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Natalie Portman Gives Aleph a Lift During an LA Lunch Date
Natalie Portman and her husband, Benjamin Millepied, linked up with friends for lunch at the Gjelina restaurant in LA today. The couple took turns holding their 2-year-old son, Aleph, and Natalie looked sweet in a red printed dress and boots as she made her way to the eatery. Natalie and her little man have been spending lots of cute quality time together lately. They set out on a daytime outing earlier this week, walking hand in hand while Aleph held on to a pair of lollipops. Natalie is likely enjoying her downtime with family before she embarks on a promo tour for the action-adventure sequel Thor: The Dark World, which is due out in November. She got a head start on her press duties when she and costar Tom Hiddleston supported the film at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA, last weekend.


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Jackson Hole Community School
We are a college-prep high school that focuses on academics. We are gaining traction and will be at capacity this year for the first time in history.
Need for Brand: We are using this year to prepare for a large capital campaign where we would raise money to buy and build a large school.
Our current logo does not represent the intense-academics, intellectual curiosity, maturity and culture of this young, established school.
COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS: We are an independent school in the mountains that aims to be as competitive in college placement as the rigorous east coast prep/boarding schools. Our competition consists of Teton Science School's "Journeys High School" and the Jackson Hole High School (JHHS). Journeys (http://www.tetonscience.org) is a crunchy liberal school that focuses on the environment and innovative learning techniques. JHHS (jhhs.tcsd.org) is a large public school.
We would like to take our place in the market as offering the highest quality education. A place for committed students, staff and teachers. A place that leads to a lifetime of learning and intellectual inquiry. The highest quality college prep school. Parents can move to beautiful Jackson Hole and not have to send their kids to boarding school to get a good education.
The ideal potential student is one that demonstrates an intellectual curiosity and a passion for learning. His or her parents have established an interest in their child's education, and have specific goals set.
Jackson Hole Community School offers a supportive, academically rigorous and social environment that embraces your passion for learning and will provide you with skills for college and life beyond. You'll fit in. The student-centric environment provides a great setting for getting the most out of your high school years.
The School offers your student a socially and academically supportive environment that will allow him the opportunity realize education-oriented goals and establish a platform for college and lifelong learning equal to that of the best high schools in the nation. JHCS offers scholarship and financial aid programs that enable attendance for students and families of any financial capacity (70% of our students are on scholarship).
You'll have the opportunity to work with a passionate faculty and student body in an exciting and democratic work environment.
The School is a new gem for the community. It is an educational alternative that suddenly puts this town the market for young parents who who want a healthy lifestyle in a mountain town and be able to give their children optimal education.
Characteristics we want:
- Professional
- Teton Mountain Range (specific)
- some sort of icon that suggests education
- Clean, humble, simple
- Innovative, yet not too different
- Modeled after an university or an east coast college prep school logos
- same colors as our current website: http://www.jhcommunityschool.org
- name included in logo (Jackson Hole Community School)
- logos we like: Apple, Stanford, Target
- grand tetons are iconic of this area (be careful how you use them though they are over used in logos in this area)
- we do not have any sports teams - our kids play sports across the street. but our mascot is a grizzly bear
- seals or circular are good, but we are not limited to that (We attached our competitors logos - so we need to be careful we are not too similar)
Things we don't like:
- shields, latin, complicated logos
- no animals (if you must, a bear is our logo)
- no acronyms (no JHCS)
***** I added an idea with the small child turning into a graduate. may be fun to play around with something like that.
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After T.J. and his younger brother are adopted, the biggest problems they face are winning an international baseball tournament, held in their New Jersey hometown, and helping a homeless teammate
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"Baseball and friendship in a city neighborhood are at the center of this warm comedy sequel to Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid. "--Booklist, boxed review.About the Author:
Born in Marinsburg, West Virginia in 1937, Walter Dean Myers is one of the premier authors of books for children. His mother died very early in his life–an event that propelled him into experiences that later influenced him to write. It was difficult for Myers' father to raise eight children alone, and eventually, a nearby couple, Herbert and Florence Dean, took in three-year old Walter and moved to Harlem, New York. "Harlem became my home and the place where my first impressions of the world were set," says Myers.
As a child, Myers went to school in his neighborhood and attended bible school almost every day of the week. Myers had a speech impediment which made communicating difficult for him, and often found himself in fights, defending himself against kids who taunted him. After a while, one of this teachers suggested to his class that they could write something to read aloud. Young Myers began writing poetry to give voice to his thoughts and feelings, and at age sixteen, won a prize in an essay contest and a set of encyclopedias for a long narrative poem. Later, his father bought him a used typewriter, which he used to churn out a seemingly endless stream of stories.
Along with the many things he was discovering about himself, Myers was also learning how to survive. One day he had the courage to break up a fight between three gang members and a kid who had just moved into the neighborhood. He became a marked man–and felt his life was in danger.
For example, once, he was sitting in the tree in Morningside Park, across from the building he lived in, reading O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, when some gang members spotted him and surrounded the tree. Myers jumped to the ground, flashed a stiletto in order to fend them off, and made a mad dash for his building. He escaped, but he never forgot the incident. Later he enlisted in the army, got married, had a child, went through a turbulent creative struggle, got divorced, got married again–and during all of this, kept writing, whether his work pleased him or not.
But Walter Dean Myers' life is not the story of a tormented, embittered artist. Rather it is the story of a gifted, complex person committed to sharing that gift with young readers. Myers' stories and novels paint a powerful picture of the pressures of growing up on big city streets. Yet, he emphasizes close relationships, trust, and personal growth.
It seems that one of Myers' greatest struggles was to understand what type of writer he wanted to be. As the years passed and his books became more and more popular, Walter Dean Myers came to believe that his work filled a void for African American youths who yearned for positive reading experiences and role models. He frequently writes about children who share similar economic and ethnic situations with his own childhood. "But my situation as a parent did not mirror that of my childhood," he says. "While my parents were quite poor, my children are thoroughly entrenched in the middle class experience. To them African prints go well with designer jeans, pizzas go down easier to a reggae beat, and shopping malls are an unmistakable part of their culture."
It is clear that Myers' understanding of both the world he was raised in and the world of his children allows him to bring an authority to his work that resonates with his young readers. It is one of many attributes that has made him one of the most important children's and young adult authors writing today. Among his many honors are two Newbery Honor books for Scorpions and Somewhere in the Darkness. He is also a two-time recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award for Now Is Your Time! and Fallen Angels. In addition, Myers has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for his contribution to young adult literature.
Myers' novel, Darnell Rock Reporting, is a warm and humorous story about thirteen-year-old Darnell Rock–a boy who works on his school newspaper. The book is sure to appeal to reluctant readers. Myers' recent picture book, How Mr. Monkey Saw the Whole World, is a cautionary fable about a watchful monkey who sees that a greedy buzzard gets his comeuppance.
Myer's recent work, 145th Street: Short Stories (A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book) captures the heartbeat of one memorable block in Harlem, New York. These powerful, often gripping stories range from humor and celebration to terror and grief.
Walter Dean Myers, the father of three grown children, lives with his wife in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Resilient Ideas: A Hand-Built Home
Before arriving at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, 25-year-old Brian Liloia had never built anything in his life. From a conventional perspective this might not have been the best resumé for constructing a home from scratch, but the community's penchant for inventive thinking and mutual support gave him the confidence to take the project on.
"I learned about cob building through helping other DR members construct their cob kitchen when I first moved here," remembers Liloia.
Dancing Rabbit (DR) calls itself an ecovillage because its members hope to create a small town with sustainability and environmental awareness central to everything that happens there. Community is the glue for the project, founded in 1997 on 280 acres in northeastern Missouri. But local, natural materials hold together most of DR's buildings: straw bale, clay, lime, and plaster.
One of the most common building materials at DR is cob, an adobe-like mixture of straw, clay, and sand. Liloia says it's ideal for a beginner: "Learning to build with cob is very simple, and the basics can be taught to just about anyone in a short period of time. It's intuitive and doesn't take a lot of technical know-how or fancy tools."
Over the course of a year, Liloia progressed from setting the urbanite (salvaged concrete) foundation to building and installing his firebrick stove. He and his work-exchange friends—people from outside DR, or new residents, who exchange labor for the chance to learn alternative building—spent many days and a few full-moon nights stomping on wet clay and sand, then combining it with straw to produce the material for sculpting the massive walls.
Photo Essay: Watch our slideshow to see how Brian did it.
Finally, last summer, Liloia moved into "Gobcobatron," a name that arose during one of those wacky conversations you have while mushing mud with friends. "There's nothing quite like living in a home that you built with your own hands," he says. The house is also home to girlfriend April Morales, who arrived on the scene in time to do her share of the construction, and a pug named Pug.
It's easy to imagine Liloia's creation on the cover of a modern home-design magazine. The massive walls shut out noise and help keep the space at an even temperature year-round. While cob and earthen building techniques aren't new—cob houses in Europe more than 500 years old are still in use—natural building is gaining momentum. People are interested in treading more lightly and relearning traditional skills, and you don't need a mortgage to build a cob house. Liloia figures Gobcobatron, which measures a little under 200 square feet, set him back a whopping $3,000 plus labor.
"Building your own home is definitely within reach if you have the time, energy, and inspiration." Efforts like Liloia's bring DR closer to being fully resilient and sustainable. He and other ecovillage residents are currently building a straw-bale and cob kitchen designed to serve six to eight community members.
Sven Eberlein wrote this article for A Resilient Community, the Fall 2010 issue of YES! Magazine. Sven's writing on ecocities was included in the Daily Kos "Greenroots" series. His website is tubercreations.com.
More Resilient Ideas
|A Hand-Built Home
|Low-Impact Urban Living
|Bike As You Are
|Return of the Mercantile
|Processing Food Where the Food Is
|Beekeeping on City Rooftops
|Reclaim, Repair, Rebuild
|Making Fruit Public
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Agisoft PhotoScan is a stand-alone software product that performs photogrammetric processing of digital images and generates 3D spatial data. Wisely implemented digital photogrammetry technique enforced with computer vision methods. Throughout various case studies PhotoScan proves to produce quality and accurate results.
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EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. — They have been el segundo — meaning "the second" in Spanish — for each of the first three rounds of the 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs.
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The lesser team in points, they have started on the road and, in the first two rounds at least, finished there, too, in Games 7 at San Jose and Anaheim.
So who are these guys, these Los Angeles Kings whose training rink is in El Segundo, south of L.A. International Airport, who refuse to be eliminated, who fall behind but resist all attempts to get rid of them?
Why, they are Las Cucarachas, the cockroaches of the National Hockey League post-season. Hardy, deceptively fast, pesky, stubborn, resourceful, capable of swarm behaviour, known for group-based decision making, able to survive decapitation ….
OK, maybe not that last one.
But consistently able to recover, anyway, from the edge of the abyss, as they did Wednesday night in Chicago, fighting off a 2-0 second-period deficit to stay alive in the Western Conference final by scoring six unanswered goals on the defending Cup-champion Blackhawks to even the series at a game apiece.
It must have been music to the Kings' ears to hear Chicago coach Joel Quenneville's frustrated post-game comments after Justin Williams' goal just before the end of the second period gave the visitors a taste of possibility and brought the cockroaches out of hiding.
"We're still fine at 2-0. You know, we get in after two, up 2-0, it's a different game," Quenneville said. "We've seen this team in the playoffs, what they've been able to do when their backs are against the wall. We've got to play right through periods, right through games.
"They're relentless in a lot of ways. We got to make sure when we get a chance like [Wednesday], we got to put 'em away."
Ah, but like Las Cucarachas, putting them away is easier said than done.
There was no magic, the Kings all said. Just persistence, and belief.
"Just stick with what we need to do," said Jeff Carter, who has reclaimed his star status with great performances for Canada in Sochi and now with the Kings, for whom he scored three third-period goals in Game 2 (and assisted on a fourth).
"You know, we've got a good group of leaders in our room. We've been through comebacks and whatnot a lot lately. It's not something we want to [have to] do. But we stick with it, grind it out, get the job done."
"It's not that we're comfortable … well, maybe we're a little comfortable being behind," said centre Jarret Stoll. "We're used to it, I guess.
"You never quit, you can't. Crazy things can happen when you score. You can't quit until it's over, and that's all it is. We have the right guys in there and the right coaches and the right attitude. You keep pushing and pushing."
So they learned, when they were down three games to none to San Jose, and trailed the series with Anaheim 3-2.
"There's always more," said captain Dustin Brown. "Everyone can give more."
Asked what he said between the second and third periods Wednesday, before the five-goal, third-period explosion, the head cockroach, Darryl Sutter, replied: nothing.
"You hear about all these big speeches that coaches make and all that," Sutter said. "You know what? The players are getting the s–t beat out of them. They're sweating and bleeding, and they don't need all that. They don't need some coach coming in there yelling and hollering.
"I don't get that. That's not me. If there's something to be said, if it's honest and the truth, you say it and you get out. If it's something that helps them during the game, then that's it. It's not some great words or some great rallying cry between periods.
"You're this far into the season, there's that leadership. There's that group of guys, and you trust what they're doing. If you have to reinforce something, reinforce it. If not, stay out of their way."
No one had to tell Las Cucarachas what was what. They had to win in Chicago, at some point. If they fell behind two games, against a team as experienced and skilled as the Hawks, it wasn't going to get any easier later on.
"You don't steal games in the playoffs. You can do it in the regular season, because of the schedule or maybe the lineup or something like that," Sutter said, "but in the playoffs … it's pretty much straight-up: wait until High Noon, and get out there."
Until Game 2, the Hawks had been 7-0 at home in these playoffs, 8-0 when scoring the first goal. They had a Madhouse full of 22,019 fans, their 275th consecutive sellout.
If Sutter had anything particular in mind after two periods Wednesday, it was simply this: "At some point they're going to lose a game at home. They're not going to win every one."
Chicago had owned the Kings for a couple of seasons, and one win doesn't completely change the lay of the land, mind you.
"Well, we don't [lack] confidence. I've never seen it once," Sutter said. "You were probably questioning how we played in Game 1. I thought we played better in Game 1 than we did in Game 2. We didn't leave the game not being confident. If every game you lost, you lost your confidence, then you guys don't have to cover hockey in April, May and June."
That's equally true of the Blackhawks, after one loss.
"I think there's got to be a reaction. We shouldn't be happy about it," said Quenneville, who'll have feisty forward Andrew Shaw back in the lineup for Game 3 on Saturday at Staples Center.
"I think that's how you get past it, by doing something about it, I think there's anger involved. I think that's not a bad thing to have."
Besides, there's a little cockroach in every team that's still playing this spring.
"Yeah, we've been in some tough spots," Quenneville said. "Look at last year, down 2 1 to Boston, 3 1 to Detroit, [and this year] 2 0 to St.Louis, 2 2 in the Minnesota series.
"It's 1 1. There's a lot of hockey left in this series between two really good teams. A lot to be decided."


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Lobgesang Ventures (website: http://www.lobgesangventures.com; logo attached)
Lobgesang Ventures is a full-service consulting firm for pre-Series A technology start-ups. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Lobgesang Ventures helps talented young entrepreneurs to position and grow their business right from the very beginning.
We are a team of young, creative, energetic, eager, fun self-starters who want to help young entrepreneurs like us to turn their brilliant ideas into reality.
Please take a look at http://www.lobgesangventures.com to learn more about us.
- Young Entrepreneurs (primarily in computer/high tech industry)
- Potential investors and business partners
- A Welcome page
- Other pages should have same design layout and design should be easily converted into HTML later on (no Flash)
- Should be easily updated and modified with new contents later on
- Design should be simple but elegant and professional, yet not boring
- Design should incorporate the idea behind the company name and vision -- "The vision of our company is built upon "Lobgesang", the name given to Mendelssohn's grand Symphony No. 2 – a symphony for soloists, chorus and orchestra. Lobgesang Ventures is here to help you develop your smart ideas by harmonizing all the moving pieces into one masterpiece."
- The slogan "It's your brilliant ideas. We just help you start it right." should be part of the template and on every page
- Color scheme needs to go well with the color scheme and design of our existing logo (Logo design file is attached - please use the one in the Blue/Gray color scheme)
- Website is intended to be informational, currently there would be 5 static pages excluding the welcome page (see http://www.lobgesangventures.com for text content):
1. Home
2. About Us
3. Team
4. Project
5. Contact Us
- A list of adjectives associated with the company/team that should be reflected in the website: young, fun, savvy, stylish, capable, easygoing, creative, energetic, visionary, experienced, eager, collaborative
- We would like to be able to use the winning design as a template for future pages so that future pages can be created easily


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Dear Dr & Dr Muthen,
I am running unconditional and conditional LCGA and GMM models. There is missing data on all variables. As FIML is used in mplus, I assumed this ok for the unconditional models. However, when I run unconditional models I loose all the subjects with missing on any of the covariates. I have a total of about 4000 subjects and loose about 700. I wish to compare the unconditional and conditional models and therefore wish the number of observations to be the same. I tried to fix this by adding the variance to the models. The output then told me I had to add ALGORITHM=INTEGRATION. Which resulted in the output error: FATAL ERROR RECIPROCAL INTERACTION PROBLEM. I therefore tried to take a different approach by imputing the missing data in the covariates. I tried this with both stata and mplus. I am really new to imputations. In mplus when I try to use the imputed data I get:"ERROR
The number of observations is 0. Check your data and format statement". Why is this? I have added type=imputation to my syntax under data. From stata I am not sure how mplus reads the new data file. Also, is it ok to allow mplus to use FIML on the outcome variables and multiple imputation on the covariates or shall I use multiple imputation on all variables?
Many thanks in advance for you help and for mplus
Linda K. Muthen
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Lina Homman
posted on Tuesday, July 09, 2013 - 8:46 am
Thanks for your reply. I think I have solved the problem. However, just one last question. I decided to go with using multiple imputations for my covariates and managed to get it to work. But most of my covariates are binary. Do I need to specify this in the syntax or does Mplus deal with it?(I read that when adding variances of the covariates as to not loose subjects due to missing data on covariates, Mplus treats the covariates as continuous).
many thanks
Lina Homman
posted on Tuesday, July 09, 2013 - 8:50 am
Problem solved, it is just by adding a (c) after each categorical variable in the Impute command, correct?
Linda K. Muthen
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In the gallery you will find contemporary original works, juried american crafts including artisan jewelry and hand blown glass and desktop luxuries for the home and office.
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Stage Veteran Garrett Lewis Passes Away at 77
Tuesday, February 5, 2013; 02:02 PM - by BWW News Desk
Garrett Lewis, four time Academy Award nominated set decorator, dancer and actor, died Tuesday, January 29 at the age of 77. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1935 and died at his home in Woodland Hills, California of natural causes.
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Garrett Lewis had a long and storied career as a dancer, actor and set decorator. His career began while still in college when he was offered the dance lead for a season at the Kansas City Starlight Theatre. After that one season of summer stock, he went to New York and immediately landed his first Broadway show My Fair Lady. This was followed by numerous roles in Broadway productions including Hello Dolly, Vintage '60 and First Impressions.
Lewis played the role of Cornelius in Hello Dolly starring opposite five different leading ladies. First, he went on national tour with Carol Channing. Hello Dolly was the first stage show at the newly opened Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles in 1965. He reprised the role with Mary Martin in London. Hello Dolly made its premiere in the West End at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on December 2, 1965, with the Queen Mother in attendancE. Lewis also performed this role opposite Carole Cook, Dora Bryan and Patrice Munsel in various productions of the show.
Lewis was a featured performer on The Red Skelton Show and The Julie Andrews Hour. Aside from his television work, which included many major network shows at the time on both coasts, he appeared extensively in clubs across the country, supporting such leading ladies as Anna Maria Alberghetti, Arlene Dahl, Dorothy Provine and others. He was a soloist in The Lido Show in Paris, and appeared as the male lead in Little Mary Sunshine in Paris. Garrett transitioned into film and appeared in both Star! with Julie Andrews and Funny Lady.
By the time Lewis finished Funny Lady in 1975, musicals were becoming rare. Lewis' friends, agent Sue Mengers and her husband Jean-Claude Tramont, purchased a home in Bel Air in 1975. They admired the way Lewis had decorated his own home, and asked him to redesign their new one. This lead Lewis to designing private homes for celebrities including Barbra Streisand, Herbert Ross, Barry Diller and many others. He effortlessly segued into a second career.
In the late seventies when Herbert Ross was directing The Turning Point he asked Lewis to decorate several sets. Later while filming California Suite, Ross called him in again to assist with the art direction. While his title was "Pictorial Consultant", his third career as a set decorator for films was launched.
Lewis worked on 39 films as a set decorator. He was nominated for four Academy Awards for Art Direction - Beaches, Glory, Hook and Bram Stoker's Dracula. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy for his work on Gepetto. He created everything from civil war tents for Glory to lavish Bugatti inspired furniture for Bram Stoker's Dracula, a particularly special film for him. His film credits include Mrs. Doubtfire, Pretty Woman, Steel Magnolias, Backdraft, Hidalgo, Against All Odds, as well as countless others. His work as a set decorator took him to Morocco, Canada and all parts of the United States. He loved his work. A longtime member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, he proudly served on the Executive Committee for the Art Director's branch.
A memorial is currently being planned. Please contact gl_me...@earthlink.net for further information.
LEWIS, Garrett
Born: 1935, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Died: 1/29/2013, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.A.
Garrett Lewis' westerns – actor, set decorator:
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys – 1969 (Hawkins)
Hidalgo – 1964 [set decorator]


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CSIRT Monitoring for Cisco House at the London 2012 Olympic Games
As part of CSIRT's mobile monitoring offering for special events, we undertook monitoring of the corporate and customer traffic of the Cisco House at the London 2012 Olympics. This engagement presents us with an excellent opportunity to showcase Cisco technology, while keeping a close watch on potential network security threats. CSIRT monitoring for this event will be active for the entire life-span of the Cisco House, from two months before the Olympics, until two months after.
For the London 2012 engagement, we shipped our gear in a 14RU military-grade rack that is containerized: made for shipping. Inside the mobile monitoring rack we have an assortment of Cisco kit and third-party kit that mirrors the monitoring we do internally:
- Catalyst 3750 to fan out traffic to all the other devices
- FireEye for advanced malware detection
- Two Cisco IronPort WSA devices for web traffic filtering based on reputation
- Cisco UCS box where we run multiple VMs
- Lancope StealthWatch collector for NetFlow data
- and a Cisco 4255 IDS for intrusion detection
We mirror the signatures that we have deployed internally at Cisco out to these remote locations. Depending on the environment where the mobile monitoring rack is deployed, we may also do some custom tuning. The kit in the mobile monitoring rack can do intrusion detection, advanced malware detection, and collect and parse NetFlow and log data for investigation purposes. The Cisco UCS rack server also helps us have several VMs, allowing us to run multiple tools that complement the other devices in the rack. For example, we run a Splunk instance on a VM to collect the logs generated by all the services. The data from the gear in the mobile monitoring rack is analyzed by our team of analysts and investigators, to eliminate false positives, conduct mitigation and remediation, and finally produce an incident report if required.
The main objective of our monitoring at the London 2012 Olympics is to secure the network at this temporary Cisco House installation in the Olympic Park. This is not the first time we have used our mobile monitoring suite, it has been used to protect internal events like the Cisco Global Sales Meeting, WWITMO, CIO Summit, and for external meetings, security conferences, and events where we have a significant networking presence. We have also tooled these racks to make them easily deployable at acquisitions, where if Cisco acquires a company, we can quickly drop them into a central location, providing the full spectrum of security monitoring.
We have had some successes with our mobile monitoring: at one event for example, we detected a conference attendee who was infected with a worm, and used the Cisco WCS and the Wireless LAN Controller to triangulate the location of the user. Once we had identified the user, we determined that their system had been root-kitted. The impact to the event was that this infected machine had been sending thousands of SPAM emails, which had gotten the conference network blacklisted. We were then able to assist the user in mitigating the threat and prevent further harm to the other attendees at the conference.
At the conclusion of a CSIRT mobile monitoring event, we compile data from the various tools and appliances and produce a report that details any incidents that may have occurred during the event. Sometimes there is nothing of interest, but on multiple occasions we have had incidents where an infected systems was causing harm, which we had to remediate or block from the network.
Additionally, CSIRT uses these mobile monitoring engagements to pilot and test out new technologies. A number of years ago we started looking at the Cisco IronPort WSA, and began using it in our mobile monitoring deployments. Our team has since successfully completed a successful deployment of the WSA throughout Cisco that is now protecting the entire Cisco network.
Crucial to the success of the CSIRT mobile monitoring deployment at the Cisco House was the close collaboration with IT NDCS. We worked with the NDCS implementation team to redirect traffic via WCCP to our WSAs, and with various colleagues in the NDCS Design Core Network group, the NDCS Design Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) group, the NDCS Field Implementations team, and in AS.
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Today is Wednesday, which means we are now down to three work days remaining until we get to watch our purple and black take the field for a meaningful football game for the first time since that awful day in Pittsburgh. Day 2 of our quick Ravens season preview sees the Ravens take on the other purple team in the league, a neck-bearded QB, and Bungle bookends.
See Day 1 here.
Of course, all of these predictions are based on rosters, teams, etc., as they stand today. Injuries, suspensions, and whatever else could easily drastically change my feeling about any or all of the games. This is for fun more than anything else, so don't go calling your bookie on my recommendations.
Week 5 – vs. Cincinnati
Count me in the group that thinks Cincy will be a bit less bungle-riffic in '09. Their defense finished up strong in 2008, Carson Palmer is back (back again), and Ocho Cinco looks like he's ready to return to his Pro Bowl form, assuming he can stop "tweeting" long enough to catch a pass or 80. I think they'll win 1st Place – Ohio Division this season, and give a lot of teams all they can handle. A lot of lesser teams than the Ravens, that is.
Chance of victory: 75%
Week 6 – @ Minnesota
The Ravens travel up North for the Purple Bowl in their final game before their first bye week since 2007. Lots of similarities here – both teams rely heavily on their running game, have very strong defenses, and think they finally have the quarterback they need to get them over the hump. The difference, of course, is that the Vikings are on a much shorter time table with their grizzled old gunslinger Brett Favre than the Ravens are with 24-year old Joe Flacco. Also, it takes three Ravens to do the damage in the ground game that the Vikings' Adrian Peterson is capable of. Assuming both teams are at full strength, I really think this one is a toss-up.
Chance of victory: 50%
Week 8 – vs. Denver
The Ravens get two weeks to prepare for the Denver Broncos, who are likely to be in shambles by late-October. After one of the most tumultuous offseasons by any team, ever – one that saw them lose their head coach and franchise QB, and suspend their stud WR – most Broncos fans are about as happy with their team's ownership as we O's fans are with our baseball team's. The bugaboo for the Ravens defense has been the big game QBs – Manning, Brady, Roethlisberger. Kyle Orton (with Knowshon Moreno and Correll Buckhalter to hand off to)? Not so much. This one's in the bag.
Chance of victory: 80%
Week 9 – @ Cincinnati
It bugs me a bit when the schedule-makers in the NFL have teams completely finish with one divisional opponent before playing another. Such is the case for the Ravens this year though, getting the Bengals twice before facing Pittsburgh. Like I said, Marvin's Bunch will be competitive, but the Ravens simply outclass them in all aspects of the game. "The Jungle" won't provide enough of a home field advantage to make much of a difference.
Chance of victory: 65%
Tomorrow: Weeks 10-13


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The mouse stood high in ancient Greece, where the god Apollo took the creature as one of his namesakes, Apollo Smintheus. White mice were kept under the altars in temples to that incarnation.
Most of us can better relate to the Indo-Aryan Sanskrit tradition wherein musuka means thief or robber.
Sanskrit may not be familiar to you, but the burglary antics of the common house mouse probably are, especially this time of year.
Freezing temperatures, like our recent dip into the low teens, send these furry rodents scurrying inside to the warmth of our homes and offices.
If you have mice, you're not alone. Each winter, mice and other rodents invade an estimated 21 million homes in the U.S. Mice visit between October and February, looking for food, water and shelter from the cold. Mice build their homes in our homes, near food sources, like our pantries and cupboards.
Prolific and voracious, they eat more than growing teenagers and breed faster than rabbits. They eat up to 20 times per day and breed year-round, starting at about two months old.
With a gestation of less than three weeks, a litter of eight to 14 pups and an average of five to 10 litters a year, a single female mouse will give birth to about 120 babies each year.
That's a lot of mice. Let two in, and many more will follow.
Like little Houdinis, mice can squeeze through openings as small as a dime. A small crack or gap on the exterior of your home is an open door — and invitation — for mice.
Prevent mice from gaining access into your home by sealing any openings on the exterior (such as where utility pipes enter) with a silicone caulk. You can also fill gaps and holes inside your home with steel wool.
Keeping cats as pets helps, too. Since I rescued my two kitties three years ago, I haven't seen a single mouse inside.
Mice are cute and cuddly to some folks who may even keep them as pets, but they can transmit a disease called salmonellosis, a bacterial food poisoning that occurs when food is contaminated with infected mice feces.
That's just the beginning. Mice can carry as many as 200 human pathogens.
No wonder Apollo Smintheus was a god of disease.
A story of special devotion to the least of creatures
But this hummingbird is a moth
Must we eat our way out of this problem?
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Brick Wall Solutions – Who was Charlotte Kopittke?
When I started researching my family history seriously in the mid 1980s, I knew that what was recorded on birth, death and marriage certificates was correct.
My grandfather Gustav Kopittke arrived in Brisbane in 1876 from Germany via England accompanied by his parents, Daniel and Charlotte Kopittke, and his younger sister, Auguste. I knew from my father's birth certificate that his father was born in Schwartow, Hinterpommern.Hinterpommern was the eastern end of Pomerania, just to the west of Gdansk (German Danzig). There were several villages named Schwartow in Hinterpommern, but further research established that it was Schwartow in Kreis (county) Lauenburg. After World War 2, the eastern end of Pomerania was given to Poland with the result that Lauenburg is now Lebork and Danzig is now Gdansk.
My great grandparents died not too long after arrival, Daniel in 1880 and Charlotte in 1884 and their death certificates were among the first that I purchased in 1985. Somewhat to my surprise, Daniel's certificate indicated that he had been married to Charlotte Juska, while Charlotte's showed her father as "—Taschke". These were different surnames even though the informant in both cases was G Kopittke, son. Aren't certificates supposed to be correct? I surmised that J and T might be confused when written, and since a final "e" is sounded in German that might explain the different endings. At least both names had an "s" in them, and the correct name was obviously some combination of the letters of Juska and Taschke.
A little later, and to my even greater surprise, the wife of a cousin told me that she had a copy of my grandparents' original marriage certificate from 1886 when Gustav Kopittke married Evelina Karrasch. This time the maiden name of Gustav's mother was recorded as Charlotte Kirschnik! I thought I could explain this though – it seems Gustav or the pastor was just confused, Evelina's mother's maiden name was Kirschner.
It was obvious some further research was needed. My grandfather's two older brothers had followed the family here, bringing their wives and children, so I decided to obtain their death certificates to see what was recorded concerning their mother. The oldest brother, August, died in 1915 and his certificate recorded his mother as Charlotte Yeshka. According to the certificate of the second brother, Carl, who died in 1929, his mother was Charlotte Zerohke! Gustav's sister, Auguste, married Johann Meier in 1877, so I also purchased her marriage and death certificates to try to sort out the confusion. Both certificates listed Charlotte Geschke.
So by 1987, I could take my pick of the names for Charlotte:
- Juska, from her husband Daniel's death certificate
- Taschke, from her death certificate
- Kirschnik, from her son Gustav's marriage and death certificates
- Yeshka, from her son August's death certificate
- Zerohke, from her son Carl's death certificate and
- Geschke, from her daughter Auguste's death and marriage certificates!
Did someone say that life was not meant to be easy? This confusion illustrates some of the issues that those of us with German names face. Should the name be spelled as it is in German, or should it be spelled the way that it sounds?Despite my successes in locating and researching some of my other German families through microfilms of the church records, I'd not been able to locate any records from Germany concerning the Kopittkes. In 2004, I found from the website "Evangelisch Kirchen im Kreis Lauenburg" (Protestant churches in the county of Lauenburg) http://www.lauenburg-pommern.de/Ev.Kirche/index.htm that the church books from the Schwartow parish were stored in the state archive in Gdansk (formerly Danzig). I wrote away and requested copies of the baptism entries from the Schwartow parish for my Kopittke family. They were able to send me copies of the baptismal records for Carl (b. 1847), Gustav (b. 1850) and Auguste (b. 1854); as well as for another sister Wilhelmine (b. 1843) about whom I did not know. In each of these cases, Charlotte's maiden name was given as Jeschke.
So, after many years, the mystery was solved. Since the German "J" is pronounced as we pronounce a "Y", Yeshka is explained. A German told me that "G" and "J" can be easily confused, so that explained Geschke. The handwritten J could be confused for Z, and the "sc" could be confused for "ro". So now I know that certificates cannot always be trusted, and names can be spelled in many different ways.
Brick Wall Tips
- Check information on multiple certificates – spouse and children
- Always check alternative spellings with European ancestors
- Consider the sound of the name not just the spelling
- Remember that different letters can look the same when written
- Check for new websites in Europe as they become available
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geschke, surnames mispellings
I think they keep flitting around name Jaeschke o
But Jeschke/ I had gustav jaechke whose mother was Charlotte webber or weber jaeschke. and she was md to gotlieb jaeschke. Her children were gustav, august, and others. all from danzig.
Eric says Schwatower-Waldhof would probably mean a forest farm near Schwartow. In Meyers Orts und Verkehrs Lexikon (1910) it states that Schwartow had 412 people and Waldhof had 84 people residing there.
Very belated thanks for your reply! I can't believe I didn't see this back in April last year.
Waldhof near Schwartow
I was trying to find Waldhof, Kreis Lauenburg and what it is called now. I came across on old map of Lauenburg on the same webiste Eric mentions http://www.lauenburg-pommern.de/ There was more than place called Waldhof, but from other records I decided the one near Schwartow was the correct place. The old map looks like it calls the place Schwartower-Waldhof and when I searched for the Polish name came up with Zwarcienko. Google Maps shows it in the same place as Waldhof.
My question is - does anyone know what Schwartower-Waldhof means? One guess of mine was Waldhof near Schwartow. It is just that plain Waldhof is what appears on certificates.
Jennifer Crockett


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Making good on their promise to see co-star Ian Ziering's turn as a Chippendales dancer, Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth arrived in Las Vegas for a 'Beverly Hills 90210′ reunion of awesome on Sunday (June 30).
Also: shirtlessness.
"Chippendales is a very interactive show and we managed to surprise them both by including them on stage in a few production numbers," Ziering revealed to People. "I was very flattered by their comments. And judging by their reaction, I know they had a great time."
"We've always been very supportive of each others' endeavors, and when they heard what I was up to, they wanted to come support. The fact that this new gig is Chippendales made it all the more easy to get them out to the Vegas," Ziering added.
We're glad Doherty and Garth have put their long-standing feud behind them. As you'll see in one of the photos below, they were even seatmates on the Vegas-bound plane. (Maybe Doherty finally realized that feuding and being sent packing from Aaron Spelling dramas is just in her DNA.)
Check out more photos of the reunited (and it feels so good) castmates below, including at least one reason why Ziering's turn with the all-male revue was extended through July 14.


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Citing the sequester, cancer clinics reject Medicare patients
Cancer clinics across the country have begun turning away thousands of Medicare patients and blaming the sequester budget cuts.
Oncologists say the reduced funding, which took effect for Medicare on April 1, makes it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs while staying afloat financially.
Patients at these clinics would need to seek treatment elsewhere, but the only real alternatives are hospitals, which generally offer more expensive care and which may not be equipped to handle the influx.
"If we treated the patients receiving the most expensive drugs, we'd be out of business in six months to a year," said Jeff Vacirca, chief executive of North Shore Hematology Oncology Associates in New York. "The drugs we're going to lose money on, we're not going to administer right now."
After an emergency meeting Tuesday, Vacirca's clinics decided they would no longer see one-third of their 16,000 Medicare patients.
"A lot of us are in disbelief that this is happening," he said. "It's a choice between seeing these patients, and staying in business."
The impact of the sequester on cancer treatment has only recently become clear, adding an unintended consequence to a budget process that was already controversial for its blind, across-the-board cuts.
Some who have been pushing the federal government to spend less on health care say this is not the right approach.
"I don't think there was an intention to disrupt care or move it into a more expensive setting," said Cathy Schoen, senior vice president of the Commonwealth Fund, which recently released a plan for cutting $2 trillion in health spending. "If that's the case, we're being a penny wise and a pound foolish with these cuts."
Legislators meant to partially shield Medicare from the sequester, limiting the program to a 2 percent reduction -- a fraction of the cuts seen by other federal programs.
But oncologists say the cut is damaging for cancer patients because of the way those treatments are covered.
Medications for seniors are usually covered under the optional Medicare Part D, which includes large private insurers that are absorbing the cuts. But because cancer drugs must be administered by a physician, they are among a handful of medications paid for by Part B, which covers doctor visits.
The federal government typically pays oncologists in community clinics for the average sales price of a chemotherapy drug, plus 6 percent to cover the cost of storing and administering it.
Since oncologists cannot change the drug prices, they argue that the entire 2 percent cut will have to come out of that 6 percent overhead. That would make it akin to a double-digit pay cut.
"If you get cut on the service side, you can either absorb it or make do with fewer nurses," said Ted Okon, director of the Community Oncology Alliance, which advocates for hundreds of cancer clinics nationwide. "This is a drug that we're purchasing. The costs don't change and you can't do without it. There isn't really wiggle room."
Okon's group has sent letters to legislators urging them to exempt cancer drugs from the sequester or, as a backup, only shave 2 percent off the money they receive to administer the medications.
Medical Oncology and Blood Disorders, a Connecticut clinic, sent patients a letter in March stating that if the sequester cuts went into effect, "We will not be able to treat our Medicare patients effective April 2013."
"Everyone is talking about the White House tours, but nobody is talking about this," said Diana Kuene, whose husband received the letter shortly after beginning treatment for lymphoma. "I was very surprised. It seems like [Congress] tucked this in and hid it."
Kuene said that her husband was able to work out a way to continue his treatment and that the clinic is now deciding how to proceed on a "case-by-case basis." The clinic did not respond to a request for comment.
Doctors at the Charleston Cancer Center in North Carolina began informing patients weeks ago that, due to the sequester cuts, they would soon need to seek treatment elsewhere.
"We don't sugarcoat things, we're cancer doctors," said Charles Holladay, a doctor at the clinic. "We tell them that if we don't go this course, it's just a matter of time before we go out of business."
Cancer patients turned away from local oncology clinics may seek care at hospitals, which also deliver chemotherapy treatments.
The care will likely be more expensive: One study from actuarial firm Milliman found that chemotherapy delivered in a hospital setting costs the federal government an average of $6,500 more annually than care delivered in a community clinic.
Those costs can trickle down to patients, who are responsible for picking up a certain amount of the medical bills. Milliman found that Medicare patients ended up with an average of $650 more in out-of-pocket costs when they were seen only in a hospital setting.
It is still unclear whether hospitals have the capacity to absorb these patients. The same Milliman report found that the majority of Medicare patients -- 66 percent -- receive treatment in a community oncology clinic instead of a hospital.
Nonprofit hospitals will likely have an easier time bearing the brunt of the sequester cuts. A federal program known as 340B requires pharmaceutical companies to give double-digit discounts to hospitals that treat low-income and uninsured patients.
Eastern Connecticut Health Network, a hospital system based in Manchester, Conn., began preparing for additional volume after a local oncology practice sent out notice that it would stop seeing certain cancer patients.
"What we're trying to do in the hospital is prepare for this," ECHN spokesman Eric Berthel said. "We're making sure we have access to the pharmaceutical companies and that we have appropriate staff on hand. We're hoping the oncology practice will be successful in renegotiating this. It's so fresh, so we're pretty unsure."
Some cancer clinics are counting on the federal government to provide relief, and continuing to see patients even though they expect to lose money.
"We're hoping that something will change, as legislators see the impact of this," said Ralph Boccia, director of the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders in Bethesda, Md. "I don't think we could keep going, without a change, for more than a couple of months."
An analysis prepared by his clinic estimates that, if the full 2 percent cut takes effect, between 50 and 70 percent of the drugs it administers would become money losers.
Boccia estimates that 55 percent of his patients are covered by Medicare, making any changes to reimbursement rates difficult to weather.
"When I look at the numbers, they don't add up," he said. "Business 101 says we can't stay open if we don't cover our costs."


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Aid Watch Rerun: African leaders advise Bono on reform of U2
NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: Over the holidays, we'll be publishing reruns of some of our posts from the first 2 years of Aid Watch. This post originally ran on November 23, 2009.
An expert commission of African leaders today announced their plan for comprehensive reform of music band U2. Saying that U2's rock had lost touch with its African roots, the commission called for urgent measures to halt U2's slide towards impending crisis.
"Our youth today are imperiled by low quality music," said Commission chairman Nelson Mandela. "We will be lending African musicians to U2 to try to refurbish their sound to satisfy the urgent and growing needs for diversionary entertainment at a time of crisis in the global music and financial sectors."
Concerns about U2 have been growing in Africa for a while. One Western aid blogger testified to the Commission that his teenage kids found U2's music "cheesy." The Mandela Commission proposed that U2 follow a series of steps to recover its Edge:
1) Hire African consultants to analyze U2's "poverty of music trap"
2) Prepare a Band-owned and Commission-approved Comprehensive U2 Reform Strategy Design (CURSD)
3) Undertake a rehabilitation tour of African capitals to field-test and ground-truth proposed reforms
4) Subject all songs to randomized experiments in which the effect on wellbeing of control and treatment groups is rigorously assessed.
Mandela expressed optimism that the Commission's report and proposed reforms had come in time to stave off terminal crisis in U2, and restore its effectiveness in the 80s arena rock field.


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Jennifer H. necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 76 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for a logo for a new website - Women's Golf Circle. This site is dedicated exclusively to female golfers and designed to create a community of women who can connect with each other through their passion for the game. The logo should be fun, fresh, and incorporate the "community" concept of the site. It should also utilize the "circle" theme in the logo. MAY LEAD TO GRAPHIC DESIGN WORK FOR NEW WEBSITE IN DEVELOPMENT.
Women's Golf Circle
Women's Golf Circle is a new website under development that is designed exclusively for female golfers. Women golfers often feel intimidated and even alienated from the game due to the sport's male-domination. This site will develop a community of women who golf at all skill levels. It will allow women to communicate with each other through interactive forums, to find other female golf partners, and to share tips and advice related to golf. It will also contain a blog and will offer golf equipment, apparel, and other products designed for the female golfer. Approximately 25% of all golfers are women. In a recent study, female golfers report the following as their top reasons for participating in golf: 1. being outdoors 2. enjoying time with friends 3. the challenge of the game and trying to improve. The website will focus on these factors and encourage women to participate in the game regardless of their skill level. Our preliminary tagline is "You Belong in the Game"
Logo must include name "Women's Golf Circle." No restrictions on color, but logo should include the "circle" concept. Logo should look good on a white background but also be able to be reversed for use on a colored background. Creative, fresh design built around community concept.
Typical golf logo.
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Jennie Allen Engages Women's Hearts for Christ
Like many young mothers, Jennie Allen is busy from dawn until dusk. But this mother of four children reaches out to women much like herself through her books, her blog, and conferences. She encourages women to incline their minds and hearts toward Christ and live a life pleasing to God.


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For three days, I got the upgrade of a lifetime, trading my 13-year-old Honda for Tesla's all-electric Model S sedan.
I drive a 13-year-old Honda Civic with nearly 142,000 miles on it, bought off Craigslist for about $7,000. No electric windows, no air conditioning — but plenty of scrapes and scratches.
So when Tesla Motors (TSLA) lent me an all-electric Model S sedan for three days, I was understandably elated. It's not just an electric car — gas stations, be gone! — it's a new car, and luxurious to boot.
I didn't have big plans to put the Model S through Mario Andretti-like paces: I'm a fairly conservative driver. I'm a working mom who doesn't have time to think too much about my car: It just needs to work.
My concerns were about the day-to-day and the mundane: Is it going to be a pain to install the car seat for my 6-year-old? Can I enjoy this vehicle without worrying about its range? Can I charge overnight at home without blowing up my house?
The answers, in a nutshell, were No, Yes and the house is still standing. And while Tesla's price point for the Model S is still too high for me to afford — the fully loaded model I drove costs $108,350 before any state or federal tax credits — driving it was a taste of the future: a transportation system that is increasingly electrified, kinder to the planet and lots of fun.
My test drive of the Model S came after an infamous review in The New York Times, in which a reporter ran into problems in cold weather. The trip ended with the car being loaded onto a flatbed truck.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk published a blistering response to the article, and The New York Times public editor also weighed in, saying that the reporter took "what seems to be casual and imprecise notes along the journey."
Since then, the company has been on a bit of a roll; it said it would be profitable in its most recent quarter, a significant financial milestone. And it has been ramping up production of the Model S and sold nearly 5,000 in the most recent quarter.
I cover Tesla as a business reporter, and have been eager to drive the car for some time, so I leapt at the chance to test-drive the sedan.
I picked up the Model S at Tesla's Fremont factory on a Tuesday morning. I was given a silver "Performance Model" with a high-end 85 kWh battery pack, which has an estimated range of 265 miles per charge — more than enough for my daily driving needs. I live in Oakland and work most days in San Jose. My main daily driving chore is taking my son to school in the morning, a 7-mile trip.
The car came with a panoramic sunroof, 21-inch tires, black leather interior, two rear-facing seats, an awesome sound system and the "Tech Package," which includes keyless entry, innovative lighting in the cabin and turn-by-turn navigation.
At first, how to turn the car on seemed shrouded in mystery, but all you have to do is press the brake pedal. The 17-inch touch screen, which includes music and radio, maps and navigation, Internet search, climate control and cabin settings, is like having an iPad at the ready in the dashboard — especially for someone whose own car predates the first iPod.
Another great feature that's becoming more common in new cars: My iPhone conveniently connected to the vehicle via Bluetooth, letting me take calls without taking my hands off the wheel. Because the Model S is exceedingly quiet, I could have the conversation without trying to talk over engine and freeway noise.
I had a vague notion that being in a Model S would make me the envy of all other drivers, but that never happened. Every once in a while someone — usually a guy in a Chevrolet Volt — did a double take, but that was it.
Pulling into the driveway? A whole other story. Jasper, my mechanically minded son, came flying out of the house and climbed into the front seat. Within seconds, he'd turned on the hazard lights and the seat warmers and "swiped" open the sunroof via the touch screen. The Model S was like a new toy, shiny and glowing with an abundance of features to press and explore.
The next big test: the car seat. It's a basic booster seat, with its share of crumbs, and snapping the seat belt into place was pretty straightforward. We went for a drive up into the Oakland hills, with my husband, Matt, at the wheel. The car handled the sharp twists and curves of Grizzly Peak Boulevard with ease.
At one point, a notice on the touch screen warned us to check the tire pressure. I called Tesla, and my media contact explained that the company was having a minor issue with the sensor inside the tire. The tires were fine, and after that one incident the alert never came on again.
Our house is an old, 1910 bungalow that lacks a proper garage, much less one with electricity. Tesla assured me that I could charge at home by using the 220-volt dryer outlet, and the company gave me a very long cable that functioned as an extension cord. We plugged the cable into the dryer outlet, then ran the cable from the laundry room, out the door to the backyard and back through the gate to the driveway: a less than elegant solution, but it worked.
The only thing that suffered was the family laundry: A few loads sat in the washer longer than expected because we couldn't run the dryer and charge the Model S at the same time.
On most nights, I would let the car charge for a few hours. I never let it fully charge because I honestly didn't need that much range for the next day's driving.
My son loved going to school in the Model S and made a point of asking other parents and his teachers if they wanted to see "my mom's electric car." They did, and another mom took the car for a few spins around the block after drop-off.
Many drivers of electric vehicles keep scrupulous tabs on range and their energy use; others meticulously plan errands and trips around the location of public charging stations.
I never had to do that, which was an enormous relief. The Model S has a powerful battery, and when it became abundantly clear that I had more juice than I needed on a daily basis, I largely forgot about it.
The three days passed quickly, and before long it was back to my old car. A car whose carbon emissions are warming the planet and that's due for a smog check. I feel increasingly guilty driving it.
Jasper took the news hard that he'd be back in the Honda.
"The Honda!" he groaned. "I hate that old Honda. You have to crank the windows down and it doesn't have a sunroof."
I certainly miss the power controls and the sunroof. But far more than that, I miss the ability to drive without having to go to a gas station. Stopping the car, getting out to pump, the smell of the gas, the grime: I'm over it. Give me an electric car and a long cable to my dryer outlet any day.
Contact Dana Hull, who covers clean technology and energy policy, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 408-920-2706. Follow her at twitter.com/danahull.
Tesla Model S: What I liked and didn't like
What I learned in my 72 hours with the Model S, and what I'd improve.
(1) Charging is not that big of a deal. I'd much rather plug a car in overnight to charge than have to stop at a gas station.
(2) Range anxiety may be an issue, but not with a battery that gets 265 miles per charge. For my everyday driving, I never worried about running out of juice and had more than enough range to get where I needed to go.
(3) Keyless entry was a new concept for me. I like the sleek black key fob that Tesla uses, but it's a wonder that it didn't get lost. Maybe put it on a carabiner or metal loop, so I can keep it with my house keys?
(4) The visibility out the back window was a little smaller than I'm used to.
(5) I will be priced out of the Model S for a long time. Get working on that model with a lower price point!


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ClickFunnels' "Executive Funnel Builder" is back with the "My Funnel Stache" webinar and product offer for his salivating tribe of funnel hackers and digital marketers.
If You're somehow unfamiliar with Steve Larsen from his job with Russell Brunson, or have not read in our Secret MLM Hacks Course review, here's a quick recap of his qualifications and background:
Stephen Larsen spent in ClickFunnels as Russell Brunson funnel builder. He helped produce the first"Two Comma Club" coaching program and for a brief time, functioned as the only coach for the program.
During his period at ClickFunnels, he constructed the funnels and helped create the revenue offers for many of Russell customers. He's worked on projects for high profile clients like Robert Kiyosaki, Tony Robbins, and Marcus Limonus from CNBC's The Profit.
Steve is the host of Sales Funnel Radio and Secret MLM Hacks Radio — two podcasts using over downloads.
Firms pay him top dollar to consult, review, fix or build their sales funnels from scratch.
He has established the Secret MLM Hacks training course and digital marketing program, and together with Russell Brunson, now leads one of the fastest growing network marketing teams in the direct sales and MLM business.
Steve was the best affiliate for its ClickFunnels' 30 Days Challenge and no longer a"full time employee" of ClickFunnels, he's still close with the ClickFunnels team and a valued contributor to their product and brand launches.
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Budweiser Sold To The Maker Of Stella Artois, Becks
It seems that $70 a share was enough for Anheuser-Busch — the brewer agreed to sell itself to Belgian beer giant InBev over the weekend. The new company will be called Anheuser-Busch InBev, and its board will have room for two former A-B executives, including A-B CEO, August A. Busch IV.
The joint press release stated that the company's headquarters will remain in St. Louis and that no A-B breweries will close as a result of the buy-out.
The NYT says:
The deal marked a sharp reversal for Anheuser, based since it was founded in St. Louis. When InBev announced its initial $46.3 billion offer last month, Anheuser mounted a fierce defense. It drew upon its heritage and its history as a major benefactor of its hometown, and argued that it could increase its profits alone.
A new offer of $52 billion changed their minds, however.
Oddly, this sale means that Rolling Rock, formerly owned by InBev and sold to A-B in 2006, will now be part of InBev again.
Anheuser-Busch Agrees to Be Sold for $52 Billion [NYT]
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Didn't we do something similar with David Henen?
Any idea what the fee was?
Kind of think we should keep him around rather than loan him out straight away!Calvert Lewin is pretty much our only striker at the moment isn't he?!Tarashaj, Henen (has he already left?!)and Niasse clearly have no future. Lukaku is already at Chelsea in his head and Kone and Valencia have gone
No work permit yet.Also you forgot Sandro
Still though Sandro and DCL as our strikers, and then we've got Henry ready to hoover up some goals?!keep him around!
But he would fail a work permit application.Also, last time i checked, we are still in a transfer window and are allowed to carry on buying players.
The highlights video of him looks absolutely class. I know it's pub standard league but he turned 20 this month. Bags of potential in this one. Pace, trickery and knows where the net is, I'm as excited by this as I am by Sandro
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When it comes to handy features for UAVs, your mind probably doesn't jump to towering, phallic protuberances and grabby arms for gingerly setting things down before darting away. Well DARPA's does, which is why it funded and demonstrated this monstrosity.
The drone you see here is the MLB Company's V-Bat and it's designed specifically to go and carefully deliver payloads to very specific targets all without humans having to be there. While it's hovering (phallic-ly) in the demonstration, it's also capable of winged flight to get around a little faster. And even though its mechanical arm is hulking, it only deals with payloads of a pound or so, setting them down carefully and then skittering away in hover mode like a side-stepping rocket that had too much coffee.
Weirdness aside, the tests have shown that the V-Bat can do its job quite well, navigating to the spot, finding the placement zone, and dropping off it's payload all without human help. It's a bit big to go around surreptitiously dropping grenades in people's pockets and skittering off, but this is only a preliminary test. The drones are coming to grab you, eventually. [DARPA via Engadget]


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PORTSMOUTH — The next best thing to traveling to a distant corner of the world for an extreme outdoor adventure might just be checking out the Banff Mountain Film Festival. This fundraiser for Goodwin Community Health is at the Music Hall for one-night-only on Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. The festival offers thrill seekers lots of adrenaline pumping action, a window to world culture, and virtual exploration of mountain life across the globe.
For the 16th year in a row, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings the spirit of outdoor adventure to the Seacoast while helping local families gain access to quality, affordable health care through Goodwin Community Health. This year's film line-up is packed with breathtaking snow and ice adventure films, exotic and seldom seen wildlife and landscapes, and spectacular paddling and climbing voyages in remote world locations.
The Banff Mountain Film Festival, a program of The Banff Centre, is the largest, and one of the most prestigious, mountain festivals in the world. Hot on the heels of the festival held every fall in Banff, Alberta, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. With stops planned in about 400 communities and 35 countries across the globe, this year's tour features a collection of the most inspiring action, environmental, and adventure films from the festival.
Tickets for the show usually sell out so it is suggested to get them early. Tickets are $25 at the Music Hall box office and are also available by phone or online for an additional $4 charge. For tickets and details contact The Music Hall Box Office at 603-436-2400 or visit http://www.themusichall.org/.
The 2013 Portsmouth stop of the World Tour will feature the following films:
Strength in Numbers: The world of mountain biking has many communities. And while different riders follow different lines, they all end up in the same place. Tire to ground, foot to pedal, hand to bar — people drawn together by trails of dirt.
Flow Hunters: Some of the world's best paddlers experience adventure and risk as they explore New Zealand's white water.
Crossing the Ice: Winner of the grand prize! Australian adventurers, James Castrission and Justin Jones, dare to tackle the perilous journey across Antarctica to the South Pole and back again, completely unassisted — just two men dragging their food and shelter across 1140 kilometres of barren ice. Many have tried — all have failed.
Unicorn Sashimi: This sweet piece of visual and musical poetry builds to a climax of Taiko drumming and swirling snow that will envelope you!
Highway Wilding: Build them and they will live. That is the simple message in this short documentary that looks at the issue of wildlife and highways, and some of the pioneering solutions that exist to prevent road kill and reconnect landscapes. After seeing this film, you'll never drive down a highway the same way again.
1st Afghan Ski Challenge: In a quiet corner of this conflicted country, gutsy first-time skiers learn to ski through trial by fire! Racing with a true spirit of camaraderie, they take part in the first-ever downhill racing competition in Afghanistan.
Reel Rock 7: Honnold 3.0: Alex Honnold is a bit of an enigma. He's become known as the boldest soloist of his generation, but how does he balance pure ambition with self-preservation? Honnold wrestles with this question in preparation for his biggest adventure yet — the Yosemite Triple.
On Thin Sea Ice 2: Slide away with simple pleasures: skating, bathing, and a little vodka!


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Icelanders may have been among the biggest losers of the financiapocalypse, but a couple banks down the drain sure didn't snuff out their love of interesting cars. Take this BMW E30, for instance.
It's a 325i coupé, produced between 1984 and 1991 as the most powerful inline 6 cylinder model in the E30 lineup, and it's lived in Iceland for six years.
Those of you super-interested in the painstaking attention to aftermarket detail lurking beneath its skin will find everything on photographer Sindri's page, but for those of you wondering about the rather lopsided headlight arrangement, here's the quick answer: when this Bimmer is taken out to play, the owner removes one of the lights to feed more air into the engine.
Awesome? Totally awesome.
Photo Credit: Sindri Skarphéðinsson


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