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Apple's recent SSL bug has now been patched for OS X. A similar patch for iOS devices went live last week.
Use Your Android Phone to Cure Cancer
Smartphone manufacturer HTC has announced "Power to Give," a new initiative that harnesses the collective processing power of the company's smartphones to solve epic scientific challenges.
With the Galaxy S5, Samsung Wakes Up in a Post-Specs World
The Galaxy S5 is Samsung's first real attempt at a smartphone where the specs aren't what matter. And it's already more interesting than anything Samsung has produced in the last few years.
Samsung Unveils Galaxy S5 Smartphone
Today at the Mobile World Congress wireless show in Barcelona, Samsung unveiled its latest flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S5.
YotaPhone Gets Serious with Rear E-Ink Touchscreen, Better Specs
Never mind the old YotaPhone, here's the real YotaPhone.
Nokia's Game-Changing X, X+ and XL Android Phones Feature Microsoft Services
These are fascinating developments that we industry watchers will follow closely, and ones that should be of interest to consumers everywhere.
How to Use Your Smartphone Camera to Search
Whether you're trying to identify something you'd like to buy, checking for deals or looking for information on what you see in the world around you, visual search apps can help.
The Smartphone App Wars Are Over, and Apple Won
How the company would contend with a post-app era isn't so obvious, though.
Project Tango: Google's 3D-Tracking Phone Means More for Wearables
3D sensing tech promises not to be a battery hog, which is huge.
Quick Tech Trick: Type Less with Text Shortcuts for Your Phone
There's no reason to type out commonly-used phrases over and over again.
Google Introduces Phone With 3-D Sensors
Makes real-time, 3D maps of its environment
Hop — the Email App That Thinks It's Instant Messaging — Arrives on the iPad
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Some wag once said that the plural of anecdote is not data. That three teenage girls in Akron decided to shave their heads and wear giant black plastic bags to school every day means nothing much – it's not a fashion trend. There's no data there, just kids being kids, and it's the same in the news. All the anecdotes about how Obamacare ruined this person's life, or this other person's life, say nothing much about the millions of folks who never had health insurance but have it now – and most those horror stories turned out to be not true anyway. The Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity suddenly stopped running ad after ad in all the major markets that featured these devastating tales of woe.
Legions of fact-checkers kept embarrassing them. They learned their lesson. Even anecdotes should be true, and even then, they're still not data. The ethereal pundit Peggy Noonan, once a speech writer for Ronald Reagan, found that out. She saw the lawn signs here and there, and she felt what was in the air, from all the anecdotal information, so all the polling and all the analysis Nate Silver had done was wrong, and Romney was going to win the presidency – and Romney got clobbered. Anecdotes don't mean much, but then she had been the voice of Ronald Reagan for a time, the man who lived in an anecdotal America, a place of heartwarming stories of rugged individualism and personal responsibility, and happy generous white folks who always did the right thing, which had little to do with the America everyone else knew. It was a dangerous pleasantness, but the nation finally figured out it's always best to know what's actually going on. An anecdote about plucky young Jane from Peoria, and her cute little puppy and her wildly successful lemonade stand, a business she built all on her own with no government regulations messing things up, isn't the last word on economic policy. Wall Street isn't a lemonade stand.
That said, there's such a thing as mounting evidence. A friend, who must remain nameless, who works at the highest levels of Wall Street and with the top regulatory agencies and often with Congress, has mentioned that in casual conversations with the most Republican of Republicans, he often hears them sigh that the party is full of folks who are simply bat-shit crazy, and a real embarrassment, and really, Obamacare isn't that bad and was never a bad idea in the first place – but don't tell anyone they said that. Something is up, although there's the deadly Peggy Noonan Trap. That's just a few people saying things.
There is, however, mounting evidence of bat-shit craziness:
Some conservative media figures are openly wondering if Hillary Clinton staged an incident during a speech in Las Vegas on Thursday in which a woman in the audience threw a shoe at her. The shoe appeared to miss the rumored 2016 presidential hopeful, who ducked and made light of it, while the reported thrower, Alison Michelle Ernst, was booked by the authorities.
A blog post published Monday at the website of Fox News commentator Bernard Goldberg speculated that Clinton probably "calculated it beforehand," as is "almost always true" with things that happen to her.
"So it would not be stretching logic to suppose that Hillary arranged to have the shoe thrown at her," wrote Arthur Louis at Goldberg's site. "Remembering the Bush incident [when an Iraqi journalist threw two shoes at President George W. Bush], she may have calculated that this would make her seem presidential. This would explain why Ms. Ernst was not pounded to a pulp by Hillary's bodyguards, and why she seems on the verge of getting off scot free. Don't be too surprised, the next time you visit Phoenix, if you see her sitting at a table in a downtown Hillary-for-President store front, stuffing and sealing envelopes."
Rush Limbaugh was at it too – "I don't know why anybody would be throwing a shoe at Hillary unless maybe it's an attempt to make the Benghazi people look like nuts and lunatics and wackos."
There's more:
"What one clearly sees in this video is that Hillary Clinton makes no effort whatsoever to actually 'dodge' the shoe," wrote Sonny Bunch at the Washington Free Beacon. "Rather, she flinches after it has gone whizzing by her head. A far more accurate headline would've been 'Hillary Clinton Luckily Unharmed by Her Slow Reflexes.' Typical liberal media, covering up the truth for their favored candidates… Whereas Hillary reacts well after the danger has passed, George W. Bush preemptively sees danger coming and positions himself to avoid it."
She's no George Bush, but we knew that, and that may be a good thing. There's a reason her favorability ratings are off the charts, but his is a minor matter. Matt Ford reports on the real thing that outraged the folks on the right:
Twenty-one years ago, rancher Cliven Bundy stopped paying his grazing fees.
Bundy does not recognize federal authority over land where his ancestors first settled in the 1880s, which he claims belongs to the state of Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management disagreed and took him to federal court, which first ruled in favor of the BLM in 1998. After years of attempts at a negotiated settlement over the $1.2 million Bundy owes in fees failed, federal land agents began seizing hundreds of his cattle illegally grazing on public land last week.
But after footage of a BLM agent using a stun gun on Bundy's adult son went viral in far-right circles, hundreds of armed militia supporters from neighboring states flocked to Bundy's ranch to defend him from the BLM agents enforcing the court order. The states'-rights groups, in echoes of Ruby Ridge and Waco, came armed and prepared for violence. "I'm ready to pull the trigger if fired upon," one of the anti-government activists told Reuters. Not eager to spill blood over cattle, the BLM backed down Sunday and started returning the livestock it had confiscated. The agency says it won't drop the matter and will "continue to work to resolve the matter administratively and judicially."
This is odd. His cattle had been illegally grazing on public land for years and years, and he refused to pay the required fees for using public land for that, but he had his reasons – "I abide by all of Nevada state laws. But I don't recognize the United States government as even existing."
Sean Hannity and everyone else at Fox News are cheering for him, and Mike Huckabee is outraged, but Ford cites the Nevada constitution:
All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection, security and benefit of the people; and they have the right to alter or reform the same whenever the public good may require it. But the Paramount Allegiance of every citizen is due to the Federal Government in the exercise of all its Constitutional powers as the same have been or may be defined by the Supreme Court of the United States; and no power exists in the people of this or any other State of the Federal Union to dissolve their connection therewith or perform any act tending to impair, subvert, or resist the Supreme Authority of the government of the United States. The Constitution of the United States confers full power on the Federal Government to maintain and Perpetuate its existence, and whensoever any portion of the States, or people thereof attempt to secede from the Federal Union, or forcibly resist the Execution of its laws, the Federal Government may, by warrant of the Constitution, employ armed force in compelling obedience to its Authority.
Bundy is not abiding by Nevada's constitution, but everyone on the right now, and all Republican politicians, are busily aligning themselves with the man who doesn't recognize the United States government as even existing. There never was one. Each state is its own nation, just like we started out back in 1776-77 with the Articles of Confederation, before that stupid Constitution thing a decade later, but that explains this:
Wisconsin Republicans will vote at their convention next month on a proposal affirming the state's right to go it alone, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Daniel Bice reported Monday.
The state party's Resolutions Committee has voted in favor of a so-called "state sovereignty" measure stating the party "supports legislation that upholds Wisconsin's right, under extreme circumstances, to secede," according to the Journal-Sentinel. The resolution came out of one of the state party's regional caucuses and was edited and adopted by the committee despite top GOP officials' efforts to quash it.
Gov. Scott Walker (R) dismissed the unconventional proposal last week.
"I don't think that one aligns with where most Republican officials are in the state of Wisconsin – certainly not with me," Walker said Friday at a press event, as quoted by the Journal-Sentinel.
These folks have moved from "limited government" to "no government" in the blink of an eye, but if the folks in Texas grabbed Foot Hood and Fort Bliss and all the other military installations there so they'd have their own army, taking all our troops prisoner, and seceded from the union, so to speak, as they have often threatened, no one would miss them much. It's just that we had that Civil War to settle the matter. States don't have that right. Lincoln, one of the guys who created the modern Republican Party out of the wreckage of the Whigs, made sure that was so – and thus the evidence is mounting that these folks are bat-shit crazy.
And then they all got together:
The Americans for Prosperity Foundation and Citizens United labeled their inaugural Freedom Summit – held Saturday in Manchester, N.H. – a 2016 "cattle call." However, the event proved most useful in reminding us how far away the presidential primaries are, and how much Republicans will need to decide before the Iowa caucuses.
After the 2012 presidential election, the GOP performed an audit on its electoral performance and announced it might have to change some things if it wanted to attract more votes in four years. Two years later, not much has changed. Most Republican elected officials have not softened their stance on social issues, and attempts to reach other demographics haven't changed the party's base.
Yep, still crazy after all these years:
The crowd laughed at jokes about Obamacare, and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee noted that sometimes he feels like North Korea is more free than the United States. Donald Trump said that President Obama must have been incensed when Zach Galifianakis asked him if he were from Kenya. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz cried out about abolishing the Internal Revenue Service and was met with cheers. New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte wondered what Daniel Webster would have thought of Lois Lerner and the IRS.
There wasn't much new here, or much news here, save for Rand Paul:
Paul's speech seemed to be a carefully constructed proof of how the Republican Party can "hit those who haven't been listening" without diluting its message, a proposition that seems impossible but is essential for candidates who want to please the unforgiving tea party and far right, whose members are certain to turn out at every primary. Unsurprisingly, his prescription for how to move the party forward includes adopting his ideas on civil liberties – a renewed focus on privacy in light of the National Security Agency leaks and distance from the drug war and mandatory minimum sentences, which he told the audience would help the party appeal to the young minorities most likely to receive jail time for drug possession.
"Your kids and grandkids aren't perfect either" Paul said. "The police don't come to your neighborhoods. You get a better lawyer. These are some injustices. We've got to be concerned about people who may not be part of our group, who may not be here today." Paul also talked about how his ideas about how to help the unemployed have resonated with twentysomethings on the right and the left.
He was met with puzzled silence, and things went as one would expect:
Ted Cruz also briefly mentioned how the party could appeal to minorities and single mothers who have suffered during the recession, and he cast his economic platform under the labels of "growth and opportunity," the lingo now favored by Republicans who want to counter the left's focus on income inequality. These ideas received much less praise than Cruz's call to abolish the IRS.
Despite the gentle prodding from Paul and Cruz, much more time during the Freedom Summit was devoted to bashing Republicans who were not present for abandoning stances the tea party holds dear. When Trump blasted former Florida governor Jeb Bush for saying illegal immigration could be an act of love, the crowd booed and shook their heads. When several speakers mentioned Common Core – another policy supported by Bush, a potential presidential candidate favored by the party's more moderate donors – the disdain grew even louder. Trump also criticized Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan for his budget proposal, which would cut Medicare in an effort to balance the federal budget.
Slate's Jamelle Bouie, however, doesn't see these folks as being crazy enough to ignore this third Bush:
Each speaker made his pitch. Paul focused on civil liberties and promised to expand the GOP tent with a hands-off approach to gay marriage and other issues. Cruz billed himself as an avatar of conservative orthodoxy – an economic conservative, a social conservative, and a national security conservative. Huckabee indulged in right-wing hyperbole… and Donald Trump said Donald Trump things.
But insofar that there was a rhetorical constant, it was open disdain for Jeb Bush, as candidates responded to his sympathy for undocumented immigrants and praise for federal education standards. "Get rid of Common Core and replace it with common sense!" said Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn, taking a swipe at Bush's support for the reformed curriculum standards. "I think what Jeb was trying to say was that many people come to the United States to look for opportunity," said Huckabee, commenting on Bush's support for comprehensive immigration reform. "I don't personally support amnesty. I think we ought to have a secure border."
Trump also riffed on Bush's immigration comments, mocking the notion that immigrants come to the United States out of "love." "That's one I've never heard of before," Trump said. "I've heard money, I've heard this. I've heard sex. I've heard everything! The one thing I never heard of was love. I understand what he's saying, but, you know, it's out there, I'll tell you." More importantly, the mere mention of Bush's name drew boos from the crowd, who oppose the former governor's immigration leniency.
The standard take is that Bush's weak support among grassroots conservatives is nearly fatal for his presidential chances, and there's no doubt that it puts him at a disadvantage. Bush has been out of the game for so long that he's out of step with the base of the party. They want a full-scale assault on the welfare state, not compassion or empathy.
It's the same old same old, but Jeb will be fine:
If Jeb Bush has anything on his side right now, it's this – the establishment stamp of approval. Just read this Washington Post story from late last month, where a parade of Republican donors and officials showed their enthusiasm for a Bush candidacy. Yes, there are still arguments and divisions among Republican elites, but one thing is clear: If Bush steps into the ring he'll begin the race with key victories in the "invisible primary," where candidates fight to win influence and endorsements from the party's most moneyed supporters.
That friend on Wall Street was hearing this too, that the crazies can't be allowed to win this time, although Bouie says they'll get something:
No, the Republican base isn't strong or influential enough to drive a candidate to the nomination or to kill the candidacy of someone with establishment support. What it can do, however, is extract concessions in the form of policy promises and rhetorical strategies. This is what happened to Mitt Romney. Strong elite backing made him the favorite for the nomination, but he still had to appeal to rank-and-file Republican voters. After all, you still need to win primaries. So, he disavowed his previous self, condemning the Affordable Care Act as an abomination of public policy and dashing to the right on immigration. He gave his full commitment to the priorities of the Republican base, which – along with the help of the establishment – won him the nomination. In other words, for Mitt Romney the Republican presidential candidate to become Mitt Romney the Republican presidential nominee, he had to go back in time and effectively destroy Mitt Romney, the moderate Massachusetts governor.
"Jeb Bush, former Florida governor" is much more conservative than Romney was at the same stage of his career, and he won't have to shift gears on health care reform or abortion. Still, if Bush has appeal to Republican elites, it's because of his moderate affect – he's not a fire-breather – and pragmatic approach to immigration and education, legacies of his tenure in Florida.
And that's the "Jeb Bush" that has to go. To win the invisible primary and prevail with voters, Bush will have to sacrifice the most moderate aspects of his persona and commit to the main concerns of the rank and file. Or, put another way, there's a good chance that any Jeb Bush who represents the entire Republican Party will be a Jeb Bush who opposes comprehensive immigration reform, shows strong skepticism for federal education programs, and adopts the usual bromides against President Obama and the Democratic Party.
It's a Jeb Bush who – if he truly wants to win the nomination – may have to disavow his brother and father, too.
He may not want to do that, and the evidence is mounting that the crazies will get crazier, so it's back to them:
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Sunday insisted that even though Republican Senators blocked the Democrats' equal pay bill last week, her party is fighting for women's rights.
"I find this war on women rhetoric just almost silly," she said on CBS' "Face the Nation" when asked if Republicans opposed equal pay for women. "It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history, and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress, four out of five governors."
When asked why she opposed the most recent equal pay legislation specifically, Blackburn said the bill would merely increase litigation, the line that most Republicans have been touting.
"The legislation was something that was going to be helpful for trial lawyers and what we would like to see happen is equal opportunity and clearing up some of the problems that exist that are not fair to women," she said. "We're all for equal pay."
That must be why Blackburn voted against the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, so Salon's Joan Walsh lowers the boom:
Blackburn, you'll recall, became the public face of the House GOP's 20-week abortion ban last year when Rep. Trent Franks said the bill didn't exempt cases of rape because "the incidence of pregnancy from rape is very low." She had earlier become a GOP hero for insisting on NBC's Meet the Press that women "didn't want" pay equity laws. "I've always said that I didn't want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job," she told David Gregory. "And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want." In fact, women overwhelmingly want pay equity, and they support laws to achieve it, according to public opinion polls.
Now that pay equity is back in the news, thanks to Democrats pushing the Paycheck Fairness Act, Blackburn is in demand again. She told CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday that "we're all for equal pay." But the GOP supports neither the Paycheck Fairness Act nor the minimum wage, which would hugely help women, who make up two-thirds of minimum wage workers. "I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage," Blackburn bizarrely explained. She went on to insist "I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time. A lot of us get tired of guys condescending to us."
Walsh is not pleased:
This is what Republicans hope they can reduce this debate to: complaining about "guys condescending to us," not guys being paid more, or guys paying less for insurance (as they did before the Affordable Care Act) or guys making laws that tell women what they can do with their bodies.
Okay, okay – Marsha Blackburn is just one woman, not all Republican women, or all Republicans. They're not all this bat-shit crazy. They just seem to have chosen her as their spokeswoman, and the anecdotal evidence keeps piling up. Hillary arranged for someone to throw a shoe at her so people would forget Benghazi, and the guy who says the federal government doesn't even exist finally said what everyone already knew, and states can secede any old time they'd like, and talk of compassion is for losers, and women really don't want equal pay for equal work, they want to prove they deserve that, slowly, over the years, if they can, with no law guaranteeing it. And at some point all the evidence piles up, in a smoldering wreck on the side of the road. Don't trust one odd item here and one odd item there. Those could be anomalies, until they're not, and then you have your data. That's where we are now.

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Kumon is a private tutoring company that offers proven, systematic training in mathematics and reading to students around the world. Founded in 1958, Kumon headquarters are located in Osaka, Japan. The company operates franchises in 49 countries around the world.
Company Overview
Kumon was started by an individual in Japan who decided that more concentrated practice was needed in order for students to be successful in school. During the first year of operation, Kumon attracted over 300 students in Osaka, Japan. Within a decade, Kumon had opened learning centers in the United States, Philippines, Brazil, India, Europe, Australia and elsewhere.
The Kumon teaching method focuses on creating unique learning paths for each student based on ability. The plan is changed as the student becomes more proficient, but does not become so challenging that the student is discouraged.
Kumon Franchise Costs and Expected Profits
The total startup costs for a Kumon franchise vary greatly and depend on location and size of tutoring center. When added together, a potential franchise owner will need between $69,000 and $140,000 to get off the ground. This includes a low franchise fee of just $1,000. New franchise owners must have at least $70,000 in liquid funds available and at least $150,000 net worth.
It's also worth noting that all potential franchisees need to have a four year degree to be considered for the program.
While it is difficult to pinpoint profit figures, many franchise owners have reported earning anywhere between $40,000 and $80,000 in net profits.
Pros of Owning a Kumon Franchise
One of the biggest pros of owning a Kumon franchise is the very low financial barrier to entry. Many entrepreneurs will have the $70,000 needed to get off the ground, which is small when compared to other franchises.
Kumon also provides a significant amount of marketing advice for their franchisees, including a wholesome national marketing campaign to help attract new students.
Cons of Owning a Kumon Franchise
While the amount of money necessary to open a Kumon franchise is low, it's important to remember that every franchisee needs to have a four year degree. This can be a potential turn off for some entrepreneurs who have more real life experience than anything else.
Running a tutoring center can also be difficult for those who do not have a background in education. While franchise owners won't likely be tutoring themselves, they still must have the knowledge to learn the Kumon system.


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Here's a Tip…
Posted by Mary Caraccioli | Filed under Lifestyle, travel
At times tipping can be confusing. There are many situations in which you're expected to tip but everyone seems to have different rules on how to handle it.
Not having definitive rules when it comes to tipping can result in awkward situations, so I sat down with an etiquette expert to get you answers.
When it comes to the hair salon it used to be the case that if the owner did your hair it wasn't necessary to tip. According to Leah Ingram, author of 'The Everything Etiquette Book,' this is a rule to which many still adhere. However, she suggests tipping the owner just as you would any other stylist as it can make a big impact on his/her income and contribute to the running of the salon.
So if you want to continue to visit your favorite salon for years to come consider tipping the stylist regardless of their position – and slipping in a little extra will help next time you need to be squeezed in at the last minute!
DO: When it comes to travelling with baggage, Leah recommends carrying a wad of $1 bills and tipping everyone who touches your bag.
DON'T: However, she discourages you from feeling compelled to tip in a coffee shop when all the barista has done is hand you a cup of coffee.
As for taking a taxi, my rule of thumb is adding 10 or 15% to the fare if the driver doesn't drive you crazy on the way to your destination. Subtract cash for bad driving, smoking or constant cell phone chatter by the driver. Another taxi tip, be careful when taking an flat rate taxi ride– sometimes gratuity is already included – so be sure to ask to avoid tipping twice!
Finally, traveling abroad can be tricky as different tipping rules apply in different countries. Tipping can appear to be arrogant if you tip when you shouldn't. Guide books always address this issue and so do many online travel sites. You may be happy to discover that most countries actually tip considerably less than we do!
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The Warner Mountains and the Surprise Valley are one of my favorite hidden gems of far northern California. Hike 46, "Patterson Lake and Squaw Peak," in my 100 Classic Hikes in Northern California explores the high reaches of the South Warner Mountains and is one of my all-time favorite hiking trails.
Wolves in California's Modoc County
Now there's some intel that wolves might have made it back to the Warner Mountains. Here's San Francisco Chronicle writer Tom Stienstra on the subject:
The reports make sense because Rocky Mountain elk – which wolves track, stalk and kill for food – have been verified as having migrated from Idaho to Nevada and into the South Warner Mountains, east of Alturas in Modoc County. Most of the wolf sightings are in this area, in the vicinity of Surprise Valley near the eastern flank of the Warners, where they could prey on the elk, according to Jean Bilodeaux, a reporter and author, and Valerie Lantz, executive director of the Central Modoc River Center.
I'll likely make a trip to the area in late spring or early summer, and I'll definitely be lookin' for Brother Wolf.
Wolves in California: UPDATE
There actually is a wolf in northern California, at least in late December of 2011. Read about wolf OR7 in California's Siskiyou County.
Have you seen what you thought was a wolf in northern California? Share!


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Hello All,
I have a Fabia 2010 HTP 1.2 Petrol, manual transmission with ABS.
Recently i discovered about Ross Tech products and want to try my hand on changing of some of the features.
I opened the bonnet and found out the part number of the ABS unit, it is 6R0 907 379 J
From a search on Google i came to know that it's a BOSCH ABS 8.0 Unit
I am interested to know whether this part number has the Auto Hill Hold functionality which would have been disabled when the car was sold. And if so whether it can be enabled now using VCDS software.
If it can be enabled, then I would surely like to buy Ross Tech cable along with software (any basic version which can accomplish this)
Can anyone please confirm me if this ABS unit part # (6R0 907 379 J) support the Auto Hill Hold, and if it can be enabled from VCDS software (and how?)
Please do let me know if any more information needed to determine this.
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It's been a very long time since I 've posted anything. Reasons range from laziness (I am a notorious procrastinator) to more valid excuses like visiting family in the U.S.( I know, that 's not really an excuse- they have a computer too!) , and having to find a new apartment to rent, which is almost an impossible task in this country. It has been a very stressful time for me, and we still haven't found anything, but at least our present landlord has given us a reprieve until August. Phew! Now I can get back to my normal ( well ,sort of) life.
Baking has been sporadic; cooking even less. While in the States I bought a few cookbooks I've been wanting- Baked by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito and The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz. Could have bought tons more, but that weight restriction on overseas flights will kill ya! I made the Root Beer Bundt Cake from "Baked" and it was delicious. Easy to make and the root beer flavor was not as strong as I had expected. I also made "The Baked Brownie", which is one of their signature items. Fudgy, moist and really just all around yummy ( amazing with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side!) .
I'll be posting more as I make my way through the book.
As far as pictures go, my little point and shoot camera is on it's last clicks- looking around for something to replace it without spending a fortune- any suggestions would be welcome!
I did bake some heart-shaped sugar cookies for Valentine's Day and they are waiting patiently to be decorated.
I also managed to make some cupcakes for a friend's birthday. Got the decorating idea from Martha Stewart. It was fun to do and everyone loved the flavor- vanilla cupcakes with a lime buttercream frosting and cut out fondant letters on top.
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The ST Aerospace-Airbus joint venture known as Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW) has secured a launch contract from Vallair Solutions Sàrl (Vallair) for its A321 passenger-to-freighter conversion. Under the terms of the deal announced at the Singapore Airshow Wednesday, EFW will convert 10 A321-200 passenger jets to a 14-pallet cargo configuration for Vallair. Plans call for the first aircraft to go to EFW's facility in Dresden, Germany in the last quarter of 2018 for conversion, then for redelivery to Vallair by end of 2019.
"My personal history with the A321 goes way back to the start of my career with Air France when it first introduced this aircraft in its fleet," said Vallair CEO Gregoire Lebigot. "At Vallair, through years of trading and supporting the A320 family, we have built a solid technical competence on this aircraft type. Today, we see a huge potential in the A321P2F, not only as a replacement of the B757 freighter, but as a key tool for the cargo industry to achieve the projected growth rate of the air freight market in general—in particular driven by express services and e-commerce."
The A321P2F offers containerized loading in both the main deck (up to 14 container positions) and lower deck (up to 10 container positions). Citing a payload-range capability that allows for carriage of up to 27.9 metric tons over 2,300 nautical miles, EFW calls the A321P2F ideal for express domestic and regional operations.
Launched in 2015, the A321/A320 P2F conversion programs resulted from a collaboration between ST Aerospace, Airbus and EFW. ST Aerospace holds responsibility for the engineering development phase, up to obtaining the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Airbus contributes OEM data and certification support, while EFW leads the overall program including marketing and sales.
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Tom Turco joined a new club this week when his Barnstable girls volleyball team defeated Dartmouth 3-0 to advance in the MIAA Div. 1 South tournament.
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VOLLEYING FOR VICTORY – Kayla Crook (8) and Kaylee Deluga (13) reach to block a shot by Dartmouth's Heather Gagne (8) and Jackie Starrett (19) during the MIAA Div. 1 quarterfinals Nov. 9 at BHS. Barnstable won 3-0 to advance.
Turco joins 500 club
Tom Turco joined a new club this week when his Barnstable girls volleyball team defeated Dartmouth 3-0 to advance in the MIAA Div. 1 South tournament.
Not only did the victory boost the Raiders to the semifinals, the win marked Turco's 500th as head coach, giving him a record of 500-51 in his 23 years at the net.
"Anytime a milestone is reached in this program my feeling is one of gratitude," Turco said. "First of all to the hard working players who have played at Barnstable and their willingness to embrace the 'team' concept, [and] also to my assistant coaches Marylou Martin and Peter Gardner and the dedicated assistants I have had since 1988."
Turco began his career as Lorraine Dunnets' assistant in 1986.
"I am very appreciative of her guidance and patience," he said.
In the end, though, it was all about the Raiders taking another step forward in the tournament.
"It feels great any time you advance in the tournament," he said. "Fans know that when it comes to Barnstable volleyball, tourney season is always exciting, and the Raiders proved as much against the Indians Nov. 9."
If those fans had brooms, they'd have been waving them at the end of the three-game sweep, with the Raiders winning 3-0 with scores of 25-10, 26-24, and 25-15.
Game 1 was all Barnstable, with the Raiders simply dominating their way to the win, paving the way with an 11-1 lead early on, largely thanks to Kaylee Deluga and Carolyn Morin, who proved a powerful combination at the net.
Sarah Colby's solid kill helped put the Raiders back into the seat of power after a scoring surge from the Indians, with the match ending at 25-10 on a nice block and a kill from Deluga, and another kill from Morin.
The thrill ride intensified during Game 2 when Barnstable bobbled, allowing Dartmouth to gain enough control to lead 24-21.
With the Indians hovering on the edge of a win, and Raider fans on the edges of their seats in the bleachers, Barnstable roared into action, bringing the score to 23-24 amid thunderous applause. A block by Regan Bristol and back-to-back kills from Morin ultimately gave the Raiders the Game 2 win.
"Well, they (the players) seem to like to make the matches exciting," Turco said. "I like the 25-10 games better!"
Game 3 began with the volume in the BHS gym at maximum and neck-and-neck scoring between the two determined teams, but that ended when Aine Cole, Morin, and Deluga combined forces at the net with a service ace in the back from Kayla Crook to bring the Raiders to a 14-10 lead.
The Indians fought hard to narrow that to 15-14, but the formidable Raiders, who were denied in the tourney last year by New Bedford, surged ahead to 21-15, eventually clinching the overall win and the chance to move onto the Div. 1 semifinals, scheduled for Nov. 11 against North Attleboro.
"We were prepared to play, and the players worked hard and studied the prior game films," Turco said when asked what he felt was a key component of the win. "They upped the ante by being determined to maximize communication, thus minimizing mistakes."
Turning the second game around and earning the win, he felt, was huge.
"Everyone contributed to the win. Carolyn had a great performance. Kaylee was Kaylee!" he said. "Kayla did well for her first tournament game. Aine had a clutch run at the service line to end game 2; Devon and Nikki passed serve well, and Sarah and Steph Martin came up with some big digs. Lynne Hibbard and Reagan blocked well, also."
Should the Raiders defeat North Attleboro, they will move on to the finals, possibly against New Bedford, or Notre Dame Hingham, a team they've already defeated twice during the regular season.
At press time, however, Turco said his focus was only on his team's North Attleboro opponents.
According to the MIAA standings, North Attleboro is the No. 1 seed with a 20-0 undefeated record, followed by New Bedford at 16-1, Braintree at 17-2, and Barnstable at 14-2. Notre Dame Hingham came in at the No. 6 seed with a 15-4 overall record.


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Cardi B has the number one album in the country this week:
The set, which was released on April 6 through The KSR Group/Atlantic Records, earned 255,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 12, according to Nielsen Music. That's the second-biggest week of 2018, trailing only the arrival of Justin Timberlake's Man of the Woods, which bowed with 293,000 units on the Feb. 17-dated chart.
For those curious Underoath and The Wonder Years both sold around 21,000 copies of their new albums in the first week.


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Over the past year or so I've noticed that people have tended to react to me as a social media type in one of two distinct ways.
One is the school of thought which thinks that, because I run a blog and have worked in social media, they know nothing about it and I know everything. This is not true. They probably do know something, and I definitely don't know everything.
The other is of the belief that, because they have pet tools or techniques that they like to use, and which I might not know about, this means I'm at fault because I didn't know about them. The truth is usually that I do know of other tools, just not those particular tools. In other words, they definitely know something about social media, but I probably know more than them.
The unfortunate corollary (love that word) is:
"I don't know everything, but I know more than you."
This is understandably a bit pointed, and while it's most likely true, no one really likes to hear it. I know, because I've said it, to decidedly black looks. Let's temper it a little:
"I don't know everything, but I probably know more than you."
This repositions the statement, allowing for the possibility that you're more of an oddball than me.
The problem still lies however in that it's a bit negative, on the behalf of both subject (me) and object (you). It's the social media equivalent of the dreadful 'Back to Basics' line of the Conservatives circa mid-1990. Here's an attempt at a more positive spin:
"You probably know more than you realise, and I'd like to know more about it."
This places emphasis on you – that is, it's not quite as egotistical/neurotic on my behalf, and implies some sort of process of learning. It definitely doesn't mean that I probably do know more than you, and it probably means that you definitely might know something, while implicitly acknowledging that I definitely don't know everything and you possibly know less than me. It also echoes Barack Obama's sentiment of wanting to listen, and I'd choose Obama over Major any day (or even Sir Humphrey).
It's also infuriatingly close to something a psychotherapist might say while leaning forward unnecessarily close so you can see his (or her) nasal hair.
However, there is another way. You can sit still, listen to that little voice deep within you, that wisdom that seems to come to you from the movements of the planets around you and the race memory of ages gone by, and, as I did, come up with the alternative:
"Sod this, I'm going to be a copywriter instead."
This is what is known as the Cooper Shimmy and if you find working in social media starts to mess with your mind, you might want to consider something similar. But not copywriting, obviously, because the fewer competitors I have the better.
And if you want to tweet that, tweet this:
Brendan Cooper on what he probably definitely does, and does not, know. Probably. http://bit.ly/uWbjh


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- information processed: name, date of birth, address, data concerning hobbies, job, interests, purchase data (e.g., purchased products, location, date and time of purchase, delivery data), viewed products;
- source of the information: upon collection of your consent to be profiled, Furla processes the data you provide when you register, use Online Channels, and purchase products as a registered client;
- how the information provided impact the decision: the profiling is based solely on the data you provide, therefore the outcome depends totally on it;
- measures to mitigate possible risks: a specific DPIA on the profiling activity has been conducted to ensure its impartiality, effectiveness and absence of harmful consequences and you can request a copy of the main summary by sending a request to the following email address: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Visits on the Online Channel and purchase habits as a registered client will define the types of products that Furla will promote to you.
Therefore, if you see or purchase products that are:
- cheaper than the ones usually viewed or purchased (or if your views or purchases are more frequent), you will be addressed promotional communications regarding the former items;
- more expensive than the ones usually viewed or purchased (or if your views or purchases are less frequent), you will be addressed promotional communications regarding the former items
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By T.J. Buffenbarger
When the Chili Bowl Nationals entry list comes out later today you will see Michigan's Ryan Ruhl listed for the first time in his career. Ruhl has teamed up with Ken and Lexi Adgate with a Beast chassis that was purchased over the summer and filed the entry in early November.
The Ruhl/Adgate combination goes back to last winter when Ruhl was driving a micro sprint indoors for Adgate at the War Memorial Coliseum Exposition Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Adgate had noticed Ruhl's father had made out some flyers and was handing them out to midget teams trying to find a ride for Ruhl for the Chili Bowl.
That got Adgate thinking that he should be the one to take the chance on Ruhl in Tulsa. Over the summer he located and purchased a Beast Chassis. Adgate purchased the car and picked it up the morning of the Great Lakes Super Sprint show at Butler Motor Speedway.
"Ever since then I have been looking for a midget and came across one this summer," said Adgate. "(Ruhl) had no idea until I actually purchased it."
Ruhl didn't find out about it until Adgate revealed the car to Ruhl while at Butler.
"I picked the car up that morning and had it in the trailer with Lexi's sprint car," Adgate revealed referring to his daughter Lexi's sprint car.
Ruhl of course was thrilled with the opportunity and is looking forward to his first effort in Tulsa.
"It's a dream come true to go to the Chili Bowl," said Ruhl. "I am extremely thankful to Ken and Lexi Adgate for letting me race their cars."
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Hello, beautiful readers! I know it's been a while… I was unable to finish a post a day for April, but I don't care too much. My blog is still here, and I know I can write whenever I want to. And there's no point in forcing oneself to post every day, or on a schedule, if one does not feel like writing. If you don't feel like writing, anything you write will more than likely turn out like crap, so it's better to wait until you feel like writing to write, in my opinion.
Yesterday, I watched all 13 episodes of the Netflix original series, 13 Reasons Why. It's very likely that anything written after this sentence will contain spoilers, so you should stop reading now, if you don't want any spoilers whatsoever (although, with the Internet being what it is, you've probably seen some already anyway).
I watched 13 Reasons Why in one sitting. I started it sometime in the afternoon, and I finished at 1.30am. Naturally, I had breaks to make food and get myself hot drinks and use the bathroom, but I didn't watch anything else from the moment I started episode 1 until the moment I finished episode 13. I wanted to watch it because I'd seen people tweeting about it, how deep it is, how they couldn't stop crying at the end of it… So I thought I'd give it a try. Now, you might think that, because I watched it all in one go and didn't take breaks other than to make food, that I found the show to be so incredibly good.
I did not. I have mixed feelings about the show, actually. I thought it was well made; I kept watching because I needed to know what happened next, whose tape would come up next, why Clay was on the list, when it seemed like he was such a good friend to Hannah, or at least tried to be. He didn't humiliate her by sending her picture to everyone at school, or publish her writing without her consent, or steal her compliments from her paper bag for revenge. I was glad he didn't deserve to be on the tapes though. I said I have mixed feelings about the show – I'm not entirely sure I liked it. I don't think I'll be rewatching it, at least not anytime soon.
The other students kept saying that Hannah lied, that what she said isn't what happened. Toni had a good point – she was telling her truth. Because two people can witness a situation and experience it and what is the truth in two completely different ways. That's why eye witness' testimonies can be unreliable, right? Every person is different, every person's mind works in a unique way, making their experiences unique to that person. And everything that happens affects everyone differently. One of the guys, I don't remember who, said that nothing happened to Hannah that didn't happen to every other girl in high school, inferring that the people on the tapes can't be responsible for Hannah killing herself. But Hannah wasn't every other girl, Hannah was Hannah, and how she experienced these things were different from how other girls did.
I read somewhere that when people kill themselves, it's not because of one big thing. It's all the little things, that add up until it becomes unbearable. I know that feeling. You cry, and people ask you what's wrong, and you say you don't know because it's not just this one thing that you can say, it's many little things, it's everything. But how people handle it varies from person to person. Clay took a really long time to listen to the tapes, longer than any of the others. Alex listened through all of them in one night, the first time he listened to them. Clay had anxiety. Skye was a cutter. Hannah slit her wrists in the bathtub and died. Alex shot himself in the head but is in critical care. And was it just me, or did Tyler have a gun in his room, at the bottom of that trunk or whatever it was? I remember thinking, "he's gonna shoot up the school".
Maybe, to some, this show is deep. I didn't find it deep. I found it exploratory, in the way that it explored the different ways the mind works. But it wasn't earth shattering-oh my god this is so deep-deep, not to me anyway. I didn't cry at the end. I felt sick, watching the suicide scene, but I didn't cry. The show didn't make me realize a lot of things. I read a review posted on a Norwegian website, where the author wrote that, at its worst, the show is awkward and full of cliches, but at its best, it is truly heartbreaking. Furthermore, the author wrote that the show is more important than it is good. A little more humor would have been nice, because even at its worst, high school isn't entirely without it. And the show deals with important topics, such as peer pressure, drinking, sex, sexuality, bullying, and, of course, suicide. But I felt that Hannah was a bit unfair. She says all these people contributed to her taking her own life, that they broke hear heart and spirit and soul. But she couldn't have thought about what kind of damage she would be inflicting on them by making and sending out these tapes, making each and every one of them listen to them and hear not only what they did but what 12 other people did (well, 11, because Justin had two tapes), threatening that they are being watched and that all tapes will be released to the public if any one of them fails to do what she tells them to. Not her problem, right? Because she's dead. And you can't blame a dead girl, can you?
Anyway. I've probably rambled on for long enough, so I'll stop here. Anyone else watched 13 Reasons Why? What did you think? Let's discuss in the comments!
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