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June 27, 2007
OXFORD, England - The Yale and Harvard track and field teams combined to defeat the Oxford and Cambridge teams Wednesday afternoon at the Sir Roger Banister Track on Iffley Road. The American universities won 29 of the 39 events contested to hold onto the Naughton Trophy. The men won 14 of 20 events, while the women won 15 of 19. It was the seventh straight win for the men, while the women have won five in a row.
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Platinum: Arceus
Original Release Date: November 4th 2009
The Platinum: Arceus set was the fourth and final set in the Platinum series. This set is based upon the Alpha Pokémon; Arceus. Due to Arceus' legendary status, it implements a new rule regarding Arceus; That you can have as many Arceus in your deck as possible. However, like the previous sets, it includes cards representing the Alternate Coloured Pokémon and contains a variety of Pokémon SP. However, it does not have any reprint cards within it.
It is also the first set in the card game's history that has two individual subsets; the continuation of the Shiny Holographics and specific subset for each of the Arceus cards.
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I'm wondering how to make my links so they do not appear but another word is hiding the link.
I have seen this here several times but do not know how to do it.
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On January 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by a powerful earthquake that left more than 220,000 people dead, 300,000 injured and millions displaced.
Between January and April 2010, WFP provided emergency food assistance through general food distributions to some 4 million Haitians in Port-au-Prince and earthquake-affected areas.
A year and a half after the catastrophe, WFP supports the Haitian government's plan for recovery and development by improving access to food for the most vulnerable. School meals, nutrition and job creation initiatives are the agency's main activities in Haiti. WFP is also contributing to agricultural rehabilitation and increasing its local purchases to boost food production in the country.
Access to sufficient quantities of nutritious food remains an issue for millions of Haitians. Food insecurity in the areas directly affected by the earthquake has dropped but levels are still higher than they were prior to the earthquake. Nationally, between 2.5 and 3.3 million Haitians, or about a third of the population is estimated to be food insecure.
Haiti is a food deficit country. It relies heavily on imported food – 50 percent of national requirements are imported. Food prices have been rising since the end of 2010. In a country where approximately half of the population lives with less than $1 a day and three quarters have less than $2 per day, this increase has led to an overall loss of purchasing power for the majority of Haitians. WFP is using its three main programmes – school meals, nutrition and cash and food for work- to alleviate the impact of rising food prices on the most vulnerable.
Over the years, natural disasters have intensified Haiti's plight. Every year between June and November, the hurricane season brings with it fears of more devastating storms. In October 2010, as the country was still trying to recovery from January's earthquake, a cholera epidemic broke out and efforts are still underway to contain the disease.
WFP has been present in Haiti since 1969.
Despite the world's generosity, WFP still urgently needs contributions to continue its activities in Haiti.
WFP and its partners are assisting victims of the earthquake and vulnerable Haitians with programmes supporting the Government's Action Plan for National Recovery and Development in Haiti.
When a new school year started in October 2010, WFP increased its support of the Government's National School Meals Programme. Everyday, more than a million children in the country's ten departments receive a hot nutritious meal at school. "Sometimes, we don't have enough food at home, it's good to know that my child will find something good to eat at school", said Etienne Olguy, the father of a girl studying in a 4th grade class. As one Port-au-Prince school principal put it, the school meals programme is essential because "if the students don't eat, they can't see, they can't hear, they can't learn".
Another WFP priority is to increase the quantity of food purchased locally and used in the school meals program. This is done in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture.
Begun in 2010, a pilot project provides schools with cooking stoves fueled by briquettes made of recycled paper and cardboard. This initiative reduces charcoal consumption in the country.
In collaboration with the government and partners, WFP expanded its employment programme by hiring workers paid in food, cash or a combination of both.
Shortly after the earthquake, thousands of Haitians were hired to clean canals and ditches to prevent flooding during the rainy season. They also started tackling the huge task facing the country: removing rubble from the earthquake, a crucial step to allow people to start rebuilding their communities.
Projects financed by WFP all have one thing in common: they help Haitians provide food for their families. They also give people opportunities to improve their communities and reduce the country's vulnerability to natural disasters.
Working in close coordination with the Haitian government, local authorities, NGOs and UN agencies, cash and food for work activities include but are not limited to rubble removal, watershed management and agricultural rehabilitation.
Immediately after the earthquake, it was difficult to measure the impact of the catastrophe on children under 5 and on pregnant and lactating women. There was a risk that malnutrition rates could explode. Working with its partners, WFP decided to tackle this problem by adopting an innovative strategy based on prevention and treatment. Blanket distributions of fortified foods designed to combat malnutrition were organized.
An independent study done with the support of the Ministry of Health demonstrated that this approach helped Haiti avoid a nutritional crisis in the aftermath of the earthquake.
More than a year later, nutrition interventions are ongoing. Pregnant and lactating women, as well as children under 5 receive fortified foods, such as fortified peanut paste and corn soya blend, along with oil and sugar, to treat malnutrition.
WFP is providing food assistance to Haitians affected by HIV/ tuberculosis as well as their family members.
Emergency Preparedness
Because of Haiti's vulnerability to natural disasters, WFP is working closely with the Haitian Directorate of Civil Protection to ensure the country is ready to respond to emergencies. Again this year, food is pre-positioned in the most vulnerable areas across the country.
Prepositioning is important because when Haiti is hit by torrential rains, many roads can become impassable. With stocks already in place, WFP will be able to reach the population quickly.


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Over 300,000 samples stored
Over 100 cord blood and adipose-derived stem cell samples have been released from our facilities for treatment purposes. 14 of these samples are umbilical cord blood/tissue samples
With more than 15 years of cryopreservation activity, over 20 medical doctors and 40 lab technicians, we are the most experienced stem cell bank in Europe.
We have ultra-modern lab processing and storage facilities in Switzerland, Belgium, Dubai, Germany, India and South Africa
Our central laboratory is in Geneva, Switzerland and has been awarded the following accreditations:


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I would like to post a conversation I just had on Google+. I understand how my statements may sound offensive but I see things as I see it. My opinion is not unheard of but I am not saying it is fact. However, my issue really isnt about what I said it is about the response it received from a guy who didn't like what I said but posted his opinions. I don't understand them and I was wondering if someone could explain what he means by his definition of consciousness and "objective reality"
Me-Many people are superstitious and will have their religions. They will believe things and blindly "drink the koolaid" if they are offered anything that is better than everlasting death of themselves and their loved ones. This is just my opinion. Just think about it. You, the very essence of you has a finale. And some people don't want to believe that. Some people will appear to claim to have telepathy and can speak to this invisible person (hallucination) they believe watches over them and what they do (paranoia) which by the way is the same theme as Santa Claus. Key in "You better watch out. You better not cry" . And some make bargains (prayer/telepathy) to obey and be good so it wont send them to the scary place. Oh and get no gifts like a mansion in the clouds. Looks cool but i don't know how that works. My point is it keeps me in awe how weird our culture is and how far behind we are from other cultures (overseas) who understand evolution and will accept it as a more factual explanation of we became and how we die."
Him-Personality and memory will (almost certainly) end. Those things are not "the very essence of you." Nor are they consciousness.
What I was talking about before, which was different from that, was the fact that we cannot model consciousness and so have no business thinking we know much about it. There's an unbridgeable qualia gap. We have no reason, looking at objective reality and all its processes including those occurring in the brain, to conclude that subjective consciousness should be occurring at all. As I said, in objective reality there is no I and there is no You -- there is only he, she, and it. We can describe all kinds of things about how the brain functions, but no one has ever posited any hypothesis about how any of this gives rise to someone inside -- an "I" -- experiencing anything subjectively. And I would suggest that no one ever will, that it is impossible.
As consciousness cannot emerge from brain activity by any conceivable mechanism, it must pre-exist brain activity, at least as a potential, and be a fundamental characteristic of existence comparable to space or time.
Do I believe that consciousness (although not memory or personality) endures beyond death? Yes. I as an individual will not, but I as an individual am an illusion anyway, a kind of distorted mirror thrown up by my brain. I -- the real I -- am the cosmos, and the cosmos was here before this body was born and will still be here, experiencing reality through all vehicles available (of which at the moment this body is one), after this body dies.
What is he talking about? Thanks.
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The oxymoron is all yours! :)
"There is a lot of interesting information in there, which is very much science based in terms of quantum reality, brain function, and understanding consciousness."
Science terms is the key term here. Depak is notorious for making things sound really sciencey, but not having anything of substance in what he's saying. This happens so often that someone created this: the Depak Chopra Random Quote Generator. Honestly, I can't tell the difference between the things this says and his live twitter feed.
"The universe is a digital virtual reality workshop in
"Memories transcend the molecules on which they ride"
"Without unpredictability there is no creativity. The universe is creative but appears random to the limited mind"
"Since everything that can be thought of or perceived is an object of consciousness, the idea of a world without consciousness is absurd"
"Love is the infinite organizing power of the universe"
And that's just since March 2nd.
I don't disagree with you. But the same things can be said of many of our world's greatest minds - and were said of them by their contemporaries. I learn to take everything one says with a grain of salt, yet still choose to listen to them because there is always the possibility of learning something unique. Providing Depak here as a source of information for Shana was not to promote Depak other than to provide her with a platform in which she might understand where the gentleman (with whom she was having a conversation with) is coming from - nothing more.
I don't agree with everything Depak says - you and I both are capable of saying say very kook things as well, but his perspective is interesting. There is a strong possibility that what he has to say is wrong, but people often thought the same thing about some of our earliest philosophers and yet we now hold them high as our civilization's greatest thinkers. Will that happen for Depak, more than likely no. But I am unwilling to close my mind - that is the essence of a free thinker and not be a slave to any doctrine - religious or scientific, at least this is my view.
Fair enough.
He talks a load of fanny. He's sloppy. However, this is logical:
"the idea of a world without consciousness is absurd" because without consciousness, you can't have ideas. But - so what?
I cannot disagree with you. But there is a point to the "so what," as far as I understand human nature and behavior.
Yeah, it's his life, and he doesn't do any harm. What do you think is the point to the "so what?"? It seems too trivial for Deep to make any fuss about.
Maybe I misunderstood your "so what." I was coming from the angle of consciousness being important in the subjective- because the subjective is a critical player in helping us making sense of ourselves and our world. It is the very first way we have as a child to understand ourselves, and even as we grow and become aware of the objective world, the subjective is still playing a role - especially in the subconscious mind. If that makes any sense - I just got a little cross eyed squeezing that out. xD
Barry - I'm starting to see how Deepak Chokra can have value. He presents the reader with a piece of scientific-sounding gobbledigook, and an intelligent person can make something sensible out of it. I'm not disparaging this approach. I'm into merciless, razor-sharp rigour. That's not necessarily any more helpful, it can be less helpful, at least in short-term human ways.
@ The Hawk:
Tupac Chopra says:
Hahaha, I can't tell the difference either Hawk.
I think we're just beating a dead horse at this point.
I quit May D.C. rest in piece. :)


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ISPs Threaten Metered Broadband As Net Neutrality Looms
Remember when you called up your ISP and, after an unholy modem screech, were billed for every minute you spent online? (Actually, it occurs to me that many Consumerist readers probably don't remember this.) If ISPs' current efforts pay off, we may all soon be paying for every little byte of Internet that we use.
ISPs have experimented with the metered broadband concept, and consumers (and consumer advocates) have kicked and screamed, but the looming specter of Net Neutrality has forced ISPs in turn to threaten consumers with tiered or metered broadband.
Some broadband providers argue that a pay-as-you-go Internet is unavoidable. "A flat-rate, infinitely expandable service is unachievable,"Dick Lynch, chief technology officer of Verizon Communications Inc., said at a recent industry conference, referring to the industry in general. "We're going to have to consider pricing structures that allow us to sell packages of bytes."
Advocates say unlimited monthly Internet service has been critical to the Internet's growth and the formation of online start-ups. Paying by the amount of Internet traffic used could damp usage and the sort of tinkering that can lead to breakthroughs, they warn.
Well, streaming video, it was nice knowing you.
Carriers Eye Pay-As-You-Go Internet [Wall Street Journal] (Thanks, Joanne!)
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"Blue Mountain Hospital broke new ground in many ways, this is the first time USDA-Rural Development and HUD jointly financed a new Critical Access Hospital and it marks the end of a very lengthy process and that only strengthened this project over time. We are proud to partner with Blue Mountain Hospital and to see how perseverance benefited Blanding and San Juan County," said Bonnie Carrig, Community Programs Director with USDA-Rural Development. Ahmad R. Razaghi, President and Chairman of Blue Mountain Hospital, said, "This project is the first of its kind and has required the coordinated efforts and resources from several public, private, and tribal entities, all of which played a critical role, to secure the necessary capital needed to bring this vision to reality."
Blue Mountain Hospital also announces the appointment of Victor Dee, Vice Chair of UNHS, who has replaced Donna Singer on the Board of Directors. "Victor's experience and leadership will be a valuable addition to the Board [of Directors]," said Razaghi. "We appreciate Ms. Singer's contribution. She is one of numerous individuals within the community who has provided support for this project."
Blue Mountain Hospital is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization established to construct and operate a 45,000 square foot critical access hospital in Blanding. The new facility is designed with the latest medical technology to provide primary and acute care services to the diverse residents of the Four Corners region.
The 11-bed hospital will have two operating rooms, emergency department, three labor delivery rooms, state-of-the-art diagnostic center, renal dialysis, primary care clinics, pharmacy, and physical therapy. In addition, the facility will have a Native American Traditional Medicine Center, which was designed with collaborative input from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the Navajo Tribe Chapters on the Utah strip. The unique design of the facility enables future expansion plans to be implemented without compromising medical service.


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StemAlive 90 Capsules: Recall - Contains Undeclared Milk
Audience: Consumers
[Posted 01/19/2014]
ISSUE: Stemvida, of Ontario California, has recalled StemAlive 90 Capsules, found to contain undeclared milk. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk (bovine colostrum) run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume this product. StemAlive was distributed in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.
BACKGROUND: The product is in a white plastic bottle with white lid, the brand is StemVida International with a white and gold label. The lot numbers and expiration dates are 8419 (Exp.05/2015 and 06/2015), 8486 (Exp.07/2015), 8535 (Exp. 08/2015), 8598 (Exp. 10/2015), 8652 (Exp. 12/2015), 8863 (Exp. 01/2016 and 02/2016), 8872 (Exp. 03/2016), 8873 (Exp. 04/2016 and 05/2016), 9040 (Exp. 08/2016 and 09/2016), 9258 (Exp. 10/2016) and 9314 (Exp. 11/2016). The lot number and expiration date is printed in black ink at the bottom of the label.
RECOMMENDATION: Consumers who have purchased StemAlive 90 Capsules are urged to return it to the company for replacement or refund. Consumers with questions may contact the company at 888-950-8432 between the hours of 9:00am and 8:30pm PST.
[01/17/2014 - Press Release - Stemvida]
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James Michael "Mike" Slade, 73, of Amarillo died Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Great Plains Western Church in Washburn with the Rev. Ed Modrick and the Rev. Royce Mason officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements are by Cox Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Mike was born Oct. 27, 1939, in Amarillo to E.C. and Bess Slade. He lived in Amarillo his entire life, graduating from Palo Duro High School in 1958 before attending Amarillo College. Mike was employed with Sears from 1959 to 1993, Amarillo Fire Department from 1963 to 1982, and Northwest Texas Hospital from 1994 to 2012. He married Freda Davis on Sept. 28, 1991, in Hart.
Mike was a lobbyist for Firefighters of America, trustee for Great Plains Western Church for four years, in the Army Reserves for six years, a Scout leader and a coach for Kids, Inc. His favorite pastime was playing golf.
Mike never met a stranger. He loved life and had many friends. He would know one's life in 10 minutes of a visit. If you were lucky enough to be with him when he ran across a friend, you could count on being there for 30 minutes to an hour. He was a friend you could count on and be comfortable with. He loved his family, his church, his friends and his savior, Jesus Christ.
He always treated others the way he wanted to be treated. Family members as well as friends looked forward to sitting down with him and listening to the stories about the days and nights while working as a fireman and the strange things that would happen on his service calls while working for the Sears Company. Everyone loved Mike, and he will be greatly missed.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Survivors include his wife, Freda Irons Slade of Washburn; two sons, Terry and Robert Slade of Amarillo; a daughter, Sheri Slade of Orlando, Fla.; four stepsons, Kelly Irons of Amarillo, Kevin Irons of Forney, James Irons of Canyon and Jason Irons of Oklahoma City; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Great Plains Western Church Building Fund, 520 Highway 287, Claude, TX 79019; or Hospice Care of the Southwest, 6600 Kilgore Drive, Suite 110, Amarillo, TX 79106.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Sign the online guest book at www.coxfuneralhomeamarillo.com.
Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 30, 2012


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Outlook 2010 Add-In Error: Add-In Was Disabled By The User After A Data Execution Prevention Failure
I use an Outlook 2010 add-in called Bettasoft Mail Alert to display a mail icon in the task bar when new mail arrives. A couple of days ago the add-in caused an error and Outlook disabled it. I initially thought I could just go into the Options and put a check back into the add-in checkbox however that did not work. After more investigation I figured out that you have to enable the add-in in the Disabled Add-Ins window first and the put a check in the add-in check box for the disabled add-in to work again. Below I describe the error in more detail and the steps taken to resolve the error.


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Family Bungalow
Up to 10 Guests
- 3 Bedroom/s
- 2 Bathroom/s
- Pets Not Allowed
Estimating your equipment size
We are looking for an estimate of the size of your Caravan, Motorhome, Camper Trailer, Tent etc. once it has been set up or fully extended (outside to outside)... excluding your vehicle.
Caravans, Motorhomes, Camper Vans, Camper Trailers
Please include your tow/draw bar in the estimate.
Widths are generally around 4 – 5 metres (13.12 – 16.4 feet).
Note: Include annexes of pullouts in width.
|Average Lengths:
|4 – 12 metres (13.12 – 39.37 feet)
|7 – 14 metres (22.97 – 45.93 feet)
|5 – 7 metres (16.40 – 22.97 feet)
|Fifth wheelers
|7 – 14 metres (22.97 – 45.93 feet)
|Camper Trailers
|5 – 8 metres (16.40 – 26.25 feet)
Note: Do not include the size of the tent pegs
|1 person
|1 × 2.5 metres (3.28 × 8.20 feet)
|2 person
|1.5 × 2.5 metres (4.92 × 8.20 feet)
|3 person
|3 × 2.5 metres (9.84 × 8.20 feet)
|4 person
|4.5 × 2.5 metres (14.76 × 8.20 feet)
|5 person
|6 × 3 metres (19.69 × 9.84 feet)
|6+ person
|7 × 4.5 metres (22.97 × 14.76 feet)
Please be advised that Site sizes vary from park to park and within each park. Sites will be allocated based on the measurements provided during the booking process and it is the responsibility of the guest to ensure estimates are as close to accurate as possible.
If you are unsure, we would prefer you to overestimate or give us a call on 1300 738 044
This modern 3 Bedroom Villa offers a spacious open plan living, dining and kitchen area that opens out onto a beautiful outdoor deck with views over our campground. Located close to all recreational facilities and room to park two cars. The main bedroom features a king bed with private ensuite, the second bedroom also has a king sized bed and there are two sets of bunks in the third bedroom with all…
This modern 3 Bedroom Villa offers a spacious open plan living, dining and kitchen area that opens out onto a beautiful outdoor deck with views over our campground. Located close to all recreational facilities and room to park two cars. The main bedroom features a king bed with private ensuite, the second bedroom also has a king sized bed and there are two sets of bunks in the third bedroom with all linen provided. In addition there is a fold-out double sofa in the living area, meaning that this Family Bungalow can sleep up to 10 people! The generous gourmet kitchen includes a full-size fridge, dishwasher, gas cook top, oven and microwave and you can enjoy a family meal at the large dining table. The spacious lounge has two large sofas with flatscreen TV and DVD player as well as a fully furnished deck and car parking alongside.
Cabin sleeps up to 10
Maximum of 10 adult(s)
Maximum of 8 children
3 Bedroom/s
6 Bed/s
2 Bathroom/s
No pets allowed in the Cabin
General Features
- Air Conditioner
- Bedrooms separate from living area
- Ceiling Fan
- Fully Self Contained Kitchen
- Lounge
- Smoke Free
- Cot available for hire (on request)
- All Linen provided
- Bunk Beds
- King Size Bed
- Hair Dryer
- Shampoo and Conditioner
- Shower -no bath
- Ensuite
Kitchen & Dining
- Cooking Utensils
- Cutlery and Crockery
- Dining Table & Chairs
- Dishwasher
- Fridge/ Freezer
- Microwave
- Oven
- Toaster
- Welcome Tea, Coffee and Sugar
- High Chair available for hire (on request)
- Coffee Machine
Entertainment & Electronics
- DVD Player
- Internet- Net4 Wireless
- Balcony/ Courtyard/ Veranda
- Outdoor Setting
Plus enjoy all the park facilities and fun activities on offer at BIG4 Karuah Jetty Holiday Park, as well as the many things to see and do around Port Stephens.
Check in
After 2pm for villas and ensuite sites, after 11am for sites
Check out
Before 10am on day of departure
Reception hours
9am-5pm, seven days (closed Christmas Day). After hours check-in available everyday, please arrange one day prior to arrival. Seasonal reception hours apply during daylight savings, please enquire with staff prior to 5pm on day of arrival.
Deposit & Payments
Below are the terms and conditions for Karuah Riverview Pty Ltd trading as BIG4 Karuah Jetty Holiday Park: Deposit of one night stay is due on booking to confirm, balances are due on arrival. Exception to Christmas school holidays, balances are due 14 days prior to arrival.
Changes & Cancellations
Changes are permitted and subject to availability, rates may vary due to seasonal tariffs and/or difference in the amount of people registered on the booking. Cancellation inside 30 days from arrival = Forfeiture of deposit which is the first night's rate. Cancellations outside of 30 days from arrival = 50% of the deposit paid. Guests who fail to arrive on their arrival date will be classed as a 'no-show' and forfeit any funds paid, no credits or refunds permitted for a 'no-show' occurrence. Refunds: Refunds may take up to 10 business days to show on your account. Refunds can only be processed onto the original credit or debit card of the person who made the booking.
Additional Guest Fees: The rate is based on the first 2 people and additional persons are charged at the seasonal rate. Day visitors are permitted at a nominal fee from three years old and above. Please note, day visitors are subject to maximum guest capacity rule and a maximum vehicle capacity rule, which may require staff to decline entry by foot or by car.
If you are travelling with dogs you must notify staff prior to check in to acknowledge and sign the BIG4 Karuah Jetty Dog Policy Agreement on arrival. No more than two (2) dogs are allowed per site. When you check in, let the front desk staff know you'll have a dog on site. You'll need to sign a Pet Policy Agreement, and then you and your dog can make yourselves at home. Be sure to keep your dog on a leash or in a carrier during your stay. Dogs shall remain within your control at all times, either on a leash or in a carrier. If your pet is disturbing other guests/staff or causing damage, you will be required to depart the park without refund of your deposit or remaining charges.
You need to know
Below are the terms and conditions for Karuah Riverview Pty Ltd trading as BIG4 Karuah Jetty Holiday Park:
Phone booking deposits must be made by Visa or MasterCard, credit or debit card only. Special rates or deals may require full payment at time of booking.
Group bookings: A minimum of 10 bookings is required to qualify as a group booking, payment terms are advised at the time of confirmation.
Security codes expire at 10am on the day of departure, please ensure you have contacted office staff by 10am on your day of departure to extend your stay or request a late check-out where available. Failure to depart the park by designated check-out time will incur an additional night's fee at the full advertised rate, charged to their card.
Any special requests are welcome and will be actioned at the discretion of management, please note that all requests cannot be guaranteed.
A credit card must be produced in the name of the person staying at the park upon arrival as a security bond and any damages or excess cleaning costs caused by the guest/s will be charged to the card. Minimum night stays apply during peak holiday dates please refer to the rate conditions prior to making a reservation.
Should you have any queries regarding your stay please contact our office between 9am-5pm.
Guests who are travelling with medically certified dogs must pre-book their accommodation and provide an authority-issued certificate as evidence.
We reserve the right to refuse a booking at any time from any person reasonably believed to:
- Not be the person named on the booking request.
- Not be authorised to use the credit or debit card produced.
- Not be able to pay for any charges.
- May cause damage to the property or other guest property.
- May exhibit socially unacceptable behaviour.
- Be younger than 18 years old and not accompanied by a responsible adult over the age of 25 years old.
- Be concealing an unauthorised animal.
We reserve the right to eject guests from the park who are deemed by management to be behaving in a socially unacceptable way; causing damage; disturbing other guests; using unacceptable language or otherwise breaking Park Rules. No refund will be given and charges will apply for any damage caused.
BIG4 Holiday Parks of Australia Pty Ltd is not the owner of any particular BIG4 Holiday Park. BIG4 Holiday Parks facilitates this booking service and is not responsible for the provision of services, standard of facilities or payments received. All bookings are made directly with the individual owner of this BIG4 Member Park and therefore BIG4 Holiday Parks will not accept any claims for refunds or credits.
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Instill the virtue of selflessness in your children this Christmas with this unique tree. Our Heroes Camouflage Christmas tree brings an air of valor to the home with its camouflage colors and reminds us of the patriotism of our soldiers.
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These wolves are Italian wolves ,Canis lupus italicus, also known as Apennine wolves and they are a sub species of the European Grey wolf.
These are some pictures of Italian wolves taken at Parc Alpha. They are semi-wild and like the other wolves in the parc are deliberately not habituated to humans or tamed as they are part of a breeding programme and the idea is that the offspring will be as wild as possible.
Wolves are viewed from specially constructed hides and they will stay in the treeline or leave if they hear too much noise. All the photos are taken through double glazed windows.
This is another pack of wolves at the parc - these are from eastern Europe. They are quite a bit bigger than the Italian wolves.
We were lucky enough to arrive at this hide when the wolves were feeding.
This is one of the two cubs belonging to this pack. According to the warden, we were very lucky to see the young one as they usually hide in the trees and have food brought to them.
he was quite bold and boucny, like a half grown Alsatian puppy.
This is one of the older pack members taking food back to some of the females and other cub.
Wolves will cache prey for leaner times and I was amazed when these wolves started to dig in front of us to cache some meat.


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Farewell, Frontbutt: Local band sits down
For five years, the boys of Frontbutt have been wiping out crowds with their blend of classic '80s and '90s hip-hop. Now, their roll has run out.
"It started with me," explains Lincoln Ross Barbour, aka the Notorious L.O.G (and a Hook photographer). With his photography business starting to take off, Barbour says, the challenge of trying to run a business and be a rock star was too much.
Fans will likely miss the mayhem that was a Frontbutt show, which won raves for its name and its music in both local weekly newspapers.
"Usually there's a good 10 to 20 girls dancing on stage," laughs Barbour. "Pretty much every show is kind of crazy."
While Barbour and Dave Munn, aka Munny Shot, will miss, as Barbour puts it, "hanging out with people, having fun while playing music," several bandmates have other musical avenues to pursue.
Rob Richmond, aka Dr. Edit, plays in a band called P.O.W. which Barbour says is "starting to get more organized." And the three others are in the band Navel, which just returned from a West Coast tour.
"They're really taking off," Barbour says of Navel, which features Drew Worsley and Wally Worsley, aka Etch-a- Sketch and Fakebeard the Pirate, and Gre Brier, aka Ol' Gre-D Bastard.
While it's sad to say goodbye, these fellows will no doubt be, ah, flush with success in their new lives. No ifs, ands, or Frontbutts about it.
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I recently joined a software development project that involves not only myself and other internal Microsoft employees, but a partner and a customer as well. We are building a hybrid solution that uses assets on premises as well as Windows Azure for processing. When we put the team together we picked a methodology (Agile) for the project (we use multiple methodologies at Microsoft - whatever the project needs) and then we started talking about Source Control.
We're all comfortable with various tools for check-in-check-out, branching, and so on. We have all used GIT, SVN, and TFS. Some of us have even used Source Safe in past, but that's another post. Each company has a full set of Source Control systems in place. But using each other's systems requires logins, firewalls and the like - so we decided to use the TFS Service Preview to run the entire project from "the cloud". Here are my experiences with that.
The process was really simple. In fact, we talked about using the cloud TFS in the first SCRUM, and the team was working from the Work Items list that afternoon. The original account login provides a web interface to allow people to join the team. Each of us happened to have a Live.Com address, so we just invited those addresses to join and they got a link, like this:
I'm using Visual Studio, and it's a requirement for TFS preview to have SP1 installed, and this patch: KB2581206
From there, I opened Visual Studio and navigated from the main menu to Team and then Connect to Team Foundation Server. I'm given this menu:
Selecting port 443 and HTTPS (for security) and then ensuring the lower link has the "tfs" appended as the location, I opened the project.
(This VSTS screenshot is of a project I did in my University of Washington class I teach - I never show client code or names in a blog post)
From there it's a normal set of operations. Right now the preview doesn't have some things I'd really like, such as an automated build or some of the testing tools, but you can read this blog entry to learn more about the entire sign-up process, and what the team has planned.
Each day I log in to the project, and I'm given this new sign-in option:
I click the option, and I open the environment, hit My Work Items query, and get to work. All in all, a seamless - although basic - experience. The speed at which we could set up and work on a project was really sweet. It's remarkable how un-remarkable this is - I just do my work each day, everything is running and backed up in the cloud. I think that's the point.


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Welcome to the final week of the Great Turtle Race everyone! I'm Rowdy Gaines, with Mr Leatherback, and we are thrilled to report that after more than 10 days and thousands of miles of swimming, WE HAVE A WINNER!!
Backspacer has finally ended the suspense! She made up her mind and crossed the finish line through the Windward Islands, between St. Vincent and St. Lucia. Now she's doing a victory lap inside the Caribbean – or is she telling us that she's still undecided about which nesting beach to go to…
See the dramatic finish on the race map!
Congratulations to Backspacer and her sponsor, rock band Pearl Jam!
Pearl Jam's lead guitarist Stone Gossard and Eric Shanteau predicted victory for Backspacer all along! Listen as they discuss our winner's training regimen as well as the importance of ocean conservation.
Who will be next? In these last few days of the Race, the suspense is really building. There are several turtles that seem to be poised to beat the buzzer and finish the Race.
Nueva Esperanza sure seems to be picking up speed as well. She is doing her best speedboat impression and is motoring toward the Caribbean after being hundreds of kilometers out to sea – she's really close to finishing!
And how about Estéban! He seemed to almost cross the finish line, but bounced back and did a loop. Maybe he's following Backspacer's example…
And check out Seabiscuit. He's oh-so-close to the finish line off Suriname and French Guiana… Maybe he's waiting for Wawa Bear.
Lindblad the Explorer seems to have stopped in her tracks like Billy did before. Maybe she's whale watching? Or doing some SCUBA diving? Maybe she's just resting up for the final push to the finish line. She'd better hurry – she doesn't have much time!
In other news, Nightswimmer has changed course and is now heading west toward the US. Is she heading for Florida? Or maybe toward her sponsor's REM's home state of Georgia?
Check back tomorrow to see if other turtles can cross the finish line before the Race ends!
We know leatherbacks are deep divers, but what about our Race turtles?
On the final day of the Race, we'll announce the winner of the granddaddy of all swimming competitions – total distance traveled. Olympic star Aaron Peirsol is the official spokesperson and coach for this challenge, and hopes that some of his expertise will help the turtles go the distance! Check back on Wednesday, April 29th to see which turtle will claim the title of champion traveler!


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I'm Richard & I've been interested in Dolly since 1983, when Islands In The Stream was in the charts.
This September I got the chance to spend 2 weeks in the Southern states & got to visit some Dolly related places, but sadly didn't get the chance to go to Dollywood, as it was too far off our route.
At least I got to go to the Country Hall Of Fame, The Ryman Auditorium & The Grand Ole Opry.
Even the Rock & Soul museum in Memphis gave an insight into the sharecropper lifestyle, similar to Dolly's childhood.


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Earlier this month an underground fire knocked out cable for a big chunk of the East Village in NYC. Remember that whole #fixcable thing from this summer? Well this is what it looks like when they literally fix cable.
Basically, what happened on October 6th was a steam pipe sprang a leak, which shorted out some electrical wiring, which caused a fire, which melted the bejeezus out of Time Warner's fiber-optic cable and knocked out cable services for over a hundred nodes. Considering a single node provides services to 300 to 600 customers, that's no small outage. Time Warner's Untangled blog has a cool photographic tour of the crazy, twisted world of underground cable, and it's definitely worth the quick read.
Service was restored later that day, which seems somewhat miraculous considering splicing fiber-optic together is described as "re-connecting a severed ponytail" one hair at a time. I feel like I have tendonitis just thinking about it. [TW Untangled]
You can keep up with Brent Rose, the author of this post, on Google+ or Twitter.


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Cellulitis of the scalpJuly 12th, 2010
Rom J Morphol Embryol. 2009;50:719
The importance of histopathologic aspects in of dissecting cellulitis of the scalp.
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Dissecting cellulitis of the scalp or dissecting folliculitis also known as "perifoliculitis capitis abscedens et suffodiens" (PCAS), is a rare, severe and distinct dermatological disease and cause of hair loss. It most probably occurs because of follicular occlusion via hyperkeratosis, having the same mechanism of acnea conglobata and hidradenitis suppurativa. These dermatoses may be associated or may have an isolated evolution. PCAS is one of the primitive cicatricial air loss of neutrophilic type. What is characteristic for the histopathologic picture of the disease is the deep inflammatory infiltrate, placed at the reticular derm or hypoderm level. snip.. Here is the case of a 24-year-old male with records of acne conglobata and cicatricial hair loss of the scalp, with relapsed inflammatory nodular lesions on the surface of the alopecic plaques and follicular pustules on their margin. The patient had followed before hospitalizing a systemic treatment with antibiotics (azithromycin, tetracycline, ciprofloxacin, in therapeutic schemes that the patient cannot mention, but anyway of short time) and after that a treatment with retinoids (isotretinoin, 20-30 mg/day, in two successive therapies of one month each). The evolution of the disease under these treatments was with outbreaks and short times of remission of the acne lesions and nodular lesions of the scalp. The clinical diagnosis of PCAS is difficult, especially in the initial stage of the disease, as it was the case of the patient presented here. snip....
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EGF and hair loss treatmentJune 2nd, 2010
Doru T et al
Dermatology Online Journal 15: 1
....better understanding of the EGF family ligands and receptors, as well as their interplay and physiological phases, has the potential to produce a revolution in the treatment of hair loss. Availability of topical EGFR blockers and the development of more specific molecules that will stimulate the hair regrowth pathways will build on the fact that EGFR blockade can produce long-term hair growth. An apparent lack of tolerance to the hair regrowth effect after long term treatment, as recently seen, contrasts with other systemic and cutaneous toxicities of medications from the EGFR blocking class, thus creating the possibility of clinically relevant long-lasting effects.
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An interesting model for hair loss in dogsNovember 27th, 2009
Can Vet J. 2009 May; 50(5): 511–514. PMCID: PMC2671874
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Color dilution alopecia in a blue Doberman pinscher crossbreed
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A 6-year-old male, blue Doberman pinscher crossbreed was presented with coat abnormalities; in particular, flank hair loss and pruritus. Based on medical the history, clinical evidence, and histopathological examination, color dilution alopecia was diagnosed. The dog was with oral melatonin treated for 3 months without success.
Alopécie à dilution de couleur chez une race croisée de Doberman Pinscher bleu. Un Doberman Pinscher âgé de 6 ans est présenté avec des anomalies du pelage; en particulier, une alopécie du flanc et du prurit. En fonction de l'anamnèse, des signes cliniques et de l'examen histopathologique, l'alopécie à dilution de couleur a été diagnostiquée. Le chien a été traité sans succès à la mélatonine pendant 3 mois.(Traduit par Isabelle Vallières)
Psoriatic alopecia: acute and chronic hair lossNovember 24th, 2009
Dermatology. 1992;185:82
Psoriatic alopecia: acute and chronic hair loss in 47 patients with scalp psoriasis.
Runne U, Kroneisen-Wiersma P.
Symptomatic hair loss and alopecia were seen in psoriatic lesions of the scalp in 47 patients. snip... Hair loss varied in intensity from protracted to moderate and massive (36% in tufts). It presented as acute (51%), chronic (36%) or chronic recurrent (13%). Thirteen patients (28%) became aware of the hair loss with the beginning of therapy. snip... This infiltrate can alter the follicle epithelium and may lead to a granulomatous foreign-body reaction with destruction of the hair follicle. After topical antipsoriatic treatment, most of the reexamined patients showed complete hair regrowth, while 5 developed a residual scarring. Therefore, in the patient with circumscribed or diffuse symptomatic alopecia, with or without scarring, psoriatic alopecia should be considered.


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Did anyone watch BBC Two's Great British Bake-off? We ADORED this series….scrumptious recipes on their website. Sadly, here at Katy Potts, we're rather better at eating cakes than actually baking them. Generally speaking we like to leave that to the experts, but when we do feel like giving it a whirl, we turn to lovely Delia. Here's a very helpful video (going back somewhat by the looks of things!) on the simple sponge!
Do you know any simple cake recipes? Please send them in!! x


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Photo Tips: How to Make a Tinder Profile
That fall, his relationship of two and a half years finally ended, and Eli found himself single again. He was 27 years old, losing the vestigial greenness of his youth. He wanted to have sex with some women, and he wanted some stories to tell. He updated his dating profiles. He compiled his photos. He experimented with taglines. He downloaded all the apps. He knew the downsides—the perfidy of the deceptive head shot, the seductress with the intellect of a fence post—but he played anyway. He joined every free dating service demographically available to him.
Around the same time, somewhere across town, a woman named Katherine**1 ** shut down her OkCupid account. She had approached Internet dating assertively, had checked the box that read Short-term dating and the one that read Casual sex. Then a casual encounter had turned menacing, and Katherine decided she no longer wanted to pursue sex with total strangers. But she had a problem: She liked the adventure, she had the usual human need for other humans, and she needed the convenience of meeting people online. Katherine was 37, newly single, with family obligations and a full-time job. Most of her friends were married. She needed something new.
When Katherine and Eli downloaded Tinder in October 2013, they joined millions of Americans interested in trying the fastest-growing mobile dating service in the country. Tinder does not give out statistics about the number of its users, but the app has grown from being the plaything of a few hundred Los Angeles party kids to a multinational phenomenon in less than a year. Unlike the robot yentas of yore (Match.com, OkCupid, eHarmony), which out-competed one another with claims of compatibility algorithms and secret love formulas, the only promise Tinder makes is to show you the other users in your immediate vicinity. Depending on your feelings for these people, you swipe them to the left (meaning no thanks) or to the right (yes, please). Two people who swipe each other to the right will match. Your matches accrue in a folder, and often that's the end of the story. Other times you start texting. The swiping phase is as lulling in its eye-glazing repetition as a casino slot machine, the chatting phase ideal for idle, noncommittal flirting. In terms of popularity, Tinder is a massive and undeniable success. Whether it works depends on your idea of working.
For Katherine, still wary from her bad encounter, Tinder offered another advantage. It uses your pre-existing Facebook network and shows which friends, if any, you have in common with the person in the photo. On October 16, Eli appeared on her phone. He was cute. He could tell a joke. (His tagline made her laugh.) They had one friend in common, and they both liked Louis C.K. (Who doesn't like Louis C.K.? Eli says later. Oh, you also like the most popular comedian in America?) She swiped him to the right. Eli, who says he would hook up with anybody who isn't morbidly obese or in the middle of a self-destructive drug relapse, swipes everyone to the right. A match!
He messaged first. Sixty-nine miles away?? he asked.
I'm at a wedding in New Jersey, she replied.
So, Eli said to himself, she's lonely at a wedding in New Jersey.
Eli: So why you on Tinder?
Katherine: To date. You?
Eli said it was an esteem thing. It had taught him that women find me more attractive than I think. Unfortunately for Katherine, he told her he didn't have a lot of time to date. He worked two jobs. They wanted different things. It therefore read as mock bravado when Eli wrote, But you ever just want to fuck please please holler at me cool??? He added his number.
Katherine waited an hour to respond. Then: Ha. And then, one minute later, I will. And: I kinda do.
Eli: Please please do. ;)
Katherine liked that he was younger. He was funny. He did not, like one guy, start the conversation with Don't you want to touch my abs? He said please. Eli liked that Katherine was older. Katherine wrote: You can't be psycho or I will tell [name of mutual friend]. He sympathized with that, too.
The parameters were clear. They arranged to meet.
I first signed up for Tinder in May but found it skewed too young. (I'm 32.) When I looked again in mid-October, everything had changed. I swiped through people I knew from college, people I might've recognized from the train. I saw it had gone global when a friend in England posted a Tinder-inspired poem on her Facebook page (and here are we, He and Me, our flat-screen selves rendered 3D). I started to check it regularly. The more I used it, the more I considered how much it would have helped me at other times in my life—to make friends in grad school, to meet people after moving to a new city. It seemed possible that one need never be isolated again.
In December, I flew out to Los Angeles, where Tinder is based, to visit the company's offices and meet two of its founders, Sean Rad and Justin Mateen, both 27. (The third is Jonathan Badeen, the engineer who built the app.) Rad is the chief ecutive officer; Mateen is chief marketing officer. They are also best friends, share a resemblance to David Schwimmer, and have been known to show up for work in the same outfit. I was staying only a mile from Tinder's offices in West Hollywood, and within forty-eight hours both founders showed up on my Tinder feed. Other memorable appearances on my feed in Los Angeles included a guy holding a koala bear, a guy and his Yorkshire terrier, in matching sweaters, and a pipe-smoking dandy with a Rasputin beard, horn-rimmed glasses, and a gold ring the exact shape and size of a cicada.
Rad and Mateen are local boys. They both grew up in Beverly Hills, although they attended different private schools. They first encountered each other at 14, when Sean made a play for Justin's girlfriend. (We met because we both liked the same girl—but the girl was my girlfriend, says Justin.) They reconnected at USC, and then both started independent companies. Justin's was a social network for celebrities. Sean's was Adly, a platform that allows companies to advertise via celebrities' social networks. He sold the majority of his stake in 2012. I didn't want to be in the ad business, he says. He also didn't want to make things for computers. Computers are going extinct, he says. Computers are just work devices. For people his age, the primary way to interface with the technical world was through a mobile device.
Rad and Mateen have shared business ideas with each other for years, and every idea begins with a problem. The key to solving the problem that interested Tinder: I noticed that no matter who you are, you feel more comfortable approaching somebody if you know they want you to approach them, says Sean. They had both experienced the frustration of sending smoke signals through social media. There are people that want to get to know you who don't know you, so they're resorting to Facebook, explains Justin. When those advances or friendings or followings are unwanted, they say, the overtures can seem a little creepy. (Consider, for example, the long-standing mystery of the Facebook poke.) Sean was interested in the idea of the double opt-in—some establishment of mutual interest that precedes interaction.
And so Tinder entered a fossilizing industry. Most of the big players (including Match.com, Plenty of Fish, OkCupid, eHarmony, Manhunt, JDate, and Christian Mingle) established themselves before billions of humans carried miniature satellite-connected data processors in their pockets, before most people felt comfortable using their real names to seek companionship online, and before a billion people joined Facebook—before Facebook even existed. Tinder's major advantages come from exploiting each of these recent developments. The company also managed to accrue, in less than a year of existence, the only truly important asset of any dating site: millions and millions of users.
Nicole is 30, a willowy brunette with curly hair who describes herself on Tinder as Dancey, smiley, lovey, tall. Like 60 tall. Since joining Tinder last summer, she has chatted with dozens of guys but only gone on two Tinder dates. In general, she thinks Tinder is hilarious.
Sometimes she'll start Tindering while on the train and will get so distracted she'll miss her stop. She finds she sometimes falls into a soothing swiping rhythm where she's not really looking at the men, just calming herself with a repetitive pattern of left-right swipes. Getting a match seems to activate some primal-gratification center in her mind. She likes that it's played like a game.
I'm definitely not the type of woman who walks around thinking that everyone thinks I'm hot, Nicole tells me. She does not feel like the people who want to date her are abundant and everywhere, so when a lot of matching happens, it comes as a real boost. It makes me look at my external world in a more favorable way, she says. When she's bored, she goes on Tinder. When she wants validation, she finds it on Tinder. She uses it when she's feeling down. (Tinder gets a slight uptick in use on Sundays, that day of hangovers, boredom, and planning.) Sending screenshots of the most ridiculous photos that come up has become a source of merriment for her and her friends. There seems to be a preponderance of men posing with tigers, she says.
Actually communicating with people is another story. I do a lot of not responding, which is probably horrible, politenesswise, she says. It takes an especially dynamic person to win her over at text messaging. The usual Hi, how are you? bores her. I'm a social worker, and I talk to people all day, she says. I'm not interested in someone's How are you? question. Her two dates both persuaded her to go out by being really solid text conversationalists.
The dates were fine. They did not end in sex, unlike many of her first dates on OkCupid. Part of this was simply that expectations are so much lower on Tinder; all you know about the people in your folder is that your advances are welcome. The lack of stated purpose in each profile can lead to some confusion. In fact, many of the people I interviewed asked me what the site is supposed to be for. Some people, used to reading between the lines in such matters, simply assume casual sex. Not Nicole. I ask how she makes that clear, and she says she does not respond to messages that arrive at 3 A.M.
She has used the site both in New York, where she lives, and in the Bay Area, where she is from. She observes a clear difference. When she signed on in the Bay, she felt a flood of recognition: These are my people! she said. They're on Tinder here! I ask what that means, and she says, More earthy, hipstery thirtysomething folks. She had more matches. They were all so cute and looked so friendly and warm and fun. But how does she distinguish that from people in New York? She describes a typical photo of a New Yorker as a selfie taken in a fancy lounge bathroom while wearing a suit.
As a college student, co-founder Justin Mateen perfected a system of party promotion. He would strike an agreement with a club to ensure a minimum of drink sales. He would hire a performer. Then he would enlist representatives from the fraternities and sororities of USC and UCLA to recruit people, promising a free ticket for every ten tickets sold from their houses and a monetary prize if they brought one hundred partygoers. He took a cut of sales—the more money the bar made, the bigger his cut. It was a good little gig until his parents began to bother him about it: We don't want you to be a party thrower, they said.
But it helped, when Sean and Justin started Tinder, that Justin knew how to populate a party. They had disdain for traditional advertising; they wanted a new challenge. He wanted the app to catch on with the most difficult group of people—college students too young and socially active to need online dating, people who saw it as a stigmatized practice. He wanted people to join Tinder not because they saw an ad on Facebook but because they recognized its social value.
So Justin mined his contacts for models and sorority girls. Whitney Wolfe, Tinder's vice president of marketing, remembers going to the Apple store and telling the guy behind the counter about Tinder and watching his eyes pop out as he began swiping through; there may have been only 200 people, she remembers, but they were 200 of the prettiest girls you've ever seen.
In the beginning, Justin ran individual campaigns to encourage people to sign up. He would text each person personally. He targeted what he called social influencers, avoiding the awkward crowd of people probably most in need of a new way to make friends. Then he hit USC, enlisting the help of his younger brother and sister, who were students there. He launched Tinder on campus with a party for 300 USC students at his parents' house.
He shows me a photo of it from Instagram: a pool in the sunshine, shirtless partygoers, lanterns, an inflatable slide. To his mother's chagrin, he hung a giant Tinder banner from the roof. That was sixty-two weeks ago, he says, using Instagram's preferred metric of time. A year and ten weeks after the pool party, the company claims to have made a half billion matches and registers 450 million swipes a day.
Inspired in part by the path of Facebook, which launched first at elite colleges, Justin turned not just to the Ivy League but to schools known for their good parties. After seeding USC, Justin and Whitney traveled to schools like SMU in Dallas. Whitney might stand on a table in a fraternity and announce that there were 200 hot sorority girls on the app waiting for the men to sign up, then run to the sorority and tell them the reverse. They left a trail of stickers behind them—in the best campus bars, in the most exclusive nightclubs.
I was in a sorority, so I knew how to get into the brains of sorority girls, says Whitney, who is now 24. Justin knew how to get into the brains and the pants of sorority girls. For colleges they did not visit, Justin hired a campus representative, usually the younger sibling of someone he knew from Los Angeles, several of them scions, all of them the most social and charismatic people he could find.
My interviews with Tinder's employees took place half in their offices, half in the leather interiors of luxury cars or while descending in the elevator from brunch at Soho House or waiting for the valet in the gardenia-scented drive of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Justin and Sean grew up rich and popular in a city of surface and sheen. They have none of the affectations of Hollywood ecutives. (They wear flannel shirts and sneakers; their shared office is littered with Nerf gun darts.) Still, their acute understanding of the metrics of social status seems a product of their environment. Sean is the homebody of the two, preferring the company of his girlfriend of six months, Alexa, who is the daughter of Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell. They met on Tinder, and her friends call her Tinderella. Things get awkward at family functions when Sean opines that computers are dead.
Justin is more raffish. If he is less interested in having a serious relationship than Sean, it is because what genuinely seems to make him happiest is going out in the world, making new friends, and persuading them to download Tinder. His home, a spacious bungalow on the border of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, feels like a barely occupied hotel. (He selected his dining-room table because it reminded him of the lobby of the Delano South Beach in Miami.)
One day he had a lunch meeting with the producers of The Mindy Project, which will be putting Tinder in an upcoming episode, so I rode along with him. As I listened to him chat with his art consultants over Bluetooth in his black Mercedes SUV with its Tinder sticker on the spare tire, I wondered whether L.A.'s VIP-obsessed culture had something to do with the company's exponential growth. It's difficult to imagine Tinder coming from Silicon Valley. The key to Tinder—the double opt-in—is an idea born of real-world experience (this is what you want in a bar—to know that the person you want to hit on wants you to hit on him or her) as opposed to sophisticated computer metrics. For once in the tech world, the socially gifted are leading the socially stunted.
Ben messaged me first. He was interesting, because his tagline said, Tall, dominant man seeks submissive girl. Intelligence and humor a must. He agreed to be interviewed, then added, Will still put the moves on you, obviously. Good, I thought, staring with boredom and resentment at my phone. He turned out to be a gentleman, saying he has used the service to make friends as much as he has to facilitate his BDSM fetish. I am not into BDSM, but I did feel happy when Ben kissed me and then when he text-messaged me a week later and called me darling.
I talked to a European who uses Tinder while traveling for work. I noticed when I was in the Midwest that girls were far more approachable, he said. They returned messages more. I talked to a tech consultant in Los Angeles who uses Tinder to enliven a dull or overly male social situation—like the last bachelor party he went to in Las Vegas. The guys met some women on Tinder. People coupled off. People got naked. Mayhem ensued. I asked about the women—were they, er, from Las Vegas? They weren't locals, and they weren't hookers, he said. They didn't have to be: The above experience is what people are optimizing for when they're single in Vegas, he says. He said he has friends that start firing up the app as soon as they land at the airport.
One canard is that Tinder disproportionately favors the beautiful. I swiped one guy, David, to the right because his photo made me laugh. He had taken a common trope—the painfully serious selfie—and turned it into a joke.
He messaged a few days later and turned out to be the most overtly sexual person I chatted with on Tinder. Like most heterosexuals, I have spent years watching my gay friends cruise apps like Grindr with muted fascination. How easy it was for willing men to have spontaneous sex with strangers! What was wrong with women like me, equally willing and desirous, at least in theory, but in practice so finicky and inhibited? The idea of a Grindr for straight people took hold in the heterosexual imagination, becoming a sort of holy grail. But it never seemed to work out. Blendr has a pretty sordid feeling to it. Bang With Friends was conceived drunkenly and ended in a lawsuit.
When Tinder appeared, its mimicry of Grindr's location-based approach seemed to indicate that Grindr for straight people had finally arrived. Sean and Justin insist that that's a mischaracterization. (Married people can use it to meet tennis partners!) But like most people, I know the difference between corporate skywriting and what humans are actually like. If Mormons in Utah are using Tinder to find husbands and wives, hedonists in New York are fulfilling their dreams of a futuristic mobile-phone-sex utopia.
I have already had what I would consider some pretty inappropriate thoughts concerning you so far, wrote David. He had used the service for casual sex before. My level of knowledge when it comes to sex, the psychology behind it all and lots of fun stuff is not something I hide. He said several women have taken advantage of his comfort and confidence to use me for sex and ask me to help them experience new things.
I told him I would be interested in meeting up…at some point. This was genuine. He wanted to meet up that night. When I said no, he asked why. I told him I had plans with friends. He offered to pick me up from the party I was going to. I wrote, No, I'm flattered but just want to hang out with friends tonight. He suggested we meet afterward. Not tonight, I wrote. He asked what the real reason was. I was guilty of making an overture I no longer wanted to keep, and things started feeling less like flirtation than unwanted pressure. After a certain point, I knew I would not be having casual sex with David.
I don't agree with the Tinder founders, who say there isn't a straight version of Grindr because girls aren't wired that way—I know too many women who have used dating services for casual sex. Most mainstream dating companies downplay or ignore the use of their services for casual sex, the philosophy being that people who want that will find it. If casual sex is the main selling point, however, people who don't want it will be alienated.
But sometimes one wishes the geniuses of the tech world would address certain problems even more directly. Beyond proving that users are real because they have a Facebook account, how could a dating app help a sexually adventurous woman both pursue casual encounters and reliably vet potential partners? How could it help her minimize the risk of rape?
I thought also of the party I was headed to, of the problems of creepiness that Tinder purported to solve. There's creepiness, and then there's the stigma of everyday loneliness and desire. But isn't desperation one of the animating forces of life? I hoped my friends would not wait for the double opt-in, that they would creepily ask their crushes to be their Facebook friends, that they would stare at each other, and reveal their vulnerability, and make excruciating overtures that would be met with catastrophically embarrassing rejections. I went to my party, during which David texted twice—and once the next morning, and once the day after that, and twice the following Monday.
Sarah is the kind of person whose presence on an online dating site convinces everyone else that it's normal to use it. She is a native New Yorker, 28 years old, beautiful and stylish, with a job at a tech company and a large network of friends and family in the city, and she's immediately perceivable as a happy, well-rounded person. Like most people I interviewed, she has tried other dating sites—HowAboutWe, Grouper, OkCupid—but she was most drawn to Tinder because she doesn't have to provide any information. She found most people's self-presentation on OkCupid too calculated; also, you have to write so much. Tinder, she says, is just how you would go about things at a bar, and as easy as a Facebook like. You look at people, pick one who looks nice to you, then try to talk to him.
Sarah seems to prove the theory that Tinder's success has to do with its appeal to women. Rather than a total inundation with messages by strangers on OkCupid, Sarah gets to choose whom she likes. Going through potential dates does not take up all her time—she can easily cover a few dozen in a span of minutes.
She joined Tinder in the middle of September. She was about to switch jobs and was winding things down at a previous job, so she would spend tons of time playing on Tinder. She was the first person I interviewed, though not the only one, who referred to using Tinder with the verb play. Contrary to some opinions, Sarah found she could tell more from a person's photos than she could from a carefully thought-out website profile. A picture is something that's taken in the moment, she says. You can't change your smile. Her pet peeve is surfing photos. She always thinks they're some kind of fake stock photo and always says no to people who have them. She also finds it weird when a guy lists his height: I think they're lying to me.
She casts a broad net. If she feels indecisive, she swipes yes. She does not waste time trying to compose lyrical messages: Just say some bullshit. She also doesn't like prolonged messaging: Just go out or not. To do anything else is a waste of one's battery. (Tinder's location-based tech drains phone batteries.) On the casual-sex question, she's not interested. In the beginning, someone messaged her, So if you're on Tinder you're into stranger sex, when are we having stranger sex? Isn't Tinder for that? She replied, Not for me, and blocked him. It's not that she isn't into casual sex. I have people that I can use in that way if I want to, she said. I don't need to find five of them.
Sarah's first four Tinder dates were fine, but the fifth was one of those minor miracles of coincidence that sometimes manifest themselves amid the throngs of New York City. One weekend night, Sarah went to a bar and got very, very drunk. The next morning, her friends asked her about the guy whose number she got. What guy? she asked. Her memory was foggy. Her friends were appalled—only the best-looking guy in the bar! She had no memory of the event. She went on Tinder, swiping despondently. She resumed a chat she'd been having with a man whose photos were cute-ish, whom she had swiped to the right despite the presence of one weird artistic selfie that made the guy look like kind of a douchebag. They chatted with the usual banalities: Hey and How's your day? and How's your weekend? He asked for her number. She gave it to him. Then the magical moment: I have something weird to tell you, he said. He had not been sure until she gave him the proof—her number was already in his phone. It was the guy from the previous night. When I met her, they had gone out five times in two weeks.
Katherine and Eli, the older woman and the younger man, met at what he remembers as a weird, kind of fancy bar that's in some kind of labyrinth.
Despite the intensity of their texting, they did not start making out right away. Instead, they talked. They shared their recent sexual histories, their past sexual histories, their addiction problems. It seemed like a fair thing to do, says Eli. Maybe it wasn't sexy, but the theme of it was more intimate, like I need to know you better as, like, a safety thing.
They went to her place. They had sex. It was great. (Both parties confirmed this.) Then they had sex again. He left after midnight, because he had to work in the morning. That they haven't met again is more because they live inconveniently far from each other. I might not go out to Bushwick, where he lives with his roommates, says Katherine, but I think our paths will cross again in one way or another.
I ask Eli if he is looking for a girlfriend. He says he would like a partner, sure, but that he still wants to meet people, that he's interested in polyamory. He attributes his flexibility to how he was raised, in a home where acceptance of sexual diversity was seen as the enlightened political position. I'm definitely queer, in a sense, he says. In the sense of being way more open-minded to anything.
Eli is pursuing a sexual narrative that doesn't end in closure, that doesn't bear the expectations of gendered rituals. And whether it's for sex or just for meeting people, maybe Tinder will be the app for the never-ending present, for the idea of one's life not as culminating in a happy ending but a long series of encounters, sexual or otherwise. When I watched the founders of Tinder giving interviews, every reporter they spoke with seemed to ask how many marriages had resulted. After talking to people about their experiences, I realize that to think about marriage is to completely miss the point of Tinder. The app is about the world around you, the people in your immediate vicinity, and the desires of a particular moment.
Eli really likes Tinder. He considers it to be the most honest form of online dating. He loves the feeling of scoring, a high without consequences. When I met him, he had just had an encounter he called awful, but that was, in its own way, a kind of dream.
She messaged at 10 P.M. on Thanksgiving night. She was a woman with whom he had transitioned from Tinder to text messaging, but this posed a problem: He could not remember who she was, what she looked like, and worst of all, her name. He got on a train anyway. He arrived at a glossy doorman building in Lower Manhattan. She had not yet arrived home, which meant Eli called and got her voice mail, from which (with relief) he learned her identity before she arrived. It turned out she's one of the ones who are on Tinder, and I'm like, Why are you talking to me, I'm a chubby Jew, my teeth are yellow because I drink coffee, and you're very successful and pretty.
But the night went downhill from there. They undressed and kissed and got into bed together, but they didn't connect. He spent the night, though she didn't feel like having sex. She talked really fast and mentioned her intention to wean herself off Adderall. Eli felt like perhaps she was disappointed in him, that he failed to meet her expectations. He left in the morning. I ask if the encounter depressed him. He thinks for a minute, tilts his head to the side, then says no: At the end of the day, I got to see her naked.
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You need a family visa to live with a family member in the UK for more than 6 months.
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You must live in the UK for a certain amount of time before you're eligible for settlement ('indefinite leave to remain') – check how much time you needbefore you extend your visa.
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The Medical Council regulates medical doctors in the Republic of Ireland. The Council's purpose is to protect the public by promoting and better ensuring high standards of professional conduct and professional education, training and competence among doctors.
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Feb. 7, 2009
MEDFORD, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's indoor track and field teams turned in a solid performance at the Tufts Invitational at the Gantcher Family Sports and Convocation Center Saturday.
There was no team scoring at the meet.
For the men, newcomer J.T. Harold (North Andover, MA/Austin Prep) made his track debut a successful one, finishing first in the long jump with a leap of 22 feet, three inches, which qualified him for both the Division III New England Championships, and the ECAC Championships. Freshman Gerald Arneaux (Dorchester, MA/Newton South HS) finished fourth in the 400 meters in 51.84 seconds, and also was a member of the third place 4 x 200 meter relay team, which posted a time of 1:35.33 and also included senior Jimmy Knuuttila (Lunenburg, MA/Lunenburg HS) , freshman Charles Nyamekye (Framingham, MA/Framingham HS), and junior Corey Sleep (Fall River, MA/Durfee HS). Sophomore Eric Nygaard (Medway, MA/Medway HS) ran the fourth fastest 1000 meter time in school history, 2:35.60, and also was a member of the fourth-place 4 x 800 meter relay team, which finished in 8:12.29 and included senior Tyler Buck (Valley Center, CA/Valley Center HS), junior Erik Gonzalez (Methuen, MA/Methuen HS), and junior Matt Lemanski (East Longmeadow, MA/East Longmeadow HS). Graduate student Eric Holmes (Abington, MA/Abington HS) qualified for the Division III New Englands with his time of 2:38.34 at 1000 meters, junior Derek Stevens (Swampscott, MA/Swampscott HS) was sixth at 3000 meters in 9:04.18, freshman Kevin Gilmore (Hanson, MA/Whitman-Hanson HS) was fourth at 5000 meters in 15:48.18, and sophomore Nick Deininger (North Attleboro, MA/North Attleboro HS) was eighth in the 55 meter hurdles in 8.42 seconds.
For the women, sophomore Jermai Harrison (Brockton, MA/Brockton HS) finished sixth in the shot put at 38 feet, six inches. In the 55 meter hurdles, sophomore Linee Mello-Frost (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS) was fourth in 9.40 seconds, and freshman Alison O'Rourke (Weymouth, MA/Weymouth HS) was sixth in 9.47 seconds. But she ran a personal best time of 9.39 seconds in the trials.
"Overall, it was a good performance," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve Gardiner. "We kind of low-keyed it, with the conference meet next week. Getting J.T. back is a boon for our jumping crew. Alison O'Rourke had a good performance in the hurdles, and Gerald Arneaux gave himself a couple of extra weeks in qualifying for the Division III New England Championships. Eric Nygaard also did a nice job in the 1000 and in the second leg of the 4 x 2."
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The Panthers have plenty of work to do this offseason, with 15 unrestricted free agents.
But they also want to hang onto a key part who has a year left on his deal.
According to Joe Person of the Charlotte Observer, the Panthers have reached out to coach Ron Rivera to start talks about a contract extension.
Rivera's entering the final year of a four-year, $11.2 million deal. He's earned plenty of praise for turning the Panthers around this year, leading them to a 12-4 record and the NFC South title.
But he also works for an owner in Jerry Richardson who flips long-term extensions for coaches around like manhole covers.
Part of the reason Broncos coach John Fox is in New Jersey tonight and not in his old house in Charlotte is because Richardson hesitated to pay him like an elite coach without back-to-back winning seasons on his resume.
So as excited as the Panthers might be about the recent results, the 13-19 record entering the year won't be forgotten either.
Much like the Rex Ryan "extension" with the Jets, the devil will be in the details on this one. It wouldn't be fair to Rivera to make him enter a lame duck season, but it would also be a surprise if he got a lucrative long-term deal on the back of one good year and two bad ones.
Unless Richardson abandons the way he's done business in the past, a shorter-term deal seems more likely.