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The next time you walk into an Apple store, you'll be able to buy more than just a smartphone. You'll be able to buy a smart light bulb - at least, smarter than whatever's currently lighting up your home or place of business.
Don't expect Apple fans to camp out to get the bulbs, though. They're actually made by electronic giant Philips, and they're being sold -exclusively - at Apple stores.
The bulb is called Hue, and Philips calls it the world's first LED light system that works with the web. That is, you download an app (not just exclusively iOS, by the way .. these work with Android devices, too), and then you control the bulb from your mobile phone.
If this sounds something like the Nest Thermostat, it kind of reminds us of that, too. Taking Apple-like design principles, marrying them to a mobile device, and shaking up the market. To be fair, Hue is not the only light bulb trying to be disruptive - Silicon Valley is also home to SWITCH, which, like, Hue, is more expensive, longer lasting, and more environmentally clean than the typical bulb.
With your phone, you can control the brightness, color, and timing of your light bulb. The bulbs come in a set of three for about $200. Too much of a revolution too soon? We'll see. As someone who actually went around changing the bulbs in his house to the squiggly kind a little more than a year ago, I'm ready to see what's next.
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I'm trying to take a day off but my phone was buzzing with a handful of texts on the Dolphins possibly making some moves in the coming hours or days. The name most prominently mentioned in the "rumors" is Ronnie Brown.
Not a surprise. But I assure you, nothing is happening right now.
Funny how the Justin Smiley trade talk has died down.
That doesn't mean something won't happen. As I wrote in my column for The Miami Herald print edition, the coming week will be a busy one indeed for the Dolphins. Come to think of it, it might be the most busy week of roster activity in team history.
Check out the reasons I say that.
Last week was also quite a blast as the Dolphins added wide receiver Brandon Marshall. It's a good thing when the Dolphins make a move that have ripple effects throughout the league.
Adding Marshall resonated throughout the AFC East, including in New York where Darrelle Revis plays. Revis is the best cornerback in the NFL right now, just slightly better than Nmandi Asomugha. If you read this blog or follow me on twitter you know that Marshall reacted to playing Revis twice a year, asking "Where is Revis Island?"
Well, Revis also has thoughts on Marshall.
"It really doesn't matter to me," Revis said when asked his reaction of Marshall coming to the AFC East. "You see it, people text you, people tweet you, so it's well-known what's out there. It's just another thing where a big-time receiver is in the AFC East. It's good for [the Dolphins]. They needed a big-time receiver and I get to play against him twice.
So does Revis relish playing Marshall twice a year?
"I love competition," he said. "That's what I do, I compete no matter who steps up and no matter who comes into this division.''

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The 4th annual DC Design House , benefiting the Children's National Medical Center opens this Saturday, April 9. The stately Tudor manse, located at 3134 Ellicot St, NW was built in 1925. I had the opportunity to tour the house last week and chat with the designers about their inspiration and color choices. Much to my delight, Farrow & Ball is an official paint and wallpaper sponsor this year. All twenty designers worked with the elegant and historically- referenced Farrow & Ball palette and as a result, the rooms flowed beautifully. Complex and nuanced off-whites, soft grays, smoky greens and chalky plums predominate and the result is ~ sublime.
"Elegance and whimsy, punctuated by the unexpected"….I'm guessing that would be these patent leather yellow/ linen dining chairs! This dining room, by designer Camille Saum, was one of my favorites. Walls are covered in F&B Light Gray and the ceiling in Dutch Pink. The floors are checked in F&B Babouche and Pointing. Oh, and there is the live moss covered mantel. Pops of peach and chartreuse complete this lively palette.
The inspiration for the Grand Foyer, designed by Liz Levin Interiors, came from a large scale moorish motif. Two Farrow & Ball colours, Skimming Stone and Cornforth White, were used to create a subtle tone on tone hand-painted graphic wall pattern spanning the first and second floors of the entry. Charleston Gray was used as a third accent color. A global/ ikat inspired Timothy Paul carpet anchors the space.
Designer, Erin Paige Pitts, transformed a formerly dark and dreary Pool Room into a light and airy white cloud using Farrow & Ball All-White in a high gloss finish on the paneled walls and ceiling. Her aim was to create an elegant, porch-like space. She succeeded!
On to the main living room, by Patrick Sutton Associates. The walls and sloping ceiling in this grand room were covered in a white-on-white damask Farrow & Ball wallpaper (Versailles BP 2601). The extensive wood ceiling beams were stripped and treated with a liming wax finish. Textured neutrals, punctuated by turquoise, saffron and purple create an inviting and relaxed atmosphere. These chairs, covered in a handmade Indian crewel, stole the show.
In this Family Room by Barbara Franceski, a "purposeful mix of contrasts engages the senses" and blends classical with contemporary . Barbara chose the soft, warm backdrop neutral of Farrow & Ball Oxford Stone to allow accents to pop. A lively rug by Kelly Wearstler adds pattern, and speaking of pop…. don't you love these "modern ancestor portraits"? A wink to the past, indeed.
Designer Whitney Stewart, widely recognized for her exquisite sense of color, used more saturated Farrow & Ball greens in this elegant Conservatory, evoking both tradition and a bit of whimsy. Modern botanicals, fabrics and a whimsical hanging "bird's nest" fixture bring the outdoors right in.
I must admit, when I got a peek at the color boards for this room, with several of the newest additions to the Farrow & Ball palette, including the bravest of all- Charlotte's Locks, my heart went pitter-patter. The result, in this "Secret Garden" bedroom designed by Samantha Friedman, did not disappoint. A subtle, warm neutral on the walls allows accents of orange and purple to pop. Can you spy "Charlotte's Locks"? It was used on the adorable swing that appears to fall from a tree in front of the window seat. In the adjoining bath area, designed by Jason Hodges, texture, sparkle and the same palette of spring colors add to a sense of playfulness.
And here is "One for the Guys", a masculine gentleman's bedroom by David Mitchell. Farrow & Ball's Pavilion Gray on the walls creates a warm and cozy atmosphere.
In this "Hideaway", designed by Lauren Leiss, the textures of grasscloth wallpaper, natural woven roman shades and a diamond pattern sisal rug combine to create a relaxing, earthy ambience. Lauren Liess– designed wing chairs are upholstered in a Michael Smith floral and brown-green velvet . Black and white ikat curtains (a new Lauren Leiss fabric) are hung at the ceiling.
More green!! In this master bedroom, Iantha Carley uses a David Hicks geometric print to bring in a sense of crispness and whimsy. Farrow & Ball Charleston Gray, an elegant mid-tone smoky purple-gray, is used on the walls. In the adjoining dressing room, Charleston Gray complements an elegant Nina Campbell wallpaper and a touch of vibrant pink on the tufted wing chair adds a splash of spring.
Out the back door, Jeff Potter and Scott Brinitzer of J&G Landscape Design, Inc. have created a playful interpretation of a classic parterre garden.
So this wraps of my post on color at the DC Design House. This is just a sampling of the rooms of the twenty participating designers. The Design House opens Saturday, April 9 and runs through May 8, 2011. For more information and tickets, see the DC Design House website.
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Quest for More Lethal U.S. Warship Could Raise Cost
By Andrea Shalal, Reuters
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's decision to stop building the current class of coastal warships after 32 vessels and focus on ships with more firepower and protection will result in higher costs, U.S. defense officials said on Monday.
Hagel announced the decision during a preview of the Pentagon's fiscal 2015 budget proposal, saying that growing threats in the Asia-Pacific region in particular meant the Navy needed to develop new small surface ships that could operate "in every region and along the full spectrum of conflict."
Hagel said that given the new threats, he had "considerable reservations" about building all 52 coastal warships as planned, which would account for one-sixth of the future 300-ship Navy.
"I recognize the importance of presence, which is tied to the number of ships. But I also believe that capability and power projection is the foundation of our Navy's effectiveness," he said in a memo to top Navy leaders.
Hagel told Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert to study alternative proposals for a new "capable and lethal small surface combatant, generally consistent with the capabilities of a frigate" in time to inform the fiscal 2016 budget negotiations.
The options should include a completely new design; existing ship designs, including the current coastal Littoral Combat Ships (LCS); and a modified LCS ship; factoring in cost, mission and weapons requirements, sensors and required delivery date, Hagel said in a memo, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters.
Lockheed Martin Corp and Australia's Austal Ltd are building two different models of the Littoral Combat Ship, which were designed with modular, interchangeable equipment packages that can be swapped out to hunt for mines, fight submarines, or engage in surface warfare.
The first versions of the ships have run into a variety of technical issues during initial deployments and testing, but Navy officials say they are generally pleased with the overall performance of the ships.
The two companies are each under contract to build 10 of the ships, in addition to four others already built, for a total of 24 ships. Hagel said he wanted to buy an additional eight LCS ships before halting the program, but did not explain how those ships were to be divided between the two companies.
Bryan Clark, a former aide to Greenert and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the Navy was likely to award each of the companies a contract for four more ships, which would keep costs low and maintain the industrial base until a new program could get started.
If the Navy opted to use a modified LCS as the follow-on ship, Hagel said, he expected any contracts beyond the current 24 ships to adopt those changes as soon as possible.
He also asked Navy officials to assess the performance of the current ships, examining a range of factors including operating costs, survivability, lethality and growth potential. He said he could opt to modify the program if those assessments prove unsatisfactory, but gave no further details.
Clark said it would cost about $600 million in today's dollars to build a Perry-class frigate, compared to around $500 million for one of the current LCS ships combined with one or two mission packages, which are priced separately. He said the first ship in the class would likely cost around $100 million more, given the non-recurring cost of design work.
"It's clear that a new ship program will cost more," agreed one defense official who was not authorized to speak publicly, adding that the extent of the additional cost would depend on the Navy's review of possible alternatives.
The comment came from one of four defense official who confirmed Pentagon's new approach would result in higher costs in coming years.
Clark said Hagel's approach would help the Navy achieve its goals for the mine-hunting and anti-submarine warfare missions, while bridging to a new more lethal and survivable ship.
Defense officials said Hagel's change in direction for the small surface warships was not that different from work on the current generation of destroyers, which also evolved over time, and the Navy was already undertaking testing and modifications.
"This is exactly what we did with the destroyers," said one official, who was not authorized to speak publicly. "It was clear from the start that the 32nd LCS ship would be different from the first one."


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Football is a role-playing game. That's how Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World of Warcraft and RPG fan, is approaching it. Each week in the NFL, ChrisWarcraft characterises his upcoming game in terms of an MMO quest. We're going to chart his progress and see how fast he levels up.
This Thursday night game against a poor Tampa Bay means ChrisWarcraft's Purple Vikings clan have a shot at coming out of this weekend sitting atop the NFC North server. They are also unvanquished in their home city, and that's where tonight's contest is.
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Result: QUEST COMPLETED (Minnesota 21, Arizona 14. Kluwe: 7 punts, average 40 yards, long of 51, one inside the 20.) By far ChrisWarcraft's busiest day of the year, but his support helped the Vikings' defence complete a key side mission in the NFC realm.
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Jays sign Overbay
Toronto has signed first baseman Lyle Overbay to a four-year deal worth $24 million. Overbay would've been eligible to become a free agent after the 2008 season and he likely would've garnered a 4-5 year deal on the open market. So securing the 2009-10 seasons in the contract was big for Toronto.
Overbay will make $4.2 million in 2007, including $3.8 million paid as a signing bonus. He is then scheduled to make $5.8 million in 2008 and $7 million in 2009 and 2010. The signing is also good because Overbay might've garnered more in 2008 through arbitration.
- The contract for John Thomson has a base salary of $500,000, but it will jump to $1.5 million should he make the Major League roster out of Spring Training. Also, Thomson can make as much as $3.75 million — not the previously reported $4 million — if he can make 34 starts this year. If he makes 30 starts, Thomson would make $2 million and he'd make $2.5 million if he logs 32 starts.
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i love this deal mainly because Overbay reminds me a lot of John Olerud of the good ol'days. Like Olerud, he's left-handed and a gap-hitter with good power.
As I pointed out in the lineup thread a whlie back, not only did Overbay have a better average than Catalanotto (both total and against each of RHP and LHP), he had a better slugging percentage and almost identical OBP. Since people liked Cat in the early part of the lineup, I see no reason why Overbay wouldn't fit there as well. (Much like Olerud did.) I guess the only issue I can think of is that he blocks the Jays' homegrown prospects, but we have until 2010 to trade those for pitching.
Where does this deal place some of the Jays' significant minor league hitting prospects, like Chip Cannon? By the time Overvay's contract expires, most of these fellows will be far too old to break in to the majors. Do you think that the Jays will seek to move these one-tool type of players rather than simply loose them?
Just heard about Fox reporting that the Jays could be interested in David Wells again. So, what would Bluejay nation think of that signing if it happened ? Though he is an eater, is he an inning eater ?
I personally would think I'ts a great idea to sign Wells. We have nothing to lose, and the Jays have a little extra money sitting around. If he doesnt come through were back to where we are right now.
Chip Cannon isn't really a top prospect in our organization. He isn't the kind of player whom we should prepare for, and in doing so, let Overbay away.
Chip Cannon can do wonders for the Jays marketing department as well as for the papers, but Cannon simply strike outs too much and produces a low average to be considered a candidate for 1st base.
A comparable player to Chip Cannon in terms of minor league stats would be Russell Branyan. He hit 30 HR with 187 whiffs and a .208 average in AAA Buffalo. The best performance he had in the majors was 2002 Cle/Cin season where he produced 24 HR with 151 SO and .228 average.
I'd expect Cannon to be an adequate power-hitting bench player in the NL.
Another good signing for the Jays! Sometimes, a successful offseason can be detirmined by locking up your own stars intead of throwing major dollars at barely average pitching.In my opinion, there was no one out there to pitch for the Jays that was worth $10 million/year.Boomer Wells would be worth taking a flyer on.However, I think he will stay close to home in San Diego.The price for guys like Mark Redman,Ramon Ortiz,Tony Armas may come down before spring training,but I would only pick one of them up for insurance.If I were the Gm, my pitching staff to start the season would be:Halladay
Marcum or Jansenn
Set up men :Brandon League
Josh Towers
Of Course BJ to close it out.
The rest fo the pen would be up for grabs,hopefully one or two of our minor league arms come up and get some valuable experience.
Don't get me wrong i think Thomson is a super signing. Though, that doesn't mean we can't still think about signing other people. How much do you think Redman would cost in this late stage of the game. He's a healthy guy, eats innings, and could be accused of being a #4 pitcher. We could prob get him for super cheap. Like 3 mill? Sound plausable ? I think if everyone stays healthy we have a preety decent rotaton. But, Chacin, Burnett,and Thomson are the walking injured, so i don't know how likely that could be.
Does anybody know how many draft picks the Jays have accrued through the first 3 rounds of this year's draft? It seems to me, if there are enough low picks, this could be a great opportunity to re-build the farm system with some top prospects. (Assuming, of course, the Jays are willing to pay for the best players available at the time.)


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Olga Nunez Miret is celebrating the release of her latest book, just in time for Christmas. Book Four (including the prequel) in the Escaping Psychiatry Series: Deadly Quotes.
She is also offering the prequel to the series – Escaping Psychiatry: Beginnings FREE.
About Deadly Quotes
Death by natural causes. That was the official explanation. Until they found the quote.
Killing isn't as difficult as people think. In fact it can be quite easy.
Was it a novel the dead man had been writing? Was it an eerie suicide note? Was it murder?
Mary Miller and Leah Deakin, friends and doctors, are not sure there is a case worth investigating but are intrigued. Could a serial killer behind bars have orchestrated another killing spree? Can the clues be found in his own autobiography?
The fourth book in the Escaping Psychiatry series sees Mary, psychiatrist, survivor of attempted rape and murder, and amateur crime investigator by default, team up with Leah Deakin, an FBI pathologist, in a case that pitches them against a man who loves to play mortal games. Will they be able to stop him? And at what price?
If you enjoy reading gripping psychological thrillers, prefer strong female protagonists, feel oddly attracted to ultraintelligent and twisted baddies, and can't get enough of challenging mysteries, you shouldn't miss this novel.
Discover Mary Miller's new adventure, and if you're new to the Escaping Psychiatry series, you can read the prequel Escaping Psychiatry. Beginnings, in e-book format, FREE.
Head over to pre-order the book for December 14th at 99c: https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Quotes-Escaping-Psychiatry-3-ebook/dp/B07JL5Q26N
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A selection of books in Spanish or English by Olga Nunez Miret
One of the reviews for Book One – Escaping Psychiatry in audio.
I listened to the audio book of Escaping Psychiatry by Olga Nunez Miret. The reader had a pleasant speaking style which made the audio book enjoyable. My only criticism is that in some parts the narration felt a bit rushed.
This book comprises of three short stories all featuring Mary Miller, a single female and a well known psychiatrist and writer of non-fiction, as the main protagonist. Each of the stories has a completely different setting, perpetrator, victim and set of extenuating circumstances which made them compelling and believable. In the first two stories the perpetrators are also victims and that creates emotional conflict for the reader because, while you want to see justice done and the victims are innocent, the perpetrators are the results of their unfortunate backgrounds and their own inability to rally mentally against the stresses and strains of their childhood abuse.
Mary is portrayed in both of these stories as a strong and independent woman with a talent for making people feel comfortable and share their concerns and problems and an ability to help the perpetrators to make the right social decisions.
The third story is a bit different as Mary becomes the victim and her views and attitude to life are put to the test. The development of Mary as a character in the last tale is very satisfying and we are proud of her coping skills and ability to pick herself up and carry on. I thought the ending to this story, in particular, had a good twist and was entertaining and clever.
The author has a background in psychiatry and this shows through in her believable and detailed portrayals of the discussions and interactions between Mary and the people she is attempting to help.
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Olga Núñez Miret is a doctor, a psychiatrist, a student (of American Literature, with a Doctorate and all to prove the point, of Criminology, and of books and people in general), she writes, translates (English-Spanish and vice-versa) and although born in Barcelona, Spain, has lived in the UK for many years. She's always loved books and is thrilled at the prospect of helping good stories reach more readers all around the world. She publishes a bilingual blog (http://www.authortranslatorolga.com ) where she shares book reviews, advice, talks about books (hers and others) and about things she discovers and enjoys.
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Father's Day Recipes
Father's Day is this Sunday, and we've been brainstorming ideas of how to celebrate it. It's probably obvious by now, but our family is all about the food, so we settled on preparing my father-in-law's favorite dishes. I put up some recipe suggestions in case you're planning to cook as well. Naturally you'll want to pick the dishes that the dad(s) in your life likes. If he's a meat eater, fire up the barbecue. If he's a chocolate lover, focus on making a super decadent dessert. Even homemade nachos and other party food could work. As for Daddy (my father-in-law), I'll definitely make a large pot of masala chai for him as he's a "chai-oholic". Regardless of his preference, don't forget to add the most important ingredients: a spoonful of love, a pinch of affection and a dash of tenderness.
Papa (my dad) still lives in Paris and it made me so happy to talk to him last night. I won't be able to make Papounet's Vietnamese coffee or cook his favorite steak or crab this Dad's Day, but I'll be thinking about him.


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Healthiest Dishes You Can Make with PB2
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PB2 is referred to powdered peanut butter. It is essentially powdered peanuts that have been pressed in order to remove much of the oil and fats. PB2 powdered peanut butter is 85% less fat and calories. PB2 is absolutely the best choice for the peanut butter lovers. Here are several healthiest PB2 recipes you can try.
- Peanut Butter Banana Cookies
For the Cookies:
3 small mashed ripe bananas
2 cups old fashioned oats
1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons ground flax seed
1 tablespoon chia seeds
¼ teaspoon sea salt
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
For the Peanut Butter Drizzle:
½ cup Peanut flour
¼ – ½ cup unsweetened almond milk
- To make the cookies, preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with a silicon mat.
- Mash the banana in a large bowl and stir in the remaining ingredients.
- Scoop the dough into 12 mounds with a small cookie scoop.
- Spray the bottom of a glass with non stick spray and press down the dough with it until ¼ inch flat.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes.
- After that, let them cool for 5 minutes then transfer to wire rack.
- To make the peanut butter drizzle, whisk together the peanut flour with ¼ cup of milk until smooth in a small bowl. Drizzle the cookies and store in an air tight container in refrigerator.
- Chocolate Oatmeal
½ cup quick cook oats
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons PB2 with premium chocolate
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
A pinch of salt
Honey (optional)
Fresh strawberries (optional)
- In a medium size sauce pan, combine the oats, milk, PB2, vanilla extract and salt over medium heat.
- Stir about 5 minutes.
- Top the oatmeal with drizzle of honey and fresh strawberries.


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An uncle of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects is urging the surviving suspect, Dzhozkar Tsarnaev, to surrender to authorities.
"Dzhozkar, if you're alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness from the victims, the injured and those who are left," Ruslan Tsarni said on Friday. "He put a shame on our family. He put a shame on the entire Chechen ethnicity. Turn yourself in."
Tsarnaev, 19, was still at large on Friday, despite a massive manhunt that has put Boston and its western suburbs into lockdown. He and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, are suspected of planting two shrapnel-filled bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon that killed three and injured at least 170.
After the FBI released photos and videos of the two suspects on Thursday evening, the Tsarnaev brothers allegedly launched a spree of violence that continued through the night. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a violent confrontation with police after he and his brother allegedly shot and killed an MIT police officer and carjacked a Mercedes Benz SUV.
Ruslan Tsarni, a resident of Montgomery Village, Md., spoke to reporters outside his home. Tsarni said he had not spoken to his nephews in several years and called them "losers" unable to "settle themselves in."
Tsarni said his nephews had no political motives and were not connected to any radical activity in Chechnya, even though the family are ethnic Chechen.
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silly and soulful, music and mayhem, for children and the childish
Welcome to the official site of the FunkeyMonkeys! Created by Joshua Sitron, composer for Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer, the FunkeyMonkeys are a supergroup of professional musicians, comedians, and teachers, based in New York City, who produce eclectic records and live shows for kids and parents. Think '"The Muppets in Free to Be" or"Seinfeld meets the Wiggles" or "Herbie Hancock's Vaudeville Bar Mitzvah". On this site you can learn more about who we are, hear and buy our music, watch video, buy tickets for live shows, and contact us. Go Bananas!
Nine electric, and electic albums for family fun. Featuring some of NYC's best musicians.
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Performing mostly in and around New York City with occasional trips around the country, the FunkeyMonkeys are a musical and comedy experience. A 4 to 10 piece band, skits, variety of all sorts. No two shows are identical and improv is the name of the game.


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Today's guest blog post is by Cynthia (Cissy) Fowler. Dr. Fowler is an Associate Professor at Wofford College, Secretary of the Society of Ethnobiology, and co-Editor of Ethnobiology Letters. She conducts transdisciplinary research on society and nature. In her fieldwork in Eastern Indonesia's dry monsoonal tropics, she studies the materialization of fire — fire as a creative expression of social relations and ecological perceptions.
Dr. Fowler has volunteered to lead a program in the Anthropologists Back to School initiative. Her program will take place at The Field Museum. This new initiative seeks volunteers to lead and assist programs at various host sites throughout Chicago on Wednesday, November 20 from 9am to12pm. Share your passion of anthropology while giving back to this year's host city – Chicago. Learn more about how you can participate in Anthropologists Back to School and register today!
The Anthropologists Back to School initiative caught my attention because it is an outlet for connecting with and contributing to the community beyond the meeting rooms and conference hotel during the AAA Annual Meeting. I selected the Field Museum host site with colleagues Isabella Abuchaibe and Natalie Bump. The Anthropologists Back to School initiative provides an unusual opportunity to experience the Field Museum in potentially meaningful ways, where we can be both observers and interpreters of the exhibits. It also provides an opportunity to support the teaching mission of Wofford College, where I work. Other Wofford faculty inspire me with their publications, grants, and continuing education related to teaching excellence and service through education.
I hope to share my fascination with the diverse, colorful, sometimes inspiring and sometimes troubling character of human-environment interactions. In my life-long pursuit of inspiration, I have witnessed many beautiful places and encountered many amazing creatures. Along the way, I have met inspiring people who have sustainable (and other) lifeways and compelling (and humdrum) beliefs. Anthropology provides the most amazing tools for understanding those people relative to Earth's ecosystems.
During the program, we will guide school children through interactive experiences as they move through the "Restoring Earth" exhibit hall. "Restoring Earth" already operates as an interactive exhibit, thus it will be easy for us to play off of that set up. We will spotlight the Field Museum's ongoing conservation-related projects with indigenous peoples in Amazonia, Peru, the Philippines, and other places/communities where their scholars work. As an anthropologist, I'd like to infuse the exhibit with lessons about how anthropologists determine the role people have had through time in maintaining, creating, destroying, and/or conserving biodiversity. We will discuss biocultural diversity during which we will emphasize the association between megabiodiverse regions and cultural/linguistic diversity. We will also point to the importance of considering the presence or absence of people in conservation areas and the implications of those alternatives for diversity.
Writing and delivering our presentation will be a collaborative effort between Isabella, Natalie, and myself. Isabella's special interest is in American food industries. Natalie will share her special interest on the restoration of nature in the Chicago area drawing from her research on the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. And my special interest is in social justice and global change. The umbrella theme for our three segments will be the value of anthropology for understanding Earth's processes and resolving the problems the Earth and its people face in ways that are socially just and ecological sound.
The children's greatest take home message will be a recognition that culture has a major influence on people's perceptions of environments and the ways people manage landscapes. The children will take away with them the knowledge that anthropology is a science that asks especially fascinating questions about biological and cultural diversity and has powerful techniques for answering those questions as well as brilliant insights on achieving conservation. so that the school children will gain an appreciation for the value of anthropology. The 6th-12th graders who attend the AAA Back to School initiative at the "Restoring Earth" exhibit will learn the message that the world consists of diverse cultures living in diverse environments, and will learn to not only value biocultural diversity but also to think critically about it.
Share your passion of anthropology while giving back to this year's host city – Chicago. Learn more about how you can participate in Anthropologists Back to School and register today!


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2A Terrace Drive , South Bristol, NY 14424 (Map)
Type Condo/Townhome
List Price $584,900
Located in South Bristol, Ontario County
Taxes $3,915
School District: Naples
Square Feet approximately 2505 sq ft
Bedrooms 2
Bathrooms 2 full, 1 half
Waterfront Canandaigua Lake - 250 ft. waterfront
Exterior Construction Wood
Year Built Not specified
Fireplace(s) 1
Floors Ceramic-Some, Hardwood-Some, Tile-Some, Wall To Wall Carpet-Some
Appliances Included Dishwasher, Disposal, Microwave, Oven/Range Electric, Refrigerator-Built In
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A rising (compensation) tide usually raises all ships, er, wages. Like when Google ups its pay by 10 percent of each of its 23,000 employees.
But your ship doesn't rise if you've a leak or two in your hull. So Yahoo is cutting jobs, mostly in its product division, as first reported at TechCrunch.com and then at AllThingsD.com.
The cuts were thought to be worse than they apparently are: now rumored at 10 percent, as opposed to the 20 percent first reported.
Given the top-level brain drain (a debatable term for some) and this cut, it's not surprising that Wall Street has sharpened their pencils when it comes to YHOO.


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Syrian violence finds its echo in Lebanon
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — In this northern Lebanese city, two adjoining neighborhoods reflect the growing concern that the violence raging in Syria could soon spill into Lebanon, whose own sectarian civil war captivated the world a generation ago.
On the one side are the men of Bab al Tabbeneh, a Sunni Muslim area that openly embraces the Free Syrian Army, the band of military defectors that has taken up arms against Syrian President Bashar Assad.
On the other are the men of Jebel Mohsen, an enclave that is predominantly Alawite, the Shiite Muslim sect to which Assad and much of his inner circle belong.
For two days last week, fighting shook the two neighborhoods, leaving three civilians dead and two dozen wounded, including members of the Lebanese army, which was deployed Sunday to separate the antagonists. But while calm has been restored, tensions remain high, and neither side expects the peace to hold.
"We've broken holes in walls to allow people to pass safely from one building to the next," a Sunni fighter in Bab al Tabbaneh told a visiting reporter over the weekend.
The atmosphere remained defiant in Jebel Mohsen a few hours later. Fighters crowded around a reporter, chanting, "With our blood, our soul, we fight for you, Bashar!" Photos of Assad dotted the street.
This is not the first round of fighting between the neighborhoods, whose conflict dates at least to the Syrian army's invasion of Lebanon in 1976 during the long Lebanese civil war, which claimed as many as 200,000 lives from 1975 to 1990.
Militiamen and local leaders in Bab al Tabbaneh said the violence stretches back to a massacre of hundreds in the neighborhood in the 1980s, when the Syrian military occupied Lebanon.
"Everyone here has someone who was killed," said one militiaman, who identified himself only as "Tiger."
Their lingering anger underscores the fragility of what passes for stability here after the civil war that pitted Muslim against Christian and Shiite against Sunni. In Bab al Tabbeneh, the complexity of the loyalties is on display. There are photos of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and expressions of support for Hamas, the Sunni fundamentalist political party that runs the Gaza Strip and that the United States has declared a terrorist organization.
"Hezbollah is the devil," said one of the militiamen, referring to the Shiite militia and political party that is now Lebanon's dominant political player and a longtime Assad ally. The militia, which has leveraged more than two decades of armed resistance against Israel into political clout, now finds its relationship to its Syrian patrons more polarizing than perhaps ever before.
"We are honored to support the Free Syrian Army," said another militiaman.
The views of the men in Bab al Tabbaneh are shared by some members of Lebanon's Parliament.
"The Lebanese army is not doing its part to protect civilians against the pro-Syrians," said Moyeen Murabi, a member of the Lebanese Parliament with the March 14th Coalition, a grouping of political parties named for protests that helped end the Syrian occupation in 2005. "We are afraid this will happen in other areas."
But the army itself is torn between supporters and opponents of Syria and Hezbollah, Murabi said.
"The commanders of the Lebanese army are not confident soldiers will follow orders," he said. "Otherwise, the Lebanese army should take action against any movement from any side that causes death and destroys property."
Murabi predicted that violence would plague Tripoli, and perhaps get worse, as long as the Syrian uprising continues.
"We hope that when the Syrian regime falls, the situation will be better," Murabi said. "The region cannot tolerate this regime anymore, or this mentality."
But obviously not everyone in Lebanon shares that sentiment.
Rifaat Eid, a member of Parliament from the Arab Socialist Party, which is allied with Hezbollah, defended the militiamen from Jebel Mohsen, saying they had not been the aggressors in the fighting. He blamed the fighting on Sunni fundamentalists and said the Jebel Mohsen militiamen did not fight — an improbable claim.
He agreed, however, that the violence was related to the Syrian uprising, and he echoed the rhetoric of Assad, claiming that terrorist groups have been attacking the Syrian government.
The fighting in Tripoli, he said, "started 10 days ago, when the Syrian army attacked the terrorists in Homs," Eid said, referring to the Syrian city that has been a flashpoint of the uprising and has been bombarded heavily by the Syrian army for the last week. "We knew that when the Syrian army took Homs back from the terrorists, March 14 would do something in Tripoli."
(Enders is a McClatchy special correspondent.)
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with yet another glowing review of 300. This one is so glowing, so delerious in love that it should be a plant. If it were any other movie, I'd probably just print this out and use it to fertilize the lawn, but not only is this review echoing the word from almost everybody else that has seen an early cut of the film, but having seen the footage (and reaction to that footage) at Comic-Con, I have no doubt the movie is as kick-ass as this guy says it is. I absolutely can't wait!!
Hey there Quint, Moriarity and, of course, Head Geek! This is Randy of AFTimes. I last dropped you a report on an advanced showing of Miami Vice back in the spring. I'm back-with one of THE Geek movies of 2007! Since its actually based on a historic event, I don't think you can spoiler the movie. That being said-I'd call this a non-spoiler review. These are the days I love living in SoCal... even if I AM unemployed. Thanks to my friends ROBIN and ROSE, I made my way to the Pacific Winnetka on this balmy November day (95 degrees!) to see one of the anticipated films of 2007: 300 After the usual line then wait in the theater, which passed easily in pure uber-geek conversation with fellow viewer Corey, the film got started about 7:35pm. The Basics: In ancient Greece, King Leonidas(Gerard Butler) of Sparta who, with 300 of his personal guard, held off the invasion of his land by King Xerxes(Rodrigo Santoro) and the overwhelmingly superior number of the Armies of Persia. The movie ran approx. 1 hr. 50 min., seemed about 95 percent done with only a few VFX to be cleaned up. Opening and closing credits were in place and though the soundtrack was in place, I don't know for sure if it was Tyler Bates' finalized score. It's been a good year for me-two of my favorite comics/graphic novels have been brought to the screen well- V For Vendetta and 300. So you can see up front that I'm biased. I LOVED Frank Miller's graphic novel(actually, comic book as I bough them as individual issues). I was jazzed for the movie adaptation. I was at SDCC and saw the footage which became the trailer back in July. Three times. I was hooked. So let me tell you the tale of 300. Not the story but the tale-and that's the important difference in this movie. Several years ago, several best-selling books were published that told the story of the Battle of Thermopyale in 480 BC between the Spartans and the Persians at the Hot Gates. But that's not 300. 300 is the tale of Men defending their way of life against an unrelenting, unstoppable force, not because they would win but because there was no option to lose. This is a tale because, unlike the books that were written, it is not about telling a story based in the real world. 300 is about what tales represent, what they bring to those that hear them. The Spartans are considered great soldiers of history. But in 300, these Spartans are much more. They are Champions of War, seemingly chiseled out of the rock of Greece itself. Creatures of such power and grace, that they don't wound a soldier with a sword, they cleave a whole limb. They don't run into battle, they smash through battle lines. They don't jump into a fight, they gracefully leap into throngs of soldiers killing two at a time. These are not just men, not just soldiers. These are Heroes. 300 is about a different time and way of thinking. It's about reminding us of what courage and sacrifice mean, about backing up one's words with actions. It's not surprising that I had moments that brought to mind not only Gladiator but The 13th Warrior, Excalibur and Conan the Barbarian. This is tale where everything is in bold, stark capital letters-Men, Women, Honor, Glory, Bravery. And I think those have been sadly lacking in movies lately. Because of the nature of this kind of storytelling, I can understand that some might see the performances of Gerard Butler, David Wenham, Dominic West as being too stoic, too curt, giving very little in the way character development. But I don't see that as a flaw in the script by writers Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad and Michael B. Gordon. These are forthright, plain-speaking people, who do not waste words. These are men of action. Gerard Butler stepped up into the role of not only king but a man you'd follow into death and beyond. I wasn't sure he would be right for this(Clive Owen came to mind) but he sold me on one moment. During a battle, his face covered in shadow, only his eyes and tooth grimace/smile stand forward-it's chilling, full of equal parts love and menace at what he must do. And while it may seem trivial, I commend him and all the actors for working out as much as they did-it shows in not only the look but in their performance. For that reason alone (and Butler being nude), this movie will appeal to others on a completely different level! I cannot help but mention Lena Headey who plays Queen Gorgo. While Gerard Butler may have the most fun playing the Spartan king, Lena Headey show what a Spartan woman is like, a mirror of the fighting man whose strength of character is no less strong then that of the men. She gives both a warm and flinty strength to the Queen. And she shows to NEVER underestimate the cunning and ferocity of a Spartan woman! I think her upcoming stint as Sarah Conner in "The Sarah Conner Chronicles" is excellently cast. The action scenes are very well-done, getting two or three of the four spontaneous outburst of applause during the film. The first battle between the Spartans and the Persians gives you an amazing feeling of the power behind an army when it connects with another. I will say that the amount of under and over-cranking of the film speed does start to tire but I believe it fit with what the nature of the film. With only one or two exceptions, I felt that I never lost track of what was happening in the action as has been the case in some of the fights sequences in Gladiator and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. So well done director Zack Snyder! You didn't screw this up... which easily could have happened. He followed his own advice about making movie adaptations of graphic novels: The images are already on the page so stop f-ing it up by trying to change it. (A paraphrase of his from Comic Con). 300 was shot on green-screen stages with background put in, like Sin City. But this is night and day in comparison! There are images that I very nearly could name you the issue and page it was pulled from! But it never took me out of the action, which is the biggest worry when using this kind of technology. My suggestion to Warner Brothers is to sneak this movie a week or two before release, to whip people into a fervor. This is a movie that is Big, not because of budget or cast but because of the tale is tells. "Go, stranger, and tell the Spartans that we lie here in obedience to their laws." And I tell you that you must see 300 in March 2007. Worth Paying...Evening Prices What About Toys? Coming from NECA in February 2007 - and PLEASE make a 18" talking King Leonidas! ADDENDUM-I also have to mention something interesting that happened afterwards. While you see the Suits at these screenings, you also sometimes see the director as well. Well, in the lobby, I was surprised to see, hiding under a trucker hat, King Leonidas himself-Gerard Butler! So Mr. Butler, in case you are reading, I was the one that walked up, shook your hand, looked you square in the eyes and said "Amazing" and walked away. Thanks for being cool about it. Thanks for reading! Randy of AFTIMES (www.aftimes.com)


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Rotary District Governor Elect Shows Off New TEAM Rotary Running Vest
Rotarians Stewart Cursley and Rachel Goodfellow are photographed wearing the specially commissioned RCF TEAM Rotary running vests that will in future be part of the Fundraiser Pack for all RCF TEAM Rotary running events
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Paralympic Club Benefit From Ironman Fundraising
In March 2015 due to severe budget cuts to disability sport funding things looked grim in Fermanagh. As a result of the cuts the Fermanagh Inclusive Leisure Project supported by Disability Sport NI set up in 2007 came to an end. more
Added: 21st June 2016
Rotary Clubs Join Together for Presentation to Bolton Charity
The Rotary Clubs of Horwich and Bolton Lever each nominated Urban Outreach (Bolton) as one of their charities to receive part of the £58,500 raised by Rotary Charity Fundraisers participating in last years Ironman UK event. Having both nominated the same charity they decided on a joint presentation of their separate donations. more
Added: 18th June 2015
The Community Fund Winners for 2014 Announced
The 2014 Community Fund winners were announced by RCSCF on Monday at a special meeting of the Rotary Club of Sherborne Castles. 25 charities and good causes in the Sherborne DT9 postcode area benefitted from the £15,000 on offer for 2014. more
Added: 1st May 2014
National President of Rotary Congratulates Rotary Charity Fundraisers
During her visit to Rotary District 1200 to celebrate 100 years of Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland the National President Nan McCreadie stopped off in Sherborne to congratulate Rotary Charity Fundraisers on raising over £500,000 to date for charities and good causes.
Added: 7th April 2014
Whizz-kidz Benefit From Rotarians Tour of Wessex Fundraising
Rotarian Tim Loosemore from the Rotary Club of Langport & Somerton raised £1,000 for Whizz-kidz through Rotary Charity Fundraisers as a Rotary charity entry in this years Tour of Wessex. The additional funds were handed over last Saturday to Whizz-kidz at the home of Eliza Perkins who has herself benefitted from the charity's support. more
Added: 16th December 2013
The Community Fund launched by Rotary Club of Sherborne Castles Fundraisers Limited
RCSCF launched its new Community Fund in Sherborne on Wednesday when Ian Dodds trustee/secretary of RCSCF joined John Smithee president of the Rotary Club of Sherborne Castles to announce there would be an initial fund of £15,000 for 2014 more
Added: 15th December 2013
Ironman UK Charity Funds Support Bolton Food Bank
Charity funds raised by Rotary Charity Fundraisers who take part in Ironman UK at Bolton were donated to Storehouse, one of the two Bolton food banks on Saturday 3rd August at the Horwich Asda, Middlebrook. The cheque for £667 was presented by Ted Wisedale the President of RCF Host Club the Rotary Club of Horwich to Dave Bagley the CEO of Urban Outreach (Bolton) who run Storehouse and Linda Gallimore an Asda Community Life Champion. In July it was revealed that more than 10,000 people in Bolton had turned to food banks for emergency support in just six months. more
Added: 7th August 2013
New Rotary Club President Starts His Year Off With a 1,000 Mile Cycle Ride
The incoming President of the Rotary Club of Thrapston and Raunds is starting his year off in spectacular style. Just six days after he takes office as the clubs new president he will be setting off on a 1,000 mile cycle ride from Land's End to John O'Groats for charity as a Rotary Charity Fundraiser. His 14 day continuous ride will see him averaging over 70 miles a day with a longest daily leg of some 85 miles. more
Added: 1st July 2013
With a Little Help From his Friend Rotary Charity Fundraiser Mike Bartlett Raises Funds for his Good Cause
Mike Bartlett wanted to raise funds for his Good Cause, the local doctors surgery, whilst participating in Ironman 70.3 UK 2013. He decided to become a Rotary Charity Fundraiser knowing that if he nominated his Good Cause all qualifying donations would be able to benefit from Gift Aid through Rotary Charity Fundraisers. more
Added: 16th June 2013
Ironman Wales Challenge For Winning Rotary Charity Fundraiser
Winner of the Top Individual Fundraiser triathlon bike for Ironman 70.3 UK on Exmoor in 2012 Robert Fletcher, a Rotary Charity Fundraiser from Hull, has signed up again this year to raise yet more funds but faces the bigger challenge of completing the full distance Ironman Wales at Tenby which includes a sea swim of 2.4 miles. more
Added: 29th April 2013
Tour of Wessex has a Rotarian Volunteer Hero from the Home Town Rotary Club
Tim Loosemore, a member of the Rotary Club of Langport and Somerton,has signed up as a Rotary Charity Fundraiser to complete the 335 mile three day Tour of Wessex over the May Bank Holiday weekend in support of his clubs event charity Whizz-Kidz. more
Added: 26th April 2013
Powerman UK Comes To Sherborne - Rotary Charity Fundraisers Become Their Charity Partner
Rotary Charity Fundraisers have become the Charity Partners for Powerman UK which comes to Sherborne on Sunday 11th August 2013. The venue will be familiar to many former Sherborne Ironman competitors. The Powerman UK duathlon events will be using a great deal of the original much loved Ironman run and bike courses in and around the historic town. more
Added: 23rd April 2013
Rob Wood Uses Rotary Charity Fundraisers to Raise Funds for the Fraja Ellie Appeal
Rob Wood has signed up through Rotary Charity Fundraisers to become an Ironman to raise funds for his friend and colleagues 4 year old daughter Fraja Ellie who requires special treatment for her Neuroblastoma cancer more
Added: 27th March 2013
Red Rats Charity Cycle Team from 849 Naval Air Squadron Honour their Fallen Comrades
The 14 member Red Rats team from 849 Naval Air Squadron, including the CO, set off from RNAS Culdrose on Monday 18th March. The 400 mile charity cycle finishes at the National Memorial Arboretum on Friday 22nd March. The charity cycle commemorates the tenth anniversary of the tragic loss of seven crew members when two Sea Kings from 849 Squadron collided during Operation Telic on the 22nd March 2003 in the Northern Arabian Gulf. more
Added: 21st March 2013
The Snowdrop Group Reach Their Target,Thanks to Funds Raised By a Rotary Charity Fundraiser
Rotary Charity Fundraisers help The Snowdrop Group reach their target of £20,000 to build a baby bereavement suite at Yeovil Maternity Hospital more
Added: 13th March 2013
Stalbridge Pre-School Fundraisers Take on 10K Run Challenge
Vicky Dyke, Lauren Pond, Tasha Trew, Katie Trew and Jon Turner are undertaking the Rotary Great Western 10K Run as Rotary Charity Fundraisers on Sunday 10th March at Leweston School, Sherborne. more
Added: 9th March 2013
Rotary Charity Fundraiser David Cross helps SPICE (Special People on ICE) achieve their trip to Canada
David Cross raises £1,100 for Special People on ICE (SPICE) with his Ironman UK achievement. more
Added: 3rd March 2013
Charity Cheque Presentation - Royal Marines Charitable Trust Fund
Lt Dave Anderson is thanked by Lt Col Richard Kenworthy for his outstanding fundraising achievements more
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Honest answers are needed
Seasoned observers of Taiwan-China relations are familiar with the ambiguity that has come to characterize statements from agencies with interests in the region.
Whereas once it was Washington which employed "strategic ambiguity" as policy, since 2008 Taipei has become the main source of ambiguity since President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) redefined the "status-quo," definitively shifting Taiwan closer to China and distancing it from Japan and the US. The Ma administration's ambiguity, directed at both international and domestic audiences, has resulted in confusion amongst Taiwanese and arguably the weakest state of the US-Taiwan security relationship since 1945.
During the 2008 election campaign, Ma suggested that there would be no political talks with China in his first term since more pressing economic questions needed to be addressed first. In June 2009, Vice President Vincent Siew (蕭萬長) told then-American Institute in Taiwan director Stephen Young that Ma would open political talks during a second term if he was re-elected, and that they would address a peace treaty, a formal end to hostilities and the development of bilateral military confidence mechanisms.
In a meeting with US Admiral Timothy Keating on Dec. 15, 2009, Ma said that talks between Taiwan and China on military and security issues would only begin if China removed the more than 1,000 missiles pointing at Taiwan.
However, he added that "People's Liberation Army activities" could force his hand and pressure him into political talks.
In September last year, Ma said his government had no plans to launch political talks with China any time soon, there being no immediate reason to do so, and that there were other pressing subjects requiring attention.
Yet Ma's position has been to shift from no political talks, to no political talks without conditions, to economic talks first then political ones and finally to a denial of delaying political talks.
Most recently, following a strong public backlash to his idea of a peace treaty, Ma also said that there is now "ample room for discussion on whether such a formality is needed" — a masterful statement of ambiguity that leaves one wondering whether Ma has decided a peace treaty itself is unnecessary or whether he thinks public approval for one, via a referendum, is unnecessary, potentially unobtainable and antagonistic to Beijing.
With the government denying last year that officials from the National Security Council had already made preparations for cross-strait peace talks, we now hear from Institute for National Policy Research President Tien Hung-mao (田弘茂) that "China has held some political talks with Taiwan, but higher-level ones are not likely in the near future."
Putting aside official statements to the contrary, the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), going back to before 1991, but accelerating rapidly after 2005, has been entirely political from the start.
Indeed, it would be illogical to consider discussions between the CCP and KMT to be lacking political content — their very nature entails that they are entirely political in nature, whether they are masked by government institutions as economic, cultural or otherwise.
Following Tien's revelation, a host of questions spring to mind:
How long have these talks been going on? Who conducted them and on whose authority? What items were discussed? Was there a timetable set for further political talks? What conclusions and agreements did the talks arrive at?
I think Taiwanese have a right to question Tien, Ma and the Mainland Affairs Council about these political talks and to demand honest answers immediately.
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from the what-about-your-friends? deptTechblogger Robert Scoble has apparently been barred from Facebook for running a script from Plaxo to export his relationship information (or "social graph," as the kids say), in violation of the site's terms of service. On one read, this makes him a martyr to the cause of open social graphs. I'm a bit more ambivalent.
Intuitively, it makes sense for users to be able to make whatever use they please of information about their own social networks. But in a social network, "your" information is someone else's as well. And on a site like Facebook, much of that information will have been provided in the context of a set of individually calibrated privacy controls, by people who expected it to be used in that context by a limited audience. Exporting that information without permission, then, raises important privacy questions.
Within Facebook, users have a fair amount of control over who can access what information about them. I can choose to block particular users on Facebook, rendering myself wholly invisible to them, as though I weren't even on the network. I can decide how much of my profile information will be visible to friends, to people who live in my region, to the general Facebook membership, and to the Internet at large. I can even decide how aggressively public, so to speak, such information will be. Lots of Facebook users are happy to let friends view their relationship status, but disable those status notifications in their news feeds, to prevent everyone they know from being simultaneously blasted with the news that "Bob has gone from being in a relationship to being single." Automated data collection "liberates" information from those constraints, possibly against the wishes of the people who provided it.
It's true that a script can only sweep up information that would already have been visible to a particular user anyway. But privacy is not just a function of the publicity of your personal information, but of the searchability and aggregability of that information. Public closed-circuit surveillance cameras, for instance, typically capture the same information that a casual observer on the street is already privy to. But we recognize that being spotted by diverse random pedestrians, or even being captured on diffuse and disconnected private security cameras, is not intrusive in the same way as being captured on a citywide surveillance system that is searchable from a centralized location. By the same token, I may be unhappy with the possibility of someone forming an external public database full of data I've freely shared with more narrow communities—personal, regional, or whatever.None of this is to deny the initial intuition that it's desirable for users' social graphs to be portable to some extent. But as with all forms of intimacy, openness and privacy complement each other: We feel free to share information about ourselves to the extent that we have some assurances about how that information will be used. So while it's one thing to argue that Facebook should enable greater openness or portability in some particular way, subject to user control, it seems like quite another to criticize them for enforcing a rule about indiscriminate automated data collection.
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In recent days there has been much talk of the presidential debates. We are preoccupied with relatively trivial perceptions of who "won" or "lost." There has also been endless discussion of whose policy proposals are better. Rather than entertain these meaningless debates, however, we would do better to look at our track record as a nation in comparison to other nations. I bring this up because in 2008 too many of us were blinded by "American exceptionalism" to realize that the recession that we suffered was global in its reach and not isolated to the U.S.
All of the research has already been done for us, via the CIA World Fact Book. The chart for 2011 shows our GDP growth at 1.5 percent, which tied us with nine other countries, including Lebanon, Bahrain, Thailand and Cuba. One hundred fifty-three countries out of 214 enjoyed better growth than we did (14 more used data from prior years).
Included in the countries that grew at a faster rate than us are Mexico (3.8 percent), Kosovo and Kenya (both at 5.3 percent), and Afghanistan (7.1 percent).
Now, one may argue that developing nations (Mexico excepted) have nowhere to go but up. But France, Germany and Switzerland, (to name a few "old economies") have also fared better than we have. With unemployment in 2011, we were tied with France at 96th out of 199, at an average rate of 9.1 percent. Interestingly, Mexico was at 5.1 percent.
In 2010, we ranked 54th out of 97 countries with a GDP growth rate of 2.8 percent. (Mexico outshined us at 5 percent.) Growth-wise, we are trending backward, not forward.
Debt-wise, we are spiraling down the "rabbit-hole." In light of this, when an unemployment figure of 7.8 percent is spun as "good news," American exceptionalism is truly dead. It has been replaced with mass delusion.
To be back where we were four years ago is not progress, and it is not "good news." As the economist Benjamin Ola Akande wrote to President Obama in the beginning of 2009, "Hope is not a strategy."
Unfortunately, with ever-increasing debt, coupled with two credit downgrades, and economic growth shrinking to a near-standstill, "forward" has become nothing more than a platitude supporting the delusion. Rhetoric aside, the actual metrics indicate we need a change in leadership.
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|Orem Owlz outfielder Roberto Lopez is batting .448 after his first 21 games.
Too much to do, not enough time to do it.
Catching up on items of note …
I'll be with the Tempe Angels for their July 20-22 games. The Sunday July 20 game is at Peoria against the Mariners. Then it's on to Tempe on July 21 against the A's, and July 22 against the Padres.
Ironically, this is the exact same schedule I attended last year. Apparently the league's schedule makers decided to just use last year's schedule, with minor tweaks. The Angels have a few games that were reversed — our park instead of theirs, or vice-versa — but otherwise it's pretty much identical.
So these three games are the same I saw last year.
I'm hoping to see the Angels' top two pitching draft picks, Tyler Chatwood and Ryan Chaffee. Chatwood made his professional debut on July 8, facing only five batters. He struck out two and gave up a hit. Ryan Chaffee, recovering from a foot injury, has yet to pitch but maybe he'll be ready by the time I get there.
Former Angels minor league outfielder and relief pitcher Warner Madrigal made his major league debut on July 2 in New York against the Yankees. He appeared in relief for the Rangers at home July 7 against the Angels, then made an emergency start July 9 against his former team. As I wrote last November 18, the Angels botched a paperwork technicality last fall, making Warner a free agent. After pitching for Low-A Cedar Rapids in 2007, the Rangers sent him to their Double-A affiliate to start 2008, moved him up to Triple-A, and brought him up last week. Way too soon in my opinion, but I gather the Rangers are dealing with pitching injuries so they had to dip into their farm system.
While on the subject of former fireballing Angels relievers, the White Sox placed Bobby Jenks on the disabled list with left scapula bursitis. Bobby hasn't pitched since June 29. Frankly, I'm surprised he's held up this long; I suspected his elbow held together by screws would have fallen apart by now, but I'm not a sports medicine expert.
Tom Kotchman's Orem Owlz are 16-6 and well on their way to post-season contention yet again. Left fielder Roberto Lopez has hit in each of his first 21 games, and has an AVG/OBP/SLG of .448/.520/.598. All the disclaimers have to be issued at this point — he's a 22-year old in a league where the top prospects are teenagers, 21 games do not a career make, he hasn't been around the league once so pitchers haven't had the chance to adjust yet. Baseball America never had him as a significant prospect.
On the other hand … wow.
In recent years, other Angels rookie players have had similar hot starts. 20-year old outfielder Sergio Contreras hit .399/.467/.601 with Butte in 2000. (That franchise is now the Casper Ghosts.) 22-year old Azarias Corbeil hit .359/.463/.525 for Provo (now Orem) in 2001. Neither had a career that reached the upper minors. So let's keep our sobriety for the time being and give Roberto's career a chance to mature before we make snap judgments.
On the other hand .. wow.
For those of you looking for photos I recently shot at Orem, I've been very busy with non-baseball projects. Hopefully I can make a dent this weekend in the backlog. I'll post an announcement on the FutureAngels.com home page when they're done.
Hopefully I can get out to Rancho Cucamonga on Sunday.
I want to keep Cedar Rapids in your thoughts. The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported today that flood damage is expected to exceed $1 billion. Reporter Rick Smith wrote:
"This size of loss, we can't cash flow this unless the federal government gives us money," [City Manager Jim Prosser] said. "We're going to have serious problems … We want the public to know what we're facing."
Prosser said the city needs "immediate attention and assistance" from the federal government, and will seek such aid.
You can send donations to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund and the Kernels Foundation Flood Relief.
BeesGal on her Sporkball Journals blog has a comprehensive list of sports teams and individuals who have donated to Cedar Rapids flood relief.
The Angels are notably absent from the list.
Gazette beat writer Jeff Johnson hasn't minced words in his Diamonds and Ice blog. Jeff wrote on July 2:
… The parent Los Angeles Angels still have yet to publicly acknowledge there has been a flood in a city they have been partnered with for 16 years. That's embarrassing, Angels. Hopefully this lack of response has opened some eyes on the Kernels' board of directors.
Don't blame Tony Reagins or anyone in the baseball operations for this one. Charitable decisions are made on the money side of the business. Perhaps the Angels intend to make a quiet anonymous donation, although that seems unlikely. As I've mentioned before, a more proactive approach would be for Arte Moreno to challenge Angels fans by offering to donate $1 million if they match it.
With about 40,000 fans attending each home game, if each fan were to donate $1 it would take 25 games to reach $1 million.
So far, though, it appears that the Angels minor leaguers have donated more money than Arte and his money minions. If I'm mistaken, if Jeff Johnson is mistaken, if the Kernels fans are mistaken, well, please tell us. But you're not going to lead by example and encourage Angels fans to give if you don't tell anyone about it nor advertise it during the ball games.


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A former member of the R&B group Destiny's Child has been arrested in South Carolina near Myrtle Beach.
Online records show 33-year-old Farrah Franklin was booked into the Horry County jail just before 5 a.m. Sunday on a charge of disorderly conduct.
Franklin was released several hours later after posting $280 bond. Court records listed no attorney for her, and no details of her arrest were immediately available.
Franklin and Michelle Williams joined Destiny's Child to replace two original members in 2000. Franklin left the group months later, and the remaining trio helped launch the solo careers of Williams, Kelly Rowland and Beyonce.


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Every single picture has a memory behind it
The only person who knew about it are the person inside of the picture and person behind that picture
Even if that picture is just a picture of one person posing nicely
It takes a memory of more than one person
That is how precious a picture is
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This picture hold so many stories.
Behind it was a girl that stand up tall besides a person who shattered her heart.
She capture this because deep down she knew it was their last memory together.
She remember everything that was said to her at that moment.
"Thanks for today, for waiting, for all this time and for... Everything"
And she cries because the time is up.
It should've ended at that moment. If only the other person was courage enough.
Unfortunately she was hurt by the false hope and was hurting even more, that she forgot this beautiful last speech for her.


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Q: I would like to fertilize my aquatic plants but I heard fertilizing can cause algae blooms. Is this true? – Alan of New Jersey
A:Fertilizing your aquatic plants are a great way to ensure healthy and blooming plants all season. Most water garden owners are afraid to fertilize their aquatic plants because they feel that it will cause algae blooms. This isn't the case when using low-phosphorus fertilizers.
Initial Planting of Aquatic Plants
When planting aquatic plants I suggest using Aquatic Planting Media instead of soil because it is a great way to get your plants off to a good start. Aquatic Planting Media is pre-colonized with beneficial bacteria to help initial growth. Planting media can be used in lily pockets or when plants are
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These above methods will allow you to enjoy those gorgeous blooming aquatic plants without having to worry about excessive algae blooms.
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Language delay means that a child is not able to use words or other
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Children with language delays may not be able to talk or use other
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Language delays in children may have many different causes,
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Speech therapy is usually the main treatment for language
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Gail Fiorini-Jenner of Etna, California, is a writer and teacher married to fourth-generation cattle rancher Doug Jenner. They have three children, seven grandchildren and live on the original homestead. Her first novel Across the Sweet Grass Hills, won the 2002 WILLA Literary Award. She co-authored four histories with Arcadia Publishing: Western Siskiyou County: Gold & Dreams, Images of the State of Jefferson, The State of Jefferson: Then & Now, which placed in the 2008 Next Generation Awards for Nonfiction and Postcards from the State of Jefferson. She co-authored Historic Inns & Eateries in the State of Jefferson, featuring 30 locations and their recipes. Fiorini-Jenner has placed in several writing contests: The Jack London Novel Contest; The William Faulkner Story Contest; The Writer's Digest Inspirational Story and Screenplay Contests. She appeared on History Channel's How the States Got Their Shapes, and NPR's West Coast Live. She also writes for Jefferson Backroads.


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Oh no, I'm totally stunned, the talent vocalist Chris Cornell, dies aged 52.
On May 17, 2017, Cornell died in Detroit after performing at a show with SOUNDGARDEN, according to his representative, Brian Bumbery. Footage of the concert surfaced on YouTube the next day. Detroit Police said they were investigating Cornell's death as a possible suicide. Later the same day, a medical examiner ruled Cornell's death as a suicide by hanging.
Representative for singer, who helped take the grunge sound of the 1990s into the mainstream, said his death was sudden and unexpected. Chris Cornell, best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter and rhythm guitarist for Seattle rock band SOUNDGARDEN and as lead vocalist and songwriter for the group AUDIOSLAVE. He was also known for his numerous solo works and soundtrack contributions since 1991, and as founder and frontman for TEMPLE OF THE DOG, the one-off tribute band dedicated to his late friend Andrew Wood.
Cornell was known for his role as one of the architects of the 1990s grunge movement, for his extensive catalog as a songwriter and for his near four octave vocal range as well as his powerful vocal belting technique. He released four solo studio albums, Euphoria Morning (1999), Carry On (2007), Scream (2009), Higher Truth (2015) and the live album Songbook (2011). Cornell received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his song "The Keeper" which appeared in the film Machine Gun Preacher and co-wrote and performed the theme song to the James Bond film Casino Royale (2006), "You Know My Name". He was voted "Rock's Greatest Singer" by readers of Guitar World, ranked 4th in the list of "Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 Vocalists" by Hit Parader, 9th in the list of "Best Lead Singers of All Time" by Rolling Stone, and 12th in MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music".
In a statement to the Associated Press, his representative, Brian Bumbery, said Cornell died on Wednesday night in Detroit.
Bumbery called the death "sudden and unexpected" and said his wife and family were shocked. The statement said the family would be working closely with the medical examiner to determine the cause, and asked for privacy.
Cornell had been touring with SOUNDGARDEN, and was tweeting upbeat messages about a sold-out concert the band played in Detroit just hours before his death.
Here is a live Video from the singer's last gig with SOUNDGARDEN at the Fox Theatre in Detroit last night, 17th May.
Today's tune "The Promise" is a song by American singer-songwriter Chris Cornell. The song was written as the ending credits song for the film of the same name. The song was released as a single on March 10, 2017, and is notable as being the last solo release from Cornell prior to his death on May 17, 2017. "The Promise" is available now. All proceeds will be donated to The International Rescue Committee. On April 19, 2017, he performed the song live with SOUNDGARDEN drummer Matt Cameron and a string quartet on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Chris, you will be missed, Rest In Peace!
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In his first public comment on rumors linking free-agent outfielder Johnny Damon to the White Sox, general manager Kenny Williams on Thursday morning told the Daily Herald: "I will talk about this on Sunday." …
Gregor thinks the timing means Damon might sign with Detroit. Gregor says Kenny has a history of ignoring media requests before completing a deal, but Sunday is the day pitchers and catchers report and Kenny may know that Damon is close to a deal with Detroit.
Yesterday, Cowley wrote that the Sox haven't imposed a timetable:
… There is no timetable on when a final decision is coming, but the Sox are expecting Damon to make the announcement soon, especially with pitchers and catchers reporting on Sunday.