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Where to Find and Post Linux News
Two things I do every morning no matter what are drink my morning coffee and read the latest Linux news. A day without either of them would be a disaster. Because getting Linux news is so important to me I've kept track of several Linux news sites and tested the value and focus of their articles. I've also participated in many of these sites and have noted significant traffic changes as we move deeper into the age of social media. As things change it may be time to re-evaluate where your reading and submitting your Linux news.
If you're just a Linux user looking to brush up on today's latest Linux news, you're in luck. You have a ton of options and more every day. Sites like Lxer, LinuxToday, OSNews, Digg, FSdaily and Linux.com will all likely carry the big stories of the day as many of them share the same users. The question is more about how you want your news displayed. Some sites choose to run large ads, small ads, and even full page ads. Other sites offer full communities, article point systems, and an intricate friend networks.
1) LinuxToday has been around for awhile but pushes an aggressive ad campaign and doesn't offer the community and discussions I've enjoyed on other news sites. Still, LinuxToday features top articles related to Linux and is a vet in the news game.
2) OSNews features a community approach to news and offers registered users a chance to comment on articles, make friends, "star" stories, and more. This site is a great resource for users looking for computing articles but my focus is a little narrower.
3) FSDaily is a community type open-source news site that features articles from around the net. This site includes popular this week, popular today and popular upcoming sections that have proven an effective way to display recent articles. I'm unsure of the voting system and how it effects the stories order. I've often wondered, "what's that doing up there".
4) Digg includes the top articles from Linux, open-source and everything else you're curious about. You can also take advantage of photo and video diggs as well as the extremely active digg community with many assets including the recently integrated Facebook features. Digg would be my choice for finding news for users that enjoy the friends, the community and the comments. Digg is a little too political for me sometimes but has an unmatched selection of articles.
5) Lxer, has a great mix of it all. Lxer is simple and produces a consistent flow of news worthy Linux and open-source articles. This dependable news press also includes featured, daily story, and weekly round-up articles which I enjoy very much. The smaller community of Lxer is pleasant, helpful and knowledgeable.
6) LinuxFeeds.org is a WordPress site that has indexed hundreds of Linux feeds, although the site is still in its early stages I suspect many visitor hungry Linux sites will be submitting their RSS feeds there soon. If you're after news, you can find almost all Linux feeds located here including Youtube feeds and podcasts focused on Linux.
7) After being acquired by the LinuxFoundation, Linux.com has been recently re-designed based on a heavily modified version of Joomla. The site includes state of the art features that allow users to interact, participate and even build up Linux guru status. It's a little too early to asses the quality and dependability of Linux.com news articles, I think they're on the right track integrating third party applications like Twitter with their community. More on Linux.com in June.
If you're an article submitter or depend on Linux news sites for traffic you may be interested to know all of these sites will accept article submissions and potentially send some traffic your way. Traffic from these sources is dwindling as social media networks expand however you may be more likely to find a return visitor from a news site than from your Twitter, Facebook, or Myspace page. I've also found that bounce rates are higher and time on site is lower when visitors come from social media sites. Another advantage the news site still has is Google's response when receiving links from high ranked news sites. So before you count out top news sites remember that few places can offer the targeted traffic and other benefits of good old fashion Linux news sites.
If you're after a site that has all the Linux news you want, friendly staff, and few advertisements, head over to Lxer.com. Lxer is my pick for viewing news because of its consistency and article quality. The site is simple and straight forward while offering all the necessary features for me to enjoy my daily dose of Linux news.
For submitting Linux news articles few sites are as dependable, fair and non-political as Lxer. Traffic and article impressions are often the first thing thought about when submitting articles however as traffic drops on all Linux news sites what would you prefer? A news site lined with more and more Microsoft ads or an honest up front place to submit your articles and meet some new friends?
May 26, 2009 at 5:23 pm
My top three are Linux Today, LXer, and Linux Weekly News. Linux Weekly News offers inexpensive paid subscriptions. You get instant access to paid content (which is freely available after a week), it allows LWN to keep ads to a minimum, and you get to tangle with some of the smartest and best-informed readers for any publication.
Who cares about Microsoft ads? MS funding Linux sites is OK with me, and you can always use an adblocker.
May 26, 2009 at 10:19 pm
First, thanks for mentioning FSDaily in your post.
FSDaily is like digg.com but for free software/open source related news and articles. The site is run by FOSS enthusiasts and naturally is based entirely on FOSS.
Obviously, we are doing something wrong if this isn't clear. We'll have to do something to make it more obvious.
Once registered, you can submit links to news and articles, vote on posts, comments on posts and even write and submit blog entries. Plus our RSS feeds will keep your finger on the pulse.
Submitted stories go in the upcoming queue for 24 hours. If they receive enough votes during this time they are promoted to the home page. If they don't get enough votes they go into the archives. If a post gets promoted then it is exposed to more readers and gains page rank from FSDaily.
For content providers: it's a great way to get your articles and site discovered by the wider community, get more traffic and higher page rank.
For the FOSS community: it's a great source of interesting news and articles which are chosen by the whole community rather than one editor.
The more the FOSS community joins in on the editing process at FSDaily, the higher the quality of the news provided. So, if you haven't already, join up and help out!
May 27, 2009 at 12:51 am
LinuxToday …doesn't offer the community and discussions I've enjoyed on other news sites.
I am not sure what you are implying by that statement. I've been reading LT for almost 10 years and during that period it has always allowed readers to comment on and discuss articles. As far as being able to comment on articles its format is one of the easiest to use and read of any online mag.
The Microsoft ads on LT and other Linux sites don't bother me at all. In fact, I am glad that revenue from Microsoft is funding these sites. I consider it a partial payback for all the MS taxes I've paid through the years.
May 27, 2009 at 2:09 am
My three Linux/FLOSS sources of news are:
– http://www.linuxoutlaws.com/ the Linux Outlaws podcast (TLLTS is second when I have time….)
– http://boycottnovell.com/
– http://www.linuxtoday.com/
I also use Groklaw when Im looking for some particular (and litigious) which I think PJ might have up on the site.
1. Sure Fab (he's the schnitzel in the McShnitzel & Chips duo) hates freedom as much as he loves his Ipod, but its fun, informative, well segmented, great community and very pro FLOSS. Its Lugradio without the massive egos, inflated personalities, distro stroking, gr… oh, wait, its nothing like that. Its actually quite good.
2. Agree or not with Roy's viewpoints, you cant say he doesnt work dman hard on making his site more up to date than most Linux news sites.
I dare you to find another site that has such good and constant links.
The links are added 3-4 times a week and if you have only one site to go to get your Linux/FLOSS news, BN is the one. More importantly, it covers every aspect of the Linux ecosystem.
3. For those afraid to venture out, there is the good old Linuxtoday.
Nice collection of links and Carla is my favorite FLOSS chick this side of PJ. She's a good writer who isnt afraid to call it like she sees it and even has a bit of a chip every once in a while.
As for community, its regulars like Grey Goose, Brandioch Conner, Rene Leveuqe offer better and more insightful analysis than most bloggers do.
As for your point about community and LT, you said the best Linux news. Nothing about community.
"Digg would be my choice for finding news for users that enjoy the friends, the community and the comments."
Again, do you want the best Linux news sites or not?
I dont want to make friends or debate with retards on threads that you will never again visit.
If you want to waste time, fine but debating on Digg is like having a battle of wits with Tom Cruise… why?
One thing Linux sites have in common is the beyond plain and boring looks of the site. I know content management software is often limited but the minimalist look is beyond depressing. I dont want Flash animation on every page but its like 1995 all over again.
Not a bad list but let's face it, like most of them, its nothing more than some guy with a blog telling you about his favorite site/distro/desktop and then others telling you youre wrong and how could you insult my precious.
You started off with your favorite site which you think is the greatest think since slice bread and how you could pimp it
At the very least next time you can call it: "Where You Can Get Linux News and Make Friends Too".
Most of us want the news and those of us who actually use RSS have no use or need for a community (yes, I understand the need to 'belong').
May 27, 2009 at 4:19 am
there is also reddit/r/linux , where i contribute and read , also i enjoy lwn , lxer …
May 27, 2009 at 4:36 am
Holy donkey spit, Batman! You can't leave Slashdot.org off of the list. It is THE news discussion hub of the FOSS and technology universe. Sure, you can find good up and coming Linux stories on Digg (though the popular stuff is rarely interesting), but your brains will run out of your ears if you read the comments on that site.
May 27, 2009 at 5:22 am
These pages give good overview
May 27, 2009 at 5:52 am
Nice article, but why don't you just link to these sites?
May 27, 2009 at 6:36 am
Slashdot.org wasn't on the list? =] Well I'll be.
Also, theregister.co.uk is another favourite of mine.
May 27, 2009 at 6:47 am
your vote counter is up to xxxx
I can vote as many times as I like.
It's called cheating
May 27, 2009 at 8:20 am
Aside from LinuxToday's aggressive ad campaign mentioned in your article, I've often seen the same content posted over and over, some of it weeks old, on LinuxToday. Worse, nearly every on-topic follow-up comment I've left on LT articles has been censored for no apparent reason and refused with no explanation. Aggressive ads and censorship: my experience with LinuxToday. I no longer visit the site. The other sources mentioned for Linux news seems to be spot-on.
May 27, 2009 at 9:25 am
Wouldn't it have made sense to include hyperlinks to the news sites in your article?
May 27, 2009 at 2:07 pm
1) LinuxToday has been around for awhile but pushes an aggressive ad campaign and doesn't offer the community and discussions I've enjoyed on other news sites.
Dude, you really shouldn't drink the bong water, man. It'll fsck you up! Make you say things like, "[Linux Today] doesn't offer offer the discussions and community I've enjoyed on other sites."
Dude, Linux Today has always had "Talk Back". And as for community, you can always count on GreyGeek, Jose_X and even dweebs like Darryl to show up regularly. I even speak up from time to time under one or the other of my nyms.
June 11, 2009 at 8:11 am
thanks this post. I made some adjustments
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If you're an article submitter or depend on Linux news sites for traffic you may be interested to know all of these sites will accept article submissions and potentially send some traffic your way.
March 7, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Thanks for the article, it was very helpfull.
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Dorothy M. (Vose) Bascombe, 92, of Old West Wrentham Road died Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013, at Landmark Medical Center, Woonsocket. She was the wife of the late Willard E. Bascombe.
A lifelong resident of Cumberland, she was a daughter of the late Ornando F. and Madeline (Slocum) Vose. She was employed by Tanury Brothers Jewelry Manufacturers of Lincoln for many years before retiring in 1965.
She was a member of Cumberland Community Methodist Church, Cumberland, and a member of Lime Rock Chapter #26, OES, Lincoln. She was a member of more than 50 years of the Cumberland Grange P. of H.
She is survived by three daughters, Judith Petrin of Cumberland, Barbara L. Kemp of Prospect Heights, Ill., and Carol A. Blouin of Williston, Vt.; three sons, James A. Bascombe, Willard E. Bascombe Jr. and Bruce E. Bascombe, all of Cumberland; one sister, Lois Angell of Cumberland; 12 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. She was the mother of the late Harold Bascombe, and the sister of the late Ruth Roy, Shirley Morris, Eleanor Masse and Marjorie Ashworth.
Her funeral service will be held SATURDAY, JANUARY 4 at 11 A.M. at BELLOWS FUNERAL CHAPEL, 160 River Road, Lincoln. Burial will be in Diamond Hill Cemetery, Cumberland. Relatives and friends are invited and may call SATURDAY from 9:30-11 A.M.
In lieu of flowers, contributions in Mrs. Bascombe's memory to Cumberland Community Methodist Church, 481 Broad Street, Cumberland, RI 02864 would be appreciated. For Directions and Guest Book, please visit www.bellowsfuneralchapel.com.

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Carrots are sweet, warm and alkaline. Carrots contain beta-carotene, vitamin B6, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, pectin, and fiber. The leaves are high in flavonoids and potassium.
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The Punk Syndrome
The Punk Syndrome is a film about Finland's most kick-ass punk rock band, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät. The band members, Pertti, Kari, Toni and Sami, are mentally handicapped and they play their music with a lot of attitude and pride. We follow these professional musicians on their journey from obscurity to popularity. We watch them fight, fall in love and experience strong emotions. We witness long days in the recording studio and on tour. They laugh, cry, drink and fight over who gets to sit in the front on the tour bus. Then it's time to make up and go talk to people in the audience and tell them how great their band is.
Genres: Documentary, Music
Directors: J.P. Passi, Jukka Kärkkäinen
Duration: 85 min
Release: 2012
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Nation & World
Syria, like Iraq and Lebanon, is on path toward sectarian split
The men from the last Alawite family in the northern Syrian town of Darkush have been kidnapped twice. The Saleh men were fortunate both times: They were released by rebels who'd suspected them of being agents for the government of President Bashar Assad.
Their good fortune wasn't shared by the rest of the Alawites who used to live here. They've all left, a pattern that's been repeated across Syria and mirrors the demographic changes that war brought to its neighbors, Iraq and Lebanon, in past years.
That tension between various religious sects has become a driver of Syria's civil war, a development that was at the center of a U.N. report released Tuesday that decried the sharp, savage turn in the country's violence. "The parties to the conflict are using dangerous rhetoric that inflames sectarian tensions and risks inciting mass, indiscriminate violence, particularly against vulnerable communities," warned the report, compiled by an international panel of inquiry on Syria for the U.N.'s Human Rights Council.
But those sectarian tensions have been building for months, and it's difficult to imagine they'll go away, no matter who ultimately triumphs in the civil war. Developments such as the fall of Qusayr to government forces after months in rebel hands – the rebels withdrew from the strategic city Wednesday – may only fuel the flames.
"Who can control thousands of fighters who think about revenge day and night?" Abd al Hamid Zakaria, a spokesman for the Supreme Military Council, an umbrella rebel group that's backed by the U.S. government, wondered a few days ago as the government siege of Qusayr was just beginning. "If Qusayr falls, we will wipe Alawite villages from the map."
It remains to be seen whether the rebels will make good on the threat.
Syria's boundaries encompass a number of religious groups and ethnicities. A main grievance of the country's rebels, who are virtually all Sunni Muslim, is that they've long been oppressed by Alawites, a sect that's an offshoot of Shiite Islam and to which the Assad family, which has ruled the country for more than four decades, belongs.
As the rebels have advanced, Shiites and Alawites have often fled majority Sunni areas such as Darkush. Likewise, Sunnis have left many majority Shiite and Alawite areas, particularly those around the Orontes River, which represents a front line in the conflict, which stretches from Syria's northern border with Turkey to its border with northern Lebanon, about 100 miles to the south.
The moment for the Alawites in Darkush – some residents said there were about 10,000 of them living in the area – came in October, when a string of villages near the Turkish border fell to the rebels. Rebels in nearby Zarzour burned a Shiite mosque. As the rebels advanced west, some Christian villages emptied as well. Not long after, the men of the Saleh family were detained by rebels from the Nusra Front, a group with ties to al Qaida that promotes the establishment of an Islamic state in Syria. Known in Arabic as Jabhat al Nusra, it considers Alawites and Shiites to be heretics.
The family was released after more moderate rebels from Darkush intervened. Then last month, as Darkush was being shelled by pro-government forces, the family again fell under suspicion.
"There was a new leader for Jabhat al Nusra in this area and he asked why the shelling had gotten heavier, and someone told him there is a Nusayri family in this village," said a Nusra member in Darkush, using a derogatory term for Alawites.
Members of the Saleh family declined to speak to a reporter about what had befallen them. Their ordeal was piece together from interviews with members of Nusra and other rebel groups, whose stories corroborated one another.
Again, more moderate rebels prevailed. The men were released after rebel groups allied with the local military council, which acts as an umbrella for rebel forces who advocate a civil state in Syria, threatened to attack Nusra fighters if the men weren't let go.
Since the beginning of the rebellion more than two years ago, the government has sought to portray the rebels as sectarian fighters, Sunni chauvinists bent on driving minorities out of Syria. In turn, the rebels accuse the government of pre-emptively arming Shiite and Alawite villages across the country, creating tension and setting a self-fulfilling prophecy in motion.
For some, the undoing of Syria fulfills predictions that began when the U.S. military deposed Saddam Hussein in 2003, empowering the country's Shiite majority and creating what the king of Jordan described as a "Shiite crescent" stretching from Iran to Lebanon.
As Syria's civil war enters its third year, the army's depleted ranks of largely Sunni conscripts increasingly have been supplanted by militiamen drawn primarily from Alawite villages, further stoking sectarian tension.
While some Syrians and analysts speak about a partitioning of the country along sectarian lines, the reality is already more like Iraq – which remains a single geopolitical entity although members of its different sects no longer live together – or Lebanon – where people mix regularly but largely live in separate enclaves, even if they might abut one another.
Kurds, who make up about 10 percent of Syria's population and a majority of the people in the northeastern province of Hasaka, also are fleeing to majority Kurdish areas, and a Kurdish enclave with ties to northern Iraq's semi-independent Kurdish region is emerging. Several small cities in northeastern Syria are under the control of a Syrian Kurdish militia that's allied with the Kurdistan Workers Party, a Turkish group that backs Kurdish rights and autonomy across the region.
The heady days of March 2011, when demonstrators called for democratic reforms and more inclusive government, are long gone. Perhaps even more than Iraq, the Syrian state has been exposed as a construct held together by security services and fear. Before Iraq's civil war divided communities there, intermarriage was common. It's difficult to find Syrians who marry outside their sects, however, despite the government's nationalist rhetoric.
The divisions are also evident in a minor explosion of news media in Syria, where it's possible for the first time to publicly broadcast and print viewpoints that contradict the government's. But many now complain that the outlets that have opened are just as limiting, refusing to criticize the rebels.
"Psychologically speaking, the separation exists," said Firas Diba, a Syrian journalist now in exile in Turkey who's spent months trying to find a backer for a TV station he says will present multiple viewpoints. "Practically speaking, we are taking the first step toward division."


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Women storm Fiji 31-5
MOSCOW, Russia - The Women's Eagles Sevens scored five tries to secure their second Pool C win at the Rugby World Cup, thanks to a 31-5 victory over Fiji inside Gorodok Stadium.
"We knew Fiji would be very physical, and we were ready for them," commented Head Coach Ric Suggitt. "Credit to all twelve of our players for performing their roles--they really got the team going".
The Eagles kicked off deep via Kimberly Rozier, and a great tackle in the corner by Victoria Folayan, gave the USA a 5-meter lineout. The set piece was excellent, and the ball went wide to winger Folayan who got past her defender to score for the Eagles after only 36 seconds played.
Rozier kicked the conversion and the USA led 7-0.
Following the restart, Fiji were awarded a scrum in the center of the field, near their 22-meter. Solid hussle from the Eagles disrupted the Fijian possession, and it was livewire Christy Ringgenberg who dove over to score the Eagles second try. The conversion missed, with the USA holding an early 12-0 lead.
Fiji eventually got their hands on the ball and winger Suliana Batirau Gusuivalu raced away to score for the Pacific Islanders. The conversion was unsuccessful, with the Eagles leading 12-5 with three minutes to play in the half.
Coach Suggitt inserted a few of his substitutes, bringing in Kelly Griffin and Deven Owsiany.
Fiji managed to retain the restart, and it took another superb Folayan tackle at sweeper to hault the forward momentum. Jillion Potter then stretched her legs and made a fantastic 60-meter run for the Eagles. Support arrived in numbers, and the ball eventually found Griffin into space. She touched down to score and together with Rozier's conversion, they gave the Eagles breathing room at 19-5.
After halftime substitute Vanesha McGee used her speed down the touchline, and was very close to scoring but barely had a foot out and was called out-of-bounds.
Fiji tried to spark some magic, working their way to the Eagles 22-meter. Excellent defense led to a turnover for the USA, and McGee found open space on the outside. She earned the corner around the last defender and scored for the Eagles. Rozier added the extras and the Eagles took a 26-5 lead.
Moments later the Fijians were on attack again, and looked certain to score, but superb team defense saw another steal for the Eagles, as McGee sent Johnson down the touchline. The youngster used her speed and stamina to score a classic in the corner.
The Eagles were full value for their excellent 31-5 victory, and will play their final Pool C match against Spain at 12.00 PM E.T Saturday, June 29 inside Luzhniki Stadium. Earlier today they defeated Brazil 12-5, while Spain tied Fiji 14-14.
"Now we are going to have a good break and get ready for Spain" said Suggitt.
Watch the USA vs. Spain live on thewww.rwcsevens.com as well as broadcast onUniversal Sports. Coverage on Universal Sports will begin on June 29 at 1:00 AM E.T. and June 30 at 1:30 AM E.T.
Follow live updates on Twitter from the official USA Rugby account (@USARugby) and read game recaps onwww.usarugby.org/rwc2013 andwww.rwcsevens.com. Join the conversation using #RWC7s.
Women's Eagles Sevens | Rugby World Cup 2013 | vs. Fiji
1. Jillion Potter
2. Kelly Griffin (s)
3. Vanesha McGee (s)
4. Deven Owsiany (s)
5. Kimberly Rozier
6. Christine Ringgenberg
7. Victoria Folayan
8. Kathryn "KJ" Johnson (s)
9. Irene Gardner
10. Emilie Bydwell
11. Nathalie Marchino (s)
12. Ryan Carlyle
Women's Eagles Sevens | Rugby World Cup 2013 | vs. Fiji
Tries: Folayan, Ringgenberg, Griffin, McGee, Johnson
Conversion: Rozier (3)
Women's Eagles Sevens | Schedule
USA 12 Brazil 7 (Pool Stages - June 29)
USA 31 Fiji 5 (Pool Stages - June 29)
USA vs. Spain 12.00 PM E.T Saturday June 29 [Luzhniki Stadium]
Women's Eagles Sevens | Staff
Ric Suggitt (Head Coach)
JoAnne Kos (Assistant Coach/Team Manager)
Nicole Titmas (Athletic Trainer)
Dr. Lisa Bartoli (Team Doctor)


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Jennie Garth tried reaching out to her former TV co-star Amanda Bynes after her legal troubles hit the headlines, but the actress was left disappointed when she didn't receive a response from the former child star.
Garth played Bynes' onscreen sister in the sitcom "What I Like About You" for four years between 2002 and 2006, and admits she tried to get in touch with the actress after a series of driving offenses and rumors of personal problems.
However, Garth hasn't been able to get through to Bynes to offer her support.
She tells Usmagazine.com, "I tried reaching out to her and I haven't been able to reach her. My heart feels for whatever she is going through and I love her dearly."
Bynes has been dogged by a number of driving offenses in recent months, including a DUI charge and two counts of hit-and-run, and she also entered not guilty pleas to two counts of driving on a suspended license on Monday.


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MIDDLEBURG (AP) - A steady stream of mourners has paid their respects to a north Florida detective killed while investigating a tip about a meth lab.
Friends and family formed a long line Sunday for a viewing at a Green Cove Springs funeral home for Clay County Sheriff's Detective David White. The Florida Times-Union reports that a flag flew at half-staff outside the funeral home and that White's family arrived by police escort.
The 35-year-old detective died Thursday after a shootout at a Middleburg home. A suspect also was killed, and another detective was wounded.
A memorial service will be held today in Middleburg, followed by a burial in Green Cove Springs.
White was a nine-year veteran of the sheriff's office, as well as an Army veteran.


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The Italian-made bag comes in one size only and from the looks of it, makes for perfect office use. This Valentino would speak of you, not as just a smart professional, but also as someone who is à la mode with the latest fashion trends.
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IS THIS THE END OF LOUIS VUITTON MULTICOLORED MONOGRAM BAGS?Categories:Louis Vuitton
Some not-so-good news, ladies – Louis Vuitton's Multicolored Monogram Bags will no longer be available in stores this year. This iconic design was the brainchild of the collaboration between Takashi Murakami, a prolific contemporary Japanese artist, and the French luxury design house (which was then spearheaded by Marc Jacobs). It was a huge success – and a clear favorite of high-status celebrities who wanted to get into the huge following (big names like Naomi Campbell, Paris Hilton and Sarah Jessica Parker all had this bag). It was a rebirth of the iconic LV monogram, and a clear combination between commercialism and high art forms.
Since the fashion house is now under the wing of Nicholas Ghesquiere, his vision is hell-bent on returning the glory of classic prints, and that includes re-establishing one of the major foundations in fashion which is the original monogram (and other basic prints). Although this is exciting (and really throwback-worthy), we cannot help but feel a bit off because we are about to lose one of the most loved designs in fashion history. It may have been just a phase, but it was madness.
What do you think about this new artistic direction that LV is taking? Do you think they should bring the Multicolored Monogram back to life?
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Elizabeth Crowell, owner of the Sterling Place retail chain and e-commerce website, has had several profitable years in business. Crowell decided to invest in other women-led companies and is a graduate of the Pipeline Fellowship angel investing boot camp for women.
Elizabeth Crowell, owner of the Sterling Place retail chain and e-commerce website, has had several profitable years in business. Crowell decided to invest in other women-led companies and is a graduate of the Pipeline Fellowship angel investing boot camp for women.
Question: After building and running a successful business for the past decade, you've decided to make the leap from investing in your own company to investing in other entrepreneurs. How did you make this transition, and what advice do you have for others interested in doing the same thing?
Answer: Every investor will have his own path, but I think there are a few key steps everyone should take to increase his odds of success.
Step 1: Get real about your role. Before becoming an investor, any entrepreneur should ask herself: Am I prepared to be on the sidelines of a business rather than playing the leading role? Can I be a coach rather than the star player?
If you can afford to invest in other businesses, your business most likely was profitable and you're comfortable calling the shots and being the boss. And if your business had investors, you probably understand that although their cash, contacts and connections were vital, at the end of the day, your team - with you as the founder or CEO - executed the vision and built the business.
Step 2: Get educated. Investing in startups, especially those run by first-time entrepreneurs, is extremely risky. Since 3 out of 4 startups fail, there is a 75 percent chance you'll lose 100 percent of your money in any given investment.
Step 3: Get going. Once you've made the decision to become an investor and educated yourself, it's time to decide on your personal parameters.
� Geographic constraints: local, national, international?
� Stage of company: Are you interested in seeding a pre-revenue startup, or are you only interested in companies looking for capital to expand a successful idea?
� Size of investment: How much will you invest per company? Fabled angel investor Joanne Wilson follows one simple rule: Whenever she invests, she buys 1 percent of the company. As the company continues to bring in additional rounds of capital, she reinvests so that she maintains the 1 percent ownership.
� Go it alone or join a group: Angel groups and venture funds can help you diversify and spread the risk, as can funds associated with business accelerators such as Women Innovate Mobile. But if you're not ready to commit to an annual investment minimum, there are online groups such as AngelList and CircleUp that provide deal flow without any dollar commitment.
Finally, dig deep and get clear about what matters to you. This is your chance to put your money where your mouth is.
Contact Jennie Wong, an executive coach and author of the ebook "Ask the Mompreneur," at email@example.com.


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Monthly subscription services for eco-friendly products are picking up steam, and we're happy to welcome funky and fun littlefox into the mix. Handpicked by two sisters (with 6 kids between them), each littlefox "pack of awesomness" is a cleverly curated green goody package for kids ages 0-2 and their parents. What you can expect: a changing array of 3-5 eco-friendly products each month, including a limited edition organic clothing item created in-house by littlefox artists.
November's inaugural box included a bandana baby bib from Etsy designer Francesca Baby, a pack of eco-friendly paints with a brush, leg warmers, BPA-free teething jewelry, an organic cotton, hipster messenger bag featuring a ghetto blaster, and a limited edition organic cotton t-shirt. December's package of products includes tegu magnetic wooden blocks, a BPA-free, reusable food pouch, a reversible, 100% organic cotton aviator hat from Coyuchi, a super soothing, vegan, gluten-free soap bar made with certified organic ingredients, and a littlefox "Brick littlefox" limited edition organic cotton t-shirt. We love how the littlefox creators think, well, outside the box and add some fun non-essential items to their gift packages, making a subscription the perfect baby shower or holiday gift.
Monthly subscriptions are $37.95 (shipping is included), and the retail value of the contents is between $50-$70, so you get a savings on green baby products too. And since they're all about being green, it makes sense that littlefox keeps their packaging clean too: 100% recyclable and made from recycled cardboard. littlefox is currently accepting orders for their January "pack of awesomeness." You can view the contents of each month's new pack on the company's website.


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On this day — A bill that would relax the state's classroom size limits gets sent back to committee; civil rights lawyers want to depose the Comptroller for the massive data breach; and Dewhurst parks the bus firmly on top of Ogden.
***Back to Committee
Stop me if you've heard this before – actually, don't. I want to finish this story. So, after being delayed for a good long while, the House finally took up HB 400. Among other things, the bill would remove the hard cap on class sizes for grades K-4. After the long wait, the bill was sent back to committee after a point of order raised against the bill was accepted; Gary Scharrer reports.
The Comptroller's plate just got a little bit further as civil rights attorneys in Austin have announced their intention to ask the Legislature for permission to depose Comptroller Susan Combs for the massive security break at her office, which exposed the personal information of about 3.5 million Texans to the Internet; Patti Hart reports.
***Under the Bus
During Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst's usual meeting with the reporters who covered the Senate, he said that he didn't agree with the majority of Senators to remove another $3 billion from the Rainy Day Fund to lessen the impact of the budget cuts. The Statesman's Jason Embry typed up nearly the entirety of the twenty minute press conference. Here are a couple of the highlights.
Embry: So you're saying that's the wrong decision, to take an additional $3 billion out of the rainy day fund?
Dewhurst: You asked me if I agreed with it and I told you that I've been resisting going into the rainy day fund and I was looking from day one to be able to close our budget based upon some tweaks in state law, some additional cuts on non-priority items and by filling that with additional non-tax revenue items.
Peggy Fikac: So do you think he can get the 21 votes here, even looking like you're not going to have that extra $3 billion that has seemed important to the senators so far?
Dewhurst: Let me jump down to the bottom here. The bottom line is that the majority of the senators, whether they be Republican or Democrat, want to fund public education adequately. I don't think there are 16 votes in the Senate for not funding public education adequately. Having said that, I think a majority of the members, particularly the Republicans, want to make sure that our standards remain high, and that we not numb them down.
Chronicle/Express News Austin Bureau Chief Peggy Fikac reports that Perry is continuing to hold to his hard line against using any additional money from the Rainy Day Fund to ease the severity of budget cuts proposed by the House.
Texas for Fiscal Responsibility, an influence group of conservative activists headed by Michael Quinn Sullivan, circulated a letter around the Senate yesterday, warning Senators that they negatively score a vote in favor of Sen. Steve Ogden's budget proposal; the Statesman's Jason Embry has more.
***Happening Today
– The House gets started on Congressional redistricting. Come for the fireworks, stay for the wonky detail and giant maps.
***Happening Tomorrow (Maybe)
– Rep. Rob Eissler, R-The Woodlands, said he would try to have HB 400 back out of committee and on the House floor by Thursday.
– The Senate is expected to begin work on the Senate Finance Committee's budget proposal. The magic number is 21 and there are real questions about whether or not Sen. Steve Ogden has the needed votes to bring up his budget in the Senate.


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Between heated comments on preserving constitutional rights and religious discrimination, jokes flourished that Tuesday was the first time a bill amending family law had a public hearing in the Senate's Business and Commerce Committee.
Senate Bill 1639 originally was assigned to the Jurisprudence Committee for consideration, but within a few days was moved to the committee chaired by its author, John Carona, R-Dallas.
Carona's proposed legislation would prevent Texas judges from applying or ceding to foreign laws in family cases if the foreign court would violate American constitutional rights.
Supporters lauded Carona for fighting the sinister effort of foreign nations, and specifically sharia law, to subvert American ideals and subjugate women. One Houston-area woman read a letter from a friend who couldn't make it, describing the Pakistani immigrant's story of being the victim of an acid attack because of her Christian faith.
The woman's Methodist Minister, Randy Smith of Tyler, also testified at the hearing as President of interfaith advocacy group Texas Impact, but he opposed the measure.
"I helped arrange for the surgeries she got," Smith said. "In no way would this bill have helped her. She was granted the ability to stay in this country because immigration law recognized she was heavily discriminated against in her own country."
He and other religious leaders said the legislation was unnecessary since courts already uphold the Constitution as the supreme law. They congratulated Carona on writing the bill tightly so it didn't target a particular group for discrimination, as an anti-sharia bill last session did, but said it still would have unintended consequences on Catholics, Jews, Muslims and others who already have decades of court history outlining how their religious law interacts with secular courts.
The ACLU of Texas and The Texas Family Law Foundation pointed to statutes already on the books that prevent against exactly what Carona's supporters fear could happen, arguing the passage of SB 1639 would simply create confusion.


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Adobe has decided to name the next release of Flex Builder 4 as Flash Builder. It's a good move by Adobe though it doesn't change much about the underlying technology. Since most of the new comers to the Flex world are quite confused about the difference between Flash and Flex it makes perfect sense to let the product name reflect it.
There might be some confusions and concerns though on this change since all of us are now so used to the word "Flex". Personally, I think this should have been done much earlier. We hear that Flex SDK and Flex Framework are going to still retain their names.
Many a times we had client who were not ready to use Flex as they thought it requires a special server or sometimes that it a different technology all together than Flash and needs it's own player/runtime to work on the client side.
Just to clarify things for those who still don't understand the difference, Flex is an open source framework and a tag based language (mostly) which eases the development of web applications and desktop applications (based on AIR) but the end result is still an SWF file which runs on the Flash Player. The way in which you generate the SWF is the only difference between Flash and Flex.
Flash is more design oriented but Flex is more code oriented. Unlike Flash, Flex doesn't have a timeline and other animation related tools but that doesn't mean you cannot do them in Flex. The underlying programming language (ActionScript) is now so mature that you can almost do everything which you can do in Flash, in Flex – just that you have to do them through code unlike Flash where you can do them visually. In fact even the new Inverse Kinematics (IK) in CS4 can be programmed through ActionScript.
In essence, Flash and Flex are almost the same from a programming perspective and both of them generate an SWF which runs in Flash Player.
So do we have to re-designate all our Flex Programmers to Flash Programmers? No, not yet !
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Berry College, in Rome, Ga., will join other members of the new Southern Athletic Association in offering football as a varsity sport in 2013, and men's and women's track and field soon thereafter, president Steve Briggs announced Saturday.
Berry, along with previously announced new additions Hendrix and George Fox, would bring the total number of Division III schools sponsoring football to 244.
"We believe that the addition of football will be an enhancement to our campus life. As a residential college, like the other schools in our conference, Berry features a community of students who live and learn together. Football games will offer more opportunities for energetic engagement by students and will allow more social activities for alumni and friends," Briggs said.
The additions of Hendrix and Berry in 2013 would give the SAA the seven football programs it needs to qualify for an automatic bid in football, which it could receive as early as 2014, once the new league finishes its two-year waiting period. The conference is being formed from the split-up of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.
The Southeast has very few Division III schools and even fewer football programs. There are none in Florida, none in South Carolina, two in Mississippi and Berry will join LaGrange to bring the total in Georgia to two.
The school anticipates hiring a football coach during 2012 with a target to begin play in 2013. Planning will begin during the next few months to add facilities to support football and track and field.
The Berry College Board of Trustees' unanimous support for adding the sports followed a multi-year evaluation process which included analyses by outside consultants, wide-ranging discussions on campus involving students, faculty, staff and alumni along with extensive research as to the benefits these sports will bring to the campus.
"Berry's involvement with the new Southern Athletic Association promotes the active engagement of athletes in all college activities and is a model for the true scholar-athlete," said Board of Trustees chair Karen Holley Horrell. "We are proud to offer our students additional opportunities through the addition of football and men's and women's track and field."
Todd Brooks, Berry's athletic director, said, "We are truly excited to be adding football at this time in our history. We have added a number of athletic opportunities for our student-athletes in the past couple of years and this is by far one of the most exciting.
"All of our coaches and student-athletes at Berry are competitive and expect to win, both on the field and in the classroom. We are proud of the tradition of success our athletics program has established, and we fully expect that our teams will continue that tradition as we move forward. We are looking forward to seeing our football and track and field teams help build on the foundation that's been established, and assisting Berry College in reaching its institutional goals."
The addition of football brings the total number of varsity sports sponsored by Berry to 21, including 20 that compete at the NCAA Division III level. Berry's equestrian team competes in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association.
Since 2003, when volleyball made its debut on the Berry campus, the college has been aggressive in adding opportunities for student-athletes to compete in intercollegiate athletics. Since then, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's swimming and diving and softball have been added. Equestrian has also been elevated to the varsity level from club status.


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Understanding Afghanistan and Pakistan Understanding Afghanistan and Pakistan today starts with grasping the basics about their interconnected histories, including the roles other powers have played in this region. The situations we see today have deep roots. Some of the story lines are sadly familiar, with mistakes and tragedies repeated. The spring/summer 2010 edition of Peacebuilder magazine is ...More
- Peacebuilding vocation and the Mennonites' tutelage: personal reflections on my peacebuilding trajectory anchored on a Mennonite foundation
- e-Therapy and e-Support: An expressive therapist explores how to be supportive from a distance, when face-to-face isn't an option
- Ali Gohar: Seeking to win minds and hearts in Pakistan with a carrot, not a stick
- Envisioning the Future
- Peacebuilding Compared: 'Restorative justice, policing and insurgency: Learning from Pakistan'
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- Ali Gohar Babu Ayindo Barry Hart Brian Gumm Carl Stauffer Center for Justice and Peacebuilding David Brubaker Elaine Zook Barge Fulbright Scholar Howard Zehr Jan Jenner Jayne Docherty John Paul Lederach Lisa Schirch Mennonite Central Committee PhD PhD candidate restorative justice Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience Summer Peacebuilding Institute


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Cape Brett Walkway Track
Cape Brett Peninsula is rich with Maori history, ancient Pa sites and fortified villages visible along the way. A challenging track with magnificent views
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Experience some of the most dramatic seaside views along the Cape Brett Track. The track features spectacular cliff edges, beautiful native forests and expansive views of the Cavalli and Poor Knights Islands, as well as the Whangamumu headlands.
Time & Distance:
To walk from Rawhiti to Deep Water Cove - approx 5-6 hours.
To walk from Deep Water Cove to Cape Brett - approx 2-3 hours.
To walk from Rawhiti to Cape Brett (16.3 Km) one way - approx 8 hrs.
Getting There and Back:
Dive Ops offers several water taxi options, if you prefer to walk a certain distance and be picked up for a return trip. Below are some examples:
Self drive to Rawhiti (car storage available at Julia's Backpackers), Dive Ops' water taxi picks you up at Kaingahoa Bay and drops you off at Cape Brett. From there you will walk back to your car - approx 8 hours
Self drive to Rawhiti (car storage available at Julia's Backpackers), Dive Ops' water taxi picks you up at Kaingahoa Bay and drops you off at Deep Water Cove. From there you will walk out to Cape Brett - approx 2- 3 hours. Stay the night in the DOC hut and then walk back to your car the next day
Pick up in Paihia / Russell by the Dive Ops water taxi and take a scenic boat ride out to Cape Brett. From here you can either walk to Rawhiti on the same day and we'll pick you up later, or stay a little longer and Dive Ops will pick you up the next day and take you back to Paihia / Russell.
The Lighthouse was first lit in 1910 and stands at the entrance to the Bay of Islands; it stands at 14m high and is one of three lighthouses in New Zealand to utilise mercury bath technology. The lighthouse keeper's cottage was built in 1908 and is very typical for the early 20th century. It's the only remaining lighthouse left in Northland of its kind.
Plan, Prepare & Be Safe:
Please note: No dogs are allowed on the track and camping is not permitted due to fire risk. It is essential that you pack and take all your rubbish, including food scraps to prevent rats. Take your own water, at least 2 lts per walker. Wear suitable footwear and clothing.


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How well do you know your MoMA? If you think you can identify the artist and title of each of these works from MoMA's collection—all currently on view throughout the Museum—please submit your answers by leaving a comment on this post. We'll provide the answers next month (on Friday, March 14).
Congratulations to Kaukametsä Civic Center/Eternal Art Lovers, the first to correctly identify all six works. Do you have what it takes to claim this month's title?
1. Pablo Picasso. Head of a Warrior. 1933
2. Umberto Boccioni. Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. 1913 (cast 1931)
3. Carl Andre. Equivalent V. 1966–69
4. Maria Martins. The Impossible, III. 1946
5. Henri Matisse. The Back (I). 1908–09
6. Marcel Jean. Specter of the Gardenia. 1936


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A Man and his dog and Fuzzies
When reading is good it bring you into a different world. The people step out of the pages and become close to you. Fuzzy Nation is such a book.
It is a book about a disbarred Lawyer who meets a family of cute little fuzzy aliens and saves them from the clutches of the Big Bad Mining Company ZaraCorp. Jack Holloway is the kind of unwilling hero you love to read about. At first he blows up half a mountainside prospecting for the Company and hit the big one, gets fired for the destruction and rehired straight afterwards when his favorite enemy prospector liaison learns what he found. Relationships like that is something I like reading about. They drive one another crazy but there is respect between them. In the brief time Jack is unemployed he claims the find and bring in the ZaraCorp as his partner to help extract the find.
When he arrives home at his tree house (Yeah that's right) he finds a fuzzy little animal inside his cabin. Carl ,his well-trained dog (well he can set of explosives) takes offence at the intruder and chases it up a bookshelf. Jack has never seen anything like the cute little catlike biped before so he put Carl outside and offers fruit to win its trust before it leaves for the jungle. That is basically first contact for you.
What follows is immersive and fun. Jack involves a former girlfriend who happens to be a biologist to look at the creatures. She has moved on to a new fiancé which makes for interesting chemistry, maybe not what you expect though. The Company is very excited about the new find but they are only allowed on the planet because it has no sentient specie. They would do anything to stop the Fuzzies from being declared sentient including exterminating them.
Jack is at first convinced they are just animals and I guess the money he would lose if ZaraCorp weren't allowed to mine the find of rare jewels he made also helps. But he is also a lawyer and uses that to his advantage. His relationship with the former girlfriend continues to deteriorate as she is convinced they are. She is idealistic and he is self-serving.
There is action but most of the decisions in this novel take place in the court room. It is funny how enjoyable the whole experience is. Never in a thousand years would I have guessed I would enjoy a story about lawyers so much.
Fuzzy Nation is an homage to H. Beam Piper and his Hugo award-winning novel Little Fuzzy.
Heineken doesn't do science fiction, but if they did it would be something like Fuzzy Nation to paraphrase their promo. John Scalzi is a brilliant scoundrel and Fuzzy Nation is the most brilliant fan fiction I ever read. I so hope there will be more books in this universe.
Book Information
Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi – Tor (2011) – Amazon US | UK
Excerpt: Chapter 1-4
Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp's headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation's headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting and surveying at his own pace. As for his past, that's not up for discussion.
Then, in the wake of an accidental cliff collapse, Jack discovers a seam of unimaginably valuable jewels, to which he manages to lay legal claim just as ZaraCorp is cancelling their contract with him for his part in causing the collapse. Briefly in the catbird seat, legally speaking, Jack pressures ZaraCorp into recognizing his claim, and cuts them in as partners to help extract the wealth.
But there's another wrinkle to ZaraCorp's relationship with the planet Zarathustra. Their entire legal right to exploit the verdant Earth-like planet, the basis of the wealth they derive from extracting its resources, is based on being able to certify to the authorities on Earth that Zarathustra is home to no sentient species.
Then a small furry biped—trusting, appealing, and ridiculously cute—shows up at Jack's outback home. Followed by its family. As it dawns on Jack that despite their stature, these are people, he begins to suspect that ZaraCorp's claim to a planet's worth of wealth is very flimsy indeed…and that ZaraCorp may stop at nothing to eliminate the "fuzzys" before their existence becomes more widely known.


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Map 1: Early Puebloan communities in
present day New Mexico.
Gran Quivira, the largest of the Salinas pueblos, lies in the 6,500-foot-high Salinas basin, now called the Estancia Valley, between the rocky Chupadera Mesa on the west and the Gallinas Mountains on the east. The area receives little water and has a short growing season.Questions for Map 1
1. Locate and circle Gran Quivira, Quarai, and Abó, the three pueblos that make up Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.
2. What do you notice about the location of most of the villages? Why might this be the case?
3. How does the location of Gran Quivira compare with that of most other pueblos on the map? Use the map scale to determine Gran Quivira's approximate distance from the Rio Grande and the Rio Pecos. How might this have affected Gran Quivira's inhabitants?
* The map on this screen has a resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi), and therefore will print poorly. You can obtain a high quality version of Map 1, but be aware that the file may take as much as 35 seconds to load with a 28.8K modem.


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Location: Washington
Established: March 2, 1899
Size: 235,625 acres
One of the world's most massive volcanoes, Mount Rainier can dominate the skyline for 100 miles before you reach the park named after it. At nearly three miles in height, Mount Rainier is the tallest peak in the Cascade Range; it dwarfs 6,000-foot surrounding summits, appearing to float alone among the clouds.
Mount Rainier may be the centerpiece of the national park, but it is hardly the only attraction. Here, less than three hours' drive from Seattle, you can stroll through seemingly endless fields of wildflowers, listen for cracking glacier debris, wander among trees more than a thousand years old. The park's convenient location, however, also leads to weekend traffic jams, both summer and winter, and guarantees you company on popular trails.
Mount Rainier is the offspring of fire and ice. Still active, it was probably born more than a half million years ago, on a base of lava spewed out by previous volcanoes. Lava and ash surged out of the young volcano's vent thousands of times, filling the neighboring canyons and building up a summit cone, layer by layer, to a height of some 16,000 feet.
Even while Mount Rainier was growing, glaciers carved valleys on and around the mountain. The 25 major glaciers here form the largest collection of permanent ice on a single U.S. peak south of Alaska.
Mount Rainier's summit deteriorated over time, but eruptions in the last 2,000 years rebuilt it to its current height of 14,410 feet. The mountain last erupted about a century ago.
How to Get There
From Seattle (95 miles) or Tacoma (70 miles) to the Nisqually Entrance (open year-round), take I-5 to Wash. 7, then follow Wash. 706. From Yakima, take Wash. 12 west to Wash. 123 or Wash. 410, and enter from the park's east side (Stevens Canyon or White River Entrances closed in winter). For the northwest entrances (Carbon River and Mowich Lake), take Wash. 410 to Wash. 169 to Wash. 165, then follow the signs. Carbon River Road washed out in a November 2006 flood (check with the park for closure information). Airports: Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
When to Go
Year-round. Wildflowers are at their best in July and August. High trails may remain snow covered until mid-July. Cross-country skiing and snowshoeing are popular in winter. Summer and winter, to miss the crowds, time your visit to midweek.
How to Visit (Summer)
If you have only a day, drive from the Nisqually Entrance in the southwest to the flowered fields of Paradise, then on to Sunrise, the highest point accessible by car, open early July to early October. If you have two days, take the same route but do it more leisurely: Plan to explore as far as Paradise the first day, then tour Stevens Canyon Road and the route to Sunrise the next; arrive before 10 a.m. to catch the early light and wend your way back.
For a longer stay, drive out and re-enter the less known northwest corner (check for road closures) at Carbon River for a look at a rain forest and a hike to a dark, shiny glacier. Because Mount Rainier creates its own clouds and can hide for days or weeks at a time, come prepared to focus on delights close at hand: waterfalls, woods, and wildflowers.
Fun Fact
Mount Rainier is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world.


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I contemplated purchasing another carton of Cherry Garcia, or just taking a quick picture during my next grocery store run, but then it hit me like the dodge ball the older girls used to pelt at me during dodge ball...
TJ's Soy Creamy Cherry Chocolate Chip "ice cream" is beyond compare. There is no contest -- it blows Ben & Jerry's cherries completely out of the bowl.
Not only is it packed with gobs more of the sweet cherries and dark chocolate chunks I crave, the consistency is much creamier. It's hard to believe that at 190 calories per 1/2 cup, the Soy Creamy version has only 30 more calories per serving than Ben & Jerry's. To spend an entire post even pretending to find merit in Ben & Jerry's weak attempt at a low-cal treat would be a waste of time. To borrow the words of a former superior, it is quite literally "dead to me."
TJ's Cherry Chocolate Chip is not. In fact, it is so alive that at 8:00 pm last Friday night, my craving for the lusciously sweet goodness was so strong that I surrendered my primo parking spot right in front of my apartment just to go pick up a carton. Of course, as luck would have it, my Trader Joe's was out. As was the other location I tried.
Fortunately, I had a small portion left in the carton in my freezer and was shockingly able to ease my ravenous hunger for indulgence with a puny half-cup serving. I suspect it might have been even less than that, but it was a striking moment: TJ's Soy Creamy Cherry Chocolate Chip is so satisfying, I can actually (gasp gasp!) adhere to serving guidelines!
Of course, I'd much prefer my serving to look a little like this:
Oh what a world it could be, if my life could always be a bowl of those TJ's Soy Creamy cherries...


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Kami Rushell Smith, a 27-year-old Dorchester actress, plays the title role in the Lyric Stage Company's production of "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," a character inspired by Theresa Harris, a promising young African-American actress with scene-stealing beauty and talent. It plays March 29 to April 27.
A bewitching muse
Dorchester actress Kami Rushell Smith stars as the Lyric's 'Vera Stark'
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage found the inspiration for her new play, "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," while watching an old 1933 Warner Brothers movie called "Baby Face." A young Barbara Stanwyck was giving a compelling performance as a young woman who relies on her sex appeal to succeed, but Nottage couldn't take her eyes off a luminous supporting actress named Theresa Harris.
I know the feeling. Two years ago I was sitting in a Watertown theater watching Cheo Bourne give a beguiling performance as the lead character in the New Repertory Theatre's terrific production of "Passing Strange." But I couldn't take my eyes off Kami Rushell Smith. Even in a supporting role, she conveyed that intangible quality – that spark – that can bewitch an audience.
Now those two paths cross. Smith, a 27-year-old Dorchester actress, plays the title role in the Lyric Stage Company's production of "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," a character inspired by Theresa Harris, a promising young African-American actress with scene-stealing beauty and talent. It plays March 29 to April 27.
"I'm really excited about it," says Smith, who asked to read from "Vera Stark" when she went to the Lyric's open audition in the fall. "I'd read the play, and it resonated with me so much as an actor of color. The woman has been fighting so long and hard to do what she loves and to play roles that she feels good about. I identified with that. I think a lot about which roles I'm interested in doing and what I want my acting career to look like."
In the play, Vera is an aspiring actress, who, as a "day job," works for a movie star who's having her own struggles with Hollywood. The two women end up getting cast in the same Southern-set Hollywood epic. The play chronicles Vera's battles against a Hollywood system that has a hard time envisioning black actresses as anything other than maids.
The entertainment industry has certainly come a long way in its portrayal of African Americans, but maybe it hasn't come quite as far as we think. Smith says there have been African-American roles that she didn't take – or, more often, didn't even audition for – because she was uncomfortable with the image they portrayed.
"Of course the field has opened up by leaps and bounds [since 'Baby Face']," she says, citing actresses such as Angela Bassett who have helped push beyond the stereotypes. "But there are still a lot of slave and prostitute roles. You don't want to be pigeonholed into those roles, even though they may be historical or factually correct. As an actor, you have to look at a role and ask if this character has been created for a good reason, or is it gratuitous."
Smith admits she's had fun "digging my teeth into" the old Hollywood style of acting. There's a film-within-the-play that shows Vera's work in a "Gone with the Wind"-type movie. As we spoke, Smith had just finished shooting the scene in the Charles Street Inn.
"The play is really smart, but we're also learning how funny it is," says Smith. "It's human and normal, but it's also a lot of fun. It's a really interesting mix of comedy and drama. Parts of it are like a screwball comedy. But then other parts really hit you in the gut. They're heart-breaking."
Smith faces that old acting challenge of aging. The play follows Vera's life and career from the 1930s to the 1970s, so Smith must age about 40 years onstage.
"I love it," she says with a laugh. "It's a blast. I'm channeling my grandmother. She's pretty spunky. She's very observant, spry, funny and with-it. She can say whatever she wants, and nobody better challenge her."
Smith grew up in Mississippi, but she came to Boston to study at the Boston Conservatory. Since graduating, she's become attached to the Boston theater community, describing it as "competitive, but not cut-throat. It's a real community, not a bunch of individuals. It's an environment where others want you to succeed."
And she appreciates the acting jobs she's been offered here.
"I've personally been very lucky in Boston to be employed pretty consistently. And I've been really impressed," she says. The opportunities for an African-American actress are "growing more and more. I recently performed in another play by a playwright of color. And then I got a role as a result of color-blind casting. That's a small example of the track that Boston is on. I'll be excited to watch it flourish and grow."
So would Theresa Harris. The current Boston theater scene is probably a step toward the kind of acting opportunities that she dreamed of while wrestling with a restrictive studio system that ensured the talented Harris would be little more than a Hollywood footnote.
"I watch clips of Theresa Harris," says Smith, who has also seen "Baby Face." "She had such a presence on screen. You can't take your eyes off her. I wonder what would have happened if she had had the opportunity to play some amazing roles."
"By the Way, Meet Vera Stark"
WHEN: March 29-April 27
WHERE: The Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon St.
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Our electrical infrastructure spans the globe, lighting up every place on Earth. But it all relies on one singular metal: copper. And back in the early years of the 20th Century, many economists and engineers worried that we would run out of copper in no time.
They looked at the fast pace of our copper usage, and fretted that the world's copper reserves would quickly be outpaced by humanity's desire for an electric world.
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Peak Copper Theory
80% of copper mined over the course of human history is in use right now — the copper streets lining the circuit board of your computer may be the same pieces of copper that once constructed a medieval chalice.
The rate at which humanity used copper to install electric lights and form the foundation of our current infrastructure alarmed a number of miners, engineers, and economists in the early 20th Century. In the 1924 article Copper and electricity to vanish in twenty years?, copper mining engineer Ira Joralemon said:
[T]he age of electricity and of copper will be short. At the intense rate of production that must come, the copper supply of the world will last hardly a score of years. [...] Our civilization based on electrical power will dwindle and die.
This belief is yet to die — copper is necessary to build the infrastructure of any country, and as we continue through the Electronic Age, developing powers like Indian and China continue to devour copper.
Should the world's copper supply run dry, electronics makers would turn to more expensive metals with similar properties, like silver (copper currently costs 24 cents per ounce, while silver hovers around $31 an ounce). Aluminum is another possible replacement for copper, but use of aluminum for electrical wiring brings about an increased chance of combustion and burning a building down.
So copper is at least somewhat irreplaceable. In that case, why is it still so cheap?
The copper economy is fragile
Yasuo Hamanaka, a Japanese businessman, sought to artificially increase the value of copper by hoarding massive quantities of the metal, and in doing so, taught the world about the delicate nuances of the world's copper supply. By the mid-1990s, Hamanaka controlled 5% of the world's copper reserves.
5% does not sound like a lot, but copper is a not a commodity that can be moved around easily due to its mass, leaving Hamanaka's control of a small percentage to send waves through the world economy. Renewed mining efforts in China along with several financial probes intp Hamanaka's actions unraveled his scheme, with Hamanaka eventually serving seven years in prison for trading violations.
Improved recovery methods
40% of the world's copper is mined in Chile, with mines holding a steady output, after a brief drop-off during 2008.
Copper is durable and lasts an extremely long time — copper plumbing can last three centuries before substantial pitting occurs from water moving through the tubes.
Copper is also extremely robust — the quality of recycled copper is extremely high, and very little mass is lost during the recycling process, allowing re-purposed copper to demand a price only a few percentage points below newly mined copper. This property of copper is essential, as it moves copper away from the category of expendable resources like petroleum and closer to the terrain of renewable resources.
A combination of an increase in known reserves since the early 1900s and the current ability to turn a profit on ore containing less than 1% copper suggest a supple future for the world's copper reserves.
Extreme recycling
The ability to easily recycle copper may one day lead to a cottage industry of industrial-scale electronics recycling, with the process turning discarded laptops, televisions, and smartphones into scraps of useful copper, much like small scale recycling schemes currently recover gold and platinum from deceased electronics. Image by jakedolan/Flickr.
In a dire situation, existing copper parts of our infrastructure could be removed and outfitted with plastic or other alternatives. Copper pipes buried underground could be replaced with PVC, while slowly oxidized, green copper roofs become black sheets of asphalt. No doubt an extreme and labor intensive undertaking, but a believable one if a profit motive exists.
Wars fought over natural resources are not unheard of — could we see the day when countries go to war over copper mines? Not a likely scenario in our lifetimes, due to increased mining and recycling possibilities, but one that makes for interesting science fiction fodder. At the very least, our ancestors' fears of a small and finite copper supply appear to have been overcome, allowing us to sleep with the lights on.
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Analysts Observing Stock: Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (PGC)
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (PGC)'s Stock Price Update:
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (PGC) stock price ended its day with loss -0.47% and finalized at the price of $27.38, its 52 week- peak value and changed 14.27% from its 52 week-bottom price value. During its last trading session, Stock traded with the total exchanged volume of 0.08 million shares. The average volume stands around 0.06 million shares. The average numbers of shares are traded in a security per day, during the recent 3-month period. The stock has relative volume of 1.35. Relative volume is ratio between current volume and 3-month average value, intraday adjusted.
The company gives a ROE of 9.70%. The higher the ROE, the better the company is at generating profits. ROI is 17.50%. A positive result means that returns exceed costs. Analysts therefore consider the investment a net gain. The opposite kind of result, a negative means that costs outweigh returns. Analysts therefore view the investment as a net loss. Return on Assets (ROA) ratio indicates how profitable a company is relative to its total assets. The ROA is 1.00%. A company that manages their assets well will have a high return, while if manages their assets poorly will have a low return.
ATR value of company was 0.54. Average True Range (ATR) is an indicator based on trading ranges smoothed by an N-period exponential moving average percentage of the true range values. ATR can display volatility of stocks, ETFs and indexes. The principal of ATR is very similar to other volatility indicators: A high ATR value signals a possible trend change. A low ATR value correlates with a weaker trend movement.
To review the PGC previous performance, look at its past history, which highlighted below: During last 5 trades the stock sticks almost -2.28%. During last one month it showed the change of -0.73%. During last 3 month it remained at 5.80%. During last 12 month it moved at -23.82%. Along with these its year to date performance is standing at 8.74%.
In USA Industry, Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (PGC) have 19.40 million outstanding shares currently held by all its shareholders, including share blocks held by institutional investors and restricted shares owned by the company's officers and insiders. The company have shares float of 18.87 million. Float is the number of shares available for trading of a particular stock. Floating stock is calculated by subtracting closely-held shares and restricted stock from a firm's total outstanding shares. Closely-held shares are those owned by insiders, major shareholders and employees, while restricted stock refers to insider shares that cannot be traded because of a temporary restriction such as the lock-up period after an initial public offering. A stock with a small float will generally be more volatile than a stock with a large float, apart from having limited liquidity and wider bid-ask spread. Because of these issues, institutional investors seldom invest in low-float stocks.
Analysts' mean recommendation for Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (PGC) stands at 2.40. Rating Scale; where 1.0 rating means Strong Buy, 2.0 rating signify Buy, 3.0 recommendation reveals Hold, 4.0 rating score shows Sell and 5.0 displays Strong Sell signal.
USA based company, Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation (PGC)'s latest closing price distance was -2.12% from the average-price of 200 days while it maintained a distance from the 50 Day Moving Average at -1.73% and -1.81% compared with the 20 Day Moving Average.
The stock price weekly volatility remained at 1.86% while volatility is standing at 1.90% for the month. Volatility refers to the amount of uncertainty or risk about the size of changes in a security's value. A higher volatility means that a security's value can potentially be spread out over a larger range of values. This means that the price of the security can change dramatically over a short time period in either direction. A lower volatility means that a security's value does not fluctuate dramatically, but changes in value at a steady pace over a period of time. Commonly, the higher the volatility, the riskier the security.
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is no stranger to controversy. The TSA has been the subject of much scrutiny from civil libertarians and constitutionalists, who have criticized the agency's numerous affronts against the natural rights of American and foreign travelers, who have been subjected to violations of their bodily integrity and right to property.
Now, we learn that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), of which TSA is a part, is planning to test portable technology for DNA screening. Which means that the day may not be far off when the TSA starts deploying the technology at airports to scan and inspect individual travelers' genetic information, effectively documenting and storing copies of individual DNA codes. Not surprisingly, the TSA denies that this would happen, claiming at its blog: "TSA is not testing and has no plans to use any technology capable of testing DNA." However, the denial is not very comforting, since the same blog entry also states: "DHS S&T expects to receive a prototype DNA analyzer device this summer to conduct a preliminary evaluation of whether this kind of technology could be considered for future use. At this time, there are no DHS customers, nor is there a timeline for deployment, for this kind of technology — this is a simply a preliminary test of how the technology performs." The DHS is not going to test technology it does not envision ever using, and if the test is "successful" it is hard to imagine the TSA not conducting genetic pat-downs at airports.
The TSA already utilizes a number of invasive procedures on travelers, violating their bodily autonomy, such as groping passengers' most intimate body parts, and humiliating the infirmed and disabled through such moves as confiscating a disabled boy's leg braces, and damaging a bladder cancer survivor's urostomy bag.
Genetic Patdowns
The intended program of roving genetic scanning signals a significant step towards the creation of a government-managed database of every American citizen's genetic information, known as a National DNA Database, which will be compiled as individuals pass through both genetic and body scanners, as they pass through airport checkpoints.
The DHS admission that it will pursue genetic scanning has been described by critics as amounting to a "genetic pat down," referring to the pat-down procedures already used by TSA agents on travelers' body parts. It is not enough that government is currently involuntarily taking body scans of travelers (using x-ray technology to take and document images of individuals' bodies). It is now also involuntarily taking scans of individuals' genes, as reported by The Daily:
This summer, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to begin testing a portable DNA scanner. The device, which has not yet been unveiled but reportedly resembles a desktop printer, is expected to make genetic tests far more common, particularly in matters related to refugees, human trafficking and immigration. As the technology is commercialized, some experts believe it will soon make its way into everyday medical and law enforcement situations. With nothing more than a swab of saliva, security officials can use the device to obtain genetic information in less than an hour. The results reveal personal details about one's ethnicity, race, and lineage. Current DNA tests can take several weeks.
According to Dr. Richard Selden, the executive director of Network Biosystems, the biotechnology firm granted an exclusive government contract to develop the genetic scanning technology, "This can be done in real time, with no technical expertise. DNA information has the potential to become part of the fabric of day-to-day life, and this facilitates that process."
As a vocal proponent of portable genetic scanning, Selden also claims that the device can be tailored for use in emergency rooms, food safety tests, law enforcement settings, and even for federal agency hiring practices, and anticipates the commercialization of his device within a year:
This really is a platform technology. The Department of Homeland Security wanted it for specific applications, but other settings might want a device for different portions of DNA. Scanners used by the DHS will analyze only a small quantity of identifying information, and won't detect genetic vulnerabilities related to health or behavior.
Selden is notably a convicted fraudster who previously defrauded the FDA, but was nonetheless granted the DHS contract, due to his political clout.
He was the defendant in a suit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2008, due to his materially misleading statements made to federal officials concerning results of his company's clinical trials its U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) application for its flagship drug, Replagal.
Selden also intentionally misled investors, inflating the company's stock by making optimistic statements about the drug, in spite of evidence that the government was unlikely to approve the drug. Selden formerly directed the pharmaceutical company Transkaryotic Therapies Inc., which had spent over $250,000 on lobbying in the past decade, and employed the power lobbying firm Shereff, Friedman, Hoffman & Goodman LLP, known for its strong connections to the Democratic Party.
He is also one of the leaders in the field of Rapid DNA Analysis, an area which many fear represents the rise of the scientific surveillance state, as it allows government officials to keep close tabs on citizens through commonplace genetic testing. Similar technology is also being produced by the US-based aerospace group Lockheed Martin, which released the RapID system in September, 2010, as part of a contract with the Department of Justice, which is looking to create a Forensic DNA database, in the name of security and preventing illegal immigration and human trafficking, two problems which are at epidemic proportions beyond the scope of genetic patdowns, which are expected to begin this summer at American airports.
Cracking Down on Civil Liberties
This developing program seeks to replicate in the United States what has already been done in several European countries that currently have government DNA databases (these countries lack governmental recognition of natural rights). The United Kingdom, for instance, created the world's first DNA database, and while created under the benign guise of fighting crime and preventing unjust criminal prosecutions, the project has risen to Leviathan proportions.
According to Professor Alec Jeffreys, the danger of such a database is that it can easily serve to place innocent citizens under increased surveillance: "Hundreds and thousands of innocent people have had their genetic details stored for up to 12 years. There is a very disturbing presumption not of innocence, but of guilt here."The Justice Department DNA database plans are based on the already existing British plan, and will only be further streamlined through the DHS planned genetic scanning, a scenario which presents numerous threats to the constitutional rights of the American people. According to Cato Institute Director of Policy Studies Jim Harper, the genetic scanning represents another blow to civil liberties:
There are still a lot of unknowns. I'm not certain we know what all is being gathered when we examine DNA. So far, there has been no comprehensive public discussion of what is being gathered, and how it should or shouldn't be used has not occurred.
Harper also cautioned that the new initiative represents another step in the federal government's creation of a British-style DNA database. A bill sponsored by Senators John Cornyn and Jon Kyl, for instance, allows for the creation of a national database that collects the DNA of all arrested persons, whether or not they have been convicted.
Harper notes that currently, those arrested or detained would have to petition to have their information removed from the database after their cases were resolved, and warns that the new initiative represents a continuation of this anti-privacy ethos:
It's a classic mission-creep situation. These guys are playing a great law-and-order game ... and in the process creating a database that could be converted into something quite dangerous.
The Rise of the Surveillance-Industrial Complex
This is another clear example of the rise of a Surveillance-Industrial Complex, as government conscripts big business and individuals in the construction of a society that cracks down on individual privacy rights.
Fear of terrorism is being exploited to create a new industrial base for surveillance technology, unfettered by reasonable and effective privacy constraints, which threatens to fundamentally alter the American way of life.
Christopher Miles, Biometrics Manager for the DHS, says that the machines are expected to cost about $275,000 apiece. Miles also attempted to rationalize the exorbitant purchases (which have been exclusively contracted to Network Biosystems and Lockheed Martin, the latter of which has cornered the defense industry as the top US federal contractor), saying that they present a more affordable alternative to government-run genetics labs (as if genetic security facilities are a necessity):
That sounds like a lot of money, but compare that to a laboratory full of equipment that would cost millions of dollars and a building that would cost tens of millions of dollars.
Miles is a frequent speaker at biometrics industry conferences and trade shows, and has also championed technologies such as concealed weapons and license plate recognition sensors, all of which are further expansions of government surveillance power (targeted against the constitutional right to privacy and right to bear arms).
He also claimed that once the rapid scanners are in production, the more likely the cost will go down (i.e., The more scanners ordered by the government, the more ingrained taxpayer funding of the scanners will become).
The federal government's next incursion into the realm of surveillance is a logical progression in a series of events indicative of the gradual erosion of our liberties. Corporate cronyism and partisan connections, lobbyism, and an overall culture which rejects Lockean natural rights in favor of a Hobbesian surveillance state, are all the building blocks of a "brave new world" in which ones genes are not even safe from the reach of government.
Daniel Sayani, New American
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