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So. Am I alone on believing that this mount should get a big buff when it comes to the drop rate?
I mean, seriously. I've just completed the event on my last 90 for this year. I ran it 6 times a day since the release this year and.. ye, nothing.
0.03% is just taking the piss.

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- Sen. Toomey says keep the full $1.2 trillion in cuts, but ease the military's burden
- Democratic Sen. Schumer calls that a bad idea
- President Obama has threatened to veto attempts to reduce the required spending cuts
- The cuts are mandated under law by the failure of Congress to reach a deficit agreement
Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania called Sunday for reconfiguring the automatic spending cuts required by Congress due to last week's failure by the special joint deficit reduction committee to reach a deal.
Toomey, a member of the so-called "super committee," told the ABC program "This Week" that he wanted to change the formula for making $1.2 trillion in budget cuts mandated under legislation passed in August.
The law, which Toomey opposed, said the cuts must be evenly divided between the military and domestic spending. Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps, veterans' benefits and other politically sensitive programs are spared the budget ax.
Toomey expressed the view of conservatives that the required cuts were weighted too heavily toward the military. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, a Democrat, also has warned that the automatic cuts will undermine military capability.
The forced spending cuts, under a process called sequestration, were intended to bring painful consequences for both parties if they failed come up with significant deficit reduction steps.
President Barack Obama has threatened to veto any attempt by Congress to soften the impact of the automatic cuts, which don't take effect until 2013.
While legislators have more than a year to work out an agreement to avoid the automatic cuts, the chances are considered remote for such comprehensive deal-making in a presidential election year.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, told NBC's "Meet the Press" that removing the possibility of the automatic cuts would make a deficit reduction agreement "impossible."
The whole purpose of the sequestration trigger was to have "very sharp knives hanging over the heads of both parties," Schumer said. Taking away one of the knives, such as the deep military cuts, would allow Republicans to happily accept the other automatic reductions disliked by Democrats, he noted.
The automatic cuts were a trigger mechanism intended to motivate the 12-member special deficit panel, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans from the House and Senate, to reach a deal by their November 23 deadline.
The committee announced on November 21 that it was unable to work out an agreement.


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Tunnel Connecting South Ossetia With Russia Reopens
A strategic 3.7-kilometer tunnel connecting Russia with Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia has reopened after reconstruction.
South Ossetia's de facto President Leonid Tibilov said on November 5 that the reconstruction of the Roksky Tunnel "will strengthen South Ossetia's relations with its strategic partner, Russia."
He called the tunnel, built in 1984, "a road of life."
Russian Transport Ministry has said the reconstruction, which started in 2010, had cost Moscow more than $400 million.
The tunnel is the only route linking South Ossetia with Russia's North Ossetia, as all other segments of the Georgian-Russian border have been closed since a five-day war between Georgia and Russia in August 2008.
Russia has recognized South Ossetia and Georgia's other breakaway region, Abkhazia, as independent states and kept military forces in both regions.
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Not many mice can boast a series of books, graphic novels, and audiobooks, and a website and newspaper, unless of course, it's Geronimo Stilton. And now the prolific journalist/editor/adventurer has added an app to his oeuvre, brought to us via Scholastic. Last year the publisher released The Adventures of Captain Underpants in digital. And while neither of these characters wants for readers, the apps may actually expand their fan bases.
Fans of the Geronimo Stilton (Scholastic, $1.99; Gr 2-4), won't find any read-along stories as they follow this mouse journalist into the digital world, but they can become reporters, travel underwater, and test their knowledge of capital cities around the world.
To begin, viewers design their own mouse avatar choosing physical features and a hair color and style. (Only one avatar can be created at a time, and the app does not store them). Writing options include compiling an edition of that well-known vehicle for Geronimo's reporting, the Rodent's Gazette, or composing a scene complete with customizable text and images. Would-be journalists choose fonts and insert headlines, and have enough space for four paragraph-length, illustrated articles. In designing an image, children have a variety of landscapes, characters, and objects to select from. Word bubbles of different sizes and shapes are available to add dialogue. These scenes can then be popped into the news articles.
Two games are available: matching countries with their capitals and an underwater speed racing adventure. In the first, players create a passport inserting name, date of birth, a fingerprint, etc. When they successfully pair a country with its capital city, that nation's stamp appears in the passport. These are saved, though users can reset the game if they decide to begin anew before gathering all 194 stamps. The "Metamouse Adventures" game offers six levels, which involve traveling hundreds of miles while avoiding obstacles and collecting pieces of cheese. Correctly answering questions about the book character adds to a player's time, but won't hold a child back if s/he doesn't know the answer. To progress from one level to the next takes a while and will keep determined young gamers busy. Accumulations of cheese can be traded in for "fabumouse bonuses."
A mouse cam is also included. After shooting a photo, users select a frame, and if they want, add overlays and characters onto the image, which can then be saved on the device. The variety of add-ons will ensure some interesting results. Geronimo Stilton does a great job combining educational and recreational games, and is sure to delight fans.—Andrea Hetzke, Franklin Elementary School, Park Ridge, IL
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In a new video, researcher and explorer Michael Tellinger revisits the alleged giant footprint in South Africa. This time he brings along artifacts researcher and archaeologist, Klaus Dona. After examining the stone impression Dona advised Tellinger to consult a good geologist and possibly a professional doctor in order to further evaluate the foot-like shape in the granite.
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Michael Tellinger and Klaus Dona visit the giant footprint in South Africa on the 17th Jan 2012. They talk about the mystery of this footprint in rough granite and debunk those who believe that it is a fake carved footprint by pranksters. This amazing human-like footprint remains one of the least known of the many great mysteries on Earth. The being that left this footprint would have been about 7.5 metres tall – this supports the findings of giant skeletons of about 7.5m that Klaus Dona made in Ecuador.


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We think something is wrong with us or we didn't listen enough to someone else so we try to fix what went wrong. ~ Anita Myers
When you're happy the beat of the music makes move to the beat; but when you're sad you're mind is prone to listen to the lyrics like you're waiting for confirmation or reasons to your situation. Your hearing becomes more instinctive when you're sadden. ~ Carol Brown
Happiness is a perfume that you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. ~ Aura Romano
Music has been my companion on many a lonely night and the lyrics were embedded in my memory. ~ Dianne Konigsmark
Music is the heart and soul of what you are like and lets others know just who you really are. ~ Mike Wright
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Lucas Canzona, standing not far from the stage with a friend, can't believe his luck. Freshly 19, the political science major from McMaster University is used to feeling shut out of club shows. But acting on impulse, he's bolted off campus as soon as he caught word of the concert on Twitter. He hopped a bus on Main Street and arrived at Dr. Disc just in time to claim the record store's last pair of tickets.
"I remember the frenzy and the craziness of people contacting the club," recalls This Ain't Hollywood co-owner Lou Molinaro. "All sorts of industry types, but really anyone with even a yardstick of credentials wanted to see that show." A year and a half later, Molinaro still looks at video footage of the night.
Arkells fans are a little wild. They dance. They sing along. They scream. In Hamilton, it's all at double volume. Inside This Ain't Hollywood, soon everyone will be sweating and cheering, singing and crowd-surfing. When Max Kerman, himself a McMaster political science graduate, waves his old student ID in the air, Lucas Canzona will pull out his card and soon find himself singing "Whistleblower" into the microphone alongside the lead singer. Hamilton fans don't just love Arkells. They are Arkells.
Hamilton fans don't just love Arkells. They are Arkells.
Hamilton fans don't just love Arkells. They are Arkells.
If Hamilton reveres the Arkells, the feeling is mutual. For nine years the city has helped define their sound, their lyrics, and approach to performing. So deep are the ties between Arkells and Steel City that it's become difficult to say for sure if one has elevated the status of the other. Both have benefited from the association.
Their Hamilton credentials are beyond question, but as their third LP, High Noon, comes out this week, it's worth asking: outside of Hamilton, can the band find a wider audience that's just as adoring?
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But Arkells' trajectory is more of a zig-zag. Three of the five members of the band's current lineup – Max Kerman, Mike DeAngelis, Nick Dika, Tim Oxford, and Anthony Carone – played their first show as part of a battle of the bands competition during the spring of their first year at McMaster in 2006. (Kerman told the CBC last winter that in order to transport their gear to the campus pub, the guys loaded it all into a shopping cart from a nearby store.)
Success didn't come until later, when the band played a late-night gig at Toronto's NXNE festival and a perceptive audience member got their demo into the right hands. After releasing their debut album Jackson Square (2008) and logging many miles on the road, Arkells went on to win two Juno Awards – one for New Group of the Year in 2010 and another for Group of the Year in 2012. Their second album, Michigan Left (2011), was even more successful than their first, earning them a spot in the Canadian top ten and selling 4,800 copies its first week.
Kerman still says, though, that the city of Hamilton was instrumental to their rise. When Tokyo Police Club came to town and needed a local opener, they were the band to do it. This happened again and again. "If we were in a place like Toronto, up against a thousand other bands, we probably wouldn't have been able to have those experiences," he admits.
References to people and places in Hamilton abound in their lyrics. Jackson Square, of course, is a shopping mall in the downtown core and serves as the setting for the song "Abigail." Songs from Michigan Left, "Where U Goin" and "Bloodlines," refer to McMaster's Brandon Hall and the nearby Niagara Escarpment.
Lines from one of Arkells' signature songs, "John Lennon," refer to the efforts of an angry community group: "The neighbourhood's up in arms," Kerman sings. "They're trying to shut down all the bars. When everyone's a private eye, they're hiding in the bushes every night." The words, Kerman once explained to an audience of McMaster students, refer to the Westdale Against Drunk Students Association (or: "WADS"). "I don't want to rag on anybody," he says, "but they were so frustrated with you drunken assholes coming home from Quarters and throwing up on their lawns that they hid in the bushes with cameras and they documented all the debauchery that was going on."
"I think the music would have spoken for itself, but it seems as though the sense of real community in Hamilton helped them gain support – from audience and peers," CFMU's James Tennant says. Even today the band continues to get significant airplay on campus radio and they give back by contributing a song to the station's annual compilation almost every year. In a way, serving the city has helped them stand out from the armies of bands marching in more internationally recognized "music cities" like Montreal. It's given them edge. The city is, as Molinaro calls it, a "weapon that seems to work well for them."
"They always seem to be really engaged with the city," adds Heather Mueller, a concert planner who helped bring about last year's Family Day show and a night of special performances this year with Boris Brott and The National Academy Orchestra. A musician herself, Mueller says that members of Hamilton's music community are inherently supportive. Musicians go out to see each other perform all the time. "We have all these small venues and medium sized venues, and a lot of the time, you'll see familiar faces. It's kind of comforting."
The band is aware of that dichotomy. In the summer of 2013, when it came time to write and rehearse the songs for High Noon, they lugged their gear to the second floor of an empty nightclub. Inspired by the city's reputation as a "work in progress,"they posted a blog entry that articulated how their relationship to Hamilton informed their creative process. Calling the city "the ideal scene for witnessing Western life," they wrote, "living here, we aren't sheltered from heartache, but have good reason for hope."
That something meant experimenting with new sounds – working with a strings section, for example, and incorporating different synthesizers that they hadn't used before. They also worked with Tony Hoffer, an L.A.-based producer known for working with Beck and M83. In spite of all this, High Noon doesn't stray too far from home – at least from a lyrical standpoint. The song "11:11," for instance, is set at The Casbah, the venue which Lou Molinaro had booked the band to play almost a decade ago.
Many Canadian musicians have made a name for themselves by singing about the places they come from: The Tragically Hip about Kingston, Joel Plaskett about Halifax, Dan Mangan about Vancouver. All are successful, and all have toured the country east to west extensively, catering to the fans who love them most. But there's more money in the American and international markets. The Canadian market is small and has room for fewer stars.
Dick Weissman, an American musician and music business expert in Denver says a band's hometown doesn't actually play a large role in determining commercial success. It's just one small part of what publicists and promoters use to set a group apart. "Very few of the bands that make it are even from New York, or L.A., or Nashville," he says.
Could Arkells explode outside of Canada, a la Arcade Fire, even though so much of their music celebrates the small city they come from? Weissman is skeptical, as electronic and hip-hop music seem to be dominating the American market right now. "I also don't know what Americans would make of something like 'The Ballad of Hugo Chavez!'" he jokes. "It's a very Canadian thing to not accept the American party line." At a recent show in New York, the band played to a thin audience full of Canadian expats.
Though they are certainly aware of how difficult it is to make a living playing music in Canada, Arkells' international audience isn't something Kerman and his bandmates agonize over. "Just because we achieved some success in Canada, we never think it's our given right to have thousands of people showing up to a show in, say, Dallas, Texas," Kerman says.
And so Arkells still call Hamilton home. When they're not touring, they're content to just put their heads to the ground and work away at their music. Like the city itself, they try to grow as musicians while still retaining a little bit of the rawness that endeared them to fans in the first place.
Living here, we aren't sheltered from heartache, but have good reason for hope.
"I grew up in Toronto and I love Toronto but there's something about Hamilton that makes it an amazing 'work in progress,'" Kerman says. "It reflects more of the dynamics of North America in a way that you don't necessarily get if you're living in Brooklyn or living in the countryside. It kind of has a little bit of everything."
Arkells make music that bears trace of the place it was made, and in return, Hamilton has embraced them as ambassadors of the city. As big as their music may get, they're still that band pulling into town to play a club called This Ain't Hollywood.
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James Graham writes: > James Graham wrote: > > > Even without this specific example I think using random > > microsyntaxes in existing attributes is a bad idea for the reasons > > Philip mentioned. > > As an alternative proposal with similar semantics I suggest that > instead of hacking a microsyntax into alt we add a boolean attribute > to image called no-text-equivalent (I don't care about the dashes if > they are considered too unlike other attribute names). Such an attribute is what Ian first suggested many months ago, where it, (most unusually for this list) suffered from Warnock's Dilemma[*1], even after he drew attention to it several times. So it's somewhat ironic that after Ian has abandoned that proposal, discussion of his subsequent proposal results in support for the original one. (Or maybe that was Ian's cunning plan all along?) > There are several possible disadvantages / problems: > > The name of the attribute is very long. I don't think this is an issue as > it is mainly intended for systems where the actual markup is being > autogenerated. Optimizing for the few cases where it is needed in hand > authored pages seems like the wrong priority. > > "The name of the attribute sucks". Well it's based on the spec text for > when it is appropriate to use a category rather than a text-equivalent. I > think the technical merits of the feature outweigh any aesthetic concerns > but I'm not hung up on the name if there is a better one. I certainly > don't see that this is a good reason to reject the feature. I think nobody being able to come up with a good name which conveys what this attribute means is the major cause of its downfall. The IRC logs show there were many suggestions, none of them much liked (by pretty much anybody). > "People might just copy and paste the attribute into their content > without understanding what it does". Well yes that's true. On the > other hand the same people are just as likely to copy and paste the > brackets thinking that they are a required feature of @alt in HTML5 or > something. True. But I think the braces are more likely to be copied with the same alt text (where they still apply), or where somebody uses the existing alt text as a 'template' and replaces it with something similar (that is, a category rather than a useful alternative). Whereas an attribute whose meaning isn't apparent (which it won't be, unless somebody thinks of an intuitive name for it) is likely to be seen as 'scary thing which is apparently needed for the image to work, so I won't touch it'. > At least a named attribute means that they have a fighting chance of > understanding what's going on without reading the spec Only if the name is any good. > I have seem little evidence that people (at least those who would do > the random copying and pasting thing) actually think about how their > alt text looks in the context of the surrounding text, so that doesn't > seem like a big incentive. I can remember a decade ago using alt="[photo]" on something; the brackets seemed to make sense to indicate that 'photo' was a placeholder for something that wasn't there; they prevent it from looking like it's supposed to be a sentence, or part of a sentence or anything. So I think having some kind of brackets (and Ian's explanation of why braces cause the least confusion) in the visible alt text in this situation is an advantage of this proposal. Obviously an HTML 5 browser could, on encountering the no-text-equivalent attribute, use brackets or something else to demark the alt text. But existing browsers don't do that; whereas putting the braces in the alt text yields an acceptable result in current browsers. > I guess the behaviour of IE<=7 with regard to tooltips is a bigger > incentive not to use unnecessary brackets, Putting title="" quells the tooltips, and seemingly doesn't cause any other damage. Cheers. Smylers [*1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_DilemmaReceived on Sunday, 10 August 2008 12:23:24 UTC
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So yeah Pico Day was like a month ago and that was awesome. Camping at our little Camp Dick should happen again this year too. Perhaps an annual event with pals? Yus.
Sad to say I don't really contribute or even visit Newgrounds much anymore but I'm sure I have valid reasons. Full time work mostly and moving recently were big contributers. Either way, I've been moving forward with real life projects big and small this and last year and with them out of the way I can get back to hobbies such as writing and horrible voice acting. Maybe even collab n' shit.
Here's a sweet picture that really captures the Pico Day 2014 shenanigans, i'm barely in it. RIP NG Office :(
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What's the Role of SDN and UC?
Software-Defined Networks promise a more modern approach to allocating network resources for real-time traffic
Maybe the only technology that has received more recent hype than WebRTC is Software Defined Networking. SDN represents the latest evolution of an approach that first reared its head in the late 1990s, then referred to as "policy-based networking." The basic idea was that applications could talk to the network to request appropriate services such as QoS/CoS and bandwidth.
SDN evolves that concept even further, breaking apart the pieces of the network responsible for making forwarding decisions from the underlying hardware responsible for implementing those decisions. Proponents tout a variety of benefits such as simplified and cheaper network infrastructure, more flexibility in routing and forwarding algorithms, and potentially the ability to provide application interfaces into the control plane (for a great tutorial on SDN, and the OpenFlow approach to controlling the data forwarding plane, see http://www.openflow.org/wk/index.php/OpenFlow_Tutorial)
So what does SDN have to do with unified communications? Quite simply, SDN offers the potential to implement dynamic provisioning of networking resources (again, QoS/CoS, and bandwidth) to support the needs of real-time applications.
Configuring IP networks to support voice and video used to be fairly easy--you assign voice and video endpoints into separate VLANs and use 802.1p at Layer 2 and DiffServ code points and corresponding queuing algorithms to prioritize rich media at Layer 3. If you want to get really granular, you can even prioritize the media stream (usually RTP) higher than the signaling layer (e.g., SIP).
But that straightforward approach is under fire as organizations increasingly move away from "desktop phones for all" to a mixed environment that includes softphones running on PCs and laptops, and mobile UC clients running on smartphones and tablets (almost half of companies are extending UC services to tablets, according to Nemertes' latest benchmark). Once IPT and video are simply just another application on a computing device, it becomes much more difficult to prioritize them across the network.
Couple the trend toward software-based UC with the increasing reliance on WiFi and cellular networks (about 17% of employees on average are wireless-only), and delivering network services to support voice/video gets even more difficult. And there's another new wrinkle, as vendors turn on encryption technologies such as SRTP by default. If the LAN and WAN can't recognize the type of traffic (because it's encrypted), they can't prioritize it!
So this brings us back to SDN. As Kevin Kieller noted back in April, UC vendors are exploring SDN to potentially solve some of these expanding challenges. One such example is Microsoft's partnership with Aruba to enable Aruba WiFi access points to detect Lync traffic and adjust QoS parameters accordingly, prioritizing real-time traffic generated from Lync ahead of other types of traffic traversing the access point.
Another example was covered in April as well by Phil Edholm, in which an HP OpenFlow SDN controller could dynamically allocate network resources to support Lync. Yet another example comes from startup Ubicity, which is developing SDN capabilities to support voice and video. More recently, Sonus and Juniper announced a partnership to integrate SIP services with SDN. Juniper had previously partnered with Polycom to enable Polycom platforms to request network resources to support video conferencing sessions.
We've come a long way from the policy-based networking framework of 10+ years ago, but the problems we are trying to solve remain the same--ensuring that the underlying transport network can dynamically react to, and support the needs of real-time applications. IT leaders should spend some time with their trusted advisors and their infrastructure vendors to learn how SDN can potentially solve ever-increasing bandwidth and QoS provisioning challenges. And they should ensure that those responsible for network management (or managing outsourced service providers) are working hand-in-hand with those responsible for UC deployments to ensure a successful rollout of the overall service. It probably wouldn't hurt to take a look at RFC3198 again too.
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She was the spoilt princess who had everything yet nothing. For her love was the feeling of euphoria she read about in her books or saw in movies. Yet the elusive feeling had rejected her too long.
He was an unwanted burden on this earth. Love and affection were concepts unknown to him. All he knew was that life was not a bed of roses, in fact his was strewn with thorns and pain was his best friend.
She was hungry for love.
He ran away from its mere mention.
She was an unwanted responsibility.
He was an autocratic slave driver.
She would smile at the world.
He would mock it.
She waited for each new morning to bring about sunshine.
He waited for the darkness of the night to hide his scars.
They met under strained circumstances, got married under duress. Here is a story of two strangers, who found themselves married to each other. None wanted it, but both had to abide by it. Can an arranged marriage really survive amidst secrets and denials?
Geet Khurrana vowed that it would.
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Maan and Geet were married. But due to destinies will, or should I saw Maan Singh Khurrana's infamous temper, Geet has left him for reasons yet to be revealed.
Maan had an accident and was in coma for 15 days. There he was treated by Dr. Meera Shergil who fell for her patient. Due to Meera's efforts, Maan woke from the coma. But alas he suffered from amnesia. He couldn't remember anything about his past, not even his name, except the word "Geet."
His memory returned after a fortnight in a dramatic manner and since then his search for Geet is on.
On realizing that Maan is married. Meera backed off and decided that being friends was better than nothing.
It's been another month and still no sign of Geet.
Will he find Geet? Will they unite? Will the shackles binding them together loosen or will they be bonded for life?
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The other night, some fake friends of mine took me out in hopes of killing my old ass. Ha, joke's on them I survived!!!
Ok no seriously, I went out with my girls the other night, and while we were at one venue chilling, the ex and his lady walked in. We said our hellos he answered a question for me, I said nothing to his lady, I don't know her. Anyway so it dawned on me that while he was all messed up during and after the breakup, I was correct about something I was trying to explain to him, but he refused to hear it.
I suppose when you're feeling pain, you tend not want to hear stuff. I told him that sometimes people come into your life to do a particular job, and when their work is done they move on. I was trying to explain to him that perhaps I had come into his life at the time to show him that there are other women out there who he can have a meaningful relationship with after all the drama with the last one, and lo and behold he's with this person now, and all sort of happy rumors are milling around. It's not my business, but people keep telling me how happy they seem.....Anyway. Like I was saying, this could be "the one" the forever lover that he might have missed out on had I been emotionally blackmailed into staying in the situation.
On that note I started thinking that when two people are involved and it ends or some roadblock gets in the way and it seems that it's the end of the world, perhaps it isn't. The person who is openly feeling the hurt more will always see it that way for a while. You know they say that bad things happen to point you in another direction or to show you something you might not otherwise see... well the one hurting, or if they both are, they will think that maybe this "lesson" is for them. But what if the "bad" thing happened not to show or teach them something, but the other person? I know sometimes these things work like kevlar, help you dodge a bullet or two. But sometimes it is just a stumbling block, like when you hit the burn wall while doing crunches and situps or other exercise. You hit that wall and think you can't go anymore, but sometimes the effort to do just one more crunch is all you need to get over the threshold. It may not be the right time for this thing to happen, but it doesn't mean that it won't ever happen.
Slightly off topic, people always think you're jealous when you see the ex and his/her new SO. And you know what, sometimes you are jealous, but not for the reasons people assume. Take me for instance. I see him and her and I get a little twinge of *sigh*. It's not that I want him back, trust me, she has nothing I want. It's more like, imagine after all the drama he put me through, all the ish I had to put up with, he seems to have what I want. A relationship with someone I actually love who loves ME back for who I am. I have no idea about the dynamics of their relationship nor do I care, I suppose it hurts that he can have something like that but I'm being held back from having what I want....
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ROME — Italy's high court on Tuesday harshly faulted the appeals court that acquitted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her roommate, saying its ruling was full of "deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions.
It ordered a new appeals court to consider all the evidence to determine whether Knox helped kill the young woman.
In March, the high court overturned Knox's acquittal in the 2007 murder of British roommate Meredith Kercher, 21, and ordered a new trial. On Tuesday, the court issued its written reasoning for doing so.
The 74-page document picked apart the 2011 appeals court decision that freed Knox, faulting the judges for ignoring some evidence, considering other evidence insufficiently and undervaluing the fact that Knox had initially accused a man of committing the crime who had nothing to do with it.
The high court said the appeals decision "openly collides with objective facts of the case."
Kercher's body was found in November 2007 in her bedroom of the house she shared with Knox in Perugia, a central Italian town popular with foreign exchange students. Her throat had been slashed.
Knox, now 25, and her Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 29, were initially convicted of the crime and sentenced to long prison terms.
The appeals court acquitted them in 2011, criticizing virtually the entire case mounted by prosecutors.
Knox and Sollecito denied any involvement. A young man from Ivory Coast, Rudy Guede, is serving a 16-year sentence.
Knox left Italy a free woman after her 2011 acquittal.
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Oh my.
From the BOMA comes word of Supervisor Sean Penn's Elsbernd's big new commercial for Proposition G MUNI Reform. (The shoot for this bit was epic, I understand.)
Now, last time I saw vowel-deprived Mr. Elsbernd he was alighting from a pumped-up BMW 5-series, the kind you might expect a lawyer to have, but maybe he shreds on the weekends at Ocean Beach…
Anyway, here's the new spot:
The banjo player looks happy, but it's only a temporary thing. Sean's triple-finned thruster looks improbably small – perhaps MUNI drivers won't let his longboard aboard:
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@SuperCoolEskimo Ah, well for whatever reason this time I watched random people on youtube review them, I have a few days to think about it, if the price goes to high for me I might not get them.
Some cons were the loop being a bit of a bother, can hear sounds out of them from your surroundings, chipping paint, jack hard to pull out, nothing major but they spent more time saying negative stuff then only 1 minute of good stuff.
I'll check out those reviews.
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My last Strong Towns post was cross-posted in Better! Cities and Towns (formerly New Urban News). This is great, and I'm happy that I was able to get the article out there. There were a few comments on both sites and I wanted to take some time to respond.
The first comment:
"this article had to be written by an engineer. vapid, sterile & looking for a pin in the ground."
That is funny. I'm not an engineer. I have a degree in urban and regional planning, but I do work with engineers and they must be rubbing off on me. The next comment was a little more insightful.
Unfortunately, San Francisco does have an entertainment district of sorts called Fishermans Wharf, including a mall (Pier 39) with all kinds of simulated waterfront authenticity. I can't speak to the finances of the area, but most people (at least the ones I know) consider Fishermans Wharf quite an embarassment and avoid it at all costs.
I dropped the ball on this one. In fact, I was at Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39 not too long ago. Below is a snapshot from my camera. It falls into the same category as the Power & Light District. Good urbanism, but something is missing. Odd, but I do remember people telling me to avoid it as if it was a side-of-the-road World's Largest Ball of Yarn-type tourist trap.
The next comment is a good one, too:
Orlando has quite an entertainment district … which appears to be a button down office district during the day but comes alive late nigt. There is a problem, however, of activating some of the area for office workers due to the large amounts of bars and clubs that are closed during the day. And, with malls ringing the CBD, retail doesn't have a draw unless it's serving a very local need.
Recent experiences here have caused us to re-examine our ground floor requirements – making them more flexible, but requiring would-be bars and restaurants in the future to open by 12:00 PM 5 days a week.
This is a novel idea and I sort of like it: to have opening hours start earlier to hopefully bring a breath of life into a district (if only for a lunch period). Anyway, the commenter continues …
[skipped part of it, but you can read it here] … So, the my point is, if entertainment is your downtown's bread and butter for ground floor uses, encourage it. Better than being empty, and you may just appeal to the next generation. BTW: Usually Generation X-ers and Y-s get labeled as 25 year olds by the baby boomers – we just look younger than you did.
Yes, I would agree that it is better than being empty. I'm still going to advocate for urban areas that are open to more than 'entertainment'. I'm still holding that we need to accommodate for diversity in our neighborhoods and urban cores. Oh, and I just used "25 year olds" to illustrate a point, but I'm with you on that.
I'm going to abruptly transition to the next comment (this one is from the Strong Towns blog):
My father, civil engineer, former local planning commissioner and Kansas City resident, took me to see the Power and Light District a few years ago. My impression was "empty." Because it is designed for entertainment for 25 year olds (or those who want to feel 25), it was completely devoid of people in the middle of a weekday. The enclosed space at the center – good for bands and other live entertainment – was spookily barren and didn't encourage people walking through, let alone stopping.
The one interesting bit of development within the district was the Cosentino's grocery store which was bustling. It had some underground parking, entrances from parking and the street, places for people to sit, buy lunch as well as shopping for home. There were office workers, families, old, young – just the sort of mix of people and uses (within a limited range of food/home related uses) which you reference.
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Midland's cardiac arrest survival rate almost double national average
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Despite a Medicare study showing national rates of 18 percent survival in cases of cardiac arrest after getting CPR, Midland Memorial Hospital has a discharge rate of 31.6 percent averaged out from May 2008-April 2009, clinicians said.
Lynn Cooknell, cardiovascular care coordinator with the Heart Institute at MMH, and Intensive Care Unit Nurse Manager Julie Green said mechanisms are in place to try and ensure people make it home after any kind of arrest.
A Code 4 team, made up of an emergency room doctor, ER nurse, intensive care nurse and a respiratory therapist respond any time a patient, visitor or family member is unresponsive or has a heart irregularity.
Green gets Code 4 documentation and critiques, which are reviewed by a committee of the same name.
If a patient meets certain criteria, the hospital can use its hypothermia protocol after cardiac arrest. "It decreases the negative effects associated with lack of blood supply to the brain," Cooknell said.
Green said it also helps the heart not to work as hard. She noted the protocol, developed by open-heart surgeons about 50 years ago, is "very labor intensive" and requires one-on-one nursing care in ICU. Normally, the ratio is two nurses to one patient.
The patient is sedated, placed on a ventilator and packed in ice. Green said there are devices used to lower body temperature such as body wraps or IVs. The cooling must be complete in from two to four hours.
After 18 hours, the patient is slowly warmed up, but the amount of time it takes depends on the patient and how stable they are. "We have seen fabulous results with it - people leaving the hospital who years ago would not have left. They're going home as normal as when they came in. That's really rewarding for the staff involved," Cooknell said.
Green said the number of patients who undergo this treatment runs in cycles. But all medical staff who deal with cardiac arrest have been trained in it. Staff worked closely with Green, ER Dr. Larry Wilson, Dr. Gerardo Catalasan, Dr. Michael Miller, an emergency department educator and an ICU educator to develop the procedure.
Usually, new ideas come from things staff has read or seen.
"It's important that we keep up with the latest that's out there so we know to do the very best for our patients. It's a team effort. It has to be," Cooknell said.
Another contributing factor to MMH's success is its Clinical Assessment Team, headed by a critical care nurse, respiratory therapist and house supervisor. This squad is called in to assess a patient outside the ICU or Critical Care Unit when something "isn't right," Green said.
The CAT team evaluates the patient and decides what to do. "We've done a lot of training with staff both on the floor and ICU and CCU because they're the primary responders," Green said. "When they do intervene, they know what to look for. A lot of times it's low-blood sugar, but they want an extra set of eyes" to determine whether the patient should be kept on their floor, or moved to ICU or CCU.
Cooknell said medical personnel try to intervene before a patient suffers cardiac arrest, but being able to solve the problem depends on what is causing it. Green said it could be a pulmonary embolism or electrocution, which may not be fixable.
According to a large national Medicare study published in the July 2 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine and reported by The Associated Press, the odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than 10 years. Only about 18 percent of these patients live long enough to leave the hospital, AP reported.
Led by Dr. William Ehlenbach of the University of Washington at Seattle, the study analyzed the care of 433,985 Medicare patients treated from 1992-2005 around the country. Survival odds did not change much over time, it was found. Blacks had survival rates about one-quarter lower than whites. Men, older patients, and people admitted from nursing homes also had lower survival rates after CPR, according to AP.
Cooknell said the downturn in the economy is also going to have an impact because people are waiting longer to get treatment if they are ill.
"Patients are so much sicker than they used to be," Green said, adding aging Baby Boomers are contributing to the health care burden.
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Continued fears over the European debt crisis kept stocks under pressure for much of the day, with light trading volume.
The Labor Department reported today that the consumer price index fell by a seasonally adjusted 0.1 percent in October. Excluding food and energy costs, the core reading of consumer prices rose 0.1 percent.
Also on the economic front, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported a drop in weekly mortgage applications last week.
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Fantasy Football: The Aaron Rodgers Dilemma, Part 2December 26, 2011
That crazy thought is starting to consume me again. You know, the one about benching Aaron Rodgers the week of your fantasy football championship?
This time though, it doesn't seem so crazy.
In fact, I don't think I have a choice this time.
Last week, I, like millions of other Aaron Rodgers owners, had a tough decision to make. I won't get into the full story again, but I wrote an article that explored the idea of benching Rodgers in Week 16 (read the full article here).
Well, I decided against benching Rodgers and I won my fantasy football semi-finals game thanks to Rodgers' five-touchdown game against the Chicago Bears. Great news right? Absolutely. But now I face the same dilemma again in Week 17. Let's call it, The Aaron Rodgers Dilemma Part 2.
Before I get started (steps onto his soapbox): I've never liked fantasy leagues that decide their championships in Week 17. In a typical NFL season, most Week 17 games are meaningless and star players rarely play a full game.
This happens for a variety of reasons: injuries, resting for the playoffs, giving younger players an opportunity to play, etc. Whatever the reason, there's a good chance that half of the players on the field are guys you've never heard of.
As you've probably gathered by now, this greatly impacts fantasy football owners. Those of us lucky enough to still be playing into January must now craft our roster in such a way that would make a cobblestone paver proud.
Getting ready for a Week 17 championship forces us to put fantasy logic aside and think differently. Much differently. Like, maybe we should bench Aaron Rodgers.
The Packers have already locked up the No. 1 seed in the NFC and are playing one of those meaningless Week 17 games.
Also, they're facing the playoff-bound Detroit Lions, who the Packer may play in the postseason. That means even if Rodgers does play, Green Bay's game plan will be more vanilla than the custard served inside Lambeau Field.
They're also not going to give Detroit any opportunities to injure their franchise quarterback before the playoffs. And that leads me back to my dilemma, how much (if any) of Week 17's game will Rodgers play and should I bench him this week?
If Mike McCarthy and the Packers are smart, and I know they are, they'll let Rodgers play the first quarter. Rodgers will lead a couple of drives and then put on a parka and a stocking cap and watch the rest of the game from the sidelines. While that serves the Packers well, that plan will kill my fantasy team.
As much as it pains me to do it, I think Rodgers is headed to my bench this week.
Yes, I know Rodgers has 23 first-half touchdowns this season. And yes, I know he's closing in on 400 fantasy points. But what if he plays one series and that's it? My championship dreams are dashed by the same guy who got me there.
I know fantasy owners like to "dance with the guys who got them there," but this is a different kind of dance.
I think my mind's made up. I'm moving Rodgers to QB2 and Tim Tebow to QB1.
At least with Tebow I know he'll play a full game, and it's a meaningful one too. A win over Kansas City and Denver is postseason bound.
I don't care if Tebow leads Denver to the playoffs, I just need his full game to be better than Rodgers' partial game.
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Dunaden given 1kg penalty for Melbourne Cup
Dunaden has been penalised 1kg for the Melbourne Cup following his impressive victory in Saturday's Caulfield Cup.
The French stallion will now carry 59kg in his bid for a second victory in the $6 million Cup which will be run on November 6.
Since weights shifted to the metric system 40 years ago, no horse has carried more than 58.5kg to victory (Think Big, 1975).
Racing Victoria chief handicapper Greg Carpenter said a penalty was warranted given the quality of the field he defeated and the manner of the win.
"Dunaden again proved himself one of the most gifted 2400-metre horses in the world on Saturday, winning with 58kg in what was an outstanding performance," Carpenter said.
"I am aware however that a new challenge awaits him in the Melbourne Cup, with horses of the calibre of Mount Athos (54kg), Galileo's Choice (53.5kg), Green Moon (53.5kg), Mourayan (53.5kg), Tac De Boistron (53.5kg) and Brigantin (53kg) all having elected not to run at Caulfield.
"His arch rival Red Cadeaux comes into the race with 55.5kg and Dunaden, with his 59kg, now meets that horse 2.5kg worse than he did in their epic finish to last year's race.
"In terms of distance in a 3200-metre contest, 1kg is considered to be the equivalent of almost 2 lengths."
Dunaden won last year's Melbourne Cup carrying 54.5kg, and no horse has won the Melbourne Cup-Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup treble.
Despite the weight of history, the impressiveness of Dunaden's win on Saturday has seen him shorten into a clear $6.50 favourite for the Cup.
Settled back near last from a wide barrier, Dunaden circled the field and unleashed a dynamic sprint to defeat Alcopop and Lights Of Heaven.
The price of victory
The following is a list of penalties handed to winners of the Caulfield Cup and their weight and finishing position for the Melbourne Cup.
2012 - DUNADEN 1.0 59kg ??
2011 - SOUTHERN SPEED Not Entered
2010 - DESCARADO 1.5 54kg FF
2009 - VIEWED 1.0 58kg 7th
2008 - ALL THE GOOD 2.0 55kg DNR
2007 - MASTER O'REILLY 1.5 53kg 8th
2006 - TAWQEET 2.0 55.5kg 19th
2005 - RAILINGS 2.0 54kg 14th
2004 - ELVSTROEM 2.5 56.5kg 4th
2003 - MUMMIFY 2.5 55kg DNR
2002 - NORTHERLY 2.0 60kg DNR
2001 - ETHEREAL 2.0 52kg 1st
2000 - DIATRIBE 2.5 55kg 11th
1999 - SKY HEIGHTS 1.5 56.5kg 17th
1998 - TAUFAN'S MELODY 2.5 56kg 4th
1997 - MIGHT AND POWER 3.5 56kg 1st
1996 - ARCTIC SCENT 3.0 51.5kg 12th
1995 - DORIEMUS 3.0 54.5kg 1st
1994 - PARIS LANE 3.0 55.5kg 2nd
1993 - FRAAR 2.0 56kg 13th
1992 - MANNERISM Not Entered
1991 - LET'S ELOPE 2.5 51kg 1st
1990 - SYDESTON 2.5 58.5kg 11th
1989 - COLE DIESEL 1.0 53kg 16th
1988 - IMPOSERA Not Entered
1987 - LORD REIMS 2.5 54.5kg DNR
1986 - MR LOMONDY 2.0 56.5kg 8th
1985 - TRISTARC 3.0 52.5kg 8th
1984 - AFFINITY 2.5 55.5kg 6th
1983 - HAYAI 2.0 55kg 15th
1982 - GURNER'S LANE 3.0 56kg 1st
1981 - SILVER BOUNTY Not Entered
1980 - MING DYNASTY Nil 58kg 17th
Americain, with whom Dunaden originally shared Melbourne Cup topweight at 58kg, was a close fourth despite losing both front shoes in the run.
Seven of the top eight in Melbourne Cup betting are overseas-trained runners.
Mount Athos, the former Cup favourite, is rated an $8.50 chance, followed by Americain ($9) and Red Cadeaux ($10).
The first Australian-trained runner Green Moon, who runs in Saturday's Cox Plate, is $12 for the Cup.
Big task
Ethereal (2001) was the 11th and most recent horse to win the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup in the same year.
"Only Rising Fast in 1955 with 9st 5lb has carried a weight rivalling the 59kg allocated to Dunaden when completing the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double," Carpenter said.
"It will be the highest weight carried to victory, if he can win, since Rain Lover in 1969."
Carpenter said 16 horses had carried 59kg or more in the Cup in the past 40 years.
Among them were greats such as Gunsynd, Kingston Town, Better Loosen Up, Super Impose, Vintage Crop, Vinnie Roe and Yeats.
Meanwhile, a small but select field has assembled for the $300,000 Geelong Cup (2,400m) on Wednesday.
The field features three European-trained runners - Brigantin, Tac De Boistron and Gatewood, whose lone Australian start was a luckless seventh in the Herbert Power Stakes.
Three Europeans have won the Cup - Media Puzzle (2002), Americain (2010) and Dunaden (2011) - and all went on to win the Melbourne Cup 13 days later.
The impressive Herbert Power winner Shahwardi has been entered for Saturday's Moonee Valley Cup in a bid to gain a Melbourne Cup start.
Shahwardi currently sits well outside the 24-horse cut-off mark and to gain a start he needs a penalty or a high attrition rate among those above him in the ballot order.
The final two overseas horses for the Cup - Lost In The Moment and Cavalryman - will arrive on Monday evening from the UK.
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Country Medical Director (UK) - United Kingdom
Astellas (company)
Project Description
As Country Medical Director UK you will provide coaching and leadership across the medical function and ensure high performance teams are established and colleagues developed. You will oversee the development and delivery of medical and scientific input to therapeutic brand teams to support all therapy area objectives and prepare the business to changes in the external environment.
Acting as a source of counsel on compliance-related matters and ensuring the affiliate is fully compliant with all relevant regulations and codes of practice, you will embed a Compliance Culture across all Regions of the business, ensuring a culture of ethics and compliance is strictly adopted.
Core duties will include:
- Develop a clear understanding and insight into the objectives across all brands and therapeutic areas to support and productively challenge the development of such objectives where clarify is required
- To ensure that the objectives for the brands and therapeutic areas are realised in compliance with the ABPI Code of Practice
- Oversee the processes for maintaining relevant product literature and developing /updating the relevant databases to ensure our medical information is accurate and of high quality
- Ensure that medical information enquiries are answered accurately and promptly in accordance with accepted standards (PIPA) in order to uphold the perception of Astellas in the market place
- Provide internal medical supervision and medical signatory of relevant marketing support material for the respective brands.
- To ensure all sign-off processes are efficient and timely and well communicated with the Medical, Marketing and Sales Departments.
- To ensure that competitor complaints are fully investigated and answered accurately and promptly to uphold the perception of Astellas in the market place.
- Oversee submission of new Marketing Authorisations (MA's) as required by RAE including all regulatory activities required to support launch.
- To ensure Astellas UK is GxP inspection-ready and oversee any regulatory authority inspections
- Oversee the pharmacovigilance activities and ensure compliance with all relevant SOPs
- To provide support to the Clinical Operations Team to aid recruitment as appropriate
- Provide medical advice to the Company in relation to clinical research and studies
- Represent Astellas at external meetings
- Undertake self-study, company-provided training and scientific meeting attendance
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Regulatory guidelines, ABPI Code of Practice (UK) and Company SOPs to ensure adherence in all areas as appropriate.
Professional Profile
- Pharma sector experience with strong customer focus; in multi-disciplinary, matrix and cross-cultural settings.
- Medical degree: full GMC registration and Licence to Practise
- Extensive/proven healthcare compliance expertise; to understand and comply with industry laws and regulations.
- Extensive pharmaceutical medical department expertise/experience
- Proven ability to utilise medical/ scientific knowledge
- Ability to proactively grasp complex sets of information and act/plan accordingly
- Good knowledge of at least one therapeutic area relevant to Astellas
- Medical writing experience
- Understanding and awareness of information sources
- Track-record of leading multi-year strategic planning process: strategic, organizational and problem-solving ability for sustained results.
- Proven leadership and people management experience including commitment to develop, coach and enable high performance standards.
- Proven ability to influence diverse senior stakeholders.
- Post graduate qualification such as MBA and/or MSc or equivalent is highly desirable.
- Fluency in written and spoken (Business) English (second EU language is an advantage)
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Connecticut's top law enforcement official is asking charitable groups raising money around the Newtown school shooting to disclose more information, an unprecedented step suggesting the state has questions about how contributors' money is being spent.
At least 69 groups are raising money around the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year, where 20 small children and six teachers were killed. Together, they've raised at least $15 million dollars from all over the world to help the victims' families and to assist the Newtown community.
But state Attorney General George Jepsen and Consumer Protection Commissioner William M. Rubenstein say the charities have not disclosed enough information about what they are doing with the money. The two officials want the charities to disclose how they've spent the funds they've raised so far and what they plan to do with the remaining money.
"This is a voluntary request for information, but we strongly urge you to participate so this important information can be provided, through our websites or other means, to the giving public," Jepsen and Rubenstein wrote in a letter to the groups.
Ken Berger, CEO of charitynavigator.org, which helps contributors figure out which charities to trust, applauded Rubenstein's efforts.
"It's an unusual step, absolutely," Berger said. "It's great what the AG office is doing. We should see more of this to make sure the money gets to victims sooner -- and more of it goes the victims."
Berger said Caryn Kaufman, a representative for a group of Sandy Hook victims said on a recent TV show that only about $800,000 to under a $1 million have been given directly to families.
"It's been 3 ½ months, and so far less than a million (dollars) has been dispensed" Berger said, "So this is really bad and upsetting people a great deal."
After the December 14 shooting, several websites and Facebook pages were quickly created offering things like bracelets, bumper stickers or direct donation pages with Newtown and Sandy Hook remembrances and tributes. It's often unclear where those funds end up.
Weeks after the massacre, New York City resident Nouel Alba was arrested for raising money on Facebook for a "funeral fund" for Noah Pozner, one of the first graders killed in the shooting. The fraud was discovered by his family members.
Newtown itself has established two charitable funds, both accessible through the town's website. One provides direct aid to the families -- each family recently received $3,000 from the fund -- and another is for a public memorial.
Berger said those who wish to contribute to a charity can specify how they want a donation to be spent -- whether on school repair, aiding the victims' families, or in some other way.
Donors should also ask charities where the money goes and how long it will take to reach recipients, Berger said.
"If you don't get a straight answer from a charity, go to the next one," he said.
Connecticut officials have asked the charities to respond to the questionnaire by April 12. While the information will be made public, it's not meant to be an endorsement of a specific charity, officials said.
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Fancy That No.5
I know I normally post Fancy That on Saturdays but it's been a busy week! I originally started posting these because I really love seeing regular "themed" posts on blogs and I really love finding new art or inspiring pictures. I'm also not a big fan of shopping wishlists because I feel like it supports a certain level of commercialism that I'm not comfortable with so posting a "themed" post about art just feels right. With that said, enjoy this week's Fancy That!
Don't forget to scroll down to find out the winner for the Ilaments Sugar Skull Earring Giveaway!
This is my dream. I was just talking with my friend the other day who lives on a nature reserve in Ohio. While I don't particularly want to live in Ohio, I would give just about anything to look outside my window and see this. Nature heals my heart. ♥
Oh, the arm fat, forever an area of hate on women's bodies. I still struggle with arm fat hatred sometimes but it flares up less and less nowadays. With Southern California already heating up, you can bet I will be sleeveless and fearless this summer for sure! And this awesome print from Katy Welte is a great reminder to do so.
As a zinester and writer, I will always have a soft spot for typewriters in my heart. This particular typewriter by Tyree Callahan types out art – how freakin' cool is that? I love the color coded keys and the idea that there are infinitely many creations to come out of it, just like a regular typewriter, only in a completely different way.
I cannot express how much I love this! Sea creatures own my heart and the colors are so pretty and fresh. I just love it. I am pretty sure that it is not even close to reality in terms of color but I don't care. It's stunning anyway.
This illustration by Martha Rich speaks to me on so many levels. First of all, I love cats. Secondly, as an introvert who regularly attracts over-talkative people, sometimes I really just wish I could say this. And lastly, sometimes when my little gray ball of love, Ashes, is snuggling with me, I'll start talking and she'll put her paw on me as if she's telling me to shut up. And I usually listen. 😉
Don't forget you can click on any of the images to go to its tumblr page. And don't forget to follow me on tumblr for more awesome art!
And last but not least, thank you to all who entered my sugar skull earrings giveaway with Ilaments! Congratulations to Maria from sammymakessix! Please check your inbox. 🙂
Thank you again to all who entered! ♥


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Generally positive reviews are starting to trickle in for Michael Pollan's new book In Defense of Food, which officially hit the shelves January 1. Following on the success of The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food picks up where the former left off urging a return to simpler, whole-foods approach to eating. He gives us neatly-packaged mantras: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." And, "Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."
Like The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire before it, Pollan's most recent book is also broken into discrete sections to present a logically constructed, multi-faceted view of a complex topic. The first of three parts tackles the idea he calls "nutritionism," by which he refers to the reductionist approach taken by many scientists that treat our food as an assemblage of components (fats, carbs, proteins). The second tackles diseases of the so-called Western diet, including Type 2 Diabetes. The third and final section offers us ways to "escape the Western Diet" by avoiding heavily processed foods.
While the reviews are mostly good, some think Pollan's advice is too broad. Regarding his guideline, "Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food," Charles Matthews of the San Francisco Chronicle says:
This needs a bit more explanation. After all, many of our great-grandmothers weren't exposed to the great multicultural bounty we find in stores and restaurants, so a lot of them wouldn't recognize some perfectly wholesome stuff as edible. Calamari, for example, or tofu... But Pollan's point is this: Great-Grandmother never cooked with guar gum, carrageenan, mono- and diglycerides, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, modified food starch, soy lecithin and any number of other ingredients found in processed food. She would never eat cotton, but cottonseed oil is commonplace in all sorts of the "edible foodlike substances" found in supermarkets today.
Matthews himself might be a bit misleading here. Even though his great-grandmother never ate calamari or tofu, there were surely many great-grandmothers in other parts of the world eating those two things. And they certainly weren't eating any modified food starch or any of the other industrially processed ingredients mentioned.
If you've read the book and have some early thoughts on it, let us know. It will be interesting to see what the broader reactions will be given the hype and given the level of love many people have for Omnivore's Dilemma.


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Wilmington Real Estate
Neighborhoods/Developments in Wilmington, VT
Wilmington is a picturesque village located in Windham County, Vermont. It is situated in the Deerfield Valley of the Green Mountains and is crossed by Vermont Routes 9 and 100. It is surrounded by mountain countryside and offers scenic vistas.
Wilmington is home to many shops which are located in historic buildings. It is also home to many art galleries, antique shops and sugar houses.
Wilmington is home to many outdoor recreational activities, including skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, golfing and hiking. Lake Whitingham in Wilmington offers boating, picnicking and swimming.
Please contact Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate The Masiello Group for Wilmington homes for sale, Windham County homes for sale, and for all your real estate needs.


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Flickd: Movie Alerts at Your FingertipsShaun Takenouchi on June 21st 2012
I will admit, I am not a huge movie junkie that is always up on the latest and greatest that's coming out to the theater or DVD. Before having a kid, I used to watch a lot more movies and go to the theater more frequently. But now, I barely know when they come out and before I know it, it is gone from the theater and then you have to wait until it comes out on DVD.
Flickd is an app that can hopefully help me out with making sure that I never miss a movie again. For you movie buffs out there, you are definitely going to want to read further and check this app out. It has got some great features and takes advantages of the gesture features of the iPhone. (more…)
Twitpic: Worth the WaitJustin Stravarius on June 2nd 2012
User generated content defined the whole Web 2.0 era. From written word to videotaped recordings, common folks took control of everything and shared it publicly for free. Sharing videos and pictures has exploded exponentially, aided by easy to use mobile apps and social networks. Twitpic is one such web app and it is synonymous with image sharing on Twitter. Millions of folks use it to share their photos everyday.
Consider it the defacto Twitter web app for uploading images and videos along with tweets. Curiously, such a successful, social multimedia sharing platform didn't bother to come up with a mobile app. Up until now. Recently, this free image sharing network launched its iOS app and after the break, let's take it for a spin. (more…)
Making Home Movies is a Breeze With MagistoShaun Takenouchi on May 22nd 2012
Now that I have a family, I want to make some great home movies for my kids so that they can watch them over and over as they get older. Nowadays, with the handiness of having an iPhone, I am constantly taking pictures and capturing videos of them. This is not a bad thing, but I find that when I want to sit down and actually make a movie of a special event, I feel overloaded with the amount of media that I have. This is where an app like Magisto can come into play and make life easier. The concept behind the app is pretty neat and I bet it could probably help a few of you out there.
Magisto, in a nutshell, does the work for you when it comes to creating those home videos. As much as I love iMovie on my Mac, it takes time and patience, two things which I don't always have. Magisto makes the creating of the home movie process fun and very easy to do. Let me show you what I am talking about after the jump. (more…)
Ever since my first child was born, almost a year ago, I have taken more pictures and video than I ever had before. We are posting a picture of our son crawling on Instagram, sharing him take his first steps on Facebook, and tweeting out to the world when he smiled at us for the first time.
With all of the social media sites that are out there that we can use to share our precious moments, we would have a handful of pictures on Instagram, some videos and more pictures on Facebook and Twitter, and others in albums in Picasa, etc. Wouldn't it be nice if we could somehow combine all of these social media sites into one place so we could view ALL of our pics in one place? This is where an app like Jolicloud can really come in handy on your iPhone. Let me show you more about what I am talking about after the jump. (more…)
Motivate Your Workouts With FitocracyScott Danielson on May 8th 2012
One of the most talked about subjects in all of app-dom (and one of my personal favorites) is gamification. The idea that we can use software (usually mobile) to change the way that we think about our everyday activities by turning even the most mundane tasks into a game. One of the first, and arguable still the most persistent, examples of gamification is Foursquare, the app that award you points for simply going places. Experiencing the world outside of your apartment was all of the sudden a competition amongst you and your friends.
Since Foursquare, we've seen many attempts to gamify your everyday life. Today, Fitocracy aims to motivate you to get fit by turning your visits to the gym into a game. The web app and it's companion iPhone app let you discuss with your friends, compare point totals, complete challenges and quests, and more. Let's dig in and see how it works. (more…)
Via.me: A Great Alternative to InstagramMarie Look on May 4th 2012
There are a lot of apps out there that will let you take or choose a photo, filter it with some cool effects, and then send it to the 'net, but let's face it — only a few of them do it well. Instagram has been a bit hit, but its recent acquisition by Facebook seems to have left many feeling like it's gone way too mainstream. Which means it's time to find the next big thing.
Enter Via.me. This iOS-only app is guaranteed to draw comparisons to Instagram, but that's OK, because it's all good news without any of the bad: It offers a similar photo-and-filters combo, it's free, it makes it super easy to share via social media, and it even offers reformed Instagram users the ability to import all their photos through the Via.me website. And, most importantly, it's fun to use. Click "more" to take a look. (more…)
50 Free iPhone Apps to Get You StartedMarie Look on April 23rd 2012
Congratulations and welcome to the club — you're now the proud owner of a new iPhone. And right after your figure out how to add your contacts, make phone calls, set up your email and send text messages, you're going to wonder, "Which apps should I download?"
That's where I come in. I'm here to save you from embarrassment. That's right, because all your already-have-an-iPhone friends are going to bombard you with "Haven't you downloaded that app yet?" until you're fully dialed in. So here are 50 common yet useful and well-known apps to get you started covering many of the bases you'll likely use your iPhone for: social networking, entertainment, news, productivity and more. And the best part? They're all free.
Click through to take a look at your starter kit. (more…)
Svpply: Like Pinterest For Cool StuffKevin Whipps on April 19th 2012
Ever have one of those friends who always seems to know where to find the cool stuff? You know, the guy who has that awesome desk made out of reclaimed wood, or the girl who constantly has vintage apparel but finds it in the weirdest places? How sweet would it be to have their connections and be able to get all that stuff without doing a lot of the hard work?
That's pretty much the concept behind Svpply, a website dedicated to collecting all the good stuff and the shops that sell it, without you having to hunt it down yourself. Now they have an iPhone app, and it's pretty innovative in its own right. Let's dig in and find out more after the jump. (more…)
Streamified: All Your Social Are Belong to UsKevin Whipps on April 18th 2012
It seems like I'm writing a post about a new social network every other day. One day it's Path, the next it's Pinterest, and of course, we all have to hop onboard the ride because then we'll be known as the cool kids who joined that network before it was cool. Managing these things can be a real pain in the butt.
So now we have Streamified, which isn't a social network but a social network aggregator. Think of it like Flipboard, but instead of making individual magazines out of your feeds, it combines them all into one giant feed to rule them all. Want more? Of course you do. (more…)
Share Knowledge About Your Area Using LocalmindJake Rocheleau on March 31st 2012
Looking at mobile trends we've all heard about check-in services like Foursquare and Gowalla. These apps rose in popularity because they offered great features and were enticing to new users with badges and profiles. A new brand app Localmind follows in a similar pattern in building a global Q&A type social network.
With Localmind you can connect with people in your area and help to answer the question "What's going on?" Residents have the ability to send out questions and others living in the same area can pick them up and offer solutions in real-time. It's a new way of thinking about information sharing with an emphasis on local current events — not to mention the app looks beautiful and showcases a brilliant example of iPhone UI design. (more…)