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The BST called for Airtronics to design, fabricate and install 16 special 19-in. equipment racks to house the charging units; fan-tray and fire-suppression systems; and HVAC and duct systems. Airtronics also designed and installed AC prime power distribution wiring, and fabricated and installed four weather-worthy cable containment boxes beneath the trailer, each box holding a 250-lb. power cable.
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Four years ago, a coalition led by American forces invaded the Central Asian nation of Khaoistan, where warlords had destroyed the central
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Christine O'Donnell, the Republican upstart who tried to turn things upside-down in Delaware politics but ended up at the bottom, says she may write a book. She may even run again. The one thing the 41-year-old darling of the Tea Party movement won't do, she told TODAY's Meredith Vieira Friday, is apologize for going up against her party — even though she may have cost the GOP a seat in a United States Senate deemed up for grabs.
Party leaders are blaming O'Donnell for the election of Chris Coons, a Democrat, by a wide margin. Running with Sarah Palin's support, O'Donnell surprised everyone when she wrested the GOP nomination away from U.S. Rep. Michael Castle during the party's primary in September.
"That's bruised egos," O'Donnell said of party leaders who complained she "couldn't be elected dogcatcher" and was only serving as a "spoiler" for other Republican candidates.
"These are excuses," O'Donnell continued, holding up Republican strategist Karl Rove as an example of one party leader she believes should have done more to help her campaign after she won the GOP primary in Delaware.
Related: 10 things you didn't know about Christine O'Donnell
Appearing earlier on TODAY, Rove had said O'Donnell deserves some of the blame for her loss for failing to admit early in the campaign that a bank began a foreclosure action because she couldn't pay the mortgage. Initially, she blamed the filing on a "technicality."
What happens to O'Donnell now is up to her, Rove said.
Busting things up
But O'Donnell said her campaign would have been more formidable if she had gotten more attention and help from the party. The reason she didn't, she said, is because "what we did was bust up the backroom deals, put the political process back in the hands of the people. The voters of Delaware chose me as opposed to whom the party anointed … For so many decades, it's all been about whom has been groomed and anointed."
Asked whether she felt let down by Tea Party firebrand Sarah Palin, who did not make any in-person campaign appearances with her, O'Donnell blamed a "scheduling conflict." She said that via the media, Palin did come to her aid several times when O'Donnell came under fire. "She did what a lot of other Republican leaders should have done," O'Donnell said.
But despite her defeat in Delaware, which is not her first, O'Donnell said she learns from her setbacks. For example, she regrets putting out the now-infamous "I am not a witch" commercial to counter an old television clip in which she admitted dabbling in witchcraft.
Related: Learn more about Christine O'Donnell at BLTWY
She said that if the party leadership had supported her, someone no doubt would have counseled her against the "I am not a witch" TV spot.
"I don't know if I'm going to run again, but in the short term, there is a lot of destructive policy coming up in the lame-duck session," O'Donnell said. "I'd like to continue to be an advocate for those in Delaware."
O'Donnell received 40 percent of the vote in Tuesday's balloting. Senator-elect Coons received 57 percent of the vote.


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Do you manage your own investment funds? If so, you're in a club that continues to grow in size, despite the fact that the recent market rally has left many investors unconvinced.
Recent data found that online brokers, the most common home for retail investors, have gained three percentage points of market share, representing a 19% annual growth rate, while wire houses like Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have lost 1.1 points.
Other retail brokerages, companies that manage money on behalf of clients, lost four percentage points in the same period.
If more individuals are electing to invest their money on their own, why is this happening on such a large scale?
2008 and 2009 proved to be a wakeup call for consumers. They found that their money was at serious risk and the people they trusted to guard their funds were just as surprised as they were. In their mind, they were paying big fees for very little protection, leading them to believe that they could do a better job managing their own money.
With the events of the Great Recession still fresh in their minds, according to an article in Investment News, a trade publication for financial advisers, retail customers feel like they are in better control of their money if they manage it on their own.
Better Research
Thanks to the Internet, retail investors have access to more information than ever. The information not only includes earnings reports and stock quotes, but educational content from the world's top investors. Not only does the individual investor have access to much of the same information as the pros, finding relevant information is easy.
If you don't know where to look, there are plenty of educational articles that tell you how to sift through the huge volume of information.
Financial Media
Love it or hate it, the amount of media outlets dedicated to the financial markets continues to increase, and they have become a 24-hour-per-day presence. Even if you're not close to a TV, their smartphone apps and breaking news notifications allow the investor to stay up-to-date, regardless of where they are.
Some experts argue that the financial media encourages irresponsible behavior like noise trading, without the knowledge to be profitable, but there's no doubt that this relatively new source of information has caught the eye of investors of all levels.
Popularity of ETFs
There are now more than 1,000 exchange traded funds on the market. ETFs offer the retail investor a low-cost way to diversify their portfolio without having to use mutual funds. There are ETFs for all sectors of the market, allowing broad diversification to be achieved without professional level knowledge.
Social Media
How would you like to run your trades past other traders or well-known professionals? Social media has allowed for great communication amongst traders. Social media has allowed for greater communication between individuals in the market.
Most discount brokers now have robust message boards and real-time chat platforms, allowing the trader to gain valuable input before committing real money. Other social media platforms like StockTwits and Facebook provide real-time information.
The Bottom Line
The retail investor is gaining ground, but a tool is only as effective as the person using it. Many discount brokers offer virtual or paper trading accounts where the new investor can trade fake money until they have the experience to manage their own funds.
Some argue that the oversimplification of stock market information leads investors to believe that managing assets is easy and that may lead to significant losses.
Retail investors without the knowledge and experience to effectively manage their investments should still leave retirement funds to those who understand portfolio management.
DON'T MISS: This Web tool teaches tweens how to use money responsibly >
This story was originally published by Investopedia.


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USO Troupe Arrives in Qatar for Show at Al Udeid
By Jim Garamone DoD News, Defense Media Activity
AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar, Dec. 6, 2016 - The joint was rocking today as the Chairman's 2016 USO Holiday Tour arrived to entertain and thank service members based here.
The air base is a hub for U.S. efforts in the U.S. Central Command region and hosts about 10,000 American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. Aircraft based here provide close-air support to indigenous forces taking on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Tangible Sign
The base is also a tangible sign of U.S. support in a troubled region. It also hosts the U.S. Central Command forward headquarters.
The USO troupe -- actors Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans; Olympic Gold Medalist Maya DiRado, NBA legend Ray Allen, Country Music star Craig Campbell and Mentalist Jim Karol --visited with units and service members at the base before taking the stage.
They also visited a bomber unit that provides precision support to forces operating in Iraq and Syria. They got a demonstration from soldiers manning a Patriot anti-missile battery that protects the base. They met with medics and security force personnel. And they watched Ttoby -- not a misprint -- and his handler demonstrate how a military working dog team takes down a threat.
Taste of Home
The thousands service members based here are not going home for the holidays, and the USO show is a way to give them a "taste of home," the chairman said. Some of the service members are here on a two-year tour. Others are rotational. But all serve. "The reason why we're here, is to do nothing more and nothing less than to thank you for who you are and what you do," Dunford said. "I want you to know that what you are doing here is appreciated."
The chairman stressed to the crowd that the performers volunteered to come to the Middle East to show service members that America remembers them and cherishes them. "We met the team late in the afternoon at Andrews Air Force Base on Sunday," Dunford said. "They hadn't met each other before. All they knew was they had volunteered to come out here to let you know how much what you do is appreciated."
The team flew all night in a C-17 Globemaster III to Incirlik where they got off the plane and went immediately into meetings with troops and learning about their missions, the chairman continued. Then, they put on a show.
"We got them up early this morning and flew here and they have been engaging with you," he said. "Talk about folks trying to take care of you."
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The Rockets suspended Royce White today for "refusing to provide services" required by his contract, something that White has been staunchly refusing to do roughly since the season began. He's spent the last few months on the inactive list after repeatedly declining to play for the Rockets D-League affiliate; the last games he participated in were during the preseason, and the last he attended was Houston's Nov. 9 game in Memphis. (White, who suffers from a fear of flying, took a bus.)
Though White had floated the nuclear option in November, he sounded more conciliatory this week when a SirusXM radio host asked him whether he would ever play in the NBA—White responded that the "chances are very high." Among his statements during that interview, as transcribed by TrueHoop's Henry Abbott:
The reality is that it is not Houston's fault. As much as we always want to try and blame one side or the other and try and find the black and white in it, it's not black and white. It's gray. And they've been thrown into a position now where they're forced to make things up as they go because a protocol has not been put in place for mental health up until this point. And that's tough for anybody to do. If there were no safety or health codes on how to construct a building, the people who are going to try to build a building tomorrow are going to be in trouble.
It's not exactly clear how the suspensions will affect White's activities—now he'll stay extra home?—but it's possible the Rockets have freed themselves of some financial responsibility, and as White suggests, the suspension may help foster the impression that it's the player, not the team, that's more accountable for the failure to come to an agreement.


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Today, 103 commercial nuclear power plants in the United States supply about 20 percent of the Nation's electricity each year. Located at 64 sites in 31 states, these nuclear power plants are the second largest source of electricity in the U.S.
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Be Part of a Growing Work Force
Careers in the nuclear energy industry offer challenging work, competitive salaries and benefits, and opportunities for advancement. Nuclear professionals help to protect the environment by supporting the nation's fleet of emission-free nuclear power plants, which provide nearly 20 percent of U.S. electricity.
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Nuclear utilities and other nuclear energy companies need workers across a broad range of disciplines. Opportunities exist for a variety of engineers, technicians, skilled trade and technology workers, and others.
See the links to U.S. universities and community colleges that offer programs in nuclear technologies. Search for programs by region of the country.
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Nuclear energy scholarships and fellowships are available through industry educational assistance programs, a professional organization and the federal government. Leading nuclear energy companies offer summer and year-round internships at their facilities.
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These descriptions of typical jobs in the nuclear energy industry range from entry-level positions to mid-career opportunities for experienced workers, as well as opportunities for those entering the civilian work force following military service.
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Job opportunities at nuclear power plants and nuclear energy facilities are available around the country. Choose a region-the West Coast, Rockies, Southwest, Midwest, Northeast and Southeast-and explore the possibilities.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Having been already named to the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) All-Academic Team, Georgia College baseball's junior outfielder Heine Rivera (Fayetteville, Ga.) added another honor recently of Capital One Academic All-District.
Rivera earned an outfield spot on the District 3 list for Division II, including baseball players in the PBC, South Atlantic Conference and Conference Carolinas.
Owning a 3.68 GPA in biology, Rivera was a top pinch-hit and pinch-running option for the Bobcats this season, playing in 33 games with 15 starts. He hit .262 with 12 runs scored and seven RBI. The outfielder is also a perfect 4-for-4 in stolen base attempts.
Rivera now moves on to the national Division II ballot, with Academic All-American winners to be announced later this month. He is just the fourth GC baseball player to earn district honors, the last being Bryan Shaughnessy in 2007.
Bobcat baseball recently finished up the 2012 season, going 29-21 with a 19-10 PBC mark, good for a PBC West Division title. GC landed three on the all-conference teams, with Travis Echols (Suwanee, Ga.) and Cody Maas (Alpharetta, Ga.) taking first team, and reliever Matt LaMothe (Troy, Mich.) landing on the second.
The Capital One Division II and III Academic AllâAmerica® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2011â12 DII and DIII Academic AllâAmerica® teams program.
Capital One, an NCAA Corporate Champion, began its affiliation with college sports with the sponsorship of the 2001 Capital One Florida Citrus Bowl (now the Capital One Bowl) and ESPN's Capital One Bowl Week. In 2010, Capital One launched the Capital One Cup, a prestigious new program rewarding NCAA Division I athletics programs for their cumulative onâfield performance across multiple men's and women's sports. In addition, Capital One sponsors the ABC College Football Halftime Report, Capital One Allâ America Mascot Team, all 88 NCAA Championships including the Division I Men's and Women's Basketball Championships, and numerous other collegiate athletics programs.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information.


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Caldes de Malavella
Prats Spa Resort
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Plaza San Esteve 7
17455 Caldes de Malavella, Girona (Catalonia)
Tel.:+34 972470051
It was in the mid 19th century that these waters were declared to be for public use. In order to access the Spa, you need to go through a big Neoclassical arch and cross the gardens that lie in front of the façade. The building is Neoclassical and its lounges, corridors and rooms still exude an air of romanticism.
- Therapeutic treatments: Anti-stress treatment, Beauty treatments, Circulatory system problems, Digestive problems, Respiratory disorders, Rheumatic complaints
- More therapies: Obesity Arthrosis
- Techniques: Bath, Circular shower, Hand baths, Inhalations, Manual massage, Parafangos, Paraffin, Pressure jet, Sauna, Scottish shower, Swimming pool
- More techniques: Thermal swimming-pool Clay Underwater massage
- Characteristics of the water: Alcaline, Bicarbonated waters, Fluoride, Lithium, Sodium-rich


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Last week's first presidential debate, with its invoking of Big Bird and widely panned performances by President Obama and moderator Jim Lehrer, unleashed the campaign's biggest flood of comedy since Clint Eastwood's August impromptu chat with a chair at the Republican National Convention.
Thanks largely to social media, campaign-inspired comedy appears to be flowing faster than in any past presidential race. Eastwood's GOP speech quickly sprouted Internet memes (including "Eastwooding" – pictures of people speaking to empty chairs). Parody Twitter accounts @FiredBigBird and @SilentJimLehrer appeared even before Lehrer could finally get in the final words – "Thank you and good night" – capping last Wednesday's Obama-Romney contest.
The late night comedians also weighed in as fast as they could. Romney "fired Big Bird and won!" Jon Stewart declared in exasperation on "The Daily Show" Thursday. "He could have water-boarded Aladdin, put down Blue, deported Dora the Explorer and still won walking away."
"SNL" devoted three segments to the debate – a cold opening (in which Obama is distracted by an inner monologue about forgetting to buy an anniversary gift), a MSNBC spoof (in which Obama's debate performance is treated like an unfathomable national disaster) and, of course, "Weekend Update" (which featured an appearance by Big Bird).
Others turned to Lehrer, criticized by some as ineffectual, as a humor source. David Letterman offered a list of "Top Ten Signs You Have A Bad Debate Moderator" (No. 5: "Barely stops clipping his fingernails to ask a question.") Jimmy Fallon, meanwhile, did a pretty good imitation of Romney as he constantly interrupted Lehrer, admonishing him "Hush child!" – and far worse.
On "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert, in the guise of his conservative pundit character, turned up the volume, taking a victory lap through the audience to a booming recording of "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now." "He hasn't done this poorly since he debated Clint Eastwood," Colbert said of Obama.
Obama will get another chance to joust with Romney next week. Both men also will be among the tens of millions set to watch Biden, whose outspokenness and unpredictability often makes him a subject of parody, debate Ryan, a lesser-known quantity on the satire circuit. In the meantime, keep your shirt on and check out some of our favorite debate-generated comedy clips from the last week:
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Look In/Look OUt!! March 10, 2010
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Look In Look Out-exhibition of portraiture will be exhibited June- July 2010 in Takoma Park,MD. The exhibit will explore the multi-layered aspects of seeing and being seen as related to mental illness and/or trauma. We are seeking a dialogue about art, portraiture and states of mind, be it through artwork or poetry. We are seeking donations of faxed or emailed or uploaded portraits to be included on our wall of faces during the exhibition. : www.studiodownstairs.org


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This is an excerpt from Running Anatomy by Joe Puleo and Dr. Patrick Milroy.
Other than with strength training, how can running form and performance be improved? Because running has a neuromuscular component, running form can be improved through form drills that coordinate the movements of the involved anatomy. The drills, developed by coach Gerard Mach in the 1950s, are simple to perform and cause little impact stress to the body. Essentially, the drills, commonly referred to as the ABCs of running, isolate the phases of the gait cycle: knee lift, upper leg motion, and pushoff. By isolating each phase and slowing the movement, the drills, when properly performed, aid the runner's kinesthetic sense, promote neuromuscular response, and emphasize strength development. A properly performed drill should lead to proper running form because the former becomes the latter, just at a faster velocity. Originally these drills were designed for sprinters, but they can be used by all runners. Drills should be performed once or twice a week and can be completed in 15 minutes. Focus on proper form.
The A motion (figure 3.2; the movement can be performed while walking or more dynamically as the A skip or A run) is propelled by the hip flexors and quadriceps. Knee flexion occurs, and the pelvis is rotated forward. The arm carriage is simple and used to balance the action of the lower body as opposed to propelling it. The arm opposite to the raised leg is bent 90 degrees at the elbow, and it swings forward and back like a pendulum, the shoulder joint acting as a fulcrum. The opposite arm is also moving simultaneously in the opposite direction. Both hands should be held loosely at the wrist joints and should not be raised above shoulder level. The emphasis is on driving down the swing leg, which initiates the knee lift of the other leg.
The B motion (figure 3.3) is dependent on the quadriceps to extend the leg and the hamstrings to drive the leg groundward, preparing for the impact phase. In order, the quadriceps extend the leg from the position of the A motion to potential full extension, and then the hamstrings group acts to forcefully drive the lower leg and foot to the ground. During running the tibialis anterior dorsiflexes the ankle, which positions the foot for the appropriate heel landing; however, while performing the B motion, dorsiflexion should be minimized so that the foot lands closer to midstance. This allows for less impact solely on the heel, and because the biomechanics of the foot are not involved as in running, it does not promote any forefoot injuries.
The final phase of the running gait cycle is dominated by the hamstrings. Upon impact, the hamstrings continue to contract, not to limit the extension of the leg but to pull the foot upward, under the glutes, to begin another cycle. The emphasis of this exercise (figure 3.4) is to pull the foot up, directly under the buttocks, shortening the arc and the length of time performing the phase so that another stride can be commenced. This exercise is performed rapidly, in staccato-like bursts. The arms are swinging quickly, mimicking the faster movement of the legs, and the hands come a little higher and closer to the body than in either the A or B motions. A more pronounced forward lean of the torso, similar to the body position while sprinting, helps to facilitate this motion.
This is an excerpt from Running Anatomy.
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Nikon Coolpix P510
£400 europe-nikon.com
Nikon's new 16.1MP bridge camera comes with a 42x optical lens that'll pick out Usain Bolt's nostril hairs if you need it to. The P510 zooms from a respectable 24mm to a frankly incredible 1,000mm; perfect for grabbing a screen-filling close-up from the back seat of a stadium. Picture quality is excellent with rich colour tones and impeccable sharpness throughout the frame. As a do-it-all workhorse, with HD video on board, the P510 should tick all your summer spectator boxes.
Pure Move 2500
£90 pure.com
Tune into sport commentaries with this pocket-sized DAB/FM radio. The 2500 provides up to 14 hours of portable listening and comes with a decent pair of in-ear noise-cancelling headphones. If you're used to iPods, you'll like the mirrored steel back and front click-wheel and even though DAB radios tend to produce alien noises when the signal's weak, this one's better than most. Besides, you always have hissy FM to fall back on.
Sony PJ200E Handycam
£400 sony.co.uk
Sony's titchy touchscreen PJ200 is an impressive piece of kit for the money making it the ideal accessory for any cash-strapped spectators. Its smooth, variable 25x optical zoom takes you to the heart of the action and when you're back home, you can import the 1080p video to a Mac or PC, plug the Handycam into a telly via the HDMI port or – get this – project the footage direct from the camera to a blank wall. Perfect bragging gear.
Leica Monovid 8x20 monocular
£350 uk.leica-camera.com
This single-eye 8x20 monocular might not provide the three-dimensional image you'd get from binoculars, but it's so small and portable and provides such a crisp magnified view we reckon you'll grow attached to it pretty quickly. The additional screw-in close-up lens transforms the Monovid into a crystal-clear magnifying glass. Mind you, this level of class doesn't come cheap.
Fastime 14 stopwatch
£45, astopwatch.co.uk
If you're a motor-sport fan, a basic sub-£10 stopwatch just won't cut it – you'll need one that does more than just record a single lap. The Fastime 14 will not only time your favourite driver at an F1 race, it's also perfectly suited to multi-lap timing at the athletics come summer. Despite a scary amount of buttons, the Fastime 14 is actually quite easy to get your head around. No, really.
Canon 600D
£570 (body only) canon.co.uk
Canon's award-winning 600D is not quite as robustly built as its 550D predecessor but the new 18MP CMOS sensor and vari-angle 3in LCD screen are great improvements. For that elusive long-shot, lose the 18-135mm and splash out on Canon's 70mm-300mm USM lens and you'll zoom right in on the action. The lens's excellent two-mode image stabiliser keeps blur to a minimum, its AF is near-instantaneous and the picture quality is commendably sharp. Of course, it shoots HD video, too.
Toshiba Camileo B10
The shiny, phone-sized Toshiba Camileo B10 doesn't have many bells and whistles, but as a budget pocket camcorder it performs well enough at capturing 1080p video – if you avoid taking its jerky 16x digital zoom to its extremity. As an alternative to draining your smartphone's battery, the Camileo B10 does what it says on the box, and at a nice price too. Pretty handy once your beach volleyball ticket payments have gone through.
PostureLite self-inflating seat pad
£20, manageathome.co.uk
You wouldn't catch us picking up one of these seat-pads in a bricks and mortar store but it could be the one item your body thanks you for – especially if you're perched watching a long, drawn-out cricket match or a 67-lap F1 race. The PostureLite's built-in vacuum valve lets you choose the amount of padding to suit your posterior and you can unscrew the valve while sitting on it to deflate the pad again. A genuine spectator essential.
Panasonic Lumix GF5
GF5 £660, 100mm-300mm lens £560 panasonic.co.uk
Ditch the 14-42mm kit lens that comes with Panny's latest 12MP Micro Four Thirds cam and pair the GF5 with a Lumix 100mm-300mm lens for some diminutive, SLR-grade sports snapping. The combination may look (and feel) ridiculous but you should end up with some stunning close-up shots. Instantaneous focussing, full HD video and a brilliant 3in touchscreen complete a cool but pricey package.
Nikon Sportstar binoculars
£135, london2012.com
Not one to miss a trick, Nikon has just launched a pair of binoculars emblazoned with the London 2012 Olympic logo. The Sportstars could never compete against the more expensive Swarovskis and Leicas of this world but for size, practicality and price they're pretty good value. The Sportstars offer 10x magnification and a decent field-of-view for getting up close, whether it's tracking Jessica Ennis' javelin from the other side of the stadium or following your favourite horse round Aintree.
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In case you have been living under a rock (I know it's not under my rock), here is your notice that Summit 2012 is just a few days away at this point.
I will soon be boarding a jet bound for Seattle for a week full of all things SQL. When I say all things SQL – there isn't much exaggeration to it.
During my week at summit, I will be busy from pre-dawn to post-dusk every day. That is not an atypical experience for Summit – but the reality hit me firmly as I finalized my daily schedule for next week.
Since I put it together, I decided to share it so others may see all that may be available to them.
I arrive Sunday. That evening after getting settled in, I plan to join the MCM study group (and maybe have the Sunday night NFL game on in the background).
Monday is a free day of learning hosted by Red Gate and their SQL in the City series. You can see the agenda here. After the event there is the after event social party. That party overlaps with the Networking Dinner hosted by Andy Warren (twitter) and Steve Jones (twitter) at Gordon Biersch. This dinner is a pre-registration event (as is SQL in the City). You can register here (if they have slots available).
Tuesday is a big day. Tuesday I will be taking the MCM Lab exam in the morning. Upon completion I hope to decompress for a few hours prior to the evening events. In the evening we have the Welcome reception/Quiz Bowl sponsored by SQL Sentry. Immediately following that, there are two events at the same time. The first is the Speaker/Volunteer party. The other is another Red Gate event – The Exceptional DBA Awards and SQLServerCentral party. For those from the US, this is also Election Tuesday. I hope for those from out of town you voted early or are sending in an absentee ballot.
Wednesday we jump into the sessions that I planned on attending (XE, SQLOS and Perf Tuning on my docket). But in addition to those sessions, I will be at the Apress booth (booth 342) from 12:30 – 1:00 and Wayne Sheffield (twitter) representing our book. And before anything even gets going Wednesday, I will also be at the Summit Community Zone from 7AM to 8AM. In the evening there is the Exhibitor Reception. And for anybody into Karaoke – you can do either of the two Karaoke events at about 9PM that evening. Don't forget to wear your SQL Saturday shirt(s) on Wednesday.
Thursday I will be at the Community Zone again from 7AM to 8AM. If you have a kilt – wear it Thursday. I plan on attending the Query Tuning Mastery, Transaction Isolation Levels, and Recovering Lost Data sessions on Thursday. That brings us to the evening when we have the Community Appreciation Party that runs from 7PM to 10PM.
Friday we are on our last leg wrapping things up and hoping to not be overloaded by this point. The session I am most looking forward to is the last one of the day by Paul White (twitter). I mean who wouldn't want to end summit by attending a deep dive session into the Query Optimizer. In fact I know Wayne Sheffield is presenting during the same time and he was hoping nobody would come to his session so he could attend Paul's session instead. Of course he said that in jest, because he wants to do his presentation. But at the same time he really wants to get to Paul's session. At the conclusion of this session, my agenda is concluded leaving Friday night my only open night.
I am looking forward to meeting you and chatting. If you see me, say hi. But please don't try to interrupt my exam. 😉


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Additional $11.862 million in federal funds appropriated for MKAEC
UH Hilo Home > News and Events > UH Hilo Press Releases
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Contact: George Jacob, (808) 933-3917
For Immediate Release
The University of Hawai`i at Hilo's Mauna Kea Astronomy Education Center (MKAEC) project recently received an appropriation of $11.862 million in federal funds, announced Project Director George Jacob. The appropriation
covers over 80 percent of the estimated design and construction costs. The selection of Taisei Construction Corporation, Durrant Media Five and Hilo-based Oda-McCarty Architects toward design-build services for the $28 million world-class interpretive center was announced earlier this month.
Taisei Construction Corporation and their partners have been involved with an array of large and medium sized projects, including the Tokyo Stadium, Sapporo Dome, Tama Rokutu Science Center, Shinjuku Kyouiku Center, Fureai Science Center and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and in Hawai`i, the Bishop Museum Science Center, Wainaku Executive Center, UH Hilo Student Housing and Subaru Telescope's base facility.
"There are many moving parts to this effort and seven teams will be working on different aspects of this complex project to bring MKAEC to fruition," Jacob said. "Designing a facility that is culturally sensitive, academically sound and visually stunning in line with the institutional mission is vital to the visitor experience.
"MKAEC will showcase the coming together of science and culture as never before attempted in the United States, in a compelling story of human exploration, perseverance and ingenuity in mankind's relentless pursuit of knowledge as it sets sail on a fascinating journey of discovery," he added. The MKAEC is tentatively scheduled to open in early 2005 in the University Park of Science and Technology and will serve as a premier interpretive facility for the world's largest and finest collection of operational astronomical observatories. The 42,000-square-foot Center will include 25,000-square-feet of gallery space, classrooms, and will serve as a
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- David Ferrer came from behind Thursday and earned a place in the quarterfinals of the If Stockholm Open ATP tennis tournament.
Ferrer, No. 3 in the world rankings, suffered two breaks in the first set before rallying for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 win over Jack Sock. Ferrer saw -- and saved -- the only three break points after the first set. Those came in the third set when he was only 14 points in the set.
Ferrer ended up winning more than two-thirds of the points on serve and a healthy 41 percent off Sock's serve.
No. 2-seeded Milos Raonic capped second-round play with a 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) victory over Joachim Johansson. Raonic had 16 aces while losing 12 points in his 10 games serving. He didn't face a break point.
Kenny De Schepper knocked off fourth-seeded Kevin Anderson 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-3. Anderson faced only five break points and lost one. But that was the difference in the third set as De Schepper turned back both of Anderson's break chances in the set.
No. 5-seeded Ernests Gulbis had nine aces in a 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) defeat of Igor Sijsling and seventh-seeded Grigor Dimitrov rolled by Jan-Lennard Struff 6-1, 6-3 in 61 minutes. Also Thursday, Fernando Verdasco beat Jarkko Nieminen 6-2, 3-6 6-3.
Ferrer and Verdasco are paired against each other for Friday as are Gulbis and third-seeded Jerzy Janowicz. Raonic takes on No. 6-seeded Benoit Paire and Dimitrov plays De Schepper in the other quarterfinals Friday.


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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Desperate, or delusional?
Maybe that's why I'm more than willing to scream (type) "PLAYOFFS!" with every September win. Maybe that's why I'm willing to overlook the fact that making up seven games in less than a month is pretty fucking unlikely to happen. Maybe that's why I'm telling myself that a 2.8% shot at the playoffs is nothing to sneeze at. Maybe that's why it's a good thing I was holding a pair of socks in my hand and not the remote during the eighth inning of the weekend series opener in Fenway.
You see, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary (let's call that a pre-emptive strike), I'm trying really hard not to be a douchebag. No, really. You know the type. The type who downplays, or even better, shits on any success the team has - because, you know, it's over and the games don't really matter at this point anyway (see Friscolanti, Michael). I don't want to be a cynical prick, at least no more than I already am. I don't want to cheer for the Kansas City Royals. I want to cheer for the Toronto Blue Jays, 2008 playoff contenders.
Having said all that, if the Jays happen to drop one more game this weekend, fuck it - I'll be cheering for the Toronto Blue Jays, 2009 playoff contenders. I don't give a shit, I've already talked myself into it.
And that's all I have to say about that.....
Mencherson vs Linder
I should know better than to question any managerial decisions during the Gastonian (terminology hat tip) era. I think Cito's earned that free pass given the run he has this team on. And I really kinda sorta maybe agree with holding back young phenoms Lind and Snider from facing the knuckle/shitballer in the opener. But under no circumstances do I want to see the names of Mencherson in place of either (or both) of them for the remainder of the series. That's fair, right?
Curt Schilling continues his quest for supreme douchebaggery
It's been well documented that Curt Schilling is a man among boys in terms of being a d-bag. I mean, I don't think I'm breaking any new ground here. But Schilling's latest rant concerning New York sports fans literally had me laughing out loud.
"They want us to be as bitter and mad and miserable and they are," he said. "And, unfortunately, it's not going to happen."
Are you fucking kidding me, Curt? Seriously? Red Sox Nation doesn't fit the profile of bitter, mad, and miserable? Sons of Sam Horn - ever heard of the site? Actually, I know you have, because I hear you used to post there. In that case - get Van Vonderen on the phone. Someone needs an intervention.
4 comments:
- eyebleaf said...
Delusional is what being a sports fan is all about. I guess Colorado fans were called delusional last year. And Phillies fans well. They laughed last, and loudest. Sure, it's highly unlikely, but that doesn't mean I'll stop believing.
Agree with you completely, Mencherson should be on the bench the rest of the way. Perhaps it was a good move in that Lind and Snider can play both games today, and on Sunday as well.
And why can't Curt Schilling just fucking go away? Mother fucker.
Oh, and respect on the link, bro.
- September 13, 2008 at 6:21 AM
- dave said...
Gaurantee it was so they didn't mess up their swing. And if the knuckleball is off even Mencherson can hit a 65mph floater.
It's funny how I don't want the Jays to lean on Snider next year, I want them to go get a big bat, BUT when he's in the lineup I get a little more confident about our chances because you know he is capable of just crushing it.
I'll take the learning at bats for the anticipation of him catching one.
- September 13, 2008 at 11:31 AM
- dave said...
...for the end of this season, at least. I still want them to bring in a bat.
- September 13, 2008 at 11:32 AM
- Mike said...
Is is too early to deem Snider the real deal? He's murdering it right now.
- September 13, 2008 at 2:12 PM


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I use Free MP3 Recorder to simply record rare tracks from youtube and have for years. There are also other more elaborate and difficult to operate programs that will do this. They take too long. Free MP3 recorder is similar to when I worked in radio, made commercials, used tracks to feed into a master and simply recorded from sources.
Its sad that peer to peer isn't what it was in the Napster era. I took Joel Whitburn's big pop songs from 1955 until around 1999 and just went alphabetically, taking what I liked. Everything that had ever been put on a cd was there. Even stuff from creaky old LPs and even singles were shared in those days. Napster was a renaissance for old, even forgotten songs. I got everything I ever wanted except a few things that no one bothered to turn into mp3s. Today you can find most rare stuff on Youtube and make a sound recording though quality varies. Far more music is available from websites where you simply download anonymously named files. There are around 30 english speaking file-sharing information email lists that I know of who use sendspace and other download file platforms to share literally thousands of tunes at a time. I started to see this six years ago. Some of these tunes may have begun as torrents. When Napster was threatened way back though, sharing peer to peer with its magnificently broad collection of pop and rare music, began to decline. Many people were afraid they'd wind up in court with the RIAA. The four or five years of Napster was a great moment in musical history. Many recordings are in the public domain and one should be able to acquire them at no risk. I never found adequate, serious, rare classical music in those days though I wasn't looking hard for it at the time. Its a shame some variation of file sharing wasn't preserved by government sanction. We're all the poorer for it, now that the music renaissance moment has passed.
This isn't John Malone's Liberty Media is it? That would finally make manifest Rent's claim that the internet truly is for porn.
I read laments about the demise of limewire, but Youtube is the simple way to retrieve mp3s of the rarest songs on the internet anyway and you can get them faster. Perhaps four years ago, clever folks on the net figured out you could simply plug the official artist - title.mp3 formula into google and the search engine would find every instance of that song anywhere on the net. Many times, that would be the file and it was downloadable. This was about the same time that email lists began exchanging information on large compilations that could add to over 1,000 songs downloadable from a single online platform like Sendspace. In the time since, Google has bought Youtube, and now Youtube is the place to look for rare songs that can be transformed into mp3s by simply playing them back on one's computer, using freeware to make an mp3 copy. While I read continuing reportage about the decline of Limeware as a search engine, or the attempt to resuscitate it by hackers, I never read a line about Google's insitutionalization of MP3 collecting at Youtube. What gives?
Using a peer to peer network is now passe anyway. The simplest way to get tunes is to subscribe to MP3 email lists where people trade 'information' suggesting where entire CDS or even multi-CDs are available. The CDs or multi-CDs are then placed on website platforms under names that don't reveals the CD or the artist. The package is downloaded as a rar or a zip. It seems to me one of the downloading programs which typically have free versions and paid for versions to download, is actually under attack by the riaa and selected record companies. The one that is under attack isn't even the biggest uploader/downloader out there. In the space of the two years since this variation got going, people's song collections has boomed to where personal tune collections go over 100,000 tunes and beyond. Downloading one song at a time is so hopelessly 1999, one has to be clueless to bother doing it. But if a tune at a time is what thrills one, the easiest way is to go to youtube and find a good stereo version of the song you're looking for - and youtube has located most of the seriously rare tunes by self selection, maintaining the fiction of a 'video' that is often nothing more than a video of an old style record player playing, or even a still of the artist. With software like free video recorder or a couple of programs that simply record the sound from a video automatically, getting them one song at a time is simple, and the Youtube process can find the rarest stuff on the net, all under the seemingly 'action-proof' youtube rubric umbrella.
The failure of the DVD as a cash cow for the studios is having an effect on the movies themselves. The Studios are scaling back. No simple drama will be budgeted above $40 million from any studio from now on. The Studios are now producing even worse junk than before for teens and post teens, and better stuff than for a long time, for grown ups thirty and older. The failure of the DVD model is responsible for this improvement. But the 28 day delay just cuts DVD sales and rentals further. When the price got too high to RENT DVDs, after I'd been paying just $1.50 up until December, 2008, I just quit renting from stores and switched to Red Box, while focussing on classic film rentals from Netflix, to copy. I'm still sailing along that way two years later. I go to at least 60 theater movies a year, see everything I want to as I always have, but stopped watching marginal DVD material I had been watching, when the stores either closed or wouldn't give on the rental price. I believe this is some variation on what every DVD consumer is doing now. H'wood is spiking itself in the nose. Rolling out films from the Cloud won't work either. Someone will figure out how to steal even those films. I watch the occasional bit torrent film. My friends have such horrible taste I rarely watch what they download. But I'm fine. I'm still building a DVD film library at roughly 30 to 40 cents per dvd from netflix and $1 from Redbox. My collection is richer since I stopped copying new ones which had become primarily dreck since 2000. There weren't generally good enough NEW DVDs to make copies of anyway. My switch to classics came as a result of the outrageous charges for the dreck. The Industry cannot win now that the digital genie has been released from the bottle.
The problem with the press is that it doesn't report what it knows anymore.
What part of the copyright holder industry do you work in? There is really no incentive for an ISP to cut off a customer. There is no incentive to 'misread' the DMCA rules. Why should an ISP give up revenue for a rule that isn't really a rule? Answer: There isn't any reason and it won't happen very often.
I, by happenstance, bought some double-edged Persona platinum Plus blades yesterday, ten for a buck, in the clearance aisles at Wal-Mart. I got them home and discovered I already had another ten pack from Persona I'd bought earlier. When I was ten and younger, I found the whole history of gillette razors and blades in a great closet my grandfather had, filled with old shaving soap, early blades, before the blue blade, some of them gold. A friend shoplifted a Schick double-edged razor in College which he gave to me. I'm 65 now and still use it. I recently discovered from another friend that one can shave without shaving cream in the shower, without even looking at a mirror. You could feel whether the beard was still there or not. After a month of so of that, I stopped. I wanted to return to using cheap shaving cream and the mirror model. I'm fascinated by the cheap cell phone expensive service revolution that is supposedly going on. I never had a cell phone until 2010. I bought a cheap nokia 1208 with 10 cent a minute T-mobile service prepaid, that I now keep as a backup. I have since bought a Straight Talk prepaid that self pays $30 each month through a credit card for 1,000 Verizon minutes voice, 1,000 text messages and 30 megs of internet I never use. I nearly used that many voice minutes last month while travelling. But at home I use a free wet loop included with centurylink dsl at $46 a month, with google voice attached to make POTS-like 'free' phone calls at home. I read all the sturm and drang about smartphones, but ignore the so-called smart phone revolution. I believe the real revolution is the melting down of the high phone tariff model cell phone industry. Google's Android just undercut Apple's I-Phone in the last quarter, selling a phone for what it cost, without a supposed subsidy wherein the gouging tariff more than pays off the expense of the phone subsidy with an enormous profit for carrier and phone manufacturer alike. Yesterday, a friend who is a house painter told me he heard about a free phone spoofing caller ID App available with Google android. I explored phone spoofing with a credit card the least expensive way of doing it two years ago. Not cheap enough for me. I would like to have that Google Droid app on my Straight Talk. But you see, I believe I will have that app, and free, on the Straight Talk or some variation of it, eventually. And I will also have the free app that allows an I-Phone user to watch the DVDs one has on a hard drive at home on a laptop, in the air while circling, say, over Moscow. I have five computers but no printer because my system is paperless. When I want something printed, which is rarely, I have a friendly office with a printer, print it out for me. I don't need a printed out airline tickets anymore. I can get one at the airport. My uncle, who uses printing and fax equipment at home, recently sent me a paper copy of an Esquire article about Newt Gingrich. Wanting to send it to friends, I googled the article and sent it as email. Somehow, this era reminds one of the early 1900s when the progressives started to whittle down the excesses of the robber barons. The Press which has reaped enormous revenues from Apple's ad campaigns for the I-Pod, I-Phone and now the I-Pad, have been suppressing dissent about all these products and the I-Tunes associated with it. I wrote scathing letters to both the Times and the Post about this. The Times replied with a pile of I-Phone complaints a few days after one of the Google founders dropped off the board at Apple over the Google Voice App squabble. But both the Times and the Post are mostly maintaining radio silence as editorial policy in Apple stories. Fed by extraordinarily high ad revenues, the smart phone revolution is being kept aloft by a big print media and television-manufactured hype. The real revolution is in far cheaper prepaid cell phones, which are melting down the revenue per phone averages of all carriers, while manufacturers scramble to adapt to the temporary success of smartphones and the rise of cheaper prepaids. In Texas I discovered a motel manager who has no cellphone nor a POTS phone at home. What he has instead is a jail broken generation 3 I-phone that he uses both at home and at work to make ALL of his phone calls over wifi networks. He paid $200 to a friend for it. I learned a few days later that Apple is filing for a copyright to get around the government agency that allowed jail broken I-Phone use. Apple wants to shut down those jail broken I-Phones, supposedly to prevent misuse of left behind data on the phones. But really to keep the comfy little empire Apple, AT&T and others run around the world, intact. This should have been enormous news in the part of the press dealing with new tech issues. It was not. The news was suppressed with other 'news' that threatens the interests of the big Ad Budgets at Apple and other players including Verizon, the latter trying to offset declining cell carrier revenues that are a byproduct of the prepaid phone revolution. The Government has been slow to take up the cause of the discarded cellphone owner who has upgraded to get a 'new' phone, making the old one worthless, but still working fine if one wants to keep it. I expect this issue to rise to the fore in the next two years. I haven't heard anything about it on Techdirt either, but I haven't read every issue. Last, I need to tell you a collusion story that happened in my area of the country and may have been replicated in other parts of the country. Verizon had no presence except roaming in the La Crosse region in Wisconsin where I live. Last August, months after it had bought Alltel, a prepaid carrier that operated in my region, Verizon began marketing in this area. But in October, Verizon rolled out its trac phone alliance with Wal-Mart, using samsung phones. The Straight Talk phones immediately started to undermine Verizon's market push in the area. A startled Verizon persuaded Wal-Mart to stop selling the Straight Talks in its stores in this area. You could still buy them in, say, Winona, Minnesota, where I bought mine in January or February, 2010. But you couldn't find them in Sparta, Tomah, Onalaska or South La Crosse stores. You could find them in Black River. Wal Mart electronics managers were disappointed. One of them in Sparta started going around the blockade, ordering them in blocks of two dozen or so at a time, but usually available in only a single model when ordered that way. He was successful, other Wal-Mart managers in the area found out about it, and started making small orders too. By now the blockade is over, and Straight Talks are available in all the stores. I don't know in how many areas of the country this Verizon-Wal-Mart collusion went on, but I suspect there were many. I have about 25 of those platinum plus era doubled edged blades now. I suspect I won't have to buy anymore, ever!
It is Facebook that is harassing legions of its members. You're surprised at first that the promoters of a 'social network' are so unfriendly. But FB promotes a rigid definition of social on its website. Critical newsletters like this one are unaware of what lengths FB will go to prevent users from assembling friends in the thousands. If you've been to the world of serial friend adders, you know this is going on. But to most critics including techdirt, FB is an abstraction, an idea they write about. They've never been inside where the FB harassment of its members takes place. Facebook harasses its serial adders by claiming they are harassing other FB members. What form does that harassment take: simply asking to add someone as a friend. Deep in the serial adder universe are thousands with 5,000 friends, but no more than that, many of them from England. When you try to add someone who has asked to become your friend, who is already nearing 5,000, you're often told "this member already has enough friends!" And thats the end of that. Sometimes you're told that when the FB member doesn't have that many friends. New serial adders are finding that since FB allowed all those Brits to reach 5,000, they've set a new lower upper limit, at 3,500. FB's complaints that FB adders are harassing other FB members is a fiction. You ask once, and if there's no response, that's the end of it. FB's charges against serial adders are hypocrisy masking their true intentions. Serial Adders meet other serial adders inside Facebook, reeling from the clubbings meted out by FB. With 500 million members, FB has an interest in keeping the size of each member's web space, daily keystrokes, and general facilities use within limits. The business about harassing other FB members is a fraud. There's a critical new film coming out soon based on the minor issue of a contract between the FB Founder and a partner at Harvard. The 26 year old Founder is struggling to keep his own privacy out of bounds in the court case. But the real issue surrounding facebook will gradually become the harassment of members by facebook itself that is going on behind the scenes. FB is already way too big. Facebook has been playing with fire since beginning this venture. The FB management will have to establish more and more limits or their growth will stop. I believe their growth WILL STOP before their numbers reach those of the populations of India and China. Facebook members will grow tired of the growing restrictions. Many of them won't be marching anymore.
Though its true that Google made its faustian bargain with the evil Verizon Network, and that it was done so that Google could succeed in the closed cellular world of carrier control,
and that the bargain has implications for net people as well as phone folks, it is not the biggest issue. The big question is who is going to control the major bandwidth of the future: Cell phones or the internet? For the last few years I thought the cell phone carriers were gaining ground. A hotel manager who uses a jail broken generation 3 Iphone to make free phone calls on open wifi networks everywhere, epitomizes the differences and the struggle between giants from both these two worlds, for primacy. For a long time I feared the more parochial cell phone giants wanted control of the Internet. I not longer believe that to be true. I also believe that whatever inroads increasing cell phone access makes in the internet world, those inroads will not change the essential underlying democracy of the Internet world.
This article is much ado about a minor gaffe at the Times. Murdoch isn't serious enough to have pulled up the drawbridge at the Wall Street Journal. All you need us the headline from the story and you can place it in google search and find the entire story free online, Murdoch Paywall or no. People might try that at the Times and see if it works there too.
You can't get a following on Twitter unless you're already a celeb, because the followers of Twitter are followers, only able to respond to already proven success. They're unable to recognize significant writing. Twitter is for dopes.
Why, after going through all the problems of getting a bit torrent lit up into a decent movie, is a codec required also? I consider the business of getting a torrent fairly mysterious. I used to just download the newest version of Divx player, I'd have all the codecs. Someone has to make this codecs business easier.
Sam Ketchum, Blossom Plenty, Dick Tracy.
They don't lie.
Coca Cola is a notorious gas producer. If you want to live a long life, you'll stop drinking it. Same with Bob's soda. Every food store is a toxic way station. Beware ye who would enter here!
Starbucks is a joke. Why would anyone pay to stay there when you can buy a bottle of water at a coffee shop without having to pay for wifi. You can bring your own coffee to a wifi library. There are cheaper places to hang out. I've never spent any time in a Starbucks except possibly picking up a Wall Street Journal there. I never knew the wifi wasn't free. I would see people hanging out there. I've been at coffee shops where hanging around the people there was the object. None of those coffee shops is a starbucks and in every instance the free wifi, and a single cup of coffee or bottle or water are all that's necessary for entrance.


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