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Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel
|2910 Yale Blvd Se, Albuquerque, NM US
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Hotel Description
Property Location
When you stay at Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel in Albuquerque, you'll be connected to the airport, a 4-minute drive from University of New Mexico and 5 minutes from National Hispanic Cultural Center. This hotel is 3.7 mi (6 km) from ABQ BioPark Zoo and 5.4 mi (8.7 km) from New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
Make yourself at home in one of the 276 air-conditioned rooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Cable programming provides entertainment, and wired and wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and coffee/tea makers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Enjoy recreational amenities such as an outdoor pool and a fitness center. This hotel also features wireless Internet access (surcharge), concierge services, and gift shops/newsstands.
Enjoy American cuisine at Rojo Grill, a restaurant which features a bar, or stay in and take advantage of the room service (during limited hours). Full breakfasts are available for a fee.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include wired Internet access (surcharge), a business center, and express check-in. This hotel has 10 meeting rooms available for events. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary (available 24 hours).
Hotel Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- ATM/banking
- Accessible bathroom
- Ballroom
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Computer station
- Concierge services
- Conference center
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Free airport transportation
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Gift shops or newsstand
- In-room accessibility
- Laundry facilities
- Long-term parking (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 15
- Number of meeting rooms - 10
- Outdoor pool
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Pets allowed
- Porter/bellhop
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Restaurant
- Roll-in shower
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Television in common areas
- Total number of rooms - 276
- Wedding services
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Wired Internet access - surcharge
Hotel Information
Pets allowed Check-in time starts at 3 PM Check-out time is noon
Hotel Driving Directions
The preferred airport for Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel is Albuquerque, NM (ABQ-Albuquerque Intl.Sunport) - 0.6 km / 0.4 mi.
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometre.
Hotel Area Information
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.
Puerto Del Sol Golf Course - 1.7 km / 1.1 mi
Ernie Pyle Public Library - 3 km / 1.8 mi
University Stadium - 3.3 km / 2.1 mi
Isotopes Park - 3.5 km / 2.2 mi
University of New Mexico - 4 km / 2.5 mi
Vortex Theatre - 4.2 km / 2.6 mi
Aux Dog Theater - 4.6 km / 2.8 mi
Mariposa Gallery - 4.7 km / 2.9 mi
Roosevelt Park - 4.7 km / 2.9 mi
Popejoy Hall - 4.8 km / 3 mi
National Hispanic Cultural Center - 4.9 km / 3.1 mi
Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center - 4.9 km / 3.1 mi
University of New Mexico Hospital - 5.2 km / 3.2 mi
Tricklock Company - 5.6 km / 3.5 mi
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology - 5.7 km / 3.5 mi
The preferred airport for Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel is Albuquerque, NM (ABQ-Albuquerque Intl. Sunport) - 1 km / 0.6 mi
Hotel Room Information
Know Before You Go
- This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details on arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- The seasonal pool will be open from August to October.
- The property allows pets in specific rooms only and has other pet restrictions (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 12.95 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for in-room wired Internet: USD 12.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: USD 12.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for wired Internet in public areas: USD 12.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: USD 10.73 per day (in/out privileges)
- Extended parking fee: USD 10.73 per day
- Pet deposit: USD 25.00 per day
- Pet fee: USD 25 per pet, per stay
- Refrigerator fee: USD 15.00 per stay
- In-room microwave fee: USD 15.00 per stay
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 15.00 per day
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
Hotel Check In/Check Out Policy
Check In: 3:00 PM - Check Out: 12:00 PM
Hotel Check In Instructions
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
Hotel Miscellaneous
Number of Rooms: 276
Number of Floors: 15


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Murray Covens Contemporary – an Excellent Event Venue for Your Nonprofit Organization
Murray Covens Contemporary, a new fine art gallery, will be opening in the Design District in September. The gallery will be an excellent venue for events, with no rental fee charged to nonprofit organizations.
The gallery will be located in a 4,200 sq. ft. space at 154 Glass St., Suite 110, in Dallas, directly across the street from Dallas Contemporary, a museum.
Murray Covens Contemporary will exclusively feature high-end contemporary abstract oil and acrylic paintings, with a focus on vivid color. The gallery will show work by established international, national, and Texas artists, and emerging Texas artists.
Our goal for the gallery, in addition to promoting talented artists, is to become a foremost destination for both art collectors and enthusiasts, and to serve as an event venue for nonprofit organizations doing important work in our community.
The gallery will regularly present artist exhibitions and host events. It will open for business just after Labor Day, and the grand opening is the evening of September 14th.
Murray Covens Contemporary will be available for events beginning the week of September 23rd. The floor is being re-done, there's not yet art or furniture in the gallery, and not all of the details are in place, but since this is the time of year that many organizations are planning events for the fall, we are ready to accept inquiries about using the space for events.
The gallery will have an elegant, museum-like look and feel, has one large room of 2,760 sq. ft. of open gallery space, and has a kitchen and restroom. It can accommodate up to approximately 250 people, depending on the type of event. The ceiling is 14 ft. high.
There will be no rental fee for 501c3 nonprofit organizations. In addition to the other usual expenses you would incur for an event, there might be security and clean-up fees for the gallery.
Please email Murray Covens at firstname.lastname@example.com to inquire. The website for the gallery is not yet up.
Note: This gallery venture will not diminish my role in, or commitment to, North Texas Nonprofit Resources in any way. There will be a professional staff, including a Gallery Director, running the gallery.

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Develop A Business Model For Tourism In Ghana
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Ghana has been touted as the beacon of hope in Africa, this assertion sterns from the rich natural resources we have been blessed with as a country. Together with over 70 indigenous Ghanaians and others nationalities, we embarked on a 7 day tourism tour of nine (9) regions in Ghana; organized by Citi Fm (a leading local radio station). The tour took us through nine regions via road which for a lot of us was the most we had travelled by road in our lifetime.
As amazing as the experience was, we were plagued with gaping issues with primary infrastructure and logistical problems; which saw most of us wondering why as a country we are unable to improve what we have and to use it as an economic empowerment tool for the locals and the nation as a whole. These includes but not limited to
- Accessible routes to and from tourist sites
- Availability of basic necessities such as washrooms for tourist to use,
- Availability of government trained tourism officials to collate data and interact with tourist
- Availability of locally made artefacts for tourist to purchase (at a particular site we found Chinese made hats on sale at the tourist sites)
- Maintenance of tourist sites
- Training and orientation of locals on how to capitalize on tourist for economic gains etc
This petition is to ask all stakeholders in the tourism industry to come out with a clear cut strategy aimed at putting the tourism industry at the forefront for local development and economic empowerment. We believe that the indigenes in areas with tourist sites should not, and must not wallow in poverty. We as a country need to come up with a business model localized to the indigenes and implemented by them with support from government. These should include measurable targets which will be used to assess the growth of the industry and its benefits on the people.
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'Your parents just told you, he doesn't exist
by highand45
Just because we are looking forward BIG TIME to Dick Maas, known from his movie De Lift, his newest horror movie named 'Sint'. With the catchy oneliner 'Hij Komt Hij Komt'. Read the interview for Nu.nl (dutch). Shit, thing is going to be freaky! Keep your kids away from this….coming in november 2010.
And serious, check this beautiful flyer with the slogan "Your parents just told you, he doesn't exist" hahahaha, love it!


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Top 3: A lighter look at our favorites in Temecula Valley Wine Country
Last updated 2/8/2019 at 10:27am
Temecula Valley Wine Country is a big, spread out area with a variety of winery properties with different tastes, themes and approaches. So, Valley News could present to anyone visiting the area with a list of the finest this and the best that – but that's just not going to be our style this week.
Nope. This week will present the Top 3 picks in categories Valley News thinks are important to our readers who actually live in the valley.
Some of these selections may be silly and inconsequential when someone is deciding where to sip wine, and that's OK.
Some of these picks, readers may dis...
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New: Carte Blanche Puts Hamburg On the Map
Carte Blanche's menu will be based on seasonally appropriate, locally sourced meat and produce with an emphasis on made in house.Read More
Carte Blanche's menu will be based on seasonally appropriate, locally sourced meat and produce with an emphasis on made in house.Read More
New items mix with old and offer a great venue for all occasions.Read More
Owners of what was once David's closed down for a few months to redecorate and roll out the new concept.Read More
An instant success, satisfying the serious burger itch locals had endured for decades.Read More
Chef Brad Rowell is about to put Hamburg on the map with The Grange Community Kitchen.Read More
Say hello to the best non-traditional wings we've ever had.Read More
Butera's in Hamburg is now open serving craft beer and craft pizza. Butera's is sporting a brand-spankin' new brick oven and they are also boasting plenty of new menu items.Read More
As if it were possible to make East Aurora any more lovable, here comes 42 North Brewing Company.Read More
It's time to see for yourself if the many, many legends of the spooky South Towns are true – and have fun while you're at it.Read More
Here's a run-down of some of the best haunted activities that will make your hair stand on end!Read More
Buffalo's OTHER beloved food tradition and where to get the best of the best south of the city.Read More
Sadly, Buffalo Business First has confirmed rumors that Eckl's restaurant in Orchard Park plans to close the doors at the end of the month (Sept. 26).Read More
Your guide to experiencing the Erie County Fair without spending your life savings.Read More
Looking for a solid choice with a casual atmosphere, some bar crowd, a good view and good food then Lucia's is a sound choice.Read More
Andrew Murtha is a self-proclaimed burger fanatic and he thinks Hamburg, "Birthplace of the Burger" deserves a great burger joint.Read More
Remember when thirty cent wings was a thing before the rest of the world was enlightened? So do we.Read More
The Press Box in Lackawanna has hidden gem of the Southtowns written all over it.Read More
You can't beat the atmosphere here on a fine summer evening with a beautiful sunset full view.Read More
A monthly roundup of news related to eating and drinking in Western New York. We take it all very seriously.Read More
Dog parks are great. Lucky for us there's lots of options in WNY when it comes to places you and your pooch can hang.Read More
Here's a list of the best easy and advanced hikes, hour long walks, & hiking day trips around WNY's waterfalls, gorges, forests, and valleys.Read More
Ever get that urge to explore nature and recharge your batteries? Here are our top 6 favorite WNY nature getaways.Read More
Spring is upon us and with it comes a whole slew of worthy events to look forward to.Read More
This was the third installment of the Nittany Epicurean's Vine & Dine dinner series, where Michael Chelus aims to bring local wine (and now beer) makers and local restaurants and chefs together.Read More
Let's all hope and pray that the sub-zero temps of February 2015 are behind us, and winter weekends from here on out will be spent outside, frolicking in the snow, enjoying winter activities that we all know and love, but will not risk our fingers to frostbite.Read More
The next Local Restaurant Week thankfully comes at a time when we're desperate for a pick-me-up. Here's what we're into right now…Read More
When you think about the music that helped to build the culture of this city, you cannot ignore, should not ignore, the sweet sounds of Jazz music. Here's a current list of great places to listen to Jazz in WNY.Read More
Whatever the artsy craft you're interested in learning more about, somewhere in Western New York there's a class waiting for you and your impressionable mind.Read More
There are three new brunches in town, and they're quickly making a name for themselves as some of the best around.Read More
Public House of Buffalo has announced they will be taking over the recently closed Root Five in Hamburg.Read More
The Mess Hall, "in the shadow of Our Lady of Victory Basilica," is a collaborative effort by Joe Jerge of Mulbery Italian Ristorante, John Glavey of Brick Oven Bistro and Charles Goodspeed.Read More
Check out these local brewery tours for a behind the scenes look at beer-making and the chance to nerd-out on all-things-beer.Read More
Winter date ideas to yank you and your loved one out of that cold weather slump!Read More
Now that the weather is a little less than balmy, we figured you could use some extra motivation to step out.Read More
We've been "reviewing" (for lack of a better term) restaurants/food trucks/cafes/bars/breweries for about a year and a half now and we're loving every minute.Read More
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All things in the world of libations will be explored from the basics of food pairings, flavor profiles, cocktails, do's and don'ts and so much more.
Our learnings will take us to the United Kingdom to explore Scotch, Irish Whiskey and London Dry Gin. From there we may head over to Germany and Belgium to learn about monks making beer and the variety of truly European beers. Our educational journey may see us traipse through France and Italy to learn more about Champagne and the wines stomped out in these regions.
We could find ourselves in South Africa, where the first bottle of wine was produced in 1659. By the way, hops are even being grown there. Speaking of hops, we could head even further south to find out why New Zealand hops are da bomb. They also make wine down under.
South America holds many wine soaked secrets, ready to be told. We will tumble a little further north to the lands of sweet rums and spicy tequilas (which pair very nicely with cheese).
North America holds many libation lessons from Bourbon, Canadian whisky, single malt whisky, craft beer, small batch spirits and wine, oh, so much wine.
I will be learning right beside you and it is going to be one heck of a journey.


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The Co-op Podcast #82: Will Microsoft's New Direction Make Xbox One The Leading Console?
On this week's episode of The Co-op podcast we spoke a lot about the recent news regarding Microsoft. Their sales have doubled since E3 and the price drop of the Xbox One; and unfortunately they've also shut down their entertainment division aimed at delivering original TV content to the console. Around 18000 people lost their jobs which is unfortunate, but it shows Microsoft is changing focus. Does this mean that Microsoft's new approach is all about games? Does this also mean that they'll win the majority of the gamers moving forward? Let us know what you think after listening to our discussions.
Tekken 7 was announced at EVO over the weekend, but what do we want from a new Tekken game? We share our thoughts as fans of the Tekken series. Also we discuss the new controversy over popular Youtube content creators being paid by publishers to cover their games. Is this unethical? We share our thoughts.
We're currently giving away Destiny beta codes, but unfortunately we can confirm that the code given away on this show has already been used by a listener. However, we will be giving out more codes at random to subscribers on our mailing list, so be sure to sign up if you haven't already using the form on the right. We'll also host frequent giveaways for our subscribers, from full games, to beta keys, to discount codes.
If you're a Hip Hop lover then check out our dedicated Hip Hop podcast Knights of the Turntable here.


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Okay, I know it has been awhile and I apologize. Many of you have contacted me about what, if anything, is happening in the way of new programs.
Well, I do have news for you. USDF received an host application from a GMO in Region 3, specifically Georgia. Currently, I am working with the GMO and potential organizer to get some details ironed out but I have hopes to share the news soon.
It would, if approved, start soon (March). If you are interested in the Region 3 program keep your eye out on this blog, the USDF calendar (specifically Region 3) and contact me for updates.
If this rumbling of a program still doesn't help you out contact me and I'll share some ideas to get a program started. You can also check out a previous post on this blog...think it was called "All dressed up and no where to go?"
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Civil Project Engineer
We are currently accepting resumes for this position.
Land Development/Site Planning Civil Project Engineer
Wight & Company is a leading Architectural, Engineering and Construction firm that has been rated by the Chicago Tribune as one of Chicago's Top Workplaces! Our mission is to implement projects that holistically embrace sustainable design principles. We are currently looking for Civil Engineers to work in our Land Development group on site development projects.
- Preparation of design drawings and specifications under the direction of Professional Engineer
- Perform design calculations for utility designs, stormwater management, earthwork, grading, erosion control, etc., under the direction of a Professional Engineer
- Permitting / regulatory reviews
- Quantity and cost estimates
- Technical report writing
- Work closely with other engineers, architects and project team members to create integrated sustainable solutions
- 0 to 3 years of experience in Site/Land Development
- Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering
- Registration as an Engineer in Training (E.I.T.) or Engineer Intern (EI) or ability to obtain within 6 months
- Knowledge or desire to learn grading, stormwater management, hydrology, hydraulics, and utility design
- Knowledge or experience with Civil 3D and other technical programs a plus
- Permitting experience in NE Illinois a plus


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Biodiversity Strategy Funding - Marine Biosecurity
Thursday 8 June 2000
The Government will spend an extra $9.8 million on developing information and management systems to enhance New Zealand's marine biosecurity. This funding is part of a comprehensive five-year package involving conservation, environment, fisheries and biosecurity, confirmed in this year's Budget to support the Government's Biodiversity Strategy. It links to the Strategy's goal to halt the decline in New Zealand's biodiversity and will also support the Government's strategic goal of protecting and enhancing the environment.
The project
The project aims to protect the
marine environment from invasive marine species such as the
Northern Pacific seastar, which could cause serious impacts
to our marine biodiversity and marine environment generally.
Throughout the next five years this project will improve our knowledge of potentially invasive species and of our marine biodiversity in areas most at risk from invasion, as well as supporting the development of our compliance, surveillance and response capabilities.
Under threat
This project will produce some practical tools to protect our marine environment from invasions from exotic organisms like the Asian date mussel and Undaria seaweed that threaten estuaries and other coastal areas. Often these invaders are spread by vessels transporting ballast water, hull encrustations and the movement of marine farming equipment. Practical tools must be developed so New Zealand can protect its marine biodiversity.
project will be supported by research in the following
• Baseline surveys of the biodiversity of New Zealand's nine busiest ports
• The development of alternative management tools for threats to biosecurity from known sources
• The development of a risk profile of species that may arrive in New Zealand
• The identification and establishment of surveillance techniques for marine pests
Community partnerships
project will provide opportunities for co-operation with
Australia and alignment of some of the two countries'
biosecurity management measures. It will also provide
opportunities for central and local government co-operation
within New Zealand.
Information collected as part of the project will also provide extremely valuable information to other sectors, e.g. providing information on the country's pest status to export markets.
Funding package details
All figures in $m, GST inclusive.
2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05
$1.676 $2.178 $1.998 $1.998 $1.998 $9.8
For further information, please refer to http://www.biodiv.govt.nz


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Teddy Bear Clothing Store: Money Learning Center
Teddy Bear Clothing Store: Money Learning Center
Invite children to bring their teddy bears to school. In this center, kids will use play money to buy clothes for their teddy bears. Skills include understanding money, sorting, measurement, and group cooperation.
Printable Details
- Grade: K - 2
- Subject: Money, Addition and Subtraction, Sorting, Early Math
- Number of Pages: 12
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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Oct. 30, 2012) - Goldstrike Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:GSR)(PINKSHEETS:APRAF)(FRANKFURT:KCG1) is pleased to report that it has reduced its Yukon holdings to its core properties and will focus on the newly discovered VG and Goldbank zones along the Yellow Giant Trend on its flagship Plateau South property. The planned upcoming 2013 exploration program will be primarily focused on diamond drilling. During late August, the Company made a new discovery of high grade gold mineralization outcropping over a strike of 11 kilometres within a newly identified district-scale deformation zone that was not previously known. The VG and Goldbank zones will be the first areas within that deformation zone to be drill tested, and they will be the Company's priority targets for 2013. Gold assay results from outcrop and subcrop samples taken in those zones were reported in the Company's news releases dated September 18 and October 10, 2012. The 25 kilometre Yellow Giant Trend that contains the VG, Goldbank and Goldstack zones remains open.
The Company also intends to carry out follow-up drilling in the Goldstack zone of the Yellow Giant Trend, where encouraging drill results were returned from scout drilling in 2012. Drilling has also been recommended on the Lucky Strike and Summit properties, which returned high grade gold assays from bedrock during the 2012 exploration season.
To permit it to focus on its five most prospective targets next year, in particular the VG and Goldbank zones, the Company has dropped its options on sixteen properties and has negotiated reduced payments and extensions of the time for making future option payments on four other properties it desires to maintain in its portfolio. Specifically, it has arranged to have the November 1, 2013 option payments and all subsequent option payments extended by two years in respect of the following projects, and has arranged for the following reductions in the 2012 option payments on those properties:
The referenced extensions effectively give the Company three more exploration seasons to more fully determine the merits of these projects before deciding whether further option payments are warranted. In addition to reducing the Company's 2012 option payments by $400,000 and 1,200,000 shares, all future exploration commitments have been eliminated. However, the optionors will have the right in each case to reduce the time permitted to make the next option payment to 30 days in the event that they receive a bona fide offer from a third party to option the subject property on terms which they are prepared to accept. The Company announced the renegotiated terms of the BRC option on October 10, 2012. The original option terms for all of these properties were described in the Company's March 24, 2011 news release.
The Company will make the option payment due on the Summit property on October 31, 2012. Subject to acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange, the Company will issue 192,308 shares in lieu of the $100,000 cash portion of that option payment. The original option terms for the Summit property were described in the Company's March 17, 2011 news release. Those terms have not been amended.
The Company has made its 2012 option payment on the Lucky Strike property and will make the 2012 option payment on the Plateau property, due on November 1, 2012. The option terms for those properties were described in the Company's November March 24, 2011 news release. Those terms have not been amended.
For more detailed new information and maps on the Plateau, Summit and Lucky Strike properties, see Goldstrike's website at GoldstrikeResources.com.
Terrence E. King, President and Chief Executive Officer
For further information, please visit Goldstrike's website at GoldstrikeResources.com, and follow the Company's tweets at Twitter.com/GoldstrikeRes.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Facebook down, Instagram not working and Whatsapp outage: Why are popular apps offline?
FACEBOOK is down, Instagram is not working, and Whatsapp is suffering a major outage. Here is what we know about tonight's mass outage.
Facebook is down and Instagram is not working
Today has seen a number of popular apps go offline, with many users still reporting problems accessing them.
Currently, Facebook is down, Instagram is not working in all its core features, and some users are unable to send messages on Whatsapp.
As you might already know, all three of these services are part of the same company and are facing some big issues tonight.
There are now thousands of reports confirming that there are problems with Facebook and Facebook Messenger, alongside core Instagram services.
Outage maps that show the worst affect areas reveal problems in the United States and Australia, as well as areas in Europe. And unfortunately, there have only been a few hints on what might be causing the issues tonight.
"We're aware of an issue impacting people's access to Instagram right now. We know this is frustrating, and our team is hard at work to resolve this ASAP," the latest message from the Instagram support team writes.
Facebook has provided more details on the problems facing that platform tonight, revealing that it is not in connection with a mass DDOS attack.
That would make sense as all three services have been affected; however, this has been ruled out by the company as the cause.
"We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible," the Facebook support message reads.
"We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack."
The BBC reports that this is one of the biggest outages to affect Facebook in recent years, explaining today: "Facebook is suffering the most severe outage in its history, with key services rendered unusable for users globally for much of Wednesday.
"The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude was in 2008, when the site had 150m users - compared to around 2.3bn monthly users today.
"Facebook's main product, its two messaging apps and image-sharing site Instagram were all affected.
"The cause of the interruption has not yet been made public."
Whatsapp doesn't have the same social media presence as the other two sites, meaning we haven't been provided with a direct update on the situation.
If the outage continues, we expect to hear more on from Facebook on what is causing tonight's problems.
Another Facebook product has also been confirmed as affected by today's outage, away from just the Facebook platform.
The Oculus VR support page has confirmed problems are affecting it tonight, adding: "We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing and using Oculus.
"We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience while we work through this."
Niantic, the makers of Pokemon Go, has also confirmed that users who usually sign in via Facebook will not be able to do so right now.
As mentioned by the status update, Trainers should still be able to use other means to access Pokemon Go tonight.
"If you currently log into Pokémon GO or Ingress using Facebook, this login method is currently unavailable. We're closely monitoring this issue and will provide an update.
"In the meantime, you can still access both games via alternate login methods. Thanks for your patience."


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Strasbourg, March 3, 2017
by Solenne Livolsi
Fred Stein was born on July 3rd 1909 in Dresden, Germany. The son of a rabbi, he studied law at the University of Leipzig, but was refused admission to the German bar because of his Jewish origins and political ideas (in Dresden at the age of sixteen, he had joined the socialist movement). In August 1933, at the age of 24, he married Liselotte Salzburg - 'Lilo' was the daughter of a Jewish doctor and one year younger than him. From this moment on, Lilo began to play a discrete role in her husband's photographic career. The couple bought themselves a joint wedding present, a compact 35 mm Leica camera that had been invented a few years earlier. Stein continued his anti-Nazi actions, but was under surveillance by the Gestapo in Dresden. The Steins escaped from Germany using the pretext of a supposed honeymoon in Paris.
Between 1933 and 1939, the young couple took an active part in Paris' cultural and artistic life, socialising with other photographers - Gerda Taro, Robert Capa and Philippe Halsman, etc. – as well as mingling in political circles with other refugees, left-wing activists, writers and intellectuals. Paris in the 30s was a place of artistic effervescence, stimulated in particular by magazines that took a special interest in photography and exhibitions, or victorious trade union actions. Stein, just like Willy Ronis, covered the strikes at the Renault factories.
In 1939, Fred Stein was interned in a camp for foreigners near Paris. He managed to escape and join his wife and their daughter Ruth. Not long after he was helped by Varian Fry to flee Europe. Fry was an American journalist who helped several thousand refugees to escape from the Nazis, including many unknown people, but also such famous figures as Marc Chagall, Hannah Arendt, Max Ernst and André Breton. The couple left France in secret on May 6th 1941 after having roamed across a country in complete upheaval. They managed to board a French steamer in Marseille, the SS Winnipeg, which was bound for New York. They took with them a suitcase full of negatives and some prints, however part of their archives, the most political in nature, was left in Holland for safety reasons. Unfortunately these documents were destroyed during an air raid.
Fred Stein opened Studio Stein in a small Parisian apartment, before moving to another with his dark room in the bathroom!
In 1936, the Front Populaire came to power. A new generation of photographers - Capa, David Seymour 'Chim' and Cartier-Bresson etc – captured scenes of political unrest and contributed to leaving for posterity many dynamic and politically motivated pictures taken for example during strikes
The life of the Steins was marked by flight and exile. The family's personal history continually criss-crossed the key events of History with a capital 'H': the migrations of Jews, political refugees and major mid-20th century artistic and political figures. When Fred Stein arrived in New York, he wandered around the city and walked along its broad avenues, his gaze taking in scenes of life in the streets, whilst marvelling at the modern architecture and its perspectives that provided him with a whole new visual playground. America worked its magic and this European photographer was amazed by what he saw. Stein chose his themes and worked in series – something he already used to do in Paris when covering a subject for the press. That his eye was caught up in the tumult of New York life is obvious in his images. Thanks to a wide variety of influences, he was able to experiment and establish a dialogue between documentary, social, poetic and artistic photography.
In 1941, Fred Stein briefly joined the Photo League. In 1943, Lilo Stein gave birth to the couple's son Peter. Aware of the many opportunities offered by New York, Stein tried to find a new photographic language to capture the
beating heart of the city, its rhythm and energy. Switching between a new Leica and a Rolleiflex for its square format, like Weegee or Saul Leiter he gave free rein to his inspiration with intuitive framing choices. From Little Italy to Harlem via Coney Island, Stein explored his adoptive town, ever on the lookout for a situation that was eloquent enough to make him want to press the
shutter button. As he searched for the moment when a gesture combined with the perfect timing and met all his criteria, Stein's images reached a peak in terms of narrative photography. He avoided elaborate settings and dramatic effects and preferred natural or muted lighting. Lilo started working as a teacher and helped her husband, in particular by retouching his images; however from the 50s, hip problems made it hard for Fred
Stein to get about. Following the advice of Philippe Halsman, he opened a studio and devoted himself entirely to portraits, which led him to meet and photograph more than 1,200 celebrities, artists, politicians, intellectuals and scientists including Albert Einstein, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georgia O'Keeffe and Salvador Dali. His portraits were published in newspapers and magazines, as they still are today. Fred Stein never joined a photographic agency or worked for a company, preferring to be his own boss and preserve his independence. He also wrote articles and gave lectures, always with the aim of defending an artistic take on photography. His writings reveal a cultivated man and a charismatic and affable intellectual.
Fred Stein died on September 27th 1967 in New York. As for Lilo, she died thirty years after her husband in 1997. The couple's son Peter Stein works, together with his wife Dawn Freer and their daughter Kate, toward developing awareness of his father's work.
The Photo League was a group of amateur and professional photographers in New York united by shared social and creative objectives. The group was active from 1936 to 1951 and some of America's best-known 20th century photographers were amongst its members.


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If there's one thing all four teams in this year's College Football Playoff share, it's that each needed a lucky break along the way to reach this point. Whether it was a favorable or missed call by a referee, pulling out a game late when all hope seemed lost, or simply needing other teams to lose, each semifinalist required divine intervention.

For Mark Dantonio and the Michigan State Spartans, the lucky break came on October 18 in Ann Arbor of all places against rival Michigan. It was there that the Spartans pulled off a most unlikely victory over the Wolverines thanks to a botched snap on the game's final play with Michigan State trailing 23-21.

The victory kept the Spartans undefeated at the time. Though they lost at Nebraska three weeks later and needed to upset defending national champ Ohio State on the road just before Thanksgiving plus beat an undefeated Iowa team in the Big Ten Championship, that miracle in Ann Arbor is the biggest reason Michigan State is in line to play for the national title.

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 Michigan State (12-1 straight up, 5-7-1 against the spread) faces a very tough task in the Cotton Bowl against No. 2 Alabama. The No. 3 Spartans are 10 point underdogs according to the latest glance at SBR's live college football odds, only the third time this year they've been getting points, the other two being the road tilts at Michigan and Ohio State. The total has been inching its way down since opening at 49, at Bookmaker presently listing 46.

While the win at Michigan was a lucky break for the Spartans, it turned into an unlucky break for the game's hero, defensive back Jalen Watts-Jackson who scored the winning touchdown and suffered a dislocated hip in the end zone celebration. Though he's out, Michigan State does have good news for safety R.J. Williamson who is probable following a bicep injury.

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 One more thing the Spartans and Crimson Tide is these two coaches know each other very well. Dantonio served on Nick Saban's staff when Saban was at Michigan State, and the first time the two met, it was the mentor who got the better of the student. Alabama crushed the Spartans in the 2011 Capital One Bowl, 49-7, running all over MSU and humiliating Dantonio's charges on both sides of the football.

Dantonio's first task is to have this year's version of the Spartans better prepared for the opening kickoff, and it will be up to his staff to make adjustments early just to stay inside the spread much less win outright.

Michigan State is a much better defensive team this time than when the schools met four years ago. Assuming the Spartans play their brand of defense, the second thing State needs to do is protect quarterback Connor Cook. The Crimson Tide lead the country with 49 sacks on top of holding opponents to 74 YPG on the ground, and that puts a ton of pressure on MSU's offensive line. It's a tall order, but indeed doable if the Spartans can generate some early sustained drives.

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I first heard of the Koch (sounds like Coke) Family in 1959. I had enrolled at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas on a football scholarship. Back then wealth and big farms seemed to impress the local Kansans I met I guess because big money and coming from it impressed most all young humans back then. Most of the men and women were corn fed and wanting to get away from the farm by striking it rich in the big city (like New York, or maybe even Kansas City or Topeka). Now too. The Koch Brothers from Wichita had to be the richest family in the whole state. And they were in the oil bidness! And that was even before Ethanol, too.
Those days were before Bill Gates and his Microsoft juggernaut would revolutionize the world. With the advent of Windows, computers became affordable and necessary for half the humans on the planet to own, conduct business, and for corporations to shed the massive hardware systems that used to be called mainframes. And for students and households to use to solve their problems of everyday living, finance, instant information at a touch. But wait. The innovations of Gates and his Microsoft team would come later. We are talking about before the easy and magic money of magnetic impulses recorded on hard drives came along. Before the computer and software explosion that was Apple and Microsoft and the trickier "Dot Coms", where, to make a million, you had to lie, cheat and steal with the best of them. If you were unable to inherit wealth, you had to, like any other respectable family or group of outlaws, cut corners and make deals if you were going to get rich. The Rothschild's with their banking schemes that covered the world like an octopus for over a century by the time, and the Rockefeller's and Pennsylvania Mellons with centuries of banking and oil, the Kennedys (who made a fortune bootlegging whiskey during Prohibition), or Prescott Bush and his "married-into-families" arrangements with the Harriman's, the Walkers, the Herbert's, and Brown's from St. Louis) became rich by directing the sale of steel to Hitler (thanks to Fritz Theissen, German citizen and the richest man in Europe in the 1930s). Until FDR slapped a cease and desist order on his ass. When our allies were being overrun by Hitler and his Blitzkrieg armies. FDR cared more about England and other persecuted peoples than he did for Prescott, but then who could say?
But comes now the Koch's and their new invention the Tea Party that even they don't what it is. They just wanted to spend a few billion dollars, create a new political party, and later they just might decide what it is or who the members actually could be. But if it is to have Sarah Palin as the keynote speaker at the Tea Party National Convention in Nashville, that, alone, says a jaw full. It'll be a tough sale but crikey, she's got a nice smile and legs, and that couldn't hoit. No one will notice that she meanders around questions before refusing to answer them.
I must take care to resist the temptation to be kind to the Tea Baggers no matter how silly-ass they sound and act. Why? Because, for openers, they are mentally challenged. Yet last November America decided that these notorious conservative factions to be its choice in government and leaders. Go figure, indeed.
Ironically, I had been just reading about the Koch family a week before the elections in order to get a little more perspective on that force that notoriously purchases votes and voters, dresses them as members of Astroturf groups and companies dedicated to such issues as saving grandma from an early death. Something Obama said that sent the Tea Baggers into a deep-spiraling blue funk.
Like a dog with a bone they wagged the misconception that Obama said old people could just go to an early grave instead of using up federal dollars to pay for their last illness on the earth. Did you ever? He wanted to kill grandma! So the Democrats were branded as a party who would let old people slip away to the unknown, cross the bar, without care or attention in their final days and months. Preposterous? Of course. But the Baggers latched onto the stretch to ingratiate Obama and never missed a step. Millions were injected into this anti-Obama diatribe in the various media. They swore that Obama had said that we needed to just let grandma die if she became too old and expensive for government to care for. So did Obama say that? No. Was he quoted wrong? Of course. Get this one. I still find it hard to believe, but it was caught on camera. Thousands of Tea Party demonstrators paraded about Washington, D.C. holding signs on sticks that said: "No Youth in Asia. It will kill your grandma." Do you love it? Can you believe anything so dumbass?
Did the Tea Baggers mean, "Euthanasia?" Oh well. Does it matter?
Tea Baggers seem to know less about politics, how our government works, and history than an almost run-over Texas road lizard that got his toes pinched by a speeding Honda motor bike when he tried to run across the road. The Tea Bagger's task is simple: to project an image of God-fearing, flag-waving, Americans who are focused on the right stuff. Like grass roots. God and country, boy howdy. But when questioned by newscasters with cameras they will tell you straight out that our founding fathers founded this country right as God-fearing Christians. Guess somebody should have told the Tea Baggers that Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and James Madison were all Deists. Duh. Like how many armadillos does it take to make a stew? Actually, they can't cook (wink*).
The Tea Party was the brain child of the Koch Brothers. It was a lame attempt to lure America away from its Republican roots. I have spoken to Democrat political consultants who have joined forces with Republicans who worked hard to excise the bloody Tea Party from the political stage. The biggest fear on both sides of the aisle is the terminal dumbass the Baggers exhibit about our system of government and what is right and wrong for Americans. The fear is that they could break a lot of glass, big time.
Tea Baggers contend that Democrats and Liberals and other freeloaders need to be excised from the human race, not to mention DC. The gist of the Tea Party doctrine was and is that Republicans were too weak to do the job. So ditto for them. Tea Baggers proclaimed themselves to be Turbo-Conservatives, Republicans on steroids, so to speak.
However stupid they seemed, the newly-formed Tea Party did manage to turn out some votes that unseated some of the GOP candidates running for office on national and local tickets throughout America. It's true. But the Tea Baggers knew little about the issues and about government. They had a pretty good run of it all, but then they faltered. The darling of the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, I suspect was a bit too much to swallow as a credible human being and viable candidate. Her problem? Simple. She made George W. Bush and his 92 IQ look like Albert Einstein.
Now as the Tea Party fades away (from my lips to God's ears, please) and the GOP retakes many of the seats in government that were taken out by a silliness and ineffectiveness unequaled in the annals of history maybe we can redeem ourselves and act like sane caretakers of the public trust. It became a slippery slope. Whoever dared to extol Sarah Palin as a serious candidate for high office became suspect. McCain for his giddy selection of Palin as his running mate in 2004 became a serious screw-up. And it scared America that the GOP would seriously run Palin for the Vice Presidency of the United States. She had ties to the Tea Party, sure, but the GOP had America scratching its head in remorse that John McCain would tag her for his running mate. America had to think that McCain was running on his rims. And coo-coo for Koko Puffs. That was the beginning of the end. Even the billions of dollars availed to the GOP/Tea Baggers was not enough to overcome the bad taste in the mouths of voters. Many Republicans and Tea Baggers alike were crushed that Obama won a second term. Many of the conservative voters thought that it was because Palin had been (stupidly) placed on the ticket. So when Romney ran against Obama the second time around for the White House Romney ears were boxed good.
Palin worked her charm just swell, but the short take on the Tea Party is that they were all hat and no cattle. Too much belt buckle and eat up with the terminal dumbass. They knew little to nothing about history or our needs as a collective people. Like in helping people with medicine, healthcare, college expenses, and the opportunity for all Americans to earn a good living at a good job. The Tea Party abhors those on welfare, and any other lower rungs of the food chain here in our great country. Backed by the father and son, Ron Paul and Rand Paul, they give notoriety to the Tea Party by shaming people on taking welfare and government help. Yet you won't see them blasting Raytheon for their pricey charge to us taxpayers for Tomahawk Missiles at 1.6 million dollars apiece. Or the feeding frenzies of the Military Industrial Complex war corporations like Halliburton during periods of war and lies where we need to cleanse and occupy countries that hate us (you know the drill that opens the money spigot). All off budget, of course, and well into the trillions of dollars to give them the old "shock and awe" treatment. And Blackwater a billion dollars in cash for their first year of service as mercenary soldiers of fortune for Bush. And you won't see Ron and Rand Paul writing legislation for limiting funding for illegal soldiers at 5 times the price of one of our legitimate uniformed soldiers to fight in Iraq. Makes you wonder how they can be silent in lieu of sins and waste of government at the top while slam-dunking the poor on welfare with their tasteless "cradle-to-grave" rhetoric. How can the Paul's shame the poor by telling them to suck it up and forget the notion that the government will provide for you from cradle to grave? How can they keep a straight face while shaming the poor when, at best, they overlook the real drain on our Treasury for starting wars based upon falsehoods our leaders told us about Iraq pointing WMDs at American cities?
Am I the only person who sees that exercise as an insult and an affront to human dignity? Must we assume that all Americans deserve little or no help from government? When government is always about serving its own interests first, their pensions, their supporters and cash cow contributors to help them get reelected? Is government about voting NO on raising the minimum wage on every roll call vote in the history of the House? Dr. NO (Ron Paul) should address that instead of ridiculing people who really DO NOT expect to be sponsored from cradle to grave, but who just want a fair shake, a fair chance to go to college and make something of themselves like father and son were fortunate enough to be able to do in both becoming doctors. And then Congressmen. Each of them should they quit their day jobs right now will be favored with the best healthcare system our tax dollars can buy, beginning right now, the day they leave office. With paid other benefits that will amount to big bucks for the rest of their lives in retirement wages. And health coverage fully paid for. And you don't need spend 30 years on Capitol Hill to get it. Just get out of Congress, leave DC and apply. And begin spending your allowance bucks for setting up such an unfair and lopsided system (voted for by them) in the first place. I guess you could say if both quit tomorrow, they would have government aide and support from Capitol to grave. Cradle to grave seems less ominous, less sinister since they are the very ones who vote themselves the perks they would never give to the common man here in America. That's the bigger shame. Hey, isn't government supposed to exist for the people? Or has it become a cash cow for personal gain by the people who control the purse and can legally vote themselves oceans of money?
Starting a new movement, a party to contend with, and a third party they could mold into something of their own personal liking lost its luster. Perhaps no one will ever know what the Koch's intended, but it was not grass roots people in a grass roots America, you can rest assured. The Koch Brothers bought and paid for hotel rooms, bus and airplane fares to many cities where demonstrations against all political parties would occur. They demonstrated in Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and attended the Tea Party National Convention in Nashville to see the keynote speaker, Sarah Palin, deliver her keynote address. And yes, their $250 a plate dinners and admission tickets of $250.00 were bought and paid for too (some grass roots demonstration, what?) by guess who? The Tea Party projected a real America with none of the bureaucratic trappings where everyone worked for the common good, did not take from the government in trivial entitlement programs like education, welfare, Social Security, Medicare and food stamps. Down the road, Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid would become easier targets to destroy if the people, the masses bought into the Tea Party and its messages and hidden agenda. Did the funding behind its birth truly intend for things to evolve this way? Was this a part of the New World Order that Poppy Bush prophesied? In any case, our people programs supported by government were to come into harm's way of the Neocon Knife while the Tea Party, and of course the Koch's, and Sean Hannity, Limbaugh, and O'Reilly kept the pressure on to cut social programs that really hurt people and condemn their kids to an education always out of reach.
The Neocons and other forms of Tea Party madness prevailed in last November's election. And already the Tea Party has whipped out their scalpels and long knives to cut and hack away at Social Security benefits. http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-on-day-onel-new-congress-launches-attack-on-social-security-20150106-column.html


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Rekindling his fight with federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says he's not Prime Minister Stephen Harper's "messenger."
"Nonsense," Wall told CBC News Wednesday. "I'm hired to be a messenger for Saskatchewan, for our economy, for our interests."
It's Wall latest response to Mulcair's comments about western Canada, resource exports and the impact on eastern Canada's manufacturing base.
Earlier this month, Wall hit the roof after Mulcair argued that a reliance on resource exports is contributing to a high Canadian dollar, which in turn is causing a loss of manufacturing jobs.
Mulcair said it's a classic example of the "Dutch disease" — a term used to describe the hollowing out of manufacturing jobs in the Netherlands after oil was discovered in the early 1960s.
Saskatchewan has enjoyed a boom in the production of oil, potash and other minerals and Wall has argued that all of Canada benefits.
In recent days, Wall has repeatedly spoken out against Mulcair, while his Saskatchewan Party has demanded that provincial NDP MLAs condemn their federal leader.
The latest development was an article in the National Post newspaper which quoted Mulcair dismissing criticisms by western premiers, saying they're Harper's "messengers."
Wall, a devoted Twitter user, fired back early Wednesday.
"I may have tweeted out a few things on that line this morning," Wall said.
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In fact, new data released by the Media, Diversity & Social Change Initiative (MDSCI) at USC Annenberg reveals an ugly trend: the percentage of screentime for women has flatlined.
It's doubtful that this poor representation of women actually reflects what the moviegoing public wants, but with counting and data at the core of GenderAvenger's mission, we wanted to find quantitative evidence.
Enter Lynn Reed, a political operative turned screenwriter and film producer, who shared a unique success story that shows the demand for strong female protagonists and feminist narratives. Reed introduced us to the women behind Every Cloud Productions who recently crowdfunded a feature film based on the popular Australian series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. After years of seeking funding for a feature with little success, the producers went straight to their fans. The enthusiasm was record-shattering: they tripled the fundraising goal, making the upcoming feature the most crowdfunded film in Australian history 7 times over.
Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger, producers of the upcoming Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears see the campaign's success as signalling an unmet demand.
While it's difficult to argue there's a negative bias towards funding feminist narratives, the crowdfunding campaign for Miss Fisher definitely helps us prove that there's a craving for heroic, female lead stories that promote absolute gender equality. As Wonder Woman demonstrates, women of all ages are keen to enjoy and support these films.
"When we look at the Annenberg numbers, we see the results of a system's worth of gatekeepers, who, for a variety of reasons, are not supporting women's stories," Reed tells us. "On the flip side, we can look at Miss Fisher and see the demand that these gatekeepers are either overlooking or ignoring."
Reed points out that while women leads dominate the screen far less than men, those numbers get even worse when we look at women actors over 45 years of age. Of the 100 top grossing films in 2016, only 8 women leads or co-leads were in this age group. And if you are a woman actor in the action/adventure genre, good luck getting a speaking role.
Actress Essie Davis defies these trends. In her late 40s, she has become a beloved feminist action hero in her role as Phryne Fisher, a detective in late 1920s Melbourne, Australia. Miss Fisher is unapologetic in her support of women's rights and LGBT rights, and she stands up for those treated unfairly by the system.
Reed, who initially came to the series as a fan and later signed on as a supporter of the film, highlights the qualities of Phryne Fisher that are rarely seen in typical women's lead roles.
It's rare to have an action hero who is in her late 40s and it's one of the things that the fans of the show are very drawn to. Our American prestige dramas tend to have female anti-heroes — someone who may be competent in her professional life but a mess in her personal life and constantly compromising her ideals in the name of realism. Phryne doesn't compromise and she fights for what she believes in.
Reed is not alone — almost 50% of the funds came from US contributors.
Reflecting on her past work in politics and women's advocacy, Reed draws a connection to her work in entertainment: "So many of the issues that divide us in politics are so deeply rooted in culture, including how people feel about the role of women in society. There is more we need to do in cultural terms to further the progress we'd like to make on the political front."
The success of Miss Fisher is evidence that it's time to improve gender equality in film by bringing more powerful roles for women to the big screen. Producers Cox and Eagger realize the power online community can contribute to these efforts.
This wider community of creative women surrounding our Miss Fisher aspirations, certainly lends us more ballast so we can all challenge the status quo together. It's been fantastic to feel the power and potential of that global connection.
Reed advises that another important part of supporting change is for audiences to seek out more films written, produced, and directed by women. We couldn't agree more.


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My Top 10 Lessons in Politics made my decision easier to leave politics (see below). But I will miss being Mayor and serving the community for 5 1/2 years and am forever grateful for the friendships that have developed. Burr Ridge is truly a "very special place stamped by a Cross formed by County Line Road and I-55, and it was also a blessing to help get the bridge built...at the center of the Cross.
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"This particular illustration was for a story called "More than Money Can Buy," — an article about knowing when money isn't the only way to define wealth (a theme I've been personally interested in for a while now). The idea I came up with was two snails: one has a shell much to large for him to carry comfortably (too much wealth), and the other has a small shell (less wealth by choice) and he's even been liberated of that via hitchhiking on a passing butterfly."
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What is ServiceNow Dictionary Override? When and how do you use a dictionary override?
These questions will be answered in this article and you will be better informed on the dictionary override functionality.
Note that some developers never use dictionary overrides much, as they primarily work in the Service Catalog. Others work with ServiceNow PPM or GRC, which use dictionary overrides more frequently. However if you don't know what a dictionary override is, it is worth the read.
What is ServiceNow Dictionary Override?
The ServiceNow wiki has some great documentation on Dictionary Overrides:
ServiceNow Wiki - Dictionary Override
Dictionary Overrides provide the ability to override several aspects of a field in extended tables:
Default Values
For example, if a field is defined on the Task [task] table, a dictionary override can change its default value on the Incident [incident] table without affecting how it appears on Task [task] or on Change [change].
Dictionary Overrides are defined on a related list which appears on the form for fields whose table is extended.
When and How is ServiceNow Dictionary used?
What the ServiceNow Wiki on dictionary doesn't give is Examples. Let's review some examples to better explain the Dictionary override:
Example 1: Override Reference Qualifer
In an OOB ServiceNow instance, the task.assigned_to field has a reference qualifier of roles=itil. What this means is that when you go to pick an assigned to on a Incident, Change, Problem, etc, it will only show users that have the itil role.
However, for Problems, you only want to assign problems to a new role you made called problem_coordinator.
In this situation, if you just adjust the task.assigned_to reference qualifier, you will adjust it for all the related tables, so you must use a reference qualifier instead.
Example 2: Override Default value
The dictionary entry for task.contact_type is phone. However on Change Management, you have decided you want to use the Contact Type field, but you don't want it to default to phone.
In that case, you would want to create a dictionary override, because you don't want it to affect incident management.
Example 3: Override Display value
Display values are used in Reference fields and other places in ServiceNow to quickly "describe a record" with a field instead of the sys_id it stores.
The task table uses task.number as the display value. However on a change request if you want to use Short Description as the display value you can use a dictionary override for that.


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Why This California State Senator Won't Give Hugs Anymore
"I understand that I cannot control how a hug is received, and that not everyone has the ability to speak up about unwelcome behavior. It is my responsibility to be mindful of this."
So wrote California state senator Bob "Huggy Bear" Hertzberg after being formally reprimanded by the Senate Rules Committee for his frequent hugs.
Hertzberg, known for greeting both men and women with a hug, was subject to a legislative investigation for his behavior. While it found that he made some people feel uncomfortable, the hugs were not found to be sexual in nature.
"Many of the witnesses spoke in support of Hertzberg and described his hugs in positive terms such as friendly, warm, and welcoming," noted the report. The Rules Committee advised him that he was on notice that his behavior was "unwelcome," but he will not otherwise face any discipline.
In response, Hertzberg explained that his hugs were intended as "a gesture of warmth and kindness and a reflection of [his] exuberance," but apologized for the behavior.
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One of the earnest ideas behind The Permit Room is to introduce people to the sheer variety of traditional South Indian cuisine, but with a modern-day take on it. Essentially it's recipes from your ajji's (Kannada for grandma) kitchen, but served in a rather modern, and also cocktail-friendly form. Your ajji may or may not approve.
Thindi Tales is an attempt to take you one step deeper, the equivalent of getting you to eat meals with your fingers, and hopefully help you appreciate south-indian cuisine in all its gastronomic glory.
This time, we have some heart soothings, a dish with a rather sweet story—the pretty-in-pink Jil Jil Jigarthanda.
The Dessert
You know this one is a classic just by the name—Jil Jil Jigarthanda, deconstructed and all. And it traces its roots to the very hot, the very historical, Madurai.
The beauty of the Jil Jil Jigarthanda (nope, you can't say it without the double 'jil jil') lies in its simplicity and versatility—you can find it being sold on the streets, where indeed its humble beginnings lie, or find it in a most-happening-modern-take-on-South-Indian-food-pub as well. (Some places come to mind.)
The main ingredient which cuts it apart from the Falooda or other similar coolers is Badam Pisin/Badam Gum (dried sap from the badam tree). The classic preparation of the drink involves milk, kadal paasi (or China Grass for ease of pronunciation) and nannari (sarsaparilla root extract) sherbet. And based on who's selling, these ingredients are sometimes substituted for a signature taste—sugar syrup in place of nannari sherbet, or with a scoop of ice cream. Is that fancy-pants or what?!
The drink also has a kinky side-story, in that it used to be a popular option as the 'wedding night drink'. If you've seen enough old school Bollywood movies, then you can't have missed the blushing-bride-with-ghoonghat-too-low-to-see-anything-bringing-warm-milk-to-creepy-looking-husband-in-shiny-white-pyjamas trope. Ah, classics!
The reason for this popularity being that jigarthanda contains almonds, which are aphrodisiacs, and well, milk, which is a natural sedative. So, almond to get you in the mood and milk to help you snooze. Hot, and cool, all at the same time! Well done, ancestors!
A Little History
Believed to have been brought into the country by the Mughals, a popular interpretation of the meaning of the name is ' something that cools the heart', a literal translation from Hindi.
Makes sense, because if the Mughals were spending time in Madurai, they would definitely need something to cool their hearts, among other things. Most likely though, that the Muslims in Madurai, who were originally from Hyderabad, just brought the recipe along with them.
And delighted the hearts of Madurai-ites…umm…Madurites…erm…Madurians…well, people living in Madurai ever since.
There's another theory that talks about the name evolving to or from jigar 'danda', meaning stick or mace, which may or may not have been connected to Hanuman or Bheema from the Indian epics, Ramayan and Mahabharata respectively. Carts selling the drink sometimes carry a cool illustration of Bheema on the side, lending some credibility to this theory.
There is evidence to support the claim that the glorious drink was brought to our country by the Mughals though—in the Ain-i-Akbari, which is the administrative record of Akbar's reign (and also a chapter in every CBSE History text), there is mention of a similar drink made of pisin.
We like the literal and 'cool' interpretation, involving cooling the heart, a little better. So, let's run with that ok?
At the Permit Room
In its most classic form, the Jigarthanda contains kadal paasi (make an effort to learn the authentic name, damn it!), milk, some nannari sherbet, and maybe a dash of vanilla essence even. The really cool boys sometimes add some colour also.
Remember that Badam Pisin we mentioned?
"At the Permit Room, we rehydrate it into a jelly like texture and use it as the base layer for the Jil Jil. And then proceed to serve you with the deconstructed version which contains Dulce de leche (slow reduction of sweetened milk that is caramelized), Basil seeds that have been hydrated in water, toasted Pistachio flakes, a quenelle of ice cream, either Vanilla or Pista, which is then topped off with some fried, sweetened rice noodles as a garnish", our Chef says.
And with this, we serve a side of double reduced milk in a choice of two flavours—Rose or Nannari.
Our version also has another exciting 'shoo shaa' factor to it, which we would explain, but where's the fun in that?
At the Permit Room, it's an homage in the form of a dessert, to this endearing drink that started out in the sweltering streets of Madurai and made its way all the way here.
Fun Fact
'Jigarthanda' is fast becoming the substitute slang for the appalling 'chill pill', the last time we checked.
Ok. That's a lie. But we're trying really hard. I mean, "Jigar thanda, macchi" over "Take a chill pill, bro". Come on!
Help us, won't you? Some very nascent research tells us that 1200 tweets between 12am-6am should do the trick, to get it trending on Twitter and all. So if you're going to commit, let us know.
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Good news, college hoops fans: The NCAA March Madness iPhone app will support live streaming over both 3G and wi-fi this year.
The app will cost $9.99, and there will be a free "lite" version, which includes on-demand highlights but no live streaming. Last year, it was wi-fi only, but cost $4.99, or 50% less.
CBS teamed up with long-time streaming partner Major League Baseball Advanced Media to make the app. MLBAM just put out an awesome new app of its own.
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CBS SPORTS MOBILE ANNOUNCES NCAA® MARCH MADNESS® PRODUCTS FOR 2010 Free & premium NCAA March Madness on Demand apps available for iPhone and iPod Touch, delivering live video, radio, & highlights over 3G and Wi-Fi CBS Channel on FLO TV provides live video of the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship, from the First Round through the Final Four® LOS ANGELES, CA - Mar. 8, 2010 - CBS Sports Mobile, in partnership with CBSSports.com, CBS Sports and the NCAA, today announced new mobile products for the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. Following up on last year's extremely popular NCAA March Madness on Demand (MMOD) app, CBS is distributing both the premium, live-video app as well as a free "lite" version. The NCAA March Madness on Demand (MMOD) premium application offers live streaming video and video highlights of the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. Coverage begins with the NCAA Basketball Championship Selection Show on March 14 and continues with every game from the first round of the tournament through the semifinals and championship of the Men's Final Four. New this year, in collaboration with AT&T, the live video will be delivered over 3G, EDGE and Wi-Fi connections. Premium app users can also receive score alerts and listen to live game radio broadcasts from Westwood One throughout the entire tournament, starting with the Opening Round game on March 16. In addition to the premium app, CBS Sports Mobile has also produced a free, "lite" version that is the perfect companion for any March Madness fan. The lite app provides on-demand video highlights from every game, live scores, and comprehensive news coverage of both the 2010 conference tournaments and NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. Both the free and premium NCAA MMOD apps feature an interactive tournament bracket that updates with real-time scores, plus news headlines and the ability to log into Facebook and Twitter and connect with your friends. Fans can follow the Road to the Final Four®, with exclusive CBSSports.com Edge Matchup game previews, including team breakdowns and matchup comparisons. Users can also make their CBSSports.com bracket selections directly from the app, and track their progress throughout the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. Developed by CBS Sports Mobile with partner MLB Advanced Media, both the NCAA March Madness on Demand applications are now available from Apple's App Store on iPhone and iPod touch at www.itunes.com/appstore/ or can be downloaded by clicking here:· Premium NCAA MMOD ($9.99)· NCAA MMOD lite (FREE) CBS Mobile is also offering live video of the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship, through the CBS Mobile Channel on FLO TV. AT&T subscribers of the FLO TV service can watch live video of 63 games from the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship, from the first round of the tournament through the semifinals and championship of the Men's Final Four. The FLO TV™ service is currently available through AT&T, the Exclusive Wireless Partner of the NCAA and other wireless providers to more than 200 million consumers across more than 100 markets. The FLO TV service can be viewed on several handsets from LG, the Official Mobile Device of the NCAA and other manufacturers. For more information, please visit http://www.flotv.com/. "The CBS Sports Mobile 2010 March Madness products appeal to both casual and diehard fans, keeping them connected to the action via live video and highlights, news, scores, and brackets," said Rob Gelick, Sr. Vice President and GM, CBS Mobile. "Last year CBS Sports Mobile witnessed a huge appetite for mobile video when we were the first to stream live sports events over the iPhone, and this year, by including Wi-Fi and 3G, we expect that appetite, and audience, to grow even more." "The popularity of March Madness on Demand is matched only by the collective effort to make the platform even better," said Greg Shaheen, NCAA senior vice president for basketball and business strategies. "Working with CBS to introduce new mobile products keeps NCAA Basketball fans on the cutting edge of technology -- wherever they are. Providing fans with new mobile applications packed with high quality features makes it easy to stay connected and catch action day and night all the way through the Final Four." NCAA March Madness on Demand (MMOD) is the Emmy award-winning video player that provides live streaming video and audio of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. NCAA March Madness on Demand's standard video player will launch on March 10 with historical highlights from past NCAA tournaments and be available at NCAA.com (mmod.ncaa.com) as well as via MMOD links on CBSSports.com.


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Volume 18, Issue 1 (2009) Microelectronic Engineering Conference 2009
Collecting and Storing Wireless Power from a RF Source
Justin D. Blair
Development of a Planarization Process for the Fabrication of III-V on Silicon Esaki diodes
Michael J. Barth
Mask-Less Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell (May 2009)
C K. Chan and R E. Pearson
A Walking Silicon Robot
David W. Grund Jr and Lynn F. Fuller
A Simulator for EUV Lithography Mirrors
Thiago S. Jota
A New 6" Metal Gate PMOS Process
Jessica Marks
Low Temperature Junction Formation in Silicon
Andrew McCable
Process Design & Development of Contact Cut Double Patterning
William A. Namestnik
Nickel Nanodots for Memory Devices
Anthony J. Pacifico
Design & Fabrication of an 8 Bit ADC
Garret Phillips
Surface Imaging Through Silylation
Chelsea R. Plourde
Front contact Grid Design for Terrestrial III-V Concentrator Solar Cells
Stephen J. Polly, Michael Jackson, and Seth Hubbard
Etching for Dual Damascene Fabrication
Samuel Rodens
4-Bit Microprocessor: Design, Simulation, Fabrication, and Testing
A J. Ryan, G O. Phillips, R E. Pearson, and L F. Fuller
The Role of Fluorine in Growth Rate Enhancement and Charge Supperssion on a Low Temperature Thermally SiO2 Interface Layer
Brian R. Silkey
Metastable States and Leakage in PN Junction Diodes
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At his first major public appearance since turning down a job as head of New York City schools, Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho got the royal treatment — literally.
"So Alberto, Mister Superintendent, Your Highness," joked moderator Steve Clemons, Washington Editor at Large for The Atlantic. "I know the top three or four reasons why I would choose Miami over New York, but what were yours?"
Clemons' reference to last week's dramatic school board meeting in which children and adults begged Carvalho not to leave Miami-Dade was met with laughter from the audience at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium. But it also elicited a new explanation from the superintendent, and one that was decidedly less kingly than the reasons he gave for his decision last week.
"I am a true believer that if you want me to land the championship ring, if you want to win the Super Bowl, but I have a field that I'm not going to be able to necessarily pick my quarterback … that the plays will be called, co-consulted, then that may be a deal breaker for me," Carvalho said.
The superintendent also repeated his earlier explanations that he was dedicated to Miami-Dade and that he had been moved by the response from local teachers, parents and students to his appointment as New York City schools chancellor. The football metaphor, however, appears to confirm a Politico report that Mayor Bill de Blasio wasn't going to let Carvalho pick his own chief of staff or human resources director and that retiring Chancellor Carmen Fariña would have had a continuing influence on the school district. Read more here.