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Q: One visitor asked, "I installed oak stair treads on an addition and then the walls were plastered. The plasterer did not cover the stairs and plaster dripped onto the treads and stained them in various spots. Is there anyway to remove these stains? Sanding does not seem to help."
A: Sounds like water stains on your steps. If you have the right machine you can sand out these marks. They are deeper into the wood than just surface stains. The plasterer should be ashamed of himself!
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Overshadowing a third-quarter earnings beat, Pandora Media (NYSE:P) warned late Tuesday it anticipates suffering a deeper full-year loss than Wall Street had feared, sending the online radio provider's stock plummeting 20%.
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The gloomy guidance triggered the latest stock dive for Pandora, which has also come under pressure at times this year due to concerns about potential competition from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).
The Oakland-based company said it earned $2.05 million, or 1 cent a share, last quarter, compared with a profit of $638,000, or break-even on a per-share basis, the year before.
Excluding one-time items, it earned 5 cent a share, besting the Street's view of just 1 cent.
Revenue soared 60% to $120 million, narrowly topping consensus calls from analysts for $117 million.
Yet Wall Street's attention was firmly on Pandora's bleak guidance. Management warned it expects the company to suffer a loss of 9 cents to 12 cents a share in fiscal 2013. Even the optimistic end of that range trails estimates for a loss of 6 cents.
Revenue is seen ranging between $422 million and $425 million, compared with the Street's view of $429.2 million.
The numbers were also gloomy for the current quarter as Pandora sees non-GAAP losses of 6 cents to 9 cents on revenue of $120 million to $123 million. Analysts had been calling for EPS of 1 cent on revenue of $130.3 million.
Despite the disappointing outlook, Pandora's third-quarter results show the company continues to gain popularity, especially on the mobile front.
Pandora said its total listener hours soared 67% year-over-year to 3.56 billion last quarter. Active users climbed 47% to 59.2 million, while mobile revenue surged 112% to $73.9 billion.
"This quarter exceeded our expectations as we monetized mobile at record levels," CEO Joe Kennedy said in a statement.
Shares of Pandora plummeted 22.01% to $7.37 in after-hours trading on Tuesday, threatening to significantly expand their 2012 loss of 10.5%.
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And then you've got licensing concerns. I am by no means an expert in patent law, but, when a person invents something and patents it, doesn't another inventor who invents something similar have to prove the new item's uniqueness?
There's no court in the land that would ever consider this a unique invention. This is a 2stone + additional features, and, since 2stone has applied for a patent, should you decide to manufacture this device, I don't see how you can avoid paying them a licensing fee (if they even grant you the rights). Am I missing some aspect of the law here?
The performance test is more for my own piece of mind than for marketing
Does anyone knows if there is any independent testing facilities for such a thing.
I would contact Serious Eats/ Slice and send one to a staff writer there, have them put it through it's paces and give you their impressions. Same thing here. Get one in the hands of someone who knows how to bake pizza. Keep the correspondence confidential until the reviewers and yourself are satisfied that out of the box your unit will perform as advertised. I mention this so as to avoid the pitfalls of the inventor of the Pizza Kettle Insert.Donhttp://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php?topic=19669.0
I would contact Serious Eats/ Slice and send one to a staff writer there, have them put it through it's paces and give you their impressions. Same thing here. Get one in the hands of someone who knows how to bake pizza.
The 2stone has a long and proven track record for producing NY style pizza in typical gas grill. The thermodynamics on this device aren't fundamentally different. This won't produce Neapolitan bake times or wood fired oven results (you need LBE btus for those), but it will churn out great NY pie after great NY pie.Testing for this is completely unnecessary.
pizzaneer I will make a believer out you too.
Ok, but I'm hard to please Bert, once the grease burns off, it's gone. My LBE gets over 1000 degrees in the burn chamber. The first time I fired it, it smoked and stunk. I let it go and now it burns perfectly clean. Try it again, and don't panic. If the flames get out of hand, drop the lid on them, but leave the heat on until it stops smoking.
Hey, good basic grilling skills there Brian....


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School gardens provide a dynamic environment where classroom lessons come to life. Gardens allow students to apply what they learn and see the results. Use the resources below to find what you need to know about how to start a garden at your school or youth center.
Successful school gardens have been initiated by parents, teachers, science coordinators, administrators and parent groups. Getting started with the right ingredients is the key to success in your first growing season.
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See also, Starting a Community Garden on our website under the Community Gardens tab, since many of the materials, considerations and planning are the same for school gardens.
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Founder and CEO of Apple-Metro Zane Tankel, Dr. Mehemet Oz, police commissioner Ray Kelly and Tiki Barber cut the ribbon yesterday to open NYC's first LEED Gold Certified restaurant, an Applebee's in Harlem. Located in the East Harlem Plaza on 117th Street and Pleasant Avenue, the new Applebee's offers over 40 environmentally-friendly upgrades, including a beautiful green wall. Click through our photo gallery to see some of the highlights.
"Before we even put a nail in the wall, the foundation was built to gather, redistribute and harvest rainwater," Tankel told us. "The cement is mixed in with recycled steel which allowed us to use less cement."
Inside the restaurant, diners are greeted with natural daylight provided by skylights in the entryway, dining area and upstairs on the second level looking out onto the street. The windows are also equipped with daylight-sensing shades that are automatically lowered to save on air conditioning and lighting costs. Applebee's also has a dimmable lighting system and a unique eco-friendly heating and air conditioning system which can run simultaneously, transferring heat from warm areas to cool areas in the restaurant. Green Fact decals explaining the different eco-friendly features of the restaurant to diners dot the walls.
Along with green building upgrades, Applebee's has decked out the eatery's interior with eco-friendly decor. A luscious living wall cleans the air of VOCs and toxins, acts as a noise barrier and insulates and cools the building. It's framed in reclaimed wood from the old New York Dock Company warehouses in Brooklyn. All the wall coverings are PVC-free and are printed on 100% recyclable virgin kraft paper honeycomb material. Upstairs on the second level of the dining area, a reclaimed wood wall display was made from an old church in Shenandoah, PA that was torn down in 2009. In the bar area, the televisions and bar equipment are Energy Star-certified and the bar itself and the countertops are made from bamboo.
Applebee's will also be composting any throw-away food to turn into fertilizer. "The restaurant industry is the largest creator of garbage of any industry," Tankel says. "With people eating 2-3 meals a day we're doing nothing but throwing food in the kitchen. By composting, it'll change the dynamics of the industry and probably set new bar for everybody in this business," he says.
To open this Applebee's, the company hired 200 new employees from the Harlem community, most of them young people. "I hope this is the the first of many institutions that will hire many people and give them good jobs," Oz said. "They'll be making the environment safer and help people learn the foods that make us healthier as well."
When asked if the menu will be revamped to include local and organic foods, Tankel replied that the menu will continue to have the Weight Watchers-endorsed dishes and Under 500 Calories dishes. "You need to give the consumer choices," Tankel says. "If you want to eat healthy, come on in. If you want to eat lousy, come on in."
Though Applebee's is considered a LEED Gold certified restaurant, it won't be official until they complete six months of operation to make sure all the "green" features are working properly and efficiently.


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In May 1918, with America embroiled in the First World War, Iowa�s Gov. William Lloyd Harding dealt a blow against Germany. His Babel Proclamation -- that was its title; you cannot make this stuff up -- decreed: �Conversation in public places, on trains and over the telephone should be in the English language.� The proscription included church services, funerals and pretty much everything else.
Iowa�s immigrant communities that spoke Danish, Dutch, Norwegian and French objected to this censorship of languages of America�s wartime allies. Harding, however, said speaking any foreign language was an �opportunity [for] the enemy to scatter propaganda.� Conversations on street corners and over telephone party lines -- Iowa telephone operators did the metadata-gathering that today�s National Security Agency does -- resulted in arrests. Harding was ridiculed but Germany lost the war, so there.
The war validated Randolph Bourne�s axiom that �war is the health of the state,� but it killed Bourne, who died in December 1918 from the influenza epidemic the war unleashed. Today, as another war is enlarging government�s intrusiveness and energizing debate about intrusiveness, it is timely to remember that war is not the only, or even primary, cause of this.
Or, more precisely, actual war is not the only cause. Ersatz �wars� -- domestic wars on various real or imagined vices -- also wound the defense of limited government. So argue David B. Kopel and Trevor Burrus in their essay �Sex, Drugs, Alcohol, Gambling and Guns: The Synergistic Constitutional Effects.�
Kopel and Burrus, both associated with Washington�s libertarian Cato Institute, cite the 1914 Harrison Narcotics Act, which taxed dealings involving opium or coca leaves, as an early example of morals legislation passed using Congress� enumerated taxing power as a pretext. In 1919, the Supreme Court held that the law �may not be declared unconstitutional because its effect may be to accomplish another purpose as well as the raising of revenue.�
Its �effect�? The effect of suppressing the drug business obviously was its purpose. Nevertheless, the court held that even if �motives� other than raising revenue really explained Congress� exercise of its enumerated power, the law still could not be invalidated �because of the supposed motives which induced it.�
�Supposed�? The court�s refusal to reach a reasonable conclusion about the pretext Congress used in this case for trespassing on territory reserved to the states enabled the federal government to begin slipping out of its constitutional leash. In 1922, Chief Justice William Howard Taft warned that Congress could seize control of �the great number of subjects� reserved to the states by the 10th Amendment by imposing a �so-called tax� on any behavior it disapproved: �To give such magic to the word �tax� would be to break down all constitutional limitation of the powers of Congress and completely wipe out the sovereignty of the states.�
So, a 1934 law imposed a $200 tax on the making and transfer of certain guns. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone complacently said that any act of Congress �which, on its face, purports to be an exercise of the taxing power,� should be treated as such, without judicial inquiring into any �hidden motives� Congress had. �Hidden�?
Congress responded to this �abdication of judicial scrutiny� (Kopel�s and Burrus� correct characterization) with the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, another supposed tax law actually designed not to raise revenue but to legislate morality by changing behavior. The 1951 Revenue Act taxed �persons engaged in the business of accepting wagers� and required them �to register with the Collector of Internal Revenue.� The IRS was becoming the enforcer of laws to make Americans better behaved, as judged by their betters in the federal government.
There have been equally spurious uses of Congress� enumerated power to regulate interstate commerce. In 1903, the court upheld, as a valid exercise of that power, a law suppressing lotteries by banning the interstate transportation of lottery tickets. Dissenting, Chief Justice Melville Fuller argued that the power to regulate persons and property in order to promote �the public health� and �good order� belongs to the states.
Seven years later, the Commerce Clause was the rationale for the Mann Act banning the transportation of females for the purpose of �prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose.� Including, it turned out, noncommercial, consensual sex involving no unhappy victim.
Today, Congress exercises police powers never granted by the Constitution. Conservatives who favor federal �wars� on drugs, gambling and other behaviors should understand the damage they have done to the constitutional underpinnings of limited government.
George Will�s email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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George Will: Slipping the constitutional leash
In May 1918, with America embroiled in the First World War, Iowa�s Gov. William Lloyd Harding dealt a blow against Germany. His Babel Proclamation -- that was its title; you cannot make this stuff up -- decreed: �Conversation in public places, on trains and over the telephone should be in the English language.� The proscription included church services, funerals and pretty much everything else.


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Blake Shelton Struggles to Add Team Members During Monday's Episode of 'The Voice'
Blake Shelton begged, pleaded and insulted his fellow coaches to woo contestants during Monday night's (Feb. 13) episode of 'The Voice' on NBC. He added three new team members, including Erin Willett, a 22-year-old from Gaithersburg, Md.
She was the first new member of Team Blake, joining after singing a hot rendition of Jackson 5′s 'I Want You Back. "You have a great voice, the crowd loves you," Shelton said. "You're on my team whether you like it or not!"
Rocker Brian Fuente also chose Team Blake, but viewers only got to see a snippet of his audition during a montage near the end of the episode. Following the show, Shelton gave a shout out to all of his new students on Twitter, but left Fuente out until the end because unfortunately, he's not a hot girl. "Oh sh–!!!!! I almost forgot about my boy @BFuente!!! Team Blake!! Ha! Ha! That's what he gets for not being a hot girl!!!," Shelton tweeted.
The 'Drink on It' singer closed the show by winning a battle over the the night's most sought after singer, 29-year-old Jordis Unga. Prior to that, the country coach was on the losing end of a number of other battles with Adam Levine and Cee Lo Green. "So in other words, Cee Lo would like you to be an experiment on his team," Shelton quipped after the folksy Sarah Golden finished. She chose Green.
"How would you like be on a team with hardly any guys?" he asked 19-year-old Pip, who chose Levine after singing 'House of the Rising Sun.'
"Your smile is contagious," Shelton told Erin Martin. "Even Christina's smiling, and she never smiles!" Green ultimately landed the former model, and spent time stroking his evil white cat, reveling in a victory with a sly smile on his face.
Unga was last. The Minnesotan with the adorable mother wowed the mentor's with Paul McCartney's 'Maybe I'm Amazed.' Only Levine didn't turn around, and afterward he felt foolish. "(You're) type of singer that makes me excited about what I do," Shelton said before playing his trump card. Dia Frampton, his finalist from 2011, is currently on tour with him, something he hinted he'd be willing to do again after this season.
Unga, a punk-rocker, agonized about her choice for a moment and settled. "Christina, I'm so sorry, I love you — I have to go with Blake. He picked me first!" Add three new members to to Team Shelton.


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Lemonis Contributes to Chicago's Joffrey Ballet
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The Joffrey Ballet announced that Marcus Lemonis, chairman and CEO of Camping World Inc. and Good Sam Enterprises LLC and star of CNBC's "The Profit," has made a substantial leadership gift to support and enhance the ongoing work of the Joffrey's Bridge Program, a dance education residency in Chicago Public Schools.
In recognition of this gift, the program will now be known as The Joffrey Ballet Lemonis Bridge Program, according to a press release. The Joffrey Ballet is led by Artistic Director Ashley Wheater and Executive Director Greg Cameron.
The Bridge Program provides Chicago Public School students in grades 1 and 2 with a highly structured dance experience where they develop life skills such as listening, following directions and respect; engage in creative expression; and practice physical awareness and healthy lifestyle choices. This program serves primarily African American and Latino children with more than 90% of the young students coming from low income households. It is designed to introduce children, who normally would not have any opportunity to explore classical dance, to the basic elements of classical ballet and may ultimately identify and train the next generation of dancers.
Lemonis' gift will guarantee that the Bridge Program – which currently reaches over 400 students each year – will continue to engage Chicago's children for the next decade while at the same time expanding the number of teaching artists, schools and students served annually.
"In light of the recent school closings and budget cuts in the Chicago Public School system, so much of the basic structure that the children need in their lives has been altered. Giving our youths a solid beginning can make a huge impact in his or her life and it has been proven that the arts positively impact our young people's physical health, discipline, focus and social skills," said Lemonis. "As a child, I was given an opportunity that enabled me to pursue my passions and I am honored to offer assistance to the Joffrey's Bridge Program as it is undeniable how valuable – how crucial – programs like this are to maintaining a balanced education and having a long-lasting positive impact for the children, who are truly our future. I encourage the community members and businesses to embrace and support this program."


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Tuesday, June 21, 2005
What in the Purple Screaming Fuck?
It would seem that according to Statcounter.com, I'm 151 hits short of having 50,000 visitors to my blog.
That seems like an awful lot. I'm not that funny.
Gratified as all hell, but still ...
The flabber, she is gasted.
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You are a daily stop while I drink my tea at my horrible job! And assbeagle is now used daily in my home.
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Slow Cooking for Two by Cynthia Graubart
The subtitle for this book should really be "Make your slow cooker work for you." I have never seen so many inventive, practical ways to put my slow cooker to use! I'm not just talking about recipes — though there are plenty of those, of course — but also cooking two meals at once in the same pot, using ramekins and cake pans to turn the slow cooker into a baking oven, and many more surprising ideas that ensure your slow cooker never sits still long enough to collect dust.
Quick Facts
• Who wrote it: Cynthia Graubart
• Who published it: Gibbs Smith
• Number of recipes: 100
• Recipes for right now: Smoky Chipotle Butternut Squash Soup, Honey-Ginger Chicken Thighs, Sticky Wings, Rosemary Lamb and Tomato Stew, Potato Gratin with Fresh Herbs, Corn Pudding, Vanilla Custard, Granola, Banana Bread
• Other highlights: With this book in hand, I'm pretty sure you could actually live off your slow cooker alone. Breakfast, lunch, dinner — even the occasional cocktail party — there are plenty of ideas here. And I'm not just talking about the typical color-drained, uni-textured soupy slow cooker dishes either. In these recipes, Cynthia Graubart makes sure we're paying attention to how foods should look, taste, and smell when they come out of the slow cooker, whether that means a sticky glaze on some chicken wings or a chewy bite of barley stew.
Essentially, this book treats the slow cooker like a small, low-temperature oven. Which, of course, is more or less what it is. Sometimes the insert is used as the cooking vessel, as with stews and roasts, but the insert also becomes our oven space to hold breads as they bake, slow-cook custards, or roast a batch of nuts. These recipes really encourage us (and by "us" I definitely mean "me," as well!) to think beyond the usual parameters of the slow cooker and really put it to use on an everyday basis.
Given all this, I almost forget that that the primary purpose of the book is to provide smaller-portioned slow cooker meals. All of the recipes are developed for a 3 1/2-quart slow cooker, though Graubart gives some tips in the introduction for doubling recipes if you have a larger-sized slow cooker or want to cook for a crowd. The majority of the recipes are made with little prep work beyond chopping the vegetables, making it very easy to quickly get everything in the pot in a spare moment and know dinner will be ready in a few hours.
Here's what Graubart covers in the book: soups, poultry, beef and lamb, double dinners (two dinners separated by slow cooker liners and simultaneously), seafood, side dishes, desserts (including some breakfast ideas), dips and appetizers, and basics (including chicken stock, jams, and caramelized onions). The introduction gives lots of tips for using your slow cooker in these unexpected ways and how to ensure delicious meals with every recipe.
• Who would enjoy this book? Small households, people living in small apartments or without an oven
Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: Slow Cooking for Two by Cynthia Graubart
• Visit the author's website: Cynthia Graubart
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Feb. 18, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -The host Engineers finished fourth at this weekend's New England Division III Championship at Shobrys and Aronson Track. MIT's only event victories came by the hands of senior Uzoma Orji, who broke the meet record in the weight throw and tied the shot put mark. Placing ahead of MIT (57.50) was repeat champion Williams College (153), Tufts University (131) and Bates College (62.50).
Orji, who has consistently ranked among the nation's best in both the shot put and weight throw, had another top notch performance on Sunday. Already with the meet record of 57'1" (2004) heading into the competition, the senior tied his own record-breaking mark. The next best throw was 52-04.75 by Springfield's Alex Kampersal. Orji was more impressive in the weight throw. His toss of 62-09.25 established a new meet record. The previous record was set by Mike Pockowski (62'0.5") of WPI in 1999.
Senior David Blau had a strong day for Tech. He raced to third place finishes in the 55 (6.56) and 200 meter dash (22.70). Sophomore Omari Stephens also performed well with a sixth place finish in the 55 meter hurdles (8.07) and a fourth place tie in the pole vault (13-06.00). In the 3000 meter run, sophomore Joe Roy-Mayhew ran an 8.48.28 for fifth place, and senior Eric Khatchadourian earned fourth in the 5000 meter run with a 15:14.44 mark. On Saturday, senior Thad Wozniak totaled 2915 points and placed eighth in the pentathlon.
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Moviegoers and historians alike should pay attention. Spielberg's Lincoln is a work of art, a film about morality, democracy, and human agency that tells us something about its creators and—since Lincoln will be watched and loved by millions—about ourselves. Like any other movie, novel, or painting, the film ought to be discussed and critiqued. Indeed, it should be subjected to a particularly searching analysis precisely because of its prominence and power.
I've been thinking about this quite a bit in the wake of an op-ed I wrote about the film for The New York Times, in which I pointed out the passivity and generic nature of the black characters in the film. I argued that the filmmakers' "imagination" (to quote Spielberg) was one in which white men gave the gift of freedom to African-Americans.
A rich debate has developed among historians and in the greater blogosphere about this film. Some writers have agreed with my points wholeheartedly, arguing that the film underemphasized the role African-Americans played in influencing the abolition debate in Washington. Others have said that black characters are unimportant to the film's larger goals. Some critics have claimed that I would only have been satisfied with an entirely different film—perhaps one focused on slaves' struggle to get free, or on Lincoln's relationship with Frederick Douglass.
To be sure, I'd like to see more Hollywood films that feature prominent and complex black characters. My point, though, was that the filmmakers' artistic choices revealed assumptions about black passivity and white agency that are inaccurate, damaging, and difficult to dislodge.The conversation about Spielberg's movie Lincoln continues. There is so much going on here--and one main theme driving the controversy which has so far gone unaddressed to this point--regarding history, memory, and the politics of popular culture. In all, we have only scratched the surface of Lincoln's meaning and the public's relationship to the film.
Lincoln did not come out of the ether fully formed like Athena from Zeus' head. Like all filmmakers, Spielberg made choices about what to include and what to leave out of the movie. I am always surprised by how some in the public want to view a film as a settled matter, that was naturally formed, and is above revision and/or critical inquiry. There is something wonderfully "modern" about such a perspective.
As readers of We Are Respectable Negroes know, I like to play script doctor. Making suggestions to improve a film is a fanboy's dream; this responsibility is one of the sacred duties of we who are ghetto nerds.
Historian Kate Masur, whose essay about Lincoln's flattening of history and willful omission of black folks' agency, has been the subject of much discussion here and elsewhere. She kindly sent me an email about her followup piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education.


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Reputation Points
The follow point values are tentative values are the same as they are now. As time goes on these point values will be reevaluated and we'll decide if they are unfair and try to figure out what would work better.
10 points => When you share a tutorial, model, or gallery item.
3 points => When someone becomes your fan (if implemented).
1 point => When you post a comment, make a post in the forum, or someone likes something you posted.
All the extra places to earn points means we need to adjust our ranking system. Personally, I've always liked the idea of a sports theme. Like points, the rank values will be reevaluated as time goes on.
Plus (+, ++) ranks are mainly to provide more ranks to reach. I deliberately made Pro quite difficult to achieve, but that really depends on how often people like things and become fans. Just for reference, here are the existing leaderboard scores. No one even makes AAA class, but keep in mind I added likes recently (which had barely been touched) and the ability to become someone's fan doesn't exist yet.
As for admins and mods, I don't know. I think maybe moderators could be "coaches" and the admin could be the "Head Coach". These could be little badges attached rather than ranks though.
Anyways, if you've manage to get through all that, let me know what you think.


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Is there anything you can do to survive online crises with your brand?
The short answer is; yes use the Internet!
The longer answer is having a plan and understanding that all brands even the biggest are vulnerable, brands like Dell and Wal-Mart know that well.
The first thing you need to do is to show humility, the Internet has a mind on its own and the only thing you can do is to have a plan and deal with it the best you can by being prepared.
A part of the plan should always be listening, have your eyes and ears open to the buzz out there. The Internet is the main venue for dejected customers and in most cases the brand owner does not have a clue on what is happening. Forums and blogs are being opened everyday and some with the sole purpose of writing "bad things" about product in behalf of unhappy customers.
So what happens when you find something that is not to your liking, true or untrue?
Deal with it; take it on without a delay. One of the best ways to solve most of brand attacks is to respond promptly and head on, go to the source. Remember that the very same costumer that wrote the complaint is waiting for your reaction and I have had cases where by talking directly to the blog/forum owner he removed the post and it was out of Google two weeks later, problem gone. In this case it was a typical story that could have spiraled and gone out of control.
But is it this simple? No not quite! But the only thing I have to say that is "be ready", have an online crisis management plan in place. A plan that answers at least the following questions:
1. What do you do when some talks about your brand in a negative manner?
2. How do you push down negative pages out of the search engines
3. When you have dealt with the situation, will you communication channels open?
4. Monitor the activates on your own site, who is returning you traffic and why, are you using web analytics?
The adult industry versus Radisson SAS Iceland
One of my favorite cases where a decision on one site of the globe can affect something on the other side is the "Radisson SAS Iceland versus the European Adult conference Case", long title on short story that goes like this. Two years back, the European Association of the Adult Industry in Europe (not fully sure of the name) was going to have their annual conference in Iceland, the topic? I am guessing, the Adult Industry in Europe. So few weeks before the event was going to take place, there rose an political issue on this in Iceland, we did not want to get a bunch of naked people to our small country and under pressure the Radisson SAS hotel management in Iceland cancelled and guess what it hit the media and for some two or three weeks if you Googeled Radisson SAS or phrases like adult entertainment or adult conference Radisson SAS and the Adult conference story came up.
This story as such was not such a problem, but the problem as I saw it was twofold:
1. They where opening a new hotel in Bahrain or Dubai at the same time, so when the travel reporter that wanted to write about the new hotel he found little but some adult conference problems in Iceland through Google News and knowing reporters this could pose a huge proplem. Even know Radisson will be connected with the adult industry through this post and will come up under some adult related search phrases at Google Blog and you might be here and reading this article because you got a Google Blog og Web Alert.
2. The there is the linking, if I remember correctly only handful of the sites picked this story up (15 – 20) and some other sites had their RSS-feeds but all in all around 30 sites had some information on this topic, but most based it on two or three original articles. So here is what I feared, imagine this story being picked up massively, by thousands of sites and all of the having a link to Radisson SAS front page with the phrase "adult conference" – Everybody that has even the most basic understanding of link-building will tell you that such scenario would be bad.
So start creating your online credibility, when you need it might be too late.
Also if you are looking for a professional web analytics solution, try Yahoo! Indextools, it's a great tool and it's free!


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Actually it's not the photograph but the moment it captures that I find so heartwarming.
A wild animal which would usually run away or scratch & bite with firefighter David Tree giving it some of his own water.
In a bushfire all living things share the danger. These two have experienced the horrors of the fires, fought the common enemy, and now in the middle of the devastation they share a moment together.


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Junior center Charlie Jenney tied his career-high with 15 points and grabbed six rebounds as the Lipscomb Bisons came up short 71-61 in an overtime game with Belmont in the first round of this season's Battle of the Boulevard at the Curb Center Friday night.
"We had defensive lapses on Belmont 's first four possessions of the overtime," said Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson. "You can't let that happen in a close game."
The game was one of runs with both teams scoring in stretches while the other side faltered at various times
In regulation the Bisons scored on a lay-up by Jenney with 21 seconds left to tie the game at 50-50.
The Bisons, sparked by 10 points from Jenney, held a 28-26 halftime lead. Jenney finished the game hitting seven-of-nine shots from the field.
Belmont went on a 10-3 3 run to open the second half. The Bisons kept the game close thanks to nine second half points from Brian Fisk.
" Belmont only made eight shots in the second half, but we only made eight shots in the second half," Sanderson said.
In the overtime the Bisons struck first on a 3-pointer by James Poindexter, but Belmont went on a 12-0 run to scoring run to ice the game.
Also scoring in double figures for the Bisons were Poindexter and Jason Guyette who each scored 11 points.
The Bisons held a 43-40 advantage on the boards with Guyette pulling down a game-high and personal season high nine boards and Shaun Durant adding seven.
The Bisons reserves scored 32 points while Belmont 's bench players scored 25. Joe Peters and Guyette came off the bench and played 24 minutes each. Jenney played 22 minutes. Brandon Hartwell played 18.
"Our bench did a great job," Sanderson said. "We have been saying that our bench players have to help us. That is going to pay dividends for us down the stretch in February."
Josh Goodwin scored a game-high 17 points for Belmont . Brian Collins added 16 and Nick Otis chipped in with 12.


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Courtesy of Coast Guard Sports Information
NEW LONDON, Conn. - Brown University transfer sophomore Noel Hollingsworth led all scorers with 25 points leading No. 14 MIT to a 78-58 win over Coast Guard in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) game. The Engineers returned to the win column after suffering their first loss in conference play on Saturday, to improve to 17-2 and remain in first place in the NEWMAC at 5-1.
MIT was red hot from the floor, shooting 59.3 percent in the first half while making eight of 12 from 3-point range (66.7 percent) and led 45-37 at the break. The Engineers shot 56.3 percent for the game (27-48) while making 11 of 23 from 3-point range led by a four for five performance from senior Billy Johnson, who finished with 12 points.
Coast Guard also shot it well in the opening 20 minutes hitting on 15 of 29 from the floor (51.7 percent), but the Bears shot just 27.6 percent (8-29) in the second half and finished at 39.7 percent (23-58) on the night.
MIT had its largest lead of the first half at 43-30 with 3:09 left. The Engineers used an 11-2 run early to take a 15-7 lead with 16:14 left and maintained that lead the rest of the way.
The Engineers started the second half on a 16-4 spurt over the first eight minutes to take a commanding 61-41 lead with 11:48 left.
Freshmen Mitchell Kates and Jimmy Burke each added 14 points for MIT while classmate Will Tashman had a game-high 12 rebounds for the Engineers.
Senior Eric Hudson led Coast Guard with 14 points while juniors Jevon James (13) and Adam Radtke (12), who led the team with five rebounds, also scored in double figure for the Bears.
MIT outrebounded the Bears 34-26.
The Engineers will travel to WPI on Saturday, January 30 for a 1:00 p.m. contest. The Cardinal and Gray bested WPI, 76-53, earlier this month.


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We get these bees in our bonnet here at Nake-id Knits (coming May 4, in fact, we'll have 20,000 of the little suckers). This particular bee, though, had more to do with a craving for Ethiopian food and the delicious fermented bread associated with cuisine called injera.
The bread is made with teff flour, a gluten-free flour made from an ancient grain that's high in protein, copper, iron, zinc and calcium. Bob's Red Mill sells small bags of the stuff for about $7-$8 for 24 ounces (they carry it at Natural Grocers), but that seemed a little rich for regular injera consumption.
On our tour de Aurora last week, I picked up a 25-pound bag of teff for $35, knowing full well Nake-id IT would think i was nuts. Since then, we've started putting teff in bread, in cakes, in roux; I even have a recipe for teff muffins.
And, yes, we've made injera.
I used the recipe from Papa Tofu Loves Ethiopian Food, a darling zine, which uses teff, urad dal and brown rice flour in the mix.
Start by mixing all ingredients and let them ferment. Ours went just over three days. Then I added extra water and blended so that the batter was the consistency of crepe batter.
Pour the batter in a hot tefflon pan without oil. And cook for about 45 seconds. Then cover.
Cook for a minute or so. Then remove with wooden spatula.Serve with Ethiopian lentils.
The lady who sold me the massive bag of teff flour said that you can't make injera without a special injera maker. These are like large, electric crepe makers and cost upwards of $100. I found the humble tefflon pan worked just fine.
These were lovely. But not restaurant quality. Next time I'll try 100 percent teff to see if the result is more to my liking.
If you are looking for teff flour in the Denver area, you can find it at the Tana market in the strip mall at 2222 S. Havana St.
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1999 Dodge Durango Suspension - Heavy Metal MudderPosted in Project Vehicles on June 1, 2009
Creating your own suspension system doesn't have to be an overcomplicated nightmare. From the first time we fired up the torch to the last Nylock nut, our Heavy Metal Mudder's suspension was an exercise in matching function, simplicity, and off-the-shelf parts. Still down in East Texas with the Rockwell experts at Old Town Customs, we sat down in front of the monster Durango and begin exploring suspension options.
One of the biggest challenges we faced was the 2 1/2-ton Rockwell's top-loading third member, which rises nearly 10 inches above the axletubes. This isn't an issue if you don't mind building the rig super-tall or pushing the axle a few feet in front of the truck, but we wanted to keep the '99 Durango sitting low and have the tires remain in the general vicinity of the wheelwells.
After examining a variety of suspension configurations, we decided on a coil-spring multilink system that would keep the massive 2 1/2-ton Rockwell axles in check and allow our Durango to flex its skills in a variety of terrains. When scouring around for coils to support the Durango with, we found that its overall weight (approximately 4,300 pounds) is very similar to that of the Jeep Wrangler JK and WJ Grand Cherokee. After pulling a few measurements, we decided that a set of Rock Krawler 3 1/2-inch front JK springs would work great in the front, while a set of RK 8-inch rear WJ springs seemed the perfect fit out back.
Creating your own widgets to get your 4x finished is always a part of the process, but any time you can use readily available aftermarket components, we suggest you do so. It's not that we don't like to fabricate, but oftentimes purchasing items such as control arms and axle brackets will save you time and money. We can't tell you how helpful it was to be able to call up manufacturers and simply ask them questions about their parts and see if those parts would work for our application.
Just because they don't list any parts for your ride doesn't mean you can't make some of their existing products work for your vehicle. A perfect example of this is our Teraflex JK long-arm lower control arms. They are made with beefy flex joints and strong tubing. If we were to ever jump, roll, or do some crazy wheeling acrobatics that destroyed our suspension links, we wouldn't have to go back to the fab table. Rather, we would just place a phone call and have a new control arm delivered to our door.
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Woodland Friends
Camp Out With a Good Book Bookmark
Recognize students and their reading achievement with fun Woodland Friends bookmarks. These adorable reading bookmarks are great to hand out to students for their literacy progress, for read-a-thon events or for efforts in at-home reading programs. They are also perfect for use as a multi-purpose classroom reward or student incentive to send a positive message and encourage reading.
Pack includes two designs:
"Camp Out with a Good Book" features an adorable fox in a tent reading.
"I Love to Read!" features cute woodland friends (owl, fox, hedgehog, rabbit, raccoon, deer and bear) peeking over a log.
- 30 bookmarks per package
- 15 each of 2 designs
- Bookmark is approximately 2½" x 7"
Designer Cut-Outs, Woodland Friends, 10"
Designer Cut-Outs, Woodland Friends, 6"
These cute and furry Woodland Friends 6" Cut-Outs will add charm to bulletin boards, doors, and any classroom space. These colorful woodland animals (owl, fox, hedgehog, squirrel, bear, and raccoon) are perfect for use in a variety of classroom displays and themes: science, nature, outdoors, animals, and camping. Also great for summer camp programs.
- 36 pieces per package
- 6 each of 6 designs
Standard Library Pockets, Woodland Friends
Bring a bit of the outdoors in with this Woodland Friends Calendar Set Bulletin Board! The friendly woodland animals (fox, hedgehog, bear, squirrel, rabbit, raccoon, and deer) and the woodsy scenery create a colorful calendar display that students will love.
This 67-piece calendar set features a calendar chart, 12 month headlines, 31 pre-numbered calendar days (different colored leaves that form an ABC pattern), and 4 blank calendar days. The set also includes a days-of-the-week chart, a seasons and weather chart, and coordinating labels.
The 12 month headlines feature seasonal and animal accents:
- January - snowflakes, racoon
- February - hearts, bear
- March - shamrocks, hedgehog
- April - umbrella, fox
- May - flowers, hedgehog
- June - ice-cream cone, squirrel
- July - sun, fox
- August - watermelon, racoon
- September - pencil, bear
- October - pumpkins & candy corn, owl
- November - fall leaves, squirrel
- December - holiday lights, owl
Bulletin board set also includes an instructional guide with bulletin board ideas, classroom activities, and a reproducible.
Woodland Friends Double-Sided Banner
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Bad Apples December 16, 2012Posted by The Typist in A Fiction, cryptical envelopment, New Orleans, The Narrative, The Typist, Toulouse Street.
Tags: Coco Robicheaux, Frenchman Street, Kenny Holladay, The Apple Barrel
The Apple Barrel is a trip hazard with a liquor license, 500 square feet maybe counting the superfluous jukebox I'm pretty sure I've never heard. In front Kenny Claiborne in once-white Western boots sings Indian Red like a Seventh Ward Kaddish over a mournful dobro. Momma Cat passes the tips spittoon while keeping time with a tambourine stick she says she got at church. Marco and Monica who painted the mural behind the band are in from Sarasota and as we talk Claiborne calls "Coldplay. Because we can" and the dobro hollers its own metal voice into the song. Piano Dave says the tattoos at Electric Ladyland are overpriced but I still contemplate Bukowski and Maddox on my forearms and think anyone I have to explain them to is probably not worth working for. The tourists sit mostly in the back, as expressionless and obvious as tinsel Christmas trees in a bail bondsman's office, nursing incongruous Stella Artois until they give up or get a table at Adolfo's upstairs. Photos of Coco Robicheaux watch over us with a Bodhisattva's Cheshire serenity and I write and have to scratch out Kenny Holladay instead of Claiborne when I start to jot these notes but as long as there's a band I am half right: Coco and Kenny and a host of others whose boots will never pass through these door again are as palpable as the smoke from the musicians' cigarettes. I contemplate my bottle and think that if I have another Jockamo there's no telling what's going to happen but we are prepared to exercise the uncertainly principle until we raise Schrodinger's cat from the grave. We order Reposado shook over ice and tell J.D. to make one for himself, then pour the first taste onto the floor. Somewhere outside the door is the heart of Saturday night and Apple Maps will never get you there. You have to follow the woman dressed in wrong-holiday rabbit ears through this door and never be afraid to drink what's in front of you.
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After Mardi Gras I'll be organizing the belated buggy driver birthday/tattoo finishing party at the Barrel. Be ready. Piano too.


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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Full Disclosure for Attacker Tools
What's a little more interesting now is seeing Laurent Oudot releasing 13 security advisories for attacker tools. Laurent writes:
For example, we gave (some of) our 0days against known tools like Sniper Backdoor, Eleonore Exploit Pack, Liberty Exploit Pack, Lucky Exploit Pack, Neon Exploit Pack, Yes Exploit Pack...
If you're not familiar with these sorts of tools, see an example described by Brian Krebs at A Peek Inside the 'Eleonore' Browser Exploit Kit.
Why release these advisories?
It's time to have strike-back capabilities for real, and to have alternative and innovative solutions against those security issues.
I agree with the concept, but not necessarily with releasing "advisories" for attacker tools. Laurent claims these are "0days". This would imply the developers of these attacker tools did not know about the vulnerabilities. By publishing advisories, attackers now know to fix them. Assuming "customers" heed the advisories and update their software, this process has now denied security researchers and others who conduct counter-intruder operations access to attacker sites. This is tactically counterproductive from a white hat point of view.
On the other hand, developers of these attacker tools might already know about the vulnerabilities, and might have already patched them. In this case, publishing advisories is more about creating some publicity for Laurent's new company and for his talk last week. (Did anyone see it?)
I like the idea of taking the fight to the enemy. Security researchers are already penetrating attacker systems to infiltrate botnet command and control servers and do other counter-intruder operations. These activities increase the black hat cost to conduct intrusions, and the more resources the attackers have to divert to defending their own infrastructure, the fewer resources they can direct at compromising victims.
However, disclosing details of vulnerabilities in attacker tools is likely to not work in the white hat's favor. White hats are bound by restrictions like laws and rules that black hats routinely break. Announcement of a vulnerability in the Eleonore exploit kit is not going to unleash a wave of activity against black hats like announcement of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer. It's likely that the few researchers and others wearing white hats will not learn much from a public announcement due to their independent research, while mass-targeting attackers (who historically are not great developers themselves) will disproportionately benefit from the disclosure.
What do you think? Should white hat researchers publish security advisories for black hat tools?
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- Matthew X. Economou said...
Perhaps I watched too much G.I. Joe as a kid, plus it's late and I'm tired, but I vote for disclosure for the following reasons:
(1) By knowing about vulnerabilities in the attackers tools, I might be able to better organize my defenses. It might be cheaper for me to induce failures in attackers' tools than to workaround or correct vulnerabilities in my own systems/services.
(2) I might be able to use those vulnerabilities to carry out limited (legal) offensives against attackers. In this instance, I'm thinking specifically about personally disrupting botnet command-and-control structures found within networks under my administrative authority. Well-intentioned third parties might also carry out extralegal attacks against attackers themselves (think Batman). This increases the attackers' cost of doing business, insofar that they will have to start spending money or time on additional information assurance activities.
(3) The vendors who supply attackers with malicious software will have to implement expensive, difficult software quality control models in order to continue generating business for their now obviously buggy and poorly-crafted malware. This further drives up the cost of doing business, for both black hat software vendors and for attackers. To re-iterate: turnabout is fair play.
I'm only partially joking.
Offense is the best defense. But I don't think that applies to this approach.
I agree there is value to learn/understand your enemy, the defined "black hat tools", which includes discovering vulnerabilities. But the ultimate goal is to secure your organization. Publishing these tools' vulnerabilities does't help to secure organizations as much as attacking the botnet controller. It might push the whole thing into a hamster wheel of vulnerabilities (vuln of browser led to attack tools and botnet, attack tools' vulns led to strike-back tools and then more and more vulns ... :) and then a distraction to the underlying problem (e.g.: insecure browser). So I don't think it falls into one of the best defense strategies.
However, there might be pure research/discussion benefits to circulate such information non-publicly if they haven't been. I just don't see the value for the general public.
I thought of an example that might be related to this topic: your network/system admin wants your external/internal PT/VA to fail, so he goes on and finds vulnerabilities in most common port/vuln scanners and implemented them on the network(instead of doing what he should normally do: secure his network!!). So your PT/VA results may show that the network is secure. But that just doesn't deal with the real problem.
- The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegroove said...
I second Matthew's (2) as a reason for good idea. Sometimes, retaltion is possible without breaking law.
Furthermore, this could help botnet owners to fight each other for turf and diverting resources from harvesting users.
- PatsComputerServices said...
While I like the idea that it may cause infighting amongst the different botnet/black hats, I don't think publicly exposing the vulnerabilities was the best idea.
I would have sent the information to the various researchers and antivirus/security providers, so they could take steps to counter the tools. Especially if the tools inject the vulnerabilities into their "products".
The only "good" thing that comes from this is just being able to say that even the "black hats" aren't perfect coders. Aside from that, there's nothing good that comes from this.
Have a great day:)
I agree with what Matthew said. The idea of "offensive" security is dangerous...I hope we mostly mean "being aggressive in your defense".
"Do not hesitate to contact TEHTRI-Security if you need technical
assistance (pentests, incident handling, source code analysis, etc) with
experts who know how work cyber conflicts for real, which is totally
different from people who have clean certifications or who just
masterize security research in labs..."
and the motive becomes clear. It's usually about money, or pissing further/fame...or both. Vigilante security researchers actively attacking systems and/or releasing 0day...and we're left with grep'ing intent from the network packets.
Richard, this is a delightful dilemma!
I think there would be enough value in the shared learning in the community to disclose these vulnerabilities.
I would hesitate on any plan to non-publicly share this information, as my assumption would be we'd only be deluding ourselves to think the attackers wouldn't themselves see it in our own channels.
I think I'd fall barely on the side of disclosing these publicly.
- Taloquan said...
Although I am for the "hack back" strategy, I am torn by the double standard posed by the "full disclosure vs. responsible disclosure" debate. The community will crucify a developer for not allowing sufficient time to produce a patch, but also thrives on the security improvements that stem from vendor competition. The simple answer is if you have 'exploit pack 0-day', keep quiet, exploit-exploit, then do a talk about it. The moment you vocalize it, you lose tactical suprise and expose your organization to criticism. Strangely enough, I don't feel that is moral answer and maybe what we are left here is just an ethical dilemma.
- Jackson said...
To those researchers who want to release 0 days pack on blackhat tools should know that exploit authors are those who're daily watching for latest exploits.
Right now, Laurent have taught them how to write a secure exploit pack. They've already patched their holes. New versions have been sent out to their customers.


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Maldives or Lembeh?
Posted 06 July 2012 - 01:25 PM
Can the Wetpixel forum help me decide?
If anyone who has been to both or either of the two, please fill me in on the scenario & which one would be best for whatever.
I hear Lembeh has cold murky water & the Maldives reefs are badly bleeched. Have read bad reports about the dive operators in the Maldives also.
My wife & I will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary & one of these spots will be host.
I'm a photographer & she is only OW certified.
I've never been west of Hawaii so thanks for any & all info.
Posted 06 July 2012 - 01:32 PM
I found the diving in the Maldives great, more fish orientated than corals, lots of schooling fish, sharks, rays and then the obvious mantas and whalesharks.
When I visited the water was very flat, but once under the water the currents were quite strong and if you do go I recommend a reef hook so you can hook into the reef and hang there.
I didn't see any bleached corals, but that is probably due to dive guides taking us to the better places.
I would say it could be quite challenging for a new open water diver just due to the currents
Posted 06 July 2012 - 02:49 PM
You should look into places with beautiful hard and soft coral with more than just macro critters without big currents. Sipadan comes to mind and another is Palau. Palau has some current at the Blue Corner, but otherwise it is gentle.
Nikon D800E, Subal ND800, Inon Z240, ULCS & Carbon Arms
Posted 06 July 2012 - 11:57 PM
The Maldives is a good destination for honeymooners etc. Just choose the right resort so the dive sites aren't too far. As been said, it's fishy and full of life. There are resorts that are luxurious and have wonderful spas etc but it's basically lazing around on an island for the duration.
Have fun.
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
"I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Posted 07 July 2012 - 07:30 AM
Feeling a bit braver, try the Kuredu express or fushivaru thila for mantas in the right season.
Just bear in mind that you'll be island based and if you choose a smaller island not much else other than beaches and water.
Posted 07 July 2012 - 12:21 PM
Canon 7d, Nauticam, Lots of glass, Olympus OMD-EM5, Nauticam, 60 macro, 45 macro, 8 mm fisheye, Inon, S&S, Athena Strobes plus lots of fiddly bits.
Posted 08 July 2012 - 05:09 AM
Posted 08 July 2012 - 10:56 AM
Found out recently that the Maldives is out of the question. Long story.
Looks like Lembeh is our only option.
We're staying @ The Lembeh Resort.
Could somebody who has been there give me the full scoop on things .... including alternate excursions?
I can be happy with just muck diving and shooting things around the resort, .... but my wife, she would like to do something besides watch my z240's create backscatter. lol
Best time of year? Water Temps, clarity? Any wide angle opps? How are the guides?
Volcano tour-worth it? Sunsets, .... should I bring any topside gear (i.e. pano, gnd,)?
Flight time from Houston, Texas?
Do's & Dont's?
Thanks for all of the opinions so far.
Posted 08 July 2012 - 01:02 PM
I have heard the temps can get lower in August......but I don't have experience with that time of year. Visibility when we were there, was probably 50 feet. This isn't really a place for the crystal clear water. Wide angle ops.... You can go up to the north sites..(California dreaming)....and get some decent wide angle, but again, people typically go to lembeh for the small stuff. As this will give you the best photo ops.
Being your anniversary, the spa at lembeh resort will be very nice for you. Congrats. My wife and I will be celebrating our tenth leaving for Komodo this week.
The flight is a long haul. We went, slc>sea>nrt>sin>mdc. About 23 hours of flight time. We did a layover in Singapore and booked a room at the transit hotel in Singapore. That is the way to do it....really nice and clean and you don't have to leaving immigration. Then take a silk air flight to mdc. From Houston, you probably have options to get to Singapore with united/continental. Then do the silk air flight. Also, Singapore air might have a flight from Houston, you would want to check on that. That could be easy for you.
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Posted 08 July 2012 - 02:09 PM
Or if you want a more secluded romantic resort, how about Wakatobi? At least there is a beach, and you can do shore diving or snorkeling with your wife.
Best way to Manado, Bali, the Maldives or anywhere in that part of the world from IAH is with United via NRT to Bangkok or Singapore, then connect thru there. (there is no more Continental)
Are you using an agent? You may want to give Reef and Rainforest a call. The can answer all your questions and probably come up with something perfect.
Posted 08 July 2012 - 03:26 PM
Check out places like Bali with great topside attractions, Sipadan and look at Sipadan Water Village.
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 03:22 PM
See my trip report: http://diver.net/bbs...002/75277.shtml
From an earlier trip: http://diver.net/bbs...002/72865.shtml
FWIW, I've been to both the Maldives and Indonesia. I enjoyed both.
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Posted 09 July 2012 - 05:18 PM
We also get many divers coming with non-diving partners (we have two couples with us right now where just the men are diving). It's a beautiful quiet place. We have an enormous private bay which you can snorkel and dive with tons of coral and fish, lovely spa, great pool. No complaints from any of our guests, whether they have cameras. no cameras or not diving
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Posted 10 July 2012 - 06:43 AM
I won this trip to Lembeh. So, I guess we kinda got a trip for two @ 1/2 price.
Next year we will most likely book a trip to Bali for our "real" 10th anniversary (July 3rd). We are actually only in our 9th year of beating each other up. lol
Until then, seeing the rest of the world cant be all that bad.
Posted 11 July 2012 - 12:10 PM
May I suggest that you also look at Gangga island resort which is only 1,5 hrs boat ride, it would be ideal for a honeymoon. The place has a nice beach, a pool, a spa, gorgeous bungalows, italian management, great food and fantastic diving around including coral dives. You could probably cut your stay in half Lembeh resort/ half Gangga.
As for the period of stay I would either favor april-may or september-october.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 05:54 PM
I would agree with Liquid Guru - you do not have to be a avid photographer or videography with tons of experience to enjoy Lembeh! I am a non-photographer who lives here and loves the diving.
I have had many newer divers come here and they have also loved it - being able to give them a good mix of the diving that Lembeh has to offer - muck dives, coral dives, wrecks and we can even do trips to Bangka or the South of Lembeh to give them something a little different.
Topside there are land tours, cooking classes and spa. I am sure that you and your wife will be fine (if you are not beating each other up ) Enjoying the sunsets is lovely especially with a cool drink! If you would like more information on the 'land based' activities then contact the resort directly and they will be able to help.
Re Flights - I would look at Houston-Moscow-Singapore-Manado with Singapore Air this is definitely the best option for you!
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Posted 12 July 2012 - 11:33 AM
Muck diving can be very addictive. Often on the liveaboard boats the divers don't understand muck so it's hard to convince the operators to spend much time at the muck sites. For us, muck diving is like a treasure hunt. My wife seaches for critters and then I photograph them. She will also mark the spots where the guides have found something so that I can take my time without worrying about missing a good find. Over the years, our teamwork and relationship have improved from our combined effort to find an photograph unusual creatures.
I think you will have a great time in Lembeh but it is definetely a vacation that is focused on diving. Durring the first two weeks we spent in Lembeh, I saw something I had never seen before on every single dive!
I would suggest that you add a week in Bunaken to the trip. The diving is beautiful and once you have incurred the cost and time to get to Lembeh, it's worth it to spend some time in the surrounding area.
Posted 12 July 2012 - 01:21 PM
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Posted 12 July 2012 - 10:24 PM
Don't worry, if she likes diving, she'll love Lembeh.
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So you're suggesting that it's better to leave the LSAT off the resume because it might signal to overachieving interviewers that I did poorly in college?I think that's also a risk I'm willing to take - I do have a scholarship, although it's not an endowed one, and I go to school near where much of my family lives.
Thanks for the advice, by the way, and of course I'm doing my best to do well at law school. Law exams, unfortunately, are not standardized.
I just want to reiterate that if it turns anyone off, that's not going to have a lasting impact on your career.If some interviewers are concerned that you weren't a hard worker in college and won't give you an interview *because* of your high LSAT, well that sucks. There's just as good a chance that someone will think you're bright and give you an interview because of your high LSAT score. Or perhaps the chance of this latter possibility is significantly lower. It still exists, and it makes sense to roll the dice. Because the fact is that hundreds of virtually identical 1Ls are sending in applications for very few positions, and a high LSAT score sets you apart. If you don't include it, you're unlikely to get any interviews; if you do, you may have a slightly better chance of getting one.
99% of 1Ls get interviews for summer associate positions? I thought it was more like 2%.
Also, please let me know where I've gone wrong instead of saying I have, if possible.
LSAT doesn't fit into that rubric, and your inclusion of it draws attention to your low undergrad GPA (signaling you won't put in the hours) and gives you questionable "flight to China" value for office dynamics.
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by Hugh Gilmore
Last week Tom Tarantino of Chestnut Hill, emailed me, saying, "Hi Hugh, Always like your articles in the C H Local. Have you considered an audience participation piece: 'What's your choice for Summer Reading?'"
I usually do run a couple of audience participation columns along those lines, one in July and another in winter when the first snow-in occurs. I was going to wait till the Chestnut Hill Book Festival arrives on July 9 & 10, but Mr. Tarantino's suggestion sparked me to get started right away.
This summer's version will be printed in two, possibly three, installments. I began by going through my address book, looking for people I know who like to read. I try not to ask anyone to participate in two columns in a row, simply for the sake of scope and variety – though some folks are so interesting, it's hard not to. I have edited several responses, primarily because space is limited.
This week, my email request was worded: "For a late June or July column in the Local, I'm planning another summer roundup of 'Who's reading what? and would be really happy if you joined in this time. The question is: 'Is there (or was there) a book you set aside to read on vacation this year?' What was it? And why? Alternative, (or also) have you read anything lately you recommend heartily, joyously, enthusiastically"?
Let's start with Tom Tarantino, since he rang in first. He wrote, "My Favorite Book of the Year so far is 'The Sands of Kalahari,' (1960) by William Mulvihill."
What would you expect? (HG: Mr. T. recently returned from South Africa, where he visited the Kalahari desert.) It was turned into a movie, which, unfortunately, is not available on DVD. It tells the story of six survivors of a plane crash in the Desert … and it makes you feel what it's like to be lost. As an added bonus, it shows you what a Harvard Man is really worth.
Mr. T. adds "The second is one I am just starting – 'Andes' (2010). I think it will be great, and it already makes me want to go back to Patagonia. Written by Michael Jacobs, it describes his trip down the spine of South America, through seven different countries and across two different centuries. So why am I here in Chestnut Hill"?
Susan Bockius, of Mt. Airy, brings a similar wistfulness for travel to her reading choices this summer. Susan is a very active member of the Unitarian Society of Germantown. She also sells stained glass for the Willet Stained Glass Studio, a Chestnut Hill business for 40 years (now located in the lower Northeast). Ms. Bockius writes, "My reading this summer is a result of last summer's, when I bought a remaindered book by W. S. Merwin called 'The Mays of Ventadorn.' (2002) He was a discovery.
"The gift of language he developed through his poetry shines through his prose in this non-fiction book. He illuminates the area of France that was the home of the troubadour poets, the Languedoc (where he maintained a second home for decades). His book made me want to experience southwest France, the Aquitaine. And this summer I am reading 'Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings' (orig. 1950) by Amy Kelly. The book makes for lively historical summer reading. By the way, I intend to visit this region this September when I travel there with a dear, French-speaking friend."
James H. Hill, Chestnut Hill resident and devoted oarsman, writes, "Thanks for thinking of me. I'm afraid I cannot help: I have set nothing aside for Maine this year. I did love (& highly recommend) Luke Jenning's 'Blood Knots' and Peter Hessler's 'Country Driving.' Both were so well written I bought the authors' earlier books to read also."
(HG: Reviews of "Blood Knots," tout it as one of the best recent angling books and, like so many of the best of this genre, as a touching and beautiful memoir that uses fishing as an excuse to be near water – which, as Thoreau would remind us, is where all men and women become philosophers. As for Hessler's book: in the summer of 2001, this longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker acquired his Chinese driver's license and spent the next seven years traveling the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China.)
Our next contributor is Chestnut Hill resident Nathan Sivin. Just as I finished a recent series about how I, as a bookseller, dispersed a scholar's huge library, Professor Sivin wrote to me. He told me he knew the gentleman whose library I'd bought. Soon after, we got together and had what I hope was only the first of a number of great conversations.
In response to my summer reading request, he wrote, "I'm a generalist scholar and author, retired five years ago from the Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania and frequently found at the Chestnut Hill Cheese Shop. For me, work is recreation, and I spend much of my time reading, much of it in Chinese, in order to extend my understanding and imagination. The most fun I have had recently began in the summer after my retirement, when I reread all of Shakespeare's plays and all of Honoré de Balzac's roughly a hundred novels. The latter are actually one vast super-novel that lays out, with a single, giant cast of characters, all the variety of human relations in one generation of French society in the midst of dizzying change. Nothing since begins to compare with it."
I've heard many people say they intended to read through all of an author's works – usually Dickens – but have never met anyone who actually did. I'm amazed, and jealous. And must find out what Mr. Sivin is doing as a follow-up.
Another prodigious reader from our community, Carol Rauch, has lived in Chestnut Hill for 25 years. She describes herself as a former marketing consultant to the design professions, now retired, who loves reading, competing at Scrabble, painting, building furniture, gardening and exploring new ideas. She also describes herself as an excellent editor who would love some freelance assignments.
Here's an edited list of books she's recently enjoyed. (1) "Crossing," by Geraldine Brooks. ("Historical fiction about Native Americans and the small British colony on Martha's Vineyard in the middle of the 17th century. Compelling read."); (2) "The Paris Wife," by Paula McLain. ("An interesting novel about Hemingway's marriage to his first wife, Hadley Richardson."); (3) "A Mountain of Crumbs," by Elena Gorokhova. ("A gorgeous and evocative memoir enriched by her connection to two languages, Russian and English. Brilliant and moving."); (4) "Mudbound," by Hillary Jordan. (Brilliant debut novel set on a 1940s farm in the Mississippi Delta."); (5) "Invisible Bridge," by Julie Orringer. ("Historical fiction. I knew nothing about Hungary's experience of WW II. This was an eye-opener to a horrific time for the Hungarian people.")
Did you know that Jonna Naylor, the executive director of Mt Airy Learning Tree, grew up in the land of Larry McMurtry – Thalia, Texas? Jonna writes, "My Mom knew him as a kid in Clarendon, Texas. I am from Philly now! And I maintain my deep-south-Philly accent."
As for her reading habits, she says, "Sure Hugh … but only if you promise to use my list only if you find it fun! And it fits … In other words … ok to leave me out if you get better ones! I'm a lightweight reader but have loved reading all my life! Historical biographies, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys/ Happy Hollisters are some early favorites! I learned the finger alphabet as a kid from the back of a Happy Hollisters book.
"Then I moved into Agatha Christie, and on to Michener … they are all good, but "Hawaii" may be my favorite. So I guess I just think of myself as a "standard stuff" reader. But I read a fun book about Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith that she wrote called "Just Kids'" this May at the Cape.
"For tee-hees I love Janet Evanovich and try to keep up with her Stephanie Plum novels. My favorite so far was the one with the monkeys in the Pine Barrens! 'Plum Spooky' is one for the ages if you grew up around guys who blew things up, or ripped up things using an old Moline tractor and a chain … it just brought back memories! Different setting, but the same wide-open approach to living!
"I also get a kick out of most of what David Sedaris writes. 'Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk' was fun … but my favorite so far has been 'Me Talk Pretty One Day.' Let me know if you need more from me and again … perfectly fine if you don't use this/me! Thanks, Jonna."
So there. Every columnist should be lucky enough to get a genuine Texan on his panel!
I also heard from, just-moved-to-Ambler Tom Keels. "Hi Hugh, Good to hear from you! We're not going away on vacation until November, since Larry Arrigale and I are working on our 'Philadelphia's Golden Age of Retail,' a look at the city's dear beloved and missed department and specialty stores. Our book is due to the publisher (Arcadia) in September, so it will be a working summer.
Tom's recent reading: "I'm taking a break from Proust after finishing 'Sodom and Gomorrah' this spring. I just finished 'Mrs. Dalloway,' which I have wanted to read ever since I saw 'The Hours' a while ago. A very interesting book to read right after attending one's 35th college reunion. But I'm glad I read it now instead of earlier in my life. It is a middle-aged book, dealing with remembering, regretting, avoiding and embracing the past. I love how Woolf carries her characters from joy to despair in the course of crossing the street. One of the best books I've ever read."
(Tom Keels' claims to fame include his authoring or co-authoring five books, including "Wicked Philadelphia: Sin the in the City of Brotherly Love," and "Forgotten Philadelphia: Lost Architecture of the Quaker City." Most recently he appeared as a talking head on WLVT PBS39's new documentary, "Philly Firsts.")
Finally, for today, I present one of my colleagues in the bookselling business, Greg Williams, proprietor of the Mt. Airy institution Walk a Crooked Mile bookstore. Greg writes, "Dear Hugh, Thanks for the invite. As you know, keeping a bookstore open works against one's ability to read as much as you like. I spend a ton of time reading the backs of books so I know a little about a lot of them and have tons of books I've set aside, in my dreams, for retirement or some fantasy day when I have more time. But I have discovered a new writer who gives me pleasure. I have always taken great delight in good "wacky" writers and my new favorite is Christopher Moore.
"One of my high school customers kept asking for him a year or so ago and so when 'Fluke' came in I read the back cover and plunged in. I have always been interested in cetology, so a book about cetologists trying to figure out why the humpback whales of Hawaii sing new songs every year or so was right up my alley. The characters were fun and the action, and premise, of the book really took off once one of the cetologists gets 'swallowed' by one of the humpbacks.
"I've also enjoyed reading modern versions of the life of Christ and, believe it or not, Moore has taken on this topic in the hilarious but interesting 'Lamb,' the story of what Jesus and his best friend, Biff, were up to from 6-years-old to the time of his public life at 30. Jesus and Biff pursue the Three Magi so Jesus can figure out how to be the Messiah. His travels immerse Him in the religious disciplines of the day and He finally comes back to the Holy Land ready to fulfill his mission. Sacrilegious? Maybe for some but for me it was a great read and theologically intriguing."
So, that's the reading roundup for this week. More next week. In the meantime, I hope you got some "book knowledge" and that you learned a bit more about some our interesting neighbors.
Enemiesofreading.blogspot.com will lead you to more of Hugh Gilmore's writings.


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Campus artists perform at the new Tilley Student Center
Student Activities sponsored the first Campus Artist Series of the semester Wednesday night in the new Tilley Student Center, showcasing some of the best musical talent on campus. The free concert featured campus bands Stay Seventeen, And Get Up Soldier and Oh Captain.
The Tilley Student Center opened Sept. 19. It is located next to the recently renamed LaHaye Student Union, which encompasses the new student center and campus recreational facilities.
For more on the center, click here.
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WELLESLEY, Mass. – The MIT women's volleyball team saw its tri-captains earn NEWMAC all-conference honors, marking the 11th consecutive season the program has received multiple accolades. Senior Kelly Schulte (Riverside, Calif.) and junior Katie Spielbauer (Lakeview, Mich.) were named to the first team while senior Cecily Joujon-Roche (Laguna Hills, Calif.) was tabbed to the second team.
A second team selection last year, Schulte ranked 10th in the NEWMAC in blocks (69) and placed eighth on the Engineers' all-time list with 269 career blocks. She led the team in kills (249), was third in blocks, and fifth in aces (28).
Spielbauer received her first award from the league after leading the NEWMAC in aces (82) and finishing 10th in digs (420). Her serving performance ranks fourth in program history and she currently stands sixth in career digs with 1,319.
The 2008 NEWMAC Rookie of the Year, Joujon-Roche collected her second conference accolade after placing second in hitting percentage (.348) and fifth in blocks (78) among the league leaders. She paced MIT in hitting percentage, was second in blocks, and third in kills (197) and aces (40). In addition, Joujon-Roche graduates sixth all-time in career blocks (308) and blocks per set (0.86).


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Qui-Gon Jinn
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Jedi Master appearing in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. He is currently training Obi-Wan Kenobi. Although a master, he is not a member of the Jedi council due to his defiance of the council and unwillingness to follow the Jedi code.
He is the Jedi who first discovers Anakin Skywalker as a slave on Tatooine and the young child's unusually high midichlorian count and sensitivity to the Force. He wins Anakin's freedom from Watto by betting on Anakin winning the Boonta Eve Classic pod race. He is convinced Anakin is the "Chosen One" in a Jedi prophecy who will bring balance to the force.
He returns to Naboo where he and Obi-Wan encounter the Sith apprentice Darth Maul. After a long lightsabre duel, Maul kills Qui-Gon in the Theed Palace.