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It said, it said news: Apple claims there is no Google app awaiting approval
0. phoneArena posted on 21 Mar 2013, 16:34
Earlier today, we heard that Eric Schmidt had insinuated Google Now had been submitted to the iTunes App Store and was awaiting approval from Apple. This is a card that Google has played before when submitting apps, in part to highlight the difference between Apple's approach and Google's, and partly to pressure Apple into approving Google's apps faster. The trouble is that this time around Apple has responded by saying that there are no Google apps awaiting approval to the App Store...
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1. CivicSi89 (Posts: 349; Member since: 23 Jul 2011)
Sounds to me like if you wanna get a phone with the awesomeness of Google Now, You will have to go Android. Apple probably wouldnt approve this because it would hurt Siri. (emotionally...)
4. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2721; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Get some new material, the whole "Apple won't publish Google Apps" is a myth that hasn't been true in years. (ever since the Senate forced Apple to approve Google Voice)
11. squallz506 (banned) (Posts: 1075; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)
I thought the last incident was with Google maps?
12. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
No it wasn't. Google Maps was approved with no problem.
22. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
There's a difference ... that was because Apple Goofed up on their maps terribly so were left with no choice really.
16. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2721; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Mxy is right. Google reported when Maps was submitted and awaiting approval, but there was no delay.
2. SlimSoulja86 (Posts: 660; Member since: 03 Nov 2011)
What if they did and Apple is not telling the truth? Just saying
3. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2721; Member since: 26 May 2011)
It's possible, but not likely. Apple has nothing to gain by lying, because it would be pretty easy for a Google engineer to produce a developer console record. It seems much more likely that Eric Schmidt may be a bit out of the loop, what with being in India right now.
28. firelightx (Posts: 71; Member since: 13 Oct 2011)
And it's just as likely that the unnamed rep for Apple is out of the loop. Big business like this, dealing with how many thousands of app submissions per month?
Things fall through the cracks in either Apple or Google. No matter where the fault is, no matter who's dropping the ball, I'm not surprised.
7. WakaFlakaD (Posts: 546; Member since: 30 Apr 2011)
Whatever it is, I use Google Voice on my jailbroken iPad over Siri
32. aahmed215 (Posts: 169; Member since: 18 Jun 2012)
You don't need to jailbreak your device to use the Google Voice app.
10. denn90 (Posts: 14; Member since: 03 May 2011)
PhoneArena Has Mixed Informations because I already have the GoogleNow App On My IPad and IPod Touch 5
14. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Read this article:
Where does Eric Schmidt say that it is "submitted" for approval?
15. cybervlad81 (Posts: 89; Member since: 04 Apr 2011)
I watched the interview and was wondering this too. He hinted at it, yes, but it sounded more like the only reason he brought it up was to mock Apple's approval process. After, the interviewer was talking over him so it was hard to tell, it even sounded like he said he didn't think Apple was worried about Google Now at all.
20. rusticguy (Posts: 2828; Member since: 11 Aug 2012)
Making a "Hill out of a Mole" is not something uncommon in journalism world ... and such things do become "BREAKING NEWS" :)
18. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2721; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Good point, he never actually said it had been submitted, just that it would be up to Apple to approve it when it was submitted. Let me edit.
29. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Apple is just jealous.
31. aahmed215 (Posts: 169; Member since: 18 Jun 2012)
I don't think Eric actually said that the app has been sent to Apple. He is just saying they are working on one and that the next step (the approval) will be in Apple's court.
33. networkdood (Posts: 6330; Member since: 31 Mar 2010)
Another article about nothing..hire jerry Seinfeld now


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Sierra Nevada > Yosemite National Park > Echo Ridge > Climber's Log
Echo Ridge Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|After Cathedral and some Echo Peaks
Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2016
|With some good Sierra Challenge buddies.
|Posted Oct 17, 2016 3:01 am
|Just the hikers peak
Date Climbed: Jul 30, 2016
|Took the Cathedral trail, stayed left where it split at the climbers junction, followed this to the trails end at Budd Lake, a steep and sandy slope let to the saddle between Echo Peaks and Echo Ridge, from there a use trail led most of the way thru the low brush, the final bit was class 2/3 rocks and was enjoyable. Awesome views from the summit, and a highly enjoyable hike.
|Posted Jul 31, 2016 9:27 pm
|From Echo Peaks
Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2015
|After hitting what I could of the Echo Peaks, went up the west side for some more cool views (especially of Matthes edge on). Even in the low snow year, there were still some decent snowfields up high, and some OK glissading down one of the slopes on the NW side (heading towards Cathedral).
|Posted Jan 10, 2016 3:32 pm
|Fun Traverse
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2010
|On route from Echo Peaks to Cockscomb and Unicorn. Got to Cockscomb through a small 4th class notch off the south side.
|Posted Nov 18, 2011 12:47 am
|Echo Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 4, 2011
|Easy scramble from Echo Peaks, did the cutoff exit to the south between the two high points instead of the Class 4 scramble over the top. Probably should have tried it but was a little pressed for time on the Traverse.
|Posted Aug 12, 2011 7:00 pm
|super casual with amazing views
|An enjoyable scramble along the ridge from Echo Peaks, the view of Matthes alone is worth the extra effort from Echo Peaks (and yes, that little difference in angle makes quite the difference!)
|Posted Jul 23, 2011 1:52 am
|Vitaliy M.
|fun day
|back in 2010 on a day off from work..got some echo peaks, echo ridge, cockscomb and unicorn that day
|Posted Jul 1, 2011 1:20 pm
|Bob Burd
|Several times
Date Climbed: Oct 9, 2009
|Tagged this one both ways going between Echo Peaks and Cockscomb. Trip Report
|Posted Jan 4, 2011 10:48 pm
|From Cockscomb
Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2010
|Easy summit along a partial Cathedral traverse. Trip report
|Posted Aug 31, 2010 5:14 pm
|Fine day
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2007
|Also in '02
|Posted Nov 8, 2008 1:56 pm
|after a few of the Echo Peaks
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2008
|Nice peak with great views of Matthes Crest, not to mention all the other sweet peaks of the Cathedral Group.
|Posted Aug 3, 2008 7:42 pm
|peak 3 of the cathedral traverse
Date Climbed: Jun 19, 2008
|Uneventful peak with breathtaking views.
|Posted Jun 20, 2008 2:40 am
|Matthew Holliman
|Warm-up day
Date Climbed: Sep 23, 2005
|Very enjoyable day out with Glenn, the first of two warm-up days before Mt. Clarence King: Tresidder, Columbia Finger, Echo Peaks #3 and #1, Echo Ridge, and Cockscomb.
Kind of a minor peak, but it has some spectacular views of Matthes Crest from the summit all the same.
|Posted Jul 10, 2007 10:40 pm
|from Echo Peaks
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2007
|Scrambled up the west side after climbing a few of the Echo Peaks. Fantastic views from the top of all of Yosemite and much of the northern high Sierra. For the effort, well worth the trip.
|Posted Jun 24, 2007 10:55 pm
|Bill Kish
|Scrambled from near Echo Peaks
Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2004
|Highpoint of Cathedral range traverse. Climbed again in 2005.
|Posted May 23, 2007 3:07 pm


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OCEAN CITY- The 21st Annual Ocean City Tuna Tournament returns next week when hundreds of boats and thousands of anglers descend on the resort area for a three-day search for the burly behemoths in the canyons off the coast of the resort.
Tuna of all shapes, sizes and species have arrived in the waters off Ocean City in the last few weeks, jumpstarting the summer offshore season and setting the tone for what could be a memorable tournament. The event gets underway next week with a captain's meeting and late registration next Thursday before the first of three fishing days next Friday, July 11.
The annual Ocean City Tuna Tournament is one of the highlights of the summer offshore tournament season each year, second only perhaps to the White Marlin Open in terms of prize money awarded and the number of boats and anglers participating. Thousands of spectators will cram into the Ocean City Fishing Center for the four-day event, which has become a celebration of fishing, food, live music and, of course, the daily weigh-ins at the scale.
From modest beginnings in 1988, when just 38 boats participated and a mere $9,000 in prize money was doled out to the winners, the Ocean City Tuna Tournament has grown by leaps and bounds over the last two decades. For example, last year 139 boats chugged out to the canyons off the coast to vie for the roughly $689,000 in prize money awarded.
While the Tuna Tournament might lack the prestige and glamour of the White Marlin Open set for next month in Ocean City, it does not lack excitement and suspense. It can be said the Tuna Tournament is the "beast" to the White Marlin Open's "beauty." Legend has it Captain Jim Whaley, back in the 1950s, would ask his charter customers if they were interested in fishing for beauty or beast, referring to marlin or tuna.
At stake again this year in the 21st Annual Ocean City Tuna Tournament are hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money in several categories. As the name suggests, the event is largely about tuna, but there will also be prize money awarded in several other categories including billfish and dolphin, for example. The tuna tournament will award cash prizes in two major categories: the largest single fish brought to the scale at the Ocean City Fishing Center; and the most total pounds caught over the three fishing days.
Captains must choose to fish two of the three scheduled fishing days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and the suspense builds as the leaderboard changes with each passing day and sometimes each passing hour. Last year, for example, the suspense built all weekend as the teams that weighed big fish early in the tournament watched as boat after boat unloaded their catches at the scales.
When the drama ended, a mere single pound separated first place from second place in the heaviest tuna division resulting in a difference in cash payout of $351,147 for first place and $64,540 for second place. Ocean City's own "Press Time," with Captain Luke Blume, took first in heaviest tuna category with a 184-pounder caught by angler Ted D'Anna worth $351,197. The "Press Time" just edged the "Let it Ride," which hung a 183-pounder. Twelve-year-old Charlie Gravina was the angler who caught the 183-pound second place tuna on the "Let it Ride" and was named Top Junior Angler in the tournament. The second-place single largest tuna caught on the "Let it Ride" was worth $66,040. Third-place in the heaviest single tuna category and a check for $37,582 went to the "Cyntinory" and local angler Terry Layton.
The Heaviest Total Weight category also produced its share of drama with the crew aboard the "Instigator" taking first place with 790 total pounds and earned a check for $134,365. Second-place in the Heaviest Total Weight category went to the crew aboard the "Rhonda's Osprey," which finished with 510 total pounds after weighing two big tuna that came in around 290 pounds late Sunday.
The team on the "Rhonda's Osprey," which included several local business owners, earned over $56,000 for their second-place finish. Coming in third in the heaviest total weight division was the crew aboard the "Longfin" with 477 pounds, good enough for an $11,300 pay day.


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Atwater Beer Buzz April 26
Greetings from the land of snow melt!
The icicles are dripping, the roads are clearing, and it's feeling like Spring is coming. Although every so often we get another snow storm and reset the process…again. While we look forward to fantastic rafting and early summer activities, we're working hard on our summer craft beer programming and have lots of information to share!
Our biggest news is the new weekend craft beer lodging package that we are offering in June and September. We're calling it "Sip, Savor & Brew; Atwater's Culinary Craft Beer Experience". Essentially, this is an amplified Brewmaster's Weekend…additional Brewmaster(s), new seminars, evening craft beer discussions, etc. So while you will still be able to enjoy our traditional Meet the Brewmaster open tastings in Fireside and the Small Plates & Craft Beer Pairings in Atwater, there are a host of other craft beer-centric events to enjoy throughout the weekend.
The pricing for the Sip, Savor & Brew Weekends is a great deal. If you book a lodging package with 1 person attending the craft beer events, you get Friday & Saturday night lodging + 1 weekend event pass for $275. If 2 people are attending the craft beer programming, it's $330. If there are 4 adults sharing a room and attending the craft beer events, it's $440…and when you do the math, that's $110 per person. For a craft beer weekend in Vail…not too shabby!
The schedule of events for the Sip, Savor & Brew Weekends mirrors the Brewmaster's Weekends. On Friday evening, the Meet the Brewmaster(s) session is 4 – 7pm, as usual. The Small Plates & Craft Beer Pairing event is scheduled for Saturday at 6pm, as is traditional. However, there will also be two seminars hosted by the Brewmasters and the Atwater Culinary Team on Saturday afternoon, informal craft beer discussions with the Brewmasters on both Friday & Saturday evenings, and a craft beer/sweet treat to close each evening.
Saturday morning is left open in this schedule (until 2:30pm) so that attendees can take advantage of the resort amenities (Aria Spa & Club, infinity pool & hot tubs, etc.) or choose to undertake one of the many mountain activities available in the area, such as fly fishing on Gore Creek, zip lining, mountain biking down Vail Pass, mountain biking on Vail Mountain, hiking one of the multitudes of area trails, jeep tours, razor tours, half-day raft trips, etc. These mountain & spa activities are not included in the package price, but are an ideal way to make the most of your mountain weekend. Tthe Aria Club, infinity pool and hot tubs are not an extra charge).
Special note for Colorado Brewers Guild SOCIAL members, you are entitled to a complimentary lodging upgrade when you book your Sip, Savor & Brew weekend! For more SOCIAL info: http://coloradobeer.org/social
If you'd like to attend a Sip, Savor & Brew weekend of craft beer events but don't need the lodging, you can book it for just $69.
All Sip, Savor & Brew weekend packages can be booked through Vail Cascade Reservations at 800.282.4183 (please mention promo code VCSSB13). or click here to book online. Please call if you're a SOCIAL member and ask for your complimentary upgrade.
Wednesday Craft Beer Tastings, Fireside Bar 4:30 – 6:30pm, complimentary & open to the public.
The first few weeks we will be featuring the following breweries:
May 29: AC Golden Brewing Co.
June 5: Left Hand Brewing Co.
June 12: Avery Brewing Co.
June 19: Firestone Brewing Co.
June 26: Odell Brewing Co.
July 3: Upslope Brewing Co.
July 10: Great Divide Brewing Co.
July 17: Elevation Beer Co.
Brewmaster's Weekends and Sip, Savor & Brew Weekends:
- June 28/29: Sip, Savor & Brew with Kevin DeLange, Owner/Founder, Dry Dock Brewing Co. and Bill Eye, Owner/Brewmaster, Prost Brewing Co.
- July 19/20: Brewmaster's Weekend with Alex Violette, Head Brewer, Upslope Brewing Co.
- August 16/17: Brewmaster's Weekend with Todd Usry, Brewmaster/Director of Brewery Ops, Breckenridge Brewery
- September 6/7: Sip, Savor & Brew with John Carlson, Executive Director of the Colorado Brewers Guild with guests (tbd)
- December 6/7: Brewmaster's Weekend with AC Golden Brewing Co. Brewer (tbd)
For the Spring off-season, we will be continuing our Flights & Bites promotion which includes 50% off of the Small Plate of your choice when you purchase a Craft Draft Flight. This is available daily from 3 – 6pm and 9 – 11pm.
New on our craft beer list since my last update are the following:
- Alaskan Amber, Alt, Juneau, Alaska (draft)
- Bonfire Tent Pole Porter, Vanilla Porter, Eagle, CO (draft)
- Avery Oud Floris, Oud Bruin, Boulder, CO (cellar)
- Breckenridge Vanilla Porter, Denver, CO
- New Belgium Hoppy Bock, Bock/Lager, Ft. Collins, CO (large format)
And our Craft Draft Flight, rotation complete, features the following:
- Lefebvre Blanche de Bruxelles
- Alaskan Amber
- Eddyline Crank Yanker IPA
- Bonfire Tent Pole Porter
- Angry Orchard Crisp Apple Cider
Please let me know if you have any questions about the new upcoming programming. We're very excited to be able to expand upon our Brewmaster's Weekend and offer a full weekend of craft beer events in the shoulder seasons, while keeping the traditional equation with fantastic brewers during the height of summer. I will keep you updated with info throughout the off-season about craft beer & other cool stuff. There are great rates available now….so come on up and see us!
Have a fantastic week!
Laura Lodge
Craft Beer Program


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Portland, Ore.-based TriMet says it has selected CH2M Hill provide on-call construction management services for the Portland to Milwaukie light rail transit extension project. The 7.3-mile, $1.4 billion project will connect Portland State University in downtown Portland with southeast Portland, Milwaukie, and north Clackamas County.
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The next single to be released from Colbie Caillat's All of You album will be "Favorite Song" featuring Common. He first joined her in the studio to record the track, and now they'll come together again to shoot a video for it this week. When we caught up with Colbie recently, she gave us some insight as to what it's going to look like.
"It's a really cool concept. Common and I are singing on the rooftop of this house, overlooking the beach in Venice [California]. Basically the music travels down throughout the town and though the beach. It hits everyone and they all start singing it, and these people in their bathing suits walking on the boardwalk or guys on skateboards, they all find the music and come up to me and Common on the rooftop and watch us perform for them."
Colbie and Common will perform "Favorite Song" for the first time since recording it on Ellen next week. You can see their duet on April 6.
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By Amanda Wicks
Medical marijuana companies have a spokesman in Justin Bieber if they're looking for a major pop celebrity to help spread word about their cause. The singer tweeted out a link to a video on October 2nd, which details how big pharmaceutical companies have spent millions of dollars combatting medical marijuana legislation.
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"This is important. A friend showed me this. I'm going to be talking more about this. We all need to pay attention," he tweeted along with the link to ATTN's Facebook page. The video ATTN posted goes through the many cases where big pharma companies have ponied up major bucks to keep states from altering the legality and availability of medical marijuana.
The makers of fentanyl, the drug that killed Prince, spent $500 million blocking legislation in Arizona. Fentanyl is about 100 times stronger than morphine and has been dubbed the "kill pill" for the number of people who overdose on it each year (via CNN). But that company is not alone. Makers of other pain pills, like oxycontin, nucynta and others, have each spent money to block medical marijuana from becoming more widely available.
The Biebs hasn't said much else about the issue, but given his tweet the public will hear more from him in the future.
This is important. A friend showed me this. I'm going to be talking more about this. We all need to pay attention facebook.com/attn/videos/11…—
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Discussion in 'Star Trek: Voyager' started by Adm_Hawthorne, Oct 24, 2011.
Very nice gazomg!!
Love them all, Kaffe and gazomg!
I love this opening banter... everything from Regis teasing her about being lost in space... to how "tight" Janeway's space bum is... to the Richard Burton story.
But the one about Janeway following Ellen's lead and finally "coming out"... that was a HOOT!
"This would be the logical way to go for Captain Janeway"
"Why is that woman nodding?"
(Teacake... I didn't know you were in the states that year! )
Loved the "body language" exchange.
But the part of being the mother of two teenaged boys was great but even better is her idea of camping.
A jeep, a guide AND a cook!
Oh no....
"Cindy Crawford? You're going to be a lot happier with Cindy."
Uh oh... I think Chakotay is in trouble.
Kate: "How tall are you?
Michael: "Six three"
Kate: "How wonderful."
Oh yes... Regis had to give up his chair so Nouri could sit next to Kate.
Michael: "Katerina... sit on my knee."
Now the 2 lovebirds are sitting together in the audience.
Did I say SITTING???
"Kiss you all over... is that romantic?"
I've seen the poster of this evil Janeway, but never the gif... not to mention this borg queen.
That is awesome JRulez!!!
One of my fave Janeway pics!
Don't even THINK of crossing this woman!
Here's that poster I was talking about... you posted it earlier in this thread.
I've tried looking for the fanfic, but I don't think it exists beyond the text on the posters since all I found was a Kirk/McCoy version.
Isn't this a Spalko?
It makes me hot.
It is a Spalko, although I must admit I prefer MU Janeway without the eyepatch. It makes her too much like Kove who, after all, IS a comic figure.
If you liked that one... you might appreciate Spalko's poster of her "quarry".
ETA: Spalko's gallery.
Love the Flemeth in profile.
Have you seen the (Non-Spalko) MU crossovers with the Intendent???
By Lyrielle Moon
If you know someone who hasn't see Voyager...This is a great video to show them.
Blowing up stuff can be sexy!
Can't see the video delenn, just the person's youtube page?
I like those Intendent ones JRulez even though I pretty much loath the Intendent LOLOL.. except really it should be Janeway in the dominant position there. I like to think that after the Intendant did her little "grabbing your face possessively" deal MU Janeway slammed her onto her back and.. well something with MU Janeway on top.
:: fans self ::
Sorry about that. Fixed it, teacake.
Here's another one for you by Lyrielle Moon ...Is there a special way to post Vimeo Vids? This is for the J/7 fans...
Ooooooo that was very lovely
And no, you can only insert youtubes in this forum. Vimeo you have to do links.
And they say Mama Janeway was protective of HER daughters!
Chakotay is probably glad he didn't sniff around Clytemenestra's daughter!
Oh I remember that play, it gave us such wonderful pictures..
Is that going to be your next Avatar?
After I shop 7's head onto him, maybe
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As a do-it-yourself investor, I love to read investing books. However, there are only a few books that have really had great educational value; the rest were merely entertainment.
Here are the books which have helped me the most:
- One Up on Wall Street, by Peter Lynch
- The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham
- Poor Charlie's Almanack, by Charles Munger
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, by Phil Fisher
- What Works on Wall Street, by James O'Shaughnessy
- See below.
Thomas Phelps offers some good advice as to what to look for when trying to find a 100-to-1 investment:
- Inventions that enable us to do things we have always wanted to do but could never do before.
- New methods or new equipment that helps people do commonplace things easier, faster or at less cost than ever before.
- Processes or equipment to improve or maintain the quality of a service while reducing or eliminating the labor required.
- New and cheaper sources of energy.
- New methods of doing essential jobs with less or no ecological damage.
- Improved methods or equipment for recycling the materials used by civilized man instead of making mountains of waste and oceans of sewage.
- New methods for delivering the morning newspaper without carriers or waste.
- New methods or equipment for transporting people and goods on land without wheels.
- J.C. Penney Co.
- Deere & Co.
- Abbott Laboratories
- Dr. Pepper
- Lockheed
- Greyhound Corp.
- Philip Morris
- Merck & Co.
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber
- Motorola
- International Business Machines
- Johnson & Johnson
Let's say you decided to invest using Phelps' method using $10,000 (plus any additional money for fees). Furthermore, say you decide to devote a year to trying to uncover 25 stocks which you thought fit the bill as 100-to-1 type companies. After this, you divide your money equally into the 25, buying $400 of each company, and hold them for 20 years. If you only identified 3 out of 25 stocks that went 100-to-1, and say the rest went to zero, even factoring in that year you were looking for the stock, you would have a compound annual growth rate of 12.56%, and $120,000.
Here is the CAGR for identifying 1 out of 25 to 10 out of 25:
- 6.82%
- 10.41%
- 12.56%
- 14.11%
- 15.33%
- 16.34%
- 17.20%
- 17.94%
- 18.61%
- 19.20%
This method, just like any other, is not fool-proof. That said, it really requires no maintenance and beats the market quite well just by identifying two of these 100-to-1 stocks.
And with that, I leave you with a parable Phelps shares with us in the beginning of his book:
"Ask and It Shall Be Given to You"
Five poor Arabs slept on the sand. A bright light woke them. Out of it came an angel.
"Each of you can have one wish," the angel said.
"Praise be to Allah," exulted the first Arab to catch his breath. "Give me a donkey."
Instantly a donkey stood at his side.
"Fool," thought the second Arab. "He should have asked for more."
"Give me 10 donkeys," the second Arab begged.
No sooner said than done. He had ten donkeys.
The third Arab had heard and seen how the first two had fared.
"To Allah all things are possible," he said. "Give me a caravan with a hundred camels, a hundred donkeys, tents, rugs, food, wine, and servants."
They came so fast that the third Arab was ashamed to be seen in his rags before such an entourage. But his shame did not last long. Deftly his servants dressed him in robes befitting his new status.
The fourth Arab was more than ready when his turn came.
"Make me a king," he commanded.
So quickly did the crown appear on his head that he bruised his knuckles from scratching where an instant before there had been nothing but an itch. The palace gardens stretched out before him almost as far as the eye could see, and the palace turrets reached so high their pennants were lost in the desert haze.
Having seen his companions in misery ask too little, the fifth Arab resolved to make no such mistake.
"Make me Allah!" he ordered.
In a flash he found himself in sand, covered with leprous sores.


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A new version of the Fedora Linux distribution was released today. Fedora 12, codenamed Constantine, is now available for download.
Read the whole story
Has RedHat given up on using Fedora as the base for RHEL? They seem to have completely different goals now.
As much as I love Linux, about the only well-supported user distro is Ubuntu. Try finding documentation or answers to your problems on Fedora. The support just isn't there.
Speaking of Ubuntu, wasn't there supposed to have been a review of 9.10? I've been using it for about a week now and think it's pretty good. But it's always nice to read about new features that I haven't tried.
brentK: we have a 10,000-word review of Ubuntu 9.10 in the editing process. Look for it soon!
Ubuntu is too brown for my tastes and gives me all sorts of problems such as the media player crashing when it has a visualisation on, opening media in the movie player when I told it to open it in the music player, mysterious messages about programs having crashed that I didn't know I was running etc. I was hoping that other distros might have things working a bit better, but seems chronomitch thinks otherwise. SUSE looks really good now too.
How does Fedora perform from the perspective of someone who wants to get Compiz working, get wireless networking working and some form of media player working?
I tried installing the beta last week, and I had a lot of problems. I was trying to install / to an extended partition /dev/sda2(extended)--->/dev/sda5 and the partition editor refused to allow me to do this.
Has anyone had any luck installing to extended partitions?
Can we also expect a full review of Fedora 12?
What do you mean by that? I did not notice... I just read somewhere that RHEL 6 is coming in Q1 and it will be based on Fedora 11.
It was a good article. I enjoyed reading it and I'm not going to turn this into a Wired.com comment "Hey author, you [insert grammatical error]! Wired sucks" comment. But, "particularly" twice in the same sentence? Really?
Having moved back to Fedora from Ubuntu earlier this year, I thought they were pretty good with documentation:
And the forum has been helpful to me as well:
Although it is hard to say that about a 'cutting edge' distro, Fedora feels more mature and stable than Ubuntu. There might be superficial issues as all novelty distors have, but the base is much more reliable IMHO.
A less used package is more likely to not work in Ubuntu than in Fedora.
They seem to be more flexible when it comes to bugfixing. I dont know how it is now, but I used to get really annoyed at the 'fix in the next release' attitude towards some bugs (no backporting). In fedora you dont need to wait 6 months and do a total system upgrade (or reinstall) to fix your annoyances (potentially introducing some other bugs that might not see a resolution until next release).
This is just freaking CRAZY!. It was not 4 years ago I was working for a BVC and we moved our product from RHEL3 to the fresh of the press Fedora 2. We moved off that to CENT 5 before Fedora 6 was final if I remember. In 4 years they've gone from v2 to v12. The same timeframe MS moved from XPSP2 to Win7 (only 5 releases including SPs, and I could 7 as an SP of Vista, so really, 1 nre release from Redmond in that time), and Mac OS went from 10.2 to 10.6...
They need to cut the "major" release cycle down to about every 18 months if they expect major businesses to keep up. Patches and SPs are one thing, but major overhauls need to slow the hell down! We can't get management to approve moving off Office 2003 to 2007, and the open source community wants people to install a new major OS release on a schedule of every 6-9 monts? Wow.
That was just my experience when I tried out Fedora 9 a while ago. I think I may try Fedora 12 out on my linux box (currently running Linux Mint) and see how it fares.
Oh boo hoo. This is a bleeding edge distro. If you think it's updated too often, it's not for you. RHEL or some Ubuntu LTS release may be more up your alley. Heck, go with stable Debian and you won't move anywhere.
I believe RHEL 5 was based off of Fedora 6. I'm pretty sure of it. I hadn't heard anything about Fedora 11 being the basis for anything, or that RHEL 6 was even on the horizon, much less but four months out. I intend to make Fedora my main desktop after I figure out how to make their sound driver stack work with my onboard sound. (This appears to be a kernel issue I have no reason to suspect is specific to Fedora.) Until then, I'm sticking with CentOS.
zelannii: we really don't expect 'major businesses' to be using Fedora, and certainly not upgrading to every new release. For mission-critical stuff you should almost certainly use a longer cycle, stabler enterprise release, like RHEL or CentOS or SUSE. Fedora, as the article mentions, really isn't intended for that kind of use.
You have no idea what Fedora is about if you are using it on production servers/workstations. Look at RHEL/CentOS (especially with the EPEL repositories) for something a lot more stable.
I cannot believe the amount of times I have to explain this to people...
took me from total linux newbie in the Fedora Core 3 days to today.
Also a far better signal to noise ratio than ubuntu forums, some v technical discussions whilst remaining friendly and accessible to newbies.
Specifically, you gain a much better understanding of why things work the way they work, as opposed to 'type this in and it does its black magic' which is how ubuntu forums seems to work. Side effect of so many windows switchers if you ask me lol (which is a good thing). When I tried out ubuntu the lower quality of the forums was immediately noticeable.
Back on topic, brilliant upgrade though as I run a headless server on F12 there's not much difference for me to notice lol. I did notice on desktop test rigs that everything just has that extra layer of polish - no more struggling with ndiswrapper, compositing desktop on and working out of box, selinux GUI troubleshooting, etc. BUt seamless F10-->11-->12 upgrade path for my LAMP server.
Good release so far. Everything worked out of the box with the beta live cd. Even the ATI Radon HD 4650 had working 3d acceleration after installing the experimental mesa drivers.
Then I bought a Radeon HD 5750 without thinking about Linux support. Now no accleration at all but everything else works. Now I am waiting for ATI to release new drivers and the 3d documentation.
My only complaint is that the new wallpaper is not that exciting. The image with Constantine seated with a sword is the one I prefer.
No wag of the finger?
I am hoping more company executives and individual users look at using Fedora more, it is a great distro and backed by Red Hat which really helps. If you use it you have to understand that it's bleeding edge and beta... so keep this in mind. I've found that after a couple months after its release, most of the bugs are worked out in most cases. Once the few bugs are worked out, it's a great a solid solution. Upgrades are inevitable with any software.
According to wikipedia, F12 -> Redhat 6 for a 2010 release.
I've been complaining about Ubuntu's lack of focus on software developers for awhile now, and this article may have convinced me it's time to switch to Fedora. I'm going to do some research into other distros first, but Fedora 12 looks promising.
One thing that impressed me is the blutooth support... thethery my iPhone to my Dell E4300 running Fedora 12 was as easy as pie.
Easier than under Windows XP or Windows Vista.
Red Hat does not have the same release cycle as Fedora does. New Red Hat releases are about every three years. RHEL 6 will be based on the F12 code base.
Hmm, haven't had that problem. Have you tried this link?


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|Sportsgirl shirt (old) / Asos necklace
Thoroughly enjoying my new necklace from Asos. It looks like it could have been knocked together from
pieces found in a hardware store, which makes it perfect to pair with this seasons soft pastels for a little
edgy touch. Unfortunately it looks to be out of stock now, but I still recommend having a squiz at the Asos
jewellery section as they tend to have similarly unique and slightly offbeat pieces. On an entirely unrelated
note, I have entered a few images in the Market HQ 'Style Off' currently running on Facebook. I didn't have
the time to do anything specific for it, so apologies for those who have been following me for a while because
you will have seen those outfits before, but in any case - if you feel you like my general style enough to get
me to the finals and see what I could do there, it would be awesome if you could 'Like' my entry. There
is some seriously tough competition, so every little 'Like' counts! The prize up for grabs is incredible, the
best part being an opportunity to style the next Market HQ campaign shoot, so if you think I could do it
please do give me a vote (and hey, if you want to get in on the action, why not enter yourself?). Many
thanks in advance!
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World Refugee Survey 2008 - Pakistan
|United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
|Publication Date
|19 June 2008
|Cite as
|United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, World Refugee Survey 2008 - Pakistan, 19 June 2008, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/485f50c9c.html [accessed 23 January 2018]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
About 2.16 million Afghans registered with the Government. Since 1979, Pakistan had hosted millions of Afghan refugees it recognized on a prima facie basis. In a two-phase UNHCR repatriation program between March and November, over 357,000 Afghans returned, of whom only 150,000 had registered.
Refoulement/Physical Protection
There were no reports of refoulement of refugees registered with the Government. In late January, however, officials in Bajaur repatriated nearly 40 Afghans without documents. In March, authorities handed than 50 Afghans over to Afghan officials after arresting them under the Foreigners Act. Afghans were also reportedly among the 554 foreign students of local madrasas whom Pakistan deported in August.
Pakistani officials claimed Taliban insurgents had infiltrated four border camps and used them as a base when attacking NATO and Afghan forces in Afghanistan. In June, police in Peshawar announced they would begin door-to-door searches for unregistered refugees and would expel those they found without valid documentation. In August, UNCHR warned that Pakistan was pressuring refugees to repatriate by closing camps, deeming unregistered refugees illegal, threatening to confiscate their property and documents, and threatening to fine those who rented property to refugees. A survey during registration revealed that more than four-fifths of Afghan refugees were unwilling to return, citing security as their leading concern. Authorities claimed that 20,000 repatriated Afghans reentered in May. In June, the States and Frontier Regions Secretary acknowledged that Afghan insecurity made returns unsustainable.
In April, refugees stoned a UNHCR repatriation center in Baleli, Balochistan. Police responded with baton charges and tear gas, injuring four. In April, an Afghan refugee died in Peshawar when paramilitary forces fired on a crowd that was beating a UNHCR worker who had allegedly demanded bribes. In mid-May, Afghan refugees clashed with security forces that were trying to bulldoze several homes a day after authorities razed 70 shops and three houses to close Katcha Garhi camp, near Peshawar. During attempts to close Jungle Pir Alizai camp in Balochistan, at least three refugees died and ten sustained injuries in clashes with security forces seeking to make them repatriate or move to a camp in the remote and inhospitable Hindu Kush Mountains. Authorities suspended the closure.
In January, Pakistanis in the Mohmand tribal area stoned a refugee to death after elders sentenced him to death for murder and abduction. Also in January, three or four refugees in Jalozai camp died in a bomb blast authorities attributed to a personal dispute. In February, North Waziristan militants beheaded a refugee for allegedly spying for the United States. In April, unknown persons killed two Afghan girls from Surkhab refugee camp while they were selling bangles. In May, nearly 30 people, mostly Afghan nationals, died, and 31 others sustained injuries in a suicide bombing at a Peshawar hotel popular with refugees. In June, militants in the border province of Bajaur beheaded an Afghan refugee suspected of spying for the United States. In August, North Waziristan militants beheaded another two refugees and shot a third for spying for the United States. In September, they shot a refugee they had abducted earlier. In November, unidentified gunmen in Para Chinar killed four Afghan refugees and injured five others as the group traveled to Afghanistan, intending to bury a fellow refugee who had died in a Peshawar camp.
Pakistan was not party to the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees or its 1967 Protocol and had no legislation to recognize refugees. The 1946 Foreigners Act (amended 2000) continued to be the only standard applying to refugees and asylum seekers. However, Afghans who held new identity cards, issued during the registration exercise, were exempt from its provisions. In August, UNHCR and the Governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan extended the 2003 Tripartite Agreement for another three years, agreeing that repatriations should be "voluntary and gradual."
Detention/Access to Courts
In January, immigration officials arrested over 300 Afghans at Karachi airport, where they landed after Saudi Arabia had deported them for using forged passports to make pilgrimage. In February, authorities detained at least 22 refugees in connection with a suicide bombing at a Quetta court and arrested over 200 Afghans in a subsequent crackdown. In March, Quetta police detained 60 Afghans for not possessing valid documents and arrested 13 more for illegal entry. In total, they arrested over 100. In June, police in Khar arrested 39 persons, mostly Afghan refugees, in connection with a remote-controlled explosion that injured three persons. Also in June, authorities arrested 50 Afghans under the Foreigners Act for lack of documents. In November, police arrested some 500 Afghans for lack of documents. In December, the Frontier Corps arrested two residents of Ghadgai refugee camp for arms possession and Balochistan police arrested over 80 Afghans for illegal entry through Iran.
The Constitution granted the same protections against arbitrary arrest and detention to all persons in Pakistan.
Between October 2006 and February 2007, authorities issued 2.16 million Afghan refugees Proof of Registration (PoR) cards valid through December 2009. Refugees petitioned in court against the Ministry of Interior and the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) that these organizations had failed to register hundreds of other Afghan applicants in Peshawar. On the other hand, tribal elders from the Mohmand tribal area demanded that NADRA rescind the computerized national identity cards it had issued the Hazarbuz, a nomadic tribe they accused of being Afghan refugees. The Potohar Town Council in Rawalpindi also accused Afghans of illegally obtaining such cards. In May, Balochistan officials alleged that most refugees there had also acquired them.
Freedom of Movement and Residence
In general, Afghan refugees enjoyed the freedom to move around Pakistan and to live where they chose, although the 1973 Constitution protected only Pakistani citizens' freedom of movement. Some 1.3 million lived in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), while several hundred thousand lived in Karachi.
Authorities scheduled the closure of four of the largest refugee camps, Jalozai and Katcha Garhi in the NWFP, and Jungle Pir Alizai and Jungle Pir Girdi in Balochistan by the end of the year and gave residents the choice of repatriating or moving to other sites, which the refugees rejected because of their remote and inhospitable location. Nearly 125,000 repatriated from Jalozai camp in the NWFP, but some refugees remained in Girdi camp in Balochistan despite the October evacuation deadline. After extending the deadline for Jungle Pir Alizai camp three times since 2005, in June, the Government assigned the Frontier Corps to supervise the camps' eviction. Some camp residents refused to leave, claiming Pakistani citizenship. Katcha Garhi camp closed in late July, with the departure of nearly 40,000 refugees. By September, Pakistan had closed down nine of the 24 camps in the NWFP and Federal Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.
Right to Earn a Livelihood
While the 1946 Foreigners Act prohibited the hiring of "a person who has no permission to stay in Pakistan," authorities tolerated refugees working in the informal sector. According to the 2005 census, only nine percent of Afghans reported having regular jobs, 55 percent of households depended on day labor for their livelihood, and 20 percent described themselves as self-employed. Some Ghazgai Minara camp residents worked as miners and farmhands, while others ran small businesses. Some refugees, like the residents of Khurasan camp, practiced traditional crafts such as carpet weaving. In Lahore, refugees worked mainly in the garbage collecting and recycling business. Around 83 percent of working Afghans earned less than Pakistan's minimum monthly wage level of 4,000 rupees ($67) for unskilled workers.
Because the contribution of refugee enterprise to the informal economy was significant, police crackdowns were rare. In June, however, the Cabinet approved a proposal to shut down informal markets owned by refugees and to register restaurants, shops, and vendors.
In formal trade, refugees needed Pakistani partners and could not hold immovable property or the requisite documents to own a business. In the NWFP, refugees dominated the transportation industry – Katcha Garhi camp was a major trading and transportation services center – but legally they could not own trucks. The market value of refugees' assets in the camp was about 740 million rupees (over $12 million). In July, the Minister for States and Frontier Region, Sardar Yar Mohammed Rind, threatened to confiscate the property of all "illegal Afghan immigrants ... as being foreigners they have no right to buy land." Authorities warned citizens against renting property to Afghans or purchasing property from them.
Public Relief and Education
UNHCR, in conjunction with the Government and the UN Development Programme, established Refugee Affected Hosting Areas, whereby refugee and local communities received health, sanitation, and education services. Recognized refugees living outside the camps received some financial assistance. To accelerate repatriation, the Government cut education and health facilities in the camps. UNHCR increased the repatriation allowance for registered refugees from $60 to $100 and extended the allowance to unregistered refugees after Pakistan contributed $5 million to the fund.
In Balochistan, Afghan refugees reported they could not buy subsidized flour like nationals.
Peshawar health authorities included refugees among the 1.5 million children under 13 whom they immunized against measles. Church World Service provided basic health services to over 57,000 Afghan refugees in three camps in the Mansehra district, NWFP.
UNHCR established schools in or near some camps and around 130,000 Afghan students attended Pakistan's 400 refugee schools, but nearly 71 percent reported no formal education. Afghan refugee children in Karachi attended Afghan language schools built in the early 1990s with Pakistani help. Muslim Hands, an international non-governmental organization (NGO), supported three schools in Quetta, where, to date, 45 Afghan schools served 25,000 students. The Government discouraged Afghans from enrolling in madrasas and began allowing refugee children to enroll in government schools. Refugees outside camps had access to health care through UNHCR's partners.
Pakistan did not include refugees in its 2004 Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.


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I love that each ballpark has its quirks. How boring would it be if they all looked the same? That said, I know Rays fans will be thrilled when they get a new stadium, just like Twins fans are enamored of their new digs.
I think you will see the Twins going for hitters and sprinters who have gap power in the future to play into their deep fences and the way that grass plays so quixk.
That said, the Rays have had to live with the roofing obstacles for years and have not bothered to mention any disflavor until now.
But a moment like Thursday night is no time to bring up your off season agenda of talking about a new ballpark. Merlot Joe was wrong to profess his want for new digs or new Ground Rules for the 2010 Playoffs if his team is in them…Right now, we might be on the outside looking in after 4 straight pathetic games.
Rays Renegade
105 batted balls? Sheesh. But I'm with Jane. I like the quirkiness of it. It's not contrived quirkiness either. Other parks try to design that into the park. This is a situation that was matter of fact. Long live the Cat Walk.
I always did like the conception for the park I saw about two years ago.
The design two years ago of the waterfront stadium was actually a reconfigured design of the original Florida Suncoast Dome/Thunderdome/Tropicana Field. I actually like the oddities of the Trop., but there are an army of distracters all over the place. Great sight points throughout the facility, plus more than enough television sets for the regions that are bordered by concrete walls.
If the roof was configured in a square box shape, it would not be as ecologically effective as it would need a larger amount of energy to perform the same actions as the sloped roof.
Rays Renegade
Always remember, Mike Schmidt was shafted out of a homer in the Astrodome back in the '70s. The ball went up and up and up…and hit a loudspeaker. I remember seeing an illustration in the papers showing how it happened.
Certainly they can find SOMEPLACE in Tampa/St. Pete to build a outdoor/retractable roof stadium to replace the Trop?
And yet today, the Rays came OH-SO-CLOSE to being no-hit for a 3rd time this season. Wonder if they'll throw a ticker-tape parade for Evan Longoria over this? LMAO
Anyway, at least you had excitement in your game. I had to watch the Nats botch it up against the Dodgers…
Sorry the Nats lost their edge this season. I thought they might have the horses before a few of them came up lame or injured.
It is still wild to me that three balls have decided Rays and Twins games like Thursday afternoon's contest. The Rays were complaining about it maybe being the one game that costs them the chance at the Playoffs, I can name at least 15 games they should have won even before this one test of everyone's nerves.
Iy is only a No-Hitter if there are no hits. If there is a hit, it is called a baseball game……still.
Rays Renegade
I think such craziness is kinda cool. Makes their park unique… like the Metrodome did for the Twins.
Kind of found it a bit ironic that the two teams that had domed stadiums had themost trouble at Tropicana Field.
But each of the three games in question actually were closely played games that had their momentum shift because of the ball striking the catwalks.
Stadium quirks will be around as long as we have baseball. I know today the Rays hit another stadium that has deep hitter's gaps and extreme green spaces that favor the running after the blast into one of it's gaps.
If this game was easy, everyone would win and no one would lose…And that would be just boring.
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News surfaced this week that the high concept/even higher budget Fox television show Terra Nova had been cancelled. Dinosaurs and science fiction elements of the show did not do enough to bring in high ratings and Fox was quick to pull the plug rather than continue to feed money into the quicksand pit.
But dont write off Terra Nova just yet. Fox made no bones about the fact they were shopping the show to other networks and The Live Feed is reporting that none other than Netflix is interested. Netflix, a company that focuses on DVD rentals and online downloads has recently tipped their toes into the original programming pool. New episodes of the revived Arrested Development are in production via Netflix and it appears as if the company wants to play with the big boys.
If successful in their new venture, Netflixs involvement in original programming has a way of changing the television landscape. 15 years ago, the big four national networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox) began to lose viewers and Emmys to cable programming from HBO, AMC and Showtime. If an online service throws a serious hat into the ring, the big four will face even more competition.
Personally, I never watched Terra Nova so I have no opinion on its cancellation and possible relocation. However, I am a Netflix subscriber and if venturing into $1+ million an episode original programming affects my monthly subscription rate well, then I might get really pissed.
i dont think ive heard of this show but it sounds cool
Long live Tokyo Sheik - Uncle Frank
It is/was. Nekro and I watched every episode. It was pretty sweet.
"If it's out of the grave, it's out of my pants." Tig
I'm going to genetically engineer dinosaurs because I can no longer get my dinosaur fix from tv. I'm going to create Jurassic Park in Delaware and it is all your fault Fox.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
I rather have them bring Jurrasic Park to netflix (no more movies for netflix, I know.) than Terra Nova. I watched 2 episodes in the beginning, zzz.


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Lopez named NL Player of the Week
Shortstop leads league in total bases from Aug. 15-21
By Coley Harvey / Special to MLB.com
Hitting in the No. 1 spot in the Reds lineup for 27 games this season, Felipe Lopez has gotten comfortable with starting Cincinnati's ballgames off on the right foot. But the shortstop has also proven he is finisher, as he ended last week in grand fashion, being named the Bank of America National League Player of the Week for the Aug. 15-21 period. Lopez led the NL in total bases (25) last week, and batted .400 (12-for-30) with three home runs, seven RBIs and six runs scored. On three occasions last week, Lopez had three-hit games. Only one of them, however, ended in a Reds win. As a result of injuries this season to everyday leadoff man Ryan Freel, Lopez has been forced into the No. 1 hole. When he is in that spot, he has productive at-bats like those last week. The 2005 All-Star is batting .360 with five home runs and 15 RBIs in the 27 games that he has had to bat leadoff. "I don't know what it is," Lopez said before Sunday's 13-6 win. "I'm still aggressive. I just try to go out there and do the same things anywhere in the lineup. I still try to get on base any way I can." Lopez batted .182 with two home runs and six RBIs in his normal No. 2 spot in the 28 games that sandwiched Freel's two stretches on the DL. The third baseman's second stint began Tuesday night. Cincinnati's shortstop said he doesn't see a direct correlation between his success and Freel's injuries. He said he just took time to work at bettering himself as a hitter, and his success just happened to occur during the times when Freel has been injuried. "I just went back to the film and looked at it," Lopez said of his hitting. "And now I feel the same [as before Freel's tough stretch]." Entering Monday's games, Lopez led all NL shortstops in home runs (19), RBIs (63), slugging percentage (.497), runs scored (73) and hits (122). Other players up for consideration for the weekly award included Lopez's Cincinnati teammates Rich Aurilia (.435, 2 HRs, 6 RBIs), Ken Griffey, Jr. (.500, 3 HRs, 5 RBIs) and Wily Mo Peña (.417, 3 HRs, 7 RBIs). As part of the award, Bank of America will donate $1,000 on behalf of Bay to the Little League Urban Initiative.
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Code Supervisor Bruce Moore said the city has experienced continual problems with dumping at Orbit Lane on the north end of the city. A number of man hours have been spent, especially by the Recreation and Parks Department, to clean up the area, only to have more items dumped there.
Moore noted the dumping was actually occurring on property owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps installed a gate to block access to the deeper parts of Orbit Lane, but then dumpers simply started dumping trash in front of the gate.
To remedy the problem, Moore said the city installed a game camera, previously used at another illegal dump site, and used it to monitor the area.
"Within a week we had really good evidence," Moore said. "... We got pictures that let us track individuals down with their (vehicle) tag numbers."
The camera was then moved to another Orbit Lane location and provided evidence for two other individuals who were illegally dumping at the site.
Altogether four people, two men and two women, were identified. Moore said because the dumping was happening on Corps property, the next step was to present the evidence to an officer with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, who then issued citations.
The four individuals were scheduled to appear Tuesday before District Court Judge Don Bourne. Two received guilty sentences, Moore said, and each received 10 days in jail, $830 in fines and 16 hours community service picking up litter. A third was in jail on an unrelated matter and was expected to address the matter before his release. A fourth individual pleaded not guilty and will have a trial in the matter.
Moore said the city is pleased with the outcome and hopes the city's proactive stance will discourage others from dumping. The gate in the area has been moved all the way to the highway in an effort to prevent any more items being left there, and the next step will be working to clean up existing trash at the site.


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Recently, Alice Cooper—celebrity golfer, disc jockey, born-again Christian and onetime shock rocker—had this to say about some of the popular music on his radar: "I just feel like this whole generation maybe need to all eat a steak. Maybe they just need to quit eating, you know, vegetarian food and get out there and get some blood pumping in their system." Cooper went on specifically to attack Mumford & Sons and the Lumineers, two successful and earnest folk-inflected bands of the moment, opining that they are "not rock." (Marcus Mumford of the aforementioned Mumford & Sons responded almost instantly: "I didn't know that rock and roll had rules.")
Full-fledged generational divide or something more? Do you want another example? Consider what Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, said recently about South Korean pop-music phenomenon Psy: "This dude is the herpes of music." Is he speaking of the music itself? The absence of melody, the lack of traditional instruments, the monotonous beat, the awful rapping? The gruesome slapstick of the video? Or is Armstrong just carping about the billion views on YouTube?
It is not so unusual these days—especially in the media and especially among music writers of a certain age—to observe that we don't have icons like we did of old, we don't have titans of popular music, we don't have entertainers astride the stage like we once did, there's no rock and roll, they just don't make it like they used to, something terrible has happened to our art form and so on. In fact, I remember this kind of thing as far back as my undergraduate days (in the early 1980s), when I was sitting backstage during a play with another cast member (his name happens to have been John F. Kennedy Jr.) as he flipped idly through Rolling Stone. In due course, this cast member launched into an impromptu cultural criticism about how none of the bands of the early 1980s had any character, not like before. As evidence: Night Ranger, Journey, Scorpions, Whitesnake.
Is there any merit to the argument that we no longer have icons of music? Or is this now just middle-aged dads carping about what they don't really understand?
In order to speak to the question of icons and to assess the situation with respect to the music of the present, it might be useful to talk a little bit about what an icon might be.
For example, here are a few icons from the 1960s, a period in which the popular song changed rather dramatically. (In many cases, musicians started writing their own songs more voluminously instead of relying on the likes of Gerry Goffin and Carole King, and they began playing the electric guitar, and, eventually, they grew their hair out and/or sported some tie-dye.) Icons of the 1960s: the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, the Supremes, Jimi Hendrix
It is fair to say this is an incomplete and totally personal list of entertainers I think were meaningful during the decade in question. The Beatles for the obvious reasons of innovation and reinvention, Bob Dylan for making the case for lyrics, Aretha Franklin for revolutionizing soul and finding a way to marry gospel impulses to mainstream R&B, the Supremes for being the leading edge of the Motown sound, and Jimi Hendrix, not only the greatest electric-guitar player who ever lived but also a style genius and a great thinker about sound.
Your list may differ, as would mine on another day, though to some degree it is indisputable that, upon reflection, these artists made a great impact on the songs of their time. They seemed to crystallize the social change and ferment of the 1960s, and from vastly different directions. Hendrix did not sound like the Supremes, and the Supremes did not sound like the Beatles. In each case, the music of the period is inconceivable without including these artists. But it's exactly the retrospection of this exercise that makes the delineation of these icons so easy. Nevertheless, I would like to try to define iconic status based on this sampling—no matter how fast and loose—and I would define its characteristics as follows: style, influence, talent, creativity, vision. These are the qualities I associate with icons, and the further back you go, the easier it is to evaluate them. For example, everyone knows who's at the top of the list in the 1950s—Elvis Presley (or Little Richard or Chuck Berry). And the 1970s are not appreciably more difficult than the 1960s, though those times were less politically charged. Icons of the 1970s: the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, the Sex Pistols, Fleetwood Mac
I worried a little about putting Elton John on this list (I worried even harder about leaving off Led Zeppelin). But if you're making a list of artists with the most impact, you have to try to assess that impact regardless of whether it takes place in a form you admire, and for me, despite his indisputable chart dominance (and fancy glasses), Sir Elton really was a bubblegum artist, a singer of confectionary choruses. Which makes him hard to love. And yet his name was on the lips of the record-buying public, assuredly so. He was iconic. And the same is true of every other artist on my list above. The 1970s are unthinkable without the radical funk-R&B of Stevie Wonder (and if we were making the list on the basis of influence, we would have to include Parliament-Funkadelic too, whose long shadow continues to be felt in hip-hop). And I have to say, one album every single teenager in my high school possessed, no matter what they listened to, was Rumours; as style icon, no one in the 1970s had half the impact Stevie Nicks had.
So far, so good: style, influence, talent, creativity, vision. The 1970s are a fish-in-a-barrel decade as far as musical icons go. Your list could include Queen, the Who, the Kinks, the Clash, the Bee Gees. But the next decade is not so easy. Icons of the 1980s: Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Eurythmics, Madonna
In the 1980s, I start to have mixed feelings about the popular song. Partly because it was a period when the popular song began to deploy a really ugly and now-dated sonic palette (gated reverb on the drum kit, for example), a sound that enveloped even those who might have known better (Springsteen, Don Henley, Sting). Moreover, the popular song of the 1980s was less frequently political and more often ruled by the rigid confinements of post-album-oriented-rock radio. On the above list, exactly one artist has a perceptible political bent, and that is Bruce Springsteen. It seems fair to say that certain artists land on lists of 1980s icons solely because of their appearances on MTV, star factory of that decade. Did Prince or Madonna change American culture in any way? The Madonna of 2013—fashion executive and occasional road warrior—seems more about a certain kind of mass merchandising and the spectacle thereof than she seems given to creativity and vision. Really, in the 1980s there is exactly one indisputable icon, Michael Jackson, against whom others are judged. Even Springsteen seems irresolute by comparison (try listening to "Dancing in the Dark" or "Tunnel of Love" again). But Jackson's accomplishment on Thriller is so immense that he has no competitor worthy of the name. Still, his personal problems—pathological narcissism, let's say, and delusion and prescription-drug addiction—seem to commence almost immediately with subsequent albums, each less appealing than the last, until his later work is more the occasion of self-parody than of great music. But still. If Michael Jackson is not the quintessence of a music icon, then we have no legitimate icons. After him: lots of imitators. Icons of the 1990s: Nirvana, Guns N' Roses, Tupac Shakur, N.W.A, Mariah Carey
This is the first decade in which I strongly dislike an icon of the period, namely Mariah Carey. In fact, "strongly dislike" is putting it mildly. Mariah Carey's vocal histrionics, no matter how many top 10 singles she has had (and I think she is at or near the number achieved by Elvis), leave me cold, and there is never a song by Mariah Carey that is at all memorable to me. I could not, I don't think, sing you a single melody by Mariah Carey. I don't know that I have ever willingly played a song by Mariah Carey all the way through. Are there young people out there for whom the music of Mariah Carey was essential to their psychosocial development? I expect there are such young people, and I grieve for them. Obviously there are a great many more who also appreciated the manhood-in-a-vise falsetto of Axl Rose and his precariously close to homophobic and racist lyrics. I am not one of these people. I always thought Slash was the most derivative great guitarist ever (sort of like Angus Young of AC/DC but not as good, and Angus Young was not as good as a host of very gifted blues-based guitarists of the early 1970s). And the songwriting of Guns N' Roses, especially by the time you get to Use Your Illusion I and II, is especially lackluster. Later Guns N' Roses sort of feels like the Goo Goo Dolls, really. Kurt Cobain, however, like Hendrix and Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, had his iconic status well in hand and managed to ensure for good or ill that he would always be lionized as he was in his youth. Kurt Cobain, alone on this list of the 1990s, had it all: style, influence, talent, creativity, vision. We might have mentioned R.E.M. if they had stopped in the 1990s, the way Nirvana did. But an icon, in part, is what the culture needs the icon to be. An icon is a musician who has social value across diverse social groups, however fleetingly. Once your moment has passed, you do yourself a disservice by hanging around and producing more work, though that is just what any self-respecting artist would want to do. Kurt Cobain established himself by looking backward and finding, in the melody writing of John Lennon, Ray Davies and others, a template for the modern song, and then he opted out. Which means: instant icon. Meanwhile in Compton, N.W.A revolutionized African American music all at once by bringing back a social message to the music and thereby leaving room for Tupac, with his vision, his street rage, his black nationalism. Tupac, who also had a good idea about how to go out in a blaze of glory. Icons of the 2000s: Britney Spears, Eminem, Kanye West, Carrie Underwood, Jay Z
The icons of the 2000s are about the primacy of television, about Britney's childhood as a Mouseketeer, about Carrie Underwood's graduation from American Idol, about Kanye West thumbing his nose at George W. Bush on live TV. As such, these artists do not bear prolonged musical scrutiny. You'll notice there are no bands in the new millennium. Who needs a band? There are bands that have hung around since the 1990s, like Metallica and the Roots, devoted to a sublime idea of communal music making, but iconographically it's almost as if bands existed simply to allow music buyers who have outgrown the television or celebrity-magazine idea of music to find some other outlet for their entertainment dollars. In this new millennium of icon-hood, it's almost impossible to outlive your decade with reputation intact, though Jay Z has hustled the hardest. By definition an icon is something that lasts, historically. An icon is something or someone we can mostly agree on later. It is hard to support the idea that Britney Spears is anything but a vulnerable and somewhat confused young woman who got in over her head. And this is often the case now. The icons of the 2000s are scarcely icons at all because they haven't stood the test of time. We mistake Carrie Underwood for an icon, but she's more of a commodity, and we mistake Kelly Clarkson for one, and it's only in the fullness of time that we realize just how fraudulent the American Idol idea of iconography really is.
Which brings us to: Icons of the 2010s: Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, Skrillex, Psy
Of Psy we have already observed that there is not a lot of music to his music, and Lady Gaga, though I think she is one of the great style mavens of the present, has never written a song that didn't sound exactly like some other song. Justin Timberlake has the luck to be an attractive white guy, so his wholesale appropriation of everything Michael Jackson no longer merits lengthy comment. His imminence as an icon in this decade, despite long-ago solo albums (not to mention his boy-band origins), is owing to his legitimacy in the acting department. He suddenly seems to have graduated to a kind of reasonable adulthood. Taylor Swift, as I have said elsewhere, is a publicly traded corporation, the girl version of Thomas Kinkade, painter of light. And Skrillex is exactly what our age deserves, a guy who has managed to brutalize the popular song into a totally mechanized and quality-controlled blip that is perfectly calibrated for takers of Adderall or people who can count only to four. He is the place where all music goes to die.
If Grumpy Cat made music, I would definitely put Grumpy Cat on this list of the 2010s, because Grumpy Cat is one of the best and most effective communicators of the style of the period, even if she has recorded no songs. But in the absence of Grumpy Cat we have Psy and Taylor Swift and Skrillex and, perhaps, Robin Thicke. And they are uniformly disappointing. There is not an artist on this list whose music I would play for the sheer pleasure of it. This illuminates the problem of the period, instantaneity, which requires music in a fully diversified stock portfolio of multinational entertainment providers, which entertainment providers need to deliver music in exactly the way they might deliver high-fructose corn syrup. The quality-controlled deliverable dance-oriented Auto-Tuned American pop music product, with traces of hip-hop, is somewhat afraid of icons, because icons, with their style, influence, talent, creativity and vision, have their own ideas about how to proceed with their careers.
The music that has interested me most recently is made by people in living rooms, without much electricity required, and it's about soul, about feel, about the way music can often touch on the deepest of human emotions. A band like Alabama Shakes, which is decidedly unglamorous in every possible respect, is a good example to me of this music made almost entirely in exile from the prevailing themes of the moment, from the laptops and synth modules and drum machinery. This exile is good, because it's where creativity and vision enter into the project. Everything that actually resembles music, at least for me, comes these days from this condition of exile.
Does this mean it's impossible for an icon to come to pass now, spontaneously, in these degraded times? Does this mean niche marketing makes it impossible for anyone to speak to us all again, in the way the Beatles occasionally spoke to us all? In the way Jimi Hendrix once spoke to us? In the way Michael Jackson once spoke to us? Does this mean people my age are perpetually relegated to this ugly condescension in which, to love music, we have to refer to a time no one else cares very much about, the music of 40 or 50 years ago?
I think not. I believe in style, influence, talent, creativity, vision, and I believe there are kids in their rooms, right now, who can do it all, who can be iconographic without oversimplifying themselves, without selling out, and as evidence of this, I adduce the one surpassing example of icon-hood in the past 10 years, a musician of remarkable grace and potential, with songwriterly skill and sparkling stage presence, a singer the camera loves but who changes the look and feel of the popular song whenever she turns up, who unites the disparate tendencies of the contemporary pop song, who makes this form serve a rather profound narrative purpose it has not much served recently, namely the artist called Adele.
I will admit I didn't really understand Adele at first. I will admit, in fact, that if Adele had not been the daily fare at physical therapy, where I was stuck several times a week for shoulder trouble, I might not know who Adele is. But at the physical-therapy establishment there was in fact a song playing twice an hour, "Someone Like You," whose repetitious piano figure—with its Philip Glass solemnity—I came to love. It was partly the riskiness of making a song out of so little (piano and vocals), but also the incredible poise of the singer, that I soon learned to admire. It has a big chorus, this song, but it's also exceedingly personal and manages to make a romance that probably dated back a year or two (at the time of composition) seem as though recollected from a great distance. And when "Someone Like You" reaches for the very top of Adele's range and teeters there (in the studio recording), the human voice and the condition of lost romance seem like one thing, one frail insubstantial subatomic miracle of heartsickness and conflicted human consciousness. "How bittersweet this would taste…."
That song (and others by Adele I soon came to find equally compelling) is about being 21, I suppose, and it's about being a woman, and it's about, perhaps, living in a culture that is preoccupied with the anorexic and willowy model girl, and it makes these problems seem as fresh and important as new love, but "Someone Like You" is not just a song about these things, which are not all that astonishing (though the nuance of Adele's performance is); it could be about a number of other things too, which is the mark of a great pop song. "Someone Like You" could be Old Europe talking to the rest of the world about its fading dominance. It could be about Anglo-American relations. It could be about the pop song itself, about the traditional troubadour-oriented pop song, made in an era of heavily machined laptop kitschification. I can think of few pop songs that have such varied allegorical freight. (Oh wait, there is one: "Yesterday" by Paul McCartney.)
So is it impossible that another icon can appear anew, when here one is, a mere stripling from England with the wisdom and presence of an 80-year-old black woman from Mississippi? If there's one such icon, why not more? Here in the world of 7 billion there are innumerable tiny rooms, thatched cottages, each with its kid attempting to describe his or her experience, each with the itch to perform, each looking for like-minded souls, each hunting down songs to sing, each with all the necessary style, influence, talent, creativity and vision. You don't think there are icons out there? It would be unwise to say so. Every block has one. Every tribe. Every town. Every subdivision. Every church. Every mosque. Maybe we can figure out how to get out of their way and let them sing.


text: Seventy-two images of Kotor, on the Boka Kotorska a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This ancient walled fortress-city has its origins as a Byzantine settlement reflecting Slavonic, Venician and later infuences. A 4.6 km wall, travels up St. John Mountain behind the city, completely enclosing it in stone. The old walled city interior is one of the best preserved Medieval cities on the Adriatic Coast.


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Recent and archived news articles by Richard Witkin of The New York Times.
Wallace Hayes, 82, Aeronautics Expert, Dies
Wallace D. Hayes, an emeritus professor at Princeton University who made important contributions to understanding supersonic flight and aircraft design and who did major studies on airflow at speeds at least five times as fast as sound, died on Ma...
March 20, 2001, Tuesday
Lawsuits Over Jet Crash Blame T.W.A. and Boeing
A lawyer representing 25 families of victims in the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 filed lawsuits yesterday against Boeing and T.W.A., advancing the theory that the plane was destroyed by a mechanical malfunction that could have been pre...
October 22, 1996, Tuesday
Mistakes That Doomed a Jet Are Crash's Biggest Mystery
The crash of an American Airlines jet near Cali, Colombia, on Dec. 20 has confounded pilots and aviation experts like few other accidents in recent years. How could the pilots, with years of experience and a cockpit full of electronic navi...
January 1, 1996, Monday
Near Collision Changes Takeoff Rules
A near collision between a jumbo jet and a commuter plane on a runway at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Monday evening led Federal authorities yesterday to issue an emergency order altering takeoff procedures from sunset to sunrise at ...
March 4, 1995, Saturday
Downing of Korean Jet Laid to Soviet Error
A United Nations inquiry has concluded that Soviet military officials had "assumed" that the South Korean airliner shot down in 1983 was a United States reconnaissance plane. The report said, however, that at least two top officers in the Far E...
June 16, 1993, Wednesday
The United Nations agency that oversees civil aviation decided on Friday to resume its long dormant inquiry into the downing in 1983 of a South Korean airliner by a Soviet fighter. Russian officials have assured the agency that tapes from the plan...
December 20, 1992, Sunday
Study Says Korean Airliner Was on Its Intended Course When Downed in '83
A retired airline navigator has gathered evidence that in his view shows that the South Korean airliner shot down over Russia in 1983 was on a deliberate flight path and did not stray accidentally into Soviet territory. A principal part of his a...
February 20, 1992, Thursday
Jets Carrying 277 People Nearly Collide 7 Miles Over Cleveland
Two jet airliners carrying 277 people came close to a head-on collision seven miles over Cleveland on Saturday as radar controllers frantically tried to contact them, aviation officials said yesterday. A pilot on one plane caught sight of the ot...
August 30, 1991, Friday
2 Planes Nearly Collide Over N. Carolina
Two jet airliners converging almost head-on missed colliding over North Carolina on Sunday by less than a mile and a half, and a new emergency device in one of the planes, designed to warn of collision threats, failed to alert the pilots. It wa...
July 4, 1991, Thursday
Parting Shots of a Safety Board Official
Jim Burnett stepped down as a member of the National Transportation Safety Board last week in characteristic fashion. He took a blunt parting shot at the agency, which investigates major plane, train, bus and ship accidents. The 43-year-old law...
July 2, 1991, Tuesday
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About the Author
Brandt Aymar has compiled eight previous anthologies, including The Personality of the Cat, Men at Sea, and Men in the Air. He is the author of several boating books, including Cruising Is Fun and The Complete Cruiser, and is the coauthor of A Pictorial History of the World's Great Trials from Socrates to Jean Harris. He lives in West Islip on Long Island.


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Cypriots Cast Blame as Banks Open
Capital is Surprisingly Orderly as Branches Restart; President Calls for Probe Into Economic Crisis
NICOSIA—Cyprus's banks reopened from a nearly two-week hiatus on Thursday with little sign of disorder among depositors, even as the country's politicians pointed fingers over who was to blame for the financial sector's meltdown.
Small groups of account-holders—typically numbering two dozen or less, and mostly retirees—pressed to enter the banks as they formally reopened at noon local time. Police and private security guards, under...


text: This weekend I was on my deer lease and after some tracking found and chased off some poachers, weve had problems with poachers and trespassers more and more lately and Ive gotten the local game warden out there to help and got his number if I catch them. Every one that Ive seen has been armed and the warden said hed caught a couple smoking dope outside our gate. My question is if I come in contact with one of these guys and they threaten my life and I have to shoot to defend my life, what are the laws about a self defense shoot with a rifle outside city limits? Thanks, Matt