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Xoom vs iPad 2 vs Galaxy Tab 10.1 vs TouchPad vs PlayBook
The new iPad joins the tablet contenders
When they were announced, the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (P7100),HP TouchPad, the
wiped the floor with the original iPad in terms of raw specification.
After all, they are all dual-core. However, the new iPad, the iPad 2, has a dual-core Apple A5 processor. And, what's more, the iPad 2 beat the Motorola Xoom to UK shops. The iPad 2 UK release date is 25 March, while the Motorola Xoom UK release date looks like the beginning of April.
We should be seeing the PlayBook arrive in the Spring or early Summer and it shouldn't be too long before the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 appears. But HP has been a little more coy and but it looks like the TouchPad UK release date is June.
And, if you're wondering why the HTC Flyer isn't included here, it's simply that it doesn't match up to any of these tablets - at the moment HTC says it will ship with the non-tablet OS Android 2.3, while it only has a single-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. However, this might change by the time the tablet is actually released.
Let's see how the iPad 2 stacks up against its rivals.
This is the biggest difference between the five tablets. The iPad 2 runs Apple's own iOS, now coming up to version 4.3. The Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 both pack Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the BlackBerry PlayBook runs RIM's own Tablet OS and likewise the new HP TouchPad also has a bespoke OS.
iPAD 2: Apple's new iPad has a new version of iOS - 4.3
The Touchpad will run Palm's webOS, first developed by Palm - who HP then bought. The tablet will runwebOS 3.0.
WEBOS: HP bought Palm and is now taking full advantage of its webOS platform
iOS is still the leader in terms of usability, although having used Honeycomb, we think it's awesome and provides a real alternative choice OS for tablets - it helps that it's fast and responsive.
GALAXY TAB 10.1: Named after its screen, it also runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb
There will also be no Motorola MotoBlur interface overlaying Android 3.0 – this could be part of a bigger move by Google to stop having so many variants of Android.
The PlayBook and TouchPad are also highly usable, but lack the 'pick up and use' appeal of the iPad. We got hands on with the BlackBerry PlayBook at CES a few weeks ago and it's a serious threat to the iPad's dominance of the sector. TechRadar's Reviews Editor James Rivington says the PlayBook "could well be the tablet that changes the game. In a word, it's a triumph."
ANDROID 3.0: Honeycomb looks special and works extremely well
All five units use dual-core ARM Cortex-A9-based silicon. The iPad 2 runs Apple's brand new dual-core A5 processor clocked at 1GHz, while the Xoom is plumps for a dual-core Nvida Tegra 2, capable of recording 720p video or sending 1080p full HD to your TV via HDMI. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 also goes for a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2.
The PlayBook is also running a dual-core 1GHz Cortex-A9-based processor, though there are no more details on who has manufactured it. It's probably an Nvidia Tegra 2. The HP TouchPad has the highest clocked processor yet announced though - a Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8060 dual-core running at 1.2GHz.
DUAL CORE iPAD: The new iPad now matches the other tablets by using a dual-core processor
The largest of the tablets, the Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 have 10.1-inch, 1,280 x 800 displays.
Like the original iPad, the new iPad 2 has a 9.7-inch display with a resolution of 1,024 x 768 - as does the HP TouchPad. Apple has obviously decided to stick with a winner - shame we didn't get an iPhone 4-esque retina display though.
SAME SCREEN: iPad 2 sticks with the same screen as in the original iPad
The PlayBook is only a 7-inch tablet and to us it can feel small. The touch on the PlayBook does extend right across the bezel though, which is a nice touch and pretty important for navigating around the OS.
The screens on both the PlayBook and Xoom look pretty spectacular and of course, we're big fans of the iPad 2's tried and tested screen. The PlayBook's size gives it a pixel advantage though, as we said in our Playbook hands on:
"The PlayBook's 1024 x 600 resolution isn't far off the 9.7-inch 1024 x 768 iPad, but because of the Playbook's 7-inch display, the increased pixel density makes all the difference. It's sharp and crisp, and 1080p HD video looks fabulous."
CRISP: The PlayBook's screen is quite pixel dense - largely because it's only a 7-inch tablet
Storage and memory
The Xoom has a Micro SD slot, but Android 3.0 doesn't yet support it (apparently). However, Moto says that as soon as the OS permits it, you'll be able to use up to 32GB of removable storage. As you'll know, the iPad or iPad 2 don't have any kind of slot – though it has 16, 32 or 64GB on board flash storage of course. Once again, the HP mimics the iPad's approach - no slot, but 16 or 32GB of on-board flash. The Samsung also goes for 16 or 32GB options.
We don't yet know the system memory of iPad 2, but we'd hazard a guess at 1GB (although some estimates say 512MB). The original iPad lagged behind in this department, though you'd have scarcely noticed it - it had just 256MB of system memory. The other tablets all have 1GB of RAM. Perhaps Apple is hoping we won't notice that this is one are in which iPad 2 falls behind.
The Xoom has two cameras front (2MP) and a 720p capturing back 5MP camera with a dual LED flash. The Playbook packs two cameras – a 3MP front-facing camera and a 5MP rear-facing one. The new iPad 2 also packs two cameras, but there are no details on the megapixelcount - again we suspect this is something Apple would rather not talk about!However, as with the Xoom, the rear camera will record 720p HD video though it sadly has no flash.
REAR CAMERA: iPad 2 has front and rear cameras, but no flash
Unusually, the HP TouchPad doesn't have a rear camera, only a front-facing 1.3 megapixel one. However, the trump card belongs to Samsung - there is also an 8MP rear-facing camera. But this is coupled with a poor 2-megapixel front-facing offering.If you want ot shoot video, then this will be done at 1080p Full HD video, 24fps.
FRONT CAM: But HP's TouchPad has no rear camera
All five tablets are designed for use with 3G networks. However, we may well get a Wi-Fi version of the PlayBook before we see a 3G-enabled variant – obviously this is speculation currently. This also looks likely with the HP TouchPad.
The base iPad 2 is also Wi-Fi only of course. It looks like there will also be two versions of the Motorola Xoom. Another version will work on 4G networks in the US, though we'll only get 3G here of course. All have 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi. HP has also promised a 4G version of the TouchPad in due course. The Samsung Galaxy Tab boasts HSPA+ HSPA+ and Bluetooth 3.0.
The Xoom and PlayBook also support HDMI output to a TV – the iPad supports AirPlay for wireless streaming via Apple TV. All have Bluetooth 2.1 plus GPS support. The Xoom and PlayBook also have Micro USB while the iPad sticks with the trusted Apple dock connector. All five tablets have 3.5mm headphone jacks. The PlayBook can be paired with a BlackBerry phone via Bluetooth for full interaction with its Email, Calendar, Docs and BBM.
Location and sensors
Each tablet has an accelerometer (three axis in the Apple and Motorola) and compass plus Assisted GPS in their 3G variants. The Motorola Xoom, HP PalmPad and new Apple iPad 2 also feature a gyroscope while the Xoom also has a barometer for measuring the atmospheric pressure. Details seem sketchy on whether the PlayBook will have a gyroscope, so we're keeping an open mind.
GYRO: Will the PlayBook have a gyroscope like the Xoom?
The Motorola Xoom looks like it will start at £499 in the UK, A great price, but it still makes the iPad 2 look like a steal. The original iPad Wi-Fi version was £429 at launch of course, but the VAT rise has seen this increase to £439 - expect that to be where iPad 2 starts from. There are no details from HP on pricing, while the PlayBook also doesn't look like it will be as cheap as the iPad. There are also as yet no pricing details on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, though it will be available on subscription from Vodafone. What's ace is that, at the moment, the original iPad is available for £329 - get them while you can.
The iPad 2 has stolen a march here, at just 8.8mm thick. The 7-inch PlayBook is 9.7mm thick and weighs just over 400g, which beats the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 at 10.9mm and 599g and the iPad 2's weight of 601g. The weight of the 10.1-inch Xoom has been reported to be around 730g, with a 13mm thickness. The HP is similar - 14mm thick and weighing in at 740g.
As most of the world's population knows, the iPad family doesn't support Flash. Android 3.0 does though, as does RIM's Tablet OS, with full Flash 10.1 and Adobe Air. WebOS also has Flash 10.1 All have HTML 5 compatibility.
Can Android 3.0 and the other new operating systems really lay down the gauntlet for iOS and the iPad? Only time will tell.
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The limits of evidence-based marketing
That's what most of us do. We present facts and proof and expect a rational consumer/voter/follower/peer to make an intelligent decision on what's better.
That's how science works. Thesis, test, evidence, conclusion. All testable and rational.
Here's the conversation that needs to happen before we invest a lot of time in evidence-based marketing in the face of skepticism: "What evidence would you need to see in order to change your mind?"
If the honest answer is, "well, actually, there's nothing you could show me that would change my mind," you've just saved everyone a lot of time. Please don't bother having endless fact-based discussions.
[Apple tried to use evidence to persuade IT execs and big companies to adopt the Mac during the 80s. They tried ads and studies that proved the Mac was easier and cheaper to support. They failed. It was only the gentle persistence of storytelling and the elevation of evangelists that turned the tide.]
What would you have to show someone who believes men never walked on the moon? What evidence would you have to proffer in order to change the mind of someone who is certain the Earth is only 5,000 years old? If they're being truthful with you, there's nothing they haven't been exposed to that would do the trick. I was talking to someone who has a body of artistic work I respect a great deal. He explained to me his notion that the polio vaccine was a net negative, that it didn't really work and that more people have been hurt by it than helped.
I tried evidence. I showed him detailed reports from the Gates Foundation and from the WHO and from other sources. No, he said, that's all faked, promoted by the pharma business. There was no evidence that would change his mind.
Of course, evidence isn't the only marketing tactic that is effective. In fact, it's often not the best tactic. What would change his mind, what would change the mind of many people resistant to evidence is a series of eager testimonials from other tribe members who have changed their minds. When people who are respected in a social or professional circle clearly and loudly proclaim that they've changed their minds, a ripple effect starts. First, peer pressure tries to repress these flip-flopping outliers. But if they persist in their new mindset, over time others may come along. Soon, the majority flips. It's not easy or fast, but it happens.
That's why it's hard to find people who believe the earth is flat. That's why political parties change their stripes now and then. It wasn't that the majority reviewed the facts and made a shift. It's because people they respected sold them on a new faith, a new opinion.


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Subtitle: Reflections on A Course In MiraclesOne of the Course's most popular and dynamic spokesperson reveals how we each can become a miracle worker by accepting God and by the expression of love in our daily lives. Whether our psychic pain is in the area of relationships, career, or health, she shows us how love is a potent force, the key to inner peace, and how by practicing love we can make our own lives more fulfilling while creating a more peaceful and loving world for our children. Updated version. Quality paperback.
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Initiative Will Help Streamline Disparate Datasets and Support Regulators' Efforts to Monitor the Market
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) have agreed to partner on the creation of a National Mortgage Database—the first comprehensive repository of detailed mortgage loan information. The database will primarily be used to support the agencies' policymaking and research efforts and to help regulators better understand emerging mortgage and housing market trends.
"This partnership between FHFA and CFPB will create a unique resource that benefits the government and public as we seek to answer important questions about how the housing finance market is evolving and changing," said FHFA Acting Director Edward J. DeMarco. "This collaborative effort is a great way to pool expertise and leverage resources for the benefit of regulators and the public."
"In order to understand what is going on in the mortgage marketplace and develop appropriate consumer protections, we must have the best facts and data," said CFPB Director Richard Cordray. "This database will be a valuable tool for regulators and researchers and we look forward to partnering with FHFA on this important work."
The National Mortgage Database will include information spanning the life of a mortgage loan from origination through servicing and include a variety of borrower characteristics. Specifically, the database will include loan-level data about the mortgage including: the borrower's financial and credit profile; the mortgage product and terms; the property purchased or refinanced; and the ongoing payment history of the loan. Data will be updated on a monthly basis and track as far back as 1998. Additionally, this database fulfills an FHFA requirement under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) to conduct a monthly mortgage market survey.
The agencies will build the database by matching a nationwide sampling of credit bureau files on borrower's mortgages and payment histories with informational files such as the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) database, property valuation models, and other data files to create a comprehensive picture for each mortgage.
The database will not contain personally identifiable information and appropriate precautions will be taken by the agencies to ensure that individual consumers cannot be identified through the database or through any datasets that may be made available to researchers or the public.
Although the mortgage market is the single largest market for consumer finance, there is a lack of comprehensive data available on a complete, national scale. Multiple federal and state agencies as well as private vendors collect and maintain information, but there is no single database that contains all information in one place. The creation of the National Mortgage Database will be the first step in a broader strategy to help streamline data for research and policy analysis and to ensure accurate, comprehensive information is more easily accessible for monitoring the market.
Examples of how the National Mortgage Database can support the agencies' work include:
- Monitor the relative health of mortgage markets and consumers. The database will provide detailed mortgage loan performance information including whether payments are made on-time, as well as information regarding loan modifications, foreclosures, and bankruptcies. This will help policy makers better understand how various products are being used and how they are performing.
- Provide new insight on consumer decision making. Agencies will be able to use the database to conduct surveys to better understand consumer decision making and experiences across a range of topics such as mortgage shopping or distressed homeownership.
- Monitor new and emerging products in the mortgage market. The database will allow the agencies to monitor volume and performance of products in the mortgage market and help regulators to identify potential problems or new risks.
- View both first and second lien mortgages for a given borrower. Policy makers increasingly need visibility into how many mortgages consumers may have and how they're performing. The National Mortgage Database will be the first comprehensive database to permit such analysis.
- Understand the impact of consumers' debt burden. The database will also include information about a borrower's other debt obligations, such as auto loans or student loans. This will permit policymakers to better understand emerging borrowing trends and overall consumer debt burden.
Construction of the National Mortgage Database will be a complex undertaking. The agencies have signed an Inter-Agency Agreement (IAA) establishing terms for developing, maintaining, and funding the database. Development of the dataset is currently underway and the agencies expect early versions of the full dataset to be complete in 2013. FHFA and the CFPB are committed to exploring ways to share database information with other federal agencies, academics, and the public once the database is complete.


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As of September 2017, new Sweat Science columns are being published at www.outsideonline.com/sweatscience. Check out my bestselling new book on the science of endurance, ENDURE: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, published in February 2018 with a foreword by Malcolm Gladwell.
- Alex Hutchinson (@sweatscience)
For an article I'm working on, I've been digging through the literature on sarcopenia, the age-related loss of muscle mass that most of us face starting in our 30s. I've found several conflicting estimates of how much muscle you can expect to lose, with a high end of 1-2% per year starting in your fourth decade (from this paper). That's a lot more aggressive than I'd expected. I get the sense that it's one of those problems whose implications we're just now beginning to grasp — so I was interested to see this article by Andrew Pollack in the New York Times, which offers a good introduction to the topic:
Bears emerge from months of hibernation with their muscles largely intact. Not so for people, who, if bedridden that long, would lose so much muscle they would have trouble standing.
(Nice lede!)
Why muscles wither with age is captivating a growing number of scientists, drug and food companies, let alone aging baby boomers who, despite having spent years sweating in the gym, are confronting the body's natural loss of muscle tone over time.
Comparisons between age groups underline the muscle disparity: An 80-year-old might have 30 percent less muscle mass than a 20-year-old. And strength declines even more than mass…
Much of the article focuses on attempts to agree on a clinical definition of the condition — which would then make it possible for drugmakers to win approval from regulators for drugs to treat it. But the key point for me is:
Researchers involved in the effort say doctors and patients need to be more aware that muscle deterioration is a major reason the elderly lose mobility and cannot live independently.
In other words, I need to start doing my push-ups again. Soon.


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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Sunday Night Reflections
The Beauty Within
The Eternal, Eye that sees the whole
May better read the darkened soul,
And find, to outward sense denied,
The flower upon its inmost side.
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Sleeves On Saturdays
Last week I posted the instructions on how to turn Butterick 5678 into a double-breasted jacket. You may have noticed that I left out the sleeve.
The sleeve is very basic, just a straight sleeve right off of the pattern, but with one difference, the cuff. This is actually a fold up cuff. The trim is just on the edge of the seam.
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Fabulous Free Pattern Friday
Once again, I have not completely lost my marbles!! I know what day it is, but I just have to post this skirt. If a garment could have feelings, this one would most definitely feel like the unwanted child. I actually did something with this fabric last summer for a FFPF post. I liked the design, but not in this fabric, so it was put aside. A few weeks ago, I took the project out because I really like the fabric and I had a new idea. I finished the skirt and it has been sitting, waiting for me to post it for at least the last three weeks. So rather than leave it sitting for another week, I'm posting it today.
A few years ago I gave a presentation on working with border prints. I absolutely love border prints because there are so many things that can be done with them. Maybe I should repeat that presentation here on the blog.
As you can see, the fabric is a border print. The skirt only has 1 seam and that is in the box pleat that is on the left side of the skirt. Below you can see the box pleat.
Once you have the piece cut, sew the 1 seam. Fold in the box pleats. Now try on the skirt and pinch in the right side do that it will form a long dart. Once you have sewn in the dart, fold down the 3" that were added for the waist and press. Unfold the the 3" fold and then match the edge of your fabric to the pressed fold line. Press and then fold over and stitch in place. This will give you a 1 1/2" finished edge at the top of your skirt. You can see my finished waist in the picture below.
The skirt is finished.
This is a great way to use a border print, especially one that you would rather not do a lot of cutting into the design.
I'm curious to see if anyone will recognize the denim and fabric combination in something else that I have posted this past month. There will be a small little prize if anyone can guess, just a little notion that I love to use. So guess away!!!!
Enjoy your Saturday everyone!
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Friday, June 28, 2013
The Simplified Pillowcase Instructions
As I mentioned a few days ago, I wanted to do an update to the pillowcase instructions as the instructions that I've posted make the process much more complicated than it needs to be. So here we go.
What will remain the same are the dimensions of the cut pieces.
For ONE regular size pillowcase you need:
1 - 25"x 40" piece of fabric ("main")
1 - 1O"x 40" piece ,of fabric ("trim")
1 - 2" X 40" piece of fabric ("accent")
Note: all seam allowances are 1/4"
Begin by folding the 2" accent piece in half lengthwise.
If you are planning to make quite a few, what I like to do is stack my fabric and cut 3 or 4 at one time.
I hope this simplifies the process. If you are planning to join in on the pillowcase drive for the Mary Bridge Children's Hospital, let me know, email@example.com. You can see all the posts about this project here, http://www.rhondabuss.blogspot.com/search/label/Mary%20Bridge
What will remain the same are the dimensions of the cut pieces.
For ONE regular size pillowcase you need:
1 - 25"x 40" piece of fabric ("main")
1 - 1O"x 40" piece ,of fabric ("trim")
1 - 2" X 40" piece of fabric ("accent")
Note: all seam allowances are 1/4"
Begin by folding the 2" accent piece in half lengthwise.
I then sew a seam across the top of the case, and then a seam down the side. I like to sew the seams rather than just serge them as I like to do a good back stitch at the end of the side seam. Once I have stitched the 2 seams, I then do a serged edge. If you do not have a serger, you can pink the edges are do a zigzag stitch just to keep the fabric from fraying too much.
The inside of my finished pillowcase.
I hope this simplifies the process. If you are planning to join in on the pillowcase drive for the Mary Bridge Children's Hospital, let me know, email@example.com. You can see all the posts about this project here, http://www.rhondabuss.blogspot.com/search/label/Mary%20Bridge
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Butterick 5678 Made Into a Jacket with a Sailor Collar
This week I decided to do the shirt as a jacket. If you look closely, you can see that there is a little shape on the side seams, but over all the jacket is rather boxy. I also added pockets. As for the collar, that post should be up on the Sew News blog soon. We've had a few technical problems this week so it's a little late. As soon as the post is up though, I will let you know.
The final patterns. You will need to add the hem allowance to the pocket, but do not add the hem allowance to the side front panel. This will cut down on bulk at the hem. You will need to cut 4 pockets, 2 for each side. Remember that the pocket needs to have a backing. I also placed notches on the side front pattern piece so that I would know where to match my pocket.
In my quest to use what I have, I went through all of my buttons and believe me that is a lot! I had nothing that was just the right button until I had the idea to layer my buttons. If you look closely you'll see that there is a large black button. On top of that button is a red button and then finally, the small white button that fit perfectly into the well of the red button. I was so happy!
I did line my jacket. There's nothing better than an unexpected lining!!
One pattern can go a long way in creating an entire wardrobe.
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Let me just get this out of the way right up front: I am a sucker for historical fiction. There is something magical about having the dry facts from my high school history books come alive in a more fully-fleshed way.
Almost any American Jew who has been to Israel has climbed the snake path up the side the archeological masterpiece that is what's left of the ancient fortress of Masada (or chickened out and at least taken the cable car up the side.) Even though you can see pretty detailed living quarters when you visit, it is still hard for most visitors to actually picture what it must have been like to be there.


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The Lanjarón municipality is on the southern flank of Sierra Nevada. It is famous for its crafts, its honey and the quality of its medicinal water, including one of Spain's most famous spas.
The museum project began with a search for a site favoured by the presence of water in natural conditions. The chosen area is at the entrance to the Sierra Nevada Regional Park, alongside the Lanjarón River and an irrigation ditch that runs around several old buildings that were formerly the municipal abattoir.
A new water museum for an Andalusian spa town captures the physical qualities of water in a part of Spain where the historical relationship between architecture and water began with the Moors. For the Moors, architecture was not merely a static object, but something to be sensed and experienced by the whole body. In its more modest way, the new museum also celebrates these elusive experiential qualities.
The museum is installed in on this site to safeguard the natural environment from property speculation with the design of a pedestrian itinerary that connects the new activity with the water infrastructure and several examples of traditional architecture, including watermills and an old public laundry. A shortage of resources led this operation to consist of the reuse and recycling of local materials.
The abattoir buildings, for example, have been adapted for the museum, incorporating the irrigation ditch alignment and the river into the new facilities via a simple system consisting of interconnected films of water. A square containing orange trees has been installed in front of the complex, raised slightly above ground level using stacked prefab concrete blocks and eucalyptus tree trunks of different sizes.
This are is flooded with water from the ditch at the different times to shape a space that changes in appearances as the day passes. The shade and the scent of the orange blossom, the sound of water and the reflections when the square is flooded all create a refreshing atmosphere. The entrance is generated by installing a new wooden construction on the former site of the old abattoir courtyard. This pavilion houses a representative space devoted to water, a reference landmark in the landscape.
The building is a reminder of the time when the Capuchina Spring was roofed in the 18thcentaury to form a wooden building that housed Lanjarón's first official spring. The new pavilion is designed as a space for the senses, suspended in the air, with two openings that invite the visitor to enter and experience the effects of light and darkness. A film of water that spreads across the floor intensifies the experience, a similar sensation to Islamic bath houses.
The minimal work on the former pavilions consisted of demolishing the interior partitions and leaving the wall and roofing structure in view. In the course of the process, we discovered that the structure originally belonged to a previous set of watermills, giving this recovery work an added archaeological dimension.
The exhibition areas have been arranged using the selective occupation of the interior of the former buildings, leaving the corrals and other zones available for future requirements. In order to contrast the stone walls and the brickwork in the old mill, panels extradosed in white have been inserted to frame the location of the new work.
The two new pavilions are used as audiovisual rooms, and a third building is used for the thematic exhibitions of the museum contests. In the oldest pavilion, a glass surface used for projections emerges from the ground flooded with water from the irrigation ditch, generating reflections that dance on the old mill walls.
Location: Lanjarón, Spain
Architect: Juan Domingo Santos
Collaborators: Julien Fajardo, arquitecto, Isabel Díaz Rodríguez, Carmen Moreno Álvarez y Margarita Martínez Barbero
Construction Engineer: Juan Diego Guarderas García
Industrial Engineer: Patricio Bautista Carrascosa
Construction: Garasa Esñeco S.A. y Conschago S.L.
Area: 478 square meters (interior) + 32 square meters (wooden pavilion)
Year: 2009
Client: Lanjarón's Town Council
Photographs: Fernando Alda, Hisao Suzuki/El Croquis, estudio JDS


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OCEAN CITY – The internationally known Race Across America bicycle competition could be re-routing its finishing line to the beaches of Ocean City next year for their annual race from coast to coast. Although other locations are being looked at, Ocean City is one of the destinations being considered for the finishing city in the over 3,000-mile bicycle tour across the country.
Ocean City Public Relations Director Donna Abbott presented the idea to the Tourism Commission at last Thursday's meeting, explaining that Race Across America had contacted her and expressed interest in changing the finishing point of next year's race from Atlantic City, N.J. to Ocean City.
Race Across America began in 1982 and has become the longest running ultra-distance bicycle endurance competition in the world. The race usually begins in Oceanside, Calif. and finishes over 3,000 miles away on the east coast. For the past several years the race has ended in Atlantic City, but, according to Abbott, organizers want to move the finishing point to a more family-friendly town.
According to the Race Across America website, the competitors consist of cyclists spanning Tour de France racers and Olympic athletes to juveniles and septuagenarians.
Over the past 24 years, the race has been aired on ABC Wide World of Sports, ESPN, OLN, NBC, BBC and other stations around the world, which could prove to be advantageous for Ocean City, as the finish line is usually the most exciting part.
Abbott explained to the Tourism Commission that the event would be scheduled in June, which works as both a positive and a negative for Ocean City.
"There's always an opportunity for more June events," Abbott told the commission.
The downside is that the event occurs during the week of the Firemen's Convention, with one of the days overlapping with the annual parade.
Despite the conflict, the race could bring both crowds and exposure to Ocean City. Abbott explained the bicyclists would be trickling into town over a three-day period. The event would bring 65 teams coupled with fans, who would need rooms in Ocean City and who would most likely enjoy the town for several days. The teams would need 80- to 90-room nights at a nearby hotel and three banquets consisting of 250 to 300 people. Abbott expects that 200 people would arrive that Tuesday, June 10, with 250 arriving Wednesday, 250 on Thursday and 150 on Friday.
The event could also bring visitors who have never been to Ocean City before, as 25 percent of the bicyclists are international with 50 percent coming from the west.
The commission discussed ways to make the event work in conjunction with the firemen's parade, agreeing that having the bicyclists share the Inlet with the firemen could result in a lack of space.
Abbott explained that the race would require some sort of stage and celebration point at the finish line and that the racers wanted the beach to be the backdrop.
City Manager Dennis Dare suggested moving the finish line from the inlet to North Division Street. The bicyclists could ride over the Route 50 Bridge into town, through the arch on North Division Street and the Boardwalk and right out onto the sand.
The commission agreed that both the North Division Street idea and the race would be beneficial.
"It sounds like great publicity," Commission member and Clarion Hotel owner Dr. Leonard Berger said.
The commission voted unanimously to support having the race come to Ocean City. The decision is not yet final, however, with Abbott having received no official confirmation from the race director as of Wednesday.


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- A doughnuts infographic that even tackles the correct spelling. Happy National Donut Day btw.
- A California high school pitcher who happens to be a junior had one of the most dominate performances in baseball history with 20 strikeouts in 6 and 2/3 innings. He was removed with one inning remaining to make way for a senior pitcher because the home finale also served as senior day. (hat-tip, Barry)
- Former President GW Bush had a pretty funny line at his portrait revealing yesterday asking the current First Lady to save the painting should anything like a fire happen, just like Dolly Madison did with the original George W(ashington)'s painting. And this summarized version Laura Bush's quote gave me a nice chuckle, "It was nice of you to allow the Bush's back into the White House to hang up a few family portraits. Nothing makes a house a home like having portraits of its former occupants staring down at you."
- George H.W. Bush loves rocking some colorful socks as of late.
- Here's a great way to reuse a squeezable ketchup bottle – fill it up with pancake batter.
- 35 Worst Highways in the U.S. – Only two Texas mentions, one in Austin and the other in DFW.
- Here's an interesting Apple read with a bit of a Mad Men twist. Steve Jobs wanted to name the original iMac, MacMan, somewhat like what Sony did with the Walkman and it's line of music players, and he even rejected the name "iMac". Check out the back story and how Jobs' mind was changed here.
- A funny screengrab from the last Mad Men where you can see they made copies of their rear-ends on the copier. I guess it's part of the creative process.
- A great way to apply hot sauce.
- Another use for toothpaste – to hang a picture.
- Adult toys are becoming more common place at places like Target and your local pharmacy, so keep your kids distracted.
- A map of NYC based on rappers origins
- For the bracelet wearing folks – use scotch tape to help you out.
- A few thoughts about former Senator John Edwards and what transpired yesterday regarding these excerpts from his speech on the courthouse steps:
- "While I do not believe I did anything illegal, or ever thought I was doing anything illegal, I did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. There is no one else responsible for my sins. … I am responsible. If I want to find the person that should be held accountable for my sins, honestly, I don't have to go any further than the mirror. It's me. It is me and me alone."
He said these words with his elderly parents and his oldest daughter by his side. It's gotta be humbling, humiliating, and heart wrenching for your sins to play out in front of them. But at the same time, it's gotta to great to have loved ones stand by your side when you are at your most vulnerable and weakest moment. Even though many will say those words above are empty or just for show, I think it shows him finally taking ownership and responsibility for his immoral actions.
- "I also want to say a word about my own children. Cate, who most all of you have seen, has been here every single day … no matter how awful and painful a lot of the evidence was for her. … But she never once flinched. She said, 'Dad, I love you. I'll be there for you no matter what.' "His daughter Cate must be full of grace considering what he did to her mother as she was dying of cancer. Throughout this trial the cameras always located her, but she was always there with her dad having to hear some awful truths about him.
- "I don't think God's through with me. I really believe he thinks there's still some good things I can do.Through repentance comes forgiveness. I'm sure most folks will just think these are empty words to get some credibility and his career back on track, but I guess after you've been humiliated in public and have lost your wife and have wrecked your career, all you have is your faith. Only he and God knows the sincerity behind his words.
I'm not defending the guy. I'm hugely disappointed in him, but I am fascinated at what it must be like to have everything you tried to hide come out and everyone see the real person you are, and then somehow continue to go on living. It all kind of reminds me of Les Misérables. Some folks will say his church should throw him out, but I think there's not better time to minister to someone then when they are at their lowest.


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Hi All
Just a thought that came to me last night as the first hot water made it to the house after a week of night sub-freezing temperatures and frozen pipes. Trying to recover from big time phumonia followed by a detached retina, a nice warm place to hide and stay warm seemed to be top priority.
As I was enjoying the shower I had a mind shift and started to focus on Meta practice:
1. May I be free of suffering; may I feel safe and still.
2. May I be free of enmity; may I be loving, grateful and kind.
3. May I be healthy and at ease in all my ills.
4. May I be at peace, embracing all conditions of life.
I then realized or reminded that Meta is not complete without extending those thoughts to all.
1. May he(she) be free of suffering; may he(she) feel safe and still.
2. May he(she) be free of enmity; may he(she) be loving, grateful and kind.
3. May he(she) be healthy and at ease in all his(her) ills.
4. May he(she) be at peace, embracing all conditions of life
I particularly thought about all the members of our extended Buddhist
family who are held captive in cold, isolated places,, no heat, adequate food, no cozy place to hide and nurse their mental and physical ills.
So this probably is not a start of a new thread, just a sharing of my reminder to continue in our community and individual meta practice each day. I know when I was in ICU in late December your meta thoughts were a comfort that helped pull me along.


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07/20/11 Animal Experiments are Done Illegally in Croatia!
On the occasion of marking the Day of Fighting Animal Experiments, July 21
- Six years after the "beagle affair" animal experiments in Croatia still without control
In the action of uncovering illegal and unethical treatment of animals in the famous "beagle affair" on July 21, 2005, beagle dogs were freed from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb and adopted. Out of 32 deeply traumatised and neglected dogs, 22 had broken bones.
After great media exposure, public support when the dogs were freed and reports by animal protection organizations, those responsible have not only escaped consequneces of their lack of professionalism and ethics, but they continue to work with animals. What has changed in Croatia since then for animals who are still tortured and killed for experiments?
Croatian regulations are declaratively in compliance with European Union demands, so the Animal Protection Act has been in effect since 2007, which stipulates in Articles 25, 26 and 33 that the authorization on approved animal experiments, authorization on approved animals to produce biological preparations, as well as the authorization which approves using a large number of animals, changing animal species or approved experimentational procedures is issued by a competent body with an opinion from the Ethical Committee.
The Ethical Committee was regulated by the Act, and it gives opinions on issues of ethics and animal protection in procedures using animals in experiments and in educational purposes, suggests criteria and gives opinions to a competent body in the process of issuing approval for experiments. In spite of that, not even four years after the Animal Protection Act has been put into effect, and two and a half years after the legal deadline, the Ethical Committee has not started functioning!
One of the tasks of the Ethical Committee is to make annual reports on its work, which is submitted to the Minister by the end of March of the current year for the past year. Where are those reports on approved experiments in Croatia for the past two and a half years? It is obvious that competent authorities in Croatia are shamelessly ignoring the laws they have made themselves, confirming that after the 'beagle affair' the legal state stilll turns its back on animals.
Beagles at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 2005, had their bones broken, although research of that kind had previously been done on humans. Without the Etical Committee, which represents only a minimum of control and transparency in approving animal experiments, numerous invisible animals hidden in laboratories are left to painful, agonizing experiments and death.
There are no clear criteria or possibilities of insight into what is done to animals, and every query concerned with animals tortured in Croatian institutions is considered an attack on highly guarded secrets. Competent institutions in Croatia, by their failure to obey the Law by forming the Ethical Committee, have not fulfilled even the minimal conditions to, after uncovering many oversights and illegalities through the "beagle affair," restore the reputation of and trust in Croatian science.
It is obvious that Croatian institutions responsible for animal experiments are inert and uninterested not only in enforcing the law, but also in contemporary achievements of science, which is increasingly using more reliable and ethical replacement testing methods, without the barbaric inflicting of pain on sentient living beings. By approving and conducting animal experiments without the opinion of the Ethical Committee, they openly break legal regulations and put selfish interests of producing scientific papers to advance scientists' careers above ethics and obeying the law.
By investing in modern scientific methods, Croatia would show not only that it cares about not exploiting and killing animals in experiments, but would do a lot to protect people who will benefit more from new methods than former outdated, repetitive and unprofitable methods of animal experimentation.
Animal Friends, as a member of the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) and representatives of InterNICHE in Croatia, invites citizens to take a firm stand against animal experiments, to be conscientious consumers and buy only products which are not tested on animals. Information on the so-called white list of companies and methods of testing which do not include animals can be found here.


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Mozilla this week discussed its goals for Firefox 4, the next major upgrade of its open source Web browser. The new version of Firefox will focus on features like improved speed, a simpler user interface, and HTML 5 technologies, but Monday's talk was more about discussing broad goals rather than actual features. (Don't new browsers always focus on speed?) Nevertheless, Mozilla did discuss some features being considered for Firefox 4, and even provided a few sneak peeks.
Here's a quick look at some of the more interesting features that may show up in the next version of Firefox 4. Just keep in mind these features are only being considered and tested right now, and may not make it into the final, or even beta versions, of Firefox 4.
Simplified User Interface
Mozilla is trying to do away with as many unnecessary buttons and other interface items as possible in Firefox 4. In the interface window Mozilla showed off on Monday, the home, reload, and stop buttons had all been removed. Instead, the home button was given its own tab, the reload button was placed in the browser entry bar, and the stop button (which prevents a page from loading) was completely gone. The mock-up also placed a favorites button to the immediate left of the URL entry bar, similar to Google Chrome.
Home Tabs
One idea that has been in development for months is to remove the home button from Firefox, and replace it with a home tab that can't be closed and would sit on the far left of the browser window. The idea is for this tab to house your start page so you can always return to it. Late last year, it looked like this page might contain some social networking features like status update widgets from social networks, RSS feeds, and other personalized content. However, current plans are not clear about whether the new Home Tab would include dynamic content or just be home to the user's selected home page like Google, Windows Live, or Yahoo.
Firefox 4 may also have Web application tabs that would operate similarly to the home tab, but be dedicated to specific Web apps such as Gmail, Windows Live Calendar, and Twitter.
Tabs on Top
This is far from confirmed yet, but for several months now Mozilla has been toying with the idea of having the tabs in Firefox 4 point up instead of down, similar to how tabs appear in Google Chrome. This would be a great way to maximize browser window real estate, and minimize user interface elements such as the application window, buttons, toolbars, and so on.
One feature that is already showing up in nightly builds of the forthcoming Firefox 3.7 (formerly known as Firefox 3.6.4) is a switch-to-tab feature that makes it easier to navigate multiple tabs. Let's say you have 15 browser tabs open; you're currently on a tab from The Wall Street Journal, and you want to navigate to an open tab at CNN.com. All you have to do is start typing the 'CNN' into the address bar, and Firefox will give you a choice in the drop down menu to either navigate to your open CNN tab or open a new tab at CNN.com.
Better dialog and background updates
Firefox 4's permission dialogs may also be changing from pop-up windows and drop down alerts to simple dialog bubbles that drop down from the URL bar. The advantage to this change would again be a simpler, cleaner navigation that would be less intrusive to the user than persistent pop-ups that follow you every time you switch tabs. But it should be noted the new dialog bubble wouldn't behave all that differently from the dialog drop downs used for passwords and other warnings in the current version of Firefox (3.6.3).
Background updates and fast start-ups
Mozilla also hopes to make startup times faster for Firefox by removing another set of annoying pop-ups–namely, dialog boxes for Firefox and add-on updates that occasionally appear when you startup the browser. These pop-ups, while they can be ignored, prevent you from using Firefox while updates are being installed.
Mozilla is hoping that in the future, Firefox will get its updates in the background, where new versions of Firefox would be installed while the browser is running, again just like in Google Chrome. However, this appears to be a long term goal for Mozilla, and the first versions of Firefox 4 may not include background updating.
Firefox 4 sounds like it may have some interesting new additions for users, but I couldn't help noticing that a lot of these proposed features–tabs on top, background updates, simpler user interface–were clearly inspired by Google Chrome. It will be interesting to see just how closely the two browsers resemble each other once Firefox 4 is released.
Currently, Mozilla is hoping to release beta versions of Firefox 4 this summer, possibly as early as June.
If you'd like to see Mozila's 45-minute presentation on Firefox 4, you can find it here . But to watch it you'll need to be running a browser that fully supports HTML 5 such as Google Chrome or Firefox.
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Font Designer – Will Carter
1930–32: trains at the Unwin Brothers printing works in Woking. 1938: works at the Paul Koch workshop in Frankfurt am Main; becomes friends with Hermann Zapf. 1948: studies punch cutting with David Kindersley. 1949: founds the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge.
* TYPOGRAPHY – An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott (Editor), Bernard Stein, published by Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH.


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If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at Amazon.com. Be that as it may, books—real books—still make wonderful Christmas gifts. Here are some recently published (and read) titles I can recommend with enthusiasm.
"The Union War," by Gary W. Gallagher (Harvard University Press): As the Civil War Sesquicentennial gets underway in earnest, it's good to have Gary Gallagher of the University of Virginia as a guide to why what happened, happened. "The Union War" argues that the northern war was, above all, a war for the Union, as his previous volume, "The Confederate War," demonstrated that nationalism, and the defense of what the South understood to be its liberties, was at the heart of its war effort. Gallagher uses the tools of social history (including letters from veterans on both sides and Civil War-era journalism) to buttress his case.
"Ascension Theology," by Douglas Farrow (T & T Clark): One of North America's rising younger theologians, Doug Farrow of Montreal's McGill University, is also a superb writer who makes theology come alive for the literate, but not necessarily specialist, reader. He positions the Ascension at the center of the Christian proclamation and creed and thereby sheds new light on everything, from the nature of the Church to the full meaning of the Eucharist.
"Newman and His Contemporaries," by Edward Short (T & T Clark): Another Newman book? Well, yes, and a particularly fine one that explores Newman's relationships with the great ecclesiastical, literary, political and journalistic figures of his time. Short's close reading of Newman's vast correspondence also demonstrates just how many of our post-Vatican II arguments were anticipated in the 19th century among Newman and his interlocutors.
"YouCat" (Ignatius Press): I will admit to a certain skepticism when the Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church was announced, but my dubieties have given way to enthusiasm. The Q&A of a classic catechism is complemented here by deftly chosen, brief selections from Scripture, the Fathers of the Church, great saints, and noble human spirits of many cultures. Good for the "young" from, say, 18 to 85 or so.
"The Tigress of Forli," by Elizabeth Lev (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt): I'm a suspect witness in the matter of Liz Lev, a friend with whom I'm working on a book on the Roman station church pilgrimage of Lent. She's the best Anglophone art and architecture guide in Rome, and in her first book she has also shown herself a master story-teller. Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici was indeed, as the book's subtitle proclaims, "Renaissance Italy's most courageous and notorious countess," and Lev's re-creation of her life opens up a dramatic world of intrigue and passion, even as it illuminates Italian Catholic life on the edge of that religious tsunami, the Reformation.
"The Forum and the Tower," by Mary Ann Glendon (Oxford University Press): A collection of essays on scholars, politicians, and their interaction from one of the Catholic Church's most distinguished laywomen, who, in her new book, runs the keyboard from Plato to Oliver Wendell Holmes without misplaying a chord. The former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican is equally at home explaining why Cicero was the superstar of ancient Rome and how Eleanor Roosevelt worked with the Lebanese scholar-diplomat Charles Malik to give birth to the modern human rights movement. Further disclosure: Professor Glendon is another friend—and the mother of Elizabeth Lev, thus falsifying any claim that parent and child can't share a literary vocation.
"Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith," by Robert E. Barron (Image): The companion book to the brilliant 10-part television series, this eminently readable exploration of Catholicism-in-full is an even ampler introduction to the mind and spirit of the Church's most important American apologist.
"Portrait of a Spy," by Daniel Silva (Harper): It's hard not to get addicted to Silva's Gabriel Allon novels of international skullduggery. James Bond and his supporting cast were cardboard cartoons compared to the fictional characters Dan Silva, a man with a well-calibrated moral compass, has created.


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Reds Forever
Apps or Websites for the Aurora Australis?
What are your favorite apps for real-time or predictive data about the Aurora? I'd like to know more about when to go shoot these things. Right now, I just kind of wait for Eden Brackstone to send me an email, but this seams kind of random!
Daily Photo – Reds Forever
This will sound weird… but wouldn't it be strange if sunsets were green and blue instead of orange and red? I guess that is why I like the Aurora so much, because the colors are so crazy.
I shot this in Iceland one morning around four AM on the way to the northwest fjordlands.


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Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, May 3, 2021: The Chairman of Republic Financial Holdings Limited (RFHL), Vincent Pereira, announced today a profit attributable to its equity holders of $687.3 million for the half-year ended March 31, 2021.
Press Releases
RFHL Records $687.3 Million In Half Year Profits
St. David Wins The 2021 Republic Bank / GCA RightStart U-19 Cricket Tournament
St. George's Grenada; April 26, 2021: Republic Bank congratulates St. David, the new champions in the Republic Bank/GCA RightSTART Under-19 Cricket Tournament. St. David defeated St. Mark in the finals held Saturday, April 24, at the National Stadium.
Republic Bank Continues To Support The Ministry Of Health In Its Fight Against COVID-19
April 23, 2021, Port of Spain – Republic Bank is continuing its support in the fight against Covid-19 through the donation of medical supplies to the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. The Bank's Executive Director, Derwin Howell officially handed over the first of many Isopods to NCRHA CEO, Mr. Davlin Thomas at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt. Hope on Wednesday, April 22.
Republic Bank Group Joins Net-Zero Banking Alliance
Port of Spain, Trinidad, April 22, 2021: Yesterday, the Republic Bank Group joined 42 other global banks in 23 countries as founding signatories to the United Nations- convened, Net-Zero Banking Alliance ("NZBA"). The NZBA was co-launched by the Financial Services Taskforce (FSTF) of the Prince of Wales' Sustainable Markets Initiative.
The Republic Bank Junior Golf Open 2021 Shines a Light On Local Talent
April 9, 2021, Port of Spain, Trinidad: The nation's best and brightest young golfers took centre stage this week at the Republic Bank Junior Golf Open. The 3-day tournament which ended yesterday was held at the Millennium Lakes Golf Club in Trincity.
Retired RFHL Chairman, Ronald Harford, honoured with Samaan tree-planting ceremony
March 16, 2021, Port of Spain – On March 10, the retirement of former Republic Financial Holdings Limited Chairman, Mr. Ronald Harford was commemorated with a samaan tree-planting, at the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business (ALJGSB), Mount Hope.


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The DO-178B standard was published when most software was coded by hand, but it can be mapped to automatic code generation and products for Model-Based Design, including MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow, and Embedded Coder, and DO Qualification Kit.
The UK MathWorks Aerospace and Defense Industry Working Group includes Airbus Operations Ltd, BAE Systems plc, MBDA UK Ltd, Selex Galileo Ltd, and others. The group produced the following document to provide guidance on the application of Model-Based Design to the development of high-integrity systems and software.
Guidelines for Deployment of MathWorks Products within a DO-178B-Compliant Process
Material contained within the guidelines is consistent with the recently published supplement, DO-331: Model-Based Development and Verification Supplement to DO-178C and DO-278A, and the updated standard DO-178C.
DO-178B Details:
- DO Qualification Kit - Qualify Simulink and Polyspace verification tools to DO-178
- Model-Based Design for DO-178B - Reference Workflow and Model Guidelines


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We receive armloads of photos, letters, and e-mails from Sea Eagle inflatable boat owners who love to share their boating experiences and talk about the fun they have with their Sea Eagles.
Like this recent note from Colleen Faulkner, Sea Eagle owner: "We got our Sea Eagle kayak because we have a cabin cruiser and needed something we could use to take our dog, Morgan, to shore. We find the Sea Eagle very relaxing. We like to take it to a little cove in the Navesink River where we relax, read, and hang out."
We love receiving these pictures and notes because they're further proof of what we've always known: Sea Eagle boaters are interesting, upbeat, active folk who love nothing more than a great day out on the water.
Every kind of boater
Owner letters and photos prove, too, there's no one kind of Sea Eagle boater. If you can do it on the water, our owners are out there doing it in their Sea Eagles. That includes every kind of boating from adrenaline-fueled rushes through raging rapids to gentle paddling on placid lakes. Boating in waters from America's great rivers to those in France, Thailand, and more.
And boaters from twenty-something adventurers to golden-age grandmas and grandpas.
Some of our owners write in to enter our photo contest. Most write simply because they want to share what they enjoy. And many write and send photos just to say, "Thank you, Sea Eagle!"
We recently started posting owner stories and photos on the Sea Eagle Photo Blog you're reading now. Not surprisingly in today's computer-connected, social media-active world, our blog gets THOUSANDS of hits, fans, and followers as do our Tweets and Facebook page.
We think it's clear: the only thing our owners like
better than boating in their Sea Eagles is talking and writing about the great times they have.
Tell us YOUR Sea Eagle boating story
So here's an open invitation: e-mail your photo and story to our Photo Blog Editor, email@example.com
Who knows? You could be featured on this blog, sharing your Sea Eagle adventures with our world-wide community of boating enthusiasts.
(And you don't have to be a "white water junkie" to have an interesting Sea Eagle story to tell. One of our most-read and most replied-to posts features 78-year young Maggie Dickeson who asked, "Why would you want to post my story? I just paddle around.")
And while you're at it, check out our photo contest and our photo gallery where you'll see dozens and dozens of photos sent in by owners who're out there doing what you do — paddling, fishing, exploring, sailing, lazing around, having fun, and enjoying the great outdoors in every imaginable activity that's done on water!


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Pencil Alligator Clip - Quartz + Gold Glitter
Pencil Alligator Clip - Quartz + Gold Glitter
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The cutest Milledeux® pencil on a grosgrain covered alligator clips.
The color on the Milledeux® Pencil is quartz and the pencil has a gold glitter band. The ribbon used is OEKO-TEX® and all metal is nickel free.
The Milledeux® pencil comes on a cute School Collection card, in a cellophane bag and with a School Collection print sticker. The perfect gift item.
The alligator clip measures 4.5 cm ( 1.8 inches), the Milledeux® pencil is approximately 6 cm (2.4 inches).
All of our products are hand-made, and as such, we cannot guarantee that two products are exactly alike, even if they are the same style and color.


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The self-obsessed world of online journalism came close to a singularity moment early this month, when an up-and-coming young sports columnist was exposed as a garden-variety con artist. Over at the Gawker sports site Deadspin, John Koblin reconstructed the luridly fascinating saga of ESPN.com writer Sarah Phillips, who had landed a plum perch in the enormous, vastly profitable industry of sports journalism without benefit of a single in-person job interview. Ms. Phillips' career path was largely a con job—she had previously set up shop as a sports-betting columnist at the betting site Covers.com, with no discernible background in either sports fandom or wagering—so perhaps it felt natural for her to set about gulling impressionable sports-minded writers and web proprietors out of piles of money on the promise that, together, they would all come into tidy fortunes by cracking wise about the sports world on the Internet. "I'm a writer for ESPN.com. And I have a plan to take over the world," is how Ms. Phillips succinctly put things to one of her marks on Gchat.
The plan, such as it was, involved reviving a version of ESPN's lapsed Page 2 franchise, and bulking it up into a network of sports-comedy blogs. "By my ESPN.com senior director estimates," she explained in her world-conquering Gchat pitch, "each of the five of us [contributing content to the network] will be making over $100K. My ultimate goal, being that I work for ESPN, is to sell the site to ESPN and become a blog on ESPN.com." But inevitably, there would be some strategic hitch along the way—photo rights to purchase, seed money to collect, advertising to pay for—and once Ms. Phillips had that stake in hand, she'd typically vanish.
The deal on offer probably sounded vaguely plausible in Ms. Phillips' own head—the key to carrying off an effective scam, after all, is for scammers to project confidence in their own ornate fantasies; that confidence is what they are selling to their clientele. And since the managers at ESPN had already hired Ms. Phillips without even a minimal semblance of due diligence—so certain is the mass appeal of a comely young woman writer in the online sportswriting world—well, who's to say what's possible? (Mr. Koblin reports, by the way, that Phillips was not merely an online con artist, but also something of a sock puppet: She had a history of channeling sports forecasts and betting odds by a longtime male confrere named Nilesh Prasad; the two had attended high school together in Oregon, and worked at the same T-mobile store until they'd both been fired for allegedly perpetrating another online scam there, involving the resale of company phones on Ebay.)
But like all cons, the Sarah Phillips episode is more interesting for what it reveals about the marks than about the perpetrator, whose motivations almost always turn out to be sad, venal, and banal. But since this con was aimed squarely at the great enabling myths of the rapidly monetizing world of social media, it speaks volumes about the ultimate end-uses we envision behind the frantic connectivity of our online lives.
Just consider the inner workings of the Phillips pitch. There was the testimony of the geektrepreneur who had swiftly monetized her own online brand—her identity, that is—and who was now extending the same bounty to a corps of web-savvy self-starters, just like her. There was the credibility of major online brands dangled before the marks as a classic inducement-cum-distraction.
And there was, most of all, the the illicit allure of a hot-seeming twenty-something woman reaching out to shut-in geeks with the promise of easy money explicitly rewarding them for their pet obsessions—in other words, the very fantasy of transcendent personal specialness and irresistibly attractive genius that keeps most young men transfixed before the Internet for hours on end in the first place.
From the demand side of the equation, the Phillips scam also had to seem invitingly credible in a broader sense, as well. After all, the standard come-on of Web business prophets is that the self-generated marketing of your personality online is the hidden secret of online prosperity. "The new American Dream is to go viral," burbles the cyber-visionary hack Jeff Jarvis. The interactivity of the Web has enhanced all manner of enterprise, announces the NYU digital cheerleader Clay Shirky, precisely "because there is no way to filter for quality in advance: the definition of quality becomes more variable, from one community to the next, than when there was broad consensus about mainstream writing (and music and film and so on)." Lay these entirely representative specimens of pat and content-free managementspeak side-by-side, and you have the high-theory version of Sarah Phillips' business plan.
The ever-elusive quest for the optimally self-marketing kind of personality was also why my former corporate superiors at Yahoo News would obsess over the intangible magic of the online "voice" in the site's coverage of the news cycle—even though the occasional appearance of a strong voice in a Yahoo-branded platform was also guaranteed to send them into operatic bouts of managerial fretting. One of the more curious sidelights of the Phillips affair, indeed, was a scam whereby the young hustler would purchase individual Twitter accounts outright to boost her own social media profile. This may be the saddest footnote to the Phillips saga: Madly seeking to monetize a Web-branded personality, the con artist is reduced to subcontracting the illusion of an appealing online persona.
It used to be an elementary job requirement for charming hucksters that they at least be colorful—but in today's social-media-verse, all that evidently matters is that you seem popular. And that you don't get caught.