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Buy Nothing Day
Buy Nothing Day was launched by Vancouver's Adbusters Magazine.
"The journey towards a sane sustainable future begins with a single step. It could all start with a personal challenge, such as this: make a vow to yourself to participate in Buy Nothing Day this year. This November 23rd, go cold turkey on consumption for 24 hours … see what happens … you just might have an unexpected, emancipatory epiphany! … Join millions of us in over 60 countries on November 23/24 and see what it feels like. Then, after Buy Nothing Day, take the next step … for generations, Christmas has been hijacked by commercial forces … this year, let's take it back."
My extended family did a Christmas like this a few times. My nephews were 6 and 7 years old the first time. You had to make all presents with things you found, and nothing could be bought. No bought wrapping paper either–everything had to be recycled. These are the best Christmases we ever had. Inventive, hilarious and fun.
I'm not sure that personal choice alone is going to effectively challenge consumer capitalism, but it's worth a try. North America's profligate spending and wastefulness is truly repellent.
Also, from a design standpoint, departing from consumerism produces the happy result of automatically creating better design. Every time. At the risk of stating the obvious, our anti-consumerist design/gift guidelines could be:
• Less is more. This is almost always true.
• Buy less and when you do buy, buy items of significantly high quality, items you'll never tire of and that will improve with age. The expenditure is worth it, and in the end you'll find this has actually cost you the same or less than the sum of many cheap expenditures.
• Nothing substitutes for the handmade
• Artisanal, high-quality, local production from carefully chosen materials can be far better-looking than factory-produced brand name goods or furniture (but some artisans have to stop adding busy, funky, weird detailing to everything. (3 different woods/materials in one table; curlicues.) Awkward aesthetics are wasteful too–we tire of them, so they work against longevity).
• If you must buy new, try to buy mostly things made/grown in your own town/region/country.
• Use found objects. Items with some history bring some humanity with them. So many spaces are utterly dead because they lack the marks of their natural origins, or of the human hand, history and use. Bring a fallen tree branch into the house. Google "biophilia" to found out how seeing natural objects is beneficial to health and serenity.
• Don't buy anything made of chipboard! Better to find solid wood items at thrift shops. At IKEA, some items are far better quality than others. Avoid anything made of cheap laminates.
• Older couches and chairs often have solid hardwood under-structures. Collect these! Instead of buying a new couch, get an old one re-sprung and re-upholstered. This also supports local labour, and you end up with a far better product with longevity; perhaps even an heirloom. Or just throw a nice blanket over the thing.
• Collage a card for a friend/relative rather than buying a present. In the long run these mean far more to people than objects do. I know I don't want anything bought new. It's never right.
• Old second-hand books are a fantastic present. We should support local bookstores in general.
• Enjoy your improved surroundings. They will make you happy.

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Birds are effective indicators of environmental health. They respond quickly to environmental change, occupy every habitat type, and are easy to survey.
In collaboration with numerous partners and thousands of volunteer Citizen Scientists, Bird Studies Canada is mapping breeding bird distribution and relative abundance across the country. Atlases provide a standard assessment of the current status of breeding birds, and lay the framework for evaluating long-term changes. The results are critical to conservation decision-making.
Canada's National Atlas Program is a partnership between Environment Canada, Bird Studies Canada, provincial governments, natural history organizations, and the private sector. Since the year 2000, breeding bird atlases have been completed or are under way in Ontario, the Maritimes, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Québec. More are in the planning phase for other provinces.
National Atlas Program results drive conservation policy, species at risk recovery, habitat management and stewardship, land acquisition, and more!
This project was undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada.
Ce projet a été réalisé avec l'appui financier du gouvernement du Canada.


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Fashion History: The Haute Couture EraMai 11th, 2017
By the end of the 19th century the horizons of the fashion industry had generally broadened. The more mobile and independent lifestyle causes many well-off women to begin to adopt and to wear the practical clothes they demanded.
Fashion History from 1900 – 1910
Throughout the early 20th century Paris dictated high-end fashion. Parisian designers set the fashion tone for the rest of the Western world, and their designs were highly sought for women of the upper classes. Although the two most important fashion terms and their division haute couture and pret-a-porter wasn't sharply defined, nevertheless both fashion magazines and department stores all over the world sent their editors and buyers to the exclusive Paris Fashion Shows to follow the newest high-end fashion trends and styles. At this time fashion style magazines started to include photographs in their article and became even more influential than in the future.
Remarkable wastes defined the fashion of the decade. And the couturiers of that time created incredibe extravagant outfits which were meticulously made. Worn by the fashionable women of the Belle Époque the outfits highlighted the S-Bend silhouette of the full-figured body. The S-Bend corset was very tightly laced at the waist which forced the hips back and the drooping mono bosom was thrust forward in a pouter pigeon effect creating a S shape. Toward the end of the decade the fashionable silhouette gradually became somewhat more straight and slim, due to Paul Poiret's high-waisted, shorter-skirted Directoire line of clothes. Curvy hips were also flaunted by the dress styles of the era. In the early years of the first decade, skirts were only long and full. No fashionable lady could (or would) dress or undress herself without the assistance of a third party. Unlike today, the constant radical changes of the fashion trends were still literally unthinkable. The use of different trimmings were all that distinguished the styles season after season.
This video shows Fashion in the early 1900's:
Fashion History from 1910 – 1918
From 1910 until the start of the First World War in 1914, skirts gradually grew shorter and began to reveal tantalizing glimpses of the ankle. The overall silhouette of dresses also changed slightly, moving toward a slimmer, narrower and straighter line that emphasized the hips and busts. As the war began in 1914, attention and materials were drawn away from fashion design, and no significant fashion developments occurred again until peace was declared at the end of 1918.
The most influential fashion designers of the time were Paul Poiret, Jacques Doucet and Mariano Fortuny. Paul Poiret has evolved the first outfit which women could put on without the help of a maid. He was one of the first who translated his vogue into the fashion world with his exotic kimonos and vivid colors. While the French designer Jacques Doucet excelled in superimposing pastel colors and his elaborate gossamery dresses suggested the Impressionist shimmers of reflected light, Mariano Fortuny was a curious figure with very few parallels in any age. For his dress designs he conceived a special pleating process and new dyeing techniques. Each garment was made of the finest silk.
Fashion History from 1918 – 1920
World War I changed the fashion world for ever. Women chose to dress like men and borrowed their clothes from the male, corsets were refused and both bustless, waistless silhouette and the flapper style became very popular among yound women. The sporty and athletic look for both women and men were popularized equally as well.
The menswear emphasized youthfulness and relaxation in the 1920s. Unlike before the young men were no longer afraid to show their growing mood of informality, especially not the Americans. What was very tradional in the past, wearing a special outfit for every event in the well-dressed gentleman's day, wasn't popular any longer. Men began to wear the same soft wool suit all day long and felt confident. Short suit jackets replaced the old long jackets of the past which were now only worn for formal occasions. Men prefered more the sport clothes, including sweaters and short pants and the London cut, with its slim lines, loose-fitting sleeves, and padded shoulders were very popular.
At that time the couturière Coco Chanel was a major figure in fashion for her chic and progressive designs. Chanel evolved the little black dress, the Chanel-Costume and the use of jersey knit for women's clothing.
Watch how Fashion changed after WWI due to Coco Chanel's influence:
Related article: Couture isn't dead. It's an article about how haute couture is demand than ever after the economic crise in the 21st century.
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Bicing city bikes Barcelona
Barcelona's city bike system is called Bicing. It is not for tourists however, only for residents of Barcelona. Tourists can rent bikes by the hour or day from the many Barcelona bike rental shops. Every years bicyles become a more important part of Barcelona's public transport system.
For 2016 new electric Bicing bikes were introduced on a test basis.
The first test will be with 150 electric bicing bikes which will be available to 1500 selected test users and will be stored in underground bicing stations.
In 2007 Barcelona city council launched this innovative bicycle borrowing scheme called 'El Bicing' (pronounced "be-zing").
Barcelona's Bicing city bike system is only available to residents of Barcelona and is intended as a public transport service for short bicycle journeys of maximum 30 minutes in duration.
For this reason it is not available as a sightseeing bicycle option. Tourists visiting Barcelona can rent bikes at the many tourist bike rental companies who rent bikes at very affordable hourly rates.
Website Barcelona Bicing
MAP bicing pick-up & drop-off points
Tourist bike rentals Barcelona
Tourist bike tours Barcelona
You can find Bicing station locations on the Barcelona online city map website on web address www.bcn.cat/guia. To show Bicing stations on the map, choose transport options in the left menu of the map. Then, the Bicing stations, and other Barcelona public transport services like metro stations, will be shown on the map.
Bicing is very popular with Barcelona residents with over 120,000 subscribers signed up. When Bicing in Barcelona launched in 2007, there were just 750 "bicing" bikes available at 50 pick-up/drop off points in the city located mostly near Metro stations and municipal parking places.
In 2012 there were 420 bicing stations and 6,000 Bicing bikes available and in 2012 around 40.000 daily journeys were made which comes to around eleven million journeys a year.
The objective of Bicing was and is to encourage Barcelona residents to make short trips by bicycle to help reduce the number of cars circulating in Barcelona, so many of the Bicing stations are by metro stations, parks and car parks.
Bicing is financed both by users and income from the implementation of green-area parking regulations, which was also designed to encourage cleaner transport in Barcelona.
Prices Barcelona city bikes
Annual subscription price €47.15
Annual subscription for Bicing membership with unlimited bicing trips of 30 minutes each free.
After first 30 minutes 4 additional periods of 30 minutes are €0.74 each
After 2 hours each additional hour costs € 4.4
Bicing prices includes a third party insurance if bicing users cause damage to others.
See full Bicing prices
How Barcelona city bikes works
A paid up subscriber of the bicing system gets a personal bicing card in the post or at the bicing office. The Bicing card is used to release and deliver bicing bikes from the automatic bicing stands around Barcelona. When a bicing bike is released, the bicing user then has 30 minutes free to get to their destination and drop off the bike at another bicing pick up/drop off location.
The first half hour of bicing is free and then it costs €0.71 for each additional 30 minute period until you reach the maximum allowed time of 2 hours in total. After that there is a penalty charge of €4.30 an hour for failing to drop off the bicing bike. After three penalty charges your bicing account will be closed. This user revenue generates around 25% of the total cost of the Barcelona bicing system.
Despite occasional frustration, when bicing racks might be full or when bikes are out of order, Bicing is undeniably a huge success and Barcelona is fast climbing up the world list of top bicycle friendly cities.
Bicycling is clean, healthy and quiet and Bicing has introduced the use of a bike as a daily transport system to many residents of Barcelona. A big and obvious benefit of using the Bicing system rather than owning your own bicycle, is that Bicing users have access to hundreds of bikes all over Barcelona, instead of owning one bike, which might have been stolen.
Bicing operation times
Sunday to Thursdays:
Bicing stands open all day from except from midnight to 05.00.
During the night you can only drop-off bicing bikes, not pick them up.
Friday and Saturday:
Bicing stands open all hours of day for both pìck-up and drop-off of bikes.
On certain days during special events like big festivals the Bicing is open all night.
Bicing bike specificatons
The bicing bike of Barcelona have 3 gears, an adjustable saddle and lights that switch on automatically at dusk. The operator of El Bicing in Barcelona is Clearchannel, who also manage successful Smartbike systems in other European cities including Oslo, Stockholm and Lyon.
The Bicing cards are on sale on the Internet and over the counter at the Barcelona Bicing office. The bicing website (in Spanish and Catalan only) has information about current and future Bicing locations and a real time map showing how many bicing bikes and parking places are available at each location.
For 2016 new electric Bicing bikes were introduced on a test basis.
The first test will be with 150 electric bicing bikes which will be available to 1500 selected test users and will be stored in underground bicing stations.
Bicing website
Tourist bike rental Barcelona
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Pat Neshek, the A's reliever (and former Oriole minor leaguer) who lost his newborn 23 hours after his birth, will be on Oakland's playoff roster for the ALDS against Detroit.
Neshek told the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday that the one day he spent with his son, Gehrig John, "was probably the best day I've ever had, the one day. I'd go through it all again for that one day. It was pretty awesome."
Neshek's wife, Stephanee, had the couple's first son Tuesday. He was watching the A's game the next day when his wife called.
"I got a call in the fifth inning and [Stephanee] said, 'The baby stopped breathing,'" Neshek told the Chronicle. "It was really hard. We sat all night. We didn't know what to do."
The cause of death is still unknown.
Neshek said of the feeling of sitting at home after Gehrig John's death: "I can imagine that's what hell is like."
Apparently his wife was the one who suggested they rejoin the team to take their mind off the grief. Oakland's ALDS series against the Tigers begins tonight at 6 on TBS.
The side-arming Neshek, 32, signed a minor league deal with the Orioles this winter and was invited to spring training, but he didn't make the big league roster.
He pitched in 35 games for Triple-A Norfolk before being traded to the A's for cash considerations.
In 24 appearances for Oakland, he's 2-1 with a 1.37 ERA and 16 strikeouts in 19 2/3 innings.


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SKF ultra low-speed monitoring saves mill 159 000 euro
The challenge
The SKF solutionConcerned about safety, high insurance premiums and long-term reliability, the steel producer signed a monitoring services agreement with SKF. Over the next year and a half, SKF monitored the converter to help provide reliable operation and avoid the labour, downtime and material costs associated with a premature repair.
The resultsThe SKF ultra-low speed monitoring services agreement resulted in an estimated net savings of over €159 000 for the mill.
Return on Investment (ROI)
- Labour savings: €9 000
- Savings in replacement bearings and components: €183 000
- Investment in SKF services over 18 months: €33 000
- Net savings: €159 000


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Application Data
Application Data
Application Data
Application Data
Provides access to the application data store. Application data consists of files and settings that are either local, roaming, or temporary.
public : sealed class ApplicationData
struct winrt::Windows::Storage::ApplicationData
public sealed class ApplicationData
Public NotInheritable Class ApplicationData
// This class does not provide a public constructor.
- Attributes
Windows 10 requirements
|Device family
Windows 10 (introduced v10.0.10240.0)
|API contract
Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract (introduced v1)
The following code example demonstrates how to read or write to an ApplicationData folder of your choice. This example uses the LocalFolder, but the code can be slightly modified to access the LocalCacheFolder, RoamingFolder, SharedLocalFolder, or TemporaryFolder based on how your data should be stored. SharedLocalFolder has some restrictions and needs special permissions to access, for more information, see SharedLocalFolder.
// This example code can be used to read or write to an ApplicationData folder of your choice.
// Change this to Windows.Storage.StorageFolder roamingFolder = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.RoamingFolder;
// to use the RoamingFolder instead, for example.
Windows.Storage.StorageFolder localFolder = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder;
// Write data to a file
async void WriteTimestamp()
Windows.Globalization.DateTimeFormatting.DateTimeFormatter formatter =
new Windows.Globalization.DateTimeFormatting.DateTimeFormatter("longtime");
StorageFile sampleFile = await localFolder.CreateFileAsync("dataFile.txt",
await FileIO.WriteTextAsync(sampleFile, formatter.Format(DateTime.Now));
// Read data from a file
async Task ReadTimestamp()
StorageFile sampleFile = await localFolder.GetFileAsync("dataFile.txt");
String timestamp = await FileIO.ReadTextAsync(sampleFile);
// Data is contained in timestamp
catch (FileNotFoundException e)
// Cannot find file
catch (IOException e)
// Get information from the exception, then throw
// the info to the parent method.
if(e.Source != null)
Debug.WriteLine("IOException source: {0}", e.Source);
#include <winrt/Windows.Globalization.h>
#include <winrt/Windows.Globalization.DateTimeFormatting.h>
#include <winrt/Windows.Storage.h>
using namespace winrt;
using namespace Windows::Foundation;
using namespace Windows::Storage;
using namespace Windows::UI::Xaml;
// This example code can be used to read or write to an ApplicationData folder of your choice.
// Change this to StorageFolder m_localFolder{ Windows::Storage::ApplicationData::Current().RoamingFolder() }; to
// use the RoamingFolder instead, for example.
StorageFolder m_localFolder{ Windows::Storage::ApplicationData::Current().LocalFolder() };
// Write data to a file.
IAsyncAction MainPage::WriteTimestampAsync()
StorageFile sampleFile{ co_await m_localFolder.CreateFileAsync(L"dataFile.txt", CreationCollisionOption::ReplaceExisting) };
Windows::Globalization::Calendar calendar;
auto now = calendar.GetDateTime();
Windows::Globalization::DateTimeFormatting::DateTimeFormatter formatter{ L"longtime" };
co_await FileIO::WriteTextAsync(sampleFile, formatter.Format(now));
catch (winrt::hresult_error const& /* ex */)
// Timestamp not written.
// Read data from a file.
IAsyncAction MainPage::ReadTimestampAsync()
StorageFile file{ co_await m_localFolder.GetFileAsync(L"dataFile.txt") };
winrt::hstring timestamp{ co_await Windows::Storage::FileIO::ReadTextAsync(file) };
catch (winrt::hresult_error const& /* ex */)
// Timestamp not read.
IAsyncAction MainPage::ClickHandler(IInspectable const&, RoutedEventArgs const&)
co_await WriteTimestampAsync();
co_await ReadTimestampAsync();
// This example code can be used to read or write to an ApplicationData folder of your choice.
// Change this to StorageFolder^ roamingFolder = ApplicationData::Current->RoamingFolder; to
// use the RoamingFolder instead, for example.
StorageFolder^ localFolder = ApplicationData::Current->LocalFolder;
// Write data to a file
void MainPage::WriteTimestamp()
concurrency::task<StorageFile^> fileOperation =
localFolder->CreateFileAsync("dataFile.txt", CreationCollisionOption::ReplaceExisting);
fileOperation.then([this](StorageFile^ sampleFile)
auto calendar = ref new Calendar;
auto now = calendar->ToDateTime();
auto formatter = ref new Windows::Globalization::DateTimeFormatting::DateTimeFormatter("longtime");
return FileIO::WriteTextAsync(sampleFile, formatter->Format(now));
}).then([this](task<void> previousOperation) {
try {
} catch (Platform::Exception^) {
// Timestamp not written
// Read data from a file
void MainPage::ReadTimestamp()
concurrency::task<StorageFile^> getFileOperation(localFolder->GetFileAsync("dataFile.txt"));
getFileOperation.then([this](StorageFile^ file)
return FileIO::ReadTextAsync(file);
}).then([this](concurrency::task<String^> previousOperation) {
String^ timestamp;
try {
// Data is contained in timestamp
timestamp = previousOperation.get();
} catch (...) {
// Timestamp not found
// This example code can be used to read or write to an ApplicationData folder of your choice.
var applicationData = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.current;
// Change this to var roamingFolder = applicationData.roamingFolder;
// to use the RoamingFolder instead, for example.
var localFolder = applicationData.localFolder;
// Write data to a file
function writeTimestamp() {
localFolder.createFileAsync("dataFile.txt", Windows.Storage.CreationCollisionOption.replaceExisting)
.then(function (sampleFile) {
var formatter = new Windows.Globalization.DateTimeFormatting.DateTimeFormatter("longtime");
var timestamp = formatter.format(new Date());
return Windows.Storage.FileIO.writeTextAsync(sampleFile, timestamp);
}).done(function () {
// Read data from a file
function readTimestamp() {
.then(function (sampleFile) {
return Windows.Storage.FileIO.readTextAsync(sampleFile);
}).done(function (timestamp) {
// Data is contained in timestamp
}, function () {
// Timestamp not found
' This example code can be used to read or write to an ApplicationData folder of your choice.
' Change this to Dim roamingFolder As Windows.Storage.StorageFolder = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.RoamingFolder
' to use the RoamingFolder instead, for example.
Dim localFolder As Windows.Storage.StorageFolder = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder
' Write data to a file
Private Async Sub WriteTimestamp()
Dim formatter As DateTimeFormatter = New DateTimeFormatter("longtime")
Dim sampleFile As StorageFile = Await localFolder.CreateFileAsync("dataFile.txt",
Await FileIO.WriteTextAsync(sampleFile, formatter.Format(DateTime.Now));
End Sub
' Read data from a file
Private Async Function ReadTimestamp() As Task
Dim sampleFile As StorageFile = Await localFolder.GetFileAsync("dataFile.txt")
Dim timestamp As string = Await FileIO.ReadTextAsync(sampleFile)
' Data is contained in timestamp
Catch e1 As Exception
' Timestamp not found
End Try
End Function
For more samples and information about reading and writing to a file, see Create, write, and read a file.
Types of application data
ApplicationData provides local, roaming, and temporary storage for app data on a per-user basis. Use this class to preserve app-specific data between sessions, users, and across multiple devices.
ApplicationData does not provide access to files in an app package. To do this, use Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.InstalledLocation.
ApplicationData.Current gives you the app's ApplicationData instance. Use this instance to get app folders or settings.
Folders are used to store app data as files on the file system. App settings are stored in key/value pairs that can be organized in to nested sets. Settings data is saved in the Windows registry.
These are the main types of app data:
- Local: stored on the device, backed up in the cloud, and persists across updates
- LocalCache: persistent data that exists on the current device, not backed up, and persists across updates
- SharedLocal: persistent across all app users
- Roaming: exists on all devices where the user has installed the app
- Temporary: can be deleted by the system at any time
Using application folders
LocalFolder persists across updates and gets backed up to the cloud as part of the device backup. Typically, this folder should be used for user data that would be lost if it were not backed up. Some examples of data stored in LocalFolder are:
- a user drawing for an art app
- daily exercise history for a fitness app
- a shopping list for a todo app By storing information in the LocalFolder, the user will not lose data after resetting the device or switching to a new device. For other types of local data that are easy to recreate and not necessary for backup and restore, use the LocalCacheFolder or TemporaryFolder.
LocalCacheFolder and TemporaryFolder are both stored locally and are not backed up to the cloud. LocalCacheFolder is under control of that app and is persistent across app sessions. LocalCacheFolder should be used for generated content needed across app sessions, such as cached files, logs, or authentication tokens. TemporaryFolder is not guaranteed to be persistent across sessions and can be deleted by the system at any time.
RoamingFolder is typically used for user preferences and customizations, links, and small data files. The contents of RoamingFolder roam across the user's devices and app instances. RoamingFolder should not be used for large amounts of data, data specific to a device, or data that relies on instant syncing.
Another folder, SharedLocalFolder, is persistent across app user accounts and should be used for large files accessed by multiple users. There is some extra set up required to access SharedLocalFolder. For more information on accessing and using this folder, see SharedLocalFolder.
You can store your app data in app-specific, versioned formats. For more info, see Version and SetVersionAsync.
For more details on using these APIs, see Store and retrieve settings and other app data.
|Current Current Current Current Current
Provides access to the app data store associated with the app's app package.
|LocalCacheFolder LocalCacheFolder LocalCacheFolder LocalCacheFolder LocalCacheFolder
Gets the folder in the local app data store where you can save files that are not included in backup and restore.
|LocalFolder LocalFolder LocalFolder LocalFolder LocalFolder
Gets the root folder in the local app data store. This folder is backed up to the cloud.
|LocalSettings LocalSettings LocalSettings LocalSettings LocalSettings
Gets the application settings container in the local app data store.
|RoamingFolder RoamingFolder RoamingFolder RoamingFolder RoamingFolder
Gets the root folder in the roaming app data store.
|RoamingSettings RoamingSettings RoamingSettings RoamingSettings RoamingSettings
Gets the application settings container in the roaming app data store.
|RoamingStorageQuota RoamingStorageQuota RoamingStorageQuota RoamingStorageQuota RoamingStorageQuota
Gets the maximum size of the data that can be synchronized to the cloud from the roaming app data store.
|SharedLocalFolder SharedLocalFolder SharedLocalFolder SharedLocalFolder SharedLocalFolder
Gets the root folder in the shared app data store.
|TemporaryFolder TemporaryFolder TemporaryFolder TemporaryFolder TemporaryFolder
Gets the root folder in the temporary app data store.
|Version Version Version Version Version
Gets the version number of the application data in the app data store.
|DataChanged DataChanged DataChanged DataChanged DataChanged
Occurs when roaming application data is synchronized.
See also
- Quickstart: Local application data (JavaScript)
- Quickstart: Roaming application data (JavaScript)
- Quickstart: Temporary application data (JavaScript)
- Store and retrieve settings and other app data
- Guidelines for roaming application data
- Guidelines for app settings
- ApplicationDataCompositeValue
- ApplicationDataContainer ApplicationDataContainer ApplicationDataContainer
- ApplicationDataContainerSettings
- Application settings sample (Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1)
- Application data sample (Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1)
- Application data sample (Windows 10)
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When opening an application that can access your personal contact database, you may receive an alert that the application "would like access to your contacts", similar to this:
This message means an application wants to access your data in the Contacts application so it can provide additional services to you.
- Click "Don't Allow" if you do not want the application to access to your contact data.
- Click "OK" to allow the application access to your contact database.
The next time you open an application that attempts access to your contacts, you won't receive this alert again. If you change your mind and would like to be prompted again, go to the next section.
Managing the privacy of your contact data
You can use the Security & Privacy pane in System Preferences. Choose Apple () > System Preferences. Click Security & Privacy, then the Privacy tab. Click the lock icon to lock is necessary, and enter your admin password.
Select Contacts and check or uncheck the application for which you wish to adjust permissions.
Learn more
These are some Apple applications that may ask for permission to access to your Contacts information:
- iTunes and AppleMobileDeviceHelper — AppleMobileDeviceHelper is a service owned by iTunes that helps you synchronize your contact data with your iPod or iPhone.
- Pages — for mail merge features.


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Funniest Reactions To The #LHHNY Season Premiere
Where Was Cardi B??? Funniest Reactions To The #LHHNY Season Premiere
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Hilarious Reactions To The #LHHNY Season Premiere
After weeks of mounting anticipation (and classic Cardi B moments), Love & Hip-Hop NY finally returned with a messy mix of old and new cast members that include dusty foot do-nothing Peter Gunz (and his sister wives), Queen Cardi B, Papoose & Remy Ma and a slew of random strugglies who complete the most buzzed over #LHHNY season ever.
Hit the flip for the funniest reactions to the #LHHNY premiere.
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Second commercial break & still no @iamcardibs? #LHHNY https://t.co/FUaHmgBrfy—
Kenny G (@DaRealKhefner) December 15, 2015
Waaait, WHAT?
Maybe next week!
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Honest Hearts is the second add-on for Fallout: New Vegas, developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks.
After the First Battle of Hoover Dam, Caesar sent Ulysses to the Great Salt Lake to rally the White Legs to destroy New Canaan. With his help, the White Legs found a large supply of weapons. The White Legs then destroyed New Canaan, sending Joshua Graham (also known as "The Burned Man"), and the New Canaanites to Zion Canyon, where the Dead Horses stand with them against Caesar. The Courier then arrives in the Zion Canyon and meets the Burned Man, Joshua Graham, who is surprised that it is a different Courier than Ulysses that came to him, as he had figured Ulysses would come to murder him. This sparks the beginning of Honest Hearts.
Honest Hearts takes you on an expedition to the unspoiled wilderness of Utah's Zion National Park. Things go horribly wrong when your caravan is ambushed by a White Legs raiding band. As you try to find a way back to the Mojave, the Courier becomes embroiled in a war between tribes and a conflict between a New Canaanite missionary and the mysterious Burned Man. The decisions the player character makes will determine the fate of Zion.
The Honest Hearts add-on adds new crafting recipes to the game that make use of the Survival skill. Unlike recipes added by the previous add-on Dead Money, most recipes added by Honest Hearts do not require add-on-specific items or perks. Most recipes are available from the start of the game, provided the player has the necessary skill level and ingredients.
Notable new recipes include a method of turning one fission battery and 5 drained energy cells into 25 energy cells, as well as being able to make homebrewed Nuka-Cola and homebrewed Sunset Sarsaparilla at a campfire using the appropriate ingredients, (Nevada agave fruit and barrel cactus fruit for the Nuka-Cola, and Nevada agave fruit together with a xander root for the Sunset Sarsaparilla).
There are four new gecko-backed armor types that may be crafted. They require tanned green gecko hides. Green gecko hides are only available in Zion.
Honest Hearts also adds the most effective poison resistance chem in the game with blood shield, which is able to be crafted with components available in the Mojave Wasteland, but very commonly available within Zion Canyon.
The add-on has also introduced two new ways of crafting scrap metal. You can create 1 scrap metal at a workbench by either combining a metal cooking pan, metal cooking pot and a pot together or by combining a butter knife, a metal spoon, a fork and a tin plate. The recipes are listed in the crafting menu as "Cookery-to-metal" and "Meals-to-metal" respectively.
Armor and clothingEdit
- Chalk's headdress
- Daniel's hat
- Daniel's outfit
- Dead Horses stalker armor
- Desert Ranger combat armor
- Desert Ranger combat helmet
- Gecko-backed leather armor
- Gecko-backed leather armor, reinforced
- Gecko-backed metal armor
- Gecko-backed metal armor, reinforced
- Joshua Graham's armor
- Park ranger hat
- Salt-Upon-Wounds' helmet
- Sorrows adorned outfit
- Sorrows outfit
- White Legs hide armor
- White Legs outfit
- .45 Auto pistol
- .45 Auto submachine gun
- A Light Shining in Darkness
- Compliance Regulator
- Fire bomb
- Follows-Chalk's .45 Auto pistol
- Follows-Chalk's war club
- Joshua's Pistol Whippin' .45
- Salt-Upon-Wounds' power fist
- She's Embrace
- Survivalist's rifle
- Tomahawk
- War club
- Waking Cloud's yao guai gauntlet
- Yao guai gauntlet
Weapon modsEdit
Other itemsEdit
World objectsEdit
- Angel cave
- Ant burrow
- Bighorn Bluff
- Burial mounds
- Caterpillar's Mound
- Clear Water docks
- Court Fork overlook
- Crashed scout bus
- Crossroad cavern
- Cueva Guarache
- Dagger's Point
- Dead Horses camp
- East Fork bridge
- Eastern Virgin
- Fallen Rock cave
- Ghost Den
- Glass Chime cave
- Half Mouse cave
- Morning Glory cave
- North Fork bridge
- North Fork campground
- Old Rockville bridge
- Patriarchs' campground
- Pine Creek tunnel
- Ranger substation Eagle
- Ranger substation Osprey
- Ranger substation Peregrine
- Red Rapids docks
- Sorrows camp
- Sorrows Fork campground
- Southern passage
- Stalkers' camp
- Stone Bones cave
- Sun Sentinels
- Survivalist hidden cache
- Sweet Flower cave
- The Aerie
- The Bend bridge
- The Narrows
- The Red Gate
- The Spine
- Three Marys
- Two Skies cave
- Vault 22 dwellers' guard camp
- Virgin Fork campground
- Virgin River
- White Bird's cave
- Wind Wall docks
- Yao guai cave
- Zion Canyon
- Zion fishing lodge
- Zion General Store
- Zion Ranger station
- Zion Valley welcome booth
The XP that is rewarded for quests is variable depending upon your level when the quests are completed. The total XP split between the main storyline quests is approximately 3000 XP at levels 1-4 and 22000 XP at levels 45-50, the secondary quest XP ranges from 75 XP per quest to 550 XP per quest.
Regular perksEdit
|Level req
|Other requirements
|Base ID
|Guns 45, Explosives 20
|25% more damage with 9mm pistols and SMGs, .45 pistols and SMGs, service rifles, assault and Marksman carbines, light machine guns, frag grenades, grenade rifles and launchers and combat knives.
|Home on the Range
|Survival 70
|Whenever you interact with a campfire, you have the option of sleeping, with all the benefits that sleep brings.
|Sneering Imperialist
|+15% Damage and +25% accuracy in V.A.T.S. to various tribal and raider characters.
|Tribal Wisdom
|Survival 70
|-50% limb damage from animals, mutated animals, and mutated insects, +25% to Poison resistance, ability to eat mutated insects in sneak mode.
|Fight the Power!
|+2 Damage Threshold and +5% Critical chance against anyone wearing NCR, Legion or Brotherhood of Steel armor.
|Eye for Eye
|For each crippled limb you have, you do an additional 10% damage.
Companion perksEdit
|Base ID
|Quiet As The Waters
|Waking Cloud in your party.
|White Legs' Perception is effectively decreased by 3.
|The Way of the Canaanite
|Joshua Graham in your party.
|Decrease in spread and double the critical chance for .45 Auto pistols.
|Well-Stacked Cairns
|Follows-Chalk in your party.
|Reaching various summits reveals nearby map markers and grants +3 Perception temporarily.
|Achievement points
|Trophy type
|In a Foreign Land
|Scouted the Zion Valley for signs of the White Legs
|May my Hand Forget its Skill
|Evacuated Zion
|O Daughter of Babylon
|Crushed the White Legs
|Restore Our Fortunes
|Resupplied Daniel and the Sorrows
|When We Remembered Zion
|Arrived at Zion
- Honest Hearts is the only DLC which does not have a warning screen before visiting the new area. The only warnings you receive are through dialogue with Jed.
- Installing Honest Hearts will remove the ability to use the campfire during combat. This is due to the implementation of the Home on the Range perk.
- Skill books are only found as random loot in Honest Hearts. See Fallout: New Vegas skill books for details.
- Like Dead Money, you are not allowed to take companions with you into Zion. However, unlike Dead Money, Honest Hearts does not force them out of your party, you must do this yourself if you wish to proceed.
- Honest Hearts, like all add-ons, raises the level cap by 5.
- Equipment is not taken from the player at the beginning of the add-on, however, the maximum weight limit is decreased due to the length of the journey. 100 pounds of equipment can be taken if you have the Strong Back or Pack Rat perks, or have a minimal Survival skill of 50, or pass the Speech check when talking to Jed Masterson, or pass the Speech check of 50 when talking to Ricky. Without these perks/skill levels, you will have a weight limit of 75.
- The player is able to return to Zion after completing the add-on, however, followers still cannot accompany you. They also cannot be left waiting at the northern passage, and instead will return to their home (ED-E back to Primm, etc.). This is due to the 14-day length of the trip to Zion.
- Honest Hearts features weather, adding rain and overcast skies to the game.
- When the add-on is completed, you can purchase the new weapons from the add-on, such as the tomahawk, the fire bomb, the war club, the yao guai gauntlet, the .45 Auto pistol and the .45 Auto submachine gun and their respective mods, as well as the ammunition from shops around the Mojave Wasteland.
- It's important to note that after completion of the add-on, most unique non-player characters will have left Zion.
- If you choose to defeat the White Legs and allow the Dead Horses and Sorrows tribes to remain in Zion, after the main quest is finished, Dead Horses and Sorrows tribe members will still be at their respective camps and are peaceful to the Courier.
- After the main quest is finished, Dead Horses and Sorrows tribe members can be killed for loot without receiving negative Karma. If you are seen attacking a Dead Horse, the entire tribe becomes permanently hostile.
- As with Dead Money, there are no noticeable repercussions in the Mojave for your actions in Zion. This frees your normally "good" or "bad" character to complete quests in ways they usually wouldn't without affecting the Mojave.
- The only major merchant in Honest Hearts is Joshua Graham as passing a speech check will allow you to purchase medical supplies from Daniel, whose caps and items are limited.
- Many tribals are well-equipped, you can find some weapons that are rare in the Mojave Wasteland.
- You can take the Animal Friend perk to face fewer hostile creatures.
- None of the vehicles in Zion will explode.
- It is possible to pickpocket any main character, such as Joshua Graham, Daniel or Follows-Chalk while they are asleep. Regardless, you cannot pickpocket their unique weapons and apparel.
- Loading Honest Hearts does not change the spore plants or spore carriers in Vault 22, they are still "empty" when searched.
- Tribal apparel brought back to the Mojave from Zion is not considered 'faction' by followers. That is, they will carry/wear it.
- After completing Honest Hearts' main story you will be unable to start or finish the side quests as most of the main characters will have left Zion.
- There are many skeletal remains strewn about Zion, most likely campers killed by the fallout referenced in Randall Clark's terminal entries.
- The Vault Boy/Girl is mirrored when selecting apparel from this DLC — they look to the right instead of the left.
Behind the scenesEdit
- Honest Hearts was first hinted at via in-game graffiti,[1] sparking speculation that it would be the next add-on. This speculation was seemingly confirmed when ZeniMax registered "Honest Hearts" as a trademark.[2] The graffiti hinting at Honest Hearts refers to Joshua Graham, and New Canaan, which were originally to appear in Van Buren, Black Isle's canceled Fallout 3 project.[3][4]
- Honest Hearts was again hinted at in the game files of the Dead Money add-on, with the inclusion of an unused snow globe for Zion National Park, and further suggesting it would be the next DLC in line for release after Dead Money.[5]
- Joshua Sawyer has indicated that the title of this add-on is a reference to Brigham Young's aphorism, "Honest hearts produce honest actions".[6]
- J.E. Sawyer also revealed that the story of Honest Hearts drew inspiration from the Utah War and Mountain Meadows Massacre.[7]
- ↑ The in-game graffiti in question can be found in the game's "nvdlcgraffiti" folder, sharing the filename "nvgraffitihonesthearts". They read:
- "Where's New Canaan, anyway?"
- "The Burned Man Walks!"
- "Joshua Graham Lives!"
- ↑ Honest Hearts - trademark by ZeniMax Media Inc. Rockville, MD - Serial Number: 85198870
- ↑ Burham Springs design document
- ↑ New Canaan design document
- ↑ Unused snow globe model found in the Dead Money game file under the folder named "FNVDLC02"
- ↑ I heard you went to Zion National Park? Did you find any Honest Hearts there? @ Formspring
- ↑ J.E. Sawyer on Formspring


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In health care, pharmacy benefit management companies are the Wizards of Oz, the folks behind the curtain. As drug prices skyrocket, the companies promise health plans, employers, and the federal government magical savings, and they often deliver. Studies show PBMs save on drug costs for the people who hire them.
But except for a lot of talk about increased generic utilization, they deliver without explaining how. Payers know little of how PBMs function, what deals they cut, how they profit, or even what specific services they perform. That lack of knowledge has led to suspicion. Many plans and employers have come to suspect that it is sleight of hand, and that the wizard may be getting rich at Dorothy's expense.
"Exactly how PBMs make money is something of a mystery to many of us," says Samuel Nussbaum, MD, chief medical officer for WellPoint. "That's not to say they don't do a good job, but most are very proprietary about how they function or what their relationship is with the drug companies. Most of us would like more transparency on that."
"The question is, who should get the money that PBMs generate," says Sally Pipes, president of the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco. "Because health plans hire the PBMs, they feel that nearly all the rebate money should be passed through to them. But PBMs usually keep the rebates, a primary source of revenue, and health plans are crying foul."
PBMs are, in fact, notoriously opaque in how they make their money. Academic and federal studies have found that the companies profit in primarily two ways: on rebates from manufacturers and on the spread (the difference between what the PBM charges the employer or health plan for a prescription and what it pays pharmacies for it, exclusive of the dispensing fee).
Rebates and spreads vary widely, depending on the drug, the manufacturer, and the PBM-payer contract. They also make money through administrative fees and charging for mail order services, although both of those revenue streams are contractually obvious to the payer.
The lack of clarity about rebates and the spread is purposeful, say PBM critics. "It is difficult to understand how these companies work," says Robert Garis, PhD, an assistant professor in the pharmacy school at Creighton University in Omaha who has studied PBM profit margins. "Few people see what the true costs are for a drug benefit, including health plans and employers who hire the PBMs. They make a totally unreasonable amount of profit on the spread for generics, for example."
In a study published in early 2004, Garis found that the spread for generics is very high. He called it "substantial and widely variable" and recommended legislative remedies. "We found, and continue to find, a lack of transparency in the industry that allows for the creation of inappropriate profit centers," says Garis. According to analyst John Kreger of William Blair & Co., an investment banking company, a PBM makes about 54-percent profit on a generic drug.
Garis is not alone in his belief that such profits are excessive. According to Gerry Purcell, a consultant in Atlanta and a former PBM executive the "the crux of the issue for [PBM] critics is that they negotiate hidden deals for their own benefit, while at the same time telling employers that their job is to represent them."
PBM industry representatives sharply disagree with the critics. They quote a 2003 Government Accountability Office (it was named the General Accounting Office at the time) report and a joint report in 2004 by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice that found that PBMs really are successful in controlling costs, primarily by encouraging the use of generics.
Paradoxically, the GAO report was one of the first in-depth looks at how PBMs earn. Its focus was on how PBMs manage the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program. The GAO examined costs, prices, and rebates on prescription drugs through Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, the Government Employees Hospital Association, and PacifiCare, which has its own pharmacy management unit. The study included FEHBP members in California, Washington, D.C., and North Dakota.
Brand-name pharmaceutical companies were found to provide PBMs with discounts and rebates to have their treatments placed on the formularies. The GAO concluded that rebates and fees paid by drug companies to PBMs to promote the manufacturers' drugs were the "keys to profit" for the companies and promotion of generic drugs was profitable.
|Largest PBMs, 2006 (all figures in millions)
|Covered Lives
|Medco Health
|Caremark Rx
|Express Scripts
|Prescription Solutions
|Catalyst Rx
|National Pharmaceutical
|Health Trans
|Source: Managed Care Info (http://www.managedcareinfo.com/about.htm)
The report also concluded that PBMs obtained significantly reduced prices for FEHBP members, while reducing costs by directing doctors toward less expensive brand-name medications and generic treatments through prescription drug formularies. And the GAO concluded that PBMs shared a portion of their negotiated discounts with their clients.
So where's the love? PBM officials acknowledge that in today's health care environment they may be viewed as avaricious, perhaps unfairly. "Most people, including a lot of payers, do not understand how PBMs work, how decisions are made and savings generated," says Glen Stettin, MD, senior vice president for "clinical solutions" at Medco, one of the nation's largest PBMs. "They know we control costs, but they are uncertain how we do it or the wide number of ways we serve members."
Opaque does not mean malicious, nor should it imply unfair profits, say PBM officials. "There is an intense degree of competition in this industry," says Mark Merritt, president of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association. "Our [PBM] members are aware of that, of course, and are highly responsive to market pressures. If the market demands transparency, that is what it will get."
Apparently so. Although legislative efforts to force transparency are not getting anywhere (at least to date), the marketplace is leading to some significant changes.
A more transparent contract model may emerge as a result of the work of the Pharmaceutical Purchasing Coalition (PPC), 56 large employers led by the HR Policy Association, a policy group representing about 250 employers that collectively spent more than $4.9 billion on their pharmaceutical benefits in 2005. The coalition, which includes giants like Caterpillar, Ford, and IBM, announced last year that is members they had to know more about the financial arrangements that PBMs have with pharmaceutical companies. They created a certification process as a criterion for contracting. In announcing the new model, the coalition said the change could lower its members' pharmaceutical costs by as much as 10 percent.
The certification process — named Transparency in Pharmaceutical Purchasing Solutions (TIPPS) — requires PBMs to disclose to their clients the actual acquisition costs for retail and mail-order drugs. In addition, PBMs would be required to pass drug company rebates, now rarely disclosed, on to their clients directly.
The net result is that all TIPPS credentialed PBMs would charge employers a straight administrative fee instead of making their profits through the drug industry. Although health plans are not part of the coalition, some plan officials have expressed a desire for similar contractual relationships and think TIPPS will become an industry norm.
The rules were designed with the help of the consulting company Hewitt Associates. "They challenge PBMs' core revenue stream," says Matthew Gibbs, Hewitt's head of pharmacy consulting services. "We expect acceptance to take a little time."
One snag is that many employers and plans are locked into multiyear contracts with PBMs, says Sidney Banwart, vice president for human services at Caterpillar and chairman of the coalition. But in public statements, Banwart predicted that PBMs that do not seek TIPPS certification may find themselves fighting hard for market share.
In fact, the HR Policy Association and other interested payers say they believe the market pressure of the coalition's 56 participating employers will be impossible to ignore. "This creates a lot of pressure to come around. It's hard to say 'No, we're not going to give you that,'" said Jeffrey McGuiness, HR Policy Association president, when the TIPPS criteria were announced last August.
The immediate response was not overwhelming. Only three comparatively small PBMs agreed to the terms at the end of last year. They were Aetna Pharmacy Management, MedImpact Healthcare Systems, and Walgreen's Health Initiatives, all three of which have other partnership relationships with health plans or chain drug stores.
Medco and Caremark began the certification process, then dropped out.
But what a difference a little market pressure makes. In July, Medco and Caremark Rx agreed to participate. Together they represent nearly 80 percent of the PBM industry covered lives.
In a recent statement, the HR Policy Association listed a total of 10 PBMs that have signed up. In addition to the five mentioned above, they include Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, Catalyst Rx, Cigna Pharmacy Management, HealthTrans, and Restat. Those PBMs provide services to about 8 out of 10 health plan enrollees.
Express Scripts, the nation's third largest PBM, has not said whether it will participate in TIPPS.
Because of multiyear agreements, only a handful of employers have contracted with PBMs through the TIPPS program. But coalition officials said that about two dozen more have announced plans to do so in coming months. Medco's client IBM announced recently that it will seek multiple bids from PBMs after its current contract expires in 2007, and require them to comply with the coalition's transparency criteria.
"This is all the result of the [PBM] industry being so competitive," says Joseph Coffini, RPh, a principal of Trivantage Pharmacy Strategies, a consulting company in Milwaukee. "Outside of the Medicare population there are precious few new opportunities where a PBM can expand its market share."
The market pressures brought by TIPPS are more effective than public pressures, so far at least. A group named the National Legislative Association of Prescription Drug Prices (NLARx) is undertaking a state-by-state effort to pass transparency legislation. Focusing on Medicaid drug prices, NLARx wants to require PBMs to disclose the prices they pay for specific drugs and require any rebates they receive be sent to the states.
The initiatives focus on PBMs' role as fiduciaries, the idea being that the companies have a duty to act primarily for their clients' benefit, not for their own interest. If the states designate the PBMs as fiduciaries, the savings related to the deals they cut must be passed on to the companies that hired them.
So far, NLARx has had little luck with this argument. Legislation proposed in 21 states — most recently New York, Rhode Island, Delaware, and North Carolina — has yet to pass. According to PCMA's Merritt, rejection has been because legislators saw the light and decided that the laws would increase drug prices 10 percent or more because full disclosure would inhibit the ability of PBMs to negotiate.
A July PCMA news release states that "Despite boastful predictions from the NLARx and others that anti-PBM legislation would be a slam dunk in the 2006 legislative cycle, thus far 20 states have now rejected PBM fiduciary and/or disclosure bills in the first six months of the year." North Carolina made it 21 in August.
Only NLARx efforts in Maine and Washington, D.C., have been successful. Maine's Unfair Prescription Drug Practices Act, signed in 2003, requires PBMs to disclose pricing information negotiated with pharmaceutical companies and pass the savings on to consumers. The D.C. law, similar to the Maine legislation, was blocked by a federal court in 2004 and is now being litigated by PCMA. The Maine law was also challenged by PCMA, but was allowed to stand. PCMA has petitioned the Supreme Court, but so far has been unsuccessful in getting the court to review the case. Proposals are pending in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
NLARx disputes PCMA's contention that greater disclosure equals higher prices. And NLARx officials say that the legislative situation will improve after state lawmakers see what happens with the D.C. law. And they think that a federal move toward transparency is inevitable as Medicare Part D costs go up. "When there is any uncertainty, there is a tendency to vote 'no' on legislation," says Sharon Treat, NLARx's executive director.
Whatever happens at the state or federal level, the market seems to be saying transparency is here to stay. That's the nature of commerce, says Garis. "When I describe the business practices of PBMs, the reaction of payers is often shock. Clients who discover exactly how these companies work tend to want to know more about them, not less."
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Official Site: www.GreatAmazingRace.com. "Where Smiles & Teamwork Rule the Day!" A D.I.T. (Do-It-Together) family-friendly obstacle course/adventure race series based on the tv show THE AMAZING RACE. For two-person teams ... be it friends, family members, neighbors or co-workers. It's way more fun than a 5K and a perfect birthday party idea! Run, jog or walk. How well you work and communicate with your teammate are the most essential ingredients to winning the race!On-line registration will close once 120 team limit is reached. Sign up now, team members can be added later on race day!
1. ABOUT THE RACE: Two person teams (adult/kid, kid/kid or adult?adult) race against other teams completing a one mile cross country course with obstacles/challenges that require teamwork. Whether you run, jog, walk or watch, it'll be a Bonding Experienceyou will never forget. Testimonial: "What an awesome day my son and I had. My son could not stop talking about it and thanking me for taking him! It has made memories that will last a life time." Celebrate someones day in a wild way! Our birthday party space can accommodate up to 25 teams. So sign up early.
2. RACE DESCRIPTION: Modeled after the popular television show "THE AMAZING RACE", teams of two people race around a one-mile cross course in competition with other teams, completing a string of up to eight fun-filled challenges. Clue Cards provided at each station directs teams to perform team-oriented tasks (game, relay, obstacle course, etc.) before proceeding to the next challenge station. Contestants strive to arrive at the finish line with the fastest overall time to be declared the winners. Waves begin every 10 minutes … kids teams, then adult teams.
Teams can choose a Recreation Pace (those who prefer to walk or jog at a leisure pace) or a Competitive Pace (those who prefer to run). Challenge stations include varying levels of difficulty, based on age and level of the participants. Beginners can choose the easier challenges, while veteran racers will complete the more difficult challenges.
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Cured in Boulder sells lunch bags for USA Pro Cycling Challenge
You might not be able to ride like a competitor in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, but Cured in Boulder is making sure you can eat like one — right down to the shoulder-slung musette bags.
The bags, bearing the logo of the Boulder-based Garmin-Sharp Pro Cycling Team, resemble the musette bags used by U.S. Army infantrymen in World War II. Competitive cyclists are often handed the food-filled bags during races, and the folks at Cured — a cheese and charcuterie shop 1825 Pearl St. in Boulder — is packing them with sandwiches, drinks, chips, cookies and an apple for cycling fans. (The seventh and final leg of the Colorado road race runs Sunday from Boulder to Denver.)
Cured's musette bags are the brainchild of co-owner Will Frischkorn, a former pro cyclist who competed in the Tour de France. So he knows something about race-day hunger pains.
The musette lunch bags go for $20. For more information, you can check out curedboulder.com or call the shop at 720-389-8096.


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Via Renaud Lavoie Jarome Iginla will or would waive his no movement clause for the Boston Bruins, Los Angeles Kings, and Chicago Blackhawks, and the Pittsburgh Penguins. A quick look at the offenses of the teams has Pittsburgh at the top of the NHL, the Blackhawks a close second, while the Los Angeles Kings and Boston Bruins are treading water in 12th and 13th place in goals per game. Chicago is ranked as having the deepest prospect pool by Hockey's Future, while the Flames system is weak overall on depth, particularly at right wing.
Another coach firing on a teach with an ECHL roster lightly-speckled with NHL talent. When the Tampa Bay Lightning went to the Eastern Conference Finals two years ago, two things got them there, one was Dwayne Roloson, the other was Guy Boucher. Both of them are gone, and both were highly under rated for the jobs they did. If a dispersal draft were done on Lightning today, its an open question how many of their players would be picked and retained both other teams. It 31 games into the season and they have just one player to score more than 10 goals, and that player also has the second worst +/- on the team. Career backup Garon has the teams best sv%, depth center Nate Thompson is arguably the best defensive player on the whole roster, and none of the decisions that got them onto the clubs payroll happen at the coaches level. Guy Boucher goes out the door, in another time and place Steve Yzerman would be tossed out a window.
The CHL playoffs are under way and Fang Faction has taken a look a Predators prospects in the playoffs.
David Krejci is drawing heat is the Boston Bruins continue to tread water in fourth place in the east.
The North American Hockey League is producing some Division One NCAA, the Brookings Blizzard announced there's Aidan Cavallini and you can get the rest of the leagues commitments right here.
And as we roll closer and closer to that most wonderful day of the year Draft day, a look at the US National Development Team is looking toward its own future of smiling eyes and wide smiles.


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Problem: Is it possible to choose $1983$ distinct positive integers, all less than or equal to $100,000$, no three of which are consecutive terms of an arithmetic progression? (Source: IMO 1983 Q5)
Solution: We construct a set $T$ containing even more than 1983 integers, all less than $10^5$ such that no three are in arithmetic progression, that is, no three satisfy $x+z=2y$. The set $T$ consists of all positive integers whose base $3$ representations have at most $11$ digits, each of which is either $0$ or $1$ (i.e., no $2$'s). There are $2^{11} -1 > 1983$ of them, and the largest is
$$ 11111111111_3=1+3^2+3^3+\cdots+3^{10}=88573<10^5 $$
Now suppose $x+z=2y$ for some $x,y,z\in T$. The number $2y$, for any $y\in T$, consists only of the digits $0$ and $2$. Hence $x$ and $z$ must match digit for digit, and it follows that $x=z=y$. Hence the set $T$ contains no arithmetic progression of length 3, and the desired selection is possible.
My question now is, how do I gain the thinking process to come up with the idea for tacking the problem that yielded the solution above? How can I deduce or intuitively know to use this particular approach of using base $3$ representations come up with a solution to the problem? It seems to me that it requires a great amount of creativity to end up with a method of approach to tackle the problem like that. Would someone be able to explain the motivation behind the solution?
Any thoughts and insights are greatly appreciated.


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Investment fund KFI 's announcement yesterday [Thursday], that it will purchase Danish brewery group Carlsberg's 12% stake in the country's largest food wholesaler Dagrofa , is expected to give it more say in the ongoing restructure of the Nordic food market.
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The Japanese Yakuza roughly parallels the American La Cosa Nostra. Both of whom, we imagine, look down their noses and giggle at Sweden's Uppsala. While the classic image of the American Mafioso generally includes some form of Cadillac (in Paulie Walnuts' case, replete with Godfather horn), and the Uppsala types apparently prefer Ferrari Enzos, the Yakuza like them some left-hand-drive S-Class iron. Why? Status, brah-san. Status. Inside Line's Peter Lyon's got the scoop.
So where do Yakuza fit into Japan's car culture? [Inside Line]


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We recently received a note from Desire Murhima, our program administrator at the Patmos Children's Village in the DR Congo. In it Desire told us of some exciting news from our Patmos Children's Village. Here is what Desire had to say;
"Three weeks past, we [conducted] an evangelization campaign and we have been blessed with twenty-nine souls.
"We had fifteen [of] our children [from the] Patmos village [accept Jesus] and four new workers like our clinical doctor, our lab-medical technician and … two teachers [from] our university (UNILAI). Continue praying for God's work on Idjwi Island."
We know that you join us in celebrating the fact that these members of our ICC family have decided to become followers of Jesus.
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J. D. Heyes
Natural News
March 3, 2013
History revisionists and Holocaust deniers seem to be gaining ground in recent months as the Obama administration pushes for new gun control measures, thanks in large part to a burgeoning propaganda machine fed by a growing number of useful idiots.
Hitler had Joseph Goebbels; today's modern deniers and propagandists have the Internet, and this incredible power to deceive is being employed by agents seeking to "fundamentally change" the country, to borrow a campaign phrase from the president himself.
In particular, the anti-gunners "have had tremendous success garnering support by using false statements and outright propaganda, so they have intensified their use of this despicable and nasty tool," says a poster calling himself "Fight4Freedom" at the SurvivalistBoards.com blog site.
"The trend is to attack history and feed the sheeple with supposed 'facts' debunking some of histories most notorious precursors to genocide," he writes.
Propagandizing the 'Net for the purposes of pushing a gun control agenda'
In particular, he says a Google search of the terms "Hitler Gun Control" produce so-called "research studies" claiming that "either these atrocities never really occurred (such as the Jewish Genocide) or that the facts are wrong," Fight4Freedom says.
"No matter what, the idea is to use FALSE statements and FALSE information to continue to gain momentum in calling for disarming of the American People," he wrote. "The most fundamental question is why should what happened in Nazi Germany have any bearing on calling for Gun Control in the U.S.? They are not related. It is merely a propaganda tool. Our God given right to self-defense, backed by the U.S. Constitution is all that matters."
A Natural News search of Google using the "Hitler Gun Control" combination turned up some interesting results.
— The top article was a piece posted at Policymic.com which essentially argued that modern-day comparisons to Hitler's gun control policies actually favor positions held by today's gun rights advocates (even though his 1938 policy did, by the writer's admission, "read almost like the Feinstein bill does today"):
Hitler did have a gun control policy, an extension of the 1919 regulation. Funny enough, it sounds a lot like the boiler plate gun control legislation that is on the books across the United States – and, even funnier enough, the Hitler gun control policy sounds like something any American would generally support … but even more so is what pro-gun advocates are pushing for: deregulation.
That's right: Hitler and pro-gun advocates want the same thing.
— The second listing, from a hate/supremacist group, said this: "Unfortunately for those who would like to link Hitler and the National Socialists with gun control, the entire premise for such an effort is false."
— Subsequent sites blamed the Weimar Republic government for implementing strict gun control measures, but most fail to a) note that the Weimar was forced to do so by the victorious Allies to keep Germany as a whole, unarmed and demilitarized after World War I; and b) that Hitler did indeed implement measures even more strict than those imposed by the Alliesshortly before he invaded Poland.
— A piece in the Huffington Post quoted Deborah Lauter, the civil rights director of the Anti-Defamation League, as saying that group deplores the Nazi-American gun rights comparison, and that guns in the hands of Jews "would have stopped the totalitarian power of the Nazi state."
— Salon.com spent no small amount of virtual ink citing all kinds of scholars, experts and academics to say basically the same thing: That Hitler's gun control measures were minimal, at best, and that anyway, even armed Jews could not have fought back against mass extermination.
"Hitler" + "gun control" = Tyranny
Such flippant revisionist history ignores the crux of the modern-day pro-gun argument against further government regulation, "Hitler style" or any style. And that's the point. In Hitler's authoritarian Nazi Germany, the government made the decision about gun ownership, whereas the U.S. Constitution recognizes it as a human "right to keep and bear arms," for defense of self, home and country.
Furthermore, the very phrase gun control is one used only by tyrants and statists, for it seeks to curb or control what our founders understood and recognized as a natural right not subject to the "approval" of those in power.
Finally, any way you look at it, Jews in Hitler's Germany during World War II were not afforded this right and in the end, six million of them died. Hitler raised vast armies during his tenure but millions of armed Jews would have been a much more formidable foe, meaning far fewer of them would have died, unarmed, at the hands of this butcher.
Hitler was a tyrant by any measure, so references to "Hitler" and "gun control" in this context are entirely appropriate because tyrants like their subjects to be unarmed – semantics, revisionist history and cute phraseology aside.
Only a propagandist on the scale of Hitler's Goebbels would say otherwise.
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Here are the post-game transcripts of what Orioles manager Buck Showalter, Yankees manager Joe Girardi and Orioles third base coach Bobby Dickerson had to say about Monday's dust-up after the first inning in which the two managers screamed at each other and had to be separated by the umpires.
What caused you to come out of the dugout?
"(Girardi) was yelling at the third base coach. Somebody's wearing black and orange, I'm not going to let that happen. I've known Bobby for a long time and … when Nicky (Markakis) came across the plate he said (Girardi) was yelling out of the dugout at Bobby for some reason. I know Bobby Dickerson pretty well and so I knew Bobby might have something to say on his way back to the dugout. And he did."
Was he accusing Dickerson of stealing signs?
"I think so. I'm pretty sure that's what (Girardi said). If we were doing that, Manny (Machado) wouldn't have bunted, right, if we had the pitches." Machado bunted Markakis to third.
Were both sides warned?
Is the matter closed?
"We got to play nine innings. Hey, we all do that (watch other teams for stealing signs). I think when people are at second base you, or we, constantly change our signs with them and the other clubs that you see a lot in our division. … In our mind, it's not happening … but I understand how someone, a lot of people … when I come off the bench every night I look at that same thing. There are a lot of little checkpoints you've gone through with experience over the years, so you look. It was something, in our dugout, our guys were wondering what in the world it was all about. Because obviously (sign stealing) wasn't happening."
Did it fire your team up?
"I hope not. If we need that at this point, no. I think what fires you up is (Chris) Tillman pitching as well as he did. And having a good outing against a really good pitcher in (CC) Sabathia who pitched real well, too. Impressive. He knew they needed some innings with their bullpen and he gave it to them."
Girardi said he was protecting his players.
"And I respect that. Joe's a good man."
Will you speak privately with Girardi?
"Well, if I was going to, I wouldn't broadcast it in here. I gained a lot of respect for Joe over the last couple of years, especially when he was going through the thing with his dad last year in the playoffs. Two competitive good teams and we're fighting for the same thing, so there's a small margin for error. I look at those things (sign stealing) the first 10 or 15 pitches every night. There's certain little check points. I go around the field to see if everything's in order before you get into the game. But Bobby's not giving pitches."
How unusual is it for that to happen?
"I don't get into theatrics or whatever. If I feel something, I'll express it. Simple as that. And Joe will, too. I don't get into the history or the protocol. I could give a 'you know what' less. It strikes a chord in me and I stand accused. And so does Joe. We've got two good teams and we're competing for something very special with 19 or 20 games left and nobody's going to apologize here for caring about giving both of our teams the best chance to win."
What happened?
"The one thing that I've done the whole time I've been here and everywhere I've been, I'm going to protect our players always. That's what I'm going to do and it was something I saw and I'm just going to leave it at that."
Why did he come back out to talk to the umpires after they warned both benches?
"The warning. You know, because guys need to pitch inside. Their guy needs to pitch inside, our guy needs to pitch inside, and I don't want someone to get ejected because they think they hit a guy on purpose when, in this instance, I don't think anyone was going to do that."
Girardi was asked several more times about specifics and he declined to answer.
What happened?
"I was standing there coaching in the first inning and I hear somebody yelling at me. I looked at the dugout and Joe's yelling at me."¿
History with Girardi?
"No, he was just yelling at me."
Has any manager ever yelled at you before?
"Never. Never heard of such a thing."
What was he yelling?
"'I know what you're doing.' Yelling it, body language, pointing at me. That's it. And I'm a grown man, that's all. I don't see why he was yelling at me. I just said, 'You don't know anything. You don't even know me to be yelling at me.'"
Think he was accusing you of stealing signs?
"I assumed it, I guess after. I was still trying to figure what happened. Nick was just batting. As a matter of fact the ball was in the air and going off the wall when we were having our first exchange."
It started right away?
"Immediately, like right when I got to third base. I didn't hear him at first. I heard something and as I looked at the dugout, he was right there yelling at me from the far end. And I was running off the field, something else was said. And after that it was over. As I passed by, that's when something was said and I stopped. That's when it started and that's when Buck came out and he informed me to go to the dugout, so I went to the dugout."
Do you consider what was said inappropriate?
"You know what? I'm just trying to do my job over there and nobody's going to yell at me for nothing. That's all. I'm a grown man and he's going to challenge me. That's the way I took it."


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - They share a last name, and perhaps a historical tie to a tragic past.
Stacey Cumberbatch is New York City's new commissioner of administrative services. Benedict Cumberbatch is the British actor known for playing Sherlock Holmes in a popular BBC series, and for his turn as a plantation owner in the Oscar-nominated film, "12 Years a Slave."
Stacey Cumberbatch tells The New York Times that her ancestors were slaves in Barbados, and probably took their distinctive last name from their white owner.
That owner may have been Benedict Cumberbatch's fifth great-grandfather. The actor has talked in interviews about his paternal ancestor's ownership of a plantation in Barbados in the 18th Century.


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In sports, everyone is a winner—some people just win better than others. Like Oregon's LeGarrette Blount (not pictured) who only played two games this season, but left his mark on both. And on a couple of faces.
Blount only got nine carries last night—probably because he missed 10 games this season after punching Boise State's Byron Hout on opening night—but his 12-yard TD was a huge moment in the Ducks comeback win over Oregon State, in his final home game. Now he's literally being lauded with roses. That's quite a year.
I think maybe that Blount has it figured out. Why destroy your body for 12 grueling games, when you can get yourself suspended, show up to rescue your team at the last possible moment, still get to play in the Rose Bowl, and save your knee ligaments for the NFL Combine. He's crazy, all right. Crazy like a duck.
Let's watch that punch again, huh? Just for old time's sake....
Honorable Mention: Adrian Peterson, for proving that his BMW can travel 109 m.p.h. Yes, he was in a 55-m.p.h. zone, but his car his made out of that Nike snake skin stuff, so he was protected.