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LOS ANGELES – February 26, 2018 – YayYo, Inc today announces It has launched the APP for its previously announced subsidiary, RideShare Car Rentals, LLC. The APP is available both in IOS and Android. The APP has all the functionality as the website www.RideShareRental.com. Allowing renters to do everything from booking a car to extending their rentals.
The APP can be downloaded from the:
Apple store at https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/rideshare-rental/id1338753121?mt=8
Google play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ridesharerental.app
The www.RideSharerental.com platform is also a peer-to-peer platform where individuals and fleet owners can list their cars to rent to rideshare drivers.
"We are excited that we have launched the APP making it easier for our renters to find, rent, and extend their cars on their smart phones," said Ramy El-Batrawi, CEO. "We recognize most drivers are in their cars a large part of their day and the APP make it much more convenient for them"
Those interested in renting cars can go to www.RideShareRental.com
The Company was also qualified on March 17th, 2017 by the Securities and Exchange Commission for a Regulation A+ Initial Public Offering to raise gross proceeds of $50 million. Interested investors can purchase shares directly at www.YayYoIpo.com.
YayYo, Inc., also recently announced that the Company has filed an application to list its common stock on the NASDAQ Capital Market..
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains certain statements that are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and are made in reliance upon the protections provided by such Acts for forward-looking statements. We have identified forward-looking statements by using words such as "expect," "believe," and "should." Although we believe our expectations are reasonable, our operations involve a number of risks and uncertainties that are beyond our control, and these statements may turn out not to be true. Risk factors associated with our business, including some of the facts set forth herein, are detailed in the Company's Form SEC filings.
Media contact:
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The Stockman knife is a traditional slip joint that has double ends. Most have three blades and two springs inside that help the blade stay closed or open. Each blade on a Stockman traditional knife has a different use. Clip point for everyday tasks like cutting food, sheepsfoot for push cutting and sawing, and a spey blade for cutting flesh.

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Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Once a dapper Beverly Hills attorney known for his bow tie, Richard Fine has been held in solitary confinement at Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail for 14 months, even though he's never been charged with a crime.
Fine, a 70-year- old taxpayer's advocate who once worked for the Department of Justice, is being held for contempt of court.
Superior Court Judge David Yaffe found Fine in contempt after he refused to turn over financial documents and answer questions when ordered to pay an opposing party's attorney's fees, according to court documents.
Fine says his contempt order masks the real reason why he's in jail. He claims he's a political prisoner.
"I ended up here because I did the one thing no other lawyer in California is willing to do. I took on the corruption of the courts," Fine said in a jailhouse interview with CNN.
More details on the Special Investigations Unit's blog
For the last decade, Fine has filed appeal after appeal against Los Angeles County's Superior Court judges. He says the judges each accept what he calls yearly "bribes" from the county worth $57,000. That's on top of a $178,789 annual salary, paid by the state. The county calls the extra payments "supplemental benefits" -- a way to attract and retain quality judges in a high-cost city.
While the practice of paying supplemental benefits is common in California, most high-cost cities elsewhere don't hand out these kinds of benefits. Judges in Miami, Chicago and Boston receive no extra county dollars.
Judges in Los Angeles County not only have the highest state salaries in the nation, they also get tens of thousands of dollars in county benefits. These payments, Fine says, mean judges are unlikely to rule against the county when it is involved in a lawsuit.
In the last two fiscal years, Los Angeles County won all but one of the nine trials that went before a judge, according to Steven Estabrook, the county's litigation cost manager.
"The reason I'm here is the retaliation of the judges," Fine says. "They figured they're going to throw me in jail and that way they feel that they can stop me."
Fine's decade-long crusade against the judges eventually led to his disbarment last year. Joe Carlucci was the lead prosecutor for the California State Bar. Carlucci says whenever Fine lost a case, he would appeal and argue the judges were corrupt.
"What he ultimately did was to delay proceedings, to level false accusations against judges," Carlucci says. "All of those lawsuits were found to have been frivolous and meritless."
Judge Yaffe and county officials refused to comment on Fine's case while it's still pending.
"Fine holds the key to his jail cell," Kevin McCormick, one of the court's attorneys, pointed out in a court filing. In other words, Fine will go free once he hands over the documents the court seeks and answers the judge's questions.
The technical term is "coercive confinement" -- jail-time until a person follows a judge's order.
"He's probably done more time than most burglars, robbers and dope dealers," says Sterling Norris of the public-interest group Judicial Watch.
Norris says Fine's confinement has gone on too long.
Norris won a case in 2008 that found county payments to judges unconstitutional. The California Legislature swiftly passed a bill that enabled counties to continue paying the extra benefits.
"I think it's a lack of judicial integrity to say enough is enough," Norris says. "We've got a man, 70-year-old attorney, in jail for over a year on coercive confinement and that is way beyond the pale. No matter what else he may have done, that is improper."
Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, calls the length of Fine's contempt confinement an "anomaly."
Fine's jail cell could be used for a more violent offender, Whitmore added. In fact, Los Angeles County's jails have in recent months released hundreds of inmates before their terms were up due to budget constraints.
Fine took his pencil-and-paper fight from solitary confinement to the U.S Supreme Court, which ruled Monday it would not hear the case. The court offered no explanation.
Meanwhile, Fine's family stands behind him -- even in the face of home foreclosure.
"My husband has always been the straightest arrow, hardworking, very successful attorney, and for this to happen to him is unbelievable," says Maryellen Fine, his wife of 27 years.
"I'll look back with tears with all the time I might have missed with the family," Fine says tearfully just before he is handcuffed and walked back to his cell.
"We don't know what is going to be next," says Fine's daughter, Victoria. "Every day is just one more day where I think maybe I'm going to get a phone call that says dad's coming home."


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Delight in running Windows or Linux applications on your Mac? That's right in Parallels Desktop's wheelhouse, and version 9, which debuted on Thursday, adds even more features to the virtualization program. But while the program is currently available as an upgrade for existing users of Parallels Desktop 7 or 8, the full version won't go on sale until next week.
Among the major new features of Parallels Desktop 9 is optimized support for cloud storage services like iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft's SkyDrive, and more. You can sync files between your Mac and your Windows virtual machine without having the files duplicated, thus saving you precious disk space. And speaking of sharing features between your Mac and Windows VM, there's now a single Security Center for using a complimentary security software subscription for both your Mac and Windows VM.
Mac aficionados can now benefit from a number of Apple-like features in their Windows virtual machines, as well. For example, there's support for Mountain Lion's Power Nap feature on Retina MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, letting you keep your Windows virtual machine's apps up-to-date even when your computer is sleeping. Additionally, you can now use the three-finger-tap in Windows apps to look up words in OS X's Dictionary, connect storage volumes to your Windows VM via Thunderbolt and FireWire, and print to a PDF on your Mac desktop right from any Windows application.
Also present is improved support for Windows 8 and 8.1, including the return of the real Start menu, and the ability to run modern UI apps in a window, rather than just fullscreen. Enhancements to the Virtual Machine wizards simplify setting up a new VM, even if you don't have a DVD drive on your Mac; there's also better support for connecting to an external monitor while running Parallels Desktop in fullscreen mode, and editable keyboard shortcuts make it easier for users to tweak their Windows setup.
And lest you think all the improvements are focused around Windows, Parallels Desktop 9 also has better integration with Linux guest OSes.
Parallels Desktop is currently available as a $50 upgrade for existing users of Parallels Desktop 7 or 8; those who purchased Parallels Desktop 8 on or after August 15 can upgrade for free.
New users, however, will have to wait until September 5, when they can pick the app up for $80. A student edition will run $40, while the Switch to Mac Edition, which incorporate extra tools to migrate from a PC to a new Mac, costs $100. Also included with Parallels Desktop 9, for a limited time only, is a free six-month trial subscription to the company's recently released Parallels Access, which lets you access your Mac apps from your iPad.


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So a couple of weeks ago, as I mentioned previously, I made a couple of trips out to my alma-mater Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY.
First, my co-worker John and I ran the Red Hat booth at the RPI Spring 2010 Career Fair. We were there for a little over four hours and by the end of it I had all but lost my voice. As one might expect at a school like RPI, every person who came up to speak to me (except for a biology major) knew exactly what Linux was, and the majority of them ran or had at least tried Linux themselves. Ben Boeckel, a current RPI student as well as Fedora contributor, dropped by so I got to say hi to him at the career fair as well.
A couple of days later I drove back out to RPI to give a talk on how to get involved in Fedora at the Rensselaer Center for Open Source meeting. Professor Mukkai Krishnamoorthy, one of the directors of RCOS and a much-beloved RPI CS professor, made all the arrangements for the talk. Now, the Rensselaer Center for Open Source is an initiative to support RPI students in researching and developing free & open source software (a list of the students' current and past projects is behind the link.) I really wish this opportunity had existed while I was a student! 🙂 The mission of the initiative as put by alumni Sean O'Sullivan who provided the funding necessary to start it:
We have a duty to our fellow man to improve life on this planet. While technology has always been a huge enabler in improving quality of life, we now are at a point where, through open software and open content, these improvements can come at close to zero cost, opening up opportunities to all… particularly in Third World situations, but also in government and consumer applications, open source solutions can cut through economic, political, and social divides, and enable people to simply get the job done. This center at Rensselaer may very well become a model for accomplishing this.
So, what a great group to talk to – what an opportunity! It seems like the RCOS mission and Fedora's values have a lot in common. So, I had a little under an hour to talk about Fedora. There were around 50 folks in the audience, mostly RPI computer science students. I had a box of swag to give out (thanks to John Rose and the NA Ambassadors!) – two T-shirts, 40 Fedora discs, pens, buttons, etc. I set out all of the swag except for the t-shirts on a table before the talk and had the students come up and grab what they wanted – making sure they had the right arch media. Then at the beginning of my talk, we decided I would give the two t-shirts to the two folks who were the first to ask good questions.
The talk was thankfully very interactive – I was reminded of why I had loved RPI so much, because of the students – their curiosity, willingness to speak up, and their smarts made giving the talk a lot of fun! 🙂 The students asked really good questions. We didn't get through all the slides but I think that's okay, the side-discussions we had were worth it. Here's how the talk broke down:
- What is Fedora? I talked about Fedora's mission statement – why we make it in the first place – and how Fedora is both an operating system and a community of folks who put that operating system together. The main point I kept bringing up here is how we always try to work with upstream, and why forking off in most cases causes problems.
- Why Fedora? Here I tried to focus on what makes Fedora different than other Linux distros. I walked through the four foundations of Fedora with examples of how we exemplified each. At the beginning of this section of the talk I noticed I was starting to lose folks (I'm not the best speaker but I've learned to be more mindful of the audience) so I told them they should wake up and to help them do that I was going to make them answer questions! One question I asked was about what kinds of things Fedora does to make sure it's legally redistributable. We ended up having a good conversation on software freedom, codecs, patents, etc. and folks definitely perked up as I kept asking questions.
- What kinds of projects happen in Fedora? – this section was really a survey of arbitrarily-selected groups within Fedora, with a listing of some of the current projects that team was focused on (or at least, as the wiki indicated they were working on. 🙂 ) We were running out of time at this point and the next section was way more important, so we really blew through it quickly.
- Get started! – I put together four steps to get started becoming a Fedora contributor – and a couple of students asked about this in the earlier parts of the talk so I was glad I had this section prepared:
- Get an account
- Find a team and a task
- Stay connected to the community – read planet Fedora and post on there! Tell folks what you are doing!
- Ask questions! Don't be afraid!
I was really happy to see how many women were in attendance. I was also pleased at how many questions the students asked. One question that came up which provided some comedic value – a student asked, "Hey, does RPM still suck?"
I asked him, "Well, why do you think it sucks?"
He replied, "Dependency hell!"
"Hmm… I haven't had issues with that in a long time. When was the last time you used an RPM-based distro?" I asked.
"Red Hat Linux 6."
"I must have been in middle school back then…. I think a lot has changed in that time period!" I responded and everyone laughed.
Does RPM suck? I've not had any issues with it in a long time. I heard someone say, "'You know I always heard it sucked but I never really tried it.'" It's kind of sad perceptions like this linger for so long, but I guess it means we need to have these discussions to make sure folks know where we're really at.
Anyway, 6 or 7 folks came up to me afterwards so I was there talking to folks for about 30 minutes afterwards. I ran out of all of the swag I brought except for a few 32-bit live media discs (everyone wanted 64-bit.)
Here are my slides – they are licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0:
By the way, if you want to follow the RCOS student projects, they have a project dashboard (the dashboard itself is an RCOS project as well!, thanks to Graylin Kim for the link). You can also follow the students' blogs at the RCOS blog planet, http://rcos.cs.rpi.edu/.
(Thanks to my colleague Jon Orris for coming by to show his support and for taking the photos of the talk!)


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The story of a conglomerate family that falls apart when the members are caught up in a furious battle for succession. Kim Tae Jin's children all covet his fortune and the power that he possesses as the company president, and they would do anything, however cruel and inhumane, to wrest it from the others. At the forefront of this desperate game is Yoon Na Young, the ruthless and ambitious wife of KimYoung Min, Tae Jin's third son. Her unquenchable thirst for power and wealth drove her to the point of no return, manipulating both husband and son to achieve her own desires.
Flames of Desire
Aired on: Oct 2, 2010
Total Episodes: 50
Network: MBC
Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.
Year: 2010


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Top Items:
Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability — New interoperability principles and actions will increase openness of key products. — Microsoft Corp. today announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices …
Discussion: Business Week, InfoWorld, Valleywag, MarketWatch, All about Microsoft, Ars Technica, People Over Process, EU Press Room, Microsoft Watch, Joel on Software, Searchviews, Web Worker Daily, eWeek, Irregular Enterprise, CNET News.com, The Open Road, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Digital Daily, The Register, AppScout, Between the Lines, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Engadget, Daily Briefing, 451 CAOS Theory, Joe Duck, ConsortiumInfo.org …, VentureBeat, The Mac Observer, Tech Trader Daily, Tech Tracks, SEO and Tech Daily, Matusow's Blog, The Tech Report, Brier Dudley's blog, CyberNet, Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect, Gadgetell, CenterNetworks, SmoothSpan Blog, Digital Trends, Profy.Com, Download Squad, Gizmodo, Guardian Unlimited, Digital Inspiration, Good Morning Silicon Valley, CrunchGear and Silicon Alley Insider
Aaron Ricadela / Business Week: Microsoft Pledges Fail to Move the EU
Savio Rodrigues / InfoWorld: Is Microsoft using the "anti-lock-in" argument from OSS's playbook?
Jordan Golson / Valleywag: Microsoft buries programmers in 30,000 pages of documentation
Benjamin Pimentel / MarketWatch: Microsoft says it will open up to outside developers
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Microsoft pledges (yet again) that it wants to be interoperable
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: EU skeptical on Microsoft's interoperability conversion
Sepideh Saremi / Searchviews: Microsoft Shifts Business, Will Open Up APIs
Bob Walsh / Web Worker Daily: Microsoft to Open Source: You Win
Peter Galli / eWeek: Microsoft Commits to Greater Interoperability
Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise: Can we cut Microsoft some slack here?
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com: Microsoft's open-source patent threat still intact
Matt Asay / The Open Road: Let's be clear: Microsoft's pledge is not a blanket covenant not to sue [UPDATE]
Om Malik / GigaOM: Microsoft Chants Open, Interoperability Mantra
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Microsoft Sings a New Tune—Wants to Play Nice With Open-Source
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: EC on Microsoft Interoperability Declaration: Is It April Fools' Day Already?
Ashlee Vance / The Register: Microsoft opens APIs and protocols to all
Chloe Albanesius / AppScout: Microsoft Embraces Open Source, Promises Not to Sue
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Microsoft Makes Public Commitments to Data Portability and Interoperability
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget: Microsoft announces new strategy of interoperability, jumps on the "open" bandwagon
Colin Barr / Daily Briefing: Microsoft declares truce in open source war
Jay Lyman / 451 CAOS Theory: Open source disruption realized
ConsortiumInfo.org The Standards Blog: Microsoft Makes Major "Openness" Announcement on Eve of BRM (Updated)
MG Siegler / VentureBeat: Meet the new Microsoft, same as the old Microsoft
Benjamin J. Romano / Tech Tracks: Microsoft to make its biggest products more 'interoperable'
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily: Microsoft finally gets it?
Cyril Kowaliski / The Tech Report: Microsoft announces open-source interoperability shakeup
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog: Microsoft sharing: Lemonade from lemons?
Dana Gardner / Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect: Microsoft on open APIs: New tune or blowing more smoke?
Geoff Duncan / Digital Trends: Microsoft Promises Interoperability
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira / Profy.Com: Microsoft Tries to Change Its Spots: Skipping the Call Since I'v …
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Microsoft announces open standards push — again
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo: Microsoft Goes Open, Won't Sue Open Source Developers Either
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: Microsoft opens up to open source programmers
Chris Myers / Good Morning Silicon Valley: Microsoft struck by interoperability bug, developers brace for patch
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear: What will we see from Microsoft's Danger acquisition?
Port 25:
See Change — I have always been a fan of Tim O'Reilly's phrase the "architecture of participation" to describe "systems designed for user contribution." I liked it so much that at last year's OSCON I made this concept the focal point of a discussion about how Microsoft's products, programs …
Discussion: InfoWorld and The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Update: Microsoft makes boldest move yet embracing open source
Update: Microsoft makes boldest move yet embracing open source
Discussion: Microsoft Corporation, LinuxWorld.com, CNET News.com, Slashdot and The Open Road
Microsoft Corporation: Interoperability Principles — Open Connections, Standards Support, Data Portability
John Fontana / LinuxWorld.com: Microsoft bends toward open source with API release
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com: Open-source fans mixed on Microsoft move
Kdawson / Slashdot: Microsoft's New Leaf On Interoperability
Virtual Pressroom: Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology …
Virtual Pressroom: Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology …
Discussion: InfoWorld, John Carroll, Channel 10, Technology Live, CNET News.com and Digital Daily
Zack Urlocker / InfoWorld: Double-Plus Open Microsoft
Michelle Kessler / Technology Live: Ballmer hates, loves Linux
Charles Cooper / CNET News.com: Microsoft finally learning to let 'X' talk to 'Y'
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Microsoft Announces Significant Announcement
Associated Press:
Google founder spooked by Microsoft's Yahoo bid — Speaking after a Google press event, Sergey Brin calls the possibility of a Yahoo takeover 'unnerving.' — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin called Microsoft Corp.'s takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. an "unnerving" …
Discussion: CNET News.com, WebProNews, HipMojo.com, Google Operating System, Mashable!, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and Digital Daily
Dan Farber / CNET News.com: Google's Sergey Brin fears the Microhoo borg
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Brin Feels The Fear Over Microsoft & Yahoo
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Does Google Really Have Much to Worry About?
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: The Unnerving Microsoft
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!: Microhoo: Sergey Brin is Annoyed, and Unnerved
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Red Hat Sends C&D to DataPortability.org...Over Its Logo — Open source giant Red Hat sent a Cease and Desist letter to the DataPortability.org group today, the group says, demanding the removal of the DP logo from the group's website. — Red Hat alleges that the infinity sign …
Discussion: CenterNetworks
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks: WTF Dept: DataPortability Project Sued By RedHat
Red Hat:
Red Hat Statement on Microsoft Announcement
Red Hat Statement on Microsoft Announcement
Discussion: eWeek and The Open Road
Peter Galli / eWeek: Rivals Skeptical of Microsoft's Move to Greater 'Openness'
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Logo War: Red Hat Takes On DataPortability
Mike / CrunchNotes:
TechCrunch, Peaking, Etc. — A lot of people write a lot of stuff that's pretty negative about TechCrunch. Since I don't actually do an ego monitor, we miss most of it. But every once in a while something bubbles up and I see it. Usually I don't respond because it just encourages more of the same.
Discussion: Deep Jive Interests, TechCrunch UK, broadstuff, Furrier.org and Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK: TechCrunch is over? I'll get my coat...
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: COMMENTING ON DISAPPEARING POSTS AND THE TECHCRUNCH EFFECT
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Apple patent seeks to marry TiVo, podcasts, and iTunes Store — A new patent filed by Apple is raising speculation over what may be in store for the future of podcasting. Podcasting began maturing quickly on its own a few years ago, but Apple's embracing of the grassroots movement by giving …
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple looks towards personalized on-demand podcasts
Apple looks towards personalized on-demand podcasts
Discussion: Podcasting News, last100, TechCrunch and Mashable!
Daniel Langendorf / last100: Apple patent hints at a future of podcasting mash-ups
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: Apple Patent For Customized Podcasts
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!: Apple Seeks to Patent the Podcast Remix
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Chumby Is Open, but Not for Business — I find Chumby fascinating for a lot of reasons. Meant to replace a clock radio, it is a $179 device with a Wi-Fi connection, a 3.5 inch touch screen and a squishy leather case. It displays various widgets with information pulled off the Internet …
Discussion: Gizmodo and biskero.org
Windows Live SkyDrive Team Blog:
Welcome to the bigger, better, faster SkyDrive! — We know it's been mighty quiet on the SkyDrive blog, but we've been hard at work on a new version that we're proud to announce today! — You've made two things clear since our first release: You want more space; and you want SkyDrive where you are.
Discussion: Ars Technica, Digital Inspiration, TechCrunch, CyberNet, SEO and Tech Daily, Channel 10, LiveSide, Webware.com, Bink.nu, Download Squad, eWeek, All about Microsoft, VentureBeat, jkOnTheRun, Mashable! and WinBeta
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: Microsoft Bumps Online Storage To 5GB
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily: More SkyDrive and We Love Free Stuff !
Sarah Perez / Channel 10: Skydrive Now 5 GIGS!
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide: Windows Live SkyDrive to offer 5gb free storage?
Ina Fried / Webware.com: Microsoft ups free online storage to 5GB
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Windows SkyDrive leaves beta, quintuples storage
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Microsoft SkyDrive no longer just a beta
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat: Roundup: Facebook UK traffic drop, a solar plant in AZ, flash chips, and more
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Windows Live SkyDrive, now with 5 GB of free storage for PCs, Macs
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: SkyDrive Ups Free Space 5GB
Tony Hung / Deep Jive Interests:
Google News 2.0 ... Leveling The Field For New Media "Orphans"? — Not that Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia is anything *remotely* like a New Media Orphan (in fact, one could say he is a new media 'godfather', in some respects), but interesting rejoinder *by* Mr. Sanger on Google News …
Discussion: mathewingram.com/work
Experts hammer Web 2.0 security — Even as social networking darling Facebook prepares a version of its online networking application aimed specifically at enterprise users, legions of security experts are getting behind the idea that the sites represent a serious threat to businesses and other organizations.
Discussion: Mashable!
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: Open Platforms Good for Malware? Next Up: Mass Hysteria.
Steve Wozniak on Apple, Steve Jobs and the Value of a Good Prank — Steve Wozniak, or "Woz" as he is commonly called, is best known for co-founding Apple along with high school friend Steve Jobs. But Wozniak didn't set out to establish one of the world's most influential computer companies.
Discussion: MacUser, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs and The Unofficial Apple Weblog
David Dahlquist / MacUser: Wharton Interviews Wozniak
Brett Terpstra / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Wharton interviews Woz
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
TUAW Responds: iPhone LoJack — Way back, one of our readers begged for an iPhone LoJack solution. He wanted his iPhone to "call home" regularly in case of loss or, let's be more realistic, theft. Over the past week, I finally had a chance to give this request some time, and I put together findme.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Disk encryption: Can you trust it? — Computer scientists have discovered a novel way to bypass the encryption used in programs like Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault and then view the contents of supposedly secure files. — In a paper (PDF) published Thursday that could prompt …
John Markoff / New York Times: A Method for Critical Data Theft
Nilay Patel / Engadget: Cold boot disk encryption attack is shockingly effective
Kim Zetter / Threat Level: Researchers: Disk Encryption Not Secure
Ryan Naraine / eWeek: Researchers Crack BitLocker, FileVault
Tom Simonite / New Scientist Technology Blog: Memory slip — Whenever a laptop containing lots of private data …
Neil Rubenking / Security Watch: Research Team Cracks Disk Encryption
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
'Optimus Maximus' keyboard finally shipping — We're almost reluctant to post this because it's been promised (and not delivered) for so long. But, with our luck, the Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard will come out on schedule, and we'll be lambasted for not having passed along the news.
Discussion: Electronista and Life and Incredible Adventures …
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Maritz joins EMC, to battle Microsoft in the cloud — Microsoft's cloud computing efforts have a formidable and familiar new competitor. — Paul Maritz, the former Microsoft platform boss, is becoming president of EMC's cloud computing initiative, which competes directly with Microsoft.
Discussion: Chuck's Blog, Bits, CNET News.com and All about Microsoft
Chuck Hollis / Chuck's Blog: EMC To Acquire Pi Corporation
Steve Lohr / Bits: EMC Acquisition Shows It Wants to be a Cloudmaster
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com: EMC to buy cloud computing start-up Pi
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Former Softie Maritz to head cloud computing at EMC


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When is the Best Time to Come to LA for Pilot Season?
Every weekend Agents and Managers are traveling to some city scouting for new kids and teens for pilot season. The top kids Agents will look at from 100 to 300 kids every week from now through the end of January. These are the brightest kids from around the country with parents who can afford expensive weekend jaunts to L.A. They are ready to come to Hollywood for early Pilot Season, meaning October, November and December. The green lighted projects begin casting these pilots early because they want the best actors – first! Every single top kids Agent and Manager will meet wonderful, cute kids with parents who will do what it takes to make it in Hollywood! The competition is fierce, so what can you do if you are not able to travel to Hollywood? Or, what can you do to compete with the kids and teens coming in if you are already an L.A. actor?
What can you do to help your child or teen compete?
- Encourage your child to build skills on a regular basis by staying in acting classes and private coaching. On-going training is the foundation for a successful Acting career. It essential to be on top of your game so you are ready to shine when you get those big auditions.
- Make sure your child is known to as many casting offices as possible by bringing your child to our Casting Director workshops to develop relationships with casting directors. This also includes sending postcards and booking announcements. Make sure Casting Directors know you are in the game! Developing and nurturing relationships with Casting Directors is vital for success in this industry.
- With early pilot season here and your Agent has over 1000 kids to represent; it is up to you to make sure that you don't let them forget your child. It is vital to take proactive action by keeping your child on the top of the Agents list. This does not mean that you bombard your representation with unnecessary calls and emails; but keep in touch with them. If there's a part that you feel you are right for, make sure they are sending you out for it. Don't get lost in the shuffle.
- Surround yourself with a strong team! This includes your reps, coaches, and family. Without a strong team, you are a lone ranger and not the professional team player it takes to succeed.


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A "cottage" is as small (or large) as you think it is. Perhaps you'll find this "Home Sweet Home" a cozy little nook, or maybe you'll envision the "Hampton's cottage"--a "little building" adjacent to the mansion.
My Cottage is like my home (and perhaps yours too.) It's an eclectic (VERY!) mix of all those things I'm intrigued by, comforted by and in love with, things I couldn't imagine living without--that includes my friends, neighbors and family.
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My husband and I lead a very organized, balanced lifestyle. Everything has its place in the house. Or so it did…
Four months ago, we welcomed a baby boy into this world and now, our little guy has thrown our whole life balance off-kilter (in the best way possible). We enjoy every minute we have with him and we love him so much, but I'd be lying if I said I haven't gotten extremely frustrated at times. Before baby, our lives had balance; after baby, we know no such balance.
It's driving me nuts that I have not figured out how to make everything work out as well as before. I know — I know — that what I want is nearly impossible, but gosh darnit!, a girl can dream.
My husband and I really need to work on dividing out our time better. It would give us both a chance at some alone time. Currently, my husband does almost all of the housework and yard work and because of that, our yard and house are immaculate. I am very grateful that he's able (and willing) to do it all, but that leaves me with Connor (our son) all of the time. That is fine, of course, but sometimes I just want a little me time. Is that so wrong? My husband has his outlet — he enjoys doing the yard work and it is something he can do on his own, uninterrupted.
Right now, I have no outlet. I have to adjust everything I do to fit Connor into the mix. Working out _was _my outlet and now I'm only able to do it once or twice, here and there. I want so bad to just go for a run by myself. I'll get to clear my head, listen to some tunes, and get the rush of adrenaline running gives me. I miss that feeling terribly.
One day, we'll figure it out… hopefully soon.
How do you find time for you after baby?


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Mayor of London launches £2m fund for young musicians
Talented youngsters to be given the opportunity to continue their musical studies
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has unveiled a project to enable talented young musicians from disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue music.
Four hundred school children aged 7-11 will be awarded four-year scholarships to cover tuition, mentoring, performance and the cost of an instrument. On top of this, 10,000 primary school children will be given the chance to work with professional musicians.
The Mayor of London's Fund for Young Musicians, as the initiative is called, aims to raise £2m of private sector cash by March next year. Johnsons' scheme builds on the existing 'first access' to music project which gives primary school children the chance to learn an instrument. Once children leave for secondary school, however, many cannot afford to continue.
One of the patrons of the project, double bass player Chi-chi Nwanoku said: 'At last a chance for young people with a curiosity for music to really have an opportunity to try their hand and realise a creativity previously reserved for others more financially fortunate than themselves.' Other patrons include pianist Stephen Hough, cellist Steven Isserlis and trumpeter Alison Balsom.
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Got one of those press releases that comes every year, telling the most commonly stolen cars. In 2009, the most recent data, more 1992 Honda Accords were stolen in Washington than any other vehicle. My first reaction? Why?
I mean, sure, they're reliable cars and all, but why not steal a newer one? Are the alarms a lot better now or something. These are 18-year-old cars. Even my Accord is four years newer than that, and it has 230,000 miles on it.
Strangely enough, it was stolen several years ago when it was my wife's car. She left it at an airport parking lot at Sea-Tac. When she came back, it was gone. Fortunately, somebody abandoned it not too far away, in Renton, I think. All they too were the airbags, plus they screwed up the ignition getting it started. Can somebody explain what's the deal with the airbags?
Some of her work buddies said it was the Russian mafia. I don't know if that was a joke or there really is such a thing. Sounds kind of silly. The Russian mafia stealing airbags.
Here's the top 10 list for 2009:
2. 1995 Honda Civic
3. 1990 Toyota Camry
4. 1995 Acura Integra
5. 1993 Subaru Legacy
6. 1994 Nissan Sentra
7. 1993 Dodge Caravan
8. 1998 Saturn SL
9. 1995 Ford Explorer
10. 1995 Nissan Pathfinder
So it's not just the 1992 Accord. They're targeting all early 1990s cars. I don't know if it's because they're easy to steal, there's lots of demand for the cars or their parts, or what. Can one of you in the know fill me in.
A few more facts form this Northwest Insurance Council press release. Yakima is ranked sixth in the nation for theft rates, down from third in 2008. Spokane jumped from 35th to 18th and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area fell from 26th to 37th.
In Washington, 73 vehicles are stolen each day, or three per hour.
Go lock your doors.


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The Pussy Riot punk band's harsh sentence drew swift Western condemnation. More important for Putin will be how it influences the views of Russians, especially the elite.
| Moscow
One day after three young members of Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a penal colony for profaning a Russian Orthodox altar, the controversy over what they did and how the Russian state reacted to it shows every sign of growing.
There seems little doubt that the trial and the harsh sentences handed down to the women will worsen the image of Russia in the West, and particularly the credibility of Vladimir Putin, who has just completed the first 100 days of his third term as president. Many governments, including the United States, have condemned the sentence as disproportionate, and celebrities from Paul McCartney to Madonna have weighed in with their support for the group.
But international opinion can often have a negative impact in Russia. How the trial and its outcome have affected Russian public opinion may play a much bigger role in coming months, as the anti-Putin protest movement returns to the streets after a summer hiatus and the political season begins anew.
Public opinion has remained rather staunchly anti-Pussy Riot since the women were arrested in March. The latest poll, released last week by the independent Levada Center in Moscow, shows little change.
According to the survey, 55 percent of Russians did not have their views of the judicial system altered by the trial; 9 percent said it diminished their trust in courts while 5 percent said it increased it, and 12 percent said they have no faith in the courts to begin with. About 36 percent thought the verdict would be based on the facts of the case; 18 percent thought the verdict would be dictated "from the top." Interestingly, when asked what they thought the punk band's goal was in staging the protest, about 30 percent of respondents said it was "against the church and its role in politics"; 13 percent thought it was "against Putin" and 36 percent said they could not discern the purpose.
More worrisome, from the Kremlin's point of view, is the effect the trial has had on Russia's more educated and influential social strata. Of course the usual suspects – opposition leaders, artists, liberal intellectuals – have popped up to protest the treatment of the women, who were kept almost six months in pretrial detention and now face more than a year in the harsh conditions of a Russian penal colony.
But unease over a prosecution that carries such obvious political and religious overtones appears to be spreading far beyond Russia's small liberal and opposition circles.
Former finance minister Alexei Kudrin, a longtime member of Putin's inner circle who was fired by then-President Dmitry Medvedev last year, wrote on his website that the verdict deals "yet another blow to the court system and citizens' trust in it.... The country's image and its attractiveness in the eyes of investors have suffered an enormous damage," he wrote.
Tina Kandelaki, a popular TV personality who has usually been reliably pro-Putin, penned a bitter blog arguing that Russian authorities are repeating past mistakes by using harsh criminal penalties to punish a minor and largely symbolic challenge.
"The Russian authorities have a nearly unparalleled knack for being unable to show properly what they do well, while letting examples of what they do badly be blown completely out of proportion – to the extent that not only the whole of Russia, but the entire world starts paying attention," Ms. Kandelaki wrote.
"Pussy Riot may have no talent whatsoever, but the Russian authorities possess the exceptional talent of making something from nothing. No one else could have managed to create Russia's most popular band at a time when the country is terribly short of heroes. Be assured that there are Western producers falling all over themselves to help promote the group. The 'Pussy Riot behind Bars' show is broadcast all over the world now, and the world isn't willing to miss a tiny bit of it," she added.
Putin himself, answering questions from journalists in mid-trial, suggested the women should not be punished "too harshly" – a possible acknowledgement that the Pussy Riot prosecution was generating more damage than the Kremlin had expected. And on Saturday a leading Orthodox cleric insisted that revenge on behalf of the church was not a motive behind the trial.
"The church has been sometimes accused of not forgiving them," Tikhon Shevkunov, who heads Moscow's Sretensky Monastery, and is reputedly Putin's own spiritual counselor, told journalists. "We did forgive them from the very start. But such actions should be cut short by society and authorities."
The three women, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, were picked up outside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior last Feb. 21, after entering a priests-only section of the church and performing a 40-second "punk prayer" that called on the Virgin Mary to expel Putin. Police initially just took down their names and let them go, probably because the church was largely empty at the time, no one was hurt, no property damaged, and the women had left voluntarily when asked to do so.
The women claim their song was a political protest targeting Orthodox Patriarch Kirill who, in the midst of an election campaign, publicly described Putin as "a miracle of God," thus allegedly violating Russia's strictly secular constitution (Article 14).
The lyrics of their song (English translation here) might well be seen as offensive on many levels, but do appear mainly directed at the moving political targets of Putin and Kirill.
Prosecutors, and in the end the court, saw things otherwise. They chose to view it as a conspiratorial "hate crime" motivated by anti-Christian loathing and directed at Russian Orthodox believers.
The verdict against the women reads in part: "The Pussy Riot singers colluded under unestablished circumstances, for the purpose of offensively violating public peace in a sign of flagrant disrespect for citizens.... The women were motivated by religious enmity and hatred, and acted provocatively and in an insulting manner inside a religious building in the presence of a large number of believers," it said.
According to court testimony, the church was almost empty at the time. But the Pussy Riot performance, filmed by a cameraperson, subsequently went viral on YouTube, and it was only after about two weeks – and, most experts believe, as a result of political intervention – that the women were rearrested and the stage was set for a controversy that shows every sign of enduring.


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Philadelphia to welcome a new football franchise?
Philadelphia may be getting a new football franchise.
No, the city isn't going to house two NFL teams a la New York, but rather it may be reintroducing a USFL franchise.
The original United States Football League, a direct NFL competitor, lasted only three seasons despite housing some serious talent and receiving decent fanfare.
A quarter of a century later, the league is looking to make a comeback, but billing itself as a sort of minor league to the NFL's major, rather than a competitor.
Although originally reported to be looking to set up teams in non-NFL cities, a recent tweet from NFL.com senior analyst Gil Brandt reveals that Philadelphia will be one of the new USFL's inaugural teams.
Brandt lists New Jersey, San Antonio, and Oakland as other inaugural cities in the tweet.
While details regarding the developing league are few and far between, a press release from the official USFL site states that the league is looking to kick off its inaugural season in the spring of 2014.
"We're going to play in the spring when fans are dying for football," explained the new USFL's original CEO, Jaime Cuadra.
"Rather than compete for players, we're going to take players who didn't quite make it to the NFL and develop them and give them unfettered access to the NFL," Cuadra continued, detailing why the new league will fare better than the original.
"The NFL can come to practices; if they want one of our players, we aren't going to stop them."
Cuadra feels that the league can thrive as a proving ground for NFL prospects, rather than a separate top tier professional league.
Philadelphia's original USFL team, the Stars, were one of the short-lived league's most successful squads, and their return would be sure to excite some.
Although the return of the Stars is not set in stone, as very little about the league seems to be at this point, come next spring Philadelphia may be home to a new football franchise.


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A Doctor's 'People Skills' Affects Patients' Health
Comfortable relationship can be as beneficial as statins for heart problems, study findsThursday, April 10, 2014
THURSDAY, April 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- A doctor's "bedside manner" seems to have a real effect on patients' health, a new research review suggests.
The review, of 13 clinical trials, found that when doctors were given training to hone their people skills, patients typically fared better in their efforts to lose weight, lower their blood pressure or manage pain.
Experts said the findings, reported online April 9 in the journal PLOS One, show that the doctor-patient relationship can have an impact on people's health.
The effects in these studies were small, but still "impressive," said Alan Christensen, a professor of psychology at the University of Iowa.
Christensen, who was not involved in the research, studies the issue of health care provider-patient relationships. He pointed out that many of the training programs in the studies included in the new review focused on fairly "general" skills -- such as maintaining eye contact with patients, and listening without interrupting.
So it's encouraging to see that these training programs translate into specific health benefits at all, according to Christensen.
"It's important to be able to demonstrate that clinicians can learn to change how they interact with patients, and that it affects health outcomes," he said.
Dr. Helen Riess, the senior researcher on the new study, agreed. "I think that intuitively, people think that if you have an open, caring relationship with your provider, that's beneficial."
But to really know if there are objective health effects, clinical trials are key, said Riess, who directs the empathy and relational science program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
For its review, she said her team chose only rigorous clinical trials that measured "hard outcomes," such as blood pressure changes -- as opposed to subjective experiences like patient satisfaction.
The researchers ended up with 13 clinical trials from around the world. In each, health providers -- most often doctors -- were randomly assigned to either stick with their usual care or have some kind of training on patient interaction. Some focused on building "warmth" and empathy, Riess said, while others taught providers specific techniques, like "motivational interviewing."
In most of the trials, though not all, patients seemed to benefit. Obese and diabetic patients tended to lose more weight, arthritis patients reported less pain, and people with high blood pressure did a better job of lowering their numbers.
Those effects were "modest" overall, Riess and colleagues found. But the magnitude of the benefit was similar to what's been seen in studies testing low-dose aspirin or cholesterol-lowering statins for preventing heart attack, according to the new research.
"That's important because aspirin and statins are widely prescribed, and everyone agrees they should be used to reduce the risk of heart attack," Riess said.
It's not clear, she added, exactly why the trials in this review found benefits: Is it the improved empathy, or the motivational interview technique, for example?
And of course, individuals differ in what they consider a "good" relationship with their doctor, Christensen noted.
"People clearly differ in how much information they want," he said. "Some people want greater self-management, and see it as having more control. Some people see it as a burden. Some people like being asked about their personal life, beyond their health condition. Some don't."
But the bottom line, Christensen and Riess both said, is that the provider-patient relationship matters.
"Patients need to understand that it's OK to look for a doctor who meets your preferences and expectations," Christensen said.
Or, since finding a new doctor can be tough, Riess suggested talking to your current doctor.
"If you're unhappy, there are polite ways to speak up," she said. "Patients should feel empowered to say, 'I didn't understand that language you used. Can you explain it in laymen's terms?' You can tell (your doctor) if you feel rushed or anxious."
And don't worry about offending your doctor, Christensen advised. He said most doctors do care, and say they try to "tailor" how they communicate to individual patients.
But if patients don't speak up, Riess noted, a doctor might not realize there's a problem.
SOURCES: Alan Christensen, Ph.D., professor, psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City; Helen Riess, M.D., director, empathy and relational science program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; April 9, 2014 PLOS One, online
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Putting some law enforcement muscle behind this month's words of warning from federal prosecutors that a new crackdown on medical marijuana distribution was getting underway, DEA agents late last week raided a model regulated medical marijuana grow in Northern California, a medical marijuana dispensary in Southern California, and a medical marijuana grow in Colorado.
But the operation raided Thursday, Northstone Organics in Mendocino County, has been touted as a model medical marijuana grow. It holds a Mendocino County sheriff's permit to grow the 99 pot plants seized and destroyed by the feds, pays an estimated $8,500 annually in fees to remain compliant, and has even had sheriff's deputies testify favorably about it in a state court case where Northstone drivers delivering medicine to patients were arrested in Sonoma County.
Northstone Organics founder and owner Matt Cohen told the Ukiah Daily News Friday that heavily-armed agents raided his home and property early Thursday morning, destroying plants and hauling off evidence, but not charging him with a crime.
"They destroyed our home and eradicated everything," Cohen said. "They came in, guns blazing. They calmed down and were pleasant at the end, but they came in with machine guns."
Cohen said the smash and grab raiders included six DEA agents, a state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent, and a Mendocino County sheriff's deputy, "who didn't know what he was walking into here."
Northstone is a strict cooperative, growing the plants it distributes to members in the area, as well as in San Francisco and Los Angeles. It is fully compliant with California's medical marijuana laws.
"If we're not legal, nobody's legal," Cohen said. "We actually are a legitimate not-for-profit corporation. We worked with the county to get where we are, and there are illegal growers all around us. We fell under what the US Justice Department said was the threshold for prosecution."
The message the feds are sending? "Go back underground, I guess; make our community a less safe place to be," Cohen said.
The Northstone Organics raid was "shameful and despicable," said Dale Gieringer of Cal NORML, which reported the raid as it was still going on Thursday morning. "The DEA is doing nothing but encouraging lawlessness and disobedience to the law, said Gieringer."This is a victory for the Mexican cartels."
A day earlier and several hundred miles to the south, DEA agents and Pomona police raided the Green Cross USA dispensary, seizing marijuana, marijuana edibles, and records. But unlike the Northstone Organics raid, the raid on Green Cross appears to have been instigated by local authorities, who called in the feds to help.
Pomona Police Capt. Paul Capraro told the Daily Bulletin that the dispensary owner and landlord had received threat letters from the US Attorney's office. The letters said "if they didn't close down they would be subject to criminal prosecution, civil prosecution, and property seizure," he said.
Pomona banned dispensaries with a March 2008 ordinance, and had cited the dispensary in March for operating without a business permit. The owner, Jeffrey Maul, was convicted of operating without a business license, but is appealing that conviction.
The joint city-DEA action sends a message to other dispensaries in Pomona, Capraro said. "Our message is simple, that dispensaries are not lawful businesses in Pomona."
But it's not just a local case, said DEA spokeswoman Sarah Pullen. "We seized contraband, but also gathered evidence for the ongoing investigation," she said, adding that arrests could be forthcoming and that the city and the DEA had worked together for months on the case.
Meanwhile, in Colorado, what originated as a local law enforcement raid against a medical marijuana grower who contracted to grow as part of a larger grow at Cherry Top Farms in Denver morphed during the day into a joint local-state-federal raid replete with carloads of DEA agents and US Attorney representatives.
"We are 100% compliant" with state medical marijuana laws, a Cherry Top Farms manager told Westword after the raid. "But when the feds walk in, they can do whatever the hell they want." Local police had issues with the contract grower who was the original target of the raid, the manager said. "They came to take care of him, but when they got here, they were unable to turn a blind eye, and they did a lot of damage," he complained.
When the first officers showed up late Thursday morning, "it was the Denver Police Department, and then it was the state Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division. Then there were the feds. When they got here, they decided they needed a search warrant for us, too," the manager explained. "They lined us all up and questioned us and took our phones and [state mandated ID] badges. Then they gave some of the option to leave, after they handed over their IDs. But a few of chose to stay, and we were forced to wait in a two-parking space area, probably 10 feet by 10 feet, from 11:00am to 11:00pm. They did let us go to the bathroom, but you definitely had to ask permission to take a piss."
The raiders cleaned out Cherry Top, the manager said. "They took all of our live plants, all of our medicine, all of our extracts, and all of our baked goods," plus at least one more thing. "We have these cute t-shirts, little tank-top titty shirts, and one of the female officers put one on and was dancing around. I said to one of the agents at the door, 'I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but that doesn't seem to be very professional.' And he said, 'It's been a long day. We're just trying to have some fun.'"
The t-shirt has vanished, the manager said. "It's not here. She took it."
After last week's threats from prosecutors in Sacramento, it now appears that the feds are backing up those threats with actions. The medical marijuana wars are heating up again.


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The Douglas DC-3, which made air travel popular and airline profits possible, is universally recognized as the greatest airplane of its time. Some would argue that it is the greatest of all time.
Design work began in 1934 at the insistence of C.R. Smith, president of American Airlines. Smith wanted two new planes — a longer DC-2 that would carry more day passengers and another with railroad-type sleeping berths, to carry overnight passengers.
The first DC-3 built was the Douglas Sleeper Transport — also known as Skysleepers by airline customers — and it was the height of luxury. Fourteen plush seats in four main compartments could be folded in pairs to form seven berths, while seven more folded down from the cabin ceiling. The plane could accommodate 14 overnight passengers or 28 for shorter daytime flights. The first was delivered to American Airlines in June 1936, followed two months later by the first standard 21-passenger DC-3.
In November 1936, United Airlines, which had been a subsidiary of Boeing until 1934, became the second DC-3 customer. The DC-2 had proved more economical than the Model 247, and United assumed the DC-3 would continue that lead. Initial orders from American and United were soon followed by orders from more than 30 other airlines in the next two years.
The DC-3 was not only comfortable and reliable, but it also made air transportation profitable. American's C.R. Smith said the DC-3 was the first airplane that could make money just by hauling passengers, without relying on government subsidies. As a result, by 1939, more than 90 percent of the nation's airline passengers were flying on DC-2s and DC-3s.
In addition to the 455 DC-3 commercial means of transport built for the airlines, 10,174 were produced as C-47 military transports during World War II. For both airline and military use, the DC-3 proved to be tough, flexible, and easy to operate and maintain. Its exploits during the war became the stuff of legend. Today, more than six decades after the last one was delivered, hundreds of DC-3s are still flying and still earning their keep by carrying passengers or cargo.
|First flight
|Dec. 17, 1935
|Model number
|95 feet
|64 feet 5.5 inches
|16 feet 3.6 inches
|20,800 feet
|1,495 miles
|30,000 pounds
|Power plant
|Two 1,200-horsepower Wright Cyclone radial engines
|192 mph
|3 crew and 14 sleeper passengers, or 21 to 28 day passengers, or 3,725 to 4,500 pounds freight
Source: https://www.boeing.com/history/products/dc-3.page


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Great happy list. I love freebies too! That candle looks awesome and what a deal!! I would say Shelley is one lucky girl too! Have a great day.ReplyDelete
Hi Ricki, so glad you had a good Thanksgiving and got to spend time with your girls. I love to get things put away too! Drives me crazy until I get it done. We spent Thanksgiving in the mountains again, and loved it! Hope your off to a good week!ReplyDelete
thats a great happy list, time spent with your girls would be top of the list anyday I imagine, its hard once they get older and they have school or jobs, my daughter loves Sephora but we don't have one here, she only dreams of it.The name of the candle is very sweet.I love the dining room in your home, its so crisp and clean lines, beautifully accented by the wood floor,ReplyDelete
Happy List? What's that? I just went to Sephora and purchased a gift for my niece, and no one gave me any freebies! I hate to be a scrooge, but it seems the older I get the more conflicts we have around here at Christmas. I keep saying, I love Easter...less stress all around.ReplyDelete
You keep posting your happy list....It makes me happy for you!
Happy List and Thankful List seem to go together, don't they? :) Lovely list.ReplyDelete
I love Sephora! I could max out my card in that place!ReplyDelete
Such a great list, and congrats on the freebies and the huge deal on the awesome calendar-that's always great!ReplyDelete
I miss painting, I really need to get back to it.
Ciao Ricki,bella la tua decorazione floreale!Baci,RosettaReplyDelete
Nice freebies. Glad you got to spend time with your girls.ReplyDelete
I [HEART] Sephora. I wish we had a store closer to home. Great Happy List.ReplyDelete
Have a fabulous week.
That is a great list!!!! Freebies and huge discounts--yipee!ReplyDelete
Oh wow, what fabulous freebies! Don't you just L♥Ve Sephora!?ReplyDelete
Great 'happy' list! I love the candle in that jar. I also love your freebies!ReplyDelete
Have a great day!
What makes me happy is discovering new blogs, especially when they are as upbeat as yours!ReplyDelete
Love those freebies and the great candle! So glad you had a nice week with the girls!ReplyDelete
Great happy list! Dior freebies....wow!ReplyDelete
Hi RJ! Oh, you're are just the happiest one and that's the way to be! Love your post and glad you were able to spend time with your daughters.ReplyDelete
Thanks for popping in and I always try to be happy! :)
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
I'm like you, I get sooo happy to get things done like all of my Christmas cards written and mailed...Yahoo!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a great week all around! Congrats on the bargains, too. :DReplyDelete
I like that bracelet-- super cute! I went to Sephora on Friday and all I got was a wishlist of stuff I want!ReplyDelete


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In a 1980 interview for the German magazine Stimme des Glaubens published in October 1981, John Paul II was asked explicitly to speak about the third secret. He said: "Because of the seriousness of its contents, in order not to encourage the world wide power of Communism to carry out certain coups, my predecessors in the chair of Peter have diplomatically preferred to withhold its publication. On the other hand, it should be sufficient for all Christians to know this much: if there is a message in which it is said that the oceans will flood entire sections of the earth; that, from one moment to the other, millions of people will perish... there is no longer any point in really wanting to publish this secret message. Many want to know merely out of curiosity, or because of their taste for sensationalism, but they forget that 'to know' implies for them a responsibility. It is dangerous to want to satisfy one's curiosity only, if one is convinced that we can do nothing against a catastrophe that has been predicted." He held up his rosary and stated "Here is the remedy against this evil. Pray, pray and ask for nothing else. Put everything in the hands of the Mother of God." Asked what would happen in the Church, he said: "We must be prepared to undergo great trials in the not-too-distant future; trials that will require us to be ready to give up even our lives, and a total gift of self to Christ and for Christ. Through your prayers and mine, it is possible to alleviate this tribulation, but it is no longer possible to avert it, because it is only in this way that the Church can be effectively renewed. How many times, indeed, has the renewal of the Church been effected in blood? This time, again, it will not be otherwise. We must be strong, we must prepare ourselves, we must entrust ourselves to Christ and to His holy Mother, and we must be attentive, very attentive, to the prayer of the Rosary.
Lúcia herself is reported to have explicitly stated that the Third Secret contains Apocalyptic content. According to one source, when Lúcia was asked about the Third Secret, she said it was "in the Gospels and in the Apocalypse", and at one point she had even specified Apocalypse chapters 8 to 13, a range that includes Apocalypse 12:4, the chapter and verse cited by Pope John Paul II in his homily in Fatima on 13 May 2000.
A news article quoted former Philippine ambassador to the Vatican, Howard Dee, as saying that Cardinal Ratzinger had personally confirmed to him that the messages of Akita and Fatima are "essentially the same."
A TERRIBLE WARNING - THE MESSAGE OF OUR LADY OF AKITA, JAPAN: The third message on October 13, 1973, the actual anniversary of the final visions and miracle of Fatima is as follows: "As I told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful. The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and the Sign left by my Son. Each day, recite the prayers of the Rosary. With the Rosary, pray for the Pope, the bishops and the priests. The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, and bishops against other bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their Confreres. The Church and altars will be vandalized. The Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.
From Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Vatican
Text of The Third Secret of Fatima:
VATICAN CITY, JUN 26, 2000 (VIS) - Given below is the complete translation of the original Portuguese text of the third part of the secret of Fatima, revealed to the three shepherd children at Cova da Iria-Fatima on July 13, 1917, and committed to paper by Sr. Lucia on January 3, 1944:
"I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.
"After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: 'Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: 'something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White 'we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God."
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God will punish the world when men have devised marvelous inventions that will lead them to forget God. They will have horseless carriages; they will fly like birds.
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In March 2012 during a discussion about U.S.-NATO missile defense, President Obama informed his Russian counterpart, President Medvedev that he needed some "space" and would have more "flexibility" after his election. Medvedev, understanding the obvious implication gleefully responded, "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir." The conversation, meant for Medvedev's ears only, was picked up on open microphones and administration spinmeisters immediately went into high gear sputtering nonsense explanations that were accepted without reservation by an adoring and pliant media.
But those of us who know the nuts and bolts of Obama and his past affiliations with less than savory characters were indeed worried over his gaffe. Former Bush Press Secretary and media consultant Ari Fleischer asked Obama's then deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter whether Obama would be asking the Arabs for "space" presumably to deal with Israel, post-election. Cutter ducked the question.
Cutter's evasion prompted a call from Matt Brooks, the executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, for Obama to come clean on the issue. Brooks openly speculated whether Obama had communicated similar transmissions to the Arabs and whether secret deals had been made to pressure Israel for concessions after the elections.
The answer to concerns raised by Fleischer, Brooks and others becomes clear when evaluating the records of the two people slated to fill the positions of Secretaries of State and Defense, soon to be vacated by Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta respectively. Recent reports have indicated that Obama plans to nominate John Kerry for Secretary of State and Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense. An examination of their respective records is extremely worrisome and should be a cause for concern for those supportive of a strong U.S.-Israel alliance.
Susan Rice, the diplomat most associated with the Benghazi cover-up as well as the administration's half-hearted attempt to thwart "Palestine's" admission to the U.N., was Obama's first choice for Clinton's office. Kerry is all but certain to be his next choice but Kerry's record on Israel is spotty at best.
According to a Wiki-Leaks document, Kerry while on a February 2010 Mid-East trip told Qatari officials that he believed that Israel should be forced to cede the strategic Golan Heights to Syria and East Jerusalem, with its rich Jewish history, to the so-called Palestinians. In addition, he spoke favorably of President Bashar al-Assad and referred to Syria's serial killer as a "man who wants change." He also noted that he was "shocked by what he saw in Gaza" but made no mention of the fascist autocratic rule imposed by Hamas in that entity.
Apparently, Kerry was either ignorant of the incessant shelling that Israelis had to endure before the Syrian occupied Heights were captured by Israel in 1967 or he simply didn't care. Similarly, Kerry was either unaware of the 4,000 year-old Jewish connection to Jerusalem or he simply chose to ignore it. Either way, Kerry at best, demonstrates a weak understanding of Israel's security needs and the mindset of the region's oppressive Arab dictatorships.
But while Kerry demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of the issues, Chuck Hagel's positions vis-à-vis Israel are even more troubling and a lot more sinister. The former Nebraska Senator is arguably the most anti-Israel Senator ever to serve in the U.S. Senate.
In October 2000, while Israel was under unrelenting attack, Hagel was one of only 4 Senators who refused to sign a Senate letter in support of Israel. In November 2001, Hagel was one of only 11 Senators who refused to sign a letter urging President Bush not to meet with terror chieftain Arafat until his gangsters ended their terror activity against Israel. In June 2004, Hagel refused to sign a letter urging President Bush to highlight Iran's nuclear program at the G-8 summit. In December 2005, Hagel refused to sign a letter to President Bush to pressure the Palestinian Authority to ban terrorist groups from participating in Palestinian legislative elections. In August 2006, Hagel was one of only twelve U.S. Senators who failed to sign a bipartisan letter calling on the European Union to add Hezbollah to its list of terrorist organizations. During the 2006 Second Lebanon war, Hagel called on both Israel and Hezbollah to unilaterally cease fire despite the fact that Israel was forced to respond to unprovoked Hezbollah border transgressions.
Perhaps most disconcerting about Hagel is his 2006 pejorative reference to the so-called "Jewish lobby," conjuring up the old anti-Semitic canard – very popular in the Arab world and among Nazi conspiracists – of rich, powerful Jews pulling the strings. Hagel's reference to the "Jewish lobby" is also demonstrative of his myopic outlook that precludes the possibility that many who are not Jewish are supportive of Israel for a plethora of reasons including but not limited to, shared values and strategic interests.
The anti-Israel contingent, including Steven Walt, co-author of a thoroughly discredited work of fiction, have emerged from the woodwork to advocate in favor of Hagel's nomination, which is yet another reason to be wary.
With these nominations and particularly the Hagel nomination, Obama shows his true colors. Fleischer and Brooks were right to sound the alarm back in March. Unfortunately, many were dismissive and chose instead to believe in empty slogans and catchy sound bites. Those who were supportive of Israel but believed Obama's promises are now paying the steep price for being a gullible electorate.
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