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Afghanistan's first 'election museum' opens in Bamyan
Afghanistan's first 'election museum' opens in Bamyan
BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): A fist-of-its-kind 'Election Museum' that chronicles Afghanistan's electoral journey with photographs, documents and technical items was inaugurated in central Bamyan province on Tuesday.
The museum was officially inaugurated by chiefs of electoral bodies and members from Afghanistan and Asian countries in Bamyan City, the provincial capital.
Photos of electoral proceedings, ballot papers, election calendars and technical items -- such as satellite telephones, cameras, hand torches, colors and ballot boxes – have been put on display at the election museum, the first of its kind in Afghanistan.
Abdul Badee Sayad, the Independent Election Commission (IEC) spokesman, told the museum's inauguration ceremony that participation of electoral authorities from seven Asian countries in the museum's inauguration meant these countries supported democracy in Afghanistan.
He said next year's parliamentary and district council elections would be held in a 'transparent' and 'just' manner and all eligible voters would be given new voter cards as the previous cards had been declared void and wouldn't be used in the elections.
Ali Shah Misbah, IEC head for Bamyan, said Bamyan people had always participated in elections with enthusiasm and 42 percent female voter turnout in the last presidential election was unprecedented.
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Some companies go to a lot of trouble trying to keep their intellectual property and corporate secrets safe. Naturally, they're on the lookout for corporate spies and extortion-minded cyberthieves, as well as insiders turned Benedict Arnolds. Few of them, though, give much thought to employees who unintentionally leak sensitive data. The problem is that the ways of doing that just keep growing, and most people are blissfully unaware of the dangers.
Social media has become a big part of this problem. Here's an example. You would be amazed how many corporate coders are apt to include in their LinkedIn profiles deeply detailed accounts of things like disasters they helped avert at their company. Say that a programmer helped fix a deeply flawed database implementation. It wouldn't be unusual for him to go on LinkedIn and name specific vendor products used and provide lots of specifics about how bad the problem was and how he helped craft a nontraditional fix. The coder's intent is to tout his own creativity and resourcefulness. But one result is that a lot of information that his employer would prefer to keep quiet is visible to just about anyone. And there are people who will go looking for that sort of thing, including competitors, financial analysts and reporters.
But there are subtler ways to give away information without ever suspecting that you had done so. Let's say that you and some co-workers take a business trip together. When you go out to dinner one night, one of you posts a photo of your smiling faces to Facebook or Instagram. It all looks like innocent fun. And it would be, except that the photo probably carries geotag information that can tell anyone who cares to know your precise location. If the point of the trip is to save the relationship with your company's biggest customer, a rival might be able to make something out of repeated trips to that customer's locale. If you're visiting a company that is being confidentially considered for acquisition, that geotagged photo could tip your hand.
One employer that takes the dangers of geotagging seriously is the U.S. Army. It has instructed personnel to always disable geotagging. For the military, of course, this amounts to a matter of life or death. A geotagged photo could broadcast the exact location of a unit. And it's not just a hypothetical danger. Steve Warren, deputy G2 for the Maneuver Center of Excellence, is quoted on the Army's website regarding an event that occurred in 2007: "When a new fleet of helicopters arrived with an aviation unit at a base in Iraq, some Soldiers took pictures on the flightline. From the photos that were uploaded to the Internet, the enemy was able to determine the exact location of the helicopters inside the compound and conduct a mortar attack, destroying four of the AH-64 Apaches."
Your enterprise may not have Apache helicopters to protect, but it does have information that's every bit as valuable.
And as I said, the ways of unintentionally exposing data are growing. Twitter recently started allowing its network to mark the precise location of every tweet. This development has already been blamed for disclosing the home addresses of celebrities. But it won't be a problem just for celebrities. It can be a problem for your company if your employees tweet from the road.
But this should be an easy problem to address, right? Just tell your employees to disable the location option on Twitter. Maybe not, if IBM Research is to be believed. It has developed an algorithm that it claims can analyze anyone's last 200 tweets and determine his or her city with almost 70% accuracy. I have my doubts about assumptions behind this algorithm, though. For example, tweeting "Let's Go Red Sox" is taken to be evidence of Boston-area residency, but not all Red Sox fans live in the Boston area, and I can think of several reasons for a non-fan to tweet "Let's Go Red Sox." There are also assumptions about placing tweeters in specific time zones based on the frequency of their tweets in the course of each day, but those assumptions are fairly easy to dismantle. Maybe such faulty assumptions are what kept the tested accuracy of the algorithm down to 70%.
Not that social media sites are the only way to unintentionally reveal information. Far from it. Consider publications. Ars Technica ran a story in which the author was closely tracked for several days -- by Ars Technica. Like many websites that require logins, Ars Technica records the date, time and IP address that a user logs in from. The publication's normal practice is to discard all but the last of these records. However, it made an exception for editor Cyrus Farivar, who wanted to see just what is possible with such activity logs.
As it turns out, the answer is, "A lot." The analysis revealed where Farivar was when he logged in. It showed what he was reading. It showed how long he spent online. The information could be highly specific. Farivar writes, "In one instance, on Thursday February 6, at 9:30am, I was logged in at a particular San Francisco IP address. Looking up that IP on myip.ms turned up not only the city, but one of two possible street addresses as well."
The results of Farivar's experiment suggest that another publication might have data showing that several people in your company took a sudden interest in reading about some obscure emerging technology. That information quite likely carries implications about your company's plans. And it is entirely out of your control and in the hands of a for-profit company that sells information.
Companies can't possibly approve all social media comments and photos their employees post; those could amount to millions per day for the largest enterprises. And I would hope that companies would realize what a bad policy that would be.
What they need to do is to implement strict rules and guidelines about what can't be disclosed, and then they must raise awareness among their employees about the dangers that lurk in social media. If they have confidentiality rules already in place, they need to make sure that they explicitly mention social media. In other words, employees must become informed self-censors, always careful not to make inappropriate public posts that could be discovered by management.
Evan Schuman has covered IT issues for a lot longer than he'll ever admit. The founding editor of retail technology site StorefrontBacktalk, he's been a columnist for CBSNews.com, RetailWeek and eWeek. Evan can be reached at email@example.com and he can be followed at twitter.com/eschuman. Look for his column every Tuesday.
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One of our users has some EPIA cards. He booted one from the network with the 686 kernel and it worked, so I guess there has to be some kind of difference between what he has and what you have.The machine that he booted is a SP8000E, with a CPU that Linux sees as VIA Nehemiah (seller says the CPU is VIA Eden), running at 800 MHz. What kind is yours?


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Violence against women
Health sector response
Research: Addressing violence against women among women in antenatal care
Violence against women is a pervasive global problem with significant consequences to the physical, mental and sexual and reproductive health of victims/survivors, both short and long term. These include unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, abortions, and gynaecological problems. When it happens during pregnancy it can increase the risk of miscarriage, preterm labour and low birth weight. The health sector thus needs to be able to respond appropriately.
In many settings, health workers who provide care to survivors of partner violence and sexual violence often lack the knowledge and skills (including forensic evidence collection) to respond appropriately. Likewise, people who report a sexual assault to the police may undergo a forensic medical examination without their health needs being addressed.
Women may seek care for other reasons but not readily disclose their abuse status to health-care providers, even when the violence may be the root cause of the health problem for which they seek care. Or they may seek health services for the immediate and long-term health effects of violence, yet often available services do not meet the needs of survivors. In many settings, health workers often lack the knowledge and skills (including forensic evidence collection) to respond appropriately.
To help ensure better care and support for those who have experienced partner violence or sexual violence, WHO works, among other things, to strengthen the health sector response to violence against women.
This initiative includes research and the development of guidelines on how the health sector can appropriately and effectively respond to women who have previously experienced or are currently experiencing violence.
WHO is currently in the process of developing guidelines for the health-care response to intimate partner and sexual violence. These are based on expert consultations as well as available evidence compiled from systematic reviews of evaluated intervention studies, highlighting those that have achieved significant improvements in outcomes related to reduction of abuse or threats of abuse or improved safety, coping, or help-seeking.
Guidelines for medicolegal care for victims of sexual violence were published by WHO in 2003. The guidelines are designed to enable health workers to provide comprehensive care for the medical, and psychological needs, as well as forensic assessment of survivors of sexual assault. This guidance will be updated in the light of new evidence.
Related documents
Situation analysis of medico-legal and health services for victims of sexual violence in Central America
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), 2003, 86 pages
Situación de los Servicios Médico-legales y de Salud para Víctimas de Violencia Sexual en Centro América
Organización Panamericana de la Salud, 2003, 68 páginas
Violence against women: The health sector responds
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), 2003, 114 pages
WHO Department of Injuries and violence prevention


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Telegraph message from R. P. Talley to Paul Osterhout (1886-04-16)It reads: "If [s]plint ordered / not on the way yet / why."
Telegraph Message from R. P. Talley to Paul Osterhout (1884-12-02)Telegraph message from R. P. Talley to Paul Osterhout. Talley sent a short message to find out whether or not Paul received a letter Talley sent in March.
"Twenty-Five Years Ago in Hamilton" Newspaper Clipping (1910-05-20)Newspaper clipping titled "Twenty-Five Years Ago in Hamilton: Items from the Herald of May 20, 1885" which provides a list of events from that date. It appeared in The Hamilton Herald on May 20, 1910.
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Google won a U.S. patent for its autonomous-vehicle system, paving the way for us dumb meat pods to be eliminated from the driving process. The patent applies to how the system switches from person control to machine control using "smart" parking spaces.
According to the method laid out in the patent filing — which Google calls "Transitioning a mixed-mode vehicle to autonomous mode" — a driver would be directed to a designated parking space, where the system would detect a "landing strip" that tells the car it's come to a stop. The system would then look for a "reference indicator," a QR code in Google's filings, that the system will use to report the car's location and receive instructions on what it should do next.
Disclosed are methods and devices for transitioning a mixed-mode autonomous vehicle from a human driven mode to an autonomously driven mode. Transitioning may include stopping a vehicle on a predefined landing strip and detecting a reference indicator. Based on the reference indicator, the vehicle may be able to know its exact position. Additionally, the vehicle may use the reference indictor to obtain an autonomous vehicle instruction via a URL. After the vehicle knows its precise location and has an autonomous vehicle instruction, it can operate in autonomous mode.
The patented system has little to do with how the cars actually drive themselves, but do give us a picture of how driverless cars might begin coexisting with traditional cars. Google says the "smart space" idea could be used initially to provide guided tours of tourist landmarks or direct models in need of service to repair shops.
Later on, they might allow airport parking lots to jam twice as many cars in — imagine a grid of tightly-packed autonomous cars rearranging itself to free one that's blocked in. Or, probably less likely, a smart space outside a bar that tells the car to perform a sobriety check, before letting you drive home (otherwise, it'll take you home).
Lots of questions yet to be answered — like how car location "apps" might look, or whether early adopters will see "car tours" as a compelling reason to pay the likely premium on a driverless car.


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In what could be a record-setting season with regard to penalties, the Raiders had what could be their most costly of the season _ a delay of game call that negated a beautifully executed 36-yard touchdown shovel pass from Shane Lechler to Brandon Myers off a fake 53-yard field goal attempt.
The resulting 5-yard penalty pushed Oakland back five yards, where Janikowski had a 58-yard attempt hit the cross bar and bounce back short.
Oakland averted a Kansas City scoring drive when Matt Giordano made an end zone interception and ran it back 62 yards, with Carson Palmer giving the ball right back with his second interception of the game, this one to Javier Arenas.
Kanssa City eventually got itself in position for a 49-yard field goal attempt at the gun by Ryan Succop, which was blocked. It ended one of the worst halves of football in recent memory. Giordano, subbing for Michael Huff, out with a hamstring injury, was injured on the play. He needed assistance getting back to the locker room.
The Raiders finished the half with 10 penalties for 57 yards, including three by Stanford Routt (two for defensive holding, one for pass interference).


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Culligan Matrix Solutions expands mobile water treatment business
Culligan Matrix Solutions is expanding its mobile water treatment solutions business in response to increasing demand for this service.
ROSEMONT, IL, Dec. 11, 2012 -- Culligan Matrix Solutions, a division of Culligan International Company focused on water treatment for commercial and industrial markets, is expanding its mobile water treatment solutions business in response to increasing demand for this service.
Culligan's® mobile water treatment fleet provides comprehensive multi-level water purification, monitoring, and control in a single solution for peaking plants and base loaded plants in the energy and power, oil and gas, and chemical processing industries. The modular system is designed to accommodate a wide variety of feed sources (i.e., brackish water, surface water, and seawater). It can be operated in a rugged environment and can be installed quickly to seamlessly provide large quantities of water on demand.
Mobile water treatment systems are ideal for fast response, emergency situations, supplemental, or temporary requirements. They are often used to assist industrial customers during plant start up and maintenance outages when the plant's water treatment system is unavailable or cannot meet the water production requirements.
Culligan's mobile solutions offer a highly flexible approach that helps customers improve overall efficiency, minimize capital investment costs, and reduce energy costs and energy consumption with a system designed to meet their specific requirements. This flexibility also extends to a variety of financial options with sales, rental, leasing, and ongoing maintenance programs for faster return on investment.
"We are expanding our mobile water treatment business due to growing demand for our temporary water treatment solutions, which offer great flexibility and cost effectiveness," said Allan Connolly, Chief Operating Officer, Culligan. "Customers are looking for an easily transportable compact technology. Mobile plants fulfill a variety of needs and address a myriad of situations such as peak demand, capacity expansion, equipment breakdown, emergency rentals, plant commissioning, and wastewater minimization -- any circumstance where production demand for clean water exceeds existing system capacity," he noted.
Culligan's systems are built on a modular platform, which allows for flexibility and timeliness in meeting customers' needs. "Our approach is based on our ability to draw from our matrix of water treatment solutions, enabling us to quickly modify our standard products to provide a custom-engineered system for a specific client," he added.
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The standard mobile offering includes reverse osmosis, which provides an advanced level of filtration and is an effective barrier to salts, micro-contaminants, and organic substances, making it ideal for applications where high-purity water is needed. The company also offers deionization solutions, which help reduce total dissolved solids (TDS) from water and produce high quality multi-mega ohm water for specialized applications.
Culligan's mobile units are available as containers that can be dropped off at the customer site as well as skid-mounted systems. A standard container produces 200 gpm, and the capacity is scalable to meet the customer's needs.
Culligan's recently awarded contract with a major chemical company is an example of how a mobile solution achieved multiple customer goals.
This project commenced with installation of a single Culligan mobile system at a plant that produces specialty chemicals used in the electronics industry. Over the course of several months, the system was evaluated to determine its efficacy in producing higher quality feed water for use in its products. Culligan provided a short term, temporary mobile system that could be transitioned into a permanent approach.
"The trial proved to be very successful, and the system helped meet product specification requirements. The high quality water produced also helped boost productivity, reduce labor requirements and minimize waste. As a result, the customer has awarded us a long term mobile contract and is also considering other applications at its plant where higher quality water could provide an additional benefit," said Connolly.
About Culligan Matrix Solutions®
Culligan Matrix Solutions is the Commercial and Industrial division of Culligan International Company, a leading global innovator of advanced water softening and filtration solutions for more than 75 years. With its single-source, comprehensive water treatment technology platform for virtually any industry and application, Culligan Matrix Solutions addresses the needs of businesses for end-to-end water treatment systems that are faster, more efficient and cost-effective than ever. For more information visit: www.culliganmatrixsolutions.com.
About Culligan International Company
Founded in 1936 by Emmett Culligan, Culligan International Company is a world leader in delivering water solutions that will improve the lives of their customers. The company offers some of the most technologically advanced, state-of-the-art water filtration products. Culligan's products include water softeners, drinking water systems, whole-house systems, and solutions for business. Culligan's network of franchise dealers is the largest in the world, with over 800 dealers in 90 countries. For more information visit: www.culligan.com.


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Cub Scout Archery
From MeritBadgeDotOrg
with cross-references for related Cub Scout Tiger, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos requirements.
|The Cub Scout Archery Belt Loop and Pin help prepare Scouts for the Boy Scout Archery Merit Badge.
| Archery
Belt Loop and Pin
Archery Sports Belt Loop
Cub Scout Archery requirements
Archery, like BB-gun shooting, is a camp program. Boys can earn archery recognition items only at council/district day camp, resident camp, or council-managed family camping programs.
Archery programs are not permitted at den and pack activities. However, leaders can help parents understand the importance of training and encourage attendance of boys at Cub Scout camps that offer this training.
To be a qualified and trained archery range supervisor, adults must take part in an archery supervisor training program conducted by the local council with the help of a National Camping School-certified field sports director or a National Archery Association (NAA) instructor.
The Archery belt loop and pin can only be awarded by a BSA range-trained shooting-sports director.
Belt Loop Requirements
Cub Scouts and Webelos Scouts can earn the archery belt loop by participating in the archery safety program at Cub Scout camp.
Complete these three requirements:
Sports Pin Requirements
Earn the Archery belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
Cub Scout Shooting Sports Award Certificate Requirements
Before firing the Pro Archer course, the camper is to complete the following:
Pro Archer Level
Shoot five groups (three arrows per group) trying to group each set within a circle the size of the nine-ring. (No specific score is required.)
Then fire for the Pro Archer score.
In Cub Scout archery, the camp awards the certificate when the Cub Scout or Webelos Scout qualifies for the different levels of recognition. It is possible to earn four certificates if every level of marksmanship has been accomplished.
View the change list (history) of these requirements. The text of these requirements may be locked. In that case, they can only be edited by an administrator.
Please note any errors found in the above requirements on this article's Talk Page.
Template:Cub Scout Academics and Sports notes
- Earning the Archery Belt Loop while a Wolf Cub Scout also satisfies Elective 20c (toward Wolf Arrow Points).
Requirement resources
Template:Cub Scout Academics and Sports Requirement resources
Related awards
- 23b. Cub Scout Archery is an individual sport for Bear requirement 23.
Sports and Fitness Awards
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See also
This program was discontinued in May, 2015.
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FINAL FANTASY IV NOW AVAILABLE ON iOS DEVICES
FINAL FANTASY IV on iOS
Genre defining RPG Final Fantasy comes to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
Square Enix Ltd., the publisher of SQUARE ENIX® interactive entertainment products in Europe and other PAL territories, have announced that FINAL FANTASY® IV is now available for iPhone ®, iPad ® and iPod ® touch devices, priced at £10.99 / €14.49
The critically acclaimed RPG, FINAL FANTASY IV, set the standard for role-playing games with its diverse cast of characters, deep plot and real-time Active Time Battle (ATB) system. Based on the full 3D remake from 2008, players will soon be able to relive this seminal title in the FINAL FANTASYseries and enjoy the best role-playing game experience available on iOS devices.
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Title FINAL FANTASY IV
Platform iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad
Price £10.99 / €14.49
Languages: English / French / Italian / German / Spanish / Japanese / Chinese
Official website: http://dlgames.square-enix.com/ff/
About Square Enix Ltd.
Square Enix Ltd., a part of the Square Enix Europe business unit, develops, publishes, distributes and licenses SQUARE ENIX®, EIDOS® and TAITO® branded entertainment content in Europe and other PAL territories as part of the Square Enix Group. Square Enix Ltd. also has a global network of leading development studios such as IO Interactive™, Crystal Dynamics® and Eidos Montréal. The Square Enix Group boasts a valuable portfolio of intellectual property including: FINAL FANTASY®, which has sold over 100 million units worldwide, DRAGON QUEST® which has sold over 59 million units worldwide and TOMB RAIDER® which has sold over 35 million units worldwide; and the legendary SPACE INVADERS®. Square Enix Ltd. is a London-based, wholly-owned subsidiary of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.
More information on Square Enix Ltd. can be found at http://www.square-enix.com/eu/en/.
© 1991, 2012 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved. FINAL FANTASY, CRYSTAL DYNAMICS, DRAGON QUEST, EIDOS, IO INTERACTIVE, SPACE INVADERS, SQUARE ENIX, the SQUARE ENIX logo, TAITO and TOMB RAIDER are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Square Enix Group. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.


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The California Highway Patrol issued a statewide Amber Alert Thursday afternoon for a missing teenager from Washington State.
Washington police said a 14-year-old girl was abducted in the town of Kennewick at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The CHP issued the alert because they think the girl and her abductor may be headed to Mexico.
Her boyfriend, Edwardo Fabian Flores Rosales, was last seen driving a 2001-2003 green Ford Escape with a roof rack, custom wheels, and temporary Washington plates.
A surveillance photo of the actual vehicle is below.
The victim, Elizabeth Romero, is a 14-year-old Hispanic female. She has brown hair, is 5'3" and weighs 130 pounds.
She was last seen wearing a white tank top and dark pants.
She was carrying a backpack and a pink purse.
Anyone who seems them is asked to call 911.
The photo on the right below is surveillance video of the actual vehicle Flores was last seen driving.


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Lift the left lobe of the liver superiorly to identify the lesser omentum [indicated by the probe]. This peritoneal reflection extends from the abdominal part of the esophagus, lesser curvature of the stomach and first part of the duodenum to the porta hepatis on the inferior (visceral) surface of the liver.The lesser omentum is actually a combination of three peritoneal ligaments:
These three ligaments form a part of anterior wall of the lesser peritoneal sac (Figure 37.4).
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Phil is also a long time activist in the secular movement. He has been on the board of The Secular Student Alliance and Atheist Alliance International. He now serves as the treasurer for the Reason Rally 2016.
He is an active member of many of the national organizations and has helped start three local groups. Phil also gives talks to local groups and Large conventions. He has presented at TAM (The Amazing Meeting) and Skepticon – just to name a few!
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The $100 Million Revenue Club: Mblox
(Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles that examine the venture-backed companies with at least $100 million in revenue, an oft-mentioned threshold used by investment bankers to determine whether a company is IPO ready. Read the first post in the series about Freightquote.com here.)
Andrew Dark spent his first year as chief executive of MBlox Inc. making the Sunnyvale, Calif., provider of wireless infrastructure services more efficient, guiding it to its first-ever profitable year in 2009.
Dark's second year, however, is about growth. The company, which Dark said generated north of $110 million in revenue in 2009, may seek to raise an unspecified amount of additional capital in order to build itself up through acquisitions. And if that growth takes hold, then year three, or more specifically 2011, may be when MBlox looks at going public.
Such an event would be good news for venture investors, many of whom ended up as investors in MBlox when it acquired MobileSys Inc. in 2003. Most of those investors started backing MobileSys in 2000, meaning they've been investors for a decade. To date, MBlox has raised $75 million from such firms as Duff Ackerman and Goodrich, Norwest Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners and Trident Venture Partners.
The fact that Motricity Inc., which like MBlox is involved in wireless billing, recently filed to go public, has not altered Dark's thinking even though Motricity is in worse financial condition. Motricity had a net loss of $78 million on revenue of $103.2 million in 2008. During the first months of 2009, the company lost $10.8 million on revenue of $88.7 million. It has, unlike MBlox, never made a profit.
"My interest is maximize shareholder investment," said Dark, who splits his time between the company's Sunnyvale and London offices. "We have good strong growth and we'll have more accelerated growth in 2011."
Kate Mitchell, a general partner with Scale Venture Partners, concurs. "They are expanding their footprint geographically and they are expanding their product line. There is no rush to go public."
Serving as the intermediary between businesses and mobile operators, MBlox manages the delivery of billing of mobile content and mobile services. The company first started focusing on providing secure billing for SMS, or text messages, but has expanded to mobile transactions, a business that, in general, has been surging over the past several years as people get more comfortable with using their phones to pay for products and services. The company has grown to such an extent that it has connections to more than 500 operators in more than 180 countries and is capable of delivering content to more than 2 billion people. As a result, the company bills itself as the world's largest mobile transaction network.
The company is in a particularly strong spot as it handles transactions from people using all phones, whether it's the iPhone, the Android-enabled phones or just a regular phone. MBlox, said Scale's Mitchell, is at the"nexus" of the surge in people using their mobile devices to send and receive content securely.
Dark said that as the market has grown, the company is capturing "new strands of business", such as blue chip enterprises.
Dark became involved with MBlox in somewhat unusual fashion as he sought to acquire the company while still CEO of DataCash Group Plc, a publicly traded processor of secure Internet payments. Dark thought MBlox was a phenomenal company that would be a good fit for DataCash. However as DataCash began exploring the idea, it realized that such a deal would be "difficult" and "detrimental" to DataCash, given its market value.
But Dark was hooked and early last year left DataCash to join MBlox, which he found in need of some belt tightening. The company, he says frankly, had been "mismanaged" and "wasn't as successful as it could be." Among the moves he undertook in 2010 was moving the company's London office to a less expensive locale and getting out from under some unprofitable contracts. The company also undertook an effort to move its technology to more secure data centers.
Feeling that the company needed cash to move forward, MBlox did a $6.8 million bridge loan with some of its investors last year. But Dark said that with the company's fortunes improving and, in turn, its valuation, it'll look to repay that loan and raise new capital to go after acquisitions in 2010 of companies that he describes as small, but with "reasonable revenues." Overall, the company is looking for 10% to 15% growth in 2010.
Scale's Mitchell said the firm and other backers are comfortable having MBlox get bigger.
"We've been in for 10 years and we're comfortable holding," she said.


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andOutlook 2007 now uses the HTML parsing and rendering engine from Word 2007 to display HTML message bodies, and also does not use the same standards as Internet Explorer 7.
The move has not been well received by some bloggers like SitePoint's Kevin Yank, who says in a recent post that this new rendering engine is far worse than the previous one.
"With this release, Outlook drops from being one of the best clients for HTML email support to the level of Lotus Notes and Eudora, which, in the words of Campaign Monitor's David Grenier, "are serial killers making our email design lives hell."
But SitePoint's Yank disputes this, saying that he tested the two public beta versions of Outlook 2007 and "knew there was something screwy going on. Many of the newsletters I subscribed to had become unreadable, and SitePoint's own publications were looking decidedly unhealthy."
The solution? Use Microsoft's Outlook 2007 HTML and CSS validator tool, "to tell you which parts of your lean, mean HTML emails need to be replaced with old-fashioned HTML sludge. As a second step, you may want to consider giving your Outlook-based readers an easy way to switch to text-only email. Bring on PDF email. I'm ready," he says.
I don't want this to turn into a "let's bash Microsoft / Outlook" thread, but an opportunity for PocoMail / Barca? And keep an eye on that line that says "Bring on PDF email".


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Many months after first announcing that it would be putting the PlayStation Portable's GPS receiver to good use for once, Sony today finally announced its virtual golf caddy application to the delight of Japanese golf fans.
' Minna No Golf Jo ', or 'Everybody's Golf Course', harnesses the power of those invisible GPS waves while out on the course to give reasonably precise distance readings to the pin and the various hazards on 31 golf courses in the Chiba area east of Tokyo. More courses across the rest of the country are planned.
Room for the fun stuff
Aside from the virtual caddy provided by the PSP, there's also a scratchpad to make notes on each hole if, for example, a bunker is moved or removed. On top of the serious stuff, there's also a fly-through video tour of each course and the ability to create a cutesy avatar to represent you and to keep track of your progress over time.
At ¥9,980 (£42) for a bundle with the software and the GPS receiver or ¥5,980 (£25) for just the software, we reckon Sony's fun approach to GPS could be the start of something big. Oh, and be sure to check out the Japanese TV commercial on Sony's site here .


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Critics agreed that there wasn't much to laugh at in Kevin Hart and Ice Cube's new comedy Ride Along, but if the past has taught us anything it's that packing 30 second TV spots with images of ex-rappers making angry faces and small children insulting popular stand-up comedians will put butts in the seats almost every time.
Ride Along not only took the number one spot this weekend, it did so with a bang. Taking in $41 million it enjoyed the largest January opening to date. It also marks the largest opening for either Ice Cube or Kevin Hart. Not bad for a movie that, by most accounts, didn't bring the funny.
Animated feature The Nut Job limped in at third place with just $20 million, a debut almost as disappointing as the reviews it received. It was up against light competition from Frozen which is still pulling in the double digit millions. The Disney hit is now entering its ninth week in theaters and going relatively strong, adding $11 million to its now $332 million domestic and more than $750 million international totals.
The lastest attempt to make the Jack Ryan character relevant to a new generation also fell flat. Even though the movie received mostly positive reviews, Chris Pine's presence doesn't seem to be helping get audiences in the way it did with the Star Trek reboot. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit banked a mediocre $17 million for fourth place.
D-list actors and fake blood continue to be fairly low cost, keeping the horror movie genre ironically out of the red. The latest horror entry, Devil's Due only took in $8.5 million this weekend for a quiet seventh place debut, but that number looks depressingly successful when put up against its simple $7 million budget.
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Okay, after two orchestral concerts at Zellerbach in the last few weeks, I'm convinced that it is the deadest, most acoustically dull space I have ever been in. The orchestras in question? Berkeley Symphony, sounding very, very good under Joana Carneiro, and the Philharmonia, under none other than Esa-Pekka Salonen.
It's as though the sound stops right at the edge of the proscenium. You can see the players moving, you can hear something, but the sound is flat; there's no reverberation, no feedback, nothing.
I don't love the sound at Davies, where a big orchestra sometimes makes the hall sound congested, but at least there's a physical sense of the sound coming at you and having impact. At Zellberbach? It's like the sound is hauling itself through a thick layer of cotton, or maybe mud.
I know that Zellerbach has a fancy Meyer sound system, and also that SFO is planning to use one in their planned 350-seat theater in the Veterans Building. I am extremely curious what Zellerbach sounds like without it.


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- Yield
- Makes 16 servings (about 110 kisses)
- Active Time
- 1 hr
- Total Time
- 4 1/2 hr
- For meringues
- 8 large egg whites
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups superfine granulated sugar
- For passion-fruit fool
- 1 1/2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin
- 3/4 cup thawed frozen passion-fruit pulp
- 1 cup chilled heavy cream
- 3/4 cup confectioners sugar
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- Special Equipment
- a large pastry bag fitted with a 1/4-inch plain tip and parchment paper
- Make meringues:
- Preheat oven to 175°F and line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Beat whites with salt in a standing electric mixer at high speed (or with a handheld mixer in 2 batches) until they just hold stiff peaks. Gradually add sugar, beating at high speed until whites hold stiff, glossy peaks.
- Spoon half of meringue into pastry bag and pipe 1-inch-wide kisses onto 1 baking sheet, about 1/2 inch apart. Pipe more kisses onto second sheet in same manner. (All kisses will fit on 2 baking sheets.)
- Bake meringues in upper and lower thirds of oven until crisp but still white, about 2 hours.
- Turn off oven and cool meringues in oven 1 hour, then cool completely on sheets on a rack..
- Make fool while meringues bake:
- Sprinkle gelatin over 2 tablespoons pulp in a small heatproof cup and let stand 1 minute to soften.
- Melt softened gelatin in cup in a pan of simmering water, then stir into remaining pulp.
- Beat heavy cream with confectioners sugar using cleaned beaters until it just holds soft peaks, then beat in sour cream until mixture holds stiff peaks. Fold pulp into cream and chill fool, covered, at least 4 hours and up to 1 day.
- Serve fool with meringues.
Cooks' notes:
• Meringues keep in an airtight container at room temperature 3 days. • You can substitute 20 fresh passion fruit for the pulp. Halve them and force their pulp through a sieve, discarding seeds.
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- Calories224
- Carbohydrates36 g(12%)
- Fat8 g(13%)
- Protein3 g(6%)
- Saturated Fat5 g(23%)
- Sodium158 mg(7%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat0 g
- Fiber1 g(5%)
- Monounsaturated Fat3 g
- Cholesterol24 mg(8%)


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This cake is the reason I even bought the stencil (yes, it's been planned for a while). It was a fun change to do it on a square cake. The gal who ordered it made the styrofoam squares dressed in ribbon for the bottom of each of the tiers. What a difference it made in the height of the cake. So pretty.
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Cupcake theme everything
I had something different in my mind for my daughter's first birthday. Sadly, I drew a complete blank and could decide on nothing! Finally, I bought her a first birthday shirt and it had a cupcake on it. So I went with it. Cupcake shaped cookies, cupcake cake pops, and of course the traditional cupcake. This was my first attempt at cake pops. They, for sure, taste amazing. I won't eat cake anymore (I don't know, I guess I'm sick of it or something) but put a cake pop in my hand, it's gone in 2 seconds flat. Oh and yes, you are reading this right. It has been a whole year since I had my little Harlee Jo.
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Spiderman cake
I had something way cuter in mind for my sons birthday but this is EXACTLY what he wanted. He was with me beginning to end, color by color, designing his own cake. Although, I added the webbing on my own and he was pleasantly surprised the next morning to find it.
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Tesla Cuts Number of Stock Colors to Streamline Production
Tesla is dropping two of the seven standard colors it had offered to customers as it tries to streamline production.
In a tweet early Tuesday, CEO Elon Musk said obsidian black and metallic silver will still be available, but at a higher cost.
Tesla fans can still choose as standard colors solid black and "midnight silver metallic," as well as pearl white, deep blue metallic and red.
The company, based in Palo Alto, California, has struggled to vault from a niche maker of expensive electric cars into a mass-market automaker.
There is a waiting list of more than 400,000 people who want to buy a Tesla, and some have been waiting since March 2016, when the company first started taking orders.
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Looking at this image, you might be forgiven for thinking that it showed a table full of knitted bobbles, a sack full of Christmas decorations or maybe even some kind of new candy—but you'd be wrong.
In fact you're looking at crystals of zinc oxide growing on the surface of spherical nanoparticles. The image, acquired using a scanning electron microscope by Joon Hwan Bahng of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, has had the color added to make it easier to differentiate between the separate objects. The result is a neat hybrid of science and art. And it's not just us who approves—the photograph won Joon Hwan Bahng the first prize in the Materials Research Society's biannual Science as Art competition. [New Scientist]
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Sensient Colors Introduces Advanced Emulsion For Natural Colors
Sensient Colors has expanded its research and development efforts on a global scale, and developed an Advanced Emulsion Technology for natural colors. This emulsion technology combines multiple oil-and-water-based natural colors to provide a complex color matrix in a single delivery system, thus achieving new natural color shades that were previously unattainable.
The new, complex water-based emulsions allow for multiple oil-and-water-based natural colors to co-exist in a single color system. For instance, different vegetable juices and beta-carotene can be combined to make a bright stable red shade, similar to carmine. This new technology can lessen package staining, reduce color bleed and allow for lower usage levels. It can also minimize off-taste flavors that are sometimes associated with natural colors. These water based emulsions can easily be incorporated into any application where water is available including beverage, dairy, confection, baking, and processed food applications.


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Last night we got a slew of new patch notes for 5.2 and, surprisingly, they finally had something to say about resto Druids!
First of all, the long-awaited Wild Mushroom change. The tooltip now reads:
The mushrooms grow larger as they accumulate healing power from 75% of overhealing done by your Rejuvenation, up to a maximum of 100% of your health in bonus healing.
It's not understood exactly how this mechanic will work as they are bugged on the PTR and have been seen healing people for a few million health. I assume that the bonus healing applies to the total heal for each mushroom (and is then split among the targets) rather than applying to each heal.
When I first read this tooltip update, I was concerned that they were unnecessarily complicating things. Why not just buff the amount of healing without adding Rejuv overheal in there? Then I realized that it's because they still don't want us using these constantly – having to power them up with overhealing is akin to putting a cooldown on them. I don't think it's the most elegant solution. It doesn't address some of the biggest problems – that casting Mushrooms is clunky and if the raid moves away from them they are useless – but any extra throughput is welcome.
I don't really think the new Mushroom mechanic will change the way we heal (aside from using Mushrooms more). We'll always have multiple Rejuvs out, they'll always be doing overhealing. The biggest challenge will be proper placement – both in location and timing – so that you have supercharged Mushrooms ready to go when the damage happens.
As much as I've complained about Mushrooms, I do use them to some extent on a number of fights, even in their currently weak form. Empress, Feng, Wind Lord, Garalon, all involve people stacking up and an ebb and flow of damage that gives you time to set up mushrooms. If the mushrooms are capable of healing for a significant amount, the extra burst heal capability will be appreciated. I also enjoy the thought of having to prepare and play smartly in order to get the most out of the spell.
The mana cost of Rejuv is now 14.5%, down from 16%. When you consider that 5.2 will see us breaking our 2T14 set bonus, this isn't going to have that much of an impact, but I'll take it.
Set bonuses
We also got a look at the T15 set bonuses:
2 piece – Swiftmend's ground effect can now heal up to 4 targets each time it heals.
4 piece – The healing done by your Rejuvenation increases by 6% each time it causes healing.
I really like these bonuses. On fights where the raid is grouped up, the 2-piece will be great. I like the 4-piece too. Though I can already hear the cries of "but overheal!" I think a direct buff to the spell we cast the most is great. You can make the overheal argument for pretty much any increase to healing done, so I don't take it too seriously. This bonus will do very good things to Rejuvs maintained on tanks and will also be good for any fights with constant raid damage.
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As Pennsylvania's personal income tax forms tell the tale, very few people in the commonwealth actually shop online.
The state Revenue Department believes that more than $350 million in unpaid sales taxes on online purchases by Pennsylvanians go unreported and uncollected every year.
In 2012, Pennsylvanians were required for the first time to report their online purchases for the previous year and pay the 6 percent sales tax. But only 1.6 percent of returns included any acknowledgment of online purchases, generating about $3.3 million in tax payments.
That demonstrates that sales taxes must be collected at the point of sale, regardless of whether that point is in a physical store or online.
Due to a 1992 Supreme Court ruling involving mail order sales, retailers are required to collect the sales tax only if they also have a physical presence in the state where the sale is made.
That, of course, is ridiculous. It denies to state governments legitimate revenue from taxes already on the books, forcing them to come up with other taxes to cover the revenue. And it creates a competitive disadvantage for retailers who operate physical stores, hire local people and pay local and state taxes.
The U.S. Senate last week passed a bill requiring all online retailers to collect appropriate sales taxes, a process for which technology readily is available.
Opponents in the House contend the Marketplace Fairness Act is a new tax, even though it simply authorizes states to require retailers to collect existing taxes. It's not a tax on the businesses or on access to the Internet.
This is a matter of tax fairness. Reps. Thomas Marino, Lou Barletta and Matt Cartwright should vote for the bill.


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NOAA: BP oil spill may have contributed high mortality rate of dolphins
GULFPORT -- NOAA officials called a national media briefing Thursday and said that the BP oil spill could have played a role in the high number of dolphin deaths in the northern Gulf since 2010.
But they said further testing is needed to draw any conclusions.
NOAA called the briefing to let the public know that five of the 580 dolphins discovered dead, including some of the fetuses, died from a marine version of a bacteria that kills goats, sheep, cattle, pigs, elk and dogs.
Three fetuses and two adult bottlenose dolphin were found to have the bacteria brucella in their lungs or brains.
Teri Rowles, NOAA's lead marine mammal veterinarian and coordinator for the national stranding response, said she knows of no other case where there has been a high mortality rate with brucella in dolphins.
Earlier this year, before the normal birthing season, dolphin fetuses were washing ashore along Mississippi and Alabama beaches in record numbers.
"We believe these five dolphins died from brucellosis," she said. "Die-offs from bacterial infections could be occurring because the bacterium has become more lethal, but they could also be occurring, or be more severe, because the dolphins are more susceptible to infection.
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Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
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The concept of traditional resource rights (TRR) reflects the necessity of rethinking the limited and limiting concept of intellectual property rights (IPR). The TRR concept can accommodate a wide range of relevant international agreements as a basis for a sui-generis system of protection for indigenous peoples and their intellectual, natural, and technological resources. This book introduces the TRR concept in a manner organised around a series of questions that might emerge in a community when a visitor arrives to collect information or cultural or biogenetic materials. Each chapter begins with a summary of the main issues it addresses and ends with options and suggested actions. Issues discussed include who benefits from traditional resources, the rights of communities to approve or resist commercialisation, types of potential legal action, the applicability of traditional IPR, development of community systems for protecting TRR, the use of binding or non-binding international agreements, and TRR funding. Examples are included of creative strategies and unique solutions that indigenous communities have developed for protecting and benefiting from TRR.
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Seite 188 - ... recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. 3. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. Article 30. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights...
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Seite 111 - Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
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January 07, 2014 5:24 PM EST
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A former Miss Venezuela and her ex-husband were shot and killed and their 5-year-old daughter was wounded after they resisted robbers by locking the doors of their broken-down car, police said Tuesday.
The slaying of Monica Spear, 29, a popular soap-opera actress, and Thomas Henry Berry, a 39-year-old British citizen, was the latest high-profile crime in a country where killings are common in armed robberies and where rampant kidnapping has ensnared even foreign ambassadors and professional baseball players.
Spear and Berry were slain late Monday night near Puerto Cabello, the country's main port, while headed to Caracas after their car hit "a sharp object that had been placed on the highway," the director of the country's investigative police, Jose Gregorio Sierralta, told reporters.
Sierralta said the attack occurred after the car had been lifted onto a tow truck and, seeing the assailants coming, the family locked themselves in their car. He said the daughter, Maya, was treated for a light leg wound and was with relatives in Caracas.
Police in Puerto Cabello had arrested five suspects, some under age 18, Sierralta added.
The family had spent New Year's in the mountains of the western state of Merida then traveled to the plains, said Luis Carlos Dominguez, a longtime friend and former business associate of Berry, who he said was raised in Venezuela and ran a travel agency.
"He knew Venezuela a lot better than many Venezuelans," said Dominguez, describing the slain couple as people "who really loved the country," had a good relationship despite their divorce and made it a point to vacation together.
"They weren't together," he said. "But they were very attached for the benefit of their daughter."
He said Venezuelans can only hope that their deaths bring "a bit more strength to the fight against crime." Violent crime soared during the 14-year rule of Hugo Chavez, who died of cancer last March.
Venezuelans, who are also plagued by food and other shortages, list crime as their most pressing worry.
The country has one of the world's highest murder rates — the United Nations has ranked it 5th globally — and violent crime is so rampant that Venezuelans tend to stay home after dark.
Spear's death triggered a wave of anger on social media directed at the populist government's poor record on crime.
Speaking on state television, President Nicolas Maduro lamented "the loss of a very spiritual young woman" actively involved in various charities.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles called on Maduro to put aside political differences and unite "to win the fight against insecurity" that claimed nearly 25,000 lives last year. "It's an emergency."
According to the nonprofit Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, the oil-rich South American country's murder rate was 79 per 100,000 inhabitants last year. Government statistics put the rate lower. The nonprofit group said 95 percent of murders go unsolved.
Spear was crowned Miss Venezuela in 2004, was 5th runner-up in the Miss Universe pageant the following year and had acted in numerous soap operas, most recently in "Pasion Prohibida" for the U.S.-based Telemundo network.
She split her time between Caracas and south Florida, said Dominguez, while the England-born Berry lived in Caracas.
Spear had more than 355,000 followers on Twitter and her feed over the last week included brief videos of vacation scenes sent on the popular Instagram service.
In one video, posted Sunday and described as being taken on the plains of Apure state, Spear looks at the camera while riding a horse, turns away and then looks back, blowing a kiss.
AP writer Frank Bajak reported from Lima, Peru.


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...but the 'old farts' at the Audio Asylum gave them a unanimous thumbs down based on the graphics alone. Considering that, Urban Fidelity should probably consider a less splashy look for the 30+ crowd. As I said, I dig the whole concept, cheap, made in the USA, and cool graphics, but maybe I'm a bit more artsy than average.
Urban Fidelity reaches its goal
But at just $399/pair ($299/pair, if purchased before August 8), they seem like a bargain: floorstanding loudspeakers, made in the US, featuring several unique designs by independent artists.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. I would say that even if we consider the Urban Fidelity loudspeakers as nothing more than art objects, it'd be difficult to argue with their price. I think their physical and conceptual design alone could be worth $399/pair. If they actually make music, it'll be a major bonus.
Now that the company has reached its goal, it'll be interesting to see where they go. There's great potential. Apparently, enough people agree. Have you purchased a pair yet?
...was Urban Fidelity should consider an optional less splashy design for the 30+ crowd.
Spica and Pixel give this particular design four paws up.
But seriously, I think they've got a great eye for graphics on the ones I've seen so far.
After reading the info, I went to kickstarter, did some research on open baffle speakers, and decided to jump in. If they're awesome I'll use them in my photography studio, if they're OK, I'll use them in my office for background music. I've got a nice subwoofer so the potential lack of bass wasn't a killer for me, and I had a set of open baffle speakers a very long time ago. Not to imply that there was anything other than the speakers themselves propped up vertically on bar stools, with old belts keeping them from vibrating off, and the heavy plastic-wood back rest behind them acting as a reflecting surface. It was a long time until I found something that sounded as good at moderate listening volumes. I'd think that the speaker options out there today would be much better than in the 1970s.
I'm of two minds on the graphics... I love the concept, but am lukewarm or less on most of the existing graphics. I chalk that up to being an artist myself, with several pieces of my work used as graphic elements (not as photographs) in various ways. There's always that thought that I've got an even better graphic... I'll get over it, I think.
If they had an economic way to offer a "your graphic" option, I think they'd get even more interest. Hard to go broke investing in serving the "me"s out there.
I fear that any comments i have about these will not go down to well.
If you want art then... buy art, so much of this speakers expenditure goes to the artist. Will they do a version without art, to which one could apply their own. Without the art though there is not much left to recommend.
Maybe they should do a kit version ie two drive units and instructions how to cut and glue a couple of bits of MDF or ply.
Something for the ipad generation...........................


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A True Champion - Bob. Rest in peace. 15/04/06
"People today have too big a devil and too small a God"
- Stephen Currie
"The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" Psalm 27:1
My seeds -
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3. Dynamo Morpork
4. Boggles
5. Viveash
6. Lancashire
7. Western Vikings (formerly WA)
from here I can't really say, but Scaly piscine, Bushpigs, AA For President, VCC and Robertinho Select XI would be there, and then you have the crap teams Jokes, jokes
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I wouldnt mid getting a thrashing from a team, count me in !Originally Posted by Robertinho
Actually, take out Viveash and WA, and put them in that group of names.
lol i liked being named in the top 5 but i have not been travelin to well lol
See changes.
Hmmm sounds interesting
Dream XI: M Hyder, J Linker, M Clock, S Wetsin, A Simms, A Golcrhist, B Hugg, S Worde, B Leap, J Giuseppe, G MacGrith
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It's never great to be the third choice to do something, but I'd imagine it's a whole lot worse when the entire world knows that you are the third choice. In the past few months, the role of the villain in Spike Lee's remake of Oldboy has been offered to both Christian Bale and Colin Firth, both of whom ended up turning the part down. This means that whoever the studio approaches next will know that they not only aren't the first choice, but they aren't even the first name mentioned as part of a backup plan. Hence why today must be bittersweet for Clive Owen.
Twitch has learned that Owen is now the new name that has been offered the chance to play the antagonist in Oldboy. While Josh Brolin is attached to play the lead, the project has been having a hard time attracting stars, as Rooney Mara also turned down the chance to star in the movie. Should Owen take the part, it will be the second time that he has worked with Spike Lee, as they made Inside Man together back in 2006. The film is the remake of the 2003 Chan-wook Park movie about a man who is kidnapped and held as a prisoner for 15 years without given a reason. Upon his release, the man goes on the hunt to find the person responsible for his incarceration.
While I actually like the idea of Brolin facing off against Owen, this news is kind of sad. Five years ago studios would have been jumping all over Owen to play the part, but now he's been relegated to third choice. Maybe this will be the role that brings him back to the A-list.


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20675 SW 162nd Ave Miami, Florida 33187 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 471 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 81 Reviews
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Apr 2019 - $62.00
Good front office customer service. A lot of amenities - pool, miniature golf and very nice walking trail. Roadways are narrow, thus your view from front window is the RV across the way. Sites are fairly wide, however, the people next door had so many cars that they parked in front of our RV (on our site). Low rating is due to large patch - 10 x 20 feet of dirt and mud instead of grass where a patio should be. They need to install concrete patio and not allow grass killing mats. - Deb and Chris
Apr 2019 - $20.00
This park is really nice. I see mostly pull throughs. The sites are flat. We chose this place because we wanted to see the Everglades and the Keys. We did both. Walmart isn't too far away but uses a parking garage for a place to park. A mall isn't too far from there. We are surrounded by plant nurseries. There is a paved area going around the perimeter of the property for walkers and bikers. - Barbara Walker
Feb 2019 - $1.00
Very nice park. To bad no dog cages are allowed outside. So will not return. - geo cong
500 S. W. 177th Avenue Miami, Florida 33194 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 8 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 0 Reviews
12451 SW 184th St Miami, Florida 33177 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 240 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 67 Reviews
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Aug 2019 - $33.00
Very nice county RV park with paved roads and wide, long and level paved back in sites. FHU. Many towering trees for good shade canopy and lots of grass. Only a few sites can get roof mounted satellite signals. No cable tv, good antenna TV, OK open wi-fi, good cell signal. OK for big rigs. Sites arranged in circular pods with inner and outer sties. Each pod has RR, shower and laundry facility. Cannot reserve a specific site, if you can't get sat signal they charge $15 to change so go look before paying. Park clean and staff helpful. Close to Miami Zoo on south side of town, 20 miles to downtown Miami. Will stay there again. - Pepper Dan
Apr 2019 - $45.00
Nice park, has a pool. Campsites are in circular pods. - Megan Davis
Mar 2019 - $35.00
Really nice county park with a pool. Most sites have trees except loop 2. Almost all are back-in except for a few in loop 1. Lots of snow birds, but all were friendly. My biggest complaint was that the water pressure was very low < 30psi. Had to run off of my tank. Would stay again if in the area. We were in loop 1. In my opinion I would try loop 3 because of the trees. - newbies2016
24050 SW 8th St Miami, Florida 33194 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 34 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 4 Reviews
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Jan 2014 - $32.00
We came to Gator Park to see the Gator show. It was convenient to stay here, as Gator Park was located halfway between our two stops. We stayed for a night and while the campground is not luxurious, we did not have any issues. There was no laundry room or central bathrooms. Our spot, #20, only had electric and water but we did see some sites with sewer. After the park closed at 5:00 PM, the area calmed down considerably and overnight we were not disturbed. I think $30 a night for what is offered is a bit high. $25 would be more appropriate. Would I recommend this park? For a single night. Would we come back? Not likely. We will explore another campground next time. - Dr. Moreau
Apr 2012 - $30.00
First, let me say the area is beautiful. Just a few miles west are some great air boat rides and Shark Valley is the place to go to see abundant wildlife. However, this RV park is by far the worst I have ever seen. The staff was rude and indifferent. The road was in poor condition and the grass at the campsites was tall. The water constantly looked and smelled rusty. It was so bad it even stained our shower and commode. Some full time residents were dumping waste water on the ground and a strong odor emanated from that. The power was unreliable as well. As we were leaving we discovered there was no water available at the dump station to clean our hose or the area. If you must stay here be sure to bring your own water and don't even try to bathe in that stuff. If you can at all, skip this place entirely. I sure do wish we had. - User2063
Apr 2009 - $30.00
The people were very rude and after their cursing they told us they make their money from the Europeans taking the airboat rides and don't need campers. Also they get their camping money from the Europeans staying with them. - tandkj
900 N Flamingo Rd Pembroke Pines, Florida 33028 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 83 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 46 Reviews
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Dec 2018 - $40.00
Nice park, close to the interstate and shopping areas. There is a curvy road getting into the park, but it wasn't too much trouble. As some noted, there are a lot of trees and some did overhang over the road. They were in the process of trimming them, while we were there. This is a city park, with a RV campground, so they have other activities going on, and the park is busy on the weekends, so there is some noise during the day. There is also noise from the airliners flying overhead and planes from the small airport nearby. You will hear sirens, day and night, as well as people hot-rodding on the 4 lane street near the park. If you are looking for a place with no to little noise, this is not it. It is a good place to stay, if you want to check out the Miami area. OTA and satellite TV worked well, as did our AT&T cell phones and hotspots. Their wifi didn't work most of the time and when it did, our computers wouldn't connect to it, but phones and tablets would. We would stay here again. - Bbtj
Dec 2018 - $40.00
As others have noted, this park is centrally located in a busy metroploitan area. It is well maintained and features paved roads and sites and is priced fairly. It has a lot of what we want in an rv park but its not perfect. There were a lot of overhanging trees that need to be trimmed. Everyone in our pull through row exited by backing out of their site. Too many trees in the way of a front exit. During the week and on all overnights there is no gates or security on site. I didn't have any problems but locals do cruise the park. I will not book a weekend again. 9 hour concert on the saturday we were there. We couldn't take the booming bass so we went out during the day to escape the noise. Came back about 3pm and had to wait in line about 15 minutes to enter the park. Cars filled the park everywhere....lots of concert goers strolling the park. It was over shortly after dark. Sunday was much better but a ski boat towing hollering tubers all afternoon was less than peaceful. The location and nicely maintained park make up for the inconveniences so I'll likely be back but not on a weekend. - Kbob
Apr 2018 - $40.00
We camp here every spring and fall. Last year we gave the park a very good rating but not so this time. The site we received was dirty with paper and cigarette butts down in the grass which means the site had not been cleaned for some time. The ground crew come regularly to pick up the dumpsters to empty them but do not pick up trash and cans nearby on the grass. The park just has a very unkempt look about it. Also the laundry area is dirty with plenty of cobwebs. On the positive side, the office staff is very professional and helpful. I hope that the park does improve for it is still the best there is in the area. - Nautilus
3120 W Hallandale Beach Blvd Hallandale Beach, Florida 33009 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 157 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 2 Reviews
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Apr 2017 - $24.00
This is an Encore park and I expected better from them. The roads are paved and so are the spots. The spots are one on top of the other with barely room to open the slide. The utilities are on the wrong side so the cords and hoses have to be drug under the camper. Site 391 is possibly the worst one. A huge tree in the back so you can only back up so far. Then the utility hook ups are honestly at your door. After plugging in, the power would not work until hubby wiggled the plug. There was no room for our car. We had to park in a neighbors spot. We brought this to the attention of the manager with no satisfaction. - esta34950
Oct 2015 - $35.00
This is a "trailer park" that allows RVs. Old park with sites not designed for modern RVs such as sewer dumps found under trailer parking sites, electrical connections with face plates missing and open to the elements. - Scenic Cruiser
5931 Polk Street Hollywood, Florida 33021 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 48 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 14 Reviews
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Feb 2019 - $85.00
The neighborhood seems a little dicey when you first arrive but after you settle in it is fine. You are packed in like sardines but you have a nice little patio made of pavers. We felt safe and they have lots of security cameras. There is a Walmart across the street. The bathroom is nice. The laundry room is nice. It is a great central location for the Miami area - we were visiting family to the north, the south and out by the beach and the drive in all directions was easy. Go to Miami Subs just south of the campground - it is yummy fast food! You pay extra for the Wifi and we couldn't ever get it to work so we gave up and used our phones as hot spots. - OurBigAdventure
Oct 2018 - $80.00
They had a spot for us at last minute in January! So that's good, sites were really small but they all had a nice table and chairs. We squeezed our 36' fifth wheel into a little while and were able to open the slides, but nice grass area nearby to run the dogs. Pretty pricey. - Tim Thiemann
Jan 2018 - $85.00
This park is VERY tight! Some of the sites were recently redone, and now are so close together when your neighbor puts out his/her slide, it encroaches on your patio. You pay for the use of a patio and grill and can't use it because of the RV next to you. The wifi is basically non-existent, even though they claim to have wifi. This park has no amenities and sits along a busy highway right in town. It is way overpriced. If there were amenities, I could understand the high cost, being in the city. There is a pet fee, with no dog park or any amenities for your pet. I would not recommend this park to anyone!!! - Mr Bates
100 NE 6th Ave Homestead, Florida 33030 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 145 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 36 Reviews
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Sep 2019 - $57.00
Not an "RV Resort", it is an old park with mobile homes and permanent RV's. An RV site must just be a fill in for income. Feral cats all over the place along with the cat poop all over my site. Located in a seedy part of town. Our site had the sewer connection about 25 feet over so we could not hook up. Laundry, you have to buy a card for $2.00 and fill it with five dollar increments. No refund if you do not use all the value. I saw many sites where they chained down everything loose outside to prevent theft. Pool and center are a joke. Yard should have been mowed at least a week ago. Picnic table and pad on the wrong side. Terrible water pressure, had to use our holding tank to wash dishes. - Charlie-Pattie
Mar 2019 - $69.00
Gate at the entrance is a problem. One car ahead of us and we ended up blocking traffic with our toad. Nice folks at check in, even offered to help us back in. Wound our way around the campground to our spot only to find it very occupied. Had to go back to the office to get another, way in the back by a busy road. It looks to be an old mobile home site. It was pretty level in the grass. Good power and water. Very high dump. Park is loaded with Canadian snow birds. It is close to everything. We are only here 2 nights, it worked for us. - Tredguy
Mar 2018 - $45.00
This is a great location for its access to the keys, the everglades, various state parks and other Florida attractions. Many of the sites are quite spacious but there are some that are quite short and a few that are narrow so be sure to check out the sites first if you can. We stayed for a month and learned that there is a recurring theft problem in the park. We did have some stuff stolen. The gate has apparently been on the list to repair since the fall... still not fixed and they need to address the security. There are a lot of feral cats which we found charming but hopefully the SPCA does regular health checks as some looked to be diseased or carrying some kind of parasite like fleas or mange. We felt it was a clean park with regular maintenance except their picnic tables. Some are in real disrepair and not safe. We really enjoyed the casual vibe in the park and some of the mature trees & shrubs. The pool is small but adequate and kept at a nice warm temperature. It could be a really fun park if they made some minor changes.The biggest problem (besides the gate/security) they need to address is creating ENGLISH postings, calendars, notices, events. Heck, even just an overal English speaking culture. It is very strange to be in the USA and have notices in FRENCH only... not even in Spanish which there is also a large representation in the permanent resident section. It also created a clicky French segregation in the park where you felt like an outsider. We will not be back and met others in the park that felt the same. Wanted to talk to management but felt like they know the problems already. They have some French 'volunteers'. Just hold some English/Spanish classes... or use google translate when you post a notice...lol. Include the whole park, not just the French population. Check out the sites if you can. Many are really spacious and beautiful and a few are just terrible. If you don't speak French ask to be in a section where there are more Americans and English speaking Canadians. Its lonely in the 'French Quarter' if you aren't a quebecquois - ptrv2018
3300 N Park Rd Hollywood, Florida 33021 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 61 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 47 Reviews
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May 2019 - $30.00
Nice campground within a huge park. Well maintained and very clean. Great size sites.
Nice walking trails and a water park. - Fran_Dawn
Apr 2019 - $45.00
Nice campground, no matter what spot you're in you will hear the trains going by but it did not bother us. Coming into the park there are VERY low tree branches, so be sure to drive slow and pay attention. We got here on Easter and the park was packed with people. The park is usually pretty busy on the weekends. Gates close around 11pm and reopen around 5:30am - Megan Davis
Jan 2019 - $44.00
Nice County Park. Need to watch for some semi low tree branches but we had no problem with a 13'2" high MH. Friendly and knowledgeable staff. The only negative, as others have stated, was the location of the utilities. Waaaaay at the back of the site. Obviously, whoever designed the RV portion of the park never used a MH or other RV type. - Johngflyer
31 SE 2nd Rd Homestead, Florida 33030 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 38 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 1 Reviews
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Jan 2011 - $30.00
We actually enjoyed this park; however, the owner is protective of his property. There are less then forty spaces in this tight urban park, and he does keep an eye on everyone and everything that goes on. Although he has a limitation on dog size, he did allow our border collie to stay. I'm glad she is well trained and was able to wait until we were outside the park as we were told to make sure of when she "did her thing." It was this monitoring that made it uncomfortable. My wife told me he must have passed by the laundromat three different times while our clothes went through the washers. I took over for the drying and didn't see him at all. All this being said the park is in great condition and looks classic Florida with the white wrought iron fence surrounding it. It is relatively near the police and fire departments so there is the sirens that you occasionally hear; however, I wouldn't say it's a lot more then most other urban parks. The area surrounding it, while urban, is well kept, and I never felt afraid while here. A well kept magnet school for the public school system is next door; however, other than recess I didn't hear the kids nor did I see them at all. This is strictly an older adult park. For us it was a good value that permitted us to explore the Keys and watch the annual Rodeo that is held next to the YMCA. - bandirector


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