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An Oregon wolf which became the subject of a documentary after making a monumental trek from Oregon to California and back may have finally found what he's been searching for: love.
Oregon wildlife officials said on Tuesday they believe the gray wolf, dubbed OR 7 because he was the seventh wolf collared for tracking in 2011, may have found a mate. If the pair have pups, it would be the first known wolf breeding in the Oregon Cascades since the early 20th century.
OR 7 became well known when he traipsed into California in December 2011, making him the first known wild wolf in the state since 1924. He traveled more than any of the seven wolves collared, making him a celebrity and the focus of a documentary being made to track his progress, Wolf OR 7 Expedition.
"I think it brings awareness of the issue of recovery of an endangered species, especially with the potential for his finding a mate and possibly having a family," said Elizabeth Materna, public affairs specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office.
Since March 2013, OR 7 has spent most of his time in the southwestern Cascades of Oregon.
"He hasn't been wandering as far, he's been more localized," Materna said. "That gave (an) indication he may be with a partner."
Biologists also found images on a camera set up to track OR 7 that showed what appeared to be a black female wolf.
"More localized GPS collar data from OR 7 is an indicator that they may have denned," Fish and Wildlife Service wolf biologist John Stephenson said in a statement. "If that is correct, they would be rearing pups at this time of year."
Officials likely won't know for sure until June if pups are in the picture because they don't want to disturb them at a young age. Pups are typically born in mid-April.
OR 7 was born into northeast Oregon's Imnaha wolf pack in April 2009. Since 1995, the wolf population in Oregon has increased from zero to approximately 64. The gray wolf was listed in 1973 as an endangered species in the United States and remains protected by state and federal laws.
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Thanks to $85 million in new government funding, Russia's Mi-38 helicopter is scheduled to finish test flights this year, states a news release from the Kazan Helicopter Plant. "Serial production of the Mi-38 should begin...in 2010."
So, will there be a market for this medium-lift helicopter, which is targeted for both civilian and military missions? Yes, said Forecast International Senior Aerospace Analyst Ray Jaworowski, but not without some stiff competition.
"Probably the biggest limiting factor on Mi-38 sales will be the continuing popularity of the Mi-8/17 family of helicopters," Jaworowski said. "The Mi-8/17 series will likely remain in production for some time." He added that in terms of market positioning, the Mi-38 appears to be slated as a supplement to that popular helicopter family, rather than an improved replacement.
From a sales standpoint, "The Mi-38 is primarily focused on the civil market, and achievement of Western certification (i.e., EASA, FAA, and/or Transport Canada) is critical if the helicopter is to garner a significant slice of the Western market," Jaworowski said. To achieve this, the Russians will need deep pockets, since the certification process can be "long and costly." On the military side, "the Mi-38 would compete with the Black Hawk, the NH90, and similar helicopters," he concluded. "Its main competition for sales, though, may turn out to be the Mi-8/17."


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Confessions Of A Master Baker
Welcome to another installment of...
Confessions of a Master Baker!
"Ordinary bakers. Extraordinary feats of bad judgment."
[baker's silhouette speaking in disguised voice]
"I guess I got a bit carried away with the chocolate drizzle -- you know, it's always a bit of a crap shoot..."
"I made my mother-in-law deliver it."
[whispered] Confessions...
"...and then I found myself smashing a disco ball on top of it."
[small sob] "I figured the lights would blind anyone who got too close!"
[whispered] Revelations...
"They loved skiing. Nothing says 'skiing' like giant plastic pickles and shredded Parmesan, right?" [hiccups]
"I didn't realize how bad it was 'til the bride threw it at me."
[whispered] Disclosures...
"They said they wanted 'steampunk,' so I googled it. Gears, tentacles, balloons - I was all, 'Hey, I got this.'"
"And, boy, did I get it."
[sound of pages flipping]
Uh... ah!
[whispering] Formal professions of guilt...
"So then I said, 'hey, you know what'd be cute? Camouflage butterflies."
"But the bride just didn't see it."
Next week... on Confessions of a Master Baker:
"So I figured, put the babies ON the carrots..."
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Jason Kapler needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Devour Digital, http://www.devourdigital.com
We are a marketing agency but your typiical bunch. We are not in the business of helping clients make more money, we are in the happiness business. We help make restaurant professionals happy by helping them share their talents with people who gather in celebration of all of life's wonderful events resulting in memorable dinning experiences.
Our boring about us:
Devour Digital offers a variety of services to improve the effectiveness of your online marketing campaigns through your Website, Blog, Facebook Fanpage, Twitter Account, e-Newsletter, Promotional Emails or Text Messaging. Working with Devour Digital allows you to partner with Internet marketing experts who can help your restauramt:
• Develop winning online strategies and tactics.
• Create compelling content to engage current customers and cultivate new ones.
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Note the site is ripe for a redesign by a professional so dont look for inspiration from it. Rather help us get inspired through your logo design.
Restaurant Owners, Restaurant Managers, Restaurant Consultants
These are prospects primarily and not existing customers.
Would be nice to have a logo that was easy to use as an icon or avatar.
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Would be nice for logo to convey or be:
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I am trying to find more information of where my great great great grandfather came from...his name is William Hansen, born around 1877?, and was married to Elizabeth Penhall. They also had a daughter: Christina, but I cant seem to find any info of them, so any from anyone else would be great.
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Saturday, 28 March 2009
NSR Flyer Design
Newcastle's Student Radio asked me to do a flyer for them, which I did. It looks like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Oscar from Sesame Street, cross-bred with me. Artists out there, do you ever find that a lot of your pictures, even of weird dog-faced monster teens, end up looking like yourself? No... just me then? Anyway, you might notice I did that thing where there's a speech bubble coming out of a microphone that I did on the Comedy Festival illustration I did for Narc. I don't know what this is, I realise microphones don't speak, or emit any sound for that matter, so not sure what I'm going for really, but there we go. This is probably going to be the last proper illustration or comic I'm gonna for a month or two because apparently being in your third and final year of university requires work being done, so this will have to suffice for now, sorry!
p.s. these are two sides of one flyer, not one long weird flyer cut down the middle!
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009
New Stuff
The Portfolio and Store sections on my website have been updated with a couple of new things. Robot postcards are go! Also, this blog is now the official News page, so you'll never miss an episode again. Things are well.
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Sunday, 8 March 2009
The Gentleman Ghost vs. The Courier
Doing this weekly strip makes me sick. Anyway, I've got too much on right now to be busting my balls for people who couldn't give a flying toss about what I'm doing. I'm not getting paid, or any recognition, if anything I'm giving myself a bad reputation on account of how bad the strips are turning out. You won't see the weeklies ever again, and Gentleman Ghost, if you're listening, I'm sorry.
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What can you build with our Advanced Circuits Lab? How about simple USB programmable electronics? Morgan Redfield created this 3.3V basic trinket board on Upverter. It's based off of the Adafruit Trinket It is 2 layers, with 5 wire vias. It takes a little over 2 minutes on the Protolaser. It's a pretty good start for any basic attiny85 project.
On one of our small panels, I can get 3 boards. They look OK, but they don't really show off the laser.
It was a really slow Sunday what with Seahawks in the SuperBowl and all, so I thought I'd fork Morgan's design to give myself something to do. Idle hands...
I didn't have any real project in mind for this board, so I just picked fun features as I went along.
I decided I should make the board smaller, smaller is always better. Pad only USB A plugs are cool. I also perforated it in case I wanted to get rid of it once it is programmed.
Adding a battery also seemed like a good idea. We have 2032 snaps, and this gives it some versatility if I come up with a project that requires it on the next rev.
Through hole headers didn't make sense to me. This isn't going on a breadboard any time soon, so I just made pads go to the edge and turned off the holes in my CAM step. Totally lazy, but it really is a one off, and I didn't feel like taking more than an hour to work on it.
I really enjoy the zen of routing single sided boards, so I used a couple of 1206 zero ohm resistors and ran 6 mil traces.
The battery on the back stopped me from dropping vias altogether, so I made them 1mm drills and avoided a toolchange on the PCB plotter.
Building the board went pretty fast. a little under 2 minutes per board (both sides), and only 1 toolchange on the plotter.
Assembly, because it's all SMT also went quickly. Syringe on paste and place the components. A little bit of quiet time in the solder room. It took an hour to paste and place all 4 boards on the panel.
After paste, I dropped the boards in the reflow oven on wave 2, and it was done in about 7 minutes. I used paste and the Metcal pencil on the wire vias and the back snap.
Assembled boards, They need testing, but all in all not bad for 4 hours on a lazy Sunday.


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Around the League's positional free-agent previews are ranked according to the players we would want -- not the players who will make the most money. We've covered top pass rushers, interior linemen, running backs, wide receivers, cornerbacks and the top-85 players overall. Now our series continues with available safeties. We listed each player with the team they played for in 2012. Here goes:
Impact starters in their prime
1. Glover Quin, Houston Texans (UPDATE: Agreed to terms with the Detroit Lions)
2. Dashon Goldson, San Francisco 49ers (UPDATE: Signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
Notes: Salary-cap implications prevented the Texans from slapping Quin with the tag. He could now be the most coveted safety on the market at age 27 with no major injuries on his record. ... Goldson has been seeking $8 million annually, a number at which the 49ers have balked the past two offseasons. There's not much separating Goldson from Quin beyond a two-year age disadvantage.
Top talents with red flags
3. Kenny Phillips, New York Giants (UPDATE: Agreed to terms with the Philadelphia Eagles)
4. LaRon Landry, New York Jets (UPDATE: Signed with the Indianapolis Colts)
5. Ed Reed, Baltimore Ravens
6. Michael Huff, Oakland Raiders
7. Louis Delmas, Detroit Lions
8. Adrian Wilson, Arizona Cardinals
9. Patrick Chung, New England Patriots (UPDATE: Agreed to terms with the Philadelphia Eagles)
Notes: Phillips still demonstrates difference-making ability when he's on the field, but his surgically-repaired knee represents the biggest injury red flag on this list. If healthy, though, no available safety has a better chance of turning in an All-Pro season in 2013.
Reed's play slipped noticeably for the first time last season, but it was coming down from a Hall of Fame level. Injuries were certainly a factor. Any team signing him must take a season-by-season approach at this point. ... Delmas' troublesome left knee has kept him out of 13 games the past two years, leaving his Detroit future in doubt. The Lions' willingness to let him test the market augurs ill for his chances of landing a big contract.
Stop gaps
10. Charles Woodson, Green Bay Packers
11. Kerry Rhodes, Arizona Cardinals
12. Ronde Barber, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
13. Chris Clemons, Miami Dolphins (UPDATE: Re-signed with the Miami Dolphins)
Notes: New Jaguars general manager David Caldwell believes it will be "tough" for Woodson to land a starting job after the Packers cut ties with him. Scouts wonder if Woodson's ego can handle situational work as a role player as opposed to the defensive leader. Look for a contender to roll the dice on the future Hall of Famer. ... The ageless Barber enjoyed a Pro Bowl-caliber season in his first experience at safety after his cornerback play slipped significantly in 2011. He would be higher on this list if I truly believed he would play for any team other than the Bucs. ... Clemons has been a league-average starter in 2010 and 2012 with an injury-marred season sandwiched in between.
Borderline starters
14. Jamarca Sanford, Minnesota Vikings (UPDATE: Re-signed with the Minnesota Vikings)
15. Jim Leonhard, Denver Broncos
16. Dawan Landry, Jacksonville Jaguars
17. Atari Bigby, San Diego Chargers
18. Corey Lynch, San Diego Chargers
19. Yeremiah Bell, New York Jets (UPDATE: Agreed to terms with the Arizona Cardinals)
20. Bernard Pollard, Baltimore Ravens
21. Madieu Williams, Washington Redskins
22. Abram Elam, Kansas City Chiefs
23. Sherrod Martin, Carolina Panthers
24. Chris Crocker, Cincinnati Bengals
25. Mike Mitchell, Oakland Raiders
26. Eric Smith, New York Jets
27. Craig Dahl, St. Louis Rams
28. Matt Giordano, Oakland Raiders
29. Ryan Mundy, Pittsburgh Steelers
30. Brodney Pool
Notes: One of the NFL's worst starters in 2011, Sanford got a boost from playing alongside rangy rookie Harrison Smith last year. ... Coming off a patellar tendon tear, Leonhard was eased back in as an effective subpackage player in Denver last year. That may be his ideal role.
Lynch held his own opposite Eric Weddle down the stretch after taking over for an injured Atari Bigby. ... If forced to play starter's snaps, Bell, Williams and Elam have reached the stage of their careers where they are hurting a defense more than helping. ... Martin lost his job in 2012 after missing too many tackles and giving up a slew up big plays in 2011. His market will be soft after tearing his ACL and MCL in December.
Position overview
Beyond Byrd, Quin and Goldson, there's quite a boom-or-bust market. Phillips, Delmas, Moore, and Landry are perhaps as talented a foursome as any group of safeties in the NFL, but their collective injury history is downright scary. All four could have heavy suitors even if the floors are as low as the ceilings are high.
Reed, Barber and Woodson can still help a contender while on the downside of their careers. It's likely that Reed and Barber will return to Baltimore and Tampa respectively, leaving Woodson as a key puzzle piece for teams in the Lombardi Trophy hunt. Borderline starters such as Leonhard, Bell, Williams and Elam can be signed as veteran insurance for teams targeting a bumper crop of safety prospects in April's draft.
Teams with a need
New York Jets: The top three safeties from 2012 are all free agents.
Detroit Lions: Delmas will hit the open market, and Amari Spievey's NFL future is in doubt due to concussions.
Philadelphia Eagles: The Eagles' secondary hemorrhaged big plays last season.
Carolina Panthers: Similar to the Eagles, the Panthers' safeties were burned too often a year ago. They could use upgrades at both spots.
Houston Texans: There's a vacancy opposite Danieal Manning now that Quin won't be back.
Washington Redskins: The back end was the biggest weakness on the defense last season.
Baltimore Ravens: The Ravens need to keep Ed Reed from leaving for Indianapolis or New England.
Cincinnati Bengals: Reggie Nelson needs a running mate.
Atlanta Falcons: The Falcons have no one ready to step in if Moore leaves for a bigger payday.
Dallas Cowboys: Safety is a perennial need in Dallas despite the large piles of cash thrown at the position.
Green Bay Packers: Unless the Packers are comfortable with Jerron McMillian, a veteran starter is needed opposite Morgan Burnett.
San Francisco 49ers: : Free safety will have to be addressed with Goldson gone.
St. Louis Rams: Craig Dahl wasn't the answer opposite strong safety Quintin Mikell.
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Postseason Memories
Larry Andersen ("LA") just completed his 12th season as a member of the Phillies broadcasting team. A former pitcher, LA played 17 years in the majors with six different teams, including the Phillies twice (1983-86; 1993-94). He is one of handful of Phillies to appear in two World Series (1983, 1993). The 56-year-old is a native of Portland, OR.
What is your favorite memory of October baseball as a child?
"As a kid we got to watch the World Series in school because all games were day games."
As a player, what was the biggest change between the regular season and postseason?
"The fact that game times were determined by television. And, mass media everywhere."
What is your fondest personal postseason memory?
"Getting a save in Game 5 of the 1993 NLCS against the Braves and riding in the parade last fall."
Where were you when the Phillies won the World Series last October?
"Knowing I wouldn't be on the air in the late innings of Game 5 last year, I went down to Section 117 to sit with my girl friend, sister and other friends. I got to experience the last out with all the fans."
Postseason History
Phillies have played one game on this date, 1980: Bake McBride's three-run homered keyed a five-run third inning that carried the Phils to a 7-6 win over the Kansas City Royals in Game 1 of the World Series. It was the first World Series game to be played in Philadelphia in 30 years.
Dreary LA
Soggy, rainy day in southern LA. Team landed at 1:30 this morning. Charlie had scheduled a 5 o'clock workout at Dodger Stadium this afternoon, same time as game time tomorrow. Forecast for tomorrow and Friday is clear and in the 80s, quite a change from Denver.
Phillies must submit their NLCS roster by 10 tomorrow morning (PDT). While flying over the northern most border of Texas, Ruben, Charlie, Dubee, Green, Proefrock and Looper all huddled on the Delta 757 aircraft for about 15 minutes. Another meeting today.
Chan Ho, on the DL for the NLDS, was on the flight to LA. Todd Zolecki will file all the news stories on phillies.com. Check often.
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7 rules of cheese to live by
Thanks to Corr Chilled for this great infographic on the "7 rules of cheese."
Study finds that cheese is as addictive as hard drugs
The World of Mediterranean Cheese
Image courtesy of Karoun Cheese
Talking about "Mediterranean cheese" as if it's a distinct variety is problematic for two reasons. First of all, almost all of the best cheese-producing countries in the world surround the Mediterranean Sea: Spain, France, Italy. Second of all, cheese originated in the nomadic sheepherding cultures that lived in the region east of the Mediterranean, so to some extent all cheese is Mediterranean.
Still, when we use the term "Mediterranean cheese," we are typically referring to a select group of eastern European and Middle Eastern cheeses, typically made from goat or sheep's milk, typically fresh or pickled (but not aged), and typically really delicious. Here are some of my favorites.
Is affinage all hype?
Link to the full story from the NY Times. (Read till the end to see the results of the taste test.)
Meet the Curd Nerd: Janet Fletcher
Janet Fletcher is a staff food writer and cheese columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. Recently, Curdnerds.com chatted with her about her love of cheese, as well as a beautiful new iPhone app based on her book Cheese & Wine: A Guide to Selecting, Pairing, and Enjoying.
Tell us a little bit about your background.
Describe your interest in cheese and how it started.
Which pairs better with cheese? Wine or Beer? Why?
Which cheeses make you swoon?
What advice can you give to a cheese newbie overwhelmed by the selection available at their local shop?
How do you recommend people learn more about cheese if they are interested?
Comté Calling
Raw-Milk Cheese 101
Bush's Legacy
Inaugural Cheese Plate
Check out my "red, white and blue" suggestions for an Inaugural Cheese Plate, which appear today on the new Cheese and Champagne blog.
Announcing Cheese Enthusiast
Annual subscriptions are a bit steep at $30/year, but so far the product is promising. I would love to see some full color photography to go along with the well-written articles, and hopefully they will head in that direction in the future.


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Sunday Sweets: Good Sports
Welcome back, cake fans, to our weekly installment of Sunday Sweets! Quick shout-out to our sponsor, Sports Cliché Week. "When your back's against the wall, don't drop the ball; if you don't know what to say, just reach for a cliché!
Now there's a player who leaves it all out on the field!
By Natalie of Doodle Cakes
You just can't teach that.
Go get 'em, Tiger.
This Sweet is completely on the ball:
By Cake Central member Anna902
It's a slam dunk!
Here's a Sweet that takes it to the next level:
By Charm City Cakes (aka Ace of Cakes)
Way to bring your A game, guys.
Most bakers talk a good game, but here's a contender who's clearly in a league of her own:
Now that's knocking it out of the park!
What do you say we kick it up a notch?
By Eifel Cakes
Talk about a home run - that is some fancy footwork!
Speaking of which, this next Sweet really steps it up:
It's definitely a shoe-in for the most realistic cake doppelganger *I've* ever seen.
And in case you think I'm out of bounds even calling this a cake, here's a progress shot:
By Courtney of Cake Nouveau
You can tell she just wanted it more. (Uh... whatever that means.)
And finally, this player really has his game face on:
Plus, he's completely fondant free!
Now that's giving it 110%.
I hope y'all enjoyed this Sweet Clichéd Treat! Oh, and believe it or not, there really IS a Sports Cliché Week - it just ended yesterday.


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I won't necessarily admit that I hate my dishwasher lately, but I will project some anxieties onto blog readers via a dishwasher troubleshooting roundup (!!!).
Whether your dishwasher leaves you with cloudy dishes, wet dishes or still-dirty dishes, my top 4 blogs about dishwasher problems should contain your remedy.
Top 4 dishwasher troubleshooting blog posts
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4. Food residue left on dishes
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Zeleris (Telefónica Servicios Integrales de Distribución, S.A.U.) is the Telefónica Group company specialising in the provision of logistics and national and international freight services for private individuals and business. Zeleris has operated on the market since 1999, obtaining a turnover of EUR 120 million in 2011. The Zeleris customer base includes several of Spain's leading e-commerce and distance selling companies, and it is the preferred logistics provider for the Telefónica Group in Spain.


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The latest version of the handbook is now available.
A new section on Running Go Demonstations was added September 2013.
Please let us know of any inaccuracies, inconsistencies, or anything missing in this handbook. Further contributions are always welcome, particularly regarding successful ideas for recruitment, or new teaching events for clubs. The handbook is constantly updated to reflect current practice. Comments, contributions and suggestions should be sent to Nick Wedd, handbook at britgo.org.
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Joel Spolsky has an article in which he states
All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
This is overly dogmatic - for example, bignum classes are exactly the same regardless of the native integer multiplication. Ignoring that, this statement is essentially true, but rather inane and missing the point. Without abstractions, all our code would be completely interdependent and unmaintainable, and abstractions do a remarkable job of cleaning that up. It is a testament to the power of abstraction and how much we take it for granted that such a statement can be made at all, as if we always expected to be able to write large pieces of software in a maintainable manner.
There are really two separate statements here, (what does 'leaky' mean, anyway?) The first one is -
All APIs contain artifacts of what they're built on top of.
As I said before, this is overly dogmatic, but mostly true. The example given, however, is extremely curious. TCP requires quite a tangent to explain ('look how smart I am, I know about TCP') and is one of the most robust, useful, and widely deployed abstractions in existence. I've spent a huge amount of time using TCP in very novel ways and haven't set a socket option in my life. Furthermore, Joel cites TCP's failure mode as an artifact of IP, when it is in fact an artifact of wires and electricity, and an extremely well done and clean one at that. Whether the connection drops due to network outage or the counterparty machine going down, you still get a single well-defined failure, with clear semantics as to what might have arrived on the other end.
TCP actually has plenty of real artifacts, such as slow start and high latency during bulk transfers, but these would clarify the distinction between the statement about artifacts and the one Joel is really trying to prove, which is -
All APIs are Broken
As I explained, the TCP example doesn't prove this at all - if a failure mode is defined in the API, then that doesn't mean that the API breaks when it gets invoked. But this statement does apply to most of the other examples Joel goes on to cite - NFS is a mess, C++ strings aren't real strings, COM internals aren't properly hidden, ASP.NET doesn't have proper string mangling code to make GET parameters properly, etc.
You may notice that all the Microsoft tools are left to the end, right before the claim that the law of leaky abstractions is dragging us down. This essay isn't about API design, it's about software apology, an attempt to claim that all software is inherently bad hence it's okay that Microsoft's is bad. Like any good microsoftie, Joel starts with the assumption that the (very flawed) tools he uses are completely acceptable, and works backwards from there.


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Pitbull also nominated for a 2010 BMI Award, 3 Winter Conference Awards and 25th Annual International Dance Music Award for hit singles "Hotel Room Service" and "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)"
Spanish album Armando set for release in early May; New English album set for Summer
MIAMI, FL - Feb. 12, 2010 – Pitbull added to his extensive list of accomplishments with two nominations from the 2010 Billboard Latin Music Awards. Both are in the Latin Rhythm Airplay category, the first for Artist of the Year (Solo) and the second for Song of the Year, "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)."
The nominations follow the Miami-based artist international success with "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)," a song Pitbull rode to the top of the most important popular charts around the world. To date, Pitbull has sold over a half a million copies of his major-label debut Rebelution, in addition to sales of over 6 million for his singles, "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)," "Hotel Room Service," "Krazy," and current single "Shut It Down."
The Billboard Latin Music Awards honor kicks off a busy 2010 for Pitbull, who already has been nominated for a BMI Award, 3 Winter Music Conference awards including "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" in Best Rap/Hip Hop Dance Track category and the 25th Annual International Dance Music Award for Best Latin/Reggaeton track for his songs "Hotel Room Service" and "I Know You Want Me." Pitbull also launched another world tour. In early May, the artist will release his Spanish album Armando, which will follow with a new English album in summer.
This year's edition of the Billboard Latin Music Awards will be broadcast live April 29 from San Juan Puerto Rico. The ceremony honors the most popular records, songs and artists in Latin music according to sales and radio reports from the weekly Billboard charts. This year's presentation will be based on the weekly Billboard charts during the yearly period beginning February 7, 2009 through January 30, 2010.
For more information about Pitbull please visit www.planetpit.com and www.pitbullmusic.com.


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I'm back.
Well, really, I never left. But I stopped making maps for a while. Mainly because all the time and effort I put into them is all for naught. I realize some of my levels aren't up to the quality of a lot of the mapmakers nowadays (fuck you Ryoko) but, hey, you know what? I don't give a damn. I like making maps. And I started another one the other day, and it is my first built ENTIRELY outside of emulated Forge/Anvil (this means Weland for the grid and visual mode lua plugin thing for Infinity). It's nice to finally get away from those transparent line limitations. But having to jump back and forth between the game and the editor when it comes to visual mode is a pain in the ass.
The point is, I laid down a buttload of groundwork for my new level, estimating heights and such, and fired up Infinity to lay some textures down and get a feel for the environment. So I spent an hour or so texturing, and then thought, shit how do I save this? Being stuck in the engine, I simply hoped that quitting would save my progress. NOPE! What a waste of time. The question is--how do I save what textures I have applied in Aleph to the map?
Another somewhat related question. Since we have the source code for the engine, and have taken out many of the previous limitations, why hasn't someone gone into Forge and removed the limitations there? I realize the source code to Forge was never released, but you are all programming geniuses, can't someone look under the Forge hood and tweak the limits? We would still be making Aleph maps, just doing in with native tools in Sheep Shaver or whatever. And those of us who grew up map making with Forge can stick with it, because, with all due respect to the Weland developers, Forge with visual mode is a much better editor.
If I am conveying too much of a dickhead attitude, I'm sorry. Just annoyed that all my texturing efforts weren't saved. Hope the community (what exists of it?) is doing well.


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A plague of pigeons must rank among the least likely of airborne disasters. Yet that historic event is the catalyst for the gorgeous opening of National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Louise Erdrich's new novel The Plague of Doves.
In 1896, the fictional town of Pluto, N.D., is inundated with passenger pigeons – one of the last such visitations before the birds became extinct. "Each morning when the people woke it was to the scraping and beating of wings, the murmurous susurration, the awful cooing babble, and the sight, to those who still possessed intact windows, of the curious and gentle faces of those creatures." Led by their priest, the residents wake early one morning to pray away the doves that are destroying their town. While they're walking the fields, an Ojibwe boy meets a girl and they run away together. Eventually they marry and, finally, return home.
Back in Pluto, the boy, Seraph Milk, becomes the lone survivor of a horrific act of violence: When a farm family is found murdered in 1911, local men round up several native Americans and lynch them. Erdrich details how, over the generations, the principals' descendants end up intertwining in unexpected and sometimes painful ways. In addition, there's a murder mystery, several love stories, and a magic violin.
Sixth-grader Evelina Harp hears the story for the first time from her grandfather, Seraph, whom she calls Mooshum. It affects her profoundly. She traces out the genealogies of the town so she can figure out who's descended from the guilty and who from the innocent.
Mooshum, whose storytelling his grandchildren regard as the next-best thing to "The Three Stooges," ranks with Nanapush among Erdrich's most vibrant creations. When he or his younger brother Shamengwa, owner of the magical violin, are around, "Doves" is Erdrich at her best.
As is often the case with Erdrich's writings, comic and tragic get tangled together. One of the funniest scenes is a funeral. But underlying it all is a deep sadness. "Over time, I came to know that the sorrow was a thing that each of them covered up according to their character – my old uncle through his passionate discipline, my mother through strict kindness and cleanly order," Evelina says. "As for my grandfather, he used the patient art of ridicule."
Erdrich, as she often does, divides the narration among several characters. Some chapters appeared as short stories in The New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly magazines, but here they gain added resonance from the novel's underlying framework.
That helps with a few chapters that are heavy on melodrama and light on Mooshum, such as Evelina's stint as a worker in an insane asylum – fueled by a combination of a bad drug trip and reading too much Anaïs Nin – and her brief affair with a female inmate. Perhaps the least successful section relates the deeply creepy marriage between a cult leader and his snake-handler wife. But it's followed by one of the most beautiful stories that tells how Shamengwa's violin first came to him.
Figuring out how each segment fits into the underlying puzzle is just one of the novel's pleasures. Many lives in Pluto are shaped by the dark incidents of the past, but it's most confusing for those like Evelina, who are descended from both the killers and the victims. "History works itself out in the living," one character explains. Here Erdrich finds both mandate for her novel and a chance for redemption for at least some of its characters.
• Yvonne Zipp regularly reviews fiction for the Monitor.


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Maria Montessori was a physician, educator, developmental theorist and social activist who was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism and for her work in education. Many of her innovations are now common practice in schools everywhere. Montessori dedicated her life to the advancement of peace and humanistic principles. Among her cherished beliefs was the idea that without respect for the individuality and uniqueness of each child it is impossible for that child to fulfill his or her potential.
"When looking at different education programs in the Bay Area, I attended an informational session on the Montessori program at Saint Mary's College. It was clear after that meeting that the faculty had expertise, experience and passion. Another strong attraction as I was getting my teaching credential was the option to continue on to the Master's in Montessori Early Childhood Education. The curriculum of the Montessori Early Childhood Program is very well-designed. It leads very logically from introducing the theory, to practical exercises in teaching, to the intern phase. The overall structure allowed me to work full-time while still progressing toward my degree. ...My education at Saint Mary's has led me directly into the professional path I was seeking. I'm teaching full-time..., and planning the next steps in my career."
- Erin Hennigan, Graduate of the Kalmanovitz School of Education Montessori Program and winner of the American Montessori Society's annual thesis and dissertation contest. Hennigan is Director of Instruction at Urban Montessori School in Oakland.
The following degrees and certificates are offered in the Montessori Education Program:
- Liberal Studies Minor for Bachelor of Arts Degree: Montessori Thought
- American Montessori Society Early Childhood Credential
- American Montessori Society Elementary Education Credential
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This is an interesting post about Romney's high school years as a bully ringleader and what it say about him today:
I don't mean to suggest that Romney is without compassion. I believe, for instance, that he loves his wife and his children, and that he believes in God and the flag. But there is something in his character that I am starting to get frightened about, an unwillingness, or an inability, to feel remorse, to simply own up to a moral failing, to apologize not just if "somebody was hurt" but because you know, deep down, that you hurt someone.
Think about it: here are these half dozen men who took part in a savage act nearly fifty years ago. It has haunted all of them. And the ringleader, the guy who made the plan and led the mob and cut the victim's hair off remembers … nothing?
It's just bullshit, total fucking sociopathic bullshit. And it makes me sad that such an episode comes to light and all Romney can do—a guy who wants to be elected to our highest office—is nervously lie and make excuses, as if this were political problem. It's not a political problem. It's a moral problem. It's a sin he committed for which any believer would seek atonement.
The other bully anecdote in the story has been somewhat overlooked, but it's just as telling:
One venerable English teacher, Carl G. Wonnberger, nicknamed "the Bat" for his diminished eyesight, was known to walk into the trophy case and apologize, step into wastepaper baskets and stare blindly as students slipped out the back of the room to smoke by the open windows. Once, several students remembered the time pranksters propped up the back axle of Wonnberger's Volkswagen Beetle with two-by-fours and watched, laughing from the windows, as the unwitting teacher slammed the gas pedal with his wheels spinning in the air.
As an underclassman, Romney accompanied Wonnberger and Pierce Getsinger, another student, from the second floor of the main academic building to the library to retrieve a book the two boys needed. According to Getsinger, Romney opened a first set of doors for Wonnberger, but then at the next set, with other students around, he swept his hand forward, bidding the teacher into a closed door. Wonnberger walked right into it and Getsinger said Romney giggled hysterically as the teacher shrugged it off as another of life's indignities.
How different, really, is that from this?
I wasn't joking when I said this would actually help Romney with the base. This bullying is one of the defining characteristics of modern American conservatism. The idea that the good people all work hard and it's only the lazy that ever need help is fundamental to their worldview. Even the Tea Partiers who are on government assistance insist that unlike all the others, they have worked hard and so deserve it.
I've been writing about this for a long time, often in the context of the torture debate. But it also plays a large part in our political system. It's actually a very well developed form of social control called Ritual Defamation (or Ritual Humiliation):
Defamation is the destruction or attempted destruction of the reputation, status, character or standing in the community of a person or group of persons by unfair, wrongful, or malicious speech or publication. For the purposes of this essay, the central element is defamation in retaliation for the real or imagined attitudes, opinions or beliefs of the victim, with the intention of silencing or neutralizing his or her influence, and/or making an example of them so as to discourage similar independence and "insensitivity" or non-observance of taboos. It is different in nature and degree from simple criticism or disagreement in that it is aggressive, organized and skillfully applied, often by an organization or representative of a special interest group, and in that it consists of several characteristic elements.
It's a form of control that Mitt seems to have shown an early talent for. It worked well for him in business and I'd guess he's quite adept at using it in politics. One wonders how it will play on the world stage, especially considering this:
Mitt Romney's recent declaration that Russia is America's top geopolitical adversary drew raised eyebrows and worse from many Democrats, some Republicans and the Russians themselves, all of whom suggested that Mr. Romney was misguidedly stuck in a cold war mind-set.
But his statement was not off the cuff — and it was not the first time Mr. Romney had stirred debate over his hawkish views on Russia. Interviews with Republican foreign policy experts close to his campaign and his writings on the subject show that his stance toward Russia reflects a broader foreign policy view that gives great weight to economic power and control of natural resources. It also exhibits Mr. Romney's confidence that his private-sector experience would make him a better negotiator on national security issues than President Obama has been…
Mr. Romney was a leading opponent of the most recent arms-reduction treaty with Russia, ratified by the Senate and signed last year by Mr. Obama. Russia figures prominently in Mr. Romney's book, where he calls it one of four competitors for world leadership, along with the United States, China and "violent jihadism" embraced by Iran and terrorist groups.
Here's hoping he doesn't think he can lead a "coalition of the willing" to hold Vladimir Putin down and give him a haircut.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc decided not to pursue a bid for Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc this week, according to two people familiar with the matter, leaving Amgen Inc in the front position to buy the cancer drugmaker.
Shares of Onyx closed down 3.3 percent at $128.55 on Thursday, their lowest level since it announced a sale process on June 30 and valuing the South San Francisco, California-based company at around $9.3 billion.
Onyx, which rejected Amgen's $120 per share bid and instead put itself up for sale, was expecting to receive first-round offers from a few interested parties as soon as this week, people familiar with the matter previously told Reuters.
Pfizer, among the drugmakers that have been evaluating a bid as recently as a few days ago, has decided not to move forward, mainly on concerns that Onyx has become too expensive after a recent run-up in its share price, the people said on Thursday.
The sources asked not to be named because details of the auction are not public. Pfizer, Onyx and Amgen declined to comment.
A few other drugmakers that showed interest, such as Gilead Sciences Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and AstraZeneca Plc, have also been deterred by price, the people familiar with the matter said, though the companies' latest position could not be confirmed as of Thursday.
Gilead and AstraZeneca declined to comment. Bristol-Myers did not respond to requests for comment.
Shares of Onyx, which closed at $86.82 on June 28 before news of the sale process, have since surged more than 50 percent. The steep price gain already prompted a number of other pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies not to pursue a deal, several people familiar with the matter previously said.
Large pharmaceutical and biotech companies have been looking to acquire smaller biotech firms to gain access to new drugs and offset revenue losses stemming from expired patents, but rich valuations of target companies are proving to be a big hurdle to dealmaking.
Onyx sells Nexavar, a treatment for liver and kidney cancer, and the new colon cancer drug Stivarga - both in partnership with Germany's Bayer AG. Onyx last year began selling Kyprolis for multiple myeloma, which some analysts estimate will reach peak annual sales of $3 billion.
"It's nothing to do with the attractiveness of those drugs. It's just that the price got away from buyers," said a third person familiar with the sale process, asking not to be named because he was not authorized to speak with the media.
Reporting by Soyoung Kim in New York; Additional reporting by Ben Hirschler in London and Deena Beasley in Los Angeles; Editing by Gary Hill and Tim Dobbyn


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Corn and wheat futures rose in Chicago amid speculation of buying interest from animal-feed makers and investors after grain prices fell to four-year lows this week.
Corn futures have slumped 25 percent in the past 12 months while wheat fell 19 percent amid expectations for bumper crops to boost supply. World grain stocks will rise to a 15-year high by the end of the 2014-15 season as production of both crops outpaces demand, the International Grains Council forecasts.
"We've come to a level where it's starting to be interesting for buyers," Arnaud Saulais, a broker at Starsupply Commodity Brokers in Nyon, Switzerland, said by phone. "There's a bit of buyer interest at this moment. It's always hard to say whether it will resist harvest pressure."
Corn for December delivery climbed 1 percent to $3.855 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade by 7:22 a.m. local time. The grain dropped to $3.7825 yesterday, the lowest for a most- active contract since July 2010.
Wheat for September delivery advanced 0.4 percent to $5.40 a bushel, after prices fell to $5.2425 on July 14, also the lowest since July 2010. Milling wheat for November delivery traded on Euronext in Paris rose 1 percent today to 178.75 euros ($242) a metric ton.
Ending stocks of wheat and coarse grains such as corn and barley are predicted to climb to 412 million tons from 400 million tons at the end of 2013-14, the IGC said earlier this month. Inventories will be the highest since the end of the 1999-2000 season, the London-based agency estimates.
Corn's relative strength index, a gauge of price momentum, was at 19.6 by the close yesterday and wheat was at 28.6. Some analysts view levels below 30 as indicating oversold conditions.
"Grain futures are higher on bargain-hunting and short- covering," Paul Georgy, the president of Allendale Inc., wrote in a market comment, referring to some investors closing bets on falling prices. "Bargain-hunters are stepping in and buying corn and soybeans."
Soybeans for November delivery climbed 0.7 percent to $10.94 a bushel in Chicago. Prices fell to $10.65 on July 11, the lowest since October 2010.
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"... Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime." Conservative claim this philosophy then quickly accuse, 'liberals simply want to give fish away and they'll take fish away from industrious fisher-folk to give to lazy fish eaters.'
Liberals do champion the 'teach' tenet, but understand conservative 'teaching' means 'let's privatize and profit-ize it.'
First, 'a man' needs a pole, a line, a hook and bait... where to obtain those accoutrements? An enterprising conservative recognizes these needs and, with four lakeside neighbor investors, buys supplies, opens a bait shop and advertises all the necessary gear - plus fishing lessons.
No money for the pole, line, hook, bait or lessons? Well, the bait shop owner knows a rich man who loans money and even though the rich man charges rather high rates for short-term loans, the bait shop proprietor assures the future fisherman he'll be able to pay back the loan in no time at all.
The liberal fisherman-to-be wasn't informed a percentage of his fishing venture loan includes a referral fee for the bait shop owner, nor does he realize the lessons are over-priced and they'll be amortized to boot. Privatized schooling is launched.
Honing entrepreneurial skills, the 'free market' bait shop owner convinces the fisherman he'll catch more fish than he can eat and selling the surplus will bring quick profits to repay the loan and ..."just hear me out"... those profits can be used to buy more equipment and he'll catch twice, maybe three or four times as many fish! So... why not borrow more money and buy more equipment now.
The six astute venture capitalists - bait shop owner, money lender, four investors - promote this 'fish teach' business idea to more townsfolk and soon there are several fisher-folk on the bank of the town lake, multiple poles in the water, pulling in enough fish to supply the entire town. In fact, soon, there are more fish than buyers - what to do with the surplus fish?
Another ingenious man, returning from a mountain trek, toting a basket of glacial field ice chunks - "I just know there's a use for this" - arrives on the scene and quickly determines those fish could be preserved on ice until needed. Refrigeration is born.
Other enterprising villagers foresee the market for fry-pans, dishware, even rowboats because shore fishing has driven the fish away from shore. The 'fish teach' venture creates a booming economy of merchants, shipbuilders, inventors, but most successful are the dividend-rich investors and money lenders.
The bait shop venture capitalist is the richest and happiest, despite losing revenue when the liberal fisherman freely shares his "how to" knowledge. Public education sprouts.
Eventually, the 'fish teach' project hits a snag - the fish are gone. The townsfolk beseech the new mayor and town council - the original bait shop owner, investors and money lender - for solutions.
The mayor seeks help from the king [government] who agrees to subsidize each lake in the realm with a million fish from his fisheries, however future deliveries won't be free. The revenue-savvy town council immediately taxes each fish caught and establishes restocking, licensing, pole, bait and boat fees, increasing industry costs, but hunger is averted, jobs are saved, loan payments are made.
Fish Town villagers were unaware the initial fish replenishment was free or that vast profits flowed to the town leaders, but all were pleased local tradesmen were successfully franchising their businesses to other towns throughout the land.
Weeks later, panic spread on the assumed "free fish" delivery day when no town leader appears and no fish wagons come rolling into town to replenish the lake. The fishing industry in Fish Town dies.
Within months, Fish Town residents learn of a nearby booming lakeside community, where all their former business leaders now reign. Soon after, impoverished Fish Town fisher-folk receive job relocation brochures announcing Fish Teach Company's innovative 'tackle and lure' short-term training loans.
Message: Liberals strive to both feed the hungry and educate the unskilled. Conservatives too often see the profit in switching the bait to re-hook their true "catch of the day."
P.S. I scored 64 percent - correctly predicting seven of 11 Nov. 6 election results.
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By now, we all know Pinterest is the "latest," "greatest" and "hottest" social network out there. Pinterest boasts some eye-popping statistics, like the fact that it passed Twitter in referrals and broke into the top 30 US sites in terms of pageviews in February. Still, the hullabaloo over copyright issues has scared some users away.
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Terms of Service and Copyright Concerns
Fears over Pinterest's Terms of Service have been a continuing hot-topic, and Pinterest took action by announcing changes to their TOS at the end of March. While this has eased anxieties over the selling of content, copyright concerns (a debate with differing viewpoints) remain.
Even if you're worried about these copyright concerns, you can still enjoy Pinterest by uploading your own original content. Although the website's "About" page states "Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web," the new Terms of Service seem to take a minor step back, and uploading your own content is a great way to organize and share all the beautiful things you find in your real life. It's certainly a bit more time consuming, but if you think it would limit the types of pins you could potentially upload, you'd be mistaken.
First though, it will be helpful to learn how to pin from your phone.
Pinning from Your Phone
All of the content ideas below will require some form of a camera, so pinning from your camera phone is a "duh!" option. Here are two guides for doing just that:
- How to Pin Images from Your iPhone
- Pinterest for Android? Not yet, but there are ways to get your fix
Pins for Every Category
- Architecture: Chances are you live in or a near a large city, and there's usually plenty of interesting architecture if you look around, up or maybe even down.
- Art, Design, DIY & Crafts, Photography, Print & Posters: I'm clumping these together, but it's easy to find something for each category. For example, design is all around us, and when you spot a sticky note man, you might as well pin that awesomeness. Moreover, you've probably already been keeping a board full of projects, so go ahead and blog about it and pin your results. If you're worried about not getting credit after pinning your photography, add some watermarks.
- Cars & Motorcycles: Keep track of clever license plates you see. Or simply pin your own photos of vehicles you like. Just don't snap pictures while actually driving.
- Education: A great way for camp leaders and teachers to share student projects.
- Film, Music & Books: Keep track of the films you've been to by pinning your movie stubs. Pin photos from concerts. Use Photoshop to make your favorite book quotes pop. Endless options.
- Fitness: Upload charts to keep track of the food you're eating, how much you're exercising or even how much weight you're losing.
- Food & Drink: This category is ideal for uploading original content. Pin and share your own recipes for others to try, and pin images of the beautiful desserts and meals you eat.
- Gardening: Find inspiration at your local nursery and create a board. Show off your own garden and create inspiration for others.
- Geek, Technology: It's not like you weren't snapping photos of all those costumes at Comic-Con, right? Even better, make an awesome Rube Goldberg machine and show it off to the world like this kid.
- Hair & Beauty: Your hair looks amazing every single day. But on that day it looks extra amazing, each repin is a compliment you deserve.
- History: If you're into family ancestry, a Pinterest board can be used as a wonderful tool to keep a record of your relatives. Or maybe you have a hobby in which you collect some historic stuff that would be prone to show up on "Pawn Stars" – perfect.
- Holidays: Another wide-open category. Pin the Easter eggs your kids created. Pin your Halloween costume. Pin your house at Christmas when it features over a bajillion lights, Mr. Griswold.
- Home Décor, My Life, Women's Apparel, Men's Apparel, Products, Wedding & Events: Another group that's easily clumped together. Show off the rooms in your apartment or house (or go to Ikea and pretend you live there). Pin your favorite outfits to show off your style. Upload photos of products when you go shopping to make a wish list. Pin photos from your friend's wedding or add photos from your own.
- Humor: The perfect spot for your memes, you creative genius.
- Kids: Forget scrapbooking – that takes forever. Keep your kid's memories on Pinterest. No glitter involved. And soon you should be able to make the board private.
- Outdoors, Science & Nature, Travel & Places: A good place to pin memories from your camping trips and hikes, the time you went to the zoo and all your vacations.
- People: Remember that time you stalked randomly ran into Edward James Olmos from "Battlestar Galactica" and your friend asked him to take a picture with you because you were too shy to ask?
- Pets: I don't recommend going out and buying a puppy just for a Pinterest board. However, your Pinpuff score is going to shoot through the roof with all those repins.
- Sports: Did you win a championship in high school? Did you rush the field in college? Did you win the Super Bowl on Madden for Xbox? Pin it.
What other great ideas do you have for pinning original content? Are you happy with the direction Pinterest has taken with their latest Terms of Service? I want to hear what you think in the comments.


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You might have heard about the protests that erupted in Ecuador today. Here's what's been reported by The Associated Press. Police officers are protesting a new law that was passed by Congress on Wednesday that cuts their benefits.
These protests quickly grew throughout the country to Quito, Guayaquil, and other cities. Airports are shut down, highways are blocked, and a state of emergency has been declared for the country.
Friendly Planet Travel has travelers in Miami's airport who were trying to fly to Quito today. We also have travelers in the Guayaquil airport trying to fly back right now.
At this moment Friendly Planet Travel is all hands on deck. We will be working around the clock with the airlines and our representatives on the ground in Ecuador to make sure every one of our passengers is accounted for and is being taken care of.
We've been in the travel business for over 30 years and have experience dealing with these types of situations. Recently, you saw how we reported on the political protests in Thailand. And in one of my first posts about the Thailand protests, I explained what measures Friendly Planet Travel takes to ensure the safety of our travelers. I encourage you flip back to the post to see what we do.
Keep your eyes peeled to the blog. I will continue to keep you updated as I get more news on the protests and information from our reps in Ecuador. If you're really concerned and don't want to wait until my next blog post, write to me or call 1-800-555-5765.


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China E-Commerce a Struggle for U.S. Retailers
China's e-commerce market is booming but major U.S. retailers like Macy's and Neiman Marcus are scaling back their online operations in the country. The WSJ's Deborah Kan talks to China Market Research Group's Shaun Rein about what it takes to succeed with China's online consumers.
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... the the ... Elijah shelved plans to expand its online business I'm Deborah con joining me now is Shaun rein from Shanghai ... from its high in the ad market research ... case on hand good to talk to him so ... all we care about is the fact that I mean you know there's so much potential for online retailing China ... and the market is expanding so much so how to explain ... aam and NEC's curving back and and also earlier we heard that Neiman Marcus the slot ... it's great to be sure to print he e-commerce is booming in China we expected to grow fifty percent a year ... for the next three years and had about eight hundred billion US dollars transactions by two thousand and sixteen ... the shrine to Russia and ... the problem ... is that it's very difficult to build brand equity and trust with consumers are not really sure of Macy's or Neiman Marcus expected to sell online in China because nobody's ever heard of ... so it takes a lot more than just opening up a store on lying on them to be able to sell you have to spend a lot of money on marketing and dealing with the serious competition both from former players as will well as local players ... ISS NSA is in the near here domestic plan because you know obviously people know who you are ... on about and then this you know and think for a name brand that maybe doesn't have a lot of recognition in China ... the difficulties exist for all four and domestic players on the other issues that you have with Macy's with Neiman Marcus is a resort selling in the middle range Macy's in China's eastern upper middle-class brand in the United States and China everybody's going in either buying she Irvine really expensive so they either want to take Avandia Chanel or they wanted discounts I it's ... kind of like VIP shop Macy's is rooted in the mid range which is really good for the Chinese consumer right now especially as they pull back from spending because ... on consumer confidence has had a ... slowing economy over the last six to nine months ... at a time I ... sometimes add adding companies complaining that the law on the ground ... logistics and they they can't keep up with this explosive growth ... in the consideration for any of these retailers ... it's a great question Deborah ... Indian people wanna buy a lot of these products online ... till late in the first year cities are living in third fourth and fifth tier cities ... in one of the major reason why they wanna buy wine online easy access to products they can find for two more stores with a lit logistics is a serious problem here ... is much more expensive state issued share ... from Sean Hyatt substantial part of the country ... that is from New York's Central Park the United States so logistics costs are much more expensive ... and they're also much lower on the can often take the week for us to be delivered from one side of the country to the other so logistics is a major barrier ... on for some unease e-commerce sites to grow throughout the entire country ... but with an expense and graphs and a half to be some success stories they're ... going to say is doing in math and tend to be calm ... clearly overall scheme all from Alibaba they're the dominant player ... in the services they sell products directly themselves these are trading platform for all these other companies to come into keeps ... on being well because they built up trust Omnicom sounds like specific retailers that are doing well ... um I things are a ... lot of potential but they've done well because they have both the online component as well as the brick and mortar so people can go around trust their products trust it's the quality and then buy it when they're ... all ... right thanks Fran much on a and training us from Shanghai for more on that star


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Decision : 37 COM 8B.34
Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany (Italy)
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-13/37.COM/8B and WHC-13/37.COM/INF.8B1 ,
2. Inscribes the Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany , Italy , on the World Heritage List as a cultural landscape on the basis of criteria (ii), (iv) and (vi) ;
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The economic, financial and political fortunes of the Medici were behind extensive patronage that had a decisive effect on the cultural and artistic history of modern Europe. Among the resulting architectural and aesthetic forms, the Medici villas in deep harmony with their gardens and rural environment are among the most original of the Italian Renaissance. The nominated property is a selection of twelve complete villas with their gardens and two additional pleasure gardens spread across the Tuscan countryside and near to Florence. The Medici villa and its gardens embody an ideal of the princely residence in the country where it was possible to live in harmony with nature, and dedicate as much to leisure pastimes as to the arts and knowledge.
Criterion (ii): The Medici villas and gardens in Tuscany are testimony to a synthesis of the aristocratic rural residence, at the end of the Middle Ages, which made material a series of new political, economic and aesthetic ambitions. Villas and gardens formed models that spread widely throughout Italy during the Renaissance and then to the whole of modern Europe.
Criterion ( iv): The Medici baronial residences provide eminent examples of the rural aristocratic villa dedicated to leisure, the arts and knowledge. Over a period spanning almost three centuries, the Medici developed many innovative architectural and decorative forms. The ensemble is testimony to the technical and aesthetic organisation of the gardens in association with their rural environment, giving rise to a landscape taste specific to Humanism and the Renaissance.
Criterion (vi) : The villas and gardens, together with the Tuscan landscapes of which they are a part, made an early and decisive contribution to the birth of a new aesthetic and art of living. They are testimony to exceptional cultural and artistic patronage developed by the Medici. They form a series of key locations for the emergence of the ideals and tastes of the Italian Renaissance followed by their diffusion throughout Europe.
Despite some reservations due to the changes made to certain of the sites and their environment, at times affected by changes in use and modern development, the serial nomination forms an ensemble with sufficient integrity to testify in a credible and satisfactory manner to its Outstanding Universal Value. The serial composition has been fully justified. A significant effort to preserve the characteristic landscapes associated with the sites, and still surviving today, has been announced by the State Party.
The components of the sites testifying to the preservation of the authenticity of the architectural forms, the preservation of decorative styles and materials, the composition of the gardens, usage of the places respectful of the Medici's achievements and ideals, and the preservation of the main components of the landscapes largely offset the reservations raised during the critical examination of each of the sites that make up the serial property. For those attributes whose authenticity has suffered, many are the subject of a restoration or usage reassignment programme, notably as museums or cultural venues.
Management and protection requirements
The serial property includes villas and gardens listed as national monuments. They are subject to Italian laws on the protection of historic monuments or as cultural sites of national value. These legislative texts are implemented under the Regional Orientation Plan of the Region of Tuscany, then within each municipality through approved structural plans. In addition to the buffer zones, a series of listed or protected landscape zones has been instituted for all the sites, except two (Nos 9 and 10).
An adequate individual management system is in place at each of the sites, together with technical coordination for conservation actions, under the aegis of the Region of Tuscany and the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities. This cooperation for standardised and agreed management was recently extended and formalised in the Memorandum of Understanding, a deed shared by the property's various partners (Ministry, Region, 4 provinces and 10 municipalities). It has led to the creation of a Steering Committee for the serial property that is scheduled to begin operation starting in fiscal year 2013. It is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Management Plan, and coordinating the property's protection, promotion and communication. The Committee will be supported by a Technical Bureau and an Observatory for the property and its conservation. However, their actual implementation needs to be specified. Furthermore, while the conservation of each of the sites is adequately organised, its overall planning should be better highlighted in the Management Plan.
4. Recommends that the State Party give consideration to the following:
a) Confirming the actual operation of the Steering Committee's transversal management system and its two bodies: the Technical Bureau and the Observatory, detailing the human and material resources available to them;
b) Establishing precise secondary monitoring indicators; coordinating and analysing the property's monitoring by the transversal management entity;
c) Establishing an updated Management Plan, including implementation dates, and in particular add a conservation schedule for the property's constituent components;
d) Compiling a table of the available and necessary human resources, levels of qualification and training requirements as part of the management plan.
DocumentsDecisions Report
Context of DecisionWHC-13/37.COM/8B


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Used electronics reseller Gazelle recently published the result of a survey of some 1,000 smartphone-toting customers. 65% picked iPhone as something they couldn't live without, compared to the 1% that said Facebook. 15% went so far as to say that they would sooner give up sex than go a full weekend without their iPhone. Even for those that pick sex, 4% claimed to have used their iPhone while doing the deed.
That dedication spreads to more casual social situations, too. 25% said they almost always use their iPhone in social situations, and 58% ranged from "usually" to "occasionally". Only 17% "rarely" or "never" touched their phones when socializing. 40% said that they would like to see a larger screen on the next iPhone - they're probably going to get their wish. The iPhone also replaced a lot of other gadgets; 70% said they ditched a dedicated music player device since getting their iPhone, while 55% tossed their camera and 40% got rid of their GPS device.
Though 15% actually isn't that much, it's enough to make you think that of the ten people you know that own iPhones, at least one of them likes their device more than a little bit of lovin'. If you can't figure out who that is, you might want to ask yourself if it's you.
Source: PRNewswire


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Tag Archives: Jetty at Sembawang Park
A final frontier?
One of the few places in present day Singapore that I am able to find myself at home in is the Sembawang area along the northern coast. It is an area which has in the last two and a half … Continue reading
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Save The Date: 12-21-12
World War Z gets an official release date - December 21, 2012.
From the studio's official press release:
Paramount Pictures announced today it has set a release date of December 21st, 2012 for World War Z starring Academy Award-nominee Brad Pitt, with Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace) directing. The geo-political thriller from Paramount and Skydance Productions, in association with Hemisphere Media Capital and GK Films, is a Plan B Entertainment/Apparatus Productions production that is shooting in England following initial photography completed in Malta last month. The film will also shoot in Scotland and Hungary.
Produced by Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Colin Wilson, the screenplay is written by Matthew Michael Carnahan (State of Play) from Max Brooks' best-selling novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. Starring Pitt (Moneyball), Mireille Enos (AMC's "The Killing"), Daniella Kertesz in her feature film debut, James Badge Dale (The Departed) and Matthew Fox ("Lost"), the film's Executive Producers are Forster, Brad Simpson, David Ellison, Paul Schwake, Dana Goldberg, Graham King and Tim Headington.
The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Enos plays Gerry's wife Karen Lane; Kertesz is his comrade in arms, Segen.
Behind-the-scenes talent includes two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson (The Aviator; JFK), production designer Nigel Phelps (Transformers: Dark of the Moon; Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), costume designer Mayes C. Rubeo (Avatar) and Academy Award-nominated editor Matt Chessè (Finding Neverland).
Pitt and Plan B are repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and CAA.


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It started out as a simple trip to our local farm supply store and we ended up buy two more chicks! They got a large shipment in of a lot of different types of birds including the Polish Crested that my husband loves - what can I say, he has a thing for the Polish Gals. We aren't sure if we got two hens (fingers crossed) but if we did up with roosters I will make an attempt to find them a nice home before taking an other necessary actions .
I kind of wish we waiting to buy all our chicks since their was such a larger selection - but live and learn. I still love my other ugly adolescent chicks and will love them more when they are out of my laundry room.
Here is what they will look like full grown - you can see the appeal. I love these old chicken prints.
If they do mind I might call them Pierogi and Golumpki.


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Next Episode of Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is is
Two well-known experts from the world of antiques go head to head over a week of challenges, buying and selling collectibles to raise money for a charity of their choice.
Stephen Taylor Woodrow(Narrator)
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