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Imagine green rolling hills that stretch to the feet of massive, boulder-like mountains. In the valleys, tranquil, finger-like lakes extend for miles, their forested shores occasionally interrupted by quaint settlements, grassy meadows and striking patches of daffodils. Crystal-clear streams and waterfalls abound. In the fields, white-faced Herdwick sheep graze peacefully, seemingly smiling at everyone who passes by, whilst in the towns, visitors are welcomed by a friendly hello and a tip of the hat. This is the Lake District in the heart of Cumbria.
A Tour of the Lake District with Quirky Traveller
Some time ago, Zoë Dawes, better known as Quirky Traveller (and a featured VB Super Blogger), wrote a guest post in which she beautifully described her favourite 'Velvet Escape' in this beautiful region: a bench on the shores of Rydal Water. This bench, now christened the 'Velvet Escape seat', has since appeared in numerous media. On my recent trip to Manchester, Zoë, kindly offered to take me and my good friend and fellow Super Blogger Simon on a tour of the Lakes. Simon and I hopped onto a train for the 1.5 hour journey to Oxenholme (near the gateway to the Lake District), where we met Zoë. Zoë took us on a drive past the touristy towns of Bowness (with its plethora of shops, cafés and restaurants) and Windermere, where we made a quick stop at the lakeshore. We were immediately greeted by a bevy of cheeky swans. The sun shone brightly and everything seemed to gleam. Needless to say, the views across the lake were absolutely gorgeous.
We continued our tour along Windermere, passing the most beautiful trees, fields brimming with cheery daffodils and lovely Victorian cottages. Zoë slowed down each time we approached a clearing in the trees, providing us with splendid panoramas of the lakes and the hills. One thing that grabbed my attention was the ample use of slate in the buildings, bridges and fences. We made a brief stop at arguably one of the most famous slate buildings in Cumbria, the Bridge House in Ambleside (incidentally, an absolutely charming town).
Dancing daffodils
Our next stop was Rydal Mount where the famous poet William Wordsworth lived until his death in 1850. Wordsworth's most famous poem, about 'dancing daffodils', was inspired by the landscapes of the Lake District. Rydal Mount is a gorgeous house, surrounded by stunning gardens, that's lovingly maintained by the curators, Peter and Marianne.
A tour of the house and the gardens provides unique insights into the life of the Wordsworth family. We were really lucky to see Dora's Field (a patch of land adjacent to the estate which was bought by the poet as a gift to his daughter Dora) in full bloom - William Wordsworth and his wife Mary planted the field with daffodils in memory of Dora who died in 1847.
The Velvet Escape bench at Rydal Water
The next stop on our tour was my personal highlight - a visit to the Velvet Escape bench overlooking Rydal Water. The bench can be accessed by crossing a stone bridge (opposite the entrance to Rydal Mount) and taking a right turn after the bridge. We parked the car and walked the rest of the way along a path that led us uphill. What awaited us on the other side of the hill was... the bench... and a simply mesmerising view of Rydal Water.
The Velvet Escape bench at Rydal Water
We continued our drive along Rydal Water to the village of Grasmere, where we strolled around the lovely shops (my favourite was the little Herdy store with its cute, Herdwick sheep inspired souvenirs), checked out Grasmere's famous gingerbread shop and visited St. Oswold's Church and the adjacent Wordsworth graves. Grasmere is also home to another Wordsworth attraction: Dove Cottage where the poet lived during his early years in the Lake District.
Our tour ended with a lovely drive back to our address for the night in Ambleside: the beautiful Waterhead Hotel. That evening, Simon and I sat down to a lovely dinner at The Bay restaurant in the hotel. As the sun set, casting a glorious glow across the lake and the hills, we tucked into a superb meal comprising chicken liver parfait and lamb cutlets, and accompanied by a divine Pinotage. A fitting end to a truly unforgettable day.
We didn't get to see all that the Lake District has to offer (like the Beatrix Potter Gallery, some of the other spectacular lakes like Derwent Water and Wastwater, the famed ruins of Furness Abbey or the market town of Keswick) but you'll need at least a few more days to cover the sights. As we sipped on that delicious Pinotage, Simon and I promised ourselves that we would return one day soon to once again experience the splendour of the Lake District. One more thing.....
How many lakes are there in the Lake District?
It's a pub quiz favourite. The answer is quite surprising: ONE. The Lake District, in the northwest corner of England, may be famed the world over for its stunning lakes, gorgeous scenery and impressive mountains, but technically, this answer is correct. There's only one lake: Bassenthwaite Lake. There are many other bodies of water but these are called "meres" or "waters", such as Windermere, Grasmere or Rydal Water. This post originally appeared on the Velvet Escape travel blog.


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Anney McKilligan lies in a coffin-like box beneath a fabricated car that's rumbling across the stage of the Goodspeed Opera House here. She manipulates a paddle between her thighs, a lever next to her leg, and three sets of rods with her hands. Part mechanic, part artist, she uses the tools to animate the "actors" in the car above – five raucous and uncannily lifelike puppets.
The audience seems to appreciate her work even though they don't know who she is or what she's doing: It laughs loudly at the sniggering weasel and water-spitting catfish. But Ms. McKilligan is growing increasingly uncomfortable. Her tiny compartment is dark and cramped. Worse, white smoke, meant to depict exhaust, has begun filling her hidden lair.
"With puppeteers, there's a whole other story going on behind the scenes," says McKilligan. "Nobody knows what you're going through."
Welcome to the creative but invisible world of the puppeteer. This is not your parents' puppet show: It's not a matter of putting your hand in a sock or dangling a toy soldier from a string.
Like acting, puppeteering is a stylized, demanding, and professionally competitive art form. One puppeteer in this stage production has a masters degree in his craft. Hundreds of people auditioned for just a handful of slots. The few fortunate enough to get hired sit on their knees for hours during a production, creating characters out of inanimate objects.
In the process, they are contributing to an artistic tradition that has helped redefine our notions of comedy, often evokes memories of childhood, and, more than anything, fuels our imagination. "There's a part of you that knows the puppet isn't real, but there's a part of your heart that wants to believe that it is," says Tyler Bunch, the puppet captain of the Goodspeed production. "All the puppet does is open and close its mouth, but you could swear you saw it smile."
At 33, McKilligan never thought she'd be wearing a Cookie Monster scarf. She is one of four professional puppeteers working in the stage production of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, a musical originally written for television by the late puppet pioneer and Muppet icon Jim Henson. McKilligan never intended to be a puppeteer. Then again, neither did Henson. He came to puppeteering accidentally, in 1956, as a way to break into television.
McKilligan wanted to be an actress and studied acting and design at New York University. After college, she grew discouraged trying to break into theater. Puppetry helped her get work. McKilligan excelled as a character actor, but she was too young to get cast in roles that inspired her. "When you're a puppeteer, you can be an old lady when you're 30 and nobody knows the difference," she says.
McKilligan worked first as a puppet wrangler (a puppet caretaker) for stage productions. She then became a freelance builder and puppeteer for the Henson Company. Her office was in the Henson Workshop in Manhattan, which houses many of the characters used on Sesame Street. She loved the materials available to her in the shop – yards of puppet fur, a drawer filled with eyeballs, spools of brightly colored fabrics.
Her first job for Emmet Otter was building Yancy Woodchuck, a 44-inch, full-body puppet. Bringing Yancy to life was a particularly challenging assignment: He had to appear to be free standing, and he had to play the banjo. "Being a performer was important when I was building Yancy," says McKilligan, "because I had to understand how I was going to operate him. A lot of puppets have practical hands – puppeteers wearing gloves with moving fingers – but playing a banjo is really specific."
Yancy's scene requires three puppeteers to manipulate his arms, legs, and head. McKilligan's design lets puppeteer and musician David Stephens slip his arms through holes in Yancy's wrists and into special gloves that are fur on top, spandex underneath, and have banjo picks sewn into the fingers.
Mr. Stephens has Yancy play an old-time song called "Barbeque" on the banjo strapped across the puppet's chest. A black backdrop and special lighting makes the black-clad puppeteers nearly invisible. "Puppets get away with ridiculous things," says McKilligan of her banjo playing woodchuck. "But we've created a whole world, so everybody buys into it."
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas is the first Henson production ever to be adapted for the stage. Originally a children's book, it tells the story of a single mother and her son who find emotional and spiritual wealth in the midst of poverty. In 1977, Henson turned Emmet into an all-puppet TV musical. The current production, which opened Dec. 7 and runs through Jan. 4, 2009, includes a cast of 16 human actors dressed in elaborate animal costumes, as well as the four puppeteers who operate 22 puppets.
Competition for the four slots was intense. Those selected not only had to puppeteer, but act and sing. Many of the actors and the director came from Broadway. Grammy-winner Paul Williams wrote the music and lyrics. Brian Henson, Jim Henson's son and co-executive director of the Henson Company, produced the show.
The Goodspeed theater is not designed for puppet-heavy productions. The puppeteers are hidden in the orchestra pit and dress in black. (The orchestra sits backstage.) Still, many patrons in the balcony can see them work.
The puppeteers hold the figures over their heads while sitting high on their knees (they all wear knee pads). Because they operate so many different characters, they scramble back and forth – at times looking like they're playing Twister.
"I'm a squirrel, then a rabbit, then a squirrel, then a possum," says McKilligan. "The actors' journey through the play makes sense. Whereas my role is doing 20 different things that don't."
One benefit to being hidden is that McKilligan was able to keep a "cheat sheet" of her character lineup handy for the first few shows. The downside is that she has bruises from bumping into metal beams supporting the stage – black-and-blue proof of an old puppeteer adage: If it doesn't hurt, you're not doing it right.
In some scenes, when McKilligan operates the catfish through a trapdoor in the stage, she has no visibility. "In rehearsal we use a mirror," she says. "But you really should be able to do it with your eyes closed – with muscle memory."
Eye focus and jaw movement are vital to making a puppet come alive. Its mouth must move in sync with the dialogue – a difficult skill done by manipulating the lower jaw while the upper jaw remains stationary. McKilligan tries to achieve the illusion by thinking about the puppet as herself. Though hidden in the pit, she displays the same elation, sadness, and silliness on her face that the creatures are experiencing.
Being hidden makes it easier for her to be dramatic. One of her characters, Penelope Possum, sounds like Granny Clampett from the "Beverly Hillbillies." Her squeaky voice and comic one-liners have the audience rollicking. "Having the puppet on your hand frees you," McKilligan says. "It's not Anney making these crazy choices, but the animals. I feel less foolish because the puppets have to be larger than life."
It's this exaggeration that makes us laugh at puppets, especially ones with well-known mannerisms. "Everybody knows the Muppet nod and the Muppet walk," says Mr. Bunch.
Puppets are making a modest come back. FAO Schwartz recently opened a design-your-own Muppet workshop in New York, and NBC aired a new Muppet Christmas special.
But that doesn't necessarily mean more work for puppeteers, most of whom are freelancers. To expand, McKilligan and two colleagues are now designing puppets for TV commercials. "Puppetry is an all encompassing art form – writing, directing, performing, building," says McKilligan. "And you can carry it all around in one suitcase."


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In a surprising move, it's rumoured that later today EA will announce a special deal with Sony that will see the PS3-exclusive release of SingStar: Beatles.
The game is quite a unique beast, as according to MCV it's not a competitor to Beatles: Rock Band. Rather, it's a "port" of sorts, and will be the same game as we're expecting with Beatles: Rock Band, only...without instruments.
It's still being published by MTV Games, and like Rock Band will still be distributed by EA. MCV say it'll be out "within days" the the September 9 release of The Beatles: Rock Band.


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Cancer gets grants ready for Legislature's OK
AUSTIN - Despite identifying a problem with another of its grant awards, the state's embattled cancer agency prepared Monday to move $182 million in grants out of politically imposed limbo.
In its first meeting since taking heat from numerous committees of the 2013 Legislature, the governing board of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas authorized staff to start negotiating contracts on 159 grants stalled by a moratorium called for by Gov. Rick Perry and other leaders. The board instructed staff not to sign the contracts.
"If the moratorium is lifted, we will be ready to move each of these grants forward without delay," said Wayne Roberts, the agency's interim executive director. "(But) CPRIT staff will not execute any contracts with any grantees until we receive appropriate direction from the Legislature and state leadership."
Top officials resigned
The grants have been the source of much debate since they were frozen in mid-December. State legislators have warned agency leaders not to hand out more money until they've restored public trust in how they conduct business.
At the same time, legislators have expressed concern the suspension of the announced grants could harm the state in the long run, particularly by causing it to lose prominent researchers recruited from out of state but unwilling to keep waiting.
The state's taxpayer-funded, decade-long $3 billion assault on cancer is under fire for improprieties - conflicts of interest, backstage politics, bypassed procedures - in the awarding of three grants totaling more than $60 million.
The improprieties led to the resignations of its three top officials, one a Nobel Prize winner, and prompted a number of investigations, one criminal.
160 grants reviewed
In a withering report, state auditors listed problems in seven major areas, from how the agency makes grant decisions to how it monitors the spending of public dollars.
Billy Hamilton, interim senior consultant, reported to the agency's oversight committee Monday that staff reviewed the 160 grants that were announced in August and December, then stopped work.
He said all except one grant properly followed agency procedures.
Hamilton said the cancer agency failed to follow correct procedures in reviewing a $1.2 million Baylor College of Medicine proposal.
The proposal, favorably reviewed by a scientific review subcommittee, was removed from the unfavorably reviewed multi-institutional grant and presented to the oversight committee, even though it was never reviewed by the full scientific review committee.
The oversight committee said it would encourage the Baylor researcher to resubmit the grant.


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What Book Got you Hooked?
FirstBook.org recently asked over 100,000 people what childhood book got them hooked on reading. Here are the top 50 responses. You can also read about the books that got celebrities and authors hooked on reading.
If this list makes you nostalgic, you can find these books in our Children's Department. Or if you want to try something different, take a look at our Children's Booklists with reading suggestions for children of all ages.
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The United States military has been making great strides with the development and use of unmanned drones for some time now. Military drones are generally used to gather intel and perform reconnaissance missions into enemy territory or other hostile environments. Thankfully, such technology allows for a vast array of benefits, perhaps most importantly eliminating the need of placing soldier's lives in danger during recon missions.
While most drones utilized by the military take the shape of airplanes, the new Argus-IS is a different breed of drone that takes the form of a helicopter. While planes require space to take off and land, the Argus-IS does not.
That, of course, isn't the only attribute that makes the Argus-IS a formidable new piece of military tech. We all know how fond the military is of acronyms and the Argus-IS, which stands for Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance-Imaging System doesn't disappoint. However, it's not the Argus-IS' long name that impresses, or even its ability to hover in place or take off without a landing strip, what truly sets the Argus-IS apart from other drones is its 1.8 gigapixel camera.
The extremely accurate and high-def camera allows the Argus-Is to deliver 900 times the resolution of a standard 2-megapixel camera and can also deliver real-time video streams at 10 frames per second. This gives the Argus-Is the ability to track not only vehicles, but people as well from altitudes as high as 20,000 feet. In addition, the Argus-Is is capable simultaneously locking onto multiple "windows" at one time, allowing the military to trace and track multiple "windows" without having to give up pursuit of another.
Currently, the Argus-IS is undergoing testing, but will reportedly be deployed in Afghanistan by the end of the new year.
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Here are links to five articles that I have found to be interesting and helpful reading.
American history, corruption, fear, hate, hysteria, intimidation, lynchings, racism, revenge, rumors, social memory, suspicion, terrorism & violence: Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror [essential reading]
"Between the Civil War and World War II, thousands of African Americans were lynched in the United States. Lynchings were violent and public acts of torture that traumatized black people throughout the country and were largely tolerated by state and federal officials. These lynchings were terrorism."
Bible study, humility & reading: How to Make the Most of Your Bible Study [essential reading]
"We are pulled in many directions: work, family, ministry, fitness and many other activities tug at our schedules. The more we are tugged, the more we have to work to guard the time we give to personal study of our Bibles. When we are at last able to sit down to read, we want every precious minute to count. Whether we have 15 minutes or two hours, we want our efforts to yield the most benefit possible. But how can we make the most of the time we have to read and study?"
Community & forgiveness: The Act of Rigorous Forgiving
"There's something sad in Brian Williams's need to puff up his Iraq adventures and something barbaric in the public response. … the larger question is how we build community in the face of scandal. Do we exile the offender or heal the relationship? Would you rather become the sort of person who excludes, or one who offers tough but healing love?"
God, non-violence, violence & witness: Why NO Violence in Jesus' Name is Justified
"The character of God is manifested when instead of employing violence against enemies to crush them, Jesus loves his enemies in order to redeem them. The kingdom is revealed when instead of protecting himself, Jesus allows himself to be murdered. God's love is marvelously put on display when instead of clinging to his perfect holiness, Jesus puts himself in the place of sinners. And the nature of the rule of God shines radiantly in Jesus' final prayer for the forgiveness of those who moments earlier mocked him, spit on him, whipped him, and crucified him (Luke 23:34).
"This is simply who God is and what God is up to in the world, and so living consistent with God's character, reflected by the cross and the teachings of Jesus, is simply what it means to submit to God's reign. In sharp contrast to the kingdom-of-the-world thinking, therefore, disciples of Jesus aren't to act first and foremost on the basis of what seems practical or effective at securing a good outcome. We are to act on the basis of what is faithful to the character and reign of God, trusting that, however things may appear in the short term, in the long run God will redeem the world with such acts of faithfulness."
Judging, judgment & love: Judgment: Isn't Judging Others Healthy?
"Isn't it time to for us to ruthlessly cut out judgment of one another from our sermons, conversations and mindsets? Isn't it time for us to address personal and social change with long suffering love and when that doesn't work—doesn't transform ourselves and those we ought to care for—shouldn't we try long-suffering love again?"


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More Twittering…
I see that Scripting News has been thinking of Twitter. I'm surprised at the reaction from someone who usually see so much potential in simple things. (Something seems to be up over there too – I tried to comment but they vanished)
UPDATE : More discussion from Dave Winer
At first, I thought – "so what's so great about this Twitter thing?" – it's just blogging with just titles. One-liners. With contact lists. Aggregation of those contacts' one-liners. And an SMS communication layer to distribute those short messages away from the desktop…without the internet.
oh, hang on.. 🙂 — hmm…aha!
To me, it's the SMS layer to mobiles which makes this interesting. It's very easy to duplicate – but not so easy to pay for. But SMS 'can' make a lot of money (but for who, eh? *nudge*)
The actual content back end must be very simple indeed – but no idea about what they are doing with scaling that, but it seems to get better and worse now again, which means they are constantly tweaking it I imagine.
They say they will be adding groups. This is a good idea, as it will extend what users can do privately – and that means it could be used for businesses.
Also, through the very simple API it's easy to build stuff on top of the comms framework they have there. Some useful. Some for fun.
Some sites have started to 'ping' their TwitterBots (which have no friends – as they don't read – but many followers) with the latest updates to their systems – Techmeme, BBC, CNN, Podcast.com, etc. – It's a little river of news, mashed up with commentary, streams of consciousness – and the mundane. I have a little function on my server, using PHP and Curl to 'Tweet' me from a special account when something goes wrong.
I'm toying with couple of usernames which I am 'Sqwitting' (That's username squatting on Twitter, folks) which I plan to make respond to certain calls and queries after any user who the 'befriended' the account calls using @question or @answer – which has now become the de facto way to openly reply to another one of your friends. It's easy to list recent posts from friends with the API, so why not get it to 'look' for @name calls? *Bingo!* It's like a machine!
There are heaps of combinations of feeds – in different formats – to play with and construct all sorts of useful things – all with that very handy SMS layer 🙂 It won't be long before someone builds something very useful based on this system. But only when it's reliable and faster! 🙂
Rex Hammock quotes a great line from Joi Ito on how Americans, when looking at new technology immediately ask, "What's the business application?" In Japan, however, new technology is handed to children who are told, "Go play with it." The kids play and do stuff that later becomes things that others realize would make sense also in a business context.
Great stuff!
Bloghud is Twitter on Acid in a Virtual World 🙂 Think what will happen to Twitter when we can easily add our Geo location latitude and longitude! (Still waiting for my Nokia N95 😉 )
In addition
(and I think this is important)
I think that they should Open Source the main Twitter server system structure NOW. Before it gets cloned all over the place. (As happened with YouTube, etc)
All except the SMS layer. There is a huge potential business model in then creating that connection between all the various 'TwitterPlanets' in the 'TwitterVerse' to that SMS layer to enable that which is most valuable – staying in touch with the network while away from the desk or internet using a device most of us already have in our pockets.
The potential here and NOW is huge. They could wrap this up. Think of all the extra features that could come from it. Think of all the useful 'special agent bots' – each with different abilities from different (Twitter)planets. How that could also help the 'mother hub' itself. It's almost a model of what will happen when Linden opensource their Server system. The universe, metaverse and Twitterverse will benefit.
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Hurricanes are normal, but Trump Derangement Syndrome obscures that fact. Of course, those subject to TDS are deranged in other ways as well. Just look….
Before I get to the meat of this post — or, because it's a round-up, the various meats of this post — I want to remind everyone that America has always been subject to ferocious hurricanes. They just seem worse today because we have more population in a hurricane's path, especially when it's an Irma-like hurricane, and because we have a 24 hour media that makes everything seem local.
In other ways, though, we're better off when faced with hurricanes because we can prepare. In 1900, Galveston, Texas, residents did not see their Cat 4 hurricane coming. It killed 6,000 – 12,000 people, making it the deadliest natural disaster in American history. For a list of other major hurricanes in the last 400 years, the bulk of which predate "climate change" and struck out-of-the-blue, go here. You'll see that America was especially hard hit in the 1700s, long before CO2 was an issue.
Obviously, I don't mean to downplay our two latest hurricanes, Harvey and Irma, both of which are or will be responsible for staggering property damage and, always, the loss of too many lives. I just want to amp down the usual climate change hysteria that's accompanying this latest display of Nature's normal.
And with that, let me turn my attention to all the other interesting things I've gathered, many of which reflect poorly on those most deeply lost to TDS.
Hillary admits her incompetence. Hillary has been on the warpath with her new book, blaming everything and everybody for her loss. She's also admitted that she was incapable of speech on election eve because she was so devastated and that it was male advisers who caused her to react less strongly to both Trump and Bernie than she thinks in retrospect that she ought to have done. (Oh, and Trump "creeped" her out.)
So Hillary has just admitted that she's incompetent in a crisis and incapable of standing up to men. Most of Hillary's opponents at home and abroad would have been men, men like Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong-un, or Bashir al-Assad. Her latest book is just another reminder that we dodged a serious bullet when Trump won.
Europe's Muslim future. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, sees which way the wind is blowing and he understands that, not only is Eurabia fast approaching, but that Western Europe leaders are hastening its inevitability:
Europe's leaders seem to have neither the will nor the means to oppose the incoming waves of millions of Muslim migrants from Africa and the Middle East. They know that terrorists are hiding among the migrants, but still do not vet them. Instead, they resort to subterfuges and lies. They create "deradicalization" programs that do not work: the "radicals," it seems, do not want to be "deradicalized."
Europe's leaders try to define "radicalization" as a symptom of "mental illness"; they consider asking psychiatrists to solve the mess. Then, they talk about creating a "European Islam", totally different from the Islam elsewhere on Earth. They take on haughty postures to create the illusion of moral superiority, as Ada Colau and Carles Puigdemont did in Barcelona: they say they have high principles; that Barcelona will remain "open" to immigrants. Angela Merkel refuses to face the consequences of her policy to import countless migrants. She chastises countries in Central Europe that refuse to adopt her policies.
European leaders can see that a demographic disaster is taking place. They know that in two or three decades, Europe will be ruled by Islam. They try to anesthetize non-Muslim populations with dreams about an idyllic future that will never exist. They say that Europe will have to learn to live with terrorism, that there is nothing anyone can do about it.
Pat Condell is another prophet who is being ignored:
Meanwhile, Britain prepares its citizens for dhimmitude. Several of my gay Leftist Facebook friends proudly posted a WaPo op-ed announcing that all the grim prophecies preceding legalizing gay marriage failed to come true. It is true that heterosexual marriage is cratering at pretty much the same rate as before, so one can't say that same-sex marriage killed it. The article also essentially claims that America is better than ever because Christian bakers are being put out of business.
It's that last point, of course, that's the giveaway about the real target of gay marriage. Gay marriage, as I've said over and over, was never about competing with straight marriage and it was unlikely to affect straight marriage. What it was about was undercutting traditional values, especially if those values came from the church. Kill the traditional church (and the synagogue) and you kill the West. It's heart goes out of it.
(Before I go further, let me say again, that I have no trouble whatsoever with same-sex civil unions. If states want to legalize same sex partnerships, that's fine with me. I support people who enter into stable relationships. It's the way the whole issue was framed as gay "marriage" that disturbs me deeply. Doing that made these unions the basis for a concerted attack against traditional Western values as a whole.)
If you really want to see where gay marriage leads, check out this Australian Spectator article detailing the way in which gay marriage has been used to attack core Western values, not to mention to destroy the integrity of our biological selves. I'll focus on the gender and children sections, but you should read the whole thing: [Read more…]


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Developed by: KCET
Genre: Adventure
Platform: PC, Xbox, PS2
Rating: ESRB T (US), ELSPA 11+ (EU)
Original release date: 6 March 2001
SoS mission date: 19 January 2007
Metascore: 78
Where to get it: This game is known as Shadow of Memories in Europe and Shadow of Destiny in the US. It is a little difficult to find these days, so it may be worth checking eBay for used copies.
Original Briefing by Angry_Jedi (19/01/2007)
Morning chaps, and welcome to 2007. We have a fine Tour of Duty planned for all you bally fine soldiers this year, so suit up and let's get ready for your first assignment, eh what?
European intelligence has indicated some sort of temporal disturbance emanating from somewhere in Germany. We believe it may be something to do with this man:
We understand this gentleman's name is Eike Kusch. He has no known family and has no memory of his parents. Close acquaintances include a museum proprietor known as Mr. Eckart.
The curious thing about this case is that Eike died on 04/08/2001. However, there is some confusion over his death, due largely to some evident interfering with the temporal spectrum around this point. We are sending you back in time to investigate this disturbance and, if necessary, to assist Eike with whatever happened to him in order to "put things right", as it were. We believe that Eike is supposed to survive beyond the time when he did, as he evidently has a greater role to play.
Lil' Private Timmy has been researching the effects of time travel in the laboratory and has given us this diagram to assist with understanding the situation, drawn on paper then covered in tea and put in the microwave to "make it look old, like wot we lernd in skool", he claims.
However, frankly I feel some form of explanation is in order. In figure 1 (right), we see a gentleman tripping over a rock, banging his head on the floor and dying. Unfortunate, I am sure you will agree. However, through the medium of time travel, in figure 2, we see an alternative version of the same gentleman travelling back in time to before he arrived at the scene and removing the rock, thereby allowing himself in figure 3 to proceed safely without danger of death.
There are a number of matters to consider when dealing with time travel, so pay close attention:
• Don't shag your own great-grandmother, for heaven's sake.
• Similarly, don't kill your own great-grandmother, for heaven's sake.
• Ditto both for great-grandfathers, and indeed all ancestors.
• If you say something to someone and you suddenly get a headache and think it's "really important", it may well affect how everything turns out in the end, so choose carefully.
• Don't touch yourself. Not only is it an affront to the Lord to spill one's seed on the ground, but if you touch your past self then frankly you'll disappear into a void, never to return.
Similarly, don't die when you're out of your own time. And if you are supposed to die in your own time, make sure you're there when it happens for continuity's sake.
You will be issued with the following equipment for this assignment:
• Clothing: Standard issue black turtleneck sweater, green-blue jeans (extra long) and extra-tight green leather jacket.
• Equipment: 1 x Digipad, used for time travel
• 1 large packet of headache pills
All findings and intelligence to be reported here. New recruits should report to Squadron HQ to be issued with equipment and invested into the ranks of the Squad.
I hope you're ready, ladies and gentlemen, because it's chocks away for the beginning of the 2007 Tour of Shame! Good luck!
Squad Archivist Report
Shadow of Destiny/Memories (hereafter referred to as just "Shadow" for simplicity's sake) is a strange one. Taking obvious influences from the world of narrative-heavy, interaction-lite adventure games and interactive movies where the whole point of the experience was to enjoy the ride rather than look at what revolutionary new features it was adding to the gameplay mix, Shadow sees you controlling the rather effeminate-looking (and long-legged) Eike on his quest to stop himself being murdered brutally at the outset of each chapter.
Beige commented that the whole game played out like a bizarre lovechild of Groundhog Day and Final Destination. At the start of every chapter, you die. There's no avoiding it. But what this does is provide you with your "mission objective", if you like - working out firstly how you are being killed and secondly how to avoid it. As Beige put it:
"Infinite Lives never seemed so WEIRD. Mario, he just kind of respawns at the beginning again... you don't really think about it. What Shadows does is take that scene we never see where Mario has to take his toboggan and trudge up back to the beginning of World 1-1, and makes a whole damn game out of it."
Feenwager also commented on the seeming lack of interactivity in the game:
"First things first, we're really stretching the boundaries of what can be called a 'game' here, aren't we? You do so very little in between long stretches of non-interactivity. But, somehow...it works in this context. Even with the controller on my lap for so long, I'm not tuning out. I think having the knowledge that there is a grand plan here, and it's worth paying attention helps. I still have no clue what the freak is going on, but I care enough to find out."
The general consensus amongst the Squad was that while the "gameplay" (or "ludology" as Beige put it) was a little lacking, because the narrative of the game was so compelling, it made up for that. Beige cited the example of the fact he was also playing Lost Planet and Super Mario Sunshine at the time, and commented that going back to a narrative-heavy game was like returning to an old friend.
Bowley, conversely, had some things to say about the protagonist:
"Yea, Eike? Not my favorite protagonist either. I don't like Eike, I don't wanna be like Eike. It wasn't just that he was an effeminate rack victim, he just sucked, man. Having long legs doesn't necessarily make you uncool. I mean, Spike Spiegel managed to pull that one off. I blame the English dubbing. Maybe if he had some ninja Japanese voice he would have been cooler, especially since in English he was the worst liar ever.
Hugo: "Hey what was that thing that just fell out of your pocket"
Eike: "What? Oh...uhh (awkward long pause)... that's not important right now."
Then he had the gumption to act surprised when someone saw through his flimsy bullshit.
Hugo: "Hey what was that thing that just fell out of your pocket"
Anyone else: "Oh that? That's my little ANNOYING KID DESTROYER. BEAT IT.""
Papapishu, not having played the game at the point of this discussion, commented thus, along the same lines:
"I was walking with one of my gamer friends, and I mentioned what the squad is playing. He actually told me that his first year of collage, he and his friends all marathoned through SOM together.
"It has one of the most hillarious english dubs ever, and it became a source of a ton of inside jokes for all of my friends. If you ever see someone come up to me, shout "THE WATCHMAKER!" and then see me start laughing uncontrollably, then it's a Shadow of Memories reference."
I hope that makes sense to you."
It was generally accepted that the presentation, particularly the voice acting, was far from top-notch, though Bowley and Angry_Jedi both drew particular attention to the soundtrack, with Angry_Jedi noting that the standard "field" music had an atonal feel to it that was very different from many other games out there, while Bowley commented:
"(Read all the SoS Shadow of Destiny thoughts to "The Letter" by Kevin Saville (from the SoD soundtrack)
This meandering piano piece is probably one of the best tracks in the game... and I don't even remember it playing.
....Or I suppose you could listen to "Bar 2", by the same guy, if you want that Dave Brubeck jazzy feel. Which kind of makes me think of SoS meeting in some upscale bar, conversing relaxingly about our various run-throughs of the game over some ecto cooler and hard liquor. Someone stop Beige, he's heading for the Karaoke again.
Oh, and while I'm on the subject of the music, this game's music wasn't anything to write home about. Most of the time it was weird, some of the time it was trying to be emotional and coming off forced, and the rest of the time I didn't even hear it! I like my music to be a big part of the experience. That doesn't mean it has to be bombastic, but it does need to be important"
So the game, while not perfect, was certainly an interesting experience. Even RedSwirl jumped in with enthusiasm, despite his usual distaste for cutscene-laden games:
"In the end, yeah, this is pretty much exactly the kind of game I don't want to have to "play". "RedSwirl Killer Coctail" was right. I watched cutscenes just as much (if not more) than I actually played the damn game.
But for some reason, I found myself compelled to motor straight through this thing, and I can still definitely see myself playing back through it a couple more times.
Yes the graphics could probably have been run on Dreamcast, the gameplay is as rudimentary as you can get for an adventure game, and as I said you don't really play more than you "walk to the next cutscnee," but I think this game's interesting mystery/time travel storyline mixed with it's short length makes it something that I know I can really get into without making a long drawn-out commitment. I wanted to see what was going to happen next becuase I knew this wasn't going to be a 40 or even 20-hour game.
Oh, and Eike looks like a girl."
Shadow of Destiny? Well worth checking out, if only for the sheer audacity of its concept. I'll leave you with some closing words from Beige:
"HUGE points for the audacity of concept though, and for the sheer balls that it takes to make a game that plays through fucking crazily six different ways. They promised that your actions will affect the ultimate outcomes in this game, and by god if they didn't actually deliver on that promise -- CRAZILY sure -- but they delivered. Totally weird and random by the end of things... but your actions DO affect things in the time continuum more than any other game I could easily name, except maybe Indigo Prophecenheit. Even small things, like the act of giving a kitten to someone across dimensions have weird little butterfly effect ripples, and that part is really kinda neat.
The artistic vision that goes into something like this is pretty impressive. I'd like to see the script... it must be laid out like a giant damn spiderweb that branches off in about six different directions at once. There's a full length GAME in there... they've just folded it in on itself and made something totally off-the wall.
A game? Hmm... don't know. This is one of those products that just illustrates just how solidly we have become entrenched into our own paradigms and preconceptions about what a 'video game is' in this next-gen world. There is NO CHANCE in hell that something like Shadows of Destiny would exist on an Xbox 360. Not a chance. The concept is too weird, too cerebral by far. There's not an ounce of target marketing in there. There's no potential for mass market sales. What we have here is a purely artistic sort of experiment -- something that was obviously made by somebody with a very strong vision and a bit of development money thrown their way by Konami. Even though mostly your activities constitute watching things and thinking about their implications, Shadows of Destiny is totally worth playing. There's no visceral gut reflex or muzzle flash... no skill involved. Just kind of an art-film aesthetic and a product that boils down in the end to something akin to a crazy jam poetry session. Was it worthwhile? Hell, sure... even if only as a crazy counterpoint to push your gaming preconceptions over the parapet of their comfort zone."


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I just recently read an article about a man who is 62 years young. He was retired and had all the time in the world. He had an opportunity to start his own online business. Since he had all the time in the world, you would think this would be a great opportunity. His answer was "I am too old for this". After reading the article again and taking time to think about his statement, I could not help to think that only one of two things could be true here. Either this person just was making up excuses because he really did not want to start an online business or the people around him placed that idea that he was too old. I really felt bad for him because I may be witnessing another case of someone surrounded by the wrong people. People that never want to see anyone around them get better than they are.
Whatever the real reason for this man was, I am here to tell you that you can start your own online business system no matter if you are 20, 40, 60 or even 80 years of age. Ask yourself why should they be a limit. All you need is a computer, internet access and some hard work. From there, it is up to you. Now for beginners, they will be a learning curve but just like any new job, you must go through training. No successful companies out there will let you start without proper training so the only difference here is you monitor your own training. You decide how much you need and there you go. Don't let your age be your roadblock to your own success.
If you use your age as the deciding point for you to start your own online business system, you could possibly miss out on a six figure income, may be even seven figures. I have read many real testimonies from people of all ages and the successes they had with different companies they joined. The money is there to be made. Why would you want to use your age as a reason for not making your share of the pot?
Now it would be easy for anyone to use a multitude of reasons why they should not start their own online business but make sure you don't use your age as the reason. Time might be your next restraint but keep in mind that as I am writing this article, I also own and operate and 1.1 million dollar restaurant. I am married and I have 2 beautiful children, 3 and 5 years of age. It is all about a mindset. Just like the word says, if you set your mind to do something, you will do it, if you set your mind that you can't do something, well you know what will happened.
If you decide not to start your own online business system because you think you are too old or too young, or you don't have the time. Ask yourself why you feel that way? What are your real obstacles to get started? If you don't get started now, where are you going to be a year from now? 5 years from now? Can you leave with that? If the answer is NO, then find the solution to why you feel that way, fix it and get started. If the answer is yes, then I will see you when you are sick and tired of being sick and tired to live the same life.
Starting your own online business is extremely exciting. The idea of firing your boss in a few months, the trips you will be able to afford, being able to pay for college for your kids and basically, the idea of not worry about money is just great. Don't think you will make money by just signing up with any companies. It will require hard work and dedication. Only a select few are able to make a lot of money in a short period of time, a lot of entrepreneurs can make a six figure income a year after a lot of hard work. If you are willing to work hard, if you are dedicated and you want to learn how to start your own online business, visit http://7figureincomethisyear.com/


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Titantic Tech for Super Duties
How to Install the New Pro Comp 6-inch Excursion Lift
In 1999, Michael Jordan retired from basketball, Wayne Gretzky from hockey, and Ford introduced the 2000 Excursion. While all the comings and goings of people and products were being noted, several companies were working, thankfully, on designing a lift for the big boy Excursion and Super Duty trucks.
One of these companies, Explorer ProComp, now boasts a new 6-incher that renovates the Brady Bunch stock Excursion into something closer to Xena Warrior Princessminus the princessthat allows you to stuff a set of 35s under it. We went to our local 4 Wheel Parts Performance Center in Burbank, where they were installing the new 6-inch lift on the biggest of the bigthe Excursion. The same kit is available for the Super Duty trucks. However, it only yields 4 inches of lift.
It doesnt need to be said, but installing any suspension product is easier with a hydraulic lift. Most of us dont own a hydraulic lift so make sure to park your vehicle on a flat, hard surface. Stabilize the vehicle by blocking the rear tires and setting the parking brake. Inspect the kit to ensure that it is complete. Start by removing the driver-side track rod bolt at the frame mount, then raise the front of the vehicle and support the frame with jackstands behind the front springs. Check out the rest of the install as we raise the Titanic.


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Originally published Monday, November 19, 2012 at 1:38 PM
Crisis at Cargolux could affect 747 freighter orders
Qatar Airways is divesting its 35 percent stake in Cargolux, leaving the launch customer for Boeing's 747-8 freighter jet to face an uncertain future.
Seattle Times aerospace reporter
Boeing delivered a 747-8 jumbo freighter to Cargolux Airlines on Monday, even as a major crisis unfolded back at the cargo carrier's headquarters in Luxembourg that could derail future deliveries.
Cargolux confirmed Monday that Qatar Airways will divest its 35 percent stake in the company just 14 months after completing the investment.
According to reports in Europe, Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker walked out of a stormy shareholders meeting after a half-hour Friday.
The Luxembourg government, which effectively controls a majority share of Cargolux, announced that evening that Qatar would shed its ownership stake. "Mr. Al Baker made a series of demands that were considered as being difficult to accept," Cargolux spokeswoman Martine Scheuren told Bloomberg News.
The Boeing 747-8 delivered Monday, with a market value of about $185 million, was Cargolux's sixth. The carrier has seven more on order.
The undelivered jets are worth $2.5 billion at list prices, though after standard discounts the real value, based on market data from aircraft-valuation firm Avitas, is about $1.3 billion.
The 747-8 has sold slowly. Boeing's unfilled order book has less than 80 jets, or just over three years of production if all are delivered.
Boeing declined to discuss details of its customer's business, but said it is working with Cargolux to deliver the remaining jets.
With the global cargo market depressed, Cargolux has been bleeding money. It lost $18 million in 2011, the third annual loss in four years.
The inflow of Qatari money was seen as a way to stabilize the airline.
However, the Qatari plans — which included cutting costs by closing a Luxembourg maintenance base and transferring some operations to Doha — didn't sit well with the Cargolux unions or the government in Luxembourg, where Cargolux employs almost 1,200.
David Harris, senior editor of Cargo Facts, an industry newsletter produced by Seattle-based Air Cargo Management Group, said the government and Qatar Airways differed sharply over protecting local jobs.
"Luxembourg is a very union-friendly country and highly regulated," Harris said. "There was a clash."
Scott Hamilton, industry analyst with Leeham.net, said Qatar Airways was pressing Cargolux to open a hub in Doha and to use Qatar Airways' 777 freighter jets instead of the larger 747-8s.
Qatar operates four 777 freighters, with four more pending delivery.
Hamilton said a source told him Qatar wanted Cargolux to cancel its remaining 747-8 orders.
Possible investors who might step in for Qatar's stake are Russian carrier AirBridge Cargo and China's HNA Group, owner of Hainan Airlines. HNA lost out to Qatar in bidding for the Cargolux stake last year.
Cargolux said Albert Wildgen, who was brought in as company chairman at the time of the Qatari investment, has resigned.
However, interim CEO Richard Forson, a former CFO at Qatar Airways, will stay on.
Citing the "many significant challenges facing Cargolux," the carrier said in a statement that it now faces a "difficult phase of restructuring."
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Its been a long winter so far this weekend has seen the first signs of spring here in South Wales, the Sun has been out nearly all weekend. The temperatures have been in double figures most of the time and I even got to cut the grass and fix so drain pipes.
So with the weather getting warmer and the hope that summer is on its way I wanted to let you know about some up and coming events that I will be delivering that you might be interested in.
If you planning on upgrading to SQL Server 2012 this year then you might like to come on my 2105 SQL Server 2012 Upgrade course where you will learn about all the useful new features included in SQL Server 2012. The course is running at Learning Tree's Education Centre (LEC) this August from 14th – 16th. Come and join me three days of great training on SQL Server 2012. You can enrol online using this enrolment page.
You might be planning on running your new SQL Servers on virtual platform (VMware or Hyper-V) if so come along and join me this September when I will be delivering my 2109 SQL Server Virtualisation and Consolidation course at the LEC. If you are thinking about running SQL Server in a virtual environment then come along and pick up some tips and tricks to help you out and make the transition to the hypervisor as painless as possible. You can enrol here
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Training teaches others to recognize child abuse, neglect
Project Harmony hosted an event to help others learn how to recognize signs of child abuse and neglect. Thousands of people attended, including actress Ashley Judd.
Project Harmony helps thousands of metro kids each year overcome neglect or abuse. Wednesday's training at the CenturyLink Center aimed at ways to spot survivors of abuse and neglect.
"We want people to know they can make a difference here, locally," said Deb Anderson with Project Harmony.
Keynote speaker actress Ashley Judd said Project Harmony is making a difference, giving thousands of kids a safe place to share their story and by training investigators to spot what's wrong in a home.
"Where the child is witnessed, and where the child is listened to, is so profound, and that there is no minimizing or reinterpretation, which is crucial to the child's healing," Judd said.
Judd told the audience she survived repeated abuse as a girl, and when she tried to tell adults, they made it harder by brushing it off.
That is why staff at Project Harmony wants others to know how to recognize a problem when a child comes to them.
"Don't let somebody else do it. You need to be the one to stand up and protect children," Anderson said.
The Department of Health and Human Services said there are signs to watch out for, like if a child suddenly changes behavior or performs differently in school. The department said a child may be overly compliant, passive or avoid going home.
For information on the training Project Harmony offers, visit http://projectharmony.com/


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'It is good to know something of the customs of different people in order to judge more sanely of our own."—Rene Descartes 14 By Charles L. Clapp Partner in Charge of Coordination of International Services Should anyone set out to visit all the overseas offices of our Firm he could end up with airline tags from 76 leading cities covering his luggage, and would have taken his bags through customs in 42 different countries—not counting the United States—on six continents. If he met all our partners, principals, directors and managers in our international offices, he would have about 360 faces to remember and hands to shake. Then, if he should visit our correspondent firms, he would add another 22 countries in the Near East, Middle East, the Pacific and elsewhere. Wherever H&S clients require service today we can supply it. In most parts of the world outside the United States we carry on our international work through the firm of Deloitte, Plender, Haskins & Sells, which came into being in 1924 through our close association in previous years with the British firm of Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co. In certain places where DPH&S offices have not been established, we serve our clients through correspondent firms. The scope of our international practice is steadily broadening as our clients expand their activities in a time of increasing economic interdependence among the peoples of the world. Just a glance at four examples among our clients will reveal how far they extend. The Bendix Corporation, for instance, has 70 foreign subsidiaries in 15 countries. International Harvester has 27 subsidiaries in 20 countries. General Motors has 52 subsidiaries in 27 countries, and Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing has 80 subsidiaries in 31 countries. Although the greatest spurt in our international growth has taken place in the past five or six years, we began going overseas very early. Our first office outside the U.S. was established in 1901, just six years after the Firm was founded in New York. Shortly after that H&S began to work with the British firm of Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co. At first the two firms cooperated in taking engagements for each other, but soon after World War I H&S opened offices in Havana and Shanghai, and then in Paris, Berlin and Manila. By 1924 a closer cooperation suggested itself naturally by the fact that we and our old British friends in Deloittes found ourselves performing services side by side in a number of cities outside our homelands. In 1924, therefore, we joined in forming DPH&S which today operates over most of the globe, outside the United States and the United Kingdom. An agreement in 1952 involving further parts of the free World led to an even broader expansion of DPH&S offices, into areas where we had not offered extensive service before. Since 1964 we have added DPH&S offices in 20 cities of four new countries. A more striking indication of our recent growth is the fact that we more than doubled the number of our international partners, principals, managers and directors in this time. (The increase was from 167 in these positions in July 1964 to 357 in July 1969.) Today we arrange for a great many transfers between this country and other lands, and this takes place in both directions. Young men come to the U.S. for 18 months at a time, then they return to their far-flung home cities and practice offices with an appreciation of the H&S philosophy and methods that it would have been much more difficult for them
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Mozilla Brainstorms New Ideas for Firefox 3.7, 4.0
Mozilla periodically refreshes its wiki page with what might called public brainstorming of future ideas. In its latest refresh, the popular browser's developers have posted a number of ideas that they're considering for Firefox 3.7 and Firefox 4.0 (above). In a nutshell: simplify, simplify, simplify.
"Firefox feels dated and behind on Windows," the developers have written. "Especially Vista and Windows 7. These issues include absence of Glass, anemic purple toolbar color on Vista, tall and bulky UI footprint, element overload, inconsistent toolbar icon usage/style, lack of a tactile look & feel and perhaps too great of a divergence between the look on XP and Vista/7."
Some of these changes have been discussed before: combining the "go/stop/refresh" buttons into a single element; using a neutral tone, and embracing the design motifs that Aero Glass and other Windows design elements allow.
But there are also a couple of other interesting design ideas: eliminating the menu bar, and killing off the "home button". The latter one is actually the most interesting . "The home button at present functions pretty much exactly like a bookmark," the wiki notes. "Yet it has its own dedicated place in the default set of toolbar buttons. It's not entirely useful and takes up prime real estate.
"For 3.7 we would like to create a "Home Tab". Moving the functionality of the home button to a persistent "mini-tab". This tab, for 3.7, would just take you to your homepage. Any links clicked on this page would spawn a new tab. This would serve as a good introduction to tabs for users not accustomed to them."
I wouldn't mind seeing Mozilla's take on an "iGoogle" home page; it's
an obvious conclusion. Oddly enough, the "Home Tab" seems to appear
only on Mozilla's mockup for Mozilla 4.0, which appears at the top of
the page. Here's an early design for Mozilla 3.7:
You can see the design team's direction. It's not set in stone, however: the design is "at the UX team proposal stage, to be approve[d] by drivers and subject for constructive community feedback".
You may not even notice the other change: hiding the menubar. Like
Vista, the Mozilla team wonders whether you need to see "File Edit
History..." all the time. But there's another change hiding there, too:
the elimination of bookmarks, which normally might be accessed via the
menu, hitting CTRL-B to bring up the sidebar, or other means. Mozilla
may replace bookmarks with a "widget": "create a bookmarks "widget"
that replicates the bookmark menu functionality and place that on the
bookmarks toolbar," the developers suggest.
The revisions for Mozilla 4.0 are even more provisional, as the new browser would be farther out, naturally. But there's a nifty new concept on the drawing board.
You probably have a number of Web pages you refer to on a frequent
basis throughout the day: Gmail, Twitter, maybe another Web service or
two. If you're like me, you cue up a series of tabs and assign them to
a specific grouping, or maybe a whole new window. Mozilla proposes that
those Web services (call them apps) be pinned to a portion of the
screen, so that users would be able to quickly access them.
Other changes are equally subtle. For example, at the top of your browser window at title probably announces the Web page. But the tab you're browsing in does too. Mozilla may eliminate the full title bar from the very top of the screen, letting the tabs serve that purpose. Honestly, I'm not sure that makes sense for someone who surfs with a dozen tabs or more, all open. Likewise, Mozilla proposes combining the search bar and address bar into a single field, which isn't so revolutionary.
Firefox won acclaim first for its security, and later for its
ability to extend its functionality via plugins. We'll have to see if a
simplified layout continues to help Mozilla cut into Internet
Explorer's lead as the most popular browser.


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Oct 13, 2019
5 a.m.-2 p.m.
George Cross & Sons, Inc. presents the West Coast's Largest Pomona Swap Meet & Classic Car Show seven times per year. At each event, you will find hundreds of vendors in over 2,000 vendor spaces selling tons of hard to find car parts and accessories at low swap meet prices.
Thousands of original and restored classic vehicles will be on display and for sale in six specialized Car Corral sections: Pre 1985 Classics, any year Corvettes, any year Porsches, Pre 1959 Street Rods, Pre 1985 Volkswagens and Pre 1985 Imports.
Since 1975, millions of automotive enthusiasts have come to Pomona from across the nation and around the world to find car parts, accessories, automobilia, customs and classics. Make plans to participate in our next event! Come to buy, come to sell, come to look!
General admission is $10, children 12 and under are admitted FREE.
Parking at Gate 17 on Fairplex Dr. with prevailing rates.
For more information please call (714) 538-7091 or visit our website.
For Vendor information click here.
For Car Corral information click here.
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home of the LA County Fair and more than 500 year-round events.