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We may also use information provided by you or transmitted to us through the Properties to send you electronic and other messages about a property in one of our communities or an offering from Lennar Affiliates or subsidiaries. Your use of our Properties constitutes your permission to do so unless you specify otherwise pursuant to applicable law, as discussed below. We comply with the US Federal CAN-SPAM Act, and make every effort to ensure that our messages are not considered Spam. Of course, you may unsubscribe from any messages we send at any time and you will not receive further electronic messages from us after following the instructions included within the message.
We may provide you with an "opt-in" or "opt-out" mechanism depending on where you are located when we collect your personal data. An "opt-in" mechanism will provide you the opportunity to positively indicate that you would like or do not object to our sending you such further communications and we will not send you any unless you have "opted-in." An "opt-out" mechanism will provide you the opportunity to indicate that you do not want us to send you such further communications, and if you "opt-out" we will not send you any. Either way, opting-in or opting-out will be up to you and, in addition, if you do not want us to use your personal data for a particular purpose or disclose it to a third party, you may "opt-out" at any time by contacting us as provided below.
Information transmitted over the Internet may find its way to recipients to whom it is not intended or persons you may not want to have such information. Under certain circumstances, this may be beyond the control of Lennar, and you are advised that such transmission may not be secure. However, Lennar complies with applicable law regarding the safeguarding of your personal information, and we employ reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of your information, as required by law. Further, we restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information in order to provide products or services to you.
Contact Information: We may request and collect, without limitation, your name, address, email address, home telephone number, work telephone number, fax number and cell phone number.
Additional Information About You: We may request and collect, without limitation, information about the home you are purchasing, including the community, mailing address, and anticipated closing date.
When you make inquiries concerning career opportunities, we will request a copy of your resume, your highest level of education and information about the type of job you are seeking.
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Additionally, we may collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:
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Additionally, in connection with use of the Properties, we collect certain web analytics information, including among other information the number of visitors to the Properties, session time, and browser version (technical information). Technical information is not collected in a manner in which it can be tied to a specific user. When you access the Properties, some of our services are provided to or through affiliated websites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to the Properties in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will store on the computer that you use to access the Properties a small file that commonly is referred to as a "cookie." The cookie has information that enables us to recognize a specific computer that is used to visit the Properties. Each vendor identified on, or accessed from, the Properties has its own policies on the collection and use of technical information and the use of cookies.
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Omar Khan Talks Security At Dive Into Mobile
Omar Khan of China's NQ Mobile talked about mobile security onstage at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the ... more on you ... aam ... I invented for budget reasons one is doing a really interesting thing at the moment is CEO ... of the NQ mobile which is a security company that's expanding into a bunch of other areas but also before that ... Omar worked at Motorola and Samsung and city and has had a really good understanding of the mobile market is awful ... sell out looking for this for the for the deal Omar Khan ... the ... we have we have all sorts of things I think it's here spotted by playlist doesn't appear to its Republican on ... the line to get permission I did the stock has signed a somewhat for where ... they got ... ALM so ... you know you've been in a lot of interesting rules a mobile company and then uttered about a year ago was that ... aam you went to a company that I think most of the people in the room and guessing you've not heard of ... um ... but some tiny company so what is in. Q mobile and what made you wanna join them ... five minutes to you when you ... get that kid that like to joke is there a PR ... its ... largest mobile security company in the world ... and no one's heard of the study was one of things work ... out from the DNA perspective from a technology perspective ... and from African perspective was a was amazing ... and that and that ... the culture is outstanding the founders were ... folks and view the sauna I with and so was an opportunity I couldn't pass up but from that ... from a company perspective it was founded eight years ago ... are focused on mobile security before Android before I O s ... I read the Group of the Symbian platform and cut its teeth on the Symbian platform ... built a set of technologies ... from an IP perspective that were unique ... so today we've got to a core set of IP rights ... are crawling engine I called in to crawl and two cents which is art ... on turf ... mesh network of users around the world as well as ... on our wrist make out with images of ... a comprehensive purest attention in the cloud ... I then allows us to do real-time analysis ... of files without manual intervention ... and so that the core DNA and security that attracted me because that ... knowing what ... I believe is going to happen or what we believe this to happen in mobile the next five to ten years ... up to pee for security given the money either ... the amount of personal information and content we have on our devices is going to get even more important over time ... but its payments health care et-cetera ... and he was a great DNA for for us to start a company to grow the company from figurative is fairly large roster we did ... about ninety two million in revenue this year we had we not look bad ... I hundred AEDT of plus or minus a chunk of that is in China where most of the company is correct now but in our consumer business about forty six percent is in China which is one of the smartphone market in the world ... um and so we do what headquartered in engaging in Dallas that saw half of our tickets that in Beijing have to Dallas now ... and I knew I we decorated diversify so ... now consumer security and privacy is one ... of our business units up with the second business unit now focused ... on enterprise mobility which is helping enterprises as they ... undergo the challenges of mobilizing the power of their workforce with its BYOD or whether it's our enterprise some liable devices that they issue that ... I've to their employees ... the number one concern that most CEOs were share with you secured ... and so we thought we were not in a great spot to provide security framework within our enterprise mobility solutions ... alongside mobile device management ... arm to differentiate the offering and in the final one is ... a mobile gaming advertising business which we've just entered into the fourth quarter of last year ... so I wanna focus on scaredy cats it's an important hub and we haven't spent that much time talking about a yet aam what it's been a little bit of time intercession in others ... aam you this is due to report I've read a bunch of reports from thirty countries ... here we get we should probably go that battle is here but it seems like it I read these words ninety four percent of mobile vulnerabilities radiant right ... aam this intolerance that has not not everything is the these are all flaws in the operating system sometimes it's ... euro gaps in you know ... an ... alternative path markets ... is Intrade fundamentally less secure or is it the usual thing when hackers are just going with the opportunity has won the hackers are definitely going with the opportunity is but I'm in Android ... that actually does a pretty good job of of course security and it's not that ... I'm yet it's a full octave the philosophical issue ... read philosophical issue and and for us luckily ... they have niche was to be very open ... exposed to both natives ... BP eyes as well as a ... time ... took no comfort and sustain deep so they can to allow developers ... like us to do ... very innovative applications and that I know Facebook Home has come up a lot ... and at the helm market others were you were pretty forthcoming ... time during the interviews about it that they couldn't of done that ... if you want for the openness of Android ... and I think it speaks volumes that that developers are allowed to use Android to wait between you ... but whenever you have that this situation where does that open ... up your invariably to have bad actors in the system would leverage that openness ... to do ... you fit to do malicious behavior condition malicious behavior ... and and the only reason one of the primary reasons that they're focusing ... on mobile is the type ... of relationship that we have with other devices ... you're never sure and beckoned him back in it and the green room ... of the pictures of our kids ... as an example of the types of information that would carry we know whether it's pictures of her kids the geo location can't be that our contact list of Yum credit cards and encrypted ... of guitar notes files of our device or passwords without a password enter the type of information we keep on the device with us at all times is quite valuable is it fair to say that it's it's a typical security tons of the future could pull people say they care about security but if you actually look at their behaviors they are not doing very much ... in it's not a feature that people tend to pay for ... not that the Wallabies for the software but they tend not to buy a particular ... piece of hardware pieces offer because it's more secure than another ... and that that that is true even if you think about I believe we asked a question last March in a survey that we did ... I which is you have type ... of security ... enabled on your device to an application and I think of is that fifty three percent Consumer said ... that yes they did and we know it's not true ... so they construe the things like ... the upcoming have a password manager on my divisor enable a four digit to ... Pascoe the interest rate oh it is very natural kind of one director to fly but one two three four of the euro is safe but nobody can deny that the guidance of the devices he would cut its target ... so so and the consumers misinterpret that as as foolproof security ... and ... so there is indeed a lot of it has to do with ... engaging smart P Richard Tobias whether it's locking whether it's ... we drop in the PC and then we were trained ... um yeah I remember from my earliest days of using the PC we're trying ... to not click on an extension on attachment that we do not recognize that I love the what is ... now ... at the peak and created a show him that in your inbox can get infested or whatever might be ... I think the same of all the education and pollution from consumer awareness perspective they happen on all the buttons ... so that's that piece of you know well with the industry needs to go where consumers need to go in terms of where it's ... from a business or for how how the business to secure the menu doesn't moving into other things is that ... because ... security is the big enough business or just ... you know you wanna be bigger than the security market wire like you more when there was a Corker is a decision on our part to contain a diversified company ... of based on core assets record DNA that we had security itself is a very fast on the stock or security business organically who ... are over ninety percent you will for you ... I'm monetization continues to ... to do well we've been house a very large deals over the last year ... and continue to grow that business now we've had over ... him but two thousand retell point presence of relationships within us about still a high growth business ... but if we think about the platform that we have built over the last two years ... for application distribution ... I'm engagement monetization ... the question we ask ourselves Mr. was what other additional content and can we run through that ... that platform ... and it ... when you when you look at it gaming and mobile games continues to be a very large market from the yet ... to get from security to in app advertising mobile game because ... I'm not necessarily seeing a direct correlation between the IP there yet so it's really about the platform ... the fact that we built the platform or weaken our users in over a hundred fifty countries for have building ... integrated in local currencies of over sixty countries are going to do that and economical fashion today we kept our users of between ... about seven cents per registered Mr. ... on land the basis that the very advantageous ... economic scenario ... so the question them we ask ourselves and what additional content types can we run through the tension ... it's a similar evolution ... and if it twelve years ago whenever it was the head Geoff be on stage at one of the conference is that an Amazon in the said okay ... you how you can align your business wonton a revolution ... yesterday I knew what we're doing more than a bookstore that and in it I'm assured that he does it on to revolutionize the book industry ... you know over time they built the platform that at ten am pretty darn good at ... third party logistics I have gotten amazing back and that I can run AWS off of ... I'm gonna get a Commerce management system ... that that I can start to leverage its a fixed cost and got one anyway why not let other people pay for it ... right so so it's one of those things were we realize the engine that we've had for consumer monetization and different perspectives and you think of it sells as the security company year from now do you wanna be ... a bigger security company or do you wanna be just a mobile technology company or ... the biggest bookstore either no one would think of ourselves as a mobile internet services come so and and we think ... we believe that security is the Creek War DNA database of ... soap but that enterprise mobility business ... of where security isn't Hitler for enterprises the field ... of ... him ... feel that the adoption of mobile devices does not ... sacrifice enterprise Toder security ... where there's a application distribution or advertising were you ... aware we engage consumers and secure fashion whether to commerce transaction ... whether it's making you knew that we we engage them and even with our beginning it's it's it's quite differentiated ... how we do ... we gauge your sister will recall interest this community ... I which is not unique but the way we do it is not to contest or search for social games photo based recommendation what were doing as we run multiple gaming communities we're on ... our health care communities rerun I'm confused his community's ... as during gauging what this has appeared in front of your game ... so let's take down the street and I let's pretend you're December ... answer you go and you try to learn something insurer sure secrets about again ... were developing interest profiling obviously with ... that with your permission ... that allows us to understand what you might even have a higher propensity to consume ... and in app offer and had an advertisement ... and that's how we're working with publishers who use our pop one ... out that to engage with their consumers ... and and we've done here on any given point in time we probably operate ... either five or six of the top grossing apps on ... top hundred grossing apps on it I'd I'd I was platform as an example ... so there's a lot of interesting things going on in a few mildly off in the audience will have some questions about that but ... I'd I also wanted your kids ages you have so much experience they the kind of you know I think a view this ... as a good reality check them out of the things we've heard on stage some are a few things by in ... a one again your senses you know ... this this out ... the market are toxic is so ... Samsung and Google news hit Samsung ... they they they really getting along so well or ... are they you know doing a lot of business together but each worried about were the others going ... I'm that that that that ... I think it's a healthy relationship but again I ... haven't been there for a couple of years ... I'm a constituent both as a consumer and a ... and with the sector got ... hit ... in any situation I think you're always can have no not not just posturing that people can maintain ... some type of ... it's a chance ... that that to say the least in terms of ... both a power struggle ... and data ... in ... an ... effort to make sure that we keep each other in check ... and I think that there are not mutually beneficial relationship I mean Samsung distribution at number ... in the early days of Motorola we use to do all sorts of benchmarking on Nokia ... I'm you know the best part ... everything about Nokia ... to how the fact that you can show up into ... in central Africa ... um and walk into any ... marketplace and on a broad anywhere you to Nokia devices ... you could get in service anywhere in Africa ... Samsung has done an amazing job building distribution network ... um all over the world ... that I think you know rivals if not by surpasses what Nokia had it at that speed and a huge surprise like that now when you walk into a Best Buy idiocy Samsung store in the pre end of the building are you helped ... upstart that effort but ASIC gone further than even you thought ... was possible though I'm that that that that will one I'm I'm ... I'm very impressed with what they've done that it doesn't surprise me all ... time ... yet I was always amazed by the power of Samsung the technology perspective ... even as companies that were in the U S and abroad ... word you invest in the last function Samsung was doubling down ... and increasing the number peach he's a retired increasing the amount of IP there were generating ... for thinking of last year the year before there on the second tied the imminent birth ... happens that were issued ... on the U S as an example he missed a few bucks on Africa not to mention a few bucks yet but they've done something ... that arguably I think it's only been done ... three times that in the mobile industry where ... you can ... you can drive the consumer into the store and switch and change the equation rather than the Verizon salesperson or eighteen T cells person ... selling you want to walk into a store based on what was on promotion ... here drive consumers into the store asking for delicate device ... in my opinion that's point and on which start at ... point and on with ... with with reserved ... and with the I phone ... and then add the Galaxy is is play the fourth time I mean good if you could argue if the BlackBerry probably with a similar situation are considered ... an iconic brand from a device perspective so public with it said love your thoughts on ... is Facebook Home is that something Google's really happy about their services are still there they probably pretty worried ... about where that's going from here ... you know it had at ... it depends I'm ... just my opinion I think it depends on what it needs to in terms of ... um ... yet both the device consumption and cancer impeachment from ... monetization perspective and in in the end ... of the Android is an open source operating system and there is a revenue model associated with how Global makes the unemployed ... and on their own services for its from their own services ... and to the extent where their services are still part of the equation in the can continue monetization ... and ... hear from the platform perspective to the fragmentation doesn't affect the consumer experience ... of ... him that's can it be what they in my opinion but that ... is are we sacrificing the customer experience or as were upgrading from Jellybean ... told him to the tothe next per cent ... of consumers toward a better than the devices and and start these Facebook Home ... as being a good user experience if you well ... I'm more ... operating system I think somebody term debt last week that when that when I read ... um ... but if it doesn't impact Cantore experience on the upgrade path if it doesn't ... I'm ... not hinder their their ability to Mana ties their services ... then I think the worry will be less if it starts to truly fragment ... and an impact or service generation revenue generation kibbutz or worse yet it hurts the user experience ... I'm from an app ... platform migration perspective ... then I think you'll see some some additional conservation but those are ... the marketing factors that are probably looking at ... again I'm not sitting on the inside but that's what I've that I would look at another ... way worried it deftly paying attention definitely paying attention I would be surprised if they are paying attention so ... aam and then you know the other thing we've heard a lot about my talk all the time really is their number three in the market in all everyone spending most of the resources on ... 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'We Will Not Comply!': NRA Holds Massive Rally In NY To Protest State's Restrictive Gun Laws – The Blaze
The National Rifle Association on Thursday held a massive rally in Albany, N.Y. to protest the Empire State's restrictive gun laws signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January. The state's massive gun control package gave New York the strictest gun laws in the United States.
NRA President David Keene fired up thousands of supporters outside the state Capitol, saying "we've lose battles before, we'll not lose this war."
"We'll help you defeat the politicians depriving you of your rights," Keene said. "We'll do whatever is necessary. We will not allow those freedoms to be taken from us."
NRA membership has seen a steady increase as lawmakers continue to debate future gun control legislation. Keene said the NRA now has close to 5 million members.
Keene also reminded New Yorkers that big and small businesses could be impacted by new gun laws, using a green Remington Arms union T-shirt to make his point, The Business Review's Adam Sichko reports.
Sichko, who was at the event, has some more details:
Dozens of buses brought protestors from all corners of the state. Organizers kept referring to a crowd of 10,000, though that appeared to be an overestimate.
Many in the crowd raised American flags or yellow "Don't Treat on Me" flags. A number of signs compared Cuomo to Hitler and invoked communism. Others had messages such as: "If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words" or "I'm a mom and grandmother here to protect and defend their future."
One sign was especially pertinent: "Founded in 1816: Remington stays. Cuomo goes!"
Police estimated the crowd size at 5,000 at around 1 p.m. Thursday, Times Union reports.
The crowd could be heard chanting, "We will not comply!" at one point and later "Cuomo's gotta go!"
Watch some raw video taken at the rally:
In addition to outlawing semi-automatic rifles, or so-called "assault weapons," New York's new gun laws ban a broader array of military-style weapons and also restricts ammunition magazines to seven rounds, down from the current 10. The law also creates a more comprehensive database of people barred from owning guns, and makes New York the first state to require background checks to buy bullets.
But that just is more of a reason for the NRA to keep fighting for America's gun rights, Keene explained.
"Our strength comes from the fact that that broader community of Second Amendment believers in this country is not simply made of Republicans or conservative or Democrats or liberals or factory owners. It's made up of all Americans: farmers, union workers and all the rest, police officers and veterans," he told supporters.


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Social D outlasts tragedy with triumph
It's been seven long years since punk legends Social Distortion have put out a new record, and according to sales and popularity, the SoCal veterans remain strong as ever.The new album Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes on Epitaph Records was released in January and debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard charts, which gave the group their first-ever Top 10 album.
Social Distortion will be one of 14 bands performing at BuzzFest XXVI at the Cynthia Mitchell Woodlands Pavilion on Sunday, May 1 with gates opening at noon. Tickets are still available and can be purchased online at ticketmaster.com.
Scheduled to perform on the main stage are New Politics (1:20-1:50 p.m.), The Airborne Toxic Event (2:20-2:50 p.m.), Flogging Molly (3:20-4 p.m.), Puddle of Mudd (4:35-5:20 p.m.), Seether (5:55-7 p.m.), Social Distortion (7:40-8:45 p.m.) and Jane's Addiction (9:25-10:45 p.m.)
On the side stage will be Electric Touch (1-1:20 p.m.), Young the Giant (1:50-2:20 p.m.), My Darkest Days (2:50-3:20 p.m.), Middle Class Rut (4-4:35 p.m.), Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (5:20-5:55 p.m.), Evans Blue (7-7:40 p.m.) and The Dirty Heads (8:40-9:25 p.m.).
The band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, Calif., and lead singer Mike Ness is the only original member. They released Mommy's Little Monster in 1983, which created a music buzz around the country largely in part because of the single "Another State of Mind."
After hiatus and some personal issues, the band regrouped to release Prison Bound in 1988. Popularity began to soar and Epic Records signed the band giving Social D their first major deal. A self-titled album came in 1990, which featured the Johnny Cash cover "Ring of Fire."
Then came Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell and White Light, White Heat, White Trash before tragedy struck on February 29, 2000, when guitarist Dennis Danell suddenly died due to a brain aneurysm.
The band took some time off and several changes were made within the band, before the release of Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll in 2004.
Popular songs include "Let It Be Me," "Ball and Chain," "Story of My Life," "Bad Luck," "Cold Feelings," "I Was Wrong," which was their highest charting single at No. 4 and their latest, "Machine Gun Blues."
Ness, 49, has dealt with his own demons. Quoted in a previous interview about Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan, Ness responded "they have no idea what's waiting for them around the corner, no idea."
He has since recovered and enjoys a great family life with his wife and two sons. Aside from his music, he helped develop Black Kat Kustoms in 2003. Located in Santa Ana, the store specializes in custom car, hot rod, and chopper clothing as well as custom parts.
The Examiner spoke with Ness about his illustrious career.
are You surprised the band has lasted nearly 35 years?
I had hoped so, but I sure didn't think so. Dude, we really weren't supposed to live this long. In the back of my mind, this is always what I wanted to do as a small kid and I wanted to take this as far as I honestly could.
Social D has influenced many bands and musicians. Who were some of your influences?
Man, there has probably been hundreds like Eric Clapton and The Ramones. I remember listening to a band in the early 80s called Jason and the Scorchers and saying 'man I want Social D to sound like this.' The actual list for me is pretty wide because I draw from different styles of music. I love Big Band music, folk, blues, grunge rock, country music.
It's been years since you released a new record.
What's funny is the record only took about four or five months to make but it took us about five years to get into the studio. Some of these songs are like five and six years old. We are a really big touring act so we tour a bunch. You can't make a record until you stop touring, but I want to try to close that gap before we make another record.
I loved the concept of making a short film instead of a regular music video for the single 'Machine Gun Blues.'
I always thought music videos should be more literal to the lyrics. Rather than just doing a music video, I thought it would be very cool to do a short film for the song. I ran with the same storyline as the song. The main character gets into a little trouble then becomes remorseful, hence the title 'Machine Gun Blues.' Getting to act is a lot more fun than just posing with your guitar.
You still have any new music left in you?
Oh man, a lot. It's what I do.


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You'll Like The 2007 Ford F-150 If...
If you're a pickup-truck kind of person to begin with, but your spouse is not, this truck could very well win him or her over. Bold colors, outrageous trim packages, a lavish interior and the all-American big Blue Oval should win thumbs-up approval.
You May Not Like The 2007 Ford F-150 If...
If you like your trucks rough, loud and shaky, this one won't cut it. On a serious note, the F-150 cannot claim the most horsepower or torque in its class, an important bragging right for some truck owners. Safety-conscious consumers won't care for the lack of side-impact and side-curtain airbags.
What's New
The FX2 Sport Package is now available on two-wheel-drive SuperCab and SuperCrew XLT models, while an auxiliary audio input jack becomes standard on STX, XLT, FX and Lariat trims. New options this year include SIRIUS Satellite Radio, a DVD-based navigation system and six new colors. A new tire pressure monitoring system is standard across the line, as is a five-year/60,000 mile warranty.
Interior Features
The F-150's interior is as close to car-like as you'll find in any pickup. Not only is the new F-150 better-looking inside, it's also more quiet, safe and spacious. The dash and interior design on the base models look good enough, but the addition of leather, wood, chrome and center console-mounted shifter found on the high-end models combine to raise the bar on the plush pickup concept. Seating is firm and upright, and SuperCrew models feature lots of rear legroom and amenities such as DVD-entertainment and power windows.
Exterior Features
The F-150 carries on for 2007 with only minor exterior upgrades. The recently redesigned shapely Ford body, egg-crate grille and Blue Oval badging remain intact, surrounded by some new chrome trim and a crop of fresh new colors. The F-150's silhouette is easy to spot, thanks to its tall bed wall (about two inches taller than the previous generation F-150). Though it looks different, some may find the tall bed walls make it difficult to reach a toolbox from the side of the truck. The Regular Cab features a set of small, rear-hinged doors that allow easy access to the narrow space behind the front seat. Those who like to have as much fresh air in the cabin as possible will appreciate the SuperCab's optional rear roll-down windows, a first in this segment.
Driving Impressions
Power is the name of the game when it comes to full-size trucks, and here Ford has made some significant advances. The Triton 5.4-liter V8 features a three-valve-per-cylinder design and variable cam timing to generate 300 horsepower and a healthy 365 pound-feet of torque. A beefed-up version of the 4R75E automatic transmission has been assigned to handle the engine's added muscle. Gone are the old power steering system and torsion bar front suspension; replacing them are a modern rack-and-pinion steering and front coil-over-shock suspension. The combination of these features makes these the best-handling, best-riding F-150s to ever leave a Ford factory. If you've driven the older models (2004 or prior), you'll be duly impressed by the dead-on steering feel and straight-line tracking of today's F-150s.
Pricing Notes
The F-150 covers a broad range of the pricing spectrum. Regular Cab XL models have a starting Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $18,025, while a nicely loaded XLT SuperCrew can run as high as $40,000. Special edition trim levels, such as the four-wheel-drive Harley-Davidson at $40,125, and the King Ranch at $39,565, blur the boundary between truck and show car. A look at the Fair Purchase Price shows the typical transaction price being paid for the F-150 in your area, so be sure to give it a look before you set out to buy. The F-150 is expected to retain a better-than-average residual value, with the SuperCab models at the top of the chart, followed by the SuperCrew and then the Regular Cab. Over a five-year period, the F-150's projected residual value is expected to rate higher than the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Classic and Dodge Ram, and be on par with the Nissan Titan but below the Toyota Tundra.
Notable Equipment
The base F-150 has a 202-horsepower V6, five-speed manual transmission, four-wheel anti-lock disc brakes (ABS), 26-gallon fuel tank, AM/FM stereo, dual side mirrors, vinyl split-bench seat, tilt wheel, power steering, locking tailgate and 17-inch steel wheels.
Notable Options
The F-150 offers numerous trim levels, engine choices and bed and cab lengths. Notable options include a 300-horsepower 5.4-liter Triton V8, power seats, power windows, power locks, remote entry, keypad unlocking system, auto-dimming rearview mirror, AM/FM stereo with six-disc CD changer, SIRIUS Satellite Radio, leather seats, all-wheel drive, DVD navigation, trailer and towing packages, power sliding rear window, cruise control, power moonroof, Reverse Sensing System, limited-slip differential, 35-gallon fuel tank, mechanical or automatic shift-on-the-fly four-wheel drive, rear-seat DVD entertainment system, power adjustable pedals and 18-inch alloy wheels.
Favorite Features
DVD System Screen Adjustment
The F-150's optional overhead rail system with DVD entertainment system allows you to adjust screen distance.
Small Rear Door
Regular Cab models have a small rear door to help load items behind the back seat.
Under the Hood
Base Regular Cab models are powered by a tepid but fuel-efficient (for a big truck) V6. We don't recommend this engine for towing or hauling heavy loads. The 4.6-liter engine might save you some money, but it, too, seems to lack the punch this truck deserves. We prefer the 300-horsepower 5.4-liter V8, which has the power to move, haul and tow that's befitting to this truck's can-do image.
4.2-liter V6
202 horsepower @ 4350 rpm
260 lb.-ft. of torque @ 3750 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 15/20 (manual), 16/20 (automatic)
4.6-liter V8
248 horsepower @ 4750 rpm
294 lb.-ft. of torque @ 4000 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 16/20 (2WD), 14/18 (4WD)
5.4-liter V8
300 horsepower @ 5000 rpm
365 lb.-ft. of torque @ 3750 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 14/18 (2WD), 14/18 (4WD)
Editors' Notes
If Ford does one thing better than building tough trucks, it's selling them. Rising fuel prices and a move toward smaller vehicles have forced the company to revise its F-150 lineup by offering more features and options with an aggressive new pricing strategy. Determined to keep the F-150 America's best selling pickup, Ford continues to offer a dizzying array of configurations (a total of 60 in all) as well as a new 5.4-liter V8 Flex Fuel engine that can run on E85, a blend of 85-percent ethanol and 15-percent gasoline. Tough competition from Dodge, as well as new lines from GMC and Chevrolet, will keep the fire under the F-150's tires, which could very well translate into some great deals for the savvy consumer.


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CHALLAH @ The Times of Israel
A senior Egyptian official who also serves as an adviser to President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday expressed the opinion that Israel would not be around in 10 years. The remark by Essam al-Erian, the deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, was an attempt to explain a previous statement to the effect that Jews who once lived in Egypt should return to their home country and leave Israel to the Palestinians.
"There are people in Palestine who occupied it, and those occupiers have prior homelands," Erian wrote on his Facebook page. The quotes were cited by the London-based pan-Arab daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat.
Israel, he claimed would cease to exist within the next decade. "There won't be a thing called Israel anymore; only Palestine, and it'll contain Jews, Muslims, Christians and Druze, and all of the people who lived there to begin with," he said.
"Anyone who wants to stay will stay as a Palestinian citizen." Thus, he explained, "all of those who occupied it" — including Jewish former residents of Egypt – "will have to return to their homelands."
The Washington Institute has a short biography on Erian.
Erian was a founding member of Islamic Student Action at Cairo University, as well as student union leader during the early 1970s. He was elected president of the General Union of Students of Egyptian University and also served as secretary of the cultural committee in the medical students' union in Cairo (1972–1977). In 1981, he was arrested alongside several other members of Egypt's Islamist groups, tried in a military court, and released a year later. In 1986, he was elected to the board of directors of the Egyptian doctors' syndicate. In 1987, he was elected to the People's Assembly, becoming the youngest parliamentarian in modern Egyptian history. In 1995, he was imprisoned along with many others for his membership in the Muslim Brotherhood. He was also jailed in 2005 after he hinted that he might run for president, in 2006 for his participation in protests, in 2007 for his leadership role in the Brotherhood, and in January 2011 at the height of the anti-Mubarak revolt. Following Mubarak's ouster, Erian played a leading role in establishing the Freedom and Justice Party and was named its vice chairman. In the 2011 parliamentary elections, he won a seat in the People's Assembly and was named chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. He speaks fluent English and often addresses the U.S. media.
via Elder of Ziyon: Morsi Adviser: Israel Will Be Gone in a Decade.
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It appears that The Tall One, The Loud One, the real Jeremy Clarkson, the host of Top Gear, the Jezza himself has broken down and signed up for Twitter. The account is @jcrclarksonesq and he's accrued nearly 100,000 followers in just three days. UPDATE!
Now you no longer have an excuse.
We're somewhat skeptical of the account until it's verified (not like that means much), but it sounds like him. The first tweet is "I am a bit tired."
James May's account, @MrJamesMay, has more followers than Clarkson at 143,029 to Clarkson's 92,454. Richard Hammond
is still living in his hamster hole and has no Twitter account. has a sad 14,119 followers.
Update: Richard Porter, founder of Sniff Petrol and Top Gear's script editor, confirmed @jcrclarksonesq as Clarkson's real twitter on a Speed podcast last week. You can hear the podcast here, and the confirmation is at the 23:50 mark.
(Hat tip to porsche9146, 98 forever. apparent deltawing driver and Stelios for the confirmation!)


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Harmless Watmore to get rubber stamped
Government IT strategy says little, offends no one
Consultation over the government IT strategy was rumoured last month to have been a little lacklustre. Was nobody interested in having their say on such a contentious subject as mending the public sector's broken record on IT?
Three months after consultation opened and just a day before it closes, there are signs that responses are being hurried together. Whether they will be worth reading when the eGovernment Unit publishes them next month is another thing.
The problem for the consultation is the strategy document itself. The strategy was published in November as the culmination of 18 months' work as head of the eGovernment Unit by Ian Watmore, a former management consultant.
The result was mostly harmless. Technology has become an integral means of running and delivering public services, the document says. It can also help government cut costs and jobs. Many existing systems need updating, more money needs to be spent, civil servants need more training, citizens ("customers") need more caring. This is all summed up in one superficial pun: "make IT better".
Any quarrelsome quarters of the public sector that might dislike the strategy's proposed increase in control from the centre, or its emphasis on restructuring government, have already been disarmed: the NHS, local authorities and education sectors have been promised their own versions of this strategy.
Ian Watmore did such a good job of sweet-talking his way through the job of eGovernment boss that he was quickly promoted to head the Prime Minister's delivery unit, a post that will be in strong need of his slick-suited ways and from which he will retain ultimate responsibility for his replacement downstairs.
Just how slick a job Watmore has done was illustrated by the ingratiating statement issued by the Society of IT Managers last month to mark his move.
"Well done Ian," it said. "We thought you were a lemon, we thought you wouldn't take a blind bit of notice of us fuddy lieutenants scraping our feet round our punched card computers down in local government, but 'we are delighted you proved us wrong'."
The society's consultation response will be only a little less supportive. "With a strategy as general as this, it's difficult to have any problems," says Adrian Hancock, the Socitm policy officer who is drawing it up.
Only an idealistic opposition could find any reason for serious criticism of this strategy and only then from a place so far removed from the apolitical job of building computer systems that it would look out of place in this consultation. Its solution to the government's IT woes is greater central government control, which is an irrelevant debate all the while the regions are devolved real power of their own.
Interestingly, one of the main points of Socitm's submission will be concern that the efforts of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to give local authorities the flexibility to focus on local priorities is not elbowed out by the IT strategy.
Industry should have some serious points of contention about this strategy, which treats suppliers as an afterthought, despite the thorny issues that have made their relations with government so uncomfortable in recent years.
But Intellect, the suppliers' trade association is staying schtum. That usually means it is not happy. It rarely has reason to be happy nowadays, but it appears to have kept well in line with the government's desire for important matters (like the way in which billions of pounds of public sector money are spent) to be discussed in private coteries.
The government IT strategy, incidentally, proposes that IT projects should come under greater scrutiny from the start. The word public is not mentioned in this context. It will be interesting to see what they make of it. ®
The government IT strategy is here.
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Activision has thrown its full weight behind Nintendo's Wii U with a quartet of games led by its flagship shooter Call of Duty.
Activision publishing executive Eric Hirshberg stood on Nintendo's stage at a special press conference in New York to state that Wii U owners will get "the full Call of Duty" experience.He explained the game will be displayed in full HD, at sixty frames per second, adding that the Wii U was fully capable of hosting the type of games Activision wants to create.
As well as Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, the publisher will release 007 Legends, Transformers Prime and Skylanders Giants for the console.
The Wii U will be released in the US on November 18, priced at $299 for the basic model and $349 for the premium version.
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When we made our summer To Do lists, one of Grace's items was to see a rainbow. Fortunately, her wish came true while she was in Hawaii! She's still fascinated by them (they do after all seem very magical) and so today we did a bit of a rainbow project.
We started out by making rainbow bread! The bread was easy to make because it is started with frozen bread dough. We divided the dough into five pieces and used food coloring to color each one. We left them to rise, stacked the pieces on top of each other, and let them rise again. Sadly, this is where things did not go exactly as planned because they didn't really rise again and when baked the bread was pretty flat.
It still looked neat, though, and was very tasty, if a little dense. I would definitely make this bread again but with my own bread recipe.
As the bread was rising (or not, as was the case) we read, The Rainbow and You by Edwin Krupp. This book did a great job of explaining a very hard to understand concept (light refraction and so forth) and the children found it really interesting. In fact, Harris was very keen to try the author's suggestion of making your own rainbow. It was really cool when it actually worked!


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Unit 2: The Behavior of Atoms—Phases of Matter and the Properties of Gases
Hosted by Mala Radhakrishnan
This program explores the phases of matter—solids, liquids, and gases—and how particles in a given phase interact with each other. Phase diagrams explain at what temperature and pressure a given substance will be in a solid, liquid, or gas phase. Practical problems, like how to safely store enough hydrogen gas to power an automobile, are solved by understanding the different behaviors of solids, liquids, and gases. Understanding the relationships between temperature, pressure, and volume eventually led to the Ideal Gas Law, which provides the platform for examining the conditions under which matter can form a supercritical fluid. Researchers are investigating underground sequestration of supercritical carbon dioxide to mitigate the environmental impact of burning fossil fuels.


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Swiss, Austrians move to block Yanukovych assets
GENEVA (AP) — Three Alpine nations moved Friday to block assets that Ukraine's fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych and some of his associates might have stashed away there, and Swiss authorities opened a money-laundering investigation into Yanukovych and his son.
Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein all have banking systems that have in the past been favored by investors as a place to hide funds. All are at pains to prevent their banks being used to hide and launder ill-gotten funds.
In a statement, Switzerland's governing Federal Council said it "wishes to avoid any risk of misappropriation of Ukrainian state assets."
And in a separate move, the Geneva prosecutors' office said it has opened an investigation of suspected "aggravated money laundering" against Yanukovych and his son Aleksander. Documents were seized, but the prosecutor said no further details of the investigation would be provided.
Austria also said it is freezing any bank accounts it finds for Yanukovych, his son Aleksander, and 16 others linked to Ukraine's former government.
Martin Weiss, spokesman at the country's Foreign Ministry, said the move is meant to ensure that no money is withdrawn from their accounts pending a European Union decision on whether Yanukovych and his closest associates should face financial and other sanctions. Weiss did not name all those affected and said he could not say how many on the list of 18 had accounts in Austria or how much money was involved.
The government of Liechtenstein — a tiny principality sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria — said it had ordered the freezing of any assets owned by 20 people who were members of the old Ukrainian government or their associates. It did not name any names or specify whether there are believed to be any such assets.
Oleksii Khmara, executive director of Transparency International Ukraine, said it's important that governments move fast to freeze assets because someone who wants to hide money can set up an anonymous shell company online in less than 10 minutes.
"It is important to remember that freezing assets is only the first step in a long complex process that should result in any ill-gotten gain being returned to the public purse," Khmara said. "The freeze is a good sign, but it raises big questions about the international financial system. Every time a head of state falls to public protests, we seem to see assets being frozen in other countries."
Associated Press writers George Jahn in Vienna and Geir Moulson and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report.
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Sciences of 'racial' difference
In the 1800s anthropology, comparative anatomy and anthropometry examined human difference using 'race'. However, assumptions of European superiority influenced how data were collected and interpreted. Now discredited, the conclusions of these studies were considered mainstream science at the time. Only a few critics pointed to the racism of the underlying assumptions.
From the 1700s, Europeans encountered different groups through exploration, trade and imperial expansion. They looked to for ways assess and understand human differences. Human origin debates were linked to questions of inherent differences between communities and their potential. In the second half of the 1800s, Charles Darwin's work on evolution was used to argue that some 'races' were at different points on the evolutionary 'ladder'. They were assumed to have inborn differences in ability. This thinking relied on inheritance and biology to explain difference, and was used to justify European imperialism.
Nazi Germany's quest for racial purity was the most extreme. Those considered biologically 'undesirable', notably Jewish and Roma people, homosexual men and women, and individuals with disabilities, were systematically exterminated.
In the 1950s, UNESCO rejected the idea of 'races' with inherent differences between them. Many scientists abandoned the idea of race. There is variation within the human population, however there are more genetic differences between individuals within a population than between different populations.
Increasingly within medical science, especially genetics, differences between ethnic groups are examined. These efforts try to target hereditary diseases which are more common in some populations. However, controversies, such as that over the heredity of IQ in the United States in the 1990s, demonstrate that ideas about racial difference still haunt science.
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N L Stepan, The Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain 1800-1960 (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1982)
E Barkan, The retreat of scientific racism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
DJ Kevles, In The Name of Eugenics: genetics and the uses of human hereditary (Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1995)
W Anderson, Cultivating Whiteness: Science, health and Racial Destiny in Australia (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002)
G Stocking Jr, Race, Culture and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1982)
S Lindqvist, The Skull Measurer's Mistake: And Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism (New York: New Press, 1997)
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Greenpeace Africa's latest report 'Water Hungry Coal: Burning South Africa's water to produce electricity' will be released on the 17th of October.
South Africa is a water scarce country facing an impending water crisis. According to the National Water Act (Act no. 36 of 1998) the government, as trustee of the nation's water resources, must allocate water equitably, and in the public interest. These allocation decisions are becoming more and more crucial against the backdrop of an impending water crisis, which makes transparency and accountability in the water sector even more important. However, there is a serious lack of transparency regarding the allocation of water, water management plans and water licences in South Africa.
South Africa's electricity utility is the country's only strategic water user. This means that Eskom gets first priority in water use come hell or high water.
Ironically, burning coal to produce electricity is an incredibly water intensive process, with a number of serious implications for both water quantity and quality. In one second, Eskom uses the same amount of water as a single person would use within one year, based on access to the minimum 25 litres of water per day. This means that Eskom's new coal-fired power stations will use substantial amounts of water, putting South Africa's water resources at risk, and increasing the potential for future conflicts over water.
There are very effective alternatives to coal, but there are no alternatives to water.
This report builds on the earlier report 'Coal's hidden water cost for South Africa' released in June.
The people of South Africa have a right to know how scarce water supplies are being allocated, used and polluted. The report highlights issues around lack of accountability and transparency in the water and electricity sector as a result of Eskom's coal addiction, and the country's coal expansion. In addition, the report finds that implementing an Energy [R]evolution and shifting away from coal towards renewable energy and energy efficiency would save substantial amounts of scarce water.
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Dole Ocean Cargo Express is the name of the transportation division of Dole — the world's largest producer of bananas and pineapples, and also a producer of packaged salads and vegetables. The Jacksonville, Florida-based company dates back to the late 1800s, when Standard Fruit Co., the predecessor to Dole Food Co., began shipping bananas into North America.
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Coyle, Bryzgalov Lead Wild Past Jets 1-0
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Charlie Coyle scored in the second period and Ilya Bryzgalov made 24 saves as the Minnesota Wild defeated the Winnipeg Jets 1-0 on Monday night.
Coyle's one-timer off a pass from Zach Parise at 1:05 of the second came just after a penalty to Winnipeg defenseman Mark Stuart had expired.
The Wild closed in on a playoff berth in the Western Conference with the win. Minnesota would need to lose its final three games with Phoenix winning four straight in order for the Wild to miss the playoffs.
Bryzgalov wasn't bothered by a taunting crowd as the trade-deadline pickup from Edmonton earned his fourth shutout of the season.
The Jets' Michael Hutchinson, a 24-year-old rookie who began the season in the ECHL, made his first career NHL start with regular backup Al Montoya still dealing with a lower-body injury. His only blemish on 17 shots came on Coyle's one-timer.


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He is a most unlikely revolutionary: a middle-aged, middle-class former grammar schoolboy who honed his radicalism on the mean streets of rural Shropshire. So how did this very British iconoclast manage to snatch the leadership of a party he spent forty years rebelling against? Who is he and where did he come from? And what exactly happened over the space of an extraordinary summer to propel an old lefty called Jeremy to inspire and excite hundreds of thousands of people, and breathe new life into the socialist ideals that he, almost alone, has held true to for so many years?
On 1 April 1965, a new system of city government is introduced and London's thirty-two boroughs are born, revolutionising the capital into the place we know today. These boroughs and the Greater London Council took control of housing, roads, planning, schools and social services. Half a century on and, though the GLC was abolished in 1986, the boroughs live on, now working alongside a new metropolitan government headed by mayors Ken Livingstone and, since 2008, Boris Johnson. In London's Boroughs at 50, Tony Travers examines the governing system that developed alongside the growing metropolis.
Despite his tenure of three of the four Great Offices of State, his popularity with the electorate and the revolutionary 1944 Education Act that bears his name, Richard Austen 'Rab' Butler narrowly missed out on the premiership on three separate occasions. In this insightful biography of the great nearly-man of British politics, Michael Jago looks to answer whether Rab Butler really was 'The Best Prime Minister We Never Had'.
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The uprisings in Syria and other Middle Eastern countries, which are receiving considerable media attention, invite comparison to America's struggle for freedom and independence during the Revolutionary War ("Showdown looms in Syria," July 28).
The rebels in Syria share the same aspirations should they win their battle against Syrian President Bashar Assad's government by gaining control of the city of Aleppo. To assure their victory, President Obama and the U.S. have an obligation to assist the Syrian rebels in their fight.
What a grand world this would be if all these turbulent countries could establish a democratic form of government.
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A service for the whole family with children's programmes for ages 0-13. Our worship has a contemporary and relaxed feel, whilst following an Anglican structure. We encounter God through music, biblical preaching and sharing bread and wine.
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This is a continuation of the story of my family history related trip to Hawaii for the past two weeks. I'm skipping over the cruise we took for seven days (you can read a short version in yesterday's post), and I'll recount our days on the island of Oahu. After leaving the ship we checked into another hotel on Waikiki beach, and then immediately rented a car to get to the Bishop Museum.
The Bishop museum was built in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop in memory of his wife, the Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, hanai (foster) sister to Queen Lili'uokalani and last descendant of the royal Kamehameha family. There is a large collection of the royal family memorabilia on the third floor of Hawaiian Hall, and more about the monarchy on the first floor. The entire museum is a complex of several buildings spread over a large campus.
We decided to go to the museum library first, since we had limited time. Please note that only fifteen researchers are allowed into the library at a time, and at our first attempt the seats were full. We had to check back over time to see if anyone had left. So we went back to Hawaiian Hall to see the Polynesian collections. This was a wonderful exhibit, and should be the starting point to anyone's visit to the island of Oahu. All types of artifacts relating to Polynesian society, art, culture and history were represented in the displays.
After Hawaiian Hall, we were able to get into the library. We met Desoto Brown, who had been part of the panel discussion about the movie "Princess Kaiulani" the previous week, and he led us to some original documents in the collection including the marriage certificate of John Owen Dominis and Lili'uoklani, and several letters written from Sarah White Lee in Boston to the Queen. It seems that part of the Queen's documents have been donated to the Bishop Museum, so anyone researching at the Hawaii State Archives for letter, correspondence, etc. might want to also check the Bishop Library finding aids, too. Desoto Brown said that the Queen's diaries were also divided between the State Archives and the Bishop Museum, but I didn't have time to look at them.
We still had time after leaving the library to see a special exhibit on surfboards, from antiques two hundred years old (or more!) to fiberglass boards built in the 1950s. It was interesting to read that the New England missionaries had banned surfing as well as hula dancing, and so this sport was almost lost to the ages in the last century. We also visited the fairly new science center and its fascinating exhibits on volcanoes and Hawaiian geology. The museum was closing early that Saturday due to an event, so we had to make time to check out the books in the gift shop.
There was time after dinner for a stroll on Wailkiki Beach, to see the surfers and sunbathers and take in the views of Diamond Head. We listened to music by a Hawaiian band at the hotel's rooftop pool café, and had one of those rum drinks that come in a pineapple, completely decorated with slices of fruit and paper umbrellas! After all, this was a vacation trip!
This is the statue of Prince Jonah Kuhio we found on Waikiki Beach. He was the first native Hawaiian and the only person born of royalty to ever serve in the US House of Representatives (1903 until his death in 1922). His birthday March 26th is celebrated as Prince Jonah Kuhio Day every year and is a state holiday.
For more information:
http://www.bishopmuseum.org/ The website for Hawaii's Bishop Museum, including the link to the library collections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_K%C5%ABhi%C5%8D_Kalaniana A wikipedia biography of Prince Jonah Kuhio
Copyright 2010, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Genealogy Trip to Hawaii- Day Three
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Really enjoying reading about your trip!!ReplyDelete
I think I was sitting across from you when you were at the library. I remember because someone said the name DeSoto Brown and it made me notice since I recognized that name. I heard him talking to a lady (you) about Liliuokalani. I was there researching Queen Emma, but of course my ears perked up when the experts start talking about the ali'i. I went there on a saturday cause I'm off and wanted to look at their Ku images exhibit.ReplyDelete
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Jan. 4, 2008
Head Coach Michelle Bento-Jackson:
On tonight's game:
"Tonight we gave great effort throughout the game. We remained focused even with our backs against the wall. I'm proud of my team for that focus they kept as Bakersfield took the lead."
On the start of conference play:
"As a team we have had a lot of ups and downs in the preseason. But with that said, we did make a lot of strides. But we still need to work on consistency in many key aspects of our game, including our half court defense. We made a lot of strides in the game against Fullerton and we have great competition ahead of us in the conference portion of our schedule."
On Bakersfield:
"We knew they were going to present us with a lot of problems. They have a lot of players on the court that hurt our offensive play."
On Chandice Cronk's performance in the final minutes of the game:
"She made a lot of big shots tonight. Whatever we call her to do, she does a good job of doing it. She really helped to get us going in the end."
On Jen Gottschalk's first half game:
"Jen had a great first half for us. She brought a lot of energy to the game in the first half. Unfortunately in the second half she fell into some foul trouble, but she remained focused and from wherever she was, on the court or on the bench, she kept the energy and intensity going."


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This is my Great Uncle George (1881 – 1970), brother to my Grandmother Lucy. He was the first of my London Dartnells to move to Hampshire and met a Hampshire lass and stayed there!! I met him only a few times as a child, but sadly do not remember him really.
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Former "American Idol" judge (and rumored "X Factor" judge) Paula Abdul had quite a fierce night on Saturday in West Hollywood, Calif.
Paula was spotted partying with gay adult film director/drag queen Chi Chi LaRue at Jeffrey Sanker's RED Nightclub at HERE Lounge in West Hollywood.
Paula also mingled with Girl Bar & Dinah Shore producer Sandy Sachs, who was the inspiration behind the "L Word's" Dawn Dembo character.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, on Tuesday Simon Cowell would not confirm or deny that Paula was headed to his new reality performance competition.
"You'll have to wait and see Ryan…you'll have to wait and see," Simon coyly said during an interview with Seacrest on Tuesday morning on KIIS FM's "On Air with Ryan Seacrest." He continued, "Interestingly, since we made the announcement, everyone has been on the phone."
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