 2013! I am not on a detox. I am not on a diet. I know, New Year's cleansing and all that. Not this year. Can't do it. Maybe later in the year. Maybe in the spring. So for now, I would like to continue with my pasta and cheese, but perhaps be more mindful of ingredients."
This winter she's letting herself have ALL the seaweed wraps that she wants. Ooooh, Gwyneth, you so baaaaad! [OK! Magazine]
In the same GOOP, she shared a photo of her, Apple and Moses on vacation. [Marie Claire UK]
In GQ's profile of Beyonce, writer Amy Wallace observes that Queen Bey has an office suite in Manhattan that is filled with:
"virtually every existing photograph of her, starting with the very first frames taken of Destiny's Child, the '90s girl group she once fronted; every interview she's ever done; every video of every show she's ever performed; every diary entry she's ever recorded while looking into the unblinking eye of her laptop."
- Demi Lovato has been staying at a sober-living facility for about a year now. Good for her! (Not sarcasm!) [TMZ]
- Lindsay Lohan admitted that The New York Times piece about her spectacular career hara-kiri is basically correct. [TMZ]
- A woman named Seraphim Ward got on Marilyn Manson's bad side by falsely claiming he proposed to her last year. [TMZ]
- Georgia May Jagger is the new face of H&M, succeeding Lana Del Rey, who is busy elsewhere. [Daily Mail]
- Here is Adele and baby (wrapped in a blanket as tightly as a good burrito) being hounded by photographers at LAX. [Contact Music]
- Who wants to watch Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag do sex? Someone must, I guess? Says Pratt: "We were offered a couple of million [for a porn movie]. I considered it. Heidi was like, err, no!" [Monsters and Critics]
- Lena Dunham adopted a dog named Lamby. [Instagram]
- Anne Hathaway's dress ripped at the Critics Choice Awards but luckily Joseph Gordon Levitt had a pin. He immortalized the incident with a cute selfie with Hathaway on his Facebook page. [Facebook]
- Jessica Simpson and her fiancee Eric Johnson spent their Hawaiian New Years fighting about her dad Joe (she's furious at Joe for the divorce and the myriad gay rumors, while Johnson thinks he basically means well). [Radar Online]
- Josh Brolin says he lost his virginity at eleven years old to a girl named Gretel. [Radar Online]
- Selena Gomez dumped Justin Bieber because he's a big ol' needy baby. Allegedly. [Radar Online]
- William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman almost weren't able to get to the Girls premiere because their limo was hijacked by a Macy-looking impostor who took a joyride around Manhattan. That's the story, anyway. I kind of like to imagine they were just getting some pre-show diner disco fries and lost track of time. [Page Six]
- Rick Ross the rapper is being sued by Rick Ross the drug trafficker for jacking his name to build a career from. (Still no word on how Minneapolis Wendy's employee Kevin Noriega feels about not being "the real Noriega.") [Page Six]
- Jennifer Aniston defends Kim Kardashian and her ilk: "I just do something different." [Us Weekly]
- Paris Hilton and her boyfriend River Viiperi (whahhaahwhat) got snubbed at the door of the People's Choice Awards for being late and eventually sat in some nosebleed seats. [TV3.ie]
- Gah, here is 13-year-old Noah Cyrus celebrating her birthday in a very not-13-year-old way. [The Superficial]


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NATO Chicago summit meets its goals
NATO leaders concluded a decisive summit in Chicago on 21 May, taking key decisions on the Alliance's future engagement in Afghanistan, military capabilities and worldwide partnerships.
"We came to Chicago with three goals. And we have met them. We have focused on the future of Afghanistan. We have decided to invest smartly in our defence even in times of austerity. And we have engaged with our partners around the world to address the challenges we all face in the 21st century," NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said after the two-day series of meetings.
The Secretary General was speaking after the final session of the summit – a unique meeting with 13 partner countries from around the world which have recently made particular political, operational, and financial contributions to NATO-led operations.
"All our partners share NATO's desire to build security, but they contribute to our work in many different ways," the Secretary General said. "Today, we thanked them for their valuable support, their commitment, and their insights."
NATO is committed to building cooperative security with partners – finding global solutions to deal with global problems.
"We agreed there is great potential to enhance our political dialogue and our practical cooperation," the Secretary General said.
The Summit set out a strategy for concluding the transition of security responsibility to Afghan forces by the end of 2014, and delivered a strong commitment to supporting the Afghan forces after that date.
"Here in Chicago, we have charted the course to complete our current mission in Afghanistan. And we have made clear our collective commitment to a stable and secure Afghanistan, together with our Afghan partners and the international community as a whole," the Secretary General said.
Alliance leaders agreed that NATO is ready to work towards establishing, at the request of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, a new post-2014 mission in Afghanistan, to train, advise and assist the Afghan forces. This will not be a combat mission.
Leaders also took a series of decisions designed to make sure that the Alliance remains capable of tackling the full range of security challenges, even in times of economic austerity.
"Here in Chicago, we agreed to implement a renewed culture of cooperation, so that nations can achieve together what they cannot achieve alone. We put it into practice by agreeing on projects which will provide the capabilities we need, at a price we can afford," the Secretary General said.
Alliance leaders expressed their appreciation for the generous hospitality provided by the Government of the United States and the people and City of Chicago.
"Chicago is famous for thinking big and for doing great things. You have just organised the biggest summit in NATO's history, and you have done it with great style. The decisions we have taken here in Chicago will reinforce the vital bond between North America and Europe and strengthen NATO for the years ahead," the Secretary General said.


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Rumor: Microsoft set to roll out Windows Phone 8 update 'Apollo+' in Q1 2013 [Update]
Microsoft is set to fire up its updating engine for Windows Phone in Q1 next year, according to a tweet published by renowned Twitter account @Football4PDA. The account was the named source for the leaked images of the HTC Accord (HTC 8X), as well as a number of other headlines that have been published along the way to Windows Phone 8.
The tweet in question claims Microsoft will release an update for its recently launched mobile platform at the beginning of next year, and will be titled Apollo+. While there's little to back up said claims, it's likely to turn out to be true. We're not entirely certain what could be included in such an update to Windows Phone 8, but it would make for a welcomed gift post-holiday season for those who have recently invested in a new Windows Phone.
Notifications Centre could well be on the list of included features and functionality, as well as separate volume controls, not to mention the number of bug fixes and improvements that will surely be applied to further smooth out the user experience. Be sure to head on over to our forums to view what the community wants to see added to Windows Phone.
MS is going to roll out update for WP8 which is called Apollo+ in Q1 2013...MS is going to roll out update for WP8 which is called Apollo+ in Q1 2013...— Football (@Football4PDA) November 26, 2012November 26, 2012
Microsoft pushed out the NoDo update for Windows Phone 7 in Q1 2011 - though many had issues with carriers delaying the rollout. We wouldn't be surprised if the company had a windows Phone 8 update planned for the new year. What's more is that all updates pushed out by Microsoft should be sent out OTA (Over-The-Air) to consumers- no need to plug the device into a computer.
Update: According to The Verge, Microsoft has a number of improvements on the horizon for Windows Phone. The Apollo+ update could include VPN support to enable connectivity with systems, which has been missing since the Windows Mobile days. A WiFi connection patch is also in the pipeline to allow connections to remain active (something which Joe Belfiore mentioned recently), as well as some audio enhancements.
What would you like to see in the first update rolled out?
Source: @Football4PDA (Twitter)
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This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer.
The economy added 195,000 jobs in June. That was a surprise and a delight to both economists and Wall Street. But the unemployment rate was stuck at 7.6 percent.
NPR's Sonari Glinton reports that the economic recovery continues at a slow but steady pace.
SONARI GLINTON, BYLINE: For this story, we're going to hear from three relatively excited economists. Their reactions were all pretty much the same - one's in Washington D.C., another in Boston. But let's begin with Juli Niemann. She's with Smith, Moore and Company in St. Louis.
JULI NIEMANN: Yay.
NIEMANN: There's, you know, we're seeing some gradual improvement in the jobs market, and that's a positive thing.
GLINTON: See, I promised you excitement.
NIEMANN: Not bad at all, until you take it apart.
GLINTON: Well, economists can only get but so excited.
NIEMANN: The big gains were in restaurants, retail, employment services. These are all low-paying jobs. And that's been the characteristic of this whole job recovery. Job growth is finally picking up again but they're in low-end jobs.
GLINTON: There were also gains in the health care and financial services. But manufacturing and construction - the places where you'd get the higher paying workers - those sectors lost jobs.
OK. On to the next economist. Bill Cheney. He's actually chief economist with John Hancock in Boston. On first glance, he was pleased with overall report, but he had mixed feeling once he dug down.
BILL CHENEY: The broadest measure of unemployment, where they include everybody who wants a job or wants a full-time job or is, as they put it, marginally attached to the work force, that unemployment rate actually went up a little bit.
GLINTON: So there were more temp workers and more part-time workers. Cheney doesn't think that's all bad. He says what's likely happening is that some of those discouraged workers, people who've given up on finding real lasting work, they're seeing some hope.
CHENEY: It probably just means that the job market is getting better. People are coming out of the woodwork and thinking about looking but not all of them have done any serious job hunting yet.
GLINTON: Here's a bright spot that all the economists point to in this report - wages.
After a long time being stagnant, averages hourly earnings have gone up.
Again, Bill Cheney.
CHENEY: That translates into more income in consumer's pockets. It means that people actually are going to be able to keep the rate of consumer spending going.
GLINTON: Meanwhile, Dean Baker with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington says the jobs number far outpaced his expectations. But wages? Baker points out that mid- and low-end workers aren't seeing their paychecks get fatter.
DEAN BAKER: Their wages have been pretty much flat; just keeping pace with the rate of inflation, more or less. Whereas in the most recent data, it looks like the higher paid supervisory workers - this would also include a lot of professionals - their wages seem to be rising more rapidly.
WERTHEIMER: Let's go back to Juli Niemann, who we heard at the top, to bring us home. Here's what she says we need to look for before there's a true job bounce-back.
NIEMANN: You would see real pickup in consumer durables, appliances. You would see, you know, more investment in plants and equipment. You would see more pickup in true manufacturing. We've had some, but certainly not where it should be for this level of recovery from a quote, "recession."
GLINTON: And to sum up all three economists: We ain't where we used to be.
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WHEELOCK — Energy researchers are busy in unlikely looking houses along many of the Northeast Kingdom's back roads. Most favor low-tech solutions to fueling cars, heating homes or generating electricity.
Not so Phillip and Leigh Hurley. From their South Wheelock home they work to put the latest hydrogen fuel cell technology in the hands of average people.
Their business, Good Ideas Creative Services, publishes electronic books under the Wheelock Mountain Publications imprint. Five of them, written by Mr. Hurley, instruct the home experimenter on topics ranging from building your own solar panel to constructing a solar hydrogen fuel cell system.
"If we can do it, anyone can do it," Mr. Hurley said during a conversation Saturday afternoon. Certainly there is nothing about his or Ms. Hurley's background that would suggest they might be energy gurus.
He has a bachelor's degree in human services, she majored in music. They both have masters degrees in theology.
While he lacks formal training, Mr. Hurley said he has "years of experience with avocational electrical experimentation."
If he had guidance at an early age, he said, he might have pursued a more traditional path in the field of science. As it is, Mr. Hurley said, his work has interested many people who can boast the formal credentials he lacks.
While working on building hydrogen fuel cells, Mr. Hurley said, he needed to find an economical way to create a platinum-coated membrane. He hit on the idea of copying the process photographers use to make paper sensitive to light. Mr. Hurley said he was surprised when scientists termed his idea a stroke of genius.
"I'm not a genius," he said.
The Hurleys' research is directed at producing electronic books to help others pursue their backyard or basement research. They have discovered, though, that universities and schools find their books helpful as textbooks.
Mr. Hurley said that some scientists working for large laboratories in the field of fuel cell technology can be so focused on their small portion of the project that they don't have a clear picture of the way the entire system works. He said he has received calls from such researchers thanking him for his work.
Mr. Hurley is the team's writer, Ms. Hurley creates the e-books, that are their stock in trade. E-books are electronic books designed to be read on a computer screen.
The couple's distribution of tasks seems quite flexible. Both are fully conversant with the science and the mechanics of the business. The only place where a firm line exists is customer service. Ms. Hurley handles that.
"He is of the Basil Fawlty school of customer service," she said of Mr. Hurley.
A person seeking one of the couple's books goes online to their web site, www.goodideacreative.com, where she can order and pay for it. The customer then downloads her copy.
"It's instant gratification," Mr. Hurley said.
Ms. Hurley said when the couple first started publishing most people didn't understand the idea of e-books. "People would call up and ask for a copy of the actual book, and we would explain this is the book," she said.
Mr. Hurley said young people are, in general, more comfortable than older people with reading books on a computer screen. He said the style of publishing has advantages both for the reader and the publisher.
The buyer, Mr. Hurley said, will find far more color photographic illustrations than could be economically included in a printed book. He estimated that an equivalent traditional book would have to be priced at $160. Mr. Hurley's books cost between $8 and $17 to download.
Mr. Hurley said a person living in Botswana, in Africa, would once have had limited access to the kind of information he is offering. Even if a person could afford the book, he would have to order it and wait weeks for delivery.
Ms. Hurley said the couple had heard from a person in Brazil who built a business using information from their book on building solar panels.
The couple's business benefits from not having to risk more than time and energy in publishing their books. They have no inventory, they depend on few suppliers other than the company that hosts their web site.
Their current business is not their first joint enterprise. For a while they sold and installed solar electric systems.
They also put on fireworks displays and made supplies for pyrotechnic shows.
"We put on the Burlington fireworks show for two years," Mr. Hurley said. "From where I ran the controls I couldn't see the fireworks, but I could hear people on boats oohing and aahing. I used their responses to time the show."
The Hurleys also made the very pure type of charcoal used by fireworks makers. "We figured out a process that used the gases that came off the wood to further purify the charcoal," Mr. Hurley said. "When we started it up it sounded like a jet engine."
He said most fireworks makers want willow charcoal, but Mr. Hurley said poplar charcoal has superior qualities.
The couple got out of the charcoal business because it was too dangerous, he said. Even though they ground the material outdoors, the cloud of charcoal dust produced by the process was potentially highly explosive.
"We still get calls for the charcoal," Ms. Hurley said.
The couple created Good Ideas Creative Services to offer design services to corporations. When the Internet bubble burst, their main client went with it. They suffered as well.
When they were considering what to do next, Ms. Hurley suggested they try to make an electronic book out of a short book he wrote to teach people how to set up the solar panels they once sold.
Mr. Hurley said he was dubious about the project, but Ms. Hurley persuaded him to try. She used the experience she gained from the design service to put the book together and design a web site. The response wasn't enough to support the couple, but enough to permit the site to pay for itself.
Mr. and Ms. Hurley went on to study and write about hydrogen fuel cells. The cells produce electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen. The only byproduct besides the energy is a small amount of water and water vapor.
While an individual fuel cell produces only a small amount of energy, the cells can be stacked in a manner that boosts the flow of current.
The Hurleys' books are designed to teach people to construct experimental systems with simple tools and techniques. Mr. Hurley said he looks hard for useful techniques.
One portion of their process is based on Ben Franklin's method of making silhouettes, he said. To make their membranes, the pair had to find a substitute for the huge presses used by manufacturers.
"We came up with taking two brass plates held together with c-clamps," Ms. Hurley said. "We heated them in the oven."
A supplier catering to amateur experimenters now offers a kit based on their method, Mr. Hurley said.
One of the problems of fuel cell technology is getting pure hydrogen. Using electricity off the grid to separate water into its constituent parts serves no purpose, as a great deal of energy is lost in the process.
The Hurleys came up with the idea of using the sun to power the reaction. Mr. Hurley said one drawback of solar power is storage. Batteries must be continually charged and discharged. A battery charged in the summer will no longer have a charge when winter rolls around, he said.
Hydrogen, on the other hand, can be stored in pressurized tanks or in metallic compounds called hydrides. This hydrogen can be run through fuel cells whenever electricity is needed to recharge a system's batteries.
Mr. Hurley said that on a bright summer day, solar panels can recharge batteries in a matter of a few hours. The rest of the day's electricity can be used to create hydrogen.
Hydrogen is not something to be trifled with. One of Mr. Hurley's books says it contains more energy than any other fuel known. If enough hydrogen and oxygen come together a small spark is enough to set off a large explosion.
For this reason the couple's books are larded with safety instructions. Their designs also call for numerous features intended to minimize the inherent dangers of experimental systems.
Mr. Hurley doesn't necessarily see his solar system as a way to get off the grid completely. Rather he said, people can "use it in an intelligent way to add to the green."
He is not a fan of net metering, selling home-generated power back to the electric grid. Mr. Hurley said it is very difficult for a home system to create enough electricity to provide for one's own needs and extra to sell.
The Hurleys' home has two separate sets of wiring, one for commercial power, one for home-generated electricity. They also have two solar systems, one connected to directly to the power system, the other specially designed for hydrogen production.
Mr. Hurley calls his solar array "an electronic Stonehenge." That idea, he said, is his philosophy of life.
Now that the couple has five books out on hydrogen production and solar power, Mr. Hurley thinks he might turn his attention to nanotechnology. He's thinking of trying to build a microscope able to examine atomic structure.
As Ms. Hurley said, "We're both easily amused."
Mr. Hurley proved the point by telling of the time the two built a million-volt Tesla coil in their dorm room in divinity school. The device is a spark generating device familiar to anyone who ever has seen a mad scientist's laboratory in a horror movie.
"When we built it we didn't know how far the sparks would fly," he said, "so we were hiding behind the bed."


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Alan Krueger, the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, says he will step down to return to Princeton to resume his post as a professor of economics.
Krueger, who has served as CEA chairman for the past two years, will return to Princeton in time for the beginning of the fall term. The Associated Press quotes a source familiar with the situation as saying Jason Furman, who served in President Obama's 2008 campaign, will be tapped as a replacement.
"Alan was the driving force behind many of the economic policies that I have proposed that will grow our economy and create middle-class jobs," the president said in a statement on Tuesday. "And while we have more work to do, today our economy is improving – thanks, in no small part, to Alan's efforts."
Kreuger called his experience with CEA, "one of the highest privileges of my life."
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