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NEW YORK — The DNA of a baby boy who was buried in Montana 12,600 years ago has been recovered, and it provides new indications of the ancient roots of today's American Indians and other native peoples of the Americas.
It's the oldest genome ever recovered from the New World. Artifacts found with the body show the boy was part of the Clovis culture, which existed in North America from about 13,000 years ago to about 12,600 years ago and is named for an archaeological site near Clovis, N.M.
The boy's genome showed his people were direct ancestors of many of today's native peoples in the Americas, researchers said. He was more closely related to those in Central and South America than to those in Canada. The reason for that difference isn't clear, scientists said.
The researchers said they had no Native American DNA from the United States available for comparison, but that they assume the results would be same, with some Native Americans being direct descendants and others also closely related.
The DNA also indicates the boy's ancestors came from Asia, supporting the standard idea of ancient migration to the Americas by way of a land bridge that disappeared long ago.
The burial site, northeast of Livingston, Mont., is the only burial known from the Clovis culture. The boy was between 1 year and 18 months old when he died of an unknown cause.
He was buried with 125 artifacts, including spear points and elk antler tools. Some were evidently ritual objects or heirlooms. The skeleton was discovered in 1968 next to a rock cliff, but it's only in recent years that scientists have been able to recover and analyze complete genomes from such ancient samples.
The DNA analysis was reported online Wednesday in the journal Nature by scientists including Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark , Michael Waters of Texas A&M University and Shane Doyle of Montana State University in Bozeman. The burial site lies on the property of the parents of another author, Sarah Anzick of Livingston. It is known as the Anzick site.
Doyle, a member of the Crow tribe, said the indication of such ancient roots for American Indians fits with what many tribal people already believed. He also said the boy's remains may be reburied at the site by late spring or early summer.
In a telephone conference with reporters, the researchers said that once they discovered the link between the boy and today's Native Americans, they sought out American Indian groups to discuss the results. Willerslev, an expert in deciphering ancient DNA, called for scientists to work closely with native peoples on such research.
The results are "going to raise a whole host of new ideas and hypotheses" about the early colonization of the Americas, said Dennis O'Rourke, an ancient DNA expert at the University of Utah who wasn't involved in the work.
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A 3.8 Billion-Pixel Tour Of Mount Everest
Photographer David Breashears of GlacierWorks was on All Things Considered Monday to talk about a new way of photographing the Himalayan region: By stitching together 400-plus images into one giant, zoomable, interactive image — or a "gigapan" containing more than a billion pixels.
He and his team just sent us something even cooler that they're currently working on: a Mount Everest you can explore, containing an estimated 3.8 billion pixels!
Here's how it works:
See those little green squares? Those are hot spots. Click one, and you'll zoom into that location. The square that's second up from the bottom, toward the left, for example: That will take you to a little village of tents — Everest base camp. Click on the tent, and you can go in. You'll see a photo exhibit that was mounted by Breashears there. And then, click on one of the photos, and you'll head back out to the mountain.
Breashears and his team allowed us to embed this teaser image on our site. But, he says, this barely scratches the surface of where the project is headed. "It's hardly even a demo," he tells me over the phone. "It's missing 99 percent of its functionality, which is audio and video and the ability to access other curated content."
When complete in a few months, this will serve as a completely interactive tour of Mount Everest. You will be able to go into the Tibetan monastery, get to know the sherpas who work with the GlacierWorks team, or learn more about glaciology and the history of climbing.
"You'll be able to choose, and it'll all be there in an image," says Breashears. "But the image starts the narrative."
Kyetrak Glacier
The black-and-white image below shows the Kyetrak Glacier in the Himalayas photographed in 1921 by Maj. E.O. Wheeler/Royal Geographical Society. It's compared with a 2009 image by David Breashears/GlacierWorks.
"Rich interactive narrative," as Breashears calls it, is his specialty. And he insists that GlacierWorks — which he created to document changes to ice over time — is not about advocacy or activism. It's about education, he says. His goal is to provide photographs as tools to teachers and students, because in photos, "the change, or lack of change, is there, discernible and irrefutable."
Breashears started GlacierWorks in 2007. He began by pairing old photographs of the Himalayan region taken by early mountaineers and dating back to the early 1900s with current photographs. Layered on top of each other, the images are a stark testament to just how much has melted.
Main Rongbuk Glacier
The black-and-white image of the Main Rongbuk Glacier on the northern slope of Mount Everest was originally captured by George Mallory/Royal Geographical Society in 1921 — and is compared with a 2007 photograph taken by David Breashears/GlacierWorks.
Eventually, he explains, these "match photographs" will be integrated with the gigapan interactive. To shoot the gigapan, Breashears stood exactly where photographers stood decades ago and framed the new image in the same way as the original. That way, when you're exploring the modern image, you'll be able to peel it back and see how the ice has changed shape.
"The real struggle," says Breashears, "is that we're trying to show something that's happening in extreme slow motion. ... [When] you're looking at glaciers, you can sit there and stare at them for a long time and nothing happens. They don't talk to you; their stories are ones that you understand through science."
"The idea of connecting people with this environment, with this ice they're climbing on and this ice that's changing, is to bring a human element to it."
For most of us, after all, you have to see it to believe it.
Listen to the All Things Considered interview with Breashears.
All imagery courtesy of David Breashears and GlacierWorks. See the original image on their site.

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I posted photos of George Clooney shooting a new Nespresso ad in Italy earlier – click here for a refresher. These are new shots from the same set…except that Amal Alamuddin came to visit. And George put his arm around her and they kissed. George's best friend Grant Heslov was there too. Is Grant Heslov going to be in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge? Heslov has a lot of Hollywood friends too.
Anyway, I'll leave you to your creeping on the future Mrs Clooney. She has really good hair. There's always a Jackie O volume to her hair that I admire.


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SpacePort America Hanger Dedication
SpacePort America, Engle, NM. Hangar Dedication for Virgin Galactic. Sir Richard Branson, his mother,Eve, NM Governor Suzanna Martinez, US Rep. Stevan Pearce and more than 100 'prepaid' space tourists and another 500 'invitation only" guests gathered at SpacePort America in the NM desert for this unique dedication.Read More


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NEW YORK – Babe Ruth's 1923 World Series championship pocket watch, for decades thought to be lost to history, is coming to a New York City auction, where it's expected to fetch at least $750,000.
Ruth batted .368 and hit three homers in the 1923 World Series as the Yankees won the championship by beating the New York Giants in six games. It was a pivotal year for the franchise, as it moved into Yankee Stadium and won its first of 27 World Series championships.
The pentagonal gold timepiece is being sold at Heritage Auction's Feb. 22 sale.
"It was the beginning of what's become the most dominant dynasty in American sports," said Chris Ivy, director of sports auctions at the Dallas-based auction house. "It changed the culture and Babe Ruth's the ultimate leader of that team."
At the time, winning players got watches, which later were replaced by the still-standard rings.
"No one knew where the piece had been. No one has ever seen it for public sale or public auction," Ivy said. "The fact that there was no news about it for so many decades, it was just thought that at some point it had been lost to time."
The 14-karat gold timepiece remained with Ruth until shortly before his death from cancer in 1948.
He asked his close friend, Charles Schwefel, what he would like from his collection. The Manhattan hotelier, who shared Ruth's passion for helping disadvantaged youth, asked for the watch.
Schwefel kept it for two years until his wife gave it to Lewis Fern, her nephew and Ruth's frequent golf caddy. It remained with Fern for decades until it was sold privately in 1988 to the current owner, a major East Coast sports collector who kept it in a safe deposit box.
"A lot of items from that era were lost or discarded, so the fact that the watch reappeared ... obviously is of historical significance," said Steve Costello, executive vice president of Steiner Sports collectibles in New Rochelle, N.Y.
The present owner, who wished to remain anonymous, declined to be interviewed. He said through Heritage that he acquired the watch for around $200,000 and was parting with it now to help fund charitable organizations important to him.
Ivy said bidding for the watch could easily reach seven figures, "being that it's the first championship hardware that Ruth won."
What makes the watch even more special is that Ruth had his name engraved on it and added a special inscription, "To My Pal Charles Schwefel."
The engravings "really add to the provenance," said Costello. "There aren't that many things of that nature being done any more. ... How many people in today's society have a pocket watch?"
The Gruen Verithin watch also is engraved with a pitcher, hitter, catcher, a ball in flight and the words "Yankees" and "World Champions 1923."
Babe Ruth's championship ring from the 1927 World Series, the Murderers' Row team that swept Pittsburgh, sold at auction for $250,000 in the 1990s. In today's market, "there's no question it would be a seven-figure piece," Costello said.
"Whenever you get something that's one-of-a-kind item from Babe Ruth, the sky's the limit," he said.


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Astronauts Trump Firemen in Axe Space Promotion
A new campaign from perennial purveyor of deodorant for prurient-minded middle school boys, Axe, is recruiting 22 people for its Axe Apollo Space Academy. The brand even hired Buzz Aldrin to announce the campaign in a video.
An additional ad in the BBH London-created campaign, which illustrates just how preferable an astronaut is to a fireman, snubs a fireman who, after saving a woman from a fire, gets dumped for an astronaut because, well, according to the campaign, "nothing beats an astronaut, ever."
The campaign's no Red Bull Stratos but the appearance of Aldrin does lend some seriousness to the silliness of whether or not an astronaut is, indeed, more desirable than a fireman...who risked his life to save this foolishly fickle woman.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Target Corp. says Chief Information Officer Beth Jacob is resigning effective Wednesday as the retailer overhauls its information security and compliance division in the wake of a massive data breach.
In a statement released to the Associated Press, Target's President and CEO Gregg Steinhafel says the company will search for an interim chief information officer who can help guide the company through the transformation.
Jacob had held the job since 2008.
Target also will look outside the company for a chief information security officer as well as a chief compliance officer. The company says it's working with an outside adviser, Promontory Financial Group, to evaluate its technology, structure, processes and talent as part of the overhaul.
Target is based in Minneapolis.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. — The night before his National Football League regular-season debut, David Bakhtiari stood in the lounge area of the Westin San Francisco Airport with one tape measure wrapped around his chest and another checking his inseam. The kid might've been nervous about his first game that actually counted in the standings, but last Saturday night, he just wanted to order some new threads.
"Just entering the NFL, I don't really have suits," Bakhtiari explained earlier this week. "And Green Bay is kind of hard to get to."
What Bakhtiari, who said his mom and dad's house is about 8 minutes from SFO airport and 20 minutes from Candlestick Park, might have been lacking sartorially, he made up for the next day, when he was solid in his debut in the Packers' loss to his hometown San Francisco 49ers.
Now, he and right tackle Don Barclay must build on their opening performances with another challenging matchup with Washington Redskins outside linebackers Brian Orakpo and Ryan Kerrigan. Orakpo, who missed most of last season with a torn chest muscle, has 29.5 career sacks in 50 career games since entering the league as the No. 13 overall pick out of Texas in 2009. Kerrigan, who is now in his third season after being taken with the No. 16 overall pick out of Purdue in 2011, has 17 sacks in 33 career games and had seven tackles and forced a fumble last week against Philadelphia.
"It's going to be another test. I don't think there's going to be a week that isn't," Bakhtiari said this week as he prepped for the Redskins. "I think (the 49ers game) is a tone-setter for the year for me, where I'm going to be at. Not to mention, that's arguably the best duo (Aldon Smith and Justin Smith) I'm going to go against all year. To be able to go in there and play well is very positive.
"It wasn't perfect, but for what I wanted to do, after watching film, I came out happy with it. Not perfect, but I was happy."
The Packers coaching staff was, too – both head coach Mike McCarthy, who said he "was impressed" with Bakhtiari and said he "did a lot of good things," and offensive line coach James Campen, who said both Bakhtiari and Barclay "did a good job."
What's remarkable is, if you look around the NFL, you won't find a younger tandem of starting offensive tackles than the Packers' combination of the 21-year-old Bakhtiari, a rookie fourth-round pick from Colorado, and the 24-year-old Barclay, who made the team as an undrafted rookie free agent from West Virginia last year and started six games (including playoffs) at right tackle late in the year.
And no NFL tackle combination comes from more humble NFL beginnings, either.
No duo who started at tackle in Week 1 was less experienced than Barclay and Bakhtiari. In fact, the Packers are just one of three teams to have both of their starting tackles enter the league in the last three years. Pittsburgh started left tackle Mike Adams (second round, 2012) and right tackle Marcus Gilbert (second round, 2011) last week, while Detroit started left tackle Riley Reiff (first round, 2012) and Jason Fox (fourth round, 2010).
Bakhtiari was one of seven rookie tackles to start last week, along with Kansas City's Eric Fisher (No. 1 overall), Jacksonville's Luke Joeckel (No. 2), Philadelphia's Lane Johnson (No. 4), San Diego's D.J. Fluker (No. 11), the New York Giants' Justin Pugh (No. 19 overall), Bakhtiari and Chicago's Jordan Mills, a fifth-round pick. Bakhtiari was the 10th offensive tackle drafted, Mills was the 14th.
Bakhtiari, who took over as the starting left tackle after veteran Bryan Bulaga was lost for the year to a knee injured suffered in the Aug. 3 Family Night Scrimmage, had been oddly calm throughout preseason play but admitted his nerves got the best of him.
"I was more nervous than I'd been and it was mostly my fault. I got myself a little too geeked up, so I had to calm myself down," Bakhtiari admitted. "But once I got in there, I felt really comfortable and calm, which is how I'd been playing. That's kind of been my theme.
"I was trying to get that little extra energy in me, I was telling people, 'It's game day!' First game of the season, the Niners, hometown – and then as I was doing that, I had done it in college and certainly in high school, I was like, 'Wait, what am I doing? This is now how I've been playing and I've been playing well.' I was, 'Just relax, play another song.'"
According to Pro Football Focus, Bakhtiari was charged with two sacks and two quarterback hurries in 63 snaps against the 49ers, including a sack on the second play of the game when he tried to cut Aldon Smith and missed him, leading to an 8-yard loss. Barclay was charged with one quarterback hit and two hurries in 63 snaps.
"Didn't notice them that much, so that was good," offensive coordinator Tom Clements said. "They both played well. They got after it and they were playing against excellent players and they moved their front four around at times to get different defenders on them and they reacted well."
Asked if he and McCarthy had to alter their offensive game plan because of Bakhtiari and Barclay's inexperience, Clements replied: "We like to utilize the quick passes in general, regardless of who we're playing against. We utilize that, we utilize some action passes. At times we gave some extra help to the tackles, at times we didn't. We varied it and tried to give them different looks that they had to react to."
Meanwhile, the Packers are in the distinct minority with the draft pedigrees of their tackles, even though the team used its 2010 first-round pick on Bulaga and its 2011 first-round pick on a still-injured Derek Sherrod.
Of the NFL's 32 starting left tackles, 19 were taken in the first round and seven in the second round. Bakhtiari is one of just five starting left tackles taken in the fourth round or later.
Of the NFL's 32 starting right tackles, eight were taken in the first round and seven in the second. Barclay is one of seven starters who entered the league as an undrafted free agent.
Only the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with undrafted left tackle Donald Penn and undrafted right tackle Demar Dotson, have starters with lesser combined pedigrees.
That doesn't matter now, of course. Now, it's simply about doing the job, which Bakhtiari and Barclay did and must continue to do.
"I thought it went good for the most part, keeping our guys off Aaron. We did a lot of quick passes; the goal was to keep the outside linebackers off him. They're good players," Barclay said. "You can take that and say we improved from our last test, but it comes down to a team thing and as a whole offensive line and a whole offense. We win together and we lose together. At the end of the day, we lost, and we have to improve for next week."
Listen to Jason Wilde every weekday from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on "Green & Gold Today" on 540 ESPN, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasonjwilde.


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Novel nanocoatings show great promise as flame retardants in polyurethane foam
|(Nanowerk News) Gram for gram, novel carbon nanofiber-filled coatings devised by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Texas A&M University outperformed conventional flame retardants used in the polyurethane foam of upholstered furniture and mattresses by at least 160 percent and perhaps by as much as 1,130 percent.
|The impressive test results, reported in the journal Polymer ("Development of layer-by-layer assembled carbon nanofiber-filled coatings to reduce polyurethane foam flammability "), suggest that significant fire-safety advantages can be gained by coating polyurethane foam (PUF) with a club-sandwich-like arrangement of thin layers containing carbon nanofibers and polymers. The upshot, says NIST researcher Rick Davis, is that the experimental coating seems to create the equivalent of a "fire-resistant armor" on the porous foam.
|Ignition of soft furnishings account for about 5 percent of residential fires, and the consequences are disproportionately high. These fires are responsible for a third of fire-caused deaths of civilians and 11 percent of property losses due to fires in homes.
|The flammability of mattresses is regulated by federal law. A complementary rule to regulate the flammability of upholstered furniture has been proposed recently.
|Several organizations, however, have challenged the health and safety of some flame retardants designed to protect against soft furnishing fires. And, a bill pending in California would ban the use of certain halogenated flame retardants in that state.
|Today, recipes for making PUFs result in foams in which fire retardants are embedded in the interior. In contrast, the experimental technology uses the carbon nanofiber fire retardant as a coating that covers all the nooks and crannies on the sponge-like PUF surface. The new approach, says Davis, should be attractive to PUF manufacturers because the surface treatment has the potential to deliver a low flammability PUF without major change to the foam manufacturing process, thus saving time and money.
|The NIST-Texas A&M team coated square samples of commercially available PUF with four bilayers of a carbon nanofiber-polymer combination (Polyethylenimine/carbon-nanofiber). The average thickness of the coating was about 360 nanometers, increasing the mass of the foam by only 3 percent. By themselves, the carbon nanofibers accounted for 1.6 percent of the foam mass. Since the carbon nanofibers are only in the coating, all the carbon nanofibers are clumped like matted whiskers within the top 360 nanometers of the surface—assembled into the fire-blocking armor.
|The team used a standard benchtop fire test to measure the fire performance of coated and uncoated PUF. The carbon nanofiber coatings reduced PUF flammability (measured as the peak heat release rate from an ignited specimen) by 40 percent. That result was more than 3 times better than achieved by putting the same carbon nanofibers in the foam (part of the foam recipe).
|When compared at the same concentrations, the carbon nanofiber coating significantly outperforms three classes of commercially available flame retardants commonly used in PUF. Reductions in flammability achieved with the coating, according to the researchers, were 158 percent better than the reduction calculated for nonhalogens, 288 percent better than halogens, and 1,138 percent better than halogen-phosphorous flame retardants.
|Additionally, the experimental coating "prevents the formation of a melt pool of burning foam, which in a real fire scenario, may further reduce the resulting fire threat of burning soft furnishings," the authors write.
|Source: NIST


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text: The U.S. has dealt a major blow to KickassTorrents, one of the world\u2019s most popular illegal files-sharing websites.On Wednesday, law enforcement in Poland arrested the alleged owner of the site, 30 year-old Artem Vaulin of Ukraine.He's been charged with\u00a0criminal copyright infringement, and the\u00a0U.S. Department of Justice said it was seeking to extradite him to the U.S. The DOJ also seized several domains associated with the service, although the main site appeared to be still running Wednesday afternoon.KickassTorrents, also known as KAT, has distributed well over $1 billion in copyrighted materials, prosecutors said. Since 2008, the service has run a directory for downloading pirated movies, TV shows, music and more using the BitTorrent protocol.Fifty million unique users visit the site every month, the department alleges.Vaulin, who went by the screen name "tirm," is believed to have designed KickassTorrents' original website and overseen its operations."During the latter part of the conspiracy, Vaulin allegedly operated KAT under the auspices of a Ukrainian-based front company called Cryptoneat," the DOJ added.\u00a0To evade law enforcement, Vaulin allegedly moved his domains to servers across the world, following repeated seizures and lawsuits. Courts in the U.K., Italy and Malaysia have blocked the site.Vaulin was also charged with money laundering. The file-sharing site generated up to $22.3 million in annual advertising revenue, the U.S. alleged.It's unclear what the DOJ will do with the domains it has seized, which include\u00a0 kickasstorrents.com, kastatic.com, thekat.tv, kat.cr, kickass.cr, kickass.to and kat.ph.Law enforcement agencies have also targeted The Pirate Bay, another illegal file-sharing site. In Dec. 2014, police raided its servers, though the site was only temporarily shut down.


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'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' Season 5 finale trailer spotlights a possibly disappointing Jedi [Exclusive video]
The fifth season of "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" is quickly coming to a close, and the four-part finale looks to be the most epic "Clone Wars" episodes yet (really, have you ever seen so much double-lightsaber action?).
Season 5 has focused mostly on the relationship between pre-tragic Anakin Skywalker and his young Padawan, Ahsoka Tano. Ahsoka herself has had quite a character arc this season, from leading the rebellion on the Separatist world of Onderon to assisting Yoda with a Jedi rite of passage called the Gathering (which involves finding "lightsaber crystals" that Younglings must use to build their own lightsabers) to being kidnapped by ruthless crime boss and illegal-rocket-launcher supplier Hondo Ohnaka.
[Related: Two 'Star Wars' spin-off films rumored to focus on Boba Fett and a young Han Solo]
The finale begins with Episode 5.17, "Sabotage," which is set to air on Feb. 9 and will find Ahsoka and Anakin investigating an attack on a Jedi temple caused by an unidentified rogue Jedi. From there, three cleverly titled episodes hint at our heroes engaging in a little undercover work (or perhaps discussing Hitchcock films): "The Jedi Who Knew Too Much" (Episode 5.18, airing Feb. 16); "To Catch a Jedi" (Episode 5.19, airing Feb. 23); and the final episode, "The Wrong Jedi" (Episode 5.20, airing March 2), which is actually coming to our galaxy a day earlier than expected.
The finale will feature Ahsoka on the run and Anakin believing her "innocence," which has us thinking that the investigation into the attack on the Jedi temple that starts with this coming Saturday's episode isn't going to go so well.
[Related: A Rumor, This Is: Disney's first 'Star Wars' spinoff film will center on Yoda]
Actually, wouldn't it be cool if Ahsoka Tano got one of those character-based "Star Wars" spinoff films everyone's been talking about lately?


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My breakfasts and lunches have been kind of boring lately, so I haven't been taking pictures of them. Lunches are basically leftovers of the meals below.
Last night, we made the corn on the cob that I got at the Farmers Market in Madison. It was delicious! I am glad it's a vegetable I can make that Craig will also eat.
I topped one of my halves of corn with butter and Penzey's spices. Then I just felt like eating it plain with butter and salt.
I also made some Mmmm sauce and quinoa again. I'm just a bit addicted to Mmmm sauce!
Tonight, I was craving veggies again and wanted to use some zucchini, but didn't feel like doing anything elaborate with it. I just cut some up, threw it in the pan and cooked it up some red pepper, garlic, and olive oil and put it on top of a little bit of pasta and Parmesan cheese.
Breakfast this morning was red grapes, half of a banana chocolate chip muffin, and coffee with stevia. It was my first time trying stevia (I won some from a giveaway hosted by Allie at PickyEatingRD) and I thought it was ok. I have been using raw sugar lately and really liking the caramel flavor that produces in my coffee. But, it doesn't seem to "melt" or blend well with my coffee.
I'll try the stevia products again in some baked goods soon and let you know how i like it.
It was raining out tonight, so no walk outside for us. :( I just went to the gym and lifted weights, biked while reading Women's Health magazine, and ran/walked on the treadmill. Running felt good because I really got my heart rate up!
Time to finish my post on the town of New Glarus. I have so many pictures to share, so I hope you like picture filled posts.


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19/09/2013 - On 19 September 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant the right to vote to all adult women. New Zealand's Permanent Representative to the OECD Rosemary Banks says the 120th anniversary of this decision is a time to reflect on that achievement.
"120 years ago, New Zealand led the world in giving women the right to vote'" says Ms Banks.
"Since then there has been significant progress to advance the participation and contribution of women to political and economic life in New Zealand and other OECD countries. But we still have a way to go for women to make their fullest possible contribution."
This goal is shared by the OECD, which is leading important work on how to enable women to exercise leadership in public life. This includes a report on women's leadership in the public domain in OECD countries, and good practices among OECD and non-OECD countries. An OECD Global Forum on Women's Leadership in Public Life will be held in April 2014.
New Zealand supports the OECD's efforts to catalyse international and national debate to advance women's full participation in public life.
"New Zealand is committed to advancing gender equality in both the public and private sector. The New Zealand Government has committed to reaching a target of 45 per cent women appointees on state sector boards by 2014. Our Ministry for Women's Affairs is leading work in partnership with the private sector that looks at the career progression of women into senior management and board roles in New Zealand.
"At the same time, in the private sector women's participation is also improving and is being helped by initiatives such as 'The 25 Percent Group' and 'DiverseNZ Inc.'
"These initiatives show that 120 years on from granting women the right to vote, New Zealand is still focused on gender equality," says Ms Banks. It is also heartening to know that we have partners like the OECD, continuing to work alongside us towards the same goals.
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When in Rome: Movie Review
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At first glance, "When in Rome" has all the classic elements to be a winning romantic comedy. It has attractive leading characters that you want to like. There is conflict that drives the couple apart but ultimately love never fails and they wind up back together in the end. There is light hearted comic relief from the supporting cast (in this case, a team of romantic suitors). But in this case, the winning formula falls flat.
Beth (Kristen Bell) is an ambitious curator working at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. All about business, she has little time for any sort of social life, including romance. Besides, she hasn't had much success with men in the past. On the eve of an extremely important art exhibit opening, Beth is summoned to Rome to be the maid of honor in her younger sister's (Alexis Dziena) last-minute wedding. Disillusioned with love, she wanders outside the church and stumbles upon a magic fountain. Beth drunkenly gathers several magic coins from its depths, each belonging to a love-sick tourist, who instantly falls in love with her without knowing why. Her court of suitors include Danny DeVito (a sausage company CEO), Dax Shepherd (a male model wannabe), Jon Heder (a street magician), and Will Arnett (a painter). The final suitor, a sports reporter named Nick (Josh Duhamel), pursues Beth not because of any sort of magic spell, but because he truly loves her. She wonders if he is the real thing or being controlled by a magic coin like the others.
While Bell seems to have a great deal of potential as a romantic comedy mainstay, she is plagued by a pedestrian script. She looks the part, tries her hardest to act the part, but in the end is limited by inferior writing. The same can be said for Duhamel, an emerging actor who delivers his dialogue with flair, but gets lost in the story's blandness. Together, the lack of chemistry between them leaves the viewer not caring if they ever get together.
The movie is filled with several slapstick scenes that will make you laugh, the most notable being when Beth and Nick go on a date to a blackout restaurant, a dining establishment where people cannot see their food or each other. Viewers are treated to several awkwardly wacky moments through night-vision goggles.
While there is no overly caustic language or overtly sexual scenes, save for a lewd mural on the side of the building, people of faith will certainly take issue with the movie's main sub-plot – magic, casting spells, and the idea that a fountain can control someone's destiny. Also, there is one scene of public intoxication that will make many Christians take pause.
There are some positive elements scattered here and there – Beth describing that the reason for the Guggenheim's glass roof is so that God can see all the beautiful paintings from heaven and DeVito's character making an astute observation that love is about putting others before yourself.
By the movie's end, viewers are left with a question they must answer. Can wishing well coins cast a spell of love to last a lifetime? I think not. When in Rome is a film so light in substance that it essentially floats away and will soon be forgotten.
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Sunday, October 13, 2013
Stacking the Shelves #58
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I need to start doing this - I usually go crazy every week getting more books than I can read, but I am helpless :D I hope you'll enjoy this book a lot!ReplyDelete
Lexxie @ (un)Conventional Bookviews
Oh nice! It's always nice to get something in the week! And not adding much to the TBR mountain!ReplyDelete
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It really is, cause I can barely get to my TBR.Delete
Thanks for stopping by, Jess :)
I haven't read Speak (saw the movie) but I have read a few of LHA's other books. I'm not sure I can take this one. I don't do well with difficult subjects, but it has a lot of good reviews on Goodreads.ReplyDeleteReplies
Ooh, I like tough subjects so maybe this will turn out to be a good read for me.Delete
Thanks for coming over, Jenna!
I hope you enjoy your book. I'll be interested in hearing what you think.ReplyDelete
I'm happy that you received a copy of Laurie's book. I also hope it's good since I plan on stalking your blog for your review :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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I haven't read anything by this author either though I have a few on my TBR mountain. I hope you enjoy the story. Come see what I got at Ms. Martin Teaches Media. Happy reading!ReplyDelete
I have read Speak by the author, it was a really great book. Rather jealous that you have her new book, I am really excited to get this one. Enjoy! My STSReplyDelete
I read one of her books and truly enjoyed it. She has tons though so I hope you'll be able to read at least one of hers. This one looks good! Looking forward to your thoughts on this one, Shane!ReplyDelete
I haven't read any of her books either but really want to read Speak because of all the controversy and things surrounding it. Hope you enjoy reading this one!ReplyDelete
I haven't read anything by her but I did hear Speak was amazing too. Enjoy!ReplyDelete
Very cool getting the book with swag! Not getting many things means more time to try and catch up with the TBR list! Happy reading!ReplyDelete
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I've heard good things about Halse, too, snd enjoyed the movie Speak. I hope you enjoy your book!ReplyDelete
This is a new book for me, I'm off to check it out now.ReplyDelete
Michelle @ Book Briefs
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Haven't heard of it but I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for stopping by :)ReplyDelete
Zareena @ Books and Books
I haven't heard of that book before. I hope you like it :)ReplyDelete
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Lindy@ A Bookish Escape
I love the new look of your site! Whereas the last was beachy, this is very cool fallish! I hope you enjoy The Impossible Knife of Memory. Happy Reading! Oh and I simply must be on that Impossible Love tour!ReplyDelete
Speak is a good one. I'm curious about this latest one. Have to look it up. Happy reading ;-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 13, 2013 at 4:23 PM
I really like Laurie Halse Anderson! I hope you enjoy the book :-)ReplyDelete
I haven't read anything by Laurie Halse Anderson but I've heard great things about her books, I hope you enjoy :)ReplyDelete
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I've heard good things about Speak too. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for stopping by my STS!ReplyDelete
Tressa @ Tressa's Wishful Endings
Oh, The Impossible Knife of Memory sounds really good! I haven't read anything by her either but I've heard a ton of great things about her books, apparently they are quite heartwrenching! I hope you enjoy and thanks for stopping by my blog :)ReplyDelete
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Lovely haul! I also haven't read any of Laurie Halse Anderson's books, but they've been in my TBR list for so long. I hope you enjoy this one!ReplyDelete
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- Kazhy @ My Library in the Making
I haven't read anything by this authur but I know of her. Hope you enjoy it!ReplyDelete
I haven't heard about this author or this book, Shane. But please enjoy it. You're so lucky for getting an ARC from Penguin. They always reject all my e-book requests.ReplyDelete
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Sounds interesting. Happy reading.ReplyDelete
This is a great package to get. I LOVE her work. I hope you do too!ReplyDelete
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This book is new to me, so I hopped on over to Amazon to check it out. The plot looks VERY intense! Although there are no customer reviews on the page, there are quotes from rave reviews by the School Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist. WOW. So I'm adding this one to my TBR pile!!ReplyDelete
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Make the Hotel Souleias your choice for French Riviera travel. This La Croix-Valmer hotel has a great location overlooking Gigaro Beach (Plage de Gigaro in French), with outstanding views of the Mediterranean to the Îles d'Hyères islands, Port-Cros, Porquerolles, and Île du Levant. The Hotel Souleias is an oasis of relaxation on a private 2 hectare/5 acre park, its large 21 metre/69 foot heating swimming pool overlooking the ocean. You can enjoy a meal inside the hotel restaurant (open 6 days a week, closed on Tuesdays) or out on the sunny terrace at an umbrella table. To stay in shape, you can play a game of tennis on the hotel's private court. The staff can arrange for a masseaur to provide several types of massage. Located on the famous peninsula of Saint-Tropez, the Hotel Souleias offers easy access to numerous gorgeous beaches. Much of the coastline here is part of the La Plaine des Maures (The Plain of the Moors) area protected by the Conservatoire du littoral (Coastal Conservancy), keeping it natural and undeveloped. Outdoor enthusiasts can request that the hotel arrange for a naturalist and ornithologist to lead a hike to Cape Lardier. For a taste of the local town life, you can drive approx. 4 km/2.5 miles to the town centre of La Croix-Valmer, 6 km/3.7 miles to Cavalaire-sur-Mer (often shortened to Cavalaire), or 10 km/6.2 miles to Ramatuelle. The famous French Riviera resort town of Saint-Tropez is approx. a 30 minute drive to the north.
|Pets accepted
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Yes! Getaways
1. General Information
2. Contract
3. Vouchers
4. Payment
5. Passports and Visas
6. Other Terms
It is necessary to read these Terms and Conditions before making your reservation. It is important that you understand the contractual relation established when using the booking service of Yes! Getaways.
Yes! Getaways functions as an online travel reservation system for flights, accommodations, and Rent-a-Car and tourist activity services. The portal allows for the reservation of the aforementioned services and issues vouchers automatically. The portal functions as an intermediary between the tourism companies (Suppliers) and the customer, and allows the customer to build a customizable and flexible travel package by selecting services and options tailored to their needs.
How to contact the Yes! Getaways Customer Support service:
- By Phone – by calling +1 857-214-2664 during business hours (4:00AM to 8:00PM, EST, Monday- Sunday);
- By Email – email@example.com
Yes! Getaways functions as a booking central. From now on, the term "Supplier" refers (but is not limited to) the following entities: hotels, aparthotels, touristic housing, tourist activity operators, airlines and rent-a-car companies.
A "reservation" or "booking" refers to the acquisition of approved products or services made through Yes! Getaways. The approval on the part of Yes! Getaways will be communicated through a voucher, which will be sent to your e-mail address.
When making a reservation with Yes! Getaways, and when the service of your choice is available, the resulting contract will be between you and Yes! Getaways. Should you have any doubts before your trip, any and all questions related to the selected travel package should be addressed with Yes! Getaways. Any specific questions concerning the chosen services with a Supplier must be addressed with the Supplier directly.
Although we do our best to ensure the availability and accuracy of the services published on Yes! Getaways, some errors may occur in your reservation. Once we become aware of the existence of such flaws, we will do everything possible to inform you of the occurrence within 72 hours after your booking. We reserve the right to cancel your booking, without any prejudice to you or to Yes! Getaways. Should the Supplier cancel or modify your reservation, you will have the option to choose another alternative offered by the Supplier or cancel your reservation. If the Supplier cannot offer a viable alternative within the 72 hour window, we reserve the right to cancel your booking without any type of compensation.
Any commissions, taxes and/or fees required by the government, any other authority, or by the Supplier of the selected service(s) are to be paid for in full by the customer, including any requests made after the issuing of your booking confirmation.
The organization of the trips available on www.yesgetaways.com is under the full responsibility of Yes Getaways, Inc. located at 359 Newbury Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA, USA.
When a trip organized by Yes! Getaways is the subject of a dispute, these general conditions and the specific terms found in the customer's voucher represent the contract that binds the two parts.
2.1 Cancellation
Any and all cancellations made after payment has gone through are nonrefundable and will result in a penalty corresponding to a quantity established in the terms of the reservation. In case of a no-show or cancellation on the arrival day, the customer is responsible for paying the entire cost of the reservation. The cancellation policy will be presented in the client's voucher, including any special conditions imposed by the Supplier(s) and conditions that have priority over the general cancellation policy.
For pre-paid travel packages, there are specific cancellation policies that apply, and, as a rule, they are non refundable.
Each airline defines its own flights cancellation and alterations policy, meaning that there may exist non-refundable fares or penalties applicable in cases of cancellation or changes to the reservation. It is the customer's responsibility to ask Yes! Getaways for information about these conditions before making the reservation.
2.2 Reservations Cancelled by Yes! Getaways
Yes! Getaways reserves the right to cancel an organized trip if the number of participants does not meet the minimum number required, when the trip depends on a certain number of participants. In these cases, the customer will be informed via e-mail of the cancellation within 8 days.
2.3 Changes
If a customer wishes to change their existing reservation date or destination, or make any other changes (subject to Supplier availability), the customer must pay an alterations fee. However, should the change take place 30 days or less before the date of the trip, or if the product providers do not accept the changes requested, the customer will be subjected to the fees included in the "Withdrawal" section.
If the changes are requested after the trip has begun, and for reasons unrelated to Yes! Getaways (e.g.: prolonging the stay, changing the flights), the prices of the services and products may not correspond to those published on www.yesgetaways.com.
Yes! Getaways and its suppliers can alter the order of the routes, modify the departure hours or replace the hotels with others of similar category and localization, whenever there are justifiable reasons, having to inform the customer of the alteration as soon as they are aware of it.
2.4 Withdrawal
Customers are free to withdraw from the trip or cancel it altogether at any time. However, they are responsible for paying all of the penalties stated in the reservation contract, including a fee of up to 20% of the price of the trip.
Should it be the case, the customer will be refunded the difference between the amount paid and the fees and penalties mentioned above.
The reservation fees on www.yesgetaways.com are related to the processing of the reservations and vary according to the type of product. Fees are not refunded if the cancellation of the trip is due to the customer's request or is the customer's responsibility.
2.5 Hotels and Accommodations
The prices indicated are per room, per period, and include all the applicable taxes. Our accommodation suppliers have guaranteed to offer Yes! Getaways customers their best prices. Should you wish to cancel or modify your reservation, the cancellation policy of the Supplier in question will be available in your voucher.
To cancel your reservation, please contact the Yes! Getaways Customer Support Service, within the deadline provided in your voucher:
- By Phone – by calling +1 (617) 415-4100 during business hours (5:00AM to 7:00PM, EST, Monday- Friday, 11:00AM to 7:00PM Saturday & Sunday, excluding legal holidays);
- By Email – email@example.com
Images - Although it is our objective to ensure that all images and descriptions of the accommodations are accurate and up to date, this cannot be guaranteed as the information available on the website is provided to Yes! Getaways by the Suppliers. The images and information published have the objective of providing a general idea of the accommodations. Please take into account that the images of interiors may vary from the lodging provided to you. Extra beds and/or cots may incur additional fees.
Any complaint related to your accommodations should be handled directly with the Supplier, the sole party responsible for ensuring the conditions specified in your voucher. You should also inform Yes! Getaways of any complaint you make to the Supplier.
2.6 Rent-a-Car
Yes! Getaways provides real time Rent-a-Car services through a system where the suppliers themselves introduce their available services. Our Rent-a-Car suppliers have guaranteed to offer Yes! Getaways customers their best prices.
Should you wish to modify or cancel your Rent-a-Car reservation, the cancellation policy of the Supplier in question will be available on your voucher. To cancel your reservation, please contact the Yes! Getaways Customer Support Service within the deadline provided in your voucher:
- By Phone – by calling +1 (617) 415-4100 during business hours (5:00AM to 7:00PM, EST, Monday- Friday, 11:00AM to 7:00PM Saturday & Sunday, excluding legal holidays);
- By Email – email@example.com
Each Rent-a-Car company has its own specific Terms and Conditions, which will be explained in your voucher. If the cancellation policy of the Supplier is different than the general cancellation policy of Yes! Getaways, the Supplier's conditions have priority and the client must abide by their specifications.
All drivers must have a valid driver's license and credit card in order to rent a car. Please take into consideration that additional costs or fees (such as optional insurance, fees for additional drivers, etc.) may be incurred after your booking and they should be paid at the time the car is handed over to the customer.
Should you wish to extend your trip and opt for returning the car after the date specified on your voucher, the Rent-a-Car company may charge you a different price for the extra days, a price that may vary from the price available on Yes! Getaways.
Any and all bookings made by the customer on Yes! Getaways will be specified in an electronic voucher sent via e-mail, immediately after the reservation is made. The voucher contains all the information related to the booking (dates, duration, names and contact information for the suppliers of the selected services, as well as their specific Terms and Conditions). Please read all the information on your voucher carefully. Before travelling, you must print out your voucher and present it as a proof of your reservation upon arrival.
Yes! Getaways only uses information provided by the customer during the booking process on the website and, as such, is not to be held responsible if the customer does not receive their voucher due to incorrect or mistaken contact information, or if the voucher is considered spam by the customer's email security options. The customer is responsible for immediately notifying Yes! Getaways in case of a change of address, email or phone number. The name the customer provides for their voucher must match the name on their passport/I.D. for security and verification purposes.
3.1 Luggage
If the customer's luggage is damaged in flight, the customer must file a complaint directly with the airline immediately after noticing the damage. The customer is obligated to file a complaint with the airline the moment their bag is discovered as missing, deteriorated or destroyed.
3.2 Departure and Arrival Times
The departure and arrival times are indicated in the local time of the respective city and according to the schedules of the airlines on the date of their publication on www.yesgetaways.com, and as such they may be subject to changes.
3.3 Travel Insurance
Travel Insurance is not included in any travel packages offered by Yes! Getaways. Yes! Getaways offers customers the option to purchase insurance to cover the customers should they need assistance or in case of cancellations.
The customer won't make any payment on Yes! Getaways, except when a pre-paid package is acquired, including flight + hotel (+ other services available on the website). The Suppliers require your credit card data in order to guarantee your reservation. As such, Yes! Getaways sends your credit card information directly to the Supplier whose services you booked, after verifying your credit card. Yes! Getaways uses Secure SocketLayer (SSL) technology to securely process and protect customer credit card data.
Please note that your card can be pre-authorized or charged (sometimes without any options for reimbursement) for certain fares or special offers after the booking is made and confirmed. In the case of pre-paid packages including flight + hotel (+ other services available on the website), the total amount is charged on the credit card provided, and the refund conditions are clearly specified in your voucher. Please carefully verify the description of the services before making your reservation.
In case of fraud or unauthorized use of your credit card by third parties, the majority of banks and credit card companies will assume the risk and cover all of the resulting expenses, a service which can be subject to a fee of around $50.00. In such case, the bank or the credit card company will not cover the fee for unauthorized transactions resulting from a reservation made on our website, Yes! Getaways will cover that fee up to $50.00 . In order for us to pay this fee, you need to report the fraud to your credit card company (according to their rules and proceedings) and contact us immediately via the e-mail at email@example.com. In the subject field, please indicate "credit card fraud" and send us the proof of the fee charged (ex: the insurance policy and/or receipt from your credit card company). We will only pay this fee in the event that the reservations made through the secure server of Yes! Getaways resulted in the unauthorized use of your credit card through our error or negligence, and you are not responsible in any way.
Yes! Getaways will only charge your credit card under the following circumstances: pre-paid travel packages, no-show or late cancellation, and/or when the Supplier cannot charge the resulting penalty fee (as stipulated in your reservation voucher). The penalty will then be sent by us to the supplier of the service that was cancelled or for which the client did not show.
4.1 Refunds
Once the trip starts, Yes! Getaways does not owe any refund for services that aren't used by the customer for reasons unrelated to Yes! Getaways, or in such case that they cannot be substituted by other equivalents.
4.2 Reservation Fees
For each pre-paid travel package reservation, certain reservation fees are charged in accordance with the standing prices available on www.yesgetaways.com, which are provided to the customer when solicited.
4.3 Airport Taxes
The airport taxes are always included in the final price of the reservation, unless otherwise specified, in which case they must be paid locally by the passengers in the airports where they are required.
4.4 Local Taxes
The final prices of the reservations do not include any international tax imposed by the local government of each destination or Supplier. Customers may be required to pay additional taxes or fees upon arrival or departure on their trip.
The customer is responsible for contacting the relevant Embassy or Consulate for additional information. Requirements may change and you should check for up-to-date information before booking and departure. Yes! Getaways accepts no responsibility if you are refused entry onto a flight or into any country due to your failure to carry the correct and adequate passport, visa, or other travel documents required by any airline, authority, or country, including countries you may just be transiting through. This includes all stops made by the aircraft, even if you do not leave the aircraft or airport.
The original version of these Terms and Conditions was written in Portuguese before being translated to other languages. The translations made available online are only a courtesy to our customers. In case of dispute over the content or interpretation of these Terms and Conditions, or in case of incoherence or differences between the Portuguese version and a translation, the Portuguese version will always prevail. The Portuguese version is available on our website (when choosing the Portuguese interface) and it can be sent to you if you express your desire in writing. All the specific conditions of each service will appear on the respective vouchers.
The client must have all the personal or family documentation required (identity card, military documents, minor authorization, visas, vaccination certificates and other necessary documents). Yes! Getaways denies any responsibility whatsoever for the denial of visas or entrance of the customer into a foreign country. In these cases, the "Withdrawal" section applies, and the customer is responsible for all other costs brought on by the situation.
United States Citizens (and other Non-EU Citizens):
- Customers (whatever their age) who wish to travel internationally must have a civil identity document (passport) and a visa when necessary. Please note that many countries require that the passport has a minimum validity of six months starting from the entry date into this country. The client is responsible for getting all the information on visa requirements;
- The customers who are citizens of non-EU countries must verify the specific information relating to the necessary documents for entering the country of their selected destination with the embassies / consulates of their origin countries;
- Minors, whenever they are not accompanied by the person who holds parental rights, can only enter or leave national territory by showing a written authorization, dated and signed by the person holding the parental rights and this authorization must be notarized.
Citizens of the European Union:
- Customers (whatever their age) who are citizens of the European Union must have their civil identity document (passport, ID, etc.);
- In order to be eligible for medical assistance they must have their European Health Insurance Card;
6.1 Yes! Getaways Responsibilities
Yes! Getaways and its Suppliers are not responsible for any damages that may occur during your trip, nor in the case of injury or death. Yes! Getaways is responsible only for the errors of its own reservation service, and cannot be held responsible for the errors of its Suppliers, and as such, the customer must file their complaints directly with the Supplier(s).
6.2. Customer Responsibilities
The customer is responsible for having all required documents on his/her person while travelling, and for checking their validity. The customer is also responsible for providing accurate information for all relevant parties while making the reservation. The customer must respect the conditions imposed by the Suppliers as stipulated in the reservation voucher. The client cannot behave in an inappropriate manner, as to offend or harm others, or destroy the property of others. In these cases, Yes! Getaways and its suppliers have the right to cancel your reservation without reimbursement and without compensation, so as not to be responsible for any damages incurred.
6.3 Customer Obligations
The customer agrees to certain obligations, including but not limited to:
• financial responsibility for all the transactions made in their name;
• to be at least 18 years old and have legal capacity;
• all the information concerning the customer and the people accompanying his on the trip must be legitimate;
• Yes! Getaways cannot be used for speculative, false or fraudulent reservations;
• the transmission of any threatening, pornographic, political, racist or any other type of illegal material is strictly prohibited;
• the client cannot modify, copy, distribute, transmit, reproduce, publish, license, transfer, sell or derive any information, software, products or services obtained through Yes! Getaways. Additionally, the client also accepts:
- not to access, monitor or copy the content or information from this website by using a robot, spider or any other automatic means or manual process, with any objective, without written permission from Yes! Getaways;
- to not violate the restrictions of this website, nor avoid or prevent the security measures imposed with the purpose of limiting access to the website;
- to not overload, in any way, the technological infrastructure of Yes! Getaways and its Suppliers.
6.4 Questions & Complaints Related to Your Reservation
Should the customer have any doubt or complaint related to their reservation, they should contact the Yes! Getaways Customer Support team prior to travel. Customers who wish to file a complaint related to a Supplier during their trip should contact the Supplier directly and ask for written confirmation that the complaint was filed before the return/check-out date.
6.5 Using the Services of Yes! Getaways
The Yes! Getaways reservation central does not accept responsibility for your ability to access and use the booking service, nor does it take responsibility for any interruption that might occur during the use of your service. Yes! Getaways does not guarantee that the reservation service is completely virus free or that it doesn't have other properties that might lead to the loss of information.
6.6 Yes! Getaways Website Content
Yes! Getaways offers all the general information on our webpage for guidance purposes only. Yes! Getaways reserves the right to alter any aspect of the page, its content and the reservation service itself at any time, including, but not limited to, the availability of the Suppliers, certain characteristics, information and/or databases. Yes! Getaways does not guarantee that the information is always up-to-date and it is the responsibility of the customer to make sure that they understand and respect all relevant requirements. Yes! Getaways does not guarantee that the information available on the website (including, but not limited to prices, descriptions and dates) is free of errors or omissions, but we are doing everything possible to correct any error or omission that might appear in a timely manner.
6.7 Customer Reviews, Comments, Photos and Other Submissions
Customers will have the opportunity to send us their opinions on our booking service and/or our Suppliers through a specific form, which will be available after the conclusion of the reservation. After their trip, customers receive an e-mail with a link to a questionnaire, through which they can communicate their degree of satisfaction with our services, as well as provide suggestions for improvements and/or alterations. By filling out the form, the customer agrees to renounce any ownership of the information provided to us. Yes! Getaways and its Suppliers reserve the right to use, copy, distribute and/or publish this content through any means and in any shape. By filling out the questionnaire, the client agrees:
• to be the author of their submission, or to own the rights to the text;
• to only submit information that is accurate on the date the form is filled out;
• to not introduce any false commentary, information or material, or any malicious, defamatory, abusive or obscene material or anything that might be interpreted as such;
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Apricot jam instantly makes me think of fall and winter. And not only until very recently I understood why: I suddenly remembered some of my childhood days, when I'd visit my godmother. In cold, rainy afternoons we'd have tea together, with toasts and apricot jam. She'd have the table so beautifully set, with gorgeous china and all the trimmings... That was pretty amazing for a 7 year old. :)
Cold days here in Sao Paulo + this tart + good childhood memories = a very happy 31 year old girl. :)
Apricot and almond tart
slightly adapted from Baking by Flavor
1 ½ cups (210g) all purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
8 tablespoons (113g/1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
¾ cup (150g) granulated sugar
2 large egg yolks
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup almond flour (finely ground almonds)
2/3 cup apricot preserves
¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F; Butter a 21cm (8½ in) fluted round tart pan* (with a removable bottom) and place it on a baking sheet.
Sift the all purpose flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg into a small bowl. Set aside.
Cream the butter in a large bowl of a freestanding electric mixer on moderate speed for 2 minutes. Add the granulated sugar and beat for 1-2 minutes. Blend in the egg yolks and vanilla extract. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula to keep the mixture even-textured. Blend in the almond flour.
On low speed, add the sifted mixture in two additions, beating until the dough comes together in large and small curds. Remove the bowl from the stand. With a rubber spatula, work the mixture until it comes together in a dough, pressing sections together. Using your hands, lightly knead the dough on a work surface for 1 minute – the dough should be buttery and firm, but workable.
Divide the dough into 2 equal portions. Lightly form each portion into a rounded cake.
Roll one portion of dough between two sheets of baking paper to a round about 24cm (9½ in) in diameter. Place the dough (still between the paper sheets) on a cookie sheet and freeze for 5-10 minutes while you work with the other portion of dough.
Roll out the remaining dough between sheets of baking paper to a round measuring about 23cm (9in) in diameter. Peel off the top sheet of paper and invert the dough disk onto the tart pan. Peel off the second sheet of paper.
Lightly press the dough onto the bottom and sides of the tart pan.
Combine the apricot preserves and vanilla extract in a small bowl. Spoon the preserves on the layer of dough and spread on the bottom with a small offset palette knife.
Remove the dough from the freezer and peel off the top sheet of paper. Using a 3.75cm (1½ in) cookie cutter (such as a heart cutter), stamp out 33 pieces of dough as close as possible to each other**.
Place the cut outs around the perimeter of the tart (the edge of the dough), then follow with a second ring of cut outs in the middle of the tart, and finally fill in the center with 3 cut outs. Overlap the remaining cut outs attractively in the middle.
Place the tart on the cookie sheet and bake for 40 minutes or until the apricot filling is bubbly and the cut outs are golden. The tart must be fully baked and golden or it will be pasty textured in the center.
Carefully transfer the tart pan to a cooling rack. Cool completely.
Carefully unmold and serve cut into wedges.
* I used a 24cm tart pan;
** I covered the tart with the cut outs but did not want to overlap them – instead, I baked the extra cut outs as cookies (photo below)
Serves 8


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2D Label Now Used By Law Enforcement for Tracking Inventory and Assets
REDMOND, Wash. - Dynamic Systems, Inc., a leader in data collection applications, has announced a new label called the 2D Dot, to be used with the Checkmate Law Enforcement Equipment & Inventory Manager. This solution can be used by public safety agencies such as the FBI, corrections, security, sheriffs, police, SWAT, Secret Service, campus security, or airport police.
2D Dot Label Improves Safety & Efficiency
DSI has announced the availability of the 2D Label for law enforcement agencies who want to reduce the loss of gear and save time tracking down which piece of equipment is checked out to which officer. The 2D Label is made of a high performance acrylic adhesive and is only 3/8" in diameter, allowing it to be used on smaller pieces of equipment. See more at Barcode Labels.
It is easy to adhere the 2D label onto areas that won't interfere with the functionality of the equipment. The software also tracks consumables such as batons, masks, gloves and handcuffs.
"It's affordable for almost all agencies, even those with just a few employees," noted Bill Allen, Process Control Consultant. See additional information here.
"Loss of equipment and malfunctioning gear can be a major overhead cost for agencies. Our customers see a typical payback for the Equipment Manager within three to four months," states Alison Falco, President of Dynamic Systems.
About Dynamic Systems (DSI)
For over 30 years DSI has been providing reliable and innovative systems that enable your department to work safely and efficiently. The addition of the 2D Dot capability to the Equipment Tracking System allows departments to effectively label smaller items such as pistols, radar guns, red dot sights, keys, flashlights, and radios with a resilient barcode. This technology can be used with the other Checkmate Solutions also, such as Inventory Management, Document Tracking, Evidence Tracking, Fixed Assets Management and ID Badge Printer Systems. Barcode data collection has been proven to be the most accurate and efficient method of tracking or counting items. For more information visit www.a-barcode.com.


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Recently, a team of researchers from the University of Rochester in New York and the University of Haifa found the naked mole rat's unique mechanism to staying cancer free- a super sugar called high-molecular-mass Hyaluronan (HMM-HA). They discovered that when secreted from the naked mole rat's cells, HMM-HA prevents cells from overcrowding and forming tumors. "Contact inhibition, a powerful anticancer mechanism, discovered by the Rochester team, arresting cell growth when cells come into contact with each other, is lost in cancer cells," explains Prof. Eviatar Nevo, from the Institute of Evolution at the University of Haifa, "The experiments showed that when HMM-HA was removed from naked mole rat cells, they became susceptible to tumors and lost their contact inhibition."
HMM-HA is a form of Hyaluronan- a long sugar polymer, naturally present as a lubricant in the extracellular matrix of the human body. It is commonly used in the treatment of arthritis or in anti-wrinkle skin care products. According to the current results, the naked mole rat cells secrete extremely high-molecular mass HA, which is over five times larger than human or mouse HA. This high-molecular-mass HA accumulates abundantly in naked mole rat tissues, owing to a more robust synthesis by a protein called HAS2 and a decreased activity of HA-degrading enzymes. When researchers compared the Has2 gene between the naked mole rat and other mammals, they discovered that two unique amino acids, (asparagines), that are 100% conserved among mammals, were replaced by two other amino acids (serines), in the naked mole rat. These unique amino acid changes may be responsible for the high processivity of the naked mole rat HAS2 protein- in charge of HA synthesis. The naked mole rat cells display a two-fold higher affinity to HA than mouse or human cells, contributing to the higher sensitivity of naked mole rat cells to HA signaling. Remarkably, explains Professor Nevo, "the cells of the Israeli solitary blind mole rat, Spalax, which is phylogenetically closer to mice and rats than to naked mole rats, also secreted HMM-HA. This highlights a parallel evolution in unrelated subterranean mammals, presumably a shared adaptation to life underground."
The researchers speculate that naked mole rats evolved higher concentrations of HA in the skin to provide the skin elasticity needed for life in underground tunnels. So far, experiments in human cells have been very limited. However, there has been some evidence showing there is reason for hope. In one of their experiments, the researchers noticed that when naked mole rat HAS2 synthesis protein was overexpressed in human cell tissues, the cells began secreting HMM-HA. This opens new avenues for cancer prevention and life extension in human medicine.
source : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130731093255.htm


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Hindsight is always 20/20. One day we'll look back and realize how each puzzle piece fit together. This is the tale of a planet and her challenge to evolve with all of the beings and life she supports. It cannot be known in its fullness except from a distance. It incorporates creation and truth, agape and unity.
There is a message from Turkey from a few days ago where oneness is palpable. The latest Off world Message describes humanity working day and night to protect and create a new world. Some recent movie releases mirror what is going on with "Rise of The Guardians", "Warm Bodies" and "Now You See Me".
We are producing, acting and watching – changing things on the fly as we move through each moment. The point here is that we have no instruction manual. This is Improv folks. No one here has done this yet. We have to trust, to rely on our selves, our senses, our intuition and our feelings. Today's events force us to trust our heart.
We are accustomed to relying on our mind. Please follow along and we'll go on a virtual trip. You'll have to trust. You'll need headphones. Close your eyes. This takes less than 5 minutes. Ready?
Click the video play button, relax and enjoy the trip.
Wasn't that fun?
Our minds can be fooled, in this case, with sound. Pictures and events are potent as well. You've lived a lifetime of manipulation, coercion and programming and you've believed it was real, true and just "the way things are". Did you feel the clippers? Did you sort of jump at the very end?
Was any of it "real"? Understand that your mind did that. Your mind can be very convincing.
Your heart is the basis of truth. Use it as the point of discovery as well. This may take some practice. Good! This is how we will change everything. Your reward will be absolute knowing. Your heart is the place we unite. I will meet you there.
It is happening in Turkey, unplanned and without warning. They are actualizing Oneness in real time, with every heart beat.
Deep within we know what to do. Love. This is our shift. We hold the power to direct it. Let's do so. Take 5 minutes more and imagine it happening precisely as you dream it to be. Feel it. Hear it. Believe it. There will be naysayers and those who refuse to believe it's possible. There will be attempts to distract your focus. Keep at it. You are a master creator. Creation is what you DO.
There is a quote attributed to Ghandi, which may in fact have first been said by labor leader Nicholas Klein in a 1914 address to a labor union congress (Biennial Convention, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1914.): "First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that is what is going to happen…"
You know the truth. The power is yours. A very slick trick is still being played and you can choose what to believe. We are participating in virtual reality, without headphones, with our eyes wide open. (Remember the barber shop?) It is easy to forget who is in control, it all seems so real. It is us. Choose love, peace, prosperity, unity, joy. Choose with your heart and believe.
See the change you want to be in the world. You are the One and the time is now.
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'Poop' pills can treat C. difficile, Calgary doctor says
But handmade pills containing bacteria from the stools of a healthy people not ready for mass production
Forget the enema bag and the tube that snakes down the throat to the intestines — the future of treatment for persistent Clostridium difficile infections may come in pill form.
A Calgary doctor who has been treating difficult-to-cure C. difficile for years with fecal transplants is reporting he has created what are in essence "poop" pills — and they do the trick.
Infectious diseases expert Dr. Tom Louie, a pioneer in the use of fecal transplants for C. difficile in Canada, has treated 27 patients with his handmade pills, and all 27 were cleared of their infections.
"They came in for lunch on an empty stomach ... and took 24 to 30 pills on average," Louie, said of the regimen, which he described to fellow scientists at the IDWeek conference in San Francisco on Thursday.
IDWeek is an annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association and the U.S. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.
Louie teaches at the University of Calgary. In a telephone interview, he said he saw no side effects, and the regime was surprisingly well tolerated by patients.
"Nobody's thrown up. And nobody's complained of belly pain."
Other physicians who treat recurrent C. difficile with fecal transplants called the development good progress towards a day when there may be ready-to-use pills that can re-establish the bacterial balance for people suffering from the debilitating infection.
But they — and Louie himself — suggested this work is more a case of proving treatment in pill form can work than an immediate pivot point for the way fecal transplants for C. difficile will be administered.
That's because the pills currently used by Louie can't be mass produced and given to anyone who wants to try a fecal transplant for recurrent C. diff infection. Each patient is administered his or her own set of pills, containing bacteria from the stools of a healthy relative in most cases.
Stool processed down to bacteria
To make his capsules, Louie took stool from donors and processed the material down to just the bacteria within the stool. From between 150 and 200 grams of stool he got two to three teaspoons of concentrate, which he said had the consistency of river mud or clay, and that, diluted, was piped into capsules. Each pill was encased in three layers of gelatin capsules, to ensure they could survive the trip through the highly-acidic stomach.
"The downside of this whole study is that it is a bespoke process that you have to prepare it for each individual," explained Emma Allen-Vercoe, a microbiologist at the University of Guelph who has been working on developing a ready-to-use treatment called Repoopulate.
"I think the thing is that if you're going to take poop and process it into capsules, you need to have a specific lab that is geared up to do that. It's not the sort of thing that you can just do in your garage, you know, or even in a clinical microbiology lab," she said.
C. difficile infections can occur when people who are on antibiotics ingest spores of the bacterium. Because the antibiotics disrupt the person's normal gut flora — various bacteria that normally live harmoniously in a person's gastro-intestinal tract — C. difficile bacteria can flourish and cause persistent and lifestyle-limiting diarrhea.
While most people who develop C. difficile will be cured by strong antibiotics, some fail treatment repeatedly. It's people like that who are at their wit's end when they turn to Louie or a select number of other infectious diseases specialists in Canada and elsewhere who have been using fecal transplants to cure the infection.
They take stool from a healthy person — screened to ensure he or she is free of diseases like HIV — and mix it with saline to create a slurry. The fecal material is then transferred into the gastro-intestinal system of the patient, either using a reverse colonoscopy approach — the enema bag — or down into the stomach and intestine via a nasogastric (NG) tube inserted in a nostril.
The idea is that the fecal material from a healthy person, which is rich with normal gut bacteria, will re-establish balance in the colon of the C. diff sufferer — and in many cases it does. Doctors who perform the procedure report very high cure rates.
But some physicians and hospitals have been squeamish about doing the procedure, said Dr. Michael Silverman, of Lakeridge Health, a hospital in Oshawa, Ont., who does fecal transplants.
He says contrary to what one might expect, patients themselves are well beyond "the ick factor" by the time they come to him. Weeks or longer spent tethered to a toilet have that effect, he suggested.
"There will be some patients who will find the other things too icky and will be willing to do this. But from my experience, almost everybody goes along with the NG tube or the enema because they're past the icky phase, the patients," said Silverman.
Randomized controlled trials needed
"The patients, by the time they have multiple recurrences of diarrhea, are willing to do anything to make this not happen again."
Silverman said Louie's pill treatment would be a "nice additional option" but he doesn't anticipate all practitioners will move away from the nasogastric tube or reverse enema delivery any time soon.
"Because not everybody's going to have the ability to set up to start manufacturing capsules on site. And it's got to be on site, because the donor's on site. And it's got to be done fresh. So it can't be mass produced and shipped all over, at least at this point," he said.
But Allen-Vercoe sees this as a step towards a more final answer — a bacterial cocktail that could be produced, stored and administered in a consistent and timely way.
Louie said he is working with collaborators in Britain to try to determine which bacteria are key to re-establishing a healthy balance in the gut, with the aim of moving to a pill treatment that wouldn't have to be tailor-made for each patient.
"We've already talked about the idea that eventually we're going to end up looking at an artificial prep with components," he said.
But Dr. Christine Lee of St. Joseph's Hospital in Hamilton said this delivery method still needs to be more rigorously tested.
Lee, who has done scores of fecal transplants, said the capsule treatment will need to be the subject of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) — the gold standard of clinical studies.
"Because you don't know (if something really works) until you do the formal RCT," Lee said.
"Any observational study," — which is the type Louie performed — "it just looks great until you do an RCT," she said. "But if it really pans out that the pill form is effective then that would be fantastic."


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Are there any general methods for computing fundamental group or singular cohomology (including the ring structure, hopefully) of a projective variety (over C of course), if given the equations defining the variety?
I seem to recall that, if the variety is smooth, we can compute the H^{p,q}'s by computer -- and thus the H^n's by Hodge decomposition -- is this correct? However this won't work if the variety is not smooth -- are there any techniques that work even for non-smooth things?
Also I seem to recall some argument that, at least if we restrict our attention to smooth things only, all varieties defined by polynomials of the same degrees will be homotopy equivalent. The homotopy should be gotten by slowly changing the coefficients of the polynomials. Is something like this true? Does some kind of argument like this work?


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MAYO CLINIC – Doctors have confirmed that brain cancer can be cured with Super Glue.
This past summer a baby girl, who was born with a potentially lethal brain malformation, was saved when doctors injected a special type of Super Glue into her brain.
Since then, doctors have done extensive research and run numerous clinical trials on medical-grade Super Glue and its use for curing brain tumors. The data is in. If you inject Super Glue into a brain that has cancer – the cancer will go away in three to five days.
Let's look at the case of Brenda Markingham.
Brenda was born with a malformation of blood vessels in her brain, which led to hydrocephalus or water on the brain, which caused her head to grow unusually large.
The Chicago family came to New York's Roosevelt Hospital where Dr. Hector Gonzalez used the Super Glue procedure to save her life.
In an amazing, delicate procedure, Dr. Gonzalez actually injects tiny amounts of medical-grade Super Glue, closing off most of the vessels feeding the Vein of Galen short-circuit.
Brenda was born with something called a Vein of Galen malformation. The huge dark circle in the middle of her brain is a short-circuit between arteries and veins. That enlarges the veins, preventing brain fluid from draining normally.
Brenda's parents know Super Glue saved their baby's life and they have a lot to be thankful for this holiday season "Certainly at this time of year I think you tend to reflect on what you are most thankful about in your life and certainly we have a lot to be thankful for," her mother said.
The Super Glue in Brenda's brain will stay there forever. You can see it on X-rays. It's lodged in these abnormal blood vessels that are now closed off and shouldn't bother her as her brain continues to develop.
Doctors across America have now begun using Super Glue on brain tumors. "We think it's the best medical discovery since Penicillin," said Dr. Aldous Hawkley. "And it's always handy to have Super Glue around. If we break something in the operating room, we don't have to scramble looking for something… we have Super Glue."
Of course, medical-grade Super Glue is different from regular Super-Glue. "But not much different," said Dr. Gonzalez. "If there was an emergency and we were out of the medical-grade Super-Glue, I could just send a nurse to the hardware store and get regular Super Glue and it would work fine."
The one problem doctors have with using Super Glue? "If you get it on your fingers, they stick together and the whole operation has to be stopped, while the doctors try to pry their fingers apart," said Dr. Susan Begley of the Mayo Clinic.
The other problem is that doctors, like Dr. Begley, have become obsessed with Super Glue. "She's addicted. Every time we turn around she's using Super Glue on something," said to her husband Rocco. "She's got a real problem with that stuff."
Well, she may have a problem… but brain cancer is now cured!